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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-09-01
ELBRIpGE.

The Rev Holder is assisting
Bro. Harrison in meeting at New
Chapel.
The Cloverdale public and high
school opened August 7 with Prof.
". e. Gates principal and Miss
Maggie Tuble assistant, the enroll
ment being about 100 pupils.
The curtner Springs campmeet-
ing was not as largely attended
this year as formerly. This place
has grown very disreputablA and
many of the better class of people
do not attend. The general con-
sensus of opinion is that the meet
ing should not be held any more.
The Cloverdale stock tarm has
been rushed with orders for pure
bred stock during the month of
August, having made number of
shipments to various sections Of
the South. Tuesday of this week
nine head OF stock were shipped to
Georgia and Alabama.
Our West Tennessee Fair Asso.
citation premium list is out and is a
very nice catalogue.
Last week we spent a day in our
sister county OF Lake, the land of
cotton fields and corn patches, but
we are proud to note this year there
is more corn growing in the county
than of former years. Those with
whom we talked are discouraged
over the prospects of their cotton
crop, and the general opinion is
that there will not be an average
yield Of the fieecy staple. We Wis
tied the capital CITY of the county,
shook the hand of our friend and
former countlan, that prince of
merchants, Whit Campbell, as well
as those of that pleasant B. F. LIE
Duke and the invincible DR.. ]. w.
Walker, Walter Gresham and 9TH
ers. Tiptonville is an up-to-date,
progressive town, full Of hustling,
business men,
There are several fields of wheat
yet anthreshed in this section
which will be threshed, there were
a few fields not worth threshing
and none made a remunerative
yield. Notwithstanding this fact
the indications are that there will
be an average acreage sown to
wheat this fall. Weeds have grown
very rank on stubble land making
same difficult to turn. Much of the
second crop hay was lost owing to
the continued rains, and the seed
,rop of clover is an entire failure.
Dur corn crop will be heavy, while
Ihe cotton yield will be short.
Hogs continue to die with cholera
n some sections and the pesky flies
ire so bad cattle and all live stock
IRE doing but little good, SO the
'armer seems to be mp against
pretty tough proposition, and when
t is tough for the farmer it makes
t tough for the whole country.
U-KNow. i
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-09-01
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS.

The decade 1S50.1S was the
golden age Of the South, and Geor-
gia was the greatest of the Cotton
States. She was conspicuous for
her public -Toombs, Cobb,
Hill, Brown, Stephens and soon
she was to show herself as gallant
in the feld.as she was brilliant in
the forum. Intellectually, Toombs
had no superior, possibly no equal,
in Senates that knew Douglas,
Chase, Seward, Sumner, Benjamin
and Green. Cobb was the wisest
statesman Of the South, and not
the least mistake the South made
was the failure to make him the
President of the Confederacy.
Hill was a giant, but his fame was
not yet national. After the war
he was the first debater of his time
in either house of Congress.
Brown was an executive, and one
of the great war Governors of the
South, second only to Isham G.
Harris. Stephens was a great
thinker and a wise statesman. Had
the South followed his counsel it
would have escaped unnumbered
woes.
There is a philosophy that every
generation has its crop of great
men, and that one crop would be
as good as another if opportunity
afforded. Thomas Gray expressed
the idea in verse:
Perhaps IN this neglected spot Is laid
Some heart once pregnant with ce-
lestial fire;
Hands that the rod Of empire might
have swayed,
Or walked to ecstasy the living Tyre.
~
Some village Hampden, that with
dauntless breast,
The little tyrant Of his fields with
stood,
Some mute inglorious Milton here
may rest.
Some Cromwell gulltless Of his coun-
3 try's blood.
| doubt it. Nature does not
work in vain. She does not make
q Hampden for village, but for
q nation, and when she makes
she gives him a song to
sing, and he is never mute, never
inglorious. 1t takes centuries to
make Cromwell, and when once
he is made there is blood for him
to spell. No; when nature makes
D great spirit, fate weaves the op-
portunity for him and sends it to
accompany him in his journey
through life, and man is immortal
till his job is finished. And that
was true of William the Silent and
Don John of Austria; it was so Of
CASTOR lie Folk and Gabriel Mira
beau. Stonewall jackson and
Abraham Lincoln also serve to il |.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-09-01
NEGLECTED. Gods

