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McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
NOT IN KANSAS SCHEME.

1T was hot summer day." says the
Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. 1T was also
dusty. One hundred and fifty men were
riding from town to town in Central
Kansas, In autos, on trade extension
tour. They were Kansas men-mer-
chants, lawyers, doctors, editors,
clerks, mechanics, bankers, farmers.
From time to time they stopped at
thirteen towns during the days run.
No one in the crowd spoke of beer.
No one had any beer. No one at the
thirteen towns offered anyone any
beer. At most of the towns there
were great. deep, stone jars of iced
lemonade on the sidewalks with bright
tin cups hanging from the jars, and a
sign up, Welcome, Emporians.' There
was no whisky, wine or beer in the
crowd. No one missed it. No one
spoke Of 1t. For these men, ranging
from thirty to sixty years of age, had
lived in Kansas thirty years under abb
solute prohibition. Most of them had
never been in a saloon in their home
town In their lives. Booze was as re-
mote from their consciousness as car
bolic acid. Booze Is not in the Kan
sas scheme Of things. No one thinks
of 1t. Its presence or absence is not
considered by the Kansas mind"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03

tors from whom received only tempo
rary relief. / decided to give Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound fair
trial and also the Sanative Wash. have
now used the remedies for four months
and cannot express my thanks for what
they have done for me.
eff these lines will be Of any benefit
you have my permission to publish
them. - Mrs. SADIE WILLIAMS, ass
James Street, Eikhart, Indiana.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and herbs,
contains no narcotic or harmful drugs,
and to-day holds the record of being the
most successful remedy for female ills
we know Of, and thousands of voluntary
testimonials on file In the Pinkham
laboratory at Lynn, Mass, seem to
prove this fact.
If you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound will help you, write
tOLydia E.Pinkham Medicine Co.
(cOnfidentiaD Lynn, Mass, for adj
vice. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by a woman,
and held in strict confidence.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
DRINK LOTS OF WATER
TO FLUSH THE KIDNEYS
Eat Less Meat and Take Salts for
Rackache or Bladder Trouble
NeutraIize Acids.

Uric acid In meat excites the kid
neys, they become overworked; get
sluggish, ache, and feel like Jumps of
lead. The urine becomes cloudy; the
bladder Is irritated, and you may be
obliged to seek relief two or three
times during the night. When the kid
neys clog you must help them flush
off the body's urinous waste or you'll
be real sick person shortly. At first
you feel dull misery in the kidney
region, you suffer from backache, sick
headache, dizziness, stomach gets sour,
tongue coated and you feel rheumatic
twinges when the weather is bad.
Eat less meat, drink lots of water;
also get from any pharmacist four
ounces Of Jad Salts; take q table
spoonful In glass of water before
breakfast for a few days and your
kidneys will then act fine. This IA
nous salts is made from the acid of
grapes and lemon Juice. combined
with lithia, and has been used for
generations to clean clogged kidneys
and stimulate them to normal activity,
also to neutralize the acids in urine,
so it no longer is a source of irrita-
ton. thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive, cannot In
3ure; makes a delightful effervescent
Whitewater drink which. everyone
should take now and then to keep the
kidneys clean and active. Druggists
here say they sell lots of Jad Salts to
folks who believe in overcoming kid
ney trouble while it is only trouble
Adv,
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
Uric Acid is Slow Poison

Unseen in its approach, hard to de-
tect in Its early stages, and cruelty
painful in it's later forms, uric acid
poisoning Is a disease too often fatal.
Bright's disease is one of the final
stages of uric acid poisoning. 1t kills
In our country every year more men
and women than any other ailment
except two-consumption and pneu-
monia. Bright's disease and uric acid
poisoning usually start In some kidney
weakness that would not be hard to
cure, If discovered early, so 1t is we'll
to know the early signs Of kidney dis
ease and uric poisoning.
When uric acid is formed too fast
and the kidneys are weakened by a
cold, or fever, by overwork, or by over
tndulgences, the acid collects, the blood
gets impure and heavy, there is head
ache, dizziness, heart palpitation, and
a dull, heavy-headed, drowsy feeling
with disturbances of the urine.
Real torture begins when the uric
acid forms into gravel or stone in the
kidney, or crystallizes into jagged bits
in the muscles, joints or on the nerve
tubings. Then follow the awful pains
of neuralgia, rheumatism, govt, sciat-
lea, neuritis, lumbago or kidney collie.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
HIS MIND ON HIGHER THINGS
Scholar Unable to Sit Down and Rea-
son Quietly on Matters of
Everyday Life.

