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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-12-07
Felt a Rib Going.

: Little Bobbie had attended his first
Sunday school and was deeply impress.
ed with the experience. He was told
that the first man was named Adam,
and he was very lonely and wandered
about with no one to talk to until God
finally took pity on him.
Very carefully the Sunday school
teacher explained that Adam after
spending a lonely day, laid down to
sleep, While he was sleeping an an
gel came and extracted one of his ribs
and laid it alongside the sleeping
Adam. When Adam awoke in the
morning he was surprised to find that
the rib had been changed into wife
for him, whom he called Eve.
Robbie went home that day aud ex-
planned the tale to his parents. That
afternoon, after he had been running
about playing, ne developed pain in
his side, and when his mother found
him he was lying on his bed, crying
"What is the matter with my little
ooyr' asked the mother.
"Pm getting a wife," was the Sob
ping response. milwaukee Free
Press
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-12-07
The Pattsr of the Single.

tThe following is published for the
benefit of soma of our Young smart
alecs who smoke cigarettes
When angry passion grow in my moth
er' face see,
She leads me to the bedroom and gen
thy lays me on her knee;
| know that l will catch it for my
flesh in fancy itches.
As | listen to the-patter of the shingIe
on my breeches.
Every Jingle of the shingle has an echo
and sting,
And thousand burning fancies into
active being spring;
Thousands of bses and hornets meath
my coattail swarm,
As listen to the patter of the shing-
lie, oh. so warm.
In a sudden internission which ap-
peared my only chance,
say, Strike lightly, mother, or
you'll split my Sunday pants.
She stops moment draws her breath,
the single held aloft,
Says, my son, Il never. thought of
that, Just take them Off
Holy Moses and. the angels, cast thy
pittying glances down,
And thou, oh, family doctor, put
good soft poultice on;
May | with fools and ounces ever
lastingly mingle. -..-,- 80 81.
If ever l say word when my moth
er yields the shingle. ....
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-12-07
Rev. irI R. Hicks 1912 Almanac.

Before the great Drouth of 1901, the
Hicks Almanac gave timely warning.
For over two years prior to 1911, the
Hicks Almanac again sounded warn
ing of drouth danger. And so for for
ty years this same friend of all the
people has steadfastly refused the
offers Of Spectators and continued to
warn the public of the coming dangers
of storm and weather. As they should
have done. the people have noby stood
by Professor Hicks, their faithful pub
lie servant, who has grown old in
their service. Send only one dollar to
WORD AND WORKS PUBLISHING
COMPANY, 3401 Franklin Avenue,
st. Louis, Missouri, and get his Mag
azine and Almanac both for one year.
The Almanac alone, a fine book of
$50 pages, is only 35c by mail Let
everybody respond and receive the
warnings of our National Seer for the
coming year.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-12-07
Stanley.
Shfcidf 10 he Mas.

Sheaaf 10 Tie Mas.
Gathering corn and hauling pump
kins is the order of the day.
Dan Combs spent Sunday and Sun
day night with his daug Inter, Mrs
Alex Massengale.
Mrs. Florence McNabb called on
Mrs. Ike Harris Sunday.
Andy Richie :. called on John Richie
Sunday.
Mrs. Roe Layne is spending the
week with Miss Rachel. Combs.
Miss Lada .Brumett. spent Sunday
with Ellen Massengale
Emma Holloway called on Mrs. Tom
Richie Sunday evening.
Bill McNabb called on Albert Mas
sengale Sunday.
Mrs. John Brown spent Sunday with
her son, Ike Harris
Tom Richie was on the mountain
Sunday on business.
| Mary McNabb and Cynthia Ridge
spent Sunday with Ethel Richie.
Alex Massengale and son, Dan, spent
Sunday and Sunday night with home
folks.
Ben Durham called on Ike Harris
Sunday morning.
JOuH oudrp Will i've next week rs
he purchased bushel of sweet pota
toes Sunday morning. 49, 49,,
Mrs Ben Durham spent the day
Sunday with Mrs. Alex Massengale.
Jim McNabb made his regular trip
Sunday to Albert Massengales
Miss Hannah Lawson visited her
brother, Sunday.
Roe Layne has been on the sick list
but is o. K. now and will go aud
take his job at the Lock and Dam Mon
day.
Ellen Massengale is on the sick list
but we hope she will be better in a
few days.
Ada and Willie Harris spent Sunday
night with their grandparents.
John Lusk and family spent the day
Sunday with their sister, Mrs Richie.
Red Rose.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-12-07
For That Dull Feeling After Eating

