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AD ADimal Story For
Little Folks
A True Patriot

Toby was the baby of the family,
and, though they made a clown of him,
he was no fool.
More than that, Toby was a great
patriot.
His trainer had dressed him up in
the stars and stripes. and Toby was
very proud of that.
"Greatest day of my life when l got
into them jeans" he used to say.
'Mean to stand up for the flag. and
anybody who steps on that suit of
mine will have to step on me-" all of
which was literally true.
One day the clown came into the
ring dressed as a Spaniard, with a
funny Spanish hat on one side of his
little head.
.'Ought to be ashamed of himself"
argued Toby, ito wear such a rig as
, 1904-10-12

An Iowa man is suing a restaurant
keeper for damages to his digestive APP
paratus, owing to the bad foods served
in the said restaurant mans eating es-
adjustment. Should the court decide
in favor of the plaintiff what a field
it will open up for all of usl If we
can recover for the injuries inflicted on
our intestinal tracts by bad cooks, why
is not the solution of the vexatious
servant problem near at hand?
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hit ME, BUT SPARE OLD GLORY.
that in the presence OF the stars and
stripes. l just won't act with him;
that's ALL" And Toby sat down on his
ample launches.
"Get up, you'll" shouted the clown.
But Toby never winked.
"G'wan out er here" cried the little
fellow, "or I'll bang yer onet
This was too much for Toby.
"He's insulting the American flag,
he muttered. Il don't care for myself,
but no Teller in the Spanish rig is goin'
ter hit this flag" And he put back his
two enormous ears.
Hit me if you will, but spare Old
Glory said Toby in true Barbara
Frietchie style.
The clown was angry. He brought
his whip down on Toby-thwack!
Toby knocked him down with his
left ear and spanked him with his
right. AS he did so he cried. "That's
Manila Bay, and that's Santiago!'
They never saw that Spanish rig
again.-Atlanta Constitution.
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announced that the treasury was
empty; that there was no more money
to pay the teachers and keep the pub
lie schools going. With characters
tic feminine humility that weakness
which Helen Wilmans declares to be
the most contemplate of all the virtues
the majority of the Chicago teachers
prepared to submit and go out of bust
ness or starve, or both.
But among those thousands of wom-
en- teachers was a Margaret Haley
just one. She had spent years and
money learning to be a teacher, and
to earn a living at. Her pay was 1926
ayear, less than even a small fry head
Of a corporation gets in a week.
One evening Margaret Haley was 60
ing home in a street car, reading a
newspaper. In it she saw an observa-
ton to the effect that if the corpora
ions which held franchises from the
city of Chicago could be made to pay
their taxes there would be plenty Of
money to keep the schools going. Mar
garet Haley did not sleep that night.
The remark in the newspaper opened
wide the eyes of her understanding.
BY morning she had resolved to fight
for the teachers and for the school
children of Chicago. She got leave of
absence. She studied the subject of
taXation. She went to the county clerk
and asked to see the last report of the
state board of equalization, the body
that fixed the tax rate. The clerk re-
fused to let her have it, saying it was
moi his custom to show it to anybody.
Miss Haley demanded it, declaring it
was a public document and II the
public had a right to see.
Finally she got it. She found there
Were 10000 corporations doing bust
ness in Cook county and that less than
2OO of them We're on the county's tax
Isl. There was more than a quarter
bilion dollars worth of property that
paid not Il cent of taxes. One of these
was the trolley company in one of
whose cars she was riding home that
night. BY quiet investigation she
FOUND that this very company was pay
ing large annual dividends, and the
PRESIDENT of the board of education
was a son-in-law of the president of
one of these street railway companies.
The grade teachers held a mass meet
ing. Out of their poor little means
they raised a fund of $4,000 at that
meeting and directed Miss Haley to
so ahead. From that day to this she
has never been in a class room. She
Is too valuable to woman and human
ity in the larger public capacity in
which she has been called to serve.
Women teachers have paid her a salary
Rom the time she began hunting down
the corporations that dodge taxes. An
Invaluable help all through has beer
Mrs. Katherine Goggin.
Miss Haley went to the governor of
Illinois. She told him she was going
to get the supreme court of Illinois to
command the board of equalization to
show cause why the Millionaire corpo-
rations should be let off from paying
their taxes. He told her she could do
Nothing. but she did. She asked for
the order. The courts tri1ed with and
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nous for their lavish hospitality. When
they engaged as their summer home a
few years ago the historic Norris cas-
tie in the Isle of Wight they became
neighbors of the British royal family.
When they cruised to st. Petersburg in
their costly and luxurious yacht Mar
gherita they had as a guest Princess
Henry of Pless, who introduced them
to the Russian royal family.
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A New York convention of dress
makers advised women not to squeeze
their waists. The masculine portion
Of the population heartily approves
the proposition and offers its services
in looking after this particular part of
the programme.
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Mrs. Anthony j. DrexeI.

