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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27
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49,
DECLINE IN USE OF LIQUOR
Amazing Decrease in London Of Use
Of Wines and spirlts---Much
Credit Given Mrs. Henderson.

"A Woman's Diary" In The Queen
newspaper the other Saturday declar-
ed that: Temperance is a sign Of the
twentieth century. No one who knows
their London-that is. OF the West
End and the smart restaurant can
fail to be impressed by the amazing
decrease in the use of wine and spIr-
it's Champagne. port and other ex-
pensive wines have almost disappear
ed; even at suppers the ever-present
mineral water is by no means incon-
spicuous. The woman Of today has
become water drinker, or, In strict
truth, drinker OF barley water or
lemonade. Diet cures, the care OF her
complexion, and desire to lead the
simple life have brought about this
transformation. Il does one good to
see that children and young girls are
now total abstainers Even the smart
girls who go about in London seldom
or never drink wine, but content
themselves with lemonade, and this
even at ball supDers in the early
hours OF the morning"
In reply to assertions occasionally
seen in the press that Washington so
ciety women are drinking more every
year, Mrs John b. Henderson. wife Of
q former senator from Missouri, IL
quoted as saying that both men and
women drink less than when she hrst
went to Washington Some OF the
smartest women in town do not serve
liquor at all. and even In the diplo-
matte corps the use OF liquor is not 30
general as 1t was few years ago.
she declared. Il have not served
wines at my dinners for many years.
The substitution of fruit juices and
water no longer causes re-
mark. ! attribute the decline in the
use of liquor to the general interest in
hygiene. Strict observance of the |
laws of health is distinctly fashion
able. Women are cultivating health,
strength and beauty, and they forego
any indulgence that would overthrow
The rules OF health"
Some years ago Mrs. Henderson,
whose palatial home was one of |
social centers. caused
al the wines In her cellars to be
smptied into the gutter. and her in
iuence has been no small factor in
bringing about the change In senti
nent
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27
DO NOT ADVERTISE SALOONS
Booster Never Makes Prominent Men
ton OF Number OF Drinking Places
Town Could Boast OF.

Did you ever know Of town or
county or state which deliberately ad-
vertised itself as being possessed OF
numerous saloons and places where
liquor could be purchased? Did you
ever read booster" that enumerated
1t the head OF it's column, or at the
loot, the number of saloons of which
he town advertised could boast? An
employer never puts in his advertise
ment for help, Drinking man pre-
lerred." On the contrary. advertise
ments appear even in the liquor jour
nails for sober and abstinent en-
ployes, and to quote the Battle Greek
Enquirer. THE argument that wet
rounty Is better than dry county
never goes, past campaign use--it
never gets into community advertis
ing"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27

pound and it made me a strong well wo-
man. / am very thankful that | fol-
lowed my friends advice and / shall
recommend it as long as | live. Before
! took the Compound ! was always
sickly and now have not had medicine
from doctor for years. You may pub
lish my letter. Mrs. EDWARD b. HUI
BERT, Fleetwood, Pa.
Such warning symptoms as sense Of
suffocation, hot flashes, headaches, back
aches, dread Of impending evil, timiditys
sounds in the ears, palpitation Of ths
heart, sparks before the eyes, irregu-
larities, constipation, variable Appetite
weakness and inquietude, and dizziness.
are promptly needed by intelligent wO-'
men who are approaching the period in
life when woman's great change may
be expected.
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound invigorates and strengthens the
female organism and builds up the weak
ened nervous system. 1t has carried
many women safely through this crisis
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27
ALCOHOL HURTS THE MEMORY
Karl vout Distinguished German
Naturalist, Gives Result Of InteN
cstInr Experiments.

10 the Medical Annual" for 1919
we are indebted for the following:
Karl vogt. the distinguished German
naturalist, found that alcohol had q
deleterious effect on the memory.
After taking about one ounce OF al.
cohol after breakfast, he found that
ne required longer time to learn
Off BY heart . portion OF Greek verse.
II the alcohol was taken on an empty
stomach this action was much more
marked. and was seen with smaller
dose On revising his work some
months later. he found that the lines
learned under the influence OF alcohol
were more imperfectly remembered
than those learned on the days wheE
no alcohol was used
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27
FRAUGHT WITH UNTOLD RISKS
Chance Of the Next Generation Look
Ing It the Alcohol Question IN
lts True Light.

