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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
PUTS FAITH IN YOUNG MEN
Successful Merchant Tells OF System
Which Has Helped Him In His
Business Career.

1t takes time to do anything. There
fore, time Is an important factor In
all accomplishments but the idea
that there is an age limit On ability
Is headed for the discard Where they
are given free rein, young men
men under 40, and even under 30
are coming to the front In surprising
number. A man who is noted for his
ability TO make successes Of young
men said recently
"The secret Of my ability to hold
men, and always to have man to put
in responsible position is my policy
Of watching the young man closely. l
keep an eye on all of them, and before
they realize know 'who they are, /
am calling them into my office and ask
ing for their advice II their advice
sounds at all plausible, l give them
carte blanche to go ahead and work
out the plan they suggest. Often 1t
almost staggers them, but more often
than not they make good. Too few Of
us realize the dormant ability we have
around our business In the shape
Of young accountants, stenographers,
clerks or young statesmen. FORBES
Magazine.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
BIDS DEFIANCE TO "KlCKERS"
Editors Encouragement to Writer
Who Felt Like Giving Up In
Face of Criticism.

"Some of the neighbors are making
howl about the items we are sending
in" says a contributor of local news
items to the Columbus (Montana)
News, $50 / believe that as soon as
my supply of stationery runs out will
quit writing. Let some one else take
the job If they think they can do SO
much better. l am getting tired OF
being bawled out every week, and
would like to sit back and criticise
some one else writing, for a while"
To this the editor, not wishing to
lose an able writer, brackets com
forting and finely independent reply
"Stay with EN-, kid Don't let the
jabbering of few kickers unveil the
cayuse In your disposition. If an editor
or writer takes the scare that easy, we
would have snapped our pen for a
Fatima 10 years ago, and each and
every issue since then. If our patrons
don't like what you and l write let
them stop taking the darned News,
and then they will surely have no kick
coming."-From the Outlook.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
Work for Mathematician.

While putting a record on phon-
ograph the other day the writer was
struck with the fact that point on
the circumference Of the disc makes
IS revolutions a minute exactly the
same as any point In nearer to the
center.
In other words, while point two
inches, say, from the center is going
around a certain number Of inches.
point on the outer edge Is going
around a greatly increased number
of inches In exactly the same time.
Supposin' the disc were increased
to diameter Of mile-some record !
and the speed OF this huge disc
still maintained at 78 revolutions a
minute, how fast would a given point
on the edge be going?
Not being a mathematician. l leave
this pretty problem to the bureau Of
standards, naval observatory or any
one of the scores Of statistical branches
Of the government service.
1t ought to be easy to work out
for a person whose inclinations run
that way.-Washington Star
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
TELLS OF ESKIMO MELODIES
Arctic Explorer Declares They Are
Weird and WstfuI to a Degree
and Characteristic.

Knud Rasmussen and Fridtjof Nan
sen and also Hinrich Johannes Rink,
who was sent north years ago by Lady
Franklin to find her husband, have
given to the world valuable facts about
the customs and lives of the Eskimos,
the Detroit News observes. Christian
Leden's unique contribution from the
arctic regions is In the field of music.
For years he studied and faithfully
transcribed the Innuit melodies. Each
Eskimo, he says, Is obliged to compose
his own song, and no person may sing
the song of another without first OBJ
tanning permission. The mother has
her cradle song, Infinitely low and
sweet. The hunter has his song of the
chase clear and bold. Even the bad
man of the tribe has his song, and 1t
was quick and appropriately brazen.
Harmony has not been developed
among the Eskimos. They sing only In
unison. But their melodies are weird
and wistful, often consisting of only
two or three motives, which are
strangely effective,
1t Is during the long polar night
that the Eskimo has time to rest In his
igloo and sing his songs.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
TO REVIVE DOMESTIC WEAVING
Movement in England to in a Measure
Restore System Which Pre-
ceded Modern Factory.

