The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-06-17

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all these blessings can be heard the
familiar voices of the little John:
as they go from patch to patch anC
from tree to tree, selecting the
choicest of fruits and appropriating
it TO their requirements and treas
uring up in their little lovable
hearts the fond recollection of hap.
Ply childhood days, OF fond and low.
ing parents and the blessings OF
home, sweet home; recollections
that they will cherish in the days ia
come, fifty and sixty years hence,
long after old John shall have gone
in the way of our fathers and shall
be reaping the rewards of mis-
spent life. where, if justice should
be meted out, he would be disturbed
in thought. But we are thankful
we are still permitted to scour the
country from city to city and from
door to door, gathering in the nee
essaries of life for Mrs. Barleycorn
and the little Johns, holding our
selves in the channel of the money
changers, with the rudder of pros
perity where gold and silver flows
in and out like the rushing waters
of a mighty flood, making me still
feel like praising God from whom
all blessings flow.
In conclusion, Mr.. Editor, allow
me to pay my especial respects to
the blushing Sunfower of Route
Seven, who i'll a recent issue reioiced
over the absence of Johns life eX-
per1ences and claimed it was rest,
sweet rest, TO her weary soul.
Then in a later issue she comes
singing the praises of the Barley
corn berries and pitching bouquets
at us, accompanied by that same
bewitching n d Understanding
smile that Mrs. BarleYcorn used to
fling at us when we were a widow
err, and said we did not so much as
offer her one. In picking to pieces
the flowers for inspection we are
10th to believe the first notice was
otherwise intended than compli-
mentary and are ready to call her
cousin.
Now, in regard to the picnic, we
first favored the lake, out for the
convenience of all we will agree to
Rock Spring or any other conven-
lent place and suggest as very
suitable time the oath day of June,
and let every one give your consent
to the time and place mentioned and
fill your baskets and come to Rock
Spring Friday, June "a, and let's
have a grand reunion of pencil
pushers and ink singers. Will you
come?
We want to offer especial thanks
to Cousins Violet, Jack Frost, and
to all others who may have missed
us. We believe U-Know and Cy-
clone have had something to say of
our absence and the affectionate re-
grets and requests from Cousin
Gypsy, the good old mother in Isra-
ell, for our return. How proud we
are to have the assurance OF such |
friends to console and comfort lis
in troubles and to loan their SYM
pathy in time of need.
1t does seem to us 1t is high time
Pleasant Hill people were waking
up TO the realization OF the import
ance Of cleaning up and fencing the
cemetery at this place. If our loved
ones could come back and view the
present condition of things they
would doubtless be sadly disap-
pointed to find their graves neg
ected, untenced and uncared for,
The cattle, sheep and hogs roaming
over them at their own sweet will;
logs and horses roofing and paving
he mounds from the graves OF our
departed parents and children and
Many of our costly tombs
Ind monuments are knocked down
Ind rooted about by stock, and the
'nly thing left to redeem that cher
shed spot is the cheerful songs of
he mocking bird and the lonely
all of the whippoorwill. We have
tinted and asked for a committee
o act until we are discouraged.
Many have refused to improve un-
il it was fenced, some have even
emoved their loved ones, and 9th
RS are thinking of doing likewise,
Until we think it in order for the
rustees to act or confer the power
n some one who will, or resign and
eff their nlaces he filled nv a more