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The daily star-mirror., 1915-02-24
British Transport Sunk

BERLIN. Feb. 24.-It is officially an
nounced that the British transport
number 1872 has been sunk BY German
submarine off Beachy Head. There
are no details.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26
NEWS NOTES.

Zeppelin airships raided Paris
early Thursday morning and drop
ped dozen bombs, but the damage
done was unimportant. Seven or
eight persons were injured, but only
one seriously. Missiles also were
dropped at Compiegne, Ribecourt
and Dreslincourt, but without Sc
,rious results. Trumpets gave the
signal that all lights must be ex
tinguished as soon as warning was
received of the Zeppelins' approach,
Searchlights were turned upon the
clouds, and anti-aircraft guns open
ed fire and aeroplanes rose to at
tack the Germans, but their opera
tions were hampered by a heavy
mist. The Paris war Office reports
that the Germans have again bonn
barded the Cathedral at Scissors,
doing much damage.
Vienna is reported to be suffering
from a shortage of bread, and some
parts of the Austrian capital are
said to have been without any bread
for a week. Many of the bakers
have closed their shops because of
inability to get flour.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26
Obion Presbytery.

Humboldt, Tenn, March 24.-The
Obion Presbytery of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church convened in
Humboldt Tuesday night for three
days session. Retiring moderator,
the Rev. Zwingle, of Union City,
preached the opening sermon be-
fore a good audience. Somakhing
like 100 visiting ministers and Uese-
gates are here from all sections of
West Tennessee and Western Ken
lucky.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26
Capital Punishment.

The passage of the law abolish
ing capital punishment in the House
was through an entirely sentiment
al consideration, without due
weighing of the subject or proper
regard for the conditions prevail
ing in Tennessee. The bill should
not be suffered to become law.
What we need in this State is not
to remove the terrors of the law but
to make it's execution so certain that
the evil-doer will hesitate to incur
its penalties.
There is in Tennessee a large ele-
ment of primitive people who are
not to be dealt with after the man.
ner of the refined ethics of some lat
ter-day sociologists.
What they understand is of the
elemental kind and the law to them
should mean something that they
fear and that they cannot escape.
Among the people in Tennessee
who may be called primitive are in
cluded the bulk of illiterate negroes,
from whom the criminals of the race
mostly come, but there are whites in
remote regions to whom the term
would not be inapplicable.
People of this kind, whether
white or black, need something con-
fn cihilifioc
The old Hebraic law was made for
a primitive people and it was of a
kind needed for their rule.
Negro criminals in. Tennessee, like
those of the Black Bottom kind, find
no disgrace in penitentiary service
and it is a fact that after finishing
terms they have often asked to be
retained in the prison. This kind
would consider that capital offenses
were licensed if the death sentence
were abolished.
The bill that passed the House
does not entirely abolish capital
punishment, but leaves it applicable
only to rape. This was Tor the rea- |
son that it was urged that the aboli-
tion of the death penalty would en-
courage lynchings. Yet the statis-
tics show that the larger number of
lynchings are not because of rape.
Homicides are, in fact, more fire.
quently the moving cause of such
summary vengeance. If capital
punishment were abolished lynch
ings for homicides would become
more frequent They would be the
rule in cases where negroes were
accused of killing white men.
Then, as the Banner has previous
to execute a man for raping a wo-
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26
mon and provide only prison SEN
tence for one who murdered her?

tence for one who murdered her?
What is herein said about print
tive people applies with force to
Tennessee, but it is not meant as
an admission that among any people
such an advanced condition has been
reached that society is safe without
the death penalty. 1t is still applied
in countries where the rate is low
est in capital offenses and highest
in the per cent of convictions.
Tennessee cities have shameful
record of murders. An article pub
lished in the New York World some
time ago, which was copied and
commented on in the Banner, show
ed that one Tennessee city led the
civilized world in the number of
such offenses, based on population,
and that another was near the top
of the list in per cent of increase in
ten years.
When startling revelations like
this are made is it time for Tennes-
see to abolish capital punishment?
What is needed is to retain the law
and make conviction certain. What
should be abolished is not the pun
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26
NEWS NOTES.

