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

\ hidh NCAid bOl H1NC SNOou lldl lCl
low ten minutes without forfeiting
his religion. We sat up in bed and
lighted the lamp and took a fair
square look at this fellow who was
making such hideous noise, think
ing he might be on his back and we
would gently turn him over, but to
our dismay found him already on
his side with his mouth wide open
and knew it would not do to turn
him on his back for then the dead
would no longer sleep, but would
rise up. Being deprived of our
sleep we decided to see what could
be done and called the proprietor
and told him to call an officer quick
that we wanted writ for that fel.
low for disturbing the peace, as we
were certain we had a good case.
But the proprietor said, II have
fellow right IN here that is a
world beater to snore, cd Esquire
Somebody from somewhere back in
the hills. I'll just send him in there
and you come IN his room" | had
already sounded the old Squire and
found him strong advocate of the
present road system and gladly
made the exchange, for | did not
care if they snored each other to
death. So we escorted him in and
he said, pshaw. when he got to
sleep he would make that fellow
ashamed of himself and if the tel
low awoke he would think the world
had collided with Edwards auto.
mobile. So by the time all were to
bed and some asleep the fun com
menced. Both fellows b e G a n
to snore and it seemed as if some
one was prizing up the house and
the shingles began to sizz aud rat
tie in sympathy with this hideous
fuss that equale the dying groans
of the cattle of thousand hills.
Now, we had heard fellows snore
before, had heard cows low, horses
snort, lions roar, .a4ligators below
and the hypocrite moan out his
amens at Methodist pmeeting,
but those fellows laid everything
else we had ever heard in the shade.
Even the dogs of Union City re-
treated to a safe distance n
barked and howled, the roosters re-
fused to crow, the rats refused to
give up their hiding places and the
proprietor threatened to turn in the
fire alarm and flood those fellows
with artesian water. Up and down
the streets could be seen heads
sticking out at every door, and ruff
fed collars of female were seen at
every window, and it was generally
to be the tail of comet
against the side of the
earth, and we were told that Will
Walters fine cows refused to give
down their usual flow of milk and
that the cream positively refused to
be converted into butter. Now,
dear reader, wish could give you
some idea of how those fellows did
snore, but l can't do it and am not
going to try, but we were reliably
informed that all those fellows who
the district commissioner
and road overseer system snore
that way. (Burlesque).
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-02-05
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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-02-05

The man who was 'sborn tired
should use Prickly Ash Bitters. 1t
makes work necessity to give vent to
the energy and exuberance OF spirits
generated hy functional activity in the
system. Richard Polk, special agent.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-02-05
GENIUS OF FORGETTING
Bishop Galloway FavOrs Union of all
Methodists.


Mexico, Mo. Jan 30 Bishop
Charles B Galloway, d. D., LII. d
Of Jackson, Miss, who presided
over the recent Missouri Conference
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, ia this city, declares himself
very clearly and forcibly on the
question of the union of Methodism
1t was the immortal Henry Clay
who declared in the halls of Con-
gress that if it had not been tor the
division Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in the early history of the
Nineteenth century there would
never have been bloody conflict
between the North and the South.
1t is now thought that if these two
great ecclesiastical bodies again
become a unit it will be great step
toward the solution of the negro
problem, as it will certainly en-
courage more friendly relation.
BIsHoH GALLowAy's VIEWS.
Bishop Galloway expresses his
views as follows:
"That there should be painful
withdrawal from one Methodist
Church and formal admission into
another, when both teach exactly
the same doctrines and have sub
staatigiky the same policy, is an
ecclesiastical incongrnity. il not
spiritual anoAalg,
s.If. as Emerson has safda this is
but the dawning and cock growing
of modern civilization, we are called
to higher responsibilities--to the
discharge of imperial duties. We
have much to do in determining the
destiny Of the nations tomorrow
1.-THE Methodism of tomorrow
will get into closer cooperation and
fellowship. Though the organic
union OF American Methodism may
not be feasible in our generation,
certainly there ought to be perfect
unity and the closest possible fed
GRAFTON Of our forces. We have
heard and read much OF the plan of
paration In nv judgment it is
time to talk Of the plan of fed
ion
AThe demand Of modern Method
ism is not an auotere isolation, but
hearty, practical cooperation
Though we may continue in distinct
ecclesiastical connections. let us be
one Methodist family, sharing the
same priceless inheritance, animat-
ed by the same Holy Spirit, march
ing under the same glorious flag,
and moving to tte same spiritual
destiny.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-02-05
GENIUS OF FoRGErTING.

