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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-03-26
NATURE TELLS YOU
AS Many Union City Reader Knows
Too Well.

When the kidneys are sick,
Nature tells you all about it.
The urine is Natures calendar.
Infrequent or too frequent action;
Any urinary trouble tells of kidney
ills.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure all kidney
ills.
Union City people testify to this.
j. M. Cole, living on Fifth street, I'm.
ion City, Tenn, says: Il was bothered
by the frequent passages of the kidney
secretions, and dull, dragging back
aches. l received no relief until two
years ago when used Doan's Kidney
Pills, procured at White & Burchard' IS
Drug Store. They cured me, and there
has not been any recurrence Of the com
plant since. l cheerfully recommend
this reliable remedy"
For sale by all dealers. Price 80
cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.g
Remember the name-Doan sand
take no other
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-03-26
Good Walks Needed.

For some time there has been more
5 or less discussion of the subject of in
: ternal improvements in Union City by
the Board of Mayor and Aldermen anC
t few, usually very few, of the citizens
The original intention was, when the
notes were paid, to continue the work
of matchmaking the streets, but re-
Gently another proposition, or question,
has arisen, and some investigations have
been made upon the subject of paving
the sidewalks with concrete. This ques-
ton needs to be very thoroughly con-
sidered. 1t is an important one. We
have not made any inquiries or investi-
cations relative to concrete sidewalks,
but at first blush the proposition seems
to be mighty good one, Our sister
city, Martin, is almost entirely paved
with concrete sidewalks. and they are
very substantial, very convenient to
pedestrians, especially to the ladies in
keeping their feet and skirts dry, and
it is stated that they are cheapest in the
long run. Many of the smaller cities
and towns in Illinois and other Middle
and Southern States are being paved
with concrete sidewalks. A great many
have already been paved. OF course we
do not know what the cost is, but the
proposition is, if the walks are practi-
cal, which is needed more, macadam
lied street extension or concrete side |
walks. Every citizen in Union City |
should take an interest in this matter. |
There are number of things to be con-
sidered. In the first place, the princi-
pal thoroughfares of the city can be
reached over the macadamized streets
already built. People can get into town
on these hard streets from any direc-
ton. And then there are enough of
them for the practical use of citizens
at present to bridge over until much
more needed improvements are made
viz: concrete sidewalks. In the next
place, the sidewalks of Union City are
very poor = they are miserably poor.
This is no reflection on past admins
trations. They tried numbers of ex-
periments and did as we'll as anyone
else could under the circumstances.
Water and light were needed then more
than sidewalks, and it is more of a
splendid commentary upon past boards
that we have the best water and light
plant of any town of the same charac-
ter and size in the world, even if we
have no good sidewalks.
We have three miles of good streets,
and we believe the next matter of inn
portance is sidewalks. We have no ma
terial at hand to demonstrate the mat
ter, but we believe they are practical.
The next meeting of the Board of
Mayor and Aldermen will be held on
Tuesday night April 5. Some action
is to be taken relative to street extern
sion or the construction of sidewalks,
and it is incumbent upon every citizen
to take an active interest in the matter.
As many as can should be present at
the meeting, or they should see their
alderman and discuss the matter. 1t
should be ventilated and there should
be no hurry to reach the decision
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-03-26
SICK ALL WINTER.
Suffered from Bad stomach and Sc
we're Cough Doctored Without
Benefit Vermont Man Was Finally
RESTORED TO HEALTH BY vINoL

RESTORED TO HEALTH BY VINOI
About a year ago ] began to run
down in health, lost appetite and flesh
and suffered from Indigestion. All the
winter | had a severe cough. i doctor
ed without any benefit and finally my
druggist suggested that l try Vinol.
did so and soon began to feel better.
My stomach grew stronger, my food no
longer distressed me, my cough disap-
peared, | began to gain in flesh and
soon felt like new man. | did not be-
lieve that any remedy could make such
change in person. "-Edw r. Woos-
ter, Rutland, vt.
Vinol contains tonic iron and all the
medicinal building elements of
cod liver oil, does not taste of the oil
and is everywhere recognized as the
greatest body-builder and strength crea-
tor known for feeble old people, delicate
children, weak, rundown persons, after
sickness and for chronic colds, hacking
coughs and bronchitis.
Try it. If it does no good your mon
ey will be returned on demand. That's
your guarantee, but we know it will
benefit any such case.
Niles Drug Co., Union City.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-03-26
COUNTY COURT CLERK

