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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-12-27
Methodist Church a Unit

The Board of Home Missions and
Church Extension of the Methodist
Episcopal Church rejoices in the vic
tory for temperance achieved in the
recent election and in the widespread
area now existing in the United
States entirely free from the saloon
and the legalized liquor traffic. In
this work of reform this board is
totally interested and to it the board
is wholly committed. We send our
congratulations to our board of tenn
perance, prohibition and public
morals upon its large and influential
part in the recent victories and cur
rent achievements and we heartily
unite with that board in its further
plans for legislation in individual
states, for the abolishing of the Ii
quor traffic in all territory under con-
troll of the federal government and
for the securing of laws excluding
liquor advertising and solicitation
from the mails, and for such other
reforms as will bring as speedily as
possible the complete suppression of
the liquor traffic everywhere under
the flag.
We look forward to world free
from the iniquity of this traffic. We
rejoice in what has been accomplish
ed in various parts of the world. And
we ask our Board of Temperance and
Public Morals to take all necessary
steps to secure international world
wide cooperation to the end that
states and nations now dry may not
be allowed to return to former condi-
tions, and that the dream Of a dry
world may speedily become living
reality.
Bishop W. o. Shepard.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-12-27
WOMAN AND HOME


of whipped cream and over that graf
ed cheese of pronounced flavor is a
most dainty way of serving the al
ways appreciated pie.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-12-27
PROGRESSIVE DENTISTRY

Several years ago
when we announced
the fact we would re-
move old roots and
badly decayed teeth
without pain or use
of drugs to produce
Inconsistencies t h e
public thought it
c0uld not he done. hllt
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-12-27

of sifted flour. Drop from a spoon
on buttered sheet and bake in a
moderate oven.
Chopped raisins and little lemon
juice added to boiled frosting makes
a most delicious filling for cakes, es-
pecially with few nuts added.
The Western outlook., 1916-03-11
New Source for Dye Woods.

American dyestuff manufacturers
have turned to Central and South
America for dye-wood supplies which
may make them independent of ship
ments from Jamaica and British Hon.
duras, now barred by British embar-
go.
Investigation by agents of the bu
reau of foreign and domestic com.
merce has disclosed that there are
vast quantities of dye woods available
in South and Central American coun-
tries and never exploited because OF
The lack of market.
The commerce bureau Is co-operat-
ng with logwood importers in ar
angling for purchases.
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where these products retail as fancy
fresh eggs. This large yearly turn
over gives Egypt an intimate relation
ship with the Englishman's breakfast
table.
Dinocrates of Rhodes. architect and
friend to the famous Macedonian, laid
out Alexandria. He planned the city
as an affair of right angles and sharp
corners, including the whole in
parallelogram quadrisected by two
main thoroughfares. This regularity
of city-plan that Dinocrates developed
was the beginning OF the school of
gridiron city-building, of the imper-
sonal, strictly business city only now
waning in popularity.
battle-ground Of West and East.
The exotic Grecian city was a bat
tleground from the start. The East
and the West met and fought out their
differences to a finish there. Greek
learning and Greek philosophy found
refuge in Alexandria, and there an
philosophers of the East Christianity
and Paganism fought some of their
most bitter battles there; and the
Jews, the Christians, the Pantheists
and the philosophers fomented many
bloody riots, in which the tickle, vio-
lent, loot-hungry Alexandrian mob
ragged in unforgettable religious tu-
mults. In one such tuml,t the sur
passingly beautiful pagan priestess
Hypatia was torn to pieces to glut a
british populace.
The famous Alexandrian library was
the bridge between the culture of
classic Greece and the cultural needs
Of early Christian and Mohammedan
Europe. Much of its treasures filtered
through to the Moor and to the Chris
tians through the scholarship of Rome.
The library was destroyed in the war
flood which followed the rise of the re-
ligion from the desert; and the burn
ing of the great book-treasury has
been keenly deplored by scholars of
each generation succeeding.
In the latter years of the eighteenth
century the city was held by the
French. 1t had sunk to the status Of
a small village under centuries Of Mo-
hammedan misrule, having a popula-
ton of less than 1000. Under Mo
hamet Ali, the wise and cunning AL
bantam, it regained much of its pros
perity. English control of the city's
as we'll as Egypt's welfare dates from
1882, since which date new city has
been developed and one that bears a
greater degree Of relationship to the
West than to the East
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sake of science? You, too, are under
going this martyrdom with a full
knowledge of the consequences"
The other two asked her almost the
same question, though not in identical
words. There was faint smile upon
the nurses face as she replied.
"Yes, gentlemen, / am prepared to
suffer this martyrdom," she answered.
"Then you have both been warned,
as is required by law" said the eldest
professor. Il shall now proceed to in
oculate you both with the rare germ
known as diplococcus amoris, found
only in Patagonia and Fiji"
It was a weighty experiment. Dur
ing the three centuries that had
elapsed love had become rarer and
rarer. Marriages were now and had
long been regulated by the state.
Spasmodic cases of love had been re-
ported to the medical faculty, but ex-
cept for these epidemics, now becom-
Ing rarer as the principles of hygiene
were better understood, there had not
been a case in years.
1t was the desire of the physicians
to observe a genuine case of love, in
order to revise the textbooks of this
disease, that had led the professors
to cast about for two suitable sub
jects. AS soon as the disease developed
they were to be placed for a period
of years upon a desert island, to
avoid the spread of the malady They
would be supplied with food and a
home and left there until the viru-
lence of the disease was believed to
have abated.
''It is a splendid thing to sacrifice
ourselves for science" said A SO w p
IA. enthusiastically.
"Yes, it is indeed" answered B 27
e FIT. Nevertheless the same faint,
almost inscrutable smile played about
her features as she spoke The young
man wondered whether the nurse had
fully realized the nature of the expert
ment, the suffering that 1t would en-
tail. However, he said nothing, but
barred his arm for the inoculation with
the rare microbe, a supply of which
had come from the Fiji islands only a
few days before.
The first professor, having steri-
lized his needle, drew up a minute
quantity of gelatin out of a tube. In
this substance were millions of the
deadly diplococcus. He inserted the
point of the hypodermic into the young
man arm. A SO w P IA did not
finch at the pain. Then. having with
drawn the needle. the professor per-
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Mourned His Seven Cents,

