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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-07-31
CHAPTER XIII.

One scene more
1t was the morning of a summers day.
The sunshine danced bewitchingly over the
sea, that lay drowsily under the wide vault
of blue sky Lambent, languid, white,
earth and air slept together.
A soothing and dreamy haze rested on
the little town of Peel
Brighter than the sunshine, fresher than
the salt breath of the sea, a little girl of 8
tripped over the paved and Grabbed streets.
In one hand she swung straw hat, over
flowing with flowers BY the other she
held IA fair haired boy, who was just old
enough to trOt along at her side The
stout little man carried mighty spade
across one shoulder, and the hand that
held the hand of his sister held also a buck
ct heavily laden with perhaps a teaspoon
full of sand At one moment the maiden,
exercising the grave duties of guardian,
stopped and volunteered to relieve the lit
tic chap Of this burden; but, of course, he
resented the humilating tender with prop
er masculine dignity Then they tripped
on
They were making for the market place,
and when they reached 1t they turned in
at the church gates Many green grave
lay there, bathcd in the sunbeams, and
many a simple stone, moss grown and dis
colored, looked brighter on this brilliant
day An old man sat on tomb and lean
ed forward on IA stick He seemed to doze
in the light and warmth but as the little
people passed him he fumbled at his hat
and smiled through his teethless gums
Ats Billy, " said the little fellow,
with an air of knowledge.
The children walked to the southwest
angle Of the church and stopped before a
white marble slab imbedded in the wall
There was no grave beneath 1t. Tossed on
the shimmcring waters that stretched
away miles on miles in front of it, or rest
ing calmly iii that ocean bed, was all that
remained of him to whom this stone was
raised
The little maiden cast her flowers in
front of it. The little boy, too, must
needs cast his flowers also Then he look
I'd up with his great blue wondering eyes
at the letters of tho inscription. They
ram TO Dear Danny In Heaven"
The tide was just on the turn, and the
murmur of the first receding waves began
to break the silence
Listen, said the little woman, with
lifted finger
II likes the sea, )" said the boy
The children turned to go Come,
Danny" said she.
"Ees Ruby" he lisped
When they reached the gate the little
feet tripped faster over the stones, and a
silvery voice sang:
Sweet violets and primroses the sweetest.
THE END.
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Free Pixies.

