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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-10-20
SYNOD OF TENNESSEE.


A Pleasant and Profitable Session Held in
JonesbOrO.
Last week was stirring and event
full one in this usually quiet town.
Tuesday evening the Synod Of Tonnes
see met as per previous announcement,
and was opened by an excellent sermon
from the retiring Moderator, Rev. Har-
Ian P. Cory, of Tusculum College, af-
ter which the permanent organization
was effected by the election of Rev.
Sam w. Boardman, DID,, President of
Maryville College, as Moderator, and
VIM. B. MINIS, OF New Market, as
temporary clerk.
There were something like eighty
five delegates in attendance, including
ministers, elders and ladies'. Promi-
nent among the ministers present were
Rev. Sam Wilson and P. M. Bartlett,
of Mary vile; Drs. Elmore, Price, Dun
can and Bachman, of Knoxvllle; also
Rev Nathan Bachman, of Sweetwater;
DR.. Lester, of Greeneville, and Presi.
dent Moore. of Tusculum, College;
President Cooter and DIR. Denison, of
Washington College and Salem Church.
Then there were present Rev. B. L.
Agnew, of the Board, of Ministerial
L
Relief; Rev. A. j. Brown, of the For
eign Mission Board, and Rev. D.. J.
Mcmillan, of the Home Board of Mis-
sions, and Miss s. +. Lincoln, of the
Women 8 Executive Committee, New
York, all Of whom delivered instruc.
tive and entertaining addresses pertain
| ing to their line of work. Rev. Dr., Geo.
s. Savage, of Winchester, Ky.,. the
veteran agent of the American Bible
Society, was also present on Thursday
and made a brief talk on the great
work of his society. Dr. Boadman
made an able and efficient Moderator
and dispatched the business with ease
and rapidity, so that the Synod was en-,
abIed to adjourn Thursday night The
Synod will meet In October IS, 1903, in
Madisonyille, Tennessee. The Synodi
cal Quartette, composed of Revs
Herman A. Golf, John Cresswell, John
Newman and John S. Eakin, was on
hands and entertained the Synod from
time to time with some of their sweel
| songs
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Con,jugar Amenities.

!. "Do not insist, my dearl shan't
tell you what am going to give you,
for | want to surprise you on our we'd.
ding day"
"Tell me quick, then, for the greatest
surprise would be to see you keep your
word.-Journal Amusement.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-10-20
State FinancIering.

Tennessee has again been forced to
borrow money. This time she gets
$l50,OO0. The time must come when
the people Of the State will rise to tho
emergency and make the income and
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Not Compulsory.

Education is not compulsory in Ire
land; though thore are excellent State
aided national schools no one need to
send his child to them Chicago
Chronicle.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-10-20

Some people will think that DR..
Bells Pine Tar Honey is no better than
other cough remedies until they try it.
Then they will know for themselves
that II is the best on earth. Up to date
druggists sell IL.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-10-20
Not 10 Be Beaten,

my little sister is the best baby you
ever saw. She sleeps "a hours every
day."
"Huhl our'n sleeps 20, ~ Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
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The One Exception.

II suppose you werey very much sur.
prised when accepted your"
"No; whyY"
"Well, everybody else was. Pick
Me Up.
The herald., 1897-08-10
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

President Barros of Guatemala was
educated in this county and is grad
,uate of Yale. He declared himself die
tator to protect the interests of foreign
ers in his country, and is anxious to
have American capital develop it.
The following women are said to b.
the wealthiest six in the world: Mrs.
Isidora Cousino 100000, ,0C0; Hetty
Gresn. $50,0O0,000; Baroness Burdett
Coutts, $20,00c,O00 Nine. Barrios, $15,-
100000; Miss Mary Garrett, 10000, 900;
Mrs Woleska, $4,000, ,00O
c. S. Sanders, missionary in Turkey
contradicts the report that Edhem Pasha
was responsible for or approved of the
Armenian masacres. Nh. Sanders COM
plments Edhem Pasha highly and says:
He is the one Moslem official of high
rank about whom no Christian in these
regions has uttered. as far as l can as
certain. one single word other than
praise"
Professors A. S. Bickmore ard D. S.
Elmendorf of the Museum of Natural
History of New York are in Colorado Sc
curing views to accompany course of
illustrated lectures on Colorado, to be
delivered next winter throughout the
state Of New York Naturally, the
citizens of Colorado are much please
at their visit, and are doing everything
possible to make it pleasant and sue
cessful.
Romneys portrait of Thomas Paine,
painted in 1892, has been found and is
now on exhibition al the National Por-
trait gallery in London, if Moncure d.
Conway's theory explained in the Athen-
aeum is correct. According to him the
picture was painted for DR.. Thomas
Cooper, sometime president of South
Carolina college and the reviser of the
statutes of South Carolina. Later it
came into the posse ssion of Mr.. Matsell
of Brooklyn. Mr.. Conway asserts that
since the burning of Peale's portrait of
Paine in the fire at Joseph Jefferson s
summer cottage few years ago, this
picture is the only portrait of the great
freethinker taken from life that is now
in existence.
The herald., 1897-08-10

