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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-07

FRANKLIN will soon have an
other newspaper. 1t will be called
"The Williamson County News"
and Messrs. Owen Bros, will be its
proprietors.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-07

A THOROUGH canvass of Harde-
man county shows that the total
number of horses and mules killed
by buffalo gnats is 900, The pests
are now about eXtinguished, and
farm work has been resumed.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-07

NEWS has been received at Kings
ton, Jamaica, of an awful series of
earthquakes throughout the chain
of Leeward Island. Houses fell in
and their occupants were buried in
the ruins.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-07
NEWS AND COMMENT.

The estimated attendance at the
Centennial opening was $4,000.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-07
JAMES KNOX POLK.
Leading Incidents in His Event
full Life.
He was the Son of a Farmer, and by
Hard Study Worked His
Way Up.
He Had Been Governor of Tennessee and
Speaker of the House Before He
Was Elected President of the
United States.
From the Nashville SUM

WASHINGTON, April 25.-The
fourth volume of the Messages and
Papers of the President of the
United States is in preparation. 1t
will be devoted to the subjects of
Polk, Tyler and William Henry
Harrison. Through Representative
Richardson, who is the compiler,
under act of Congress, the Sun is
enabled to give the following au-
thentic and interesting biographical
sketches, which are here published
for the first time.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-07

SOME of those who attended the
Centennial opening and patronized
the fake shows on the grounds, say
that some of these shows are simply
indecent, and would be a disgrace
to Black Bottom.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-07

THE Dingley tariff bill was pre-
sented to the Senate Tuesday by
Senator Aldrich, and notice was
given that the bill will be called up
for action on Thursday, the 18th in
slant.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-07

JAMES w. HUGHES has been APP
pointed postmaster at Birmingham.
He once lived in Columbia, and is a
nephew of Judge A. M. Hughes.
His cousin Arch doubtless helped
him push his way to the pie counter.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-07
Six Million.

Rome has a cemetery i'm which
100000 human beings have been
inferred.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-07

Gov. TAYLOR has announced that
he will not be a candidate for the
United States Senate. The further
announcement is made that his
friends are going to run him any
how.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-07

EX-PRESIDENT ADLAI e.
STEVENSON and Messrs. Wolcott
and Payne, members of the bimetal-
lie commission, will leave New
York tomorrow for Havre.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-07

ADMIRAL MEADE (retired) U. S.
N, who saw hard service before,
during and after the civil war,
and cruised in all parts of the world
on important naval and diplomatic
missions, died in Washington, Tues
IL
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-07

ABOUT l,200 plumbers went on a
strike IN Chicago last Monday.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-07

AS A result of an unusual compli-
cation, question has been raised as
to what really is the tax rate of Ten
nessee. In the Revenue bill passed
by the Legislature, the tax rate was
fixed at 40 cents. subsequently a
bill was passed repeating the part of
the Revenue bill fixing the tax rate,
and making the rate 40 cents. The
complication arises from the fact
that the Governor signed the last
mentioned bill first. In other words,
it is contended that he signed bill
repeating a certain portion on an
act that had not become law, and
hence the repeating bill is null and
void. If the decision is that the 40
cent rate shall hold good, it may be
necessary to call an extra session of
the Legislature to provide sufficient
revenue for the State.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-07

A CAMPAIGN committee of twenty
seven, two from each congressional
district and five from the state.at-
large, to work for a constitutional
convention, has been appointed.
Judge ]. G. Eggleston, of Franklin,
and Hon. l.. P. Padgett, of Column
bia, are named for the Seventh
district. -
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-05-07

