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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-02-25
Gems of Art

Through the kindness Of Mr.. Phil
ip A. Butler, the art editor Of tie
News has been allowed to examine
several very remarkable pen and ink
sketches executed by Messrs Cope
land and Bartholomew, Of Boston.
In one of these the editor OF the
News and a friend are represented
as taking a drive behind despond-
ent looking mule that quite evident
ly needs to be newly upholstered.
The faces of the driver and his com
panion may be slightly idealized, but
the mule is true to nature and the
look Of deep detection on the cOun-
tenances OF all three would move a
heart Of soapstone. In another an
artist is trying to sell one Of his paint
ings to q true daughter of the sunny
south, magnificent charcoal bran
cite, who appears to be deeply NOV
ed by his ejoquence. But the most
striking picture in the entire collect
ion is one entitled, 'FThe Return from
the Bear Hunt" In this a hunter
who seems to be a genuine Massa-
chusetts Yankee, is so intent on get
ting home in time for dinner that he
is leaving "footprints on the sands Of
time" about fourteen feet apart. A
short distance behind him is a lively
Tennessee bear that evidently does
Mt intend to lose dinner even if the
hunter does.
These sketches have been shown
to many Of our citizens and have re-
ceived lavish praise. ''I have visited
many art exhibitions but have never
seen anything like them, said one.
cat least not since | took the Keely
Cure" he added hastily.
''Were there ever any such artists
in these parts?" we inquired of an
Old resident who was studying "The
Return from the Bear Hunt"
81 reckon thar was one, but he
died suddint like" he replied. "Yas,
suddint like he repeated rehec:iveIy,
'an' we haint had a lynchin' here
sence."
But perhaps the most glowing tes-
timonlal to the merit Of these works
of art is contained in a letter receiv-
ed by Mr.. Butler, which we copy by
permission:
"Mistur Butler,
"Deer Sur:
'Mi littel jonny uster
have Fits, but he straid inter yure
Stewdeo da an seen the picturs
Drord bi yure Bostin frens an He
halnt had but fit sence.
"Yours Afexshunetly,
"Bil ToIiver.
'dP. S. the Fit he had when he seen
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-02-25
GROUND HOG DAY.
Its Origin, It's Myths and It's OBJ
servance.
Published by request.

Published by request.
Our Saxon fathers named the
months from some characteristic
of nature. February
was the month of sprout-kale, and
March was the wind month, but dur
ing the dominance Of the Roman
church the days of the month were
designated, not as the tenth Of
twelfth, but from the nearest saint in
the calender. In the "Patson Let
ters," that mine of antiquarian de
lights which so vividIy represents
the household life of the Fifteenth
Century, there is scarcely a letter
which IS not thus dated, as on "the
Thursday next before st. Agatha's," "
''the Monday after St. MIchaels"
"the Wednesday next after st.
Paul's" a curious mingling of honor
to Wooden and Thor with sacred
feasts of more enduring faith.
The festal of candlemas, the syn
chronous celebration Of the presen-
tation and of the purlfcatlon, was
probably instituted as such by the
Bishop Gelasiaus in the reign of
Justinian, hut it is without doubt a
more ancient observance and one OF
the legacles Of dying cult. "Great
Pan is dead" but his worship fingers
in many an unconscious service.
| Candlemas, occurring as it does on
the second of February, may we'll be
the survival Of the Roman Lupercal-
ia, the FeOrua, or rites of lustration
performed on the 18th of that month
centuries before the Babe lay in the
manger at Bethlehem.
The use of candles, although con.
sidrated typical Of the prophetic
words of Simeon, GA light to lighter
the Gentiles," is probably the relic O
that feature OF the Lupercalia, wher
during during days of riotOus license
under the cloak of pious ceremonies
the people ran hither and thithel
carrying candle to represent the tOrcl
with which Demeter sought her lOst
Persephone through the plains o
Emma. Beautiful myth-syrnboliz
> ing 50 much truth, spiritual an(
l physical-far aPersephone, re-incar
nate in the daffodils, which sprung
up on the banks Of Cyane! Th'
transition from the Lupercalia t.
: Candlcmas was but one of the man,
: compromises by which pagan Gus
oms were baptized with Christian
names.
< In England the best tribute to tn
day is given by the opening snow
d. ops -"Candlemas Bells" "Fai
Maids OF february" one Of the man.
e flowers dedicated to Mary, and form
: erly called the Purifcation Flower
Henry Will, by special proclama
a ton IN 1889, permitted the use c
I candles and the further Observance
of the day, for neither Henry nor hi
e daughter in their nominal Protestant
q ism renounced the pageantry c
Z Rome. In every English parish, tn
Chri, ,tmas greens were removed fror
church and home on Candlemas Eyo
e custom prettily told by Herrick:
S Down with the rosemary, and so
e Down with the bays and mlstletoC
4 Down with the holly, ivy, and all
l. Wherewith ye dressed the Chris
mas Hall,
That so the superstitious find
a Not one least branch there left b,
= hind,
For look, how many brancht
there be
It Neglected, there (maidens trust
me),
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-02-25

