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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-09-16
EDUCATING TIE MASSES.

Gallatin is having so much difficulty
with the cook question. that the Ten
nessee Annual Conference of the MetI.-
odist Church. South. has been post
poned from the 5th TO the 18th of Oc-
tober.
The cook question is becoming a
serious question in Tennessee; and
that gives rise 10 another serious ques-
ton: to a series of serious questions.
Is the State not educating too many
school marms and two few cooks? Is
Il not a mistaken kindness to educate
one beyond their sphere? Would it
not be better to throw politics to the
dogs and educate the masses Along
more practical and industrial lines?
All of us cannot be poets and scholars
and musicians and masters of art. We
have neither the time. talent nor
inclination. What is the use of the
State trying the impossible thing?
Where is the sense in doing the i'm
practical thing? What use has cook
or a carpenter. merchant or manu-
facturer. for Greek and Latin, Music
and Art? 1t is debatable question
whether. if man has the money to
spare, it is wise to give his son a col
lege education. unless the boy ambi-
ton is to enter one of the professions.
The consensus of opinion seems to he
that the three wears of College life
had better be spent in the composing
room If he expects to become a printer.
or In the counting room if he expects
to be newspaper manager Very many
OF the heads of the largest corporations,
the railroads. the telegraph. manufac-
turing enterprises. ETC.. in answer to
printed inquiries. have answered that
for their business they had rather take
a boy at 18, fresh from a preparatory
school, and develop him, than to take !
him at 81. with bis college degrees.
knowledge is power; and knowledge
Is pleasure. So is travel for that
matter.
To visit the old country and study
Its art galleries and view its ruins.
That gives finish and culture we
should all like to have. But we can't
all have it. And what the State ought
to do in the way of educating its chill
dren. is to educate them along practi-
cal lines that will be of most help to
hem in the battle of life. And the
humber and poorer the child. whether
It be white or black, the more impor
tant it is that, whatever help 1T re-
ceives from the State. should be the
help that will help it most in Its sphere
If life.
There is no more sense in teaching
'taIIle boy Greek, than there would be
n teaching painter to pillow or a
Iculptor to set type.
You sometimes find among the chill
lren In poor family one whom some
ich or well-to-do relative has edu-
,ated and dressed better than the
,thers. That is always the most un-
,appy. most dissatisfied child of the
amily. 1t is most frequently girl,
Ind she generally has notions in her
head.
The State is making that same mis-
AXE. 1t is trying to educate the white
~ IL L 81 |
he rich and the poor, all alike. 1t
,annot be done. 1t ought not to he
lone.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-09-16

The Great Council of Red Men in
session at st. Louis. took strong
stand for morality. They bar from the
order all saloon keepers, bar tenders
and liquor dealers and adopted an
amendment providing that if any
branch of the order gave ball on
Sunday or served liquor at any enter
tainment 1t would forfeit Its charter.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-09-16

| The grand jury of Madison county,
Alabama, of which Huntsville is the
county seat, has done its duty nobly, by
returning ten indictments against the
murderers of Horace Maple, the negro
who was mobbed there last week Among
the persons said to be included in the
indictments are the Sheriff of the county
and the Mayor of Huntsville, charged
with failure of duty Madison county will
reflect great honor and credit upon it
self if these bloody men are brought to
justice, and the negro will not have
died IN vain if this proves to be the
turning point in the courts. There
was no possible excuse for the mo b
work. The Judge had already i'm
paneIled jury; the proof OF his guilty
was certain. and the negro would have
been hung by the law in its due course
of time. The mob set fire to the Jail,
captured the criminal. shot and tor
tuIed and hung him. just for the ex-
citement of the thing; just because
they we're bloody minded just because
their hearts were wicked and they were
fatally bent on mischief. If the ann
of the law is strong enough to reach
out now and hang dozen OF so OF
these cowardly mlscreants, it will have
a fine effect upon public morals all
over the country.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-09-16
THE DAUCH TIERS
or COnfederaey Name Ladie
Who Are To Assist With
Booth aud Country
Store at The
Fair.

