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New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-11-14
NOTICE..

The following described bull has been
on my place for several years branded
about thus: 8 F brindle, seven or eight
years old II same is not claimed by
owner it will be sold at auction according
to law ON Saturday, November 2lst, 1903
ALBERT LANDRY,
New iberia La
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-11-14
Lot for Sale on Easy Terms.

Lot situated on Weeks Street sixty feet
front by enc hundred feet in depth we'll
drained Price 100000, $4,000 cash and
balance payable in l, 2, 3, 4, and years
with 81 interest. For further particulars,
apply to CHAS. L. PROVOST.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-11-14
FOR RENT.

The Carrie or jefferson Tract, contain
366 arpents, situated on the lower limits
of New Iberia, suitable for Rice, Corn,
Cane or Cotton. Address f. F. MYLES.
Now Orleans La
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13

Have you ever tried Sunshine
-four? Try it.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13

creation never fails to excite curl,
osity. al chair it is, like unto Q
baby's dining ehair-a precise
counterpart, but big enough for
G Hath eesf CULVER. Grand Mas
ter Smith Of Tennessee. could easily
slide into its capacious rominess
provided he could get up high
enough. Built by Martin Dicker-
son, in Sumner county, before
1880. it has come down, through
the family of Henrietta Dickerson,
wife of Uncle Jerry, to this day.
Ii is built of solid hickory and
bottomed with the bark. The
bones Of its worker are ashes long
ago. Older than the Government
of the United States, its coat OF
dark green paint looks fresh and
intact to. day, though no repairing
has ever been done. This strange
article was used as sort OF pulpit
and Bible stand for the circuit
rider. There being no churches
in the country then, he preached
at private houses, and thus the
chair was made to serve the trip
pie purpose of pulpit, chief seat
of honor and family altar. Its
very age makes it venerable, but
the memories that cling about it,
the sacred associations connected
with it, make it too sacred for
but to hold the family
Bible, for which purpose it is now
used. A. l.. PARRISH.
BY request
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13

A REMARKABLE HEIRLOOM.

Always we find a charming in
terest in the things of days long
ago the old times, when the
world went slower, but when even
commonplace things were inherent
with life and novelty, that kept
even the old eyes bright and the
old steps light. Many old heir
looms in moldy garrets tell strange
tales to him who hath the ears to
hear-tales of daring, of doing,
and sometimes, too, of tragedy,
but ever of a dauntless will and
courage, for ''there we're giants in
those days." men of mighty hearts
to dare and mighty hands to do.
1t must have been easy to be brave
and strong then. Time and cir
cumstance demanded it. No time
nor taste for idle ease, but every
one walked with stern resolution,
as with staff of life. That was
the only wand to exercise the giant
dangers of those days.
Everybody knows the strange
history of the rise of Methodism,
and how it broke the moral turpi-
tude that shrouded the earth like
an ancient ice sheet. And some
know with what sacrifice, courage,
zeal and faithfulness it was liter
ally carried to "the uttermost
parts of EARTH" over into ''the
Pennsylvania country"-to Ten
nessee and Kentucky, by as brave
men as ever lived.
In the home of "Uncle Jerry
CIoar" at Crystal is memento of
hat time-a curiosity. This queer
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13
MT PELIA