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Get free sample at all dealers, and
see what splendid medicine it is.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-12-07
Notice.

A large number Of subscriptions are
now due. Bills have been sent to a
large number who are thereby invit-
Ell to send in the amount due us. If
you owe this shebang anything pay it,
for we need it to pay our debts.
HILL & SON.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-12-07

For Eczema, letter and Salt Rheum
The intense itching Characteristic of
these ailments Is almost instantly al
layed by Chamberlain Salve. Many
severe cases have been cured by it.
For sale by all dealers
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-06-22
Shepherdstown Jefferson County, West Virginia Thursday June o. 1911
He Was Too Good.

E. H. Sothern, apropos of April l, told
at dinner in New York a story about
his famous father.
"My father in his YOUTH" he said,
"was once playing in romantic drama
wherein he made tremendous leap-a
leap from his lady loves tower TO a mat
tress behind wooden rock on the stage
far below. 1t was 2 thrilling leap, and
my father no doubt enjoyed the applause
it won him; but one night he sprained
his ankle and vowed he would leap no
more.
$50 the manager hired professional
acrobat to do the leap, made up as my
fathers counterpart, while my father
would slip back under cover of the tower
wall and descend TO his dreSsing-room
by means of a hidden ladder.
"The afternoon the acrobat came to
the thea!er TO rehearSe, he made the leap,
and then he set up loud complaint.
"'WhatS the matter p asked young
member of the company, who happened
to be in the theater.
"'Why,' said the acrobat, in dis
gusted voice, this here leap is too tame.
It's too easy. A man with glass eyes
and cork legs could doit. Now, ifthey'd
let me throw two flipflaps in the air as |
came down.
"'Splendidl' cried the young actor.
The very thingP
"'You don't think the boss would
mind p said the acrobat doubtfully.
"'Mind ? Why, man, he'll be tickled
to death. Ten to one he'll raise your
salary
"'That evening, when the great leap
scene began, my father was gratified to
see the acrobat, perfect picture OF him.
self, crouching in the shadow OF the
window.
"Love, good-night-good- my
father cried.
"Stayr moaned the heroine, and she
threw herself on his neck. Stay That
leap is death 7
"'Nay, nay, my own; It's honor. |
leap, It's true, but there is that within my
heart will bear me up-thine image, love.
And so, goodnight, goodnight
"He kissed her madly on the brow,
tore himself from her clinging arms, and
rushed across the open space into the
shadow.
"JumpP he Kissed between his teeth.
"And out, straight out into the air,
shot the acrobat. Twice his 1.-THE shape
whirled round like greatflywheel. Then
he lit lightly and easily on the topmoSt
point OF the wooden rock.
"Roars Of laughter and thunders OF ap-
plause shook the theater. The acrobat
bowed stiffly and strutted off into the
wings with his arms folded. But the
remarks OF my poor father on his ladder
have not come down to us"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-06-22
NEW VOL. 46-No. Is.
Saccharin.

