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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-07-18
DObbinS
&
Ewing.

distinction of being the most lsolateo
town within so miles of London. Inc
island lies off the coast of Essex, ana
the remoteness of this small town,
which is in the center, may be Juogeo
nv the fact that it is about two miles
from the coast. A boat must be USED
in order to reach any place beyond
the island, and tramp or ride Oh
10 miles must be taken in order 10
reach the nearest post town, which is
Rockford, the nearest railway station
being at Southend.
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Grand Canyon OF the Yellowstone.

The climax of everything grand and
majestic is reached at the Grand Can
Won of the Yellowstone. Describing
his visit TO the canyon, the late DR.
Talmage said, and bis words may seem
even more eloquent now: "What a
hall this would be for the last judg.
ment-at the bottom of this great can.
Won, the nations Of the earth might
stand, and all up and down these gal.
leries of rocks, the nations of Heaven
might sit."-From westward Hobby
v. v. Beard, in Four-Track News.
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TO Our Friends,
Customers and
sympathizerss

And if we may Judge by the kind words spoken to us
from so many sources, that takes in EVERYBo4.
We are "slightly disfgured, but still in the ring For
the present, and until we put our house in order
again. you will find the Northwest side OF the
Public Square, in the Grigsby building, where we are
ready for business and will be glad to serve you
We shall replenish stock at once In tact, new
goods have already in Other goods are on the way
Don't imagine we are sin it," What we cannot carry
in our saesroom our large ware-roon Whatever
YOU need or want in nes-you know the class and
kinds of goods carry-give us a CALL
OF course the salvage from old stock gives US many
goods slightly damaged, just good though tor use as II
we had never had fire. Mighty small prices are being
placed these goods and you want big values you hau
best them
We your trade just the same as ever ana lltce
same and will sell you the right goods at the right prices.
Thanking you for your sympathy and kind Words we
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COL. SPOONER'S MULE

Ola man Sowerby had finished his
s.tradin' down 10 the pound Of Fragrant
Mixuonette tobacco for the hired man and
the dimes worth Of 'stripud stick candy for
the grandchildren, and, accepting the
storekeeper's customary cigar, with the Gus
tomary joking request for a mustard plaster
TO help it draw, he strolled outside the
door. where Wash Hancock and Mart Per
sons were lounging on shoe boxes, which
were rapidly being destroyed by their IN
dustriOus jack-kniyes.
That's good scheme, Uncle Jake. sad
Hancock, shifting ostentatiously. 1t
wouldn't be no mOre'n what Rufe deserves
to smoke inside. But. then, inherent peo-
ple-wimmen and kids-has to go IN Ter
their groceries an it hain't right they should
have ter suffer. Take soap box an make
yerself comfort BILE How's all the folks"
"Torable smart, 'ceptin' Dick. He's got
some sort of a misery in his bach" replied
the old man. Il guess it hain't nothin
alar1nin though"
Il have that by SPELLS" said Hancock.
'Ye-es," said old man Sowerby, but
Dick gets his by workin' too hard. He's
right ambitious. You wuzn't never plagued
that way. Swappin' mules an lies may be
hard on the intellec', but it don't give a
man the backache."
Haven't made a mule trade fer a month
O. Sundays said Wash. 1--WE got good
one, though, I'd like you to look at, Uncle
Jake. | en- afford to let you have him at
a bargain, because he didn't cost me much
of anythin'. | bought him at sheriff's sale
when Tad Hefferly wuz sold out"
"I'm sort O. keerful about mules bought
Il. IL nv
allus have ter think o Col. Bill Spooner's
mule, Caractacus. You never heered
Col. Spooner. He wuz long afore your
time. He useter own tobacco plantation
down on the Little Tarkio, jest afore the
war. He wuz a widower, an as mean Of
cuss as ever stood in cowhide. Stood six
foot three in his socks, when he wore any.
Zone time there wuz a vendoo of stray
stock, an Col. Bill bid in an OF mouse-col-
ored mule for three dollars. 1t was an or
merry, moth-eaten lookin' animal, and you'd
hit it anywhere with Stat you'd have
Jared your arm up to the shoulder blade.
The colonel sent the mule home with boy
they called Scipio. Scipio an Caractacus,
which was the mules name, struck up
great friendship, Col. Bill useter latf an
swear they wuz brothers when he wuz in
good humor. An fer a fac Caractacus d
work fer Scipio when there wuzn't another
person on the place ed do anythin' with
him.
Zone mornin' the colonel caught Scipio
filling up his pardner with an extry al
lowance O. oats an he said he wusn't goln
ter have no favoritism O that sort on his
place if he had ter do violence to his own
tender feelins an infict corporal punish
ment ter prevent it. So he had Scipio tied
up and wore a rawhide out on him with his
own hands-like to have fogged himself
out O. 81 800. Caractacus wuz in the barn
where the whippin' wuz goin' on an ne
seen it.
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breaking the Strike at Shamokfn.