A monument was recently unveiled
to the memory of Henri Poincaire, the
famous mathematician and physicist,
who was cousin of the president of
France. The occasion recalls a story
or two of his remarkable absent-mind-
edness.
Almost every day Poincare left his
money lying about somewhere. Final
ly his mother sewed his purse into the
pocket of his coat. But one day,
when he had dressed in a hotel, he
put on his overcoat without the coat,
and left that lying on chair. Need
less to say, he never saw the purse
again.
One evening he was looking in a
closed bookcase for a manuscript.
During the search he set the lamp on
a shelf in the case, and in a moment
of abstraction closed the door of the
cabinet and sat down in darkness.
After he had pondered for a time on
the disappearance of the light, he
came to the conclusion that he had
suddenly become blind. That seemed
to him quite possible since his eyes
were weak, anyway, and he groaned
at the thight of his deplorable condi-
ton. Suddenly to his surprise, a
stream of light appeared, coming from
the adjoining room, and he remarked,
with much satisfaction: my sight
seems to have come back again" Not
even then did he think of the lamp in
the bookcase!-Youth's Companion,
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
SAGE TEA AND SULPHUR
DARKENS YOUR GRAY HAIR
Look Years Younger! Try Grandma's
Recipe of Sage and Sulphur
and Nobody viii Know.

Almost everyone knows that Sage
Tea and Sulphur, properly compound
ed, brings back the natural color and
lustre to the hair when faded, streaked
or gray; also ends dandruff, itching
scalp and stops falling hair. Years
ago the only way to get this mixture
was to make 1t at home, which is
mussy and troublesome.
Nowadays we simply ask at any
drug store for "Wyeth's Sage and Sui
phur Hair Remedy" You will get a
large bottle for about so cents. Every
body uses this old, famous recipe, be-
cause no one can possibly tell that
you darkened your hair, as 1t does 1t
so naturally and evenly. You dampen
a sponge or soft brush with 1t and
draw this through your hair, taking
one small strand at time; by morn
ing the gray hair disappears, and
after another application or two, your
hair becomes beautifully dark. thick
and glossy and you look years younger.
ADV.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03

DiMINISHEs RESISTING POWER.
The first man to make an expedition
across Greenland was Doctor hansen.
He and his men had to cross on foot,
spending several weeks on floating ice.
For 40 days they tramped over frozen
snow with so degrees of frost. In re-
ferring to this journey, Doctor Nan
sen said
THE only spirits that we took were
as fuel for our stove to melt the snow,
that we might have water to drink. l
believe the use of stimulants to be a
mistake"
Capt. Edward Parry, after IL years
experience in the Arctic regions. said:
Are ardent spirits necessary? l say
decidedly, No. 1t is said they keep
the cold out. say they do not: they
let the cold in"
The whole crew of the vessel that
took Commander Peary to the north
pole, from commander downward.
worked on temperance principles.
They could face 80 degrees below zero
and all hardships better without alco-
hol. No wines or intoxicants were
taken in connection with their work.
In the words of Sir Benjamin Ward
Richardson, the eminent English ply
sician: you know that alcohol only
makes the body feel warm, because 1t
causes more warm blood to come to
the surface of the body, there to lose
Its heat and leave the body colder.
You know that cold and alcohol exer-
else the same kind of influence on the
body. and that when working in the
cold, even in the EXTREMIST cold, that
man will work longest and best who
avoids alcohol altogether"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
GODS CYCLE OF REFORM.

