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love, mis- Hardcastle, I have a fan

love, Miss Hardcastle, 1 have a fan.
cy, was called fair-but no, you are
fair, in the true painters acceptation
of the word. She was-I am certain
I could get a likeness of you at this
moment. if there were light CROUCH tc
draw. One little line more in profile"
With an artists privilege, Sc, erne's
hand rests for q seconds space upon
her coils of silken hair. You will
give me a first sitting tomorrow. will
you not?"
"And her eyes are dark, for certain.
Sir John, I like the face of your own
correspondent There is something
one could rely upon about that mouth.
In spite Of all the terrible things you
have said about b~lue-stockings, I don't
think I shall be very frightened to
make the acquaintance of-of-" out
came the words with an effort-"Miss
Hardcastle, your sweetheart"
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Gems of Thought.

: An ounce OF originality is worth a ton Of
imitation limited Presbyterian.
The man who stands for something has
a place and a force in the world.-Ram's
Horn.
Gratitude is the homage the heart rem
ders to God for His goodness; Christian.
cheerfulness is the external manifestation
of the homage.-Christian Work.
Childhood is the time of danger as well
as the time of hope. The corn that. 10
frost-smitten in the spring brings no gold.
en- ears to the day of the ingathering.-
United Presbyterian.
The Judgment of Jesus is simply showing
a man what he is in the light of what he
ought to be. The outer darkness is the
shadow love casts when one refuses to let
it shine through him.-William De Witt
Hyde.
When I found that it was Christ's nature
to lift men out Of weakness to strength,
out Of impurity to goodness, out Of every.
thing low and debasing to superiority, I
felt that I mad indeed found q Cod
Henry Ward Beecher.
There is no mystery whatever about hap
piness. Put in the right ingredients and it
must com out. "He that abideth in Me
bringeth forth much fruit" and
bringing forth much fruit is happiness.
Tie infallibie recipe for happiness, them, is
to do good, and the infallible recipe for
doing good is to abide in Christ.-DrAm>
mond.
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--.. ;. -
Siege Better Than Assault.

A pastor whose church has recently been
blessed with large accessions said the other
day that he had learned that sometimes
the largest results come from giving per
sons time to think over leisurely and quiet
ly their personal responsibility for con-
Tossing Christ before men, says the Com
gregationalist. As he has met individuals,
or written letters, or talked with groups
of Sunday-school scholars, he has sought
simply to press home the duty of keeping
the great question in mind. He has not
pushed hard for immediate or hasty deei-
sions, but, having planted the seed of his
own great desire, has given it time to
grow in it's W way. Sometimes We are in
too great a hurry to get our friends over
the line. The human soul is so delicately
organized we must give it time to find and
express itself, never relaxing, to be sure,
our own tactful pressure, but leaving the
field clear for the Spirit Of God to work,
too.
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Who Paws the Piper.

free advertising, in the generally &C.
cepted sense Of that term, says the
Columbus Citizen, is not the most de-
sirable kind; but it is nevertheless a
fact that the great bulk Of paid news
paper advertising costs the advertiser
nothing. That is to say, it indirectly
returns to him not only the amount in
vested, but a profit in which the whole
community shares.
The bulk of newspaper advertising
is placed by merchants. The money it
costs is paid almost wholly in salaries
and incidentals to individuals in the
community in which the advertiser re-
sides, so that his return is not wholly
from the general trade he seeks, but
also the injection Of this amount of
money into the trade of his community,
with the result Of charging it, perpet-
uating it and multiplying its resources
in all forms of industry.
The merchant feels the pulse Of pros
porous or adverse conditions more del
icately than almost any other member
of the community. Newspapers pay
by far the larger portion Of expenses
in building up the community. Their
investment is not nearly as great in
machinery, stock and other forms OF
tangible property as in brains and
Drawn.
That is the reason why money spent
with them by local merchants brings
two-fold returns in the present and the
future.
The newspaper is an institution
working for the welfare of the COM
munity in both material and other re-
| spects. in reality makes paid adVertis-
ing free.
The intelligent advertising patron Of
such a newspaper contributes to the
happiness and prosperity of the COM
munity at the same time he promotes
his own business interests in the pres
ent and lays the foundation for great
| er profits and usefulness in the future.
Turkey produces a great quantity. OF
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A Teetotal Island.