There is a story running about
Cleveland Of a man who lost his pock-
etbook containing over thousand
dollars When he discovered his loss
he hurried back to the place where he
had stood while removing bill from
the wallet, thinking he might have
dropped it there. And as he rounded
the corner and came in sight of the
spot he saw a newsboy stoop over and
lift the heavy purse out of the gutter.
That's mine," he cried, running
up, that's mine! Look at the ini
tials, boy-they're stamped in the
leather. X Y. z. Dye find them
there?"
Guess it's yours all right" said
the boy, handing it over.
The man gave the boy dime, and
departed, and as he went he weni
muttering: "a street car ticket would
have done just as well, just as well!
He hadn't looked in it-didn't know
what was in 1t! Out seven cents! Out
seven cents!"
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Immune to
Love Germs
By II. M. EGBERT

Copyright, 1915, by w. G. Chapman.)
The three professors looked inquir-
ingly at the younger member of the
faculty as he entered the room. If pity
had been known in the year 2215, it
might have been said that pity was
reflected upon their faces. AS it was
not, the look must have been merely
curiosity
The white-robed, sterilized nurse
would have been called beautiful three
centuries before. But her wealth of
blond hair was hidden by the hideous
hood that was the fashion, and in her
loose garments she looked more like a
mandarin.
She, too, gazed curiously at the
young fellow who entered and took
his station respectfully before the pro-
fessors.
mo. A SO w A. began the eld-
est professor, addressing him by the
name he bore, you are still decided
to become the subject of this expert
ment?"
Yes, sir" replied the young man.
you are making it in the interests
Of civilization. You have weighed the
consequences? You know that it will
mean persecution, ostracism, and.
worst of all, the existence within your
system of diabolical germ, which
has become SO rare that it is neces-
sary to demonstrate it's existence by
performing this inoculation?"
81 have considered all the conse-
quences, gentlemen replied the young
man.
The three professors addressed the
nurse.
mo. B 27 F F T." began the second
professor, you, too, have volunteered
to sacrifice your happiness for the
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LAND BLESSED BY NATURE
Village Are Among the Fortu-
nate of the Earth.

