The commercial., September 24, 1915, Image 2

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FARMER'S WIFE
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A Weak, Nervous Sufferer
Restored to Health by Ly
dia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound.
Kasota, Minn. "I am glad to say
that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound nas done
more lor me man
anything else, and I
had the best physi
' cian here. I was so
weak and nervous
that I could not do
my work and suf
fered with pains low
down in my right
side for a year or
more. I took Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vege
table Compound, and now I feel like a
different person. I believe there is
nothing like Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
table Compound for weak women and
young girls, and I would be glad if I
eould influence anyone to try the medi
cine, for I know it will do all and much
j-nore than it is claimed to do." Mrs.
Clara I RANKS, p. r, ,10. i, aaapie
crest Farm, Kasota, Minn.
Women who suffer from those dis
tressing ills peculiar to their sex should
be convinced of the ability of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to re
store their health by the many genuine
and truthful testimonials we are con
stantly publishing in the newspapers.
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that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta
ble Compound will help you; write
to Lydia E.PinkhamMedicineCo.
(confidential) Lynn,Mass for ad
vice. Your letter will be opened,
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and held in strict confidence.
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Best Part.
make no hit these
speeches
days.
Most of the people I could men
tion -Grow cheerful when the speaker
says:
"I thank you for your kind attention."
Just So.
"We can never tell what the fu
ture has in store for us."
"No; but by visiting a warehouse
we can see what it has in storage."
No Liberty.
"They tell me his wife keeps him
under close restraint."
"She does. Why, she wouldn't
even let him go downtown to see the
Liberty Bell."
KENTON. -
A. J. McCorkle, an old Confederate
soldier of near Yorkville, was in town
the latter part of last week shaking
hands with his old friends, en route to
attend the Union City fair.'
Mr. Gid Porter, of Rutherford, spent
Sunday with Mr. aod Mrs. C. Q. Tilgb
man.
Mr. E. E. Fowler and son, Grady,
spent several days last week in Louis'-
ville attending the State fair.'
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Horner andfam-
ly left Tuesday for Trenton, where they
will take charge of the Sollomon Hotel
andjwill run same in the future.
The remains of Miss Ethel Fanning,
the 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Fanning, of Union City, were
brought here last Thursday and interred
ip the Walnut Grove Cemetery. Funeral
services were conducted by Eev. Eoy
Keatbley, , Mr. and Mrs. Fanning lived
on the Wade farm east of town a num
ber of years, having moved to Union
City about one year ago. Miss Ethel
was a true christian and a member of
the Macedonia Baptist Church.
Eev. Eoy Keatbley returned Monday
from near Trimble where he has been
holding a revival meeting for the past
week. He reports a number of confes
sions and the public in general greatly
revived.
Mr. C. W. Eountree, Mrs. T. W.
Jones and Miss Lucile Eountree are
visiting relatives in Nashville and Frank
lin this week. .
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Finch were visitors
in Union City Friday and Saturday.
Mrs. Belle Ates returned to her home
in Fulton Friday after a three week's
visit with her sister, Mrs. Jane McNeeley, j
and other relatives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Powell and chil
dren returned to Chicago Sunday after
a week's visit with Mr. Powell's father,
Dr. C. C. Powell.
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Gray and chil
dren returned Saturday from a ten days
visit with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gray in
Kansas City, Mo.
Mr. McCauleyand Miss Rosa Blanks,
of Trezevant, were the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. E. R. Johnson Sunday.
Miss Reeves Hamilton was a visitor
in Union City Friday. .
Mrs. Chas. Montgomery and little
daughter spent last week with relatives.
Display of Wealth.
Some men when they get rich to-day
Tq New York straightway roam,
And there put up as a display
A 14-story home.
That method, to my mind, is not
The way to make a show.
I'd buy a million-dollar lot
And build a. bungalow.