! Mrs. u E. Fnzzellis visiting her
people at Huntingdon.
| Listen for the wedding bells, FOL
they are going to ring soon.
Mrs. DR.. GoldsbY has been I'll for
several days, but is convalescent
Mrs. William Ship is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. A. NJ. Stoyall.
Miss MAJ billiard is back from a
few days visit to friends at Sharon.
School is progressing nicely, the
attendance being better than ever
before.
Ask Floys Carter and Lon Tan
ner If they have found their horses
and buggies.
Mrs. Bowers, mother of ]. X.
Bowers, fell from doorstep last
week and dislocated hip.
Mrs. Geo. Taylor attended the
wedding reception of her nephew,
Billy Taylor, at his mothers home
last Sunday.
We are sorry to see these rains,
on account of some of the farmers
not having all their corn gathered.
Carl Joyner, Misses Bridge Hill
lard and Kate Bradbury were the
guests of Miss Flora Stovall last
Sunday afternoon.
Miss Anna Stovall has returned
home from several months visit to
friends and relatives. Miss Vera
Stovall was with her.
Prof. Roy Buffers school having
closed last Friday, he entered the
teachers training school at the II.
M. I. at Martin last Monday.
DIR. and Mrs. Goldsby entertained
number Of their friends last Mon
day evening. Finch and other
games were INDUCED in till late
hour, when refreshments were serv-
ed; after which all left for home.
having spent a very pleasant time.
Messrs. Brock and Simmons, and
Misses Leila Kemp and Ada Patter-
son were the guests of Mrs. Patter-
son Saturday and Sunday. Mr..
Brock and Miss Patterson were
married Sunday afternoon and left
Monday morning for Sharon, their
future home.
ZIP
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13

The proposition made by Messrs.
Dahnke, Hardy and other Union
City business men to build and
equip large cotton gin here has
stimulated considerable favorable
comment and investigation of the
subject by the farmers and citizens
of the country hereabout. Our
contemporary, the News Banner,
has been led to remark that "the
two Georges, Hardy and Dahnke,
who are to Union City what Ham
ilton and Jefferson were to our
young Republic; what Cato Davis
is to Number Two, or John White
is to Number Five; what inspira
ton is to action" ETC., etc., have
arranged to put up fine gin with
modern equipments in our corpor-
ate limits. The News Banner al
ways has an eye to important
events, praiseworthY objects, and
this is one of more interest to our
people than many others which
have lately been observed. TAX
ing the current prices of corn and
wheat crops as a basis it is calcu-
lated that cotton will bring bet
ter profit and more ready money
than either of the other crops.
These gentlemen are strictly in
earnest and are anxious and ready
to enter into an agreement where
by the proposition may be fulfilled.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13

BILDAD, THE SHUTTLE.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13
FOR A SOUTHERN MAN.

We most heartily agree with
Senator Ledgerwood when he says
the South can furnish Just as strong
and brainy men for the Presidency
as the far North or the effete East.
In the Senate last Monday Sena
tor Ledgerwood offered a resolu-
ton, which will come up later, de-
claring it to be the sense of the
Senate that when the next Demo
cratic national convention meets
the delegates from this state shall
insist upon representative upon
the national ticket. The resolu
ton sets forth the fact that the
South has long silently submitted
to the leaders of the North, but
there has now come a time when
the South should be represented,
and pointing out the fact that this
section can furnish men just as
able as those from the North or
other sections.
Speaker Seay said there was
doubt in his mind as to whether
such resolution would be in order,
and he asked Mr.. Ledgerwood to
address himself to this point when
the resolution came up for action.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13
TROY ITEMS.

Rev. D. T. Waynick is in Mem
phis.
Mrs. Fitz Smith visited your city
Friday.
Dick Bumpass, of Crystal, was in
town Friday.
Mrs. Sue Reeves, of your city, is
visiting relatives here.
Mrs. Sam Parker, of Hickman, is
visiting Mrs. L. A. Smith.
Mr.. Bruce Caskey and family Wis
tied Mrs. Margaret Baker Sunday.
Miss Josie Fowlkes, of Hickman,
is the guest of her sister, Mrs. l.
A. Smith.
Robt. Mel and family have re-
turned home, after visiting relatives
in Middle Tennessee.
Mrs. Furgerson, of Memphis, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Margaret
Baker, who is quite sick.
Mrs. Carr and Miss Spear, who
have been visiting Mrs. c. l.. Mof-
fatt, have returned to their home
at Nashville.
BILDAD, THE SHUHITE,
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13
NUMBER SEVEN.

