davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-08
HE LOVES TIE OPEN.

Flo and the New Englander, who
is his antithesis in many things,
speak the best English to be found
on this side of the Atlantic. The &C
cent is somewhat soft and slurrng,
and there is something too much of
vowel elision, but it has pleasing
sound, and he docs not burr his "r's"
until they rattle like castanets, as is
the case in many parts of tho West.
The Southern gentleman comes of
agricultural stock. He is used to
woods and fields and horses and dogs.
Ho is devoted to the chase, and he is
q good shot. Except in citios he
does not bostrido the bicycle, but he
sits in his saddle with sure grace;
he has the huntsman's seat-toes in
and he rides from the knee, not
from the stirrup. Woodcraft he os-
toems as noble craft, and the art of
vonery as ono Of the fine arts. His
physical ard mental appctites arc
born Of the fresh air and they are
sound. Ho has poetry in him, as
what country bred people have not7
and he finds much Of it in animated
nature. The song of birds, tho clear
Boiling of the door, the saddening
cry of wild fowl in the night, all
speak to the sonl OF him. Though
it's liquid and varied notes have been
familiar to him since infancy, he is
never tired of the mocking bird, n
music that pours from green thrones
through al, the moonlit nights. Host,
hostess anC guests in Southern
homo will frequently drop all con-
versation and move to the front YER
anda to listen to the wild trills and
roulades and bravuras Of tho match
loss minstrel in gray.
The Southern gentloman is honest.
1t is O boast handed from father to
son that his word is as good as his
bond, and surely there could be no
prouder boast All Of his recent cd
ucation in cor. .mercial way has not
been able to grind this out Of MIN.
Instances arc not infrequente of the
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-08
He WAS A GENTLEMAN
TRAITS OF THE Old TIME SOUTH
ERNER THAT STILL ABIDE

he hld Not Wear II Mustache--ln All Things
He Held His Word OF Honor Precious
High Trust In Woman
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-01-07
STRIKE AT TRACY.
Miners Rebel Against the Con-
tract System.

Chattanooga, Dec. 3l.-The min
RS at Tracy City strnck to day a.
Gtinst what is known us the COLI
tract system put in vogue there re-
Gently by the Tennessee Coal d
Irot Company. The miners held
public meeting this afternoon
md decided to work no more until
all the men were paid the compan-
US prices. The men claim that
they have to work for contractors
wages, ranging from 75c to 81 % a
lay or else remain idIe. They al
50 claim that the miners who dc
piece work for the company have
pnly such work given them as the
contractors cannot supply, CO.
Gaines is expected to be in Tracy
to, night, and Col. Shook, the gen.
eral manager, has been for an'
will probably be on the ground to
morrow, Everything so lar is or
derby and quiet, but the men seen
determined to carry their point.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-01-07
A Word of Apology.

We have to apologize this week
for appearing on wrapping paper
For lack of business enterprise
Chattanooga stands ahead of any
place we lave ever struck. We
wanted the paper and sent in the
order and money Monday week
and il took the paper house until
Thursday to fnd out they had not
what we wanted Their tardiness
lust fxeG us that we had not time
TO send to Atlanta so we had to
piece out this issue and curse the
paper dellers.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-01-07
M0Onshiners Captured.

Chattanooga, Jan. 2 Revenue
officers ;o>day made a raid into the
mountains of Marion County and
captured two noted moonshiners
of that county,. R. Forbes and
w. L. Davis-who have been oper,
ating an Illicit still for a numl er OF
years, and who have hitherto elu,
ded the officers. The 60 gallon
still was DESTROYED and 400 gallons
Of malt poured on the ground. The
distil!ery was located in remote
part of the mountainous district ot
the county, in the vicinity of Ira
" City and twelve miles from Sc
quachee City. The whiskey tron
this still has caused much trouble
at the New City and Mman Mines
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-01-07
Well Done.