II we can safeguard the young to
the utmost. and not only keep alco-
hol away from them, but make them
realize from early years the terrible
Ills that it brings to body and soul,
then there may be some chance Of the
next generation looking at the whole
subject In its true light and our chill
dren's children may realize that abb
stinence Is not fanaticism or asceti-
cism, but rational self-contTol In re-
spect to something which Is fraught
with untold risks. Sir Thomas Bar
low. Physician to the Late King Ed.
ward.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27
LINcoLNs NEXT BIG FIGHT
After Reconstruction, Martyred Pres
ldent Intended to Wage War on
Liquor Traffic.

At recent temperance meeting in
Washington. D. G.. one Of the speak
era was ]. b. MerwIn, introduced as
The personal friend of Abraham Lin
coin Major Merwin dined with Lin
coin the day the latter was assassin
ated. and he stated that during the
conversation the president said to
him:
"Merwin. since as far back as 1912
/ have waged two fights, one against
slavery and the other against the
liquor traffic. We have won the fight
against slavery and after reconstruc
tion the next great question will be
the overthrow Of the liquor trafic
And you know. Merwin, that my purse
and my heart and my influence and
all that / have and all that am viii
90 into that work"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27
What IL Wanted.

What the temperance men want Ia
not the regulation OF the liquor trafic.
but its destruction: not that its de-
str,lction; not its evils should be cir
cumscribed idle fancy, but that they
should, to the full extent Of the,
states ability. be utterly eradicated.
No shilly-shally legislature can endure.
and 1t would be good for nothing If
it could. Stave in the heads of the
barrels, put out the fires of the dis
tilleries, confiscate the demijohns,
bottles and glasses that have been pol
luted by the internal traffic. Horace
Greeley.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27
Cause Of Wealth.

The last census shows that Kansas
Is the second richest state In the
Union, and that while the per capita
wealth OF its neighbor. Missouri. IL
$500, that Of Kansas is s1.700. When
q banker Of another state asked for
an explanation why Kansas had 90
much larger per capita bank deposits
thsn his own state tho reply was,
Kansas puts her money IN the banks,
wisiIe you put yours In the saloons
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27
Looks SHY.

Professor Nichols asks this peril
nent question: is 1t common sense
to license man to sell liquor, then
lock up another man for buying 1t. and
levy tax on the citizen to take care
OF the man who buys?"
He says further that across the face
Of every tax receipt there should be
printed In red ink, 1.-THE liquor traffic
is direct enemy Of every taxpayer 10
the land"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27
Grand jury on Liquor Business.

The grand jury OF Christian county,
illinois. on December 80 last. en-
bodied in its report the following para
graph
Be 1t Resolved, That we deem 1t
high time this nation dissolved part.
aership with this femily-wrecking and
lOuldsstroying business. as seven
Genths Of our findings are caused a.
fsCtly or Indirectly BY the use OF II
auor,
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27
laexsrnor suIzer on temperance.

The days when "a quorum OF the
house Of representatives could always
BE found at the Capitol bar are gone.
never to return. according to Cover.
nor sulzer. When ] first went to
Washington. said the governor. "a
man who did not drink was under sus-
plcion: now II Ii the man who drinks
who ii under suspicion. The change
.s.1.-s..z about through the eood sense
ID batter Judgment Of the members
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27

4 can desire nothing better for this
great country than that a barrier,
high as Heaven, should be raised be-
tween the unpolIuted lips of the chill
dren and the Intoxicating cup John
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27
MhY na chanaed LiIs vote.

4 was an anti a long time, but one
day I heard some little children talk
ing. when one OF them, whose father
had ben ruined by liquor. said:
Mamma says men that vote for sa-
looms are to blame for us having such
a hard time. II stung me. but knew
II was the truth, and | vowed that /
would wrong no more women and
children BY voting for saloons
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27
aAlmA Mater. d

There is saloon in Chicago tlrat
does business under this sign: Alma
Mater AS alma mater refers to the
institution where one has received
his education 1t is probable thar
many human wrecks about town can
look to that sign and truthfulIy say
Alma Mater
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27

you legislators pass laws for the
protection OF the birds and the.
,kunks-why not protect the boys
also Mrs. Florence D. Richard,
president Of the Ohio w. c. T. u, At
4 legislative hearing on the license
question.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27
what REMEMBRANCE RrInus.