- 1870
VOL. XIII.
NEWS AND COMMENT.
The estimated attendance at the
Centennial opening was $4,000.
ABOUT l,2O0 plumbers went on a
strike IN Chicago last Monday.
The cornerstone of Warren
COunty's new court house will be
laid on Tuesday, May IL.
The State Convention of Young
Peoples Societies of Christian
Endeavor met in Chattanooga last
week.
Col. r. F. PATTERSON has been
appointed Consul-General to Cal
cutta, to succeed Van Leer Polk,
resigned.
BREAD riots have broken out in
San Luis province, Argentine Re-
public, owing to restitution in the
province.
The Supreme Senate of the
knights of the Ancient Essinic
Order were in session in Nashville
this week.
The receipts of the Tennessee
treasury for April were $ll3,629.75;
disbursements, 1894 1929; balance,
including funds, $5S, 1929.
ALBERT G. PORTER, Ex-Governor
of Indiana and under President
Harrison's administration Minister
to Italy, is dead.
FRANKLIN will soon have an
other newspaper. 1t will be called
"The Williamson County News"
and Messrs. Owen Bros, will be its
proprietors.
EX-PREsIDENT ADLAI e.
STEVENSON and Messrs. Wolcott
and Payne, members of the bimetal-
lie commission, will leave New
York tomorrow for Havre.
Gov. TAYLOR has announced that
he will not be a candidate for the
United States Senate. The further
announcement is made that his
friends are going to run him any
how.
THE Dingley tariff bill was pre-
sented to the Senate Tuesday by
O6udJOI AlullCui dlu uOGlOO Wdo
given that the bill will be called up
for action on Thursday, the 18th in
slant.
NEWS has been received at Kings
ton, Jamaica, of an awful series of
earthquakes throughout the chain
of Leeward Island. Houses fell in
and their occupants were buried in
the ruins.
SOME of those who attended the
Centennial opening and patronized
the fake shows on the grounds, say
that some of these shows are simply
indecent, and would be disgrace
to Black Bottom.
A THOROUGH canvass of Harde
man county shows that the total
number of horses and mules killed
by buffalo gnats is 900. The pests
are now about extinguished, and
farm work has been resumed.
JAMES w. HUGHES has been APP
pointed postmaster at Birmingham.
He once lived in Columbia, and is a
nephew of Judge A. M. Hughes.
His cousin Arch doubtless helped
him push his way to the pie counter.
ADMIRAL MEADE (retired) U. S,
N, who saw hard service before,
during and after the civil war
and cruised in all parts of the world
on important naval and diplomatic
missions, died in Washington, Tues
day.
A CAMPAIGN committee of twenty
seven, two from each congressional
district and five from the state at
large, to work for a constitutional
convention, has been appointed
Judge ]. G. Eggleston, of Franklin
and Hon. l.. P. Padgett, of Colum'
bia, are named for the Seventh
diStriht
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-10
The Advocate of the Rats.

According to the historian De Thou.
Chasseneuz himself first became ia
nous through the skill with which he
advocated the cause of the rats of Au-
tun. They had been summoned to ap-
pear before the bishops proctor and
show cause why they should not be ex-
communicated. Chasseneuz was an
pointed to defend them, and began by
demanding that the summons should
be read in every parish, since the rats
were widely scattered and might not
otherwise hear of it. He next excused
their nonappearance by saying that the
roads were dangerous for his clients,
seeing that cats were everywhere lying
in wait for them, and finally. having ex-
hausted all modes of delay, he made
an eloquent speech on the injustice of
proceeding against the whole number
at once, and demanded that each rat
should be tried separately. This
speech, says the historian, was recalled
to his memory by the Waldensians
when, as president of the parliament of
Province, he was obliged to take part
in the persecution of those unfortunate
ecretaries.-Cornhill Magazine.
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-10
TO BuNko THE PEOPLE.
The "sound Money scheme of the
Republicans.

The great cry of the republican party
during the campaign was for sound
money" 1t declared that the question
should be placed beyond controversy.
1t had dallied for month after month
with other questions, and has finally
been checkmated in this attempt to
enact parliamentary fraud upon the
people. All this, too, in view of the
fact that the money question is re-
garded as the greatest which has come
before the country in its century Of
existence. Even after adjournment Of
congress, Secretary Gage. speaking for
the republican party and as the head of
the treasury portfolio, which is the
business bureau of the government, de-
clared that the tariff issue was in
fnitesimal beside the demand for
money reform. Notwithstanding this
declaration, which is but an echo of
what the people have already declared,
the country is doomed to a fresh pc
riod of disappointment. The doctor
who begs to be called TO the side of the
sick patient and then fails to apply
the remedy is wretch indeed. but what
is he compared to that great doctor
Of political ills who went before the
country on series of false promises
and who is unable to redeem a single
one of them?
The people of the United States are
too intelligent TO be further bunkoed
by such transparent schemes, and they
know now. il they did not know 1t be-
fore, that the republican party is but
the creature Of corporations. trusts and
rings. which have no other purpose but
the destruction of personal liberty and
the robbery of their substance.-Atlan-
ia Constitution
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-10
SOME OTHER DAY.