! B0ND.--We have the authority to announce R.
H. Bond as candidate for County Court Clerk of
pbion County subject to the action of the Demo-
cratic party.
TAI,LEY.--We are authorized to announce c.
S. Talley a candidate for County Court Clerk of
obon County, subject to the action of the Demo-
cratic party
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-03-26

The Nightriders are, some of them,
in jail, others quietly waiting iudg-
ment, the Carmack trial is over, and
Roosevelt has left for African jungles.
Such a quietness is very uncommon.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-03-26
CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT.

GoLDEN.-We are authorized to announce H.
NJ. Golden as a candidate for Clerk of the Circuit
Court of obion County, subject to the action of
the Democratic party.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-03-26

FOR RENT-Five acres of good inn
proved land adjoining corporation. Good
houses and fine home for anybody.
51-4t G. e. COBB.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-03-26
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For MAYOR.

ALExANDER-we are authorized to announce
S. S. Alexander as a candidate for Mayor OF Tn
ion City. Election in january. 1910
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-03-26

FOR RENT-Five good rooms and a
fine garden. Apply to
If Mrs. w. S. JACKSON.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-08
The Daily Gate City

hard work. but it is never on record
he shirked a duty or complalneu.
Working by day and reading by nlgnt,
he grew into manhood, with no pros
pect but to add another generation to
the Lincoln line of farmers.
Had Abraham Lincoln continued ON
the farm he might never have become
famous, but it is certain he would have
done his work we'll and lifted the fam
lily from obscurity and poverty. He
had the elements of greatness In him,
whether he was to be farmer or Presl-
dent. But much as America needed
good farmers and good men, 1T needed
a great teacher and leader more and
Lincoln went out from the farm, first
to the country store, then to the court
house, and finally to the legislative
chambers, and at last to the White
House.
Responsibility and sorrow came upon
him in full measure, but following the
plow he had thought out the things OF
| life really worth while and evolved a
humble system of philosophy that was
to carry him through The sympathet-
ic eyes closed; the lips on which ten
I der speech so often trembled were
stilled; the great, kindly cart ceased
to beat. Lincoln, the President-martyr,
gave up his life; Lincoln, the farm boy
! had done his work
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-08

1t is announced from Des Moines,
apparently on good authority, that
Hon. N. N. Jones, former warden of
the Fort Madison penitentiary, is to
be appointed a member of the state
board of control as the successor Of
Hon. John Cownie whose term will
soon expire. There will be cause for
general congratulation on the part of
the people of Iowa if veriication of
this good news follows in due time.
Mr. Jones has superior qualifications
for the position and will give added
strength and efficiency to the board,
with whose duties and responsibilities
he has long been familiar. Governor
Carroll could not find better man for
the place in all Iowa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-08
that this new insurance is attracting
very large business.
GOVERNMENT BY ATTORNEY
GENERAL,

The Council Bluffs Nonpareil sug
gests that with
"a state sheriff operating under the
eye of the attorney general;
County attorneys reporting to the
attorney general;
"a special commerce counsel at
tached to the Office of the attorney gen
|eral;
"Sheriffs of counties taking their
orders from the attorney general;
County attorneys subject to the
beck and call of the attorney general;
"All local prosecuting and peace Of
ficers and mayors of cities and towns
subject to removal by the governor
perhaps on motion of the attorney gen
eral;
And so forth:
"The attorney general will be g
functionary to be reckoned with"
Undoubtedly. The Byers PROPOSE
Ition, thus summarized, means govern
ment by the attorney general instead
of by the people for the people. L
contemplates radical departure from
the theory of our free institutions ant
la negation of their spirit and form
The thing for the legislature to do a
the first opportunity is to kill 1t as
dead as John Randolph's mackerel
which was so dead that it emitted {
phosphorescent light.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-08
ChiIdren's Instructions.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: The con-
fict between the school authorities at
Council Bluffs and the young people
in the high school who have been af-
filiated with secret societies mas not
yet ended Inc authorities were this
week forced to suspend a number Of
students who imagined they were
superior to their elders in the matter
of discipline. The public will, or ought
at least. support the authorities.
The 'frats" have no place in a pub
lie school, and just as much force as
is needed to suppress them should ne
used. More than that, whether or not
there is any argument in favor Of the
retention of the frGt, Is not the only
thing to b. considered. When clashes
come between school authorities and
school children, the authorities should
secure and maintain the upper hand,
School children should never be given
an opportunity to question the author.
ity of their elders. The school boy and
the school girl can learn how to prop.
erly exercise authority only by being
obedient when he or 81 is under the
control of others. Instructions
among school children are not to be
commended.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-08

