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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-07-29
PERSEVERANCE

The following essay was writ
ten by Miss Ethel Cloyes and reat
at the teachers rally which wal
held at Crittendon Grove, Friday
July 15.. On account of its merits
it is reproduced in The CONNER
cial by request of Mr.. w. b
Stovall:
What is your greatest desire
To what is your ambition aspiring
What is the goal to be reached
Surely we can answer this by one
word-success. Having success as
our object in view, the next and
most important question for con.
sideration is ''By what means may
we reach that aimg" Though we
may be aiming at success in differ
ent ways, according to our differ
ent vocations of life, yet all must
be guided by perseverance, as it is
the principal element of success.
Addison said, IF you wish Sue
cess, make Perseverance your
bosom friend"
Every pathway has itsshadow-
every rose its thorn. We need
not expect to pass through life
without being confronted by diff
culties and disappointments; nei-
ther need we expect to prevent
making failures nor should we give
up in dependency because of them,
but remember tha he who has
tried and failed is made none the
worse, but is strengthened by hav-
ing tried.
A great reason of SO many com
plete failures in life is that so
many fulfill the old proyerb that,
"a rolling stone gathers no moss"
DR.. Talmage has said that if a
person of only ordinary ability
exerts his energies in one direction
and with one object in view he
may become a tremendous man.
For a simple illustration, and as it
is now blackberry season, we will
imagine number of childyep in
the woods to gather berries. Very
some will soon be heard
y. angmplaints similar to this:
tson't like this. l can't get
Without going through the
y5riars and l had rather do
hout the berries than to be
yratched by the hateful thorns." "
So, some are soon seen deserting
their tasks to engage in some
game or to rest in the shade and
watch the others. Some are seen
continually going from vine to
vine, finding fault with every place
they reach, and losing the time in
cooking for better places and finer
berries; while others, who seem to
'eaIize that every berry counts and
hat they have no time to lose, are
,oon seen with their buckets filled |
With the finest berries that have
been hidden from sight by the
oriars which to the others were
Iuch great distractions. As one
~ one the berries filled the buck
its, so it is that little by little
great things are accomplished.
sBy little strokes men fell great
,aks." A writer has very beauti-
ully illustrated what little things
will do in time by these words:
! No rock so hard but that a little
. may beat admission in a
usand years. A falling drop
It will cave a stone." !" These
te the truth in the quota
Seat works are performed
9Th, but BY persever4
4 v,,e q who are constantlyIl
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-07-29

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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-11
"JuSf Tn Time, 2

for the holiday dances will be the pu- pills who start now at Miss Reed $ Dancing Academy, 108 Bank streer, second floor Jones & Morgan bllilding.i Tuesday evening, advanced class;l Thursday evening, beginners class. Strictly private lessons by appoint ment any hour.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-11
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT MARS.

We can draw all the geographical cOnfiguratiOns. seas, coasts, islands, peninsnlas. mouths of rivers, or canals of Mars with accuracy; and we can anticipate what district will appear in the lens of the telescope, for the length of thesrotation ofathe planet is known to the hundredth part of second. As the planet turns upon its axis more slowly than ours,t the calendar of the inhabitants of Mars is composed of two consecutive years of 688 days and biSextile one of 660 days.
 1t is not many years since Mars en- tered into the sphere of our observa- ton, and one can also say that there is but a small number of the inhabi, tants of this world who have observed it in all its details, and of these the most experienced is Signor Schiaparel, Ii, director of the observatory as Milan.
 The geographical map of the planet Mars has just been made with infinite care by the above mentioned astrono- mer One might really consider it a terrestrial sphere of continents, islands, coasts, peninsulas, gulfs, wa ters. Moreover, clouds, rains, inunda- tiOns, snows, seasons, winters and summers, springs and autumns, pre- Vdll d6 tlGy QO ACIC, duu lIC ihtCho1tJ of the seasons is absolutely the same as with us, the inclination of the axis being the same as ours.
 Our problem of the habitability oi the stars is limited to observing the celestial bodies upon which the condi- tions are such that organized matter can exist i'll durable form.
 In the planet Mars the density of a cubic metre of water. earth or any matter is only the seventeenth of what it is here, and the weight is only 3S-1OOths. A kilogram transported to Mars would therefore only weigh SIS grams there, and a man or woman weighing 70 kilos would only weigh 20 there. The years are nearly twice as long as upon our planet, and the eli matological conditions seem much more favorable than they are here.
 The conditions necessary to life are, we know, Multiform, as the structure of the organized matter is so compliS cated.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-11
GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE.
Some of the Curious Things from
 which the Married Suffer.

