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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
DEMAND FOR MEN.

The world wants men-large hearted,
manly men;
Men who shall join its chorus and pro-
long
The psalm of labor and the psalm of
love.
The times want cholars-scholars who
shall shape
The doubtful destinies of dubious years
And land the ark that bears our cOun-
try's good,
Safe on some peaceful Ararat at last.
The age wants herOes-heroes who shall
dare
TO struggle in the solid ranks of truth
To clutch the monster error by the
throat,
To bear opinion to loftier seat;
To blot the era of oppression out
And lead a universal freedom in:
And heaven wants souls-fresh and
capaciOus souls;
To taste its raptures and expand, like
flowers,
Beneath the glory of its central sun.
1t wants fresh souls, not lean, shriveled
ones;
1t wants fresh souls, my brother, give
it thine.
If thou indeed wilt he what scholar
should,
If thou wilt he hero and wilt strive
TO help thy fellow and eXalt thyself,
Thy feet at last shall stand on jasper
floors;
Thy heart at last shall seem thousand
hearts
Each single heart with myriad rap
lures filed
While thou shalt sit with princesses
and with kings,
Rich in the jewel of a ransomed soul.
EDGAR NJ, HAYET.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03


The gold.bug press and other Re-
publicans in disguise are as busy as
farmers in harvest season, trying to
make the country believe that Pros
perity has returned, and come to
stay. dollar wheat is the only
tangible argument they have. And
really they hav'nt that. The gam
blers had that price for about one
working day, but by times the news
reached the country, the price tum-
hled. But granting, for the sake of
argument that wheat has attained
the dollar mark. In the light of
history, is that conclusive evidence
or is it even prima facie evidence
of prosperity for the country? In
August 1890, wheat sold for 81 ,0S per
bushel. 1t is easy remember back
that far. Was 1890 prosperous
year? In August 1891, wheat sold
for 81, l3 per bushel. Was that a
prosperous year? If so, what caused
the panic and the bank failures in
1892 and 1893? Do we want in 1898
and 1899 that kind of prosperity that
followed the high prices of wheat
of l89O.9l? Go to! Their arguments
are fallacious and their claims pre-
mature. The only prosperity that
can benefit the country at large,
must come, not from the high price
of single cereal and that from a
temporary cause, but from an album
dance of money and governmental
policy whose effect will be to de-
crease the purchasing power of
money, and increase the value of all
that money can buy. This so-called
manufactured prosperity is delu-
sion and snare.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

THE Memphis Commercial Appeal
takes Congressman Richardson to
task because the Congressman will
not join the gold bug and Republic
can press in the glad acclaim,
"Prosperity has comet" Congress
man Richardson will not be sur
prised at the attack. 1t is perfectly
natural that a newspaper owned by
McKinley-DemOcrats should be on
the inside of the Prosperity circle
and first acquainted with the fair
damsel's arrival. 1t is not surpris-
ing, when we consider the owner
ship of rhe Commercial Appeal,
that its editor should stand on high
er heights and see the dawn quick err
and clearer than common mortals
like silver Congressman. Especially
since history teaches that the little
editors of the great Commercial are
required to rise early and look
through otherpeoples' spectacles be-
fore prOclaiming the day, or else get
fired. As the aforesaid newspaper
says of the above mentioned Con-
gresham, one who cannot see evil
dences of prosperity under "these"
circumstances, "is wOfully ignorant
or wilfully blind" In the way of
metaphor and manufactured enthu-
siasm the stenograpber of the Com
mercial-Appeal's gold Democrat
owners, is apt; but the only fact he
hits upon, he entirely misses. His
argument, if it may be so termed, is
based upon the proposition that the
farmer last fall sOwed 80 cent wheat
and this season is reaping one dol
lar wheat. The fact is, he has mt
done either. Seed wheat last fall
was from one dollar to $l,l0 per
bushel. So upon the sowing propo-
sition the Commercial Appeal did
not half way tell the truth. Upon
the reaping part of the story, not
one in a hundred of the farmers
have gotten or will get 81 per bushel
for their wheat. Very many sold al
60 cents; even larger number-not
counting these, sold at 65 and &c
cents. Now they are only offered
50 or 80 cents. But that is about as
correct as a disguised gold-bug can
state a fact when discussing the
financial question or Miss Pros
perity's coming.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
improvement in Mail Service.