One of the oldest and quaintest lit
tie independent states that ever ex-
listed in Europe--the tiny Republic of
Noli, founded before Rome and main
tanning its liberty for many centuries
until Napoleon swept away its priv
ileges-is today merely a fishing vii
lage near Genoa, but 1t is full of re-
minders of its former greatness, and
affords wonderful glimpse of medic
val times. Destroyed by the Cartha-
ginians in 217 B. c., and who knows
now often by subsequent marauders,
there seemed no limit to her powers
of recovery. This quaint little fishing
village maintained itself as SOW
ereign state for centuries, took prom
inent part in the quarrels of Guelphs
and Ghibellines, sent doughty warriors
to the Crusades, commanded the in
terest of emperors and popes, and
only succumbed at last to the armies
OF Napoleon. Dante clambered hither
over terrible hills on hands and
knees, and revenged himself by con-
signing Noli to his "Purgatory."
Everybody is rich in this poor mans
paradise. says the Wide World Maga-
zine. During the anchovy months it is
not rare for the 120 boats to earn
$500 pounds in a night, or G15,000
In q season Through fish alone
man earns far more than clerk, be-
sides which he has no appearances"
TO keep up. Under these happy condi-
tions he soon acquires lands and
houses. which afford steady revenue
while he sleeps or fishes The earth
here has only to be scratched in order
to bring forth wealth, SO rich is the
soil and so abundant the water
The Western outlook., 1916-03-11
VOL. XXI
LEXANDER THE GREAT, iii

A LEXANDER THE GREAT, like
~ an erratic meteor, flashed
~ across the browse of civiliza-
tion-weary Egypt; and. per-
haps as a memorial of his dedication
In the land of the Pharaohs, he left
behind him the beginnings Of vigor-
Gus Greek city, Alexandria, destined
to be the gateway for flow of west
ern rejuvenation to the worn valley,
and today, with Constantinople aud
few other places, one Of the greatest
prizes for the contestfng army mil
lions In the East, says National Geo.
graphic society bulletin. Alexander
built his city in 332 B. G. upon the
ruins of an Egyptian town, Rhacotis.
After more than 1000 years Alexan-
dria has become the life of Egypt, it's
largest port, one of the busiest ports
on the Mediterranean and an impor-
tant wcrld-city.
The modern city is divided into two
parts, one of which, inhabited by Mo-
hammedans, is listless tangle of Ori.
entail narrow, crooked streets and un
inviting buildings, while the other, the
possesses many Of the essential con-
veniences of the American or Euro
pean metropolis. 1t occupies ridge
of land between the Mediterranean
and Lake Mareotis. The Rosetta
mouth CT the Nile lies more than thirty
~ ha Tofr hn int
metropolis, lies 129 miles by rail to
the southeast, and the Suez canal is
more than 140 miles to the east. The
city is linked by network of railway
and telegraph lines to the other towns
of Egypt, and is in telephone connec-
tion with Cairo.
Business City of Nile Valley.
Alexandria is the counting house
and the commission Office of the Nile
valley. The British chamber of COM
merce has its headquarters there, and
there, too, are located the head offices
Of many OF the largest commercial or
ganizations doing business in the near
East The value Of the city's trade,
In normal times, is about $240, 0,000,0 900
a year. The western harbor, designed
for a modern, first-rank commerce, is
visited annually by 5000 vessels. The
chief articles Of export are grain, cot
ton, beans, sugar and rice, and the
business is largely in the hands of
Europeans, Of whom there are $4,000
in the total population Of 100000. The
city is connected by cable lines with
Cyprus, Malta, Crete and Port Said.
One of the interesting phases of Alex
andria's commerce is that it sends 80.
100000 eggs each year to London,
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"Now."

Now" is constant syllable tick.
ing from the clock of time. Now
is the watchword of the wise. Now"
is on the banner of the prudent. Let
us keep this little word always in
our mind; and whenever anything
presents itself to US in the shape of
work, whether mental or physical, we
should do it with all our might, re-
membering that now" is the only
time for us. 1t Is, indeed, sorry way
to get through the world by putting
off till tomorrow. saying, Then" will
do 1t. No. this will never answer.
Now" is ours, Then" may never be.
The Western outlook., 1916-03-11
InqersoII's Tribute to Women.

