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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30
SANCTUM SENTIMENTS.

While Bailey in a Mother Hub
bard is Juggling at one end of the
Democratic donkey and McMillin,
clad in spike tail, is pulling at the
other end, Richardson, in q very
slick cutaway is preparing to cinch
his saddle on the animals back. II
he ever succeeds in riding it into the
speakership, however, it will only
be after deal of bucking.-Chatta-
nooga News.
Possibly that airship is only Col
Arch Hughes rain-making appara-
tus looking for a dry spot to rain
on.-Commercial Appeal.
Nobody has objected to the Jarvis
bill but the taX-eaters. Shall their
wishes be paramount to the bur-
dened tax-payers?-Knoxville Sen
tinel.
The Nashville Banner seems to
think that there is but little in
William ]. Bryan; still it devotes
more space to detract from him
than almost any other subject. II
there is so little in him, why have
so much to say about him?-Lynn-
vile Reporter.
1t is currently reported in politi cal
circles that Grover Cleveland will
be nominated for President by the
Republican party in 1900. If he is,
how would Josiah do for the tail OF
the ticket?-Bristol Times.
Senator Hanna should hasten to
place few more bags of "dust" in
the crevasses that have appeared in
his Senatorial levees in Ohio. The
political tide is already above the
danger line.-Athens Post.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30

The eyes of the country have been
directed this week to the ceremonies
attendant upon the dedication of the
Grant monument in New York.
Grant had his strong points, and we
would not detract from the glory he
leaves behind. But if ever a man
had greatness thrust upon him, it
was this same Ulysses S. Grant. He
was but a pigmy as compared with
Lee or Lincoln, and many greater
man than Grant died in the ranks,
not unwept perhaps, and not dis
honored, but yet unsung.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30
mcKennun, Anderson & Foster.
Pretty enough to dream about

are these newly fresh dainty Organizes, Lappet
Muls, ETC. We've simply gathered the waysde beauties,
the exocs from the world of wash goods and they
are here for your choosing.
SOME NEW POLKA SPOTS in reds and Hello
They Lappe Muls, and the price is I5c the yard
MAY DAY shoe happening for Saturday, May 1st.
FIFTY PAIRS of ladies black dongola kid Oxfords,
sizes but there several kinds the lot and some
of the not the shapes that ordering to-day
They good slightly shoes however, and best
$1.5o $500 values Satuday MayISt choice 98c pair
TWO AND ONE-HALF DOZEN PAIRS children's
tan lace shoes, sizes 49, and of them made
for small boys The prices $5o and $500 the pair
Saturday, May Ist, 6Oc the bair
ONE-HALF DOZEN PAIRS ONLY, ladies kid shoes,
all size and all with heels They've been here for many
day, and plump $500 shoes. Satuyday 25c
b1iy
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
An Int resting Meeting Held-severs
Good Addresses Made.

An Int, resting Meeting Held-several
Good Addresses Made.
The Maury County Horticultural
Society met in the Office of John L.
Jones, Esq, on Friday, April 23d.
Not as many members were present
as it would seem there ought to have
been, but interest and enthusiasm
were above the average.
Or. Chrisholm and e. Yoest re-
ported the prospects good for grape
crop. Though frost had done
damage in other places, none had
been done here yet.
Mr.. Rainey said that the straw
berries that survived last summer S
drOuth were promising fine crop
He had berries six days earlier
this year Than last. The native
plants, he said, stood the drouth
much better than plants brought
from other states. Timbrell. Ten
nessee Prolific and Woolverton
plants nearly all died, while Candy
stood better, and Bubach seemed to
be the best for long dry spells.
e. Yoest said he was a "crank" on
Keller pears, and that he was grow
ing Keifer's on a large scale. A
tree in his yard has borne six crops
and has been set but ten years. The
tree bore AZ bushels in 1895 and AZ
bushels in 1896. and is now loaded.
LIE Conte on the same ground has
yielded but one crop, and the bios
SONS are all now killed. Why the
blossoms on one tree should be
killed by the frost and those of
another variety under the same con-
ditions were not hurt, was discussed
to the profit of every member pres
ent. One member said that one
point he got on that subject was
worth the day to him, and he is d
man whose time is worth money.
Apples were reported as giving
promise of an abundant crop, while
early peaches seem to be badly hurt
by frost.
The following officers were elected
for one year: President, Horace
Rainey; Vice. President, 3. w. War.
field; Secretary, r. A. Spellman.
John L. Jones and w. e. Vaughan
were added to the membership.
Messrs. Rainey, Sowell and Nc
Cav were made a committee tt
provide hall and other necessaries
for strawberry exhibit, to be given
about May 10Th. The public is in
vited to this display, and we
promise to make it worth your
while to spend the time with us
Bring your wife and daughters, sis
tiers and sweethearts, and see the
luscious berries and learn how to
grow them.
The Society has had quite rest
butts now planning for some hare
work. II you are member and de
not need the counsel of other mem
bers, it is certainly your duty tt
meet with us and give us the benefit
of your counsel. If you are not 4
member and are interested in the
Egrowing of fruit, vegetables, etc.
you cannot afford to miss these
meetings. No initiation fee i
charged, and the running expenses
are next to nothing. Come, go witt
US, and we will do you good.
r. A. SPELLMAN,
| ,asss Secretary.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30
A BATTLE HYMN FOR GREECE.

