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The record-union., 1898-02-05

trouble will hardly be cured by social
functions in honor of the visiting Span
ish officers. 1t Is of course pleasant
to regard the Madrid Governments plan
to send its fleet to American waters as
a mild move toward more cordial rela-
tons. But in the light of recent events
many people will think that the
naughty Dons are relieving their feel
ings by the childish trick of making
faces and shaking fists.
WHAT SHALL OUR BOYS DO?
San Jose Mercury: Among the many
present day problems that are pressing
upon us for solution is one which init
mately concerns the coming generation
1t is the problem of employment for the
young men who must struggle for ex-
istence. 1t is generally conceded that
the young man who starts in the race
without the endowment of riches Is
heavily handicapped. He may be men,
tally and physically better equipped to
do battle with the world than was his
father, but, nevertheless, his chances
for success are not as great as were
those of the generation before him
Opportunities are becoming rarer; COM
petition is growing keener The me-
chanical trades are crowded with conn
petitors striving to secure employment;
the learned professions are overcrowd-
ed. The few find success; the many
merely exist The skilled mechanic
finds his place taken by some new ma
chine. The clerk and the bookkeeper
find their jobs taken by the poorer paid
woman. The farmland is driven out
by the improvements in agricultural
machinery. The merchant is forced to
compete with the well-equipped depart
ment store, and even the independent
manufactures is forced to succumb to
that power of aggregated capital, the
trust.
The record-union., 1898-02-05
MEMS HANDKERCHIEFS.

Mems White Cotton Hand
kerchiefs, linen finish; full En-
size. TONIGHT ........JU
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-07-28
HE EXPECTED US.

II Asst week, as noticed by our con-
L. temporary In a double-leaded arti.
Gle with three scare heads on il, jim
Renshaw, who owns the Cactus ranch
out on the Tucson road, refused to take
his copy of the Kicker out of the post
office. Jim not only owed us $3.50 on
subscription but refused his paper to
hurt our feelings. He's been sore on
us ever since we refused to lend him
our white shirt-the only one in town
Ito go on a drunk in.
We want to show an accommodating
spirit towards all, and we have the
name of being a good fellow, but we
want to say right here and now that
we believe a common blue wool shirt is
good enough for any man in this town
to get drunk in. If it isn't, he'd better
stay sober.
When we saw Jim's little game we
mounted our mule and rode over to in
terview him. He was expecting us
One bullet went through our hat and
another ralled our mule but after that
Jim lay down, and we dug the bullet
out of his shoulder and helped him in
to his dug-out. He not only paid us all
his arrears in spot cash, but a dollar
on advance subscription; and as soon
as able to move about he will person
ally canvass for subscribers.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-07-28
A STRANGERS MISTAKE.

E7THE other day man who gave his
name as Hurricane Jim arrived in
this town on mule. He was piratical-
looking critter, and was armed with
four guns and a knife. We were talk
ing our regular afternoon nap when he
halted on the public square and uttered
his first yell, and we got out doors just
as he began shooting all over town, and
Announcing that Arizona had seeded
from the United States of America and
was going it alone under his leadership.
We don't run the territory, and never
claimed to, but most everything with
in a radius of so miles around this
town takes off its hat to Jim Hellso. 1t
was our duty to point out this
strangers mistake, but he was man
who wouldn't listen to argument or
reason. Before we could address him as
fellow citizen he had opened fire on
us, and our only recourse was to shoot
back. The fusillade was lively while it
lasted, and it's only justice to Hurri-
cane James to say that he was no duff
fer. Three of his bullets grazed us as
they flew, and he was still popping
away when he lurched from the saddle.
The doctors have picked four bullets
out of his anatomy up to date, and are
on the trail of two more, but they say
he will pull through all right. We are
glad to know it. He was simply labor.
ing under a mistake, and there is the
making of a good citizen in him if he
RECEIVERS. 1t is just as well that all
others of his ilk should know that we
are the man who runs things in this
locality, and that any attempt to usurE
cur privileges or belittle our dignity
means a row right off quick.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-07-28

