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Cross Mark Means Your Sub scription ha expir ed, and will be dis continued. Please renew at esse. VOL. XX. SEQUACHEE, TENN., THURSDAY. JUNE 12, 1913 NO. 47 Biggest Circulation of Any Paper in Section " ' I On "Beautiful Lre The Nashville Banner has a very interesting department, edited by R. A. Wilson, entitled "Fins, Fare and Feathers," and Saturday it contained . the following well written article con cerning the bean ties of Little Sequat chie river, which le so well known to manipulators of the rod and reel. "Editor Fine. Furs and Feathers: Forty long years I had been cherish ing the hope of fishing in Little Se quatchie River. I bad heard bo much of the classic beauty of Its environ ment its blue depths of cold spring water and the consequent fighting quality of its fish, that I used to dream about the fierce contests I was . to have under these ideal conditions. "It is just over the mountain, and almost any time will do; next fall will be a fine time to go over there, and between strikes bathe my soul in all the glories of Indian sum mer." Thus I reasoned about it, and in the autumn would match the at tractions of spring against the fading light with the reeult, one more post ponement. And it is not al ways easy to get over the mountain," as even a very small "mole bill" presents difficulties sometimes. At any rate, I did not get there while all those years rolled by. Vaulting ambition lnred me many times to far distant waters, but through all that period I had a fuel ing, which amonnted to absolute cer tainty, that soma time I would cast my line over Little Sequatchie, aud I h&ve just now returned from that long thought of expedition. As this charuiiug bit' of water lies "over t'.ie mountain" from most of your readers, probably they are not familar with it, and would enjoy a picture and word of description. Of course, there is a "Big Sequatchie" and a valley by that name drained by the larger ftream. and there is the lit tle town of Sequatchie, but we are im mediately concerned with none of these, except that the town is the point on the Pikeville branch of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, where we embarked on our , way to Fairy Land. A team with driver is requisitioned in short order, as night is drawing on, and we have a couple of miles to drive. We are soon bowling along towards our little river, hs it passes near the town, bnt pres- . . .. 11 1 MA. 1 entiy we swing away 10 me ien, anu are destined not to see the stream un- j til we are quite a mile and a half j from town. And I was so glad of that I swing. I think if I bad first seen the) river passing under the railroad bridge, there would have been no j charm to it, all the glamour of ro-1 niance would have fiiieu away. As it was. we came upon the 1 i t tl Iwwaty very much as my fond fancy had pictured it many, many times ov er. 'Twas in that quiet time of after glow, when the world is filled with a mystic radiance, and only music is beard, music of which the dominant note is the silvery vesper song of the hermit thrush. On every hand a pink and white glow oame alternately from where the different shades of wild azalea were blooming in great profusion, while the violets and the wild iris mingled their purple tones in friendly rivalry. And over all the soft light came filtering down through a tender fabric of new lmeoh leaves. Those trees alone were wurth going a long way to see. Let me say, in this little aside, that the man who has not a special admiration for the baby leaves of the beech is surely lacking in an important ele ment, the aesthetic sense is left out of his system, and be is so hopelessly in artistic as to be impossible. And such in the setting for the little gem of a river. Toe road is bearing away to the right, and I am watchful and expect ant when, of a Builder, through the I pink of the azaleas I catch a gleam of ; bine water, aud my right arm goes j out and gathers in the reins and we , ston at the very brink of Little Se-1 qnatohie River. Probably the driver j is still wondering why I took the reins, why I gazed so steadily, and ! . V . : j ),, i why I had nothing to say in the pres- enoe of the little river, about which j bad so much to say before reach-j iug it. Ob, well, let us hope his j rrnndchildren will understand it. I iVnat I beheld was an expanse of deep blue water, probobly one hundred j lees wiae anu rBcuiiiK wj lu '"i"'! Hnd left unbroken by a ripple as far as j we could see. I bad not noticed nnMI now how the monntainfl hx 1 baen elid ing in on us as we advawe.1 nil m -pinger's Cove, but there t'y were, close tbat their betliug bluffs were f.drlv traced ou the blue water, an. I I fBI'ENCER JUDD A XV J oequatchte I j one hoary monster was actually lav ing nis stonv root in toe limpid stream. Would yon not have held up the horses in the presence of snch scene I I learned soon after that we had bsen looking out over the celebra ted "Beech Hole," one of the most no ted fishing points on the stream. I am sending a picture of this stretch of water and I know yon are going to enjoy it. It is fairly repre sentative within its limitations of black and white. I think you