A short time ago an Indian came
into Lancashire from training school
In Paris and promised huge order
to anyone who could invent single
hand-spinnlng spindle with an auto
matte feeder of raw cotton. This was
to be used to help crush the factory
system of India by revival and ex-
tension of hand spinning, and with It,
domestic weaving.
The idea should not be impossible,
but the difficulty of providing the
mechanism is to make it light enough
In weight to be easily moved about,
also to- make 1t cheap enough for any
poor householder to purchase. India
has about 100000 hand looms en-
ploying 100000 or 100000 men,
women and children, consuming more
than 25O,OOOOOO pounds of yarns.
In England the art of domestic
weaving has been practically lost. 1t
was superseded nearly 100 years ago
by the rapid advance Of the automatic
loom and the factory system. But
ehere has been suggestion recently
that some attempt should be made to
reintroduce domestic weaving on a
more modern plan than that which has
been pushed out. Domestic hand-loom
weaving may still be found In isolated
places and 1t has also been taken up
by disabled soldiers.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
RIVER IN PLACE OF A SWAMP
Remarkable UpheavaI Said to BE With
out Precedent In History OF
British East Africa.

The bursting Of a swamp % miles
from Nairobi, writes the London Daily
Mail correspondent, Is without prece-
dent In the history Of the British oc-
cupation of Kenya colony, formerly
British East Africa. Where once vas
placid swamp covered with papyrus
grass, there Is now a permanent valley
with turbulent river, flowing down
the center.
In the swamp was floating papy-
rus mattress many feet thick and with
about 20 feet Of water beneath. EN-
bankments were made and a bridge
erected carrying the road across the
swamp. and when the Thika railroad
was constructed substantial bridge
was also erected across this swamp
at point few hundred yards below
the road bridge.
Now many square miles Of swamp
water have been released. The effect
was breakup Of the papyrus like the
smashing of log jam. The weight Of
the water wiped out the main and
minor road bridges and seriously dam
aged the railway bridge, cutting off
from civilization the whole Of the huge
agricultural area of the Kenya prov
ince around Mount Kenya
Earthquake shocks were experienced
In this district recently, and the theory
of the government officials is that these
caused the sudden collapse of the
support of the swamp, that support
probably taking the form of rocky
roof Of huge underground caverns.
No floods below the valley are re-
ported, and the volume Of water must,
therefore, have gone underground leav-
ing behind new and unexplored
declivity many miles long, which may
be the resting place of minerals or re-
mains of scientific Importance.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
More Than Two Weeks.

The Russian calendar, thirteen days
behind ours, rather annoyed some
American business men who tried to
place orders in south Russia during
the reactionary regime of General
Denikin. One of them In particular
was slow to grasp, for instance, why
our June IA should be the Russian
June /. At length, when the idea had
finally penetrated him, he still shook
his head incredulously, remarking-
mo, stree! You can't make me be-
lieve that these people are no more
than thirteen days behind the rest of
the world. It's hundreds-and years,
at that. "-Robert Dunn in the New
York World.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
Perhaps It's Merely a Water Dog.

biologists, says Buffalo paper, are
trying to classify a peculiar form Of
animal Nfe found by Edward Briggs
In the Niagara river at Niagara Falls.
The freak is II inches long.
The forepart of the body resembles
a lizard, while the hindpart looks like
a fish.
The creature Is of a spotted brown
color and has smooth skin and no
scales. 1t has four legs, the feet being
formed like human hands, but with
only four fingers.
The ears have four lobes, with tuft
Of hair on each lobe. The freak Is
alive.-Exchange
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
| DEVOTED TO BLIND PoNTlFF.
Living Buddha, Made sightIess by Dis
sipation, Commands veneraton
of Millions Of Followers.