EDITOR HERALD: - Some twelve
months ago the writer published an
article in the HERALD advocating
free pixies. l am in favor of them
now, as much as at that time. Mr..
Raineys offer to sell his pixies to the
county makes the present most
favorable time to buy.
In the article above referred to it
was stated that the pixies leading
into Huntsville, Ala, had been
made free, and that the discussion
of free pixies was going on all over
Kentucky. Some counties in Ken
lucky have since then made their
pixies free. Why should not Maury
County be the pioneer of such policy
in the State of Tennessee?
The argument in favor of such
policy is addressed mainly to the
farmers; it would make their lands
more valuable and of course more
desirable. As matters stand now,
all lands lying inside a circle around
Columbia described with a radius of
one-and-a- half miles, are subject to
no turnpike tax. The owners Of
such land can go to town when they
please without cost, and also haul
their produce without cost. Are not
such lands much more desirable and
valuable than lands outside of that
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Danny was helped up, but he would not
relinquish his burden. Walking feebly,
he carried Christian, who was still inscn-
sible, along the narrow path under the
east wall back to the shore The crowd
divided for him He saw Mona, where
she stood with claspcd hands beside Bal
ladhoo Making his way to her, he laid
Christian at her feet
Danny's life work was done He had
given back 10 the woman who was all the
world to him the man she loved
Mona dropped 10 her knees beside Chris.
tian and kissed him tenderly Danny stood
apart in silence, and amid all that throng
saw Mona alone Then he turned his head
aside and looked away over the sea Only
heaven knew what his thoughts were in
that bitter hour-that blessed hour-that
hour of sorrow and of glory In this
world his days were done For Kissecks
death, what remained to him among men?
without Mona's love, what was left to
him on earthi
Christian returned TO consciousness
Mona rose up and took Dannys hand
She would have put her arms around his
neck, but he drew away and turned his
eyes again toward the sea The longing
look came back, hut no tear would start,
for the gift of tears had gone forever
The hum of human voices arose above
them Poor lad, and his uncle dead too
"Kissecky" "Aw, yes Kisseck. " "NoP"
YES, though, and shot, they're sayin."
Never Who shot himY' There's
no one KNOWN that "
A loud uncarthly peal of laughter was
heard above the noise of the people and the
tumult of the storm Every one turned to
look for Danny He had gone The next
moment he was seen at the waters edge,
pushing off the dingy of the lugger He
leaped into it and picked up an oar But
the ebbing tide needed no such help. 1t
caught the boat and carried it away on a
huge billow, white with foam. In min
ute 1t was riding far out into the dark void
beyond
Then Mona remembered Danny's strange
words two days ago, II think at whites
I'd like to die in big sea like that
Next day-Christmas day-when the
bleared sun was sinking over the western
bar Of the deep lone sea and Dannys gorse
fire on the cliff head was smoldering out
boat was washed ashore in the Poolvash
empty, capsized 1t was the dingy of
the Ben-my-chrce
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circle? Our proposition is to bring
every man and his land inside of it.
1t would seem strange if any should
object.
The present system is unfair and
unjust. The man who lives two or
three miles from town is subjected
to heavy tax, from which his
neighbor, living inside the aforesaid
circle, is entirely free. Can any
body give good reason for this diff
ference? Let us enlarge the circle
so as to take the whole county in
and let them all go free.
That such a policy would build
Columbia up, is plain. Many people
would go in every day to make small
trades, who are now kept away by
the turnpike gate. You may want
IA shoe on horse, and want it very
badly; but the pikage you must pay
adds 100 per cent. to the cost. There
are hundreds of such things, some of
which occur almost daily on every
farm.
Take up your pencil and do a little
figuring, and see if it won't pay you
to get inside of the above-named
circle by charging it so as to take
you in. We can do it if we will.
Country merchants and country
blacksmiths will oppose us. 1t is
against their interest; it is good for
the masses. 1t will build up Column
bia, and whatever builds up our
county town builds up our county,
and is to the interest of every citi-
zen. SENEX.
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THE SILVER PARTY,
In u Dignilied and Patriotic Way Endorses
Bryan and Scwall.

In Dignifed and Patriotic Way Endorses
Bryan and Scwall.
The American Silver Party met in
St. Louis Tuesday of last week. The
first two or three days they spent in
waiting upon the Populists, hoping
to be able to agree with them and
endorse their proceedings. When
they discovered, however, that the
Populists had split their ticket, and
either through ignorance or treache-
ry, played squarely into the hands
of the enemy, the Silver Party met,
endorsed Bryan and Sewall de-
clared for their cardinal principle,
bimettalism, and in the enjoyment
of the full respect of the country, adj
iOurned.
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M,KINLEY,s sUND4Y CALLERS.
A Great Deal of Encouraging News Heard
 From Many States.

Canton, O., Oct. 11-Major Mckinley spent quiet Sunday. He was up bright and early, took short walk and attended church in the morning. In the afternoon, in company with Mrs. Mckinley, he went for drive and call ed up his mother. There were few callers at the Mckinley residence. Mu- rat Halstead and ex-Congressman Fin ley of Missouri, who have been here a few days, called to say good bye to Ma jor Mckinley before leaving for the west
 Congressman Boutelle, of Maine, who assisted Major Mckinley in yesterdays s reception, left for spesc making tour in the west last evening. Major Mc- Kinley said to-day that the labors of the week, which closed last night, had T feel we'll to-day" he remarked, "and expect to be in excellent condition to resume my campaign work tomorrow. I think the next two weeks will be full of activity, and I expect no rest until after the election"
 Major Mckinley heard a great deal of encouraging news from his callers yesterday and to-day. The Michigan people told him they were making great progress in their state and they ex- pected to carry it by a handsome plu- rality, though the democrats had not abandoned it, and were carrying on a vigorous fight in every county The news which reaches Canton from the south was of a particularly agreeable nature to the republicans. Major Me- Kinley's friends here now feel confident he will carry Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Kentucky. This week will be lively one. More than thirty delegations are already scheduled, and the list Is likely to be increased by the addition of dozen or fifteen more.
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SLAVERY IN AFRICA.
German Colonial Council Will Discuss It
 Next Week.

