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The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-03-28
CONFIRMED PROOF.
Residente of Lexington
Cannot Doubt What
Has Been Twice Proved.

In gratitude for relief from
aches and pains Of bad backs
from distressing kidney ills
thousands have publicly recon-
mended Doan's Kidney Pills.
Residents of Lexington, who SO
testified years ago, now say the
results were permanent. This
testimony, doubly proves the
worth of Doan's Kidney Pills,to
Lexington kidney sufferers.
j. II. Thomas, r. F. D. No. 3,
Lexington, Tenn, says: l can
still recommend Doan's Kidney
Pills, for consider them splen-
did kidney medicine. Some
years ago l gave a public state
ment endorsing this remedy and
| gladly confirm it at the present
time. My kidneys were disord-
cred and the kidney secretion
not only conained sediment but
passed too frequently. My back
also ached most of the time.
Doan's Kidney Pills entirely re.
lieved these symptoms of kidney
complaint. ("
For sale by all dealers. Price
so cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, New York, sole agents
for the United States.
Remember the name--Doan 8
and take No ether.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-03-28

general, . home dressneking,
home cooking, babies, aud Z -
same time the farmer and hia|
wife are enjoying discussions Of
equal interest to both. The gen
tier sex is naturally fond Of de-
bate, and one could 90 a long
way before finding such congen-
ial discussions as take place in
the Woman's Sections of the
Tennessee Farmers Institutes.
Everybody is expected to tell
what they know and every wo-
man can imagine what lively
affair a discussion on How to
Feed Babies might prove. No
woman could resist that subject.
At the last session of the Home
Makers Of Middle Tennessee this
topic brought out every means
known from biscuit tea to boiled
bnttermilk straight.
The splendid feature about
this home making work though
after all, lies no more in the
helpfulness eff the subjects
touched than in the thorough CO.
operation it is bringing about
among all women Of both town
and country. Women are learn
ing more and more each day that
in union lies strength. They
are finding that the secret Of
mans success in business, or
ganization of labor, and direct
methods Of application, are
equally applicable to the home,
aud the true significance of the
Home" is being promulgated
abroad. The little word home"
has always stood for the beauti-
full, the ideal. How to attain
the reality Of its meaning women
are learning from one another.
The home making instinct
dwells in nearly every woman's
heart. The right woman touch
es, to adornment and home.like
cheer any habitation that is hers.
Through the exercise Of kindness
and intelligence women bring to
the detailed routine of house
hold labor the magic aid Of home
love, and 1T is the knowledge of
how to apply love and method
for which the Home Makers Sec.
tions of Tennessee stands.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-03-28
What Hooper SAYS.

Goyernor.Hooper Sunday night
gave out the following state.
ment:
II am too busy just now fight
ing for the things | believe to be
right to worry about side issues.
This is no time to stand aloof
and point the flyer Of scorn at
ones fellows who are striving
for honest elections, law enforce.
ment and all that goes to make
Tennessee a state fit to live in.
1T is now past the hour to
wrangle about whether or not
anybody tried to trade off the
governor and fine legislature on
these questions. Suffice it to
say that nobody was traded.
The evidence Of this is that
every democrat in the legisla.
ture and every republican whose
vote was expected have refused
to be delivered and are standing
with me in the fulfillmept Of our
obligations.
II have not yet accepted the
theory that there are no honest
regular democrats in the legisla-
ture, and | do not believe that
the pending election bill will
ever become a law in its present
form. A bill which upon its
face in plain terms denies genu.
inc representation to a minority
in the holding Of elections, is a
violation Of the pledges of hon.
est men in the state senate, and
| do not believe it will ever pass,
The people of Tennessee regard
less of party will not stand for
such a backward step toward the
Mexicanizing of a free state.
This fact will become apparent
lat er on to the politicians back
Of this scheme and to the sympa-
thizing bystanders.
Hereafter, if it becomes nec-
essary, | will give such atten
ton as may seem proper to col
lateral matters involving records
and motives. In the meantime
| will merely remark that now
stand just where | have always
stood upon these important pub.
lie questions, ard nobody has
yet controdicted this statement
except by argument and invec'
tive"
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-03-28
damage that may accrue to said
natrnng on Accnnnt &c same.


