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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-03-18
MUST CUT DOWN
GOVERNMENTAL EXPENSE

For over fifty years the cry of the
spoilers has been "Our national expendi-
lures are increasing and therefore we
must increase the tariff in order to pro-
vide more revenue" Now with special
session of congress called for the avowed
purpose of tariff revision the cry is much
more loud and insistent than ever before.
IF the people accepted this as the solu
ton there never would be stop put to
the iniquities of the tariff robbery and in
place of reduction in the burdens of
the people there would be a steady in
crease with the Improvement and de-
velopment of the country until the
burden would become SO great that it
would be introlerable and unbearable.
The solution must come from other
sources and the sooner it is found and
acted upon the better it will be for the
country and for the people who provide
the income.
the protected interests loudly pro
claim that the reduction Of the tariff
will not permit the keeping up Of such
enormous government expenditures.
True enough. There is always some
way out of every difficulty and there is
one in sight now if the party i'll power
will listen to reason andapay no atten-
lion to the protected Interests which are
the sole gamers and Eenefciaries of the
present tariff system.
When the expenditures are in excess
of the receipts, cat down the expendi-
lures
That is what any good business man
would do in the conduct of his business
affairs If he found that the expense of
conducting his business exceeded the in
come derived from it, he would not hes
itatc moment but would cut down ex-
penses to meet the deficiency. What is
the American government more than u
big business concern? And why should
it not be conducted OH II like safe and
sane business plan? 1t is not good bust
Hess sense to push up the tariff when
hard times come to thus provide rev
enue, and as soon aus the hard times are
past instead of reducing the tariff SO
that the people may BIZ benefited, push
up the expenditures III order to cat up
the added revenue, as the Republican
party has done. N
BY referring to the government re-
ports it can readily be seen that during
the two Cleveland terms the cost of
government was materially reduced, but
the instant that the reins of power were
given back to the Republicans the ex-
penses at once mounted up to the Old
standard and then increased 1t costs
but little more To- govern 100, COG, 900
people than it did to govern $4,000, 600,
yet the statistics show thaG while the
population was growing from CO. 600. 900
to 10000, 600 the cost of government
doubled. Only the richest nation on
this earth could stand the wonderful
and wanton waste that grows larger
each year and this will soon cease to he
the richest nation if this extravaganza
is not stopped. Roosevelt made many
windmill attacks on this reckless waste,
hut while he was so doing he was seek
ing new places to get rid of the wealth
of the country and to increase its
revenue producing qualities.
Cut down the expenses to meet the
revenue. This is the solution~-the only
one.--St. Joseph Observer
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-03-18
And Not 4 Thing to Do.

A German scientist thinks he has
discovered in an Alpine cave evidence
that men were living 100000 years
ago. 1t is a terrible thought. There
we're no flying machines, baseball
scores, ready letter-writers nor essay
lists on New York society. What could
the poor things do?-New York World
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-03-18
prayins Business.

Chris Eshleman has started draying
business. He is prepared to do all kinds
OF hauling, delivering freight and all
other business in the draying line. Prices
reasonable and strict attention given to
all orders Office at the Old Lumber
Office.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-08-06
One Virtue of Art.

The greater number OF us are con-
demned by circumstance of income and
the routine Of duty to a life restrained
by walls. streets and the more or less
flexible bounds of the community. The
greater world without is defined by
such impressions as the books and
the newspapers and the chance travel
ers make upon our imaginations. When
the opportunity of vacation or enforced
travel takes us into country and cities
thus described, we learn how awry
and colorless these initial Impressions
have been.
The life that goes on within our OWL
walk must ever be narrow In this n
sense-that the mind can never recre-
others. The painter, as s~killfully as
the musician. can catch movement.
light and poetry and can present them,
80 far rs they may be reproduced, to
the senses of the beholder. His ex-
pertness at this Is often weird, un-
canny At least a half dozen pictures
can make me feel as II present in the
scene. a thing impossible to the photo
graph or to any other OF the graphic
arts. This. we believe, Is a valuable
quality Of art 1t can bring a relief
from the dulling rule of duty. It can
impart a touch of the buoyancy OF
travel. It can. to employ a hackneyed
but fitting phrase, take out of one
self.-Toledo Blade.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-08-06