The relatives of those buried at
the Johnson place after many
years have gone to work and en-
closed the grounds with the con
sent of Col, Spears, the owner and
this is a step in the right direction.
1t makes us sad to see the many
abandoned burial places in this
State and we trust the enterprise oI
the Messrs' Burrows, Watley and
others will be emulated.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-01-07
Washington Letter.
From Our Speeial Corlesp0ndenL.

run OuI NpCCAai Correspondent
Washington, D. G., Jan. I, 1897
If Secretary Olney is Mt careful he
will lose a part of the reputation for
sturdy Americanism he gained by his
able and staunch presentation of the
Monroe doctrine in the controversy
with Great Britain over the Venezu.
ella boundry, He may be innocent Of
the charge but it is being whispered
around that he Is acting in conjrnc-
ton with the Spanish minister IN try
ing to create an impression that will
intimidate Congress into letting the
Cuban question alone. This impress
sion is what the rumors of European
aid for Spain and Of reverses for the
Cubans are circulated with such per-
sistency for. Had 1t not been for his
constant hobnobbing with the Span
ish minister of late, it IS not likely
that Secretary OIney's connection
with these rumors would ever have
been suggested. What the effect on
c. ngress will be remains to be seen
when the session is resumed, next
week There is to-day hardly cor
porals guard of either branch of Con
gress in Washington Secretary Oh
ney did a thing this week which
many think was an unnecessary low
ering of the dignity of the Office he
holds. 1t was in connection with the
closing of the details of the Venezu-
Ella arbitration, and he called at the
British Embassy, instead of compell-
ing the British Ambassador to call al
the Department of State, to transact
the business.
The New Years Day reception al
the White House was never more
brilliant pageant, SO far as the colIec.
ton of elegantly dressed women who
assisted the President and Mrs
Cleveland to receive, the uniforms o.
the handsome uniforms of the army
and navy officers, and the gorgeous
court costumes of the diplomatic
corps were concerned; but there wa
notable absence of Senators anC
. Representatives which must hav,
been a little unpleasant even to maj
+ as free from sensitiveness as Presi
e dent Cleveland is. Nothing coulC
( have more conspicuously brought in
! to notice the existing chasm betweel
the President and Congress.
S There lots of Southern democrat
e who are not in sympathy with tn
0 position assumed by representativ
e Wheeler, of Ala, who is one of tn
democratic members Of the Hous
Ways and Means committee who
regularly attending the tariff hear
ings before that committee, toward
the proposition of W. r. Craig, G
Vicksburg, Miss, to place duty c
three cents a pound upon Egyptia
, cotton. When the subject was be
fore the committee Gen. Wheeler el
:, claimed dramatically: "The Sout
: would be selling its birthright for
+ mess of pottage to ask for this pre-
= lection" Representative Payne
once asked. what do you call il
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-01-07
LOCAL.

Hour mill.
Mr.. Brock, who has been sick fo
quite while, is improving.
Rev. John Swiney will preach It |
Owen Church Thursday Jan. Ia. J
Charles Curtis expects to ener
school at Tracy City next week.
Mai. Thomas II Hill and CHI.
Davidson visited Jasper Thursdat.
See our clubbing offers if yor de
sire to secure cheap reading tor'97
The Dramatic Club held It's .egu-
lar monthly meeting Saturday light.
Miss Alta Brown has returned
from a weeks visit at Mrs. J. ;. Ell.
bridge.
Mr.. Sim Eldridge, of Cle-eIand,
Tenn, Is visiting his brother, j. b.
Eldridge.
Misses Alta and Maude Brown
were visiting Mrs. J. b. Ildridge
Thursday.
Mr.. VIM. Owen has had a hard
tussle with the fashionable dissipa-
tion La Grippe.
H. E. Tate and Miss Kate Lewis
passed through here en- roue to Vic
toria Saturday.
MIR. Phillip Pryor, Of Whltwell.
was visiting his daughter, Mrs. w. l.
Richards, this week.
A new advertisement of the Hum
ming Bird bicycle is visible in eul
columns this week.
Mr.. Pitner, of Peoples & Pitnel
was in town on his regula business
trip Tuesday morning.
Miss Sarah Ables returned from 2
visit to Chattanooga and Dunlap anC
expect to enter school at jasper.
Rev. L. w. Cartwright, the Pre-.
siding Elder of this district M. E.
Church, South, was in town Tuesday
We are sorry to hear OF Iittl,
Maggie Eldudge, one Of our bright
est and sweetest little girls, being
very sick.
Mrs. Will Richards and children
and Miss Ruth Pryor, of Jasper
were visiting at Granville Brown
Wednesday.
Glass No. 2in Sunday school i
well pleased with their new teacher
Mr.. w. S. Pryor, though they hate,
to give up Mr.. Sam.
Nick Fulfur went to mill Monda,
himself for the first time in ! long
while because all his boys wete lal
by the heels with grippe.
Now we want that mountain roa,
worse than ever to get to that Nor
wegian colony and also to enabl
them to trade at Sequachee.
G. H. Davidson and wife, J. w
Graham and wife and Hiram Cop
pinger took in the "Wild Coos
Chase" at South Pittsburg Saturda
night.
See our clubbing offer with tn
Tri-State Farmer. The price of th
two publications is Toe, but we offe
them both for soc, Subscribe TO
them at once.
As it seems a settled fact the fror
gate of the churchyard gate must b
left open, some of the lot holders az
trying to get the burial ground shr
of from the church gard,
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-01-07
s...'..s> X ........%'...'''''s ''''''s: '.'''.,k
Aunt Dolly'H Department.
t......a........'yr .....'. 4;'...,. T,...fs..',k
NV dear children:

