Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-03-08
JASPER.
Special 10 tie Ne705.

up 10 lUS preSen standard ON lhUlust'
am frequently asked why | don't rise
ever week. By that | suppose l in,
trust phew hope the readers will
excuze me eff chance to uze sum big
ize but not many little iZe. Tha amt
much sickness in our birg. We have
three invaleds, Capt w. E. Donaldson,
DIR. r. A. B. Meyers and Mrs. A. 9.
Chaudoin, who is all confined to ther
rooms Our sheriff, Mr.. Will Harris,
who has been confined for sum time
with rheumaticks is now able to git
about without stick. We hope he
will soon be able to catch sum feller.
A haf duzen escaped frum our jale sum
time ago. Three ov them cum back in
a day or two. Another stayed until
after that cold mite about the 9th ult.
He found his blanket too short and de-
sided that the sheriff kept better
boardin house, so he cum back, but
not without invitation. don t
know ov anyone in town gettin rich
fast. Our county trustee beets EN- all
collecting. His deputy told me that
he collected twenty five hundred dollars
during the short munth of Feb. AS
luc wood have it / didn't owe him
nothin.
The Suthern rode is movin on nicely
Sum time ago | fixed it in mi mind
that when it wus dun and the rollin
stock put on, that wood bring Chatty-
noogy neerer to our doors and fair
wood be less, then | wood visite that
city wun more time, as l had not been
ther fur sum years. l thought l could
save up eggs and git the mummy by
that time but in mi peregrinashuns i
crossed the big river to visit a old
friend. Then as l wus near the city, l
sed wood go up. Another old friend,
who CHANGED to be ther, volunteered to
go with me. AS he wus old widow
er like miself, we had passed thru the
same ordeal and our spirits wus con-
genial, and he had lived up ther and
knowed sumthin about Ways d
Means, 1 gladly excepted his compa-
ny, but enjoined it upon him to pull
me out of the way of vehicles, and
street cars and keep me out of the cal
aboose SO we borded the Jasper ac-
commodashun at Vulcan, which soon
split us out at our destinashun. AS we
went to see sum of the sites and visit
the suburbs we forthwith proceeded to
business. The reeders is aware of the
fact that when you are ava frum home
amung strangers that hit takes mummy
frum that on. SO we began to cast
nickles at the street cars. After visit
ing the National cemetery, East Lake,
Alton Park, ETC., we went to to Ross
vile. in the edge of Georgia We
had the onor of seein the old home OF
the man whom all nations ON this ter
restrial ball have ulogized to the skies,
Theadoor Rozyvelt. There we met
with kinsman to my pilot. He kept
us til anuther da. He and his kind
family knowed just how to entertain
us so as to make us feel at home. Mex
morning that man volunteered to &C
further down in Georgy to the Chicka
maugy Park. He was the rite man il
the rite place. AS guide we coulG
, not have got better. He could tel
us all about the war and what tina kill
, ed each other for So we boarded wha
is called the Rapid Transit, at the enc
/ of which is the Military Post and thu
, park which is said to contain five o,
, six thousand acors We STEPPED off tn,
r car into the park. We walked owe
, ground where the blood of the blue anC
, grey flowed so profusely at the time O
that memorable battle. Our guild
, took us up into high mOunt--er, higl
tower, and showed us all the king-er
told us to view the landscape over. w
saw monuments, artillery and bullitil
bords until our eyes wearied wit
lookin. Judas on one occasion spok
of the precious ointment which nit
. of bin sold for so much and given t
S the poor. He had a selfish motive
: 1t thought it would have bin NOR
9 Christ-like to have taken the million
s that was spent there and gave it to tn
: poor. 1t may be selfish in me as
] wood cum in fur sheer if it had BIZ
d given to the poor.
: We next returned to the city and in
: to a canda factory. told sum of tn
e boys in thar that | had always bin
e deer lover of canda and spent a part G
mi yearnins for it, so l thought that
+ | could see it made | wood become dis
9 gusted and quit eatin it. But, la tn
!. fingers of the pretty wimin and gal
: who give it the finishin touch, purife
d it, no matter what it has gone thew
: | still luv the nasty stuff The ma
Q that | was lOokin to fur prOtecshu
: left me at the sertain place: said b
T would be back soon, but didn't sa
l. where he was guine, but | guessed h
|, lnowed of a wider So | sOt down q
h beer keg or bunch er bananas er sun
!, thin and fell asleep The first thing
knowed a ruff hand fell on mi sholde
and a voice said Cum with me, W
have a place to take keer of a man {
he sObers up. / riz, shalala in han,
My fust impulse wus to lay it upc
the side of his pate, but | seed he had
u club, and wus bigger ner / wus, so
y thought of the old adage, "Pruden,
7S is the better part Of yaler' and aui
D Jest as | told him | wasn't drum
l. mi comrade appeared on the seen, tol
ii in the situashun and told the fell
r that he had knowed me fur nearly
/ ceusury but never knowed me to Q
il drunk, so he released his holt.
I, told him that ther old streets WIS nav,
II with asfault and thsr old cars rattl,
over them nearly all mite. and a fell
II cOuldn sleep in a half mile of en-
til he got starved fur sleep ike | WI
W then. / told him he had better 20 slo
Y here after and not disturb "a gentlem,
L like me when he wus takin a swe
nap.
W Chattynoogy has sum nice ladies. b
IA l found sum powerful i'll manner,
III ones. / wus passin Miller Bros. sto
wun da and seed three or fore w,
le dressed ladies standing there lookin o.
the winder. lifted mi hat 10 EN-
A.. parlite as | knOWed how ap1 +ha :;