'sThere is no occasion to review
ancient history--to reopen the con-
troversies of 1874 and after. In
some things, believe in the policy
Of the sponge The highest spirit
uality has genius for forgetting,
as we'll as forgiving. We may
cherish the love Of principles, but
the memories Of passion and con
aict ought tc die forever
IF the late honored President of
this great nation, himself gallant
Federal soldier, v ho had braved the
storm Of war and felt the wild shock
of battle, could so magnanimously
suggest that the government should
tenderly care for the graves of the
Confe crate dead, surely we, as
Christian brethren and Methodists,
ought to be ashamed to stir atresh
the dying embers of strife.
IF the men of the deadly field
have ceased to fight, the sons of the
gospel of peace ought not to be
drawing swords and welding blud-
geons. And, really, this is only
slone by a few military anacrhon-
isms -post-beltum heroes whose
courage is to crow after all danger
zhas passed and the smoke Of battle
clears awavn
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-08
HEARD IN PASSING

We would like to learn the Mormon methods of making living. A man who can provide for five wives and 100 children under present prices is h- nancial wonder.--Memphis News.
 That honking may come from a wild goose flying north, or from an auto mobile going in the most unexpected direction. Tn either case it's well to be cheerful; each is sign of spring..
 Springfield Union.
 Because MT Cortelyou goes in moe casins on the trail of the beef trust the opposition demands that he go with brass band If he went with the band he would be even more fiercely denounced for not wearing sneakers. Buffalo News.
 Whatever the utilitarians and bung- lers may do to other American munici palitieS, the nations capital should be l made to conform in it's lines of growth and development to an architectural and landscape standard that will make it one of the most imposing and beau- tiful cities in the world.-Chicago Rec ord Herald.
 The plans for Connecticuts $ new nor nal school building, to be erected in AJdupuIy. Cdll TOT nanQSOm6, SUD- stantial brick building, with buff 1 limestone trimmings. The contract price is $7O,923. It is to be such a building as the state may well take pride in and such as Danbury may gloat over with especial satisfaction. She worked hard for it.. but it will be worth the effort--Ansonia Sentinel. W. H. Gocher throws cold water on l the attempt to change the nickname of Connecticut saying that there is no power of selection in such matters. Napoleon would never have called ! himself "The Little Corporal nor 1 Washington The Father of His l Country The disuust that ultl.
 nlately found expression in Judge Hali
 bul'ton's Wooden Nutmeg story
 in 1887 had been growing for two cen. turies. and is to be found in files and 1 letters of papers during that period. He concludes. .'The story; of the Wooden Nutmeg has been told at al-
 most every fireside in America and it
 will be as easy a matter to make the
 Connecticut river turn about and run
 back to Springfield as to unlear1l
 what has been sifted into the minds ] of the old and young for almost three \ quarters of century. There is n0th-
 ing in it to be ashamed of other than
 the hint at the sharp practices which
 the proverbia1 Yankee is credited with
 the world over Exchange.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-08

