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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-12-02
Birds Cunning.

The great crested fiy-catcher, and
several other BIRDS. wind into Their.
nest one Of the old skins which have
been shed by snakes. so that these
look like live SNAKES coiled about the
nest BY this device other birds or
lizards, intent on stealing the eggs. are
frightened awav.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-12-02
Use Moist Tobacco.

The presence of moisture in tobacco
IS of some importance to public
health, since the combus.icn Of to-
bacco containing large proportion of
moisture is impeded, while as the gen.
Grafton of vapor is increased. SO are
the chances of the poisonous princi-
pie beng carried into the mouth
London Lancet.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-12-02
He TASTED FOR FORTY DAYS
A Religious Enthusiast Dead After
Long Fast Undertaken "By
Divine Command"

Cincinnati, Nov. 27-Death from
fasting, under all impression that hi
was obeying divine command is ths
fate Of Rev. d. C. Buckles, of Addy-
stone, suburb. He was found dead
in bed. He had tasted 40 days.
He had been for years local Meth
odist minister in Cleremont, and came
to Addystone more than a year ago
His license was not renewed last year,
and he became aid adherent of a re-
ligious body outside the regular de-
nominations.
To his former pastor. who pleaded
with him, he said he was acting under
direct command from God, and would,
as result, be much more useful. His
sister living with him. has also been,
fasting, and she declared that her
brother was not dead, but sleeping.
The coroner will hold an inquest.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-12-02
Daily Thought.

There is no policy like politeness,
since a good manner often succeeds
where the best tongue has failed
Magoon.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-12-02
Odd Superstition.

Spanish peasants believe that the
water in which wedding ring has
been dipped will cure weak eyes.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-12-02
DON'T DOM, BE. BE HUMBUGGED|
Look Out For the Oily Tongued Agent Who is
Here Today and Gone Tomorrow.

We are selling tie best lie of aea6leand Steel Ranges
sold in Columbfa e8Et I1f
yo- Frugal 4.ho rarge complete e25
with full line Of tr' innings for W
King Ieable 6cap asbestos lined range, az
with a full line Of t-:rle vessels for W.
pound not
Also the celebrated Columbia Range all steel with back
and closet complete, trimmed, from go 800
Enterprise Cook Stoves. Black and Royal Oak Stoves.
Step Stoves from IS to $500.
Can make prices Heating Stoves, kinds
ranging from sI.s5 to $4,000.
Hoo KillipCt TINE is here and we make you
AAO0 hAliiii9 killing prices lard cans,
scader bottoms butcher knives and Kitchen knives
good kitchen knives for
Sporting Goods Single saD' $500 Double guns
shells, rifles, air guns,
Our New Tennessee Wagon HAS HAS R the
oned best timber light draft, rims thick tire REINFORCED
skeins oak hubs See our SIS 90 wagon breechng.
Oliver PloWS ARE IRE the best Ask your neigh
oor Of FURNITURE Is the best best in in Columbia
HOLIDAY Goods ARE fast asst arriving Come early
glass; silver bonzed goods
We this good
harvest good seed build God you
sell good goods and this have done years. Our
proves it, Awaiting your call, yours truly,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-12-02

Evansville, Ind, Nov. 27.-The flu
neral Of Harrison Whiting in Gibson
county, Ind, was delayed three hours,
Friday, while the mourners stopped
to save the home of Will Volkmann
from destruction by fire.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30
Celebrations Abroad.

OF course, wherever there is an
American Embassy there will be an Of
fetal Thanksgiving dinner, which is
made more or less cosmopolitan by the
presence of foreign guests.
In London, where the American col
ony is very large, big banquet will
be given at one of the leading hotels,
in which 500 or more Americans and
their guests will participate.
This banquet is always the scene of
much speech making and the exchange
of elaborate compliments between rep
resentative Britishers and Americans.
This year there is sure to be a great
on, for there has not been a time since
the Civil War when the understanding
between the two countries was so cor
dial. Ambassador Choate is not likely
to let the good feeling languish, and
there is every reason to believe that
the banquet will prove to be a most
felicitous occasion.
Berlin ranks next to London in re-
spect to the celebration of the day and
the present entente between the An
glo-Saxon nations is favorable to a
more than usually cordial celebration
in that city.
Nice is one of the great headquarters
for Americans en- the continent, and
there is always an elaborate banquet
provided by Americans there fer the
occasion. The day will be wei cele
brated there this year.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30
The End Of All Armies.

