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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07
TROTWOOD'S TALK.
Interesting to Farmers, Breeders and
Dairymen.
Facts. Figures and Information o
General Interest to the Country
Gentleman.
The Pixies.

IT looks like nobody is working the
mixes but all seem to be waiting 10
near something drop. Gentlemen, II
will drop il you don't get your ROADS
in fix. We know that everything mas
been against you, from public opinion
to providence-frOmt the courts 10 the
gully washes; but In the meantime
what is the traveller to do, whlle
Won are waiting to find out whether
fhev are going to take your charter or
not. or whether you Will go to work
on them or not? Must he drive over
CuIlles while you study out the legal
phase of this question and bang ms
buggy or horse up on hard-pan rock,
while YOU debate on the future aspect
NJ the wherefOreness and the how
can-they-dO-it-ness They aOlLC 90 IL,
if you don't put your pike i'll fix.
From the days OF the Caesars to the
present day, the question OF goou
nuhlic roads has been most inI-
nortant subject. The Romans, whose
roads exist in the old Appian Way
and other old roads to-day, had the
hest roads OF antiquity. 1t is too
LENGTHY to describe how they were
built, excavations and cement being
used but il is safe to say that their
dirt roads cost fully as much per mile
as our best equipped railroads OF TO-
daV, The abundance ana nearness
of lime rock give us great advantage
in the building of good pixies, and we
know what we are talking about when
we saw, il only one-half of the money
collected at the toll gates of Maury
County were put on the pixies, we
would have the best roads in the
world. Now, don't all speak at once,
for we leased one and ran it for 3
wear lust to get our pikage free, and
we can show by our books that the
coal-oiI business is q bursted bank
compared to it. Why didn't we keep
II, then, you ask? Because another
fellow came along and offered US our
nikeage free for twenty years aud his
eternal gratitude for life, if we would
sub-lease, and we reasoned it out that
If anv man travelled at all in Maury
County and could get his pikeage
free for twenty years, he would have
saved more money in that time than
he would on a twenty-year tontine
douhIe-galvanized life insurance pol
lev. He would save enough to be free
from want for the balance OF his life.
Gentlemen, we must have good
Dikes, and if you don't give them to
rs the County Court will, Good
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Pure Reading.

The Columbia (Tenn.,) HERALD
strikes a key note of truth in the fol-
lowing remark: ''There is one thing
to the eternal credit of most stock
journals. AS rule they are freer
from all debaseing, immoral, and
impure sentiment than any other
class of magazines. They are cleaner
and better family reading than our
big dailies and half our magazines"
In the South, section long famed for
its polite men and pure women. the
leading horse journals are read by
the interested and cultured ladies
very generally, who see in the varied
reports and discussions respecting
our semi-human friends matter vast
Iy more edifying than the reports OF
murders, divorces, prize fights, and
filthy scandals that constantly meet
the eye from the pages of the average
newspaper. There is no reason why
any horse paper, that is in good stand
| ing with the male friends of the
Iight-harness horse, should not be
a welcomed guest to the home read
! inC-taUle as well as to the BARN.
! Clark's Horse Review.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07
The JERSEY Queen.

Prof. Hunter Nicholson stopped
over yesterday from Huntsville,
where he has been assisting
E. Fuller make an official test OF
Signals Lily Flagg at Huntsville,
Ala. The COW has broken the record,
making 1,046 lbs, 6 o., and during
the last days of the test she made
over four pounds per day. Hunts
Vile is wild about her, and her
owners justly proud. Gen. Moore,
one of her owners, will give a big
celebration in honor of the event,
and will issue 1900 invitations. He
says every man who accepts may
drink the cup full of "Alabama
mountain dew" The cup, which
was made in New York, is large
solid silver urn, holding over a
gallon, aud costing, we learn, some
thing like $500. 1t has been won
respectively by Landseer's Fancy:
EurOtiesima, BIsson's Belle and
Signals Lily Flagg.
We congratulate Messrs. Matthews
Humes and Moore on their good work
and its results, and wish for them and
their Jersey Queen long life and pros
perity.
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Dairring a Profitable Business.

