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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
EnqIIsh Taxi Rates.

There are one hundred taxicabs in
the city of Sheffield, England. The
tariff rate is one shilling CAB cents)
for the first mile, and after that Sd.
(six cents) for each quarter of mile.
This rate is for one to four persons,
and includes such baggage as Is ear
ried inside. For outside luggage a
fixed charge of Sd. piece is added to
the cost of the journey. The meter
mechanism is also affected by clock,
SO that when taxicab is allowed to
stand with the flag down it registers
at the rate of one mile Cor one shilling
cost in every 15 minutes A taxicab
may be contracted for by distance, as
when one wishes to make trip of 40
miles or more special price is made
OF 10d. GO cents) a mile, and stop
of several hours allowed without
charge.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
NOT MUCH REAL DIFFERENCE
MIR. lobe Snagg Dscourses Pleasant.
Iy on Subject of City and Village
Society Gossip.

81 fail to observe any great differ.
ence,' remarked Mr.. lobe Snagg, "be-
tween the Gossip of Society notes in
the city papers and the Purely Person
al items in the Goshkononk Gazette.
OF course, them rich people have long
err names and travel farther than us
humble electromagnetic, but, after all,
when | read that Mr.. and Mrs. Theo-
bald Postlethwait Golden-Gawbs and
their son, T. Livermore Golden-Gawbs,
have returned from motoring on the
continent, while their daughter, Lorda
Watt Golden-Gawbs, will remain in
Italy sketching the old masters, can't
see that intrinsically it differs much
from the simple statements in the
Gazette that Miss Gladys Trump Sun
dayed at Whillerville with Apra Hen
sion and Ralph Slicer, our popular bar
Der, Mondayed in Hunkayunk, and Dab
Seeker Tuesdayed in Turgidtown at
the home of his widowed sister whose
husband suicided two months ago after
arsoning the lumber yard. All the
parties concerned probably did all
the gadding they could afford and in
any case not soul in the Twin world
beyond the persons mentioned was in
the slightest degree interested in thu
recital"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
Homeless PredIcament.

Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, the English
suffragist, said at farewell dinner in
New York last month:
THE ants who protest against the
vote on the score of womans weak
ness have been thrown into terrible
predicament by Professor Dantan's
positive proof that girl babies are
stronger than boy babies.
Their predicament is hopeless. 1t
is embarrassing as the predicament
of lady who, about to be fitted for a
pair of new boots in boot shop,
flushed, bit her lip, and said to her
self:
"'Oh, dear, which boot shall l try
on? There's a hole in my stocking,
and can't remember whether it's the
left toe or the right"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
Excessive Application to Any One
Line Of Endeavor Ia a Grave
Mistake to Make.

Many excellent women. when the
flush OF youth has passed. instead of
maturing into enduring, increasing
usefulness and serenity. become ike
unto a house left desolate. Whether
work be drudgery or delight, too ex-
elusive application to it naturally
tends to narrow the horizon. The
merchant finds himself surrounded by
dry goods talk, and dry goods people
until the walls of his store are the
boundaries of his world. The scient-
list who puts his soul and heart and
brain into the pursuit of the beetle
finds in time that every point of the
compass ends In a beetle The society
woman who finds all her interest in
one class and In one set of events and
modes of living sees and feels little
of the vast and palpitating current OF
human life above and below and
around her. The nerves and brain
and muscles grow weary of monotony
However intensely we apply ourselves,
we should keep our eyes on the dis
tant hills and the crimson sunset.
There should always be kept open a
path that runs away to the west or
east or north or south, to an entirely
new horizon; to some other work
one loves; to some other study that
to new game with a new
set of rules.-Collier's.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
Good Takers and Good Writers.