That the Przemysl garrison was re-
duced to the last extremity before sur
rendering is indicated in all accounts
of the Russian victory. Some OF the
! men of the garrison were so weak from
the lack of food that they could scarce
ly stand, and ate moss and gnawed at
the straps Of their equipment to keep
themselves alive.
The operations OF the allied feet in
the Dardanelles have been delayed by
the bad weather, and the ships which
suffered damage in the last lombard
ment are being repaired. A Malta dis
patch says that the operations are to
be resumed at an early date and that
every precaution is being taken to avoid
surprises.
In statement issued Postmaster
General Burleson reiterated the
charge that the defeat of the Post
office Appropriation Bill was due to
certain railroads who object to
being paid for hauling the mails on
a space instead of a weight basis.
Attorney General Gregory instructed
the United States District Attorney of
Porto Rico to institute libel proceedings
against the German steamer Odenwald,
which attempted to leave San Juan har
DOR without clearance papers.
The activity of Germany in the sea
war zone was continued. A Dutch
steamer was attacked by an armed
trawler and British vessel was fired on
by an aeroplane. None of the bombs
hit its target.
A French commission has declared
valid the seizure Of the former Ham
burg American Line steamer Dacia,
which now flies the American flag, and
the case will go before the French prize
court.
A force of 1000 Turks, who attempt
ed an attack on the Suez Canal near
the town of Suez, has been routed.
The Turks were accompanied by Ger
man officers.
Secretary Daniels Of the navy has
agreed to furnish warship to carry
1926, 900, put up by American Irvine
to finance the movement
Of Yucatan's sisal crop.
Women leaders of the anti-suffrage
met in New York to plan a
against equal suffrage amend
ments in four States that are to vote on
The question.
Seventeen young Belgians are report
ed to have been executed at Client by
The Germans after having been found
guilty of espionage. ...
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26
Gen. "stonewall' Jackson's Widow,

Charlotte, N. c., March 24.--Aftel
many months of illness, and after
suffering three days from an attack
of pneumonia. Mrs. Mary Anns
jackson, widow of Gen. Thomas )
tStonewall) Jackson, the Southern
general, died at her old home here
at O'Clock this morning. She had
been unconscious since yesterday
afternoon At her bedside were
Randolph Preston and wife, N was
Miss Julia Christian, granddS hter
of Mrs. Jackson, DIR. Grahal a
cousin, and other relatives.
morrow, the day Of the funeral, ps>
lie buildings, schools and business
establishments will be closed. Flu
neral services will be held in 'the
afternoon at the First Presbyterian
Church.
The remains will be taken to Lex
ington, Va, accompanied by mill
tary escort, and will rest beside that
of her husband and daughter.
Mrs. Jackson has been i'll since
last August. Her last appearance
was in Richmond last May, when,
as the guest of the Governor of vir-
ginia, she was the chief figure at
bazaar in the interest of the Jackson
memorial.
Mrs. Jackson was born near this
city July 81, 1881, the daughter OF
the Rev. Robert Hall Morrison, a
Presbyterian minister and founder
of Davidson college. She attended
Salem, N. c., academy and college,
finishing in 1849.
Her marriage took place in July,
1857. Jackson then was a major,
serving as instructor in the Virginia
Military Institute at Lexington. She
became a close student Of military
tactics and always took an agrees
sive interest in the fortunes of the
band died of wounds in 1863 she
wrote volume of memoirs of his
career.
Gen. and Mrs. Jackson had two
children, both daughters. One died
in infancy and the other married
William E. Christian. At her death,
in 1889, she left daughter, who
became the wife of E. r. Preston, a
Charlotte attorney, and a son,
Thomas Jackson Christian, now a
lieutenant in the United States cav
airy stationed in the Philippines.
Mrs. Jackson's last days were
spent at the old Jackson homestead
in this city. She had been i'll for
many, months and suffered relapse
yesterday.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26

Il wonder what has become of the
old-fashioned dime novel;" remarked
the Old Fogy. 1T has gone up to a
dollar and half," replied the Crouch.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26