At recent farmers institute at
BOwdOinham, Me-, Mr.. James Dag
gett, of FOXcrOft, said that the cost of
an acre Of corn as raised by him was
1880 He could cut corn and pu; it
into the silo for So per acre. The en-
silage resulting from the acre of corn
was 10000 pounds, equal to three tons
and 1000 pounds of hay. With this
corn ensilage, with meal and pastur-
ing, he could keep one COW year for
$2275. His cows average to net him
$3.50 per annum each. He regarded
the dairy as the most profitable OF
any feature of the Maine farming
industry.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

The English langu - is like tree,
continually sheddiue Il words and
adding new ones as IL. eXigeucleS OF
the times or the YeTativeness OF
the cause demand.
Heretofore we have lad only two
kinds of records rae record, and q
Htin cup" record. y race record is
ore that horse makes in race
against other horses. 1t Is a hard
record to make, because 1t Is a battle
generally where strength, endurance
and gameness wins The horse must
90 whether he is ready or not when
the word is given; he must 1un the
chances of q poor start, a pocket, a
collision and n COLLISION, too, the eX-
element of other horses trying to
beat him and a hundred other things
that are liable to happen in a race.
A 'tin cupn record is one made by
horse in a race against time; when
the windmill is still, when there is
nothing to hinder his going, but all
things are favorable, from the mild
breeze of the gentle zephyr to the
eXhillarting clatter of the joyous run
ner beside him, urging him on.
A real race record bears about the
same resemblance to a "tin cup"
record as a battle does to a dress pa
Tale. as pOuuOlhS stOhCS " - - = >
as gold to tin. as an Irish fight to a
love scene. 1t bears about the same
relation to "tin cup" record as
duel would wherein one man was
chalked off on the side of the barn, at
full length, so high and so wide, and
his opponent had only to stand off
and coolly see how many balls he
could put in the spot where his an
tagonist's head should have been had
he been there. That's a "tin cup"
record.
But put a good shot against the
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07
THE CoRREsPONDENCE
Between Secretary Blaine and President
Harrison Very Pointed.

WASHINGTON. June G.-The following
explains itself:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
WASHNGTON,
June t. 1892, 1875 p. m.
To the President:
respectfully beg leaTe to submit my
resignation Of the office Of secretary of state
of the United States, to which | was ap-
pointed by you on the 9TH Of March, 1889.
The condition of public busiress in the de-
partment of state justifes me in requesting
that my resignation may be accepted i'm
mediately have the honor to be, very
respectfully, your Obcdient servant,
JAMES c. BLAINE.
The following reply was received at
1855 o'clock 10y Secretary Blaine:
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON,
June 4, 1892.
To the Secretary of State:
Your letter Of this date, rendering your
resignation of the Office Of secretary Of
state of the United States has been re-
ceived. The terms in which you state
your desire, are such as TO leave me no
choice but accede to your wishes at once.
Your resignation is therefore accepted.
Very respectfully yours,
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
Hon. James G. Blaine.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07
To All Mule Owners.

We have opened the following
purse, and respectfully solicit your
entries.
THE STOCK-YARD PURSE, $500
For all trOtting or pacing mules.
Entrance $3.50, which must accom-
pany the nomination; mile heats,
two in three to harness (sull<y or
cart, to be trotted and pac ed at the
July 1915 Meeting at the -.
COLUMBIA - DRIVING - PARK.
For any information call on or adj
dress
Columbia Driving Park Association ;
this city. 1t
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07
Coal to Newcastle.

Gen. Dyenforth, who figured so eX-
tensiveIy last fall in the rain-making
business, is again before Congress ask
ing for an appropriation to continue
his Investigations; and it is said that
the congressional committee were
quite favOrably impressed. We hope
the General will not begin just yet !
to present the country has all the raiIf
it needs. What we now want is an
invention to stop it.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

Try a cake of buttermilk soap for the
complexion, it removes tan and freckles
the best soap in the market. Retail
price % cents; our price 10 cents
Use EvilO, the celebrated complexion
poWder, it is absolutely harmless. Call
for sample free. Retails for % cents
per box; our price 10 cents per box.
Window shades complete on spring
TOP rollers, % cents, 80 cents, 80 cents,
q cents to II cents each; curtain poles
complete with brass fixtures, Is cents
each.
Straw Hats. We have only 305 dozen
which we will sell at less thau IL cost TO
manufacture them. Doll hats l cent
each. Ladies' and children's all kinds
and shapes, > cents, cents, cents to Ia
cents each.
Give us a CALI Spot Ca
ONE DOOR WEST OPE
msyl0 ".
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07
BUILDING PERMITS.

