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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

TALLY engaged the fort. The scene
was indeed grand and terrific as
viewed from the top of a stump on
the hill near where our regiment
was posted. My meditations were
suddenly cut short by a volley of
musketry from the enemy who had
crept up near under cover of the
bushes. Each man Immediately
sought his post, but the enemy's on
ly object was to annoy and prevent
us from reinforcing the right, with
out making a determined attack.
Three regiments of the enemy sue
ceeded in getting in the rifle pits
near the river previously occupied
by Col. Hanson of the End KY, be-
fore he got back from the left.
The enemy's loss was very heavy,
reported by their papers to be over
ten thousand killed and wounded.
Our loss was go killed, 1850 wounded.
Night closed on hard days fight
of twelve hours, from sunup 10 sun
down. The fitful glare of the moon
from behind the clouds shohe Upon
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

flippant jokes about the purity of men
and women are small in their way, but
the end is an unclean mind and an un'
clean mind in old age is one of the most
woe-begone, unworthily-developed, and
unsatisfactory products of human life
that you can possibly meet. So wrench
and tug at the things that universal ex-
perience says are noXious, and not good
for mental food-wrench and tug and
out with them, however much it may
hurt! The end, in this case will justify
the means.
~
One more lesson from the fed, scarce
ly related to the above and yet useful
dignity of living, The grain of the
present fields has, under cultivation
advanced somewhat upon the grain of
the ancients. Its needs are better I'M
derstood, etc. Yet its possibilities for
improvement are only slight. But
what about human being, yourself for
instance? When maize was already
maize, and the beaver already built it's
dam, your ancestors and mine were saw
ages dwelling in caves. The seed and
the beast are still the same, but man is
monarch of earth, is assulting the air
and is bombarding the heavens with
his scientific instruments. Look at Ma
ture around for many lessons, but look
at man and his attachments to be
thrilled with the glories of humanity
To think that the little cooling infant,
personally just as ignorant as and more
feeble than the cooling infant of the
early ages, can so drink in the accumu-
lated wisdom of all time, that a few
years study enables him TO start where
| the great before him have left off-as-
tronOmy in relation to Newton for in
stance-will make you marvel that any
should speak unworthily of our race,
or draw back from share in its deeds.
1t Is above the rest of animated nature.
Where animals combine for defence,
always in the same way for ages past, we
move forward into new combinations,
undreamed of by our ancestors but pos
sible by their own leadings in that di-
rection; where animals show skill in all
the details of their work, we show
greater as time passes and leap onward
from pinnacle to pinnacle of ability Till
the present day dawned. While the
race lasts, the same growth will go on il
the same conditions are complied with
The gains of the past fill us with won
derment and then comes the longing
for these eyes to see what the eyes o
our children's children shall behold in
their old age. The heart reels in con
temptation.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15
Can't Put Him in a Hole.

After giving a few true facts con-
corning one Richmond Pearson, last
week, we were not quite sure as to
whether we would be allowed to
live in this beautiful country, to
breathe the invigorating ozone and
be caressed by the gentle zephyrs-
but with the exception of his
"heelers" making feeble attempt
to put us in the nine-hole," we are
still here, and by the grace of God
and old hand-press, will continue to
greet you once a week. A first
class paper, entered as second-class
matter, in a fourth-class post-office,
in district represented by a fifth
class congressman is hard to down.
-Pittsboro IN, c. Register.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