The wife of Colonel Anthony j.
DreXel of New York is q woman whose
her warm friends in the most exclusive
circles abroad. The DreXels are ia
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Haley
reader In the War on Chi
cago Tax Dodgers

WHEN the story of the Chicago
A vote for municipal owner
ship of street railways comes
to be fully known it will also
he known that this result was pro-
duced largely through the work of wo-
men. Those women are public school
teachers, and their leader is Miss Mar
qaret Haley, president of the Chicago
TEACHERS federation; also of the Ma
fional Federation of Teachers.
Al the beginning of the winter of
1893 the Chicago board of education
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People who got out of the meat habit
during the strike will be cheered by
the news that this years peanut crop
is to be large.
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AS Bad as That.

81 notice that jenkins has taken to
writing poetry for the magazines
well, that fellow would always do
anything for money"
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Described.

"The X. Y. Y. railroad has dismissed
all of its lady stenographers."
Canned peaches, hey?'
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Judge Edgar NJ. Cullen.

Edgar NJ. Cullen, appointed chief
judge of the New York state court of
appeals to succeed Alton B. Parker,
the Democratic presidential candidate,
has been by turns a soldier, Il civil ell
gineer, a practical lawyer and Il SUI
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1t is said that the peasants of Ma
deira still carry their wine in goat
skins. 1t is better than filling a mans
w skin with it, a plan that seems to
be popular in other countries.
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English In England.

Parlor Maid correcting the pronIH
citation of the page)-Don't say az
you vulgar boy; say "harsk."-Lon
don Tit-Bits.
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Carried the Evidence

"He is a self made man.
81 notice he is carrying an original
line of self made grammar"
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A Common Interest.

"To what extent is he interested in
mines?'
"Only as an investor"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-02-19

thousand dollars in loss of time, fishing
out records. While we are at it, am
! in favor of building house that will
| last hundreds of years, 8ud without a
piece of 1ombustble material in it. | am
opposed to any wood being used except
doors and window sash This may cost
s 100 600, but am informed that such a
building can be built for less. We
should get the best. information from
practical builders and act accordingly.
There is one good place where it is
said lawyers are very scarce, and it may
be true; but some of our people are too
severe in laying the new court expense
to their intrigue. They make most of
their money when we are in litigation;
in fact we're there no litigation, they
would be pulling bell cords over mules
or measuring calico. To have kept the
old finder box, and let our records be
destroyed, would have eventually caused
thousands of dollars to flow into their
pockets, all at the expense Of the tax.
payers. Why, it would have been to
their interest to have let it be burned!
The fact. plainly told. is, that we needed
a safe fire proof building, and had the
old one burned, the good people of
Maury County would have been justly
severe in condemning the imbecie court,
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$3.50 to Texas.
One-way Tickle from Memphis
Via the Cotton Belt Route.
MARCH 1st and 10.

On above do - he Cotton Belt Route
will sell one wa zionist tickets from
Memphis to points in Texas on and
north of Cote n Route, rexarkana
to McGregor, and on and east of q. G..
Il 8 #, Ry.f cGresor to Gainesville, at
a rate Of 50 81.
To points east of and including
Amarillo, QuaDsh. Vernon, brentwood,
Brady, San Angelo, San Antonio, Hous-
ton, Galveston, Corpus, Christi, Rock
port, Alice, Kerrville, at o rate Of $500
This is the opportunity Of your life
TO make CHI mp trip to Texas. Write
at once, toda for further information,
giving your starting point and where
you want to go, how many tickets you
will require and the date you wish TO
start We will tell you the exact cost
OF tickets from yoIr town, your best
route, time OF trains. Also send you
map OF the Cotton Belt Route.
w, q. ADAMS; II. p. A.,
Cotton Belt Rou'e, NASHVILLE, TENN,
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for not doing just what. few, (who
have not sufficiently informed them
seves,) now condemn | might add
that Maury County is about the best
bridged and has more good roads lead
ing to her capitol than any county in
the State excepting Davidson land offer 8
more inducements to foreign capifa
land it is coming daily Our rate OF
taxation is less than any Of our slste.
counties. Oar farmers have good roads
and safe bridges, m king transpo t ton
easy to enc of the best markets IN the
south. COLUMBIA We should look
to the general welfare of the county and
not dismember her. She is too fine an
animal for the carving knife.
JOHN M. DAVIS,
J p for the Corporation Of Spring Hill.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-02-19