Saccharin, which was discovered a
few years ago by DR.. Ira Remsen, now
president of Johns Hopkins University,
assisted by others, is in its pure state five
hundred times as sweet as sugar. In its
commercial form il is three hundred
times as sweet. II has been used exten-
sively in sweeteniug jams, cakes, pies
and soda-water syrups. Yet il is not a
sugar, and il IS asserted that il is not as
simulated by the stomach.
Four years ago government eommis-
sion. headed by President Remsen, was
asked TO look into the propnety OF the
use OF Saccharin in food. II has lately
reported that Saccharin is one OF those
substances the use OF which is forbidden
by the pure-food law. The government
has consequently ordered that after July
Ist no food sweetened with il may be
sold in any OF the territories, or shipped
from one State TO another.
Similar action was taken by practically
all the governments Of Europe a long
time ago. Last year an international con-
ference was held in Paris for the purpose
Of making plans TO stamp out the trade
in saccharin. The importation OF st into
Italy is forbidden, and its manufacture
for medicinal purposes is In the hands ot
the government.
Even its medicinal value Is disputed.
Like anilin dyes, il is coal-tar product.
In excess il causes nausea and sometimes
death. II is charged that the laws against
it in Europe were passed at the demand
of the manufacturers Of cane or beet
sugar, but when IFS inventor in America
joins in a report condemning its use in
place OF sugar, such charges may be dis
regarded
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-06-22
He Wanted To Be a Hero.

Terrible as il is TO be slain in battle,
there is one thing soldier fears worse,
declares veteran. That is to miss the
honor of taking part in great battle, and
TO die ingloriously at home, when his
country needs him. An artilleryman from
Michigan brought this out during the
Civil War;
The man had only just gone TO the
front and had seen no real fighting. One
day while on the march he fell and was
run over by the gun carriage. He was
so badly crushed that, sorely against his
will, he had to be furloughed and sent
home.
While he lay in bed under the doctors S
care the battle of Gettysburg was fought.
The man feared he would die, and keen
ly regretted that, since he must go, that
il could not have been on that glorious
field. He called upon the doctor to hear
his last request.
doctor, if go, promise me this. My
stone shall bear these words Killed at
Gettysburg in the front of the battle. "
"But you weren't" objected the ply
sician.
al know. But it wasn't my fault il
you can't say that, then say, Killed at
Gettysburg-during temporary absence
at Brookfield, Mich.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-06-22
"For concert" HayerIy repIied.
A Hearty Pig.

Mr.. Caleb Peaslee gazed at his pig
speculativeIY. II was little pig
"Hardly make meal for growing boy" !"
Mr.. Peaslee had aid,-and it capered
about the pen and stood with head up
tilted TO Caleb, pleading TO be fed.
al dunno what he does with all the stuff
we give him to eat," urged MIR. Peaslee,
plaintively. 81 don't see where he puts
i'll He such mite Of thing, anyway.
His appetite's something appalling.
"Just this mornin' Jed, my hired man,
took brimming paiIful Of milk and stuff
out here and poured il into that trough,
and stood here and watched that critter
eat up the last mite oft. Jed told me the
pig didn't make anything Of eating If all
up in just minute or two, and then the
critter stood and squealed for more right
on top OF that.
"Jed wondered, just as do, where he
found room for so much stuff" Mr.. Peas
lee rlminated, "and he said the pig was
nj particle bigger after he'd ct all that
pailful. Just TO make himself sure that
he wasn't mistaken" Mr.. Peaslee went
on, convincingIy, she grabbed the pig by
the hind legs and rammed him head down
into the pail, and the pig and the milk
he'd ct, and all, didn't fill the pail only
about half-full."
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-06-22
A Fit of "The Blues"