The eastern press bureau of the worlds fair, located in Washington, is in receipt of advices that most unique and universally useful invention will
 make its first appearance before the public in the palace of machinery at St Louis. It is claimed for ais won der of the twentieth century that it will be boon of inestinlable value to farmers, city folks. manufacturers gen. erally, oil producers, railroads, brew cries, miners, in fact to everyone en- gagged in lifting and distributing water and perhaps greatest Of all to the cul, tivators of land and raisers of stock in the arid regions, as through its use water may be drawn and distributed at will either by, clockwork, electricity Or hand power, The invention IS known as the Deis pump. It is con1- pact-about four feet high by probably three feet in circumference-but It's size is apparently no indication of it's greatness from the viewpoint of zen eraf utility The pump is to be nanu- factured in three standard styles.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-08


 less than formerly. On arrival in this land, they have been wont to settle in the port where liberated, to endeavor, without loss of time and money spent in travel farther westward, to begin the mending of their races fallen for tunes. And as 8 consequence otm me- tropolis now has the largest Jewish population of any city in the world. One writer declares that New York Is the largest Jewish city in all history. new dispersion of the Jews" has become necessity, and when the Jew now lands in New York, or other eastern port, he is invited to move or.
 Not only the crowding of the Jews Tn several of our cities has become | problem, but their overcrowding of cer- tain trades. Helpful in solving these questions has been the action of the trustees of the Baron de Hirsch fund. 8 fund that has done very considerable for the Russian Israelite. During the Is years the trustees have been engaged in this work, they have satisfactorily distributed numerous Russian Jew inn migrants by means of employment bu- reaus in touch with factories scat tered all over the United States; and, in the belief that Israel should return to the soil have also established an agri- cultural colony, situated in New Jersey.
 This agricultural colony has been a costly experiment, but successful. Dairy farming and truck farming are engag- ing the energies of the downtrodden exile, and he at last is leading a free, wholesome, independent life. He re- pays the borrowed capital in easy pay ments, on low rate of interest, and this wise method of aiding him aid himself is one of the hest of the many good features characterizing the Baron de Hirsch scheme Of benevolence. It is believed that the influence of the New Jersey Jewish agricultural colony will be wide-reaching, and that those receiv- ing training there will go out to form other such colonies, that the Ghetto evil
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-08
CUPID IS ECCENTRIC.
WILL DO ALMOST ANYTHING TO
 UNITE LOVING HEARTS.
Iowa Egg May Lead to Interstate Ro- mance-Prison Bars No Bar to Love-Too Bashful to
 Wed at Home.

If Robert Dowd, of 145 Berry street, Brooklyn, N. Y., hadn't liked a sherry flip, and hadn't been bachelor, and if pretty Emeline Merry, of Colombia, la, hadn't written her name and address OF the rounded surface of an egg, this little romance might not have been written But all these things happened, undoubt- edly, just as Cupid had planned they should. And now Robert DoMd declares that his fate has been sealed.
 It was on the coldest night of the last cold spell when Dowd, who is 24 years old, sat before a cheerful grate fire in his bachelor quarters. His eyes fell upon a, bottle of sherry on stand near by and he decided he needed a sherry flip. His landlady. at his request, sent him two eggs. Just as he was about to break one of them on the edge of the glass he saw the girls name neatly pen ciled on the she'll
 It was written in "a ,woman's hand and was enough to set the bachelors ideas moving in new lines. There was some thing sacred about that big, white egg. and 1t was set aside Another was used to make the bachelors Nip, and he sat down to think the girls name over as he quaffed the savory decoction.
 Twirling the egg about in his hands, Dowd examined the name from every point of view: Bet she's beauty" he unused, sententiously. Farmers daugh- ter, maybe, with the red cheeks, blond hair, and laughing eyes full of health and life" Solilouuizing In that fashion, he fell in love with the name and the vision he had set up as it's owner.
 The next step for man thus smitten Is to write to the unknown charmer. That is what Dowd did, and, after wait ing like some gallant standing on cold corner watching for his belated mis- tress he received a coy and well studied letter, which bears none of the earmarks
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-08
n our midst will thereby be much less-

