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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-12-11
UnIaed States store Of ooId Treasure.

unIsed States Store Of Gold Treasure.
Although the United States has al
ready greater store OF gold than
any other nation, the supply is now H.
ereAsing al rate which will probably
double les treasure in a decade. An
estimate. which Of course Is theoreti-
cal, places the value Of the gold this
country win possess at the close Of the
century at approximately $4,000. 000.-
900. That in keeping at the present
time Is divided among minis and treas
aries in various states, OF which The
Denver mint held s5I0,0O0.0O0 on the
tirst day Of this year. The mint at
Philadelphia. which has the second
largest store. usually has 600 or more
tons Of gold in safe-keeping Popular
Mechanics.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-12-11

Premier M. viviani, who gave out
the answer OF France to the German
ultimatum, is essentially an artist. He
knows the line and the works Of every
living French painter Of prominence.
II IL said that no poet has gained re-
nown in France In the last generation
without a gracious word from him,
uttered ct time when the poet was
stIll striving for recognition.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-12-11
WOUNDS MAKE BOYS GROW
French Lad, Determined TO Fight
Enemies OF His Country, LIkens
Blood 20 Soup.

Gustave Chatain. fifteen years old,
q gamin and q soldier, who was
brought to the hospital at Paris after
he had been playing at war like a
man, has started again fer the front.
He wished to continue his game Of
war. having an ambition to capture
q flag.
The good sisters who had been
nursing his wounds we're unable to
restrain him, especially since an army
lieutenant had given him q uniform
with the congratulations OF the Of
ficers o. the regiment.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-12-11

solving the mystery OF Its steady APP
proach to the sun, dangerous habit
which no other member Of the solar
system has yet copied. II all goes
well the comet should be visible to the
naked eye about Christmas.--rall Mall
Gazette.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-12-11
In me larger housekeeping

ballot. In rne larger housekeeping
interests of the city, state, and nation,
women have as important a function
as in the housekeeping affairs Of the
smaller world OF the home. believe
in the ballot for women on the same
terms as for men.-P. p. Claxton,
United States commissioner of edU
cation.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1914-08-20

Subscription rates s year or three
years in advance 81.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1914-08-20
A CARD.
To the Democrats of the 25th Ju-
dicial District:

To the Democrats Of the 25th Ju.
dicial Districts:
A recent issue of the Kentucky
Register contains an authorized
statement from Judge W. X.
Shackelford, of Richmond, which
is being construed as a virtual
announcement of his candidacy
for the nomination for Circuit
Judge.
| have been aware for some
time. that a few persons in the
district want me to have opposi-
ton as a means of furnishing me
for having done my duty; but |
had hoped that this opposition
would be withheld until the year
in which the election occurs.
intend to ask the Democrats
of the district to again honor me
with the nomination, but | pre-.
fer not to become a candidate or
to do any electiOneering before
next year.
The people need a respite from
politics, and | am sure that the
Democrats of the district, in.
stead of being annoyed by the
candidacy of persons who want
to be elected to office next year,
prefer to devote their political
energies, this fall, to electing the
Democratic candidates who were
nominated two weeks ago. That's
the first duty.
There is no occasion for long
campaign. A full State ticket is
to be nominated and elected next
year, at the same time that a
Circuit Judge will be nominated
and elected, yet little thought
will be given to the State races
before next spring. An agita
tion of only a month or two suf-
fees for the great political parties
of the Nation to choose their can
dioates for the Presidency, and "a
presidential campaign lasts only
from August until November.
Why, then, should campaign
for district and county offices be
any longer?
There is another controlling
reason why am UNIV illing to be
drawn into a long campaign. |
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1914-08-20

ooh, Consistency thou art a
Jewel" One of our contempo-
raries is now advocating good
roads and their anti thesis, Au-
gustus E. Wilson for U. S. Sen
ator; while our Democratic Gov.
ernor is to be called upon to is.
sue the proclamation that was
''lost" under Wilson's regime.
When the Democrats are in
control of State or Nation our
primaries always show up a light
vote as was the case in the recent
State primaries, but the Repub-
licans needn't "crow" over it
for the Growing will be done
by our Democratic bird next ides
of November.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1914-08-20