F. n. Charrington's scheme OF a t~eetotal
island off the Essex coast is worthy of the
man. says London Tid.Bits. lie is earnest
to his hearts core in his work, both tenn
perance and religious, but his record Is
much they may differ from his methods.
Most people know the story of how for
conscience sake he sacrificed his share in
his fathers brewery-a share valued at q
million and a quarter sterling-.and lived
on a mere pittanee that ne might pursue
his work among the poor and o%utcast.
Glow much do you get for wearing
that?" asked a young man on a tram car,
pointing to C~harrington's blue ribbon.
"As nearly as I can make out it cost me
100000 a year." was the reply.
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a HiOh H1nnr-

Ambassador Choate, in Edinburgh, Scot
land, the other day, in his address on re.
ceiving the freedom of the city, said that
only one of his countrymen, General Grant,
had ever been so honored. AS a matter Of
fact, William Lloyd Garrison had the dis
tinction conferred upon him in 1867. and
it was rendered to him 'in respect to his
long and meritorious exertions to abolish
slavery in the United States of America"
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Bit of Fine Philosophy.

"Why do you not so away oftener for
rest and changer" asked one friend of an.
other, feeling a little anxious over the
crowded days that seemed too busy. and
burdened. Don't you care to go"!' she
questioned further. Don't you like to.
visit about and take diverting little jour.
ooh, yes, I like it," was the answer in a
tone both brisk and blithe, ''but you see
don't have to 60 looking about for what /
like, because I always like just what 4
have"
Could there be finer philosophy Of sweet
this? 1t came warm from a trusting heart.
1t was the outcome and expression in
speech of a devoted life aud loving spirit.
To have what we like, though we spend
unmeasured time in CROPPING andngrasping
after it, may be among the impossibilities,
but to like what we have is among the at
tainables, else why the command: "Be con.
tent with such things as We have" The
truest, happiest contentment cannot fill the
heart if there is a constant reyulsionS
against life's conditions and "a loathing of
what is outwardly borne withNsuhmission.
says Young People. There must be some
liking of what we have if we ere going to
walk worthy of our vocation and "unto
all pleasing" To like what we have, we
must guard against too constant compare,
son with what We have not. Them if the
work set for our doing is not in itself the
pleasantest or most congenial, let us get
the joy out of the doing of it. The con-.
seriousness of doing our best is enough to
give a certain buoyancy and brightness to
life, even if the task is not what might be
chosen. The delight of accomplishing is
in itself a reward, and this makes it easier
to like what is done.
fruitless quest and a waste Of time, but
liking what we have conserves our store Of
happiness and is the safer and surer way.
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Seminary of Oriental Languages.

The Seminary for Oriental Languages at
Berlin, Germany, has, during the present
summer course, l56 students. OF these
seventy are jurists, forty-ive are candi-
dates for the diplomatic and consular serv-
ice, twenty-nine are scientists, teachers
and members of the philosophical faculty,
eighteen are Government officials. mer-
chants and private persons, nineteen are
officials OF the Federal Postotfice Depart
ment, thirteen are army officers, two are
physicians, three are theologians and two
are technicians. The number of foreigners
is ten. .
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Am orleans Not Wanted.

In a number of the leading stores OF
Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland, there
Is a notice: Americans not served here"
Yankee shoppers used to cause the pro.
prietors and their assistants to turn the
shops topsyturvy until they looked like a
rummage sale (bargain counter not in it,,
and then try somewhere else.
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Din1o1natic ChanDa-ne.

The vile of the British Ambassador, to
Washington, Lady Durand. has set her
face against the rapid social life of many
of the women Of the National capital; Of
champagne drinking she has a special alb
horrcnce. Lady Dnrand does not profess
nrimness. but she thinks a little more dig,
nity should be observed in diplomatic cir
clcs,
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Worth KeeDinC.

"He asked the firm for 4 raise in his
salary"
Did he get it,"
Eyes. They consider him the most
valuable man they have. You see,
when he p%etitioned for more money he
did so OH the grounds that he had just
discovered that the firm could get
along OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Leader.
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A George Sand Museum.