Some of the Curious Things from
 which the Married Suffer-
 The Chicago man who recently ap- piled for divorce and gave as one of the grounds, at least, the fact that he could not stand the jokes of his wife's female friends directs attention again to some of the odd facts in connection with the American divorce system," remarked popular young lawyer yes tefday; and, really, some of the req sons assigned as ground for divorce are odd in the extreme.
 Persons who are engaged in fight ing the divorce evil,s as they call it, could spend, the time no more profit ably than by inquiring into the meth cd in which the legal grounds for di- vorce have been interpreted by the courts of the country. I was looking over report the other night cited by an English writer, and was much amused at some of the allegations set forth in divorce petitions. Really it Is mixture of the comic and tragic A husband accused his wife's sister of theft, and the injury to the wife's feel 1ngs is made ground for divorce. During our whole married life,' says another, my husband has never once offered to take me cut riding. This has been source of great mental 1suf- fering and injury .sThe susband whose ! wife complained in another petition that he did not wash himself, there by infiicting on plaintiff great mental anguish must have been a disciple of the Chicago physician who recent ly declared against the bath.
 The complaint in another petition filed by the wife, was that the hus- band quoted verses from the New Testament about wives obeying their husbands. He. has even threatened to smash the plaintiff, and has drawn ] back his hand to do it. Still another wife, according to the author, alleged ! in her petition that her husband did | not come home until 10 o'clock at l night, and when he does come home he keeps plaintiff awake talking. It 1 is also charged that he keeps a sa- l loon, which sorely grieves mind of plaintiff These are only few of 1 the cases which might be mentioned 1 to show the liberal manner in which l the courts of the country deal with the question of mental anguish or mental cruelty ''- Galveston News. |
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-11
LEGAL DEFINITION OF SAND.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
 Renders One of Interest.

z
 The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
 Renders One of Interest.
 One of the sources of occasional con- f1ict regarding contract agreements is the lack of the exact legal definition of common terms, and whenever one of them is the subject of an opinion by a court of final jurisdiction this fact deserves attention. Accordingly the definition of ''sand'' recently giv. en by the supreme court of Pennsylva- nia in Handler ys Lehigh Valley Rail- road company (58 Att. Rep. 486) is of interest Any builder knows that a good sand pit near large city will yield comfortable income to its for tunate possessor, and that sand in such location is 6 material worthy of respectful attention. This is shown even in common slang; it might be said that the Pennsylvania farmer 1 who brought this suit against a pow. erful railway corporation possessed considerable sand, both mental and material
 The, court rules that in scientific sense sand may or may not be min, eral, according to what 1t is composed of. For example, if it is made up wholly of grains of silica, it is min. -eral, but if 1t is made up of grains ot different substances it is in a tech nical sense only grains of rock.
 In a commercial sense sand has different meaning says the court. It defines mineral" as any inorganic sustances found in nature having suf- i ficient value when separated from its surroundings to be mined, quarried or l dug for it's own sake or its own spe> l cific 1ses. Sand may or may not come , under this head A deposit of pure white quartz sand suitable for making glass or for some other use would be
 considered a mineral under this defnl. tion. Ordinary mixed sand, useful
 merely for grading or a similar pur-
 pose would not be so classed.
 i Railways often procure a right of
 way subject to reservation vesting in the original owners and their legal
 successors all minerals in, under or
 upon the lands. Sand and gravel are often very valuable for grading pur poses, and the right to use as much of them as is to be found on the right of way is important, particularly when l there is a reservation in the deed of l the land similar to that mentioned. 1 The definition is also important when, as in this case, the railway must ob- I tain such material from borrow pits
 on private land in mining regions
 where the owners are so accustomed to squa bbles over mineral rights that 1t l is second nature to them to regard ey- l cry boulder as gold-bearing quartz
 and every stream as petroleum well. Engineering Record.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-11

had to be chosen at this crisis or Il history. No wonder the mighty caI tain could not anchor his craft in tn for the little boys apple. No wonder he had no time to personally investi- gate the case of Benton's beloved son. e'The new housekeeper," he said. would quit without notice rather than submit to interference.' With sor rowing, suffering, anxious heart he let Burnside go, and set Burnside's fiercest critic, himself to lose his head a few weeks later, in Burnside's place, and then the great, loyal, Striple-tried army went in again, with overwhelming numbers, to round up that thin gray line along the southward heights. Again the lords were ribboned with the pale blue columns, as dozen great divisions circled the confederate left Again did Jackson dare to drop every thing at the front, swing clear round the outermost line and come crushing in on an astonished and bewildered flank. Never" say the confederates, and God knows they know, "did the Tanks fight harder than at Chancellors- ville"-that is, those who fought at all, for only a fourth of their entire array got chance, but again Back to the fords!" was the order, and, cursing their luck and praying for fair fight and no favor, back the fourth time
 went the army. Then came the sum- mer, the race for the Potomac, and the rush at last to the high-water mark
 of rebellion on the shores of the SuS-
 quehanna.
 But meantime there had been scene
 or two at Washington, never men
 tioned in the chronicles of the day
 and in the midst of alarms and dis
 fractions such as Washington had never known before. Such matters as Lne puDlc cownldIng or an army officer almost in front of the white
 house would be scare headed" from
 Maine to Manila to-day, but the papers
 had no space for 1t then. Squire Ben ton had touched up McKinnon's new uniform to the tune of 80 lashes before
 the police could step in and spoil the sport, and only in g local journal and one or two in the far west was the affair referred to.
 Paul Ladue, convalescent, had been twice subjected to rigid questioning with the hope of establishing the guilty connfvance in his escape of certain Baltimore household, as well as cer-
 tain union officer, and with the result of establish ing nothing beyond the fact that even in his weakness he had more l strength and sand than the prosecu- tion. Then he was rendered release on parole, for long investigation had
 failed to unearth a thing to warrant detention as spy.
 A romantic turn in the tide of affairs had come when a certain senator called
 on the secretary and offered to show
 that the ineriminating paners which
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-11
CHOOSING Al CAPITAL.