George Wright went to Rector,
Ark, last week.
Wheat has improved wonderfully
in the last few days.
Jubc Crittendon spent Saturday
night with Bert Clement.
Miss Mandie HALEY, of Gleason,
is visiting Miss Edna Conn.
VIM. Taylor, of Martin, visited
his mother here last Sunday.
Master Bob Jackson has been
very sick, but is some better.
Caut Jackson spent few days in
No. 7 this week. Come again.
Ores Terrell, OF Terrell, visited
Floys Carter last Saturday night.
H. A. Vann and Lois Spikes Wis
tied friends at Moffat last Sunday.
Miss Lizzie Wright is seriously
sick at the residence of A. F. Wick
les.
EN- Jackson, our efficient deputy
sheriff, was in your city on business
last Monday.
Walter Choate, of Newbern, Wis
tied H. A. Vann and family last
Saturday night.
Bud Barbee, of Arkansas, return
ed to his home Sunday, after visit
ing his brother RUDE.
Herbert Stovall, Rives' handsome
deputy postmaster, visited his fa-
Their, Esq. Stovall, last Sunday.
D. H. Frizzell and wife went to
Clinton last Wednesday to visit the
latter's father, Rev Dave Rozelle.
County Court Clerk Howard and
wife visited James Stone and wife
Saturday night, returning Sunday
morning.
The good people of this district
are rejoicing over the prospect Of
getting rid of the saloons at an
early date.
Married, Sunday evening, by Esq.
Stovall, Ben Buck and Miss Ida
Pethrow, of Weakley county. A
runaway affair.
L. Poiner and A. A. Vaughn
went to Fulton last Friday to at
tend Primitive Baptist meeting.
They report good meeting.
Rev. P. F. Johnson, of Rives,
preached very able and interest
ing sermon last Sunday on "Per-
sonal Labor or Work in the Church. 7"
Miss Eunice Jackson, of your
city, visited Misses Latina and
Vesta Davis last Saturday night.
The evening was spent in playing
finch.
Brock Hogan reports very mys-
terious 'prowler" at his house last
Thursday night. Lee Vaughn YER
ifes Breck's statement, for he saw
the track next morning, which look
ed about the size of No. lis. Come,
"Prowler, get in the band wagon
and do not stay behind the times
with your old-fogy ideas. / would
not be back number. "Uncle
Bildad" has deserted you and been
convinced of his error, and think
if you will take s'John Barleycorn's"
advice you will get better and come
in on the right side of the fence.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13
Remarkable Onsr.

For So. so we can send you The
Commercial, Obion County's best
paper, aud The Nashville Daily
News one year. If you are now a
to The Commercial and
desire to do so you can get The
News one yearfor $3.50. Address
The Commercial,
Union City, Tenn.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13

Walden Woosley, the man-at-the-
desk for Parks, Turner & Caldwell,
can write you up now in the New
York Life, which assures you be-
.yond doubt the best policy that can
be procured, and you are free from
the many agents who can usually
dissatisfy you with whatever policy
you may have. They don't attack
the New York Life.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13

The Modern Hair Reviewer is
standard hair and scalp remedy.
Try it for gray hair. Try It for
that bald spot on the top OF your
head. Folks.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13
STATE LINE.

An entertainment was given at
the home of Mr.. Will Bruce. near
State Line, last week, and was
highly enjoyed by the young folks.
Those present were:
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13
You Know what You Are Taxing

When you take Groves Tasteless Chill
Tonic because the formula is plainly
printed on every bottle showing that
1t is simply iron and quinine In a
JaSteless form. Nocure, no pay. Soc.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13

Impossible to foresee an accident.
Not impossible to be prepared for it,
DR.. Thomas Electric Oil. Monarch
over pain.
For sale at Moss Pharmacy.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13

See Parks. Turner and Caldwell
for any kind of a deal in real estate.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-02-13

Our wagon passes your door every
day; or phone 100 for bread, cakes,
fruits and everything good to eat.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-02-19
st. Paul Pioneer Press.

