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The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-03-14
Washington. D. c.

Senator BENJAMIN R. Tillman of South Caro-
lima, broke into the debate on the Mexico situa-
ton this afternoon long enough to obtain the adj
option of resolution to amend the rules and pre-
vent smoking in the executive session of the SEN
ate
The Senator made brief speech, at times hu-
morous and at others pathetic, in which he ad-
vised senators to look after their health. He re-
called that in the four years since he was par
alyzed and has been struggling to restore himself
to health, twenty -one senator's and former Vice
President Sherman have died.
"A majority of the senators smokers" said
Mr. Tillman Unfortunately vicious habit has
SO mastered them that they are nervous and mis-
erable when they do not get the nicotine poison
to soothe their nerves.
TELLS AVERSION TO TOBACCO
"I did not mind tobacco smoke formerly, but
since was paralyzed, four years ago, the smell
of tobacco nauseates me- Consequently | do not
remain in the Senate executive sessions any more
than I can help.
81 'T note also that my Democratic colleagues are
so intent on gratifying their feverish desire to
smoke that they light cigars in the caucus. |
have almost had to leave that caucus or sit by
NSP@iANo
supply of fresh air.
$50 T am beset with the danger of being driven
out of my party and out of the Senate itself by
tobacco
URGES SENATORS TO GUARD HEALTH
81 have a feeling of being nuisance when
enter a place where senator's smoking. |
catch glimpse from their eyes which can only
interpret to mean, Here comes old Ben Tillman,
and I have got to stop smoking
"As I look around the chamber and see the
changes that have come and miss the old fami-
liar faces, feel as If were serving with ghosts
as well as living men, This great mortality
am ing us is due to the way we live in Washing
ton. A fitting epithaph for the most of the SEN
ators who have died in service would be, He
lived not wisely but too well, and killed himself
by eating"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-03-14

Reduced to the utimatum, tobacco is worthy
of no less an anathema or curse than Shakespeare
applied to the influence of alcoholic beverages
"Tf thou hast no other name, I will call thee
Devil' Also of the terrible arraignment of its
companion evil by the Rev. Robert Burton, who
wrote of tobacco, in 1921, that:
&c 'Tis plague, mischief violent purger
Of goods, lands, and health-hellish devilish, and
damned tobacco; the ruin and overthrow of body
and SOUL"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-03-14

'The condition of the vital organs, when first
using tobacco is as follows:
"The brain is pale and empty of blood; the
stomach is Redeemed in round spots-so raised
and pile-like that they resemble patches of dark
Utrecht velvet; the blood is preternaturally fluid
the lungs pale as the lungs of calf when
we see them suspended in the shambles; while
the heart overburdened with blood, and having
little power left for its forcing action is scarcely
contracting, but is feebly trembling, as though,
like conscious thing, it knew equally its res
possibility and its own weakness. 1t is not a
beating, it is huttering heart"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-03-14
Tillman Leads Them to Danish Tobacco in
Closed Sessions
OFFERS HEALTH ARGUMENT.

When young man, the writer, like so many
others learned to use tobacco and continued its
use for several years. The i'll effects of the weed
became SO apparent to him that he threw into the
Falls Of Niagara nearly all of the last cigar he
lighted the holder with it. During all of these
forty-fve years of freedom, he has not ceased to
be thankful for his deliverance from one of the
most unnatural, enslaving, and degeneratng of
habits"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-03-14

Tobacco, in its effects, is wholly disease-pro-
ducng, in double and most pernicious senses
"The symptoms are: palpitation of the heart,
faintness, dizziness, nausea, and, with slight in
crease of quantity taken, vomiting, tremor par
alysis and quick death-frequent1y in convulsions,
caused by poisoning of the spinal cord; the first
stage of tobacco poisoning being spinal excite
ment Such deaths have been numerously re-
ported.
"The medical journal The Lancet London.
England, April 2, 1892, reports the deaths of one
hundred boys, under sixteen years of age from
cigarette smoking.
"a girl nine years old was acutely poisoned to
death in Louisville, Kentucky, tobacco stemmery,
where she was hired to work"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-03-14

CDR. Kitchen writes in the Medical Record
April 27 $780, that it is easy to the dire effects
of tobacco in the stunted growth of adolescents
in size and other forms of development; from
disorders of functions, including the heart; in
tel1ectual s1uggishness, loss of memory, color
blindness, loss of or depraved appetite, neurosis
of motion, marked bunting of various functions
of sensation hereditary degeneracy."
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-03-14