We may really be on the verge o!
he millennium, for NJ Emile Guarini
has come to the conclusion that Il
viii soon be possible to destroy armies
~ lightning. Receiving a shock from
! wireless telegraph apparatus through
IN umbrella, he experimental with Q
auhmkorff coil, and found that shocks
bould be transmitted through the air
With moderate currents. He con.
dudes that the energy of 1000 horse.
power, at 100000 volts, could be con.
,entrated by antennae so as to de-
Itroy life at a distance Of twelve
niles. The present difficulty, which
10 believes will be soon overcome, Is
hat Of controlling and directing the
electric waves.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

A few weeks ago Wall street bank
clerk celebrated the completion of the
fiftieth year Of his service in the en-
ploy of a single bank, and the papers
singled it out as a matter of note that
an American had been content to serve
one master for fifty years. And 1t
was a matter Of note. We printed
some little time ago a striking little
article on Americans as Cutters"
Those were men of brains and energy
who quit when their job was Gone in
order to so higher up and do better
JOB, better still. But most of us are
more fitted to clerk it than to organize.
and what is energy in ADLER men is Of
ten just plain Testlessness among the
rank and file. To serve one master
well for fifty years is an achievement.
1t ought 10 be made distinctively an
American one.-Leslie's Magazine.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30
The Gar a Book Lnvsr.

Here is quite delightful confession
from the Gear of all the Russias
whose heart must now be sorely trou.
bled by the disasters of the present
war:
Il love travelling, but only when ]
can do it in my own way. l never
travel otherwise than at night, and
spend my day visiting museums and
quaint old streets, bazars when am
in the East, antiquarian shops when ]
am in the North. I am more Of an
Asiatic than European In my tastes
and l have not only vast collection
Of Indian curios and quite an army
Of Buddhas large and small. but also
library composed Of books treating
Of Indiana subjects alone, and another
Of books dealing with Egyptian lore.
Were I not-well, what ann should
be the greatest bookworm In the
world"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30
WEAKNESS OF STRONG MEN.
No Ore Absolutely Free from All Man
ner Of Defect.

mo GRE absolutely Free from All Man.
ner Of Defect.
Those who are seeking through
study Of superior men to make them
selves at least less inferior are often
puzzled and bafled by the discovery
OF characteristics that seem absolute
ly incompatible with greatness. There
Is hardly q great man whose life is at
all accurately known In whom there
was not a weakness that would de-
stroy an ordinary manson etimes
mental weakness, as utter lack OF
judgment; sometimes moral weak
ness; again, physical weakness.
But Is there on record a single case
of a great man who had not through
his character certain toughness OF
aber which made him free from the
common weakness of whining and
rushing about for refuge at the first
black lift Of adversely? Is not that
fundamental sense of insecurity. OF
inability to stand alone, the great en-.
envy we an have to fght7 Is it not
the enemy that drives some to the
false courage of drink. others to stink
and crawl along the byways of indi-
rection and crime, many, many others
to resign the guidance OF their desti-
MES to some master or masters with
hardly an effort to thing or do for
Observation-Disclosures Evening Post.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30
An Island OF Birds.

