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About Talent news. (Talent, Or.) 1892-1894 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1893)
YOU CHEERED ME ON. To you, ¿ear friend, I owe a debt I never can repay; The memory of it linger» yet, And brightens all life’s way: For when oppressed with ghnmy fears, With hope and courage gone, I came t«» you : you dried mv tears Ami • sweetly < cheered me on. When others mocked my lack of skill With eloquence < f scorn, Or frowned at my attempts, until 1 v is bed I’d ne’er been born, W ith kind, judicious words, that soothed The tender heart thus flayed, You cheered me on, the ¡athway smoothed, And al1 my fears allayed. THE MARCKIN’ OF THE MULES. While they’re jawin’ there, at Washin’- ton, an’ waitin’ for a place, We’re happy here in Georgia, where we’ve got amazin’ grace! We’re a-makin’ of a livin’, an’ we’re work in’ by the rules An’ keepin’ time like music to the marchin’ of the mules! You can hear us in the morn in’, at the very peep o’ day A-hitchin’ up fer business an’jest sing in’ on the way!. Fer we all have graduated from the politician’s schools An’ we’re keepin’ time like music to the marchin’ of the mules! —Atlanta Constitution. Know, all ye people, that the Talent N ews is no longer the smallest paper in When others sought to clip the wings the county. Another candidate for pub- ‘ W ith which I tried to soar, lie favor has lately appeared in Ashland, called the Ashland Advertiser, edited bv And b ide me think of other things W. Y. Crowson, which is 9x12 inches and Tn profit me no more, four pages. It is issued monthly at 25 ( You hade me doff the sable plume, cents a year. Though small it is bright, And brighter colors don, clean and newsy ai d may grow' as rapid And raised :ne from the depths cf gloom, ly as did Jonah's mushroon uf old. And nobly cheered me on. 0 blest the friends that lift us up On arms of love each day, Who put some sweetness in life’s cup, And help us on our way; Who in our efforts sympathize Nor foibles dwell upon, And whisper: “that way honor lies!’’ And kindly cheer us on. Josephine Polla nd, in N. Y. Ledger. There are two resident ministers in Tal ent, Rev. A. J. Stevens, ami Elder David Brower, ami we are plrarcd to state that tach can preach or plow -grace the pul pit or make n hand in a potato j atch. Each appears every Sunday arrayed in ministerial broadcloth and fine linen . ami expounds the scriptures to the satis faction of a full congregation, but «luring the week may be seen in slouched hat ami patched overalls, all ’le san.e work ing man. Can anv other tor.n in Jack- son county • make such a boa-t? It was feared a month ago that the j>eich crop would be a failure in this part of the valley, but the p<ach<s arc here ami in such quantities tl at much lal>or is required in thinning the trees. Place your subscriptions with the Ash land News Stand for any paper or maga ♦ r zine published on earth or anywhere else. Hasty wdl haste to get ’em and save I you cost of money order and postage. It may have been noticed by the crit ical that it would be difl cult to ascertain in what town and state the T alent N ews Ii is published, solely by an examination of the paper itself. Persons in Europe. South America, Asia and other foreign I countries who receive sampled pits of the N ews might I k * puzzled as to whethei “Talent” is the name of some locality, near Boston, yerba) s, or has reference to I i to that rare article, traces of which art sometiims found in the brains of editor*, doctors, lawyers, school teachei a ami pei « » haps preachers and politicians. It is sad to reflect that our subscription list mav be several hundred names short of what it would have been had the name of the i town and Mate been given at the head of the pa| er. But it is never too late to i mend. Henceforth there will oe no difl - r culty in finding the addicts of the leading pa| er of Talent, Jacket n countv0r< in. n U. S. A.