have invited It. In southern Europe ii
ern. This, may be partly due to climatic
influences, but more largely to the diff
ferencesi in conditions which have eX-
listed in the two sections. 1t is true that
Teuton and Anglo-Saxon seem less in
clined to assassirate than to engage in
combat to gain and maintain rights and
redress grievances, but while oppression
and want may destroy the courage to
spirit that seeks vengeance through
stealthy means. Men resort to them
when they are believed to be the only
remedy.
That the assassin is an Italian cannot
be taken as proof that there is not dis
content on the part of the Spanish peo-
pie. There is in Italy an organization
called Malta, and its members are EN-
ployed in other countries to do bloody
work. and there are also anarchistic en-
thu,siasts in Italy and elsewhere whose
hands are raised against rulers in eoun-
tries where there is popular suffering
through the fault of governments.
Whether the assassination proceeded
from insanity or personal grievance, it
happens to be of ruler in nation
whose condition tends to make men des
perate.
The most momen tous onsequences to
the Spanish government are likely to
follow in the wake of the assassination.
The herald., 1897-08-10
THE CURRENT TOPICS CLUB

Any one who thinks the club women
gravest problems and the most gigantic
intellectual tasks is respectfully referred
to the latest program of the Current
Topics club, which meets every Wednes-
day morning at the Friday Morning club
rooms Last Wednesday the ladies dis
cussed THE Effect of the Dingey Tariff
Upon Household Expenses, THE Klon-
dyke Fever" "The Dismissal of Presi-
dent Andrews of Brown University"
"The Effort on the Part of Berkeley to
Raise the Standard Of English Through
out the Schools of California" Mrs.
Hearsts Proposed Buildings for the
State University" and "The Foreclosure
of the Union Pacific Mortgage"
In addition to this solid mental bill of
fare. the members heard graphic de-
scription of St. Michaers island, the
halfway house on the long route to
Klondyke.
The list Of subjects discussed shows
that the members are regular readers
of the daily newspapers a habit which
is most commendable one, especially If
it is supplemented by dips into deeper
wells of information to be found in his
tory and litera ture. Whatever may be
said of the Objectionable features known
in the concrete as ''yeliow2 journalism,
it is well recognized fact that enter
prlsing and reputable newspapers seek
to place before their readers, in addition
to the immediate news OF the day. well
The herald., 1897-08-10

besides, it has also to legislate for AL
seria. French West Africa. French Far
ther India and for the French posses
siors in the West Indies. in the Indian
ocean and in the Pacific.
| The British house of commons has to
do for the whole United Kingdom all
that our house of representatives and
the legislatures of forty-f1ve states do
for the United States, and also to leg
islate for all the so-called crown colonies
of Great Britain and for the stupendous
Anglo-Indian empire, which contains
nearly a fifth of the populatin of the
globe.
In view of these things 1t seems un-
reasonable for Speaker Reed to talk of
the overgrown and unmanageable bust
ness of the house of representatives.
And neither the French chamber of dep
uties nor the house of commons would
endure for a moment the gag rules to
which the members of our house have
subjected themselves.
Mr.. Hazeltine describes at some length
the manner of legislative procedure in
foreign representative bodies, and then
proceeds to ask Mr.. Reed another hard
one. If the sole justification for stif1lng
debate in the house is the alleged neces-
sity for getting through the business OF
that body, how does 1t happen that the
house, under such a. system, accom-
plishes considerably less work than does
the senate. where no gag law prevails?
In the fifty-fourth congress the senate
passed 1852 bills and joint resolutions,
the house of representatives but l2Oo'
In the ffty-third congress the figures
were 1886 and 951, respectively; in the
ffty-second, 1850 and 800. respectively
Mr.. Hazleton asks third and last
question. How does the speaker account
for the deplorable loss of prestige on the
part of the chamber wherein he presides
as compared with the contemporaneous
senate? How does it happen that the
house of representatives has declined
from the place of eminence which it oc-
cupied when Madison, Randolph, Clay,
j. @. Adams and Thaddeus Stevens pos
sessed and exercised freedom of utter
ance and the right of truly representing
their constituents upon its floorS?"
The speaker may not silence Mr.. Ha-
zeltine by refusing to recognize him,
as he is wont to do with obstreperous
members in the representatives cham
ber. He must answer, or by his silence
give consent to the structures upon the
rules, and the interpretations of them
that have given him the unpleasing title
of GEAR"
The herald., 1897-08-10
THE POOR EAST
Good by,
.TlllVi