The supremacy of the st. Paul
Pioneer Press among the newspa-
pers of the Northwest has become an
unquestioned fact. By glorious
career of honest, public spirited
right-doing and strong-saying, it
has gathered under its standard
the best people in almost every
community in these great states,
and the loyalty of it's readers can
not be weakened by all the alluring
circulation Establishments of other
newspapers. The number of its
readers is daily on the increase,
and none of the premium PROPOSE
tions of coaxing competitors seem
capable of winning any Of them
away. And no wonder. There
are many reasons why the Pioneer
Press has the largest paid circula-
ton of any morning newspaper
published in the Northwest. 1t
has all the virtues of age and none
of the vices of youth. It's editori-
ais emanate from master minds;
it's news features are comprehen-
sive, accurate and complete; its
market page is the standard au-
thority throughout this section of
the country, and those who direct
the interests of the paper have
devoted their lives to the study of
the political, domestic and in
dustrial pursuits of the people. It
is a home aper,-written for
family reading, uplifting in its
tone, ennobling in its energies
and modest in it's avoidance of the
sensational yellowism to which
modern journalism is 80 prone. It
tells what it knows to be true, or
tells nothing, mo lies, no exag-
gerations. .
The price of this genuine news
paper, worthy Of your wife's, your
daughters or your own reading, is
neither more nor less than some
Of the sheets which You some
times are persuaded to permit in
your, home. Make the Pioneer
Press an institution in your fami-
u; it belongs there. Adv.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-02-19
When Mr.. Shakespeare
Came to Town.

Kittles was yet in an embryo
state. It's population. drawn from
all portions of the country, had
been augmented by two thousand
souls in less than a year. Social
lines had not been drawn very
closely; yet the germ of future
society" was there, waiting the
time in which it would expand
into clique, the future -Four
Hundred.
Kittles was still new, but some
of its roughness had worn off. The
Waldorf hotel was enforcing the
rule that guests must remove their
spurs before retiring and gun
play was going out of fashion.
This improvement in tone was
becoming quite marked at the
time of the great fire, and when
the task of rebuilding was COM
menced there was clamor from
some of the more recent arrivals
for an opera house.
One of the optimistic real estate
boomers was enabled to crafty
this wish by some ingenious ar
rangement with a susceptible
eastern loan company, and q snowy
red brick opera house was run up
with the other red brick structures
which were to make Kittles q
place to be looked at with envy
by the neighboring towns. They
had not enjoyed the distinction
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-02-19
che Grab Chat Elves On Cand.

Crabs live not only in the sea.
They swarm in every brook and
river, and they even live on dry
land.
There is one crab that would
die if you threw him into the
water. He would he drowned.
He is called the land crab. He
likes to live in the shadow of some
damp, dark forest. The forest will
often be great way from the sea,
but he does not care about that.
He hides himself in hole and
lies there as snug as possible.
When it is getting dusk, he comes
out of his hole and runs about a
little, very likely to catch some-
thing for supper.
Nature has provided in very
ingenious manner for the wants
of these land crabs. I must tell
you that the gills, or breathing
apparatus, of the crab lie in the
center of the body and look like
a number Of loose fringes.
It is necessary to the creatures
health that these gills be kept
damp.
But as the crab will often 60 on
a journey, for crabs are great
travellers, how is it to be done?
A number of little sacks, like
water bags, are placed under the
gills. Before the crab sets off. he
takes in water by filing his sacks,
just as an engine might do.
As he goes along the dusty road
drops Of water keep falling out
of the sacks on to his gills, and
keep them moist, SO that he does
not suffer either from heat or dry
ness.7TMary Kirby in Pittsburg
Dispatch.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-02-19
UNMASkED.