God help thee, Greece, and nerve thee
on
To strike the blow of Marathon
To die, but meier from Turk to flee
Remember old Thermopyl@!
The skies that now thy banners kiss
Smiled once on grimwalled Salamis,
The light that saw Arbela won
Is yet for thee the only suns
Rouse, we Greeks, and dare to be
Sons of old ThermOpyl@l
God help thee, Greece, and steel the
blow
That brings the Moslem butcher low !
Small tho thy arm, God yet doth reign
And Freedom never fought in vain.
What glory gilds your land and sky
If slaves We live and slaves we die?
What honor haunts your deeds long
past
If these brave deeds have been your
last?
Stand, We Greeks and dare to be
Sons of old Thermopyl@!
JOHN TRoTwooD MOORE.
*"There cannot be two suns in heaven
said Alexandra to the peace ambassadors of
Darius just before he routed that despots
forces on the plains of Arbela.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30

The reason given by those men,
bers of the County Court with whom
we have talked who favor the bond
issue, is that that is the only way
they can get the debt gradually paid
off; that the other magistra tes are
naturally extravagant and just will
not economic unless they have to.
1t is not considered by any of them
to be real good thing in itself, but
more as last resort to restrain the
extravaganza of the other fellow.
That is always the way with County
Courts and Legislatures and Con-
crosses; it is never the individual
himself but the other fellow who
does the wrong; the individual
would always economic and never
vote any per diem to himself, if II
wasn't for the other fellow. But ii
occurs to US, and we humbly beg ia
suggest 1t to the aforesaid econo-
mists, that If they have majority
sufficient to vote a $4,000 bond is.
sue through the Court, they might
use that same majority to defeat the
extravaganza appropriations of the
other fellows. And II they cannot
do that, then what is to prevent the
other fellows, after the bonds are
issued and the taxes raised to annu-
ally retire one of them, from repeat
ing in the next tenyears the history
of the past ten years, and accumula'
ting another $4,000 floating debit
And if they should, then we would
like to ask this conun6rum: If the
good county of Maury-or rather tn,
taxpayers thereof-are in debt $50,
900, and issue bonds for the same
and retire one $4,000 bond ever!
year, and those other extravagan
fellows increase the warrant or float
ing debt $1,000 every year, how lonl
will it take the county to get out o
debt?
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30
MCKennon, Anderson & Foster.
A. N. Akin,s House Burned.

The residence of Mr.. A. N. Akin,
situated on the Mt. Pleasant pike,
about mile aud half from town,
caught fire last Saturday morning
about o'clock, and was burned to
the ground. All of the family were
away from home at the time, but
fortunately the fire was discovered
by the neighbors in time to save
nearly all the household furniture
on the first floor and some on the
second floor. The fire originated
in an upstairs room occupied by
Mr.. Conner Akin, but how it
caught is not known. The house
was insured for $4,000 and the
furniture for 81, 900. Few men have
more friends to condole with him,
than Maury's popular Clerk and
Master, Nick Akin.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30
Attention, Company F.