The Da lighters Of the Confederae
have agreed TO conduct booth &C III
coming Maury County Fair and Hors'
Show ard to assist in conducting tn
country store,r and in order 10 sys
tematize the work. the following ladies
have been appointed to serve ir the
capacity and at the time indicated
below:
I Purchasing Committee--Mrs.D obbin:
(chairman) Mesdames Pillow, Hatcher,
Carmack, Biddle.
Decorating Committee-Mrs. A. B.
Rains tchairmanJ Mesdames Fry. Russell.
Committee to make coffee-Mrs. Bid.
die, Tuesday: Mrs. Evans, Wednesday;
Mrs. w. b. Dobbins, Thursday; Mrs. A.
d Frierson, Friday.
Booth Committee for Tuesday-Mrs.
Dobbins (chairman) Mesdames s. G,
Dunnington Ii. G.. Evans, A. ID. Frier-
son. Jno. Mitchell, II. W. Watkins,
Robt. Pillow, Alen Brown, FIJI. Smith,
Ellen Dunnmgton.
Sttre Commit for Tuesd y.-Mrs.
Mora Fariss (cashier) to L; Mrs. r. E
McLemore (cashier) to 5; Mrs. E. III.
Hatcher (cashierl 8 to 10.
Clerks 10 Store for Tuesday-Misses
Olive Dobbins, Mary Pillow, Mesdames
w. b Dobbins, Robt. Pillow, Robt. Nc
Kinney, E. H. Hatcher.
Clerks in Store for Tuesday Night
Misses Rosa Barnett, A. L. Mckay.
Margaret McEwen.
Booth Committee for Wednesday,
Mrs E Ii Hatcher chairman. Mesdames
A. B. Rains, Jno. Fry, .. G. Dunning
ton, Minnie fowler, Nat Holman, Misses
Rosa Barnett, Annie Mckay, Annie
VOORHEES,.
Store Committee for Wednesday
Mrs. N. 3. Shepard cashier 8 to l;
Mrs. s. G. Huntington (cashier) to 5;
Mrs. A. b. Rains (cashier) 8 to 10.
Clerks in Store for Wednesday Mes
danes VIM. Biddle, E. w. Carmack,
Jno. Fry.
Clerks for Wednesday night-Mes-
danes Jno. Mitchell, Robert Nichols,
Miss VOORHEES,.
Booth Committee for Thursday-Mrs
Pillow (chairman) Mesdames Dobbins,
VIM. Fleming, Annie White, Ernest Nc
Lemore, VIM. Biddle, Mort Hodge, r.
L. Mckinney, Miss VOORHEES,.
Store Committee for Thureday-Miss !
Laura Galloway (cashier) 8 to /; Miss ,
Annie l.. MacKay (cashier) to 5; Mrs. t
E. W. Carmack (cashier) 8 to 10.
Clerks in Store for Thursday-M Mes
danes Austin Harlan, Rebecca McLe.
more, Miss F. l.. Smith.
Clerks for Thursday night--Mesdames
Sam Hayes. VIM. Fleming, b. q. Dun
nington.
Booth Committee for Friday Mrs. r
L McKenney chairman Mesdames Flaw
Ewing, Horace Rainey, Wilkins, James,
5mser. Robt Nichols, Austin Harlan,
D. A. Craig Sue Preston, Sam Hayes,
Miss F. l.. Smith
Store Committee for Friday-Mrs.
Robt Pillow (cashier) to /; Mrs. R. G.
Church (cashier) to 5; Mrs. Mary Hine
casbier) 8 to 10.
Clerks 10 Store for Friday Miss
Laura Galloway, Mesdames F. H Smith,
FLAW Ewing.
Clerks in Store for Friday night-Mes-
lanes E. ii. Hatcher, A B. Rains,
Misses Lucille Huntington, +. l. Smith.
Called meeting at residence of Mrs.
Annie Philips Friday Sept. 10th at
o'clock. All members requested to be
present to arrange affairs of business
or the Fair. Every member must
erve or give the chapter guaranteed
MRS. A. B. RAINS. (Sect'y)
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-09-16

John Hay compares Roosevelt to LIN
coin. Perhaps he will tell US on what
act or utterance of Lincoln, the Presi-
dent based his twentyfour hour recSg-
nition or Panama, or his executive ex-
tantion of the Pension law, or his threat
against the South American republics.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-09-16

Everything and everybody is getting
ready for the Fair. Eve the moon is
preparing to shine all night during
Fair Week.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-09-16

Columbia's much footed day current
was all hot air.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-09-16
THE sELLARs CASE.