Dalgety, an obscure village of 300 people, has been definitely selected as the capital of the Australian common wealth. The choice repeats the history of Washington, D. O., and of Ottawa, Canada. Australia and Canada are practically republics, and as such they distrust, as did the people of the thir teen original American states, the me tropolitan influence of commercial capital Either New York or Philadel- phia was out of the question for the American capital, nor would the north consent that it should be an existing town in Virginia or Maryland.
 When the idea of federal district was hit upon the question, arose where the district should be. New York state offered Kingston, and worked nobly to get the capital located on the Hudson. Maryland offered Annapolis, and New Jersey distrist below the falls of the Delaware. Delaware went with New Jersey and the northern states and "a place on the Delaware near the falls" was actually selected. This action was rescinded, however, and it was de- cided that congress should reside for equal periods on the Delaware and near the lower falls of the Potomac. Until buildings should be erected it was to meet alternately at Trenton and Annapolis.
 Then Virginia put in her oar very powerfully, and a federal districu which bestrode the Potomac, half in Virginia and half in Maryland, was eventually chosen-and Washington finally came into existence on that the north and the south which led to this selection was much like the conf promise between the Irishman and his wife regarding the house, to which he took the outside and she the inside; for Washington was and is a southern town.
 When the Dominion of Canada came to choose it's capital neither Montreal nor Toronto was practicable, for the great provinces of Quebec and Ontario were at daggers drawn. A comprom- ise was reached in which a squalid lunbering village on the Ottawa, op- posite Hull, was chosen. It was in Ontario. but was centrally located and out of the range of provincial rivalries A similar situation arose ill the Aus tralian commonwealth between the dominant states of Victoria and New South Wales, and Dalgety represents similar compromise. Like Ottawa, and unlike Washington, it is in hill 1 district, where the climate is fnvigo- rating, and where legislators will have no meteorological excuse for being l lazy-New York Mail.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-11
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-11
Copyright, lsO2, by c W. Dillingham; CO.

shaking hands with brother of1cers and soldiers, that very able talker and genial fellow-citizen, Maj. McKinnon, and most men were growlers that wo- 'ful Christmastide along the Stafford Heights-who asked him why he wasn't with his regiment, were told that he was still on court-martiaI du- ty, but court had adjourned over Christmas. Growlers at first only growled when Mokinnon tentatively began to talk about Benton and La- due, but later they listened-most men will-and when he returned three days later to his court at the capital and made report to certain confiden- tial officers at the department, it must be admitted that, though he took back with him far less of compromising character concerning Benton than he expected and hoped, he left a lot be- hind him.
 And all this time there lay at the old capitol prison, awaiting needed evidence to prove him spy, very luckless young soldier. Paul Ladue All this time there fumed and chafed. confined in arrest to the limits Of Creole Barracks and the adjoining square in which were the officers quarters, Capt. Fred Benton, A. D. C., well-nigh for bidden to be seen by anybody save secret service specimens detailed for the purpose. All this time there was a man that could have thrown light on the situation, but most unaccountably had he disappeared. Jennings was again at large, and the department de- | clared it knew not whither he had gone. He had been released, was the n-well-because 1t would appear that he had only. done what humanity dictated-helped and nursed a half drowned, half fever-burned, hal1 dying man.
 Then the squire came out from the west, and that lusty patriot happened | to be at odds with state officials over some regimental appointment The great president was now confronted bJ | new and direful problems Burn side had demanded the dismissa of several of his generals or els' his own. A new chief of the arm,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-11
CHAPTER xxI1.


