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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-11-04
Shoe Department

No line Of goods can become worthless so quick as
shoes. You buy shoe that looks all right and It
soon commences to burst and rip This is caused by
old age. Shoes cannot stand the shelves too long
The New Store alone Of all stores in Union City can
show you only new fresh shoes-shoes Just from the
factory-the best factory in the United States. When
mans shoes made by Netteton, they are right
the style is correct; they are the best
No medium-priced shoe on earth completes with the
Walk-Over brand The only fault to find is that
they too long.
The ladies shoe that is perfect in style and wear
is none but the famous +. P. Reed Shoe, knownythe
world over as the leader Of fine shoes for ladies.
No old Shoes at the New Store.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-11-04
New, Fresh Shoes
Cost no more than
the other kind.

Well, well; you ought to see the way our new
shoes are selling Must be that all the people know
new shoes are the best; that new leather wears
longer that styles look better Judging from
our sales, most Of the people know our shoes are
all new.
E. p Reed shoes for ladies; the Nettleton shoe
for men, and the Geo. E. Keith shoes for men are
the worlds leading brands for fit, wear and style
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-11-04
In the Dry Goods Department
Dress Goods

Dress Goods a Ihs D ssd. me the
be found shelves old piece of Silk found
child could
basis fill How do these strike
38in Atwood goods leading shades 39
54n suitng skting Soc Repants blue
28n Tco all shades FAC 5oin novelty suting, blue Soc
36in. 36in guaranteed Tafea ST
sppu
and guaranteed split for only 98c
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-11-04
Satteen Skirts

In black satteen skirts but one brand is recog-
nized by knowing ones, and that is the famous
Elite We have it in all prices. No draw-string
to contend with. Ask to see them. Prices from
ST. to So 90 Each.
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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-11-04
In the Big Clothing Department

Yes the suits and young year are
good
styles the thing this fall get clothing that
new; get styles that right and up-toda
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-11-04

10000 yards Hope Domestic,
10 ydr to each customer, for
November, 6Hc
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-11-04
Cloaks

When say that the New Store is the cloak store of
Union City puts it only mildly. We have the new styles and
wise but appreciate what it be
to buy wraps You buy safely at the New Store
The prices range from
$500 to $50
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-11-04

10000 yards best Calico, all
colors, all kinds; for Novein-
Der 41ac
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-11-04

10000 yards best and heav-
lest Brown Domestic; for No
veInber SC
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-11-04

Hair Pins, Needles, But
tons, ETC., sold for less
money than offered by any
house.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-11-04

This department is full Of
Rich Bargains-no weave 50
new but can be found here
no old styles in this depart
ment-no price quoted BY
competition but can be found
cheayer at the New Store.
Every article we sell shall
be at the lowest price.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-11-04

We will sell 10000 yards
Ainoskeag Ginghams, all know
this brand, for November, sc
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-11-04
Carpets, rIattings, Linoleums

Your house only be successfully carpeted when You
buy Mattings Carpets and Lnoleums those who have
new and up.to-date coverings.
We can sell you Mattings from Toe to soc
Ingram Carpeting at from csc to 75c
Brussels Carpeting at from SOC to 95R
Linoleums best grade, SOC square yard
Let have the pleasure Of showing you what line Of
Drugets carry; what style they possess those
handed down from New IN every particular
When you price Carpets the quality and style does
the rest.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-11-04
Silk Petticoats

have the most beautiful and best made silk skirts
known to trade in blue, black and brown. The
style is new.
for
$3.50
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-03
Hawthorne's Centenary.

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on
July 4, 1904. in an old house in Union
Street, Salem, Mass, and spent his
boynood in one near by in Herbert
Street. Salem had already begun TO
decline sfrom its former prosperity
and as young Hawthorne walked
about the streets and listened to the
talk of speople, he seemed always to
be in the company of old men, hear
ing about old times. and watching
the signs of decay. There were
strange stories of what had happened
in former days especially since Salem
was the place where, more than a
hundred years before, there had been
such an outbreak Of superstition that
men and women had been charged
With witchcraft and put to death for
it. One of Hawthorne's own ances-
tors had been Judge who had con-
demned inn6 cent people to death be-
cause he believed them guilty of
witchcraft.
Hawthorne's father, Nathaniel was
a sea captain, and died OF fever in
1905, leaving a widow and three chill
dren. At about the age of seven the
young Nathaniel went to a school
taught by DIR. Worcester. of diction-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-03
Degeneracv Disnroved.

