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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-12-03
INDADE. WE CAN.
SAID IRISH LEADER
Kitchener Expected Five 10 Ten Thou
sand Soldiers From Erin - Record,
Show 100000 Have Enlisted

LONDON. Dee o John Redmond
the Irish nationalist leader, IN q -pyyU
ul .MalrrfDrd Wednesday rc.uwn#
talks br had with Lord Kitchener 900
rnr beginning " the war Lord kIr.
ruur said tu Mr. Redmond "tuu l..
guarantee me five thousand men from
Irrnudt IWNl mv thank you lr'm
cam guarantee twelve thousand N..
say ann deeply obliged
Mr. Redmond added amid ringing
cheers.
1t is mot five thousand on Dvu.
thousand mt one hundred Thousand
that have been sent from ireland a
perfectly amazing Performance vh.
ONE considers the past history N OH.
country aud now II has been dr.n
hy emigration.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-12-03
DAY OF BEARDED
LADY" IS PASSING

CHICAGO Dcr 2 THE day ~ the
bearded lady the human skeleton
and other such show freaks Is passing.
nr Charles Mccarthy NJ Madison
Wis Friday told the convention here
"f the American Association ~ cy
position managers.
Instead Of the usual freaks. nr Me-
earthly said win come industrial aud
.oc0tional cNpo,itions which vI.l rrud
foo educate rather than lu mmusr Tf
Iiicucy. he said, Is the urv watch
word Of fairs
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-12-03
UTAH CASE NEAR END

ST. LOrIS. Dee o Arguments
were 10 be completed Fridny IN the
case of the government 10 separate the
Central Pacific from the Southern pp-
clflc railway Two fun court DAVIS nj
rcndy have been spent hy attorney. In
arguing the merits OF the suit before
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-12-03
APPEAL Tn JOHN u.

TULSA. Dec. g. rhc Tulsa rHm
hrr of commerce and allied mew.
Interest. urc formulating nn appeal 4.
John Il. Rockefeller for million NJ.
lar endowment for Henry kw1.
rDllrgp
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-12-03

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.r stomach liver. kidneys howe. lnH
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demonstration no purmrut.rs punrmn.F
" Woo. Main St. or write thorr fu.
information
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-12-03

the three federal Judges sitting az the
district court Of Utah
Final brief, In the case are TO be In
the hands Of the Judges on December
10.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-12-03

We have hauet hear you you visit
White sanitary telephone i374
and Cured Meats
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-07
Tracy City.

Special TO the Nf7OS.
Rainy weather seems to be the order
Of the day.
Rev. John Smith closed his meeting
Sunday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Baxter Meeks attended
church on Shadrick Hill Sunday night.
Rev. Ed Nunley is on the sick list
this week Hope he will soon recover.
Will Green and best girl attended
church Sunday night.
Mr.. Keener Sanders called on his
best girl Sunday night, and reported
nice time.
If you want to see Miss Mia Green
smile ask her who she saw at church
Sunday night.
w. R. Green called on Baxter Meeks
Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Nunley called on
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Nunley Saturday
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Smith attended
church Monday night.
Rev. John Smith spent Sunday night
with his brother, Tom Smith.
Arthur Green sure did look cute Sun
day night. .s~.'
Mrs. Green attended church on Shad-
rick Hill Sunday.
Ask Isaac Sanders now he likes to
ride in an auto and watch him smile.
Wonder what has become of Uncle
Tom" of Daylight. Come on, Uncle
Tom," we like to read your pieces.
A certain girl said Isaac Sanders sure
looked cute Sunday.
Come on, Brown Eyes" OF Tracy
City, we like to hear from you.
Misses Mildred Kilgore and Martha
Nunley went to church Sunday night
Arthur Green called on hOmefolks
Saturday night, much to the delight Of
Q certain girl.
Mrs. Maggie Bone called on Mrs. Lii
lie Meeks Saturday,
Sad Heart.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-07
Jasper.