will ap predate the soft, hazy effect of the spring morning, and if yon have the soul of a fisherman, yon will go loaf ing down that path to the left, and on and on far beyond the realm of care for a little while. The picture was taken the morning after my arrival and when I tell you that I spent the first half day with the camera before I touched the rod you will understand somewhat the com pell ing beauty of the stream, also that I have learned something of the sweet philosophy of patience. There were many attractive bits of scenery to be recorded, and the fish could wait. There are not many stretches where the little stream is in such a "reflec tive mood" as at "Beech Hole. That is rather exceptional, as it is dancin.g frolicking little river, hurry iug along as if glad to escape from the gloomy caverns in these towering crags, from whence it sprang, Oh, yes, a very nappy river, gur gling and singing, and sometimes shouting as it leaps over boulder- strewn shoals, and swings like a danc ing dervish into the foaming pool be yond. Full of all the bubbling enthu siasin of most young things, it makes a joyous start on its long journey to the sea. For three days, all too snort, we had a line time, just the little river and I I entered into the rejuvenating spirit of the frolic and waded the icy water where the onrush was fierce and almost irresistible. I paddled a canoe aginst the current, and np and down this stream I tumbled, without bruise, along its rock strewn shore. Yes, we had a great time those three days, and for three nights I was high ly entertained by stories, mostly rem iniscent, related by mine host, Uncle Austin Coppinger, a pioneer and orig inal character, all of his sixty -seven years having been spent right there in Conpinger Cove, and all bis life he has been a hunter and fisbeiman. He is a gifted story teller, with an nu failing memory and a highly develop ed sense of numor. I have a good pic ture of him, with his old long rifle. Hud 1 will send yon a print, witu a little sk etch later on. Why are you so inquisitive about the fiih' Of course I caught fish. If you do not believe it, ask old man Coppin ger if we did not have fish for break fast every morning. Patton Chapel. Special to the News We are having plenty of rain now. Andrew Jackson was in Chattanooga Wednesday. R. J. Massey went to St. Elmo Sat torday. Everett Tittle made a business trip to Wauhatchie Saturday. J. F. Massey was in Chattanooga Monday. Work on Signal Mt lailroad, across 1 the river from this place, is about com pleted, and it is expected that cars will be running by the first of Septem ber. Crops are looking fine in this vicini ty. The went good rains have caus ed corn and oats to grow, while wheat is better than it'bas been for the past year or two. Several from this place attended prayer meeting at Wauhatchie Sunday night. B. F. Tittle, of New England, Ga., is visiting relatives here this week. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Massey were visiting relatives in Ellisville the lit ter part of last week. Miss Georgia Marable, of Rising Fawn, Ga., is here the guest of her cousin, Miss Martha Marable. J. H. Short, overseer of roads for this district. has been workins the road here, filling up ditches and rebuilding culverts washed out by the recent "avy rains. The "pike" comes only a short distance down the valley and . part nngraded ,s almost nntravel. aDe j rajuv weatner. "The Story of Jim Crow" was very interesting, and we regret that Jim's '" 80 tragically ended. Valley Bird. Splendid Offer. THK, VF.WS n,l th T.nniril1n Ky HonlB aud Ftmn one year each for 85c. Regular price of loth papers, 11.00. tf Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S ; AST O R ! A THE REPAIR AND MAINTEN ANCE OF EARTH ROADS (From U. S. If (lurtiuout ot Public Boad.) If yon look at the ordinary country road after a shower yon will see small pnddles along the wheel rnts and some times larger pools. This water stays on the road surface because it cannot drain away into the side ditches. If yon look closely you will see side ditcoes which have grown up with bushes and weeds in many cases, and which are so far from the traveled part of the road that the rain water does not rain into them. That part of the roadway where the wagons travel is called the traveled way. To prevent water from standing on the traveled way, the road should be raised in the center and should slope gently into broad shallow ditches. It is then said to have a crown. If it is 10 feet from the center of the road to the side ditch, the surface at the side ditch ehonld be at least 10 inches lowei than it is at the center where the horses travel. The road then has a 10-incb crown. The rain that falls on a road properly crowned will run quickly to the side and not soak into the surface or form pools. The side ditches for surface water should run parallel to the right of way, and should be open at every low point so that the water can rnn out of them into neighboring brooks or streams. - If the ditches merely collect the water from the road Burface and it cannot run away, large pools will be formed along the road side, which will gradually soak into the soil beneath the road and