There are people who declare that
the country is going to materialism
and degradaNjj)n.. There even are
people who prove this awful condi-
ton by isolated examples of individu-
al degeneracy. But at last we have
the final word on the other side.
THE Worlds Work" devotes itself in
July to showing the finer side of
American life, and to proving, by
most interesting articles and interest
ing pictures, that the conditions are
becoming better every day; that our
schools are better; that our appre-
citation of art is better; that we buy
more pictures and books than any
other people in the world; that our
charities are conducted with more
skill and judgment than they ever
were before; that there is less dis
honesty, and that the cultivation of
the arts and of the higher life is MAX
ing rapid strides-keeping pace, in
fact, with the great increase in the
material advance of the people. This
hopeful view has been worked out
with success, and the pictures add
very greatly to the interest of the
number.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-03

appearance of the novel which made
Hawthorne's fame:-
"In the winter of 1S49. after he had
been elected from the Custom-House
7 went down to Salem to see him and
inquire after his health. for we heard
he had been suffering from illness He
was then living in modest wooden
house in Mall Street If / remember
rightly the location. / found him
alone in a chamber over the sitting
room of the dwelling; and as the day
was cold he was lowering near a stove.
We fell into talk about his future
prospects, and he was as 1 feared I
should find him. in very Responding
mood Now. said /, is the time for
YOU to publish: for I know during
these years in Salem you must have
got something ready for the press
Nonsense said he. what heart had /
to write anything, when my publishers
have been so many years trying to
sell a small edition of the "Twice- Told
Tales? I still pressed upon him the
good chances he would now have with
some thing new. Who would risk
publishing a book for me. the most
unpopular writer in America? p 1
would, said I, and would start with
an edition of two thousand copies for
madness!' he exclaimed; your friend
ship for me gets the better of your
Judgment No, no. he continued; i
have no money to indemnify a pub
lishers losses on my account
81 looked at my watch and found
that the train would soon be starting
for Boston, and I knew there was not
much time to lose in trying to discover
what had been his literary work dur
ing these last few years in Salem.
remember that l pressed him to reveal
to me what he had been writing. Ha
shook his head, and gave me to un-
derstand that he had produced MOTH
ing. At that moment i caught sight
of a bureau or set of drawers near
where we were sitting; and immedi-
ately it occurred to me that hidden
away somewhere in that article of
furniture was story or stories by the
author of the 'Twice-Told Tales; and
/ became so positive of it that l
charged him Vehemently with the
fact He seemed surprised, I thought.
but shook his head again; and / rose
to take my leave, begging him not
to come into the cold entry, saying I
would come back and see him again
in a few days. | was hurrying down
the stairs when he called after me-
from the chamber, asking me to stop
a moment. Then, quickly stepping
into the entry with a roll of manu-
script in his hands. he said: How in
Heavens name did you know this
thing was there? AS you have found
me out take what have written, and
tell me, after you get home and have
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thorne went back to Salem, and lived
there until 1888. He took long walks
in the fields along the country roads
and the neighboring sea beaches, but
much of his time was spent in an up
per chamber of the old Herbert Street
house Here he read many books,
and sat for hours bordering and writ
ing. Many of the tales which ne
wrote he destroyed. but one novel
called "Fanshawe" was published 1t
was quite unlike what he afterWard
wrote. and was so little regarded that
very few copies could be traced when.
years afterward the interest in ev-
erything of Hawthorne led to a re-
print of it. Indeed, the first edition
ef it is now among the rarest Ameri-
cana, and copies have been sold at as
tonishing prices. Hawthorne sent
little stories to magazines. and here
and there a reader was found who
wondered at their strange beauty, but
most passed them by. At length,
through the help of an old college
friend, some of the stories were col
lected and published in a volume call
ed ''Twice-Told Tales"
While leading this Quiet, unevent-
full life, he began to keep books
in which were recorded what he saw
on his walks, what he heard other
people say, ana thoughts ana IanclcS
which came to him through the day
and night. He did not make these
note books for publication; they held
the rough material out OF which he
made books and stories, but they had
also much that never reappeared In
his writings. After Hawthornes death
selections from his Mote Books
were published.
For three years beginning I'm 1893
he held post in the Boston Custom
House, given him by the historian
George Bancroft, who was then col
lector of the port. He kept at his
writing, also, and prepared the first
part of the volume published az
'Grandfather's Chair" in which he
told to children stories drawn from
early New England history. He join
ed the Brook Farm community in
1S4I, and from his years experience
there wrote ten years later THE
Blithedale Romance" In 1892 he
married Miss Sophia Peabody, and
went to live in Concord, Mass He oc-
cupied an old house near the river
which had been the home of Emer-
son, and was known as the Old Manse.
He now gave himself busilv to writ
ing, and in 1916 his stories were
gathered into two volumes, under the
title "Mosses from an Old Manse."
In that same year ne was appointed
surveyor of the port of Solem and
held the office for three years 1t
was while living in Salem, among the
old familiar scenes, that he wrote the
noel which gave him fame 1.-THE Scar
let Letter." yet so diffident was he,
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which drove women into marriage as
the only means of livelihood open to
them; in an end to that kind of mar
ital subordination which grew out of
the fact that an uneducated woman
is inferior to an educated man; in an
intellectual companionship in the
married life based on a common un-
derStanding of all life movements ana
common interest in them all; IN
the ability of the mother to keep the
intellectual respect of her boy after
he has gone out of the home to col
lege or to business, and to be his
trusted counsellor and his inspirer;
in woman's broader horizon, larger
life,. and more richly endowed char
actor; in the ampler service she can
render to society, to her country, and
to the world; and in her better
equipment for the finest and highest
service of all, that which is inherent
in motherhood. 1T is a woman S
destiny Balzac makes one of his
characters say, ito create, not things,
but men. Our creations are our
children; our children are our pic
lures, our books and statues This
is the greatest career of all-greater
than that of the lawyer, the doctor,
the poet or the artist. Law governs
life. medicine prolongs life, poetry
portrays life, are presents a simula-
crum of life; the mother creates life.
The education of the future will re-
cognize motherhood as the supremest
of all destinies and the curriculum
of all schools and colleges worthy of
the name will be fashioned to con
form to this standard and to prepare
for this service.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-03
Mr.. Scrooge and Mr.. Sage.