Spenai TO HE Ns7OS.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A. Raulston, MI
and Mrs. s. B. Raulston, ana MT
and Mrs. S. B. Patton attended tne
funeral of DIR. Dave Tate, on bat'ie
Greek Sunday.
Mrs. ]. A. Lancaster and her guest
Miss Flora Viewer, of Chattanooga
visited Mrs. Il. D. Hall last week.
Mrs. ]. E. Lacy and Miss Gladys
Lasater were in Nashville last week.
Judge c. T. Williamson spent a rev
days at the State Fair. Nashville iSs'
week.
Mrs. M. E. Walker and daughter
Mrs. A. v. Havron, visited DR.. d.
q. Walker and family in Whit"eii
last week.
Mr.. and Mis-. Jim Doyle and daugn'
ter, Lorena, of South Pittsburg' spen'
Sunday with Mrs. j. A. Darr.
Miss Julia Thach has returned iron
a weeks visit to Der brothers, 5. d
and DIR. A. B. Thach, in Nashville.
Charlie Darr has gone to Chattanoo
ga, where he has job with the ). ID
Leslie produce house.
P. 81. Thach and family are WISH
ing in Jasper this week.
M. F. and J. J. Thach, of Kimbail
attended court in Jasper this week.
Miss Docia Walsh is at st. Thomas
hospital, Nashville, where she has I'M
dergone a successful operation for nj
Ger of the stomach.
Mrs. j. M. Lewis and daughter
Miss Clara and Mrs. A. F. Moore
were at Nashville a few days las
week.
Mrs. Willie Spears friends will b.
pleased to hear she is IMPROVING at
sanitaiium in Nashville.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-07
STILL TAKING INTEREST
IN BASEBALL

Flom our friend, Erich B. Weisener,
Memphis, Tenn, we are in receipt Of
some baseball" clippings showing
how the Memphis Brys.a team repre-
senting the big department store with
which he is connected. won the city
championship, and Immediately en-
gagged in an inter-city championship
contest with the Wolff team of st,
Louis. The Brys, unfortunately, lost
both games, batting in second game
against Neusel, the big right handler
who is slated for the Cardinals next
season. Score of first game was 8 TO
Q, and that of second against Neusel's
pitching 8 to 4. Both games were
played in st Louis. where the Brys
were royalty entertained, being tend
dered the best in the city. We note
that Weisener now has young pitch
or under his care whom he is training
up to subdue those EVOLVES at some
future time
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-07
HEAVY RAINS
PROVE DISASTROUS

The rain of Thursday last proved al
together too heavy, and was a verita-
BILE wsshout. Little Sequachee river
went out of banks on account OF the
downpour, and the farms OF Lee Turn
or and others were flooded and great
damage done to crops. corn being
washed away. Big Sequacbee got on
boom also. and Friday and Saturday
travel to the East Valley via the VIC
toria road was cut off. Farmers along
that river also suffered severe losses to
crops. Such rise of these rivers in
October is unprecedented, and the old
est inhabitant cannot remember it
ever occurring before. The rain here
was not SO heavy, although a pretty
steady downpour, but other places back
In the mountains report extra heavy
rainfall.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-07
| & ALLEY
JASPER, TENN.
LOCAL..

Uncle Mack Burnett brought ne a
nice fat pumpkin this week, as sort
of October reminder. Next
M. Fl. Merritt, of Victoria, was
here yesterday, looking prosperous.
He says the Farmers Union movement
in Marion is proving success.
J. A. Morrison, Of the East side,
was here yesterday to get corn ground
at the local mill. He reports farms
and mills both flooded by the high wa.
ter and much loss.
o. Fl. Francis, of Inman, sec. treas
urer of the County Union, F. E. &
G. U. of A, is in Cookville, this
week, attending the Grand Union OF
the Lodge, as delegate.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-07
Ebenezer.

