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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-02-05
NUMBER THREE

If marriage is a lottery,
No girl should show surprise
Who takes chance
And finds that she
Has won the BOBBY prize.
J. L.Glover, of Mt. Manuel, attended
to business here Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs Hubert Bruer are the
happy parents of wee baby boy.
Hiss Hattie Caldwell, of Fremont
was pleasant caller here Tuesday.
Hiss Fora Hudson was the guest Of
Miss Fannie Mai Williams Saturday
night.
Misses Leila Freeman and Eunice
Coyington were in the city shopping
Tuesday.
The Misses Freeman and ErmeI
Coyington we're guests of Mrs. John
Howard Sunday.
We are informed that Prof. Ben
Good has secured the fall term at the
high school in this district.
Dab Grey is at Poison Trot attend
ing the bedside of his father, Mr..
David Gray, who is dangerously i'll.
Herman Marshall took advantage Of
Saturday morning and slipped down
on ReelfOot creek and killed number
of fine fat mallards.
Miss Rosa Huff closed five months
term of school here Friday. She
gladdened the little ones hearts by
nice treat of candies.
A hop was given Saturday night at
the residence of p. Williams. Every
thing was moving off nicely until the
'spirits" arrived, which played havoc
with everything.
Esq. Sug Edwards has fallen out
with the Wilson Heater, the Eclipse,
the Cyclone and in fact all heating
stoves, and is having chimneys built.
He has two completed and is hauling
brick for another one.
The general health of this COM
munity is good, peace and plenty
reign supreme. When we are gathered
cheerfully around our Preside at night,
our days work done, we feel that we
are enjoying the blessings of God.
CULVER.
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BUY FROM US

and satisfaction will be GER
tain. We can please you.
We have in stock at all times
a very fine line of
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-02-05
THE GREAT SOUTHWEST.
Low Rates for HOmeseekers and colonists
Twice a rlonth.

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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 In the
older country are buying land at the
prices prevailing in the new country
IS, $40, $l5, per acre and up. These
lands are mostly cut-over timber lands,
some Of them possessing 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 inl-
provements can be bought very cheap.
Our descriptive literature gives fair
ly good idea of this country. 1t tells
about the soil, crops, climate, people.
schools and churches, water, health.
1t 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
colonlsts 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. 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?, 1904-02-05
Attention. Republicans

A county convention is hereby
called to assemble at the court
house in Union City on Saturday
the 26th day of March, to nominate
candidates for trustee and sheriff
and to select delegates to the Con
gressional and State conventions
Districts are notified to selec
their delegates to said convention
in manner prescribed.
This Feb. 5. 1904
G. I. TAYLOR,
Chairman.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-02-05
Tax Notice.

Tax payers of Obion county
will take notice that the tax books
will be placed in the hands OF
officers for collection on the first
Monday in March, next, and in
order to save costs and penalties
all taxes for 1908 must be paid
before that time.
A. j. HEFLEY,
Trustee.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-02-05

WANTED You to send two cents
postage for our free X-Ray Novelty
to entertain your friends with. See
the bones in your finger, lead in a
pencil, yolk in an egg, etc, etc.
AMERICAN TELEGRAPH COLLEGE. IS
Adams ST., Memphis, Tenn.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-02-05
Lowney's canoles at Dahnke's.

Only one remedy in the world that
will at once stop ltchiness of the skin
in any part of the body; Doan's ONT
ment. At any drug store, fifty cents.
For sale at Moss Pharmacy.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-02-05

Coughs and colds, down to the very
borderland of consumption, yield to
the soothing healing influences of DR..
Woods Norway Pine Syrup. For sale
Moss Pharmacy.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-02-05
70 Cure 4 Cod N One Day.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
let's. All druggists refund the money
If It fails to cure. e. w. Groves sig
nature is on each box. 25c.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-02-05
CURRENT COMMENT.

