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Kirk Bros, Mason City, Iowa, the
owners of Storm 2:l51a, 10y Brown
Hal, have decided to close out all
their trOtting stock and breed PAGERS
alone.
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THROUGH THE ELEVATOR.
Accident to Walter LOchridge Chi
Morning.

Walter Lochridge was painfully
though not seriously injured at A. .
McKennOn's store on North Main
street Wednesday. He made mis-
step, and fell through the elevator
shaft from the first floor to the cellar.
He was badly bruised about the face
and arms, but not seriously hurt, and
will soon be out. He was taken
home and his injuries attended to.
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For Cash.

Lazarus & Son have reduced their
prices on Flour, Sugar and Coffee
cheaper than any house in the city
for cash. lly59-2t.
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New Flour from Old Wheat.

We have received a carload of flour
which we will guarantee to be made
of old wheat.
jly29-2t Lazarus d Son.
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LIST Farmer-"Troubled much with
smut in your parts?" End Farmer
ayes, good deal of it. Mostly in the
State and Congressional 'lectiOns."
Exchange.
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Invoice Of Stock on Hand

AIE find that we are in position to make
VIC our friends some of the biggest offers
Of the season by Offering some special drives
in the following lines;
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INT will be Just about thirty days now, and
Il we will begin receiving our fall stOck.
The above prices will hold good until that
time.
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Oee pair of odd pants from 81 up TO $780,
OOO % per cent less than the regular price
will buy them. Bring on Your cash ana get
first plck-you can't regret IL.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-07-29
BBECHCROFT SCHOOL
FOR GIRLS.
The eleventh session OF this well known
chOpl begins
Thursday, lst Sept.

For catalogues or other information. APP
ply To ,
iuly22 Spring Hill, Tenn.
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A New York dairyman doub led the
yield of butter, per COW, Of his herd,
in one year, by testing every COW
and dispcsing OF the poor on s, and
feeding little better his new herd.
Both acts are in full accord with mod
oru dairy GOSPEL
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-07-29

DIG lot of oxford Ties going at less than
DxU Eastern cost.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-07-29

OVID stock OF Trimmings. LRces, Silks,
WI Buttons, and such like, prices cut
lust half in two,
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WI will make the same reduction in Car
w II pets, Oil Cloths and MRttings. We
have some very pretty Rugs left you can
have at almost your own price.
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I'VE still have some BEAUTIES left In
w II Dress Goods, such as Pineapple It's
sues, POngees and other light fabrics going
at prices that will astOlish everyone that
sees them,
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Letter Lists.

List of letters remaining in the Office
for the week ending July ~, 1892.
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Yours truly

NARDEV Warp in all cOloTs.
OAhA II Furnishing goods At any
price.
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Parties calling for the above letters
will please say advertised
J. T. WILLIAMsON, p. NJ.
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FERNVALE
SPEINGS.

UnriyaIIcd In Tennessee for good water
and good living at lowest rates. Fully open
June IS Two hours ride from Franklin.
Twn hours ride from BellView. Get eXcur-
sion tickets.
For circulars and rates write postal
prourietor at Franklin.
iInBT MGEWEN & CO............ Managers
HARRY HUGH ES...............:. -...C CLERK.
toHN r. MCEWEN ............. PrOpriC tor.
juncl7-3m
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After VERY CAREFUL

After A VERY CAREFUL
Invoice Of Stock on Hand
NAE find that we are in a position to make
We our friends some of the biggest offers
of the season by Offering some special drives
in the following lines;
266 pair of odd pants from 81 up 70 $50
oOO . per cent less than the regular price
first plck-you can't regret II.
w II pets Oil Cloths and Mattings. We
have some very pretty Rugs left you can
have at almost your own price.
WE stil have some BEAUTIES left in
w ~ Dress Goods, such as Pineapple It's
sues, POngees and other light fabrics going
at prices that will astOhish everyone that
sees them.
OTIR stock OF Trimmings. Laces, silks,
w HI Buttons, and such like, prices cut
just half in two.
QIH lot of oxford Ties going at less than
DXO Eastern cost.
TTl1 will be just about thirty days now, and
we will begin receiving our fall stOck.
The above prices will hold good until that
time.
NADDEHV Warp in all cOlOTs.
In HI IA Furnishing goods At any
price.
Yours truly,
j, ROSENTHAL,
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KEEP COOL

