Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-11-26
REMARKABLE CHART
Designed by L. B. Searle, Of
Chattanooga, Depicting Tenn
peranCe and IntemperanCe.


who heard it, and which, doubtless,
did much good. The good old gentle
man, for such he was, illustrated his
lecture with a fine chart, depicting
temperance and intemperance, and on
the morning after his lecture before
returning to Chattanooga, left small
copy of his chart with the News,
which was pasted onto the wall of the
Office. The paper on the wall having
become badly cracked, in order to keep
out the wintry blasts. it has become
necessary to re-paper the wall, and
hence Mr.. Searles' chart will be COW
cred up, but before doing so we wish
to describe it to our readers, as it is
we'll worth this memorial, besides re-
cording the efforts toward temperance
OF a worthy man. Before starting
description of the chart it would be
we'll to mention that before he realized
his wrong position, Mr.. Searles was
an advocate of whiskey, by advocating
local option, just as hundreds Of men
are mistakenly doing now
Imagine yourself before a large sheet
of paper, say 20x40 inches in size, and
that across the middle of this sheet of
paper is printed the legend, "The
Ways Of Life and Death. All above
this head represents the fruits of temp
GRANGE and the scenes are all whole
some. Everything below this heading
co,iCt4 .ut1mraraucG and terrible con-
a.Jon that grla from it. The lcca
1.afas. ~ aine the heading in
t'a mtdt.a Of .aa sheet inst -1 Of at
the top "ai5 uaa, Chat when we
live tmuart ly in all things we rise
in morals estate and everything,
while if we debauch ourselves we go
down.
There are steps leading from this
heading, one flight going mp and the
other down. The fight Of steps lead
ing up is styled, THE Way of Life
With Here and There a Traveller" and
the names Of the steps ascend one upon
another as follows Obedience, SINGER
ity, Courtesy, Stability, Truthful
ness, Prayer SelfDenial, Patience,
Brotherly Kindness, Charity, Benevo-
lence, Hope Forgiveness. Zeal, Peace,
Long-Sufsering, Gentleness. Goodness,
Faith, Weakness and Temperance. At
the top Of the stairway is Heaven, and
the traveller mingles with the spirits of
the blest.
But on the contrary, when you de-
scend the steps you step down onto the
step of Disobedience, and then run the
gamut Of Anger, Idleness, Lying, Vul-
garity, Profanity, Blasphemy, Malice,
Deceit, Hypocrisy, Infdelity, Covet-
BUSINESS, Dishonesty, Treachery, Fraud,
Extortion, Evil Thoughts, Tempting,
Penitence. Intemperance, Gluttony,
Uncleanness, Idolatry, Hatred, Herr
sizes, Envyings, Murders, Drunken
ness finally to plunge into the abyss
of death--lost. AS the man descends
the steps he changes gradually from a
boyish figure into a degraded mass of
flesh, whereas as he ascends he be-
comes more and prepossessing in face
and figure.
Arranged on either side are pictures
showing the benefits of temperance
and the evils of intemperance Among
those depicting the beauties of a temp.
crate life are pictures of prominent
public schools, colleges, w. c. T. u.
temples, asylums and churches, all Of
which are opposed to the saloon, re.
sisting the onward march to evil
Near one corner is a large picture
showing the beautiful home that re
suits from temperance, "the hous,
faae cold water built, )" showing
faailv well dressed and prosperous
Onaosite TO it is "the home that run
built, where tue lord of the home j
shown entering raving drunk brand
ishinc one fist in the air with a bottl
in the other while his affrighted fami
10 covers from him in rags, miserable
in annearance.
Fourteen vignetted portraits in one
corner show the faces of men an,
women who have made the cause O
temperance their life work. A view
is shown of the authors handsom
home in Chattanooga gained afte
wears of denial and strife against a
unfortunate habit, while in the lowe
ror+;on 10 shown a room. where he j