ApN HNN"i N'i tAAE "~Sh AiAS 1HN
House deyotes itself to appropria
ton bills.
Colombia has resolved to retake
Panama and is raising $4,000 men
two columns already moving.
Philidelphians talk Of sending
Samuel J. Randall, Jr., to Con
gress from the Third Congress
sionaI District made famous by
his distinguished father.
Senator Deliver, in one of his
Congressional declarations, praises
President Roosevelt's conduct in
Panama and says she is a God
fearing man" We should think
he would.
Recently, in Brussels $500 men.
competed for situations paying
but $3.50 a year. Only 200 got
places, yet Belgium has a good
stiff tariff, and therefore must be
prosperous.
Capt. Albert L. Mills is made
bragadier general over S57 super
Tor officers. This is much needed
lesson to our army officers not to
win any distinction if they wish to
be promoted.
DR.. Wiley, of the Agricultural
Department at Washington, says
that quarrels often result from bad
feelings. Kentucky ought to try
pure food as an extinguisher of
the poor feud.
Governor Taft returning from
the PHILIPPINES, says, 20, no; they
will not be fit for self government
for years" Did not Washington,
Jefferson and Lincoln declare that
all men were fit for self govern
ment. And what did Taft himself
say three years ago!
Another novelty beneath the
A wireless telegraph in Wash
ington!
The fact that twas invented by
a clerk
Suggests the vital question,
"WilI it work."
A poll taken by the New York
Herald shows 1862 Democrats in
Congress against reafirmation of
the 16to platform and seven in
favor of it. Among those opposed
are such strong silver men as SEN
ators Daniel, Tillman, McLaurin,
McCreary and Carmack.
The Cooper Union in New York
City has been awarded damages
by the State Supreme Court in the
sum Of 100000 against the Ele-
waited Railway company for dis
turbing the students with its
racket and weakening the founda-
tion of the building. This is the
largest sum ever awarded for
damages of this kind.
Arriving at San Francisco en-
route for Washington, Governor
Taft gave the reporters very rosy
account of the beautiful and peace
full condition of the Philippines.
In the very next column we read
the news of battle with Moros in
Mindinao in which Lieut.. Flake
was killed and Lieut.. Roberts and
some American soldiers wounded.
SO the beauty spot depends upon
the point of view.
Joseph S. Hogan, Republican
repeater in Philadelphia, who was
convicted of ballot.box stuffing in
1889 and served nineteen months
in jail, has just been recognized
among the jurors trying prisoners.
Although sentenced to disfran.
chisement for six years, he has
served on five iuries and tried
thirteen cases! The thirteenth
seems to have been fatal to him.
One-third of all the people in
this country are engaged in agri.
cultural pursuits-10, 43S, 900 of
while all other industries
employ only 1s,SS5,o0o. The
total farm area in the United States
is S41. 100000 acres.- area
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-02-05

The symptoms Of chronic catarrh
are: More or less irritation of the mu-
cous lining membrane Of the nasal
cavities, which may extend lutO the
pharnyX, larnyX, trechea and bronchial
tubes, and gives rise To a more or less
plofuse mucous discharge from the
nostrils. an unpleasant sensation Of
fullness or aching in the forehead and
sometimes cough and deafness and
nosebleedi ling. Our catarrah remedy
cures catarrh in il very short time and
is the cheapest remddy known Price,
a 2-oz bottle for ST and a powder blow
er for $3.50, which will cure any fami-
ly. DIR. A. FOWLER & Co,
Union City, Tenn.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-02-05
Republican Oommittees.

The Republican executive com.
mittee Of the Ninth Congressiona
District met at the Palace Hotel in
this city last Saturday, the follow
ing gentlemen being present: G.
L. Taylor, chairman; EN-. E. Bell,
Dresden; John r. Walker, Tren
ton, Ham Parks, Newbern; Steve
Farmer, Martin; johnson Clare,
Dyersburg; A. A. Hornsby, chief
deputy, Marsha's office; H. E.
Austin, Alamo; John Hale, Tren-
ton. Others besides the commit.
tee were K. II. McNeeley, Col. A.
D. Keller, j. G. Burdick, S. G.
Motfatt.
The committee fixed the End
day of April next as the date for
the Congressional convention of
the Ninth district to meet at the
courthouse 10 Union City for
the purpose of nominating can.
didate for Congress and to select
delegates to the national conven-
ton in Chicago.
Haywood and Lauderdale coun,
ties demanded increased represen-
tation, for the reason, they claimed,
that they had been defrauded of a
considerable amount .of h r
strength by Democrats. This
created lively tilt, but was finally
defeated, the chairman opposing
the scheme.
COUNTY COMMITTEE.
G. t. Taylor, chairman, called
the Republican executive county
committee together Tuesday with
following proceedings:
The date fixed for the county
convention is Saturday, the 26th
day of March, next, at the court
house in Union City, at which
time and place candidates for
county offices will be selected,
delegates to represent the county
at the Congressional convention
and also delegates to represent the
county in the State convention to
meet In Nashville ON A nril Z
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-02-05
Ii. OSCAR
SEAGLE
Tennessee's best known singer,
recommends Dr. Eowleris
great Catarrh Cure.
Chattanooga, Tenn May Z.

