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McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-03-28
Finger Items

Health is very good at this writing.
C. M. Barr is back at his post
again.
j. R. Swain, Jake Mitchell, and j..
H. Kirkpatrick are on a pleasure
trip to Nashville this week.
Ada Hand was the guest Of Minnie
Punk Sunday.
Some of the boys and girls had a,
nice egg hunt Sunday.
A fire broke out Sunday and de-
stroyed some fences in our commu-
nifty.
D. G. Griswell has been repairing
some Of his fences which have been
needing it for some time.
]. G. Dees is all smiles. He says
its another girl.
Miss Florence Ethridge is progress
sing nicely with her school at Finger.
Jobe Leath, of Corinth, was visit
ing his father Buck Leath Sunday.
Freelin Dickey says he has bought
out the store at Masseyville.
]. W. Stansell is having his house
repainted. j. B. Starks is doing the
work.
Some are wanting our part of the
county annexed to Chester. But we
would as soon be annexed to Califor-
MIA as to Chester county.
Some are wanting a three-wire
fence law. We would rather have
the no fence.
J. 0. Massey was not at the college
last week on account of being sick.
W. E. Walker says the school at
Henderson is not like the one at
Finger.
Hope you all had a happy Easter.
D. B. L.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-03-28

The death toll in the storm
Sunday in Nebraska, Iowa, Illi-
nois, Missouri, and Indiana sum
UP il killed 234, and in injured
694. Doubtless many places in
in the country adjacent to the
towns will largely increase the
number. Omaha suffered most.
There the dead was l52 and in
jured 500. The property loss in
Omaha alone aggregates several
millions.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-03-28
Destructive fire at Henderson.

Early Tuesday morning fire broke
out in the grocery store of Cheatham
Bros. Seven stores and the court
house were destroyed. The records
were saved. Total loss over insur-
ance about $4,000. Fire believed
to have been incendiary.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-03-28

The hen and halter had their
day Sunday. It happens every
year. But by some slip in the
almanac cogwheel it came too
early. Notwithstanding this
March day was ideal for hats and
fluffy fnery, until the strong
winds in the afternoon run to
cover the dear little angels. No
Easter in the cities was more
spectacular in sartorial and floral
display. It is the day when all
nature is presumed to emerge
from its long repose, and assume
new life. The only drawback
to the felicity of husbands is the
presentation Of Easter bills.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-03-28
Floods and Storms.

Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky are
devastated by floods. All storms are
raging piles of water sweeping levees,
bridges, and houses by the hundreds.
The death toll to Wednesday was in
the thousands and the worst yet to
come.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-03-28

The regulars claim that Gov.
Hooper is alone responsible for
the condition of legislation in the
state. Are they displeased be-
cause by Clump's help they have
majority and are able to pass
any laws they want? They as
sumo that the vicious legislations
they themselves make are charge
able to Hooper. Poor fellows!
The people who are at home and
have no political AK to grind will
know who will be held RESPONSE
BILE FIR vindictive and vicious leg
islation. The people cannot be
fooled all the time. Temperance
legislation will not down by any
crowd of political pirates.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-03-28
The storms and high wind in

The storms and high wind in
cyclones and tornados have been
more general and destructive
during the past two weeks than
was ever known. From Maine
to California, and from Canada
to Florida the storms have been
more or less destructive. In the
general aggregate two hundred
lives have been lost and many
millions in property destroyed.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-03-28
Notes From Baltimore.
Baltimore, Nd, Mar. IL, 191.