Shamokin, Pa, July 1.-Two cars
of special policemen and labors ar
rived here to-day from Schuylkill
county. The men, so in all, went to
work at the Reading Co.'s Henry
Clay washery and it was successfully
started. The strikers made no dem
onstration.
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Jumped in Front Of . Drain.

Denver, Col, July 15.-Lena Rohm-
err, aged %, of Gretna, Neb., jumped
in front of Union Pacific train at
the Union station here, evidently
with the intention of committing sui
eide. Both her legs werec ut off, and
she will die. Miss Rohmer was en-
route to Glenwood Springs for her
health, and had just alighted from .
train from the east.
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THE BATTLESHIP ILLINOIS.
strtke. the BottOm of the HarbOr at
Christiania, Norway, ana Must
Return to England.

Christiania Norway, July 15.-Ow-
ing to faulty steering gear the
United States battleship Illinois
struck the bottom of the harbor'
which will compel her to go back to
England and be placed in dry dock
there.
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Corea at 81. .Leui. worlds Fair.

Yokohama, July 15.-The emperor
Of Corea received John Barrett, COM
missioner Of the St. Louis exposition,
in audience on July IL, and accepted
the invitation for Corea to particle
pate In the exposition.
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Richmond, Ind, July 15.-R. A.
Jackson, of this city, has been APP
pointed general attorney Of the Chi
road Co., with headquarters in Chi
cago. The appointment is effective
August 1.
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The Friars Must Go.

Washington, July 1.-THE reply OF
Secretary Root to Gov. Taft's dis
patch has been cabled to Rome.
The position of the Unitde Stats 10
unchanged. The friars must be with
krawp.
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''Next day-it wuz long in the afternoon
the colonel wuz a settin' on the veranda
playin' with a straw an somethln' wet IN
a glass, when Caractacus strolls up IN
easy, unconcerned sort of way an begins
croppin' little on the lawn here an there
as if he belonged. Finally the colonel no.
ticed him and began to holler fer somebody
to come an turn the mule out. The men
wuz all in the field, so the colonel said
few sorter emphatic things an got up to
turn him out himself. Caractacus, std o,
movin' fer the gate, walked up to meet him
like he wuz pet an expected sugar
easy, an mild; but when he( got within
range he wheeled like flash an kicked
the colonel clear over the veranda an
through the parlor winder, then gave JOY
full bray, an started fer the timber
"When they found the colonel he wuz
quiet an composed. He had been that way,
the doctor said, for about three hours, ap-
parently.
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In Politics..

"He was too dignitied to join in q
scramble for Office.
"And what has he now?"
Nothing but his dignity."-Brook.
;vn Eagle.
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Continues to Improve.

London, July 15.-Following is tho
bulletin on King Edwards condition,
posted at ten o'clock Monday morn
ing at Buckingham palace:
"The king continues to progress
satisfactorily. His condition is ex-
cellent and the wound is healing we'll
[Signed. "TREVES.
"LAKING.
"RARIOWw
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"LAKING.
CARLOW
The Rhodes Clay KiIlins.