Ingersoll paid the following tribute
to women in his lecture. on Shakes
peare: I'm those days little attention
was given to the biographies of wom-
en-. They were born, married, had
children and died. No matter how
celebrated their sons became, the
mothers were forgotten. In old times,
when a man achieved distinction,
great pains were taken to find out
about his father and grandfather, the
idea being that genius is inherited
from the fathers side. The truth is
that all great men have had great
mothers"
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Stronn EnIIndatinn-

Customer-Have you any good but,
ter?
Dairyman-Certainly. madam. Ny
reputation rests upon my butter.
Customer-If the last I got of you
was fair sample, your reputation
certainly rests on strong foundation.
The Western outlook., 1916-03-11
Too Bad.

whats that string on your finger
for?"
ITO remind me of something I am to
get for my wife.
What have you to get?'
Blamed If haven't forgotten what
It was"
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MIGHT Be Doing Worse.

when a man is satisfied to kick
about de weather" said Uncle Eben,
'1et i'm alone. He amt tryin' to
make nobody discontented wit his
Job"
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Accounted For.

Il near that Toms mother-in-law
is dead"
THAT accounts for his sudden res
ignation from the suicide club
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-14
Jury List for July Circuit
Court.

The following list of jurors was made
at the recent meeting of the quarterly
court of this county for service at the
July term of the circuit court which
will convene in this city on the fourth
Monday of this month which is the Oath
instant.
District No. l. D. ]. Douglass, w.
M. Pierce, M. D. Boyd.
District No. 2. John Webb, George
Tredaway. Robert Goodman.
District No. 3. John Perry, Fred
Russell, Walter Blalock.
District No. 4. Ike Carraway Sr.,
Louis Tapp.
District No. 5. v. P. Hall, ]. N.
Salmon, j. M. Rogers.
District No. 6. f. D. McCraw, w.
d. Strsyhorn, Flynn Griffin.
District No. T. W. ]. Murrell. Or
man Sharp.
District No. 8. A. G. Douglass, Dee
Bradsher.
District No. 9. j. H. jenkins, o. P,
War;.
District No. 10. w. W. Murphey,
F. C. Waller.
District No. IL, Will 7. Scott, j.
81. Bobbitt.
District No. IL. S. Franklin, o. E.
Pruette, A. N. Ware.
District No, 13. j. A. Wunley, Jim
Stroup.
District No. IA. j. R. Mcbride, D..
z. Houpe.
District No. Is. j. B, Clark, j. R.
Edward, W. A. Louis.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-14
McRee Nominee For Repres.
tative.

At meeting of the democratic ex-
ecutive committee of Fayette county
held in the court house last Saturday
Hon. F. ]. McRee was declared the
nominee of the democratic party to
succeed himself, there being no other
candidate to quail fly under the rules of
the committee as published following
its former meeting.
Under the resolution Of the commit
tee governing the primary to elect
district committeeman, the following
being the only ones to qualify in the
districts named, were declared men,
bers-elect of the new committee which
will be organized when the committee
meets on August 8; the new commit
teemen are as follows, Dist. /, W. s.
Newly, 2, J, B. Foote. 8. J. A. Johns
ton, 6, w. o, Wilder, 8. Stitt Mat
thews, IL, L. F. Chambers, ID, 7. A.
Crawford. In the tenth district two
candidates qualified, J. H. Knox, pres
ent committeeman, and A. S. Waller,
The county committee ordered an cleo
tion held in the tenth district for the
purpose of electing a committeeman,
In the remaining seven districts the
new committee will have to fill the
vacancies when it meets in this city on
the 8 of August.
As stated above, the new committee
will meet in the court house on August
for the purpose of organizing for the
following two years, At that time the
eight committeeman from the districts
l, 2, 8, 6, 8, 10, II, and ID will elect
members to fill the vacancies in districts
A, 5, Z. 9, IL, 1S, and Is, six members
of the central committee, chairman
and secretary. all to serve until the
next legislative primary which will be
in 1918.
Representative McRee has reason to
feel elated over his successful nomina-
tion without opposition to a second
term in the legislature from
this county, This denomination shows
the appreciation of his services by his
constituents and an endorsement of his
work while at Nashville two years ago.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-14
Old Time Fiddlers Contest.