(From Chronicle and Comment in
the Bookman for July)
We have nothing to say editorially
about Russell Sage's widely-quoted
and discussed paper on THE Injustice
of Vacations" Mr.. Sage certainly has
a right to his opinions and to express
them. In our mind the only question
is. HAS or has not Mr.. Sage been
guilty of literary plagiarism ?"
(trom Charles Dickens'S "A Christ
mas Carol.")
AT length the hour of shutting up
the counting house arrived. With an
ill-will Scrooge dismounted from his
stool, and tacitly admitted the fact
to the eXpectant clerk in the Tank
who instantly snuffed his candle out,
and put on his hat.
You'll want all day tomorrow,
suppose?" said Scrooge.
IF quite convenient, SIR"
ITS not convenient" said Scrooge,
land it's not fair. If | was to stop
half a; crown for it. you'd think your
self ill-used, I'll be bound!"
The clerk smiled family.
And yet" said Scrooge, you don't
wages for no work
The clerk observed that was only
once a year.
"a poor excuse for picking a man S
pocket every 25th of December!" said
Scrooge. buttoning his great coat to
the chin.
(From Russell Sage's Article in the
independently
Let us assume that an employer and
his clerk made an agreement to eX-
change just remuneration for reason
able services, and each one keeps his
part of the agreement. Are they not
then quits? If there is any obliga-
ton, / think it is on the part of the
clerk, no avails of the credit, skill and
organization of the employer TO learn
a business and advance himself along
a path which has already been pre-
pared for him. What right has he,
then. to demand or expect pay for TWO
weeks time for which he renders no
equivalent, not considering the serious
Inconvenience to which he often puts
his employer?
Suppose we were to reverse the con-
ventional order of things and, instead
of the clerk demanding two weeks
nav gratis the employer should de-
mand two weeks work Without pay
as a condition of retaining the clerk IN
his employ. What tremendous now
would go up,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-03
'.Knee Deep. Knee Deem,

"Knee-deep, knee-deep!" 1 am q child
againi
| hear the cow-bells tinkling down the
lane
The plaintive whippoorwills, the dis
tant call
OF quails beyond the hill where
nighthawks fall
From lambent skies to fields of gold
en- grain.
l hear the milkmaid's song, the clank-
ing chain
OF ploughman homeward bound, the
numbering vain.
And down the darkling vale mid
rushes tall.
"Knee-deep, knee-deep"
We are all at home-John, Wesley.
little Jane
Dead long ago-and the boy-soldiers
twain
That sleep by purling stream or old
stone wall
In some far-or unknown grave
we're all
AT home With mother.-heartach
gone. and pain
''Knee-deep. knee-deepl"
Henry Jerome Stockard.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-03

