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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09
Telephones for Farmers.

Since the cost of telephones has
been so greatly reduced the larger
farmers in the more prosperous agri-
cultural sections of the country ar"
availing themselves of this great
modern convenience. An instance
in point is furnished by Maury
County in this state, where a citi-
zens' company furnishes telephones
to its subscribers at $l2 year.
Within the last few months the
list has grown until more than $50
households and business firms are
supplied with the means of direct
and immediate communication with
each other. A very large proportion
of this number consists of farmers
living within a radius of fifteen
miles of Columbia, the county seat.
Everybody knows what a great
saving of time, trouble and expense
the telephone exchanges are to the
people of the towns and cities, and
it is easily apparent that the saving
is immensely greater to the farmers
separated by vastly greater distan-
ces from each other and from the
centers of business. Most of the
business which they have to transact
with their merchants, bankers and
their neighbors generally can be
done as well by telephone as by GO
ing in person to those with whom
they have dealings. They are thus
enabled to save a great deal of time
which they would otherwise be com
PEELED to spend away from home to
the neglect of their work. They are
kept in immediate communication
with the markets and with the af-
fairs of the outside world in general
In social way, also, it is Of great
benefit to themselves and families
and serves in large measure to re,
lieve the dullness and lnonotony of
farm life, which is its greatest draw.
back to the young people. Wher
the farmer and his household can
thus have means of keeping theiI
ears against the very heart throbs Of
the active, progressive outside world
they lose in large measure that sense
of isolation which is so oppressive
to those who have strong social in
clinations. AS an educator, also, il
opens up great possibilities. Indeed
it seems certain that the cheap tele'
phone is destined to solve many o.
the most perpleXing problems of how
to make farm life pleasant and prof
table.--Chattanooga News.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09
SANCTUM SENTIMENTS.

That "will-o'- '-the-wisp" that down
ed Josiah Patterson and Jos. Wash
ington put two bright young patriots
in the Congress of the United States
to battle for the rights of constituent
cies formerly misrepresented. We
refer to the Hons. E. w. Carmack
and John Wesley Gains.-McMinn-
vile New Era.
With prize fighters glorified as he
rOes, and the secular press inocula-
ting myriads with the prize-fight
spirit, combined with the influence
of brewers and winebibbers, who die
tate and make our laws, we are in a
fair way to lose sight of civic right
eousness. Nothing but strong faith
in God and close and patient watch
ing of our households can save us
from the flood of ungodliness that
now threatens. Truth, we believe,
will finally triumph, but alas in the
conflict many will go down to rise no
more.--Christian Advocate.
The H. Clay Evans band wagon
has at last reached its destination
Philadelphia North American.
The date of the arrival of pros
perity has been changed from March
4th till it gets here,-Murfreesboro
news.
The Dingley tariff will so heavily
increase the burdens of the working
people that they will cry aloud fol
relief, and it is by this means that
the republican congress hopes tC
divert the minds of the masses from
the money question. But while the
kick against increased taxes will be
a vigorous one, the working people
will not lose sight of the fact thai
the present financial policy of the
government is grinding out their
very life blood.-McMinnville New
Era.
During Congressman Carmack's
brief and brietless career as al
amateur lawyer, some of his numer.
Gus friends had him elected justice
of the peace at Columbia, and he
got even by having a hushel of fur
out Of the county court. On one oc.
casion he presented to the court
resolution setting forth the often
sively kid-gloved character of the
chancery court and resolving thai
the county court declare the odious
tribunal abolished. So we'll did i
fall in with their own pIeiudice
and so ably did the young 'squir,
support his resolution that it wa
passed with great gesto by tn,
sOlons from the "deestricts." The
joke is still told at the expense o
Maury's Witena Gemonte, out i
the Estes fee bill passes it will b.
no joke to say that the Hamilton
county court can practically abolish
the chancery court.-Chattanoog,
| News
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