My dear children:
So 1897 is here at last and | sup
pose a great many Of You are sorry
that Xmas and New Year are over
but the holidays seem to be ever so
much nicer when you have to wait p
long time for them. received a
nice little letter from Bessie Ham
mock last week but by some accident
it was miSlayed. But | hope she
will write again and we will take
take care that her letter is published j.
| nope the New Year will be a hap
py one to all Of you.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-01-07

trade, free everything" promptly re,
piled Gen. Wheeler. The humber
Of men in Congress who would come
out flat for free trade can be counted
on ones fingers, although most of
the democrats would resent being
called "protectionIsts.' notwithstand-
ing the many strongly protective fea-
lures of the present democratic tariff
law
While none of the silver men in
Congress are enthusing TO any ex-
tent over Senator Wolcott's proposed
legislation fer another international
conference IN the interest OF bimetal-
lism, none of,,them. will oppose that
legislation, although few of them be
lieye thai it will amount to anything
mole than other efforts in thas line.
The republicans favor the proposed
legislation, not only because it will
carry out the promise made in their
national platform, but because they
hope it will aid in taking tie silver
question out of politics, either by
bringing about international bmctal-
lism or by making it plain that no
such thing is possible under existing
conditions.
Senator Dubois has gone to Idaho
to personally manage his effort for
reelection to the Senate He will
have the open assistance of the Nat
ional Democratic Committee, which
has several men on the ground.
Some of the friends of Mr.. Dubois
say that the republicans for his hav-
ing bolted the St. Louis platform and
supported Bryan are using their in.
tuence against him, but members Of
the National Republican Committee
have positively denied that it was do
ing anything against Mr.. Dubois OF
that it had the slightest wish to see
him defeated. One noticeable fea-
ture of this case is that his friends
express more confidence in the re
election of Mr.. Dubois than he does
himself.
The nomination of Mr. Chas. B
Howry, of Miss, to the vacancy OF
the Court OF Claims was hung up b!
| the Senate Judiary Committee fol
the purpose of investigating a chargC
| of homicide which was filed agains
him. 1t is not denied by Mr.. How
rvs friends that he killed a man.
lawyer who was his opponent in
case in one of the Mississippi court
z but they do say it was clearly cas'
of self-defense, which was invcstiga
e ted by grand jury that refused t
E find true bill. The man killed va
8 a brother of Hon. w. V. Sullivan
who has been elected to the mex
House from the 2nd Miss. distric
1 and who is und 4rstOod to be benin
I the fight that is being made on tn
Il nomination. Mr.. Howry is at pres
: ent an assistent IN the office of tn
: solicitor General, and has been non
Il mated and confirmed by the Senat
a three times since the killing whic
, occurred about ten years ago.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-01-07
Your friend,
ARTHUR MARTIN.
NUMERICAL ENIGMAs.

/ am composed of IL letters.
My II, Z, 4 is an insect.
My l, 6, 4 is a small animal.
My 2,3, 5 is a covering for the
head.
My /, 8. 5 is a small bed.
Ny 5, IL, 10 IS game.
My ,, 8, 10 is another animal.
My whole is a Southern city.
| am composed Of 8 letters.
My 5, 4, 8 is used it write with.
My /, 7, 8, 9 is sound.
My 3, 2, / is to remit.
My 6, Z, 8, 8 Is something done to
a razor.
My whole is a great invention.
HIDDEN CITES.
1. She was reading a book.
,. see Sally Lond on a gate.
3. The rate at par If dollars.
4. The moon shines bright on the
sea.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-01-07
Sequachee' Tenn, Jan. 3, 1897

Sequacnee Tenn, Jan. 8, l69I.
Dear Aunt Dolly:
l am sorry that school is out. |
miss my schoolmates. | feel just
like | was lost. Old Santa was here
and brought me a doll. a mug, two
oranges and big stick of candy.
Your friend,
ANNIE BYERs.
My dear Annie:-I was very glad
to hear from yon, So you are sorry
schools out as we'll as Halle Haynes.
| think you must have had a nice
time Christmas. Now write again.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-01-07
Answers to Last WeeE.
The Sequachee Valley News.