"Eow@THIs MINUTEr sAD DNA.
her hair. her form. Maybe he would
not care to have her back! Then more
tears.
She began a letter t Ezra when
there was a strange, heavy step o. the
rickety stairs which was yet curiously
familiar She stood u. Iistening-Sha
was very pale. Opening the door In
response t the knock, she stood fac
ing her husband.
"Ezral" she faltered weakly.
EDNA, my dear. l couldn't stand life
without you any longer"
She fell into his arms to be strained
to his heart while she sobbed:
"Oh. Ezra, l am SO unhappy l am
a failure. My books are good for moth
ing. They are not true. l was writ
Ing to you to ask you-to go home"
Then they sat and talked Of the dear
old ranch and many other things.
Edna noticed something new, o
alert. deeper and stronger in Ezra's
and dimly fancied he used
much better language than before and
CQO5e Ills WOEOb WILL hOkG 0AcSA y
ton.
She showed him the extract In the
paper from the book that had made
her so homesick.
"What will you say. Edna, when !
tell you that l wrote that book? l
was so lonesome after you Wen that
thought I'd study some to pass the
time. | had a teacher up on the
ranch four years. and then l kept on
reading and studying, and suddenly.
almost without knowing how l did it.
| began the book. and here is your
copy"
"Oh. Ezra. | was writing only
dreams! | see 1t now. and you hav"
written truths. Oh, ! an ashamed!
well. you needn't be. You are the
cieverest, sweetest and best girl In the
world. When shall we startf"
"Now-this minute!' said Edna.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-08-06

khOtIIb.
gorgeous glory of the gold fringed
purple clouds. The last look was CIV
en- to the Golden Gate itself. the
rugged slopes Of the broken hearted
mountain that had been orr asunder
by some unknown cataclysm Of nature
to open the gate to the hordes to come
Alcatraz and Goat island grew dim
as the lights of the city across the bay
burned out. and when the evening
star and perhaps a thin silvery cres-
cent hung down low over the San
Francisco bills be would heave a sigh
of deep content and return to the
ranch with Il sweet peace on his face
and humble thankfuiness for all that
he had and had seen filling his heart
so that his countenance beamed with
the inner light of a great soul.
At such times be was unconsciously
a true poet. with grand thoughts strug-
CLING for utterance and finding no out
let In words. But the glory and beau
ty of 1t all sank deep In his simple
heart.
Edna wrote a little mandy PANTY
story of an impossible hero and her
ofne. This story she sent to the edi-
tor OF the local paper.
The editor thought that Edna was a
fool. but he had received many serv-
Ices from Ezra when in hard luck. and
what editor does not have his hours
OF disrnay when every hair stands up
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-08-06

with great purple punches, luscious
and how thick and yellow the cream,
and how sweet the butterl She had
not tasted butter for a long time, and
as she thought she was almost ready
to say. 81 viii arise and go to my ia
ther.'
Suddenly she began to cry-not a
burst of noisy tears. but a hopeless.
quiet weeping without even a sob.
In her mornings paper she had read
Of a new western author who had
drawn his inspiration from the very
Piedmont hills where her home was
There was an extract. and this seemed
to speak to her In her husbands W
voice and say the same things Of the
place that she had heard him say SO
often. 1t was a word picture of all
that could be seen from that spot up
under the madrona. She could smell
the waxy blossoms and see the rich
masses of the golden peoples that fair
ly crowded each other. She could hear
the yellow ~linnets. see the wild rabbits
scattering In the bushes. She saw the
droll little gophers as they put their
noses out, saw the broad bay-oh, 1t
was too much! She was seized with a
sudden inconsistencies. She would
write to Ezra. and he would send her
money. But could she live until the
letter could reach her?
Defeat was written all over her. Ten
years had left its impress on her face,
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-08-06

