Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-06-10
A RAMBLING LETTER
by a RAMBLING PHILOSOPHER

by KhNiDLIlNO IitLOCOI IiLN
"Me and Cinda have just been think
ing" / wish that was an expert
pencil pusher so that ! could put
few Of my thinkings and observations
on paper in first class style, but as |
am a poor scholar and word painter,
| will have to use backwoods, '"pos-
ON hollow English in this communica-
ton. And, Mr. Editor, should hap
pen to get in a weaving way and stick
in shore" when the word sure
would sound better; or slap down the
illitterate abbreviation ''aint' that we
acorn-fed fellows use so glibly in lieu
CT IAN not, "are not, sis not,
"have not etc; or should ] write 1T
"come, ;" "was' and saw when
"came", "were" and "seen" would
sound better to the trained, acute ear
of the metropolitan scholar, will you
kindly correct the blundersY And say,
SHOulu nc bO CdICl0SS 40 " NDO WV
vulgar word "leg" instead of the re-
fined word limb, cut it out with
two strokes of your blue pencil before
it has time to pollute your Office boy,
or some of those two by four sanctl-
monious chaps with a catfish smile and
a iaybird eye, who stick Rev. at the
7 N of
name. Ugh 1t makes me shiver to
| think of the horrible consequences OF a
mistake like that But now to bust
ness and grammar.
Not very many moons ago very
pious lady visited a cemetery where
one of her loved ones was sleeping.
The cemetery was kept up by a stock
company, and gentleman whom she
knew was at work identifying the city
of the dead. The lady approached the
gentleman and after passing the com
pliments of the season, said, Mr..
Blank, this is a beautiful cemetery,
but how much nicer it would be fol
the church to look after and attend to
this kind of work - sob yes, ans
wered the gentleman, that may be
true, but did you ever know the
church to attend to a work like thisT
"No, don't remember that | evel
did, " answered the lady. INC" sale
the gentleman, and don't think yor
ever will know of the church bother
ing with this kind of work. - eth
churches, said he, are looking afte,
the living who are able to pay, not at
J ter those who have crossed over tn
} river and cant pay.
, The above conversation put me t.
''thinkin. | asked myself the ques
tion, What does the churches do any
wayY Well, they are very busy i
seems. They build large and costl
church buildings and parsonages, am
get up the preachers salary. Yes, an
they manage to get up goodly roll o
+ cash for broken down preachers, an
also another big wad to send abroad t
3 convert the heather" Foreign mis-
t sions are great hobby of mosts.of on
2 preaching gentry. They are awful
solicitous about the welfare of tn
Q heather in distant lands, but they d
/ not seem to be at all anxious about tn
! heather and poor that trot aroun
t their own door. Oh, no, it is the fol
s eigner, it seems, that their Christia
+ heart melts in sympathy for, and NJ
the ignorant, ragged and hungry poo
/. of their own bailiwick. Should one
e our modern preachers meet lit
= ragged urchin on the side walk,
a doubt him speaking to it, but if
: should, imagine it would be to as
s for penny Their hungry and ravel
GUS nav, it seems, is never Statistic,
l. They will beg poor widow waE
d woman to divide her hard earnin,
y with them. With them it is alwa,
IS more, more, give us more. Who bull
II the Orphan Homes, the Old Ladie
1t Homes, and the Florence CrittendC
a Homes for fallen women and 9th
charitable institutional Not the chu
ches No verify, they have to look a
ter the preachers and the heather
a China, Norway, Turkey and Japa
= while the Masons, Odd Fellows, K.
, P's and other fraternal orders look 8
ter the poor and needy, and visit t
, sick. They, not the preachers, pl
= the part of the "good Samaritan"
9 verify believe that there is more re
4 charity, as rule. among profession
"a gamblers than there is among t