. "A George Sand museum has been opened
In the foyer of the Odeon in Paris, France.
There have been placed oh deposit divers
relics associated with the author OF In
diana" the costume in which she was ac-
customed to work, her pens, her glasses,
and costumes Of the time in which she
lived and wrote.
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Had Had One Experience.

The two lypochOndriacs were eX-
changing condolences.
Were you ever bedriGdcn:' inquired
one.
Yes" replied the other.
"Whcn:'
'Three years ago. during 4 cyclone
out i'll Kansas. The wind blew my
bed, with me OH it. a distance of sever
miles before it let up."-New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
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Silver Wedding Sun Dial.

a very pretty memento of Viscount and
Viscountess Galway's silver wedding has
Just been erected on the lawn at Serlby.
1t is a sun dial set on a massive stone ped
estal.
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No man or woman of the humb.est sort
can really be strong. gentle, pure and good
without the word being better for it., with.
out somebody being helped and com-orted
by the very existence of that g%oodness.-
pbiIIiuS Brooks
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Home-Made ImpossibllitIes.

Many impossibilities are home made.
Ccwardice turns them out i'll seemingly
sufficient quantities to block the way to
every path leading. to success. lazlness is
responsible for almost as many more.
What one man calls an impossibiiity, an
other halls as an opportunity. God does
not put insurmountab.e obstacles in our
way, but we make them FOR ourselves.
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,I@s11EgSa&A-,Ezzs:a
N&G%
EpoP111s -
80 4 SCIENCE y -!

A new wrinkle in three cars just de-
liyered to the Lake Shore Electric
Railway, of Cleveland, by the Stephen
son Company, is a speaking tube en-
tending from the motorman's cab to
the rear platform, so that the motor
man and conductor can be in constant
communication. The idea was origin
ated by Warren Bicknell, President OF
the Lake Shore Company,
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Radium intames the skin and de-
stroys various kinds of life, but its
place in medicine is yet to be deter
mined. When it shall have been found
useful, DR.. E. S. London, a Russian
physician, proposes to make its energy
cheaply available. Experimenting with
various substances, he has shown that
wool absorbs a large quantity of the
radium em%anations, and that the "ema-
nated' wool produces physiological eff
fects similar to those of radium itself.
The wool, moreover, a be applied to
any part of the body.
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Turkey produces a great quantity. OF
oranges.
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The latest system Of transmitting
pictures by wire-that of Professor
Korn, of Munich-claims a vacuum
light receiver as an important advance.
Two hollow cylinders, n at the trans
hitting station and one at the receiv-
ing station, are rotated spontaneously.
The film carrying the picture to be sent
is placed on the first cylinder and a
ray Of light concentrated from a
Nernst lamp is passed through it to 4
seleniufl cell in the interior. The fine
pencil of light describes a spiral Of
short pitch, the light and shade Of the
picture causing the selenium cell to
produce variations in an electric cur
rent passing to the receiver. The CYL
inder at the receiving end is covered
with a Photographic film, and a pencil
of light from a vacuum lamp-fuctuat-
ing with the variations Of the electric
current-describes q spiral registering
the light and shade of the original pic
ture. A photograph is transmitted in
half an hour, 500 words of writing in
about an hour.
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The gliding boat OF Count de LAM
bert, which has given such surprising
results an the Seine, is serviceable only
in the absence of wave motion. 1t
consists of two skiffs, each about eigh-
teen feet long, which are coupled side
by side, and which have fiat bottoms,
with q series of five transverse planes
slanting downward from fore to aft at
an angle Of about thirty degrees. AS
the propellor-which is between the
two st~erns-drives the boat forward.
the inclined planes raise the boat to
the surface, over which it glides. With
a motor of fourteen horse power, a
speed of seventeen and one-half to
twenty miles an hour was reached, a
rate that ordinarily requires two OF
three times as much power.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-10-07

Tickets and particulars a. to specific rates.
limits and train time Of your home ticket agent
=. J. Melvin, Paducah junction.
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AN OPEN LETTER.

