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The mirror., 1920-08-05

much about fancy Clothing, Automobiles,
or other costly Luxuries. He was just
Ballplayer, and that described him Com
pletely.
AS the days Wore on, this young Man
attracted the Attention of the Big Mag
mates, and in due Course of Time he was
boosted into the Big Show. Here he went
along Nicely for awhile, and thenhe sud-
denly leaped into the Limelight with a
rush and Roar. He began hitting Home
Runs, and hitting them most Scandously
1t mattered Nix whether he faced the
Southpaws or the Human Beings; whether
the Pitch was fast or slow; whether it had
a Hop on 1t, or a Fade-away-this Bird
Stung them ALL and the Ball was contin-
ually describing Graceful Parabola as
it settled in the Bleachers.
And every time this Gazimbo hit
Homer his Simple, Homely Tastes were
Shredded Away in Sections. He began
to buy 500 suits of Clothes; and he Draped
his Shape with silk Shirts that Cost more
than his whole Costuming had done in the
Minors; and he had Buzz-Cart that
said Whizz and was Speck on the Far
Horizon. And when the Season ended,
the Home Run Hitter was so Exalted that
when he~walked down the Street he
thought he was Parade, and when he
Talked to Himself he believed he was a
Group.
And all sorts of Propositions rushed
upon him; and he became Movie Actor,
with the calm, Sinuous, Lissome Grace of
Bounding Cow; and he went up and
down the round of the Studios and the
Pleasure Spots, telling 'em All how good
he was, and how he must have Twice
as Much Money next Season, and how he
would make them All Bow down to him
and say"Yes, boss, what is it?" Such
Differentiation from the Subdued and gen.,
tie Youth of earlier Years. who thought
only of playing Baseball, and didn't care
hoot in Halifax about the Money!
Now, in most Fables, they tell you how
the Naughty Youth got it in the Space be-
tween the Shoulders and the Ivory; and
how the Magnates ignored him; and how
he realized that his name was Dennis Nc
Pants, and came Humbly back to the old
Home and the old Remuneration. But
this is 1920, and things aren't that Way
any more. For the Naughty Youth got
All he wanted; and made them Knuckle
down and come Across; and got Trans
fer to Bigger city; and is Stalking
around Righ Now giving them all the
Raspberry!
BUT-maybe Pride still Goes before a
Fall, and perhaps that Bird won't hit for
Fried Cucumbers next Summer!
MORAL-There are no More Morals.
Only $4,000 Salaries.-BasebaH Maya
zine.
The mirror., 1920-08-05

! commerce, intimates E. T. Good, writing
in the London Courier, A typical tramp
steamer, he says, that Britain can build
for $325,000 would cost 100000 in the
United States. Besides, British wage and
provision costs are lower. "America is all
right industrially," says Mr.. Good, "but
when it comes to external trading we
(the British) are on top-easily!"
Radium, the most wonderful of the me-
tails and used chiefly as a cure for cancer,
is produced at the rate of one ounce, per
year, which is valued at about $3,00O,000.
The accumulated stores of the whole world
amount to only four ounces. In actual
practice the surgeon generally uses min
imum of fifty miligrams of the powerful
substance, which quantity, of about the
size of match head, costs him $500.
Radium metal is shaped into tiny rod
no larger than small piece of the lead of
a pencil which is encased in a glass cap
sule and Theoretically sealed, as any con-
tact by the surgeons fingers with the
radium would cause serious burns.
The king, in the interests of economy,
has sanctioned alternations in the regula-
tions determining the dress to be worn by
civilians at court. The changes are in
the direction of simplifcation, and by
wise provision they are compulsory.
Those who already possess uniforms or
court dress may continue to wear them.
The beautiful but costly full dress coat of
first and second class uniforms is now un-
necessary. Uniforms of the three lower
classes are to be of one pattern, except
for the decoration on the collar, which can
be changed at relatively small cost.
In Illinois, an association has been
formed which will spend $250,000 in the
next three years, in advertising the econo-
mic value of the horse. In Denver, on the
other hand, the authorities are consider
ing an ordinance to prohibit the use of
horses on the streets. But the horse goes
on his way, regardless. He is not doomed
but on the increase, according to figures
announced at a recent convention of the
retail harness makers of Iowa. 1t was
found that there are 26,OO0,00O horses in
the United States, one for every four of the
population, and curiously, that the number
of horses has increased in the last ten
years in the very states where the auto
mobiles and tractors have been heaviest.
In 1919 there were 10000 more horses on
the farms than in 1917. The farmer is
using the automobile and the tractor, but
apparently he needs just as many horses
as he ever did, if not more.
The mirror., 1920-08-05
RELATA REFERO
INTERESTING READING AND INFORMATION
GATHERED FROM MANY SOURCES