Baltimore, Nd, Mar. IL, 1913.
EDITOR INDEPENDENT:
In my mind | can picture the COM
ing of springtime in old McNairv, as
it used to come when my own young
life was at the springtide. The ma
Piles are budding red, all buds are
swelling, the frogs make cheerful
concert along the little creeks. the
horny-heads and other creek fish are
running, and when the wild plums in
the thickets are white with blossom
it will be fishing time in earnest, but
it will also be time for the farmer
boys to get down to work. Let us
hope that in the next world there will
be more time to fish and less sassa-
fras to grub and no new ground to
break with sore-backed, one-eyed
mule.
The country is all right, in its way,
but it is IN the great city that you
can know what is going on. There
you have your finger on the pulse Of
humanity, and stand as on a noun
tain and see history unfold itself.
Here you see the things you read
about.
The other day | was invited by the
great medical expert of Johns Hop
kins Hospital, DR.. Howard A. Kelly,
to visit his sanatarium and see the
wonderful new metal radium, of
which he has fifty thousand dollars
worth in his possession. The metal
is in the form of a red powder, look
ing something like rusty iron filings,
which gives off heat and light all the
time. without losing any of its SUBJ
stance, apparently. 1t is the most
costly of all known substances. |
was shown a bit of it, which cost
twenty-three thousand dollars, and it
would not more than half fill one of
the little goose-quills that are used
for toothpicks. And yet this small
amount Of the substance is so power
full that if one carries the little bot
tie of it in his pocket it would burn
his flesh so that he would be laid up
| for months. One Of the doctors
present picked up the tiny flask
which held the powder, and he said
his fingers tingled like he had been
shocked by electricity. DR.. Kelly
says the light and heat that come
from this powder will cure rheuma-
tism, cancer, and lot of other
things. The patient sits before the
"emanator," or glass vessel that con-
tains it, and the radiating energy
does the rest. | saw an emanator
| in which had been placed a bit of
radium weighing not more than a
grain Of wheat. 1t filled the globe
with sort of pale, green light which
person with good eyes could read
| by, and the powder itself glows in the
dark like what we used to call fox
fire." or decaying wood. A piece of
radium not larger than radish seed,
if placed in a bottle, will purify a
barrel of water of all its disease-mak-
germs, and it is now proposed to
purify water supplies that way, al
though only rich people can afford
such filters. 1t is said in scientific
journals that the emanations of ra-
dunn also change one metal into
another, as copper into lithium, ETC.,
and it is even asserted by some that
it may in time be used for changing
lead or other metals to gold. Let
us not hope for any such operations
as that, for a cheapening of gold
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-03-28
would disturb business as nothing
else could.

would disturb business as nothing
else could.
A wonderful man was here last
week, and gave a lecture at Johns
Hopkins Hospital. He was DIR Alex
is Carrel, of the Rockefellow Institute;
the young Frenchman who received
the $4,000 Nobel prize for discover
ing how to make animal organs grow
and work outside of the body. He
showed moving pictures of the stom-
ach, heart and lung of a dog carry
ing on their natural functions, the
heart beating and the stomach digest
ing food, for nearly a day after their
removal from the body, while kept in
peculiar medium know as Ringers
solution, consisting mainly of COM
mon salt and water. He told of
keeping the heart of a young chicken
beating for more than three months
GOA days. outside of its body. But
his most wonderful work was trans
planting of one human limb to an
other. He will take the leg Of dead
man, keep it pickle for some weeks,
and then sew it on the body Of live
man who has one leg, and the new
limb will grow, like graft on tree.
Then, if that man should die, the
same leg can be transplanted to
another man, and so on. He says
that there are two kinds of death;
that for a day or two after the
breath has left the body, the cells of
the flesh are still alive and can be
transplanted to other bodies and will
live, but that decay destroys all life.
These discoveries have stirred up the
whole scientific world, and it is be-
lieved that the secrets of life and
death are not far off. Metchuikoff
tells us that the drinking of sour
milk will lengthen life, as it destroys
the old-age germs in the large intes.
tines. He also says that the eating
Of dates will tend to prevent the
hardening of the arteries, which is
the main cause Of death in old people.
He believes that human beings ought
to live 200 years, and that they would
do SO if they had much sense of self
preservation as the ordinary animals
do. 1t seems evident that the world
is about to pass through a wonderful
change of some kind. Evil is being
fought as never before. The bad
characters of Baltimore are being put
out of business, and the saloons closed
in large numbers; it is the same
everywhere. In the White House
and in the Cabinet we have men who
will not tolerate liquor about them;
Congress is after the rum trade with
a sharp stick, and it is predicted that
within ten years prohibition of the
liquor traffic will be written into our
national constitution. The South, with
Tennessee we'll to the front in the
work, has had a lot to do with the
war on whiskey, and it will do its
share to abolish an evil worse than
negro slavery.
The visits of the Independent are
always welcome to my Office. The
little items from Gravelhill. Ramer,
Adamsville, and Purdy (dear old
names of my motherlandD have fla
vor and call up memories not found
elsewhere.
/ was pleased to see your compil-
mentary notice of the grandson of
Byron Saunders. BLOOD will TELL"
and Mr.. Saunders is one of the most
intelligent and well-read men in the
county.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-03-28
Musical Concert.