Berlin. Oct. 1.-The German colonial The program embraces discussion of the colonial budget and the questions of slavery and slave trading, the mili- tary obligations of settlers in southwest Africa, the training of colonial officials and the matter of penal procedure re- garding natives. Tn addition to discus sion of these questions the recent events in Zanzibar, including the mat ter of the removal from Zanzibar of the usurping sultan, Said Khalib, by a. German warship, will doubtless receive the attention of the meeting.
 The more extreme members of the colonial council regard the removal of Khalib to Dares Salam as an important score in favor of Germany and against Great Britain and are chuckling at the furious utterances of the English jingo press in regard to the incident. These extremists profess to regard the Said Khalfb affair as being fraught with most valuable results to Germany, and believe that something serious is immi- nent from the facts that the British warship St. George, the flagship of the Cape and West Africa station, which sailed southward from Zanzibar on Sep- tember "A, has been ordered to return to Zanzibar and the cruiser Gibraltar from Salonica has been ordered to join her. The Gibraltar Is now passing through the Suez Canal.
 Colonel Trotha, commanding the Ger TNo fx,.. had another engagement with the Wahle tribe, with the result that he has completely routed them, making a pris- oner of the Wahle chief and carrying him off to Dares Salam.
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DRIVEN ON A LEE SHORE
SCHOONER LUTHER 4. ROBEY WRECKED ON DELAWARE COAST.

Three of Her Crew Were Lost-Unable to
 Weather the Fierce Northeast Gale-Men
 Buffeted and SwirIed in the Soothing
 Waters-Gallant Work of the Life Savers
 Vessel Pounds to Pieces.
 Lews, Del, Oct. 11.-Schooner Luther A. Robey, from Claverie, N. S., con- signed to Souder & Co.,, Philadelphia, with plaster, came ashore at daybreak this morning in the heavy northeast gale below the point of Cape Henlopen and almost immediately went to pieces Three of the crew were lost and five saved. The drowned are: Harry Mill
 by, steward, of Middletown, Mass; Thomas Sines, seaman, of Boston, and Norwegian sailor
 The saved are: William H. Maloney, captain, of Boston, George w. Hopkins, mate, of Camden, Me; Edward Lewis, seaman, of Brickhaven, Va; Frederick Olsen and Alexander Melan, sailors. Since yesterday a fierce northeast gale has been blowing along the coast The life saving crews have been on the alert and all last night patrolled the beach on the lookout for vessels in dis tress. In the early dawn the schooner
 was seen driving towards the beach. The life savers hastened towards the spot she was heading for. but she struck before they came opposite to
 her. Before the crew could get their apparatus into working order the ves-
 sel pounded to pieces in the heavy surf
 The men aboard of her chung to what ever piece of wreckage they could
 grasp and struggled through the whirl- ing waters to the beach. Three of them
 never reached 1t, but the other five bruised and battered by the waves were drawn ashore by the life savers. The rescued men were taken to the Cape Henlopen life saving station, where they are being cared for. The wind blew a gale all to-day and every vessel in the harbor sought refuge be- hind the breakwater. Not a pilot-boat | ventured to sea. The bark Alice, which i was anchored mile west of the break | water, began to drag her anchor to- day, but two tugs went to her assist
 ance and lowed her to safe anchor | age in the harbor.
 1 The wind is blowing a fearful gale from the northeast tonight and the tide is piling up on the shore. It Is feared that at high water tonight the life saving station on the shore may be swept away.
 The Luther A. Robey was three | masted centerboard boat built at | Greenport, l.. l., in 1884. She was 150 | feet long, 351a feet beam and 15 feet depth of hold. Her hailing port was
 East Boston, where the managing own- CT, John M. Brooks, lives
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APANIC-sTRICKEN CROWD.
Fifty Thousand Persons Compressed With
 in the Space of Two Blocks.

