The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-08-16
OUR EXCHANGES.

The fruit tree man will raise no OBJ
jections TO the theory that people
should eat more fruit, as it keeps the
body in better health because it il
easily digested and is cooling in effect
Knoxville Sentinel.
1t is not in the Sunny South, with
its traditions of hot blood and ven
geance, but in the cold North, that q
saturnalia Of crime exists that is toe
terrible, having for victims-not ne.
groes-but innocent children and help
less women. Springfield Herald.
Big hay and oat crops, saved in
splendid condition, have put the farm.
ers Of Hickman county in a happier
frame of mind. The corn crop will be
exceptionally fine, If the present out.
look holds good, and this means plenty
Of feed for horses, cattle and hogs
Hickman County News.
This may be the dullest business
season in the year; it is also the season
when the reader has ample time to
read the dvertisemeDts, and the indi-
vidual these days who fails to read
advertisements has about one chance
in a Thousand Of getting his money S
worth when spending his income. You
either fish or cut bait these times =
Maury County Democrat.
The home merchant is a friend to
the farmer. He takes his produce and
pays him the market price for it. The
mail order houses only take his money.
Not one of the great catalogue houses
would buy dozen eggs or pound of
butter. They sell goods for cash, and
demand the cash even before the goods
are shown. The home merchant more
over sells goods of the same quality
at just as low price as the mail order
houses, provided the buyer counts
postage, freight, etc.-Obion Enter
prise.
Many thousands Of acres of noun
tain lands In Tennessee have been
assessed for taxes at 81 an acre for
years past, although these lands read
lily command from S5 to S12 per acre
on the market. Some of these lands
In Bledsoe and Sequatchie counties
have recently been back assessed to
1908 at So to to SIS per acre by State
Revenue Agents, and this action has
been sustained by the State Board of
The land owners will APP
peal the matter to the courts. If the
courts sustain the re-assessment it
will put large additional sums into
the State and county treasuries.-M
Standard.
At mass meeting of the telegraph
operators now on strike in Chicago
yesterday afternoon Secretary Russell,
If the organization, declared that al
though the men had taken the matter
INTO their own hands wherever they
had walked out, the officials Of the or
yanization would now stand back of
hem and that the matter had gone
zoo far for any drawing back Grand
Secretary-Treasurer Quick, of the Or
Ter of Railway Telegraphers, appeared
1t the meeting and said that his Or
ganization had 81 100000 in the treas
Try which was at the disposal of the
The union operators met in |
New York yesterday and decided to
await proposed conference between
United States Commissioners of Labor
Neill and President Smallof the union |
before taking action, There were
lumber of accessions to the ranks of |
,he strikers in various cities yester-
lay .-Courier-J ournal.
Madame Vesta la Viesta, young
woman who has bobhed up with psy- |
biological enthusiasm in New York. |
proposes to teach the art of giving |
soul kisses She says the sense of kiss |
S utterly unsatisfying as compared |
With the ecstasy of the soul kiss,
which scan only be exchanged between |
'ipened souls, 7 and she is prepared for
The modest fee of $500 to initiate /
anyone into the mysteries Of the sub
mated buss, so to speak, To avoid |
he suspicion that Nine. Vesta la
Viesta may have soulful designs upon |
my of her pupils, she assures the
,ublic that her affinity Is in the planet |
Neptune and she vouchsafes hint of |
Ter method by saying, when / ex-
hange soul kisses with my affinity Ia
he planet Neptune ! close the doors,
brow myself on a couch, my soul goes
ut to meet him and | experience
)illowy ecstasy" There will probably |
'e not few fools who will 60 To her
0 have their souls ripened at $500 per.
Nashville Banner,