When clouds the sullen skies o'erca~
Ano ralndrops patter thick and fast.
Ano al the earth is chill and drear.
"lthln your heart let love and cheer
still live and reign;
lhe clouds viii pass, so never fear.
The sun will greet the earth again
Some other day.
When loud the winds of winter wat,
ana mowers perish in the gale,
Let not your burdened spirit weep
AS you ascend lifes rugged steep.
or biindly grope
iour way through valleys dark and deep,
again will shine the star of hope
Some other day.
Some days are filed with clouds and rain.
And life seems naught but grief and pain.
But brighter days shall come anon
When clouds shall all go sailing on
And fade from view:
And 10, behold that promised dawn.
And cleaning skies of azure hue.
Some other day.
Some other day life's toll and strife.
AND storms that seem forever rife
Will pass away; and souls oppressed
Shall lay them down to peace and rest
IN realms afar,
That haven of the true and blessed.
That port where saints immortal are
Some other dayl
Sidney Warren Mase In Good House
keeping.
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-10

looked back and saw the black boy
struggling with the monster. Help,
help!" shouted Tom at the top Of hia
voice, but Nose needed no help and
soon waded ashore, dragging with him
the body of catfish almost as long as
himself. Tom looked at its ugly head
and branching spurs, but he was still
too scared to speak.
Nose shook the water from himself
and sat down on the bank to regain
his breath. Then as he looked at Tom.
white and trembling, his face broad
ened into grin.
"Golly. Marse Tom," said he, "I
didn't spose anybody what ketched
whales would min jess an ornery little
catfish" And Nose rolled on the bank
shaking with laughter. The Ash
weighed little over so pounds, and
Tom never again told of catching
whales.
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-10
POINTS AND OPINIONS.

Isn't it odd that Mark Hanna
hasn't claimed the Klondike gold strike
as logical outcome Mckinley's cleo
on?-St. Louis Republic.
The man with a small salary and
large family, to whom the return of
prosperity bringeth only higher prices
for the things he buyeth. may rejoice
that he holdeth his Chicago Trib-
une (Rep).
CONSUMERS now required to pay
higher prices for the tariff taxed neces-
saries of life are beginning to realize
that it costs money to see the elephant.
especially the pachyderm of the e. o. D.
yariety.-St. Louis Republic.
The revival of prosperity through
the bounty of nature in this country
and failing crops elsewhere comes de-
spite restrictions on trade for the bene-
fit of plutocrats. The rake off" for
the favored few provided for by the
Dingley iniquity is merely fly in the
ointment of the eountry's content.-St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-10

"Ho' i'm, doan let i'm break dat
line" shouted Nose, as he brought the
boat sharply round to point down
stream.
Tom was sure the smoking line had
burned all the flesh from his hands as
il flew through them, but he braced his
feet, clenched his teeth, and tried his
best to hold the small sized hurricane
that had seized his hook. The reel
stopped paying out line now. but the
little boat began to move swiftly
through the water, and Tom feared that
his arm would be yanked off as his
capture dashed from one side of the
stream to the other in an effort to free
himself. He had no idea as to what he
had hooked, for he could see only
swirling and foaming in the muddy
water at the end of his line. 1t was an
alligator most likely, he thought-noth-
ing smaller could run away with two
boys and a boat in this way. He de-
voutly wished that the line would break,
but he dared not let go for fear the
creature might tip the boat over and
devour them both.
As they few along, Toms terror in
creased. Nose was shouting encour-
agement to him from the other end OF
the boat and chuckling to himself
Suddenly. as they sailed out into a
broader pool. the monster turned back.
Keep the line in 'front.'" shouted the
negro lad; hell tip us over" But it
was too late. AS the line moved back
along the side of the boat and then
frightened again, the little shell rolled
over as easily as log and both boys
were splashing about in the water.
Tom imagined he could feel the alli
gators jaws closing on his legs, but in
reality it was only the sharp stones
and shells on the mud bottom, cutting
his bare feet. He scrambled out on
the bank with a shriek of terror and
sat there still shaking with fright.
Then aS he heard shout from Nose he
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-10

