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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27

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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27
An Unfortunate Smile.

when man gets married." ex-
claimed the citizen who could get
the medal for laziness in any compe-
tition, she might just as we'll make
up his mind to work like dog for
all the rest of his life.'
His wife looked at him with an ex-
preston of mingled grief and sur
prise. After thoughtful pause, she
said, quietly:
William, l wish you to step out
here on the porch for minute if
you're not too tired to move so far. "
He languidly Obeyed, and as he
stood on the theshold, inquired:
what do you want? It's too
warm to split wood"
II don't want you to perform any
labor. You said something about
having to work like a dog because
you got married"
Yes" he replied, resolhtely, 81
did"
well, for once it's my esteemed
privilege to agree with you. [ want
you to cast your eyes on that liver
cOlO"ed setter you bought last week
with the money that ought to
have gone long ago for having the
roof painted. He's fast asleep, as he
has been for the last three hours.
There isn't anything that will stir
him up except to offer him some-
thing to eat. And if you do that
hell open one eye and see whether
he likes it or not before he will take
the trouble to come and get it. Once
in great while he will get up en-
ergy enough to go hunting. But
when he does he seldom if ever gets
any results worth speaking of. l
wouldn't have made the comparison
for anything, William, for with all
your shortcomings, like you. But
az long as you brought it up your
self thought might not do any
harm to call your attention to the
fact that about all the liver cOlOred
setter does is to take maps and be
waited on.n-Detroit Free Press.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27
GarwOOd's Sarsaparilla-for the blood
tOcure. A. B. RAINS


The slayer of Canovas is to be
garroted, form of criminal punish
ment still in vogue in Spain and her
colonies. Formerly it was inflicted
by twisting a stick (garrote) inserted
in a cord or bandage around the
neck in such manner as to pro-
duce compression and strangulation
This primitive and barbarous form
has been changed in modern times,
and while the term "garrote" is still
in vogue, no stick is used. The
present method is to place a metal
lie collar around the neck Of the
victim and a screw at the back of
the collar is turned. AS the screw
enters its point touches the spinal
chord and causes insant death. 1t
is said to be as merciful as hanging,
though the most degraded form of
execution known to the law, and is
inflicted on those whose infamy is
peculiarly rank and whose crime
is unusually acknowledgements
COmmercia.-Appeal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27
GarwOOd's SarSaparilla-for the blood
guaranteed to cure. A. B. RAINS
Southern Industries Needed.

Yes, it's plain talk. The cradle to
rock the Southern baby in is i'm
ported. So is the ball and top of the
boy. So are the clothes of the girl.
Likewise the wheels of the youth
and the maiden. Not excepting
most of the needs of the man and
woman. Then, remarks the Shreve-
port Times, the old men and women
die and are buried in imported cof-
fins, while their tombstOnes are
brought from distance marble quar-
ries. Millions and billions are taken
from the agricultural industries of
the South topurchase the necessaries
of life, when this country produces
all of these things. They keep up
manufactures at the expense of
Southern wealth, and yet the South
complains of lack ofmeans and pros
perity. When the people learn to
Utilize their boundless materials by
the establishment of industries, they
will become wealthy, prosperous
and happy. What Is spent in keep
ing alive distant Northern factories
is what impoverishes the people.
The capital kept at home, and uti-
lized, willTevolutionize existing con-
ditions. Build up the factories and
the millions spent abroad will re-
main at hOme,' and the raw material
converted into fabrics, utensils, i'm
plements and articles in daily use
will cheaper these necessities be-
cause of the lessening expense of
prOduction.-EX.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27
YOUNG LADY SUICIDES.
Miss Pearl Hun, of Hampshire, Takes an
Overdose of Morphine.

Miss Pearl Hun, of Hampshire, Takes an
Overdose of Morphine.
Early last Thursday morning Miss
Pearl Hunt, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Steve Hunt, of the Hampshire
neighborhood, was found in her
room in an unconscious condition
from the effects of an overdose of
morphine. Medical aid was quickly
summoned, but all efforts to restore
her to consciousness proved futile,
and she passed away about noon.
What motive prompted her to the
rash act, the public will never know.
She left two letters-One addressed
t. her father and the other to her
mOther-but what they contained is
kept in strict secrecy by the imme-
diate members Of the family and
the physician who attended her bed
side.
Miss Hunt was % years of age,
pretty, modest and chaste, and loved
by every one. She leaves father
and mother, "A brother and two sis
tiers, and other relatives, who have
the sympathy of many friends in
the deplorable affair. Her family Is
well-to-do and highly respected.
The funeral services were con-
Quoted at the residence Friday af-
ternoon and the remains were laid
to rest in Pisgah Cemetery, the fun
eral being attended by large num-
Der of Borrowing acquaintances.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27
SENATOR STEWART
MAKES ANSWER.
He Does Not Advise Abandon
ment of Silver,
As Stated in Newspaper Dispatches
BimetalliSm Still the Only Hope
Of the Country.
where Only Gives Temporary
Relief to the DowntrOdden
LabOring Glasses.