There are many reasons why a dis
tricS primary election, and also a
county primary election, to settle the
Senatorial question would be a good
thing. II would rid the final race OF a
disturbing question, and would enable
the people better to proceed along state
issues, and matters more nearly CON
corning their real interests. What are
the objections to 1t, and who are the OBJ
Jectorsf We have heard leaders on both
sides call for 1t. II both sides want
it, why not have itH Why not get that
question settled and out of the wayY
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NOTICE TO REGISTRARS.
Called to Meet in Columbia Wednes-
dav the Oath

The following Registrars are notified
to meet me at the office of the County
Judge in lbia, Tenn, on Wednes-
day. Feb "A, 1904, for the purpose of re-
ceiving and r. ceipting for the Registrar
booi and official ballots To be cast in
the election heretofore ordered to be
held on Feb. %, 1904, for Justices of the
Pearn ard Constable in Districts No. p
3, 8, 7and s.
ss,ton District-J. h 2. Allen, Geo
w. Manou
Third District-Horace Polk, II. G.
Sowel, G ~ Parks. j. B. Ring.
Sixth District Marshal McKissick,
VIM. R,y, Milton VOORHEES,, Edgaf
Lusk.
Seventh District-H. II. Ruhm told
I2.nJ, Lon FEM i'll ton told 13th), q. n.
Pick ard, Roy Cecil
Eighth District-Dr. Leftwich, Henry
Love. w. A.Shannon, Bob Walker, Aus
tin Harlan,
Your failure to come or send your col
league might prevent opening or hold
ing the elect at the precinct where
til Q failure occurs Respectfully,
T. G.. HUGHES, Chm.
Commissioners OF Registration.
Feb. H.
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.oT..ToNs

We have a supply of the best Cotton
Seed, which we will lend to the farmers
Of Maury County. We also propose to
erect fret class up-to date cotton gin
10 Columbia, where we will gin cotton
for the public. either for toll or for cash.
or will pay top prices for &C ton in the
seed or lint, Farmers wishing seed
should write or telephone us how many
acres they will plant and have the seed
reserved
COLUMBIA COTTON MILL co.
Both phones M 70. 4.d4t.w-st
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-02-19

MIR. John Latta announces In this
issue as candidate tor Sheriff OF
Maury county; and In doing SO an
nounces his which is his past
record. If there is man in Maury
county who has better platform to
run on, we have not the pleasure of
his acquaintance. 1t there is man
who, once elected, would be more
faithful to his platform pledges, more
earnest ana conscientious and less
partial. we do not know him. Mr..
Latta has had longer tenure of office
as police officer than any man in this
county, and judged by that record he
would make an ideal Sheriff.
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DEATH VIA THE MORPHINE ROUTE.

special to the Herald.
Memphis, Feb. John A. Strong
committed suicide at Gaston's Hotel
this morning by taking morphine
He was prominent In business and
society circles. Came here from Nash
vile, where he was raised, ten years
ago
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-02-19

They are letting bribers escape IN st.
Louis because there are no witnesses
against them except the men whom
they bribed. Attorney Folk rightly
SAYS, "Thete is no other way to prove
bribery except through polluted lips. "
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-02-19

IL be said that primary will be-
called in Williamson county to settle
the United States Senatorship cues
ton. Why not Msuryy
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A Word to the Boys.