The Dramatic Club is preparing
to take their play, 'Mr, Bot" to Vic.
toua. Miss Belle Francis will take
the part which Miss Maggie Graham
played, Miss Graham having return.
ed to her home in Larkinsyille, ala.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-01-07
Victoria, Tenn. Jan. 4, 18G

Victoria, Tenn, Jan, 4, 1897.
Dear Aunt Dolly:
Christmas is over and Old Sanity
came to see me and brought me sew
eral little presents.
Your friend,
ARTHUR MARTIN.
Ny dear Arthur:-So we have a
boy writing to the Department now.
l was beginning to think that the
girls were going to have it all them
seves. Write again.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-01-07

Advertise in the News.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-02-19
The Law Was Vindicated.

a friend of Representative Culberson,
Of Texas, related the following Incl.
dent when Mr.. Culberson was pros
ccuting attorney he said, there was
criminal statute universally disre-
garded. The Indictment of a we'll
known man for violation of this law
was secured through the efforts of Mr..
Culberson, who prosecuted the case
with more vigor than almost any he
had ever conducted, succeeding in Sc
curing a conviction and sentence to the
penitentiary. Then he left town and
no one knew where he had gone until
he and the prisoner, who had been
taken TO the penitentiary, returned to-
gcther. Mr.. Culberson had gone to the
governor, obtained a pardon and met
the convict at the penitentiary with it.
The law had been indicated and there
were no more violations of that statute
in jefferson"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-02-19
a GOLD CLIMATE,
Candle Finds 1t Hard Work to Keep
Warm IN the Arctics.


Cold is merely a relative term. The
resident OF the semi-tropcal countries
Shivers when the thermometer falls I'll
so degrees, while the Laplander and
Eskimo think IL is comfortable at zero.
For real cold. and plenty of it, ore
must go TO the polar regions. Think
of living where the mercury goes dowr
10 36 degrees below zero in the house,
in spite of the stove. Of course, in such
case, fur garments are piled on until
man looks like a great bundle of skins.
DR.. Moss, of the polar expedition of
1876, among other things, tells OF
the effect of cold on a wax candle which
he burned there. The temperature was
IS degrees below zero. and the doctor
must have been considerably discour.
aged when. looking at his candle, re
discovered that the flame had all il
could do to keep warm.
II was so cold that the fame could
not melt all the wax of the candle, but
was forced to cut it's way down. leav-
ing a sort Of skeleton of the candle
standing.
There was heat enough. however, tn
melt oddly shaped holes in the thin
walls Of wax, and the result was beau.
tiful lace-like cylinder Of white, with
tongue Of yellow flame burning inside
Of it and sending out into the darkness
many freaks of light.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-02-19
DANGER IN EARLY RISING.
A Doctors Theory That the Habit Helps
to Make People Insane.

DR.. Selden II. Talcott, the medical
superintendent Of the Middletown State
Insane asy lum recently, started the the
DRY that nothing conduced SO much to
insanity as early rising
In proof of his assertion DR.. Talcott
calls attention TO the relative frequency
with which farmers, their wives, sons
and daughters become insane. The cause
of this has hitherto been thought to be
their isolated lives, their hard work and
perhaps the excessive use of pie and po-
tatOeS.
On the other side, it has always
seemed to DR.. Talcott and other eminent
alienists that there must be some other
deep seated cause Of insanity among the
farming classes than pie and potatoes.
Farmers have always pure, fresh air in
abundance, which city folk seldom have;
they are less liable TO mental and nerv-
Gus strain than city folk and also less
liable TO infectious diseases and the bad
effects of alcohol.
DR.. Talcott's view, after careful
consideration of the advantages and dis
advantages of farming life as predis
posing cause Of insanity, is that it is the
excessively early hours of rising which
increase insanity in the rural districts
out Of proportion to the urban and SUI
urban rate. He thinks growing chill
dren in particular suffer severely from
the artificial cut off" which is applied
so rigidly to their lives.
The report Of the state commission in
llnacy shows that during the year end
ing Sept. 80, 1894, $40 farmers gar
deners and herdsmen were committed in
New York state as lunatics. This is a
larger number than in any other class
except laborers, of whom there were COZ
commitments.
As against these large classes there
were only ga members of the profess
slonal classes committed, including
clergy. military and naval officers, art
lists, authors, civil engineers and survey
ors. There were only 40 men committed
cut Of the large class Of walters, cooks,
servants, miners and seamen. The class
Of male teachers, students, housakeep-
ers and nurses gave only 70 New York
Times.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-02-19
STRONG OF WING.
Birds Are Able to Infiict Quite Serious
Injuries Even Upon Man.