victorious. We think we know our
gait without advice from the Recorder
or any other source. As a senator,
representing this glorious territory, we
put on more dignity than horse can
draw, and even stand the governor off.
As mayor Of this town we are "boss,"
and have the right of way over all
vehicles on the street and deadhead
passes to all shows which come along.
As postmaster we cock our rat on our
ear and step high, and as editor and
proprietor of the Kicker we can bor-
row money at the bank without an in
dorser. All this is all right, and as it
should be, but when the fit takes us
to throw off these mantles Of dignity
and become a private citizen for a few
hours, we propose to follow our in
clinations and let the carping public go
to grass.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-07-28

the center Of it. The Shaver frame
has the open center; the joint frame
that | have invented has no tie and
there is no tie in the modern solid
timber, pin-and-moTtise frame.
The cut illustrates perhaps the most
common and generally applicable sort
of frame possessing the advantages of
open center, simplicity and great
strength. l supposed that l had in
vented this frame, did, in fact, in
vent it, yet this winter l have seen
more than one barn built on exactly
the same model and built before our
barn was planned.
l have said that the modern barn has
no tie across it, This is true, yet nQI
just an accurate way of stating the
facts. The barn must of course have
a tie to hold the thrust of the rafters,
else it would spread and the roof sag
Really, the tie is at the level of the
NOW floor, at I, Fig. 1. From here the
strain is taken by the standing-brace,
+, to the short ties, c, G. With this
arrangement the building is quite as
solid as though the ties, c, C, were con-
tinuous.
Perhaps l should have stated that
the modern hay carrier has the faculty
of gripping the rope at any desired
height and taking the load in whenever
it is high enough to clear the NOV
floor or height of hay in the NOW. Thus
it is readily seen how convenient it is
not to have the tie, c, cross the path
of the travelling draught of hay that
may perhaps be quite below its level.
When we built our barn our carpen-
ter was quite anxious for fear some
thing would give way and the thing
wreck itself. l had no fears, yet |
watched it curiously when first we be-
gan to lift the hay Our barn takes
in hay at the end, from outside, so
that it is not tied together above at
this end. We often hauled up as much
as 1000 pounds Of hay at a draught and
not the least fraction of an inch of
giving was anywhere noted, although
l watched it very closely. l. amuses
me, however, to see how anxiously
some old gentlemen even yet advise
that l spike on some plank for collar
beams, for fear that it may spread. -
Joseph +. Wing, in Ohio Farmer.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-07-28

about the affair until next day. For a
little chunk of town, tucked away
in back county and off the railroad,
Giyeadam Gulch is full of ginger, and
eastern invalids who are in search of
climate with a tonic in it will either
die or get well here in the course of a
fortnight New York and Chicago are
larger, while Boston is more literary
and st. Louis rather more wicked but
for the number of population and the
high price of cartridges, the Gulch does
its full share towards making North
America a red-hOt country to live in.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-07-28
NO TOWN CLOCK.

X re UNDERSTAND that there is
MAU considerable feeling against
WV as around town because, as
mayor, we vetoed the common council
resolution to purchase a town clock
for the city hall tower. Our opposition
arises solely from a desire to save
money TO the tax payers. A town clock
wouldn't have time to tick is ticks be-
4Ore old Jim Hewson and his crowd
woAld be popping away at the face of
II. We can't say that we could be per-
sonally restrained. On the contrary, we
are almost sure that the sight of the
diais up there would result in our
whooping a whoop and banging away
with the crowd. Ten minutes after fire
would be opened the town would be
several thousand dollars out Of pocket.
No, we are not captious, nor do we
wish to oppose the will of the people
One has hut TO count the $50 bullet
holes in the front doors of the city hall
to realize what the fate of town clock
would be- If the town wants to set up
a flagstaff with a gilt ball Wen favor
the project, and if the ball isn't shot
to pieces within "a hours we'll say that
we don't know the idioms of Giveadam
Gulch.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-07-28
FACTS FROM INDIANA.
They Furnish solution OF the TOAD
Improvement Question from
Money standpoint