Tive shortest way to do many
things - to do only one thing at "A
tine.-B lrleigh.
Talk what you will of taste, my
friend, you will find two of face as
soon as of a mipd.-Pope.
A politician weakly and amiablv
in the right is no match for poll
tician tenaciously and pugnaciously
in the wrong.-Whipple.
We learn wisdom from failure
more than from success; we often
discover what will do by finding out
what will not do.-Smiles.
The excessive pleasure we feel in
talking of ourselves ought to max
us apprehensive that we afford little
to our auditors -Rochefouculd.
Resentment seems to have been
given us by nature for defense only
1T is the safeguard of justice, and
the security of innOcence.-Smith
Be mans vocation what it may,
his rule should be to do his duties
perfectly, to do the best he can, and
thus to make perpetual progress in
his art.-Channing.
[ suppose that people bred from
childhood to lean their backs against
the wall of the creed and the church
catechism, find it hard to sit up
straight on the Republican stool,
which obliges them to stiffen their
own backs.-Holmes
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09
GarwOOd's Sarsaparilla-for the blood
guaranteed to cure. A. B. RAINS.
ATHENEUM NOTES.

The Teachers Club held one of its
enjoyable meetings in the rectory
parlors last Friday evening. The
subject for the evening was "Short-
hand" which receiv ed ample justice
from Miss Shaub. Misses Bennett
and Chandler surprised the club
with a most delightful repast of
dainty delicacies.
The boarding pupils were sorely
disappointed at not being able to
attend the Glee Club, owing to the
incessant rain.
There will be a recital in the
study hall this afternoon, after roll
call. The selections will consist of
vocal and instrumental music and
elocution.
Miss Charlotte Henderson was
absent last Thursday and Friday
owing to the death of Mrs. ]. T
Harahan. She remained in Nash
vile until Monday morning.
Miss Ormagh Armstrong spent
Friday night with Athen@um
friends and attended the entertain
ment at the rectory.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09
Unexpected Application.

The fOur-year- daughter of a
prominent Baptist minister of Har-
lem, who has mastered the nursery
rhyme: IF at first you don't sue
ceed, try, try again." recently star
tied both her parents by totally
unexpected application of the lines,
says the New York Times. The hour
of little Mabel's departure to the
land of 'Bye-bye" had arrived, and
all arraYed in r., her beyribboned
"nightle,F the child came toddling
into the sitting room from the nur-
sery to say her prayer at mamma s
knee. 1t had been trying day in
the nursery, and nurse had had oc-
casion several times to call for assis-
tance in the management of the un-
ruly little miss. The child seemed
conscious of her fall from grace, and
it was with very sober face that
she came to ask forgiveness. Az
ter repeating the time-hOnored
Nov [ lay me down to Sleep" she
continued, as was her won't, "an''
now bod please bess mamma an
papa, an make me a dood girl
Here she pasued, and, with the seri-
BUSINESS which convulsed the other
members of the family and com
pletely won her mothers forgive
ness, she added; AN if at first
you don't succeed, try, try again ~
Boston Herald.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09
Don't Do II.

Bill Nye once said: "Do not at
tempt to cheat an editor out of Il
years subscription to his paper, or
any other sum. Cheat the minis ter,
cheat anybody and everybody, but
if you have any regard for fu ture
consequences, don't fool the editor
You will be put up for Office some
time. or want some public favor for
yourself or your friends, and when
your luck is thing of beauty, JOY
forever, the editor will open on you,
and knock your castles into a cooked
hat at the first fire. He'll sub due
you, and then you'll cuss your
stupidity for a drivelng idiot, go
hire some man to knock you down
and kick you for falling"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09
A Boys Essay OH Girls.

Girls is a queer kind of varmint.
Girls is the only thing that has their
own way every time. Girls is of
several thousand kinds, and some-
times one girl can be like several
thousand if she wants you to do any
thing. Girls is all alike one way.
They are like cats. If you rub EN-
right way of the hair they'll pur and
look sweet at you, if you rub them
the wrong way or step on their tails
they'll claw you. So long as you let
a girl have her own way she's nice
and sweet; but just cross her and
she will spit at you worse than a
cat. Girls is also like mules; they
are headstrong. If a girl don't want
to believe anything you can't make
her. If she knows it's so she won't
say so. Bro. Joe says he don't like
big girls, but he does like little ones
and when saw him kissing Jennie
Jones last Sunday and told him
what he'd said, he said he was bit
ing her cause he din't like her. |
think he hurt her, for she hollered
and run, and there was a big red
spot on both of her cheeks. This is
all l know about girls, and father
says the less / know about them the
better off 1 am.-Brooklyn Eagle
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09
Pressure of Deep Water.

