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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-12-23
Drake-LipscOmb,

Next Wednesday morning, Dec.
%, at $3.50 o'clock, at the home of
the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T.
f. Lipscomb, on South Main street,
Miss Adelne Laura LipscOmb will
be united in marriage to Mr.. Charles
Hugo Drake,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-12-23
SUCCESSOR TO BLISS.
Ethan A. Hitchcock, of Missouri, Ap
pointed.

Ethan A. Hitchcock, Of MissOuri, APP
pointed.
Ethan A. Hitchcock, of Missouri,
at present Ambassador to Russia,
was Wednesday nominated to be
Secretary of the Interior to succeed
Mr.. Bliss. The nomination was con-
firmed by the Senate.
Mr.. Hitchcock is a great-grandson
of Col. Ethan Allen, the hero of
TicOnderoge grandson of Samuel
Hitchcock, who was prominent in
the early history of Vermont, and a
son Of Henry Hitchcock, who was
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of Alabama.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-12-23
FRANKLIN DISTRICT.

First round of quarterly meetings.
Douglas at Thompson Sta. Dec. a, %
Neapolis at Blanton ... Dec. 81, Jan. |
Bethesda at Bethesda . Jan. 6.
Carriers Greek at Bethel. ......Jan. 7, 8.
Bethlehem and johnson at John
SON. ..................Jan IL.
Fernvale at Gree brier .... Jan. IA, Is
Santa Fe at Santa Fe... ..... Jan. ID, 10.
1T. CURRY p, T.,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-12-23
CIgnrette-MnkInR by Machine.

The new cigarette-making machine
is raising trouble in England. In Liv-
erpool son girls will he thrown ont 81
work. and many more in other cities.
The machine rolls fIom $50 to 500 Gig
1''tta~ minute.
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COAL AND COKE.

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Alexander, Harriet HOpsOn, Cora Mrs
Andrews, Izora b Johnson, Stewart
Bailey, John l. Kirby, Louis
Barnes, Lizzie Leftwich, r A
Barton, Minnie Leuis, Thos
Bass, Mary Kate Mangrum, Eta
Booker, Floyd Martin, Mandy Mrs
Blair, May McCandlass, JG
Blake, Mary March, Mrs.
Brown, Julia Mrs Mckinney, Benner
Brown, Sallie Mckinney, Otto
BrOwnlow, Angie McKinezr, Lille
Mrs McNutt, J
Chaplin, E d Mrs Mitchell, W T Mrs
Chaplin, Hattie Mrs Moore, Rachel May
Cliggitt, Anne May Nicholson, Letta
Collins, Mary Nixon, Sallie
Crowley, Minnie Osborn, Jane Mrs
Clymer, Willie Pike, Alex II
Dobbins, Bette Pulliam, Ida Mrs.
Estes, Alice Robertson, Mary
Frierson, Ruth Mrs Smith, Miller
Hall, Robert Smith, Susie
Hammond,M e Mrs Thornton, NJ
Hill, Carrie Mrs Webster, Marshall
Hill, Robert Wilson, Amy Mrs
Hogan, Grover,2
Parties calling for the above letters
will please say advertised.
H. f. FARIss, p. NJ.
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ach or Indigestion, use DR.. NJ. A.
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UNCALLED FOX LETTERS.

The following is the list of letters for
the week ending December g. 1898.
4 L
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-12
The Price of Liberty.

The white headed old darky approach. ed one of the northern congressman at the foot of the capitol steps, removed his hat and said: "Ize cum all de way fun Nottoway county, cap'n, to see whut yo' kin do fur me. paid $2, TOO fur my liberty, en aim heerd nuthin fun de promises O de gubberment '
 "You mean to say, uncle, that you bought your liberty?" the congressman asked in surprise, thinking to humor the old man.
 "It's a fac, cap'n, en twenty -seben hundred wuz de price"
 ''I thought eternal vigilance was the price of liberty, uncle?"
 Scratching his head for an under standing. the ex-slave replied doubt fully, "Waal, cap'n, dat mout be de case wid de white folks, but de pooh nigger has ter pay cash. ."-Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-12
First Polar Explorer.