In recent paper Prof. W. C, Latta
sets forth the results Of Investigations
which he has made in indiana. He
sent out a large number Of letters 10
farmers in different counties, and from
tie replies received he gathers the fol-
lowing facts:
First The average estimated in
crease in the selling price of land due
to existing improved highways is SOS
per acre. The estimates from which
the average is made refer In most cases
90 lands near the improved roads; but
in few instances they apply to all
lands of the county. The average in
crease, therefore, of seas per acre is
lower than was intended for lands in
the vicinity of the improved roads.
Second The estimated average i'm
crease per acre that would result from
Improving all the public roads is nine
dollars.
Third. The estimated average cost OF
converting the common public roads
into improved highways is $l,146 per
mile.
Fourth. The estimated average am
nual loss, per 100 acres, from poor roads
is STOPS
lie says that if these statements are
even approximately correct that they
furnish a key to the satisfactory solu-
ton Of the question of highway inn
provement from the money standpoint.
On the basis of the last mentioned esti-
mate the average annual loss per acre
from poor roads is over 70 cents. In
five years the losses would aggregate
", 432 for every section of land, and
this sum would construct two miles at
a cost of S1,2l6 per mile, which is $40
per mile above the estimated cost given
by the farmers themselves. The pres
eIt road tax which, under existing
laws, is largely thrown away, would,
under proper system of road mainte-
nance, doubtless keep improved high
ways in perfect repair.
The advantages to be gained he CON
cisely says are that good roads "a
economic time and force in trans
portatiOn between farm and market;
~ enable the farmer to take advan-
tage of market fluctuations in buying
and selling; (3) permit transportation
of farm products and purchased COM
modities during times of comparative
leisure; "a reduce the wear and tear
on horses, harness and vehicles; Isl
enhance the market value of real es-
tate.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-07-28
NEW JERSEY ESTIMATE.
Cost of HauIage Demonstrates the
Advantages of Good Road Sur
face and Light Grades.

The annual report of the state road
commissioner of New Jersey makes the
following statement of the cost of haul
age on various roads, and shows very
concisely where the advantages of good
surface and light grades come in. He
says:
1T costs 9h cents a bushel to ship
wheat from Chicago to New York, a
distance of 900 miles; it costs three
cents a bushel to haul wheat on a level
road a distance of five miles, and on
sandy road it would cost nine cents
per mile to haul it. The saving on
bushel of wheat with good roads for
distance of five miles would be euuiva-
lent to that of 600 milesof transporta.
tiOn by steamer or canal boat, or 375
miles by railroad. One mile of good
roads would make a saving equal to rs
miles of railroad transportation. Thus
every mile of good roads places the
producer 70 miles by rail nearer to the
markets. 1t is estimated that the cost
of hauling 5OO,OOO,OOO tons offarm prod
uce to market is So per ton, or Just
about 81 ,0OO, 100000; it is also estimated
that about 60 per cent. of this last
amount, or 100000, 900, would be saved
each year If farmers were able to do
this hauling over good roads"
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-07-28

My experience in the past 16 years,
in herds of both horned and dehorned
cattle, both milk cows and fattening
cattle, leads me to the opinion that
horns are a great source Of trouble and
expense to the herdsman, says a writer
in the Jersey Bulletin. / have found
that cattle that were of a quarrelsome
disposition before the operation were
rendered as docile as lambs by being
dehorned; and i'm cases of milk COWS.
their product was materially increased
from the fact that they attend strictly
TO business instead Of chasing their
mates around the yard OF pasture.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-07-28
The Life of Pench Trees.

1t is an almost universal complaint
that peach trees do not last as long as
they used to do We do not believe that
this is on account of the weather, be-
cause late winters certainly have not
been so destructive as many that oc-
CURED 80 to 40 years ago. The increase
of borers and of fungous diseases, in
which we include the yellows, are, we
think, mainly responsible for the
change. By keeping borers out and
dressing heavily with potash manures
peach trees may be made much longer
lived than they used to be. One of the
secrets of the longevity of the old-time
peach tree was that they were never
severely pruned, and never produced
heavy crops. The old-time 3O-year-old
peach trees had a tall trunk, with very
little top.-American Cultivator.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-07-28
FRUITS AND FLOWERS.