Good takers are rarely good writ
ers, and vice versa. Good takers are
those who fill up the conversational
gaps. A conversational gap Is the alb.
sence Of talk Gaps come when
thought lags, Takers must be ready
to jump right in and fill up the gaps
without thinking.
Good writer's must make gaps;
great, huge thinking gaps, which must
be used for concentrated meditation,
after which comes the written result
of that meditation. Good takers must
stop talking when they commence to
write This is always hard for them.
Good writer's are too careful what
they say to consent to fill sudden talk
ing gaps with mere chatter.
This may make it clear to many a
woman why her literary ambitions are
SO slow to materialize. -Life.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
NAPOLEON III. M
Real Louis Was Not az Dllapr----.-.-.
He Has Been Pictured 4
Mark Twain.

Probably no written portrait OF tho
third Napoleon is better known O.
Americans than that embodied in the
rhetorical apostrophe OF Mark TwaAa
in The Innocents Abroad" where Ne
contrasts the emperor of the French
and the sultan of Turkey at they
meeting In Paris in 1857. 1t was
thought very fine and stirring at the
time, but 1t Is a picture to provoke
curiosity and amusement today Mark
Twain described how the future ena-
peror carried his dreams with hisn
into exile, how he associated with the
common herd in America, and ran foot
races for a wager, how he walked his
weary beat, common policeman Of
London. That he carried his dreams
into exile, that his belief in his star
never wavered, is unquestionably true.
But 1t is not quite SO romantic a
figure, not such a dilapidated Louis
Napoleon, that we see in the accounts
of more careful historians than Mark
Twain. For example, there is 'TnM
mate Memoirs of Napoleon H." by the
late Baron d'Ambes. DAmbes was not
with Louis Napoleon In America, but
1t was from the princes own lips that
he claimed he received the impress.
sions of that visit. Louis Napoleon
came to Norfolk, Va, from Rio dc
Janeiro on the frigate Andromede.
The commander, Henri de villeneuve.
was very kind to the exile, and the
prince thanked him with the words
you are obliging man who will one
day be emperor Of the French, I'M
fortunate as he may appear at pres
ent. I shall not forget you" The
Andromede arrived at Norfolk March
30, 1887. The prince proceeded
straight to New York and dined at
Gen. Watson Webb's, where he found
General Scott, his two brothers-in-law.
the Stewards, and number of seaa
tors and statesmen.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
Supreme Sorrow.

All the bodily pangs and labors
which motherhood and mother-care
have cost age after age, is the least
of their living. All the patient toll
ing which millions of mothers have
imposed upon themselves when they
alone have reared and fed their chill
dren. all the watchful nights, all the
tired steps-all that mothers have de-
MED themselves for the sake of their
children, is not the greatest of their
sufferings. That is their greatest sor-
row, which man has expressed in
the poem wherein the mother throws
her heart at her sons feet, who, as
he angrily stumbles over it, hears the
heart whisper, Did you hurt yourself,
my child p ELLEN Key in the At
lantic
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
APPEAL 70 ALL INVENTORS CURIOSITY THAT MET REBUKE
IrqulsItIve Grocer More Than Met his
Match When He Questioned
the Small Girl.

The proposal to strengthen the Sc.
crecy of the ballot by voting by mail
reminded Senator Williams of an cleo
ton day story.
Voting by mail" he said, is a
radical proposition that I'd hesitate
to advocate without further study;
brs do most heartily favor invio-
liable secrecy as regards the ballot
Even harmless curiosity about
the ballot is contemplate. A Salina
grocer said to little girl one cleo.
ton day:
WHO is your father going to vote
for this morning, my dear?
"T don't know the little girl an
swered
"'Will he vote the Republican
ticket?'
I don't know
"'I wonder IL he'll vote Democrat,
ic?'
"I don't know
"'He wouldn't vote Prohibition,
surely?'
" I don't know
The grocer, as he tied UP the lit.
tie girls package, sneered:
Well, you don't know much, and
that's a fact
"'You know less the little girl
answered, or you wouldn't be askin'
so many questions!'
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
Wildcat Attacks Young Preacher.

