The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-02-12
JOHN BARLEYCORN.

Welcome, U-Know, to the social
circle.
Died, near Pleasant Hill, Feb. 5,
one fine horse belonging to John
Barleycorn.
We thank you, Aunt America, for
your previous compliments and that
riddle, we give it up.
Eggs are so scarce and high we
suggest that everybody raise some
egg plants this year.
There are plenty of geese scat
tered over the country, but l have
not seen a gooseberry for years.
We heard fellow once say that
when a blackberry was red it was
green, but it amt any such thing
| guess there will be few straw
berries this year, as the cows have
eaten up nearly all the straw stacks.
In answer to Gypsy, will say that
one old hen layed and another has
been singing "Liza Jane" for
solid week.
Every fellow that can steer an
automobile or push pencil tries
his best to run over John and Clip
the first thing.
We acknowledge receipt of the
budget of taffy from Cyclone and if
you should ever decide TO push your
Cyclone in this direction notify us
and we will vamoose.
Mrs. Barleycorn and daughter,
Marguerite Ruth, are visiting Mr..
and Mrs. Luther Whiteside, at Full
ton, this week, aud John and the
little Johns are sampling fruits,
jams, jellies, jacks and are living
on the fat of the farm.
o, we'll, we got rid of one of our
old bachelors in Number -Four not
long ago and we are dreading the
tongue lashing his wife is saving
for us when she sees us. | don't
believe there is another old bache-
lor in Number Four that could
marry if he wanted to.
What have we done, or left un-
done, that The Commercial has
been cut off for two or three weeks
past. We have to beg, borrow or
do without. Now, it my paper
don't come hereafter, l shall send
Peck's bad boy and his billy goat
to The Commercial Office with or
ders to clean it out.
On a beautiful knoll gradually
sloping down from the mighty
mountainous hills o f Humphreys
county out into the broad and fer
tile valley of what is known as Big
Bottom, near the mouth of Duck
river, there once lived a family in
fine circumstances, of Scotch-Irish
and English decent, in which was
boy OF some IS years of age, fine
looking, sociable, very popular and
said to be religious. Nearby, and
just below, something like mile,
on another knoll extending out into
the same bottom, lived highly re-
spectacle family in which was a
young lady of IL years, religious,
sociable, full of life, full, of business,
loved by every one, perfect beauty |
and model of lovely womanhood, and |
for the sake of convenience, we will
call them George and Lucy. George
had been a constant visitor and ad-
mirer of Lucy's tor some time, and
they apparently thought so much of
each other, that it was common for
people to predict that at no very
distant day George and Lucy would
get married in the course of time,
and in fulfillment of many prophe-
cies. they finally became engaged,
and from all appearances seemed
to care only for the company of
each other. They had set a day for
their union and week after week
passed away until the time tor their
marriage was almost at hand. But
it had become a noticeable fact that
Georges visits had become few and
tar between. About this time Lucy
was taken suddenly sick and con-
tinued to grow worse and it soon {
into case of typhoid ;
fever, in which all efforts and all
failed to control or reduce |
the fever, and it was plain that she I
was day by day growing weaker 1
and all hopes of her recovery al |
most vanished; and in all these (
weeks George had not been to see /
her. Finally, becoming impatient, t