More OF good than we can tell;
More to buy with, more to sell;
More OF comfort, less Of care;
More to eat and more to wear;
Happier homes with faces brighter:
All our burdens rendered lighter;
Conscience clean and minds much
stronger;
Debts much shorter, purses longer;
Hopes that drive away all sorrow;
And something laid up for tomorrow
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27

There are now hundreds OF children
In Knoxville with clothes and shoes
20 wear and something to eat who
went naked and hungry when saloons
were here-W. P. Chandler. Chief OF
Police Of Knoxville, Tenn.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27
AIL|NG WOMEN
OF MIDDLE AGE
Mrs. Hilbert Tells of Her Dis
ressing Symptoms During
Change of Life and How
She Found Relief.
Fleetwood. Pa" During the Change
of Life was hardly able to be around

AZ all 4 always nau
a headache and 1
was sodizzy and ner
vons that ! had no
rest at night. The
flashes of heat were
so bad sometimes
that / did not know
what to do.
One day a friend
advised me to take
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vege table Com
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27

The church people can drive US
Ehen they try. and we know it. Our
hope Is In working after they grow
tired. and continuing TO work S65
lays in ths year. New York Brewer.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27
MONDAY. JULY Z, 1918,

at ! O'Clock p. M, to the highest bid
der for cash the residence and lot known
as The Dr. r. ID. Edwards Home
Place, situated in Union City, Tenn.
and described as follows Beginning az
the southwest corner OF Block Number
Three at the intersection Of Mathews
and Try streets, runs thence east with
Mathews street 1921 feet TO stake;
thence north 1861 feet to stake on
the north bank Of ditch or drain;
thence west with said ditch 2s1 feet to
stake; thence south "a feet to stake:
thence west "a feet to stake on the
east side of Ury street; thence with the
east side OF said street to the beginning.
This valuable house and lot will be
sold free from the equity Of redemp-
ton and the purchaser will be given
immediate possession. Those desiring
70 inspect this place with view OF
bidding upon it will be cheerfulIy shown
through the house by Mrs. Edwards.
This the 25th day OF June, 1918.
1926 ]. A. WHIPPLE, Trustee.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27
socloloalcaI ana EconomIeal.

The present day question or total
abstinence Is sociological and eco
nomic and not only one OF personal
Ibetterment Sir Victor aorslsy.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27

The first and most seductive peril
to a young man Is the drinking or
liquor Andrew Carnegie.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-06-27
Trustees Sale Of Valuable House
and Lot in Union City, Tenn.

8 BY the authority vested in me by
Deed Of Trust, executed on the oath
day Of June. 1918, by Mrs. Ara Ella
Edwards and ID. A. Peeler, Il. v Cald-
well, Walter Howell and Chas. w Miles,
Jr., and which is of record il the Regis
ter's 0fiico for Obion County, Tenn,
and at the request Of Mrs. Ara Ella
Edwards and other parties to said deed
Of trust, | will offer for sale at the east
door Of the courthouse in Union City,
Tenn, on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-19
Defeat of stimsonism

The United States Senate has, by
vote Of 53 to 20, stricken out of the
Connecticut river dam bill the clause
empowering the Secretary of War to
name from time to time the price per
horsepower to be paid by the corpora
tion which desires to reconstruct the
dam at Windsor Locks. The govern
ment hasn't a shadow of proprietary
rights in the waters of state; it has
navigation rights only, and yet Secre-
tary of War Stimson had induced the
President to adopt his plan for selling
water power to private consumers.
The strong vote in the Senate has
knocked Stimsonism over the ropes
and it will not again be heard from.
'One more vote would give 54 in the
Senate pledged to the overthrow of
the asserted right in the federal gov
ernment to sell the water of state
and 81 to 90 would be two-thirds
vote, and two-thirds vote could over
ride the veto now before the Senate
of the bill relating to Lock Is on the
Coosa river. The hope is felt in Ala
bama that this will be done, for il
it can be passed over the veto,
Alabama will gain big lime nitrate
mill. The gain would really be one
for the entire cotton belt.
The Stimson policy is crushed be-
yond hope of recognition, and the
state of Alabama has now a duty to
perform. She possesses the un-
doubted and unquestioned right Of
controlling and regulating public utili-
ties. As time goes on she can impose
franchise tax. But the control and
regulation of hydroelectric companies
is possible and feasible now, and no
duty of the state is palmer or more
important. The price of hydroelec-
tricity to private consumers should
always be kept on reasonable basis
both as to supply and price. The de-
feat of Stimsonism accentuates the
states duty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-19
In Illinois and West Virginia