Last Sunday night the temperature
stood at an even seventy and it was
actually hot for this season Of the
year. Monday was very sultry and
tl.at afternoon we had the first thun-
der storm of the season.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-02-25
LOCAL..

w ash w dUlcy was III COWH Jun
day.
Marion Moss, Of Whitwell, was IN
town Friday.
w. S. Pryor went to Whitwell
Wednesday.
Edgar Smith and family left for
Texas Monday.
JOB printing done neatly and nice
ly at this office.
L. w Gabel was in Chattanooga
one day last week.
James Thompson got off the train
here Friday evening.
TON Richards started for Fort
Worth, Texas, Monday.
Miss Sarah Ables was visiting at
Granville Browns Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Robertson
spent last Friday in Jasper.
Lew Bowlin returned from d visit
to Florence, Ala, Saturday.
Mr.. w. L. Melcher and G. Sher-
man spent Thursday IN Jasper.
MesSrs Ingersoll Jones and John
son, of Jasper, were in town Monday.
Mr.. G w. Lewis, of Victoria,
paid us a pleasant visit last Monday.
Spring has not come. l. is not
due until March goth, but people
have "hitchlng" to get to garden
ing.
The Pryor Institute boys had va
cation last Monday--W Washlngton's
Birthday.
Charlie Curtis, who is attending
school at Jasper, visited home folks
this week.
Mathew Pryor and Sam Rogers
returned from Chattanooga Tuesday
Work gave out.
Bank Deeds, Mortgage Deeds and
Chattel Mortgage Deeds for sale at
the News office. tt
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Richards and
children are visiting relatives up the
Valley this week.
Miss Maude Clarke. of Jasper, was
the guest of Misses Annie and Maudt
Brown Sunday afternoon.
Chancery Court convened at Jas
per Monday. A number of our peo.
pie went down to attend ii, interest
ed or otherwise.
Charlie johnson, the collar and
harness maker, reports that he Is
meeting with much success in thu
disposal of his manufactures.
Harve Carnes brought us a wilC
turkey last week and it was great
Mr.. Canes has our very best com
pliments for his thoughtfulness.
The pm bic entertainment ahnOuh
ced for last Monday night at Pryo
Institute, Jasper, was postponed unit
Friday night on account Of rain.
weather.
When yon take the News and pa,
for it one year in advance, remembe
that by paying ten cents more yor
can also have the Tri-State Farme
for one year.
Who knows what "hatchet
party is? The people of West Ten
nessee are indulging in this kind O
dissipation, and as the guests attenJ
I'm costume, poverty or ntherwiS
we Judge it must be something lik
= taeky party.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-02-25

WHEN bilious or costive, eat a
Cascaret, candy cathartic, cure guar
anteed, 10c, 25c,
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-02-25
NOTICE

For full information regarding
the DeLoach Mill machinery etc,
apply at this Office. JAM ly
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-02-25