EDITORS COMMERCIAL:
We wish to beg space to make
plain our position relative to the
Fry Mcdowell Legislative middle
and to refute the oft repeated
report which some people
seem to take pleasure in continu-
ing to circulate, to-wit: That
when we were nominated for the
Legislature in May by the disaf-
fected element, we were influenced
not to accept the nomination by
promises or dictation from the so
called ring in Union City. This
report we have frequently de-
nounced as false in private CONVEX.
sation, but still some men continue
to circulate the report as facts,
hence we take this method Of pub
licly den0uncing same as false.
Our card that appeared in the
News Banner and Commercial the
week following such nomination
embraced our decision uninfuenced
BY anyone, and we have at no time
been offered any dictation by any
one who is connected with the So
called Union City ring. After our
card was written, in conversation
with Mr.. J. M. Brice over the
phone, he told us that Mr.. j. 7.
Walker, Of Union City, said for
him to tell me that if l got out of
the way in the interest of peace
and harmony he would, in the fu-
ture, do anything for me be could,
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-10-07

There are few, if any, whose
judgment is so evenly balanced as
to admit of no mistakes. We
cheerfully confess that we made a
mistake in criticising the para.
graph of Shylock and the shekeIs
in the Banner last week, and
respecting the item have already
acknowledged to Editor Brice that
we proceeded upon the grounds of
practical deduction without inves-
tigation. We acted upon the inn
pulse that the paragraph reflected
upon the newspapers and business
men Of Union City, when in fact it
was prompted by totally differ
ent cause from that which natural
lY appeared upon the surface.
Some parties, we are net entitled
to say who, were endeavoring to
start a new paper in Union City as
a campaign organ for Mr.. Mellow
ell. These parties undertook the
persuasion which lies behind the
foreclosing of mortgage as a lev
erage to force an old newspaper
man to move his plant here. The
friends Of the newspaper man
scented the scheme and lifted the
mortgage, and SO the newspaper
was not started, and hence the Sc.
cret of Mr.. Brice's statement to
that effect. We take pleasure in
generating the News Banner from
any unkind reflections upon the
business men and press Of this
city. The editors thoughts in
connection with the paragraph
mentioned we're absolutely foreign
to anything Of that nature, and we
take this opportunity Of making
amends for the criticism we made |
last week. 1t is due the News
Banner and we make it without
reservation.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-10-07
THE GREAT SOUTHWEST.
Low Rates Tor ltoneseekers and coloaIsts
Twice q flOnth.

Low Rates for homeseekers. and colonIsfn
Twice 1Onth.
Many farmers in the Northern and
Eastern States are selling their high
priced lands and locating In the
Southwestern Missouri, Arkansas,
Louisiana and Texas Many who have
been unable to own their homes la the
older country are buying land at the
prices prevailing in the new country
s., $40, S15, per acre and up. These
lands are mostly cut-oyer timber lands,
some of them possessing a deep rich
soil producing corn, wheat, oats clover.
cotton fruits and and vegetables
Well improved farms are scattered
throughout this country. Many places
with small clearings and some Inn
provementS can be bought very cheap.
Our descriptive literature gives fair
" good idea of this country. 1t tells
about the soil, crops, climate, people.
schools and churches, water, health,
Ii contains maps showing location OF
counties, towns, railways and streams
and gives names and addresses OF real
estate dealers In the towns.
Reduced rates for hOmeseekers and
colonists are in effect first and third
Tuesdays of each month, by way OF
st. Louis, Cairo or Memphis and the
Cotton Belt Route. Let us send you
our literature and quote you rates.
Address Or
M ADAM, IT. w LEBEAUME.
TRAY Pass Agt. Gen. Pass 4 Tkt Agt
Cotton Belt Route, Cotton Belt Route
Cairo, Ill st. Louis, Mo.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-10-07


