Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-01-09
DON'T BE MEAN.

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us try and be more gentle, loving and
kind than we were i'll 1907
Let us bend our energy in that di-
rection and see if we can't help more
people to enjoy life than we ever did.
This world is not altogether as bad
as some would have you believe |
have lived in it 63 years and l find it
just what make it to myself
We create our own heaven or hell,
and build our own troubles nine times
ont of every ten. The fact is we all
are prone to carry a long handled rake
and rake and rake up every bit of
rubbish we can, and we get it so high
we sit down and grumble and growl
because we can't get over the hill
Just little common sense is all we
lack. We did it ourselves and now
we want to blame the other fellow.
oh, YES, the otGar fellow is the rascal
and / am the good fellow.
Foolish man Thou art the man and
not the other fellow. Thou art the
rascal that is trying to throw your
faults ON the shoulders of others You
are too cowardly own up. The old
Adam that is in you causes you to
blame your wife for nearly everything
that goes wrong i'll the home. Don
finch from the truth. Why, your
neighbors all know that your wife is
better creature than you are. Don't
think your Uncle Gid has lived this
long and never learned anything about
the rascality of men toward their
wives
Don't you think for one moment
your meanness toward them is a seal
ed book Every neighbor you've got
knows it and they are not very parti-
cular about concealing it, either See
if you can't treat her better in 1908
than you ever have and be more of q
husband, Some men actually don t
love their wives If they do they
haven't sense enough to show it by
any word or act OF course this is not
aimed at gentle, loving husbands, but
is aimed at every man who neglects
and mistreats his wife wherever he
may live. Such man | never did or
could admire. Women are rarely ever
mean unless actually driven to it. I've
seen few that thought were the de-
wills sisters and I've traced them back
and nine times in every ten they came
out of homes where fussing, fighting
and quarreling was the chief stock in
trade.
Boys raised in such a home never
make good husbands, Hardly one in a
hundred do. No girl raised in a
quiet orderly home should marry a
man raised by the devils grandfather
and grandmother Why, Uncle Gid, -
you re Just too plain and outsroken.
Oh, no, friend, that's the trouble with
us today, we are too compromising.
Such people are of their father, the
devil, and his work they will do.
Irepeat boys and girls raised in
christian homes should not marry the
children of the devil BE We not un
equally yoked. Discrimination is
taught in the Bible We would dc
we'll to heed its commands. The fac
is nowad ayS, there is not enougl
plain, gospel truth taught from the
pulpit. 1t is too compromising, to,
apologetic and the result is that nC
good, luscious fruit is garnered. JUS
as certain as God lives there are two
seeds on earth, the children of the de
vii and the children of God. Nothing
is palmer taught and why dodge ant
whine around and deny it:
Well, 1908, l hope, will be prolific
with good, so | wish you a Happ,
New Year. UNCLE GID.