Mexico, Mo-, July 1.-THE remains
of Rhodes Clay have been exhumed,
and wound found in the back. Riley
Gpeen testified that after the first
shot was fred he saw Clay reaching
f1r his revolver.
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"In week or two nephew of Spooner S
all the kin he had-come down from Dos
ton to take possession of the property.
Then. bein' a rank abolitionist, he freed all
the niggers an made Scipio present OF
Caractacus an a patch O ground to work.
| b'lieve Scipio an Caractacus slept to-
gether after that.
"But after awhile Caractacus began to
age. One day as | wuz passln' by
| heard Scp an the mule talkin' together.
"'Caractacus,' says Scipio, 'dern yo'
rusty. wuthless OF cawkis, how long does
YOU 'spect Is agwine ter keep yo' pampered
en- corn-fed eff yo' don't do nothin ter
arm yo' Dor? This yer bin am Of marse's
bin, it's Scipio's, en- Scipio don allow no
ornery OF rack O. bones ter empty it less'n
he kin do somthin' todes film it. l ain
er gwine ter shoot yo' yo ain wuth powder
an ball-but doan' want yo' around
"Jes' then Caractacus lifted one foot from
the ground an Scipio slid inside O the barn.
l know that mules heart wuz broke right
there, but exceptin' ter drap his head he
wuz too proud to show it, He had too much
self-respect ter stay around the place after
that, too, an walked straight out. As he
passed me he looked up an / seen great
tears standin' in his eyes"
you'll have me weepin', too, if you keep
on that away, Uncle jake said Hancock.
'Wuz that the mule you had hitched with
the bald faced mare when you druv in las
Sat'dy.'
"'No. that wusn't Caractacus,' replied
old man Sowerby. Caractacus died. There
wuz suthin pecooliar an affectin' about the
wav of it, too, but l reckon I'd better be
startin' fer home sted o loafn around like
the rest O you town folks
"'Tell us how he died said Parsons.
"Jes' sort of natchel death-old age,
I reckon, you'd call it that, anyway. !
think-but then we'll call it old age
"Iet him alone said Hancock, don't
YOU see he's Dustin ter tell it?
know it myself, so / amt anxious
"'You had better te, it, them said old
man Sowerby, with note Of irritation in
his voice.
"Tt wuz this away, said Hancock, turn.
in to Parsons. Il remember it mighty well.
One day old man Timberlake come arounu
an started a story about some woman that
had been consoomed with hopeless passion
fer Col. Spooner an wuz strewin the fra.
grant blossoms of spring on his grave. So
some o the boys hid themselves benin the
Pollock monument to see whit kind O.
looking crtter got fol of Of Bill. They
saw Caractacus amble up with his mouth
full OF roses an tears streamin down his
cheeks As soon as he had dropped the
flowers on the grassy mound he give deep
sob an laid down with his head scrost the
grave an died. That wuz the way of IL,
wasn't it, Uncle JakeY
ITS pity you amt got no sense, Wash,
said old m,n Sowerby, but, then, you
never had any an it'd make you feel
strange. Chicago Daily News
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n A 7 j R (.
WOman'S Constitution.

Beginning at the time when girhood blossoms
Into lovely womanhood, through all her life, until
the first few silver streaks proclaim advancing age
woman's days of cold and suffering again, just
as the moon continues everlastingly to grow and
wane, and bring her weakness. headache, chills
discomfort and depression; yet she bears her bur
den patiently and with rare courage. The only
relief may gain Is through allevaon strengthen
Ing herself, insuring quiet nerves and rest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-18
TODAY'S MARKET REPORT.

Chicago, March S-WHEAT-Weather
predictions Jet favored the winter wheat crop
the opening, May wheat started a shade
soon d ie to e on besra seing
following lower cables and warmer wealth
from Argentine i The local crowd started
to take the selling side of the market, but
Selling and trade Soon oueted Later there lre
was a, slight reaction and May advanced
be turning slightly bullish. Wheat from
that quarter is gradually narrowing, Up
under our May option is now only TIC
under. Local receipts were SO carS-1 car
Of contract grade: Minneapolis and Du-
the three points OF 40 cars, against 3lS
Damage reports from the southwest had
some effect in holding wheat prices up,
the worlds visible. Shorts covered and
May, went up to 751sc. closing firm and
CORN-Corn started out weak on selling
by the crowd, induced by lower cables and
fne Msa at oen pedle59e for tie
lower, at 6la4d6l1sc Trade at the start was
quoted down and good demand sprung
up on on, the decline; Prices for 81, May ad-
ceipts were somewhat over the estimate
The wheat strength helped corn-May up
to 621sc, but selling and the warm weather
closed easy and a shade lower. at 613gc.
with other grains and fair commission
house selling. May was sttll nervous and
early was only lightly traded in. July and
September options were in fair demand.
May started 1sc down. at 445sc, eased. to
Age again. Receipts were 155 cars.
PROVISIONS-Hog receipts were 14,000
head, under the estimate. This influenced
buying in provisions. May pork opened 21ac
up, at $3.50, eased 21ae, but regained its
up. at So. 371z@9.40, and May ribs PIC up,
WHEAT-Cash: No. 2 red S2aS3c;. No.
red, 7sGS0c; No. 2 hard winter. 74G75c:
No. hard winter, T4Q75c; No. northern
spring, 75m77c; No. northern spring, 74130
TIC; No. 3 spring. 70@7414c.
CORNING. 8, 59m591c.
OATS-No. q 44GI441ac; No. g. 43s4 044c.
FLAX--1Cash: NV, $172; S.-W-, $L6s;
May, SLIP.
RYE-May, 56s4 @57c: July, 57Ac.
BARLEY-Cash: 60GI65c.
T1MOTHY-March. Sc 10
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ATTEMPT TO KILL.
A Vicious Attack Made on Rev.
Mr.. HOust.


