Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-12-21
third District.

address to the reading public and to
all my brother and sister correspond
ents to the News for the closing year.
1911 Let me thank you one and all
for your patience in reading and try
ing to keep mp with my weekly arti-
Giles during the past year. / tried my
best to write mp the truth, assaulted
or asSailed no man, but wrote the true,
plain, simple facts as they occurred,
/ and if / hurt or wounded any man or
womans good feelings l now beg your
pardon. 1t wasn't done Intentionally
anu an error only on my part, or other
wise on the part of some of my in
/ formers in giving in details for publ
cation, aud all | ask and earnestly beg
I is your forgiveness | want to close
I ont the end of the year 1911 with good
will to all, enmity to none. If at
present have an enemy in my terri
! tory, it is beyond the knowledge of
your humble writer.
can say to all that no living, man
can bring aught against We writer for
the last two years, and tell the truth,
as far as appear of public record 1t
is without blemish and stands above
reproach, pure temperance. Hope all
my brother correspondents to the News
have walked the paths of righteous
ness. Keen wide awake and sober as |
have done in the past year, and we
may all pick up courage from the re-
cords of our work ami correspondence
to the News, and look forward to the
surcess of ourselves, and the News
and to the Improvement of our cores
pondence to the News.
Since the beginning of the year,
1911, dear readers. there have been
Thousands aud thousands passed to the
swett beyond. There have been some
sickeued and died, while Others have
found watery grave. Others have
died embarked beneath the surface of
the earth in great catastrophes and ex-
plosions, and thousands of little or
phans and poor broken hearted moth
ers are left to mourn the loss of their
loved ones. Others have been shot
down while under the influence of liq-
nor, and others went to the pen for a
number of years, while others went up
for life. OShers have skipped and gone
beyond the jurisdiction of the state.
Others are confined in Jail, Others are
wearing the ball and chain, pending
action of the supreme court. Others
are charged with rape, larceny, selling
whiskey, public drunkenness, embez
element, highway burglary and lob
berry. Others are charged with bga-
my, or having two living wives or
husbands, and others are confined in
Jail for divers offenses too numerous to
mention. So anyway, dear readers,
the destruction to the human family
of our race the past year in various
ways is great. It seems as the popula
ton of the nation increases, SO does
crime. / see the effect in states and
territories where whiskey is removed,
for there is reduction in crime and
the death rate is less. So. dear read
ers, one and all, keep your boys under
your banner and wing this Christmas.
Keep them from getting hold of that
little brown jug, for the decree is is
sued and gone forth that some young
man in the bloom of life will be shot
down on the streets or roadside this
Christmas under the influence of whis-
key. God forbid such to exist, but /
am determined to keep an eye on. my
boys; and if any wolf should break in
to the flock clothed with sleeps cloth
ing Twill take pleasure in landing him
before the bar of justice, for bis booty,
devilish conduct among my family.
Past history teaches us fathers and
mothers that hundreds of lives will be
lost on or about the cath and 25th of |
December, SO, be We ready and do
ing. Keep your eye on that boy or
boys of yours. for somebody's darling
is bound to go. 1t may be yours or it
possibly may be mine, but l am going
to do my duty, so help me God, and
set no bad examples before my own or
anyone else's, but lay good example
before all, and when this Christmas is
passed and gone, the fathers and dear
old mothers of my home can't lay any
blame at the door of Representative
for the destruction of any of their
sons, or any man of my country dur
ing this Christmas by giving whiskey,
wrong instructions or bad advice.
am uneasy for the mass of people. |
have had dread, uneasy sensation
since had dream or vision the other
night The future opened to me. [
saw a great multitude of people as
sembled together the awfulest weep
ing and mourning by women over dead
men l never heard before. So | send
the warning as to what / saw and
what was pictured to me in that Wis
ion and dream. So you may watch as
well as pray, for something is going
to happen to some of you before the
closing of the day on the 25th day of
December. l am going to prepare and
set suitable dinner on that day, in
vite all my sons and daughters. law
to come. and take dinner with me. We
and few close friends will spend the
25th and 26th hunting up and down
the creeks and rivers, dropping in at
regular mealtimes, and when night
comes and my wife asks me where are
the boys, l want to answer her they
are all at home. | think there is
good moral to be learned in this last
sentence if it is written by your hum
BILE servant.
From the number of jugs that arriv-
ed at Whitwell Saturday night, the
town is expected to be draped in
mourning, in dishonor, shame and
disgrace to civilization. There is one
thing l wish TO give you all fair warn
ing, if you wish to mark disgrace on
your family, your mothers and sisters
by getting publicly drunk, and using
all kinds of profane and obscene Ian
guage in the presence of ladies', aud
committing other indecent and immor-
al acts at public entertainments the
boot is left you, SO you had better get
a ticket ana step on the band wagon
that will make regular trips to and