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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-02-03
Cures Blood POlscn, Cancer, Ulcers,
Eczema, Carbuncles, Etc. Medi-
cine Free.

Robert Ward, Maxey's, Ga, says: 81
suffered from blood poison, my head,
face and shoulders were one mass of
corruption, aches in bones and Joints
burning, itching, scabby skin, was |
run down and discourd ged, but Botanic
Blood Balm cured me perftc city, healed
all the sores and gave my kin the Oh
glow of health. Blood Balm put new
life into my blood aud new ambition
into my BRAIN Geo. A. Williams, Rox
bury, face covered with pimples,
chronic sore in back of head, suppera-
ting swelling on neck, eating ulcer on
leg, bone pains, itching skin cured per-
fectly by Botanic Blood Balin-sores all
healed. Botanic Blood Balm cures all
malignant blood troubles, such as
eczema,sca BIS and scales, pimples, run
ming cores, carbuncles, scrofula, etc.
Especially advised for all obstin te
cases that have reached the second or
third stage. Improves the digestion:
strengthens weak kidneys. Druggists,
81. To prove it cures, sample of Blood
Balms ent free and prepaid by writing
Blood Balm Co, Atlanta, Ga. Describe
trouble and free medical advice sent in
sealed letter.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-02-03
RECOMMENDED
FOR PASSAGE
Anti Bill Comes Out
OF Committee But Vote Is
DiSCouraging.
COMES UP MONDAY IN SENATE.

The Senate Committee on Agricul-
ture, before which the anti. racing bill
has been for several days, met Friday
and the measure was recommended
for passage. The original meeting
scheduled for $3.50 a. m. was postponed
because several members stated that
they had not heard the arguments made
by both sides on Thursday and they de-
sired to acquaint themselves with the
facts before casting their votes. Chair
man Estes accordingly postponed the
meeting until o'clock in the afternoon,
when the committee was to gather in
the Senate chamber. Those who had
asked for a postponement were not pres
cot. and cut of The committee of fifteen
only seven were in attendance.
When the question came to vote but
shree members voted in the affirmative.
Two members walked away when it
came to voting, while the other two pres
ent did not vote one way or the other,
having decided To wait until the meas.
Gre came up 10 the Senate. 1t will be re
ported to the Senate Monday morning
Toose present were Senators Gate,
Bell, May, Foust, Estes, Swallows ana
McLaurlns. Senators Hickerson, Gar
rett, Toilet, Wikle, Bowden, Blake,
Jetton and Wilson were absent.
An amendment was offered to the bill
whereby it will take eff ct on Dec. l.,
1895, instead of immediately after its
passage.
Members Of the committee refused TO
say who voted for favorable recon-
mendation but rumor has it the affirma-
tive votes came from Messrs May,
Foust and McLaurine.
At the debate Thursday before the
Senate committee which had charge OF
the investigation OF this bill, Major E.
+. Wright closed the argument for the
racing interests.
HilariouSly Funny.
At one point in Major Wright g speech
occurred what was the most hllarlously
funny incident of the whole debate
which was full of humo-, both designed
and accidental. Maj. Wright, 10 an
effort to show the very respectable
character of the members of the New
Jockey Cub of Memphis, bad just men
toned the fact that most of them were
church members, some of them com
municsnts. in the First Methodist
Church, OF which DR.. Thompson is
pastor. "And |, too, DIR. Thompson,
continued the speaker, IAN a church
member. though not very consistent
one, it must be confessed. Iam"-and
here he hesitated uLcertainly-T am
like the Pharisee who prayed in the
temple, Lord, have mercy on me, a sim
ner. ="
WHO mirth greete the utterinca Maj
Wright was Instantly conscious that he
had Numbered, but nobody prompted
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-02-03
GIVEN MONEY
FOR HIS NEEDS
Strong Drink Had Wrecked The
Life Of Robert Bowen.

On receipt of the press dispatch
regarding the death of MI. Robt.
Bowen at st. LOUIS, which was pub
fished last Friday, the Herald made the
effort but was unable to communicate
with Mr.. Bowen's relatives here. As
the note written by MI. Bowen before
dying conveyed the impression that he
had neen forsake by his family, it is
but due to DR. Bowen of this city and
other relatives of the deceased to
state that ample means had been pro-
vided up to the date of Mr.. Bowen s
death with which to meet his needs
Drink, which is the cause of so many
life wrecks, was responsible tor Mr..
Bowen s disoldored mind, which led
him to imagine that it was the lack
OF but few dollars that made suicide
the only alternative.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-02-03
MAKE CHARGE
AGAINST AGENT
Life Insurance Co. Claims G.,
L. Coleman Disposed of
Renewals.

