Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1902-10-02
FROM NASHVILLE.
Nashville, Tenn, Sept. 90, 10,

Editor News:
Having been your correspondent a.
d mn lap for a while, will send YOU a
few lines, which may be OF interest to
my ssquachee Valley friends.
left Dunlap last July for Chatlanoo.
ga, and thence to Spring City, whore
worked for month and half. left
that place for Chattanooga again and
then next landed in Nashville, Sun.
day, Sept. 2lst, and have been here
week.
Nashville is a pretty largo place, and
besides being large is a very nice place
as like every part of it that have
seen. The people are nice and clever.
and do all they can to help anyone to
build themselves up, il they will only
try.
In this world of modern improve
ments there is a call for better men.
men that are full Of energy and get-up.
| mean there is a want for frst-class
material, no loafers wanted. Most of
the business men Of the cities to-day do
not want dudes or cigarette smokers:
the kind of animal that walks the
streets with his hat on the side OF his
head and a cigarette in his mouth, and
a cane in his hand and spindling legs,
supported by the cane. Next thing
they do not want is a laughing fool or
whistling kid.
have been here only week, but
what have learned in that one week
is more than could have learned any
where else in a year. When | wanted
to 90 to the city to work | thought |
had to have the best position going at a
frst-cIass salary, and spread it on like
all the rest that have been to the city
for years, not thinking that they had to
start from the bottom and go up. 1t is
the test for a man from the country to
60 to the city with all his business
qualifications and get good paying
position from the start
My advice, although am only few
months over twenty-one, to my young
friends in the valley, is that when you
start to the city and expect to do any
good to throw away that horse laugh
that cane, that cigarette, that "chaw er
terbacker," straighten that hat on your
head, and quit walking around with
your head thrown back as if you owned
the world, for you will strike a stump
somewhere and find you don't know
anything at all.
! When you go to any place and ask fol
any work the foreman or manager OIL
owner, will ask if you are frst-class
t Tell them that you don't know any
f thing about your being frst-class, Blu
that you are looking for work and t,
} put you at something and pay you VIVA
a he thinks you are worth at the last o
] the week, and if you start that way
work like you mean business and wan
| to make something out of yourself, ant
as you get more valuable to your EN-
plOy6I JOuI "dBSo Will Do ldloSu III PRIV
portion.
have started that way and intend t
do my best to learn something abou
the printing business, make every on
q like me and please my boss, and hop
e all of my friends and others will pra
q that will hold out in my determine
f. ton and if they can give me cheerin
p word along the way, as have har
;. road to travel, as ye editor knows tina
!. to make tirst-class printer you have
get up before breakfast and at stay a
# business until after the other chicken
n have gone to roost.
guess | had better close for TIL
time and hope that all young men wi
take this advice, and will write agai
some time. am an old Sequachee Va
/ ley boy with pretty dimples in m
cheeks and plenty of sugar on my lip
o. r. BLALOCK,