Chattanooga, Tenn, May Z.
DR.. a. Fowler, Union City
Dear Brother Fowler: / enclose a
check for SO. Please send me 4 small
bottle Of the powder, with one of the
powder blowers. / have been talking
of your great medicine everywhere.
and great many people have ordered
il and have found il Just what YOU
claim il to be the best catarrh REM
edy in the world, Sincerely.
III. OSCAR SEAGLE.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-21
So. 40 PER YEAR.
Steam TO Preserve Meat

ing conditions and draw them off. "A
steam pipe was placed in a wooden
duct at the bottom. of a refrigerator
chamber stored with meat; the gases
of this kind are low lying, and the
duct led directly to the brine tankss
This experiment occurred at Sydney,
and for eighty-nine days the refrigera~
tor compartment was kept closed, at
the end of which time it was opened,
the meat drawn forth and every place
thoroughly tested. It was as fresh
and pure, without the slightest sug-.
gestion of bone odor or mold, as GA
the day it was packed. The gases had
been volatilized by the steam, carried
off by the wooden duct and the entire
noxious condition purified by the
brine tanks. With this aid to the re-
frigeration process, provided care be
taken that the temperature never
falls below freezing point, save occa-
sionally, so that the meat will not he
come frozen. meat may now be
kept for years, and be perfectly fresh
when taken forth for consumption.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-21
Always Leap Year.

In one part Of "all the Russias," the
province of Ukraine, it is always leap
year as far as the female privilege of
proposing is concerned. It is said to
be customary there, when a young
woman falls in love with man, for
her to 60 to his fathers house, and
in the most tender and pathetic man.
ner plead with the young man to take
her as his wife. She promises the
most submissive obedience to his will
if he will but accept her. If the young
man says: II beg that you will ex=
cuse me from this" she tells him that
she is resolved not to depart until he
shall promise to take her for better or
worse She accordingly takes up her
abode there and remains until he is
:wooed and won or until he ends the
siege by fleeing to parts unknown. =
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-21

III all Europe the most maligned
country and nationality is Italy and
the italians, with regard to the upper
middle and middle class men, says the
London Telegraph: OF the aristocrat
there is nothing to be said; competent
authorities have declared him to be
neither better nor worse than his COM
peers in other countries. Aristocratic
society is cosmopolitan. The middle
class husband in Italy is the. most
long-suffering and hard-worked, one
may venture to say, in all Europe, and
while his aggravations> are many his
retaliations are few To those who
look on from the heights of foreign
superiority it is a continual wonder
that he does not break out oftener
than he does. Conditions. Of course,
have much changed in the last fifteen
years; there is more money and con-
sequently more comfort, but also
greater necessities and demands. The
more modest type of the middle-class
husbands, whose means are as rule
very limited. will make money go
farther. He will have, perhaps, from
so to 83 week, and with this will
support a wife and from three to six
children in such way as to show no
signs of real poverty. His house will
have few comforts, his food will be
of the simplest, while his widest di
version will be an occasional visit to a
cafe and his habitual one walk along
the Corso or stroll on the Pincio to
hear the band play.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-21
Joke on Tom Sharkey

it's easy to see. Your lungs are not
developed large enough to fill that big
chest of yours, and you are doomed
to die of consumption unless you take
prompt measures to enlarge your
lungs
"'Wirra, wirra,' moaned the sailor
And how can enlarge me lungs?
"Oh, that's cinch, Tom. Get up
every morning about 4 o'clock, go out
in the open air, and shout with all
your might for half an hour. Just
roar "Ha, ha, uh, uh, uh," as loudly as
you can, and it will be wonderful to
see, the way your lungs will grow.
E. "And at o'clock the next morning
the quiet Of that peaceful neighbor-
hood was shattered beyond repair by
( brawny man, who taking up posi-
ton right in the middle of residence
block, beloved, 'Uh, uh, uh,' in q
voice like seven bulls till the local.
police force woke up and came tear
ing after him. a..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-21