THAT man Bryan" was in Nash
vile last Friday. The defeated can
didate; the private citizen; the Pop
ulite whose personal popularity is
on the wane; the represen tative of
cause fast dying out; ETC., ETC., etc.
He was there and so were the peO-
pie. Twice as many as went to see
and hear and shake hands with
President Mckinley when he was
there. Ten times as many as has
been or can be attracted by any
other private citizen. Isn't it
strange how the people will flock by
the thousands and stand for hours
men and women-to hear man,
who, as some Of his enemies put it,
lean talk longer and say less than
any man on the road?" Isn't it
strange, that though the Courier
Journal publishes his obituary and
buries his cause every day in the
week and Sunday too, that the peO-
pie just won't believe it, but keep on
travelling miles to hear him, and
catch the craze anew every time
they hear him? Isn't it strange that
this man Bryan can come into Ten
nessee and attract more people to
hear him, than all the public men Of
this state, billed for the same plat
form, combined? Isn't it strange
that he can go into Ohio and draw
larger crowds than Mckinley, with
all his popularity and the prestige of
his office? And isn't it stranger still
that with all these indisputable evil
dences of the mans power and popu-
larity, the little two-by-four would
be critic will chirp with all the con-
fidence of ignorance that Bryan
and the silver issue are fast dying
out?" We devote the major part of
our first page to Mr.. Bryan's Nash
vile speech. 1t is the keynote to
the campaign for 1900; and those
who father the wish with the
thought that Bryan, with his match
less magnetism, will be sidetracked
"for eXpediency" sake, and that the
living issue of bimetallism, with the
free coinage of silver and gold atthe
ratio of Is to l, will give place to
some cowardly makeshift, waiting
for the consent of nations that won't
consent, or some such fOlderol
should read this preface to a cam
paign for human rights and finan'
cial freedom, that will be memora
BILE through all the ages.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15
a III .Ex.

All the clothing manufacturers have this notice printed
their biheads: Owing increased of both labor and
material, prices subject to advance without further
tce One manufacturer wrote us that ought to mark
the prices of clothes up, they worth e per
cent than when we bought them.
BUT WE'LL NOT DO IT. Not till we have to pay
higher prices shall you pay penny than old prices
Doing business this way is making clothing store ia
Great piles Of suits and at the least pr
ices ever known for good clothes.
PEOPLE wonder how sell all the lyle COL
lars made of pure linen each, and cuffs at 2oc
pair. No matter how. We and doing, it. It's
all you do find good cotton collar at this price
most stores.
If you it in ad. it's So y
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

THE surviving members of Com
pauy E., First Tennessee Cavalry,
will meet in Columbia on the first
Monday in next month, for the pur-
pose of organizing a society to help
each other in times of trouble and
distress. This is a move in the right
direction, and we hope the meeting
will be well attended. The Confed-
crate veterans have no government
to pension them, and the unfortu
nate ones in their ranks should be
looked after and cared for by those
more fortunate in this worlds goods.
These heroes, some of them weighted
with age, crippled with disease,
homeless and penniless, should not
be left to the struggle all by them
selves or to the cold charity of a
busy, thoughtless world. There
should be organizations through
which those so inclined may lend a
helping hand.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15
MCKennOn, Anderson & Foster.

the bloody field of Donelson where,
lying upon bed of snow with no
covering but the blue canopy of
heaven, were the dead and dying
SOutherners intermingled with the
Mortimer who were pressing an in
vasion upon US. The beleaguered
garrison of Donelson knew that they
were surrounded by greatly superb
or force, but the thought of wife,
mother, daughter, sister and fire.
sides being left to the mercies of
remorseless foe. caused them to fight
with a desperation scarcely ever
witnessed.
Shotgun regiments-b0 ys-would
charge the enemy armed with the
best implements of war and drive
them back like sheep. + he 18th Ill.
regiment went into the fight with
over seven hundred men and, as a
captain in the regiment st ated, came
out with only one hun dred and
sixty; his company going in with
gro.,g,,a1 +o Savaptb u oUal
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

In Columbia, Nashville and other
cities the christian citizenship is
rising in a mighty fight for good
government against the saloon,
gambling, etc. VIII thew do the
same in Lewisburg? Or will the
christian voters Of this town give
their support to candidates wh)
havn't the moral courage to antago-
nize these evils? 1t remains to be
seen .-Lewisburg Sentinel.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15
GarwOOd's Sarsapar1Ila-ror the blood
guaranteed to cure. A. B. RAINS.
Personals chilled From EXCHANGES,

Mrs. JnO. F. Warfield, of Column
bia, is visiting the families of
Messrs. G. w. Smith and w. B.
Smithson.-Miss Alleen Moore, of
Columbia, and Miss Minna Scruggs,
of Leighton, Ala, are guests of Mrs.
Will May.-Giles County Record.
Miss Cicely Kittrell, who has
been visiting friends in South Nash
vile, leaves this morning for her
home at COlumbia.-Nashville Sun.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15
LazineSS and EXtrayagancp,

