The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-02-05
JOHN BARLEYC0RN.

We have just read and rereac
Cousin Gypsy's article in last weeks
Commercial and according to oui
way of thinking and judging it is
short but sweet and is the grandest
| product of her gifted pen that we
have yet read. She has certainly
sounded the keynote of successful
journalism. She has preached a
sermon worthy of being reproduced
by every newspaper in the State
tor what she said goes down and
digs up the tender human sympa.
thies of every heart. The advice is
worthy the attention of every rising
young man in the land. Long live
Cousin Gypsy.
We agree with Mr.. White that
coal oil will mol freeze, but the stuff
we are using does freeze and we are
prepared to prove it by the very
best people of the county, and we
bought it for coal oil and paid one
dollar for five gallons at Rives.
How is that tor high?
Not single jar of jam, or apple
jack, or jug of bl ckberry cordial,
or pie, or can of grape juice, or
our red table cloth has graced the
home circle of our family table for
three weeks. Wish somebody would
come; I'm starving.
In my fiftyyears of experience and
observation / have never met Just
such a man as DR.. w. M Turner,
of Union City. To meet and grasp
his friendly hand is like feeling a
cool breeze on hot, dusty day, or
a warm breeze in a blizzard of snow.
If you are blue, or lonesome, or in
trouble, you Immediately revive and
your pulse beats faster and all in
terest in life is renewed, and he
sends so much of his vital force out
to you that the effect is felt for days
and even weeks, and / have tailed
to discover in the man the absence
OF a single virtue or any OF those
noble qualities that go to make up
a true Christian gentleman. 1t one
man has the power to create such
an atmosphere, every man has it if
he " II only place himself in the
same relation with God that the
Doctor has.
We were in Union City the first
Monday in January, not to swap
horses on the jockey ward, but to
look after our moss-back magis-
trates and see that they did not
break their record for wisdom and
knowledge and go pass or adopt
some system that would give us
better roads. We do not need good
roads, or wide roads, or we'll worked 4
roads, and we are fully persuaded
that we will not have them until at
some future election we through
carelessness let some up to-da fell
lows break into our county court
and adopt system, that will com
pei folks to work the road, and make
them so good fellow can haul off
his crop without getting all of his
to help him. But we
soon found they we're for the pres
ent system of do nothing and have
Now, it so happened that
we had to spend the night in Union
City and we put up at on of the
very best boarding houses, with
good cosy rooms and two beds In
the room to which we were assigned 1
good wholesome GRUB" and Ar
buckles coffee, gee whiz! Let me
say right here, there ought to be a
cr 1sade organized against the use
Of Arbuckle's coffee by the impure
food law, if there is one, and if not
then we ought to have one at once.
Several States have shut down on
It. 1t is like bad whiskey-it will |
corrupt the morals of any one who
Uses it long. 1t is the poorest sub
stitnte for coffee yet introduced.
The proprietor said, "You can occu-
by either of those beds and gen
-leman from down about Hornbeak,
Esquire Somebody, can occupy the
,ther; oh, he is nice fellow" We
we're little worried and retired
'ather early and in came this rs
luire, who, by the way, favored the
10 public road system, and rolled
light in and was asleep by the time
We got to bed. But we were not
ong in finding out that we had a
worse case on our hands than Ar