Well preserved and still licensed
place, the old Red Lion Tavern, where
Washington and his officers used to
stop to drink rum shrub" stands
some twenty miles from Valley Forge,
on the main highway leading up the
Schuylkill valley. And though most
houses where Washington found shell
ter are long since dust and ashes and
the few which have escaped that fate
are apt to be famous, very little has
been printed about this Red Lion Tav-
ern. Yet it has other claims to fame,
for the birthplace of Daniel Boone is
not far away, the great-great-grand-
father of Abraham Lincoln had his
home hard by, and the same region
boosted the homestead of the Hanks
family from which Nancy was de-
scended.
Before the Declaration of 1ndepend-
ence the tavern bore the name and
sign of King George. When his ma
jesty's face grew less popular in the
country the host of the George took
down the old sign and put up a new,
the Red Lion, for while he was not
willing to be known as Tory, he
does not seem to have been an eager
patriot, either. The Red Lion SEEM
ed safe whichever side prevailed, and
the Red Lion, tavern has been all
these years. 49, -
It was not long ago that Abraham
Lincoln of Churchtown, Lancaster
county, Pa, visited the Red Lion
Tavern. This Abraham was tall and
lean, and rough hewn as to the face
like the greater Abraham whose kins-
man he was. He hitched his horse
near the signpost and sat on the tav-
ern porch. <<~<E Z. D..
II remember" said Mr.. Lincoln,
hearing my father tell Of this place;
how the Boones and Lincolns and
Hankses of past generations used to
sit where sit now, and how Gen.
Washington and Lafayette, Stirling,
Greene, Wayne, Muhlenberg, Conway,
Mif1in, Gates, Lee, and don't know
who besides stopped here. It was a
favorite watering place for man and
U0t1SI. ali okONA61AESAPA SooSo5 AuA
ry1ng from Washington's camp to the
Continental Congress, sitting then at
York, baited horses here, and here
halted the wagons with cannon and
cannon ball from French Greek, and
with flour from Reading for the army
at Valley Forge. Gen. Wayne, out
foraging, met at the Red Lion with
Gen. Conway on his way from Read
ing to Camp at White Marsh, just
after his famous letter was written to
Gates. Lafayette stopped here on his
way from Valley Forge to York, when
in January, 1778, he was summoned
to take charge Of the Canadian irrup-
ton, and Gen. Charles Lee rested at
the Red Lion just before the battle Of
Monmouth IN the same year. In those
days the Boones were plain. every
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-21
Doing Ones Level Best

soul satisfaction, which a half:heart-
ed, slip-shod worker never knows.
When man feels throbbing within
him the power to do what he under
takes as well as it can possibly be.
done. and all his faculties say Amen
to what he is doing and give their un-
qualified approval to his efforts-this
is happiness, this is success. This
buoyant sense of power spurs the fac
ulties to their fullest development.
It unfolds the mental, the moral and
the physical forces, and this very
growth, the consciousness. Of an ex-
panded mentality and OF q broadening
horizon, gives an added satisfaction
beyond the power Of words to des-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-21
Sold Cannon for Gin

zon with weary eyes for sign of he
feet.
Not a sign, until along about the
eleventh week came a message that
the navy was in distress off Hilo- Ex-
plantations followed soon afterwarts-
Everything had gone we'll for a
few days until the crew had consvrls-
ed all of the gin it had taken aboard
when the cruise began. They could
not fight without gin, and to get ii
the brave tars were ready for any
sacrifice.
So they put into Hilo. They traded
the brass cannons for more gin aud
for eleven weeks held out against no
worse a foe than the seductive dlstlll-
ed strong waters from Holland.
The navy returned in disgrace. The
admiralty went out of business and
the flag was lowered on the only ship
in the navy. For many years the kai-
mialoha was a hulk in the Honolulu
harbor, the last and the only man-o'-
war the royal family ever owned
San Francisco Call.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-21