We let our timber rot, and buy
fencing; we throw away our ashes
and grease, and buy soap; we raise
dogs, and buy hogs; we let our ma
nure go to waste; we raise weeds,
and buy vegetables and brooms; we
catch five-cent fish with four-dollar
rods; we build school houses, and
send our children off to be educated /;
and lastly, we send our boys out
with a forty-doIlar gun and a ten
dollar dog to hunt ten-cent birds.
Yes, times are hard.-EXchange.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

BRYAN spoke at Bowling Green,
Ky, Tuesday, to as large a crowd as
he addressed at Nashville. So it
seems that it was Bryan, and not
Buffalo Bill or the Centennial that
drew that crowd, sonny.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

MISS NELLIE ELY, who has the
honor of being the second lady in
the land to hold the title of Colonel,
having been appointed on Gov. Tay5
lor's staff, will be married to Hon.
T. Leigh Thompson, of Lewisburg,
on November IL.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

AN exchange says: 1.-THE edi-
torial page is the chief thing that
keeps journal above the level of a
purely commercial enterprise. The
mere selling of news is much like
the selling of potatoes. A news
paper without honest opinions, ably
and frankly expressed, is like body
without soul"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

THE Nashville Centennial will
close on the last day of this month.
In magnitude and beauty and in
terest it has been a success, but in
morals most lamentable failure.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

WE devote a page of this issue to
a synopsis of the able speech of
Hon. w. j. Bryan at Nashville last
Friday. Because of that demand
upon our space, several communica-
tions coming in late, are unavoid-
ably left out, and editorial com
ment is cut correspondingly short
this week.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

THE HERALD does not approve of
betting, and we hope there will not
be much of it in this or any other
campaign. But as an item of news
it may not be improper to remark
that odds of two to one are offered
that Figuers will be Columbia's
next Mayor.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

"THAT man Bryan" you know,
draws crowds everywhere he goes.
No larger at Nashville than the
average. He is kept going all the
while, accepting invitations to
speak; and the people, they do
follow him. He will be President,
some of these days.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15
Cheapest Line off,
School Books, School Supplies,
Baskets, SatrhelS, etc., etc.

Wall Paper, csc, O4c, O5c, etc.
Bibles zoe; TeStdmentS 0jc.
Big reduction IN HdmmOcks.
Biggest Tablet IN TOUn O5c.
mayl4 A. d. FRIERSON.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

GROVER CLEVELAND is writing a
book. His enemies will have him
in hole then, sure enough.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15
SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
BY "NEMo."

BY MEMO.
To YOUTH OF BOTH SEXES:-Come
now, let Fancy lead us over the fields,
barred of their crops. 1t is a human
privilege to think, and we do not half
live unless we live in order to think, and
most of us will not half live unless we
think in order to live. With this slight
depression let us turn to the bare fields.
One thought atleast we must take away.
The winter is to me type of old age, for
then do people live on the crops gathered
in autumn after summer of attention
following a spring of seeding. That is
old age exactly-a time for feeding on
the stores of memory. Little food in
winter means much hunger, cold and
suffering. Little of wise, kind, noble
action and thought to look back upon,
means an old age of nagging regrets,
empty hands, and shrunken, chilled
heart. Come now, there is no escaping
that conclusion. Every day is adding
to your store of old-age memories,
What are they to be? Firm grains on
which you can feed, or husks and off
scourings unfit for human being?
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

FOI Aldermen, First Ward,
JOHN A. CAKES.
EUGENE RITTER.
Second Ward,
II. j. REA,
w. A. RUTTLE.
Third Ward,
S. =. PAYNE,
JOHN CANT.
Fourth Ward,
w. d. CAMERON.
ALLEN POWELL.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

How often too the husbandman actu-
ally endangers the growing stalk to pull
away from its very roots weed that
would soon rob it of its nourishment,
He is cruel to be kind. He endangers
life to save it. Thus must you do, if you
would be wise and happy. Bad habits,
some of them not only unwise but posi-
lively injurious, cannot grow, entwined
around the good, without weakening
the good. Initiate the. husbandman's
ways and wrench them out, though the
doing of it shakes your very stability
for time. The good will ultimately
take stronger and better growth; never
fear about that.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

MULES are not only lower than
they were two months ago, but they
are lower than they were a year
ago. Cotton is off, and wheat, with
the aid of an unprecedented foreign
demand, brings something more
than last year, while the price of
labor and lands remain the same.
Callest thou this prosperity, Horatio?
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