A Cwish peddler, returning home
from his weeks travels to rejoin his
family on the Sabbath, as was his wont.
was met by highwayman, who de-
manded his money. Reluctantly he
parted with it, counting it lhto the
hand of the robber in the hope that
the delay thus caused might bring
some wayfarer. When he had finished
he said to the robber. as a sudden
thought came to him: "Meester, won't
you please shoot me little hole in nv
sleeve, so / can show my wife that
met real, genuine highwayman? ?" Ac-
commodatingly he shot hole In his
right sleeve; then he offered to turn
his left sleeve, his coat tails, and final
ly took off his hat and said: "Now.
meester, let me show my family how
near | had hole in my head, and den
dey won't be sorry dat l lost my
money" The robber, who had been en-
joying the fun, told him that he couldn't
because he had no more shots. 'Now,"
said the jew, seizing the villain, whose
fire he had drawn, "gif me back my
oney."-American Hebrew.
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-10
ExTRAvAoANT MANAGEMENT.
Republicans Government IL Always
Very Costly.

very
The result of republican ex.rsva-
gance has manifested itself in unmis-
taxable form thus early in the life of the
Mckinley administration. July was
the first month of the new fiscal year.
and Secretary Cages treasury balance
shows deficit of $l1 200, 900. When the
enormous anticipatory imports to es-
cape the duties of the Dingley bill are
taken into account, together with the
unusually heavy payments into the
treasury by the brewers to save the re-
bate on beer stamps, the conclusion is
inevitable that the deficit is due to the
reckless use of public funds.
The amount paid out of the treasury
in July exceeded by $s,0O0,O00 the
amount paid out during July of last
year. This excess represents the diff
ference between republican govern
n'ent and democratic government. In
other words, republican government
costs $S,000,000 more a month than dem
ocratic government.
One of the items of extra cost was
contained in the pension account. PEN
sion payments for the month of July
aggregated nearly $15.0o0,000. almost
81, 100000 In excess of the amount paid
in pensions during the corresponding
month last year. When the pension
lists reached the $4,000, 900 mark in
the early part of Grants second admin
istration he apologized for the amount
and predicted that from that year on
the pension account would decrease
A few years afterward Samuel j. Ran
dali as chairman of the appropriations
committee submitted bill to the house
carrying less than $4o,O0o.0oo in pen
sions and explained that the commit
tee believed the high-water mark in
pensions had been reached. Instead of
decreasing, the amount paid in pensions
every year since has increased, and this
year the prodigious sum of $141 ,0O0, 900
was appropriated by the republican
congress. This exceeds the total cost
of any of the various huge standing
armies of war-scared Europe. 1t Is
more than enough to equip and put in
the field an army strong enough to sue
cessfully cope with any of the finely
organized and terrible war engines of
Europe on land or sea. The absurdity
OF such extravaganza is too obvious 20
require analysis. Where or when it
will stop no man pretends to know
Certainly there is no hope of checking 1t
as long as the republicans hold the
purse strings.
National gratitude has its limits.
Men who were incapacitated for self
support in saving the union deserve ma
tional aid This doctrine of Solon has
the Endorsement of modern enlighten-
ment. But 1t is now more than 80 years
since the civil war closed. Even if all
OF the more than 100000 men who
fought for the union were alive and en-
titled to pensions, under a strict and
honest Interpretation the amount
would not be much greater than it now
is. Indeed, it probably would not be
as large if rigid honesty were applied
&c the question of pensions. The laws
have been so loosely and dishonesty
administered that the cost of pensions
swells when there should be a steady
decrease.-St. Louis Republic.
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-10
CATCHING A CATFISH;
BY {. ". MAYO.
copyright. 1897 ]