Inspector Lipsconb has issued the
following permits since last report:
J. p. Street * Co, repairs, carriage
Mrs. :. :. Cain, repairs on roof. 1901
Columbia Lodge, No. 3. !. o. .. F.,
three-stO-v brick hall........ 5000 0C
J. Ii. Ledbette. addition. ....... 100
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

Clark's Horse Review has very
handsome picture of WaXa, dam OF
SunOl, this week.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

Fanny, by Stephen A. Doug lass,
dropped fine McEwen colt lately fol
her owner, Mr.. w. 9. Jones.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

IT is said that Belle Archer 2:15L
is going to lower her record this year
she is at the Hermitage with Georg'
Fuller.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

Mr.. Sims Latta's farm and house
on the Hampshire pike has been very
much beautified and improved lately
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

Work at both the tracks is pro
crossing most satisfactorily. Mr..
Jones is himself the Napoleon in
charge of the finishing touches at the
kite track, and that means it will
soon be done.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

We learn that there are good crops
OF potatoes made, in and around BON
Memphis and Gallatin. CalifOrnlt
has also raised good crops.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

Harlan Bros. have had eleven ien-
nets shipped from distance to Tax
payer. His fee is $50 and not SD as
reported.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

Mr.. John FAIRIES is authority for
the statement that some OF the Iarm-
ers are cutting wheat to-day.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07
Notes, News and Comment.

Too much rain for all crops. Beg
pardon, ducks.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

A good deal of interest is being
manifested in horse circles now about
the Morgan horse, and Morgan
register has been established at
Middlebury VT. Special prizes will
be awarded them at Chicago and it is
hoped that as this game little breed
of trotters is purely American that
more interest may be awaked in them
than has en- of late Ben Franklin
and his get at Nashville will soon call
popular opinion to their virtues in
this State.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

South Side Park has gotten up q
very attractive progI am for July 4tn
We learn the gun club will SHOOT
there that DAY.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07
AT TIE RACKETT:"

Mems and Boys dress hats 10 cents,
10 cents, % cents, SO cents to ~ Genus
each.
Best table oil cloths, 10 cents and ~
cents per yard.
Patent flour sifters, 8 cents and 10
cents each.
Three-piece tin toilet sets only S1.39.
Ona-pound butter moulds, Is cents
each; individual butter moulds, cents
Chair bottoms, ii to is inches, s cents
cents and 10 cents.
White-wash brushes, 10 cents, IA cts'i
10 cents, "a cents to 40 cents.
Paint brushes from 3 cents to ~ Genus
each.
sh and one Price TO all,
IA HOUSE ENTRANCE.
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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

Hill Alexander, "of Hal Pointer
fame" weighed in the scales and
found always to be a gentleman, has
left us for a position in Macon, Ga.
Nav he soon get rich and come back
TO his friends. What is Bob Watkins
stove on winter night without Hill
Alexander to tell how Pointer won
the race at Cleveland?
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

An Exchange says: "Give the corn
YOUR best land. You cannot have soil
that is too strong or rich for it. Crops
Of small grain may grow too rank,
large and go to waste on land too rich
for them. but corn will not, and il will
use as much of the fertiliZiDg ele-
ments as it needs, leaving the rest in
the ground for future crops.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

Says that excellent paper, th'
Breeders Gazette, Chicago: IA fail
number of spring lambs were put OF
our market the last week. They me
with a good demand and sold at gooC
prices where the quality was salts
factory. The best of the offering
brought SIS to 1925 per 100 pounds"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

The two year old colt Axle, by AK
tell WAS driven a quarter by Doble
last week at a 2:22 gait. 1t seems
that the rains and late spring have
thrown nearly all the horses back III
training.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

DIR. J.E. Dixon, Zion neighborhood
& never saw our crops looking inner
1t will do any one good to ride doWr
the Mt. Pleasant pike and see the
wheat and Irieh potatoes. There ATt
some wheat fields there that will
make forty bushels to the acre.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

than Harrison sentiment in the con-
vention, makes this plan seem weak to
many of Mr.. HarrisOns enemies.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

The old PAGER Jewett, 2:14, is still
boss of the road in Boston. AS q
three-eyar-old he was the champion
trotter of that age, having q record OF
2:23%, which is a good ways from
the present three-year-old mark OF
2:I01a to the credit OF Sunoi.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

Now since A. H. Moore has bought
Director he has had Splau to take up
Margaret, s., 2:121a, and put her to
work with a view of reducing her
record. Mr.. Moore announces that
after this season he will put her to
pacing, as she has shown DISPOSE
ton to go very fast at that gait.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

Mr.. Pitts Perry, of Bigbyville, has
a we'll bred colt by KirkmOnt, son of
Almont, Jr, dam Lizzie by Vandyke,
out of a Red Buck mare. 1t is two
weeks old, a deep bay FLY with star.
He says it lis not better than every
body's colt, but the best one he ever
had
The Bossier banner., 1892-03-10
Waterproof shoes.