I.aysan island. which les in TIT
North Pacific ocean, about 800 miles
northwestern Honolulu, is described az
che CT tho most remarkable 'birt
islsEds" in the world. Naturalist
have rarely visited It. DR.. A. K. Fish
ef, who examined the island during
the voyage Of the United States Fish
Commission steamer Albatross, II
1902. found It to be the home of count
less thousands of sea birds, including
albatrocs, terms, gannets, frigat,
hsrSs. shearwaters and rctrels IT.
lono situation is, no doubt, one O
tho reasons why it is preferred as I
home by these wild creatures, WHIT
fly before the approach OF man wher
once they have learned his destruc
tive propensities.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

Mr.. L.. a good-natured German, was
the proprietor CT clothing business ir
country town. lie had in his EN-
ploy one John S., whom he had ad
vanced from cash boy to head clerk
Since his promotion John had several
times asked for an increase of salary
and each time his request had been
granted. One morning he again an
peared at the old merchants desk
with another request for an increase
Of $40 month.
IVY, Shon," said Mr.. L., 81 dink
bays you poorly veil alretty; vat for
bays you any more?"
We'll" replied John, confidently ~
am your principal help here. know
every detail of the business. and. in.
deed, think that you could not get
along without me-"
rs dot so? Wy, Shon, vot would ]
do suppose you vas to die?"
We'll, suppose that you would have
to get along without me then"
The old Teuton took several whiffs
from his big pipe and finally said:
well. Shon, guess you peter gon.
slider yourself dead. YOUTHS Com.
panion.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30
The Outdoor Christian,

sod, forgive me for an upstart
That l do not plead for grace
Tor bask within purring praises
In the radiance of thy face.
I am go busy living, Lord,
And loving, night and day,
I cannot always find the time
To kneel me down and pray.
iod, forgive me for a bungler,
That I cannot tune by chime
20 the anthem and the chantry
or the dressy Sabbath time.
I know the word of sea and sky,
The note of dell and nook,
But cannot seem to catch the air
OF olden altar book.
lod, forgive me that I love thee
AS the flowers love the light,
With a seething, silent rapture,
With q dear but dumb delight
You bred my faith so stanch and
strong.
Ny creed so brave and gay,
I dare to love and praise thee in
Mine own untrammeied way!
Eleanor Abbott in Lippincott's.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30
-stumpedp the Head Waiter,

Jesse Lewisohn was dining at the
most fashionable restaurant In the
metropolis with a western millionaire
Who is very fond of Joking. The lat
er summoned the head waiter and
laid:
II presume everything in this place
the best that money can buy?"
Most assuredly. sir" replied the
Eaiter. with dignity that might have
lrouzad the envy of United States
;enator.
"Well, that's all right, but wher
7ou run short, what substitute do yol
Use for terrapln7"
For once in his life that head wal
ter was left at the post" and never
tried fer an answer.-New Yorl
Times.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

There is now bill before the
Spanish Cortes, proposed by the min
lister OF finance, to encourage the cul-
tiyation of cotton. All land devoted
to the raising Of cotton will be ex.
empt for three years from all tax.
both on land and on all improvements
made. and all live stock used on the
land; and for the next ten years the
tax will only be the same as before
the Improvements were made. This
exemption only applies while the land
is planted in cotton. Money prizes
will be paid to those who obtain the
hest results
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30
Speak No Words OF Love.

Wien a Dysk of Borneo makes love
he helps the girl In the hardest por-
ton Of her daily toll. If she smiles
lron him, no matter how sweetly, he
zoos not Immediately respond, but
waits until the next dark night. Then
se stesls to her house and wakens
her as she lies asleep beside her pa
rents. The parents. IL they approve,
make no sign, but sleep on-or pre-
lend to. II the girl accepts she rises
md takes from her lover the betel and
.weetmeats he has brought her. That
seals their betrothal and he departs
10 he came, neither speaking nor be-
ns spoken to.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

Philip Hchborn, Rear Admiral United
States Navy, writes from Washington, d.
c., as follows:
"After the nse Of PerHna for a short
period, 4 can 3tOtC cheerfufLU rec
OBtmend DOur rGLadbte remedy to
any one lChO Is in need Of an tnUig-
Grating tonic. - Phflip HichbOrn.
No remedy ever yet devised has received
such unstinted eu.ogy from so many re-
nowned statesmen and military men as
Peruna
Our army and navy are the natural pro-
lection of our country. Peruna is the nat
ural protection of the army and navy in
the vicissitudes of climate and exposure.
If you do not derive prompt and satisfac-
tory results from the use of Peruna, write
at once to DIR. Hartman, giving a full state
ment of your case, aud he viii be pleased
to give you his valuable advice gratis
Address DIR. Hartman, President of The
Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, 0.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