OnlJeQ states senator william M Z.
Stewart, of Nevada, telegraphs the
Atlanta Constitution as follows, con-
corning the statement attributed to
him in newspaper dispatches, that
be had advised his friends in the
west to drop the silver issue:
NEW YORK, Aug. l7.-Editor
Constitution: Any statement that
| have changed my position on the
silver question or advised my friends
in the west or elsewhere to drop the
silver issue on the ground of return
of prosperity or on any other ground,
is absolutely and unqualifiedly false.
The fact that there are abundant
crops in this country and famine
elsewhere, which gives temporary
relief, is no reason why we should
not seek permanent relief by the
only possible means in our power,
which is the reconciliation of silver.
The efforts of the gold press to make
the country believe that the gold
standard has raised the price of
wheat, and not short crops in every
country but this, is in keeping with
their false statements with regard
to my position. The low price OF
silver produced by excluding it from
the minis and particularly the re-
cent decline produced by demoneti-
cation in Japan, marks the rise in
gold and shows the robbery and in
justice of combining the money of the
world to the one commodity, gold
When they point to cheap silver as
the result of their conspiracy, we
point to dear gold as the result o!
their rascality.
1.-THE people will not believe that
the goldites control the seasons and
give the United States good crops
and cause famine elsewhere. They
know that is the work of Providence
over which the goldites have nc
control. Their impudence in de-
handing credit for it is in keeping
with their entire system of decep'
ton by which they are enslaving
the human race.
Now is the time to fight for sill
yer. The temporary relief which
Providence has granted should in
spire the manhood of the American
people to vote their sentiment at the
ballot box. 1t removes some of the
excuses of poverty and starvation
which voters made in 1896 wher
they submitted to intimidation OF
yielded to bribery and voted fol
their own enslavement. The only
danger is that the small measure o.
relief which the rise of wheat has
given will not be sufficient to free the
voters of the United States from
coercion and bribery, but it ough
to aid the cause of silver by restor
ing to some extent the independence
of the voters. My correspondence
with people in every section of the
country is very extensive, and it in
forms me that the people are
thoroughly alive to the situation anc
that the silver question is gaining
every day. The rise in the price o
wheat and the fall in the price o.
silver will stimulate rather than re-
tard the irresistible movement II
favor of returning to the coinage
law of the better days of the re-
public" WILLIAM M. STEWART.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27
Oldest Man in Lewis County Dead.

AETNA, Aug. 19.-The spirit of old
Mr.. Bland passed into the great be-
yond to-day, Aug. 10. He had been
afflicted with rheumatism for 80
years, and had he lived until the
first of October, he would have been
102 years old. He came from Ken
lucky into Tennessee several years
ago and lived in Maury County,
near Cross Bridges, few years.
He is known by the old citizens of the
Hampshire neighborhOod. He leaves
a wife, who is now 80 years old.
They have been members of the
Christian Church for several years,
and are now numbered with the
Salem congregation. Mr.. Bland had
lived near Palestine, Lewis County,
for a long while. accidently found
his home to-day, and hearing of his
death, stopped in through respect to
the memory of such an old man. [
learned from Mrs. Bland that she
had made the support on the farm
there on Indian Creek for 20 years
or more, blowing regularly every
year. This year she cultivated 10
acres of corn, blowing it over three
times. She not only looks strong
enough to gather this crop, but APP
pears able to make several more. She
can yet take long horse back rides
without much fatigue.
Respectfully,
Il. H. JACOBS.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27
4 LIFE STORY.

