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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-03-17
Real Estate Transfers.

w. M Richards and wife to B. T..
Johnson, l03 acres in No S, 81, ,050.
G. d. Tate and wife to Sammie
Johnson, II acres in No. S, $3.50.
J. w Thompson and wife to Geo.
S. Thompson, 48 acres in No. g,
81, 30S.
l.. w. Emerett and wife 10 J. w.
Thompson, 4S acres in No. 9,
So, 228.
Sanky Callicott to #. c. CALI
colt, SO acres in No. 4, 81 900.
J. A. Huglett ct al. to M. u.
54 acres in No. 10, So, 600.
]. B Touchstone to w. M. It'd
well, "a acres in No. 9, S400.
A. Semones to Dahnke. Walker
Co., lot in No. 13, $500
J. r, Gentry to D. M. Ray, lot in
No. II, 5000.
c. f. Flowers TO e. f. Webb,
331a acres in No. II, 500.
w. p Cloyes to ]. G. Sanders,
lot in No 13, $500.
D. W, Herring TO viii cloyes lot
IN No. 13, 5000.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-03-17

In a recent proclamation the
Gar has said that a divine provi-
dence has in its inscrutable wisdom
thought proper to afflict the faith
erland with sore trials. If the
Gar really believed this it would
be his duty to put an end to the
war. If divine providence has
anything to do with these bloody
conflicts, then the Gar has re
ceived a notice from the Almig ghty
that be is engaged in a most un-
righteous war. His naval forces
in the East have been destroyed.
Port Arthur has fallen, and the
army there is now in captivity.
Kuropatkin has sustained an un-
broken series of defeats, and is
now apparently surrounded SO
that he must either surrender or
perish. If the Almighty has taken
any part in this titanic conflict, he
has evidently meant to warn the
thick -skulled Gar that he is in the
wrong. In continuing the war,
the Gar would be flying in the
face of divine providence. The
God of Battles would seem to be
on the side of the Japanese. Yet
all these notions are medieval.
We do not believe that the Al
mighty interferes eitherIn wars or
politics. Russia has brought on
this war from none but the most
thoroughly mercenary motives.
The Gar has never once thought
of bis people. He has been ami
mated entirely by selfish aims. He
has asked his soldiers to 90 out
and get killed by the tens of thou
sands in order that he may break
his plighted word with impunity.
1t was the acme Of irony when this
poor little nanikin who has de
luged his country in blood, be
sought his people, recently, to
rally to him and sustain him in his
programme of expressing them
and despoiling them of their rights.
He told them in one breath that
they were unfit to participate in
government, and then appealed to
5hem not to desert him in his effort |
% deny them representative gov
,rnment.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-03-17

The terrible stories that come to
US from Manchuria are bloody
enough to sicken the world, and
they may we'll cause all humane
people to take steps to see that
war shall prevail no more. Well
may we ask why does a benefcent
ruler of the universe allow such
things to be. There would seem
to be no raison d'etre for war.
Men were surely not created to be
killed; for that's the worst purpose
to which they could be put. A
nation builds great cities, spans
mighty rivers with bridges, and
penetrates vast reaches of virgin
territory with railroads that bring
civilization and development in
their train. Then comes war.
Mars with his blood red sword
enters the stately castles and the
priceless palaces. The architects
realized dream crumbles to an un-
ruin. The treasures of art
are ruthlessly destroyed. The ac-
cumulations of ages are blotted
out as by the breath of the whIrl-
wind. The tombs of mighty rul-
ers OF the past are destroyed, and
the splendid monuments are de-
feated. Cities are burned, bridges
are demolished, and railroads torn
up. Contented men are taken
from happy homes, where they
had been earning a living for
themselves and their families, and
hurried away to kill men whom
they have never seen, and against
whom they have no personal
grudge, or to get killed them
selves, because some weak mon
,ter in regal chair deerees that it
must be. Ruin stalks through
once happy land. Tears and de-
'pair follow. Homes are broken
Up and families divided. The pre-
'epts of Christianity are cast to
he winds. All the baser passions
# humanity are let loose. and
What good comes from this waste
# blood and life and this carnival
f slaughter! 1t is surely hard to.
md any, for it takes decades to
epair the ravages of war and to
ind up the broken hearts it has
aused.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-03-17