When the present editors of The
Commercial assumed control we
announced that the paper would be
Democratic and that we would
support the party and its organi-
zation. The road looks as clear to
us now as it did then. Before the
county convention was held last
May we announced that we would
S4apport the nominee of that con.
vcNiion whoever he might be.
THAI convention was held, Mr.Fry
was the nominee for the Legisla-
ture and'We have been criticised as
q ring organ for supporting him.
If Mr.. Mcdowell had been nomi-
mated by that convention this pa
per would have supported him
with the same amount of energy
with which we are now supporting
Fry, and when we say this we are
stating the truth. AS far as Nc
Dowell is concerned personally
there is not in this office
particle of animus against
him, not even since he has
branded us as clique or ring or
gan. There has not been a sylla-
BILE of dictation to this paper re-
speeding its politics or anything
else, and any statement to the con.
trary is absolutely without foun-
dalton or excuse. The secret of
the affair lies in the fact that we
did not publish McDowell's letter.
When it was handed to us the day
Of the week was Wednesday and
we made no false assertion in say
ing that we could not publish il
that week In the meantime we
did not promise what we would do
with it the next week. The fact
is we had not agreed upon pub
fishing any communications from
either side and our better judg
ment was not to do it. 1t is so
yet, Notwithstanding we did accept
a couple of long winded documents
arguing Mr.. Fry's cause. How
ever, we could not see our way
clear, after rejecting upon the
matter, to use any argument in
support Of the theory that Mr.. Fry
was not entitled to the support Of
Democrats as the nominee of the
May convention. We needed no
instruction upon that point, nor did
we think Mr.. Mcdowell or anyone
else entitled to any space in this
paper in advancing that theory.
In our opinion, Col. Taylor would
have just as much ground for ar
guing that Mr.. Tate was the nomi-
nee Of that convention. OF course
the proceedings showed that Mr..
Fry was the nominee. He received
a majority Of the votes cast. There
Is no question Of that by any man,
and there is no question in any
mans mind that q majority of
those participating in the district
conventions which selected dele
gates TO the county convention
we're Fry men. Mcdowell himself
comedies Fry II votes without dis
tricts Nos. 4 and Is, and some of
supporters concede
that a majority of the crowd in the
thirteenth civil district convention
was decidedly for Fry. This dis
trict not only showed majority
for Fry according to the opinion
Of Mcdowell men. and reliable
men too, but voted to instruct the
delegates for him By an aye and
nav vote. Giving Mcdowell the I
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-10-07

vote Of No. 4, which be is not en-.
titled to, so say MIR. Bonner and
Mr.. Cook, the vote would be 16
for Fry and IL for Mcdowell.
There is no argument under the
sun by which Mcdowell can con
scientiousIy claim the nomination.
As far as the action of the county
committee is concerned, or the
failure Of the committee at that
time to declare the nominee, does
not change the aspect of the case
in any particular, 1t has never
been the custom of the county ex-
ecutiye committee to pass upon
the Legislative nominations and
there is no authority or precedent
requiring it. The action of the
succeeding committee elected in
August in passing upon the nomi-
nation was not only a surprise,
but without the seal of custom,
usage, precedent, authority or any
right whatever. 1t was a farce, a
trayesty, worse than child's play.
It was more like the work of a
jester. Mcdowell himself knows
it was a farce. We honestly be
lieve Mcdowell could command a
better vote as an independent can
didate, which he really is, than he
will in the farce he is now playing.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-10-07
TRIpAY. ocToBER ] la04.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

DEMOCRATIC TICK FL
Election in Noyember,l
For President,
ALTON b. PAR KER.
For Yice-President,
HENRY G.. DAVIS.
GOVERNOR,
JAMES B. FRAZIER.
SECRETARY OF STATE.
JOHN w. MORTON.
STATE TREASURER.
REAU e. FOLK.
COMPTROLLER.
FRANK DIBRELL.
RAILROAD COMMISSIONER,
B. A. ENL0E.
FOR CONGRESS
FINS J. GARRETT.
FOR STATE SENATOR.
GEO. Il. BOWDEN.
FOR FLOATER.
T. @. GORDON.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
JOE Il FRY.
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Entered at the postofice az Union City. Ten
nessee as second-class mail matter
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TELEPHoNE 100
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THE COMMERCIAL

RshALL 4 BAIRD. Hdltors end PablIshsrs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-12

v1,AD ArDENER--AIarried: LIE ex-
nerisnca IN and out OF doors; has IL
vears' reference from last place Address
II I5Q Htckory-st-. Orange, y J.