However used, the active parts of tobacco are
quickly absorbed into the blood, and, however
small the quantity absorbed the affects and effects
are baneful."
Zone of the most important parts of the brain,
the medulla oblongata, connecting directly with
the spinal cord, receives the brunt of tobacco
poison and transmits it's serious effects through
out the entire system"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-03-14
"rHE CRAVING FOR TOBACCO, OR ANY
OTHER NARCOTIC

"The craving for Tobacco, or any other mar
cotic, is but perversion of physiologic, health
full appetite, which, if gratifed, leads to the
perverson and destruction of the victims will,
or the faculty of conscious or deliberate action
to quit what appeals to every clean, well-inforned
mind as an unc1ean and most sinful habit against
self, and against the human race"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-03-14

Blindness (amaurosis) was found in horses
that had eaten the tobacco weed. Absolute blind
ness was developed in the horses that had eaten
of the weed somewhat from six months to two
years."
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-03-14

"The action of Tobacco, whenever and however
used, is disease affect and effect-a general call
to, and rallying of, all the powers of the system
to aid in preventing serious harm and in elinlin-
ating the poison"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-03-14

"The use of tobacco causes blindness.
"Of three thousand Tobacco workers examined
for eye defects, by DR.. F. Dowling, of Cincinnati,
he found large percentage affected by blind
ness"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-03-14

"The influence of tobacco, however used, ex-
tends to both mucous membrane and muscular
layers of the stomach, and produces great rri-
tation, redness, and injection of vessels"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-03-14
LOCAL ITEMS

Mrs. c. Anderson and daughter, of Chicago
were in Zion City, Tuesday
Miss F. S. Levin and sister, Mrs Schwer, Mrs.
Loomis and daughter of Chicago were all in
Zion City.
Mrs R. Peetz, of Chicago, arrived in Zion City,
Tuesday, and returned to her home Thursday
afternoon.
Mr. Charles Greer has resumed work for the
Zion Office Supply. His territory is in South
Dakota
Miss Elizabeth Capp, of Stirling, Illinois, il
visiting her sister, Mrs. Mark Whiteside and
family, of 2812 Eschol Ave-
Mr. w. NJ Edwards, manager of the Zion
Handkerchief Factory,wil leave early next week
for New York City. He expects to be gone for
several days.
Mrs. NJ T. Kesler, left Zion City, Thursday
night for Sturgis Michigan. She intends to
visit relatives and will probably be gone three or
four weeks
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Martin of Steeger,
Illinois, spent two days of this week with Dr.
and Mrs. LaRose at 2412 Elm Ave. They visited
the Tabernacle, Zion Stores and other places of
interest
Mr. Walter Scharff of Crookstown Min
nesota, arrived in Zion City, Friday last, and is
visiting his mother, Mrs. Mary A. Scharf of
300 Eschol Ave- He expects to remain in the
city for two weeks.
Mrs George Bailey, daughter-in-law of Captain
Bailey, of Wisconsin, has been visiting her
mother, Mrs. Henry Peters, of 2812 Ezra Ave-
for the past few weeks. Mrs Bailey who is ac-
companied by her small son, Elmo will stay in
definitely
Mr.. J. w. Teep1e travelling salesman for the
Zion Office Supply, arrived in Zion City, Tues
day evening Mr.. Teeple's territory includes
Northern Wisconsin and Michigan, and he re-
ports very fine business. He is expected to stay
over Lords Day.
Mr.. Frank Meeker of Marshalltown, Iowa, is
staying with Mr.. Henry Brooks of 3105 Gideon
Ave. His mother is at present. visiting her sister
in Minnesota and will arrive in Zion City in a
few days Mrs Meeker purchased ten acre
farm on the Milwaukee Road, and she and her
will either build, or move house on the farm.
MIR. and Mrs. Clemet w. Mole, of 2o2O Ezra
Ave. who recently moved from Kenosha, were
agreeably surprised by Welcome Party of
about fifty persons on Thursday evening Apostle
E. L. Carey delivered short welcome address,
which was followed by prayer. An excellent
program was then rendered after which refresh
ments were served
Mr.. G. J. Senander, of Webb Saskatchewan,
Canada, returned home via the 500 Line on We'd
nesday. He has long been member of the
Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion but
had never before had an opportunity to visit
Zion City. Before leaving he expressed himself
as being highly pleased with what he saw dur
ing his visit He will dispose of his farm in
Canada as possible and return to Zion
City
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-03-14

Every user of tobacco in every form used is
constantly receiving within his system numerous
warnings by Nature to stop its use."
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-03-14
Tobacco.

