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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-10-20
Commander Mason, Retired, cad.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.-Word has been
received here of the death Sunday, at
Saugerties Depot, n. v, of Lieut.. Com
mander T. b. NJ. Mason, U. S. n, re-
tired. Commander Mason was a ma
tive of New York, and was 81 years of
age. He was instrumental in develop
ing the office of naval intelligence,
which proved of great value to the
government during the Spanish-Amer-
lean war
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-10-20
Kentucky Masons to Meet.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct. 1.-THE ma.
sonic grand lodge of Kentucky will as
semble at Louisville Monday for a
number of important meetings. There
will be three distinct bodies in session
the Knights Templars on Monday
evening, the grand lodge on Tuesday
morning and the grand chapter Thurs
day evening. 1t Is estimated that
from :, 600 to 10, 900 masons will attend.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-10-20

BoNIAM, Tex, Oct. 17.--Mr. Ed Sta.
ger, of this city, who was one Of the
most extensive dealers in mules and
horses during the Spanish-American
war, has just fillei contract with the
British government for 1900 mules for
service in South Africa in the war with
the Beers
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-10-20

CLEVELAND O., Oct. 17.-The wives
and daughters of the striking en-
ployes of the Big Consolidated Street
Railway Co. will meet Friday evening
to form union, the purpose of which
will be to bolster up the waning en-
thusiasm of the men.
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Gen. McCiernand's Condition.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Oct. 17--Gen. John
A. McClernand spent restless day
sunday, and toward evening his tenn
perature rose. He is still unable to
eat, and there are fears that he will
not recover.
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Held for Killing.

WEST LIBERTY, Ky, Oct 1.-THE ex-
aiming trial for the prisoners for the
killing of Kelse Burton, at White Oak,
October :. was concluded before Judge
Blair. sam Reed was held in bond
of S3. 600. Jim Reed and John Gully. as
accomplices. were held in a bond OF
81, 500 each. Tne bonds were promptly
SWAN
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-10-20
The Buckeye Drill. --.-....,A

We deem them The best and Iightest run
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feed in this drill is the only successful feed
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We guarantee it to give perfect satisfaction.
We invite the farmers to call and see
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In the case of S. b. Nichols VS.. Lloyd
Cecil, the jury returned a verdict Satur-
day afternoon awarding the complainant
S322. %. This was a case growing out of
a wheat transaction between the two
parties to the suit in which it was
charged that defendant sold complainant
a quantity of wheat represented to be
No. 3" part of which proved to be
" No. t."
Chancellor Alternately adjourned court
Saturday afternoon until Tuesday morn
ing.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-10-20

A treasurer of the city Of Glasgow,
who stole 100000, has been sentenced
to five years penal servitude. One hun
dred and sixty thousand dollars year
is pretty fair salary. says the Chicago
Times Herald, even for working q tread
mill.
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Powder NIiIIErnln.inn-

SCRANTON, Pa, Oct. 17.-The Con-
sumers' powder mill at Peckville. a
suburb. blew up at 5 a. m. Monday.
Two men are known to b. dead and
several others are missing.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-10-20

An Actress Writing ESItory of Tragedy.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Oct, lit is
learned Monday that actress Julia
Morrison James, who killed her mana
ger, is writing the story of her life and
the history of the tragedy.
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Small Fire.

A negro cabin on the place of. Mr.. A.
Greenlaw, near Spring Hill. was destroy
ed by fire last night The loss was
small: no insurance.
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The first Tennessee Annual Conference
was held at Fountain Head, Tenn, Nov,
y. 1912, with Bishops McKendree and
Asbury presiding. From 1903 to 1912
the territory embraced in the Tennessee
Conference was part Of the Western
Conference. In 1903 the Western Con
ference was held at Liberty Hill, Will
hanson county, but the record from that
time until 1911 is not in hand.
Columbia has had the honor of enter
tanning the Tennessee Conference six
times, as follows: , 1874, Blsh-
ops Soue and McKendree; Oct, >, 1896,
Bishop Thos. A. Morris; Oct. 30, 1874,
Bishop E. S. James; Oct. y 20, 1883,
Bishop John EARLY: Oct. 40, 1876,
Bishop J. c. Keener: Oct, lib, 1889,
Bishops Wilson and Mcryeire.
At the session held here in 1924, the
Conference was divided, the Holston
Conference being formed, holding Its
session at Knoxville.
In 1870, when the Tennessee Confer
ence met at Pulaski, the North Alabama
Conference was formed, and the territory
of the Tennessee Conference reduced.
The membership of the Tennessee
Conference in 1870 was $3.50; in 1880
4G,42S- am increase of 81 per cent; anc
in 1898. 81 .302-an increase since 1870 OF
nearly 100 per cent.
From the above an idea may be formed
as to the grand work this organization
has done and is doning,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-10-20

