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'LIQUOR "REACHED THE SPOT FINALLY KNEW HIS VISITOR
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'Error Mado by Assistant Need Not Meeting of President Thiers and
Have Worried the Dispenser
of Drugs. - -
Wallace Jrwin is.Jond of telling a
, iyam about a Scotch sheep herdar who
slouched into' a western town which
lhad recently gone for prohibition. He
(entered a drug store and, as was cus
! tomary, made a signal on the soda
i tcdunter. Now, the1 proprietor was out,
so the assistant, a young lad, under
( istanding the Indian sign, took a bot
' tie from a shelf and helped the cus
tomer to half a gobletful of brown
liquid. The Scotchman smacked his
lips, paid his score and went his stolid
way. ' J-J'-J ' -. I
Shortly k afterward the proprietor
'came back and said to his assistant: j
"Any business?" '
-. "Scotchman came and tapped the
jyou-know on the counW," replied the
!boy,' "so I gave him some." He point
ed to the bottle of brown liquid stand
ling alone on the shelf. :
."Great heavens, child," shrieked the
proprietor, "that ain't whisky. That's
sulphuric acid!" v i
Tableau. . ' ' -" V''' !
For two weeks the druggist lived
the life of a .hunted man. . He dis
charged, his helper ; made his will,
contemplated suicide and spent real
money advertising for 'the widow of (
the Unfortunate customer whom his
carelessness had sent to an agonizing ,
ideath. Just as he was about to sur
render to despair be was suddenly re
lieved by beholding the same Scotch
sheep herder, healthy and matter-of-
fact, shuffle Into his drug store, step
to the counter, beckon mysteriously,
nd whisper: , -
"Losh, laddie.' Ye maun gie me a
wee' nipple. And mind ye pour it out
o' the sa'me bottle. It's a wee bit
strong, but it puts heart In a mon!"
French Soldier a Sample of
Country's Democracy.
r Monsieur' Thiers,, the first presldem
of the third; French republic, is the.
w uib umowmg amusing
anecdote.' . . ,
The president went to visit Mar-
seilles, his native city, and one day,
while wandering through the streets,
he saw -a sentinel in front of the Mon
, taux barracks who had set his gun
aside and, squatting in his sentry box,
was enjoying a huge piece of bread
and cheese. The president approached
the man and said;
I . "Eh, Men, my friend, is the regi
mental food good enough?"
I "Why dost thou ask?"' rejoined the
soldier, employing the familiar second
person singular.
"Because it interests me considera
bly," replied the president '
The soldier thought his questioner
was probably some member of .the
regiment, but since he was wearing
civilian clothes it was no part of the
sentry's duty to salute him. To each
question as to whether he was a cor-
poral, sergeant, lieutenant or captain,
the president replied that he was
greater than that. When the sentry.
with his mouth full of cheese, said:
"Well, then you must be the gen
eral." The president replied, "The
generals obey me.
"You want to make me believe you
are the minister of war?" exclaimed
the astonished soldier,
"J. am more than minister of war,"
replied the president, Mandlr.
"Then you can't be anyone but Pa-
pa Thiers. Here, take the bread and
cheese, while I present arms. to you!
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For the First Week of the January Term of the
CIRCUIT COURT
Union City, Obion County, Tenn.
January Term, 1915
COLOR IN OPERATING ROOMS
' St Luke's hospital, San Francisco,
has abolished the all-white operating
. room and its surgeons and nurses wear
3ar'.; clothes instead of white. The
reason for this is two-fold: First, the
psychological effect upon patients,
many of whom said they were
frightened, by the glare of the white
room, and, second, the effect upon the
surgeon. This is expressed by Dr. H.
H. Sherman in the following words:
"The discomforts I have had in the
present-day white operating rooms led
me to suggest that we have dark floors
and wainscots in these rooms, so that
the operator who looks up from a
wound shall not encounter a glare of
light and find his eyes useless for a
moment as he looks back into the
wound. The color scheme, ft seemed
to me, should start from the red of
the blood and of the tissues, and there
lore I advised that green, the com
plementary color to red, should be
chosen as the color of the floor and
wainscot. The particular shade of
green to be selected was that which
was complementary to hemoglobin,
and this was found to be spinach
green."