The frogs are gettlngin their work
now and dnval the uproar of caucus
or ratification meeting. The catkins
have also appeared and several trees
in the vicinity have made perceptibIe
efforts to put forth. Spring is COM
ing and with it ''that tired feeling"
Miss Saran Ables Is teaching a
subscription school, having opened at
the school house Monday morning.
Send your children along 5nd make
;his take the place of the spring
term of the pu5lic school, which
should be but is not.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-02-25

Edgar Pryor was in Jasper last
Tuesday.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-02-25

Ripans Tabuios cure liver uoubles.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-16

mind and heart to much health and
happiness. A confirmed invalid, still
did Sidney Smith continue to be one
of the merriest of men; and when
some one asked tenderly after his
health, he replied, with an air of con-
tentment, that he "had three or four
diseases, but was in all other respects
perfectly WE'LL"
Sad indeed are the aches and pains
of earth, and gladly would we soothe
them away; but still must we recog-
nize the fact, so creditable to Provi-
dence, that health is normal and
sickness abnormal, and that while the
ruddy Hygeia is the main angel
abroad on the earth and to be stead
ily remembered in our grateful offer
ings, her darker counterpart, disease,
too often heedlessly invoked, is less
common among us. While over
twenty houses the one presides,
only over the twenty first, at the same
time, does the other extend her dark
er reign.
These are simply illustrations of
the necessity of taking wide views OF
life and its attendant troubles. When
we incline to any pessimistic view of
the world or it's concerns, good
remedy is to take an upward look and
survey things from higher level.
If we take wide views we shall gain
strength and encouragement for
whatever pains or Expresses. We
offer all this as appropriate sug-
gestions to these opening weeks OF
the new year.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-16
untversaItst personal.

heV. L. &. Tomlinson has Withdrawn
from the Universalist ministrv ho1,;.a
Connected himself with the Christian Sci.
entsts. 0oi-
Rev. A. B. Curtis, Phi. D., formerly If
Iufts College, will occupy the mint Of
the Binghamton, N. Y cburob III.
the month of January
Mr. S. j. Murphy and family of Ia
trolt, left for Whittier, Los Angeles 20
CaI.' saturday, to escape the cold weather
and enjoy the summer air at tboi,, -,
Among The Massachusetts church items
thls week is the announcements of q ro,,.
church at North Dana, in the ;mmodio+o
neighDorhood where Father Ballou began
his wonderful ministry.
Inc sermon which DR.. C. Fl Eaton no
Gently preached in memory of the late
William Steinway has been published il,
1uli IN the Musical Age 1t is a warm and
appreclatlve estimate of one of the most
upright, philanthropic, and loval citizens
OF New York City
heV' Florence Kollock Croker is snend-
Ing lew weeks in the vicinity of Cbica-
go. Her husband, Rev. j. n. Crool,er Of
helena, Montana, has accented n call 70
.he onltarian parish in Troy, N. Y, and
onat city VIII be her new home. Mrs
Crookel appreciates the coming cbanoe
from The distant West to the central nov
ton of our country.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-16

and man acts upon God, and so they
are bound into one family of recipro-
cal love and sympathy and helpful
ness. Gods action towards man is
conditioned by mans need, this need
being determined not only by mans
creation but by his conduct. Is man
sinful? Then God Furnishes him as
the father the child, that he may
cease to sin, and the whole great
question of punishment is resolved.
Gods punishment is such pain
full treatment of the sinful as shall
lead them to repentance. Hence that
punishment is always remedial and
can never be endless. So the Father
hood of God Eliminates the whole
great question of punishment and
makes it so simple that child may
understand it. Is man penitent?
Then God makes him conscious of
his forgiving love, even as the father
the penitent prodigal in the parable.
So with all the great questions of re-
ligion.
They are all resolved in the light
of the Divine Fatherhood. Know
God as the Father and you know the
Gospel of Jesus Christ. Study every
question of religion in the light of
this fundamental truth and it be-
comes as simple as any question of
daily conduct. The matter of going
out and coming in will not be any
more simple than the religion of
Jesus, if interpreted in the light of
the Divine Paternity.
Here, then, our education needs to
begin. Let the doctrine of Gods pa
ternity be firmly grasped as great
truth, and then let this doctrine be
studied in all it's fullness. Let every
doctrine be related to this as logical
inference or conclusion. Let every
branch ON the tree of religious know
ledge have it's ground in the great
parent stalk or trunk, and it will be-
come a tree of life and salvation. We
shall then have theology that will
bear directly upon life, and every doc
trine of which will be practical, and
we shall have no more of this sense
less opposition to doctrinal preaching
for all preaching will be doctrinal and
atthe etime practical. A theology
atthe heart of which is the Fatherhood
of God will ever have in its preaching
the ''power of God into salvation"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-16