Injuries Even Upon Man.
There are q good many birds whose
strength of wing is sufficient TO strike
pretty hard blows, capable of bewilder-
ing a man, if several of the birds at
tackled him at once. Some birds depend
on their wings as weapons 10 be used
In the duels for sweethearts.
Forest and Stream told some years
ago about AZ owl whose wing was
broken by dove il had sought to cap
ture and make a meal of.
correspondent of the National
Druggist tells Of his first surgical case
in the state of Arkansas. a market
hunter on Swan lake, near Shawnee
Village plantation, was hunting at
night with a light, when a band of
swans, bewildered 10y the fire, came
flying that way. The hunter, who was
in a little progue, threw up his arms
to save his head. and the left one was
struck by the wing of bird, and both
the ulna and the radius Of his forearm
were broken.
The Sun recently told of a Port Jer-
Wis farmer who was knocked from a
tree 10y a fight Of wild geese during a
fog. and Forest and Stream has several
times in the past 20 years told about
men who were dazed by birds flying
against their heads, cartridges (ruffed
grouse) being the principal Offenders.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-02-19
CIGARETTES AND WHEELS.
Alleged Increase of Smoking Amos
Women Who Ride Bicycles.

Alleged Increase of Smoking Amosg
Women Who Ride Bicycles.
The statement that the sale Of cigars
and cigarettes is steadily decreasing Is
not borne out by the government sta
tistics, says the New York Sun. For the
ten months of the fiscal yenr ending
April 80, 1896, the cigars manufactured
for home consumption only in this
country numbered 3,50s, 200, 4S7, or an
increase of 6s, asst over the last fiscal
year. In cigarettes an even greater in
crease is recorded, the total product for
the first ten months for home consump-
ton being 3, 33S, 147,3O0, or an increase
of 617,S04, 4s0. Consequently the state
ment of decrease. which was attrib-
Ited TO the bicycle, is false.
AS a matter of fact, there has been Il
great increase in cigarette smoking
through the popularity OF the bicycle.
This, it is stated, is due largely to Gig
arctic smoking by women, who, very
many of them, are well equipped with
tiny cigarette cases, cigarettes and
matches. A firm making bigh-grade
cigarettes is now turning out more
cigarettes specially adapted to the
taste of women than for men; and the
number of special private brands. bear
ing the name and address, or crest and
motto of the customers, is increasing
daily. Some women bicyclists now
hand out a cigarette bearing the name
ia place of a visiting card. Some of
these private brands made for New
York women cost five dollars per 100.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-02-19
HEADLESS BIRD.
Young Quail Whose Neck Had Been
WrunE Flies Away.

Young Quail Whose Neck Had Been
WrunE Files Away.
y gentleman living near this place
recently Melted a dozen quails, says u
Taylor dispatch TO the Philadelphia
Times. When he was killing and dress.
ing them the following strange occur
renee transpireG; AS he went to wiring
the neck of one of the birds the head
slipped off in his hand, pulling about
two inches Of skin and feathers along
with il.
Turning moment later TO pick up
the bird from where he had thrown 1t,
the gentleman found the little fellow
flying and hopping about as though
nothing untoward had happened, bis
bare neck sticking up gaunt and head
less.
Thinking the birds activity resulted
from a posthulnus contraction Of the
muscles the gentleman attempted to
pick him up, when the little fellow
mounted in the air and flew away, fUt-
tering and quivcring now and then, but
when about 200 yards from the house
he disappeared into asmall pine thicket,
flying to the last
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-02-19
King numbert and His soldiers.

King HJImbert, in the name of him.
self, Of Queen Margherita, and of the
princes Of the royal family of Italy, ha.
given to- the government for the fam
lilies Of the dead and wounded soldiers
in Africa the sum of 100000 francs.
This sum is to be distributed without
distinction between the Italian and the
native soldiers, who fought side 10y side
against the Abyssinians. King Hum.
bert has also expressed his intention OF
furnishing, if necessary, another sum Of
1000 Geo francs, in his name and that Of
the queen. TO be divided among the
wounded.