QUEENSTOWN, Oct 17.-The Cunard
line steamer Etruria, from Liverpool
Saturday, which sailed hence Sunday
for New York, has among her passen.
gers so Irish ladies, postulants for the
Sisterhood of Divine Providence, who
are on their way to San Antonio, Tex.
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MARRIAGES..

r. L. Murphy to Miss Sallie Roddy.
Henry Mills to Miss Florence Owen.
COLORED,
Jim Hill to Caroline Lewis.
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ConkIiug and Hanna

The Washington correspondent of the De- troit Journal pulishes the following story, told to him by Senator Hanna, of Conk- ling's visit to Garfield at Mentor, in the winter of 1880:
 Lord, Conkling looked upon all those persons as though they were children. He lowered above all. Perhaps he was not so much taller, but he was so stiff and straight and magnificent. He made every thing around that Garfield place look as stiff as though it were nailed fast You know what pleasant honey sort of place the Garfield house was. Just like the home on a big farm, nothing more. The only time he unbent was when Garfield's moth CT was presented. My, but things were for nal. He paid attention to me as he would to the driver of one of the hacks l had promised to get him back in town at 3 o'clock. He asked me about the time sev- eral times. That seemed to be the only thing on his mind. A rain storm came up and he got really nervous. We waited un- til it slacked up little, when we sent those horses to the station fast as the wind. I went to the engineer and told him 1 was a ruined man if the train stopped in the station a minute after 3 o'clock. That en- gineer herocally saved my reputation. Never saw a train go faster. As he got out of the train showed Conkling my watch. With the slightest possible bending of his head, he said: You are a man of your word.'"
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the experts who examined the relic were satisfied that it was a genuine specimen preserved in the earth since the prehistoric ages.
 Naturally enough there was note Of dis cord in the midst of this scientific rejoicing. The archaeologists agreed that it was gen. uine and estimated 1t to be anywhere from 100000 to 500,OOO years old, basing their cal culations on the various strata of earth covering 1t and the discussion that followed was extremely heated in it's character.
 Professor Whitney, of Harvard, was one of the emphatic advocates of the genuine ness of the discovery and he did great deal to arrest the suspicious that were felt, especially by the mass and file of the news paper readers of that time He assured the public that the relic was actually the skull of A man who had lived ages before. Chem ical analysis, he said, proved that it was not taken from the surface but that it was dug up somewhere from some place where
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eist and ethnologist of note, in the country. According to the story that was told the skull was found 130 feet below the surface in Bald mountain, Calaveras county, Cal, and was in close proximity to completely petrified oak. All along the region where this find was made is a series of high, double topped elevations which rise from 300 to 400 feet above the bed of Angels creek Bald mountain is the most conspic- uous of these hills.
 In sinking the shaft at the bottom of which it was claimed the skull was found the miners penetrated a 40 foot strata or black lava, followed by feet of gravel, 10 feet of light lava, 25 feet of gravel 3 feet or dark brown lava and feet of gravel, at the bottom of which the skull lay, so thick iy imbedded in and incrusted with earthy and stony material that was some time before 1t was recognized as human skull.
 In June 1866, Dr. William Jones' of Mur- pheys, took the news to San Francisco, ana a party of government experts at once went to the spot to examine the skull and the place where it was alleged to have been found. The skull was by no means per feet one as the whole of the parietal and nearly the whole of the occipital bones, as we'll as a large part of the right half Of the base of the skull was missing. Most of the bones of the face were intact, however, and
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it had been long deposited and where it had undergone changes which do not take place in objects buried near the surface.
 The appearance of the skull, he went on, showed that it was not an ordinary skull picked up at random in order that 1t might be palmed off as curiosity on unsuspect- ing geologsts, and after these words of as- surance it is not surprising that the un- scientific world accepted the specimen as genuine.
 For a year or more the various scientific institutions pulled every possible wire to get possession of the remarkable relic and at last it was taken to Cambridge, Mass, where for more than thirty years 1t has rested in glass case, the most important of the many rare specimens on exhibit in the great museum of Harvard university. Of course there have been people who have persisted in regarding the Calavras skull as a hoax. Before Bret Harte got civiliza- ton and went to Europe, before he had smoothed his tousled hair into refined and proper British bang, he wrote an ad- dress to this relic of the pliocene age. In this poem the poet called upon the ''frag- mentary fossel'' to tell the wondrous secret of its past existence. Then:
 "Even as gazed thrill of the maxilla, And lateral movement of the condyloid
 process,
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Mountain and seashore