GATHERED FROM MANY SOURCES
By Scissors
Italian newspapers are now limited to
two pages.
Italy has formulated traffic rules for
aviators.
The paper used in 1919 was 3s,s43 tons
more than was produced.
Not a single Vassar graduate this year
will go into the teaching profession.
"Wherever there is an unfortunate"
writes Lamartine, "God sends dog"
Britain considers her principal competi-
ton to be- the United States, Germany and
Japan.
Few sheepskins were given with
academic degrees this year, the high cost
of skins preventing.
In Soviet Russia every worker carries
a labor booklet which serves him as a
passport within the country.
The East stands for vegetarianism. Hin
docs say they can tell Christians house
by the pigs that are around it.
There are 5000 salmon fishers in San
Francisco who go once a year to Alaska
for the annual pack. Their wages ag-
gregate $6,OoO,OOO.
An Iowa inventor has obtained patent
on unicycle that is driven by an electric
motor and prevented from falling by
Wroscopic fly wheels.
Industrial alcohol is being made from
the waste from the Swedish wood pulp
mills that use the sulphite process, hereto
fore considered worthless.
Like our own leap year, every third
year in China is longer than its predeces-
sors, but the Chinese add whole month,
instead of an extra day.
There are $4,000 teaching vacancies
in the schools of the United States, and
$4,000 positions that have been filled only
by lowering the standards.
One hundred million dollars was saved
the government by one efficiency clerk in
Washington recently. The House voted
him ten thousand dollars.
Six thousand American bald eagles have
been destroyed in Alaska in the last year
and the Government has been asked to
take steps to protect them.
Hogs as garbage disposers are being
brought to the serious attention of big
cities. Dickens noted in 1912 that hogs
kept Broadway clean OF garbage.
A Chinese custom is the throwing into
the sea of thousands of pieces of paper
when friend is about to sail away. Each
piece bears written on it prayer.
In Italy women teachers, school inspec-
tors and employees in the administration
of antiquities and fine arts receive the
same pay as their male colleagues.
Byron indicted fluent and passionate
love verses at the age of ten. Tennyson
wrote charming lyrics at IL, and Milton
wrote epic poems before he was II.
The first manufacture of paper from
linen rags has been attributed to the Moors
of Spain, at dates ranging from before
The mirror., 1920-08-05

Out of every 1880 men, one may be
spared to see his hundredth birthday, while
nearly three out of the same number of
women will complete their century.
Something more than century ago pa
per was so dear in England that butchers
used to give their customers the meat
wrapped up in large vegetable leaf.
Palm sugar, called "jaggery," is OBJ
tanned in India from species of palm
trees. The sweet juice flows from the
top shoot of the tree wheq it is wounded.
All of the European countries are COM
planning of the swarms of spies which are
again active. The spy systems, even of
the defeated countries, are still in opera
ton.
The worlds production of crude petro-
leum in the last 81 years has exceeded
1,000,000,000 metric tons, of which the
United States has yielded more than 81
per cent.
Add to the White and the Red of Rus
sian politics military factions the Green
Guard, which seems to be comprised of
individuals who are disguised with both
factions.
The value of rabbit skins in France has
increased more than ten thousand per cent
during the war. An >undressed and un-
finished rabbit skin is worth more than
two dollars.
George Bernard Shaw was offered
$1,000,000 for the movie rights on his
plays, but found that the British Ameri-
can and New York State taxes on that
sum would amount to $1,7O0,O0O.
The war destroyed all of Belgiums cats.
Mice disappeared too, owing to the scar
city of food. Now, however, mice are ap-
pearing in thousands and hurry call is
being sent to neighboring countries for
cats.
Roger Sullivan was not always what
his political opponents thought he should
be, but he had one pride which he cher
ished-he never broke his word when he
had once given it. But he was not reck-
less in giving it.
In the streets Andalusian women wear
wells instead of hats or caps. These wells
are made of pink or blue flannel
coquettishly thrown back to show the "love
twist" large, thin curl of hair Aattened
against each temple.
1t is noted that in the memorials of the
war, the sculptor is being replaced by the
architect. The cenotaph and the pylon
have captured the Imagination of the null
titudes in a way that statuary figures and
groups could not do.
Documents recently formed in Genoa
show that Colubus' expense in discovering
America was $1,000. The three ships cost
$4,000. Columbus received $500 a year
and his two captains 5000 each. The crew
were paid $3.50 month.
The author of the Nick Carter novels
protests that his famous character never
drank, lied, thought i'll of woman, nor
uttered word that would not be proper
in Sunday School. 1t required three days.
usually, to write one of the "thrillers."
, Great Britain made heavy war loans
as follows: to, Russia, $2,S40, 100000; to
France, $2,352, 500, 900 "a to Italy, $780,
The mirror., 1920-08-05