A I home in Boston, Tom Sanderson
n would hardly have selected Moses
Abraham Smith for a playmate, but
down here in southern Louisiana it was
Nose or nobody. Tom had come down
TO spend the winter with his uncle who
was the station agent at Bayou ST. Fe-
lice, little halting place on the South
ern Pacific railroad where the engines
sometimes stopped to drink from the
big tank beside the tracks, but where
few passengers ever got on or off the
trains. There was but one house in ST.
Felice besides the station agents, and
that was the tumble-down cabin where
old Tobe Smith had lived ever since the
war set him free; there was only one
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-10
FORREST CITY ARK. AFTERNOON SEPTEMBER TO- 1897

to be perfectly true-at least, so Tom
thought. One day Nose had been tell
ing how catfish that weighed 60
pounds had been caught in the river
close by. "Oh, that's nothing" said
Tom, as if catfish were too small for
him to bother with. "Once was out on
big whaling schooner in the ocean
when they caught whale. They shot
harpoon into him with a gun, but he
dragged the ship mile before he gave
up, and when we got him he was longer
than the railroad switch out here"
The only whale Tom had ever seen
was stuffed one in museum, but he
was bound to beat the story Nose had
told about the catfish. Nose himself
did not believe that there was a fish
in the world as long as the one Tom
had described, but he only said: "Golly,
/ doan want muffin to do wild dem t'ings,
Marse Tom," and rolled his eyes till
only the white showed.
BY the next morning Tom had forgot
ten all about the whale, but Nose had
not
LESS go cat-fishin'," said he. "It
amt so excitin' as shootin whales, but
reckon we can have some fun
Tom fell into the trap at once. "Ali
right" he said, get out the boat"
Nose left the big fiat-bottomed boat
which the boys generally used on the
bank and showed off the smaller skiff.
into one end of which he fitted a reel.
The stout line was wound upon the
reel, the big hook was carefully baited.
and Tom took his place at one end
while Nose sat in the other, steering the
skiff with a single oar.
We'll jess float down with the cur
rent" said he, "and see what ketches
u.s."
A short end from the line on the reel
was trailing in the water, and Tom
watched it carefully. Two or three
times there was a little jerk at the line
and Tom started to pull it in. but each
time Nose stopped him.
We're after catfish" said the darky
boy; "doan mind dem little t'ings.
You'll know de real ting when you gifts
it."
A moment later they got the "real
thing" There was a rush through the
water that sent a shower of bubbles
to the surface, the loose end of the line
took dive and then began whirring
off the reel at lightning speed.
The Forrest City times., 1897-09-10

boy besides Tom Sanderson, and that
was Moses Abraham, Tobe's son.
They were a strange pair OF playfel-
lows, these two. Tom was wide
awake northern boy accustomed to the
hustle and noise of big city and pos
sessing what he considered a very com
plete knowledge of the world in gem
eral. Nose was as shiftless and happy a
darky as could be found in the whole
south He had never been to school,
never had a care except when the hoe
cake gave out in the little cabin and he
felt hungry, and he never had to worry
about keeping his face clean, for it was
naturally as shiny as a wel-pollshed
shoe. He divided his time between
sleepipg in the warm sun, swimming In
the warm water of the bayou, and
roaming the woods and fields. Here he
made friends with the birds and rabbits
and even tried to be on good terms with
the Shiny little alligators that crept up
on the muddy banks of the larger bayou
to sleep in the sun as Nose himseif
sometimes did.
Rut in spite of the differences between
them. the white boy and the black got
on well together. Tom was naturally
domineering. and Nose was perfectly
satisfied to address him as "Marse
Tom" TO do all the rowing when they
went out on the bayou together, and to
play that he was pack-horss or slave or
whatever Tom wished, so long as Tom
kept him well supplied with candy and
nennies. two things entirely new and
very pleasant to the darky boy. Nose
was a good listener, too, and always
sat with saucer eyes and open mouth
while Tom related stories of the sights
he had seen and the things he had done.
Sometimes Nose started TO tell OF his
own adventures, but Tom always had
something much more startling to re-
late even if he had to draw on his
imagination for it, and Nose swallowed
al his wonderful tales, believing them