 "CAPT. BENTON. YOU'RE cow
 ARDl'
 A spy in camp was what the bri- gade said. when it heard the story that camo- from Washington, and hopping mad" was the brigade. Its fur had been rubbed the wrong way by the little filings of rivals, prompted by the pitiable envy that seems in Eeparable from any profession whose reward is mainly reputation. It's sense of Eubordination, too, had been tried by tales of sneering remarks made by Gen. This or Col. That. and ls firmly believed that much of Fred Benton's present trouble was due to the fact that he wouldn't stand hear ing them abused, belittled. or ma ligned. In greatly exaggerated form the rumor of his disagreements with ais fellow staff officers and his ''row with Old ScoEer'' had gone the round of the regimenrz, to the end that Fred Was now. looked upon as hero and 8 Champion, even by the Black Hats, who rarely gaw heroism in anybody, EC ScOuteQ tnS luSd Ol uSSuAnS q champion and who pronounced one general of the Army of the Potomac, at least, a consummate ass. They were mad clear through when told he had declared Benton disloyal-"had more friends in the south than in the army. " Only a few weeks previous they had been pulling Benton to pieces among themselves, because of his ap- parent neglect of them and prefer snce for his new associates. Now they were all dire at the idea of any one abusing him. and there was wrath and wonder In camp when 1t was learned that by order of Stanton him. self Fred Benton was held in close arrest, with the prospect, said rumor, of being sent to that so-called bastile of the war daysFort Lafayette.
 Oh, beautiful case was this worked up against Capt Fred Benton, A. D. C., if the ruInors from the rear could 3c believed, and strange 1t was, indeed that in the midst of all the wrath and lespond in all ranks. there should ap- pear at the camps of the Iron Brigade.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-11
Gro Be Continued,

C A S T c E 1T A. Bears the 4 The Kind You Have Always Bought s MHzszz1
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-11

he isn't in barracks. The police" begins the major, obtusely.
 Major! You ask Capt Benton here and-and-no questions" interposes madame with severe and superior wis., dom. "Then bring-her to me-" And light begins to dawn on the master and he obeys
 That evening carriage whirled past the guarded gateway of the barrack square and drew up at the quarters of the commanding officer. The major stepped forth. rendered his hand to an agile. slender girl who followed her soldier escort to the doorway. where. with eyes that shone and checks that colored and lips that puckered and hands that clasped in sympathy and compassion, warm-hearted wife and mother met the motherless girl and drew her in. The major went back to the doctor; the lady led her guest to the parlor door and ushered her into the dimly-hghted, cozily-warmed and closely y-curtained room; then vanished, and, for the first time since that night at Charlottesville. Fred Benton stood face to face, alone, with the girl he so fondly and so sadly loved.
 And when he, in yearning and love, stepped eagerly toward her, his eyes shining. his hands outstretched, the furred hood fell back from her flushing face, revealing it in all it's dark and queenly beauty. Her eyes, too, flashed, as in amaze, and then in anger she recotled. One instnat she glared at him, then spoke:
 Capt. Benton, you-you're a cow ard!"
 Gro Be Continued.l TIT
 O. A S
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-11
Oldest Good Tempar.

Daniel White, who died in Maiden. head, England, in his one-hundredth year, was a total abstainer and a non- smoker. It Is believed he was the oldest Good Templar in England.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-11
Spare the Voice.

When hoarse, speak as little as pos sible until the hoarseness is recovered from, else the voice may be permanent ly lost, or difficulties of the throat pro- duced.- Musical Monthly.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-11
Better Than at Home.

The Smithsonian professor who Is going to South America to search for the bacillus of laziness would save time and money and meet with a greater reward by gunning around Washington. Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-11
Fruit for Beauty.

We none of us eat as much fruit as We should, and if grapes and apples were always substituted for heavy pud. ding, pies and French pastries, most of the beauty culturists would have to re- tire from business s.-Housekeeper.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-11

<t &1A46 ~1~A -4-S-AAdISs
 An extraordinary nickname has been given to King Peter of Servia. The name Is Peter Provovjencani," mean ing Peter the first-crowned. title which was assumed in 1195 by Stephen Uros who was really entitled to it, being the first Servian king to be escrowned.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-11-03
DISTINGUISHED DOG.

A dog in England has lately
been honored by the receipt of an
Illuminated address, in which he
is informed that he is the most
successful collector for the Vic
toria infrmary at Norwich, and is
thanked by the board of mana
gers. The. dog is a fve-year-o old
fox-terrier, named Prince. He
does not wear a cup or basket or
carry one in his mouth, as do
most mendicant dogs, but simply
sits up on his hind legs and begs.
When he receives a coin he goes
unbidden and deposits it in a box
kept for the purpose. During 1908
he collected more than 1000 coins.
One hopes that if illness or acct
dent ever overtake Prince there
may be a warm bed for him at the
infrmary, with plenty of good sir
loin steak and dog biscuit
Youths Companion.