Despite, however, all the homi-
lies of the preachers and moralists,
there is a glamor about war that
has always appealed to the imagi-
nation of the world. The savage
in every man enjoys being turned
loose. The very first thing that a
child wants to do is to destroy; and
wherever one man builds some
thing towards the stars there are
a dozen men who would pull it
down to earth. History is largely
made up of the march and coun-
termarch Of armies, the flashing of
swords, the hurting of lances and
the booming OF cannon. We see
as we turn the pages of history the
building and the downfall of Baby
Ion, the destruction of Nineveh,
the sacking of Carthage, the demo
lition of the Holy Temple of the
Jews, the plunder of Rome and
the fall of Constantinople. We
see the tide of conquest surging
over every land in the world. We
see Alexander crossing the Helles-
pcnt to conquer the world; Han
nibal toiling over the Alps to
knock at the gates of the Imperial
city; Nebuchadnezzar hammering
for years upon the walls of Tyre;
Thebes demolished and her inhab-
tants given over to the sword;
Caesar conducting his matchless
campaign in Gaul; Alaric and
Attila sweeping the earth with fire
ind sword; the Goths and the Van |
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-03-17

But we must reverse some of
our preconceptions about war.
The generations coming on should
be taught to abhor war, and to
embrace it only in a just cause. In
defense of ones country, in the
interest of humanity and justice,
war is a righteous thing. The
man who goes to war for mercen
ary motives or in a spirit of ad-
venture, or to indulge the brute
instict to fight and kill is no better
than a plain, ordinary murderer.
Nothing could be more at variance
with the spirit Of Christianity than
the declaration often heard that a
soldier wishes to go to some place
where he can see active service.
Stripped of all frills, this means
that he wants to 90 to some land
where he. will have a chance to
hunt and kill some of his fellow
men. The very idea is essentially
We do not decry the
military ideal, nor would we abol-
ish armies, for the present at least.
No country can get along without
an army any more than city can
get along without a police force.
1t is we'll that the military ideal
should be cultivated, and that the |
army should be composed of brave
men, who are ready to serve their
country whenever they are called |
)n. But it is time that there
should be a great world awakening
IN the subject of war. The people
should learn to abhor an unjust
var and the people who wage it.
There is nothing very fine or very
loble in the wholesale murder of
nen any more than there is in
murder by retail Instead of max
NO a hero of the man who has
TILED somebody, we should look
n him askance, unless he has
ought in the cause Of liberty. pa
riotism and humanity. CONNER
ial Appeal. J.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-03-17
The Best COuuh Syruo

S. L.lApple, ex-Probate Judge, OF
tawa County, Kansas, writes: dThis
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the best cough syrup | have ever
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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-03-17
Cured Consumption.

Mrs. b. w. Evans, Clearwater. Kan.
writes: "My husband lay sick for
three months. The doctors said he
had quick consumption. We procured
bottleof Billiards. Horehound Syrup,
and It cured him. That was six years
ago and since then we have always
kept bottle in the house. We can
not do without it. For coughs and
colds 1t has no equal" 25c, soc and
81. Martin-Allen Drug Co.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-03-17

province. On the part of Japan
this has been a patriotic war, in
volving her very existence. On
the part of Russia it has been
war to obtain something that did
not belong to her. No nation can
ever afford to have it thought that
it will not fight.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-03-17

There can be no doubt that it
pays nation to be warlike. If a
people wishes to maintain itself in
the front rank, it must be willing
to fight. China has a population
of 400, 900, 900; but because of the
fact that the Chinese are a peace
loving people, their country is the
quarry of all the warlike nations.
A few German missionaries are
killed in China. and Germany not
only gets an indemnity, but she
seizes q Chinese port and takes
possession of the adjacent prov
ince. England and France pursue
the same course. Japan defeats
China in a quick and decisive cam
paign, and Russia steps in and Sc
cures all the fruits of Japanese
heroism. And all because China
will not fight. Russia made the
mistake of supposing that Japan
would not fight, and that mistake
has been her undoing. The Gar,
the Grand Dukes and certain court
favorites are responsible for the
war. Russia stood pledged
to the Powers to withdraw from
Manchuria. The Gar broke that
pledge against the advice of three
Of bis ablest ministers. Japan had
certain commercial treaties with
China, which enabled her mer-
chants to trade in Manchuria. |
Russia, as is her wont, closed the |
Mauchurian ports to the trade of |
the world. Japan realized if Rus
sia became dominant in Corea and
Manchuria, her own existence was
1t stake. She tried to get Russia
to do the fair thing, but the Gar
refused. The war followed. It'll
was a war fought by Japan for
ler national preservation. If she
lad not been a warlike nation,
Russia would have absorbed both
Jorea and Manchuria, and it would
rot have been many years before
Japan would have been a Russian
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-03-17
THE ETHICS OF WAR.