BY buying a refrigerator OF water-cooler
from DObhius & Ewing. Their STOCK rs com
nIete i'm AN sizes july22 81
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Language Teacher-'$1OO a lesson.
How many studies will you take up,
and for how lOngw Fair Applicant
THE more the better, but l needn't
study any OF them long, i suppose.
You can't tell what is going to hap
pen nowadays, and / want to be able
to say yes in at least q dozen Ian
euages ."-Amerieau Farmer.
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Yours, anxious to please,
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From the CulieOka district l0S car
loads of potatoes were shipped this
season. Some OF the first sent on
were sold for $40 per barrel. Fully
1900 barrels we're shipped from
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FAVoRITE OHURNs.

FANOKITE UfI q hNS.
We are agents for the celebrated Barrel
Churns over four hundred of them sold in
Maury County. We refer you to amy or
your ueighbOrs who use them.
juIY22 1t DOBBINS II EWING
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p. WOLDRIDGE. R. O. IRVINE, JR.
JOSEPH fowler.
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The ground in your orchard should
be stirred. If trees are young, the
laid may be plUwed deeply, except
near the trees. l. they have reached
the bearing age, the blowing must be
more shallow, lest the roots be dis
turbed or broken. This as to peach
or apples. Pears need special treat
Farmer.
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Disorderly as they often are, how

Disorderly as they often are, how
ever, the political meetings of the pres
ent day are a marked Improvement
over those described by Dickens half a
century ago, when the nomin ating
meetings were often riotous. No one
who has read the great novelist's pict-
ure of the election in which Mr.. Pick
wick and his friends bore an humble
part can ever forget the description;
and yet, from the evidence given by
less imaginative writer's, there is rea-
son to believe the sketch is little, if at
all, overdrawn.
The methods of canvassing after the
nominations have been made have, how
ever, undergone little change. The
number of voters, though largely in
creased during the last fifty years, is
still restricted as compared with the
system of universal suffrage OF the
United States, and the efforts to obtain
votes are proportionately more ener-
getic. Ehe andshaking goes on with
vigor from the nomination until polling
is ended, and many a fine lady, eager
for the success of her favorite candi-
date, condescends to solicit in person
the favor of men on whom at other
times she would not deign to bestow a
glance. In a close election the can
vassing is carried on with a vigor Of
which the people of this country know
nothing, for in district where the an
tecedents Of every man for generations
are perfectly well known to all, the only
hope of success lies in inducing voters
of the opposite political faith to change
their minds; and the difficulty of doing
this can be imagined only when the
rugged self-reliance, not to say obsti-
macy, of the British voter is taken into
consideration. The time was when
votes were sold and bought almost
openly, but that time has gone by; if
there is bribery now it is SO carefully
hidden as to be invisible even to the
shrewd guardians of public order.
But the voters are not the only per-
sons subjected to moral pressure while
the canvass is in progress. In every
British community, as in every part of
the United States, there are men and
women who imagine that the world is
on their shoulders, and that, should
they remove their support, the moral
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universe would totter and fall. These

