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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-09
Martyrs of Ianorance.

Paul S. Reinsch, in the Atlantic for April.
 A short time ago. in an interior village In Kiang Su, woman, ambitious to be- come educated, killed herself after bad treatment from her husbands relatives. Her farewell letter was everywhere copied by the Chinese press. It has become a national document. and almost charter of the new movement. In it occurs the fol- lowing sentences
 T am about to die today because my husbands parents, having found great fault with me for having been diffusing such an evil influence as to have injured. the regulations of my ancestors have de- termined to put me to death. Maintain by their relatives once I enter a school and receive instruction, they have been trying hard to deprive me of life, in or der, as they say, to stop beforehand all the troubles that may cause. At first they intended to starve me, but now they compel me to commit suicide by taking poison. I do not fear death at all, but how can part from my children who are so young? Indeed, there should be no sympathy for me, but the mere thought of the destruction of my ideals and of my young children, who will without doubt be compelled to live in the old way. makes my heart almost break"
 The blood of such martyrs is beginning to make It's impression upon the Chinese people and is turning them to favor moro liberal popular customs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-09
Advertising the Gospel.

Lorin F. Deland, in the April Atlantic.
 When Phillips Brooks held series of religious services on Sunday evenings in Faneui Hall, some doubt was expressed as to the size of the audience, since it was plainly announced that the services were for the ''waifs" and ''strays' of the city, and not for churchgoers The club of young men who had the matter in hand left to me the question of deciding what course would insure the largest pos eible attendance. went the first night and found the hall well filed The sec ond night the attendance had dwindled perceptibly, and the third Sunday night there was scarcely more than half an au- dience. I called the committee together and told them that the audience had grown so small that we must hereafter have admission wholly by ticket. I still remember their consternation at this pro- posal. But we carried the plan through, and thereafter no one was admitted who did not have ticket. From that night the hall was full at every service. The ticket resembled in appearance a season ticket to the most expensive course of lectures or entertainments. As might have been expected, the people who got these tickets found 1t quite impossible to sac- rif1ce an element of value, however slight that value was. They were entitled to at tend divine services that night at Faneuil Hall, while Tom, Dick. and Harry, their neighbors, were not. And this slight ad- vantage many of them could not relih- quish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-09
THE PASSING OF
 AN EARTHQUAKE

There is peculiar interest in MT. Frank A. Perrett's account of "The Messina Earthquake" in the April Century, be- cause this distinguished observer. for merly honorary assistant at Royal Vest- vian observatory, has predicted disas- ter on Mount Etna for two years. past, and was hurrying to Italy, anticipating disturbance, when the disaster came.
 "The dread demon of the earthquake, 2 MT. Ferret characterizes it in his article; and this dread demon,' he goes on 10 say, ''came with a curious singing sound as of far.off windstorm. till with a rum ble and roar it reached the cities of the strait, throwing the solid ground into a series of stony waves, lifting the houses bodily, then tossing them to and fro' |, e-t tr.,.'s-. s',-'-as a rat. n-r e'''- ing in some places with a rotary twist more terrifying than all the rest. Tho buildings. fair to look upon, put Duii' ol iubble and weakened by the strains or previous earthquakes, collapse amid sumo eating clouds of dust into hideous con elomeration of beams, girders, motar and stone crushing or imprisoning the inmates ana falling into the streets and wound- inr many. of those who had escaped. whatever had been . village or a city was now a ruin and hecatomb-in half a minute forty towns destroyed and over a hunded thousand dead.
 .erhe sea retired little from the shore boiled up in a foamy mass, then rose and flowed upon the land as a tidal wave seven feet in height at Messina, and nea.- ly double that upon the Calabrian shore everturning the railway cars along the beach, lifting ships from their anchorage
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-09
MINERAL SPRING
 WATER INDUSTRY