ln our midst will thereby be much less- ened
 Chicago now is receiving, since the recent recurrence of persecution of the Jews, thousands and thousands of Rus sian Jews to add to her already close packed Ghetto. The Chicago Ghetto, unlike that of New York and the Ghetto of Europe, is very near the heart of the city; one has to take but 8 step from splendor and beauty to find oneself in a district as foreign, as squalid, as the notorious "Jewish Pa1es'' across the sea- Yet in these districts every mo- menC come reminders that it is not one of those old, hopeless Ghettos, one gets a glimpse of Americas own man. ner of life, her own way of working upon the queer peoples thrust upon her; here comes small boy with school books un- der his arm, little Jewish girls speaking broken English almost as volubly as they do the mother tongue.
 KATHERINE POPE.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-08
TOMATO VINE TALL Ks 4 TREE

The skyscraper stage has been reach ed in the development of the tomato in southern California. One of the la- test prodigies i'll that succulent vege- table is h group Of three thirty foot vines that have borne fruit at all sea sons and under all sorts of climatic conditions. These remarkable growths are in the gardens of F. c. Case in Pasadena.
 It is necessary to use an eighteen foot ladder to harvest the tomatoes for the vines have covered 8 trellis twenty feet in height, where they have tang led themselves into 8 thick, compact mass of greenery. The seeds of these wonderful plants were sown last May and have been growing and bearing fruit ever since; in fact. the vines are always filled with bloom and both green and ripe frudt.--From the Los Angeles Times.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-08

A reader Of the New Britain Herald asks the editor of that paper to explain what is meant by the term conserv.- tive democracy of Connecticut The editor explains 1t as follows: s.The Herald uses the phrase sconseryative democracy the sense in which is generally understood about the coun- try-as the antfthesis of the radical democracy, which has lately become in fected with the Hearst .yeIIows The conservative democracy. as we view if. Is the democracy based on tha pT,n- ciples of Inomas Jefferson, which is exeInplifled in Samuel J. Tilden Gro yer Cleveland, the late William c. Whit ney, Richard Olney and Judge Parker. It is emphatically not the democracy which is tied hand and foot to the dead issues represented by MT Bryan, or to the degenerate faction, which wei comes the candidacy Of the unspeaka- ble William Randolph Hearst. If is conservative only in the sense that 1t is not inclined to give sanction to the division of the nation into classes, and to senseless assaults upon the vested interests of the country. It is a dem, ocracy which desires under skilled and aggressive leadership to enter upon the presidential campaign on a plat form of life issues; which believes in the reformation of tariff schedules de signed to protect monopoly at the ex- pense of the people; which believes in legislative action which will compel the trusts to respect and live within the law designed for their regulation by the national government and which IS friend of civil service reform and an enemy of the dual alliance between spells and graft. It is the simon-pure democracy untainted with popuIism, socialism or demagogy. And it com. prises, at present, by far the larger part Of the democratic party as the national convention will show"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-08
OUR RUSSIAN JEWS
NEW YORK THE GREATEST JEW IsH CENTER IN THE WORLD.
They Flock to Our Shores to Escape the Expressions Found in Their
 Home Land-Denizens of
 of the City Ghettos.

Every shipload of emigrants coming to our shores brings 3 goodly proportion of Russian and Polish Jews Tn the land of their birth they are overwhelmed by government Oppression, by dire pow erty, and come to America feeling things here certainly can be no worse than back there, where "5,000,000 of them live on fringe of the Russian empire 2
 MT. Edward Steiner, writing in the Pilgrim, says for these poor dazed wan- derers that come to us America will do as halting place between earth and the New Jerusalem; and though often the Russian exiles herd in New World Ghet- tos, surely their future seems less hope
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-08
GOVERNMENT BUILDING.
Largest Exposition Building Ever
 Erected by Uncle Sam.