Steeial 10 tie NezOs.
Warm weather seems 20 be the order
of the day.
Mr.. and Mrs. l. N. Lambert and
three children, spent Saturday night
and Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
Webb.
JEFF Kelly was out walking the pike
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dennis Harris went to
Jasper shopping Saturday.
Mrs. Pearl Lambert called on Mrs.
Meg Cursey one day last week.
Mrs. Lucy Amos called on Mrs.
Charlie Gillian one day last week.
Marvin Smith was on the pike Sat
urday
Horace Rector was on the pike Sat
urday.
Mrs. Charlie Gillian called on Mrs.
l, N. Lambert one day last week.
George Smith was seen flying down
the road Saturday.
Clarence Webb was with his best
girl Sunday night.
Jeff Kelly was out horseback riding
Sunday for his health.
Will Hoge went to Sequachee Sun
day.
Arthur Adams was out Sunday, look
ing for his hearts desire. Wonder II
he found her.
Mrs Pearl Lambert called on Mrs.
Phebe Webb Sunday.
A certain girl looked mighty happy
Sunday. Wonder why.
Mrs. Sam Webb called o. Mrs. Nell
Webb Saturday.
Sam Bennett went to Jasper one day
last week.
DIR. Shelton was auto riding Satur'
day.
School is progressing nicely. Misses
Mabel and Hulette Kelly went to Sun
day school Sunday.
Clarence Webb went to the singing
at Pleasant Grove Sunday evening.
William Alder was on the pike Sun
day.
Miss Mamie Bennett called on Mis-
Kate Lambert Sunday.
Arthur Adams was all smiles Sun
day. Wonder WIN.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Privett spen
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Priv
EFT.
Charlie Gillian called on Mr.. Can
trell Sunday.
Uncle Bill Quarles, of Glover Hill
spept Sunday with John Lambert.
George Jones called on Geo. Quarle
Sunday evening.
Leonard Rogers, of Whitwell. called
on G. E. Hancock Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Crit Webb, of Glove
Hill, spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs
Geo. Quarles
Dan Lambert is awful sweet since
he began making molssses.
George West called on Albert Priv
EFT Saturday.
Charlie Bennett was on the pike Fri
day.
Mrs. J. G. Lambert called on Mrs
| N. Lambert Saturday.
Rev. Bill Love, of South Pittsburg
called on Sam Webb Monday.
Mrs Geo. West called on Mrs. ALDER
Privett Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Crit Webb, of Glove
Hill, called on Sam Webb Monday.
Matt Griffen. of Whitwell, visite'
his daughter. Mrs. Albert Privett, las
week.
Jim Hoge was on the pike Monday.
Houston Wells went to Jasper Mon
day.
William Webb, of Whitwell, visite'
at Charlie Benefits Sunday.
Charlie Gillian went to Jaspe
, Monday.
Pete Cantrell went to Jasper Mon
day.
Charlie Bennett went to Jasper Mon
day. Whippoorwill
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-07

Merchandise and treasure to the
value of $65,OO0,O00 moved between
Alaska and the United States in
1914, an increase of 100000 over
1913.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-07

We will furnish the News one year
and McCall's Magazine and one Free
Dress Pattern, for SOC. Order now tt
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-07

Read the News, SOC a year.
Evening star., 1915-10-31

a lot in thriving section of our city,
and built upon it six-room house, at
cost of twenty-five hundred dollars.
Within a week after we offered the prop
erty for sale a buyer came along and took
it off our hands at a figure that gave us
six hundred dollars net profit. Six hum
dred dollars for three months work! We
had discovered the road to affiuence.
Thrice within a twelvemonth we re-
peated our house-bulding experiment,
and our profits at the end of the period
named amounted to approximately two
thousand dollars.
Then my son went to college, taking a
course in engineering Meanwhile | went
ahead with our building enterprise having
the benefit of his technical knowledge as
he progressed in his studies. The boy
graduated last year with honors, and we
Evening star., 1915-10-31
How | Missed the Poorhouse

NOME people are born thrifty some
- achieve thrift, and some-die in the
poorhouse. The finger of destiny
~ was indubitably pointing me toward
the goal last mentioned when an incident
occurred that turned the current of an
ill-ordered life into one of useful endeavor.
One day friend of our family, blessed
or cursed-with streak of exceptional
prodigality, gave my twelve-year-old son
a new silver dollar. When the boy ran to
show me the coin, jokingly advised him
to put it in the bank. He took me seri-
ously, and promised to heed the sugges-
ton, on condition that for every ducat
"salted away" by him | should likewise
immure a dollar in my own name. ac-
cepted the lads challenge.
What | suffered during the first year
of our pact none but the natural-born
spendthrift can understand. My slowly
growing savings fund soon became to me
Evening star., 1915-10-31