The seventeenth century brought to
mankind spiritual emancipation, the
right to think, freedom Of worship;
the eighteenth century brought polit-
ical emancipation, democracy, the
right to self-government, the rule of
the people by the people, for the peo-
Pile; the nineteenth cntury brought to
mankind physical emancipation, the
right to self-ownership, of private con-
tract, to engage, to quit and to the
fruits Of toll; the twentieth century
will bring to mankind moral emancipa-
ton, freedom from the intoxicating
cup as a legalized institution, and the
GROWING glory of them all, for there
can be no true spiritual liberty, NO
true political liberty, no true personal
liberty to an intoxicated man, people
or nation.-Clinton N. Howard.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
A Century AGO.

One hundred years ago saw the end
of the Chatillon congress which had
been endeavoring to settle upon terms
of peace between France and the na-
lions allied against her. From the be-
ginning Of the negotiations little hope
had been entertained on either side
that an agreement would be reached
Napoleon consented to give up West
phalia Holland and Spain, to restore
the pope to Rome and Ferdinand VII
to Madrid. He agreed to give up
Malta to England, as well as most of
her colonial conquests. But he re-
NAMED steadfast in claiming for
Frence her natural limits, the Rhine
and the Alps. The plenipotentiaries
deciding that further discussion would
be useless, declared the negotiations
at an end, and the allied armies pre-
pared to resume their march on Paris.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
Water for st. Petersburg.

The city council of ST. Petersburg is
considering measure appropriating
$25,000,O0 for supply of pure wa
ter to be drawn from Lake Ladoga, 40
miles away. On reaching the Ladoga
pumping station the water will be
driven into reservoirs and filters,
whence it will flow through the pipes
unaided to the capital and there dis
tributed: The capacity of the works.
which will be ready in 1920, is calcu-
lated for population of 100000.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
RlNGW0RN SPREAD ON HAND

r. F. D. Nc. 2, Box g., Elliiay, Ca
My sons ringworm began on the
back of his hand. A fiery red spot
came about as large as dime and 1t
would itch SO badly he would scratch
1t till it bled. 1t began to spread till
it went all over his hand. He would
just scream every time went to wash
1t. The nail came off on the middle
finger.
Il used - and 1t got worse
all the time. The trouble lasted two
or three months. Then l sent and got
some Cuticura Soap and Ointment and
began to use them. ! would wash
his hand with the Cuticura Soap and
dry 1t good and apply the Cuticura
Ointment. Relief was found In two
or three days and the ringworm was
cured in two weeks after using Cuti-
cura Soap and Ointment" (Signed)
Josie Parks, Jan. 4, 1913.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston ADV.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
CLEVER WIFE
Knew How to Keep Peace In Family

Il is quite significant, the number Of
persons who get well of alarming
heart trouble when they let up on cof-
fee and use Postum as the beverage at
meals.
There is nothing surprising about it.
however, because the harmful alkaloid
---caffeine--in coffee Is not present In
Postum, which is made Of clean, hard
wheat.
1.-TWO years ago was having so
much trouble with my heart" writes
q lady In Washington, that at times
felt quite alarmed. My husband took
me to a specialist to have my heart
examined.
1.-THE doctor said he could find no
organic trouble but said my heart was
irritable from something l had been
accustomed to, and asked me to try
and remember what disagreed with
me.
II remembered that coffee always
soured on my stomach and caused me
trouble from palpitation of the heart
So I stopped coffee and began 10 use
Postum. have had no further
trouble since.
"A nelgHDor OF ours, an oiu nah,
was 30 irritable from drinking coffee
that his wife wanted him to drink
Postum. This made him very angry,
but his wife secured some Postum and
made It carefully according to direc-
tons.
HE drank the Postum and did not
know the difference, and is still using
It to his lasting benefit. He tells his
wife that the coffee is better than 1t
used to be, so she smiles with hin! and
keeps peace In the family by serving
Postum instead OF coffee"
Name given by the Postum Co.
Battle Creek, Mich.
Postum now comes in two forms:
Regular Postum - must be well
boiled. I5c and 25c packages.
Instant Postum-is a soluble pow
der. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly
In a cup Of hot water and, with cream
and sugar, makes delicious beverage
Instantly soc and SOC tins.
The cost per cup Of both kinds is
about the same.
there's Reason" for Postum.
sold by GrocerS
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
A SAFE PLACE.