There are certain individuals who seem
to take pride in the fact that they are the
slaves OF their moods, especially OF their
dark ones. They will tell you, with a
resignation that touches complacency,
that they are subject TO "black fits" or
''the blues," or "days of meIancholia, !"
or whatever may be the pet phrase for
their depIorable lapses from the normal.
Such people never seem to realize that
these moods are only another outward
and visible sign of an inward disgrace,
and that unhealthy minds are rarely found
in healthy bodies.
II is hard saying, but 1.-THE blues may
generally be traced to one or both OF two
horrid qualities greed end lazineSS.
Nine times out of ten the low-spirited
person is suffering from authorization
from too much food taken into the body
and too little attention paid to elimination,
or to proper exercise.
The human mechanism can take care OF
only certain amount of food. After that
point has been passed it seems to turn
sullen in its effort to ignore what il cannot
help; and although if is wonderfully
conducted chemical laboratory up to the
limit OF its own needs, it is not at all ami
able about working overtime. The result
is that all superfuous products sent to it
are permitted TO lie round and become
poisonous. This poison is promptly TAX
en- up by the blood and carried to all
parts of the body, including the brain.
The brain, which needs plentiful supply
of clean blood to enable il to do its think
ing, is naturally indignant at finding poor
and impure blood supplied TO it, and al
though not actually going on strike, it re-
fuses to be either pleasant or reasonable.
You who read this are perhaps nine
teen or twenty, and under the impression
that the condition described is an insep
arabic part of the artistic temperament"
that it is "Byronic" or "poetical," " and
that mind capable OF making its owner
so uncomfortable must be great mind.
You are in error. When there is riot in
the palace, even the king his throne
is made miserable. If you are the victim
of recurring fits OF depression, rest aSSur-
ed that you are sacrificing the greater to
the lesser, and the reason for your trouble
is to be traced to some mismanagement
OF the daily regime 1t is possible that
you must conquer your pet weakness
and for some of us even pound OF candy
can harbor thousand "blue devils"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-06-22
Digging Up The Past.

Archaeology, which deals only with the
deadest of materials, is one Of the livest
OF sciences. 1t is constantly bringing out
OF the old that which is new; adding to
the sum of human knowledge, and ap-
pealing nightly to the imagination.
1t would take not book, but many
books-indeed, it has taken them-to re-
count the story OF archaeological achieve
ment during the last half-century, or even
during the last decade; and there are few
records OF scientific advancement which
disclose the power OF mind, of trained
human intelligence, more clearly.
We now know not only that Abraham
could write.-a fact long disputed, but
how he wrote, in cuneifom characters,
on tablets or cylinders OF clay. The
walls Of Jericho, which fell before joshua S
trumpetS, have risen again, in all their
cyclopean maSSiyeneSS. Ur Of the Chal-
deeS has come to have real meaning,
rather than mystical and mysterious
significance. Doctor Peters, at Nippur,
has uncovered civilization going back
six thousand years before the Christian
era, and De Morgan, at Susa, has found
a bronze age which is at least ten thouS-
and years old. Doctor Reisner's remark
able discoveries in Egypt are still fresh
in mind.
Inscriptions as commonplace as the
daily records OF merchants sales and
purchases, written in language the very
characters of which were unknown. have
been deciphered and translated and
proved; and even bits of broken dishes
have been forced TO tell their story OF the
household life of long-forgotten races.
Acquaintance with such things as these
enlarge the mind. II is like view from
a mountain top or a balloon.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-06-22
lightning Flashes.

A young girl in charge OF two children,
sheltering under a tree on ChislehurSt
common, was struck by lightning and
killed-oue of those dreadful instances Of
the sort OF personal touch with which
lightning seems TO select its victim, for,
though one child is reported to have been
thrown down, neither apparently was in
jured. There are many Instances, OF
course, of this strange selection, due in
most cases probably TO some accident OF
clothing. There is a well remembered
case which happened some years ago at
Cambridge, when three young men were
walking across an open space OF ground,
and the middle one OF three was Struck
dead, while the others were untouched.
Tne inquest showed that the young man
who was killed had nails in his boots,
whereas the others were wearing boating
shoes.
The phenomena OF fthunderstonns have
been the subjectof much study in Ameri-
ca. But il thunderstorms can be claSsi-
fled, they are still not thoroughly under
stood. We do not yet know what are
the exact conditions which lead TO a dis
charge of electricity in the form OF a
lightning flash from cloud to cloud or from
cloud TO earth. We cannot reproduce
thunder and lightning in laboratory.
We do not know what is the origin OF the
electrification manifested in a storm.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-06-22
Care of the Mouth.