As the heated term approaches one be- gins to look over the advantages of the various resorts and make arrangements for the summer outing. In this connection the Chesapeake and Ohio railway, which connects with the Louisville and Nash- vile and Queen and Crescent railways, of- fers to those contemplating a summer vacation greater variety of resorts than any other line. Both the mountain and sea shore resorts of the Virginias and the New England coast are reached by the famous F. F. V. limited of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway. The trains of this com pany. vestibuled throughout, lighted by electricity, with observation and dining cars, are unsurpassed in modern equip ment For full information of resorts, rates, etc., apply Louisville and Nashville off1ce Morris avenue, or Queen and Cres- cent ticket office, or address c. B. Ryan, A. G. P. A., Cincinnati, o.
 5-7-sun-wed-tf.
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"rusticated," or sent off to corcord ih q sort of studious punishment, under a pre- ceptor, as 0 punishment for consistently failing to attend morning prayers at the chapel. This fact caused great consterna- tion among his classmates, for he had been selected as class poet and the rus stication forbade his presence in Cambridge until commencement week.
 About this time q certain Cambridge cit izen went abroad and visited Rome. where he called on pr. Lowell, and gave him all the Cambridge news He went on thus with some of the items:
 The parts for commencement have been assigned. Rufus Ellis is the first scholar, and is to have the oration."
 Dr. Lowell expressed interest.
 Your son James has been rusticated, and will not return to college until commence ment week."
 The father expressed no particular inter- est in this sad news. It evidently gave him no distress.
 But the class have chosen him their class poet.'
 "Oh, dear" Dr. Lowell broke out, de- spairingly, James promised me he would quit writing poetry and go to work!'
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William Blacks Expenditures

Here is an amusing story which Mrs. William Black tells, and which is charac- teristic of the extraordinary forgetfulness of her husband the novelist, in regard to his own work as soon as the proof sheets were safely out of his hands
 "In the course of conversation with my husband one day." Mrs. Black says, T sud- denly remembered an anecdote which illus trated what was saying ,and related 1t to him. He laughed heartily, said it was a very good story, and asked me eagerly where I had heard 1t. His face was a study when told him that I had read it in one of his own books"
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Mistaken for a Senator

A story which John Sherman relates of the speaker of the house has to do with 0 visit made by Mr. Reed to Lake Champlain, N. Y. MT. Reed, Senator Sherman and Congressman Foote were being shown around by native who had the story of that region at his tongues end, and who. much to the amazement of his listeners, was throwing in lot of historical fiction as establishment to his tale. The native seemed to take a particular interest in "stuffing'' MT. Reed. whose identity was unknown to him. In spirit of fun Senator Sherman introduced the speaker
 '"This gentleman he said to the native, lis Speaker Reed. the speaker of the Amer lean congress-"
 'sDo tell!" said the native. without any great degree of astonishment
 i've heard somewhat of yous" he con- tinued, addressing the speaker. They do say as how you be the greatest speaker what they have ever had. They do say
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Every since the time when man first be- gan to take an interest in the existence of prehistoric races there have been men who have found great pleasure in the fact that they have been able to fool the scientists. Again wonders have been found in the most unexpected places and generally the alleged prehistoric specimen has been declared to be hoax. We have had the Cardiff Giant and relics of the stone and other distant ages have been unearthed in almost every part of this country from Maine to Califor- mia, but there have been few fakes that have fooled as many great scientists as the famous Calaveras skull.
 When this remarkable skull was first brought to the attention of the scientific world in 1866, no one questioned its au- thenticity. It was generally looked upon as the oldest skull in existence and as such was examined by almost every anthropolo-
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eHORT STORES OF THE DAY

On one occasion two gentlemen, invited as guests at table where MT. Gladstone was expected, made a wager that they would start conversation on a subject about which even Mir. Gladstone would know nothing. To accomplish this end they read up an ancient magazine article on unfamiliar subject connected with Chinese manufactures. When the favorable oppor- tunity came the topic was started and the two conspirotors watched with amusement the growing interest in the subject which Mr. Gladstones face betrayed. Finally he
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Notice of Bond sale

Sealed bids will be received by the finance committee of the city of Birmingham, Ala, until Wednesday noon, July 18th, 1899, for forty-five thousand dollars (s45,Oo00O of public improvement special assessment bonds of said city, bonds to run for ten dW years and to bear interest at the rate of six (6) per cent. per annum, interest pay able annually, and principal and interest payable in gold. City reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Certified check for $5O0.0O payable to mayor and aldermen of Birmingham'' must accompany each bid. For further information address
 R. H. KERR,
 Chairman Finance Committee
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WAS IT \ NEWSPAPER "FAKE ?"
Skull ImpOstiOn-It Has Been in the Harvard Museum
 Fol Thirty Years.