Good-by
July!
Thou hast surely done thy durnedest,
All my pleas and prayers thou spurnedest
And my very soul thou burnedest;
But at last thy reign is ended.
Heat and drought and curses blended
Good-by,
July!
Good-by,
July!
Blocks of heat from sheol quarried
Thou didst bring to make more hcrrd
Day and night and twilight torrid,
Torturing the squaling babies.
Dogs all driven wild with rabies,
Making earth as hot as hades
Good-by,
July!
Good-by.
July!
Thou has roasted. steamed and stewed us,
Broiled and boiled and baked and brewed
With a hardened heart endued us,
Calloused us with all creation;
Death, disaster and Indignation
Faced with cool deliberation,
Good-by,
July!
Good-by
July!
While thy recollections haunt us
All the fiery fiends may taunt us,
Even August cannot daunt us;
And till fails the fading einber
or mosquito curst September
I We thy conduct will remember III
Good-by,
July!
ATLANTA Journal.
The herald., 1897-08-10
FIGURES PROVE THE TRUTH

Our Republican contemporaries have
been prone to assert that the comments
of the opposition press regarding the
effect on the governments revenues of
the heavy importations in anticipation
of a new tariff law, were founded in
partisanship and desire to make politi-
cal capital, rather than in reason.
Fortunately evidence is at hand that
is not liable to impeachment on such
grounds. The current number of Brad
streets, in an article on THE Effects of
the New Tariff" says:
The treasury returns of the last few
months indicate a stocking up of
dutiable goods on the largest scale
previous to the passage of the new
tariff, and furnish valid reason for
expectations that the consumption of
this enormous amount of goods and
material must precede any expansion
of the import trade and consequent
benefit to the revenue from the new
duties.
The same article analyzes the figures
upon which it bases its conclusion. From
March to June 80, 2,73S 900 pounds of
raw sugars were imported, on which the
estimate is that an average of 35 per cent
less duty was collected than is provided
for in the Dingiey bill. During the
three months ending May 81 the value OF
hides imported into the United States
was s44, 900, 900, against s23,000,000 in the
same period of 1896.
The imports of raw cotton for the
three months ending May 81, were s20,-
| 600 900, against $13,O0O0O0 for the same
period last year. Woolen imports were
! $50, 900 900, as against S11 200, 900 in 1896
Cotton goods $40, 900 900, compared with
| $7,60G 900 last year for the same months
When it~i is considered that these
enormous amounts represent only three
or four staple articles, and that the
whole list of imports presents the same
comparisons, it may not be truthful.
denied that the merchandise imported
while congress was considering the
| Dingley tariff bill will have a large effec
/ in reducing the revenues of the govern
ment for some time to come.
The herald., 1897-08-10
QUESTIONS FOR CZAR REED

1t will be remembered that the June
North American Review contained an
article by Speaker Reed on How the
House Does Business" The conditions
at that time were such that it really
looked a9 if Mr. Reed had written the ar
ticle to defend himself against the
charge Of dangerous tyranny that was
beginning tG be made quite frequently
1t is probable that appearances were de-
ceitful, for the speaker, besides being a
man OF courage, understands the gentle
art of blutfing as well as anyone who
does not play poker
In the August number of the North
American Review, however, Mayo w.
Hazle ton, we'll known as member of the
New York Suns editorial staff supplies
few omissions on the part of the
speaker and points out some weak spots
in the latters ingenious defense.
Speaker Reed declared, as a reason
for the muZzling of representatives that
has been brought to the very perfection
OIL ~ yldHHy uiiuei ms regime, tHdt WltH-
out it no business could be done by the
house Mr. Hazelton reminds him ttlat
the French chamber of deputies and the
British house of commons enjoy fal
greater liberty of speech than our owr
congressme and further asserts tha
an incomparab bly, greater volume of ur
gent ard important business comes be
ish hous5 of commons contains go mem
bers, the French chamber Of deputie
5S1. and the house OF representatives 357
The French chamber of deputies hal
to do fer France all that our house O.
repre- and forty-fve state leg
islatures DO for the Uuited States, and
The herald., 1897-08-10
Building a Big Battle Ship