consider the duties of Circuit
Judge the most delicate that any
official is called upon to dis
charge. Nice, Intricate ques
tions of right and wrong, between
litigants in civil Eases, and be-
sween the people and the defend
ants in criminal prosecutions
must be decided by the Judge,
and he can not perform that
delicate duty with any sort of
satisfaction to himself or to the
people he serves if he'is harassed
and bis mind distracted by an
active contest for office.
haye never traded justice, or
the rights of the people for votes
or popularity, and | never in
tend to do so; but, fear that he
may appear to be doing that en-
harnesses any man, imbued with
the proper conception of the Of
flee, who sits as Judge and is,
at the same time, a candidate.
trust that the Democrats of
the district will take this view
of the situation, appreciate my
position, and not be hasty in Civ.
ing pledges, but will withhold
them until the issues to be con-
sidered-some of which vitality
concern the people of the dis
trict-are fu lily presented, as 1t
is my purpose they shall be.
have received numerous I'M
solicited pledges of support, and
these voluntary expressions OF
friendship and confidence are
highly priced; and do not want
any of my friends TO feel that my
disinclination to become involv.
ed in a long campaign, or any
apparent indifference as to the
result, comes from any lack, on
my part, of due appreciation of
their friendship or their interest
in my behalf.
Respectfully,
j. M. BENTON.
Winchester, KY,
August II, 1914,
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1914-08-20
Winchester, KY,
August II, 1914,

Some "wag" has evidently
"strung" a Lexington Herald re-
porter about the shortage of
print paper on account of the Eu-
ropean war. There are plenty of
paper mills and paper houses
anxious to fill orders at old
prices.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1914-08-20
Taken Up Astray.

One plain red steer, weighing be-
tween five and six hundred pounds
with crop off right ear. Owner can
have same by proving ownership
and paying all charges.
r. W. Garrett, Clay City, Ky.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1914-08-20

There is no JOY among Jackson
go minutes for dinner" hotels
and quick.lunch counters. The
one hotel at Torrent will now
"tyrannize" over the travelling
public, and all because of change
OF time in operating trains on the
l.. & t., now L. ~ \. Railway.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1914-08-20
Stray Notice.

Taken up as a stray on my place
April 9th. 1914, a red and white
spotted steer about 2 years old,
Owner can have same by proving
property and paying for keep and
expense of advertising.
J. G. Patrick,
Stantcn, Ky.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1914-08-20
For Sale.

B-fat Baritone Horn, in perfect
condition, cost s1s new, price if ia
ken at once, $3.50.
Owen Patrick, Kimbrell, Ky.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1914-08-20

Persons DESTROYS or travelling
East or West Tor North and South
az the l.. IL n. Railway even "ty.
rannizes" over the geography
can start early auI kill time at
dePots till they famiiarize them.
selves with the radical changes
recently adopted IN operating
trains,
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1914-08-20

Gamblers who put up the price
Of bread-the staff. Of life, during
the French Revolution were pill
loried by having their ears nail
ed 70 the lintels Of their doors as
examples Of ex,ortioners.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1914-08-20

1t is rather singular that "pure
beet sugar" produced in Ger
many and labeled "pure cane SUI
gar" should be advanced in price
IN this country on account of the
war, while pure cane sugar is
produced solely by our Southern
planters; and it is strange too
that while wheat is declining in
price, -four as soaring. Let the
Investigation be rigid.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1914-08-20

1t is seldom that the Times
feels it incumbent to resort to
reprimand of anything disorder
Is; some boys who perhaps might
In time become ircorrigibles if
they are not restrained and re-
stricted by timely parental cor
rections. We notice some inju-
ny to property-the public school
fencing and some slight damage
to the Christian church, which,
siight as it is, is noticeable. A
stitch in time saves nine, even
III the moulding of mischievous
boys character building.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1914-01-01
This New Dav.

Out of the tomb of night day has
risen. Be not anxious; this day is all
your own. Do not hurry, for in time it
is like all other days; neither delay,
for now is passing. Early turn your
face to the dawn and let its fresh
beams bathe away all stains of night;
then, should the noon be dark with
storms, your smile will still wear the
rose tints of the morning. Step soft
ly among human hearts, and leave so
much Of kindness along life's pathway
that gladness shall spring up, bearing
tribute In the cool entide of the
worlds glad New Day.-Croft.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1914-01-01
DIDN'T OBSERVE NEW YEARS
Puritans Regarded the Celebration as
a Heathenish and un-Christian
Rite.