Don't neglect to grow petunias.
Handle fruit as if you were handling
eggs.
1t is the early sprayer that catches
the worm.
The Bartlett pear beats the world in
popularity.
Akebia quinata is a hardy, pretty vine
for the porch.
The Norway and sugar naples are
desirable trees.
Pear growers say that clay soil is the
best for the pear.
Cut out all the limbs from the pear
tree that show blight.
EYergreens are hardy, pretty and
make fine wind breaks.
A bed Of tulips is gorgeous sight,
having all the colors of the rainbow.
If the tree peddler comes from rep
utable nursery you can afford to listen
to him.
Trim up the old orchard and give the
old tree a banquet of potash spread on
the ground.
Send for what you want to any rep-
utable nursery and you will get what
you order.
There is no difference between
budded and grated apple trees as to
superiority.
1t is cheaper to buy fruit trees and
plants than to buy fruit-a good deal
cheaper.-Western Plowman.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-07-28
FARM AND GARDEN.
ABOUT BARN FRAMES.
Description of One That IL said
60 Possess Absolute simplicity
and Very Great strength,

Inventions change conditions. Once
any high barn was a white elephant
Next the harpoon fork running up to a
track under the roof-peak made height
an essential of the model barn Then
came the invention of the hay-sliug,
that final perfection in unloading OF
hay. With the sling came the problem
of waste of power, of time, in hosting
the draughts over the great beam or
cite" that in all old barns connects
the tops of the posts at the upper ends.
Not only was there prodigious waste
OF energy and time in hosting these
great draughts of hay to the peak be-
fore running in, but when it WAS
dropped from the height, fiat all green,
it might pack so solidly as to NOV
burn" at that place.
Next followed the open center
barn, and to-day there is no barn built
by up-to-date builders with a tie across
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-07-28
rHr coLoNEL con R1LnD.

n Asst week we had something to say
Il, about Col Jim Crocker, who is
Furnishing big stock Of poor whisky
while waiting to be nominated for some
political Office. The colonel believes in
'pap." He's always lived on it,
and he'd starve without it. We sim
ply asked our readers if he was honest,
capable, and so on, and the colonel got
iriled over it. There's no doubt in our
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-07-28
HOW 1T WORKED HERE.

"a VERY eastern man coming this
Il way invariably refers to the Gus
tom prevailing among the eastern edit
ors of secluding themselves and oblig-
ing would-be callers to send up their
cards. We have wanted to try the eX-
pertinent for the last year or two, but
feared results, and our little experience
of three or four days ago proved that
we were correct in our Judgment of
these people. After dinner Tuesday we
retired" to our sanctum and instruct
ed the boy that all callers must send up
their names and state their business.
We felt very metropolitan for about five
minutes Then old Lem Jones arrived.
Lem lives up in the mountains, and has
killed more grizzlies than any two
other men in the territory. He wanted
to renew his subscription to The Kick.
er and have a drink with US. The boy
stopped him at the door and explained
but Lem did not send his card. In.
stead of that he sent 1G bullets from
his repeater through our sanctum
door, and was loading up for a second
fusillade when we opened up and gave
him a smiling welcome. We promised
Mr.. Jones before he left that we would
give up the metropolitan idea" and
ye meant it and are going to keep our
lord. The idea may work all right in
east, where no editor permits a
pscrber to slap him on the back
borrow his only white shirt, but it
be made to go here for the next 20
When a man starts out to see a
editor, he's going plumb into
ctum sanctorum or shoot at
or something, and we keenly
Fad and promise not to try
experiments in that d.
frog farms in the United
lf them are pItgperous.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-07-28
IT WAS A BLUFF.