and so discouraged by the slow sale
of the little books he had put forth.
that the manuscript of the first draft
of the novel lay neglected, until a
persistent friend, a publisher. MIR.
James \. Fields, discovered it. Its
publication in 1850 at once brought
Hawthorne noticeably forward. Short
~ after leaving the custom house in
Salem, he took his family TO LennoX,
in the western part Of Massachusetts.
where he lived for IL little more than
a year. He wrote there another of
his great novels, "The House of the
Seven Cables" and also his Wonder
Book" in which he retOid for chill
dren some of the old classic legends.
Afterwards ne wrote the 'Tangle-
wood Tales" a book of similar sto-
rieS
In 1853 his old college friend.
Franklin Pierce, was President, and
he appointed Hawthorne consul of the
United States in Liverpool, England.
Thither he went with his family, and
remained in Europe until 1850, al
though he left the consulate in 1851.
The seven years which he spent
abroad were happy ones, ana his
"Note-BookS," passages from which
have been published give charming
accounts of what he saw and did. Two
books grew out of his life in Europe:
"Our Old Home" which tells of sights
and people in England. and ""rhe
Marble Faun." a novel. with It's scene
laid in Italy.
Hawthorne had not been back in
Concord long before his health began
to fail rapidly, and it was with great
difficulty that he applied himself to
literary work. With his friend en-
President Pierce, he went to New
L.
mountain air might help him, put he
died at Plymouth on May 19,1S64. On
May % he was buried on a hillside
in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at
Concord. Many famous men and Wo-
men followed him as he was borne &c
the grave, and Il few of them knew
him. Yet very few could say they knew
him we'll. The people who now read
his books may know almost as much
of him as those who met him daily,
for it was in his books that he made
himself known. He left a son and
two daughters, one of whom has since
died His son Julian Hawthorne has
written a life of mis- father and moth
er. which is published in two volumes
under the title Nathaniel Hawthorne
and his Wife. His son-inlaw,
George Parsons Lathrop, has also
written "a Study of Hawthorne
which gives the facts of his life iii
connection with his literary career,
and Rose Hawthdrne Lathrop has
contributed a volume of Memories of
Hawthorne His latest biography.
by Professor George E. Woodbury..
was published two years ago IN the
American Men of Letters Series.
Houghton. Mifflin & Co. are the pres
ent publishers of Hawthorne's Works.
which they offer in large variety of
"a; &c 10.
and authorized which does not bear
their imprint
The Publication of "The Scarlet Let
ter.
The following extract from Mr..
James T. Fields's yesterdays with
Authors gives an account of the first
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-03
Cu,ture and PHYSICAL Comfort.

Walter Fl. Page in the July Worlds
Work says that the industrial era has
made more men cultivated. Before
the diffusion of well-being, the pro
portion of men of culture to the
whole population was very small in
any country, With the growth of
industry and the coming physical
comfort, this proportion has grown
beyond calculation. We are within
sight of a time when a majority of
Well-tO-do persons will become, to
some extent cultivated.
1t has brought physical comfort,
for the first time, to a large mass OF
mankind, and there is much cultiva-
ton in sheer physical comfort. The
most pathetic chapter in human ex-
perience is that long chapter which
tells of mems trying to thank God
because He had deprived them of
ease, and had made life hard and in
sanitary. 1t was equivalent to thank
ing God for bad food and dyspepsia,
for bad beds and rheumatism, for
foul air and tuberculosis. When we
first got running water in our houses,
a great impulse was given to culture.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-03

airy fame. The most noteworthy fact
recorded of his boyhood was that an
accident famed him when he was nine
years old, thus keeping him in the
house and shutting him up to books
for more than two years. When he
was a boy of fourteen, he went with
his mother to live for a year in
Maine. He spent much Of his time
by himself in the open air. In sum-
mer he took his gun and roamed for
hours through the woods. On winter
nights he would skate by moonlight,
all alone, upon Sebago Pond, and
sometimes rest till morning by great
campfire which he built before log
cabin. He led a strange, Solitary life,
and formed habits of being by HIM
self which he never shook off; but
he learnedN also to observe the world
about him, and his eye and ear We're
trained like those of an Indian.
He went back to Salem at the end
Of the year, and. after work with n
tutor, entered Bowdoin College in
1921, where he was a classmate OF
the poet Longfellcw. Another of his
college friends was Franklin Pierce,
who afterward was President of the
United States. Hawthorne had al
ready begun to show that he was to
he writer. His poetic TRANSACTIONS
were unusually good, and his profess
sor of rhetoric was In the habit OF
taking home his essays to read aloud.
After he graduated, in 1925, Haw-
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Personal Influence of President Eliot.

BY a natural progression from
within outward, President Eliot's in
fluence has reached wider and wider
circles, until it now extends from sea
tc sea, says an anonymous writer in
the July Worlds Work. He has
raised the vocation of president of a
great university to the level hitherto
reserved for successful soldiers rulers
and statesmen. He has proved that
gifts of the first order can find full
scope and win the most honorable
rewards in the pursuits of peace. He
has ennobled the whole field of edu-
cation, showing that education, and
not war or politics or commerce or
industry, is the fundamental concern
of civilized men. Were education
adequate, there would be no work for
soldiers. and very little for statesmen;
let us be thankful that the transcend
ent possibilities of education have
been embodied in a man of genius.
The human race mounts slowly from
the physical plane to that of instinct,
then to the recognition of intellectual
laws, and finally, to the empyrean of
ideals: education leads the way from
height to height.