The seventeenth amendment was
never more needed than it is today, for
two legislatures are deadlocked in eff
forts to elect United States senator's.
When such officers are elected direct
" by the people, as they soon will be,
senatorial deadlocks will be eliminated
altogether.
In Illinois two senators are to be
elected, and trades are impending in
which the democratic, the republican
and the progressive parties are ex-
pected to take part. All such trades
lead to rottenness and Generalization.
The Lorimer case was a striking ex-
ample of trades in which party lines
are disregarded. The fear of another
Lorimer case in Illinois is very great.
No one has confidence in the legisla-
ture. Politics in Illinois is in cha
otic and unrepresentative condition.
In West Virginia there are many
multi-millionaires who want sena-
torial seat, and the indictments al
ready found against five or six mem
bers Of the legislature show that vote
buying is being resorted to. The en-
tire situation in West Virginia is dis
creditable to all the states, and the
sooner the seventeenth amendment is
adopted the better it will be for all
the states. Direct elections by the peo-
pie are American and the hope is that
they will prove reformatory in the
Senate itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-19
JIM BLUDSO

The Oldest craft on the line
With a niger squat on her safety
valve,
And her furnace crammed, rosin and
pine.
The fire bust out as she cleared the bar,
And burnt a hole in the night;
And quick as a flash she turned and
made
For the willer-bank on the right.
There was runnin' an cussin but jim
yelled out
over all the internal roar;
''l'll hold her nozzle agin the bank
Till the last galoot's ashore!"
Through the hot. black breath OF the
burnin' boat
Jim Bludso's voice was heard.
And they all had trust in his cussed-
ness,
And knowed he would keep his word.
And. sure's you're born, they all got on
Afore the smokestaclx fell
And Bludsos ghost went up alone
In the smoke of the Prairie Belle.
He wern't no saint--but at jedment
I'd run my chance with Jim,
Longside of some pious gentlemen
/ That wouldn't shake hands with him.
He seen his duty, dead-sure thing
| And went for il thar and then;
And Christ amt a-going to be too hard
| On a man that died for men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-19
WASTING NO RAW MATERIAL

From the Chicago Tribune.
Listen to this, Ursula" said the rising
young author. II rather think this will
silence him."
"An impudent cad who insists that
willfully and maliciously caricatured and
burlesqued him in one of my magazine
stories. Here is what I've written TO
him:
Cheap Sir: Any investigator who turns
aside from the beaten path and wanders
amid the primeval forests. prairies. and
swamps may step carelessly into some
frog pond and thereby inadvertently dis
turb, incommode, or annoy some slum-
bering tadpole that happens to be in his
way. Imagine the tadpole thereupen
thrusting it's head above the surface of
the pond and in shrill squeak accusing
the traveller of having purposely and ma
iciousiy singled out that particular tad
pole as the object of an unwarranted in
suit and an unprovoked attack. Sir, l
have been happily oblivious of your ex-
istence until now. If you have any note
worthy peculiarities they have never been
brought to my notice. Furthermore, IL
you resemble in the slightest particular
any character in any story l have writ
ten. you have won higher distinction
and a greater honor than any you will
ever achieve by your own unaided efforts.
Goodby, sir. You can sink back into
your frog pond. go ahead and complete
your destiny as a frog, or go to blazes,
for all | care
"Now that I've written it, though, Ur-
sula," he added, after a pause, II don't
think shall send it to him.
"I wouldn't either, Alfred; it Is too
severe"
Hastily the rising young author read it
through again.
| no" he said; ''it isn't any too Sc
we're 1t isn't half severe enough, as a
matter of fact. But it's too good to waste
on a cheap skate like him. I'm going to
save X. Ursula, and use it in my next
magazine story.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-19