MUSIC AND .LANGUAGE WORDS
Monday, January 4th, 1915.
No. and Attorneys . Style Action :
The Planters Protective As
- ' ""..' sociation of Kentucky &
' : . . Tennessee
No. 8 - vs. Appeal
Lannom & Stanfield D. J. Peeples
t
. . Mayor and Aldermen of
' : Samburg, Tenn.
No. 9 i vs. Appeal
. Fred Brannon
1 State of Tennessee, Ex. Eel.,
. Lannom & Stanfield Fred Brannon
No. 11 ' . vs. Appeal
. ... Tookah Francis
The, Crowd Habit.
An Interesting article in the Daih
News, London, speaks of our depend
ence upon life in crowds as follows
"The thing begins in childhood; we
are taught in crowds; brought up in
a mental and physical crush. The edu
cationalist still talks of the theory of
individual instruction and pedagogues
place it in their prospectuses, but it is
only their joke. This collective school
life not only stunts growth moral, in
tellectual, even physical, not only kills
individuality under pretense of rub-
Ding off the corners, but brands the
children's brains with the conviction
that life can be lived only in a crowd
It is well for all teachers to Instill
the value of quiet study and time for
"thinking out things," quite apart from
other people, into the minds of their
scholars. In this feverish age, as It Is
sometimes called, we all, teachers and
pupils alike, need' to believe in our
own individual mental ability, uninflu
enced by the crowd. '
Where Safety Lay.
Even the war has its bright side.
Two negro porters were discussing
it as they waited for a train to pull
into the station.
"Man," said the first, "dem Ger
many submaroons is sho'ly gwine to
sink de British navy. Yas, sir-ee.
dey's sho'ly gwine to 'splode dem na
val boats dat's waitin' out yonda."
"Sho!" said porter -No. 2. "An1
what's gwine to happen den?"
"Why, dem Germany submaroons'U
come right on 'cross and 'splode de
rest ob de naval boats ob de world.
Dat's what'll happen den, Sambo!"
"Well, looky heah, Gawge. Ain't
yo' an' me better declar ouahselves
couple o' noot nootralities?"
' "Man," said Gawge, "yo" all kin be
nootrality if yo' wants to. Ah'm a
German!" New York Evening Sun.
Name for the Indian Children.
. Small people catch on to much more
from the talk of their elders than
grownups generally suppose, says the
Caldwell News. A little girl of four
and one-half years one day last week
was poring over her primer. It was
a lesson about Indians. The mother
explained the pictures to the little
one, telling her some of the customs
of the tribe, and ended by telling her
the Indian children were called
"papooses." The next day the girl
was heard to "read:" "The Indians
do not live in houses, and they call
their children Bull Mooses."
As you know, the single notes are
the setters of the music language.
Groups of notes are the words of the
music language. In a spoken language,
the letters are always sounded one
after the other. In the music language
they are sometimes sounded one after
the other and sometimes simultan
eously. .
This fact explains two Important di
visions of music, namely, melody and
harmony. In a general way, melody
consists of single tones heard one after
the other; combinations of tones heard
simultaneously are called harmony. A
word of the music language may con
sist of several tones in succession like
a word of the spoken language, which
consists of several letters in succes
sion. '
On the other hand, a word of the
music language may consist of several
tones heard simultaneously, which is
impossible in language. Some of the
most important words of the music
language are those which are used
in both these ways, and it is one of the
great charms of music that its words
can be heard in these two ways. Dr.
Rudolf von Lieblch, in Woman's World
Tuesday, January 5th, 1915.
Pierce & Fry
No. 6
W. H. Swigeart
No. 13
W.
M. Miles
Mitchell & Taylor
vs.
I. C. R. R. Co.
Albert Ford
vs.
E. Jones
E.
Appeal
Appeal
Wednesday, January 6th, 1915.
Ball, Pierce & Fry
No. 7
Laftnom & Stanfield
R. B. Johnson
vs.
M. V. Bruce
Appeal
John Gower'a Monument.