The new Japanese battleship, the first
keel plate of which was laid at Black
wall, will be magnificent vessel. In
size she will excel any ship of the Brit
ish navy, her displacement, with coal on
board. being no less than 1880 tons.
The armament is commensurate with her
size. Her armor belt and side protec-
ton will be Of Harveyized nickel steel,
and tapers from nine inches to four
inches at the ends. The two barbettes
are to be circular in form and protected
with fourteen inches of armor.
The armament will consist of four
twelve-inch breechloading guns, four
teen six-inch quick-firers in armored
easements, twenty twelve-pound quick
firers and eight forty-seven M. M. ma
chine guns and four smaller guns on the
bridge. Certainly a most formida BILE
ship. Her speed is to be nineteen knots.
The herald., 1897-08-10
TUESDAY. AUGUST 10, 1897.
ASSASSINATION OF cANovAs

II is stated in the dispatches that the
assassination of the Spanish prime min
lister is not political crime; that is to
say, it is not the outcome of a conflict
between political parties in that country,
nor could it have been for the purpose
of removing or overturring dynasty,
for if it had been the blow would have
been aimed at the queen regent and boy
king.
Without knowing precisely the griev
ance which animated the assassin, ii
may be presumed that he was aroused
by the butcheries in Cuba. which the
prime minister could have prevented, if
he did not direct them.
The Spanish government has never
been noted for clemeucy; on the con-
trary, its policy has ever been severely
repressive and oppressive. The country
is poor as result of centuries of profit
gacy of its rulers, who have not respect
ed popular opinion. if there ever has
been any 1t may be said that in Spain
there is little or no intelligent public
sentiment IUG SON ci lii4SI4l lldS Id bOl 6N
to suppress it, or at least has never en-
couraged its development. The govern
ment of that country has ever dealt with
its dependencies in disregard of their
welfare, and for that reason nearly all
of them rebelled and gained indepen-
dence.
Crimes of the character under consid-
GRAFTON may be prompted by insanity, or
a personal grievance, but they are more
likely to proceed from the hard condi-
tions which environ people and which
produce a sort Of a mania, or feeling of
personal grievance in the minds Of suf-
ferers.
In many respects Spain has never
been in more deplorable condition than
now-not even in the days of Godoy
The government and the people are
bankrupt alike. Cuba, which has beer
relied on to supply the public exchequer
not only does net yield revenue, but has
made it necessary for the government to
exhaust it's credit, and now Cuba is
about to slip away and become indepen-
dent. This is a humiliation to Spanish
pride, and is calculated to arouse baG
temper among the Spanish people.
II is indeed humiiating to the people
of today when they contrast the preser.
power of their country with that of a
century ago. Had the policy of that
government been enlightened and hu-
mane it probably would not have been
so completely stripped of it's former
grandeur.
1t is undeniable thatshard conditions
superinduce turbulence and crime, and
as a rule governments have dealt with
them through repressive measures only;
that is, through the employment of the
coEstabulary and armies Suppression
OF turbulence and crime is the first uty
but repre,s1ive measures ought to be ac.
conlpanied by those which ameliorats
conditions They are more effective II
the end than repression by force.
Assassination is Of Asiatic origin, ant
It has travesed westward as condition.
The herald., 1897-08-10
Complaint the Natural Result

The hide tax means increased profit to
the cattle combine, increased profit to
the leather trust and increased expenses
to all the people. Sugar has advanced
one-sixteenth of cent a pound and is
still rising. The price of woolens is
steadily advancing. Next winter the
people will take a poorer quality of
goods or pay more for clothing. The
poor must be content with shoddy Salt,
sugar lumber, nails, glass, carpets,
clothng-a host of necessities-wll cost
more in order that the trusts may grow
fatter. 1t is not surprising that COM
plants and protests are pouring into
Washington.-St. Louis Dispatch.
The herald., 1897-08-10
SECTIONAL POLITICS