Kansas City, Oct. Il The last night of carnival week" was almost marked
 by number of deaths, and as it was,
 number of persons suffered painful injuries.
 Fifty thousand people tried to squeeze into two blocks of space on Grand ave-
 nue, in the center of the city, to witt ness a mimic play at fire arranged by the fire department. The crush of peo- pie finally became terrific, and two sol- i'd walls of humanity found themselves wedged in by buildings on either side and pushed on against each other by crowds in the rear. Attempts of the police, headed by Chief Irwin, to clear
 the street only increased the terror.
 Women fainted by the score and were trampled on, children were held in the
 air to prevent their being killed, and
 men fought each other in their desper- ation. The widest confusion prevailed
 for half an hour, and only subsided when an extra detachment of police
 fairly beat back the crowds at the dif-
 ferent openings of the street and made a breathing space.
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KNELT IN SILENT PRAYER
IMPRESSIVE SCENE WROUGHT AT
 DWIGHT |. MOODY'S BIDDING.

Christians Invoke Divine Aid for Country's
 Welfare-Members Subscribe $11O,OOO
 for Work of Christian Missionary AL
 liance-Mr. Moody Discerns Danger in
 the Political Strife of the Day.
 New York, Oct 1.-The closing ser vices of the ninth annual convention of the Christian Missionary alliance, were held in Carnegie hall to-day.
 At the 10:30 a. m. service Rev. A. B. Simpson preached missionary sermon. He made a strong appeal for contri- buttons and s110,O00 was pledged by members. Additional sums were raised at the afternoon and evening sessions. Dwight L. Moody preached at the af- ternoon session.
 At the evening session MT. Moody asked those present to offer up silent prayer for the welfare of the country. Never since the war" said MT. Moody, "has the country needed the earnest support Of all Christians to pray for peace. The trouble that is springing up between the two political parties can not be seen so easily here in the east, but out in the west, where I have been twice during the past month, it is as- suming very alarming aspect"
 The audience knelt in silent prayer for few minutes. MT. Moody then delivered one of his popular addresses.
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TO THE COURT OF LAST RESORT.
will Colorado Republicans Go if Need Be
 for Justice.


 Denver, Oct. 1.-The case of the Me- Kinley electors who were thrown out by the secretary of state refusing to enter their names upon the official bal lot comes up In the supreme court to- morrow morning. If the secretary Is upheld an independent election will be held and the case will be thrown into the United States courts on the plea that the Mckinley convention was reg ularly organized, and the barring out of the electors would deprive regular republicans of their right to ballot.
 They hold that in declaring their in- tention to vote for the nominee of the St. Louis convention they are but rati- flying the action of that convention, while the silver republicans are bolters. The Mckinley republicans claim they will cast 67,0O0 votes and will insist up- on their privilege to vote for whom they please for president
 Chairman Hodge will carry their case through every court necessary to es- tablish their right as guaranteed by law, the case in this respect being sim- liar to the Tilden contest.
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enjoying the best of health. He at tended communion at the Hawarden church at 8 o'clock this morning and then returned to the castle, where he partook of breakfast with MT. Glad stone and his family. Later he walked through the park to attend morning service.
 The 'confession" was proceeding when he fell forward. It was at first thought that he had fit and that he would soon recover. The church at tendants removed the archbishop as quickly as possible, one of their num- Der in the meantime summoning phy- sicians.
 Dr. Benson was a member of the Athanaeum and Grillions clubs. In ad- dition to his archiepiscopal residence at Lambeth Palace he had a seat at Ad- dington Park, Croyden, Surrey.
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BOY oR4OLE,s ITINERARY.
Where He Will Crate Between Now and
 Election Day.

