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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-06
nnnd Adrica.

Among the most miserable beings
in the world are those suffering from
dyspepsia and liver complaint. More
than seventy-tive per CENT of people
in the United States are afflicted with
these two diseases and their effects,
such as sour stomach, sick headache,
habitual costiveness, palpitation of
the heart, heartburn, waterbrash and
gnawing, burning pains at the pit Of
the stomach, yellow skin and coated
tongue, disagreeable taste in mouth,
coming up Of food after eating, low
spirits, etc. Go to your druggist and
get d bottle of August Flower for Is
or IS cents; two doses will relieve you;
Try it. Sold at Naiiling's Drug Store.
y Try an Exporto cigara at Dahnke's;
AFood sfnOke-rlO Joke.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-06

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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-06

See Walden Woosley and leave
with him an expiration for FIRE in
surance or take an engagement for
talk on life insurance and hear
the New York Lilies many advan-
tages. He can also buy, sell or
rent your property.
Mems fine patent leather vicii
shoes $500 at Fish Bros.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-06

Fish Bros. have moved to the G..
H. Rice stand next to Dahnke's.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-06


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The PRAIRIE FARMER 100 Adams ST., Chicago,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-29
FORCE IN THE LEvANT

While there may be some doubt TO the
necessity of the immediate dispatch of war
ships to the Turkish coast. pending the in
vestigation of the attempt to muir
der the American vice consul at
Beirut, there can be no question
that the incident offers a very oppor-
tune occasion for a much needed display Of
American force among the Mohammedan
inhabitants Of the Levant. 1t has been
hundred years since the American navy
taught a very sharp lesson to the pirate
rulers and people of the Barbary coast, and,
though that lesson was of great value, not
only to Americans but Europeans well.
throughout all the Mohammedan countries
bordering the Mediterranean. time has
worn it TO a faint tradition. and to the
modern Mohammedan mind America means
nothing but the home of a few weak mis-
sionaries and occasional tourists, and a
land where gold is plenty and force is I'M
known-and force is the only thing they
respect.
How much of this same impression has
been inculcated in the minds of Turkish
sONeTHnntnt OInclalS VINO ought 10 KNOW
better by the long dillydallying over the
missionary claims in Armenia and by the
supine submission to the kidnapping of Miss
Stone and payment of ransom for her re-
lease it is impossible to say but it is good
TO know that there will be no trifiing over
the present case. 1t is not merely the Turk
ish government. but the whole Mohamme-
dan people that need to be taught that the
| United States Of America is very live in
| stitution, with an arm as strong and as
| long as that Of any government in Europe.
| Scarcely an American missionary or Ameri-
| can traveller returns from the Levant that
| does not bring back reports to the effect
that American citizenship gives them no
| protection whatever there and for this rea-
! son Americans in the Turks dominons are
| glad to be mistaken for Englishmen.
| A week ago Russia taught the world that
/ it was possible for the Turkish government
to move with alacrity. America has the
| same ground for action, and is pursuing a
similar course. The prompt appearance OF
American warships at Beirut will probably
not merely force a quick settlement of the
| present trouble, but will command respect
for American interests for some decades In
the future.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-29
JUSTICE TO THE NEGRO.

A point frequently made by Booker T.
question, is that the negroes should be
judged according to their best individual
specimens and not according to their worst.
Perhaps this is asking too much, for no
race is altogether as good as its best speci-
mems any more than 1t is altogether as bad
as we'll as of the black. The white race
would be in hard lines if it had to be
judged according to its criminals of all
grades who fill the penitentiaries to over
flowing, and who are more numerous out
side of prison walls than they are within;
according to its petty thieves, it's wife
whippers, its keepers of winerooms and
barrel-houses. it's loafers. tramps and de-
generates. All these are part of the white
mans burden. and they pull the average
merit mark Of the race long way below
the top. The white race would be in hard
lines indeed if it were judged by such
specimens instead of by it's men of high
ideals who are making their mark in the
world. and by the host of those who are
living honest lives and acting the part Of
good citizens without making any noise
about 1t. The colored race also has its
proportion of these. and it has a right to
ask that they be counted before making
up verdict ON the race. Neither race has
monolopy on pure characters. A few
days ago a Massachusetts, man bequeathed
5000 to a colored soldier who. stranger
to him, bound up his wounds and carried
him of a battlefield during the civil wa,
at the imminent risk of his own life, with
out a thought of reward other than the
| consciousness Of rendering service. Tn,
day before yesterday there died In Louis
Vile an old negro. once a slave, and theI
a soldier. who by close economy had saved
| a few hundred dollars out of his pension
/ money, all of which, in the absence of le
| gal heirs, he willed to little girl who's,
| father had befriended him. White men d,
| not do finer acts than these. Such act
| by negroes are not uncommon, and, lik
| the business successes of individual ne
groes, they are a fair set-off against tn,
| crimes of the worst specimens of the race
| Negroes are Eot all criminals any NOR
| than white men are all saints
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-29
VICE CONSUL NOT HARMED.
CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE1

CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE)
Presidents home in time for luncheon. Dur
ing the greater part of the afternoon he
was in conference with the President. He
left Sycamore Hill for Washington to-
night.
AT IL o'clock tonight telegram was
received by Secretary Loeb from acting
Secretary of State Loomis at Washington,
communicating the text of a cablegram
from Minister Leshman at Constantinople
confirming the Associated Press report of
the inaccuracy of the report of Consul Ma
gelssens assassination. As soon as the
message from the department was deci-
phered Secretary Loeb communicated its
contents to the president by telephone. The
text of Minister Leishmans cablegram is
not made public here.
1t can be said to be the purpose of Presi-
dent Roosevelt to afford American citizens
In the disturbed provinces of Turkey all the
protection possible. For that reason and
for others which may develop in a short
time, the decision is reached that no
change will be made at this time in the or
ders to the European squadron. Admiral
Cotton will proceed with his vessels to
Turkish waters with the idea of safeguard
ing fully Americans and American in
terestS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-29
CORPORATE REGULATION.

The National Bar Association comes in a
bit late with its suggestions of remedies
for the tendency toward industrial combi-
taxed out OF existence, nor is it striking
discovery that the state can enter the field.
We have taxed State bank circulation out
of existence and We have talked about
socialism for the better part of a century.
The one other remedy. that of compelling
is the direction legislation began to take
long ago. when State legislatures began to
regulate railroad rates. when Congress
enacted the interstate-commerce law and
cities began to regulate prices for gas and
street-car fares. Out of the whole report
of the Bar Association committee there
does not appear to come nearly as much
plain common sense as is contained in the
legislation suggested by President Roose-
Welt and enacted at the last session Of
Congress.
Some of the evils OF the big combinations
have a disposition TO cure themselves, and
that right quickly. The overcapitalization
of the Steel Corporation and OF most of the
other trusts exists on paper. but not in the
market value of their securities. When the
government machinery is in working order
to furnish the public with proper reports
OF their business 1t will be no more posi-
BILE to fool the public about their capital
ization than il Is now with banks and in
surance companies. In transportation and
other quasi-public service 1t is possible to
create monopoly. but that very posi-
bility carries with 1t the unquestioned right
of the people. through their regularly con-
stituted authorities. TO regulate prices for
this class OF service and to regulate the
character or service. In manufacturing
the only monopoly possible is through pat
ents or secret processes or control of nat
ural resources All the big manufacturing
] combinations have independent competition
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-29
PLANS AT WASHINGTON.


WASHINGTON, Aug. 2s.-The main fea-
ture that developed to-day in the
case OF Vice Consul Magelssen at
Beirut, Syria, was that the United States
intended promptly to enforce it's demands
This country will go to considerable ex-
tremes TO have the assailants of one Of it's
officers punished and will hold the Turkish
government TO strict accountability. Before
the announcement of the vice consul's
escape, 1t was said that IL was
necessary to enforce the demands of
this government Rear Admiral Cotton would
pe instructed TO seize and occupy some
port of Turkey on the Mediterranean. In
that event Minister Leishman. 1t was said
would turn his affairs over 10 the care OF the
British minister and would leave Turkey
These extreme measures, of course, were
contingent on a showing that the Turkish
government had not moved promptly or
that 1t is secretly encouraging acts like
that of Sunday In order TO discourage the
work OF American missionaries In the Turk
ish dominion. The demonstration already
made by ordering the European squadron
10 Turkish waters and the emphatic de-
mands made on the Turkish government
through Minister Leishman, IL is believed
will render unnecessary any resort TO ex-
treme measures
Acting Secretary of State Loomis to-day
sent a cablegTam 10 Consul Thomas III.
Norton at Harpoot. asking for information
concerning the outrages attempted and the
threatened danger 70 American life and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-29