Attacked by a wildcat e. Lamont
Geissinger, young. preacher and stu
dent at Dickinson college, was driven
down a steep side of North mountain,
and as result OF his experience was
nearly Frustrated when he reached
Doubling Gap.
Geissinger saw watching him
through the bushes a pantherlike ami
NAL about five feet long. He started
to run, but the beast leaped after him,
made repeated attacks upon him, and
although Geissinger dealt it several
blows on the head with club he
could not beat the animal off.
The young preacher made as fast
time as he could for more than mile
down the mountainside, with the wild
cat following. 1t was not until he was
inside the hotel that the animal aban-
doned it's pursuit and sneaked back In
TO the timber,-Sarlisle Correspond
ence Philadelphia Press.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
Lower Animals That Count.

There are human beings, such as in
habitants of the Murray islands in the
Straits of Torres, that cannot count
further than two But, most surpris-
ing still, most animals possess calcu-
lating abilities, and several have dis
tinct appreciation of number. In GER
tain mines of Hainault the horses are
so used to trayersing the same road
30 times that after their last round
they go to the stable of their own &C
cord and refuse to take another step.
Montaigne says that the oxen en-
ployed-tn the royal gardens of susa
for turning the wheels to which the
water pals were attached absolutely
refused to make more than 100 rounds
which constituted their daily task.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
Story Of One Woman's Suffering That
Surely Should Stir Them TO I'm
mediate Action.

Inventors are requested by suffer
ing telephone patrons to exercise their
ingenuity On a telephone booth slid
ing door that will really slide. Head.
ing the petition is the name Of a
woman who had q curious experience
in drug store booth.
There are two booths in that store
side by side, she said. "They are
about as btspas match boxes and are
open at thSh top, SO when there is a
hull in street noises the conversation
in each can be heard in the other.
One day, when listening to long and
interesting communication from the
friend had called up, heard man
in the adjoining box ask for the num-
Der of our own telephone uptown.
Presently he said, Cant you get
them, central?'
"Of course central couldn't get us,
for / learned afterward that not even
the maid was home, 80 he rang off
and left the booth
Il was most anxious to detain him
and learn his message. insulted my
friend for life by saying, I can't lis
ten to any more now, but l might
just as we'll have let her finish, for
couldn't get out of that booth, /
pulled and tugged at the door, but it
wouldn't bulge. Finally drug clerk
let me out, but the man had got away
by that time, and / don't know to this
day who he was or what he wanted
to tell us. Imagine having to go
through life with mystery like that
unsolved. The telephone company
cannot equip their booths with NOV.
able doors any too soon, think"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
How to Attract the RIrda.

"The matter of attracting birds to
your yard is all very simple, particu.
larly If you happen to have an old
grape-arbor, a bit of shrubbery or a
tree or two. OF course, they won't
come without encouragement. 1t may
be, even, that you will have to give up
your old cat, but you will soon find
the sacrifice amply repaid. For to the
heart OF little bird, cat is the very
embodiment of prawling destruction.
Then you must have feeding board,
on which to spread such dainties as
bits of boiled potato, sodden bread Tin
summer), cracked corn, rice. crushed
nuts of various kinds, trimmings from
meat, and -suet. For birds soon grow
to love the hands that feed them. -
Suburban Life Magazine.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
Bees Stick TO One Flower.

It is usually supposed, especially by
the poets, that bees sip sweets indis-
criminately from many flower. All
bees, including the honey bee, show a
strong tendency In collecting both
nectar and pollen to be constant to
one species OF flower. This is mani
testify for the advantage of both In
sects and flowers. In the case of a
number Of bees flying for only small
part OF the season this habit has be-
come so specialized that they visit
only one or q few allied species Of
flowers. which offer an abundance OF
pollen and nectar.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
Turkish Soldiers Without Fezes.