is taken"
"Very well" replied Ezra. with
a sigh, as he looked down at his wife,
who stood before him, with defiance in
every line of her pretty face. Her
shoulders were thrown back and her
right foot advanced, while her hands
were clinched as II for a combat.
This ready acceptance of her ex-
pressed determination annoyed her.
She had expected opposition and was
prepared for fighting it from every
standpoint Her arguments had been
carefully prepared to defeat anything
he might say. And here he had accept
ed her decision without a word. He
asked no concession. made no appeal.
1t raj exasperating.
Ezra Robins was six feet tall and
big in proportion. Edna was a little
mite of a woman. whom he could car
ry like a child In his strong arms. He
loved her with a mighty love and
cherished her with an infinite tender
ness. He almost w~orshiped the girlish
%prettiness OF her face with Its pink
cheeks. pale blue eyes. ashen blono
hair and weak chin All these traits
appealed to his large nature as the ten
der beauty Of "A little child. Nothing
that he could do for her was too hard
or irksome.
Ezra had received next to no edu-
cation. as his family had moved to
California before there were schools
and he had been obliged to work from
almost his babyhood. His father had
died. leaving him the ranch near the
summit of the beautiful undulating
hill just beyond Piedmont. Here he
had brought his young bride.
Every comfort that he could obtain
for Edna was purchased, and he was
very happy in his protecting love and
Astounding tenderness. He loved her
80 entirely that he did not know or
feel that her love for him was but a
weak and ~attenuated sentiment Of half
contemptuous federation.
For Edna Robins had literary aspi-
rations. She subscribed for the story
papers, read Mrs. Braddon, Ouida and
The Duchess. She longed to evolve
books like those written by her IA
vorite authors and to people them
with such unreal characters a lived
In those books. She would sit for
hours in her darkened room trying to
create a plot for a book where all the
,NEaMEeseFSENn0ufu1rs s N sump-
tuous homes. yea diamonds and have
dazzling beauty.
While she was dreaming her dreams
of unrealities in her room Ezra would
wander to a place from which he could
look down upon the scene before him
the beautiful San Francisco bay-a
panorama surpassed nowhere on earth.
He always turned bis yes toward the
Golden Gate as the sun was setting to
watch the last rays as 1t sank into the
Pacific. After the sunset came the
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-08-06
Unto the
Hills.
By OLIVE

Copyright. 1909. by American Press
Association.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-08-06

T is useless to say any more on
the subject. Ezra. My decision
is taken"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08
ROGERS SCHOOL i.

Health of the community is getting
better.
Born, last week, to Mr.. and Mrs. Joy
Cloar, a daughter.
James Rives and family spent Satur-
day and Sunday with Mr.. Scott Green's
family.
Chas. Pearson and wife spent Sunday
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dick
Mosier
w. R. Johnson has made an inn
provement on his house by weather.
boarding it.
The young people of this community
were entertained at singing by Miss
Emma Hicks Sunday afternoon.
M. L. Frazier moved last week to
the J. L. Glover farm, where he will
make his home for another year.
Coda Wilson is building a new
house on his farm near Crescent. He
must be expecting a rough winter.
Several of the people around here
attended church at Mt Manuel Sunday
to hear Rev. Clark, the Presiding Elder.
Miss BERTHE Barnes, the teacher at
Rogers School, dismissed school last
Tuesday for a month of vacation for
the children to pick cotton.
Two of the young men of our COM
munity, Merble Rives and Council
Barnes, accompanied by Misses Mamie
Taylor and Lillian Cheatham, attended
the Union City Fair last week.
REPORTER.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08
Football.
ANNA MARIA.

The game of football last Saturday
between the Union City and Hunting
don school teams resulted in fifteen for
Union City and goose egg for Hunt
ingdon. We know nothing of the
game, but there must have been a goal
line touched somewhere. There seems
to be a goal to every football players
Our football reporter is TAX
ing a leave of absence and this accounts
for the lack of sporting page news.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08
JORDAN.

Mr.. AL Alexander returned to his
home in Jonesboro last week.
Miss Campbell, of Clinton, is the
guest of Mrs. G. G. McMurry.
DIR. Carnell's father, of Waverly
Tenn, visited him during the fair
DIR. and Mrs. H. E. Prather, of Louis
vile, moved to Hickman this week,
their old home.
Me. and Mrs. Marshall DeBow, Misses
House and McQuirter and Mr.. Fred
Bondurant, Of Dresden, was here attend
ing the fair and were the guests of rela-
tives.
As last weeks locals were not re-
ceived the writer will mention the leav-
ing of DIR. and Mrs. Phelps, Sept. 10,
for Lawton, Okla, where they intended
locating. DR.. P. A. Moore bought the
residence of DR.. Phelps.
Nearly everyone from here attended
the fair in Union City and quite a
number of our Kentucky ladies won
premiums. Among whom were Mrs.
j. M. Glenn, Mrs. John and Mrs. Charles
Alexander, for the best cakes; Mrs. w.
T. Bondurant, canned fruit; Misses
Farrar and Jane Mcconnell, riding.
KENTUCKY.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08
NUMBER SEVEN.