The Vaughn Quartette will give a
musical entertainment at college hall
Thursday night, April 3rd. 1t will be
remembered they were here last year
and all were delighted. Benefit for
local interest.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-03-28
Are You Constipated?

If so, get box of DR.. Kings New
life Pills, take them regularly and
your trouble will quickly disappear.
They viii stimulate the liver, improve
your digestion and get rid of all the
poisons from your system. They will
surely get you well again. 25c at
B. L. Browder, Selmer, 7. S. Davis,
Bethel Springs.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-03-28
No Welcome Here For
The Same, Tame and Lame"

That pattern in clothes is popular and that everybodys
wearing dooms with There's welcome here for he same
tame aud ame The handspring of garments is distinctive diff
ferentness We sell High Art" Krschbaums and Fit Form
Clothes because they dctvey different from the clothes of
commerce and They tower above the dead level
They are intensely individual and srkngy smart Ordinary suits
their armorpae stiffness Chas H. sh handmade suit is soft
and curveomng sets the pace young mansh grace On
the back or the rack you'll be proud Gs High Art Suit
it's compliment to taste -...- - . . $l400 to $4,000
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-03-28
Gish's Value Back of Gish's Ads.

Spring Suits for Boys Xragood that their enthuse
about$50 $1,000 After all it's what say print that
counts It's the returning hundreds of friends after
each with satisfaction his and hearness his voice. because
he knows what he buys here is right Today the East Balcony
choose from hundreds of suits at $685. to $3.50 that
would cost them fully third other Suits
worth while.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-03-28
Hot Thought
On Hot Thought

At ohand the above title applies to this store New every
week many respects and this fresh word calling attention to all
the goods clothing and footwear that lay
hands that here be admired and acquired We have stud
led and women not books have the of old
fashions and caught the first glow of the of fashions Our
collection of silks wooens linens embrodees lace cotton goods
ready garments for men, boys and children shoes for
every who wants Shoes Our collections have interested dress
Makers local taiors and manufactures seeking inspiration
in and who like to things that beau
u well durabeheads families of the most exactng
all welcome to forest oak grow by neglect;
To be enviaby dressed not diff
cult accomplishment if you trade at the store of Chas H. Gsh
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-03-28

If you need Letterheads, Envelopes,
Statements. Billheads, Cards, ETC.,
leave your order with the Independ-
ent All work promptly executed in
the ''know-how" way.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-03-28
We Have Boycotted Bad Shoes.

Our purpose to we'll those who bring their business ou
firm the Pyramid of Cheops that has not been shaken
thousand Mere paave print than nothing for
be misleading After the gloss and first liking the shoes has
off you be disappointed and wish you had made the
purchase Were such the and the shoes purchased of
should be Sorry but unhappy still did not tell about it,
Wornen's Shoes - So. - 81 so to $4.00
Mems Shoes $3.50 to 800 and it's Netteton)
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-02-10