'<Oe~eseseSeOecSeseseseses ~S<r<<>SsSSSScSS-
In support Of my own views and
for the benefit of those who may
have been influenced by Penden-
mis- and his truculent pen, [ sub
nit herewith the opinion of ex-
Senator George +. Edmunds, no
higher authority than whom ex-
lists, and given in response to a
request from the editor of Leslie's
Weekly. He says:
"The only difficulty with the bill we
reported and which became law was
the want of administration that is to
say, that the law was and is entirely
capable of putting an end to such So
called trusts and such combinations as
interfere with or restrain commerce
among the States, and 80 forth, if the
officers of the Government having
charge of the enforcement of law un-
derstand their duty and are willing to
do it being, of course, supplied with
sufficient means to put it into force.
"What is needed is not SO much
more legislation, as competent and
earnest administration of the laws
that exist. I have no doubt that the
present Attorney General and his very
able Assistant will find easy means, IT
supplied with the necessary funds, to
arrest the progress and undo the mis-
chievious work of such great and in
furious combinations as have so large
ly come into recent existence"
Also the concluding paragraph
of an editorial on the subject from
the same paper:
"The people of the United States
have such high respect for the opinion
and character of Senator Edmunds
that they will very generally believe
what he says on this important ques-
ton. His letter reveals the tremen-
dous influence which the most power
full corporations have welded, not only
in our State legislatures, in executive
chambers and in the halls of Congress,
but also in the highest departments of
the Federal Government, including
the judiciary itself. The question the
people are asking now is, how far
reaching are these influences today?
elf Senator Edmunds is right, and
we believe he is, the President and the
Attorney General can more speedily
suppress and regulate all law-defying
trusts by the vigorous administration
of existing statutes than by suggesting
more drastic and still more expert
mental legislation to Congress that is
apparently in no mood and, perhaps, in
no condition to legislate on a subject
of paramount interest to the Ameri-
can people"
Congress has already placed
100000 at the disposal of Mr..
Knox and the question is, Why
doesn't he do something? G.. S.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-02-19

narcotized and would die if the
country people, who are we'll &C
quainted with the circumstances,
did not bring him to we'll OF
stream and empty pitcher after
pitcher of water on his face and
body.-Ex.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-02-19
che Poisonous Poypy.

In Turkey if q man falls asleep
in the neighborhood of q poppy
field and the wind blows from the.
field toward him, he becomes
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-02-19

with q subsequent settlement with
insurance companies, and chance
to rebuild upon borrowed money.
By the time the opera house
was completed, social lines had
begun to tighten and the question
of who we're eligible had been set
tiled by the doctors wife and
bankers daughter, and the names
of all who had been admitted to
the "Set" were quite generally
known, even to the most lowly of
those whose names did not appear
| in the blue book. We will give
Kittles credit for the fact that
they did not care very much, as
snobs and snobbery are not bowed
to in the west.
Scottie was eligible and the
Four Hundred were about to open
their arms to him when it was
learned that he had applied for q
position as usher in the new opera
house. He was promptly dropped,
after being half way accepted, and
the upper ten in Kittles are sorry
to this day.
The opera house was to be
Opened by company from Port
land, which was playing Richard
III. throughout the west, and the
upper ten of Kittles were to at
tend. It was to be their first ap-
pearance as "set." Two rows of
seats we're engaged respectable
distance from the stage, and ru-
mors of dresses from Portland and
cutaway coats from Seattle were
we'll founded. No one dared
spring full dress, as Kettles was
not yet fully emerged from embryo
and might yet degenerate to gun
play. However, all of Kittles
who were without the pale, and
they composed the great majority,
were quite anxious to see the So
cial leaders in bunch and at an
early hour the house was packed,
with the exception of two rows
about midway in the parquet. It
was evident that the Four Hun
dred would follow ancient tradi-
ton and arrive late.
The first to appear was a bank
clerk who escorted plain, but
very naughty, schoolmistress
from Boston. Scottie took their
seat coupons and led them up the
side aisle from which egress to
their seats was impossible, and
instead of taking them back and
up the center aisle, he led them
between the front row and the
footlights. When he had them
Immediately in front of the au-
dience he left them, with an un-
Ineligible apology, and the local
orchestra led by the blacksmith
Kenaley who entered into the
spirit of the occasion, started up
the old refrain, "For I belong to
the upper ten" The audience
caught on and applauded heartily
and before the bank clerk gathered
his wits Scottie had escorted two
more victims to the front. And
so, two by two, Scottie paraded
the Four Hundred for the inspec-
ton of the delighted people of
Kittles. The late corners did not
understand what the commotion
and the noise and laughter meant
until the unmerciful Scottie had
stranded them under the foot
lights. Before their bewilderment
left them they stood. not knowing
which way to turn, the butt Of the
audience who considered it a rich
joke.
It was mean trick, but Kittles
was new enough and honest
enough to enjoy it, and the old
timer delights to tell of the first