damage that may accrue to said
patrons on account of same.
Section 7 Be it further or
dained, that no occupant or own
er Of any building in which wa
ter is introduced will be allowed
To supply water to other persons
or families or permit Others to
take hydrant water from their
premises. Unless same be done
as q matter Of necessity for o
short period only. If found do
ing so, the supply will be stop
ped and the payment Of said oc-
|cupant or owner forfeited.
Section. s. Be it further or
dained, that no person shall re-
n.oveo or obstruct any stop cock
or box or the cover Of any fire
hydrant Or sewerage opening or
commit any act tending to OBJ
struct the use thereof or injure
in any way any machinery, pipe,
apparatus, tool or fixture of any
of the water works plant; or any
light or wire or any machinery
pole ETC., comprising any part of
the Electric Light Plant operat-
as a part Of the Waterworks
Plant operated as part of the
Waterworks plant.
Section. 8. Be it further or
dained: That any person yiolat-
iug any Of the provisions Of this
ordinance, where a penalty is
not fixed, shall be guilty Of q
misdemeanor and subject to ar
rest and fine by the mayor in a
sum of not less than One Dollar
($1.00) nor more than Ten Dol
lars ($10.00) aud further be liza
BILE to the corporation for any in
jury sustained by reason of the
offense.
Section. 10. Be it further or
dained, that any person or per-
sons taking water from any sup
ply or service pipe furnished
with City Water, altar having
been notified by the Superin-
tendent, not to use same shall
be fined as herein set out.
Section IL. Be it further or
dained, that not more than two
lights used from the City Elec-
trio Light Current shall be per-
mitted to burn all night by any
consumer, where said lights so
used are being paid for on a flat
rate basis. Any person SO offend,
ing shall be subject to the pro-
visions as to being fined, set out
herein.
Section IL. Be it further or
dained, thatall persons, firms or
corporations doing any plumbing
work or making any plumbing
connections for Water or Sewer.
age pipes on or across the streets,
alleys and sidewalks of the Town
Of Lexington, in making excava-
tions for same shall separate all
rock or gravel from dirt and re.
place the same in such condition
as said street, alley or sidewalk
was before any work was done,
tamping all re-filled bitches we'll
and replacing all rock, gravel or
paving removed. ANY violation
of this section by any person,
firm or corporation shall make
such offender subject to a fine Of
not less than $500 nor more than
$25. 90.
And that this ordinance shall
take effect from and after its
passage the public welfare re-
curing it.
Passed Bird Reading and APP
proved March, 1918.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-03-28
Clerk and Master Resigns

Henderson, Tenn. March 21.-
H. d. Franklin, who has been
the clerk and master In chancery
court here for number of years
resigned on account OF feeble
health, and E. A. Mccain, an
attorney, has been appointed by
Chancellor K. l.. Bullock TO tie
place.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-03-28
Water, Sewer
age and Light
Ordinance,

Ordinance Regulating Use
0fWater and Electricity
From Water rlains and
Light Wires Of the Town
of Lexington and Pro-
yiding Penalties for Not
Complying With Said
Regulations.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-03-28
Farmers Letter.
BY CAPT. T. F. PECK