pers and in the subsequent addresses
indicated "a brainy people alive in every
molecule of their mindstuff." My own
verdict on the addresses and papers.
some of which l heard and most of the
remainder Of which have read, is. that
they show great religious earnestness
and strong spiritual undercurrent in
the life Of the Church leaders.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-16

utterly condemn the use and sale of the
same. And we further u tue
RESOLVE, That our Secretary no in.
structed to sign the petition which is 70
De presented to our legislature this win,
of cigarettes. anu Sdle
The Convention will meet next wear
at Neenah. Ina Irr,r
State Secretoru
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-16

which follows, il thoroughly embraced
and comprehended, will save from
fundamental mistake, those who seek
to advance the cause of Religion in the
world by methods of material and sensa-
tional order. Only as the spirit of Chris
tianity dominates the life of society, and
develops from within limatiug and TO-
spring Christian souls. can the progress
of the gospel be assured:
1.-THE Kin sdom of God Is like leaven
hidden in the meal, and it's safe and le-
gitimate work on human society is
according to this analogy carried on,
spreading and gaining ground in this,
its concealment, gradually absorbing
society into it's spiritual power, which is
from above. 1t cometh not with obser-
walton. 1t is not by great movements.
not by efforts that can be chronicled by
man. that it's greatest triumphs have
been, or ever will be won. 1t is in the
bosom of the family. in the unwitnessed
growth of thoughts and habits OF faith,
and purity. and love; in the silent prog
ress of enlightenment, and confidence,
and kindly feeling. that the real adj
vance of religion is to be traced in the
world "
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-16
MINISTER'S MEETING.
Next Week.

AT the regular Universalist Ministers,
meeting next Monday. January 18th. at
IL A M Rev. A. A. Thayer will speak on.
Inc BOOKS That are Helpful to Clergy.
men," 1t is desired that each minister
bring list of 20 or more works that
nave been helpful to him. Visiting
brethren invited. W. P. BuRNELL.
Secret0ry.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-16
Inc Ideal Sunday School Secretarv,s
Report Book

You want to begin the New Year riobt
10 II Tor your Sunday school, by keeping
correct records with the Ideal SundaY
School Secretary's Report Book.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-16
FIELD AGENT, II. L. MOORE.

We believe that the Holy Scriptures Of the Old and
New Testaments contain revelation of the character
of God and of the duty interest and final destination
Of mankind.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-16

Kingdom of God and the way in
which it develops and progresses in the
world, in the words Of a contemporary.
The thought embodied in the paragraph
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-08-25
THE STAMP COLLECTORS.