Almost every city and town in the ported spring water, delivered in large bottles with more or less elaborate adver- Using accompaniment. Just how great the industry has become in the United States was not suspected until the United States Geological Survey completed recently an investigation. The amount of money in- vested and handled in this country was found to be enormous. According to Van Norden-the World Mirror for April, a minimum of supply from well-known springs for the year was found to be 52.O6O,520 gallons. for which an average price of 15 cents at the springs was re- ceived, or a total of $7,331, 503.
 Vast ranges in the prices of the product are shown, for while Minnesota with but eight wells producing, placed on sale more than 2,5OO GOO gallons more than any other state, the value of the vast supply was fully half million dollars less than the output of the twenty-nine wells of Wisconsin.
 Tn the output of the waters, both me- dicinal and table, Minnesota was far ahead. Her spring production was s6S4,O30 gallons, which at the low average price of cents was worth $524S00. New York, with forty-one wells, was second, with 7,176815 gallons, worth at an average price of g cents, s6ss,57l, while Wisconsin. from twenty-nine wells, got 6,S3s,2ls gallons, worth the splendid sum of N,6267oS, for the price averaged 22 cents.
 Indiana is happy in the possession of the springs producing waters of topmost price; the average for the 514,s66 gallons obtained from her seventeen springs being 90 cents-a total of s5O7,746. Massachusetts is content to take cents gallon for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-09
Not Very Palliative.

From the Manchester Guardian
 He was a sailor boy of about IS, and his companion-probably his girl cousin seemed to have met him at the station and to be conducting him to spend some of his leave at her home. Evidently the boy had been to see his parents and was satisfied with their general condition, for the conversation went like this:
 And how is your father?"
 "Oh, he's all right.
 And your mother?'
 "Oh, she's all right
 Flow does Lucy get on at school? She must be big girl now.
 "Oh, she's all right
 Are the boys quite well?'
 -Oh, they're all right"
 There was quite a long pause after this. and then the girl tried again.
 However do you sailors manage to live on a ship?" she said. You must find 1t very monotonous."
 For the first time the sailor smiled He answered the earliest part of the ques- ton by shaking his head.
 "Oh, we're all right" he explained.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-09

The colonel paused as he picked up his hand and looked at 1t a while.
 'Oh, yes, yes3' said he, as if suddenly reminded. And l did not tarry a moment in the flying back Rayville was few miles from the railroad station. I was riding over in the stage impatient to get there. So impatient that I by and by asked the stage driver if he knew Miss Barnstable, and If she was quite we'll
 'Surev said the driver. But she ain't Miss Barnstable any more. She married Jasper White three years ago.
 And so-but I am delaying the game Give me two," said the colonel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-09
4,661 115 gallons-the value of that minia-

ture ocean being but s208579.
 During the year 1908 there was an n crease of S,951 $40 gallons, or more than per cent, over the output of 1907, but the value of all the waters was $696, ,SS4; por- tion of that loss being fictitious because much of the water was used in the mak- ing of "soft drinks" and therefore was unreported.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-09

and crushing down embankments, then receding and carrying away the boxes, boats and casks of lemon rind, till all the waters of the strait were filled with wreckage."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-09
Why She Changed DoIIy's Name.

From the DeIineatOr.
 My wee girl said yesterday: I'm going to change my dolls name mamma. Annie don't suit-she is so shaky and loose. I'm going to call her Lucy, wouldn't you7'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-09
The EasIest Way.

From Brooklyn Lie. T wonder If there isn't some way we good roads?"
 Give him an auto.''
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-03-12
MA 5 New Husband. /"

Are you troubled with blue devils?"
If SO, the Harry Scott Company guar
antees a sure cure in their musical
farce, Mas New Husband" which is
to be presented on Tuesday evening,
March 16, at Reynolds Opera House.
No one who sees the full grown man
who attempts to pose as boy in the
care of tutor, and who afterwards
marries the woman whose son he so
represents himself to be, can
suppress the laughter that the occasion
evokes, and he is only one of half a
score of mirth-provoking characters that
rush through the risible scenes of the
piece. The music and lyrics are fitting
accomplishments to a clever book and
the entertainment.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-03-12