make it so soft that the wheels of wagons will cnt through the road surface and soon destroy it. Sometimes water runs from land along the road into the road and forms a little etieatn down the wheel tracks or in the middle wbeie the horses travel. When driveways into farm yards are built across the side ditches they frequently form channels for water from the farm yard to run into the road. The pipes nndei drive ways become filled with leaves oi rub bish and the water cannot longer run away. If the driveways that stop the ditch water were rebuilt so tbat no pipes were necessary and the ditch could be left open, much trouble from surface water would be stopped. Some times a road runs across "low ground or through a swamp where the road cannot be drained by side ditob- es alone. If the road were built high er like a railroad embankment across such low land and made with a crown, it would be dry and hard. Some times a road parses through what is called a cut. This is a place where the earth has been dug out so that the road can go over a hill without being too steep. The water which always flows quietly nnder the ground on hill sides is known as ground water. In road cuts such water sometimes makes the road very muddy, and tbn road then needs what road builders call under drainage. A good kind of un der drainage is a trench to go along I under the side drain and about 8 feet deep and a foot and a half wide. In this trench a pipe is laid near the bot tom and covered with loose stones no bigger than an egg. When the trench ia completely filled with loose stones the ground water, instead of soaking into the roadway, will stop among the Btoues and flow down the hill through the pipe. To keep a road smooth and crowned the best method is to drag it with a roail drag A road drag is made easi ly with two halves of a log which has been split. The log saould be about 6 or 8 inches in thickness and about 6 or 8 feet long. The two halves of the log are set 8 feet apart with the smooth faces forward and upright. They are then fastened together with braces set in boles bored through th e log. A pair of horses may be used to drag the road and aie bitched to a chain fastened to the front half of the log The road drag should move for ward so tbat is slants across the road n such a way that a small amount of earth will slide past the smooth face of the log toward the center of the road, thus forming ttao crown. The edges of the logs will smooth out the ruts. The best way to drag is to be gin at the side ditch and go np oue ide or the road and then down the other The nex trip the drag should be started a little nearer the center and the last trip over the road the drag may work close to the otmtre it self. Small ridges of earth will be thrown in the horse track ami smeared by the round side of trie log smoothly over the road. The smearing of the earth by the drag it called "pud dling" and it tends to make the sur face of the road smooth and water tight after the sun comes out. The roud is always dragged after it has rained and not when it is dry. A good, strong pair of horses with a well built drag can drag abont 3 or 4 miles of road ia a day, and it is the best way to maintain good roads. In ev ery county some farmer along each four miles of road should own a drag and drag the road when it rains, aud he would always find the road in good condition when he goes to market. Owing to the fact that many rural Fchools were closed at the time when the prize maintenance essay was en ounced by Director Logan Waller Page of the Office of Public Roads, it has been decided to extend toe limit for receiving the e'says to October 15, 1913. In addition to the gold medal given as first prize, two silver medals ill be given as second and third priz i. If a child trbo has submitted one essay previous to the issue of this no- ce should care to try again, he is at I liberty to do fo, but he must be a pu I nil of a rural school. There is some nji-.uDderHHii ing in regtrd tn the sub- jett of the Hcsiy. The nita is to set ' the children thinking how to better their earth roads with the material they bave at hand. .- MMt j UNCLE TOM'S LETTER Onr old and respected friend, James LMsheroon, departed this life Jnne 6 Be was laid to rest in the city ceine tery. He left a wife, two sons and three daughters to mourn bis los. Another old friend, John Flanigan was called to go heuce and was buried the 7th List, in the City Cemetery uncie joon leaves one son and one daughter to mourn bis loss Uncle John was 84 years old. Uncle Wm Foster parsed away - the seventh and was buried the 8th in the city ceine tery. He leaves a family to mourn hi loss. Tbus one by one Death has been playing havoc with the old people of Tracy City in the last to days There are some younger people sick and not expected to live. nenry Hamby is conducting a pro tracted service iu North Tracy. I've not paid much attention to protracted meetings this year. I've been too much on the go. The high tide of re llgion has somewhat subsided on the mountain. Bro. Summer begins a protracted service at Coalmont todxy, the 8tb A saci'amenal service is to be held at the Foster School House the 15tb inst. by Brother DnBose. I am