Over the announcement of the birth
of bouncing baby to young couple
of the village, says the Washington
Post, State contemporary places the
line, Home team is one ahead"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

ney Pills did me
a great lot of
good. and if it
were not true 1
would not recon-
mend them. 1t
was the strain of
Ii f ii n g t h a t
brought on kid
ney trouble and
weakened my
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

Nature. as well as necessity, moth
cred the invention of the lathe, the
first of machine tools. 1t was built
originally etween two adJacent large
trees near which grew springy sap
Hing. Lathes like II are used to-day Ii
some Of the Asiatic countries.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

The next time the Car will prob
ably not try for the disarmament OF
the whole world, but will be content
to get only the Japs disarmed, de-
clares the Atlanta Journal.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

1t will probably cheer the Sultan,
who has been greatly depressed OF
late, to have the powers hold their an
nual naval maneuvers in Turkish wa
tiers, says the Washington Post.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

FlTSpermanensiy cured. No flts orperyous-
ress after FRS Gay use OF Dr. Klino's Great
Ner.e i.cstorcr, ztrial bottleand treatise free
Dr. II. II. kLIXE Ltd. 931 Arch e pnila Pa
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

The Vatican exhibit sent from Rome
to thu st. Louis Exposition will prob
ably b. re.exhibited at the Lewis and
Clark fair next year at Portland.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

The editor of the British Naval An
nual thinks that within ten years the
command of the seas will have passed
to the United States.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30
NOTES Aud COMMENTS.

The Russians should take some
thing for those sneezeful names-a
few towns, frinstance, says the At
lanta Journal.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

fisos Cure Is the best medicine we everused
!or an directions of throat and lungs. --Wm.
v. ENDsLEY, Nanburen. Ind Feb 10 12na
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

The Jersey firm that has discharged
all employees over fifty years of age
would be rightly served if immedi-
ately deserted by all who have not
reached the limit.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

The first Englishman who is known
for certain to have gone out to India
was, according to a recent correspon
dent in an Indian paper, a certakS
Thomas Stephens, member Of a well
TODD Wiltshire family and an Oxonian
who landed somewhere near Goa about
the year 1879, and spent forty years In
Jesuit missionary work in Goa and the
Eeighborhood. Stephens not only sue
ceeded in mastering Marathi and Kon
kani, which were the languages spoken
by the majority Of the people on the
west coast, but left behind him among
other works in Marathi of literary
merit the "Purana,' an epic; and it is
in his capacity as the author of this
that Stephens name is best known
among the West Coast inhabitants.
The poem contains over 1000
strophes of four lines each. 1t mar
rates in a lofty style the events that
led up to the establishment of the
Christian religion, and from the crea
ton to the ascension of our Lord, who
figures as the hero Of the epic.
new edition of the "Purana" is to be
published in Mangalore, no printed
copy of the work being now available
The Athenaeum.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

Acetic acid, say some of the Lon
don scientists, will probably proiong
life According to the moralists as
celtic habits will do the same thing,
the Massachusetts, Ploughman sagely
remarks.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

A snasLeatiag contest took place n
Paris restaurant few days ago. be-
tween two boulevardisrs. The victor
swallowed 243 snails.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30
Spain to Grow Cotton.

!, Australia has more churches per capita
than any other country.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

Corruption is declared to be unknown in
japanese politics.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

"A New York couple seek separation
because the wife prefers her dog to
her husband. The public will wait
for fuller particulars concerning both
dog and husband before it passes
judgment, says the Philadelphia
Press.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30
WY HE WAS NOT DISTURBED.

