Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-04-28
DELPHI, TENN.
SBlciaito The News.


that can't say enything Nv interest.
We hev had long winter, but
there wuz shucks enuff left over to
make some Nv the gurls nice hat.
Sum Nv the gurls undertook horse
back ride the other da, but they had
to let the horses go where they want
ed to fur it TUX both hands TO keep
the shucks on ther heds,
Mr. Moses Deakins and three NV
his sons wuz at our poast office last
Thursday eyenin.
Sum foks hes planted corn.
Messrs, Ed and Frank Deakins
cum to Delphi the other da.
Will Lane is handing out Arbuck-
lie at Heard Il Won Rohr's store
Clay Deakins from across the
creek, passed through Delphi yester-
da.
Alb I.ayne is measurin caliker at H.
q. Farmers store.
Than Deakins gets his mail at M.
E. G.'s postofice.
Sum time ago feller picked a
hair off my sleeve, right in crowd
and stretched it out slowly so that
everybody could see that it was too
long fur mine, & me er wlderer. 1t
wuz calculated to make folks form
uronious opinions | told them the
wind must have drive it there, fur
did not git clost enuff to ladies to git
it off Nv them. AT first | felt like |
wanted to use one dv his years fur
chooln gum. But | sized him up,
tux in the sitooation 81 thought Nv
thet good old adage: "Prudence is
the better part Of valor," and so
: jist grinned & endured it. But to
prove it to the crowd ! told little
incident that occurred fu das be.
fore that You know that the Bible
says our hairs air all numbered. We
| had curiosity III seein the Nos
on my hair So tux . microscope
q looked at two or three hairs anC
made no discovery. Then | relneIn
bered that my he'd had been shaver
many times, All NV corse the Nos
had ben cut away long since TheI
, l remembered it was shame for
woman's he'd TO be shaven. SO
: soon found woman whose hair at
distance looked nice and long.
3 knowed how ladies jinerally treated
= me but | had the audacity to holle
and tell her what was trying to d
and | axed her in as perlite manne
as / knowed how, to let me try m
' glass on her hair. Wei, l felt fror
her talk that l wouldn't feel WELDON
so I never got any closer. One 9
her hairs couldn't git on me unles
it was blowed there.
Iguess you have hearn of one Re'
Sam p. Jones. Well he has preacf
n ed about and heap. Well he tue
II a notion to have little respite frol
g his labor. So be chose a place ava
= up this valley twenty-five miles froI
q here among the mountains where tn
air and water was pure. He tol
the sitizens that if they would g
him up a real simon-pure, aristocra
r, ic audience he would talk fur thel
c. one night last week. .Tha put ii
d admission fee so hi that no one can
. afford to pa only them who had
70 good hold on cornucopia. Ilow thi
is if l could have looked in on thi
a. audience | would not have seen an
y :, in vile rament. If l was flourish
like the ''Green Bay Tree" | woul
not pay any such price. Why |
any more fer mems talk than wimen
a Most men could sta at home & he
Of women talk cheaper than that. {
n course it would take good deal
! - forbearance but that is not payin oI
$. the muneY. Furbearance is vi
IS tue few men may have but som
a times it ceases to be a virtue. Son
. wlmins tongues is tide hard & fast
the middle. l always plead in fav
of the women. / can't see how Il
can be so beautiful, so sweet and
h angelic when l consider the materi
, tina wus made NV. God himself hi
a little chat with her one evening o
=. IL - II IL. Ill