In the current issue o. the Literary
Digest, Secretary of the Navy Newber-
ry answers the criticisms passed on
the naval administration by George
Kibbe Turner in the February Nc
Clure's by saying that it is ut
terly impractical to consider what
could be done with an entirely new
and modern navy built by some mir
acle over night The existing ships
and yards must be used while the new
equipment is being provided piece
meal He insists that radical consol-
idation of navy yards has already OBJ
waited much of the criticism and that
the government gun factory and pow
der factory were built to escape the
exactions Of the trusts. He insists
that, ship for ship, our navy is now
second to none.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-08
A QUESTION oF ETHICS.

The claim advanced by a man in
New York state that hens can be made
to increase their GU put of eggs by
painting the henhouse green raises a
question of ethics which should not
be overlooked in these days of the
square deal" Assuming that the
claim is true, is the expedient sug-
gested an honorable one? Hens are
by nature trustful as well as trust
worthy. They have been led to be-
lieve that things are what they seem
to be. Having thus gained their con-
huence, it is now deliberately pro-
posed to practice gigantic fraud on
them. They are to be cheated into
the belief that spring is at hand, when
every conscientious hen considers it
her duty to work her manufacturing
plant to its full capacity. No right
minded person can regard this as
other than a low-down, dishonorable
trick wholly at variance with the de
/ mands of the times and the spirit of
/ the hour Nor would any self-respect-
ing person eat eggs which are known
to have been obtained under such
4 false pretenses. Not at present
prices!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-08
ANTITRUST LAW A FAILURE.

Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner
of corporations, in his annual report,
takes positive ground against the ex-
listing law forbidding all combinations
in restraint of trade. He says:
There is an irresistible movement
toward concentration in business and
we must definitely recognize this as an
inevitable economic law. We must
also recognize the fact that industrial
concentration is largely already accom-
plished in spite of statutory prohibit
ton. Recognizing these facts, the
aim of new legislation should be to
regulate rather than to prohibit COM
binations. 1t is an obvious absurdity
to attempt to do both at the same
time, and prohibition has practically
failed. Our present law forbidding all
combinations therefore needs adapta-
| ton to actual facts.
1 He goes on to show that it is often
unjust to the good corporations and
that it is easily evaded by the bad
ones. He strongly advocates the en-
actment of laws for efficient public
ity''-that is, such as will reach the
average citizen under everyday condi
tons. To this end he would have al
the large interstate corporations re
port regularly to the government as tt
certain conditions of operation ant
earning power.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-08

1t is reliably stated that nearly one
fifth of the soldiers in the national en-
campments in the United States in
1898 developed typhoid fever. The
deaths from this disease were nearly
81 per cent of the total deaths from
all causes. Flies served as carriers OF
the infection. This was clearly shown
in report made by medical commits
sion appointed to inv -t.gate and re
port on matters of camp sanitation
The Importance of excluding flies from
the home n the interest of health car
hardly be overestimated.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-08

Governor Patterson of Tennessee We
toed the bill passed by the legislature of
that state prohibiting the manufacture
of intoxicants in Tennessee, but the
measure was promptly passed over the
veto by vote of twenty to twelve.
In his message the governor asked
why the legislature next in power
could not forbid the raising or selling
of grain or the cultivation of the grape
out of which liquors are made if this
body could destroy the distilleries and
breweries, or why future legislature
could not stop the raising of tobacco
Also he argued that the law would dis
eliminate against the citizens of the
state in favor of those in other states,
that it lowered the dignity of the
state, and that it violated the will
of the people twice expressed at the
ballot.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-08
The Prison Question.