dals scourging the proudest capital
of the world; the Moors conquer
ing Spain; the appearance of the
keen faced Corsican upon the scene
with his ambition to conquer Eu
rope; the War of the Roses in
England; the American Revolution,
and the many ensanguined con-
ficts of our own time. And al
ways we see the waving of flags,
and hear the sound of martial
music, and it seems to us that
fame could not be fairer won than
on the field of battle.
But the enchantment Of war is
mostly in the reading about it.
Disease and discomfort keep pace
with every army. There is no
glamor about the camp life; there
is nothing exhilarating in being
packed in dirty trains and trans
ported to distant territory; there
is no satisfaction in being wounded
and being left without proper at
tention; there is no pleasure in
eating inferior food, and perhaps
not getting enough of that. In
deed, the compensations of war
are of the scantiest variety. The
man who does the fighting comes
home shattered in health probably,
and is soon forgotten. A few of
the officers are acclaimed as he
roes, sometimes deservedly, some.
times not. But war is not pay
ing investment. Even fame is not
allotted to the proper persons as a
rule. Yet ordinarily the world
worships the warrior as the high
est type of man, Notwithstanding
the fact that Shakespeare or a
Homer is worth more to mankind
than a Caesar, a Hannibal, Ma
poIeon, a Frederick and Grant
all merged into one. 1t would
seem that we IF the Christian era
ought to attempt a readjustment
Of our ideas about war. In the
springtime of the world, both par
lies to a conflict might be in the
wrong. In our time one at least
If the combatants should be in the
light. In short, it is time that
he civilization of the twentieth
century was giving some attention
o the ethical side of war.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-03-17
More Than Most People are Aware OFF,

Of Ammonia costs cents but the chemically pure costs
right person would be foolish to pay IS cents pound
when it comes to using incidentally then the best is none
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-16
DUNCAN X. McRAE'S DAUGHTER
For Her Mother She Denied Herself
NecesSarics and Her Funds
DWindIing.
(NeW York World. }

Miss Y. Fl. McRae, daughter OF n
distinguished Southern family, and
now living in White Plains, is denying
herself the neceSSaries of life in order
that the closing days of her aged
mother may be more comfortable.
The mother is in Bloomingdale Asy-
lum and has only few months - live
but the faithful daughter. who gave
up a good position with .One tie
Edison companies 10 nurse her, is de-
termined that Mrs McRae shall sit
under her own roof with the COM
forts and endearments of home about
her.
TO re-esta blish a small home Miss
McRae has a pitifully inadequate
sum, which Is dWindling slowly. She
has not eaten Il square meal in sevcl
weeks
Col Duncan McRae, of North Caro-
lima, the father. was Consul General
TO Paris under President Buchanan
and the grandfather was plenipoten-
tiary in the arrangement of treati *
between Spain and the United States.
Miss Mcltae wants to eSta bliSh her
self in a small business in White
Plains that would enable her to sup-
port her mother, and has nearly mon
cy enough to do this. Her furniture
is in storage and she lacks the small
sum requisite to release il.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-16
SHATTERED HIS HAND.
Barn Lost by Fire Supposed TO Have
Been started by an Inccndiary.

Especial to News and Observer
burlington, y. c.. Nov 15.-Quite a
serious accident occurred at HaW
River Monday. Two young men were
fooling with Il gun, when one stuck
IN his hand and told the other to see
If he could hit it, Thinking the gun
unloaded. Floyd Thompson. one of
the young men. raised the gun to his
shoulder and pulled the trigger. There
was flash and the hand of Chas.
Vowel hung at his side shattered.
Drs. Mcpherson and Long were called
in and amoutated Il.
In CaSWell county, near Tony, last
Saturday night. the barn of Mr.. Geo.
Walker, Il leading farmer of that sec
ton. was destroyed by fire. All of
his stock. mules. horses. cows. were
released from the building before it
was set OH fire BY some unknown per-
son. Some negro men were forbidden
To hunt on Mr.. Walkers land the day
before, and it is supposed that they
arc responsible for the fire.
In row Sunday night in this city,
Mann Vaughn cut Arthur Sellars the
wound being q dangerous une on the
neck. The fact that the razor struck
the jaw bone saved Sellars' life
Both were colored. Vaughn escaped.
Mr.. e. f.. Lovette one of our clever
board of aldermen, who was operated
upon for appendicitis at Johns Hop
kns last week. is reported as getting
along nicely.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-16
TORTURED BY ECZEMA
BODY Mass of Sores. Could not Sleep
Spent Hundreds Of Dollars on
Doctors, but Crew Worse
CURED BY CUTlCURA FOR So

"Cuticura saved the life of my
mother, Mrs. Vim. +. Davis, of Stony
Greek, Conn. Hers was the worst
eczema l ever saw. She was hardly
able to eat or sleep. Her head and
body was a mass of sores, and she
despaired of recovery. Finally, after
spending hundreds of dollars on doc
tors, growing worse all the time,
living in misery for years, with hair
whitened from suffering and body
terribly .disfgured, she was complete
ly cured by two cakes of Cuticura
Soap, five boxes of Cuticura, and
three bottles of Cuticura Resolvent.-
Geo. c. Davis, IoI W. goth St. N. Y"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-16

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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-16
THE VALUE OF CHARCOAI.
Few People Know How Useful ii i i'm
Preserving, Health and Beauty.