A noted citizen of Topeka, Kans,
took his small boy, who up to that
time had not been outside of the sun
flower state, to an elegant hotel in
Washington, D. c. When they came
full upon the bar doing business, the
Kansas boy, with eyes wide with ex-
element and horror, pulled his father
into corner and whispered: We've
caught them this time. father, caught
them selling it right out In sight. I'll
stay and watch and you hurry and
bring the officers"
When the father explained that
liquor selling was not violation of
law at our nations capital, the aston
ished child turned sadly away from
the beauties of Washington and said:
Lets go home to Kansas"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
CONFINED TO BED
A Story of Terrible Suffering From
Kidney Disease

Mrs. Eliza Kirk Main ST.. Spencer, Ind,
says: when my back began to get lame
didn't pay much attention to the trouble
and as the result got worse. II l made @
sudden move, the pain In my back was like
a knife thrust The next symptoms were
dizziness. languor and worn-o out feeling I
went TO the doctor, but his medicine didn't
help me. i began TO have terrible nervous
spells and in three months, ] was a physical
wreck. My limbs and hands became use
less from rheumatic pains and had to be
fed, dressed and helped at every turn. Ny limbs
swelled and would rather be dead than go through
that suffering again. All that time was In bed and
opates were my only relief. The kidney secretions
were in awful shape. When had almost given up
hope, began using Doan's Kidney Pills and Eve
boxes put me on my feet Blight boxes cured me. For
over sevef years haze remained cured"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
IN KANSAS.

According to the figures for. 1918
made public by the Kansas state board
of control, alcohol was the cause of In
sanity in only Is of the 655 patients
at the two state hospitals for the in
zane. This means a percentage of 2.3
due to alcohol. In 1899 the percentage
was Sc; in 1911, ga. In New York
31.4 per cent. Of the insane patients
in the state hospitals are there as a
result of using alcohol. In Massa-
chusetts the latest statistics available
show 30,6 per cent.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
All Equally Riaht-or Wrong.

Former President Taft told this lit
tie story to illustrate the puzzling
character Of certain public question:
Il feel about that question very
much as the man did who came across
creek which, as some one told him,
was called the Saskaschiqualie creek.
He asked resident of the neighbor-
hood how they spelled that name. The
native said Some spells it one way,
and some spells it another, but in my
Judgment there amt any correct way
of spelling it. Youths Companion.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
THE WAY THE TRADE SEES IT.

Three men talked together in one of
Chicagos big hotels a few days ago.
The eldest, about sixty-five years Of
age, had been in the liquor business
since he was boy of eight; the other
two had spent the larger part Of their
lives in 1t. Their conclusion was that
its days are numbered. The older man,
wholesale dealer of some reputation,
at last gave 1t as his opinion that they
would all have to get out of the bust.
ness by 1920.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
kina George In France.

During the visit of King George and
Queen Mary to Paris his majesty will
be present at the annual spring review
Of the Paris garrison on April %. The
review will be held, as in previous
years, in Vincennes. The review is
generally held in March, but out Of
compliment to King George it has been
delayed this year.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03

1t is but further step to dropsy or
Bright's disease.
Be warned by baclSache, by sediment
in the kidney secretions, by painful, scant
or too frequent passages. Cure the weak
ened kidneys Use Doan's Kidney Pills
"a medicine made just for weak kid
neys, that has been proved good in years
of use, in thousands of cases-the REM
edy that is recommended by grateful
users from coast to coast.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
RQOEINGS

We believe that we carry the largest
stocks of roofings In the south, in painted
and galvanized steel, rubber and compo-
sition; all prices, 90c per square, COM
plete. and up. Try "Paroid," the King of
Rubber Roofing. Ten years without a
brush. Pidgeon-Thomas Iron Company,
Iron. Steel. Railway and Mil Supplies.
Memphis Tennessee. Adv.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
Worlds Deepest Mud.