aim ing to go and take dinner with Com rade r . M. Almauy, who lives near there, it being his birthday. I no tified a nice widow lady if she would fix a basket of eatables I would get buggy and . take her with me. "La me," says she, "if I was to do tbat people wonld say 1 was setting out to marry again." "Well," said "What if they do Is it any banging crime to marry t" "No." So you see ladles are restrained from taking bug gy riues with "Uncle Tom" for fear people would say, "Why, she wants to marry." Well, I have but one time to pass this way and I intend to get all out of this life I can tbat is lion orable and just. I am not tied to any thing whatever. I believe God Al migoty wants me to enjoy all the blessings of this life. I've cut loose fiom all my little narrow contracted ideas and notions I once possessed and look upon all such as foreign to the christian religion. For instance re garding dancing. I believe for social enjoyment and recreation dancing is far ahead of any other exercise I know of and was practiced upon as great oc cations of church and state. The Bi ble does not condemn dancing, only man has placed the ban on the exer cise and only man abuses bis God-giV' en privileges and condemns the social recreations of the ages. I trust my religion is bigger than denominational creeds and dogmas, and a man who is a slave tobisde nomination hasn't much liberty, can tell you. I believe in the Father hood of God and the Brotherhood of Man and I don't intend to let the nar row denominationalism of the church' es sway or influence me any more. Here in Tracy City we are enrsed with sectarianism until the people have al most lost confidence in religion. Why, if I was to point out the selfishness of onr preachers who pretend to be preachers and servants of God tbey would want to hang me for telling the trutn. Mighty nttie great Dig numan ity among them. I've seen it tested not so very long ago on a funeral oc casion. Well, God Almighty is much harder to deceive than the people. My! my ! What is out daty to man regard less of onr denominational affiliations. is the question. Well, I'll call no names, but when a poor old man dies not many preachers will ruu over each other to attend the burial. Oh, no. But let a rich man die and note the difference. Well, the angels took care of the Lazaruses but the other class are always buried in pomp and splen dor Christianity gives us joy and peace and a good time, bnt a lot of canting hypcrits don t want ns to get any loy out of life at all. All they want is to get onr money, eat good grub and make ns hewers of wood and drawers of water. Why, even some of our goody-goodys condemned our great Chattanooga reunion aud jumped on it with both feet. I saw more hospital' ity and kindness shown at Cbattauoo ga without discrimination than 1 ever saw displayed among our religious congregations'. The cburcb isn't in it by the side of onr reuuion folks. No sir' Visit a reunion and note its in fluence, please. UNCLE TOM. Tracy Cty, Tenn., June 7, 1913. Most Children Have Worms. Many mothers think their children are suffering from indigestion, head ache, nervousness, weakness, costive ness,' when tbey are victims of that most common of. all children's ail mentsworms. Peevish, ill-tempered, fretful children, who toss and grind their toetb, with bad breath and col icky pains, bave all the symptoms of having worms, and should be given Kickapoo Worm Killer, a pleasant candy lozenge, which expels worms, regulates the bowels, tones np the system and makes children well and happy Kickapoo Worm Killer is guar anteed. All druggists or by mail. Price 25c. Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co., Philadelphia and St. Louis, Whit well Drug Co., Whitwell, Tenn. LONE OAK HEALTH RESERVA TION. Knickerbocker, Texas. Exclus ive resort for the treatment of tuber culosis. Scientific methods. Altitude 'MOO feet. Ideal climate. - Moderate rates. Write for particulars. Meal freshly ground from good corn always on hand fur sale or exchange at onr mill, Hoc per bn'ht-l HILL & SON. A CHECK BOOK A checkbook does not burn a hole in your pocket like the actual money. Signing your name to a check makes you think. You don't spend :i check as readily and carelessly as you spend ready cash. An account at our bank would tend to restrict your spending. Try an ac count with us and pay all your bills with checks. We will gUdly give you a check book. If you will try this for one year you will be surprised at th money you save and you may then smile at all your troubles. Make your bank account grow. It is recording your his tory and telling a truthful story of your success. Open an account with us today. Drop a little in the bank every week and its rapid growth will surprise you MARION COUNTY TRUST & BANKING CO., 4 per cent. Interest on Time Deposits j3Sp6ff Tenn HORSES DOING HARD WORK SHOULD NOT RUN ON PASTURE For animals that must do hard work, or are worked regularly, it is not economical nor beneficial to give them any appreciable amount of green feed. For such animals and for driving horses nothing but dry feed sbomd be need, it is probably more economical, when their efficiency and freedom from sickness are considered, to