Nov a word to the boys between the
pillow handles.
/ Our god friends in the remote dis.
tricts charge the Columbia people with
wanting US to build them fine house
! for the IN to loaf in. just little IN
vestigation will convince any reason
able, thinking man that this is an
error
The Ninth District pays about one
third of all the taxes paid in Maury
County and the citizens of Columbia
pay an additional corporation tax of
81. so ON every 500 worth of property
they own Ii they are to blame for the
court house, we can but give them
credit for being a financially brave
and patriotic people, and willing to
shoulder their part of the burden.
At the pres emit rate of taxation, we
can save oyer ter thousand dollars per
annum, and paw off this appropriation
without an add tional tax; but we must
econofnize, and candidates for magistrate
should be pledged to retrenchment.
Our last January financial report show
ed our outst lnding indebtedness to
be a little ,oar $4,000. The January
report of 1888 showed an outstanding
dept, then, of 1927, 527 80.
. The 1903 taxes now being Collected
will materially reduce our present
debt.
10 conclusion l wish to say few
words to my friends OF the old Twenty
secood District. In serving you as
Justice of the Peace. / have at all times
tried to watch your interest, and as |
am not one of the dethroned lncumbents
you may rely on continuance Of the
same course. For years | fought the
court house proposition, but after care
fu Investigation, became convinced
that the old finder box we bad would
soon or late prove an expensive relic
Three times. / am informed. it came
near going up In smoke with all our
valuable records. A fire on the lower
floor would have gone through
the entire building in short order.
1t was entirely wooden struc-
ture inside, and our valuable records
piled up two feet deep on an upper floor.
The much talked OF remodelIing of the
old building, and building vaults would
have proven expensive, inconvenient,
and In my opinion utterly impractical
bl, from business standpoint. Time
IS our capital, and 80 have to consoli.
date the records of Maury County for
the next hundred years 10 that kind of
an arrangeme would have cost many
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-02-19

With 10 cent cotton and 81 wheat
and mules averaging $3.50 per head,
the Maury County farmer has prosper
Gus looking times ahead Of him. Aud
upon the pros perity OF the farmer rests
the prosperity of US all Glasses may
prosper because Of certain conditions
peculiar to themselves Stocks may
rise and fall, and their fuctnaticn
bring prosperity TO some and pauper-
5al to others But wnen the farmers
p' osper, the country prospers. And
with cotton at 15 cents, wheat at 81
BIS a mighty lazy, thrifGless farmer
who would not prosper.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-02-19

The Columbia and Decnerd branch
OF the ~. c. & st. l.. Railway, IL
said to be running at net loss Of $1OO
a day. But you can't believe every
thing you hear or read. If, however,
the branch line is running at loss
it If because of the exorbit4nt charges
for freight and passenger travel over 1T.
President Smith, the autocrat Of the L.
& N, says that people along his route
who do not ike his charges, may
walk or ride In OK carts. rs their
fathers did And that ls what good
many people on the Decnerd and Co
Iumbla line do, rather than pay four
cents mile tC ride on an anti bellum
coach at twenty mile rate. But there
Is no help for it. The State Railroad
Commissioners ride free.
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senator Hama is dead. As poli'i
clan his met hods we're indefensible. :.
an organizer he was a genius. AS q
man he was big hearted and generouf
As an employer he was sympathetic
democratic and kind. He was a brainy
man; in some parts a great man; but
if he had had nicer discrimination
between moral right and wrong; if he
had had more faith that the truth would
in the end prevail, and had been less
governed by the old Jesuitical doctrine
that "the end justifies the MEANS" he
would have been far greater man than
he was. In our opinion the best work
of his life was the friendly financial
aid he gave to William Mckinley
in the time of need. For in 30 doing he
resuscitated political life that was fast
ebbing away, and rehabilitated public
char acter whose fame was furnished
by unfortunate circumstances, and
gave back to the world a statesman,
o christian and patriot, whose
gentleness in speech, whose amiability
in character, whose wisdom in counsel,
whose moderation in all things the
world will learn to love and admire more
and more as the years go by.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-02-19