An Old-time Fiddler's Contest will be
given under the auspices of "Young
Lalies' Society for benefit of pipe-organ
fund of the new Methodist church, All
the old Fiddlers of Fayette and adjoin-
ing counties are invited to take part,
No entrance fee is required. Suitable
cash prizes will be offered.
Only old tunes such as Arkansas
Traveller, Mississippi Sawyer"
Turkey In The Straw" Haste To
The Wedding and etc. etc. will be
played.
Anyone knowing an old time Fiddler
will please send in his name and address
to C. C. Williams, Somerville, Tennes-
see. at once, that we may get in COM
,nunication with them. 7-2l
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-14
Lipsky Remodeling Plans.

Contract has been let by Lipsky
Brothers for remodeling their building
occupied by their mercantile business
on the southwest corner of the public
square and making it in effect a new
building, so far as the interior goes.
The building recently vacated by Rhea
Drug Company will be connected to the
present main room of the Lipsky build
ing by two immense arches, making
practically one room of the whole.
The former Rhea building will be used
by the millinery and ladies ready-to-
wear departments, the dry goods and
notions departments and shoe depart
ment will remain as at present, and the
gentlemen's furnishing and clothing
departments will occupy the south room
now occupied by the millinery DEPART
ment. The rear of the building which
has been used by the clothing depart
ment will be used for furniture and
carpets.
The steps to the second story will be
torn away from the corner and plate
glass show windows put in the corner.
and the steps put in the interior of the
building, the second story being used
entirely by the Lipsky business. In
fact the new plans contemplate a
mammoth business to occupy the en-
tire three buildings, both lower and
upper stories, making the largest floor
space Somerville has ever had occupied
by single firm.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-14
Little Hatchie Association.

The Little Hstchie Baptist Assoc
iation, will meet in the Moscow Baptist
Church, Moscow, Tennessee, July 2l-23.
The Association takes in part Of four
counties, Fsyette, Hardeman. Madison,
and Haywood. The Association COM
poses twenty churches and each church
is expected to send from four to fifteen
messengers. Others outside the Associ-
alton will attend. II is expected that
several hundred people will visit Mos
COW during the coming Association.
Prominent speakers are on the pro-
gram and every effort possible is being
put forth for q very successful meet
ing. The Moscow people are looking
forward for 8 big crowd and a great
meeting. Let every body be in Mos
Gov st 10 .. n. promptly.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-14
(By r. M. Murphy, Division of Exten
sion, University of Tennessee.)

(By r. M. Murphy, Division OF Exten
sion. University of Tennessee.)
Have you picked out the animals
you intend to show at your County
Fair this fall? II you expect to win,
it's time for the selection. If you are
really breeding something that your
neighbors would be interested in there
is no better place to advertise than al
your County Fair. Your neighbors
will be there. Surprise them a little
by showing them something good.
OF course, they haven't been taking
your breeding operations seriously and
the chances are that II they wanted to
buy an animal of the breed you have
they would buy from somebody who
carries a big advertisement in the
paper. Why? Simply because you
haven't convinced them that you have
just as good stock as the other man.
II you have good animal show him.
You can show him to more people in
one day at the County Fair than would
come to your farm to see him in ten
years. Get catalog and pick out your
animals for each class. Make 1t at
least interesting for the man who has
been walking away with the ribbons,
A remark that is commonly heard
at the fairs is: 1--WE got one better
than that at home" This may be true
and doubtless is in many cases, but II
the man who makes such a statement
had any public spirit and interest in
the Improvement OF conditions in his
county or was awake to his own op-
portunity he would be ashamed to own
the fact.
The greatest problem confronting
the average breeder Is to keep his ami
mails up to standard. A man may buy
a herd of animals of the most popular
type today and go of by himself for
ten years to conduct his breeding op.
erations. Upon returning he will, ex.
cept by the greatest accident, find that
he Is producing something far differ
ent from that in popular demand: The
surest way to know what you have Is
by comparison with others. The Coun.
ty Fair is your opportunity.