The following quotations made from the
book entitled Tobacco and its Deleterious
Effects" by Charles E. Slocum M. D.:
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-03-14

1t is the inherent right of children to be born
healthful; and to be led and guided and held only
along the paths of purity of body and mind, to
the Strengthening of the judgment and the will
for their freedom of thought and action along the
lines of the pure, and the right in all things"
THE DISCOVERY OF ToBBAco AND IT'S
HABITUAL USES"
"The use of tobacco began with the aboriginal
people of the more central part of America in
prehistoric times, so far as definitely known"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-03-14

Tobacco is responsible for variety of func-
tional arrangements, which terminate in organic
disease"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-03-14

Tobacco causes deafness by irritating and
thickening of the pharynx and Eustachian tubes"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1914-03-14

Nicotine is an alkaloid, with chemic formula
Go EI14 NJ. 1t is one of the most active poisons
known"
, 1914-09-17
Grand Canyon.

A panoramic reproduction of
the Grand Canyon of Arizona is
being built at the Panama Pacific
international Exposition at a cost
of over 100000; over fifty thous-
and square yards of linen canvas,
imported from Scotland, are being
used for the set pieces. Visitors
in this concession will view the
panoramas from observation par
lor cars, moved by electricity on
an elevated trestle, seemingly
along the rim of the canyon. The
observer will be- enabled to see
eight of the most distinctive
points of the. canyon and the ride
will last over half an hour, includ-
ing, apparently, a journey of more
than one hundred miles of the
great gorge. Every resource of
modern science is employed in the
work of reproduction.
, 1914-09-17

road Sunday after an extended i'll
ness. Mrs. Montague was a ma
tive of East Eddington, Ne, but
spent the major portion of her
married life in North Hadley. She
lived in Wyoming for ten years
and her husband died there and
she came east about Is years ago.
She had been ill for the past two
years aud had been cared for at
the home of her sister, where she
died The prayer service was held
at the house Wednesday morning
by Rev. Arthur Rudman of the
North Parish Church and the bur-
ial service al held at the Con-
gregational church at North Had
ley at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon.
Greenfield (Mass.) Gazette.
, 1914-09-17
Stock Report.

Kansas City, Sept. 14.-All
grades of cattle made a steady
climb last week, finishing 10 to 25
higher for the week. There was
a good active market every day.
Receipts were $4,000 head, against
$4,000 same week last year. The
supply today is 2700O head, larg-
est run this year. Prices are
steady to 10 lower, some few ex-
captions. There was a good ac-
tive trade today, statesmen admit
ting hat buyers "just ate them
up" No prime cattle are here, as
that kind is getting scarce, the
best here selling at 9.15. Strictly
prime heavy cattle would bring
around HOO, which price is not
r. 'arded as the limit between
n. : and Christmas by any means.
There is a shortage Of Kansas
grass cattle today Steers from
Landergin Bros, Eureka, brought
8 60, 1869 lbs. Other Kansas cat
tie brought 7.25 to $50, including
some Garrison and Whipple steers
at $40, around ll50 lbs. which
was sharply higher than best bid
o n some of these steers at st. Jo-
seph up to noon. There is good
run of Panhandles today, beef
steers up to 7.75, stockers 6.75 to
I7.75, COWS 5 90 to $50, veals up to
1850. Western Colorado heavy
beef steers brought ITO, light
beef steers ITO, feeders 7.2O, ship.
ment of Billie Moore, from the
Rife country.
, 1914-09-17
Entertain at Cards.

We failed to mention in our
last issue of the card party held
by Mrs. Tierney and Mrs. E. Sun
din, to a number of friends at the
Rumsey cottage on the east side
of the river, on Friday the 4th.
Those present were the Mesdames
Gels, Cluf, Walter, Hinman,
Hickok and Jensen. Delicious
refreshments we're served and all
enjoyed a very pleasant afternoon
, 1914-09-17

Ambassador Pare at London has in
formed President Wilson that Great
Britain is determined not to make
peace until Germany is decislveI>
defeated.
James w. Gerard. the American am
bassador to Germany, has given out
an interview to the Berlin press
denying persistent reports that the
United States was preparing to Join
the allies.
British and Germans have both won
victories in South Africa.
, 1914-09-17
Death Of Former Saratoga Lady.