Herald readers will recall the tesfi
mOny sworn TO before the special com
mittee appointed by the County COur
to investigate the charges against one
Andy Sellers. head guard of one Of
the work house gangs Of county pris,
oners. How he drank and cursed
and swore; how he attended negro
dances; how Inhumanly he treated the
prisoners. combining them with veImin
and lice and the excavations from
their bowels and kidneys. locked mp all
night and part of the day with a
stencil fit TO kill them.
Well. with these facts sworn to and
with no re5utting proof nor any at
tempt to Imreach any witness who
testified before the special committee
with these facts sworn to and fresh
before them-the Honorable Work
House Commissioners of the HonoIa-
bic County Court of the enlightened.
cultured, christian comfy of Maury.
the decisive vote of three to one.
Mr.. Sellers by his own conduct dis
gIaced himself. and as a county
Official brought 'reproach upon the
county. The commissioners by Iein-
stating him. without any proof in
rebuttal upon which to base their &C
ton, have assumed to share that re-
pIoach with him, and cannot escape
public condemnation for it. And If
the County Court does not review
their action and demand some proof.
or else abolish the office, then-to
make long story shoIt-the good
county of Maury needs new deal,
and that badly, from top to bottom.
The Court might heretofore have
clai meu ignorance of existing condi-
tlons, but they can make no such plea
now. They must either require MI.
Sellers to clear himself by the sworn
testimony of reliable witnesses. or
they must impeach him, or the
must share with him the odium of his
official conduct.
The speaking here Saturday will be. a |
Joint debate between rival candidates for
the CUBS material chair. joint debate /
IS always interesting and always draws
\ crowd 1t has been years since CO.
umbia heard joint political debate,
md that fact, coupled with the further
act that the candidates will not
peak in any of the adjoining counties,
will swell the crowd in Columbia Satur-
lay to unusual proportions. The Demo-
rats will tome to hear Frazier chaw
Iitteton up. And the Republicans will
ONE to see Littleton chaw Frazier up.
they will both be at the chawing, and
hey will both escape unscathed. Such
} political life on the hustings
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-09-16

II the press has the power it is credit
ed with having, Judge Parker .
election is reasonably certain. Ii
is said that he has ia the neighborhood
of 5000 democratic and independent
newspapers supporting his cause, and
among the number many of the most
Influential papers published.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-09-16

Two dollar May wheat is predicted
by the wheat gamblers. Two dollar
July. August or September wheat
would be great thing for the far
,ners, and they constitute a large ma.
jority of all the people. But two
dollar May wheat would double the
price of flour to the consumer, and
help the few at the expense of many.
These stock, grain and produce gam
hlers are curse to the country.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-09-16

The people of this country, if we
mistake not the temper of the people
of this country, want for their Presi
dent man who will maintain law
and preserve constitutional govern
ment. A man who will do that is a
safe man to trust with power, and
Judge Parker is the very personal en-
bodiment of law and order and COZ
stitutional government. A man who
will not do that, is dangerous man
to trust with power, and Theodore
Roosevelt has no more respect for law
and constitutional government than a
Norman has for celibacy. And that is
why the conservative, business men
and independent voters of the country
are not reading or studying the Elat-
form of either party. but are lining
up in great numbers on the Parker
side.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-09-16
PIANO AND ORGAN
Recital to BE Given at Baptist
Church Tonight.

A few month since the Baptist Church
secured a splendid new pipe organ, but
those who have not attended that
church have not heard it and as great
many would like to do so, it has been
arranged by Miss NJ. Fanny Day, the
organist, to give piano and organ re-
cital tonight, beginning at. 8
o'clock. There will be no charge for
admission and the public is cordially
invited to attend. The following pro-
gram will be rend red and gives some
idea of the excellent character of the
entertainment that may be expected:
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-09-16
THE JURY SYSTEM.