Young man." said the irate old gen.
tleman at the lunch counter to the hard
looking youth who was inhaling his
soup with a gurgling sound and splash
ing it about the while, what are you?
A Colorado geyser?" Nav, =" responded
the soup juggler. I'm New Haven
guy, sir!''-Harvard Lampoon.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26

American exports for the month of
February amounted to nearly $780,
600, 200, the highest previous figure
for February having been near $780,
600, 900.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26

More than 1000 English women
have volunteered to take the places
of men in the business and indus
trial world that men may be freed
to enlist in Kitchener's army.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26

Brown ION fishing trip)-Boys, the
boat is sinking. Is there any one here
who knows how to pray. Jones eager
ly)-I do. Brown-All right. You pray
and the rest of us will put on life belts.
They're one shy.-New York Globe.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26

ishment, but the conditions that
lead to crime and among these is
lax execution of the law.-Nashville
Banner.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26

Big Muddy washed nut coal is best
for cooking. At Union City Ice &
Coal Co.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26

FOR RENT-Adams cottage, corner
Vine and Try streets; water, lights and
bath; rental $3.50. Garland house,
North Third street; rental Sc so. 52-4t
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26

FOR SALE-Corn. Apply to Homer
or t. A. Catron, R. F. D. No. 2, Union
City. SILT
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26

FOR RENT-A six-room house on
East Palmer street, with garden, water
and electric light, good neghborhood,
close to City School. Apply this Office.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26

FOR SALES. c. Rhode Island eggs,
so cents setting and So per hundred
for incubator lots. Phone 445.
Mrs. BRUCE KIRKMAN,
49-tf r. F. D. No. 6.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26

FOR SALE-My house in Union
City, with modern conveniences.
MRS. w. r. WEBSTER,
51-4t Corner Fifth and Florida
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26
CLASSIFIED COLUMN

FOR SALE-One 5-passenger Elan
ders automobile. Quick sale at 1925.
UNION CRY AUTO Co.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26

FOR SALE-A few genuine Royal
Blue Andelusian Cockerels and Ande-
lusian Eggs, $3.50 per setting.
AZ DR.. w. M. TURNER.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26

SEED CORN FOR SALE.-I have
80 to 40 bushels of extra good seed corn
for sale. 1t is the Mosby Prolific Early
White Corn, and is selected and hand
shelled. 524tpd BOONE D. COULTER.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26
COLDS & LaGRIPPE

s or 6 doses $50 will break
any case of Chills & Fever. Colds
& LaGrippe; it acts on the liver
better than Calomel and does not
eriDe or sicken. Price 25c.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26

EGGS FOR SALES. G. R. l. Reds
of Red Raven strain, $1.25 per setting
of II, also a few cockerels OF same strain.
Mrs. w. G. PETTY,
RID. No. l, Union City, Tenn.
Phone $50, Rives, Tenn. 51-4t
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-26

GOLD BRICK BARRED ROCKS
Thoroughbred barred Plymouth Rock
eggs from pen headed by Jumbo King,
81. 90 per setting.
Mrs. T. P. PALMER,
Asst Phone IA, Rives, Tenn.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-11
8II AUDITORIUM WILL Be SCENE BOTH
Of GREAT BEAUTY AND HARMONY
Artists To Take Part In Great SongFet Are Now
Gathering Here Twenty second Annual Event Promises
To Be Greatest Success In History of Richmonds
Great Musical Organization