Out of every 1880 men, one may be
spared to see his hundredth birthday, while
nearly three out of the same number of
women will complete their century.
The mirror., 1920-08-05

In the streets Andalusian women wear
wells instead of hats or caps. These wells
are made of pink or blue flannel,
coquettishly thrown back to show the 1ove
twist" large, thin curl of hair fattened
against each temple.
The mirror., 1920-08-05

Roger Sullivan was not always what
his political opponents thought he should
be, but he had one pride which he cher
ished-he never broke his word when he
had once given it. But he was not reck-
less in giving it.
The mirror., 1920-08-05

The value of rabbit skins in France has
increased more than ten thousand per cent
during the war. An undressed and un-
finished rabbit skin is worth more than
two dollars.
The mirror., 1920-08-05

Something more than century ago pa
per was so dear in England that butchers
used to give their customers the meat
wrapped up in large vegetable leaf.
The mirror., 1920-08-05

George Bernard Shaw was offered
$1,OOO,OOO for the movie rights on his
plays, but found that the British Ameri-
can and New York State taxes on that
sum would amount to $1,700,O0O.
The mirror., 1920-08-05

The war destroyed all of Belgium's cats.
Mice disappeared too owing to the scar
city of food. Now, however, mice are ap-
pearing in thousands and a hurry call is
being sent to neighboring countries for
cats.
The mirror., 1920-08-05

Add to the White and the Red of Rus
sian politics military factions the Green
Guard, which seems to be comprised of
individuals who are disguised with both
factions.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-08-05
NECK BROKEN BY FALL
Deputy Sheriff J. D. Turner
Meets Death by Falling
From Apple Tree.

Wednesday Deputy Sheriff J.
D. Turner, aged 80, whose home
is near Burke, fell from a tree
while gathering apples and struck
on his head in such a manner as
as to break his neck. He lived
but a few minutes and did not
regain consciousness. He leaves
a wife and three small children.
The deceased had been serving
for a year or two as deputy under
Sheriff Garrison. His efforts in
arresting law violators had been
very fruitful, he having appre-
hended quite a number of persons
on minor charges. He also was
member of the posse that arrest
ed Bob Davis a few weeks ago.
He was a cool, courageous officer
and never hesitated to discharge
his duty. In his death his home
community loses a most excellent
citizen and the country is out of
the services of a splendid peace
officer. -Crossville Chronicle.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-08-05
LIFE OR DEATH
c@*-a4s=~=2
By HOWARD N. FULLER
In the New York Sun-Herald

To hope is life. to fear is death.
And life is bissful to the grave,
While towards scent in June's sweet
breath
The noisome odors of the grave.
The hope of life is life in truth,
The fear of death itself is death,
And hope or fear, to age from youth,
Delights or bIights each mortaIs path.
Hope knows no fear. fear knows no hope.
And earth is heaven to those who trust,
While sunless skies shroud those grope
For wisdom in confusion's dust.
Hope is the ever flaming STAR
The orb of life's supernal seat
Blazing the trackless spaces far,
To homeWard guide faiths eager feet.
The craven fool who daily dies
The hero's one triumphant death
Resigns to fear life's only prize.
And barters heaven for breath.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-08-05
MILDNESS is APPROVED
(From the Chicago Tribune)

(From the Chicago Tribune)
The Democratic assertion is
that the United States has betray-
ed its trust. That is Wilson 8
idea. is expressed in the plat
form of the party. 1t holds that
the nation has been dishonored
by it's Senate and will be dishon-
ored by it's people unless it enters
the League as Wilson demands.
Mr.. Harding's refutation of this
conception of American ideals
and tradition is complete and
inspiring and it is without bitter
ness. A great American cannot
consider the Wilsonian program
and statements without bitterness
but Mr.. Harding's defense of the
country is the better, because it
affirms without criticism of the
nations defamers.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-08-05
HOUSEKEEPER
NEEDS The VOTE
Ballot Is Necessary to Protect
the Home Under Changed
Conditions.
WoMAN'S VOICE is NEEDED.

