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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-06-11
NOT HOME OF ANCIENT MAN.

Theories regarding the antiquity of man In
Peru have not been strengthened by the expedi-
tion of DIR. Ales Hrdcka of the National museum
of that country. The expedition covered several
hundred miles of the Peruvian coast, including
hitherto unexplored regions in the Western Cor
dilleras. More than one hundred ancient ceme-
teries and many ruins a large percentage of
which were previously unknown to science were
examined, and over thirty boxes of skulls and
other material for future study were collected for
the National museum.
The result of the expedition" says the expe-
ditions report failed to strengthen the theories
of the antiquity of man in Peru, but tended to
prove the contrary. Aside from the cemeteries
OF burial caves of the common coast or mountain
people and their archaeological remains there was
no sign of human occupation of these regions
Not trace suggesting anything older than the
well-represented pre-Coumbian Indian was found
anywhere; and neither the coast nor the noun.
tain population, SO far as studied can be regard
ed as very ancient in the regions they inhabited
No signs indicated that any group occupied am
Of the sites for even long as twenty centuries"
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-06-11

admissions are'not'given), the picture
galleries of the same city having 3d.
600 visitors, and the archaeological
museum only 10000 One may doubt
less explain the popularity of Venice
by its neighborhood ITO the northern
frontier and its consequent accessi-
bility to Germany and Austria. That
the Venetians themselves visit the
Palazzo Ducale in large numbers Is as
improbable as the supposition that the
bulk of the visitors to the National
gallery are Londoners.
We find, too, that at Milan Leonardo
da Vinci's Last Supper" had over
forty-fve thousand visitors, the Brera
picture gallery nearly thirty-seven
thousand. and the Certosa di Pavia
$1,000. Milan, however, must take the
fourth place, or even the fifth, the sec
ond belonging to Florence, where the
gallery of the Uffizi claims nearly sew
enty-seven thousand visitors and the
Pitt nearly sixty thousand, the Medici
chapels zoo. the Bargello $4,000, tho
academy Tor gallery of ancient an
modern art) 10000, the Museum of 8
Mark nearly twenty-six thousand, b.:
the archaeological museum only five
thousand-odd Pompeii had some sew
enty-six thousand one hundred visitors
at two and one-half Ira head, while
the National museum at Naples at
tracted oyer sixty-seven thousand five
hundred
The comparative lack OF interest in
archaeological museums leaves 1t I'M
certain whether Rome should really
take only the fourth place, for here
the most attractive and famous gal
leries OF pictures and sculpture, and
the rooms which contain Raphaers
masterpieces in fresco, belong, not to
the state, but to the papal authorities.
But it is a little surprising that the
Forum should be able to total only
just over forty thousand visitors and
the Palatine only $1,000; the baths at
Caracalla, on the other hand, which
are somewhat more remote, did we'll
to have nearly twenty thousand, while
Hadrian's villa had over fourteen
thousand. Much is, no doubt, due to
the fact that neither the Uff1zi in Flor
ence nor the Museo Nazionale in Ma
pies can be seen in one visit without
a severe attack of mental Indigestion
but it is little difficult to explain
that Rome should fall behind both
Naples and Florence, especially after
the interest the recent discoveries in
the Forum and on the Palatine have
excited.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-06-11
SEEK FORTUNE OF ARCHDUKE
That of "John Orth" Said to Amount
to 100000 at Present
Time.

Geneva.-Division Of the fortune Of
John Ortiz" the long missing Arch
duke John Salvador of Austria, is
again being sought by members Of the
House of Hapsburg. Leopold Woelf-
ling, himself former archduke of
Austria, is leader of the present agi-
tation for settlement of the estate.
Woelffing, who has been Swiss citi-
zen since he renowned his title and
married Maria Ritter, the daughter Of
a German horseman, has taken up
the question of the fortune with EN-
peror Francis Joseph, but it is doubt
full that he will meet with any sue
cess The emperor, many years ago,
selected the year 1917 as the one in
which the affairs of the vanished arch
duke should be settled.
1t has been estimated that the for
tune which the Archduke John Saliva
tor left when he fed from Austria "a
years ago with the actress. Ludmila
Strubel, in the ship St. Margaret
neither the ship nor its passengers
ever to be heard OF again-amounted
to nearly 100000. The great &C
cumulationB in interest may make 1t
three tmes as large today.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-06-11
BOY AND GIRL BEGGARS
OF DUBLIN