St. Paul, Minn., Oct 11.-William J. Bryan was up bright and early this morning to meet Mrs. Bryan on her ar- rival here from Lincoln and at Il o'clock they went to the Central Pres byterian church together and heard a sermon by Rev. Mr. Beattie of Man kato. The church was well filled with people who came to see the candidate and his wife. Most of the afternoon Mr. Bryan received callers, including Senator Watson of Washington, who bolted the St. Louis nominations and platform; Senator Tillman of South Carolina, who was passing through St. Paul; Ignatius Donnelly and Represen- tative Towne, who also abandoned the republican party and declared for MT. Bryan.
 Mir Towne has a hot fight on his hands in the Duluth congressional dis trict and MT. Bryan is going up there Tuesday to help him. A general out line of MT Bryan's program for the re- mainder of the campaign has been made out. It is as follows, subject to change:
 Minneapolis to Duluth, October 13; Wisconsin and the northern Michigan peninsula October IA, speaking at Mar quette in the evening; Marquette to Grand Rapids, October 15; Grand Rap ids to Lansing, October 16; Lansing
 to Detroit, October IT; Detroit, Sat urday night and Sunday; through Ohio,
 October 19 and 20; through Indiana. October 21 and 222; Illinois from Oc- tober B to October 30 going as far south as Cairo and spending the 18th, 29th and 30th in Chicago; leave Chi cago 1030, October 30, for Council
 Bluffs, la, and speaking there on the af- ternoon or night of the 31st; November 1, probably in Omaha; Monday night, November 2, will end the campaign somewhere in Nebraska, probably at
 Kearney; election day, Lincoln.
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OFF BAKER,S ISLAND REEF.
Schooner Alsatian Goes to Pieces-Her
 Crew Saved.

Gloucester, Mass, Oct. 11.-Schooner Alsatian, Bath, for Maine, capsized off
 Bakers Island reef this afternoon and is a total loss. According to Captain Oliver the Alsatian left Bath Saturday
 morning with a. moderate wind, but with indications of an approaching
 storm. At o'clock this morning when twelve miles northeast by east of Thatcher's Island the wind freshed and
 the sea increased so that the heavy swells shifted the deckload and opened
 the waterways. The vessel filled and
 became manageable.
 Attempt were made to get into Rock
 port and Salem. but as the sea was breaking over the waterlogged craft and the crew was lashed to the rigging, all that rould be done was to let the schooner drift before the wind and sea- She drifted near Thatcher's and nearly swamped while the crew was washed by the sea and rendered almost insensible. When near Bakers Island ledges the schooner was struck by a
 sea that carried away the mainmast, capsized the vessel and threw the men overheard.
 The men succeeded in grabbing 6 piece of wreckage that came from the
 deckload. In the meantime a fishing
 boat had arrived here and reported seeing waterlogged vessel some dis tance off Eastern Point, but owing to
 the heavy gale the fishermen could not
 go to her assistance. Captain George l.. Young, of steamer Helen May But Ter, was notified and immediately start ed to the vessels assistance. Upon overtaking the wrecked sailors Captain Young and Steward Anderson manned
 a boat and put off to the assistance of the now nearly exhausted men. With
 great difficulty and just as the men were sinking they were hauled into the boat.
 Two of the shipwrecked men were un- conscious, but soon recovered. Owing to the heavy storm that was raging the rescue was an heroic act. Captain Young and his steward nearly sacrificed their own lives, as the boat nearly fill ed three times before the shipwrecked
 men were got on board the steamer. The Alsatian measured sixty-nine tons was built in Georgetown, Me, in
 1882, and was manned by Captain J. R. Oliver and three men, and her cargo was consigned to W. R. Chester & Co.,,
 Boston. It Is not known whether there
 Is any insurance on vessel or cargo.