Housekeeping today is not what 1t
used to be.
One hundred years ago our great
grandmothers spun the cloth and
employed the family cobbler for
week at a time, who made shoes for
the year from leather cured and
tanned on the premises. They baked
the bread, churned the butter, cured
the meat, and made the candles; In
short, housed under their roofs all
the activities that ministered to the
necessities and comforts Of the family.
Today all these processes are car
rled on outside of the home. The
shoes are made in factories, the
clothes go through the sweatshops,
the meat Is cured by big companies,
the bread Is made at the bakeries,
and the butter comes from the cream
cries.
Instead of living In houses open on
all sides to the sun, we have the tene-
ment house; instead of water directly
from a we'll or spring, we have piped
water; instead of the simple problem
of letting the small amount of gar
bage decay in the sun, We have the
vast problem of a city's disposal.
All Of these matters Of food, clothes,
housing, water and garbage are sub
ject to legislation. The state has taken
the place of the parents. The question
of regulation Of all Of these matters
so vital to a housekeeper Is one of
collective opinion, expressed by the
ballot.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-08-05
BIC PREMIUMS
FOR TENN. FARMERS

The Tennessee State Fair in
order to encourage better crop
producing and greater yields, has
offered the most liberal premiums
in it's Agricultural and Horticul-
tural Departments of any fair in
the South. First the County
Council of Agriculture, will re-
ceive $500 in prizes - First
Prize $500, Second 5000, Third
S1OO.
Then comes the Community
Club exhibits and the first prize
will be $3.50, second 5000, third
$3.50, fourth $1O0. For every
meritorious exhibit not winners
of a prize, will receive $50.
What better way can be found
to exploit the good qualities of a
community than through the
exhibits at the State Fair.
Last year about twenty-five
communities were represented by
exhibits and this show was best
agricultural display ever witness
ed in the South. Other prizes
run from $50 to$100.
Think of it, there is a prize of
$100 for the best 10 ears of corn,
second prize $50, and the third
prize $25. These prizes are
offered by Chas. E. Buntin, a seed
corn grower of Tennessee.
Again the farmer comes into
his own in the Caldwell Special
Premiums, offered for stuff
right off the farm and profess.
ional exhibitors will not have a
chance to show their animals
in this class. The premiums in
this class are: 5000 first, $500
second. $400 third, $500 fourth.
and 5000 fifth. 400 animals
competed last year and the first
prize went to Rutherford Coun-
try.
The Tennessee State Fair
offers $45, 900 in premiums, and
Tennessee Farmers should win
the bulk of these prizes. Write
J. W. Russwurm, Secretary,
Nashville, for free premium list.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-08-05
ALLEGED MURDER
OF INFANT
Peculiar Circumstances Regard
ing a Birth at Victoria Caus-
es COrOner's Inquest.

No marks of violence were
visible on the body of an infant,
newly born, at Victoria, and a
coroner's jury. summoned Sun
day, were nonplused over a Pc
culiar affair. 1t seems that J. A.
Colston, miner, married a girl
named Moore, of Bledsoe county,
about six weeks ago. He works
at Whitwell and on returning
from work was refused admit
tance to his home. After some
delay he got into the house and
found his wife there and a dead
baby, just born. A Doctors ex-
animation showed that the wom-
an had lust borne the child, but
why it was dead was a mystery
and report spread that it had
been murdered. No marks of
violence were to be seen, and no
verdict of murder was brought
in. This is the woman's second
child, the first being living. Col
ston claims he has been kept in
ignorance Of what was about to
occur.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-08-05
Many B|aCkberries
H Canned in BIedsoe

The Pikeville, Canning Co., I'M
der the manament of S. H.
Blackburn and G. w. Bagwell
has just finished their canning
of the blackberry crop this season
and have ready for market some
thing near $4,000 cans of fine
berries. A majority of these are
already sold to wholesale jobbers
will be shipped as soon as the
work of labelling is finished which
will be inside of a few days.
Heretofore the blackberries of
this section, or most of them,
have been allowed to go to waste
on the vines, but this year the
price of 35c a gallon paid by the
cannerv for this delicious fruit
made the work picking profitable
and hundreds of dollars were paid
out to the men, women and
children of this section which
would have ordinarily have gone
to waste.
The cannery is now getting
ready for the tomato crop aud it
is expected that they will can
more this year than ever before.
This industry in our midst IS a
great advantage to our qeople
and should have evey aid possible
in its advancement. .-Bledsonian,
Pikeville.
After you've convinced man that
he's wrong and you are right he thinks
less of you than be ever did before.
Sherman Burnett is i'll with
malarial fever.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-08-05
Singing School Started.