He is too young to know it now;
But some day he will know.
Eugene Field.
Above her little sufferers bed,
With all a mothers grace
She stroked the curly, throbbing head,
And smoothed the fevered face.
ole does not know my love, my fears,
My toll of heart and hand;
But some day in the after years,
Some day he'll undertand;
Some day he'll know
loved him so,
Some day he'll understand.
A wild lad plays his thoughtless part
AS fits his childhOod's lot,
And tramples on his mothers heart
Oftimes and knows it not.
He plays among his noisy mates,
Nor knows his truest friend;
His mother signs, as still she waits,
"Some day hell comprehend;
The day will be
When he will see.
Some day he'll comprehend"
The strong youth plays his strenuous
part:
His mother waits alone,
And soon he finds another heart,
The mate unto his own.
She gives him up in Joy and woe,
He takes his young brides hand,
His mother murmurs, "Will he know
And ever understand?
When will he know
love him so;
When will be understands"
The strong man fights his battlin z days,
The fight is hard and grim,
His mothers plain, old fashioned ways
Have little charm Cor him.
The dimness falls around his ears,
The shadows round her stand,
She mourns in loneliness and tears,
Hell never understand.
He'll never know
| loved him so.
He'll never understand"
A bearded man Of serious years
Bends down above the dead,
And rains the tribute of his tears
Over an old, grey head.
He stands at the open grave above,
Amid the mourning bands
And now he knows his mothers love,
And now he understands.
Now doth he know
She loved him so,
And now he understands.
Sam Walter Foss.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27
SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
BY MEMO"

Lik" specked apple in a barrel
of good ones, is an idler in commu-
nlty of workers ;-powerful to pro
duce similar condition in others
aud that only. LOafers are enemies
to society, for they do not suffer the
loss of moral backbone alone. but
they fash the discovery before their
fellows that it is possible to scram-
bic through the world without much
effort. As Mrs. Josephine Shaw
Lowell says: "The world is divided
into two great classes, not the rich
and the poor, but the workers and
the idlers.' The frowsy beggar of
sturdy frame whining at your door,
and the child of the wealthy. killing
time in every conceivable fashion,
belong in the same class. Dirt and
daintiness, rags and responsibility
blend in one common downfall of
all that is best in human nature.
The race has hitherto gained
solely by the sweat of the brow in
some form or another, and we who
toll see no other way to assure furth-
er progress. But these easy-goers
tell us, in effect, that we are fools !;
and they are always gaining fresh
listeners. You who are hating be-
tween two opinions, strong in ca
pacity but weak in will, undeter-
mined whether to eXpend the mini
mum of effort in the world, or
whether to give of your capacity in
full measure, be the gain yours or
not, let toiler speak to you out of a
full heart.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27

The registration books closed at
o'clock on Thursday night of las
week, the total number of certifi'
Gates issued being 1911; 995 of these
are in the city, and 3l6 live outside
the corporate limits. OF those il
the city, 677 are white and BIS col
ored. This is nearly 100 better thar
the figures show for the first tel
DAYS of the last registration two
years ago.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27

The Bethel Baptist Association,
in session at Salem, KY, last week,
passed resolutions condemning DR..
Whitsitt and his management of the
Southern Baptist Seminary.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY says re-
viving prosperity is largely due to
the crops, but he thinks the pro-
tective tariff had something to do
with the matter.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27

Gov. TAYLOR has issueda procla-
nation setting apart Monday, Sept.
6, as labor day, and recommending
that it be observed as a holiday in
Tennessee.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27

SISTER SAPP," negro woman
preacher of Etwah county, Ala,
was given a sound cowhiding by one
of the leading citizens of Gadsden
last Monday.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27

LEON PHILLIPS, a well-knOwn
young man of Nashville, died last
Thursday from the effects of an
overdose of morphine. He left
nothing to indicate his reasons for
taking the drug.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27
TeXnS LnStice.

Texas Judge.--"What's the charge
against this mau?n
Sheriff.-"Horse-stealing, your
honor"
Judge.-"Theu he mustang!"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27

THE total vote on the Constitu-
tional Convention, so far as received,
is: For a convention, 32,30l;
against, 1854.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27
Something Lacking.

Teacher lin OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
omitted something, Mabel, in max
ing your letter rs What is it?
MGbel-I guess | forgot to put
eyebrows over them.-HousehOld
Words.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27

THE Superintendent of a railroad
has been indicted at Atlanta for run
ming freight trains on Sunday
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27
NEWS AND COMMENT.