The most interesting 'monument in
the cathedral upon the possession ol
which Southwark bases her claim to
be a city is perhaps that of Chaucer's
great contemporary, John Gower, re
marks me London Chronicle. Gower's
three great works were written each
In a different language. His "Specu
lum Medltantis" was written in
French, the language of the court; his
"vox Clamantis" in Latin, the lan
guages of the learned; his third, "The
Confessions of a Lover," was written
in king's English, at the request of
his king, Richard II.
. For the story goes that Gower, row
ing on the Thames one day, was hailed
by the royal barge. "Book some new
.thing," said the king, "into which
book I may often look." No one reads
today Gower's French or Latin books.
A few students read a little of his
Confessions of a Lover." But Gow
er s fame has survived, and all who
wish may see him lying today in
effigy in Southwark cathedral, his
head pillowed on his three works.
Thursday, January 7th, 1915.
Lannom & Stanfield
No. 1
Swiggart & Cobb
Lannom & Stanfield
No. 2
Swiggart & Cobb
Lannom & Stanfield
No. 3
Swiggart & Cobb
J. A. Whipple
No. 4
Lannom & Stanfield
W. H. Swiggart
No. 5
J. W. Burney
W
L. Jackson
vs.
C. R. R. Co.
W
L. Jackson
vs.
C. R. R. Co.
W. L. Jackson
vs.
I. C. R. R. Co.
Mayor & Aldermen of
Union City, Tenn.,
vs.
Jim Bingham
Aetna Life Ins. Co. for use
and benefit of J.J. Morrison
vs.
Stephens & Burney
Appeal
Appeal
Appeal
Appeal
Appeal
Wanted It Tested.
A western professor said the other
day that he could tell good soil by
tasting it, and a man who saw the
statement promptly packed a box and
sent it to him by parcel post. He
also enclosed this note:.
'Dear Professor: I saw what vou
said about tastine soil and am send
ing a sample selected haphazard from
my back yard. I wish you'd elve it
the palate test and tell me frankly
what you think. I don't seem to have
any luck with it myself. My. cab
bages came ud without heads, mv nv
tatoes have been mistaken for chest
nuts, my onions are scentless and my
corn' looks like birdshot. Bite off a
chunk and let me hear from you. Never
mind about returning the balance.
Keep it for dessert. Write soon."
Friday, January 8th, 1915. ,
All divorce cases set for Friday, January 8th, 1915, and also
the cases on the Reference Docket can be called on this dav.
Thought the Tune Was America.
At a recent dinner of the Knife and
Fork club' the principal speaker was
a noted Serb. The orchestra, in cour
tesy to the distinguished guest and to
show American neutrality, played the
national, air of France, which was
duly applauded. The national air of
Germany was received in like manner.
The national air of England, "God
Save the King," followed and all the
guests mistook It for "America," and.
immediately arose to their feet! "It's
long way to . Tipperary," so let's
change our national air. -Kansas City
Star.
Saturday, January 9th, 1915.
No. 14
No. 15
W. H. Swiggart
W. G. Weaver
vs.
John Diviney
J. W. Coleman
vs.
J. H. Leeper
Appeal
Appeal
KITCHENERS KNOWN TO FA.'
English Military Leader Is the , Third
of Hit Name to Have Won
Distinction. i
Kitchener of Khartum In not known
i first but the thid Kitchener khifavn
to fame. The first was Dr. WUliam.
xvucninei- me vanapon in tne Beconu
vowel counts for nothing a "London
literary mian who died at the age of
fifty-one, in 1827. Hi jhherfted a for
tune of 350,000, was a noted epicure,
and even wrote a book entitled "The
Cook's Oracle," in which culinary in
structions are given with such .entic
ing pleasantry and clever anecdote as
to win the dullest reader. The second
Kitchener was a noted Jockey, who
rode In the year 1844 the horse Red
Deer for the Chester cup and won,
says an exchange. He had weighed
In at two stone twelve pounds (forty
pounds), and four years before he
went to scale at Ascot weighing only
two stone seven pounds. Having
spent many years in France, he came
back to England in 1864 and won the
Northamptonshire stakes on a horse
named Dollar. While the great Kitch
ener is now a central figure in the
European conflict, it was the Franco-
German war of 1870 that proved the
undoing of. the great little Kitchener.