and when there is plenty of business in the
siderably the best of 1t in the matter of
the percentage earned on investment.
1t is gradually dawning on business men
in America that, be the business great or
small. the personal element in the manage
ment is still the dominating factor that
makes for success or failure. The most
striking industrial successes the world has
known are the Standard Oil Company and
the Carnegie Steel Company, before the
latter was merged in United States Steel.
John d. Rockefeller has proven himself
the most remarkable organizer the bust
ness world has known, not merely in his
remarkable judgment of the capabilities of
men, but also in his ability to understand
both broadly and infinitely all the ramifi-
cations and details of the particular BUSH
was Andrew Carnegie in his grasp on the
steel and iron business. One may say 1t was
Frick or it was this, that or the other man
that made Carnegie's fortune, but the fact
is that Carnegie was bright enough to find
these men and gather them about him.
Hill in railroads, Havemeyer in sugar. Nor
gan in banking, and numerous other figures
may be mentioned OF men whose intel
lectual force and energy have built up
enormous business fabrics.
Not even in railroads, much less in manu-
featuring corporations. has it been demon
strated that the form of organization itself
Is the thing that makes the success. There
are obvious advantages to be gained by
combination-in theory-but in practice the
failures have been more numerous than the
successes. The people are with all due
haste undertaking to so regulate the sur
viving corporations as to compel better
service at cheaper rates, and it is worthy Of
note that a general rule it is those COM
binations that attain this end without COM
pulsion that survive
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-29
THE VICE CONSUL.
william c. MageIssen Was Appointed
by President Mckinley.

LA CROSSE. WIS. Aug. 2S.--william c.
Magelssen. the American vice consul at
Beirut, has father. Rev. Christian
Magelssen, and mother. of Highland Prai-
RE. MINI. and three brothers. Rev. III. O..
Magelssen., of La Crosse; L. u. Magelssen.
a grocer at Vermilion. S. D.. and y. s
Magelssen. theological student. There are
two sisters, Mrs. b. G.. Ravendal, wife OF
the consul at Beirut, and Miss Catherine
Magelssen. who lives at home.
w. G. Magelssen was born in Bratsburg.
Mimi. Oct. 70. 1915. He was educated in the
Lutheran College at DEBORAH, Ia After re-
naming there several years he went TO
Sioux Falls. s. D., where he edited the
South Dakota Echo for three years After
ward he returned TO the Lutheran College
and finished MS course. He was appointed
vice consul at Beirut. Syria, by President
Mckinley. He was vice consul 10 his
brother-in-law, Il. G.. Ravndai. Recently he
received word from United States Senator
Nelson that he would probably be trans
ferred to some other post and promoted.
according TO the tidinss in mis-. last letter
home
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-29
MAGELssEN COURAGEOUS.
Tribute to the Vice Consul from
Chancellor McCracken.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2S.-In the large Assy-
rain colony of this city the report of the as
sassination OF Magelssen. vice consul at
Beirut, Syria, caused much comment. II
was believed that he had either fallen a
victim TO the fanatical hatred of Mussul-
man for a Christian or because of his eff
cient and earnest labors in behalf of his
country and countrymen.
Chancellor MacCracken. OF New York
University, who has just returned from
Beirut, where he visited his sick son, started
home about July Is. He said concerning
the reported assassination: 1.-The muir
dered vice consul was prompt. intelligent
and able In the transaction OF business.
The American consulate under his chief and
himself easily hold the first place IN reputa-
ton among the foreign consulates at Beirut.
The Syrian Protestant college. which ex-
lists under board OF trustees chartered by
the State Of New York. found the vice
consul a helpful friend. He promoted zeal
ously a field day held this year, and helped
10 secure the attendance OF the Governor
OF Lebanon. who came with full staff and
a military band playing American national
airs. Magelssens courage In pursuing GRIM
inals probably caused the assassination.
Old residents OF Beirut had assured him
that for Christians to appear " court
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-29