Through the kindness of Post
master Fariss, subscribers of the
HERALD who get their mail at post
offices on the railroad north of Co.
lumbia will be permitted to get
their papers hereafter on the day of
publication. To do this, Mr.. Fariss
will have to keep his force up late
Thursday night, working the papers
off as soon as they are issued from
the press. This is an act of courtesy
on the part of the post-Office officials,
and one which will be appreciated
by both the HERALD and its patrons.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
Gov. Robert L. Taylor.

In Gov. Bob Taylor's Tales" you
will find real good thing. 1t is one
of the most interesting books on the
market. 1t contains the three lee
lures which have made Gov. Taylor
famous as platform OratOr-"The
FIddle and The BoW," "7He Para
disc of Fools" and "VisiOnS and
DredmS.' The lectures are given in
full, including all anecdotes and
songs, just as delivered by Gov.
Taylor throughout the country. The
book is neatly published and contains
fifty illustrations.
Now what? Here is the interest
ing part to you. You can get this
famous work, with all its fun and
pothoS, for nothing. absolutely
nothing.
1t does not matter whether you are
taking the HERALD or whether you
are not. If you are not, come in and
pay us $l.0O in cash, and we will
send you the HERALD for one year,
and gjUe you the book.
If you are subscriber, come in and
pay all arrears and one year in ad-
vance and we will give you the book
Could anything be fairer? We
couldn't make it any cheaper to you,
could we? OF course you. intend to
pay all you owe US anyway, so you
get the book, you see, absolutely
free!
And a nice little book it is. Full
of heart and soul, fun and music
laugh and logic, eloquence and
pathos. This offer will last as long
as our supply of books last; but we
have only limited supply of the
books, so you had better call early.
n. B.-Parties remitting and or
dering by mail, must add ten cents
to cover postage.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
Notice to Turnpike Bull ders.

Bids will be received for the grad =
ing and building of that portion of the
Williamsport and Columbia turn
pike, reaching from a point near
Amos Seeley's to the junction of the
Whitaker Mill road with the
Hampshire pike; distance about
23I miles. Also for building Il
bridge across Little Bigby. Right
reserved to reject any and all bids.
For particulars, apply to w. J..
Russell, President, or to w. l..
Porter, Sec. and Treas, William
sport, Tenn. Apply at once. 1t
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

MEssRs. BOsTICK AND DINING,
Principals of the Howard Institute
at Mt. Pleasant, opened school last
Monday with 1855 pupils, the legiti-
mate fruit of the good work they
have done in the past. 1t would be
pity to sacrifice such an institu-
tion as this, in order to give protec-
ton to the liquor traffic, and we dc
not believe that the good people OF
Mt. Pleasant will permit it.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
4 Correction.

A local reader in our last issue
said that the personal property of
the late J. S. Bingham, would be
sold on the premises, one mile from
Isom's Store, on Thursday, the Sth
day of September. 1t should have
read, Wednesday,, the Sth. Remem-
Der the correct date, Wednesday the
Sth, and by attending you may pick
ND some bargains.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

GOVERNOR TAYLOR has COM
muted the death sentence of an
other murderer, to that of life i'm
prisOnment, and the papers are
abusing him some more. But if the
Governors statement of the case is
true, he has done right. The man
commuted is an Italian called
Parora, and the Governor says that
he is so near an idiot that he could
not, even in his own language, in
telligently express himself. Be-
sides, the man he killed was at
tempting to dishOnor his humble
home. II have removed him
from society,"" says the Governor
land those who cry for his blood
need have no fear of molestation
from this miserable imbecile."
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
The Wheat Market.

The price of wheat has dropped
considerably the past week, 50
cents being the lowest mark
reached. Yesterday the price in
Columbia was from 50 to S7la cents.
The dollar wheat, it seems, was only
happy realization of the specu-
latOrs.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
For Rent.