VANDERBILT DAY at the Nash
vile Exposition was made the oc-
casion for triangular fight betwee n
Vanderbilt students, bar-maids and
guards. A proud day for Wander
bit! No more could be expected
from the beer guzzling Centennial
management. Nashville will yet
rue the day that it ever sold its
morals to an advertising fake.
The putrid stencil from immoral
germs sown by this Centennial
show, will infest Nashville's bust
ness circles and corrupt Nashville
society for generations yet to come.
What a curse to this country is the
idolatrous worship of the God of
Mammon.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

Yetno field is free entirely from weeds
We scarcely know how they come. Nor
can twenty years pass over our heads
in the spring-time of life without the
accumulation of mental weeds. The
chief thing is to recognize the difference
between them and the good growth and
then "Cultivate, cultivate, cultivate"
persistently covering the foul growths
so that they do not choke the good. You
have to be stern about such doings, for
you cannot possibly show me a food
plant that has anything like the vitality
Of a weed.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

The little weed looks so harmless at
first, but the wise man sees ahead and
knows the risks of uueleaa fields. The
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

FOR SORRIETY, GOOD MORALS AND
GOOD GOVERNMENT.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

Let us VENT on another thought:
You cannot name step in the whole
history of crop that is unimportant.
What about blowing? 1t must be sea-
sonably done and well. What about
fertilizing? Suited to the soil and the
crop. Sowing? Done with the best
available seed, And as for cultivating?
Life and vigor are only brought by APP
parently endangering both in the seed
ing. And so on, and so on your active
brains having already possibly outrun
me. Turn the thought on yourself! Why
should you venture in your spring-time
to endanger winter stores by letting the
happy years of joyous, wholesomeyouth
become mere catch-alls for amusements
and thoughts that later you would fain
forget The mind is so whimsical an
organ that those things we need to re-
call, often most easily escape us, and
the things that are of no gain to us we
most tenaciously remember.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

For Mayor.
II. p. FIGUERS.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15

CONTINUED to Seventh P age.)
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-10-15
Same Way in Wraps!

whether it be cloth or
plush cape, 26-inch jacket,
fur collarette, and many styles
of misses and children's coats.
And Fashions whim does
not say that you must use
either a cape or a jacket. You
are to use your own good
judgement and still be in style.
The evening times., 1897-08-07
LONG TRAMP OF AN ACTRESS.
Going on Foot From Wisconsin
Town to Bos ton.

Philadelphia, Aug. IA young ana
pretty woman. who said her name was
Mabel Crosby, told sad story or hard
snip to the police on Thursday night.
She said that she was an actress and was
making ner way to her home in Boston.
According 10 her story, she has had a
varied experience, although only twenty
five years old. She was born in Chicago,
and a. the age or nine years she ran away
from her parents and Joined the Anderson
Chicago Comedy Company. For -four yeaf-
venilc parts. AT the age OF thirteen years
she married a circus man and joined Fore-
paugh's show becoming bareback ride'
and rope walker. After four years or
circus life she was engaged by a company
playing "Uncle Toms Cabin" with which
shc remained for one and one-half years.
TWO years ago her husband died anG
later she was engaged by a comedy coIn-
pdny travelling through Western dties
Some time ago the company was strand
ed in Cfelsea, Wis, and the woman says
she was robbed of her wages.
As her two children were living in Pcs
ton she determined TO 20 there. and as
she had no ether means, she started on
the long tramp. She begged her meals
and lodging oil the way.
Mabels failing is smoking, and she
pulled vigorously on pipe while telling
her story. The poliremen took up a col
lection for her airl she continued her jour
ney toward Reston.
The evening times., 1897-08-07