THE "Grand Army of the Repub-
lic' has been in session at Buffalo,
n. Y, this week.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27

L. RosENHEIM & Co., dry goods
merchants of Nashville, assigned
last Saturday. The liabilities are
between $4,000 and $4,000; assets
not stated. The firm had been
shaky for some time.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27

JOHN l.. SULLIvAN's latest adver-
Using scheme is to have himself an
nounced a candidate for Mayor Of
Boston.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27

TT is said that St. Louis specula-
tors have cleaned up $2,OOO,O00 on
the bulge in wheat.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27

JUDGE CLARK, of Nashville, has
sustained to the fullest extent the
injunction suits issued by the rail
roads against ticket brokers. The
injunction, however, was only
against dealing in signed Centen-
NAL railroad tickets.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27

May he be COMPOUNDED who would
persuade us away from work. 1t al
ways has been blessing in disguise,
or as Whittier says:
"The curse of earth's morning
is the blessing of its noon"
TO work is to discover the happy,
the healthful, the hopeful way
through life; for definite labor puts
the nerves at rest and quiets the
feverish heart. If bowed down with
sorrow, stricken because a beloved
voice is sIlenced forevermore; Go,
Work! and the motions of daily
duty will solace your spirit. If be-
wildered at the apparent confusion
in the world, misery where there
should be joy, crops of disappoint-
ment from generous seeding of
hope; Go, Work! and the concen-
tration of purpose needed by your
duty will relieve your overstrained
brain, and a clearer understanding
of the laws of life will be yours. The
balance of the wide worlds brain
is kept by toll. With nothing
to do and boundless time for think
ing and puzzling over the mysteries
of our ending, we should become a
universe of melancholic fatalists.
But the rhythm of work constantly
recurring keeps us whole some
minded, just As the ebb and flow of
the ocean purities the world. Work
is the anodyne for suffering. 1t is
the great sanity-idleness, the in
sanity-of life.
~
Let it not be supposed that riches
bring happiness. The owners are
only happy if they have some def
mite duty in life. Many of the
wealthy toll away under response
bilities that would crush the mex
perienced. But the INDECENT among
them are most miserable: the men
Out-of-sorts with themselves and
their comrades, following evil to
drown reflection and being of such
little Importance to the world when
they pass away that they become
nothing more than worthless names
to occupy valuable space on head
stone; the woman wrapped up in soul
shrinking ambitions and devoured
by petty jealOusies Is unworthy
of humanity. They dress for dress
sake, having more worth without
than there is within, and strut their
little day like puppets on parade.
No soul gets satisfaction from that
sort of life, any more than the prodi-
gal could find nourishment in husks.
So spend no time pining for a cOndi-
ton of ease that has more dangers
than poverty.
/ tell you that see more happi-
ness in the faces of shop-girls hurry
| ing home from work, than in a whole
room-full of idling women. The
girls toll, rest, take their wages and
look at the duty of life with an air of
independence. But the idling fash
iOnables are scarcely raised above
the standard of Turkish harem
they have been bartered for with
dowries, bought with social prestige
and then shut up to an objectless life
of social inanities. Happier than
she, and freer to choose fitting
mate, is the poorest child of toll
barefoot beneath the burning sun.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27

HARVEY DEBERRY, colored, paid
the extreme penalty of the law at
Memphis last week for attempted
rape on the person of little 7-year-Old
Leonora Eigemann on October s,
1896. This is the first legal hanging
for that offense, in the history of the
State.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27

SOME weeks ago the Postal Tele-
graph Company made complaint to
the Tennessee Railroad Commission
that the Mobile & Ohio railroad had
refused to distribute its poles and
other building material between sta
tons, although performing this SER
vice for the Western Union Tele-
graph Company. The commission
has decided that as the railroad had
performed this service for one COM
pany it had held itself out to the
public as common carrier of such
poles. wires and materials between
stations for all telegraph companies
legally chartered and entitled to
erect lines, and must therefore per-
form the service for the Postal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27

JUDGE LYNCH held court near
Chicago, ILL.,, last Thursday. An
unknown tramp met swift retribu-
ton for heinous crime upon a wo-
man living near Mannheim, Cook
county, by being beaten and kicked
to death by a body of enraged
farmers. Northern papers please
CODY.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27

A MOVEMENT auxiliary to the
temperance crusade has been started
by the young women of the local
churches in Harper, Kan, by their
forming an organization and taking
a pledge not to go with men who
drink, smoke or use profane Ian
guage.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27

FIvE-YEAR-oLD Johnny Conway,
who was kidnapped at Albany, N.
Y, on Monday of last week, was
found Thursday through the efforts
of detectives and reporters and re-
turned to his parents. Joseph
Hardy, the child's uncle, was one of
the abductors.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27

FRIDAY, Oct. 8, has been set apart
as Nebraska Day at the Centennial.
Hon. William Jennings Bryan and
many other prominent Nebraskans
will be present on this occasion, and
it is safe to say that the crowd will
exceed that of any former day, Ohio
and Mckinley Day not excepted.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27

He is too young to know it now;
But some day he will know.
Eugene Field.