The roads of the plains Of Argen-
tina have deeper dust in summer and
deeper mud In winter than those of
any other part of the world; conse-
quently the wagons used on them have
wheels from six to fifteen feet in
diameter.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
SMALLPOX in Nicholas.

Carlisle.-The first case of smallpox
IN this county this year is reported in
the family of Charleston Pryor, who
lives on the ]. H. Carpenter farm. in
this county, short distance this side
of Millersburg. The case has been
placed under strict quarantine.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
Saw something. at Least.

Two little English children had run
away from home, drawn by the ire
sistible attractions of circus. ooh,
Mary, come here!" cried one, lying on
the ground and raising the bottom OF
the large tent, II see the horses
'oofs. The Delineator.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
Climate knockers.

Some people blame the climate for
their Ill health, whereas the real trou-
BILE is that they shut themselves up in
their houses and won't give the eli
mate a Characterization News and
Courier.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
The Reason.

Cause and Effect--"It must be great
to be a man! One dress suit lasts for
years and years, and woman must
have new gown for every party"
That's why one dress suit lasts man
for years and years. Judge.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
An Idea.

About the thinnest substance known
Ia teleplasma, which is described as a
sort of cross between smoke and spi-
derived. Wouldn't gown made of 1t
be just too exquisite for anything
Youngstown Telegram.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
William u Hudson Dies.

Shepherdsville.- H. Hudson
died at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
William Harris. near Brooks Station.
He was so years of age, and had been
iii only q few days with pneumonia
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03

+ e m ale weakness,
pain and irregulari-
ties. The pains in
my sides were in
creased by walking
or standing on my
feet and ! had such
awful Bearing down
feelings, W as de-
pressed In spirits
and became thin and
pale with dull, heavy
ewes I had sly doc
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
urADAcur Avn rrrIous ArrAcx

HEADACHE AND BILIOUS ATTACKS
Caused by Malaria removed by the use
of Elixir Babek cure for such ailments.
Myself and whole household had suf-
fered very much for some time with
Malarial Fever elixir Babek' has
cured us perfectly. SO that we enjoy at
present the best of health."-Jacob Eb-
erly. Fairfax Court House. Va
Elixir Babek 80 cents all druggists or
by Parcels Post prepaid from Kloczew-
ski 8 Co.. Washington, D. C.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
MANY pR,NkERs olscHAReep.

MANY DRINKERS DiSCHAHGEO.
In January the Pittsburgh & Lake
Erie railroad discharged 126 employees
in q single batch for drinking. En-
gineers, firemen, conductors, men in
all departments, had to go, ana the
company gave notice that drinking or
or off duty must end.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
Definition of a Crisis.

Definition of a Crisis.
PA, the paper says there's a crisis
In Mexico What's crisis?"
"A scarcity of news, my boy
Life.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
sEIE.coNIROl.

sELF-coNTROl.
Total abstinence is rational self.
control with respect to something
which is fraught with untold risks
Sir Thomas Barlow. physician to the
late King Edward.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03

DR.. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar-coated,
easy to take as candy, regulate and invig-
crate stomach, liver and bowels. Do not
grippe. ADV.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03

Putnam Fadeless Dyes do not stain
the kettle. Adv.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03

II she marries the wrong one it is
because the right one failed to ask
her.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03

And many toothless person In
dulges in biting sarcasm.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
MRS. williams
LONG SICKNESS
Yields To Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable
Compound.

Elkhart, Ind. :-"I suffered for four
teen wears from organic Inflammation.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03

To land in Jail for taking things
easy, that is the irony of fate.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03

Our idea Of poor excuse of man
is one who solicits dirty linen for his
wife to wash and iron.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
Poor Henry.

Heck-Do you play an instrument?
Peck SADLY - Second fiddle at
home.-Boston Transcript.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-04-03
Wide Assortment.

She thought she would try the new
telephone.
What NUMBER" asked central.
why, don't know. What numbers
have you?"-Courier-J Journal.