Building Material
We have every sort of building and finishing lumber
you're apt to need, including
FRAMING, FLOORING, CEILING, SIDING
Doors and Windows, Shingles
Complete new line of Cabinet Mantels
A visit to our yards will be appreciated. Come and
inspect our stock for your own satisfaction.
C. X. Moss & Co.
Yards south of Presbyterian Church.
First Street, - UNION CITY, TENN.
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Opens either way put together with
bolts and braced with iron.
SOLD BY THE
Union City Lumber Co.
OUR PUBLIC FORUM
R. P. Schwerin
On the Seamen's Bill
The American plowmen are Interested in sea com
merce. It is expensive and likewise humiliating to have
to salute a foreign flag every time a farmer wants to ship
a bushel of wheat, a bale of cotton or a pound of farm
products across the ocean. The American farmer Is en
titled to the protection of his flag in sending his products
across the sea, and Congress should give such encourage
ment to shipping interests as Is necessary to meet foreign
competition in ocean commerce. A recent bill known as
the Seaman's Bill became a law under the President's
signature and Mr. R. P. Schwerin, vice-president of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, when asked to define
this law and outline its effect upon American steamship
lines, said in part:
"The bill provides that no ship of any nationality 'shall be permitted to
depart from any port of the United States unless she has on board a crew
not less than seventy-five per centum of which, in each department thereof,
is able to understand any order given by the officers of such vessel, nor
unless forty per centum in the first year, forty-five per centum in the second
year, fifty per centum In the third year, fifty-five per centum in the fourth
year after the passage of this Act, and, thereafter sixty-five per centum of her
deck crew, exclusive of licensed officers and apprentices, are of a rating not
less than able seamen.' -
"The oversea trade of the world Is competitive, therefore the original
cost of the ship and the operation of the ship have to be reckoned with- in
the keen competition of these rival nations with one another. The Oriental
sailor is obedient and competent and is the cheapest sailor in the world.
It ia therefore manifestly clear that if this law applied to aH nationalities
in the. transpacific traffic, all would be on the same economic basis, but it
works a single hardship to all the ships of the world, except the Japanese
and American ships, and with the latter it works two hardships. With the
European, the cost of constructing a ship is no higher than the cast of con
structing a Japanese ship, but if they bad to provide European crews, while 1
the Japanese operated with Japanese crews, the condition of competition
would be such that they could not overcome the handicap and they would be
driven off. But the American ship would have to contend not only with the
tremendous increase of cost of wage in the substitution of the European crew
for the Chinese crew, but also the greater Initial cost of the ship. As the
Japanese have now done away with their European officers and Japanese
crews, all of whom speak a eommon language, there is no difficulty for them
to comply with all the conditions of the bill and continue their Japanese
crews, with Oriental wages,
"The law. therefore, instead of assisting the American ship, adds another
heavy burden, while it Dlaces none whatever upon the Japanese ship, but, on
the contrary, turns over to the Japanese the traffic of the Pacific Ocean,
which the American ship is forced to forego by act of Congress of the
United States."
NOW EY'-1"0LOAN
on improved farm lands in Obion and Weakley Counties, ,
Tennessee. Loans made ror five years , term with 5i per cent
interest, with privilege of paying off at any time. Commissions
reasonable. Will not loan on tract containing less than forty
acres. Land must be on public road and have improvements.
Any amount loaned, from $ 1 ,000.00 up, Apply at once.
w. e:.) hudgins
Phones Office 143; Residence 589 ( . Union City, Term.
FRANK W
ADAMS'
AGENT FOR
OUR PUBLIC FORUM
Peter Radford
On Church and State
The recent action of one of the leading churches of
thisTiation, in annual convention, demanding that the
laymen vote only for candidates for office whose views
coincide with those of the clergy on one of the leading
political issues, and direct and indirect efforts of other
church organizations to interfere with the freedom of
the ballot, make one of the greatest perils of this age, and
present a problem that should .receive thoughtful con
sideration of both laymen and citizens.