Mrs. A. L. Harrison is on the sick
list
Mrs Robert Caudle is very low at her
home of consumption.
Born Tuesday to Mr.. and Mrs. Rubie
Harrison, a fine boy baby.
Mrs. R. ]. Jackson of Martin, visited
in Mount Pelia last Sunday
Mr.. Ben Brooks and family, of Mar
tin, visited Mr.. E. G. Jackson last Sun
day.
Miss Fannie Miner spent last week
at the home of Esq. Howard in Union
City.
Several of our people attended the
fair at Union City and report good
time.
The weather is getting cool and the
people are very busy gathering in their
crops.
Miss Lizzie Stovall says she is sorry
she did not attend the fair after hearing
of her best fellow attending.
Mr.. Jeff Collier, one of our promi-
nent merchants of Mount Pelia, made
flying trip to Cairo Saturday and Sun
day.
Mrs. Caroline Alexander died of con-
sumption at her home in Fort Worth,
Texas, Sept. 30. The remains were in
tered at Mount Pelia Oct 2.
Mr.. Arthur Bell and Miss Allie Crit
tendon, of our vicinity, surprised their
many friends by getting married at the
courthouse in Union City by Esq. Sacra
during the fair.
The protracted meeting at the Chris
tian Church at Mount Pelia began last
Sunday, conducted by Ed. Northcross.
A meeting will also begin at Harmony
next Sunday
Well, the contest is over and Miss
Thompson, according to the report of
the committee, was the successful one.
would like for the editor to give the
exact number of votes each one of the
contestants received. l had the pleas
ure of examining the piano and can
say l think she is amply rewarded for
her work DAISY.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08
RIVEs NEWS.

j. d. Palmer visited his brother
Tuesday.
Mrs. Wiley Bradley has returned from
Cayce, Ky.
Mrs. Oscar Clemmons has returned
from Obion.
j. w. Bush, of Clovis, New Mex,
came in several days past.
Rob Barnett, of Union City, was re-
cent visitor to friends on Troy avenue.
Miss Pauline Thorn was a guest of
Miss Emma Pruett the first of the week,
Rupert Bowman, of Troy, was a re-
cent visitor of his sister, our postmistress.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Phebus left over
the l. G. Tuesday to attend the St.
Louis Centennial.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Petty and guest,
Mrs. Sinclair, are attending the Troy
reunion of Confederate Veterans.
Dir. d. M. PIERCE, of Union City, was
called down Monday night to see Mrs.
Somers Garrett who is still critically i'll.
Mesdames Knox Harper, MILFORD Far
ris and Misses Martha Wade and Leiron
Bonner attended the Tri-State Fair the
first of the week.
The Southern Comedy Company
came in Tuesday, put up tent adjacent
the railroad park and that night enter
tanned until half-past ten a fair audience
with moving pictures.
Paterfamilias has returned from the
Bluff City and is now making things
hum, gathering corn, preparatory to
sowing wheat and defying the hard
knocks of winter by storing plenty of
fuel of all descriptions, and newly
painted dwelling. Also recently has
added to his library a nine-volume set
of Ridpath's History of the World.
Surely there is no place like home. "
DIR. J. B. Anderson while returning
home Sunday night was thrown from
his buggy at Moffat junction and sus-
tanned three fractures of the limbs and
two or more ribs broken. His horse be-
came frightened at train and soon had
the buggy demolished, taking only the
two shafts Off Fortunately a young
man had accompanied DR.. Anderson
and secured help to bring him to Rives.
A djz.atch was sent to Mrs. Anderson
in Middle Tennessee. Drs. Watson, of
Union City, and Hayner, of Troy, were
summoned, and though the genial Doc
tor is badly bruised, he is very cheerful
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08
Deafness CANNOT BE Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure Deafness and that is by constitution
al remedies Deafness is caused by an infamed
condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian
Tube. When this tube is inhamed you have a
run bling sound or imperfect hearing, and when
it is entirely closed Deafness is the result. and
unless the Inflammation can be taken out and
this tube restored to its normal condition. hearing
will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten
are caused by Catar1h. which is nothing but an
inhaned condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case
os Deafness caused by catarrh) that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars
free. FL CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08

who 50 kindly patronized their dinners;
also to the Old Soldiers who appreciated
the premium offered, and rode in
response to the invitation given. Our
only regret is that we could not cane"
every one of them, for we felt that each
and every one deserved it.
Mrs. CHAs. BURCHARD
Mrs. F. E. ARM
Mrs. T. r. MASSEY
Mrs. INA MAILING
Mrs. S. A. RODGERS
Mrs. r. GREEN.
Committee.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08
Real Est tie Transfers.