neS.4av Club has engaged 20 pay this
wear the biggest price for musical tai
ent since the festival was first given.
twenty two years ago Madame Emmy
pesUrn leading sporano Of the Met
rapotran opera Company, for whose
services She cluh must pay Si,65o, IS
unaua aedly the most expensive arts;
ensa.ea for the spring festival She
: one u The three outstanding stars
of the metropolitan opera Company.
which IS generally credited with helns
the finest organization VI vocal artisiF
iu The world
Greatest Orchestra Ever Engaged
In the next place. the rlah hFiEA -
- Richmond for the 1915 festival Inc
greatest orchestra II has ever engaged
The Philadelphia Orchestra. compose.
or ninety flashed musicians. under
ths hato9 II Leopold stokowski. which
Is 10 paa4 AZ ali three concerts. IS
recognized as the only rival OF tn"
T}9sfan symphony Orchestra. ana IS
rs4iilv taking position IN the must
raj world a. an organization capable
II accomplishing the most difficult
works ~ art Leopold Stokowsk!. the
conductor Bs man ot remarkable
persona fity and artist G. ability j: Is
freely predscted that he viii take the
CIV hy storm.
Never before. officers II the Wei
aesaav C}uh say has the bis chorus
been So well drilled and So wei pre-
pared IL handle the difficult task as
signed to IL In the festival For
months the chorus has been assidncus-
Is al work under Is Henry Baker. ana
l. credited with being letter perfeC. In
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-11
HAVE DARK HAIR
AND LOCK YOUNG
NOBODY CAN TELL WHEN YOU

Grandmother kept her hair beau
tifully darkened. glossy and album
dant with brew Of Sage Tea and
sulphur. Whenever her hair fell out
or took on that dull. faded or streak
ed appearance. this simple mixture
wac applied with wonderful effect.
BY asking at any drug store for IVY
eth's Sage and sulphur Compound"
you Wall get a large bottle OF this old
time recipe, ready 10 use, for about
Sc cents. This simple mixture can
be depended upon To restore natural
color and beauty TO the halr aud is
splendid for dandruff, dry, itchy
scalp and falling hair.
A well known downtown druggist
says everybody uses Wyeth's Sage
and Sulphur because It darkens SO
naturally and evenly that nobody can
tell it has been applied---its SO easy
to use, too. You simply dampen n
comb or soft brush and draw II
through your hair, taking one strand
at a time. BY morning the gray hair
disappears; after another application
or two, 1t is restored to its natural
color and looks glossy soft and
ahundant.- "A DIV.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-11

Especial to The Richmond Nirginian)
Washington. April Exhaustive
studies of the business conditions in
every section of the country with
view OF renewing industrial activity
are being taken up this week by
President Wilson, the State Depart
ment and Secretary Redheld. OF the
Department OF Commerce. Secretary
Rediields reports. which are now he
Ing made TO the White House daily,
tell of an expansion in business not
only in the industries affected favora-
bly, by war orders. but in many other
lines OF industry as we'll.
The business interests of the coun-
try. Secretary Redneld reports, are Co
operating with the government in it's
efforts to find new and more promising
fields for the American products. 1t
is pointed out that the opportunity
now presented TO the United states IL
exceptional in the commercial history
of the country. and the steps taken
by the government to take advantage
of unusual offers from foreign coun-
tries as the result of the war have
been met with the approval of business
interests everywhere.
A more encouraging outlook has
been reported from all sections OF the
country and officials of the Depart
ment of Commerce have been watch
ing daily the trade reports indicating
renewed activity. The south, accord
ing to information obtained by Secre-
tary Redheld. is the slowest to re-
cover from the business depression
| However, IN almost every instance
/ whore bettermeut has occurred the
i passing weeks have strengthened and
, increased II Although the figures for
the first quarter of 1915 as compiled
by the Department. of Commerce, show
that the suspensions OF banks and
other fiducary concerns In the United
States were slightly more numerous
than in the same period OF the proceed
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-11
WESTMORELAhD CANDY
FACTORY DESTROYED
Big Plant Went Up i'm Smoke In an
Early Morning Fire
Yesterday.
WATER SUPPLY INADEQUATE
Loss in Neighborhood of $4,000 Is
Covered by Insurance. Thereby
Enabling Company to Proceed Mt
Once to Rebuild.