That war drove him back to England,
where he died In 1872 at the age of
forty-three years. Johnny Relff, the
little American jockey, who achieved
glory on the English racecourse on his
first appearance, weighed four stone
two pounds, and was eighteen pounds
heavier than his diminutive predeces
sor.
SNAKE CAUSES GOLF PROBLEM
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At this season of the year the
greens on the golf courses are gen
erally wet and the, tender grass
much liked by the green garter snakes
found in this section of the country,
They probably use it as a breakfast
salad.
Dr. Gates, a charter member of the
Ravenswood Golf club, is an early
morning player. Several days ago he
made a short pitch to the third green,
his ball stopping close to the hole,
He had visions of a par four. On ap
proaching the hole he found a snake
close to the ball. The reptile, fearing
the good doctor was about to operate
on .him, started to retreat, but in its
haste knocked the ball into the hole
The doctor wants to know if he
should claim a three or take It for
granted he would have holed the putt
and claim a four. This question has
created quite a controversy around
the nineteenth hole and the members
are seeking an official ruling.
A look into the rule book reveals
that he should have replaced the ball
and tried for the putt, which, how
ever, he did not do. Chicago Tribune.
Industry Worth Developing.
Little use is being made of the floss
from the inside of the pods of the
silk cotton tree In the West Indies,
In the Philippines the collection of
this product known throughout the
East as "Kapok" forms an industry
of considerable promise. It is being
more and more used in the manufac
ture of patent life-belts, and agricul
turists in the British West Indies
might with profit turn their attention
to the collection of this floss.. The pro
duction for 1913 was 245,009 pounds,
as against 69,606 in 1910-11. The de
cline in 1911-12 is attributed by the
Mindanao Herald to increased local
consumption. Most of the kapok for
merly went to the Netherlands, either
direct or via Hongkong; but in 1912
13 it was exported chiefly to the Unit
ed States, Germany and Australasia, in
the order named.
The remainder of the Docket will be heard the Third and
Fourth weeks of the Court, and can be set by agreement any
day during the Court.
H. M. GOLDEN,
Clerk of the Circuit Court
JOSEPH E. JONES. Judge . '
Dresden, Tenn. ,
D. J. CALDWELL, Attorney General
. Union. City, Tenn.
"War Lord" In the Field.
Wilhelm II when in the field has
two comfortable tents, or huts, In
which he is well protected from cold
and ' damp. Each is composed of
wood and iron, and, being easily taken
to pieces, Is capable of being trans
ferred from place tq place without dif
ficulty. The partitions between them
are joined so perfectly as to be im
pervious to damp or air, and the floors
are of oak, while the furniture is of
wicker. One of the two huts serves as
a living room, the other as a sleeping
compartment. His meals are provided
from a motor kitchen, furnished with
a stove and with a freezing apparatus,
and "covers" for a dozen people.
-York and Will TM 1i.c.iwo,. ,
Hia Southern Home. ,:
A taxicab drove upj to the Wolcott
the other day, and a man Jumped out,
says the New York Ts&ries.', From the
yehlcle came a succession of short
squeaks, which caused George Dunn,
the, head porter, to juiry out and rer
gard'the occupant with amazementi
They were six small pigs.
The man who had accompanied
them was Ramon Arias, one of tha
leading bankers of Panama, who hast
been spending several months In the
United States.
"I want you to take care of them
for me," said Senor Arias. ' - ,
"But we draw the line at pigs," prot
tested Dunn. i .
"Then take them somewhere elseT .
suggested the banker, "only have theiat
well taken care of." ' )
Dunn did not know of any hotel
that takes pigs, or any boarding houea
for porkers, so he decided to try J ,ar
livery stable men of his acquaint ce.
Finally he found one who saidi that
for proper compensation he ;, might
house the unusual visitors, so a stall
was partitioned off, and there 'th
pigs have been boarding. They iara
to be shipped to Panama. ' $ '
Senor Arias bought them in thev
West Washington market, and they ' .,
will go to his big farm near the city
of Panama, where he hopes to aston
ish his fellow citizens with the result
he will achieve. These pigs will have
dost some money by the time they
reach Panama, for the board has :
been about two dollars a day at the
livery stable, and the hotel carpenter
has constructed an artistic crate for 1
their journey to Panama. . .