A curious object lesson of the
enormous pressure of water is fur
nished by what was once diving
bell designed to be used in Lake
Michigan, but now shapeless mass
of metal. 1t was hollow cube of
about feet, constructed of plates of
pbosphor bronze five-eighths of an
inch thick. The windows through
which the divers could look were 3
inches square and were strengthen
ed with iron bars, while the window
panes were made of glass plates an
inch in thickness. The whole weight
of the bell was rather more than ten
tons. When it was finished, it was
sent to Milwaukee and then towed
II miles into the lake, where there
is depth of something like 200
feet of water. Then it was lower
ed, with strong timbers attached to
it, in order to test its strength. After
it had reached the bottom it was
noticed that the timbers came up in
splinters, and when the bell was
pulled up it was crushed out of all
recognition Of its former shape,
while the windows, in spite of their
strength, were simply pulverized.
1t has been calculated that at the
depth to which the bell descended
the pressure was just on 81 pounds
TO the square inch, which would
give a total pressure of 1853, 1924 pounds
on each side of the bell and result
ing pressure of over 1850 tons on the
Cube.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09
Good Cause for Suicide.

A society reporter, describing the
festivities following a marriage in
high life, wrote that latter enjoying
the generous feast, with its profusiOn
of crusty old wines, the merry party
all filed downstairs and joined the
wedding dance"
His handwriting was rather bad,
and when he looked at the paper
that evening his hair, first gently,
but firmly rose aud stood on end
and then the unfortunate young man
stole into the wood and shot himself
with a pocket pistol. This is the
way the compositor had set up his
report:
After enjoying the genous feast,
with its profusion of musty old
wives, the merry party all fell down
stairs and spoiled their rea6y-madt
pants. ."-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09
New Tennessee Industry.

A new enterprise is being pro-
NOTED in Obion county, Tennessee,
which will be one of the most Won
derful in the world, says the Mem
phis Commercial Appeal. 1t comes
with the discovery of n vinegar
spring on the famous Reelfoot lake
by Pete Bennett, of Paducah, KY,
while on hunting expedition.
This was probably six months ago
and Mr.. Bennett, seeing the vast
possibilities in such a spring, kept
the matter profound secret until
he could get sufficient capital inter-
ested in order to make its develop
ment assured. He was successful
in securing the aid of multimil-
lionaire of London and the organi-
zatiOn of the company is complete.
1t is proposed by this company
that they make garden spot of
several thousand acres of the fine
land that surrounds this spring and
plant the whole of it in cucumbers.
The vines will be trained to run in
trenches between the rows of hills
and when about half grown by
means of irrigation the vinegar from
this spring will be turned through
the trenches and kept on the vines
until the cucumbers are grown,
when il will be turned off and the
finest of the pickles will be gathered
and barreled for shipment.
The company will then buy 5000
head Of hogs to eat the pickles re-
fused for shipment and to wade in
the Vinepar marsh so that at time
of slaughter they will not only ship
bacon, shoulders, ham, etc, but can
fill all orders for picked pigs feet
on short notice. They will sell
vinegar only in five barrel lots.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09
CHRISTIAN THOUGHTS.
Gospel Advocated

l'''7t'.i -A'ANbNtN'''
A hypocrite is one who seeks to
shine in borrowed cOlors.
God will fight our battles for us as
long as we are faithful to him.
Don't call on God for help until
you have exhausted your own
strength.
We must learn to obey before we
can claim that we have learned
Gods law.
The novel method of advertising
sensational sermons has ceased to
attract. 1t is now in order to adver-
| tise a sermon on reformation.
1t is cOmmendable to hold our
tongues when our tempers are boil
ing, but God will condemn us if we
allow our tempers to boil to long.
If we could see ourselves as others
see us, we would see more faults
than we ever dreamed of, and proba-
bly, more virtues than we ever pos
sessed.
1t is of no consequence what the
verdict of the inquest may be, just
so the angels are on hand at death
to carry the spirit to Abraham's S
bosom.
Jesus was made perfect by suffer
ing, and all who would become bet
ter must learn to bear with patience
and fortitude the burdens of life.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09
The Board of Health.