universe would totter and fall. These
are the men and women who form So
cieties for the purpose of bringing about
what the rest of the world calls impossi-
bilities. Sometimes they succeed, some
times they fail in the former case they
are placed on the pedestal of fame as
benefactors, leaders of the world S
thought, and persons to whom after
ages will point with pride; in the latter,
they are denominated cranks, and are
pronounced fit for the lunatic asylum.
Whether cranky or philanthropic, how
ever. they are equally troublesome to
an anxious candidate when they come
to demand what policy he intends to
pursue in regard to the idea they have
made it their business to foster, and
the unfortunate man is often put to not
a little uneasiness when a woman s.
rights delegation or a temperance
committee calls upon him to express
himself explicitly in regard to these
questions. To oppose them is to lose
the support of all on their side; to favor
them is to suffer certain loss, probably
much greater, among those who regard
their pet theories as folly; to be nom
committal is to run the possibility
of loss in both directions. To steer
clear of these difficulties is no easy mat
ter, particularly as the people who con-
stitute themselves a committee to elicit
the candidates views are not usually
disposed to tolerate evasion, but de-
mand an unequivocal statement; and
the example of the candidate in the last
Parliamentary election. who, whenever
informed that a delegation was on it's
way to his house, hid in the garnet, leav-
ing word that he gone to London,
would be followed by more than one
unhappy contestant, did he not fear the
consequences of such evasion even more
than the results of an interview.
But from one kind Of pressure, that
for appointment to office, the candidate
for Parliament is almost entirely free.
There are, to be sure, in Great Britain
as in the United States, numerous pa
triots who are willing to serve their
country at a fixed and liberal salary,
but the incoming of a new administra-
ton with new policy does not mean
there, as here, a general exodus of
Government officials. Civil service has,
in Great Britain, passed beyond the ex-
perimental stage, and is as firmly
grounded as any other principle OF ad-
ministrative government. With the de-
feat of the administra ton, the ministry
and few heads of departments go out,
but the great body of English public
servants, after being appointed, are Sc
cure in their places no matter how great
the political unheavals that from time
to time take place in the nation. Prime
ministers may come and go, but the
clerk in a government department, the
country postmaster, stays on, unaffected
by the change in domestic or foreign
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are large when compared with the
classes of voters who exercised the
franchise before the reform bill of 1868,
which was passed by the Conservative
Government of Disraeli. Under this
document voters in counties comprised
40 shilling freeholders, or those own
ing property in fee of that annual value,
those possessing a life estate of the
annual value of 40 shillings, which, if
not occupied, must have been possessed
before 1892, those possessing life es-
tate of the annual value Of e5, lessees
for not less than sixty years of the
annual value of e5, Or for twenty years
of the annual value of ESQ, and occu-
piers of lands rated at so year. In
boroughs the voters comprise the rated
occupiers of dwellings who have paid
their poor rates, ocoupiers of premises,
not dwelling houses, of the annual value
of e1O, and dodgers occupying premises
of the annual value of e10. The bars Of
suffrage were thus let down to very
low notch, but in spite of this fact great
numbers of the Queens subjects are
still DISTINGUISHED, and have neither
part nor lot in the election of their rep
resentatives in Parliament.
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6cal interest is not in the least dimin-
he'd by the fact that, as a general
ling, up to short time before the cleo
kbn few of the electors in many OF the
|eroughs know for whom they will be
alled on to cast their votes. for the
6hders of the two parties choose the
andidates and assign them to districts,
81 that Scotchman may be called on
a contest a borough in the south OF En-
and, while an Englishman goes to
&otland to solicit the favor of the peo-
e there The fact that they frequently
|Ave never seen their candidate Until
y appears before them on the hastings
|pes not disturb the determination OF
lie men of his party to vote for him,
I'd when he comes down" from Lon
pn-for in England London is up, "
pd everywhere else is down to ad-
Tess them, they turn out with an en-
Ausiasm born of a zeal for the party
d give him welcome.
Suppose, then, that the Liberals pro-
pse to contest a seat in Kent and the
liberal management sends down John
Enith to make the canvass. John goes
|bwn. visits Cranbrook, Biddenden, HAIRS
5onden, Goudhurst and other villages
his district, shakes hands with the
len, asks about the health OF their
hissuses" and the children, and goes
Trough other processes of an electoral
Rnvass as familiar to voters in this
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tunity of the lull to spring to his feet
and begin an answer to the statements
and arguments that have been adj
vanced by the candidate. He is often
successful, for the spirit Of fair play is
strong among the English people, but
not infrequently, when the local COM
mittee deems the situation inopportune,
heis, on one excuse or other, suppressed,
whereupon he -etires in high dudgeon
from the platform and gives utterance
to his dissatisfaction from chair in the
back part of the room.
A few days later the Tories have
their meeting in the same room, and
are addressed by their candidate, the
same scenes being enacted, this time,
however, the Liberals appearing as the
disturbing element, and, in all prob
ability member of the Liberal local
committee appearing in the role Of chief
grumbler, and being invited to seat
on the platform to secure temporary
respite while the Tory candidate airs
his views.
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to order war of words has been begun
between the men of the two parties,
and they quarrel in pairs over the issues
of the canvass, each making the matter
entirely personal to himself and OPP
ponent The entry of the Chairman
and local committee ushering in John
Smith is the signal for prolonged up
roar. The Chairman and local commit
tee are jeered at by their acquaintance
of the opposite political faith in the
crowd, the candidate is cheered and
booted. while comments on his personal
appearance are often too pointed to be
agreeable. The Chairman finally sue
ceeds in bringing the meeting to some
show of order and introduces John Smith,
who. with desperation in his heart, be-
gins the task of running the gauntlet of
q fire of questions and Interruptions
from the mob. Unless the meeting has
been packed there are always sturdy
opponents present to ask inopportune
questions, and these self-appointed
cross examiners do their work we'll,
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housing SIeeDers.