The sole record of the observance
Of the New Year by the Pilgrims in
the new world, named New England,
was most prosaic, most brief: I'VE
went to work betimes." Many of the
good Puritan ministers thought the
celebration or ev IN notice of the day
In any way savored of improper and
un-Christian reverence for the heath
en- god, Janus. Yet these English set
tiers came from a land where New
Years eve and New Years day were
second in Importance and domestic
observance only to Christmas.
Throughout every English county
New Years eve was always ceIebrat.
ed; in many it was called by the
PRETTY name of Singing Een, from the
custom which obtained Of singing the
last of the Christmas carols at that
time.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1914-01-01
Take away the tattered SAKE

Take away the tattered page
OF my erstwhfle piety,
Dim and soiled and outraged quite
Mocked of bland safety;
Resolutions such as they
May greet the season with apIomb.
But when the year, grown old and gray
Times not crutch to lean upon
OF all that loftt sentiment, -.
! fain would close the vexing taie
And yet again experiment
For like a bloom perennial
And rosy tinted wake the dreams
OF all the morrows yet to come,
When life is really what 1t seems;
When tardiness and broken vows
And duties shirked for Pleasures court
And Mother GrEndy's sad pow-wows
And tickle Fashions mad report
Are strangers TO my righteous heart
Tear up the old and frame the new.
For I would make another start.
-Maude DeVerse Newton
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1914-01-01
Some New Year DOn'ts

Don't sprinkle salt on the tail of tempta-
ton.
Don't try to get the better Of man who
hasn't any.
Don't snore in church. It's mean to keep
others awake.
Don't be satisfied to pay as you 90.
Save enough to get back.
Don't get married with the cole idea
that misery loves company.
Don't follow the beaten track unless
you are satisfied to remain beaten.
Don't accept advice from a man who
never offers you anything else.
Don't expect Opportunity to come to you
with letter Of introduction.
Don't trust to luck. Nne-tenths Of the
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1914-01-01

verted into electricity at the mouth
OF the mines and widely distributed
for lighting, heat and power" the
other, that the gigantic, force now
wasting itself in the rivers of the
country will be so controlled by
dams as to provide heat, light and
power to the people and that
within a generation l believe the
people will be as alive to the value
Of public ownership of hydro-elec-
trie power plants as they are today
to municipality owned water works"
In the opening lines or the re-
port, Secretary Lane takes up a
Jerious situation which obtains in a
great section OF the country.
There exists a feeling in the
vest" says he, that its affairs and
leeds have not been given that con-
liberation at the hands of the ma
lonal government which they mer-
!. This feeling is not confined to
or exploiters. 1t is the
ointment of many who are without
'lfish motives and regard the mat
r wholly from the standpoint of
'tional growth"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1914-01-01
people in the world guess wrong.

people In the world guess wrong.
Don't buy your friends. They never last
as long as those you make yourself.
Don't envy the rise of others. Many a
man who gets to the top is mere froth.
Don't greet Misfortune with a smile
unless you are prepared for one-sided
filtration.
Don't make good resolutions unless YOU
constantly carry repair kit with you.
Don't place too much confidence in ap-
pearances. Many a man with a red nose
is white all the way through.
Don't forget in times of peace to pre-
pare for war. That's about the only use
some of US seem to have for peace.
Don't fail to have an object in view.
Many a man leads such an aimless exist
ence that he could fire at random without
hitting it.-Lippinoott's. ~
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1914-01-01

I'm work for her with brain and Drawn
with all my might and main,
Until I've won her everything that hon.
esty can gain
,I'll MI her life with all that's good till life
itself Is done
And while we train our minds and hearts
we'll not neglect the fun
Now tell me, won't you. maiden fair.
what YOU have vowed to do?
For I've laid bare my inmost soul to no
one but to you"
i've made no pledges. she replied in so
demure a tone.
But II you don't object I'll try 10 help
you keep your own"
Wallace Dunbar Vincent
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1914-01-01
TURN TO WEST
SAYS Mr.. LANE
Secretary of Interior Outlines Pol
icy Of Conservation.
MAKES HIS ANNUAL REPORT
West Feels That 1t Has Been Ne
elected BY National Govern
ment, He Says-RepOrt
Is Brief.
MAKES HIS ANNUAL REPORT