From out Of the troubled scene of strikes and
ockouts, riots and baton charges, stands the
quaint and pathetic figure Of the child beggar
of Dublin
There are thousands Of these child beggars.
They come from crowded rooms Of squalid tene-
ments that once were the splendid homes of
wealth and fashion. Persistent as flies, sprightly
as kittens the Dublin street children have q
tenacious hold on life. Born in small, stuffy
rooms, enduring all the privations that increase
infantile mortality, these children of poverty
survive the horrors of home and the cruelty Of
the streets. And they learn to beg at their moth
er's knee.
When Dublin street child solicits aims he
combines recitation of beatitudes with be-
stowal of compliments. He fatters wheedles,
implores and invokes the saints In one breath.
Silence stimulates him, rebukes encourage him,
anger dismays him not. Running like dog at
heel he whimpers and whnes his patterng feet
keeping time with his monologue of AS
we'll try to shake off the grip of bull terrier
to escape the Dublin beggar child when his keen
intuition has detected signs of weakness. He
provokes smiles irritation. resentment and
b above all, a great pity.
Truly, they are subjects of pity, these little
boys and girls of Dublin. with their miserable
rags, their old faces marked with the wisdom of
the streets, their grubby, tiny hands held out
for coppers, and their childish voices murmuring
the discord Of the beggar's whine Late at night,
with the public houses closing and the cold rain
sending pedestrians scurrying homeward, have
seen little girls of six or seven years dancing on
the glistening pavement. They have been dane
cling all the evening-not for JOY but for charity
Now they are tired, and their faces are drawn.
They try to smile but the smile is queer twist
of pain Their wet ragged skirts cling round
their thin limbs But still they dance the Irish
iigs now facing each other and circling and
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-06-11
breaches WITH RIBS BROKEN
Usual Sunday and Then
Goes to Hospital.

Pueblo, Colo-Members of the con-
gregation Of the st. Paul Methodist
Episcopal church insist that their pas.
tor, Rev George N Henderson. is en-
titled to the distinction of being ''Pueb-
los grittiest preacher"
To back up their claim, they point
to the fact that DR.. Henderson filled
the pulpit at two services on Sunday
with a pair of broken ribs and made
no complaint. Since then he has been
taken to a hospital.
The pastor was injured in bicycle
accident. He was thrown from the
wheel Saturday and became uncon-
scious. Although suffering much pain,
he preached as usual on Sunday.
Then he called physician and an
examination showed that two ribs had
been broken.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-06-11
HISTORIC OLD TREE
Was Perch of SharpShooterS
During Civil War.
Confederate Soldiers Under General
Jubal Early Roasted in Its Branches
While Popping" Away at
Men on Union Side.

Westinghouse you travel north
ward along Georgia avenue you may
see on the left, within the grounds of
the Walter Reed hospital. a dead
giant of a tree, The great branches
have been sawed off-amputated
might be a better word, bearing in
mind the place where the tree stands
so that only the trunk and the
butts of the big limbs that formed
the crown remain. The tree was
long ago stripped Of bark. and its
wood is weathered to an ashen gray,
1t was a yellow poplar, but it's dead.
1t was killed by lightning stroke.
The tree grows in land that is
lower than the land to the south, but
from it's top or among it's branches
men could look above spur or nose
of land on the south and thence out
over the fiat or gently rolling fields
that stretched away to the bitches
and the parapets of Fort Massachu-
sets, later called and better known to
fame as Fort Stevens.
When Jubal Early's skirmishers and
the skirmish line thrown out from
Fort Stevens were popping at each
other a number of Confederates
climbed into this tree and continued
firing at the Union skirmishers. 1t is
usual to say that Confederate sharp
shooters were perched in the boughs
of this old tree. 1t seems to strike the
civilian fancy in a livelier way and
to more appeal to his imagination to
say that "sharpshooters" were in the
tree. "Sharpshooter" is such an elias
tic and evasive term! 1t suggests
something akin to "deadshot." The
men who took up positions in that
tree may have been sharpshooters or
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-06-11

