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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-12-23
Two Inches of Snow.

The first annual snow storm occur
red Saturday, about two inches of the
beautiful falling, enough to render
travelling arduous and cold feet plenti
full. 1t was a good thing for the mer-
chants for the public made big rush
on their stocks of SHOES and rubbers,
buying heavily. The day preceding
was nice, pleasant day, although
moderately cold, and did not presage a
snow storm, but next morning at o.
clock fine sleet commenced to fall,
which later developed into a regular
old fashioned snow storm which con-
tinued until noon when no more fell.
1t remained on the ground for several
days.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-12-23
Best Christmas Gift for Son

Is Scholarship at the Wilbur r.
Smiths Business College, Lexington,
KY. 1t will be an imperishable cap
ital, and will qualify him for fine
position and for successful life.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-12-23
Stray YearIings.

At my place on the mountain, five
miles north of Jasper, are two stray
heifer yearlings, one red and one
black Owner can have same from me
by proving property and paying for
this notice.
DAVE CURTIS,
Jasper, Tenn.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-12-23

Read the News, $l.OO per year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
FEDERAL REPORT
SHOWS BIG CROPS
Agricultural Departments Final
Figures Indicate Prosperity
on the Farms.
ENORMOUS YIELD OF WHEAT
Oats in the Billion Bushel Glass and
Corn Returns Register an
Increase.

The final crop figures for the year
1903 have been issued by the Depart
ment of Agriculture, estimates OF the
acreage, production, and value of tae
farms of all the leading products be-
ing given out. The report showed that
the last season has been one of I'M
paralleled prosperity on the part of
the farmers The wheat crop was the
largest ever raised with one exception,
corn the second largest, and oats broke
into the billion bushel class with to-
tai yield of 1907 100000 bushels. While
in some instances the average value
per bushel on the farm was slightly
less than last year, the total value of
the crops raised was unquestionably
the largest on record.
The average value of winter wheat
on the farm reached the unprecedented
level of approximately S1.03, while
spring wheat was called cents dear
er than a year ago at 93.1 cents. The
average price for corn was slightly
less per bushel than year ago, but
the increase in the crop more than
made up for the loss in that direction
The yield of winter wheat was in
creased quite little over the prelimi-
nary final estimate of early in the
age, and the total yield spring
wheat and winter wheat combined was
737, 1885, 900 bushels, compared to 664,-
COZ, 900 bushels year ago.
The report on oats furnished the
biggest surprise, the bureau figures
showing total crop of LOOT, 100000
bushels, or the largest crop ever
raised. The preliminary estimate was
increased 24,00O,O00 bushels. The larg-
est previous crop of oats was in 1902,
when the yield was 2O,O00,0OO bushels
smaller than the last season. The
average value of oats on the farm was
given at 405 cents, against 472 cents
year ago. The total value of the
crop, however, was placed at $40S,-
$4,000, compared to 1891 ,171,000 in
1908.
The final figures on the corn crop,
indicating total outturn of 2,772,-
$4,000 bushels, compared to a No
vember estimate of 2,767, 316,000 BUSH
els, and final return a year ago of
2,668, 900 bushels, did not reflect
any material damage to the crop dur
ing the last month.
Many private reports have been re-
ceived recently saying the crop had
suffered material deterioration. The
quality of the crop as estimated by
the government was also higher than
expected, at S4,2, compared to S6.9 in
1908.
The most sensational advance in
prices this year has been in flaxseed,
Notwithstanding the fact that the crop
raised, 25,S56,O 900 bushels, was practic-
ally the same as last year. The aver
age value per bushel on the farm was
placed at 1926, compared to 1884 in
1908. The potation crop was nearly
100,000,000 bushels larger than year
ago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

In 1870 a report was circulated that
certain galleys, with a multitude Of
armed men therein, were lying off the
foreland of Thanet," and an order was
at once issued that every night watch
shall be kept between the Tower Of
London and Billingsgate, with forty
men at arms and sixty archers." The
watch was kept in the following or
der: Tuesday, the diapers and the
tailors; Wednesday, the MERGERS and
the apothecaries; Thursday, the fish
mongers and the butchers; Friday, the
pewterers and the winners; Saturday,
the goldsmiths and the saddlers; Sun
day, the ironmongers, the armorers and
the cutters; Monday. the tawers. the
spurriers, the bowyers and the gir-
dlers." Even in 1916 pirate vessels
were captured off the Kentish coast,
between Broadstairs and Margate-
London Chronicle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
To Legn1ixe Timing.