The living Buddha has d double per-
sonality. He Is clever, penetrating, en-
ergetic, but at the same time he In
dulges In the drunkenness that has
brought on blindness. When he pc
came blind, the lamas were thrown
into state of desperation. Some OF
them maintained that Bogdo Kahn
must be poisoned and another lncar-
nate Buddha set In his place; while
the others pointed out the great merits
Of the pontiff in the eyes of Mongo-
lians and the followers Of the Yellow
Faith. They finally decided TO pro
pitiate the gods by building a great
temple with a gigantic statue OF Bud
dha, according to "Black Magic Of Mon
golia," by Ferdinand Ossendowski, rem
dered into English by Lewis Stanton
Palen in Asia Magazine. He never
ceases to ponder upon the problems
and well-being Of the church and OF
Mongolia, and at the same time ne
INDUCES himself with useless tribes.
A retired Russian officer presented him
with two old guns, for which the
donor received the title "Tumbaiir
Hun'-"Prince Dear-to-My-Heart.' On
holidays these cannon were fired, to
the great amusement Of the blind man.
Motor cars, gramophones, telephones,
crystals, porcelains, pictures, per-
fumes. musical instruments, rare AMI
mails and birds, elephants, Himalayan
bears, monkeys, Indian snakes and
parrots-all these were collected in
the palace of "the god" but all were
soon cast aside and forgotten. The
blind pontiff Is regarded with the
deepest reverence. Before him all fall
on their faces. Khans and hutuktus
approach him on their knees. A drunk
en- blind man, listening to the banal
arias of the gramophone or frighten-
ing his servants with an electric cur
rent from his dynamo, a ferocious old
fellow poisoning his political enemies
a lama keeping his people In darkness
and deceiving them with his prophe-
cies and fortune telling-he Is, now
ever, not an entirely ordinary person.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
QUITE HELPFUL SUGGESTION
Sally Just Naturally Hated to Return
Without Something to Show for
the Journey.

A young couple in the mountains OF
Tennessee set out to get married. The
young man put lump of beeswax In
the bottom Of the buggy and with his
prospective bride drove to the nearest
magistrate, who was also a store
keeper. The young man told the
squire that he wanted to get married,
and also mentioned that he was short
of funds. Would the magistrate
credit him till more prosperous timesf
The hard-hearted magistrate refused.
WELL" said the young man, II got q
ball of beeswax here, If VII take that
I'll turn 1t in on the cost" The squire
agreed and took the beeswax into the
store and weighed it, returning with
the disappointing news that it lacked
a dollar and a half of being big enough
to pay the fee.
SWELL KANT vi trust me for the
rest?' persisted the young man.
The magistrate shook his head with
finality. "Kaint do it,
Then Sally slipped into the breach.
"Hit looks like you could do 1t this
onct," she wheedled
Saint possible was the firm re-
joinder.
SWELL" said Sally, her face sudden
ly frightening, "howcome you KANT
marry us as fur as the beeswax will
go ?"-EXchange.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
Use Mesmerism In Breaking in Horses

The worlds best horseback rider Is
said to be ex-Lieut. Pietro HUI
denko, once of the imperial Russian
hussars and now a walter at the An
glo-American club Of Belgrade, Jugo-
S1avia
He claims never to have failed to
break and tame the widest horse. He
says he does not use strength and agil-
ity, but mesmerism. He takes wild
horse, slips halter on It's head, passes
a rope twice through its mouth, jumps
on It's back without saddle, gets a
knee grip and let's the horse rear, buck
or run at will. After the horse is tired
he pets 1t, whispers strange words into
It's ear, words known to a few Cos
sacks of the Caspian steppes, and then,
never again, will that horse bite or
kick or disobey a man.
Pietro soon Is to become trainer and
horsebreaker for King Alexander.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
RETUKt SavoRED OF SARCASM
Comparison Not FIatterina to "old
Maids" Evidently Meant to Con-
vey Deep Meaning.

Once upon a time there lived In an
Indiana town a maiden whose birth.
|sdays had long since passed the ira
ditional mark of twenty-five There
lived in the same town another maid
en-, but she was of the sweet sixteen
variety. These two became fast
friends and they kept close com
partnership until the older became a
wife, and, eventually. a mother for
the first and then second time.
Dissimilar interests led the friends
more and more along different paths
and although now still living in the
same town they seldom meet. Re
Gently the matron, with her two chill
dren, was walking down the, street.
Her younger friend, now, too, well
past the traditional twenty-fifth mile
stone and still single, was working in
an office on the opposite side of the
street. She spied her pal of other
DAYS and being In joyous mood has
tened to the door to greet her.
Her first two hearty "hellos" appar-
emily fell on deaf ears but at the third
call the married woman turned and,
with the barest perceptible pause, re-
piled: Hello. I thought that was
parrot calling"
"Well, it's the next thing to 1t. It's
an old maid" came back the retort OF
the other, as she turned back. to her
desk.
"And she ought to be able to appre-
ciate that, too," she added to a grim
ming fellow worker.-Indianapolis
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
Tho Dianemoiouo,