Every part OF the mucous membrane
the nose, throat, ears, head and lungs,
ETC., are subjected to disease and
blight from neglected colds. Ballards
Horehound Syrup is pleasant and
effective remedy. 25c, Soc, S1. w.
Akendrick, Valley Mills, Texas,
writes: ~ have used Billiards. Hore-
hound Syrup for coughs and throat
troubles; 1t is a pleasant and most ef-
fective remedy" Martin-Allen Drug
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-09-01

1t IS matter of remark that
America does not send her great
statesmen to the national councils.
as she did in former times. Per
haps there is a great scarcity Of
great statesmen. If Georgia had
Toombs or Hill or a Stephens,
she would send him to the Senate.
If Louisiana had a Benjamin, he
would be a Senator. If Missouri
had Green, he would be the first
man in the company of Lodge and
Carmack, Hale and Bailey, Fora
ker and Daniel. If Illinois had a
Douglas, he would be the leader
of the Senate. If Indiana had a
Morton, he would be the greatest
living American statesman. If
Ohio had a Thurman, there would
be some hope of the Democratic
party. Such men as these are not
in public life, simply because such
men as these are no longer among
the living.
Alexander FL. Stephens was
never hated at the North as was
Jefferson Davis, and it is one of
the whimsicalities of human nature
that he was not. Both believed in
the right Of secession. Davis be-
lieved in its wisdom; Stephens saw
the folly of it. Both accepted it,
one cordially, the other reluctant
ly. One became the head of the
Confederacy, the other the second
parsonage of it. One was as GRIM
inal as the other, il either was
criminal. Davis did no violence
to any conviction; Stephens s'foI-
lowed the multitude to do evil''-
for he believed it was very great
mistake to secede.
The Southern Confederacy was
born of mistake and died Of fac
tion. 1t would not have lasted
len years if the ''wayward sisters
had been permitted to depart in
peace" It was fatal mistake to
'ecede without an covert act" of
hostility by the new administra-
ion, though years before many of
,ur wisest statesmen admonished /
he country that dIsunion would
'ollow the election of President
~ the votes of one section only.
Lincoln was the first of our Presi-
lents who did notreceive electoral
votes on both sides of Mason and
)ixon's lines. 1t was also fatal
mistake to fire on the flag. That
et the Northern heart afre, and
Until that was done the Lincoln
administration was as impotent as
3uchanan's had been and had not
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-09-01
PEACE ARTICLES.
Concessions and Agreements of the
Peace Conference.


Appended are the original de
mands of the Japanese envoys and
the agreements and compromise
as efected;
Article l. Recognition by Rus
sia Of Japanese preponderance in
Korea, with the right to preserve
order and to give military and fl
nancial advice to the emperor; but
to maintain the policy of the ''open
door" and to observe the terrific
rial integrity of Korea.
Agreed to.
Article 2. Mutual evacuation
OF Manchuria.
Agreed to.
Article 3. Obligations by Japan
to restore Chinese sovereignty in
Manchuria, including civil admin
istration.
Agreed to.
Article 4. Mutual obligations
to respect in future the territorial
integrity and administrative en-
tity' of China and Mauchuria,
with equal opportunity ("the open
door'9 for the industry and com
merce of all nations.
Accepted.
Article 5. Cession to Japan of
island.
To be held one half by Russia
and one half by Japan.
Article s. Russia to surrender
to Japan its leases Of the Liaotung
peninsula, including Port Arthur,
Dalny apl the Blonde and Elliott
islands.
Agreed to.
Article Z. Surrender to China
Of the railway from Hardin to
Port Arthur and Newchang, with
the surrender of all privileges OBJ
tanned under the concession of
1898.
Accepted.
Article s. Limiting the Roth
stein UkhomskY concession of 1896
lnder which the cutoff road
through Northern Manchuria was
built to connect the Trans Siberian
ind Ussuri line, but providing for
he ownership and operation of
he road by the Chinese Eastern;
md providing, further, for sub
ititution in the future of Chinese
police for Russian rail
way guards.
Accepted.
Article 8. Remuneration for
he cost of the war Indemnity.
Withdrawn.
Article 10. Russia to surrender
is warships now interned at
Shanghai, Saigon and
danila.
Demand withdrawn.
Article IL. Limiting in the fu-
ure the number of war vessels
hat Russia shall keep in the Pa
ific.
Demand withdrawn
Article ~. Special fishery !
ights to citizens of Japan in wa
,rs of the Russian littoral from J
'ladivostok to the Bering Sea.
Accanfnd
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-09-01