had gone through three stages and
The first he said was sympathy for
the unfortunate fellowman; the sec
ond was emergency relief and the
third which is being put into practice
now is emergency relief combined
with a system to re-establish the OBJ
;ect of charity again into his own in
dependence.
Aside from the humanitarian as
poets in the twentieth century plan
it is supported by arguments for
economy. The poor are always with
us, and the unfortunates will I'M
doubtedly be with us until the end of
time, but unless the public looks upon
these charges in a different light, con-
| lost their grip" only temporarily,
the vast majority will always be
found on the debit instead of on the
credit side of humanity.
Under our present system in most
communities we continue to dole out
emergency relief and let the family
struggle. along in environments and
under Conditions that ill the hos
pitfalls, insane asylums and institu.
lions of correction. The public pays
the freight at all stages. Now what
is the twentieth century idea of
charity? In the first place it gives
emergency relief If needed, and as a
next step begins to coach the un-
fortunate. If sickness, chronic
disease is at the bottom, thorough
medical aid is given, if shiftlessness
and bad management are at fault,
new ideals of the home are supplied
the community or it's agent sees te
it that he gets employment. Such g
system appears expensive at first
blush; it requires Skilled workers, bui
experience has amply proven profit,
able in the long run. In Chicago .
case is on record where charity work.
ers continue to coach a derelect fami
ly on and off for twelve years. Today
this family owns its own home and i.
contributing to charity. Twelve years
is long time. but not quite as lons
as the time that the father and
mother would have spent in the poor
house, and the children possibly il
some institution for criminals
That is the mercenary side O
twentieth century charity TIL,
ethical and humanitarian side of it il
brighter by far.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-02-10
SHIPS AND MEN.

1t is gratifying to hear from Wash
ington that the House democrats are
coming to recognize the Importance
of keeping up the navy, and it is
likely that two battleships instead Of
one will be authorized at this session.
The navy is short about five thous-
and men and is pushing enlistment.
This shortage is from no dislike of
the service, but to be accounted for
by the practice of selecting only the
fittest and the general posterity in
all lines of employ for desirable
hands.
1t is a singular coincidence that q
comparison with the British navy
made by the navy here shows tha
Great Britain is behind her ful
strength by 10000 men.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-02-10
A MAN NOT A MOLLY coDDLE.

To nagging representative of the
New York Times, DR.. Wilson force
fully declared:
ct am doing what ! believe to
be best for the country and for my
self If the newspapers expect me
to do anything else, IL be damned
if / Will
A bit strong for a former college
professor, perhaps, but we should re-
member that DR.. Wilson had previ-
justified profanity. And certainly the
inquisitive and omnipresent news
paper reporters have afforded him
plenty of the sort of provocation he
describes-Fort Wayne News
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-02-10

that freshets wash out some of this
accumulated filth into Lake Michi-
gan. In any event. it is disagree
able and disgusting state of affairs.
The Calumet region in Illinois is
arranging to dispose of its sewage.
The Calumet-Sag channel is under
construction. 1t will have an initial
capacity of 1000 cubic feet per sec
ond. This is not large enough to take
care of the freshets which sometimes
reach 10000 cubic feet per second.
The result will be that some of the
accumulated filth of the Calumet re-
gion in Indiana will be swept into
Lake Michigan along with the Hi.
nois flow during certain days oil
maximum discharge
Indiana should adopt some proper
method of sewage disposal. 1t il
| filthy to continue to dump sewage
into the dead end of the Calume
river. which may son rival Bubbl,
creek
Illinois is doing her share She il
cleaning her own house and she ha
q right to expect Indiana to do like
wise.-Calumet Record.
Illinois should demand that Indi
ana clean the dirty Calumet
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-02-10

1912 the total income of the univer-
sity was s317,0Ts. This represents. In
diana Universitys share of the tax of
one-t tenth of one mill, which is levied
to support the three state schools.
which are Indiana University. Purdue
and the State Normal. Since this tax
was levied the enrolment at Indiana
University has increased more than
one hundred per cent and new de-
mands are constantly made this
limited income. The university asks
that this mill tax be doubled. This
means that every man who is assessed
at s1o,00O.000, will have to pay $l.00
more a year. To the university it
means the possibility of maintaining n
university that shall be source of real
benefit to the state. Is II an unreason-
able request9 / leave the answer to
you readers.
Very respectfully yours.
LESTER A. OTTENHEIMER.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-02-10
WE HAVE NOTHING ON ALASKA