Mrs. Henrietta S. Montague, 10,
died at the home of her sister,
Mrs. B. F. Graves, on the Leyden
, 1914-09-17
WAR NEWS ST MMAR,ZED~

the Aisne.
The first stage of the battle of the
Marine, in rance, wni~n, from t.
numbers of nSnting men engaged
IN. extent Of l"e line OF bate ano
the terrific slaughter, is perhaps CIR
rectIv described as the pe-.,e Of
the ages" appears to have been won
by the French and British arm.es
hut the main herman army is stu
intact and the supreme CLASH is stu
TO come.
From Serum cone very brief reports.
General Won stein has issued d
statement describing measeriJ the
operstions to the east of Paris and
telling Of heavy losses on beth sides.
The German retreat continues st-~u
,Iy in France. Both french and
British oihciaI reports declare THAI
the are being ioreed baS"
with many losses. They have eVac
uated Vitry.le Francois, and the
French. in addition, have occupied
LuneyiIIe and Scissors.
The German right wing is northwest
of Rheims. That section of the Ger.
man forces in the Arsonne district
has bequn to retire and it is be.
Iieved that the pressure on the
forts to the southwest of VerdLn,
which a Berlin report said were DE.
ina bombarded, is likely to be re
lieved.
The British official press bureau issues
a summary of the operations of the
British expeditionary force and the
French army during the last few
days. It tells Of the advance Of
these forces and declares that the
combined operations have up to the
present been completely successful
It adds that the third French army
has captured the entire artillery Of
a hostile army corps, representing
1860 guns.
The general in command at Paris has
half a million fresh troops under
his control, which will be used, pre-
sumably, in pursuing the Germans
The Belsians rave taken the offensive
and are reported to have cut the
German line of communication.
The Belgian army is reported to have
won successes in the territory east
Of Antwerp and has occupied Aer.
.cbo, and MaIines
The Belgian army operating from Ant
warn ;s r-.,resented az b-arassina
the Germans in the vicinity to ore.
vent the two German army corps
there moving south to the aid of the
German main line. Belgian official
reports admit that their forces were
ohIioed N retire after . eounter at
tack bv the Germans.
N.wsnan.rs of Ghent pubIished a
s..,.Iss, x.,I.m,s. .Th. c.,n,n
army b.. h..n cut AZ c~ountenb.ro.
b.t...p aruss.Is and nv a
seloian army reinforced bv Russian
trooner
Remarks conc.r,in, IN. f;oh+;no In
Russia, poI,nd md c,Iieis are con.
lifetime. II ,nn.ars that m. Aus
TRANS b.v. me-, s.r;ous rev.rs.s
bu. CONTAINED -s,r,r,I.. .s.abIish
that thew b,v. mt hr.n compIrteI,
ov.rwh.Imed hv Nh. eussi.ns
Accordi,o IN Rr,t;sh r.,orts III.
initial s,o..ss ~ c.,.r.i l;nd.n.
bero in east pr,ss;, which has be.n
,1nt,,.L il, &C.,, -. toi,o,,.a
NV t,-.h.r csru.s .,,..,h. 90 Oh,
,outh ~ xo.-,i,s..,.
An osTcia, ,,,n.n..ms, 1r,u p..ro
GRAD ..vs ,h,, W. s,ssi,n troons
s''N says '"a' "e russia" "oope
and that tb. aus,r,.n ,rmv is In
retreat.
The Russian. CLAIM % n.v. ,.L.r
~ e"
port that ,h.v nav. r.n,,is.d th.
e.rmane r..r 80 Mvs
zinec.
REPORTS from s,s. pr,.s;, cav ,h,,
the Russian Tw.ntv sscond .rm,
corn, h,. s.., a.s.s,.L - 60,
mans an vck
A msss.n. - v..
hcIalIv ad,,i,..d ,h... H.. A..
~ 'N
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-01-16

together for the purpose of eliminat-I
ing the middleman by sending their,
own expert buyers to deal directly
with producers in U. S. and abroad.l
Declare result will be reduction to
consumer of from 10 to 20 per cent.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-01-16

TO DUST THE MIDDEEMAN
Pittsburgh, Pa, JAM. 16.-More
than 200 grocery men in 10 counties
of Western Pennsylvania, with cap
ital of $1,0OO,OO0 and a buying ca.
pacity of $10,O0O,O00, have banded
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-12-10
DR.. DAVIS TO SPEAK
ON CORRECTION WORK