With post-pliocene sounds of healthy mas
 tieatlon,
 Ground the teeth together. And from that imperfect dental exhibition, Stained with expressed juices of the weed
 nicotian, Came those hollow accents, blest with
 softer murmurs
 Of expectoration. l" (Which my name is Bowers, and my crust
 was busted Falling down a shaft in Calaveras county, But. I'd take it kindly if you'd send the
 pieces
 Back to old Missouri. " The scientists who read the poem laugh ed at the wit of the poet, but they shrugged their shoulders pityingly at the assumption that they had been hoodwinked That was years ago, however, and today the same Harvard scientists are willing to admit that
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Mira. Winslow,s Soothing svru

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One Fare for Educational Association

A one fare for the round trip has been authorized from all points in Alabama to Birmingham and return, on account of the annual convention of the Alabama Educa- tional association, which Is to meet in this city on June 27, 2S and 29 Tickets will be on sale from June 24 to 27, inclusive, and will be good for return until June 30.
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lsv dencp in His Favor
rom the Chicago Tlmes-Ierald.

From the Chicago Times-Herald.
 Yes" she sighed, my husband brides himself on his horse sense."
 "Well," said her neighbor, "it seems to make you sad to think of it. Don't you believe he really has it?''
 "Oh, I guess he has it all right. Any way, he's nearly always kicking"
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Promised to Drop Poetry

Dr. Edward Everett Hale, in his book. "James Russell Lowell and His Friends" tells story which illustrates the serious ness of the offense of writing poetry, in the opinion of some practical people.
 During the last year of Lowelrs course at Harvard, his father, Dr. Lowell. spent most of his time in Rome. Young Lowell was, In the summer of the graduation,
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Bret Harte actually knew more about bones than they themselves, for since Professor William H. Holmes has completed his ex- haustive examination of the skull, which has included a visit to California, where he talked with men who were residents of Calaveras county when the skull was found, they are compelled to admit that there is reasonable probability that, after all that has been said, the relic is fake.
 Professor Holmes found that while there was no doubt that the place indicated as the spot in which the skull had been found was in one of the oldest of the land forma- tions, he has not discovered sufficient evil dence to satisfy him that the specimen was not planted as stupendous hoax. The testimony is so conflicting that it has been impossible to make the investigation as complete as he would desire, but the ap- pearance of the skull itself lends spirit of truth to the assumption that it was not genuine relic, for if it really was the skull of a prehistoric man there can be no doubt that a race of people existed tens of thous- ands of years ago whose type of civilization and intellectual development was fully as high as that of the race that inhabits this continent today.
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\ Good Memory

From the Yonkers Statesman.
 He Gas they are seated in a quiet nook near the links-Are you quite sure we never met before this season?
 She-Yes; quite positive.
 And you haven't a sister,"
 "No: why do you ask?"
 Well I'm positive I've hugged that shirt waist before somewhere"
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A Natural Battery

From the Chicago News. "Our doctor keeps a medical battery in his ofIlce"
 "Ours don't need one.' How does he manage when his patients need a shock?"
 Hands in his bill"
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stimulating Talent

From the Chicago Record
 That new actress does very well, but she can't faint worth cent"
 "She can't? Well. go out and get cater pillar and put it on her froek.'
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MOzIey'S Lemon Elixir.

Cured my husband, who was afflicted for years with large ulcers on his leg, and was cured after using two bottles; and cured a friend whom the doctors had given up to die who had suffered for years with in- digestion and nervous prostration.
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joined in the conversation, and their amusement was turned into gnashing of
 teeth-to speak fguratively-when MT.
 Gladstone said "Ah, gentlemen, I perceive you have reading an article wrote for the -Magazne some thirty or forty years
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Gratitude.

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Mozfey's Lemon Elixir

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For Tropical Weather

From the Detroit Free Press.
 "0ur naval officers ought to adopt Rud- yard Kipllngs formula for good health" What's that?"
 keep your pores open and your mouth shut"
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