Suckling babes may well squirm in their cradles
when ministers in convention assembled release the
hearts of men and grab them by the throat, for Chris
tianity has broken down, religion has become a farce and
the DulDit a failure. When the church substitutes force
for persuasion, command for conviction and coercion for reason, the sheriff
had as. well pass the sacrament, plain-clothes men take charge of the altar
and policemen bury the dead, for why a church? ' '.
It is as dastardly a crime against government ror a minister to unaen-
take to deliver the votes of his parishioners to a candidate, as it is lor
ward heeler to deliver a block of votes t a political boss, and both ought
to be prosecuted, for the law should be no respecter of persons.
It is as objectionable for a convention of ministers to seek by canonical
law to control the votes of church members as it would be for a convention
of manufacturers to issue orders for their employees to vote for a certain
candidate. Such conduct is offensive to decency, business morals and a crime
against society. Any convention, whether composed of saints or sinners,
rich or poor, white or black, that seeks to prostitute power and coerce con
science ought to be broken up by the police and its leaders arrested for
treason.
j A crime by any other name is a crime just the same. An ecclesiastical
1 robe cannot sanctify treason, authority to preach does not carry with it
'license to become a political ringster, or the right to teach us how to pray
1 give a permit to tell us how to vote. No man in joining the church should
'sacrifice his citizenship, forfeit his constitutional liberties or subordinate his
duty to the state. The earth many times has been drenched with the blood
of our forefathers fighting to throw off the ecclesiastical yoke from the state,
and the suggestion of a return to these medieval conditions with their horror
and their torture should not be tolerated for a moment.
Laws should be passed prohibiting any preacher, or combination of
preachers, from delivering or attempting to deliver their membership or
congregation to any candidate for office, and suitable legislation should be
passed preserving the sanctity of the pulpit from political vandalism. It is
as much a menace to church and state for a politician to occupy the pulpit
as for a minister to preach a political sermon. He has no more right to
preach his politics from the pulpit than a teacher has to teach his politics
to his pupils. A preacher cannot make political trickery righteous by usage
any more than he 'can make profanity respectable by practice. It is one
of the ironies of fate that a preacher may become a scandal as well as a
glory to civilization.
Club House, Lyndon and Charm
Canned Goods
F. W, A, Gem, F. W. A. Special;
and Club House Coffees
Spotless Flour
GIVE ME A TRIAL for QUALITY and SERVICE
FranR W. Adams
"We Del:
Telephone 421
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306 East Main Street
Lice, Mange and Hog Oilers.
By Harry Jo Naylor.
One of the most efficient ways of
wasting money on the farm is to
feed eighty cent corn to a bunch of
lousy or mangy hogs. The man who
feeds lousy hogs is doing a lot for
the louse family, but not very much
for the hogs, or his bank account.
Lice and mange are enemies of
growth and consequently enemies of
hog profits.
No matter how good the ration
which a hog receives, nor how much
of it, he cannot make steady gains
when infested with lice. Hogs have
no time to grow when infested with
these little parasites. Thev snend
half their time scratching and the
other half thinking about it. When
a man's herd becomes infested with
lice it is most prevoking to say the
least. But the experienced breeder
has found that it is . a mighty se
rious proposition because the job of
eradication requires a lot of pains
taking effort.'
The hog louse is a most annoying
individual. It wisely selects that
part of the hog where the skin is
the thinnest and here it lives and
derives its nourishment. It causes
a most severe drain upon the animal
and is often the cause of great
losses.
What we know as mange in hogs
is caused by the tiny parasites which
burrow under the surface . of the
skin, causing scabs to form, accom
panied by severe itching. Scurvinest
is a resulting product of the mange
organism. The final effect of mange
on the hog is practically the same
as an infection of lice, and thus the
treatment is the same.