A year ago the mouths OF the children
1900 in the Harmon School OF Cleveland
were examined by dentists and about 20
per cent found to contain diseased and
defective teeth. Thirty-six of the worst
of these cases were formed into test
squad; their mouths were made as near
ly perfect as possible and they were
trained to keep them so.
In six months il was found that the av-
erage increase in class standing and
general efficiency of these pupils was "a
per cent. Last week, at the close OF one
years treatment, this squad bad itS final
testing in the presence of distinguished
company, among whom were repre-
sentative of the government appointed
by President Taft, various school COM
miSsioners and superintendentS. The
tests were those approved not only by
those present but by other high educa-
tional authorities, and they showed that
the average efficiency OF these Sc school
children had been increased over 90 per
cent. Is il any wonder that the super
intendent, in his enthusiastic appreciation,
declared that every child in the schools
should give five minutes day TO oral
hygiene?
1t all demonstrates that child that is
not in good physical condition takes ad-
vantage OF less than 40 per cent OF its
opportunities, and hence costs the State
more than twice as much to educate, if it
ever accomplishes it, to say nothing OF
its evil habits which grow inevitably out
of lowered mentality and make it men,
ace to the community.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-06-22
The Price OF q Voice.

Few gifts are so profitable to their pos
SCISSOR as fine singing voice; and when
one can sing as Madame Patti could, in
her prime, one can practically ask one S
own price. This story, told by Mr.. Rob-
ert Grau in Musical America, proves that
the singer was quite aware Of the fact:
Patti once was waited upon at her ho-
tel by a famous minstrel magnate, Col. J.
H. Haverly, whose ambition had been
aroused TO secure the diva for concert
tour under his direction. Madame re-
ceived him most graciously, and the two
began discussing the details.
MAY ask your terms for fifty nights,
Madame PATTI" HaverlY asked.
"For concert or opera?" the diva ask
ed.
"For concert" Haverly replied.
"Four thousand night, or two hun
dred thousand for fifty nights, one-half TO
be deposited on signing the contract, "
was PATHS deliberate response.
Haverly tried TO appear composed, but
it was too much of an effort.
1.-TWO hundred thousand for fifty nightSl
Why, madame, that is just four times as
much as we pay Our president OF the
United Statesp he cried.
"Well," Madame Patti answered,
"why don't you get the President to sing
for you?"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-06-22
Kind Words.

What silences we keep year after year
With those who are most near TO US and dear
We live beside each other day by day.
And speak Of myriad things, but seldom say
The full. sweet word that lies within Our reach
Beneath the common ground Of common speech.
Then out OF sight and out of reach they 90.
Those dear familiar friends who loved US so,
And, sitting in the shadow they have left,
Alone with loneliness and sore bereft
We think with vain regret OF some kind word
That once we might have said and they have
heard.
lanes Russell Lowell.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-06-22
Wins Fight For Life.

II was a long and bloody battle for life
that was waged by James B. Mershon,
of Newark, n. J., of which he writes: 81
had lost much blood from lung hemor-
rhages, and was very weak and rundown
For eight months was unable to work
Death seemed close on my heels, wher
| began, three weeks ago, to use DR.
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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-06-22

Gen. Horatio c. King, secretary Of The
Society Of the Army Of the Potomac.
was narrating at a dinner in Brooklyn his
memories OF the Civil War.
1--WE suffered many hardshipS on both
sides" said General King, "but the brave
Confederates suffered more.
81 remember grizzled old negro who.
at the outbreak Of the Spanish War, ap-
piled for a place as an army cook.
"'What experience have you had ?
the old fellow was asked.
"T was cook, sab, TO Confederate
regiment in sixty-fo', he answered. That
is, sab, ! had the job OF cook, but, TO tell
the truth, | didn't work at it, -"
"'Why not ?
There wasn't nothing 10 cook, sab. "
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-06-22
A Leading California Druggist.
Pasadena. Cal. March 9, 1911.

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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-06-22

He watched his wife doing up her hair
and his face was stern. "Why do you
nut the hair OF another woman on your
head ?" he asked severely.
"Why do YOU" she replied sweety,
"put the skin of another calf on your
feet ?"