The resolutions of the Evangelical Luth-
eran ministers criticisiag the President and
secretary of state for sending a message
Of coincidence on the death of Pope Leo
show the narrowest possible view of the
case The idea that such a message sent
20 the papaI secretary of state was recog-
milton Of the temporal power of the Pope
and q violation Of the spirit OF the Constitu-
ton Of the United States. will strike SEN
stbie laymen as very absurd To make
their action more ridiculous and impert-
inent the Ministers Association sent copy
Of the resolution to the President. 1t will
probably evoke reply that will show the
ministers that the President understands
the proprieties Of his office better than
they do.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-29

The New South Wales government has
decided to call for tenders from manufac-
turers at home and abroad for the man
ufacture locally OF sixty to 100 railroad To-
comotives. estimated to cost 81, $4,000. -Four
or five years will be allowed for the COM
pletion of the work.
Everything indicates that the total indus
trial dividend disbursements in September
will be smaller than for previous months
this year, the declarations thus far an
nounced amounting to only sl5.457.5n This
compares with $l7,90O.000 in August, and
s31 2s3. 400 in March. the high-water mark
for the year.
A petition in bankruptcy has been fled
at New York against the American Finance
Wyoming and Ohio. II is said the claims
of the latter will aggregate 500 600. The
concern closed its offices month ago. Al
fred r. Goslin, said 10 have been promoter
of the business. is reported to be in Europe.
Carl Rudolph Schultz. twenty-seven years
old, has been elected president Of the
Equitable National Bank. of New York. He
is the youngest president OF national
one In the United States. Schultz was
graduated from Yale at twenty-one. His
wife was Miss Shields, OF Canton, o., niece
of Judge Day.
foundland station has protested against
the building by an American mining COM
pany OF shipping pier at York harbor on
the French shore, where the company is
claim that the pier is an infringement Of
their fishery rights. The matter promises
an international difficulty, as the American
company threatens To appeal TO Washington
II work on the pier is stopped
Application for a receiver for the Hamp-
ton Roads Railroad and Electric Company
was made to-day in the Federal Court at
Norfolk by John q. Powell AZ Brothers. or
Philadelphia, principal stockholders. The
court appointed r. /. A. Mason. OF Hamp-
ton, 10 take charge OF the company's affairs.
He will give bond and assume control to-
morrow. IL IS alleged that the company IL
insolvent. Numerous small creditors have
pressed the corporation for several months
past.
In a speech before the Relief Fund Asso-
citation of the Pittsburg Coal Company q
employees Friday Francis l.. Robbins. presi-
dent of the company. told the delegates 10
control of the company. He said: There
has been no change whatever. nor Is any
contemplated. In the ownership OF the Pitts
burg Coal Company. There has been and
will! be no change IN officers employees OF
the company. and every official and every
empioye Is assured OF his position so long
as he does his duty
The Pittsburg Coal Company has Just
closed deal for the purchase OF all the
coal land holdings OF Henry w. Oliver. ex-
cept those in the Bfine Coal Company,
Shallenberger Coal Company and the Sec
ond pool coal company for sum approx
imating Sl.000,ooo The tract comprises
about 400 acres and the purchase gives the
combine practically all of the Pittsburg coal
the Pittsburg Terminal Railroad and Coal
Company The tract lies near Ffuleyville
on the Wheeling division OF the Ba1timore
a. Ohio.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-29
They worked OverhOurs.
New York Commercial.