The government building at the worlds fair ranks with any on the ex- position grounds in point of arehitec- tural design and sculptueal beauty. The architect is James Knox Taylor, supervising architect Of the United States treasury The sculptor is James Burlington Early. the youngest pupil ever admi,.ed to the Royal --cademy.
 The exterior of the building is classic, stately and beautiful. The main entrance, consists of a portico of eight Ionic columns five feet in dam eter and forty-five feet high. surmount- ed by an entablatI1re and attic
 The attic is enriched by eight colos- sal female figures, eleven fet high. rep- Tesenting music. painting. sculpture, arhcitecture, agriculture, manufac- lures. transportation and commerce. On each side of the central portico and just above the top of the attic are groups of four figures each. A seated female figure, fourteen feet high rep resenting America, with torch in one hand and an eagle at her feete is sur rounded by three young athletes. each ten feet six inches hfgh. typifying the youth and strength of the renublie
 Each has laurel wreath in his hand.
 The dome is slrmoun+ed by a quad riga, a Goddess Of Liberty. fourteen feet high. bearing torch in one hand and an ea0le in the other. standing in the triumDhal chariot drawn by four colossal horses. The horses are guided bv two nude male figures, each twelve ] feet high. The fisheries building. which is con necfed with the United States govern ment building by T colonnade, is se- yerely classic in outline. It Is as sim pie as tho Greek tennle of Pseidou. which still crowns Sunium's Marb'ed Steep. Groups of nasads, mernlaids, 1nermen. sportive dolphins, sea shells
 and tridents adorn every available place The friezes and crests around 1 the building all suggest the sea.
 The central orna ment for the United l States government building proper is l the statue of Armed liberty" Ire l first plaster cast Of this statue was made in Rome by Thomas Crawford.
 the sculptor. It was used by Clark l Mills in 1860 for making the mold i'll which he cast the bronze statue sur mounting the dome Of the Capitol i'll l washington. The height of this statue
 is nineteen feet six inches The gov
 ernment board appropriated $15 900 for l the interior decoration of the govern
 rnent building. This work was under l the immediate supervision of Miss
 Grace Lincoln Temple whose plans, however. were subject to the approval Of the members of the United States | government board
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-08

From tho first mention of Juuge A,fon R. Parker as an available candi- date for the democratic nomination. for the presidency, the trend of public sentiment toward him has been mark ed bv a strong, steady, natural ln- crease and development. The favor he has found in the eyes of his coun- trymen is not confined to his own state or to a section; it is, on the con- trary, national in its scope and charac- ter. says an exchange. This eyer-ris- ing. broadening and deepening conf dence, trust and popularity, prove con- clusively that Judge Parker possesses all the high attributes and qualidca- tions which his friends and admirers have set forth in his behalf. By them he has been placed on very lofty pc destal, but neither in his own party nor in the opposition to it has anyone been found to question his right or his title to stand on 50 great an eminence. This is without precedent in our poli- tics. It proves that Judge Parker, should he get the democratic nomina, tfon, cannot be Justly attacked on any ground whatever. that publicly and privately, his career is without stain, his life without blemish. When to these moral qualities are added great intellectual gifts, proved conservatism of character, sound views on all the economic questions of the time, stead fast adherence to the fundamenta, principles of democracy and geograplr
 cal availability. the claim of Judge Parker's friends that he is the strong est man who could be nominated ! must be conceded.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-08
FRIDAY. APRIL 8. 1904.

The mingling of sexes at public bath ing places was declared yesterday by leading members Of the Women's Christian Temperance union of New Jersey to be "vile," .revolting" and corrupt" The union proposes to start crusade against the practice.-- Hartford Times.
 If lne sexes are separated at sum- mer resorts the owners of these places might as well close up shop. Isn't that what some Of the young people go to watering places for? To see and be seen?
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-08
The Candles of the Sky.

Mons. Charles Fabry, of the French Academy of Sciences. announces that careful measurements of the light of the star Vega. one of the brightest in the heavens, when 1t is seen near the zenith in calm weather, show that 1t is equal to that of standard candle burning at a distance of 2,56o feet from the eye.