they may have been just the ordinary
run of soldier shots. But there is a
tablet on the tree trunk, and the In
scription on the tablet is:
used as a signal station by Con-
federate soldiers under General Early
during the attack on Washington, July
II and IL, 1864. Also occupied by
sharpshooters."
The tree stands by the side of one
of the well kept drives Of the hos
pital grounds and In front of a big
brick building of the familiar army
post style of architecture. Over the
entrance to this building is the sign,
Army Nurse Corps"
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-06-11
FIND LOST PASTORS BODY
Remains Of Man Found Slain Elk.
humed From Cemetery Near cleve-
land Those of Missing Preacher.

Cleveland, GA body exhumed
from the Rockport cemetery, near
here, was identified as that of Rev
Lewis Patmont formerly Of Milwau,
kee, who disappeared from Westville,
Ill, on April /. The Identification
was made by a brother, Oscar Pat
mont. who lives In Canton, o. The
body was found beside the Big Four
railway tracks southwest of the city
on April 6. The coroner decided that
a murder had been committed. Prior
TO his disappearance Patmont had
been holding revival meeting in
Danville. An option campaign was
then being waged, and 1t is said that
he was driven from town by partisans
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-06-11
~ Iz2T AGO

measuring the boie, and with taking photographs
OF the tree from the roof of the city hall He
also observed wooden tablet which Humboldt
100 years before had nailed to the tree, the un
impaired vitality Of which, for all it's so centu
ries of age, had been shown by growth which
half covered the tablet Upon 1t. however, was
still legble the autograph of the famous German
naturalist.
Though repulsed at the first trial, Dr. Won
Schrenk's ardor to be the first to obtain
rate data by which to estimate the trees age
was only kinded the more He determined that
at the first opportunity he would return to Santa
Maria del Tule for second attempt, when he
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-06-11

changed the face or the soil, as MS "ah's "
caprices have dictated some trees, favored by
tor.,no have escaped destruction for at least one
or two thousand years; while in other and par
ticularly in some tropical countries, either on
account of more favorable climate. or because
they have been more respected. or haply more
neglected. by the inhabitants, few may WIN
strong probability be traced back to twice that
period; and perhaps almost to that epoch whlch
the monuments both Of history and of geology
seem to Indicate as that Of the last great rever
luton of the earth's surface.
After making every reasonable allowance for
errors of observation and too sanguine Inference
and assuming in the more extraordinary cases.
those estimates which give minimum results we
must still regard some of these trees, not only as
the Oldest inhabitants Of the globe, but as more
ancient than any human monuments exhibit
ing living antiquity, compared with which the
molderng relics of the earliest Egyptian civiliza-
ton, the pyramids themselves. are but structures
of yesterday
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-06-11

curtsying with natural grace that defes even
exhaustion.
They have learned the dance, maybe. on the
bare boards OF single room where they live,
sleep and eat and to that room they will return
when the last of the crowd has gone. Wet, tired
and hungry they will sleep heaven knows how
or where, and their chance of supper depends
upon the success of their dancing. This is Sack
vile street, the finest thoroughfare In Ireland
London Mall
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-06-11
TOURISTS ON BEATEN TRACK
Some Of the Many Beaut''"'
Things That They MISS
In italy.

London.-An interesting test OF In"
relative popularity of the various ga
leries, museu1s and ancient mohs
ments of Italy is Afforded by the ohi-
cial statistics of the admission lees
levied during the financial year 1919
Is, published in the Bolletino dArte
for 1918 for the first time. The INST
place is taken neither by Rome nor
by Naples. but by the doges' palace a.
Venice, which had nearly one hundred
and sixty thousand paying visitors az
one Ira each (the statistics OF Tree
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-06-11