By order of President Taft Congress
will be convened in extra session March
10, we presume, to revise the tariff.
The President aims at tariff reduction,
but how is it to be done with deficit
in the treasury of nearly one hundred
millions of dollars. That is the propo-
sition. Shall the Government increase
the deficit with tariff reduction or shall
we have a stamp act in time of peace.
Which is better? The revenues must
be increased. That much is certain
But how! Of course we must pay in
creased salaries to all the members of
Congress, Federal officers, ETC.; we must
increase the pensions, otherwise the Re-
publican campaign fund, to $3.50, 000,-
900; we must pay the President $780,
900 and provide extras of 5000, 900
more; we must increase public patron
age and its sustenance-the party in
power needs it. We must do all these
and appropriate millions more in ex-
travagance whether or not there is
cent in the treasury. And now shall we
pay for it with reduction of the tariff
and a special stamp act, or shall the
dominant party be compelled to contin-
ne it's policy with an increase of protec-
ton The Republican party will play
the end of the string some of these
fine days, and when the fall does
come it will be like Sicilian earth
quake. When the Republican party
bankrupts the country when the shoe
begins to pinch-there will be reckon
ing, and in such a when no Republican
need apply.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-03-12
FOR OUR SUBSCRIBERS.

It must be remembered that the late
ruling of the Postmaster General
requires us to collect subscriptions to
The Commercial within one year af-
ter the subscription begins, else we
must be notified that the paper is
wanted for another year. Practically,
all subscriptions should be paid in
advance, but this is not always OBJ
served by subscribers and patrons of
county papers. This notice, however,
is for the purpose of asking our delin-
quent subscribers to pay up or notify
us accordingly if they desire the paper
to continue. If the foregoing rule is
not observed we are compelled to dis
continue the paper. Please let us hear
from you at once.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-03-12

Recently Roosevelt wrote British
subject that he wished to have the
United States interfere in Hayti during
the trouble there, but that the Ameri-
can people were simply not alive to the
situation. He also stated that the
United States should have interfered in
Central America and Venezuela. The
American people have come to realize
that the United States Government is
not such perfect institution that it
must take every little hayward country
under its wing, and some day when
Roosevelt lapses from the Rooseveltian
infatuation his eyes will be opened. The
seven years of Roosevelt began with
road paved with good intentions, but
strange as it may seem few Of these ever
developed into reality, and the last great
Intervention for the purpose Of
permitting the absorption OF Tennessee
Coal and Iron by American Steel-was
4 contradiction and nullity Of his en-
ire public life. Roosevelt was a miser-
able failure, and the idea that any gov
eminent with such head should be-
come impressed with conviction that
is counsel should extend over smaller
nations in trouble is absurd.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-03-12
New Paper at Dresden.

Arrangements are being perfected for
the issuance of a brand new paper at
Dresden which comes out about March
20. While the matter has been on
hand for some time, yet it was not fin
ally decided to begin the publication
until this week. Dick Maiden, former
ly of Martin, will be business manager,
while it will be edited by Lake Erie
Holiday, Esq. 1t will be located in
the office now occupied by Col. HoIla-
day as a law office, his Office being re-
moved upstairs. Martin Mail
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-03-12
WORK THAT TELLS.
Plenty of It Has Been Done Right
Here in Union City.

Cures that last are cures that tell. IL
thoroughly know the virtues Of medi
cine you must investigate the cures ant
see if they prove permanent. Doan''
Kidney Pills stand this test, and plenty
of proof exists right here in Union City
People who testified years ago to reliei
from backache, kidney and urinary dis
orders, now declare that relief was per
manent and the cure perfect. How can
any Union City sufferer longer doubt
the evidence?
A. G. Almond, 9o4 East Churchill
street, Union City, Tenn, said: I
doctored and used remedy after remedy
during my thirty years of suffering, but
nothing did me any good until / used
Doan's Kidney Pills. had constant
dull aching across the kidneys and the
kidney secretions were sometimes too
scant, and then again profuse. When
II COLuIleHC6u W uSc DOdH hIuuoy
Pills I was in bad way, but this rem
edy helped me right away, and soon
cured me. +" (From statement given
in 1909
A'PERMANENT CURE.
On May IS, 1907, Mr.. Almond said:
Il am still enjoying good health and
I'M free from all kidney ailments.
For sale by all dealers. Price so
tents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's sand
axe no other.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-03-12
Series of Blunders.
1t never rains but it pours. :"