Fire discovered in the plant OF the
Westmoreland Candy Company. Sew
enteenth Street, near Darlington. by
Patrolman Fowlkes about $3.50 O'Clock
yesterday morning. practically wiped
out the four story building before the
flames were under control. entailing
a fire loss Of something like 5000
The loss was completely covered by
insurance, over s60,000 being car
ried in the machinery and building
together.
The first alarm. which was turned
in by Police Fowlkes was answered
by Truck Company No. ?. stationed
just three blocks away Even before
it arrived the flames were shooting
skyward, while huge columns OF
smoke arose from the roof.
The second alarm followed the first
in quick succession. and the third
came after only few minutes dura
ton. Seven engines were finally on
the scene and the building was food
ed with water.
Origin of Blaze Unknown.
The origin of the blaze liz unknown
but 1t is said 10 have started on the
fourth floor The fire swept through
the two upper floors with great
floors, consisting of candy and tho
machinery for making II, were de-
stroyed The two lower floors were
badly damaged ny falling debris. wa
ter and smoke.
1t is said that the water pressure in
the ighborhood was pitifully made
quate to, cope With a blaze of any
size, ana II is claimed that several en-
gines, which could have thrown thou
sands of gallons on the fire, stood use
lessly by while the building was going
up in smoke, unable 10 be OF assistance
because OF the lack OF an adequate
water supply.
Fire Chief Joynes said; Lack OF
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-11

water prevented us from putting out
the serious fire at Seventeenth and
harrington Streets early Friday morn
ing. In order to get water we were
forced to call Superintendent Davis.
or the Water Department out of bed.
DE came to the scene, and after a de.
lay or probably an hour managed to
turn on another valve in the vicinity.
releasing another lead pipe. This
additional help assisted us in finally
overcoming the flames
Mr.. Davis admitted that when he
reached the scene that only five en-
gfnes were able to get sufficient water
to keep them going and that two 9TH
ers were useless. As soon az he opened
the additional valve this trouble was
eliminated, he said
Covered by Insurance.
r. II. Hardesty, ce~presldent and
manager of the concern, stated that
the loss to the company was between
$4,000 and $4,000, and that II was
fully covered by insurance He stated
that most of the machinery was COM
pletefy destroyed
Mr. HF.rdesty announced last night
that the Arm would resume work az
quickly as new machinery used In the
manufacture of candy can be rushed
to Richmond. Temporary quarters for
the plant have been secured In thu
Old Homestead building, on Eigh-
teenth. between Marshall and Clay
Streets. Their building will at once
be rebuilt. and the firm hopes to he
back In their home in a reasona BILE
time
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-11
OPEN N0STRlLS! END
A COLD OR CATARRH
How To Get Relief When Head
and Nose are Stuffed Up.

Count nifty! Your cold In head
or catarrh disappears. Your clogged
nestrils will open, tho air passages
Of your head Will clear and YOU can
breathe freely. No more snuffiing.
hawking mucous discharge dryness
or headache: no struggling for
breath at night.
Get a small bottle of Eiy's Cream
Balm from your druggist and apply
II little OF this fragrant antise ptio
cream In your nostrils- II penetrates
through every air. passage OF the
head, soothing and healing the swoi-
len or infiamed mucous membrane.
giving You instant relief Head colds
and catarrh yield like magic. Don't
stay stufTed-up and miserable. Re-
lief is sure--Adv
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-11

ing year. Improvement in this respect
was noted In the Southern states
On the other hand an expansion is
shown in the general commercial fall
ures for the first quarter in the South
Atlantic States, in the South Central
States and in the Middle Atlantic
States.
In Virginia there were 152 CONNER
cal failures in the first quarter of
1915, as compared with rs for the
same period In the previous year. The
fatal liabilities this year were sS30 Ar.
as compared with $656.314 in 1911
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-11
10 SoInlsts Engaged

This car the club has engaged nine
solalsts instead ~ the customary mum
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-11
BUSINESS OUTLOOK IS
VERY MUCH IMPROVED
Exhaustive studies OF Business Condi.
lions show Renewed Industrial
Activity.
AN EXCEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY
America Has Unparalleled Business
Prospects for Early Future--period
of Rcadjustment Is Now Nearly
Finished.

Especial to The Richmond vireinian)
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-11
Found Guilty of Meat Theft.

Charles Staten. a negro, was given
three years In the State penitentiary
Friday afternoon by jury in Hen
rico Circuit Court on a charge of the
theft of a quantity of meat James
T. Lewis. who represented him. hoved
that a new hearing be granted the
man and arguments to set aside the
verdict will be heard this morning
by Judge Moncure, who is sitting in
place Of Judge r. Carter Scott.