When you bring Prescription you can rest as
sured that it will be compounded by one of the best
Pharmacists in the State who uses nothing but the
purest drugs obtainabe. full line Of Purses, Cigars,
Tobacco, Brushes Stationery and Toilet Accessories
Phone 225. Goods Delivered Free in City.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-09-01

e. ]. Young and Mamie Click.
Andrew Ledsinger and Blanche
Galloway.
Edwin ]. Burge and Laura Stat
en-.
Walter Daniels and Dellie Ever
ett,
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-09-01

No need to fear sudden attacks of
cholera infantum, dysentery, diarrh9a
or summer complaint Of any sort Ii
you have Or. FOwIer's Extractof Wild
Strawberry In. the medicine chest.
Moss Pharmacy.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-09-01

changed the Buchanan policy
Had not the flag been fred on
Lincoln could not have recruited
an army. Then, when the wal
came, the South was content to lei
it be war of attrition, which ever
terminates in favor of the side
with the most men and money.
But faction did its deadly work.
The Southern Senate directed
more eloquence and more states
manship to criticisms of the Davis
administration than it did to any
thing else. Ben Hill and William
L. Yancey had fight about it.
Wigfall wasted his splendid abiIi,
ties in that quarrel. Davis him
self was not without fault.
Toombs should have been Secreta.
ry Of the Treasury; that would
have insured an immense sum Of
money, and,lack of money was one
Of the things, if not the chief
thing. the Confederacy died Of.
But then the Confederacy died Of
scores Of things-two of them the
bullets that killed Albert Sidney
Johnston and Stonewall jackson.
The grandfather of Alexander
H. Stephens was an English Jacob
ite, and "was out in the Forty
6ye," the last serious effort the
house of Stuart made ''to come
into its own again. 1t was the
age of Fergus McIvor and the
Baron Bradwardine, the heroic
age, when country gentry sang
cover the Water to Charlie, +" and
the Scotch wives, who were moth
ers to such women as Flora Mac
donald, sang:
| once had sons, but now hae none,
/ bred them toiling sairly;
And / would bear them d again
And lose them a for Charlie.
And Alexander Stephens swas
one of the cavaliers who was with
Charlie at Preston and at Culloden.
He was Of that magnificent race of
cavaliers who fought with Mont
rose and rode with Rupert in one
hemisphere and were to fight with
Lee and ride with Stuart in the
other. The cause was lost in the
Did World, as it was in the New,
but around them cling valor and
glory, poetry and romance, such
rs no other can boast, in ancient
or modern story.
When Charlie became a fugitive
became an emigrant, and
settled in Pennsylvania, for Will |
lam Penn, who founded the colo
~, was ever a friend of the house
# Stuart, and might have fought
or it had he been a fighting man.
he was now long dead, but his
iolony welcomed Alexander Ste
,hens, who settled on the banks of
he '.Blue Juniata." But he was
ull of adventure, and joined the
ommand of George Washington
a Braddock's expedition. Not d
.reat while later he fell in love
vith pretty girl whose father
wned the ferry where the Juniata
alls into the Susquehanna. Her
ather would not give her to him,
nd he took her. They were mar.
led, but never forgiven, and later
le family,now three sons and five
went to Georgia.
-SavOyard ia Nashville Banner.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-09-01

For high grade -four, try Sun.
shine, Dahnke- Walker. Milling Sos
best.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-09-01

lustrate that when nature makes a
great man she sets him task to
do, and when he has served her
purpose she takes him to herself.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-10-16
WENT THROUGH FENCE.
Two Young Ladies In an Automobile
Probably Fatally Injured.

New York. oct. 16.-Aiisses Vie Bru-
mer and Bessie Doyd were injured Sc
verely Saturday morning. and they
have little chance OF recovery. when an
automobile in which they were riding
Plunged through an iron fence and into
the tunnel In Park avenue and Thirty
third stree.
Charles Gelhaus. owner and driver Of
the automobile. was also severely IN
jured. He was cared for and then
placed under arrest.
The others injured are Mrs. f. Wilde.
and Mr.. and Mrs. Splitdorf. patrons OF
the Criterion hotel.
Mr.. Gelhaus, who lives in the Bronx.
had invited the party to 20 with him
In his heavy forty horse power gaso-
line automobile to the Vanderbilt cup
races.
The big machine started down
Broadway at a rapid pace and wheeled
into side street. running at a terrific
speed eastward. Suddenly the machine
swerved to one side OF the street.
smashed through the iron fence that
runs along the edge of the street cat
tunnel opening at that point and land
ed on the car tracks ten feet below.
Police who Witnessed the accident
found the two women pinned under the
machine and the others lying near In q
partly unconscious condition. The
machine was badly wrecked.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-10-16
FREEmAN's ARGUMENT.
Contends Texas and Pacific Is operst'
ed Under Federal Charter.