1t never rains but it pours.
From the time that the land owners
in Union City refused to make certain
concessions to the Paducah & Memphis
Railroad Company (now the l. o. up
to the present Union City people have
made a series of very unfortunate blum
ders, ending with the latest, the failure
to provide a suitable site for public
building in Union City and the risk of
losing that improvement altogether.
But in spite of the indifference to
public interests and the obtuseness of
our citizens and all the other drawbacks
Union City has grown stronger and
greater, bigger and better. This con-
dition is not through any concentrated
effort or spirit of enterprise; it is actual
ly in spite of the fact that we have none
of it.
But for these blunders Union CITY
would be to-day the greatest town in
West Tennessee outside of Memphis.
The failure to secure the laying of the
road, now the l. c., through Union
City was the greatest of all our public
misfortunes. There is no way to fully
estimate this loss But that others
should continue to follow in succession
seems wholly without excuse or justifi-
cation.
Some years ago when the plans were
made, concessions secured and arrange
ments, financial and otherwise, practi-
cally completed to extend the railroad
park to Harrison street, doing away
with the unsightly view of rubbish and
lumber and struggling, rough-made
buildings, right in the heart of the
city, the whole enterprise fell through
because one man, cottager on the
south side of Harrison street and
the park, entered protest and refused
to subscribe to it. Then the lot was
utilized for mills and warehouses and
park extension was impractical. Thus
an enterprise of no great visible money
value, but one of the greatest improve
ments that could be made in the phys-
cal appearance of the city and an in
vestment attractive to homeseekers, was
abandoned because of one mans obiec- |
ton.
Various attempts have been made to |
organize general business mems COM
mercial club, but that is as far as it ever
goes. This article is treating of affairs |
independent of the Board of Mayor and
Aldermen. The board has done practi-
cally all the improving possible with the I
revenue at hand and obtainabIe. A |
Board of Mayor and Aldermen is not
responsible for all the enterprise needed
in city this size. 1t is constituted for
specific purposes, and among these are
imposed no duties such as are applicable |
to general commercial club.
In the name of blunders many OPP
portunities have been lost to Union
City-opportunities that might have
been ours through the well directed eff |
forts of mutually interested CONNER
cial club. But passing over we come to
the matter of government postoffice
building in Union City, and the fate of
this enterprise is another monument to
The Indifference and to the mistaken
dea that the location of such building
viii affect values of adjacent property to
my appreciabIe extent, But to begin
with, there was never any concentrated
fort in Union City to secure this build
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-03-12
st. Louis has quarantined against the
of the Salome-d dance costume.
"The Holy CITY,

The Holy City" was the attraction
at Reynolds Opera House last Tuesday
night. The house was comfortably filled
and the audience enjoyed one of the best
shows of the season. The play deals
with the beheading of John the Baptist
and the crucifxion. The character Of
the Messiah is only suggested, however,
and perhaps it is much better that way.
The play is evidently written to conform
to the purpose of the Passion Play"
1t was likely prompted by the success
of the latter. The author, Clarence Ben
nett, is also the genius who constructed
the popular pastoral play, Way Down
East, which has been seen oftener than
any other American drama. The man
agement who favored us with the Holy
City" has assembled a company of good
players and some excellent stage effects.
John the Baptist, in the person of Jas.
P. Houston, was an interesting charac-
ter, at once eliciting the attention and
the sympathy of the audience. His con-
ception of the part seemed to be derived
from the reading of the Holy Scripture;
in fact the entire text was interpreted by
talent which had been trained under
competent direction in the standard
school Of drama. The personal man
agement seemed also to be directing
along the same lines. There was dis
appointment in the part of the High
Priest and in the lack of greater nu-
merical strength, but for city and
house of this size it was distinct sue
cess. The Salome dance was not the
that some might have sus;
pected. Miss Harice, however, suited
the part and she vitalized it with the
charm OF beauty and subtlety of a siren.
There were other good characters, nota-
bly, Marius, the young Roman, by Mr..
Dill, Elizabeth by Mrs. Bennett, and
Pontius PLATE by L. D. Kirk.
The Holy City" was one of the sea-
sons best offerings.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-03-12
Marriage Licenses.

