Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-05-29
BEAUTIFUL POETRY.


County continues to give free adver-
tising for the Sequachee Grist Mill.
Advertising is usually paid for but
this is some that is thrust upon us
gratuitously. We thank them for it.
and when they get that postotfice we
will cheerfully return the favor in ad-
vertising their bargain sales Of stamps
For the ediicstion of the public in
general, so as to get it before more
extended audience, we reprint their
effort of last week. They seem like
Dickins famous character, Silas
Wegg. to have "relapsed into poetry"
Tho following is the effusion:
"And the "Astonisher" continues
to astonish, while
The sage will fill
With the products o the mill,
As be tends the till
Meath the brow o the hill"
We wish to call attention particular
" to the use of the word ''till'' in the
beautiful lines above. According to
Webster there are various definitions
CT the word, among them "till,"
money box or drawer, and "till,
geological term for deposit of clay,
sand or gravel. No one has ever yet
seen an editor OF printer tending II
money box or drawer, unless the Otic-
ial Hand Organ has the idea that we
have erected large money box, and
IN order to enchant ourselves with the
business fill it with grains of corn,
asserting them variously according to
color and size as the toll comes in.
This is one way to get the meaning of
his terse and vigorous lines, for he
says, "Will fill with the products O.
the mill as he tends the till, etc. "
Possibly be considers that "till" is
portion of a mill, but as we are ig-
norant as to what that portion is we
would respectfully ask him to eulight
en- our ignorance.
To resume: "Till" is also secondly
defined in geology as coarse, obdhr-
ate land. In this event he may refer
to the ten acres of land that we are
trying to cultivate between such cpl
sodes of prosperity as when we have
some business in this shebang, and our
sleeping hours do not demand rest. In
this case the meaning is far-fetched,
for it would be difficult for us to "fill
with the products O. the mill as we
tend the till'' a quarter of mile
away
There is still another way to look at
this beautiful poem. We quote: "The
sage will fill with the products O. the
mill as he tends the till" Assuredly
he does not mean that we consume,
eat, in other words, the entire output
go the mill" If we were or had
been in the habit of so doing, we as
suredly would not be doing the splend
i'd milling business we now enjoy,
slightly over one dollar per week over
expenses. People would soon get tir-
ed of bringing US corn for US to "fill
with the products O. the mill" chick
en- feed and all.
So the beautiful poem may mean
this that we have large money box
(till) at the foot o the hill from which
as we tend we will fill ourselves with
'tbe products O. the mill, Tor it may
mean that while tending some rongh,
obdurate land (till) a quarter of
mile away, we reach over the tree
tops and fill ourselves with the pro-
ducts O. the mill" Anyway you take
it the poem is ridiculous in meaning,
as school girl would say, perfectly
idiotic,"
We will not touch upon the versifi-
cation, or say anything about either
rhyme or rythm. 1t may be choriam-
bic, but we doubt it. 1t sounds very
much like the "Anvil Chorus" this
perpetual DINING, and that is about
as near choriambic measure as it
will ever get. We would like to be
informed as to the precise metre in
which the poem is written. AS for
ourselves, we don't know and can't
find out, as we can't find anything in
English. Dutch or Hottentot poetry
similar to it.
No noise has yet been made over
that big development to occur in Sc
quachee Valley. Great things move
slowly and this generation may not |
see the railways and mines proposed.
The Chattanooga papers have done |
proud over the Reunion.
Both the News and Times of Monday |
and Tuesday are worthy of preserva-
ton. ."....
Cut out waste in any way, The old
saying is that "wilful waste makes
woful want" 1t is criminal, any
way. to waste things when others need
them.
We trust you attended the Reunion
in Chattanooga because You wanted to
DO honor to the Confederate soldiers,