Every winter sees a new idea in shoe
making to avoid wet and cold feet. The
cork sole has outlived three or four in
ventions and seems very popular, but
the fashionable idea now is to have an
oil-skin lining between the uppers and
the ordinary lining This effectually
keeps out cold and wet, and by doing
away with all ventilation and retaining
the perspiration a considerable amount
of warmth is acquired. The plan is
probably open to certain sanitary obiec-
tions. but residents in suburban dis
tricts far removed from granitoid or
even plank walks are willing to take a
few chances in order to get downtown
with dry feet. In Canada they have
simpler and much cheaper way of secur-
ing the same result by using very
thick sock made of wood pulp and mill
board, which requires an immense
amount of water to soak through. 1t is
doubtful whether anything but good
rubbers will pass muster from n medi-
cinal standpoint, but as long as some
people have a prejudice again twearin2
them, every winter will probably see
some new invention to take their place
ST. Louis Shoe Dealer.
The Bossier banner., 1892-03-10
He Wanted to save Trouble.

A short, stout gentlemen, completely
enveloped in an overcoat and heavy
shawl. walked through the gate at the
BROAD Street Station the other evening
and proceeded to the sleeping car at
tached to the night express. As he en-
tered the car Ne coughed slightly, and
instantly six or seven men frowned
deeply at him.
Dropping his grip to the floor and re-
moving his shawl, the man dived into
his pocket and producing his ticket
said:
"Gentlemen, we may as we'll have an
understanding at once. Here is ticket
that I bought and paid for. 1t gives me
the right to ride as far as Pittsburgh In
this car and in this car | am going TO
stav. have got frst-class cold,
know, and with it goes loud, hoarse
cough and that settles it. l thought
would let you know this in the begin
ming to save you the trouble OF growl-
ing after we get started. That's all
And he made ready to get into his
bunk.
He coughed at intervals all night and
it is safe to say kept every body IN the
car awake; but whatever their thoughts
NAV have been, not one person uttered
a u,,rd. d.-Philadelph Press.
The Bossier banner., 1892-03-10
Neatness in Girls.

Neatness is good thing for girl
and if she does not learn it when she Is
Young she never will. 1t takes great
deal more neatness to make a girl LOOK
well than 1t does to make a boy look
passable. Not because boy, to start
with, is better looking than girl, but
his clothes are of different sort, not 30
many colors in them; and people don't
expect boy to look so pretty as girl
A girl that is not neatly dressed is
called a sloven, and no one likes to look
at her. Her face may be pretty, and
her eyes bright but if there's spot OF
dirt on her cheek, and her hngers enos
are black with inll, and her shoes are
not laced or buttoned-up, and her apron
is dirty, and her collar is not buttoned,
| and her skirt is torn, she cannot be
liked. Learn to be neat, and when you
have learned it it will almost taSe care
| of itself. Detroit Free Press
The Bossier banner., 1892-03-10
PuNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