Rev. A. r. Burnett started a
singing school Tuesday night at
the Baptist church and will run
it ten nights. He has seventeen
enrolledand wants as many more.
He doesn't want any visitors
now, but will give out the night
for visitors to come. We hope
more will come in and join. Give
Brother Burnett a good class to
show to the world we people in
Se1uatchie want to learn all we
can about music. Bro. Burnett
is a first class music teacher.
D. r.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-08-05
MURDERED
IS VERDICT
Tho Shotgun Indi-
Gates Suicide
Complete Mystery
Wells Tragedy

Mrs. r. E. Davis was found
dead in her home east of here
Sunday about l p. M, by her
son, j. L. Dame, who had re-
turned from a trip to So. Pitts
burg. She had been shot and
the gun with which the deed was
committed was lying across her
body. She had two fingers of
left hand around gun barrel, and
the other hand held a small limb
from ounce bush which was
still pushed against the trigger
of the gun. The stick, which
had been broken from a small
. ounce tree in the garden, had a
fork in it, the limbs being sever
ed by a knife.
Mrs. Davis, when last seen,
was in the farm lot the night be-
fore attending to her dairy
duties, and as the cows and
calves were together next
morning in the lot. so it is sup
posed the deed was committed
Saturday night. There were no
tracks around the ounce which
gave a clue as to whether Mrs.
Mrs. Davis got 4. the branch with
design Of self destruction, but it
is the. opinion of many that MUIR
der has.been committed.
OnGscey yering the body of his
mother, Mr. ne Immediately
came to Sequatchie and Coroner
Mccullough was summoned, but
no decision was reached, in de-
fault of evidence.
Mrs. Davis, who has been mar
ried twice, lived with her son. J.
L. Dame, about two miles east
of here, on what is considered
one of the finest farms in Marion
county.
The coroner's jury met at Jas.
per Tuesday morning for further
investigation of the case. A ver-
dict of death from the hands of
some unknown party was brought
in. A Egreat many witnesses
were 'examined before verdict
was rendered. including J. L.
Dame, son of the murdered wom-
an, who spent Saturday night at
So. Pittsburg.
interment of the remains of
Mrs. Davis was made at Sardis
Monday afternoon.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-08-05
VALLEY ITEMS
JASPER, TENN.

The Pikeville Canning Co. can
ned 35, 900 cans of blackberries,
paying 35c a gallon for the ber-
ries.
The Whitwell T. C. |. team de-
feated Palmer II to 6 last week.
The Dunlap Tribune is now 8
pages 5-columns to page.
Mrs. A. D. Smith of Dunlap,
suffered a light stroke of paral-
ysis last week.
Mrs. Sam Brown, formerly of
Dunlap, died at Pratt City, Ala,
July 6. of paralysis.
Miss Sallie Hamilton of Dun
lap underwent a successful oper-
alton for appendicitis in a Chat
tanooga hospital.
The Sequachee Valley Associa-
ton of Missionary Baptists con-
vened with Ebenezer Church,
Bledsoe county, yesterday.
A cable system for telephone
wires at Dunlap is a great i'm
provement.
The public schools of Sequat-
chic county opened Monday.
At the eagle mines near Col
lege the coal ranges from IA to
% ft. in thickness.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-08-05
Try Pecans Grated on Hick-
ory Sap!ings.

The growing of pecans in Tenn
essee has been tested out with
some degree of satisfaction and
profit in some localities and in
others with absolute failure,
doubtless due in large part to the
methods adopted transplanting
and cultivation. The grating
method, it is urged, cansbe used
thkgratifying results, aud is
beipg tried out in section of the
state. |
On his big ranch in Lewis
county which is just being clean
ed up, Henry Arch Moore is
grating pecans on fifty acres of
Hickory saplings. The sue
cessful grating of this favorite
nut on hickory saplings has been
demonstrated. The nuts come
much quicker because abe stock
is already we'll advanced, and the
tree is mnch harder.
Sam G. Deakins, the clever
salesman for J. A. Sloan c.,
of South Pittsburg, was circu-
lating among our merchants first
of the week.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-08-05

Sherman Burnett is i'll with
malarial fever.