Ben Hall and Mary Tate.
Jim Webb and AIlean Rails.
Dave Wicker and Effie Long.
J. K. Smith and NJ ]. Smith.
Mathew Fuqua and Sophia Fine,
Otto Freeman and Clara Hopkins.
NJ. H. Eddings and L. E. Johnson.
John E. Aldridge and Lucinda Hol
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-03-12
COUNTY COURT CLERK

BoND-We have the authority to announce R.
H. Bond as a candidate for County Court Clerk of
obionycounty subject to the action of the Demo-
cratic party.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-03-12
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR MAYOR.

ALEXANDER-We are authorized toannounce
S. S. Alexander a candidate for Mayor of I'm
ion City Election in January, 1910.
New-York tribune., 1909-10-31
ON ELECTION DAY.

The women politicians of various com
plexions all expect to have a busy day on
Tuesday. The anti-Tammany committee of
the League of Self Supporting Women has
a list OF fifty women who are ready TO
serve watchers, and are not without
hope that they will get opportunity to
do it, although the powers that be have
shown no great enthusiasm In the matter.
The Prohibitionists have come out flat
footed in their favor, and some OF the So
cialists are favorable, but no one else ap-
pears to want them, according to Miss
Bertha Rembaugh. chairman of the COM
mittee, while the Attorney Generals office
is said TO be in a panic because it has not
yet been able to find any definite legal
While awaiting the issue, the women are
taking lessons from a practical politician
whose knowledge of his subject cannot be
questioned, and who has promised 10 put
them on TO all tho tricks.
The Republican women are enrolling
their sons and husbands and brothers as
watchers, and intend to see that they don't
starye to death In the discharge OF their
duty. They Will keep their headquarters
open the whole of Election Day, and will
receive returns thsrs In the evening
The Harlem Equal Rights League viii
epend Election Day. as usual, in electing
g mayor OF its own. The polls VIII be open
from e. n. until p. m. at No. Zes Sew
enth avenue, near 12Sth street.
New-York tribune., 1909-10-31
Morning Gosyns in the Bois
Wide Variety in Tailored EffectsThe Short Coat ana
Russian Blouse-Disfguring Veils

Another short coated costume shows sh
extraordinarily effective trimming on i's
short bell shaped skirt. 1t Is hemmed nrse
with a narrow band of black FUR; rev
inches above run three circiing INES OK
braid. graduating from the lower row an
inch wide to a mere line; then second ilne
of fur and more plain rows: then thick
set design braided In tho narrowest width
IN cover a space of three or four inches
On the coat collar. wide cuffs. long reverS
and In the space between the shoulders
In the back are ornaments to match. The
wearer carries a great round muff made OF
the cloth of her costume Clusters OF fur
tails are set at each end. and 1t is lined
with black satin that swells into 'puffs On
top. between the tail trimming. is large
pocket with a pointed buttoned flap. bound
with fur. Her black velvet hat has for
trimming large black satin rosette bound
with fur. and pricked in the middle by
great, fur covered button. An exaggerated
fashion always touches the ridiculous. And
what can be more exaggerated than the
long Chantilly lace wells, with sprawling
leaves and flowers covering their entire
surface? This young woman, with grace
full. modish figure and carriage, appears
frightfuly disfigured by the flower design
on the veil that covers her face. obliterat-
ing entirely the end of her nose. cutting
half Of one eye and soaring each cheek
There is q pronounced fad'for these wells.
and it is extremely difficult to find ono
with the designs far enough apart to leave
q plain space for the features to appear
unblemished. The newest wells of Chantilly
lace are In the shape of square, meas