If one were TO judge from some of
the novelettes and the Jack London
stuff that is printed in many maya
zines he would gain the impression
that Alaska is an arctic wilderness
where the white men run around in
bear skins, sleep in log cabins and
eat beans and bacon the year around.
But such is not the case. Looking
over the want ad columns of the
Alaska Citizen, bright newspaper
of Fairbanks. city hundreds oil
miles in the interior we select this
ad as sample:
| FOR RENT-Furnished comfort
able, steam heated rooms, with
| bath. Wilson House. Mrs. o. G.
Williams, prop, First avenue;
| second door from Masonic Tenn
| pie. Phone 166Y.
! Furnished rooms, steam heat, bath
and telephone service. What NOR,
could the housewife in Hammond
Gary, or Indiana Harbor who has ;
room to rent offer?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-02-10

saves the state thousands of dollars
and the lives of hundreds. Is the train
ing of such men a good thing for the
state?
Do you want the best men to protect
your interest if you get into a law
suit? Do you want the best men to
make your laws and fill your public
offices? If Indiana is to have the best
men. she must produce them. II she
does mt offer her sons and daughters
the best training. they will go to
schools beyond the state. Is it an I'M
rea sonable thing TO ask the citizens of
Indiana who are so closely concerned
to make this a personal matter. to get
behind the movement and see that the
state university do get the support
they require to make them equal to the
schools of other states.
What does the State University ask?
Only enough money to enable it to
work efficiently for the interests or
the State For two years OF 1911 ana
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-02-10
VOICE OF
u THE Au~--
p e q p l. e
on STATE SCHOOL QUESTION.
Bloomington. Ind. Feb. IL

Bloomington, Ind. Feb. 10.
To the Editor of THE TINES
At a meeting of the student body of
Indiana University the other day. some
surprising facts were presented con-
corning the financial condition of the
three educational institutions in Indi-
ana What impressed me most of all
was that Indiana stands last in the
list of ten western states OF Illinois In
diana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota.
Iowa, Missouri and Kansas in provid-
ing financial support for higher edu-
cation. The immediate reason for the
meeting was desire to put before the
students, and through them. the peo-
pc of Indiana, the needs of the univer-
sity. and to justify if possible the re-
quest for larger income.
The future of Indiana University
rests with the citizens of Indiana.
Every taxpayer should at this time ask
himself this question: Is Indiana Uni
versity and the two other State schools
repaying the money invested in them?
| To me there seems but one of two
things to be done 1t the state univer-
| sity is doing good work, then IL should
be given unerudgingly the financial aid
! necessary. If it is not a paying invest
ment then its doors should be closed
and the money devoted to some more
useful purpose.
| What is Indiana University doing for
| the State2 What has it done for the
| people of Lake County, ! shall not
pause to discuss the benefits which
comes from having men and women
better trained for the duties OF citi-
zenship. This is a commercial aid. Let
us get down to figures.
Her prosperity comes partly from the
lrich farm lands which are within her
borders What is Indiana University
doing to help the farmer? a soil sur
vey is now in progress although held
back By lack of funds.) which viii
mean to the farmers of Indiana thous-
and of dollars. As our reputation In
icreases intensive farming becomes
more necessary. Two bushels of whoa
will grow whore one was made e
| grow before The work of Purdue II
aiding the farmer will not be disputed
She too is hampered in her work. TIL
increased income asked is not for one
but for all three state schools. If thu
farmers want the work of Purdue to g
on they must stand behind II.
Good crops make good roads all TIL
more necessary. for with poor road
the crop may rot IN the heios pe1of
, 1t can be hauled to the market Geol
} ogists of Indiana University have in
stituted Good Roads Movement an
7 by study of road engineering are max
, ing sure that the money spent on road
is not wasted.
q AND there are matters which mea
even more than money. To every on
at some time comes sickness. 1t mean
far more to him then that a doctor
a man who has been given the props
training. for one mistake may mea
even death to him. The Indiana Med
cal College. has been turning out me
who are trained not ony to cure but
L prevent disease They are instille
z with the idea not to make the mos
u money possible, but to be the best do'
tor possible. Preventative measur'
Is applied at the outbreak or disea'