While praiseworthy attempts are
being made in London to minimize
the tipping system, the Throne says,
q movement has been started in Ber-
lin to make the custom compulsory.
The cafe walters in the kaiser's CAPT
til have formed themselves into
union with the object of legaliZing
tipping. They have drawn up scale
OF tips and passed resolutions to en-
force 1t. II the order a customer
gives in a restaurant amounts to 3
shillings he will be expected to tip the
waiter to the tune of IL per cent. If
the order is more than shillings the
"kellner" will be content with a tip
OF 10 per cent. In the larger restaur-
ants the waiter will be satisfied with
a modest s per cent tip if the bill
amounts to e5. The restaurant keep
ers protest against this tariff of tips,
which they consider will interfere
with their business, but the walters
refuse to give way.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

Open-air schools for children in the
tenement districts are recommended
in the annual report of the New York
association for improving the condition
of the poor, which is making a crusade
against tuberculosis.
Mark Hanna, a Russian who took an
American name and sought license to
wed at Newport, KY, had to wait two
days because he forgot the name of
the prospective bride. Her name was
Fannie Dozorthzov.
Mayor j. n. Adam, of Buffalo, at
meeting of the tuberculosis hospital
commission of that city, announced
that he intended buying what is known
as the Perrysburg site of 293 acres for
a tuberculosis hospital and presenting
it to the city.
w. S. Evans. aged so. formerly edi-
tor of the Orrville (Ohio) Courier, went
on his first hunting expedition the 9th
er day and his body was found later
hanging over an old fence, where it is
believed he accidentally shot himself
in the act of climbing over.
Salvatore Demma, a Syrian, is under
arrest at Columbus, Ohio. in connection
with the Black Hand cases. He is
charged with misusing the mails TO
send blackmaii matter and viii be
tried in Toledo with the fifteen others
who have been arrested during the last
few months.
Three men were killed and two 9TH
ars were injured at the plant OF the
American Bridge Company at Am
bridge, Pa. when a pile of heavy grid
ers toppled on them
An accounting Of the contents Of the
postoffice safe blown open by band
of seven robbers at Athol. Mass, show
ed that the cracksmen got away with
over $4,000 in stamps and $3.50 in cash,
The police OF Toledo. Ohio. are try
ing TO solve the mysterious shooting
which resulted in the death OF Grace
Frosch. aged 1e. who was shot in the
head as she stepped out of the kiich-
en- door of her home
William H. Robertson. american
consul at Tangier. Morocco. rSho IS in
New York on vacation. adve Gates the
abolition of his office as unnecessary
The JOf! n tHc Ease VI w. 4 Tins -
Little Rock. Ark. charged with the
murder Of y. P. Willis OF Indianapolis.
was discharged after announcing that
il would be impossible for them to
agree upon verdict.
The two children OF the late Mary
Croker Burton Harrison. first vide Of
Congressman Burton Harrison. win in
aerit nearly s2.ooo. GOO each from the
estate left By their mother. who was
daughter OF the late Charles F. Crock
er OF San Francisco.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
SORE EYES CURED.

Eye-baIIs and Lids Became Terri
bly, Infamed-Was Unable to Go
About-Au Treatments Failed
Cutfcura Proved Successful.
about two years ago my eyes got
in such a condition that l was unable
to go about. They were terribly in
famed, both the balls and lids. l tried
home remedies without RELIEF Then l
decided to go to our family physician,
but he didn't help them. Then tried
two more of our most prominent ply
sicians, but my eyes grew continually
worse. At this time a friend of mine
advised ne to try Cuticura Ointment,
and after using it about one week my
eyes were considerably improved and
in two weeks they were almost we'll
They have never given me any trouble
since and l am now sixty-five years
old. / shall never fail to praise Cuti-
cura. G. B. Halsey, Mouth of Wilson,
Va, April 4, 190S'
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole
Props. of Cuticura Remedies. Boston.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
sILHoUETTEs OF WESTERN
CANADA.