The hardy mariners who were the pio' neers in polar discovery achieved won ders, considering that they had every thing to learn about methods of arctic work, and their vessels and equip ment were very inadequate. One of the greatest of all arctic vOyagers was the man who commanded the first true polar expedition, William BarentZ. He sailed from Holland in 1894 on the lit tie fishing smack Mercurius, and the object of his voyage shows how ignor. ant the merchants and seamen of those days were as to the navigability of arc tic seas. Barentz pushed into the un known for the purpose of sailing around the north end of Nova Zemble and find ing a northeast passage to China and SC for a month he skirted the wall of ice that barred his way, seeking in every direction for lane by which he might travel through the pack, putting his vessel about eighty-One times and tray cling back and forth along the ice edge for HOO miles. The highest north he attained during this careful examina- tion of the ice edge was GA statute miles south of the highest point reach ed by Nansen, or STA miles from the pole.-Harper's Weekly.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-12

Latest reports to the State Depart ment tell of marvellous development of ship building in Japan. United States Consul Harris at Nagasaki says that there has just been deliv- cred there the largest steamship ever launched outside of American or Flu rOpean waters. She is the Hitach Mau, built by the Mitsu Bishi Company at Nagasaki. Her displacement is II, ,66O tons. She is classed by Lloyds as 1O0A 1. Her sister ship will be built at once. There was also opened at Nagasaki a new granite dock 371 feet long and besides a complete and powerful plant the ship building company has laid in it's yards for vessels up to 800 feet long, which can also be docked here. The company employs 2000 men.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-12
The Lion of Keos.

There are lions and lions, but the lion of loul is the lion of Hellas, says Professor J. Irving Mannatt in The At lantic. The lions on guard above the gate of Mycene may be older, but they have lost their heads and herewith their main majesty The lion sentinel over Leonidas' grave at Thermopyla disappeared ages ago, though we still possess the inscription written for it by Simonides:
 Of beasts the bravest | of mortals he,
 upon this mound of stone now watched by me.
 The lion of Ch3roneia commentaries 8 great and definite event, but he has been broken to pieces. Better luck has attened the lion of Keos. Couched here on his flank in the living rock, with re- Verted head, 2S feet from tip to tail, every feature perfect, full of life and majesty, one can hardly think of him as mere image made with hands. He looks rather as If ill some prehistoric age-the colossus of his kind-he might have lain down here alive and turned to stone, possibly after clearing the island of its first occupants, for there is myth handed down to us by an old writer that Keos was originally inhabit- ed by the nymphs until they were scared away by lion and fled to Karystos, leaving to the Jumping off place" the name of Lion point. At all events the monument and the myth make perfect fit. Our lion is the very beast to strike terror into nymphs or any other unwel- cnrnn nniohh0rG
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-12
A Hopeless Case.

A Scottish paper tells story of an old Scottish woman who was "unco 7-c~thia without tho money to buy "a drappie % "Lassie, " she said to her little granddaughter, gang round to Donald MCC2lllM aud bring me a gill Tell him I'll pay him f the morning. '"
 Back came the child with refusal Donald declined to part with his whisky without tho cash. Eager and irritated, the old woman cast about for some means of raising the wind, and her eye fell upon the family Bible. "Here, lassie." she said, ''gie him this and tell him to keepit until bring him the siller Of went the little girl, but she soon returned, still carrying the Bible Donald was obdurate
 He says he maun hae the baubees first. granny
 In anger the disappointed grandmoth- CT threw up her hands and exclaimed "Losh, did anybody ever hear the like O. thati The man will neither talk my word nor the word O. God for gill O whusky I''
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-12
Fine Was Reunited. !

Judge Campbell had just heard the evidence against a young Mission hood lum charged with disturbing the peace
 'I think you're guilty, young man, declared the judge Funds Tn the treasury are running tow, so 1 guess I'll have to get in something toward my salary, as Pm getting hard up. I'll fine you $5."
 You've got more money than ] have" pleaded the prisoner.
 "But haven't. Show up what you've got" and the judge emptied his pock- cts, which contained just 36 cents in change, on the desk.
 The prisoner turned all of his pockets wrong side out and produced 9 cents
 You are worse off than I am," said the judge. "Fine remitted. You can go."-San Francisco Post.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-12
NICARAGUA CANAL.
Railroad Opposition is Likely to Be
 Very Strong.

There is going to be very strong railroad opposition to the construc- tiOn of the Nicaragua Canal. The New York World prints a two-column in terview with Joseph Nimmo, the stat istician, in which he declares that the Nicaragua Canal would be without military importance, and almost with out commercial advantages. It will be practically useless in developing our trade with the Philippines, he says, for these reasons:
 "The Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey informs me that the distance from Manila to New York is, via the Suez Canal, 11.565 miles; via the Nicaragua Canal, II, 764 miles; also the distance from Manila to Lon don is, via the Suez Canal, $500 miles; via the Nicaragua Canal, 14,66O miles," Hence, Nimmo argues that the Suez Canal is sufficient for that trade.
 Now. as to the trade of the States of the Pacific Coast with the states east of the Rocky Mountains, twO-thirds of the people of the United States reside west of the Appalachian range, which extends from Vermont to Alabama. The people of the Pacific coast and the great interior country are closely connected in their com mercial and industrial interests by seven transcOntinental railroads Through rail rates are only about One-third of what they were twenty years ago. and it is absolutely absurd to suppose that the trascOutinentaI traffic Of the United States will ever seek the longer and more expensive canal route and the greatly inferior facilities for collection, transpOrta- tion and distribution of freights which would be afforded by it."
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-12
s1OO REWARD sIOO.