buy dry feed for such animals rattier than allow them to graze or get green feed in any way. There is no more frequent cause of scouring, colic, founder and otbei disturbances of that sort than green feed for hardworking or driving animals. The animal tbat is in pasture at night and on Sunday, or other idle davs. is almost certain to Bfitifal1 frnm tnn errant Innapnaa fit f ha bowels the next day, if given fast or bard work. The most economical plan is to keep the horses and mules working every day, just as nearly as it is possible tOl,D8 nP 80,ne games with Chatta do so, and grow on the farm, or pur-; "ooga teams. Will Looney is manager, chase, if the feed is not grown, snffi-' The following is Mr. Looney's let cient dry feed to supply the entire r ter D rePjZ: m needs of this work stock. I . "Roope, Tenn., June 7, 1913. We know the animals like the green feed, and tbat it is their "natural"! feed, but we are not keepiDg them un - der "natural conditions when we work them hard or drive tbem fast, aud consequently what is their "nat ural" feed under "natural" condi tions ceases to be their "natural" feed wben the conditions are "unnatu ral," or those of the hard worked horse or mule either on the farm or elsewhere. For idle animals,' or for those doing light work, the cheapest source of feed is a good pasture, but for an animal doing regular, hard work, or bard ot fast work irregularly a pasture is not only not economical, but is a common cause of sickness and reduced efficiency The man who works bis horses and mules hard as regularly and constant ly as possible and produces on the farm sufficient dry feed to supply their entire needs the year round is keeping his work stock tbe most econ omically, wben freedom from disease and efficiency are considered. Tait Butler, in The Progressive Farmer. Empire, Ala. Special to the Niivs. The order of the day is driving to the new camp. , Mr. Boatrigbt and family and Mr. Deglon and family went out to tbe new camp at Ueitouia the other day. Robt Smith went to the city of Sippsy today. Mrs. White is spending tbe after Knot's. Smith is visiting Mrs. noon at T. li. Mrs. Hettie Delia Watson. Dora Tittle spent Sunday with Mamie Ford. I wish someone would start Tennis Smith back to Empiie. 1 sure would love to see Kobt. Smith. W. A Upton arrived in Empire Sunday evening. Ada Hoatrigbt spent Sunday witu Florabell Knott. There was an all day singing" and diuner on the ground at tbe Baptist Church at Dora Snnday. Charlie Butler and Ellen Parks and Ethel McFarland were out walking Sunday. Mrs. Hettie smith and Maud Smith went to Dora Monday and bad a real ice time. There was a big ball game at Em pire Saturday. Flat Creek and Dora played. Empire sure did beat. Huru Barnes bas moved to Beltouia. Mrs. Dave Simpson bas left Empire and come to Tennessee for her health. Wonder if any one has seen her. John and Jim Simpson were here last week and returned to Mulga. . John is so badly dissatisfied that be. don't know what to do. I don't think he will stay at Mulga much longer. What bas become of tbe Tennes see people tbat there are no few writ ing to tbe Mews. J wish tbey would all wake np and write. If they would II write it wonld soon fill np the pa per, and we could near from different parts of the country. Tom bmltn, ot Jbmpire, wants to low what bas become of Omie Smith of Ketchall. He wants to hear from er. Mandie. Election Commissioners. Election coinmis-iouers have been pointed for Marion connty as fol- owh: . M. LMtuernn, democrat, So. Pittbiirg; S. H. Alexxnder. deui- rat; Sam Patton, republican, Jas per. TWO BALL GAMES HERE JULY 4TH Etna Team to Cross Bats With Locals. Manager Bill, of the local team, has just concluded arrangements for two ball gams here July 4th with the Etna team. He recently challenged tnBU1 for tw0 ganies on that date to be i Pa,a DacK Lauor uay, when Utna will I proDamy nave a oig picnic, ihe fctna i D0?8 Play 80KI baliand have been put- Manager mil: Ve accept your challenge for two , games on the n of July. Oet your men on tbe diamond. We will be there and then we will expect two .a games from you on our ground Labor Day." Hoping the weather will be fine and we will have a large crowd, I remain, WILL LOONEY, Manager Etna Ball Team. A big time is expected. The Etna boys are a quiet, gentlemanly sort, and always in the game to win. Ar rangements will be made to enter tain tbem during their stay in the city. LOCAL FREIGHT DERAILED NEAR MT. AIRY The local freight was derailed Thursday 'evening near Mt. Airy. Fiieman C. D. Hill received slight injuries to an ankle in jumping from bis engine, which threatened to turn turtle. Several cars were derailed al so, and the road was blocked until the) wrecker got things straightened np. The accident is supposed to have been caused by a rock lodging next to rail at a crossing. Old newspapers for sale at this office 20c per 100, generous count. lillliii Your BanKlno? No matter how small, No matter how large, The Bank of Whitwell will give it careful attention. This message applies to all. OFFICERS J. J. Dykes, President. D. T. LAYSE, Vice-President. R. E. PoXSKM Vice-President J. R. Mono AN, Cashier. R. A. Dykks. Assist. Cashier. I mm wmmm