Elizabeth, Nj. March 1s.-An attempt
was made to kill the Rev. Mr.. Houst.
pastor of the German Lutheran church
of this place last night. The police be-
lieve that the would be assassins were
italian anarchists. After the shooting
of President Mckinley Mr.. Houst
preached a sermon in which he de-
nounced the anarchists and declared
they should be driven from the country.
On November % last his son Ivan mys-
teriously disappeared and the minister
subsequently received threatening let
tiers, in which it was said that the boy
was in hell and that the father also
would be sent there. Some weeks ago
his little daughter was met on the street
by a young man who tried to entice her
into a house but she began to cry, at
tracing the attention of passers by and
the man took fright and hurried away.
Last night Mr.. Houst heard steps on
the porch of his home and he went out
to investigate. AS he did so he was
knocked down by a blow on the head
with someSlzind of blunt weapon. AT
ter he was Frustrated one of his assafi-
ant knelt on his chest. threw a cloth
over his face and showed it into his
mouth as a gag with one hand, while
with the other he drove a knife into the
minister's chest inf1icting a deep flesh
wound. The wounded man was found
by his wife and a physician was called.
He found that the knife wound was
slight but that the blow on the head
caused serious injury.
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New York Stock.

Wall Street, New York, March IS
KS-Amalgamated Copper started
downwards again this morning, but this
did not interfere with the general ten
dency of stocks to advance. There were
some fairly large takings in large num-
Der of instances. The New York public
utilities were in demand. Brooklyn Rapid
Transit. Brooklyn Union Gas and Console
dated Gas rose about point. All of them
reacted on secondary dealings. Pacific
Mail rose a large fraction on the passage
by the senate of the ship subsidy bill.
The railroad stocks were sluggish and
did not receive much immediate benefit
from a rise of IL points in c. c. G. and
St. Louis and New York Central. Consol-
idated Gas and Pacific Mail. which had
opened with good gains, reacted below last
night and liquidation in Evansville and
Terre Haute stocks lowered them IL to z
points. Sugar was under pressure. but
Amalgamated Copper was supported and
got above g. Other pronounced move
ments included advances of points in
American Tobacco preferred, in North
American. 21a in Continental Tobacco pre-
ferred. 49, in General Electric and i to 11a
in New York. Chicago and St Louis sec
ond preferred, Colorado Fuel. American
Bicycle preferred and American Mailing
preferred Losses Of a point each were
made by St. Joseph and Grand Island pre-
ferred and Westinghouse Electric but the
latter recovered when General Electric adj
vanced. Toward Ii o'clock there was some
demand for the Transcontinental stocks,
under the lead of St. Paul. which crossed
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HE WAITED 20 YEARS.
New Jersey Man Finally Marries
Early Kansas Love.