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 Address, F. J CHENEY & CU., Toledo, O.
 Sold by IuPgists, 75c
 Halls fhmily Pills gre the best.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-12

mas been presented that is generally ac cepted. Failure to modify and improve existing systems of signaling at sea has led to the investigation and devel
 opment of other methods, and, as might
 be expected, the inQuiring mind has in- stinctively turned to electricity to fur nish solution of the problem. When
 Marconi submitted his plan of tele- graphing across space it-was suggested that 1t be applied to signaling between ships at sea, but closer investigation revealed many objections. One of these has already been found to be very seri- Ous by experience gained with present methods-namely, the dependence that must be placed upon the watchfulness of the crews of other vessels. In the case of an iceberg or a wreck of course no protection whatever would be afford ed, and the destruction of the ship might in a measure be due to the mis- taken sense of security in the presence of danger. But the subject presents a fascinating study, and many solutions or the problem have been suggested. One of the suggestions is now attract ing considerable attention. It proposes to utilize the principle of radiation, and provides for the employment of instru- ments embOdying the essential features of the thermopile and the radiOphone. Warning would be given of the ap- proach of another vessel, of the pres ence of a floating wreck or an ice berg or the vicinity of land itself, as in each case, it is claimed, there would "c . C"ttc~ah'e Ch11-c 1T tho teTpc-1 ture, which would readily be detected by the sensitive instruments provided The suggestion will doubtless require considerable elaboration aI d modified ton before 1t becomes a practicS ble plan, and the gentleman who advances 1t realizes that many important factors must be considered before it can be adopted for actual service; but it cer- tainly is entitled to some consideration, especially in view of the fact that pres ent methods have been shown to be practically worthless In critical emer- gencies.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-12
Woman and the Wheel.
From the Gazette, Delaware, Ohio.

The healthfulness of bicycle riding for women Is still disputed question between eminent physicians and health reformers.
 Used in moderation 1t surely ere ates for women a means of outdoor exercise, the benefit of which all phy- sicians concede. Used to excess, like any other pastime, it's effect is likely to be dangerous.
 The experience of Miss Bertha Reed. the seventeen -year-Old daughter of Mir. J. R. Reed, 335 Lake St., Della ware, Ohio, may point a moral for parents who, like MT. and Mrs. Reed, have experienced some concern for their daughters who are fond of wheeling. IL the fall Of 96 Miss Der tha, who had ridden great deal, be- gan to fail in an alarming manner She grew steadily paler and thinner, and it appeared she was going into consumption. Rest and quiet did her
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-12

AS a term of reprOach, the word dude" is obsolete The war has made it so and the finger of scorn must not point again at the chappies who chew gum and smoke cigarettes. Fifth ave nue exquisites stripped of the flnery of city swelldom have been an honor to the canvas brown and woolen blue of the volunteers. On foot and on horse back with Roosevelt's troopers and jolting into battle line on the caissons and gun carriages of Astor's battery, the dude has demonstrated that, after all, he is really devil of fellow" He has not found campaign drudgery vulgar, the shock of battle has pot been too much for his nerves and his blue blood Is very red on the sands of Cuba and Luzon. Therefore we must re- construct our ideas of American dan dies.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-12
STERN DISCIPLINE.
It Is Necessary In War and the Soldier
 Must Learn to Submit.

One of Detroit's retired officers, who fought ill two wars and helped for years to restrain the savage outbreaks of our Indians, thus delivered himself to the writer:
 1.-The very hardest lesson a young American has to learn when he enters the army IS that of obedience. For the first time, his individual authority is de- throned. He is as fractious as thor Oughbred colt that long rebels against the whip aud spur. It is hard for him to understand that his freedom of action must be subordinated to military neces- sity. He chafes, if he does not openly rebel, but when once whipped into line he makes the best soldier on earth.
 My first drillmaster had been my friend and the friend of my family from my boyhood up. We had hunted and fished and courted together and ex- changed secrets with a freedom that does not obtain among brothers. One day, early i'll my experience as soldier, and while everything was being hurried with view to getting us into Mexico, we had been drilling till I felt ready to drop. The repeated orders struck pain to my ears and would have conscien- tiously sworn that my musket weighed a ton. At length, when within easy ear- shot of him, 1 shouted, For heavens sake, Bob, stop this tomfoolery and let's go over to the tavern
 He never looked at me but roared, Corporal, take that man and drill him like the devil.
 'The corporal did, and thought I'd die of exhaustion. l fully meant to the drillmaster and whip him If he declined, but he succeeded Ill mak- ing me understand the imperative neces- sity of unquestioning obedience in the soldier. It's tough with the raw re- cruit, but the quicker he learns his part the better it is for all concerned"
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-12