For the first time. we read, the Turk
ish soldier is going to war without
the fez. Mahmud H., when he changed
the uniform of his army, tried to In
troduce the shake. but the Opposition
of the soldiers was too strong for
hiIa. The fez is certainly poor COW
ering fok men on active service; for
even the change of It's color to khaki
did not get over its feebleness as a
protectioH against sun or bad weather.
Hence the headshawl devised some
time ago to be worn twisted around
the fez. The Turks devotion to the
fez is clearly explained by Duckett
Ferriman: @The prejudice against the
hat rests on al religious basis II the
ramaz (lorm Of prsYera Is rightly per
formed tho foreha must touch the
ground. The brim D hat or the peak
Of cap would .prsFsnt this.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
Value of Travel.

Goethe says that no man has a
right to write until he has travelled
and lived. Certainly no one has q
right to think he knows what life
offers or what earth can give until he
travels.
Travel does more toward letting us
go free of our human limitations than
anything else in life. y1k frees us by
giving us large views vide sense
of opportunity, q fuller comprehension
of the lavish hand which has strewu
beauty over the earth.
Above all. travel numbs grief be-
cause 1t lifts us from the personal In
to the universal life. the life trium-
plant. whatever be the fate Of the
fragment called ones elf-Harper'f
Bazaar.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
MosIen Women In Future LIE.

Are women admitted to paradise?"
is question that is often answered
in the negative. We find, however,
more than one passage in the Koran
that distinctly speaks of future life
in paradise for women. The most
often quoted is the one promising the
faithful that he will meet in paradise
besides his own earthly wives seventy
two houris-not an attractive pros
pect for the poor women, who have
suffered enough in this life from the
humiliations of polygamyl But in
the fourth Sura we find the following
more definite statement: But whose
doeth good works, whether he be
male or female, and is true believ-
err they shall be admitted into para
disc, and shall not in the least be
unjustly dealt with Life in the
Moslem East, by Pierre Ponafidine.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
Erenohman,a soma Collection.

No French president can during his
tenure of office escape being plague"
ragged, we might translate it-some-
times rather ferociously. OF this rag
ging M. Fallieres has certainly had his
full share. 1t appears that he takes
it all in the best spirit. He has even
collected all the songs that have been
written about him, and In the evening
after dinner he sometimes asks one Of
his intimate friends to sing selections
from the fat volume they make. He is
said to derive a good deal of quiet
amusement from a study of the faces
of his orderly officers when the song
is more than usually personal and out
spoken.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
Men and Women In World.

The total population of the world is
now estimated at 1,700,000,000. This
is based upon the most recent census,
which all civilized countries now take,
with careful estimate of the number
of inhabitants of uncivilized lands.
The proportion of the sexes is known
for 1,038,000,000 of these, the ratio be-
ing 1000 males to $50 females. The
ratio varies considerably in different
places. In Europe there are 1000 men
to 1927 women; in Africa, 1000 men
to 1,045 women; in America, 1000 men
to 964 women; in Asia, 1000 men to
961 women; in Australia, 1000 men to
937 women.
The highest proportion of women is
found in Uganda, where there are l.
467 to every 1000 men. The lowest
proportion Is In Alaska-And the Malay
states, where there are, in the former,
391, and in the latter 3S9 women tf
every 1000 men.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29

Science attributes tempests to a
general internal movement of de-
tached masses of aerial projectiles,
which traverse the general mass of
the atmosphere like the discharge
from a mitrailleuse. Even in time
of calm the movements of the air
may be complex. During periods Of
excessive heat puffs of air hot as
from a furnace strike the exposed
portions of the human body. The air
mass at a normal temperature holds
heat as the organism holds the cell.
Such phenomena as the projectiles of
heat are frequently produced several
times within the period of a few min
utes. The elastic condition of the air
is not at all like the surrounding at
mospherical strata. The heated air
Is sent out in projectilelike pulsations.
The pulsations are produced not ir
high regions alone.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
Searching for Hidden VIII.

The romantic story of hidden will
is arousing keen interest in the neigh
borhood of Bradley Fold little vii
lage three miles from Bolton, Lanca-
shire, England. Search for the mis-
sing document is being made by a
woman from Gunnersbury, London
She believes that if she succeeds in
her quest, she will become entitled to-
a valuable estate. The search was
prompted originally by statements
made by medium at spiritualistic
seance The will is supposed to be
concealed in a. wall sunk in a shed
which has been bricked up for many
years. 1t formed cellar to an old
house. The London searcher's ances-
tor, John Bradley, who married his
housekeeper, was known to possess
great wealth No will could be founf
after his death
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
infusion Proeess sueosssful.