All the members of Company f,
LIST Tennessee cavalry, are cordially
invited to attend the reunion of the
soldiers of the G. S. A., to be held in
Nashville June %, 90 and "a, by w.
Il. Hardison, a member of Company
F., who says he will see that all of
the company who attend shall be
cared for as to eating and sleeping
and when Tom Harrison says that
you know what he means, for he
was as true a soldier as ever MARCHES
to the tune of Dixie"
w. IT. MITCHELL, O. s.,
Co. F, lst Tenn, Cav.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30
PERFECTION Is THEIR AIM.
Columbia Mill and Elevator Company
VIII Overhaul Their Plant.

Columbia Mill and Elevator Company
VIII Overhaul Their Plant.
The Columbia Mill and Elevator
Company have placed a contract
with the Edw. P. Allis Company of
Milwaukee to thoroughly overhaul
their entire plant and to replace the
whole line of boiling machinery
with the complete Universal
Bolter" system. This is the latest,
most improved system known to
milling and is a distinctive advance
In this art, producing the highest
possible grade of -four that can be
manufactured. The most advanced
machines of use in milling will be
placed throughout the plant, giving
to this company the advan tage of
arriving at results in their flour as
near perfection as can be made.
The name of the builders, Allis, is
synonymous with perfection in mill
machinery. Young, energetic and
enterprising, Messrs. Mckinney &
Dale deserve the success with which
they have met, and we hope their
further efforts will likewise be re-
warded.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30

THERE Is some talk of Colu mbia
engaging two extra policemen to
serve at night while the Nashville
Centennial lasts, thinking perhaps
the buns, burglars and pickpockets
may conclude to visit out this way.
Two extra men for six months
would be 5000. We think the tax
payers might be saved this by a liz
tie extra vigilance upon the part of
the present force. These are times
when no appropriations should be
made unless actually needed.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30

WE submit to the honest, candi d
Judgment of the few enthusiastic
patriots who are still exhausting
their energies in behalf of Maury
County exhibit at the Nashville
Centennial, lift is not time they were
looking the question full in the face
and not on one side only. The HER
AID puts precious little value upon
exhibits at such places at best. 1t
is the least remunerative of all
kinds of advertising; and advertis-
ing, like everything else, can be
done judiciously or injudiciously.
But If county exhibit has any
effect whatever upon the crowd 8
Of sight-seers at such a show, then
the exhibit should be of that char
acter and magnitude as to reflect
credit upon the county it proposes
to represent. Now this kind of ex-
hibit cannot be sent up from Maury,
for the simple reason that the people
don't want it, won't have it, aud
cannot be cajoled into it. And that
being so, a one-horse snide exhibit,
proposing to represent the great
county of Maury, would be i'm
measurably worse than none. What
cannot be well done, had better not
be done at all. II Maury County
cannot be properly represented, it
had better not be represented at all (;
and those who would misrepresent
itby an exhibit contemplate in COM
parison with the wealth, the pro.
auctions and the magnificent re-
sources of the county, are not its
best friends or safest business ad-
visors. 1t would perhaps be well
enough to send some of our stock
and cattle to the stock and cattle
rings; and to send samples of our
phosphate to the mineral depart
ment; and if the old soldiers wish
to meet there on a given day, that
is all right; and of course there is
no objection to the ladies fixing up
room and decorating it with heir
looms and all that sort of thing just
for fun if they choose; but when il
comes to offering an exhibit in the
name of and to represent Manry
County, then that is a different
thing, and smacks more or less OF
business, and ought not to be done
at all, unless it is done right.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30
LIVE STOCK NOTES.

Vaughan & Alexander shipped a
load of hogs and sheep to Louisville
this week.
Mr.. H. E. Hatcher, of Dawson
Ca, was here this week buying
horses, and succeeded in getting up
a load. Harlan Bros. & Parks sold
him three harness horses.
w. j. Moore sold a pair If mules
to Mr.. Wiltshire, of Mt. Pleasant,
this week.
Mr.. w. P. Woodbridge shipped two
fine mares to John Splann, of Chi
cage, last week.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30
HENRI AND GROVER.