The man from Iowa began to talk
land before the train was well out OF
the C. n. r. depot in Winnipeg. The
talk began in rather wide circles The
rush TO the land. the bumper crop,
the system of summer following pur-
sued in the semi-arid districts, were
all discussed, and then, with sort of
apologize smile, the Iowa man said:
I'm a bit interested in this country
myself. Some of the men down home
got few sections up here along this
line, and I'm going to have look at
them. Never been UP in Canada be-
fore" Git is curious how these mid
Western Americans pronounce the
name of the Dominion as if ii was
"Can'dy"), but IL it looks rood we
will be up to stay next fall.
You see, it's lilve this said the
man from Iowa. quite manifestly con-
tinuing an argument that had been
going on in his mind for some time.
Back in our State land has become
dear. Anybody wanting to sell can
get $40 or $50 an acre for it, and ev-
cry farm that's offered is snapped up.
In Saskatchewan we have just as good
land that cost US 81 and s12, so that
a man can take up five or six times as
much there as in Iowa on the same in
vastment of money.
1T isn't the money. though, that
brings most of us up from Iowa. I'm
not sure that money would be enough.
The invasion is a family affair. We
have no chance of keeping our sons
around us back home. They have to
cities of the neighboring States to get
work. To keep them on the farm and
in touch with us we come up here
and make little colonies with the chill
dren around us, on homesteads or
bought land This makes it easier for
the farmers back there in Iowa to get
land for the stay-at-homes. The fami-
lies that come to Canada are kept to-
gether and the families that buy the
farms they leave are kept together,
too. There won't be any slaekening
of the rush, either, for they still raise
big families back in Iowa"
One could almost see the mental
process of this typical American farm
er in defending a step that meant
new flag, new allegiance, new land,
and new associates, To abandon "Old
Glory" and the Declaration of indie
pendence for a good thing in cheap
land would hardly be playing the
game, but to go out into Saskatche-
wan to keep the family together" was
another and quite higher motive.
Why seek too closely to analyze the
reasons for the greatest land trek in
the history of America? 1t is enough to
know what the sons of the frontiers
men of Iowa, and Kansas, and Mime
sota-the best blood of the midwest
are pouring into the Canadian West
in an ever-increasing stream, and are
learning that God Save the King and
my Country, IT'S of Thee" are sung
to the same tune-Toronto (Ontario)
Globe
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
PROF. MUNYON'S PHILANTHROPY
Giving to the Nation a Prize That
Money Cannot Buy.

Giving to the Nation a Prize That
Money Cannot Buy.
81 ,oovld rather preserve the health
o. nation than to be its ruler
Munyon.
This motto, written by Prof. Munyon
about sixteen years ago, was the real
cornerstone Of his medicine business.
He felt that the people of the nation
were neglecting their health owing to
lack of money. With the one thought
in view of helping humanity, he start
ed In the medicine business, paying
large sums of money to eminent spe-
cialists for known and tried formulas
that were h~w to have been sue
cessful in cu1 diseases. After care
fully compounding these formulas and
putting them up in marketable con-
dition, he offered them to the public
for a few pennies, easily within the
reach of the poorest family. He hired
eminent specialists at large salaries
and offered their services absolutely
free to the public to diagnose their
cases and advise them what remedies
to take. After giving the public all
these benefits he was still unsatisfied
and offered further to those who were
not in reach IF the offices which he
established throughout the country;
he advertised, asking them to write to
mis- specialists for free medical ex-
animation, and today Prof. Munyon
is still following out this policy, and
whenever he hears of new drug or
a new formula that is more effective
than those that he is at the time COM
pounding, he purchases them regard
less of cost.
Prof. Munyon PUTS up separate
cure for almost every i'll, and these
remedies can be had at all druggists,
mostly % cents a bottle. In taking
these remedies, you are taking what
might be called a sure thing, for he
guarantees them to produce satisfac-
tory results or he v ' refund your
money. This is & -larkable man
and remarkable institution, mani
festly fair to all, and firm that we do
not hesitate to recommend to our
readers.
Prof. Munyon's address is SD and
Jefferson streets, Philadelphia, Pa.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
TRAVEL IN RHoDEsIA.
Extremely Slow and Special Types
of Wagons Are Reuufred.