lost no time in organizing construction
company, with him as president and my
self as secretary-treasurer.
We are now doing business that yields
us a net annual income not much below
$4,000. We no longer have to count the
dollars in spending. On the contrary, the
family enjoys every comfort and an oc-
casional luxury. Thrift, however, has
become with me a habit too deeply i'm
planted ever to be uprooted.
Last summer my wife and | and our
three children took the first vacation
we ever had together We spent several
weeks west of the Rockies, visiting, in the
course of our travels, the Exposition.
My ease is one of thousands in which
chance stimulus to look after the despised
penny, and a little will power exercised to
make saving habit, have turned shift
lessness into thrift and aimlessness into
purpose.
Evening star., 1915-10-31
Wendell Wasn't a Miser

THE Russell Sage of Broadway" some
body once called him. Probably the
comparison was unjust and ineXact: it
was not primarily avarice, but conserva-
tism and family pride, that dictated his
business methods. He treated his ten
ants kindly, especially if they We're poor
and DID, and certainly he missed endless
opportunities to squeeze fortunes out of
his estate. Nevertheless, the apostle of
Henry George would find plenty of ser
mons in WendeTs career.
The Wendell estate emphasized all the
strong points Of progress and Poverty"
Landed property in private hands, ac-
cording to the George philosophy, can
wreak tremendous injury to community.
The tendency of landlordism is not to sell
or improve property, but to hold it-fre-
quently as vacant land-until the march
of progress has made it valuable. This
habit stands in the way of progress; it
may sometimes prevent the development
of a community or of a section. The Wen
del fortune enforces this lesson in a super
lative degree Its policy is not to inn
Evening star., 1915-10-31

the Knickerbocker Theater; bet they
wish they hadn't. These people are run
ming after me all the time to build them
theaters. Think of it-places for ballet
girls! What is New York coming to, any
way? l don't believe in real estate
anyway. I've got lot of it,-not so
much as you people think l have,-but
it's no good. 1t eats it's head off in taxes
and assessments. You people write great
stories about Astor and other land
owners. But you ought to try to run one
of these estates for a little while; then
things wouldn't look so fine. New York
won't let you own your property in peace.
1t is always building streets, or elevated
roads, or subways, or tunnels under the
river. No, young man, don't think that
real estate in New York is good invest
ment."
naturally glanced at his sign: "No
Property for Sale" If New York prop
erty was SO sad calamity, why did he
refuse so many tempting offers to sell?
Sentiment, young man, just sentiment.
In two hundred years the Wendels haven't
sold any property, and, as long as live,
they won't"
Evening star., 1915-10-31
By CHARLES A. HARBAUCH

a veritable bette noire, and my son, who
had inherited the faculty of acquisitive-
ness from his mothers side of the house,
early came to assume the guise of a
Spanish inquisitor in his genius for COM
peling me to disgorge my spare change
to match up his bankward-rolled dollars.
Finally, however, thanks to my son,
our adventure in finance won and held
my interest. This prompted me to make
a second suggestion; namely, that we
pool our resources and join a building
association.
The Result of Our Saving Habit
ITO cut a long story to the bone, on the
boys sixteenth birthday our building
stock represented an investment of nearly
a thousand dollars. We then purchased
Evening star., 1915-10-31
The Price He Wanted

STILL, according to report, this same
- Wendell once narrowly escaped falling
from grace. A certain capitalist was
making his life miserable about an "ex-
tremely valuable Broadway corner" He
badly. Wendell persistently refused to
negotiate. "Name your price, Mr.. Wen
DEL" the banker said; "ill pay almost
anything"
"Oh, well,' he replied, merely to get
rid of this caller, "cover the plot with gold
dollars and I'll let you have it"
The would-be purchaser retired in
despair. Suddenly, however, he had an
inspiration. He got out pencil and paper,
and found that he could actually cover
the plot with gold dollars and still not pay
prohibitive price. Next morning he
appeared joyfully at the Wendell Office
"Ive thought over your proposition,
Mr.. Wendell" he said, "and have decided
to accept it, Ill cover the plot with gold
dollars!"
For a moment Wendell was cornered.
He had made his own price and had given
his word-and the word of a Wendell was
sacred. Apparently there was nothing
to do but to sell.
"All right" he answered.; "I suppose
| must let you have it, Remember, how
ever, that those gold dollars must be
stood on edge!"
And so the Wendell tradition still re-
mained unbroken.
There are not many unknown million
aires with the fortune of Wendell There
are hundreds, however, who have pos
sessions that, fifty years ago, would have
kept the public eye constantly upon them.
Like wheat and corn, they are appar-
emily a staple American product.
Evening star., 1915-10-31