Austin. Oct l6.-In his argument on
Saturday In favor OF enJoining state by
railroads. Judge Freeman. general at
torney OF the Texas and Pacific rail-
way. commended that the road was
being operated under a Federal char
ter granted by congress. and that II
was not subject TO tax under the Love
bill.
He was followed by Judge y. A.
Stedman. general attorney for the In
ternationaI and Great Northern. Judge
Stedman coui-uied that the Love bill
was an Income tax and contrary to the
state cnustiution; also that II was class
legislation. as other carriers. such as
waterctafts. wagons. ETC. were not tax
81 under thu hill. He declared that In
many instances railroads had to apply
10 the railroad commission for lower
rate n order To compete with this
Kin. Of transportation OF freight.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-10-16
DECISION WAS In
HUSBANDS FAVOR
Taggart Secures Divorce From His
Wife and Also
CHARGE OF CHILDREN
Woman Was Accused Of Unbecomins
Conduct by Army Captain and
an Inordinate Appetite For
intoxicating Drinks.

Wooster. o., Oct. 16.-Judge Eason'
who heard the divorce case of Captain
Gilmore F. Taggart against his wite'
rendered his decision Friday afternoon
The court granted Captain Taggart the
divorce and the custody Of the two chill
dren, Culver, aged eleven, and Charles,
aged seven.
Although AIRS. Taggart is denied the
possession of the children, she Will be
permitted to see them. Captain Tag
CART was in court during the reading
of the decision. Mrs. Taggart is Ill
and was not present. The courtroom
was crowded with an eagerly expectant
throng of people. Judge Eason. before
giving his decision. reviewed the petit
tions. cross petitions. answers and affi-
davits. In the course of his statement
Judge Eason said that the testimony
was deeply touching. The charge OF
drunkenness against Captain Taggart
the court said. was not sustained.
The trial lasted seven weeks. The
case went to the court month ago
The suit was first started in July. 1904.
by Captain Taggart. who filed petit
ton for divorce. charging his wife with
conduct unbecomin6 wife and alleg-
ing the excessive use of intoXicants
Mrs. Taggart heard of the proceedings
at San Francisco several weeks later
and Immediately started for Wooster
the home OF the Taggarts. where she
filed a counter petition for divorce
against Captain Taggart on the ground
of cruelty and negligence.
The case has been OF exceptional In
terest because of statements during the
trial by Captain Taggart that the use
of intoxicants In the army was SO COM
mon as to be almost the custom. A
number of prominent army officers
were named in Captain Taggart's peti-
ton as having been more or less the
cause of the domestic troubles between
Captain and Mrs Taggart.
Captain Taggart is.a well known
army officer. He is graduate of West
Point and served at various army posts.
He was commissary officer of a divi-
sion in the Cuban campaign and served
with distinction in the Philippines.
Culver. the eldest child of Captain
and Mrs. Taggart declared 10 his
mother that no matter what the court
decides he would rather remain with
her. Friday afternoon before the deci-
sion of the court was announced the
child went TO his mother and ssisi-
Mama. l won't have TO leave you. viii
I7''
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-10-16
HEMERY WINS RACE.
Covered the Course In Truly Remark.
able Time.

New York, oct. 16.-International
auto race for Vanderbilt cup. started at
o'clock Saturday on the Mineola
course. Jenatzy. in Robert Graves
German 100 horse power car. was the
first TO start followed quickly by
eighteel others at one minute Inter
walls. The course OF 2S3 miles were
round and were TO be covered ten
times. makingi the total distance race
2S3 miles. Jenatzy. who started first.
finished the first round ahead. having
made 2S.3 miles I'm "a minutes and 80
seconds Duray. in a 1870 horse power
French machine was second. I'm 26.26.
Wagner. IN the French 20 horse power
machinei. was next. In 24.56. Lancia.
driving an Italian machine. a 10 horse
power was in the lead on the third lap.
Hemery. driver OF an so horse power
French machine.~won me =rffce---fris
elapsed time was hours. SO minutes.
eight secods.
Paul Sartoria. driving A. C. Van
derbiIts Italian machine. was second.
His elapsed time was 4.3610-
Heath. driving 80 horse power
French machine. was third. His
elapsed time 4.3O.4O. Hemery covered
the course In 276 minutes and eight
seconds.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-10-16
BRIEFLY MENTIONED.