Extremely Slow and Special Types
of Wagons Are Required.
The method of transportation is ex-
tremely slow. as the oxen do not aver
age much more than two miles an
hour. With a wagon and a good span
OF oxen one can so anywhere, whether
there is road or not.
The hills are pretty steep and the
wagons are fitted with brake which
is worked from the rear of the wagon.
In going down the sleeper hills this
brake is screwed up tight. so that the
wheels do not revolve at all The
wagon then slides down the hill, with
many bumps.
AS the wagons are not made with
any springs. it is not exactly a COM
Portable sort of travelling but there is
nothing that a good healthy boy en-
joys more than a trip by OK wagon.
AS the heat in the middle of the day
is often intense, it is the custom on
long journeys to "outspan;" that is to
say, to unhiteh the oxen by the side
of the road during the middle of the
day and to resume the journey at
night, especially when the moon is
shining.
The typical Boer wagon is covered
at the rear with canvas tent, and
here the family ride and sleep by
night, writer in the Springfield
(Mass.) Republican says. There is
usually a spring bed in the wagon.
made of leather thongs stretched over
a wooden frame. Travelling by OK wag-
on is called by the Beers trekking,
and hence that term came to mean in
South Africa any kind of travel.
The first settlers in the country
came from the Transvaal by wagon,
and they settled at Salisbury. There
are few road bridges, and the
streams all have to be forded. AS the
banks are generally pretty steep, it, is
not an uncommon sight to see wagon
stalled in attempting to climb out of
the river bed.
In a case like that another span of
oxen is attached, and sometimes it is
even necessary to use three complete
spans to get the wagon out.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
find OLD PANAMA JUNK
Machinery That Cost People of
France Millions Now in
Scrap Heap.
MUCH OF IT HAS BEEN UTILIZED
Old Locomotives, Cars, Dredges and
Girders Are to Be Shipped to
America and Sold.

The Isthmian Canal Commission has
begun the job of transporting about
100000 tons of old French junk from
the isthmus to New York city. The
junk includes old locomotives, dump
cars, tanks, barges, boilers, Orders,
dredges, sheet iron, parts of old ma
chinery and other things for which
the French canal company paid mil
lions of dollars and which it left to
go to ruin on the isthmus.
Some of this old French junk has
been found in extraordinary places.
Dredges have been discovered almost
buried completely in sand, hundreds
of feet away from any body of water
and overgrown with dense tropical
vegetation. Apparently they have been
carried away from the river bed by
high water or the river itself had
shifted it's course. Several of these
buried dredges were in a fairly good
state of preservation and are now do
ing work on the isthmus.
Some of the junk has been lifted
from the bottom of the Chagres river
and from the bottom of the old French
canal prism, where hundreds of thou
sands of dollars worth of equipment
sank after the French abandoned the
work. Some of the relics in the canal
prism near the crossing of the Rio
Grande were dislodged only after
heavy charges of dynamite had been
exploded under them. Others have
been raised from watery graves, and
are now helping to link the Atlantic
with the Pacific.
The profit from the sale of the
French junk will be small compared
with the value of the service that the
the cast-off equipment. For the first
two years of its work the commission
relied absolutely upon the old locomo-
tives left by the French. In 1906 there
were 100 of these weather-beaten loco
motives in service, compared with only
fifteen American-made engines. Since
that time the percentage of the French
locomotives has steadily decreased.
French dump cars also were used
almost exclusively by the commission
in the first two years. At one time
more than 1000 of them were hauling
the dirt from Uncle Sans shovels.
The French relics furnished also many
shop tools, stationary engines and
much repair material in the early days
of the construction work.
Each of the locomotives left by the
French yields between $500 and $500
worth of copper alone The commits
sion will save the old steel rails on
the isthmus to be used as reinforce
ment in the concrete work and as tele.
phone and telegraph poles.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
Whiting for a CutIet.

In the barber shop the scissors
clicked merrily away, and the BARRIERS
dog lay on the floor. close beside the
chair, looking up intently all the time
at the occupant who was having his
hair cut A writer in Judge con.
tinues:
Mice dog, that" said the customer
HE is, sir" said the barber.
"He seems very fond of watching
you cut hair"
ut amt that. sir" explained the
barber, smiling. Sometimes l make
a mistake and take little piece off a
customers ear"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
Sufficient.