FISH ALMOST SWAMP BOAT
Only the prompt assistance of an
other craft saved the purse seine boat
Elidia from swamping in Port Gardner
under the weight of chum salmon
taken In a single haul of the net. The
Northwestern came to tho rescue, and
the quantity of fish in the net was all
both boats could carry.
One of the biggest runs of.chuma
ever seen in this bay appeared. Thisv
marks the beginning of the real flab
run of the fall season, but the magni
tude of the run exceeds all expecta
tions. The Elidia was one of the first boats
to get into the new run here. When the
big purse was hauled in the fish filled
the hold and the weight of these,, with
the enormous drag of the fish in tho
net still overboard, dragged down the
craft until it was actually flooded
with sea water. The Northwestern
swung alongside, attached a cable
from its winch to the Elidia and held
the craft afloat until it could be bailed
out and part of the flsh on board trans
ferred to the Northwestern. Everett
(Wash.) Dispatch to the Seattle Post
Intelligencer. ,
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Artificial Daylight.
Not so long ago Henry E. Ives de
vised and patented a method by which
artificial daylight was secured from a '
Welsbach mantle, and more recently
the following announcement comes
from Europe: "A screen which can be
used with an ordinary inverted incan
descent mantle to produce artificial
daylight has been invented. This
would seem to be the first time that
the method has been applied in a prac
tical form of gas. The apparatus con
sists of a box receptacle whitened in
side, which receives light from the in
verted mantle within the dome-like re-
flector mounted above it Underneath '
this reflector there are two double
plates of glass, the color of which is
selectr-d with a view to securing an
exact imitation of a natural north
light."
The Potato In Scotland.
The potato, the decreasing use of
Which in Ireland has been deplored,
was a long time finding favor in Scot
land. When MacDonald of Clanranald,
in l.13, bought seed potatoes for his
tenants in South Ulst they objected
to planting' them because the tuber
Is not mentioned in the Bible! At a
much later period George Bachop, one
of the Ochtertyre tenants, when told
by his wife that she had potatoes for
supper, cried contemptuously, "Tat
ties! Tatties! I never supplt on them
a' my days, and never will. Gie them
to the herd and get me sowan."
Danger Sign.
The National Affiliated Safety organ
izations, New York and Chicago, have'
designed a metal floor , type danger
sign which includes three signals. The
first is a red plate with the word dan
ger and an arrow pointing upward to
give warning of overhead danger. In
the second signal the arrow is covered
by a red plate. If there is no danger
the two sections of the sign, which are
hinged at the top, are folded face to
face, thus displaying blank surfaces.
Wouldn't Want to Sleep.
Ollie James, the famous Kentucky
congressman and raconteur, hails from
a little town in the western part of the
state, but his patriotism is state wide,
and when Louisville made a bid for
the last Democratic national conven
tion she had no more enthusiastic sup
porter than James. A Denver sup
porter was protesting.
"Why, you know, colonel," said he.
"Louisville couldn't take care of the
crowds. Even by putting-cots in the
halls, parlors and the dining rooms of
the hotels there wouldn't be beds
enough."
"Beds!" echoed the genial congress
man. "Why, sir, Louisville would
make her visitors have such a thun
dering good time that no gentleman
would think of going to bed ! "
Tells Farmers to Taste Mud Pies.
Speaking in the Boston chamber of
commerce's agricultural course the
other day, Prof. S. H. Haskell , of
Massachusetts ; Agricultural college
advocated the tasting of "mud pies'
as' an aid in determining productive
soils. ,
"Taste the soil and rub It against
the roof of your mouth," said he.
"Make mud pies out of it, and soon
you will .be able to know the right
soil." -
Hero Fund. '
The Carnegie Hero fund applies
only to acts performed within the
United States and Canada, Newfound
land and the waters thereof, and such
acts must have been performed on or
after April 15, 1904, and brought to-
the attention of the fund committee
within three years of the date of the
act. '
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