The right Of tIial by jury is con
stitutional right. q sacred right. and
a hallowed right. bought BY sacrifice
and blood And the principle is right.
and somehow should be preserved.
But the jury system as administered
in this country in this day and time.
IS failure. and should be amended or
abolished.
In the olden time. before news
papers became so cheap and plentiful ;
before common schools were common
before rybody. nearly. had acquired
tine reading habit. a tTlal by twelve
honest and intelligent men who had
neither formed nor expressed any
opinion as TO the guilt or innocense Of
the accused. was the fairest way know n
among men to try the issues of a
cause and do man justice. And it is
still the fairest way. But the dihtI-
ence is this: 1t is next to the i'm
possible now. In any notorious case, 10
find twelve honest and intelligent
men who have not formed OF ex-
pressed an opinion. The result b, ing
that in the most important cases the
venirymen are chosen from the ignor-
ant class, and class without char
acter.
We do not believe the juries are as
venal as they are ignorant. They do
not lack native intelligence always. so
much as they do training. and that
discrimination which comes from
training. They do the best they can,
but they are utterly incapable, men,
tally, of taking in, grasping, reconcil-
ing and unIaveling the mass of con-
fiicting evidence and the great volume
OF argument and sophistry, fact and
fiction. hurled at them by learned,
astute and able, and oft times mislead-
ing and unfair counsel
A man can get more even and exact
justice and that tempered with mercy,
from learned and honest judge, than
he can from an unframed jury. And
the judges as clsas. are more honest |
than the juries are. And yet we
would not place the life or liberty OF
the individual into the hands of any
one man.
But an improvement on the present
system, we think, would be profess
,ional jurors, elected by the people as
Judges are, subject to the same rule for
disabilities as judges are. And If such
constitutional amendmen should be
proposed, candidates for jurors should
% required to stand examination not
,nly as to mental capability, bat as to
moral character AS well.
Certain it is that change of some
oIt is needed.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-09-16

Fargo, from "Xerxes" 49, h'"''
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Arranged for organ by NJ r. D''
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-09-16
ladies' Tailor Made Suits.

About hundred suits have in. These suit
styles absolutely the newest They made
order by ailors in the best New York shops Blacks
browns blues mansh mixtures etc. and considering values
the prices very little.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-09-16
Millinery Department.

Due notice will be given next week of first display
Pattern Hats but in the meantime opening man
novelties ready Walking Hats in all the
shapes, styles and colOrings.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-08

No one outside the Russian war of flee knows the actual number Of troops the czar has in Manchuria or within reach of 1t. says a writer in Everybody's Magazine. The Rus sian army in point of numbers Is the largest in tho world. Nearly 100000 young men reach their majority in Russia every year. and each is bound by law to spend five years in the army. If all were taken they would make an army too large even for Rus sia, so only 21e,Oo0 go to the colors with the army or the fleet, and the rest go to the reserve. The lowest peace strength of the Russian estab- Iishment, therefore, numbers more than million men. with 42.o0o off, cers. Tn war time practically all these young men join the colors, swelling the army to the stupendous figures of 4,5o0. .oo0 men and 75,0oo of- hcers. for whom there are provided S6O.OO0 horses. Men who are in po- sition to guess shrewdly say there are more than sO0.0oo Russian soldiers in Manchuria or near it now. The num- Der that can be put in the Held there is limited only by the will of the government.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-08

''No vicience.'' They have remained docfle. If DemoIlf had said, ''Let us fight" Utah would have been in the sort of turmoil which has swept min ing Colorado. He has obeyed the or ders of John Mitchell. and enforced obedience in the ranks. This remark able man waa born in Brussels, Bel giun. fhfrty-three years ago. His father was q horse trainer and circus aftacs1e of Italian birth. His mother was a native Of Como. While he was stf11 an infant, they returned to Italy. There the spirit of rebellion against the government was fnstfl1ed into him. Deraoln took part in the Como Revoiutfon'' in 1895. and was banfshed for ter years. Coming to the United States hs entered the coal mines at Hazieton. Pennsylvania. There he learned the principles of un- ionisfn more thoroughly and began writing on labor and socia1istic topics for Italian publications. He founded three different Italian papers. one of which is now running in New York as daily, His influence increased, and hs attracted the attention of John Mitchell, who gave him more prominence in the mine workers or ganizatfon.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-08
ON CONNECTICUT AVE-
 NIUE, WASHINGTON D. [.