The attractive young lady who had
written urgent on her card was
shown into the consulting room of Sir
Choppham Fyne, head of the famous
surgical hospital in Splintshire, En-
gland
And what is the matter with your"
said the great man.
II WISH" she answered, ito become
a nurse in this institution"
The surgeon tapped a thoughtful
tooth with his lancet First one ques-
ton: Have you had any previous ex-
perience?"
She dazzled him with a reassuring
smile.
"Experience?" she cried 81 should
just think so. Two of my brothers
play football, another has tried to
cross the channel in an aeroplane of
his own make, mother is a suffragette
and father keeps motor car"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
1T,
sporting
World

The Broncho, 2:00%, will probably
be bred to Minor Heir, 1894, next
season.
Three well-bred FLIES were pur-
chased at the recent Chicago sale by
Adam Starin, of Wyndmere, N. D.
The death of Pontiac, famous race
horse of a generation ago. has been an
nounced. Pontiac won the Suburban
handicap of 1885.
Guard Butter, of the University of
Illinois foot ball team the past season
has been elected captain of the foot
ball team for 1870
Four noted thoroughbred stations
have died during the past few weeks
in Kentucky. Salvador, Ben Strome, St
Blaise and Sir Dixon.
The half-mile track under construc
ton at Harrington, Kan, is nearing
completion. The fair association at
Madison. Wis, contemplates convert
ing their mile track into a half mile
one.
A report from Manila is to the eff
feet that Edward Bowditch, a former
foot bali star of Harvard, has been APP
pointed private secretary to Gov. Gen.
Forbes.
The mile record for motorcycles. 81
As seconds, was broken at San Jose,
Cal, by w. G. Collins on his seron-
horse power machine. His time was
SIS As seconds.
At its last meeting the Scranton Au-
tomobile Association decided that it
would begin its campaign to raise the
fund of $4,000 to build a new road be-
tween Scranton and Goldsboro, Pa
Harry f. Hopper. of Indianola, Iowa,
has purchased Redlac, 2:071s. from
Justice Grub. of Galesburg, III. Red
lac is an exceptionally good racing
stallion and an extraordinary young
sire. Hoppers purchase marks an ad-
vance in breeding interests in the
West.
with a record of eight defeats and
four victories over Cuban teams to its
credit. the Detroit American League
champions returned from their Cuban
campaign. The team was far from
satisfied with the results of their ex-
petition. although financially the trip
was successful
The Unf s,rsity OF North Carolina
has secured the services OF Nat ].
Cartmell. the former crack runner OF
the University of PENNSYLVANIA, as
coach. Cartmen is one of the worlds
figures in athletics and served on the
fast American team that attended the
Olympic games in London
AT sydney. y. S. w. the Australian
defenders OF the Dwight f. Davis chal-
lenge cup defeated the American In
straight sets in the doubles OF the in
ternationai tennis tournament The
Australians showed the better Judg-
ment and wen by magnificent yolley-
ing and prompt railying at critical mo-
mentS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
HOw's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
f.. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known f. T.
Cheney for the last 10 years, and believe
him perfectly honorable In all business trans
actions. and financially able to carry out
any oblfgs tions made by his firm.
WALDING. KINNAN & MARVIN
Wholesale Druggists Toledo. o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces OF the system. Testimonials sent
free. Price, T5c per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
NsIfn This ONT.

At the first sign of rheumatic pains
or backache, or a feeling of being
generally run down and weakened, the
following simple prescription should
be used:
One ounce compound syrup Sarsa-
parilla; one ounce Toris compound;
half pint high grade whiskey. Mix
them and take tablespoonful before
each meal and at bed time. The bot
tie must be well shaken each time.
Any druggist has these Ingredients
or he will get them from his whole
sale house.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
Relative Merits.

Were you successful the first time
you ran for Officer"
NO." answered Senator Sorghum.
"My experience was not an unusual
one. had to keep on trying until
the opposition put up candidate who
was even more unpopular than | was
Washington Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
Prefers to Wait.

you should buy all your Christmas
gifts now"
That's what they say, but I'm not
so sure of it. You see, I've made up
my mind to give several of my friends
a dozen eggs apiece-no matter what
they cost-and | hate to think of buy
ing EN- Cleveland Plain Dealer