The country-bred boy has the dis tinct advantage over the city-bred fel- low in two things: his strength is greater by reason of his country birth, and he has a clearer idea of hard work, says the Ladies' Home Journal. The country-bred boy, as general rule, has to struggle for his existence; he has to help on the farm. and generally it is at hard work. This gives him strength and power of endurance, while ali the tine he is breathing an atmosphere of pure air into his lungs. Experience prepares such a boy for hard work. The city-bred boy rarely knows what hard work is, and when he meets 1t as young man he cannot endure it.. It is true that the cOun- try boy approaches city problems with a lesser knowledge of them than does the city-bred boy. But often, as has been said, the two fundamental essen tials in carving out ones way to a sue cessful career are good health and hard work. With these a young man can accomplish almost anything he de sires; without them he can do nothing.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-12

At last the powers of Europe have concluded that the United States is one of the powers of the world, and 1t Is announced that at an early date the re- public will be recognized by the other six powers as a seventh world power. Official recognition will not count for much, for every man of perception has long known that the United States was about the first of the rank. But it does no hurt for the nations of Europe to confess semiofficially that they have got their eyes open.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-12
A Peculiar Problem.

The Longbow gives somo amusing pieces of Lewis Carroll's humor from the forgotten pages of Oxford pamphlets. During the election at Oxford in 1865 he gave vent to the following Euclidean definition:
 "Plain superfciality is the character of speech in which, any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.
 A note is also given on the right ap- preciation of examiners: "A takes in ten books and gets third class, B takes in the examiners and gets a second. Find the value of the examiners in terms of books; also their value in terms when no examination is held"
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-12

"'' 1'"eo ne"' OuSneSS when he examined her, he watched her closely, but her pulse continued at that rate for two weeks. He was sat isfied then, from her high pulse and steadily wasting condition, that she was suffering from anaemia or a bloodless condition of the body. She became extremely weak, and could not stand the least noise or excite ment. In this condition of affairs they were recommended by an old friend to get some of that famous blood medicine, ,Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. They did so, and almost from the first dose Bertha began to improve. She continued to take the pills and was by means of those pills made entirely, well, and more grateful people than her parents cannot be found in the whole state of Ohio.
 Dr. Williams Pink Pills have proved a boon to womankind. Acting direct ly on the blood and nerves, they re- store the requisite vitality to all parts of the body; creating functional reg ularity and perfect harmony through out the nervous system. The pallOr of the cheeks is changed to the deli- cate blush of health; the eyeg brighten; the muscles grow elastic, ambition is created and good health returns.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-12

Investigation into the conditions at tending the disaster of the French liner La BOurgogne reveals some of the perils to which ocean travellers are now exposed-perils that might be removed by the development of a more perfect system of signaling in storms and fOggy weather than that now employed. At present auricular signals are used, but these frequently fail to give timely warning, and the inevitable collision follows, finding the crew and passen- gers wholly unprepared. Sometimes criminal negligence on the part of the crew of one or both vessels is respon- sible for such disasters, and again 1t may be due entirely to atmospheric conditions which prevent ships from in- tercepting the signals, although other vessels much farther away may detect them perfectly. This phenomenon has been investigated by the German, French and American governmental but thus far no satisfactory explanAtt0R
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-12
A Talented House Agent.

Mrs Characterization certainly don't expect anybody to take this house Why, the floors all run down hill
 Agent Ga smart man)-It was built in that way on purpose, mum, to keep peace in the family. Greatest invention of the age, mum.
 Mrs. Homeseeker-Keep peace in the family? What do you mean?
 Agent-It's all right. mum; nothing like it. Whenever your husband drops his collar button. they'll roll down to that wall. and he'll always know where to find 'em. London Tit Bits
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-12

A short time ago the death of either Gladstone or Bismarck would have seemed not only an irreparable loss, but arevolution-provOking catastrophe. To- day they are both gone, and not a ripple is caused thereby on the tide of human affairs. The loss was great, but it was personal and historical only. So small, after all, Is even the greatest mans place in the world when once his work is done
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-12
From many ouarters comes demand

for the abolition of prize money as a part of our system Of rewards for naval prowess. The system Is undoubtedly open to criticism and even to denuncia- ton, for its only excuse is to be found in ideas of war that have long been abandoned on land, and it Is to be hoped that before our navy has any more fighting to do matters will have been so arranged that the sense of duty done and glory won-nOt to speak of generous pay honestly earned and drawn-will be for the sailor as for the soldier a sufficient recompenso.