Nearly everybody knows that char
coal is the safest and most efficient
disinfectant and purifier in nature, but
few realize its value when taken into
the human system for the same
cleansing purpose.
Charcoal is a remedy that the more
ycu take of it the better; it is not a
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r the stomach and intestineS and car
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All druggists sell charcoal in one
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-16
LIFE FLUNG AWAY
ALarge Portion of George
{. PASSWORDS.
But Today His Health is Better Than
il Has Been in Ten Years and
His Home Happy
One.

1t must be happy home in which
a loving wife can say to her husband
that he is the best man on earth. and
she is the happiest of women. How
such words must thrill the heart of a
true husband, abiding in his con-
seriousness like a strain of music. OF
such a home George f.. Passmore
speaks in the following letter:
/ had thrown away a large portion
of my lie drinking and did not realize
it until my health. business and influ-
the place where / could not eat OF
sleep; then | began to think what was
best for me- and soon decided that
perhaps Kelley Treatment would re-
deem me. and. without asking the adj
vice Of any one, or even telling any
one of my intention, | went home and
announced to my wife that / had de-
cided to take the Kelley Treatment.
then had only twenty-five minutes
in which TO catch the train. | got
ready and made the train and landed
at the Kelley Institute at Greensboro
the next morning. There | found one
of the incest places in the world:
The manager met me at the door and
welcomed me in All who were con-
nected with the Institute were so Kind
and attentive To me that it made me
feel as if | would like to stay there all
the time.
Now / want 10 say that the month !
spent at the Keeley Institute was one
Of the most pleasant of my entire life.
followed the advice of the physi-
clan and ObeYed the rules of the lnSti-
tute TO the very letter and. after |
had been taking the treatment about
ten days l commenced to improve. and
fatIened about n pound q day. Now
my health is better than ii has been
for ten years and ! have eaten more
and digeSted ii more thoroughly than
ever before i'm my life | sleep we'll
and the world seems brighter, my bus
mess improved wonderfully and best
Of all my wife says | am the best man
on earth, and she the happiest of Wo-
men. To say the least | would moi
have missed the. treatment for ten
times the cost to me. | have not
taken a drop or intoXicants since |
left the institute. and have not the
slightest desire 10 do so.
GEORGE +. PASSMORE.
Keysville. Va, Oct. 6, 1904.
Send names and addresses of those
who may be benefited to the Keeiey
Institute, Greensboro. y. G.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-16
TIE ILLINOIS Frs.
These Are the Sort of Citizens Who
Would Become Good North
CarOiinianS
Wilmington Starr

The party of Illinois "homeseek-
ers,' who have been here several days
prospecting with a view Of locating
and developing the fine trucking
lands in this immediate vicinity, went
over to Chadbourn on a special train
yesterday morning. A number of fine
farms all along the route were in
spected and the visitors were shown
just what may be accomplished on any
of the lands on this coast. 1t is I'M
derstoOd that the Prairie State folks
are we'll pleased with what they have
seen and heard. and that there is a
strong probability of the location of
a colony of the thrifty people here.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-16
Aged Man Drinks Iaudnum.

Statesvile. \. c. Nov. 15--Mr Hugh
Macdonald. an aged man in feeble
health. drank two ounces of laudnum
with suicidal intent, but shortly after
ward the fact became known and all
possible efforts were made to revive
him. The last report from his bed
side represents his condition as being
critical. At one time he was mem
Der Of q firm of cotton brokers. His
only near relative in this country ~
q daughter who lives in Pennsylvania.
and who provides for him here
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-16
REV. \. b. BARBEE RESIGNS
Mrs. w r. Perry Dies at Her Home
i'm Durham.
especial to News and Observer

Especial TO News and Observer
Durham y. c.. Nov. 15.-Rer. A.
p. Barbee. who has been pastor of the
Christian church in this city for sew
eral years. has rendered his resigna-
ton as pastor, his resignation TO take
effect on November Goth. He will be
succeeded by Rev. c. f.. Newman. of
Virginia conference of the Christian
where Mr.. Barbee Will locate Mr..
Newman, the new pastor, holds a
high position in the North Carolina
Nirgainia conference of the Christian
church.
Mrs. w p Perry. wife of William p.
Perry, 30 wears of age, died at her
home on Yancey street this morning