be indulged In in moderation without
harm. Moderate cigarette smoking does
not seem to be injurious, although l have
heard some physicians express them
selves to the contrary. Young boys
should not smoke cigarettes, but il adults
derive. pleasure from this mild form OF
stimulant why should they not indulge?
As 1 passed by a fire engine house re-
Gently | noticed that a fireman was smok-
ing cigarette. Some eranks there are
who would undertake TO prove that tnae
mans efficiency was reduced by the fact
that he used tobacco; would undertake to
prove that he could not get up ladder
quite so fast as the man who used no
tobacco But all such talk Is foolish.
The man who has no small vices and VINO
beasts of it will bear watching.
u happen 10 be a total abstainer from
Iiouor, but do smoke and | do drink
coffee, and 1 know men who drink beer
and whisky in moderation without injury
to themselves. If we are to cut out every
little stimulant life to many of us would
hardly be worth living. It certainly would
not be quite SO pleasant as it is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-19
ftedistricting the State

An extra session seems to be COM
ing nearer. Some think they can see
it peering over the horizon, and yet
it is a strange fact that even to those
who see it coming down the pike the
suggestion never comes that this state
needs redistricting. AS things are 60
ing another decennial census will be
near at hand in this quadrennial state
before the State is redistricted.
Perhaps the fact that redistricting
means more to jefferson county than
to any other county or perhaps to
any other half dozen Of counties may
have something to do with this happy
faculty of overlooking the duty of re-
districting the state. But the sense
of Justice is not wholly dead in Ala
bama, and the constitution distinctly
says: ut shall be the duty of the leg
islature at its first session after the
taking of the decennial census of the
United States in the year 1910 to fix
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-19

A number of tests made by Prof. Hugo
Munsterberg of Harvard, Or. Hyslop of
Columbia, DIR. Henry W. Hopkins and
others of the mental state of Beulah
l., who accurately locates and describes
hidden things. are described in the Bos-
ton American Dr. Hopkins makes an af-
fidavit in which he says: Il began the
test of turning the stone of my ring in
side my hand, putting my hand in my
pocket. When Beulah came in from an
other room L asked her what | had in
my left hand. She readily said, "A dia-
mond.' l then put my hand in my right
pocket, and asked her what | had in
my right hand. She said, Purse which
was correct. | took a coin in my right
said, 'Beulah, what have ] in my right
hand now?' She said, Quarter / said
Now, Beulah if you will tell me the fig
ures on the coin 1t is yours She an
swered, 1-9-0-S,' and the quarter was hers
then opened the case of my watch and
looked at the number of the movement
closed the case and put the watch back in
my pocket. ] asked Beulah il she could
tell me the number of the watch move
ment. She said, 5-S-4-9-s-4 These We're
the actual figures"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-19
Rural Credits in This State

The Alabama State Land congress
fs striving to secure to farmers the
cbean money that is available in other
countries and in some other states Oh
this country. If the farmers OF Ala
hama could secure the credit that is
freely offered to the farmers OF Ger
many. the development of this state
would in less than five years astonlsh
the people.
A commission is studying the sys-
TENS of the continental countries ana
the land congress is to meet again III
September, and no stone is to be lelt
unturned to bring to the farmers oil
Alabama the advantages of abundant
and cheap money
Today the laws of this state dis
criminate against home companies
seeking to loan money at reasonable
rates to farmers. But new system OF
rural credits is needed, one based on
the best experience Of other coun-
tries, and possibly of other states
Just as things stand now the laws
Of the state are unfriendly to rural
credits. Capital for that purpose is
.repelled rather than invited, and the
growth Of the state is hindered and
dwarfed accordingly. All this should
be changed. A system of rural credits
should be built up and promoted IN
every sound way. The state needs 1t
and there is scarcely an intelligent
farmer in this state that could not use
more capital than he possesses. The
development of the state hangs on
this issue of rural credits.