=
1t has not been SO many years
ago that such organizations as
the Home. Makers Section Of the
Middle Tennessee Farmers In
stitute were entirely unknown.
The farm woman as an individu-
al and as factor in organized
effort was given very little
thought indeed untila compare
lively recent time. The public
at large knew she existed; it
knew that on nearly every farm
a farm woman was helping the
farmer make a farm home: the
publishing world recognized her
existence in a few second rate
columns Of household matter
printed on the back pages of the
agricultural papers and maya
zines, but the Importance of her
work to the whole country was
hardly recognized.
Uncle Sam, always at heart q
staunch supporter of women's
rights, was among the first to
realize the potentiality of the
farm woman's living. There
were bulletins for farmers; why
not bulletins for farmers wives
and daughters--In fact, for all
sorts of women, both city and
country bred? So the expert
writer's on matchmaking, poul-
try.raising, dairying, canning,
preserving and kindred subjects
were put to work land now wo-
men can obtain from the United
States Department Of Agricul-
ture, Washington, printed mat
ter of the utmost accuracy on
nearly any subject pertaining to
household economies.
While the United States gov.
ernment has been printing and
distributing this propaganda Of
the home, spreading out over the
country like live wires Of help
and inspiration has run the chain
work of the Farmers Institutes,
conducted by the Departments
of Agriculture in the different
States. At first these were for
men alone, but it, soon became
evident that the farmer as q
traveller is a binomial quantity !;
he likes to have the woman 20
when he goes. So gradually the
woman interest crept into the
mems meetings, but it remain
ed for Tennessee to originate
such rully organized and con-
Quoted separate bodies for wo.
men as the Home.makers Sec
tons of the Tennessee Farmers
Institutes.
There are oranges and lnsti-
tutes for women in other States,
but nothing like the Home-Mak-
ers' Section of Tennessee. Real.
izing the value of cooperation,
the Department of.Agriculture's
reasoning was not for woman's
institute apart from the mems,
but a section composed of wo-
men, working in harmony with
the men Of the Farmers Insti-
tutes: being a part of the whole,
and at the same time a whole to
themselves.
TO this end, cooperation has
become the watchword Of the
Farmers Institute of Tennessee
and every farmer who attends
the meetings held in the three
divisions Of the State takes to
the sessions a livelier interest, a
keener anticipation because the
programs presented are open to
his women folk az well as him.
self, with separate programs Civ
en- by the women assisted by
men, and open. to men.
Such wise and generous con-
duct of official bodies has far
reaching effect.
The farmer who attends a
meeting accompanied by his
wife, daughter, or sister, natur-
ally broadene in view when he
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-03-28

With practically the same labor, horses
ments, you can produce bigger crops from
1t takes no more work TO raise so TO go |
a half to two bales of cotton to the acre
binary yields. It is not necessary to plal
bigger yield. Simply work and cultivat
more thoroughly. You can produce bi.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-09
BAD AGAIN
Rains in Mississippi Basin Add
to Dangers.
Break in LeveeS and Flood
Waters Result.

Memphis. April 9.-Rains through
out the Mississippi basin today began
to be a menace of the flood situation.
The gauge here stood at 46 feet at
7 o'clock today, a rise of four-tenths
of foot in "a hours.
At Hickman, KY, the situation to-
day was reported unusually serious
The Reelfoot levee has developed sew
eral bad spots. The break at Graves
bayou, south of Memphis, was report
ed 1000 feet wide today with water
pouring through the crevasse at ter
rifle rate.
In Memphis the flooded area result
ing from the backwater was largely
increased by the nights heavy rains
A serious hole developed in the levee
protecting the city gas plant and ii
was said that the plant probably would
be shut down before night.
Refugees continue to reach the city
in increasing numbers from flooded
dist riots in Arkansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-09
CONTINUED on Page Two.)
THEY WON'T COME
WyandOtte PrOgressiveS Prefer
to Stay at Home.
C.. S. HOIbrOOk Doubts Success
of Harmony Movement.