A Washington letter in the Times
speaking of the congressional commit
tees, gives us the following important
information
New York has 10, Massachusetts,, .;
Pennsylvania, s; Vermont, 2; Maine,
8; New Jersey, 8, and New Hampshire
/, total of 90 out of 81 congressman;
the balance of the country has % out
of 254 congressman. The middle states
have: Ohio, 3; Michigan, /; Iowa, 6;
Indiana, 2; Illinois, ., or II out of 5S
congressman; the balance of the states :
have out of 1876 congressman, the
states thus honored each having one,
are Kansas Missouri, Oregon, Califor-
MIA, Nebraska, Minnesota, North Caro-
lima, Virginia and Kentucky.
Perhaps the greatest disappoint-
ment is felt over the rivers and harbors
committee. The gulf and Atlantic
coasts and Mississippi and Ohio rivers
are taken care Of but none of the riv-
ers west of the Mississippi nor the Pa
cific coasts have any one on that COM
mittee to look after their interests. The
states represented are New York, Wis
consin, Ohio. Massachusetts, Illinois,
West Virginia, Michigan Pennsylvania,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Georgia Ala
bama Arkansas, Kentucky, Florida
and Texas. Iowa is the principal state
on the Mississippi left off this commit
tee, but its interests will not suffer, un-
less as to the Upper Wisconsin. 1t is a
serious matter, however to the people
of California, Oregon and Washington,
and the concentration of the member
ship in the east will have an injurious
effect.
Minnesota and Wisconsin have moth
ing to complain of, and Nebraska ought
to be happy with Dave Mercer at the
head of public buildings. All of the
other western states are left out in the
cold so far as favors go, and there are
long walls of distress.
The writer of the above frankly
charges that the great czar of the house
who blocks any legisla ton he pleases
and passes any bill he approves Of has
INDUCED in a little bit of spleen in the
appointing of committee. The men an6
the states who stood with the big wieldel
of the birch in his pedagogue days have
been thought of and those who opposed
him in the presidential aspirat tion have
not been forgotten.
Whatever the motive may have been
there is lesson here for the big west t
think of. The extreme east is in nearly
all things opposed to the south ant
west This section of the Union is some
what conceited about it's culture ant
other points of Importance. Ii is alto
gether inclined to take the lions share o
what is lying around in politics and il
other things.
The west and south have themselves t
blame. The twenty mine eastern con
gressmen who so override the 254 west
ern and southern men furnish a fine ex
ample of the tail wagging the rest of tn
canine. Had these 19S members of tn
house chosen some. western man 70
| speaker, the composition of the commit
| tees might have been more to thei
minds and the wailing might have com
from a different source.
|
The herald., 1897-08-10
Life in the Suburbs

II suppose you know Jinks, who lives
out in your suburb" said the new ac-
quaintance, pleasantly, in an effort to be
agreeable.
II know him." returned the suburban
ite, coldly, but the fact is we don't
move in the same set"
"No?"
"Oh, dear, no, l go home two trains
ahead of him at night and come Gown
one train later in the morning. ."-Chica-
go Post.
The herald., 1897-08-10
CALIFORNIA OPINION
The Tariff and Wages

Our local high tariff contemporary has
not yet seen fit to answer the question
propounded with reference to the coal
strike. In the interest of labor it wanted
a good big duty on foreign importations,
assuming that the strike is directly due
to the reductions made by the Wilson
bill. Th. duty is now a reality and is
big enough to satisfy the most exacting
protectionist. Yet the strike continues,
and no one has heard of the operators
offering to end by advancing the wages
of the miners five cents a ton.-Bakers-
field Californian.
The herald., 1897-08-10

The strength of "the hidden forces that
are making so strongly for political
freedom in Germany" was strillingly
manifested in the recent action Of the
Prussian chamber of deputies by which
bill that would have made every public
eting in Prussia subject to interfer-
ence by meddling policemen was reject
ed. The bill was defeated, too in spite
of the known fact that it was backed by
that the young would be tyrant was very
angry over the snub.
The herald., 1897-08-10
False Tales of Prosperity

The able journalists who are getting
up articles about prosperity among the
merchants would be more interesting II
they would tell about the working people
returning to employment at fair wages
IT would be delightful to learn that a lot
of working peoples wages have been
raised Increased activity among the
merchants ought to make new places,
too. A good many ingredients are lack
,ing,-Cincinnati ENQUIRER.