DR.. Katherine Davis, commissioner OF
corrections OF New York city. will talk
about her work before a combined meet
ing of the Womans National Civic
Federation. the Monday Evening Club,
and delegates of the National Con-
suIners League at the Raleigh tomor-
row night.
Both the Woman's National Civic
Federation and the Monday Evening
Club consider this meeting the first step
In campaign of education looking to-
ward the establishment of a home for
feeble-minded. inebriates and drug vic
TINS. for which no provision is made in
this city.
DR.. Davis. characterized by John d.
Rockefeller as the "cleverest woman he
ever met" and generally known as "a
living apology for woman suffrage" has
reTnodelled the department OF correc-
tions since she became commissioner a
year ago Before that she was the
supe rintendent of the girls reformatory
OF the State OF New York. She orSi-
mated what is known as the bureau of
social hygiene, a psychological labura-
tory connected with the reformatorv for
the purpose Of applying trained tests to
girls who enter.
reception TO DR.. Davis. and speak
ers OF the National Consumers League
convention. including. Mrs Florence
Kelley. John Graham Brooks, and Hiss
Josephine Goldmark will precede the
address.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-12-10
How She Discarded
UnSiehtly Complexion

How often | exclaimed as l beheld my
ugly complexion in the mirror. If |
only could tear OFF this old skim! And
do YOU know, I've learned how to DO
that very thing: Not 10 actually re-
move the entire skin all Of a sudden I.
that would be too heroic 4 method and
pa nfuI. too. | imagine. The worn-ont
cuticIs comes off IN such tiny particles.
and so neutrality-suspicious. about ten
DAYS to complete the transformation
Ii doesn't hurt "A bit. Day by DAY the
beautiful complexion underneath comes
forth Marvellous Nc matter how
muddy. rough. blotchy or aged YOUR
complexion. You can surely discard II
by tbs simple process. Just get an
ounce OF ordinary merColized wax At
your druggists. apply nightly like cold
cream. washing IL off mornings.
Ny wrinkles | got rid OF by an equally
simple rrethod. BY diSsolving an ounce
OF pos. Gcred saNollte II half-pint
witch hazel and lathinG my face in the
solution. every line completely disap-
pcarcd First the finer lines. finally
even the deep crows feet. vanished en-
tir"ly.-Mona Morrow in Town Tattler.
-Advt.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-12-10
SEEKING LESSON IN
BIG NAVAL ATTLE

Although details of the naval battle
off the Falkland Islands in which the
German squadron under Admiral Won
Spec was defeated. and part of it sunk
are lacking, there are some phases Of
it which are attracting attention in
naval circles and among members Of the
House and Senate Naval Committees.
Further facts will be eagerly awaited.
and IL is not unlikely the lessons of the
struggle will have an influence on the
naval program Of Congress for this ses-
sion.
II the composition of the British
squadron were known, IL would be pos
slble to draw more definite deductions.
One fact, however, which stands out is
that the British have evidently made up
their squadron either largely or wholly
Of swift cruisers. Otherwise, they would
not have been in position to match the
German squadron in speed.
1t Is a significant fact that as the
American navy stands today. it would
be impossible TO get together battle
ship or cruiser squadron that could
have matched in speed all of the Ger
man craft. The tables of naval Stats
tlCS snow lnlS, III SD-le OF lne views OL
Rear Admiral Fletcher and some others
that the American naval force Is SUI
perior TO that of Germany.
The Scharahorst and Gneisenau had
a speed OF 22.5 knots. This Is higher
speed than the American armored cruis-
ers have as n rule. The North Caro-
lima has a speed of 22.4s knots, and so
is practically equal in speed to the two
German cruisers. The American navy
has a number OF powerful armored
cruisers. whose speed IS slightly over
p knots
The Pittsburgh and the Maryland are
22.4 knots and PA knots. respectively.
Taking 1t for granted that the
Scharnhorst and Gneisenau had foul
bottoms from long service and were
not able to make their stop speed. the
best of the American armOred cruisers
could have matched them in speed. The
American vessels are about equal. and
in some cases. superior to the Scharn-
horst and Gneisenau in armament.
But the dispatches say the German
cruisers Dresden and Nurnberg, of
twenty-four knot and twenty-three
knot speed, respectively. have escaped.
The British are believed TO have some
of their swiftest cruisers in pursuit.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-12-10

Watson's appointment or the method OF
his selection. He merely accepted the
pay clerk" appointed and assigned to
his office by the District Commission
crs This ne was compelled TO do by
superior authority. He was not respOn-
sibie for the system which contcn-
plated that disbursing should ne Done
through the auditors office.
g. The law did not make Mr. Petty
or his sureties responsible for the dere-
i!Ctions OF the disbursing clerk. what
ever may have been the responsibility
imposed upon other officers OF the Dis
trICt CT Columbia. The action against
Mr.. Petty and his sureties was ground
less.
In defending this case Mr.. Petty and
his sureties expended s3.S24 for coun-
sci fees and other expenses. The
question now presented is this:
should this expense fall on MT. Petty