In the olden time church services
were SO long-prayers, hymns, and
sermons-that it is no wonder that
many of the hard-worked people in
the congregations could not keep
awake. Both in the old world and in
the new various devices were resorted
to for the purpose of banishing sleep
from the church. Among these was
not the modern one Of making the
services short and interesting. Our
English fathers tried several methods
of breaking up the offensive practice.
One method was that known as "bob-
bing," term thus explained by a
writer in Notes and Queries:
"My mother can remember Betty
Finch, very masculine sort of
woman, being the 'bobber' at Holy
Trinity Church in the year 1910. She
walked very majestically along the
aisles during divine service, armed
with a great long stick like fishing
rod, which had a bob fastened to the
end of it; and when she caught any
sleeping or talking, they got q
NUDGE"
Doctor Thirlwall, Bishop of St.
David's, gives in one of his Letters"
an amusing account of Kerry custom
for awakening sleepers in church.
':It is by ancient custom part Of
the sections duty to perambulate the
church during service time with a
bell in his hand, to look carefully into
every pew, and whenever he finds
any one doing to ring the bell.
"He discharges this duty, it is said,
with great vigilance, intrepidity and
impartiality, and consequently with
the happiest effect on the congrega-
ton; for as everybody is certain that
if he or she gives way to drowsiness
the fact will be forthwith made
known through the church by a peal
which will direct all eyes to the
sleeper, the fear Of such visitation
is almost always sufficient to keep
every one on the alert"
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which does not fall in with the policy Of
the candidate. If the idea is popular,
they always have the sympathy Of por-
ton at least of the audience, and fire.
quently carry on sort Of opposition
meeting in the same room and at the
same time as that of their opponents.
After the row between the two fac
tons has progressed to a point where
alteration is evidently about to be sue
ceeded by fisticuifs, compromise is
generally effected. the most pertinacious
and troublesome of the opponents is in
vited to seat on the platform, to be-
come a part of the meeting, and is then
expected to hold his peace until given a
chance to speak his mind. The COM
promise is generally respected so far as
he is concerned, but his followers do
not in any wise consider themselves re-
strained by the courtesy shown their
leader, but resort to every possible
means to interrupt and embarrass the
speakers. They shout, they groan,
they yell, they whistle, they call out,
Ear! earl" in the most ironically
annoying way. They bring to their as
sistance various instruments of music,
tuneful and otherwise, on which they
execute fantasies Of the most ear
splitting descriptions; they crow like
cocks, they below like COWS, they bray
like donkeys. Poor John Smith, who
is all the while endeavoring to set forth
his declaration of principles and to
give his personal pledges as to the
policy he will adopt if elected, might as
well sing comic songs as speak, for
should he do so, few would be the wiser.
But he perseveres, recites as much of
his prepared speech as he has not for
gotten in the uproar, and fills up the
time with such remarks as occur to him
on the spur of the moment or are sug
gested by the more or less Impairment
questions of the mob.
Tired out by his efforts he finally takes
his seat, and is vigorously applauded by
his female relatives on the platform,
who have listened to his address with
looks of admiration at the profundity of
his wisdom, and with reproachful and
contemptuous chances at the crowd
which did not appreciate such talent.
The close of Johns speech is the sig
nal for an outbreak compared to which
the uproar that prevailed all along was
a tritie. Some Of the audience desire
to hear other speakers of the same
party as the candidate, others wish to
have taste of something different, and
the leader Of the Opposition, who was
invited on the platform in order to keep
him quiet, usually seizes the oppor-
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A Parliamentary Election.