IA oNDAY morning, while his honor
Il " the mayor (who is ourself) was
rransacting official business in his
room at the city hall, Pine Hill cow
boy named Joe Scott sent in word that
he was on the public square prepared
to take and hold the town. In Just 10
seconds after receiving the message, his
honor had buckled two revolvers about
bis waist and was at the foot of the
stairs. His prompt response to the def
|Sattled Scott, who put spurs to his
and cattered out of town
" shot. His honor got
flying coward, one of
Sough his hat, but he
people who met
say that he was
BIT as well
under.
Ayor out
but
Asent
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-07-28

overlook him just as he had dismounted
from cayuse belonging to the ranch,
which he had borrowed on a dark night
without consulting the owner. This in
formation we did not communicate to
the father. He left here Wednesday
evening, fully believed that William
had been chased a mile and half by a
cinnamon bear and that heart failure
was the direct result. 1t were better so.
He will return to his wife and mother
and tell them that William joined the
innumerable caravan from over-exer-
ton while trying to keep IS rods ahead
of a hungry bear; and, though she will
grieve for her first born, she will be
spared the knowledge that he was
choled with a lariat for two or three
minutes before his heart went back on
him.
LIVELY TIMES AT THE GULCH.
IF there is a more lively town than
u Giveadam Gulch in this glorious ter
ritory of Arizona we don't know the
geographical location of it. During the
past week, when every other town was
asleep and couldn't even get up a dog
fight in front of the courthouse, we
had four shooting affairs, hung one
man, warned two out of town, pulled
off a horse race, had three marriages
and started two new saloons. In addi-
ton to the above, over $4,000 worth of
real estate changed hands, cowboy
broke his neck by falling of his horse,
mountain lion was shot in our pri-
vate graveyard and Col Hopkins chal-
lenged us to fight duel. Everything
came off in good shape except the
duel We were on hand at the appoint
ed time, but the colonel had an engage
ment with the dentist and forgot all
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-07-28

hat he got Hank Scott, the half
tight, and then gave him key
der to blow up the Kicker Office.
We it from a man who oyer
part of the conversation. Hank
ng enough to blow us sky-high,
We had his left ear among our
elics for the last year. The
however, was that he was too
to carry out his programme, and
ing around with the powder, he
hit about an explosion on the va
Hlot next, west of our office, and
d away to unknown lands in sec
hat we could find of Hank we
Hied the next day at our expense,
y we don't feel particularly hard
ainst the colonel. We shan't go look
9 for him especially, but if we should
ppen to run across him some day
PIE we feel aabsent-minded, we shall
n. gather him in and mark his
IA in our private grave
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-05-06
DEATHS.


SCHLOR-On May s. 1898, George W., SOL
Of Charles and Mary Schlor, aged
months.
RelativeG and friends are invited to At
tend the funeral from the residence OF hi.
parents, No. 220 Chapel street, South WI
mington, on Saturday afternoon Ut
o'clock. Interment at New Cath edra
Cemetery; ,..,
COWGlLL-On May Q, 1898. James Al
bert. son of Albert and Anna ID. Cowgirl
in his Goth year.
Funeral services at his parents residence
No. 645 Orange street, on Monday, tho Oh
inst at $50 o'clock. r. IN. Intarinent o
Dover, Del.
FAULKNER-AtE Eden Park, on May 4
1899, Letttia widow of the late William
H. Faulkner, aged 10 years.
Q Relatives and friends hre Invited TO nj
tend the funeral from the residence of no
son-in-law, Harry Stafford, at Eden Park
farm, on Saturday afternoon at Q O'Clock
May z, without further police. lntermeni
at Rivervlew Cemetery. /
TAGERT-Ip this city, on May O. 1895
Rosetta, widow Of the late John Tagert
in her 74th year.
Relatives and friends are invited to at.
end tho funeral on Friday afternoon a. .
o'clock. from her late residence, No. g.
West Sixth street. lnterment private al
Riverviow Cemetery.
CLYMER-In this city, on May 4, 1893
Arthur d., infant son Of Jacob Il. ant
Anna III. Clymer, aged months.
Relatives and friends are invited to at
tend the funeral services on Friday after.
noon at 2 o'clock, from the residence o
his parents No. 403 Jefferson street.
MlTCHELL-In :his city, on May Q, Ed.
mund Mitchell, ST., ut his residence, No
sos West Third street.
Due notice of the funeral will be given