Governor Taylor has appoin ted
the following members of the new
State Board of HEALTH:
DIR. w. ]. McMurray, of Nashville
DIR. w. J. Miller, johnson City; DR..
J. A. Albright, Somerville; Mr.. s
n. Warren, Spring Hill. and Hon
John NJ. Essary, ex-officio member
Under the bill recently passed by
the Legislature to reorganlze the
board, the number of members were
reduced from seven to five, to be ap-
pointed by the Governor, and to be
composed of one physician from
each grand division of the State, one
live stock breeder and the Commits
sion of Agriculture.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09
SANDER,

What fascination can there pos
sibly be in that pretty chatter which
some people delight to carry on con-
cerning the supposed faults, weak
nesses, or shortcomings, of their
neighbOrs? The most ludicrous
feature of the whole contemplate
business is the air of reserve and
secrecy which is often assumed in
connection with it. Who had not
seen the significant shake of the
head which is intended to mean,
IF it were not for my goodness OF
heart, l could tell things a great
deal worse" There are two kinds
of gossip: the idle and the malig-
nant. The former consists of mere
empty gabble, and is very repre-
hensible; but the latter carries q
burden of studied malace, and may
properly be called satanic. The
woman who engages in gossip il
bad enough; the minister of the
gospel is the worst of all. When we
find servant of j esus Christ letting
himself down to the level of q com.
mon tale-bearer, and stirring uI
strife among chief friends, we are
simply amazed. What can such 8
man be thinking about?-Christiar
Advocate.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09
Home.

A prize which was offered by a
London paper for the deflniti on of
"home," brought about five tn ou-
sand al lwers. Some of the best
were the following:
A world of strife shut out, world
of love shut in. Home is the bios
som of which love is the fruit.
The only spot on earth where the
faults and failings of fallen humani-
ty are hidden under the mant tie Of
charity.
The fathers kingdom, tn e chill
dren's paradise, the mothers world.
Where you are treated best and
grumble most.
A little hollow scOoped out of the
windy hills of the world, where We
can be shielded from its cares and
annoyanceS.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09
A Texas Lndge,s Charge.

The little personal mention of
Judge Roy Bean, of Langtry, Tex,
provoked a kind subscriber to send
us this:
1.-The picture, in your publication
of March IL, of Judge Roy Bean, lis all
right, except the collar and cravat.
He was once trying a Mexican for
stealing a horse, and his charge to
the jury was one of the shortest on
record:
Gentlemen of the jury, thar's a
Greaser in the box and boss miss
ing. You know your duty!n
And they did.-Leslie's Weekly.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09
When Easter Comes.

Easter this year comes late, April
Is. Indeed, it can never come but
several days later, April 20, and the
earliest it can come is March %.
Easter is always the first Sunday
after full moon at or after the vernal
equinox, March 81, which is the be-
ginning of the ecclesiastical year.
In 1886 Easter fell on April 25th,
which it will not do again until 1913,
while as to the earliest date, March
%, it will not fall on that in this or
the next century.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09

Ned TURNKEY does not profess to
be surgeon, nevertheless he per-
formed curious operation several
days ago, and the patient still lives
as proof of its success, says the
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle.
For a week or more one of his
hens has been in suspense of mind
as to whether she would incubate
thirteen eggs in snug nest of hog
hair in barrel, or devote her whole
time to the unusual exercise of
stretching her neck and trying to
swallow without having anything to
swallow. While she was trying to
do both, and dividing her time about
equally between the two, Ned de-
cided to investigate the reason why
hen should become SO engrossed in
athletics as to neglect her business.
College boys sometimes do that, but
this is the first recorded Instance of
hen neglecting her duty.
The result Of Ned's Investigations
was the discovery of large wad of
hog hair and gravel compactly
massed into ball as large as wal
nut and securely lodged in her craw.
1t was this big lump that the fool
hen had been trying to get into her
digestive compartment. 1t was
large enough to have stopped up a
goodsized chicken snake; but she
evidently did not know it.
Well, to cut short this narrative
Ned sharpened his knife and opened
her eraw, removed the foreign sub
stance, and with a needle and silk
thread sewed 1t up again. The old
hen seems to appreciate the kind
ness and is now doing her whole
duty toward the eggs, which are
now in another nest, clear out Of heI
way of temptation to feast on bris-
ties.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09
Mt. Pleasant Phosphate Field.