The manner In which soft iron may
be converted into hard faced armor
plate by The infusion process appears
in the case Of q test which has re-
Gently been made a bullet was fred
from rife at q distance of thirty
six feet against the surface Of an
iron plate which had been treated by
the Infusion process. striking with a
velocity Of 400 feet second. The
hardened surface caused the rife ball
to rebound with such directness that
Il struck the stock Of the gun from
which It had been fired. unloading II.
self IN the wood and narrowly esean-
ing the person Of the mafksman By
whom the shot had been fred Cas-.
sief's Magazine
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
MakIna Potatoes AttraetIve.

Colorado potatoes are sold at fancy
frnit prices IN New York. The plebeian
tuber Is hand cleaned, wrapped in tis-
sue paper hingly and finds market
at Eve cents 4 pound.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29

The dapper little ribbon clerk gazed
languishingly into the dark eyes
the handsome brunette waitress.
Isn't il wonderful he 81
how oppos|tes seem to be
to each other2P
IL sure Is, agreed thee
noticed only today th2 I
man at the lunchzcs &
shortcake ppinc.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-11-29
That old Andy jackson Cane.


That old Andrew Jackson cane has
,1bbed up again. You can't keep a
.Sod cane down Remember that
xhe7 OF course. Well. it's around
,-ain. This time George w. Oliver OF
IA Ore, possesses It. 1t having
- - ,iver's father by Jack
IS not put in the Oliver family
potatoe EN-. Now the cane is
otice Princeton. Mr. Oliver
atteF. ae cherished possession
..s-..s wilson. New York Mail,
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-13

OF a couple of stems, and awaited events.
Within an hour four dead hippos appeared;
a very big bull and three big cows. OF
course, l would not have shot the latter if it
could have been avoided; but under the
circumstances do not see how it was posi-
bic to help it, The meat was not wasted on
the contrary it was godsend, not only to
our own porters, but to the natives round
about, many Of whom were on short COM
mons on account of the drought.
Bringing over the launch we worked
until after dark to get the bull out of the
difficult position in which he lay. 1t was
nearly o'clock before we had him fixed for
towing on one quarter, the rowboat towing
on the other, by which time two hippos were
snorting and blowing within a few yards OF
u.s. their curiosity much excited as to what
was going on. The night was overcast;
there were drenching rain squalls, and a
rather heavy sea was running, and did not
get back to camp until after three. Next
day the launch fetched in the rest of the
hippo meat.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-13

in Chances veins and he took the
southern trail for relaxation.
He was whistling softly - he rode
this time. 1t was getting on toward
sunset before he checked Siwash and
rested to take his bearings. They
were on the crest Of . creek bed. 1t
was one of those meanderipg. dried.
up affairs, with tangled masses Of
mud-caked grasses down in the bot
toms and few scrawny young cot
tonwoods here and there along the
slopes. The bleached, weather
beaten skull Of steer lay half buried
in the sun-baked earth midway down
the slope: but 1t was not . mere
skull that caused Siwash to droop
his long neck and whinny restlessly.
mot meaning to argue with you.
blame thing suspicious on this hori-
zon."
The horse nosed at the long. dry
grass tops; and suddenly Chance
looked down. not At the creek bed.
but at the deep. tangled mass of
weeds where tho land dipped to the
slope. and he swung OF the pony's
back with sharp exclamation. It
was the body Of man.
"Si. you're the most sagacious and
perspicacious animal ON four legs in
the State Of South Dakota"
He turned the body over and looked
at the face. The eyes opened widely
and stared back at him. duly at arst,
then with slow-gathering conscious
ness in their listless. filmed depths.
Halo, Chance" whispered the
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