Connecticut avenue is kaIeidoscopic with notabilities. There is one of Americas most modest of men, Secre- tary of State John Hay, literary, affa- Die. sparkling, swinging along for his afternoon constitutional. The very next man is Dr Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, head of the geographic society, and flying machine eXperimenter, a mas sive man with face good to look upon, and so busy with his friends and his studies that he does not go to bed until four in the morning. A little further on is George Kennan, the famous traveller and author, and with him is Commander Robert E. Peary. from up near the north pole. There. Is the trim, prin, intellectual, masterful Elihu Root. recently sec retary of war, walking home from call at the war department. where he served Uncle Sam for a yearly com pensation just about equal to what he earned in single average month when he was practicing law in New York. He is chatting with the breezy, sagacious, storytelling west erner, Leslie M. Shaw. the secretary of the treasury. Senator George F. Hoar. the old man eloquent, gets of street car and walks down Massa- chusetts avenue to his modest home. Thomas R. Walsh. whose millions came from Colorado mines, flashes by in big automobile toward his pala- tial new house. Senator William A.. Clark, of Montana, who has paid more money for pictuees than any . o$I irSTl A the avenue in his rapid. nervous way. He is not out of sight when the giant of the supreme court bench, Justice John M. Harlan. ambles heav- fly up, and stops to tell friend that service on that greatest tribunal in the world is no sinecure-only hard work and a salary so meager that one is put to it to make both ends meet year after year.
 Before your stroll is finished you will have seen Henry Cabot Lodge, the senator who "helped make Theo- dore Roosevelt Gertrude F. Ather- ton, the novelist; Simon Newcomb, the astronomer; the widow of John A. Logan; Mrs Phoebe A. Hearst, who has endowed one of the greatest universities in the world: Big Steve. Elkins, a senator, large of heart, brain and body: the little chief justice of the supreme court. Melville W. Full Ter. with a white mougtache and flowing white hair: Admiral W. s. schIey. smiling upon every one; Mark A. Hanna, bright-eyed, good humored, but protesting that he doesn't want to be president; the Chinese minister in full oriental re- salia. riding in an American automo- bile; Professor Willis L. Moore, the man who makes the weather; Jere- mfah Curtin. translator of the works of Sienkiewicz: slender Senator Al bert J. Beveridge, who visited Tol- stoi, and whose subject Of study IS the world: the fine soldferIy figure of General Nelson A. Miles, fresh from his oriental tour; big and handsome General Henry 0. Corbin: Nelson w. Aldrich. the leader of the senate, and Admiral John c. Walker. the man who Is to build the inter-oceanic ca nal.--walter Wellman in the Janu- ary Success.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-08

and the formal announcement of the result on the following day.--Cleve- land Plain Dealer.
 In a public walking match in New York the other night one of the con- testants became afflicted with pneu- monia, but kept at the work till he went mad and had to be removed. Yet We broke up the bull fighting habit among the Havanese on the ground that it was a cruel exhibition. Rochester Herald.
 These four things-abundant exits, open all the time. with straight stair cases from the galleries. an asbestos curtain woven on steel web, auto matic sprinkiing apparatus, provis- ion for taking off the updraught on the stage so as to prevent it from go- ing into the house-should be infex- ible necessities in every theater. They should be required in old theaters as well as new.
 New Britain policemen have peti- toned for a municipal appropria tion to aid them in the detection of crime. We suspect that many police depart ments in the state find themselves
 
 with, and that many of them, too, use that fact as an excuse for indo- lence and indifference. Increased appropriations for the enforcement of laws are bound to come with in- creased influx of strangers who neither know nor pretend to keep the law.-Ansonia Sentinel.
 All summer the venerable J. J. Me Henry has been critcising the Courier editors trousers. wanting him to turn them up. On Saturday he kind ly called the editor into a clothing store and bought new pair of turned-up pants, MT McHenry paying for them. That's the kind of joke to play on a newspaper man, and it's kindly appreciated. Now let some body say coat. Another Sid say hat. Some editors won't have new trous- CTS Christmas. We pity them.- Queen City (Md) Courier.