Wyandotte county Progressives are
not coming to the harmony meeting in
Topeka June 8, according to a state
ment made here today by Representa-
tive Charles S. Holbrook of Kansas
City. Kan, who declares that the new
move is viewed with suspicion in his
county. Personally, Holbrook says, he
favors harmony. Yet he says there is
a decided lack of enthusiasm for the
movement among Wyandotte progress
sives.
Holbrook attended the first harmony
meeting when it was held in the Office
of Secretary of State Charles Sessions
several weeks ago. He thinks, however,
that the only real basis for absolute
harmony is in the program outlined
by the young Republicans who have
declared for the elimination of the
leaders and disturbers in both fac
tions.
.'There isn't the least indication that
Wyandotte county will look on the har-
money movement with favor" said
Holbrook. Personally 1 am in favor
of getting together. The question in
the minds of many people as to Trout
mans stand in the last campaign is
one of the things which has made
progress difficult in our county. In my
mind, Troutman cannot get the Wy
andotte county Regulars and Progress
sives reunited. Stone might do little
better. But it will take a lot of work
to accomplish anything.
"It seems to me- continued the
Wyandotte representative, that the
real basis for getting together is on
the policy outlined by the young Re
publicans-the elimination of the war
ring leaders in both factions. At pres
ent, though, don't believe enough per-
sons can be gathered together in Wy
andotte county to send delegation to
the Topeka meeting. Five or six men
might come, but it looks like an i'm
possibility to secure such a delegation
as been accorded anr county.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-09
Civil Service Board Criticises
City Commission.
Made Officials Rescind Five
Appointments Today.
PAID NO attention To RULES
Commissioners Named Officers
Without Examination.
Undue Haste at City Hall May
Bring Lawsuit.

No appointments were confirmed in
the city commission chamber this
morning. Far from it. In fact five
were rescinded. The commission seems
to have been bit precipitous in it's
choice of assistants. C. H. Kutz, chair
man of the civil service board, strenu-
ously objected, backed by w. C. Raj
ston, city attorney. The objection re-
suited in the withdrawal of the ap-
pointments of Josiah Ross, first police
sergeant; Mrs. l. E. Thorpe, police
matron; William Core, dog catcher;
G. w. Pasker, sanitary policeman,
and Walter Bryant, patrolman. Will
liam L. Porter, commissioner of parks.
did not present the names of James
A Ramsey, sanitary sergeant; James
Brain, foreman at crematory; r. E.
Barber, sanitary policeman, and George
Smith, janitor, as planned. No name
was presented.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-09
new PARTY PLANS
National PrOgressives in Con-
greSS Frame Program.
Outline Thirty-TwO Measures
They Will Stand For.
Washington,

Washington, D. c., April O.
The legislative committee of the
house caucus of Progressives got down
to work today after a conference with
members of the legislative committee
of the National Progressive party. The
house Progressives met with Walter
Weyl, Dean Lewis of the University of
Francis Kellar and reviewed the am
bilious legislative program outlined by
the house members of the party. Jane
Adams, who was to have attended
the caucus, is abroad and she will be
called on later for her views on Pro-
gressive legislation. The conference
discussed at length the details of the
various measures to be framed to en-
brace the reforms urged by the Pro-
gressive platform.
The legislative committee of the
caucus, headed by Representative
Kelley of Pennsylvania took up i'm
mediately the work of drafting the
bills
Special attention will also be paid to
a resolution providing a constitutional
amendment extending suffrage to
women. The Progressives will urge
the appointment of a special woman
suffrage committee in the house to
take the question out of the hands of
the judiciary committee which has
failed to report it. During the tariff
debate the Progressives plan to ex-
plot their party platform pledge en-
dorsing the plan for a "nonpartisan,
scientific tariff board"
The Progressives also will urge the
passage of a minimum wage law in
some form, and today they seemed to
lean toward a plan for a wage COM
mission to establish equitable scales
of wages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-09
Danger Mark Reached in Buf-
faIO Street Car Strike.
National Guard Summoned to
Put Down Disorders.
SOLDIERS WERE FIRED UPON
Militiamen Charged Crowd, but
Guilty Escaped.
Situation Beyond Control of
Buffalo Police Force.