This singular name is given by the
inventor, Eduardo Torresty Quevedo,
Spaniard, to an apparatus intended
to take the place Of stenography in
reporting speeches. The apparatus,
which consists simply Of series Of
little bells, requires the cooperation OF
eight or ten writer's. Each writer
takes single phrase from the speak
ers mouth. At the tinRle Of bell on
his left he begins to write what he
hears. The bell on his right arrests
him and sets his neighbor at work.
BY the time the circuit Is made the
first writer is ready for another
phrase Afterward the phrases, which
are numbered in their order of taking,
are reunited to form the entire report.
Tried at the Athenee, in Madrid, the
dianemologo is said to have given sat-
isfactory Observation-Disclosures Star.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
Sea Fishing for Giant Whip Rays.

The English hunter and explorer.
F. A. Mitchell-Hedges, Is fishing for
sea monsters in the Caribbean, and he
declares the sport to be far more ex-
citing than hunting big game on land.
Especially If one goes after giant whip
rays, 1.-THE most deadly creatures in
the ocean," They weigh some three
quarters of a ton, and are armed for
offense with a long whip tail which
carries a spike as sharp as a needle.
"A fearsome poison is hidden in
that spike. One blow, and the man
who is struck by it dies in agony
within three minutes"
Mr.. Mitchell-Hedge's party got two
whip rays, nearly losing themselves
and their canoe In the first fight, when
they tried to land a ray that was only
pretending to be stunned and attacked
them savagely with his fendish tail.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
Atmospheric Phenomenon.

An unusually perfect and beautiful
example of the atmospheric spokes
which may occasionally be seen radi-
ating from the setting sun was wit
messed in England in July last year.
Five distinct bands of light salmon
pink color, separated by FIVE CORE
spending bands of pale blue. were Wis
ible, stretching up into the heavens
from the sinking sun. The phenomenon
lasted about an hour. and later on the
same evening violent thunderstorm
broke over the place where the spec
tacle had been witnessed. There are
a number of other instances on record
In which similar phenomena have been
followed by thunderstorms.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
Indian Emerald Mines Located.

The Conquistadores, when they
seized the rich emerald mines of Co
lombia forcing the native Indians
to work them, suspected the existence
of other mines. After a search Of
three years in Colombia, Christopher
Dixon, engineer for the Colombian En-
eraId syndicate, says he has located
some Of the ancient mines hidden from
the profiteering Spaniards by the ma
tives.
The emeralds Of Colombia are the
finest, but not the biggest, in the world,
and the country produces more than
all the rest of the world combined.
The recently redlscovered mines, Mr..
Dixon said, are about two and half
days journey from Bogota.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
Homes to BRING Rain by Wireless.

Sir oliver Lodge, England's veteran
scientist knows how to play on the
Imagination of his countrymen. On
his seventy-first birthday he casually
announced that much of his time is de
voted to wireless research work, but
for the time being he shall keep the
results of his experiments dark. He
believes that there Is great future
for broadcasting.
Being asked what he thinks is the
cause of Englands protracted drought
last year was the driest of all re.
corded English summers, and there has
been some duplication of 1t this year,
1.-THE atmosphere wants electrifying,
he said. "Some day, l have no doubt,
a method will be found to electrify the
atmosphere to produce rain at Will
1t is one of my dreams of the future
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
nsnth Of Death Valley.

Operations of the geological survey
in Death valley have shown that the
depth of that remarkable depression
L. less than has hitherto been sup
posed. The lowest point is 276 feet
instead of $50 feet below sea level
Both the highest and lowest points
Of dry land in the United States, ex-
cepting Alaska, lie In southern Cali
fornia, and only rs miles apart. The
first is Mt. Whitney. 1880 feet high,
and the second is Death valley. Be
fore the Salton sink was flooded 1t
contained the lowest point of dry land.
2S7 feet below sea level.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
HeIium From ReryI.

A distinguished English physicist
Professor Strut of Cambridge, has
discovered notable quantity of he
lium in beryl sent to him from New
Hampshire. A remarkable fact in this
relation is that the mineral appears to
be absolutely without radio-activity. AS
is now generally known, helium is a
product of radioactive minerals. Pro
lessor Strut, surprised by the result
obtained. states that it seems Likely
that here is a ease of rayless change
of atomic e..r;.ssrt ~. ii. and it may LEAD
TO further unexpected discoveries
Exchange.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
The Nth pearee.