N THE firing line in central Mexico,
in peril from cannon fire and mus
kerry. stands the oldest living thing
in the world-the famous cypress in
the churchyard of the village of
Santa Maria del Tule, in the intend
ancy of Oaxaca. two and a half
leagues east of that city. The dis.
turbances in Mexico have postponed
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-06-11

celebrated EQ90DOTn Drake III
VIM parish. The monarch OF
the brake is tree which lumber
men estimate would scale $4,000
feet of lumber.
The only trees which can ven
ture to rival the Santa Maria del
Tule cypress according to sci
entists, are certain baobab, or
monkey-bread, trees of Senegal
and the Cape de Verde Islands,
and the famous Dragon tree OF the
city of Orotava, in Teneriffe. Nei-
Their of these trees, however, is
believed to be as much as 5,OO0
years old, although their antiquity
is estimated to be so great that
only that of the Mexican cypress
surpasses 1t.
Upon the whole" writes Pro
lessor Gray in his scientific Pa
pers," I'VE cannot resist the con-,
clusion that many trees have far
survived what we are accustomed
to consider their habitual duration;
that even in Europe, where man
has so often and extensively
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-06-11
csE9afJT - oGWza IzAeN DEL ZEzR-

hopes to find mayor of more scientific sympathy.
He is awaiting now cessation of revolutionary
troubles in Oaxaca
Prof. Alphonse de Candole, illustrious botan-
list, calculated that the Santa Maria del Tule cy-
press might be 5000 years old. Prot. Asa GRAY
under computation, estimated that 1t might
be 5,124 years old, and named it "the Nestor OF
the cypress race if not of the whole vegetable
kingdom"
Both these computations would make the Next
cypress older by from 1000 to 1000 years
than the giant sequoa tree of California in the
bole of which John Muir, the famous geologist and
archeologist, counted than 1000 rings, The
sequoias however tbeng trees Of more rapid
growth, greatly surpass the cypress in height
In Louisiana according to DR.. Won Schrenk, are
cypress trees which were 500 years old when Jesus
was born at Bethlehem. Some of these are In the
Strike bulletin. (Clinton, Ill.) 1913-1915, 1914-07-22
SOUTHERN PACIFIC OFFICIALS
ASK EMPLOYEES TO ECONOMIC;
STRIKERS SAY IT Is BIG JOKE

OAKLAND Cal. July 2..-tSpecial to The Strike
Buli-tin.)-The following 10 from the Southern Pa.
cifc Bulletin: What saving Asans-Every en-.
poye Of the southern Pacific company knows that.
somehow. somewhere. by using . little extra care.
or being more watchful Of the companys property.
he can effect Q saving The I'm portancs of econ
omy In this respect cannot be underestimated. In
this connection an enterprisiug statistician has
figured out . few facts worthy of consideratio
For instance. he has calculated that every time .
pencil costing the company one cent he has lost
the entire revenue gained by hauling one ton OF
freight 81 miles Every time the mail clerk AZ
fixes to letter or package. one 2-cent stamp more
than 10 required. he has forced the company TO
haul ton of freight almost SIS miles to make up
shovel to disappear there goes with II the revenue
for carrying . ton OF freight over liz mles Every
time engine wiper. box packer. or oil house at
tendant saves . pound of wool waste. he Is saving
for the company the equivalent In revenue TO haul.
ing ton OF freight close to IS miles Every time
a brakeman or conductor loses q lantern. II means
a consequent loss of 1871 revenue ton miles. Every
time a station agent operator saves q broom
the saving 10 equivalent to the revenue on 50 ton
miles"
After figuring out the above. would like TO
ask some OF the wise officials the following Ques
ton and would be pleased Il they would answer
How many tons Of freight will the company have
that was to be made on engine 3oss last Thursday
when the thermite went clear through into the
pit. taking part of the frame with ~" This en-
gine from the shops at Sacramento TO
have the work done The loss was estimated at
SIS and the frame ruined In the bargain.
1t Is reported that the shops are to work full
force after the 18th. We shall see. Now. brothers
send In the answers 80 the questions submitted to
YOU. Our future success rests with you.
Strike bulletin. (Clinton, Ill.) 1913-1915, 1914-07-22
$P. PLANS 20 PER CENT
WAGE REDUCTION FOR
Los ANGELES
SCARS TALKING OF GENERAL
WALKOUT IF WAGES ARE CUT


