Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-04-25
Third District.

herctHntS seemed 20 be- as busy as
bees ali cav.
The recent high water seems to have
raised the price of corn and meal to
81 and ~. 10 per bushel, and oats as
high rs my head. From the present
outlook com will reach 1875 per bush
ell and hay So per hundred. Meat will
run up TO 20 cents per ID, Lard 1Sc,
coffee BIC per pound. -four 81 per sack.
and sugar zoe per Id. Boys, when you
get this crop made at the above rat
ing, yOu a bet your socks it will be
q dear one to you, and | will bet old
gray that when you gather your crops
this fall You won't lay down and loll
around and rabbit hunt all winter and
sell oct all your corn at SOC per bushei
snd sell your hay to the market at
from 40 to 80 cents per bale, and peas
from SOC to 81 per bushel. Now you
have to pay a high price to get them
back to plant. AS long, boys, as we
make the stores our corn crib and
smoke houses, so long we will always
be up against Griffith's rock, which no
sensible person will attempt to deny.
If we don't turn back to the farm life,
as in the days Of our daddies, and de-
vote more time to the tillage of the
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farm, there's going to come a time in
the history of the country when our
land won't produce enough to support
our Inhabitants, and that time is at
hand now, and the biggest portion of
what we will be compelled to have
now has to come from other localities.
The happy days of my childhood were
about 30 years ago when everybody
had plenty and always had something
to sell from the products of the farm,
and | remember the old time log roll
lings and barn raisings we had and
the old time dances. One raising last
ed eight days and nights. and there
was a double crew, and while n set
vas up the other part of the business
vas carried on, and now and then
they changed shifts with the men.
There were enough young ladies to
keep up the set day and night, and
parties came to those old time shin
digs a distance of 80 miles. l can
prove this by the Hon. J. j. Dykes as
to bis uncle the time he built the big
barn at Tatesville. That barn was
build by one of the old time eight
day and night public raisings. The
size of the barn, which my brother
now owns, is 100 feet long and 60 feet
wide. The framing was hewn ont with
a line and broad axe. The studding is
Of fine material, 8 by u, and at that
day everybody had plenty. Didn't
have to sell, didn't need any money.
Had plenty otherwise and plenty to
spare. Every body lived at home and
was happy, enjoyed life, hardly ever
heard of a divorce bill being filed in
the community. If there was one to
happen the whole neighborhood would
look on the complainant in the bill as
a low type of humanity, and at that
day if a neighbOr happened to get out
of bacon or corn before he got his CROP
finished all he had to do was to call
on his neighbor and he would loan
him all he needed to wind up on, and
he could get all he wanted on his word
and honor. Such a thing as the mort
gage system was unknown then, but,
BOYS, how about today. You can't
get two middlings of meat or 3 bushels
Of corn without first executing a mort
gage or deed of trust on old Gray or
Buck or Muley, so you see times have
changed. Those good old days of old.
Neglect of the farms our fathers have
left us means to us destruction. Star
walton will soon knock at our CoOrs if
we don't change our program. 1t has
got so now if one of our young bloods
don't get a fine suit of clothes and
leave old dad and drift to town, and
dude up and down the streets from
morn until night, he thinks he isn't
in it. He sees some other young lad
at payday draw a little ready cash and
imagines be is rich, but let me say to
you, a boy on the farm who has plen-
ty of meat, corn, syrup, potatoes and
other kinds Of vegetables, fruits of all
with his milk and butter add
ed, doesn't need very much money,
His grocery bill is cut off. [ see men
and boys working on public works
who don't make enough to meet their
monthly expenses, and this thing of
going to a store and getting i'll debt
$50 or $40 is all wrong, Some trade
one merchant until they run up
a big bill, then step over to a second
merchant and do him the same, then
quit him and leave him in the same
boat and go all over town from n to
another, and when all is figured up
they have robbed the merchants of
several hundred dollars, This is lar
ceny, and by and by SUCH persons will
have no friends and have to move into
another community. A fine suit of
and a fine horse and rig from
the livery stable, and perhaps at the
time the young man got them he did
not intend to pay. The man that
wears patched clothes and pays his
inst and honest debts some people
look on with scorn, while they ,
are diked up on credit out of an hon
est mans pocket. When such people
shed their fine clothes and get back to
they naturally belong, and treat
fellow beings kindly it will be
much better for all concerned. | know
q few young men who have bought
from $40 to $50 worth of fine clothes
who never did intend to pay for them {
they got them and never will in
life I want to say this to all pa +
rents, it is very wrong to allow your
sons to go in debt just because the
Kind and clever hearted merchant will
,ledit him. 1t has a tendency to lead
aim into broader fields and it grows on
step by step and and when once {
III h a habit is acquired there won't i
IN in ten live such a habit down.
The mortgage system is another bad
lamt, and when once a man gets into {
hi if be don't be very careful he will I