It was in the days of the kingdom.
some one of the court of the dusky
islanders conceived the idea that Ha-
waii should be graced by a navy. This
was particularly desired because King
Kalakaua had a row on hand with his
brother monarch at Samoa. So a
navy was acquired.
The navy consisted of a converted
teakwood trading schooner fitted with
a third mast and full rugged. The Ha-
waiian admiralty provided the navy
with a lot of old brass cannons, en-
listed crew of natives and forthwith
sent them out to battle with the OBJ
streperous Samoans.
Away sailed the navy to the south
ward, bent on an errand that should
sustain the honor of the Hawaiian
flag and the prowess of the Hawaiian
bluejacket-if he wore jacket.
A month passed and the month
wore into two months, with not a
word from the seat Of war.%-An- anx'
ious monarch scanned the blue hori-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-21

farmers, owning many acres in Exc
ter township, Berks county, here
about. I've heard, too, that Lydia
Darrah, after she had. warned Gen.
Washington of the intended attack Oh
the British out of Philadelphia, STOP
ped at the Red Lion over night on her
way up to Reading"
AS to the rum shrub already men
toned, the Revolutionary host of the
Red Lion was a. famous mixer Of this
drink. Mr.. Lincoln did not know how
it was made exactly; he did know it
was a favorite tipple among the Cont
mental officers. However, he said that
shrub was a kind of syrup made
chiefly in the West Indies, made with
lime or lemon juice and Jamaica rum
in quantities greater or less. A Co
penhagen" was another favorite drink
of the time and place, again mystery
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-21
The Experience of All

How many valuable lessons there
are that we insist on paying for at
the high cost of experience" said Tn
Gle Hiram, when we might get them
for nothing if he would only be will
ing to profit by the experience of 9TH
ers!
Take, for instance, the case Of my
young nephew, William, who is just
now making a boat, whiting it out
with his jacknife.
Il find him trying to split off big
slab of wood from the block by pry-
ing at it with the blade of his knife,
and I try to explain to Willie that it
won't do to use knife as he would
a crowbar, that knife isn't intended
for such use, and that if he keeps
on prying with it like that he'll break
the. blade off, sure. But William
knows BETTER and he keeps on, pry-
ing, and pretty soon he snaps the
blade off and then he comes to me
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-21
MORDECAI LING OLNlY HOME
NEHR THE Old RED LION Z2zHERN

but most probably a mixture OF gin
and sugar, with perhaps other things.
At all events, the old barroom of the
Red Lion has seen many great men
drinking these two old-fashioned
drinks.
= From the tavern Mr.. Lincoln, who
has since died, pointed out over some
red hills the farm of $50 acres owned
by the father of Daniel Boone. Daniel
himself having seen the light, he said.
about a mile north of the old inn, in
1898; the Lincoln of that day was
called Mordecai, the presidents great
grandfather; the contemporary Hanks
bore the name of John, and was the
grandfather Of the presidents mother.
Lincolns and Boones, by the way, still
live about and trade in the country
store in one end of the tavern build
ing.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-21
Home Life in Italy.

It must be taken into consideration
that if his house is, bare, it is flooded
with the sunshine which only Italy
provides, and if he is cold he has only
to put himself in the sun, which is al
ways called the italian stove" With
all his poverty, he is hospitality itself.
He will invite people to his table,
making no apology for its simplicity,
and will make it seem feast by his
cordially and high spirits. He vel
comes fgiendsaipA hs evening In his
family circle, and is in the habit OF re-
turning such visits.
But where the middle-class man,
both rich and poor, shines above his
fellows, is as father. He will make
any sacrifices for his children, and
what is rarer, lives with them, SO to
speak, and enters into their daily
life No slowing away in the nursery
with a governess for his children.
A nurse there is, but he and the chill
dren's mother think of everything,
and the youngsters to the public
school and overlook their lessons at
night If there is nurse, she is
usually a foreigner, either French or
German, and her duties are more to
keep the children clean and walk out
with them than anything else. Ger
tainly Italian small children are not
attractive, because over-indulged, but
later their manners are charming, be-
cause they are always with their par
ents, and they thus unconsciously
learn ease of manner and gracefulness
Of speech.