The best improved place in the
county, containing 70 acres, situated
one mile from Columbia, on the
Campbellsville pike. Will rent to
responsible party for ? or 3years, and
give the use of 6 good milk cows,
which are now paying good money.
The place is nearly all down in
grass, and a nice place to live. APP
ply to JOHN W. SHELTON,
IF Columbia, Tenn.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

THAT homeless political waif, the
Hon. Josiah Patterson, is now at
tempting to make believe that,
though he disapproved of the Chi
cago platform, he voted for Bryan.
"Shows how far rock-ribbed
Democrat will go for party organiza-
tion," he says. Rock-ribbed rats
If he voted for Bryan-which we beg
leave to doubt-it was for pie, not
party; the fear of the record he was
making, not the love for party or
ganization. Josiah is evidently try
ing to hedge.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

taken of the statute. The question
will soon be before the courts, as the
citizens of many towns are organ
izing to test the question. We also
invite attention to the interviews
with several lawyers of the Column
bia bar.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
CircnS Coming.

The Great Wallace Shows will be
in Columbia on Wednesday, Sep
TENDER -. This is said to be a first
class show in every particular, the
main features being its museum,
menagerie. circus aud royal Roman
hippOdrOme,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
SATURDAY, September IL, will be
Nashville Day at the Centennial.

THE goldite-Republican- Prosperi-
ty criers continue to rejoice over
dollar wheat" The HERALD is
authorized to announce for a little
syndicate of Tennessee farmers, that
they have one hundred thousand
bushels of spot wheat to sell for one
dollar a bushel. Now put up OF
shut up.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

OUR entertainment column tells of
the lecture that will soon be de-
livered here by Gen. Robt. E, Lees
old chaplain, and the cause to
which the proceeds will be devoted.
We hope our readers will not in
advertently slight so sacred a cause,
but that they will bestir them
selves, that Rev. DR.. Jones, the
speaker, may have the audience to
which he is entitled.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

A PROMINENT society lady of
Nashville, accompanied by two
Hermitage Club swells, in violation
of one of the Centennial City laws,
plucked tube rose from one of the
flower beds, and a Centennial guard
who was standing near by, promptly
arrested her; not only that, but he
declined to be bluffed by the swells,
and escorted them to the guard
house. What a greeny he was. The
idea of his thinking that the laws
were made to be enforced against
society ladies and Hermitage Club
swells! OF course the smart set
were righteously Indignant.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
'ECaSh Do Talk"

And for this 1 have marked prices
on everything 1 have in stock way
down. L want to change my stock.
You know 1 keep first-class work,
and now come right along and get
first choice. Yours to serve,
IF s. p. PAYNE.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

IN your newspaper reading, OBJ
serve two things; to-wit: The
"free-silver" papers, so-called,
owned by Mckinley Democrats, So
called, are the first and most
enthusiastic converts to the Repub b.
lican suggestion that Prosperity
has come" Second, you will OBJ
serve that these same papers are the
most active ones against the Popu-
lists, their idea being to prevent any
fusion in 1900 between the Demo-
Gratis and Popullsts. For example
read the Memphis Commercial
Appeal and the Nashville American
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

Gov. TAYLOR, for the second or
third time, has repeated the state
ment that sin few days l shall is
sue an address to the people of the
state, and definitely set forth my iu-
tentions for the future"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

PEARL-HUNTING is one of Maury
County's dormant industries, if such
term could be correctly used.
While the lakes of Kansas, with
their fabulous supply of pearls, are
rivaling the glitterIng fields of KlOn-
dixie with their inexhaustible stores
of the yellow stuff-both atfording
column after column of reading
matter in the daily papers through
out the land-Maury County, with
her rivers and creeks Astounding in
pearls, is keeping her light hid un-
der bushel. Every day there are
found in our streams pearls ranging
in value from 81 to $40 or $50. With
a little push this might become a
paying industry. Suppose we try it.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
NEXT MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6,
WHITE COUNTERPANES.