Henri and Grover have fahen out.
Or, rather, the wind has changed,
and Henri, you know, is variable as
the wind. 1t comes from a mis-
carriage from Growers mouth at the
recent meeting of the Reform Club
in New York. There were gathered
there Palmer, Buckner, Cleveland,
Carlisle, and several other old stiffs,
and after Cleveland had looked too
long upon the wine when it was red
in the cup, he unlimbered his tongue
and talked.
He unbosomed himself; and next
to the catastrophe of disemboweling,
there be nothing equal to the bile
long pent up in his portentous
bosom. He spared no party or peo-
pie, save and alone those select few
who as present company were ex-
cepted. What he did to the old
parties, was plenty, and it was
dead easy to see that he was the
only man left from the wreck and
ruin who might yet save the coun-
try.
Henri had his one eye on the out
look, and Immediately tackled.
Whether he wished to reserve the
empty honor of leading the stiffs
for himself or his friend, John
Carlisle, we trow not; but certain it
is he is not for Grover. Henri
scents the danger from afar. 1t is a
way he has. He did it in the late
rebellion; and on that occasion the
more he scented it the further he
got. Likewise when he scented the
political skirmish of '96, be left fol
foreign ports, and from there he
shifted the atmosphere and blew his
bugle across the seas.
On this occasion he sees meeting
"of the personal following of Mr.
Cleveland" whose purpose is "hi:
nomination in $1,000" And he calls
Cleveland names; such as "tht
veritable Old Man of the Mountains
And proceeds as follows: HE il
with us only for what it will bring
him. All his life an office-seekel
and an office holder, he differs from
the riff-raff of his class only in hi
high pretensions and profounC
duplicity." Think of that! Surely
Henri must have been reading tn,
HERALD. But hear him on: "H'
hopes in the hurly-burly of affair
to force himself first upon the party
and then upon the country as tn
representative Of clean politics ant
public order. He represents neither
He represents only his own lust TO
office"
Thus and a deal more does Col
Watterson say, which goes to prov
what the HERALD has said before
that even those who used Cleveland
and bribed him to betray his part!
and his country, have no respect 70
him, and now no further use, ant
consider him as "a death's-head a
the feast"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30
HE CHOSE TIE LAKE.
Was That or the fenitentiary, He
Said.

Was That or the renitentiary, He
CHICAGO, April 27.-"Itis disgrace
and the penitentiary or the lake,
and l have chosen the latter" wrote
John s. Sheldon, the leading banker
of Lodi, ILL.,, to his confidential
friend and attorney, John II. Moi
fat. The receipt of the letter in
Paxton, ILL.,, where Moffat lives, was
followed to-day by the closing of
the leading bank of Lodi, the assign
ment of four leading business firms
and individual assignments by as
many of the leading citizens of the
town.
In addition it is said that Banker
,Sheldon's financial troubles involve
the funds belonging to the school
trustees of Lodi township, and that
trust estates involving between
100000 and $250,000 went down in
the general crash.
The financial wreck which brought
Sheldon to this end was precipitated
by the demands of the Sheldon
estate in Chicago for 100000. Shell
don was unable to meet the demand
upon him, came to Chicago and
wrote a twenty-page letter to his
confidential friend advising him
that he would take his life by Jump
ing into Lake Michigan and in
dicating the best line of procedure
in closing up his own involved
estate
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30

Saving of Time, Patience and Money by coming
here for ourready-made Clothes and much wider seec-
ton choose from No if it's boys big or little; or
mems, young DID, We sell clothes just like we sell dry
goodsbetter than most others. And it's the way with
Shoes and it's the way with mems white and coored
neggee shirts And for that matter it's the same way all
over the store.
If you see it in our ad. it's so.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30
SUBSCRIPTIONS RATES:
F. D. LANDER. Editor.

THE agony is over. The Republi-
cans have at last elected their Sena-
tor from Kentucky, and his name is
Deboe. He was Bradley's entry,
which proclaims that Bradley is the
boss. Senator Blackburn's friends
have announced his candidacy for
1900 to succeed Senator Lindsay.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30
leigh \, DENTISTRY.

orally.
Having formed a partnership in
the practice of detistry, this is to
notify our friends and the general
public that we can both be found at
DR.. Sheppard's old stand, rooms 8,
5, Z and 8, Masonic Temple.
Respectfully,
w. @. SHEPPARD, D. d. S.
A. SIDNEY PAGE, d. ID. S.
Telephone No. l25.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30
Chancery Court.