--C1ymer-"After all, society is hol-
low thingr' Cooley-"You don't seem
able to get into it. though. h."-Lifs,s
Calendar.
Your assistant appears to be prac-
tfcally useless" ''Yes, he's infected
with what?'' with the idea that he
is indispensable"
-''Womsn's voice is best adapted to
the telephone, they say" $50 l have
heard She seems to find plenty OF
osher uses for it. though. ."-Indianapo-
lis Journal
Now isn't that a perfect picture OF
the baby?" asked Mrs. Noopop. display
ing new cabinet photograph. II don't
think it is" replied Noopop. Il don't
| hear a sound Bazar.
"A Head observation-disclosures 1
have a cold IL is invariably a cold in the
head" She-"Exactly. Colds always
fy to the weakest part of ones body,
| you know" Sudden collapse OF the
subject Comic.
-'What was the most successful fun
eral you ever saw?' We'll, think the
best attended one was that OF man
who had spent most OF his life practic-
ing the cornet with his windows OPEN"
Kate Fields Washington.
The st. Louis Girl.-''What would
you do if you were in my shoes?" asked
the perplexed Chicago girl of her st.
Louis friend. Change them for
smaller pair" was the consoling reply
Detroit Free Press
No Occasion To- Miss Blocker (of
New York)-"What is the sense OF
holding the fair out west? Columbus
never heard of Chicago" Miss Porous
(of Chicago)-"Probably not; he wasn't
a married MANN. Y. Herald.
That VIII Please Them-Actor :
81 have worked hard to please the
people. I have tried everything in the
business. but they won't be pleased. "
Manager-"Have you tried going out OF
the business?"-Brooklyn Citizen
in Training.-"I believe that boy is
/ training himself to be policeman" said
, the woman who keeps the apple stand. "
'What makes you think so? asked her
r friend: because he hcoks an apple
everv time he passes. IN. Y. Press.
-He-"What made you think that
7 picture in the academy was mine? You
t must be Judge of style, because 1T was
f unsigned" She (modestly)-"You fiat
> ter me. l really didn't know 1t was
. yours until l saw everybody laughing
: at Funny Folks.
t Celebrated Physician-"What can
r do for you, MADAME" Lady (haughtily
e j am wont to be addressed my lady.
e Celebrated rhysician-'Sorry. my lady
|, can not cure you of that disease
/ Opening the door, William, any bod,
e else in the waiting-room?"-Browning
i King & Co IS Monthly.
e -Local-"I am writing q little motto
is about the appointment OF our frien'
d Lakwit to the position of Town Auditor
= he has really no fitness for the position
r, and yet on personal grounds, l an
" obliged to treat him with some decency
How shall speak of him. Chief Edito
Il why. speak of him as man OF rar
v good Judgment l know of nobody
m whom good judgment is so rare. "-Bo'
le ton Courier.
The Bossier banner., 1892-03-10
how q Nation Apologies.

It Is in ceremonies of various kinds
that the honors to the flag are most
frequently shown. A man OF war visi e
ing foreign port will run up the flag
of the country she is visiting, and s!lute
il with a certain number OF guns This
is pretty custom, but it is doing an
honor to some one else's flag, not to our
own. Sometimes this honor is done
under compulsion; that is, when one
country is exacting an apology from
another. The commanding officer OF
feet, living in front of an enemy's town,
NAV demand that the forts on the shore
run up the flag of the country whence
the fleet comes, and honor it with a
national salute. This sort OF thing,
however, belongs to the eve OF hostlll'
ties Nv. j. Henderson, in St Nicholas.
The Bossier banner., 1892-03-10
LoST HIS GAME.
A Farmers Experience With Wolf sup-
posed to be Dead.

A Farmers Experience With q Wolf sup-
posed to be Dead.
BENJAMIN Hammond, one of the early
settlers of Paris, Maine. used to tell a
story of the times when wolves were
common in that neighborhood. One
winter they were especially numerous
aud troublesome. He set traps and
caught five of the brutes. The peits
brought fair price. and there was also
a small bounty paid.
One winter afternoon i went out to
inspect my traps, and found the NTH
wolf caught in them. He was big
fellow and ugly enough. He showed
his teeth and leaped fercely at me,
coming within three inches of my face.
procured club, and after struggle,
succeeded in laying the old fellow out
had hurt my right hand in the scrim-
mage, and decided to lug the carcass
home and let my boy assist in the skin
ming.
seized the animal by the hind leg
swung him to my shoulder, and started.
I had gone about half mile when
heard wolf snarl behind me. looked
| around. OUT COuluu SCC any O'~.
went on again. Pretty soon heard the
same snarling noise close behind me.
l jumped, and turned quickly, for ! was
certain there was wolf close at my
| heels.
looked and looked, but therl wasn't
thing to be seen or heard. ] was ouz.
zled But the next moment the woli
on my back, which / had supposed dead,
began to squirm and snarl in way tc
leave no doubt where the other noise:
had come from.
was taken completely unawares
and before l could manage to get
frfner hold, the creature had squirme'
right out of my hands to the ground.
turned and tried to grab him, but b
was too quick for me, and had tn
pleasure Of seeing my dead wolf max
a clean run for freedom.-Youshs Com
paniOu,