bill of more than ordinary interest
was filed Thursday in the Chancery
Court of Davidson county. The MlcE-
igan Mutual Life Insurance Company
vs.. Granville L. Coleman of Davidson
County and W. q. McAdams of Maury
County is the style of the case.
In the bill the complainant recites
that for about year. and until 1e-
Gently, the defendant Coleman was
their general agent in this city. Fur
theI that 1t has been their custom to
send renewals of policies to him. and
he in turn was to deliver them to the
policy holders. on their paying the
amounts called for, or their assessment
on insurance.
The complainant Iecites that in De-
cember they sent him thirty nine re-
newals. The renewals were charged
to him until the money paid him, or
the unreleased renewals were returned
to the home office.
|. The complainant company charges
that the defendant Coleman did not
make a proper distribution of the re-
newals, tut that they were placed IN
the hands of W. u. McAdams, of
MauIy county, who countersigned
them and holds twenty-five OF them IN
his possession. They claim that four
teen of the renewals were found in
Coleman s safe. The total value of
the renewals is estimated at 81 800
Complainant prays that defendants
appear and answer the bill and that an
injunction be issued restraining Cole
man from collecting or disposing of
the renewals, and also that McAdams
be restrained from making a DISPOSE
tlon of the renewals, OF that, if any
have teen disposed of, that defendants
he charged tor the amounts collected
The Injunction prayed for was
granted by Criminal Court Judge Hart.
Nashville Banner.
Mr.C leman has not been IN Columbia
for several days and Mr.. McAdams
could not be found at his flee Satur-
iay,so The Herald was una bic to secure
\ statement from either Of these gentle
men. Their friends hope, however. that
when the true facts in the ease are
known that the sensational features may
be eliminated and that matters may bs
adjusted.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-02-03
HISTORICAL RECORD
OF COLUMBIA
DR.. Robbins Has Accumulated
Much Necessary Infor-
nation For This In
tereSting Work.

DR.. ID. B. Robbins, who is compiling
an historical record of Maury County
and Columbia under the supervision of
a committee from the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen, is making good progress.
He has secured large amount of his
torlcal data anC is preparing it 10 &C,
cessabls, readable, form DIR. Robbins
is very painstaking in his work and
makes sure he is right before going
ahead. In most towns where he has
published these records he has had a
Board Of Trade to assist him in his
work and has been able to make better
p ogress
ln Columbia he has worked alone and
has dug up all the data without any or.
ganized help, so his work has necessari-
ly been slow
He is planning for the pui LEGATION of
about 1900 copies Of the Uu h. which
will be volume Of probably 200 pages.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-02-03
SERIOUS BLAZE
NARROWLY AVERTED
w. P. Woodbridge Store Was On
Fire When the Porter
Opened UP.

A serious conf]agration was narrowly
averted Thursday morning at the W.
P. Woodbridge drug store. When the
porter opened up the store Thursday
morning. he found the builing filled
with smoke and one of the large
wooden stills under the Crate burned
almost entirely through. In another
hour or two the cellar under the store
would have been ablaze and the hand
some block of buildings would have
been in jeopardy. The cause which led
up to the trouble was the fault of the
builder of the stoIehouse. Instead of
lining the bottom of the fire place with
fire brick he laid thin layer of cement
and when this had worn away the
wood work was exposed.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-02-03

him, and his confusion grew with the
prolonged laughter of what he afterward
contemptuously characterized as the
''stripllngs,' the young ministers and
0 hers Who had come out to show their
friendship for the pending measure.
Finally in apparent desperation he es-
sayed to correct himself by say ing, "My
ignorance of theology is like Dr.Thomp-
500 S ignorance of racing. OF course, l
didh t mean to say Pharisee; [ meant
the Good s lmaritan!'
Again the audience was in an eruption
of uncomfortable outlaws, for the Good
Samaritan was about as far from being
the poor Publican of Bible story as WAS
the Pharisee, and the eloquent Mem.
phian had had his Lesson in the hazard
Of quoting scripture without being per
iectly sure the names of the characters
are accurately arrayed in memory.
Defends the Farmer.
Rev. Ira Landrith closed for the bill
and he made just about the lvest and
brightest half hour talk that has been
heard on any subject before any commit
tee Of the Legislature this session.
He opened with defense of the farm
ers HI said the other side came here
in the name of the farmers and greete d
them as friends and advocates of the
gamblers The Legislature was asked
in behalf Of the farmers to legalize gam
bling He denied that majority of the
farmers of this state wanted gambling on
race tracks. He said he was sorry for
the man who had invested his money 10
the race track, "but it is not our fault
he declared. "You have seen the hand
writing on the legislative wall that gam
b ing 10 any form must be stopped. The
Legislature is not under moral obliga
ton to protect any man who does not
invest his money in honest business -
He ridiculed the idea that the enact
ment Of this law meant the interference
with any mans personal liberty. lie
said he speakers on the other side have
admitted that the only way to preserve
the pIide of Tennessee was TO have
gambling, and said. If it is wrong to
bet 10 pool roomit is wrong to bet on
the race track. The race track is the
kindergarts and the university both of
gambling The Legislature must pass
this law if it would maintai it's conss
tency.
Time-Honored Custom.
He said the plea had been made that
gambling on race courses had always
gone on 1t was time honcred Gus
tom. If this was true, so much more
was the reason that it should be stopped
at once. The Louisiana Lottery and
b rning of witches we're old and hoary,
mt thuv nara ctnDDpH
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-02-03
Time-Honored Custom.
"a 9 "a @ E Z a.
,aa,s thu n The Kind You Have Always BOuga:
'is, q Is<%AZzzM
First Life Insurance Policy.