Chancery Court adjourned last
Friday, after quite busy session.
Nothing of general interest to the
public was transacted during Thurs
day and Friday. A special term of
Chancery will be held on the first
Monday in August next.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30
Married in a Buggy.

LYNNvILLE, April 26.-T. Travis
Boyd and Miss Beulah Spivey drove
to the residence of Mayor r. NJ.
Bugg yesterday morning ats o CLOCK,
and they were married while seated
in the buggy.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30
Craig & Fisher

Are prepared to do any kind Of pillow
work. Have your steel points re-
pointed. We guarantee satisfaction
everytime. We can do any kind of
wood or iron work on farm imple-
ments. Shop on South Main street,
Columbia, Tenn. apr23-2t.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30

THE "Dlxie Hummer" a special
sent out from Chicago last Wednes-
day by the Times Herald, made the
distance to Nashville, 444 miles, in
eight hours and As minutes. This
breaks all records over the southern
lines
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30

OKLAHOMA was visited by a cloud
burst, flooding the country about
Guthrie, Ell Reno, and other places,
and destroying millions of dollars
worth of property. Some twenty or
thirty people were drowned.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30
DEATHS HARVEST.

The funeral services of Mrs. Lizzie
Reeves, whose death we noted in
last weeks paper, were conducted
at the residence last Friday after
noon at o'clock by Revs. d. c.
Kelley and w. d. Wendell, and the
remains were inferred in Rose Hill
Cemetery. The pall-bearers were
Messrs. w. A. Ruttle, e. D. Wilson,
w. d. Cameron, Jr., Herbert Guest
Evan Helm and Lee FoXall.
Mrs. Loula Pigg, wife of Mr.. JEFF
Pigg, died at her home on Snow
Creek, Tuesday morning at
o'clock, after long spell of sick.
ness. The funeral services were
conducted at the residence Wednes-
day morning at IL O'Clock by Rev
H. A. Gray. Deceased was the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
Daimwood, of the Bear Greek neigh.
borhood, and a husband and two
children survive her.
Mr.. Thomas Hunter died from
consumption Tuesday, April 81, at
the residence of Mrs. Anne Hack,
ney, in Nashville, in the Both yeal
of his age. The remains were
brought to Columbia Wednesday
morning and inferred in Rose Hill
Cemetery, the funeral services be.
ing conducted by Rev. w. A
Provine. Mr.. Hunter was valued
employee of the Southern EXPIRES,
Company, and formerly lived in Co.
lumbia. He has a number of rela
tives and a large circle of friends
here who deeply deplore his death.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30

THE Turks are overpowering the
Greeks, even more easily than was
expected, and the war will not last
much longer.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30

ee it in our ad. it's so.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-11-19

The London press, or rather an impor.
tant segment of ii. Is still harping on
Cuba and the United States. The Even.
ing News, the Globe and the st. James
Gazette are merely the tail of the kite
which Is composed OF the big London
dailies. such as the Times, the Tele.
graph. the Standard and the Chronicle
What they say or do not say, therefore,
Is comparatively unimportant az re.
speeding their influence on English
opinion. But straw may show In
what direction the wind is blowing and
these London straws indicate that az
present England is feeling somewhat
sore IN regards this country. The Ven
ezuelan incident and the Sherman let
ter still rankle and the undignified pOr
ton Of the press Is undiplomatic enough
to disclose where the shoe pinches. The
st. James Gazette. after discussing a
schoolboy hypothesis In schoolboy
manner as to what the United States
may. might. would or could do In re-
gard to Jamaica. hints of a possible CO.
alition OF England. France, Spain and
Holland to protect their West Indian
possessions and then concludes, very
satisfactorily to itself: I'VE rather fan
cy that for time ut least the United
States will he content with bullying
poor little Spain" Possibly the United
States would, II 1t were In the bullying
business. but when II does 20 into that
sort of thing 1t usually takes one Of it's
size, AZ In that little Venezuelan mat
ter The United States has not bullied
Spain and has no thought Of bullying 1t.
In the meantime. the London Chronicle,
commenting upon the outcome Of the
Greco Turkish treaty. holds England
responsible for what 1t says will be the
disappearance Of an independent, CIV
ilized. Christian nation. whose one
crime was that she set herself single
handed to do Europe's dirty work and
failed" England has not made such a
success OF her interference In Crete
that she should seek to interfere In
Cuba.