Total 1,Z40
| OF this S109 245, the people Of the
! Ninth district, who use the bridges but
very little, paid something like $50, OOC
or almost one third the total amount
i, OF the twenty one bridges enumerated
ABOVE, the people of Columbia perhaps
have never seen three-fourJhs of them,
yet they paid nearly one-third of the
cost of the entire number,
In addition to these we have built
quite a number Of small bridges that
would take more time to trace than l
have at my disposal now; but many of
the tax payers can note those omitted
IN their respective Districts. Our Jail
is of CO mr. aratively recent construction,
costing over $4,000. l am told that we
have /, st by defaulting trustee about
$35 600. And the suppression Of small
pox cost US in one year over $25 900.
Most of the latter item is chargeable
to the transient mine laborers
you see how we are helping your
enterprising and highly valued City
Why, We IRE proud of you, and
you can rely on cid Maury ever
standing with her shoulder to your
Wneel, W1on Sn6 can 90 SO CONSISTENTLY,
and not to the prejudice tof her citi-
zens) In travelling over Maury County,
we find many miles of splendid free
pixies, built by our county convicts; and
if our workhouse reports are examined,
you will find that we have paid out
many dollars in road building. Let this
good work go on; but stop this mania
for building expensive bridges, and
build substantial court house, where
it rightly belongs AT COLUMBIA.
Move the court house to Mt. Pleasant
and the evils so plainly pointed out by
Mr.. George Campbell Brown in last
weeks Herald will be the inevitable |!
'esalt
Mau County will loose over one third
Of her present area, and the taxes now
paid into the Golfers of our grand old |
county, will go to swell the receipts. and
Du III up our sister counties of Will
hanson. Marshall and Giles. True, you
night get a small portion Of barren Ian,
outh of Maury added to the remnant,
)ut the tax derived therefrom would
,e insignificant, compa ed with the
territory you wocl.. iose.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-02-19
REPLY TO "TAX PAYER
OF NINTH DISTRICT.
Able Article on Court House Cues
ton From Esq. John n. Davis,
Of Spring Hill

In reply to your article published in
the Mt Pleasant Chronicle OF Feb. 9th,
beg to make a few comments. Re
ferring 10 increased taxation, Internal
improvements. and our relative in
debtedness beg 70 differ. As rule,
real estate has increased in value ma
terially, and | doubt very much whether
Tax Payer could have sold his farm in
1888 for more than half its presei {
value. tie says: Il know nothing specla
10 the way Of internal improvement"
Rip Van Wrinkle the second!!
submit her ; only partial list OF the
bridges erected since 1888 with their
approximate cost; showing that the
inter eat of our farmers have been duly
consid cred:
In 1891, steel bridge at Colum' ia $2l, 900
Later. Maury County'e ha I OF
bridge at Gordon's Ferry 1000
Later, Maury County's portion
of bridge at Hsrdison's Mill 5000
Bird re at Leftwich 5000
Iron Bridge 5000
Hunters Ford 1900
Craig's 5000
Williamsport 10000
Kettle Mills 9,195
Carpenters 9,0OO
Howard's 1900
All of the above are across Duck River.
Bridge over Fountain Creek at
Fountain Creek $3.50
Fountain Creek wash out LOCO
ScribLers 2,OOO
Globe G eek 1000
Flat Greek (two) 600
Creek 600
Carter's Greek LOO
Sugar Creek 100
Ca hey's Greek 300
Curry's Branch 100
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you MUST LEAVE HOME TO
HEAR THE NEWS.

A newf item in a Nashville paper
says there is talk Of starting a new
daily in Columbia 10 opposition to
Frank LADDERS Daily Herald. 20
lumbia may be able 10 support two
dailies all right. At any rate the Daily
Herald is no gutter. and the best peo-
pie of Columbia will see that the Daily
Herald dos sn't Quit. Mr.. Lander has
been called an extremist and crank
and il that lie 80, then it is pity there
are not more cranKs like him. He is
one editor whose convictions are nev'r
subsidized by the fear of losing sui
seriber or little bill of job printing.
He is the special aversion of certain
lot Of ignorant parTenne vnlgarians,
who have. b, questionable and disreT
utable meth' ds, managed to accun u
late little money; and that is all the
more to his credit.-"The Lineman," in
Giles County Record.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-06-30

II dcported these men from the
Cripple Creek district because. In my
Judgment, II was a military necessity;
| don't want these men In Colorado;
I am going to fumigatc this district
and state before finish; am going
TO Danish the agitators and then I
will establish a military quarantine
that will keep them banished. Den
erai" Dell.
The editor Of The Independent has
a notion Of going out 10 Colorado and