Almond is learning to count. He
doesn't seem to, be enjoying his les
sons, however, and after he has pain
fully and slowly enumerated one, two
three. four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
ten, he stops, and no amount OF coax
ing can get him to go further, although
Polly, his year-and-a-half-Old sister
counts nobly on to one hundred,
The Woman therefore feels highly
fiattered, for one night recently, after
she'd told the wee lad bedtime story
he flung his arms around her neck and
said: ooh, such lovely story
love you to the end of the numbers.
Chicago Journal.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
TerrlbIe Weapons of War.

The next war may have its invisible
airplnnes, flying nolselessly above
cities and dropping bombs and disease
germs on unsuspecting inhabitants.
according to a report of the executive
committee of the British parliamen-
tary air committee
Recent discoveries are said to have
made an airplane invisible az 10000
feet and muff1ers have been devised to
make the motors silent.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
somethInu Similar.

"Are scientists still trying to learn
the monkey language?" asked Mr..
Clipping.
81 don't know" said Mr.. Dubwaite,
but If they want to hear P-etty
fair substitute they orgft to iiS'ep
to my youngest daI-l-cr taikiu.. "a
one OF I.er rah-rah friends over the
telephone"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-08-25
Finally Got Results.

~was that antifat treatment your
wife took any good?"
No; 1t was a fake"
"But your wife looks thinner"
"She is. She worried so over losing
her money that she lost fesh.-Judge.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-09-21
ROADS IN field
Being RUSHED TO
COMPLETION NOW
Commissioner Pierce Has Sew
eral Projects Under Way
That Will Open Traffic
in the Northwest.

County Commissioner Pierce stated
Thursday that work on the three mile
piece of highway under construction he.
tween Graham and Fox was progress
sing nicely, and predicted that the
contractor, J.J b Brooks, will have
the job finished with the time limit
Of so days set forth in the contract
This road connects with the north and
south highways from Healdton to the
Robertson oil fields and completes a
good system of roads in that section
of Carter county
Work on culverts and spillways on
the north and south road between
Healdton and Fox which are being put
in by A. Z. Watson is also progress.
sing rapidly and Commissioner Pierce
states that he Is well pleased with the
nature of the work. Road work in the
second commissioner district Of the
county has progressed during the past
two years, and many almost impossible
roads have been converted into good
gravel highways, it is the intention OF
the commissioner to make as good a
system of highways in that section as
can be found in the county before the
has finished
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-09-21
American Trade
in Germany Is
Showing Increase

BERLIN - A membership mark Of
1000 is rapidly being approached by
the American chamber of commerce in
Germany, az compared with maxi
mum enrolment Of $50 before the war.
The chamber was established in 1903
Tor the purpose OF promoting trade
relations between the United States
and Germany and especinally the promo
ton Of American foreign trade
For the past four or five months,
II IS officially stated more tina 100
applications for membership have been
laid before the board of directors AT
each Of its monthly meetings. The
constitution of the chamber provides
for two classes Of membership, active
and associate The former includes
the right to vote and hold office and
Is limited % American citizens: the
latter is open to all non.Amer.can ma
tionalities.
The status Of membership ON Jun,
2 showed 500 active and 1.04l asso
ciate members, the latter COMPRISING
exclusive life and honorary members.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-09-21
Blackheads Go Quick
BY This Simple Method

Bluckhc,ds big ones or little ones
soft ones or hard ONES ON yuy part
OF 'hc body. 20 quick h, simple meth.
od that jus, dissolvcs thcm To do
this get about two ounces OF calonitc
powder fr,m your drugsisl-sprinklo
a little ON q hot wet spongc-rub over
the blackheads hriskly for q few sec.
onds-and wash OF Youli wonder
whore the blackhcads have gone The
calonite powder and the hot water have
lust dissolved them. Punching and
squeezing blaCkhcads only oren the
pores OF the skin and leave them open
and unsightlv-and unless the black.
heads are big and soft they will not
come out. while the simple application
Of calonite powder and the water dis.
solve them right out. leaving the skin
soft and the pores IN their natural con.
dition. You can Ee' calonite powder at
any drug store and II YOU are troubled
With these unsightly tlemshes YOU
should certainly try this simple method