Washington, Dec. 24.-With bold
strokes Franklin X. Lane, secretary
of the interior, outlined, in his an
nual report to the president, a
broad policy of conservation. Com
Iparatively, the report is brief and
unique.
Two notable and interesting pre-
aictions are indicated. rather than
made in the report. One is that the
time ID not far distant when coall
0f too low q grade d"tO stand stor-
nss or StranspOrtatIou win be con-
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1914-01-01
NEW YEARS DAY.

~ HE dawn is gray and chilly
with the frost,
The old years pulse now
! dutters. now Is still.
, And ell our twelVemonth's deeds,
for good or Ill.
Pass into shadow. silent, one by
one,
While from the night wherein we
wander. lost,
The new year rises with the rising
sun
A new year? Nay: 'tis but the
same old year.
The same remorseless round OF :
sun and rain.
OF seasons in their order. Toy and
pain !
The old emotions playing upon
strings
That wax q little older. drawing
near J
The final end Of all remembered J
things, !
Earth ages. and the very noun
tains nod
With years, and we who crawl !
upon their breast
Pass at the sliding sands benign
beheSt-
Hate fades. greed fails. lust crum-
bles into clay. 4
And there are left but love and faith Z
and God.
To whom q thousand years are a. 4
q day n
Reginald wright Kaunmaa. !
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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1914-01-01
THE OLD YEARS FLIGHT.

watched the old years flight
And then said, with a smile,
"Ah. now the new year bright
Will bide with us awhilei"
But ere my hopeful dreams
Have realized one day
Is dead and passed: II seems
1t starts but to decay.
Thus all along the way
Gravestones must mark the miles.
An epitaph each day,
A tomb of tears and smiles.
So we begin the new
CTis old ere we've begun)
To find it's aging. too,
With the first setting sun.
But twill not always be.
Therell come a living day,
And all things new. and We
Shall live In endless May.
No graVestones then will mark
The tOmbs where dead hopes lie
No nights Of sorrow dark
Creep o'er our changeless sky.
james Daniel Cleaton.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1914-01-01

Bryan, Vice President Marshall
and Speaker Clark have signed up
for chautauquas next summer but
President Wilson, King George and
Huerta have thus far held back
from the lure OF 800 plunks a night.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1914-01-01
The Old Year
And the New

u WATCHED the old year fade,
And with Its dying light
The gloom. at first a shade,
- Turned into darkest night.
And then | said; "'Tis gone
The old year Is no more.
And memories now alone
Linger along the shore"
! watched the old year die.
And with its fading day
There came the thought that by
Its death brighter way
Opes up. and. all things bright.
Well have surcease at last
From specters dark as night.
They'll live. but in the past.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1914-01-01
ANs.u Vsar Paoposal.

sFVThat resolutions have I vowed . keQp
the Gaming yeaRf
Come sif beados M. ma1oen falr aaA
sssaighfway you shall heae
rye pledged uiynsH 10 chooas oms aga
from oui the thronG % say
Ana love her with IN honess love eorsvar
nna for ay@ M f-Fg
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1914-01-01

Kansas City had one murder a
week this year which the Journal
thinhs n. moderate. II would be II
the deserving persons were the ones
butcheTed.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1914-01-01

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky
The flying cloud, the frosty light.
The year is dying IN the night,
Ring out, wild bells. and let him die
Ring out the DID, ring in the new. 7ss5
Ring, happy bells. across the snow, .%$
lhe year is going. let him gos nv
Ring out the false. ring in the true
Ring out the grief that saps the mind
For those that here we see no more,
Ring out the feud Of rich and DOOR
Ring IN redress to all mankind
Ring out a slowly dying cause.
And ancient forms Of party strife,
King in the nobler modes Of life
With sWeeter manners. purer laws. ~
Ring out the want, the care the sin, =
lhe faithless Coldness Of the times,
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes
But ring the fuller minstrel IN.
Ring out the false pride in place and blood,
The civic SANDER and the spite;
Ring IN the love Of truth and risht
ring IN the common love Of good.
Ring out old shapes Of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold,
Ring out the thousand wars Of Old.
Ring IN the thousand years Of peace
Ring IN the valiant man and free
The larger heart, the kino[ier hand.
Ring out the darkness Of the land,
Ring IN the Christ that is to be.
-Tennyson
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-14
STRIKE OF $4,000
TRA|NMEN THREATENED
Dispute May Tie Up $4,000
Miles of Railroads West
of Chicago.

