The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-05-13
JOHN BARLEYCORN.

driven the big fish garner out OF
the market.
Gypsy is said to be the most eco
nomical housekeeper and poultry
raiser in the county. 1t is said she
is so much so that she sets her hens
on marbles to save eggs.
While at Fulton we had the hon
or of enjoying the hospitality of
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. L. Whiteside,
who seem to be evenly yoked in the
battle of life and enjoying reasona-
BILE health.
A homegrown individual iss sell
dom regarded at his real value u
Know, for instance. But few PEG.
pie know he is painter and poet
of no mean ability, and is undoubt-
ed authority on fine stock breeding,
blacksnake and ginseng hunting,
Some men run for office on their
war record, some on the prominence
of their ancestors, some at the So
licitations of their fool friends or
some newspaper that has in view
ten-dollar announcement fee, some
on their personal popularity and
very few on their qualifications to
fill the position to which they as
pire.
We were at Fulton one day re-
Gently and called to see our cousin
and old acquaintance, Cyclone, and
from what we could learn he must
be acting foreman in the Daily
Commercial Office. Cyclone spoke
in the highest terms of his Cousin
Gypsy, and made many inquiries as
to whom others OF The Commercial
family were, and invited us to see
Mrs. Cyclone and the little whirl-
winds.
Strawberries are now ripe and
the crate offered for the best article
on good housekeeping will be ready
for the winner on next Saturday or
Monday. So call out the winner,
Mr.. Editor, and the berries will be
forthcoming.
editor: That is John Barley
corn's contest and he will have to
secure the Judges in order to find
who is winner. This paper cannot
act in contest where the future Of
one of the editors is at stake.)
Praise God from whom all bless
ings flow for what we see and feel
and know. The recent meeting
with an old friend of 40 years ago
causes our mind to revert back to
the days of childhood, when a boy
made no claims on manhood until
he was man in reality and in age.
And in comparing fashions we find
that the young man of to day was
the shirt-tail boy of 40 years ago.
The 16-year-old worthless boy of
to-day, with his tailor-made suit,
SIS shoes and kid gloves, is the bare
footed, hare handed, coperas breech-
es and one gallows boy of value 40
years ago. To us, the most dis
gusting day OF boys life is when
he has to have on his gloves,
handkerchief around his neck,
three-for-a-nickle cigar or a cigar
cite stuck in his mouth marching
into the harvest field, and who re-
fers to his father und mother as the
old man and old woman. Well do
| remember when it was fashiona-
BILE for a man to have but one horse
and yoke of oxen, and on Sunday
the good wife would mount
the only horse, take the baby in her
lap, the two next youngest behind
her, and the good husband would
walk with the ten or a dozen other
children and all go to the church, if
It was near. But if out of the neigh
borhood all would get into the OK /
cart and go. But alas, such per-
torrance in the average vicinity of
to-day would stampede both old and
and be regarded as kind
If animal show. In those days peo- {
Die had good old Hard-side Baptist J
" Methodist heartfelt religion !
while to-day it seems to be reli-
,ion of fashion and form. 1t was
lot an unusual sight, 40 or so years I
go, to see from 80 to so yoke of c
ken, hitched to as many carts, with Q
With a cur dog lying under each
art, at good old Baptist foot :
Washing. The very pride of the a
and would come IN these carts those e
lays and they were not ashamed, 9
tut actually felt proud. At one of :
hese big footwashings on old a
creek, in Humphreys conn