Jacksonville. Tex. is TO have a $780,
900 waterworks plant.
A mile of cement sidewalks Is to be
built on Avenue G. Lawton.
Texas railroad commission has re-
ceived last OF railway reports.
In fight near Lufkin. Tex. Walter
Copeland negro. was Killed
Eleven University of Michigan stu
dents were expelled for haziEg
Fire at Little Elm. Denton county
Texas. did over $4,000 damage
Combined weight at birth OF twins
at New orleans was three pounds
PIerpont Morgan has contributed
$40. 900 10 earthquake sufferers In italy
Rock hotel at Shawnee. Okla. was
partially destroyed by fire Loss 5000
Eighteen divorce cases at Lawton
were referred TO Special Referee Smith
II IL believed thugs have been i'm
ported into New York to register ard
vote.
Postoffice at New Birmingham. Tex.
containing nearly 800 IN cash and
stamps burned.
Davis Banking company Of Davis
T. capital stock 100000. 500 600 paid
up. has been organized
Horses attached To a field piece at
Fort Riley. Kan. dashed over a cliff.
Private Laste was killed and severed
others hurt.
While playing with matches the
clothing OF the little child Of Perry
Roach Of Atlanta. Tex. caught FIRE and
young one burned TO death.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-10-16
RATE REGULATION.
Senator Morgan Says Changes Cannot
Be Made Over Night.

Birmingham. Ala. Oct. Ex-senator
John T. Morgan of Alabama was I'm
Birmingham Friday and made a state
ment In which he takes issue with
President Roosevelt's proposed policy
OF comforting greater powers for the
regulation of railway rates upon the
Interstate commerce commission. Sen
ator Morgan said In part:
I'VE cannot adopt In this country the
experiment of changing over night our
present system That experiment was
tried many times I'm history. and not
once was successful. Our country is
prosperous, our people are happy. The
question. Has the congress power to
fix a railway rate?' has not been de-
termined.
1.-THE whole problem of fixing railway
rates is essentially a business and a
great question, and should be solved In
a judicial and businesslike manner. The
difficulty IS that the moment the ques
tion is discussed II runs into politics at
every point of the circumference. II
should not be made political issue In
the usual acceptation of the word, for
II it be made. 1t will result in wrecking
the Industrial and commercial life OF
the country. There is so much at stake
IN this nation that patriotic citizens
are now swept from their mornings by
ill advised agitation on the part OF the
9 persons who have neither the capacity
10 solve rightly great constitutional
problem. Involving as IT does not only
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fly of the country, but also some Of the
fundamental principles OF free orderly
and constitutional government"
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-10-16
TARRANT TAXES.
Thay Will Probably Show Largest In
crease For the Year.

Austin. oct. 16.-Tarrant county has
rendered Its tax roll to the comptroller
showing assessed valuation for 1905 tn
be s30.6ls.54O. which is an increase over
last year OF 1851. $50 This is by far
the largest increase reported by the
the counties to date. Nearly all the
larger counties. with the exception OF
Dallas. have rendered their rolls. and 1t
Is thought possible that Tarrant will
maintain the distinction OF having the
largest increase in property valuation
for this year.
The governor has signed the follow
ing land patents: ThrOckmorton coun-
~. 1880 acres: Edwards. 500: Hale. Gao !:
Nacogdoches. Il: Motley. 400; Runnels.
81: Kendall. 81; Donley. 81: Deaf
Smith. $40: Lamb. 20; Liberty. g17;
Nolan. 1850: Harrison. IL. Jones. 1880:
Coke. 2sa: Marion. $40; Newton. 1850:
Taylor. 100: Knox. Gao; Travis. 800
Kimble. 1880. making a total of thirty
hree tracts.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-10-16
STEAMER STRIKES sNAe.
Sunk at Vicksbure and Several Roust-
abouts Were Drowned.

Vicksburg Miss. Oct. le.-Loaded to
the guards with freight, and with a
Elk while backing out Of the city land
ing struck snag and sunk In twenty
five feet Of water. From five TO ten ne
Froes. roustabouts. were lost. but the
exact number will probably not be
known for several days. The loss on
boat and cargo f. estimated at $4,000.
partly insured. The Elk II local
steamer which has been plying between
this poin. and Davis Bend.