Chicago, March 1s.-A romance which
began on a Kansas plain n any years
ago Will reach happy termination next
week, when Mrs. A S. Champion, who
is visiting friends at 7O06 Normal avenue
will leave for Trenton, N. J., to become
the wife of +. Blackell, a banker of the
New Jersey city.
Twenty years ago Mr. Blackwell serv-
ed as best man for his friend and rival,
Arthur s. Champion, when he was mar
ried in Wichita, Kan, to the girl they
both loved. After the ceremony was
over Blackwell, brokenhearted, left for
the east. He never has married
A month ago Blackwell learned that
Mrs Champion had become a widow,
and he fastened to Grand Rapids, Mich,
where she was visiting relatives. There
was a hearty greeting, and days We're
recalled when they lived on neighboriny
ranches in Kansas and both Blackwell
and Champion were suitors for the
girls hand.
blackwell again declared his love, and
Mrs. Champion, who had been hardly
certain of her heart back in 1882, agreed
to become his wife. The wedding was
set for the last week in March.
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seeker, this being my first venture in pol
itics am teacher and have been TEACH en-
the past sixteen years, in the cities or
Fort Scott, Goffeyville, Ottawa and FL Do o
RADIO. I have conducted or instructed in
"a county normal Institutes in the counties
of Bourbon. Montgomery, Pawnee, Frank
president of the Southeastern Kansas
Teachers, association in 1901, ! am a pub
the hope of the republic and that the best
schools are none too good for the poorest
Butler county convention, that / may have
a delegation favoring my candidacy at the
Wichita convention May e.
Senator Peterson of Norton county was
porter down there that Bailey would win
the Republican nomination for governor
the % %qn Re W said pave George F. coe IS
probably the second man in the race, all
made a better showing than Cole so far
as delegates to the convention have been
chosen"
W. E. Pitts OF Beloit. an anti-Reeder
f fSe E gBes 14f the dSl9wg nP
Reeder-W Wallace, Logan, Graham, Phil
lips and Sherman solid. and a portion Of
and Russell. Wellington-O Osborne, Lin
coin and Ellsworth, solid, and q portion of
and Russell. White-Smith. Jewell. Chey
emo. and Sheridan solid and q portion of
lis. Doubtful-Trego and Cove. Accord
ing to Mr.. Pitts estimate there will be a
coed many divided delegations.
candidate to run against Chester I.
Long in the Seventh district has appeared.
He is Frank Oyler of Dodge City, county
attorney of Ford county. He is a Demo-
GRAFT
Kansas CITY KAN is holding its breath
in expectancy just now. The resigna ton
of Nat Barnes postmaster is effective
tomorrow, and it is believed Congressman
Bowersock will name his successor today
or tomorrow. 1t has been the cause OF all
kinds of trouble.
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Heart
@
Beats

that are too fast or too slow,
too strong or too weak, are not
the kind that come from a
healthy heart. Remember,
every heart that pains, futters,
PalPitates, skips beats, and
every heart that causes fainting
spells, shortness of breath or
smothering, is weak or diseased,
and cannot keep the blood cir
culating at its normal rate.
"My heart was very weak and
kept skipping beats until it
missed from one to three beats a
minute. Well knowing what
the result would be if this trouble
was not stopped, began taking
DR. Miles Heart Cure, and two
bottles brought the heart action
TO its normal condition"
D. D. HOLM,
Huntington, Ind.
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PADEREWSKrS HIT.
Great Pianist Plays to 5000
People in Kansas City.

Kansas City, March 18.-Paderewslxi,
perhaps, never played to a larger audi
ence than he did last night at Conven-
ton hall. 1t was thoroughly represent
tative of the west and numbered some
of the most appreciative musicians and
music lovers of this and adjoining
states. Missouri was represented by
many from schools of learning in the
western part of the state; there were
many persons from Kansas, Nebraska,
the Indian Territory and Oklahoma.
even Texas, Colorado and Iowa people
We're there, who had come to hear the
great pianist
1t was a tribute to the genius of this
man and artist that he could hold as he
did this great audience. He seemed to
sway them at his will and move them
to sympathetic appreciation that found
expression in the silence of suppressed
tension or gratefully enthusiastic APP
plause. After he alone had sat for two
hours or more the sole entertainer of
this aSSemblage, he returned in response
to applause and his magic touch hushed
instantly the noise and uproar of 5000
or 5000 persons preparing to leave the
hall. The power of the master still held
sway and the genius that had wrought
such charm was again supreme.
What has been said of the essential
qualities of Paderewski's art might be
said today without any alteration of
opinion No one, it might be quite safe
ly said, could have bewildered his hear
ers with such a limpid and glistening
shower of musical pearls as he did in
his Interpretation of the List numbers,
or nave numbered SO maSterfully the
proclamation of Chopin's works, or have
sung SO sweetly the melody of the
Beethoven sonata. Paderewski stands
acknowledged the greatest pianist of
our time. He is so ranked by all right.
His Is by nature an artistic tempera-
ment; there is sympathy of feeling for
the composer whose work he is inter-
preting; there is technique unrivaled;
there is physical vigor and strength in
his touch.
He combines herculean strength with
an almost feminine tenderness. Back of
it all is the power of the mind which
sees, grasps and then imparts it's
knowledge through the fingers Paeh-s
mann has the same technical perfection,
but it is the perfection of a 1awless
piece of mechanism; Josef Roffmann's
playing has the fiawlessness of frozen
water-the heart is not there; but
therein. Externals of composition ap-
Paderewski has the wonderful combi-
nation of soul with sense and triu1nphs
peal to him, no doubt. For the sake of
their perfection, however, he does not
lose sight of the fathomless depths of
sentiment or the stormy outbursts of
passion which it may contain. So per-
feet is his art that it seems not like art,
but nature itself