WHITE COUNTERPANES.
One lot of full size White Counterpanes, the $Ioo
kind, at 75c
One lot of large size White Counterpanes, defects
in this lot and the kind you often at $I.5o EACH
AOnday'S price Csc each.
PILLOW SLIPS
One lot of full size Pillow Slips, the 15c kind, at I!c.
SHEETING.
A wel-known brand of 1914 sheeting that sells from
25c to 3oc Mondays Price, I9 leo.
Also a wel-known brand of ga sheeting that sells
from 22ac 25c per yard Monday price I8c per 3D.
lust few of those 81. and ST. so shirt waists
left to go at SOC each
One lot of latest style Ducks tor fall wear the I23c
kind, at roc per yard
LADIES MUSLIN UNDERWEAR.
Lot No. 1859, night robes, trimmed in embroidery, at
$1.Io each
Lot No. 1878, night robes, trimmed in embroidery at 6oc.
Lot No. I235 umbrella Skirts rue and embroidery at ST..
Lot No. 40, skirts, with rutfes and tucks at 75c.
Lot No. 555 ladies' umbrella shaped pants, trimmed with
embroidery, soc pair.
Lot No. 2o ladies' pants, embroidery rutes and tucks,
at soc pair.
Lot No. $685. ladies' pants, tucked and hemmed 25c pr
Corset covers trimmed lace and embroidery 2c EACH
We will be opening dress goods next week.
If you see it in our ad it's so.
McKennon, Anderson & Foster.
P S.-New Penangs for shirt waists just received.
Mex. A, F.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

THE corporation of Brown Univer-
sity have passed a ringing resolution
requesting President Andrews to
withdraw his resignation. They
found that the country would not
endorse their iatolerant effort to in
terfere with free speech, and they
doubtless found, also, that the sen.
timents expressed by President
Brown were more generally en-.
dorsed than their own, and there
fore they came down peg or two
from their high perch.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
BY MEMO.

Is there not in your neighbOrhoOd
a person whose past has blot on it
and whose name is mentioned with
a look of holy horror by cronies
when together for a chat? 1t is OF
such persQns | would write this
week, and may my pen be dipped
in power for the task.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

THE Democratic State Conven-
ton of Pennsylvania this week
turned down National Chairman
Harrity,, endorsed Bryan, the
Chicago platform and free silver al
Is to l, expressed sympathy for the
striking miners, denounced trials
by injunction, and played the mis-
chief generally. Really this craze
is becoming serious, and we very
much fear it will brighten Miss Pros.
perity away.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

If man commit a crime, be given
a fair trial, be found guilty, and be
condemned, what becomes of him?
He goes to prison and works out his
sentence. And then? Then he is
guiltless in the eye of the law, and
he is as though he had done no
wrong thing. His retention in pris-
on has expiated his crime; he is a
pure member of society. But what
says society through you? The an
swer by deeds is this: THE stain
of that wrong shall stay on him for
ever; he shall be hampered IN every
way be shall be prevented from
getting an honorable position by
meddlesome tongues reviving the
story of the past; he shall be
bounded by the voices of those who
say, i am holier than thou; he
shall be made to feel that the world
is too small for him to hide himself,
and the grave too shallow to purify
him; for the stigmata of crime shall
fasten even on his children after
him."
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

OUR regular correspondents will
enjoy their regular annual reunion,
at the Centennial City tomorrow.
We have mailed tickets to all who
have written at all regularly, and
hope they may all find it convenient
and pleasant to attend. And right
here word of explanation may not
be amiss. These reunions are not
given for the purpose of advertising
the HERALD. We think too much of
our correspondents to make con-
veniences of them. Neither are
they intended to be occasions for
the entertainment of all our friends.
The HERALD's family of friends is
too large to be entertained at one
gathering, and we are opposed to
any kind of Partially. But these
reunions are intended for our
regular, reliable correspondents
those who, as often as anything oc-
ours in their neighborhoods, take
the pains and the time and trouble,
promptly, to write it to the
HERALD. We take this means
every year of showing our apprecia-
ton of them. Not to recompense
them; not to reward them; for the
reward would be inadequate to the
service they perform; but to show
them and remind them that the
HERALD is always appreciative OF
their favors. We make these COM
ments because we have been com
PEELED to decline very many requests
for tickets; but we hope nObody's
feelings will be hurt when they un-
derstand that this occasion is in
tended for and must necessarily be
confined to our regular correspond
ents. We would like to include all
our friends; especially some of Oul
best advertisers and occasional con.
tributors, but it is utterly i'm.
practicable for us to do so.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