LOS ANGELES. Cal. July ss-tspecial to The
sunas bsileuh.b-A cut of 20 per In scab
ssss 10 expected the first of the month. There
= ssnsfaI ssiling and xnAshing Of teeth II the
esii pen The scabs claim that they are work
hs q the lowest possible wage at the present
~e sat the company takes the position that II
sseds the money vorsA
=. me 'oaiii.s are Urombling In the shops and
ues tah OF . general Wakout the first day
VA ne wage reduction goes into effect The
~aht has Its agents In the shops and At the
nna sign OF agitation among the scabs tho talk
alive ones are discharged
mere were Ii dead engines pulled In on the
~ uscs las, week They were Nos 2sts. 1881.
.s' 1885 2os2 las2, 1897. 223t. 2130. 1850. 232s.
ssss. 1881. 1882 and 1855. -Four of them pulled
- ~ one night None Of them were brought In In
NE DAY time
As1es Cover 81 OaFkoeas.
ie company waits until dark before bringing
- :" aeiApidsted equipment. As the pickets have
particularly observing at this point and have
80 ~ Widespread publicity to the companys In
a'g TO repair Its equipment with scab help.
~ pcssts believe that tho company waits for
s". ume 10 prevent the watchers from seeing
- numbers OF the engines and reporting them
v.e nave been but five engines turned out of the
-, s.e osen but three fire boxes turned out In the
had "e' 'ep~' Ae '
are Informed that VIM. Rogers of the salt
Canadian Pacific
s.u,ssn here are enthusiastic over conditions.
s.-.. indicate the strike has become more ef-
Am y. than ever. Victory with no compromise IL
"h The slogan
Strike bulletin. (Clinton, Ill.) 1913-1915, 1914-07-22

working IN fire box. lad one -" knocked out
There are several ouc-.ved Ats AROUND her. now
who VII remember the Illinois central fer
Of thor lives charles N-lrt. q srab back init b
helprf viii probably lose the sEht OF eye
through a Very severe burn which D. received
y seab from The corn fi.lis came b.. re thres
weeks ago and took job In the i. yAr mt
on piece work His first job To put up a fol-
lower plate lie asked another sCsly II 10 had
to take the end OF the put them up
The other scaly didn't know. The field scab
worked hard all day and rewarded with the
enormous sum OF tiis lie vas then put IN the
laboring gang, where he again proved his worth
lessness and was kicked out altogether.
Strike bulletin. (Clinton, Ill.) 1913-1915, 1914-07-22
HEALTH DEPARTMENT FORCES
L C. TO MAKE SCARS RATTLE
AND SHAVE At NEW orr Fans

NEW ORLEANS. July aa-tspsciai TO The Strike
Bulletin)-on account Of the Wild and desperate
appearance OF the l. c. scsbs here. the company
has been forced to issue an order Insisting that
the scailies shave and battle themselves at least
once month Numerous complaints have been
made to the health department that the condtio
under which the scabs live and work such a.
to make the bull pen q breeding spot for contagton
and menace TO the city.
The new regulation 10 expected to work added
hardship on the strikebreaksrs and even deaths
may follow. sudden application OF soap and
water on scabs 10 liable TO have . fatal effect
The shaving ordinance will ring the death kneli
on the frowsy whisker set-ups that many of the
scsbs have been hiding behind for the last year
- nat CsseA . Nat.
Theodore Nuss . local scab has quit the shops
and 10 now working As . rat catcher. proving the
truth of she old saying. 1T takes a rat to catch
. rat" lie parades around with rat trsps on his
back and couple OF tin buckets full Of dead rats
Flat Wheel Dave Earnest and of the three
eighths foremen are visiting the criminal court
and the district attorneys office lately. Every
body Is keeping very quiet about the reason for
the visits strikers are beginning to ask Dave
why he doesn't pay the lady As Yet there has
been no appearance of the gas engines and
cars which the l. - bought in the pers some
time ago ! c. passenger coaches are being used
on the l. n n. road. where the inspectors are
having q hard time insisting that they be put into
proper repair for road service.