The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-10-09
FOR SHERIFF.
PLEASANT HILL.

CIAL from week to week, and we
feel that we have been wonderfully
profted by the beautiful morals Of
life as they are weekly recorded in
the letters of the different CORE
spondents, and to look back over
the time since we first entered the
social circle. 1t has been so inter
esting that the time seems but yes
terday. We watched with eager
interest during the fair to get a
glimpse of our rural cousins-Old
CULVER, Violet, Sylvan, Rosebud,
Yellow Dog, Truthseeker, Peggy
Short and others-so as to have a
season of sweet communion viii h
them, for we have learned to love
them all. We met several, and how
glad we would have been to shake
hands with every one of them. How
sad to think how far between will
be the opportunities of the future.
So write, all of you; we love to read
your encouraging words, and our
heart clings to you as 1T never did
before. Let us all try to so live
that in after years, when the
storms and tempests of life shall
have passed and obscured our hori-
zon, and we have grown sick and
tired with the cares of life, we can
look back over and view life filled
with generous deeds and Christian
acts.
Hold up, boys; it isn't fair; that
printers devil will get you into
trouble, sure. Barleycorn is not
candidate for anything but bread
and meat for his little johnnies-
and he will be elected. You hear
me-
We were down to Hornbeak this
week, and called to hear Sylvan
sing Love Among the Roses and
by gonny! she was singing Bye
your Baby Bunting, Papa Has Gone
a-Hunting,' and was rocking the
cradle for dear life. God bless the
woman that rocks the cradle!
If we had drawn the 500 surrey,
we intended to ask all our CONNER
cIAL cousins to take a drive with
us, provided Mrs. Barleycorn did
not kick out of the harness and run
away v It'll our anticipations.
An Obion county sooner was
telling of seeing an opossum and
coon have a big fight; th-t they
fought two hours. By-standers
asked him which whipped, and he
replied: ''Pshaw! the 'possum whip
ped him in two minutes"
We met on the streets of Union
City, during the fair, Cousin Rusti,
the beautiful and accomplished
correspondent from Number 10;
Cousin Topsy. the timid yet all
around, all-purpose, friendly, socia-
BILE, h u ing news-gatherer of
North Side; Cousin Scribbler, the
blushing beauty and reporter of
Oak Grove; Cousin Wild Rose, the
most perfect specimen of loneliness
of the COMMERCIAL family, and re-
porter from Paducah Junction;
Cousin Gypsy, the good oil mother
in Israel and reporter from South
Side; and last, but not least in in
fiuence and literary accomplish
ments, Cousin Brown Eyes, the
reporter from near Harris. May
the good Lord bless and prosper
every one of you, and may the
guardian angels of peace and plen-
ty, health and happiness, purity
and prosperity, ever hover around
all of you, is the sincere wish OF
your Cousin John.
Now, girls, do not forget the prize
offered in a former number OF the
COMMERCIAL, of the choice between
crate of strawberries and the
bachelor editor, to the one writing
the best essay on good housekeep
ing am reliably informed that
there is no mortgage on him, and
not likely to be. We fear he is like
the fellow who went to see a girl
four or five years, and every time
he went would tell her how he loved
her, but she could not induce him
to pop the question, Finally, be-
coming tired of waiting, she brought