CHICAGO, July IA strike of
$1,000 enginemen and firemen en-
ployed on SO railroads operating west
of Chicago which would tie up ap-
prOXimately 14S,000 miles of railroad
was threatened here today. About 90
per cent of the men have already
voted to strike unless their demands
are granted, and at a conference
scheduled for this morning representa-
tiveS of the engineers brotherhood
were expected to present their strike
ultimatum to the railroad managers.
The opinion prevails here today
that when this has been done the
railroads would appeal TO the United
States commissioner of labor 10 take
a hand in the situation. Whether the
engineers would agree TO accept fed
eral mediation has not been deter
mined. The commissioner Of labor,
however should he be called into the
controversy, viii act under the au
thority of the Newlands act providing
for mediation and arbitration Of rail-
road labor disputes.
The present wage dispute involves
practically every line west of Chicago.
the Illinois Central railroad and all
lines in Canada west OF Fort Williams
except the Crank Trunk Pacific
There is no compulsory arbitra-
ton in the United States," Warren S.
Stone. grand chief engineer Of the
brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
said today IF we feel justified in
going on strike in this matter we shall
do so"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-14
I otally Paralyzed
He Restores O,Ur,
Life With a Jolt

CHICAGO, July 14.-Surgeons to-
day discussed with interest the case
of Dr. Arthur w. Morrow. a dentist,
who practically brought himself back
TO life after having been completely
paralyZed by jOlting himself on the
head with his fist.
DIR. Morrow fell down stairs Sunday.
His neck was severely swollen and
physicians diagnosed his case as con-
cussion of the brain. or a fractured
or severely dislocated spine. There
was no sign of life except that circu-
lation had not ceased. Later he re-
gained consciousness but was unable
TO speak or move any part of his body
except his left arm. Slowly prOpping
up his body with that arm. he placed
his closed fist beneath his chin. With
all the strength he could muster he
jolted his head backward. He fell
back but an instant later, sat up
right the paralysis having complete
ly left him.
Dr. Morrow was able to resume his
work today, declaring he was COM
pletely cured.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-14
RUSSIA STRICKEN
BY WORST HEAT
IN HALF CENTURY
Thousands of Troops Fighting
Forest Fires and Terrific
Rays of Sun Kill Crops
Famine is Imminent.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, July
14.-Russia is suffering from the most
severe heat wave which has visited
the empire in half a century. Re
ports to this city from many quarters
today brought news of extensive for
est fires and death. The smoke from
the fires is approaching this city, OBJ
securing the sun at midday, and giving
a sharp tang TO the hot hfeless air.
Whole forests are afiame Peat beds
on the mOors are burning and many
villages have been wiped out. Enor-
nous damage has been done to crops
and the suffering of the people is in
tense.
A fire is burning around the great
Schluesselb dynamite factory,
which covers several several acres
near Neva, and it is in danger of being
destroyed.
Five thousand soldiers are fighting
the heat and forest fires around NeVa
in an effort to prevent the destruction
of the factory.
A whole army of peasants is at
work throughout Russia, diggingg
trenches and blasting lanes to pre-
Bridges have been burned and rail-
way traffic cut off.
Communication Cut OF.
Communication has been cut off
from many sections of the empire by
the burning of telegraph and tele-
phone poles and the melting of the
wires.
Famine threatens from the annihi-
latiOn of the crops.
1t is impossible TO estimate the
money damage but it will be many
millions of dollars
Hamlets and small towns in the
path of the devouring flames have
been deserted and the people have
taken refuge along the shores of
lakes and rivers or in the cities.
Cities in the interior report that a
pillar of dense black smoke can be
seen hanging over the sky, becoming
bigger and thicker day by day. The
thermometer here registered 100 de
grees fahrenheit at midnight, and the
temperatures at midday throughout
the empire range from 10 to 125.