though real estate brokers pursued him
night and day and great mercantile es-
adjustments useessly attempted to OBJ
tain the site.
"But, Mr.. Wendell" one exasperated
broker said, "that land is worth million
dolars Why do you keep it vacant?"
"I keep it for my sister Josephine he
answered. "She needs it to exercise her
dog in"
This gentleman of the old school owned
almost countless parcels of New York
real estate in all parts of the city. He had
tenement-houses by the score, business
buildings, and large areas of vacant land.
Although he prided himself on the fact
that the Wendell family antedated the AS
tors, his grandfather's association with
the first John Jacob undoubtedly stimu-
lated the Wendell fortunes. Indeed, as
John G.. Wendell married Astor's sister,
the present Astors and Wendels are re-
lated.
In progressive management of prop
erty, however, the Wendels fall far be-
hind the Astors. There is popular ira
dition that the Astors never sell. This
idea is merely a tradition. In the last
fifteen years William Waldorf Astor has
sold several million dollars worth of tene-
ment property on the East Side, reinvest-
ing the money in vacant undeveloped land
in the Bronx. In this he merely follows
the example of the first John Jacob, who
established his great fortune by selling
profitable land in Wall Street and rein
vesting in vacant corner lots uptown.
With the Wendels, however, the practice
of not selling amounted to family reli-
gion. 1t was not poicy-it was merely
superstition 1t was utterly irrational;
for the family would not let go broken
down rookery even when they could
profit handsomely by doing so.
Evening star., 1915-10-31
SUNDAY MAGAZINE for October 81, 1915

prove property itself, but to lease out
land for stated periods, the lessees put
ting up the buildings. In England this
system works fairly well, but Americans
have not taken kindly to it. Business
men on this side of the water do not like
to put up expensive structures on land
they do not own. They will do it in
particular instances; but in general the
European lease-hold system is not pop
ular.
This explains the fact that wherever
there is Wendell property there are usually
ramshackle Improvements" The mere
fact that the Wendels hold possessions in
certain parts of the city frequently explains
the dilapidated character of the neighbor-
hood. For example, there is the section
of Broadway between Thirty-fourth and
Forty-second streets, an area that might
naturally be one of the finest sections of
New York. In reality it contains not a
single first-class business building. 1t is
section chiefly of one or two-story
buildings. The Metropolitan Opera House
and one or two theaters represent its
only claim to distinction.
But He Wouldn't Put in a
Telephone
I WELL remember, three years before
his death, having a long talk with
Wendell. The Office in which | found him,
at l75 Broadway, hardly suggested the
business headquarters of an American
millionaire. The building represented the
architectural style of the early nineteenth
century. 1t had no elevator. A weary
climb up three flights of rickety stairs
brought me face to face with a glazed
door, simply inscribed, "Mr. Wendell S
Office" On entering, the most noticeable
object was large sign, "No Property for
Sale"-a warning intended to frighten off
enterprisng real estate brokers. few
old clerks sat on high stools before pom
derous ledgers; they too seemed hardy
plants preserved from John Jacob Astor' S
day.
Mr.. Wendell doggedly insisted on keep
ing everything precisely as it had been
in his grandfather's time. He even re-
fused to put in a telephone!
This huge landowner himself looked
the part His shoulders were bent; a
black skull-cap, with frnges of white hair
creeping out under the edges, bound
tightly a rather finely shaped head; sharp
blue eyes cleaned shrewdly under a tall
forehead. His frock-coat and heavy boots
evidently represented the conventional
business dress of half a century ago. In
one respect, however, the old gentleman
proved disappointing. had imagined
that he would be gruff, unapproachable;
on the contrary, he was extremely cordial,
in a quaint, old-fashioned way. At first
he regarded me with evident suspicion,
apparently taking me for another of the
choice pieces of Wendell property. When
he learned that | was not, he politely