Forty bricklayers are working overtime
to complete a house in Astoria for a fell
low member OF their local union in New
York. The popular member is John Bart
lev father of eleven children. He found
IL impossible TO rent a fiat In Manhattan
owing to the aversion of landlords TO large
families. At the suggestion of his friends.
he bought a lot and the building material
and his friends are giving their time on
Saturday afternoons TO construct the house
free OF cost to Barley Labor unions have
their good points as wei! as bad, but why
does the walking delegate allow these men
TO work overtime and throw other good
union hricklayers out of job?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-29

LACROSSE, Wis, Aug. 2S.-News that
Vice Consul Magelssen was alive and I'M
injured was conveyed to the family Of the
vice consuls brother, the Rev. H. G. Ma
gelssen, in tins city tonight, and to the
parents Of the vice consul at Highland
Prairie, Mimi. Mrs. H. @. Magelssen had
refused to believe the reports of her broth
er-in-laws death from the first, and was
rejoiced to learn that her belief had been
verified. THAT is just what / thought"
she said when told the news.
Arrangements will be made for a family
reunion and services of thanksgiving prob
ably will be held in the Norwegian Luth-
eran Church here and in the church at
Highland Prairie, Mimi.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-29

Sir Thomas Upton talks like very man
~ man concerning his defeat in the yacht
races and his bitter disappointment at the
result. His tribute to the superiority OF
frank. and probably he would have in
Guided American yacht sailors also but
for fear of offending those on the Sham
rock. Sir Thomas has shown himself
game" but he probably knows when he
has got enough.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-29

The country will not take kindly to Gen.
Niless view that the cavalry branch of the
military service has become practically OBJ
solsfe. There may be and probably is a
field for the future use of bicycles and au-
tomobiles In military operations. but the
idea that they can take the place of cavalry
seems absurd Cen Miles himself shows
the absurdity OF II when he suggests the
construction OF good military roads for their
operation. Bicycles and automobiles
might do well enough as a means OF loco
motion on good roads. but they would hardly
SERVE for scouting In rough country. for
breaking enemy's line by laundering
charge. or for snatching victory from de-
feat as Sheridan did at Winchester. A
cavalryman can not only take his horse
ever rough places. but he can manage hin,
With one hand while he uses a revolver with
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-29

The report of the committee of the Amer
lean Bar Association on the trust question
was not In keeping with the Importance Of
the subject or the dignity of the associa-
the question. and was chiefly remarkable
for its bad temper and Populistic ideas.
Whoever wrote the report was evidently
more DESTROYS of rhetorical effect than of
contributing anything valuable to the dis
cussion OF the subject.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-29

In view OF the past record of the Mace
DOMAIN committee It is not violent suppo-
OF the United States vice consul
at Beirut was due to its machin-
ations. The committee has engaged in many
desperate undertakings and shown itself
capable of almost anything calculated to
precipitate trouble. A few weeks ago 1t
expressed the opinion that American news
papers had been bought with Turkish gold
and intimated that a way would yet be
found TO bring about armed intervention
~ the great powers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-29

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YoRK-Astor House.
CHTCAGO-Palrner House. Auditorium Anrex
Hotel. Dearborn Station News Stand
CINCINNATI--J. r. Hawley & Co.. Arcade.
Grand Hotel
LOUIsvILLE-C. T. Deering northwest corner
OF Third and jefferson streets, and Bluefeld
Bros. AZ West Market street.
II. LoUIs-Union News Company. Union Depot.
WASHINGTON. D. C.-Riggs House. Ebbitt
House. Fairfax Hotel. Willard Hotel
DENVER. CoI.-Louthain & jackson. Fifteenth
and Lawrence streets. and A. Smith, 1861
Shampa street.
street.
COLUMBUS. o.-viaduct News Stand. $50 High
street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-29

the other. What could a bicyclist or an
automobiIist do? If General Miles and
commanded a force of automobiles instead
Of cavalry he would not have won the fame
he did in his Indian campaigns.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-29

NEW YORK, Aug. 2s.-In response to a
telegram of inquiry regarding the reported
assassination of Vice Consul Magelessen at
Beirut, Syria, Mr.. Freyer, treasurer of the
board of the Presbyterian Mission at
Beirut, has cabled to the Associated Press
as follows:
Beirut, Syria, Aug. 2S-Although the at
tack made on Vice Consul Magelssen
was evidently premeditated, the bullets
missed him and he escaped uninjured.
"FREYER