y
Tie imperviousness of the average
itdsh skull to a joke prevents a gem
il and thorough appreciation of the
mOrs of British election. The Eng
hhave faculty of taking everything
III the utmost seriousness, and as all
|etion is, to them, the most important
IN in which the British can engage,
8fy step in it's progress, from the dis
|ution of the old P Parliament to the as
billing OF the new, is taken with
solemnity that is often
NJ funny. According to the Globe
.inocrat, every one who has anything
do with the affair, no matter how
ID and insignificant his share may
Ills profoundly impressed with a
1se of his own Importance and of the
ID that he is making history, and so
IS about the job with an earnestness
70 does him much credit, but often
Is to impress the bystanders in the
amer intended. From the candidate
|nself to the Chairman of a popular
eeting, and from the latter pompous
dictionary to the humble sharer in
Htical work who walks up and down
8streets bearing two boards on which
Inscribed advice to voters as to the
0per person to receive their encourage
II and votes, every one feels, or
ms to feels, that he is part of one
1pendous whole, and conducts himself
0prdingly.
The infrequency of parliamentary
ections in Great Britain, as compared
ID those for Congress in this country,
Il a tendency to increase their impor-
ice in the eyes of the people. and the
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faction of all the Liberals in hearing,
that the Tories are dragging the nation
to swift and certain destruction.
For day or two before small boys
have distributed handbills through the
town and vicinity inviting the voters to
turn out in force to the meeting in, for
instance, the vestry hall of Cranbrook.
The hall, which is place Of public as
sembly, will seat 800 or 400 people, and
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policy that may be involved in the
election
Mention has already been made of
the comparatively restricted number of
English voters by whom the candidate
for Parliament is confirmed in his cleo
ton. Small as are these numbers COM
pared with our unlimited suffrage, they
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on the evening of the meeting Is packed
to sutfocation with voters anxious to
hear what Mr.. Smith has to say. Lib
erals are there, of course, in great num-
bers, but among them is a liberal sprink-
ling of Tory adherents, who have come
to have little fun and to make things
interesting for Mr.. Smith and his sup
porters. Long before meeting is called
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frequently driving candidate almost
wild with their troublesome queries.
Nor are they to be put down or over
awed. They have generally prepared
themselves beforehand with a list of
questions, and refer to their memoranda
from time to time so as to omit none of
the list. The most troublesome of their
number are men who have a pet idea
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puntry as in England. But John s
hnvass is not to be completed without
laking public appearance OF some
md, for much as the English people
.dicule the American love of speech
1aking. the desire to address audiences
at least as strong in every part OF