We claim-and have no fears of sue
cessful contradiction-that it has be-
come popular fad to pamper and cod
die professional criminals that a pen
itentiary offense no longer has any
appreciatable terrors or breads for
the average person charged with
crime. We believe that when pen
itentiary comes to be looked upon
merely as a retreat in which to So
journ until such time as a pardoning
board shall come to the rescue that it's
influence as deterrent against
crime is well nigh dissipated.-Des
Moines Capital.
Boone News-Republican: The above
from the Des Moines Capital seems
to give timely warning The prev
alence of crime In this country Is I'M
doubtedly due to the lack of fear OF
punishment, many chances of escape
by the curious angles of the law and
the likelihood of pardon if the law
takes it's course. If there be added to
this the knowledge that the peniten
tiary provides all the comforts oil
home, including fatherly warden
whose main duty is to make things
pleasant for the inmates, will MOI
punishment of crime lose its terrors
altogether?
There is much to be said in favor o.
trying to reclaim the misdirected con
science of the criminal but we al
ready have one reformatory institu
ton in Iowa at Anamosa. Wisdom
would seem to counsel that there be
one place left where the terrors of in
generation act as a deterrent agains
crime
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-08
The Ladies, Aid Society.

Knoxville Express: The Charlton
papers print a poem which they say
was written by a Charlton woman and
read at recent Aid society meeting in
that town. 1t sounds rather familiar,
but maybe it is original. It's a good
one, at any rate:
We've got an organ in the church
very finest in the land;
It's got a thousand pipes or more, it's
melody is grand;
And when we sit in our easy pews and
hear the master play,
1t carries US to realms of bliss un-
numbered miles away.
1t cost cool three thousand, it's
stood the hardest test;
Well pa thousand on 1.-THE
Ladies Aid the rest.
They'll give hundred sociables, can
tatas, too, and teas;
They'll bake thousand angel cakes
and tons of cream they'll freeze
They'll beg and scrape and toll and
sweat for seven years or more,
And then they'll start all DER again
for carpet for the floor.
No, it isn't just like digging out the
money from your vest
When the Ladies' Aid gets busy and
says, We'll pay the rest"
Of course we're proud of our big
church from pulpit up to spire.
1t is the darling of our eyes, the
crown of our desire.
But when l see the sisters work tt
raise the cash that lacks
| sometimes feel the church is bull
on women's tired backs.
And sometimes l can't help thinking
when we reach the regions blest
That men will get the toll and swea
and the Ladies Aid the rest.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-08
MONDAY, FEB. 8, 1909.

portant, but it is never looked into
The man who is in easy cironu.
stances is able to k ep his corkscraI
under lock and key.
The man who falls into money NAV
be no more than a coal HEAVIER
An i'll wind in G prohibition co,,n
ity heads for the apothecary's shon
The more comfortably a night watch
man Is situated. the more need ba ~
to pinch himself. mas
The more man thinks he is in low
the easier he lies. w.
It is hard for girls to SIT sill, ~,
one of their number is pressed to nl sn
something. '
After the engagement the gas hin,
take tumble. ''is
1t Is mean suspicion that SOW
girls tie their shoes SO thew will oonao
undone about the time the business
district is reached.
| People who jump out of bed into
cold bath make a great splurge
1t is quite to be expected thai a ,,r,
Will sour on fresh young man
/ Many photographs are proof A..
the camera has been looked ont o q.
/ countenance.
The thoughtful undertaken ,,,..
stands that many people are worrvin,
/ for him. 'ins
/ When a man gets together a certain
sum OF money, 1t is what he hasn't got
that looks good to him. 'N
1t is astonishing how old people hang
air. 'pen
/ II is getting SO one cannot open HI,
mouth IN company without having his
Teeth subjected to a critical examina.
ticn by some dentist.
1 1t is something like a reflection on
matrimony that SO few women know
whether they are hooked up right
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-08
Exasneratina.