If girl kept Intentionally ignor-
ant of herself. by those who train
her, and who know not the differ
ence between ignorance and purity,
makes a fdIr pas under the stress
of feelings that she does not under
stand and the pleadings of the man
who ought tc be worthy of trust,
then her own kith and kin too often
turn on her like ravening beasts,
driving her out into the world to
further wrong-doing and certain
destruction. Upon her head, fair
and inexperienced, are visited the
sins of omission committed by those
who raised no warning voice to tell
of the pitfalls of life.
If the All-Father takes note of the
fall of sparrow, and tenderly bears
with our misdeeds, giving solace to
the wounded spirit when even those
who should cherish it turn from it,
how grimly must He smile when He
sees little mites of humanity, and
trail as small, usurping the power of
God and dethroning Him to sit them
selves in harsh, unforgiving, unre-
lenting judgement on their fellows,
whose conditions of stress and temp
tatiOn none but the All-Wise can
know. And those of us whose hearts
have sorrowed and suffered, whose
feelings have grown tender under
/ affiiction, whose feet linger nearer
and nearer the source of all gentle
ness and kindness, meekness and
peace, have the growing sense that
much of the evil in the world is fos-
tered and strengthened by those
who falsely conclude themselves to
be good, barring as they do by their
sacro-sanct manners the way of hope
and life and labor and happiness to
the sinner, who sorrows and would
do better. The wandering one grows
hardened at exposure, callOus to the
gain of the race once honored, fierce
in enmity to society; and so on from
bad to worse until the end confirms
the evil theories of the professedly
good.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

WE invite attention to the articles
copied from the Memphis papers in
regard to the telephone situa ton in
that city. 1t seems that the Cum
berland Telephone Company has
brought serious trouble upon itself
by it's tyranical effort to crush out
tie Citizens Telephone Company in
Columbia by placing its instruments
In residences at fifty cents month.
We refer to the statute quoted in the
Scimitar, from which it will be seen
that it is more than probable that
this fixing of rates will compel the
company to give the same rate to
the other towns and cities in the
state. This is a most wholesome
statute, and the people throughout
the state ought to require this COM
pany to give them the rate, which
the company has fixed for the citi-
zens of Columbia and Maury County.
The agents of this company have
been actively engaged in making a
house to house canvass of this city
and county, begging our people to
take its instruments at fifty cents a
month, and now it is confronted
with a serious state of affairs. 1t
will cost nothing to make the de-
mand which the Memphis people
have made, and if the company re-
fuses to grant the same rate as that
given our people, there will be a
heavy reckoning should the Supreme
Court sustain the view which Messrs.
Carey X Ewing, of Memphis have
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

ment be larger than the whole, the
five minutes of evil blot out the
whole memory of quarter of CEN
fury of good. An earthquake rends
in moment the works put up by a
patient process of accretion, and
there is nothing then but dust and
disaster where beauty stood before;
and so is it with the dazed man who
Is the sufferer from the moral up
heaval of bitterness and uncharity
in a community. One moment he
rightly stands before them all,
worthy of confidence and recognized
as power for good, the next mo-
ment his character lies bruised and
mangled, never to be well again so
far as the Levites and Pharisees
care, never to live and move and
have full being again unless some
barredout Samaritan with good
ness, far eXcelling that of these
aloof ones, comes to the rescue with
sympathy and love.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
May be You Can't

tell a hawk from handsaw, but
even a blind man can tell that "BIue
Seal" -four is the best. If
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03
mcK Anderson Z Foster.
We sell goods TOR cash only, but sell them ve,y IO7y.
This MOnth@~

This MOnth~~
Is considered the unpleasant in the
year by people who live in Southern cities,
from the fact that the "pesky" mosquito is
worse in September than any other month.
1t is good fortune be able offer you lots Of
Mosquito Bars lower prices than you have had them be-
fore.
One lot five dozen large size round bars, with hook and
cord to put them up at Csc each.
One lot Dozen large size square bars, with umbrella
frames cord and hook to put them up, $I.25 each.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-09-03

GarWOOd'S SarsaparilIa-Tor the blood
guaranteed to cure. A. b. RAINS.