Ruhm 4 O'NeaI, Of this city, have
just completed very accurate map
of the Mt. Pleasant phosphate field,
compiled from accurate surveys
made by them recently. The map
shows the extent of the field to be
about $500 acres, of which about
$500 acres is covered with high
grade phosphate rock, yielding on
an average 5000 tons per acre, max
ing the probable amount of phos-
phate in this locality about $500, 200
tons. AS only about 10000 tons have
been dug so far, the Importance of
this field in the future can easily be
seen.-Nashville American. -
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09
A Good One,

A colored preacher in one of the
lower counties writing to the bishop
to send a preacher, said: "Send us
a bishop to preach here Sunday. II
you can't send bishop, send a slid
ing elder; If you can't send him
send stationary preacher; if you
can't send him, send a circus rider
if you can't send him, send a locus
preacher; if you can't do no better
why, send us an eXhauster. -
Sumpter Item.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09

THE United States Senate passed
by almost unanimous vote last
Monday resolution to the effect
that in their judgement it was the
duty of the President to protest to
the Spanish Government against
their barbarous methods of warfare ;
the case in hand being that of Gen.
Raiz Rivera, Cuban leader, who
was recently captured by the
Spaniards and will be tried by a
drum head court martial and shot.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09

IT is rumoreG about that Col. d.
b. Cooper and Hon. Van Leer Polk
will shortly begin the publication of
a red-hot Democratic weekly news
paper in Nashville.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09

NEARLY one thousand Italian i'm
migrants arrived at New York last
Sunday from Mediterranean ports
They came together on one steamer
At this rate the honest American
laborer will soon be crushed out
and will have to emigrate to other
lands himself.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09

THE bankruptcy bill will be con-
sidered in the Senate this week.
Mills and Morgan, it is reported,
will attach a resolution to the
bill providing for putting Weyler
into the hands of a receiver.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09

MRS. MARY ELLEN LEASE, the
former eXpOunder of populism, is
now a disciple of Buddha. She is
also a socialist, lives in New York,
and wears stylish costumes.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09

THE Globe Savings Bank, of Chi
cago, assigned Monday. The last
statement, published Feb. l3, show
ed capital of 100000 and surplus
of $4,000, with deposits of $4,000,
and savings, $4,000. The bank
was organized by Gov. John P.
Altgeld and others in 1891.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09

REPRESENTATIVES of several hun
dred Bryan and Sewall clubs met in
New York last week and organized
the Progressive Democratic League.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09

THE Richardson building in Chat
tanooga was destroyed by fire last
Saturday. The loss was $280,0OC
and the insurance $l3O,95O Boyd
Ewing was dashed to death by fall
ing from the fifth story, and S. M
Patton was buried beneath the
ruins. Both were prominent men.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09

TOMORROW will be the last day of
the present session of the Tennessee
Legislature, unless they have an
extra.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09

IT is estimated that the New York
World spent $23, ,425 and the Journal
$32, 500, in their rivalry over getting
the pugilistic news from Carson
City. The World paid John l.. Sui
livan $1,000 for his services, while
John j. Ingalls-being an "Hon-
orable" and an eX-Senator-cost the
Journal $500.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09

ALFRED f. BUCK, OF Georgia, has
been appointed Minister to Japan.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-09

J. H. Burrow, voluntary observer
at Lynnville, in his weather report
for March, finds that the rainfall
there during that month reached
1927 inches, the greatest known in
his observations of eight years.
Next to this comes II inches of rain
fall during the month of July, 1890.