It's most distressing when you've
saved
And skimped and pinched each cop
per cent,
And gone without the things you've
craved,
And stunned each costly merri-
ment,
And paid each one of last months
With virtuous and joyous thrills
To find within --,ur mornings mail
When you come down upon the
first,
A small epistolary bale,
Composed of other bills accurst.
And add them up and find they come
To something more than last months
sum.
George Fitch in Peoria Herald
Transcript.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-08

1t is learned with regret that fail
ing health has compelled William
Huckell to ,pose of the DON
nelson Review and retire from
active business. The gentleman
has edited nd published the
Review for three ears or more
and has given Donnellson much the
best paper it has ever had. That he
is obliged to relinquish his work just
when he is in position to reap the re
ward of his labors makes his retire
ment at this time most inopportune
His many friends in Lee county will
part with him with sincere regret. He
is succeeded by F. c. Tabor who prom
Uses to maintain the present high ex
cellence of the Review as a weekly
newspaper.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-08

of typhoid fever has been adopted by
the medical corps of the regular
army, no officer or soldier will be re-
quired to submit to the treatment
against his will. The new departure
was recommended by special board
of eminent medical experts, and lab
oratories for the pre- aration of the
serum are to be established at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan, the Preside in
San Francisco and also at Manila. An
effort will be made by means of lee
lures to set before the soldiers the adj
vantages of such a simple and easy
way of escaping one of the most dread
ed of camp diseases.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-08
INSURANCE AGAINST INSANITY

A British company has undertaken
TO cover a new kind of risk, viz, in
surance against insanity. Maxwell
Blake the American consul at Dun
femline has furnished the depart
ment of commerce and labor an ac-
count Of this new form of insurance.
According to this report, it seems that
the percentage of insane persons has
risen in England from 1857 per 10000
in 1859. to 35.4S in 1907; in Scotland,
from 1912, to 36S, and in Ireland,
from % in 1879, to 35.7 in 1907. In
England in 1907 there were 1888
I insane: in Scotland, 1888; and in
ireland, 23,544. AS no physical i'll
fortune renders a person more incom-
petent than insanity, it is timely an
nouncement on the part of newly or
ganized London insurance company
that they are prepared to undertake
the insanity risk, guaranteeing pay
lment of $500 per annum for period
of five years for a yearly premium of
/ s.. so. and for ten years for premium
1 of 1918 per annum, or $500 per an
mum during an unlimited period of in
sanity for premium of S. per year.
| Considering the difficulty of obtain
ing actuarial approximations of this
risk, and the fact that official statistics
in respect of the subject of insanity
are more or less incomplete, the offers
contained in the prospectus now cir
culating would seem to be unusually
liberal. The consul understands the
policy further provides for exemption
of premium payment during the en-
tire period Of mental incapacity, and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-08
Sioux City journal Snap Shots.

Sioux City Journal Snap Shots.
Women are that deficient in philoso-
ply they know not the way to ask for
money.
The bachelor driven to matrimony to
escape a revenue tax fixed by the
statS would be curse to any girl.
When a face is made race course
hard lines are developed.
The hardship of legislative life Is In
not being able to bring ones bout
black home with him.
A man is apt to think the fault Is
with his wife when he has trouble
with his liver.
The horse still holds up his head.
The patent medicine vender eagerly
accepts the Endorsement of church
man.
The man who has cattle on the
brain has no advantage over the mar
who has a horse on him.
The doctors are involved in incon
sistency when they oppose regulation
There are women who never appre
ciate the value of husbands until the.
come to draw their life insurance
Men do not doubt their own sagac
ity in business undertakings, but the,
frequently lament the perfidy of thei
fellow citizens.
A fault is stubbornly defined whel
| it is ones own.
The objection to fur trimmings i
that they are not as changeable as tn
weather.
| Once in while woman is such
good forecaster that she never accom-
panies her husband when he is goin
/ to lecture.
! The reverse side of a mirror is in