The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-01-13

fortunate bucolic. Why hast thou de-
layed this thusly? Try some culprit
for probable cause" and sentence him.
Make name. Live forever. Your OPP
portunities are unquestionably rare.
That you are now eminent, thrust
greater eminence upon yourself.
Long live the judge of 'deestrict
No. 8.
While it is seasonable I will demon
strate to my kith and kin.iu-the-Smo-
kies.-the readers Of your scintillating
sheet-that I am not wholly recreant to
my promises. 1 am proud of my Mater
Adoptata, but, however, not greater
than I am of my native Titan hills.
Time ever strengthens the ties, mem
DRY reviews her traditions and history,
and the blasting, biting and geld
nsrthers sing an @olean dulce domum
to her sons in foreign climes With the
sacred fidelity of Ruth, Tennesseans
cleave unto Tennessee always. She is
made sacred by the ashes Of their sires.
Texas is the most fragrant and colos-
sal rose in the national bouquet. Ten
nesseans do not task themselves in
learning to love her-it is involuntary.
Every spot offers a welcome, every
latch string hangs without. She has
yet to reach the infnitesimal portion of
her strength and wealth. Her soil is
depthless, incalculable in productive
ness. Her acres are broad and her do
main almost boundless. She is scarcely
settled indeed. Scenery abounds in
exhuberance. From the Panhandle to
the Rio Grande del Norte, from the
Llano plains to the Gulf, you can see
it. The same sameness on all sides
everywhere greets you-a kind of a
Sahara out-of-door scenery.
All is rather quiet along the Brazos.
No ruptures or injunctions are in vogue
here. Occasionally, yet frequently,
two or three restless individuals take it
upon themselves to intercept a leaden
messenger or a rusty dirk and sink to
rest where the Whangdoodle mourneth,
or a negro swings in "a grape vine
swing" from some telegraph post; but
that's nothing. A thing like this does
not disturb the peace and dignity, etc.,
business goes ON just the same,
Texans are unanimously monometal-
lists. Four cent cotton is a potent and
convincing argument. They now, as
never hitherto, wear diamonds, starch
ed linens, broadcloth, cordovans and
silk hats. They denounce Jefferson as
a fool, Jackson as an idiot, Bryan as q
demagogue, bimetallism as delusion,
democracy as fraud-all of which they
don't.
The twins-"Confdence and Pros.
peril" mounted on the republican
Pegasus, departed windward from the
white house en- route to Polaris to win
ter for four years next ensuing. The
Olympian Jove hath bestowed bounti
fully on fair, yet sterile Attica New
England fattens and the poor unfor
tunate south and west are thrown il
the balances of poverty and desperation
to quaff the acrid and agonizing draugh
upon which they have ever cast thu
"bread of life. "The!palssites of Plutas
the devotces of Pluto, imbued in hui
man gore writhe and gnaw at her vi
tails, and point in fiendish estaoy at he
dilema, Charon seems to have marked
them for his own, though they are mar
tyrs to the cause of conscience an(
right.
Texas, though shoulder to shoulde
in all salutary reforms, and should b
the last to feel the burdens Of advers
political legislation, like all her suffer
ing sisters, grovels in the dust, TIL
fates haye been propitious. The re
suits of the plow-share and the flow o
honest sweat have been bounteously re
warded. Three million bales of cotton
and yet the producer is a delinquen
tax payer. The merchant fails in hi
collections and the banker sinks to hi
knees invoking deliyerance. Vendo
liens by the myriads are at the mere
Of the auctioneer's hammer, and til
most productive and fertile acres in tn
Eden of the west go fora croak. "Ther
is something rotten in Denmark" TIL
land of the gods produce but her fruit
turn to ashes upon the lips of her sons
The political sky. is dark and murky
and the ominous forecast of utter dam
nation seems to awaken in the breas
of her chivalric sons the desperate ult
matum, anarchy. Hope is susPends
by spiders fibre, and who knows bu
what the next political gale may sna
, it and plunge us into cesspool of nj
tional destruction from whose chac
nothing can be saved save a nation,
wreck.
I may be gazing Iconoclasticall
} through the inverted end of the tell
scope. In this, misery has compan
by the millions.
All things considered Texas has Il
equal. Her strides in civilization al
marvellous. Cities bud and bloom will
in decade. What today is raw ter
antless prairie, tomorrow is the habits