Buffalo, April s.-Two thousand
members of the fourth brigade of The
New York state National guard, sum-
moned to duty on an order from the
state supreme court to put down the
disorders arising from the street rail-
way strike here, were quartered IN
Buffalo armories at daybreak. An ad-
ditional 1000 men, forming the third
regiment of the brigade, were enroute
from Rochester, Syracuse, Emira, and
other western New York cities. The
international railway made no effort
to move cars in the early hours, but
expected to do so later.
The first detail of soldiers were sent
out from the armories at 8 o'clock.
Squads patrolled every block along
the carlines in the down town section
of the city.
A special detail of mounted scouts
of the 74th regiment under command
of Sergeant r. Ward Ruhl, was fired
upon at the corner of Niagara and
Tonawanda streets a few minutes
later. The militiamen charged the
crowd but did not capture the men
who fired the shots. No one was in
jured.
Appeal to Supreme Court.
The appeal to the supreme court for
military protection was made by the
railway officials after frequent de-
mands on the mayor and sheriff for
such an order had been refused. The
mayor maintained that the situation
had not reached the acute stage that
made the presence of troops necessary.
Before issuing the order the court
conferred with the mayor and chief
of police.
Mayor Fuhrmann insisted there was
no necessity for the troops but Chief
Regan admitted the situation was be-
yond his force of 800 men who had
been on duty almost continuously
since the strike was declared Sunday
morning. The strike leaders have sent
protest to Governor Sulzer against
the ordering out of troops.
A series of explosions aroused the
people in the northern part of the city
and in Tonawanda early today and
rumor spread that one of the Interna-
tional railways trestles on the Niagara
Falls line had been blown up. Men
sent over the line five miles north of
Tonawanda reported no damage TO the
tracks or bridges.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-09
Massachusetts Ballot System
Now in IA States.
Educational Requirements Are
Made by Twelve Others.
KANSAS LAW HAD ACID TEST
Reference Library's Report on
Election Laws.
Many States Require Educa-
tiOnaI Test for Voters.

That Massachusetts, ballot law, which
becomes effective in Kansas in the 1914
election, is now in operation in 13 other
states of the Union, while IL more
states have election laws which require
educational qualifications of the indi-
vidual voter. These facts are con-
tanned in a table compiled by Miss
Edwina Casey. cataloguer in the state
reference library.
While the new ballot law has crea-
ted much discussion in Kansas since
it's passage by the 1913 legislature, yet
Kansas was the fourteenth state to
adopt the provisions of the law which
has been in operation in Massachus-
etts for a number of years. On the
other hand IL other states require OF
the voter certain educational qualifica-
tions similar in many respects to those
prescribed in the Massachusetts act.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-09
NATIONAL INHERITANCE
Measure in Congress Would Impose so
Per Cent on Fortunes.

WASHINGTON. April 9.-An inheritance
tax that would run as high as so per
cent on fortunes over $4,000, 900. has
been proposed in a bill introduced in
the senate by Senator Jones (Wash.) }
The measure would impose Inheritance
tax on all estates except where the he
quest is to members of the immediate
family, in which case there would be
an exemption of $25, 200 and a reduced
tax rate
The general inheritance tax proposed
is as follows:
On estates of less than 5000, 1 per
cent; from 81, 600 to $4,000 per cent;
from $50, 600 to s250.0O0, per cent; from
$3.50. 900 to $3.50, 900, 10 per cent; from
$3.50. 900 to $1.5OO,000, Is per cent:
from s1,5O0.o0o to $1,000, 600, 20 per
cent: from So, ,O00. COO to 81, 200, 900, 25 per
cent; from $1,000, 900 to $4,000. 900. so
per cent
In the house similar bill to that of
Senator Jones' was introduced by
Representative LaFollette and referred
to the avs and means committee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-09
CONTINUED on Page Two)
CUT LUMBER COST
Removal of Tariff Will Result
in Lower Prices.
Common Grades Can Be Sold
Cheaper to the Mills.

st. Louis, April 9.-The removal of
the tariff on lumber will result in a
reduction of prices, according to F.
H. Smith, president of the st. Louis
Lumbermen's Exchange.
Free lumber" he said, will operate
to restrict the territory to which Amer
lean producers can ship and conse-
uuentlv will increase the difficulty OF
working off the common grades, which
represent 20 per cent of the output
The removal of the duty will enable
the Canadians to put their lumber into
the hands of boxmakers and Of all
users of common lumber in the north
and east cheaper than can the mill
men of the south.
"The higher grades of lumber will
not feel the tariff changes, because the
supply is limited. Removal of the duty
may raise the price of high grade lum-
ber"