This week the postage stamp collectors
hold their annual convention in the city
Of Boston
The American Philatelic Association,
though national in its scope, finds the
bulk Of its membership in New York and
she New England states The association
was organized in 1886 with llg mombers
and now has a mem bership of 1909, every
Itate being represented by larger or
maintains an exchange and sales depart
ment which transucts a business OF
l25. 600 q year.
Perhaps most Of the older members OF
che stamp collecting fraternity began
their collecting as boyish fad and today
sery likely a large proportion OF the half
million collectors in the country are
young people. But the fad hos certainly
developod TO imposing proportions as
business aud pursuit that compares favor
ably with the amassiug Of curios and
treasures in many other we'll recognized
lines. A part OF one American collection
of stamps brought $3.50, 0OJ in the London
loiASt hot iNbE hEo. AueTt u one HtaIup n
OF the old local postofice variety
worth, all by itself, as high rs $1,000 with
only rare offer OF IL, while one of the old
Hawaiian missionary stamps has brought
es high rs 5000. Indeed STAMPS that wore
bought for few dollars or even a fow
cents "a quarter of n century ago would to-
day bring tidy fortune Co their pos
SCISSORS.
The United States government issued
'ts first stamps In lSi7. For few years
before that the local postmBsters all over
the country issuod their own stamps for
prepared mail matter and some OF these
bring big prices
Ex-Mayor Frank Fuller olney OF this
city il president OF the association and
his re-eleotion is expected NJ this weeks
convention. J no association is conservative
in tho matter of changing its chief official.
There have been but two presidents In the
eleven years Of its existence, ex-Mayor
Olney bcirg elected upon the death Of the
first president, the late John N. Tiffany
sf St Louis who served ten year.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-08-25
SHE WAS ALL RIGHT.

"I'm comparatively young in practice, -
admits the man who tells the story, "but
I'll venture that no other lawyer ever had
"a like experience. / could soc that tho
woman was in deep trouble as soon as she
entered the Office. She was young. intel
ligent, refined and, decidedly attractive
despite tho fact that she was pale aud
nervous. When sho was seated | asked her
what / could DO for her.
d" That's what I'm here to asceratin, ;
she replied. II have a peculiar casel to
present. Four years ago / fell in love
with young man employed by my father
He positively forbade the match, and was
very harsh with nv lover when discharg-
ing him. l would not consent to the folly
of an elopcment. for IL meant a struggle
through poverty. which might or might
not end In something better. 1t was i'm.
possible for us TO correspond, and we
driftoi apart.
resort, my father remaining but n short
time, and leaving me with an aunt. A
rich merchant, considerably older than
myself had been pressing his suit all the
wintor my father urged his acceptance,
and finally agreed, the date of the we'd
ding bcing fixed carly in July. While
was preparing 20 return TO meet this en-
gagoment my former lover appeared at tho
resort We still loved each other. We
slipped away to n magistrate with whom
he had made arrangements and were mar
ried. intending TO confess To my father
and nv ailianoed rs soon rs we reached
them. That evening my husband OF an
hour was caught by an under.ow. while
bathing and drowned. No ono but the
magistrate knew Of our marriage. Tho
date Of my wedding to the man OF my
fathers choice was Mt hand. To break 10 off
Involved more ccnsure, explanation and
trouble than | thought i could bear. so |
came home and am now the merchants
wife Ii was IA lawful marriage, was IL
notY
Unquestionably.
" Am | under legal obligation TO tell
tho story to my husbBndY
" Certainly not; but | think
Then I'll not tell him, and she left
n fat fee without even asking for u re-
coipt You'll notice she never gave me IA
name. '-Detroit Free Press.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-08-25

IL is not easy to deal politely with
those political economists who lind cause
for sorrow in everything which makes for
the prosperity Of thoir fellow ctizens
1t is especially hard TO be courteous to
writer's whose special efforts are at present
given TO deploring tho good prices OF food
products by which the American farmer
is recovering some part of his losses of the
past ten years.
The high prices which must for some
time be paid by food consumers, and it
is admitted that the rise will be upward
of 33 per cent, are no misfortune. On
the contrary, that Very advance in price
means immediate material prosperity to
wage earners employed in manufacturing
industries
The wage earnors Of Rhode island are
intelligent enough 60 know that thay can
not have steady work ana good pay unless
tho farmers have money enough to buy
the products OF tho factories. Their oX-
perenoos for thoi past hvs years have
taught them that no times are so hard as
those in which they have no work, though
provisions and other uecessaries may be
phenomenally cheap.
1t is self evident truth that tho food
producers support tho rost of tho world
and pay all the taxes. As they prosper, tho
rest of tho world prospers. This farmers
jubilee year has come mono too soon to
save farm owners from bankruptcy and
only the stupid will see cause for grief in
their good fortune.