S. A. Hicks to Emma Hicks, 125,,
acres in No. 3, 50, 800.
J. R. Wright to G. B. Wright, inter-
est in land in No Z, 5000.
j. E. Marshall to Pink Marshall, 100
acres in No. 8, 81, 400.
j. E. Marshall to J. L. Glover, 100
acres in No. 8, 81, 500.
r. H. Wade to A. J. Burrow, lot in
No 16, 800.
G. P. Paschal to R. H. Wade, lot in
No 16, $94.95.
]. S. Ratliff to A. E. Ratleff, Jr., 90
acres in No. 10, $7S3.66.
]. G. King to R. X. Boyd, SO acres in
No. Z, $3.50,
]. A. Hargett to G. F. Dyer, lot in
No. Is, $500.
D. P. Wiley to w. S. Donnell, II
acres in No. 9, $75.
w. j. Hopper ct al. to II. G. Ledbet-
ter, 8 lots in Obion, 81 800.
r. L. Lockert to G. I. Taylor, 80
acres in No. 4, ST, $50.
G. A. Corum to f. M. Wilson, land
in No. 5, $3.50.
j. H. Luker and wife to E. NJ. Will
son, land in No. 10, $3.50.
d. NJ. Chambers and wife to o.
Spradlin, 800 acres in No. 1, $15, 600.
I. j. Gates and wife to w. B. Nor
ris, lot in No. 16, 5000.
w. B. Morris and wife to S. A.
Brady, lot in No. 16, 5000.
L. B. Cannon and wife to M. HI.
Brady, lot in No. 10, 1925.
w. NJ. Turner to A. j. Beadles, lot
in Union City, 81,
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08

and bids fair to resume his extensive
practice at no distant dav.
Number -Four we daresay was second
to none in the batch of blue ribbons worn
at the recent Union City fair. Among
many others to win very substantial
premiums was Miss Florence Bolts, the
accomplished daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
George F. Bolts, of Home street. Miss
Bolts exhibited few oil paintings and
we congratulate her on the many blue
ribbons acquired
ANNA MARTA -
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08
MINNIcK.

Willis Carter and family visited rela-
tives in Lake County Saturday and Sun
day.
On account of Bro. Carter's absence
we had no Sunday School last Sunday.
Profs. D. P. Reynolds and G. c. Hill,
prominent teachers of Gibson County,
we're visitors of Col. P. U. Glover, of
Elbridge, and other friends in the Vi
cinity this week,
Masters Gerald and Tweet Glover were
honored guests of the Baker School at
the fair last week.
Prof. P. U. Glover visited his parents
and friends here Sunday
Mrs. Hess Turnage was visiting rela-
tives and friends in town Sunday.
Hooligan wants to thank the Fair
Association for being so considerable with
the rising generation that have nothing
but words of praise for them. While
there we not only saw the jolly children
but we met the honest farmer and asked
him why he was not rejoicing. He told
us he had been up against Spectator
who had gotten his years work. We
wonder why it is that the wealth-pro-
Queer will trust his substance in the
hands of spectators when their honest
neighbors would borrow their money
and give them good security and inn
prove their own homes. They tell us
they have their money in the banks and
nobody can get it out but Spectator.
Goodness! l always thought the banks
we're great Institutions for the upbuild-
ing of our country. HooLIGAN.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08
John B. Gordon Chapter U, D. g.

The John B. Gordon Chapter U. D.
C. take this method to express their APP
probation and thanks first to the Presi-
dent of the West Tennessee Fair Asso-
citation for courtesy and kindness ex-
tended them, and to the many friends
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08
Notice.

will be at my Union City Office on
Saturdays only from Oct. 10 to Dec. L.
l will be at my Trenton Office during
the week. Respectfully,
DR.. j. FRANK MCMIcHKL,
Eye Specialist.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08

Don't fail to see that range for $1,000
at Mailing -Keiser Hardware Co.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08

Heating stoves, the best made, at
Mailing -Keiser Hardware Co.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-08

Big Muddy Washed Nut Coal is bert
for cooking. At Union City Ice 4 Coal