;lercyman's Explanation Discoveries
WouId-Be joker.
"A clergyman who was travelling
topped at hotel much frequented by
Eags and jokers.
the host, not being used to having a
clergyman at his table, looked at him
With surprise; the guests used all their
aillery of wit upon him without elicit.
ng remark.
The clergyman ate his dinner quiet
y, apparently without observing the
1Des and sneers of his neighbors.
One OF them at last, In despair of his
orbearance, said to him: well. l
Wonder at your patience! Have you
lot heard all that has been said to
'ou?"
"Oh. yes; but I am used to it. Do
'ou know who l ann"
mo, sir"
Well. will inform you. am chap.
ain of lunatic asylum. Such re-
aarks have no effect upon me."-Short
Stories
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30
One Secret of carneoie's SUGGEST.


Business rivals of Andrew Carne.
de were at one time helpless to &C.
cunt for his ability to undersell them
whatever market they turned to.
hey sent experts quietly to look over
lis work and report. Mr.. Carnegie, it
said, heard of their presence. He
invited them to an inspection, with
himself as guide, and at last offered
show them the secret of his sue
ess. He took them into a room lined
With books and reports, where doz-
clerks were at work on documents
md figures. This room represented
n expenditure of $4,000 a year. at
worth that" said lAr. Carnegie,
for business man to know at any
moment all the details of his bust
less. Worlds Work
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

A young peoples society carried on
by old people misses its mark. One is
always amused by a photograph of
young peoples convention of any kind
in which gray hair and bald heads
abound.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30
The STRAIN OF WORK.
Best of Backs Give Out Under the Burden
of Daily Toll.

Lieutenant George G. Warren, of No.
Chemical, Washington, D. c., says:
Its an honest fact that Doan,s Kid
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

The Dowager Empress of China has
subscribed 10000 taels to the medical
college now being erected by the Lon
don and American missions in Pc
kin. Can it >be that the Dowager is
not feeling well these days? asks the
Indianapolis News.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

Experience has taught that the
greatest lessons one has to learn are
not found in books, says the Epitdn-
list. Books are an aid to finding them,
but books will not teach us all. One
must learn to use his eyes to see, and
his ears to hear. Unless he does this
he will never succeed at anything.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30


An expert on women's models has
vouchsafed the information that Chi
cago women have the finest figures to
be found anywhere in the world. the
Birmingham (Aia) Age-Flerald
states. Before going any further it
may be said that the gentleman in
question Is not a member of the fac.
ulty OF the University of Chicago. I'm
referring 10 the figures Of Chicago
girls he does not mean their bank
accounts. although some oil those are
we'll worth consideration. bur symmet.
ry OF form and physique He does not
mention feet. and We are to suppose
that the foot OF tie Chicago girl is
work of art. inuendoes 10 the con.
trary Notwithstanding. The expert
who cherishes these Interesting views
Of the Chicago women IS apt TO be
challenged by other experts in all the
cities Of the land who stand ready to
prove his allegations
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30
While in many towns in Europe the

While in many towns in Europe the
celebration of the summer soltice is
year after year for centuries, it is
only this summer an outside world
has deemed the idea worthy of it's
consideration, says the Boston Her
aid. But since the recent celebration
in Paris it is proposed to revert to
this pagan recognition of the orb of
day and get up some pretty ceremo-
MES next year in honor of Old Sol.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

The friends Of eupnony may be glac
to learn that at meeting of the
farmers of Vigo County, Ind, reso-
luton was adopted asking school
teachers and all other persons to pro-
nounce the name of tne county Wee
go and not "Vigo''-''i' as lie" in
'pie"-as is the present lamentable
custom. Pronunciation reform is
strong in Veego County A move
ment is on foot to persuade railroad
brakemen and others to call Terre
Haute 'Tare-lote," instead of TERRY
Hut, as at present. Here conserya-
tives may doubt. There is something
original. justified, American and joy
Gus in Terry Hut"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-09-30

There are some 100000 German set
tiers in Brazil, most of whom, it is
true, are Brazilian subjects, but who
send their children to German schools.
which are maintained for the purpose
of training them in German habits
and love OF Germany, the London
Times declares. Emigration is con-
Quoted by three great colonizing as
sociations, and German merchants.
German bankers, and German ship
owners are all interested in main
tanning and developing German in
fluences in Brazil.