Lice and mange in Jiogs are the
forerunners of cholera. Out of every
ten hogs in the United States died
last year from cholera. It has been
found that the greater percentage of
all hogs that die from cholera have
been found infested with lice. These
blood-sucking individuals cause such
a drain on the animals that they
fairly sap the vitality of the hogs,
and thus the animal an eacy prey
for an infectious germ.
It has been truthfully said that
necessity is the mother of invention.
Thus we can account for the pres
ent hog oilers which have proven so
successful on thousands of hog
farms as lice and mange eradicators.
About two months ago I wrote to
five or six hog oiler manufacturers
and received their circulars showing
construction and method of opera
tion, and believing the Nobby hog
oiler, made by the Sherman Hog
Greaser Co. of Peoria, 111., the most
practical, I decided to install one,
and I believe it to be worth one hun
dred dollars to any hog raiser. . I
am so well pleased with it that for
the benefit of the hog raisers of
Obion County I insisted of my deal
er to put them in stock.
The method of applying disin
fectants by means of sprinklers or
spray pumps is no longer used on
many modern farms. In applying
the oil with this method it is almost
impossible to get it thoroughly into
the hair and skin. Another disad
vantage in using the spray pumps is
the cost of application. ,The first
cost is a very large one in a herd of
any considerable size, and, regard
less of how thoroughly the hogs are
disinfected, many of the hogs will
escape the firt application. Thus
numerous subsequent applications
are necessary. These frequent appli
cations are a great deal of trouble
and a lot of extra expense, besides
a hog needs to be oiled many, many
times when we feel that we ought to
be doing something else; consequent
ly he is neglected. And anyhow
what is the use of doing something
for the hog that the hog can be
made to do for himself? -
My hogs were infested with lice
and nits when I put my oiler in the
lot, and now I would be almost will
ing to pay a dollar each for every
louse found on them. The hog oil
ers on the market to-day are filling
a long-felt want. They are doing
a great deal toward the eradication
of hog diseases.
These oilers or rubbing posts are
filled with the oil and set out in the
feed lot. Don't be afraid the hog
will rub everywhere but on the oil
ers, because he will try it at first
sight. When the lice begin to
work upon the hog the .hog will
have an itch. He will go to the
rubbing post to scratch, and 'as he
scratches the vermin destroying oil
will flow out right on the itch, kill
ing the lice, destroying the eggs and
healing the skin of mange, scuryey
and other skin diseases.
NEWS NOTES.
The question of the payment for
munitions of war will not be, allow-,
ed to block the big loan to the
Allies, according to a ; New York
banker, and the negotiations in New
York are said to be procee'ding sat
isfactorily. It is understood that the
cash will be called for'-in install
ments and will be permitted to re
main in the lending bank until need
ed. .
That Gen. Villa would protect
Americans and other foreigners in
his dominion of Northern Mexico,
despite the influence given Carran
za by the Pan-American conference,
was the message borne to the State
Department in Washington by a Vil
la emissary.
x Some Solace.
"Is there really a man in the
moon?"
"I don't know. But the idea must
be of great comfort to summer girls
who have to sit around these fine
evenings without any male company."
HERBINE is the medicine that cures
biliousness, malaria and constipation.
The first dose makes you feel better, a
few additional doses cures completely.
Price 50c. Sold by Oliver's Red Cross
Drug Store. Adv. -.
Next Step.
The fair June bride, the
prid,
A wedding Journey took.
She's back to-day, and, byHhe way,
Is learning how to cook.
nati
on's
Usual Use. .
"Senator Wombat got an appro-,
priation to do some public building."
"And what is he "going to do with
it?"
"I hear he is using it to repair his ,
fences." . "
Not so Pleasant. .
"Psychologists say that you are av
good man when children like to tol-J
low you around."
"Much depends on the motivl
I've had 'em hoot at me."
SOME BARGAINS
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Lumber, Shingles,
nd Doors
Windows a
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Askiris & Dircks Lumber Co.'s
YARD: Fourth and Grove Streets
Phone 53 Union City, Tenn.
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