Mr.. John W. Foster, the gentleman who re-
Gently was accused by a New York paper OF
having once been Secretary of the Treasury,
which he never was, has hied himself back
from Europa's smiling shores. loaded to
the guard with Bering Sea and pelagic
sealing outrages. Mr.. Foster viii have
much to occupy his diplomatic and ceTe-
bral attention. He must prepare himself
TO treat the grave issue of the sea dogs ut
Flibylov with that degree of legal acumen
and biological grandeur which those who
regard him as one of Americas foremost
statesmen, diplomats and jurisconsults
expect at his hands. Also he viii be likely
to indulge in some effort to meet the now
famous Elliott letters, which are not much
more vitrlolc than were those OF the mys-
teIious Junius. AS our readers know, Prof.
Elliott is reported TO have written in ef-
feet that Envoy Foster knows rather less
about seals than he does about saw horses,
and that he could not distinguish between
pelagic sealing and pedagogic feeling, If
he were to meet them both at the same
time o Ut at Cabin John. On the other hand,
NT. Foster is frank enough to say that
everyday knows the professors status,
and his own-snd that ought to settle it,
The evening times., 1897-08-07
SILVER DREAMS REALIZED.
Fruitful Result of Obeying "a WIS.,
Ions Comnands.

Kingston, y. Y, Aug. 7.-Michael Helm
nechel, ever since ha began reatdin Z OF the
big finds in the Klondike region, has been
anxious to get there. Within the last fort
night his mind became so absorbed with
the topic that nightly he would dream OF
mining In Alaska and fl nding big nuggets.
He says a foIm appeared and comma nded
him: Dig deep into the ground near the
big stump, and you will find silver. but
not gold
Heinnechel in the fnorni ng quietly took Il
shovel, went into the woods near his home
and began to dig about the stump Soon
the shovel struck d rock, which, when re-
moved, revealed an uaken chest crumbled
with decay. Within the chest was a large
silver urn, quantity engraved with an unde-
ciphcrable inscription and tarnished will
decay.
Ii is believed the urn was owned by some
rich Lurgcmaster, who for safety buried 1t
when the British looted all the houses here
during the burning of Kingston.
The evening times., 1897-08-07
PEOPLE OUT OF TOWN.

DR.. NJ. NJ urtie, Of the Navy, is at Atlantic
City.
Mrs. Loring tnee Latrohel, of Washington,
is spending the summer. at Buena Vista
Springs.
Miss Bette Webster is spending some
time at the Cottage of Mrs. Mary Dorsey, at
Washington Grove,
Among the guests at Long Branch are
Miss Nora Clifford, Miss sZella Clifford, Mfr.
and Mrs. j. H. Hammond and Mrs. U. T
Whalen.
The French ambassador and Mrs Pate
notre have arrived at Newport, where they
are the guests of Slr and Mrs. Calvin s..
Brioe at Beaulieu.
Among well known Washingtonians at
wicomico Heights, Nd, are Mrs Cartha F..
Miller, Miss Catherine Miller, Mr. aud Mrs
F. B. Franklin and Miss Rennie Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Monroe, of Baltimore,
who have been the guests Of Mrs. NJ. E.
Pearson, OF Sixteenth street, left for home
yesterday, accompanied by Miss Kate
Pearson. who wills remain In Baltimore
until the middle ofgAug1st, when she Will
visit relatives at Towsentown, Nd.
The evening times., 1897-08-07

Strike leaders in Pennsylvania contem-
plate a Coxey movement against the op-
orators Of westmoreland county. They ex
pect to mobilize 5000 men and keep them
marching and camping over the territory.
at De Armitt's Turtle Creek mines a mon
ster meeting was held yesterday, attended
also by the striking puddlers from Nc
Keesport. The proceedings began with a
grand parade OF strikers, farmers and citi-
zens. 1t is reported that all classes OF
population in the Pittsburg district, with
few exceptions, are in active sympat thy
with the strike.
The evening times., 1897-08-07
Circulation Statement
WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST Z

The comparatively cool nights and early
mornings CT Washington August, like
love In the Little Tycoon, ''come like q
summer breeze to refriger ate the per
spring brows of people who are tired Of
occupying their Newport or Nahant cot
tages, and prefer TO stay at home during
the heated term, awaiting the advent OF
the gay winter season at st. Augustine or
Monte Carlo. There is pleasure, never
theless, in learning how their less fortu-
nate neignbors are managing to get along
In sad exile to remote shores and wood
lands. Imprimis, we are always delighted
Go read the American Court Circular each
momjne redolent OF the daily walk and
conversation of our imperial family, not
Go mention Porter, and the War Secretary.
IL also is comforting to know that the
Twentyfirst Infantry, field, staff, band
and drum corps, is always on hand TO give
them music, amusement and protection.