The first life insurance policy of
which the details are on record resulted
in law suit. says the Worlds Work
William Gybbons insured himself on
June 10, 1888. for 1883 against dying
in twelve months: he did die on May
18 of the next yesr-and the disguised
underwriters contested payment on the
plea that he had lived twelve months
of twenty eight days eacn!
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-02-03

G. - II tx 49,.
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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-02-03
CHANGE AT The
EXPRESS OFFICE.

Mr.. Ed Winnie. who has been local
agent of the Southern Express Co. for
the past year or more. has been pro-
noted and made Travelling Aditor bet
ween Evansville and Birmingham.
with headquarters at Nashville.
Mr.. G. b. Thayer, recently agent at
Calhoun, Ga, has been promoted
the Columbia office and has entered
upon his duties.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-02-03
PAY FOR THE PASTOR
AFTER FOURTEEN YEARS

Denver Telegram to the Chicago Record
Herald.
After serving fourteen years in the
pulpit of Gallllee Baptist church with
out pay, the Rev. Joshua GIavett is
to have salary of $1,000 year. He
has worked at the carpenter s trade
to support his family. The salar,
begins with the new year. and the
pastor has put aside his hammer and
saw.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-02-03

Central. give me main 9856G."
Lime is busy
Then give me main E629H."
Shines spIzy.
"Try blue 90Js5PDQ."
"BIzzi. -
20. but central, am calling fro n
a pay station.
3 "Wait a minute. Here's your marty.
Commercial Tribune.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-07-15
PLANTS IN ARTIFICIAL LIGHT
Grow to Twice the Size of Those Left
TO the Nursing of the Sun
Only.

Last winter. when the supply OF air
in the subway was being discussed,
Prof. R. Ogden Doremus facetiously
suggested that it be renewed by Dor
dering the tracks with plants and
electric arc lights and turning the
subway into a bower, says the New
York Tribune. 1t is known that plant
life IAN be affected ~favorably by cleo
trio light. Recently M. j. Iorns, of the
Cornell Agricultural college, expert
mented with acetylene gas as an ad-
iunct to the sum-, with striking results.
Plants grew to twice the size of those
left to the nursing of the sun only,
and vegetables attained dimensions
double those which were unasslsted IN
the matter of illumination.
The experiments were carried on
through three months in a dollhouse.
This house was divided into two parts
by a curtain. This curtain was hung
in such a way that each half OF the
house received the same illumination
from the sun. The beds on each slda
were exactly alike, not only in size,
but in location and contents. Ii a lily
was planted in a certain part OF a bed
on one side. another of the same spe-
cies and age was set out in the same
mart of the corresponding bed on the
other. Inside of the curtain an equip
ment consisting of II %S5-candle power
acetylene lamps were erected on one
side of the curtain. Ordinary tin re-
fectors over each light threw their
ravs downward upon the soil. The
lights were run whenever it was oark,
the length of time ranging from nine
n fourteen hours, according to the
neriod of daylight. The soil, tempera-
ture and amount of mixture were as
naarly the same on each side OF the
curtain as it was possible to make
them.
The plants on the acetylene side in
MANY instances matured twice as fast
as those on the other side of the parti-
tion. Radishes, onions and several
other kinds of plants which develop
| their edible parts below the surface OF
| tho ground were found to have pursued
| their usual course, except tina they
grew twice as fast as those not placed
under the influence of the a~cetylene
| light.
Several plants were not permitted
| tn drink in any of the sunlight. They
were brought out of a dark roc into
the rays of the acetylene light after
| daylight had faded from the western
sky. Before the eastern horizon
| lightened they were again removed to
the dark apartment, to remain in utter
/ darkness until the day should end
The narcissus which was subjected to
this form of treatment blossomed, the
flowers remaining on the plaat moro
than o week.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-07-15
A WAY TO BAKE BISCUITS.
Try Batter in Muffin Rings on a Grid
die When It Is Impossible to
Get Quick Oven.

Outlines when the busy housewife
desires hot biscuit for her Sunday tea
or for luncheon she discovers that the
oven is not hot enough to bake them.
In such emergencies try baking them
N muffin rings on a griddle. This Is
really an excellent plan, and has been
well tested. In fact, hot bread baked
in this way makes a pleasant change
occasionally from ordinary biscuit.
One is sure of results, too, which is not
always the case when the over is used.
The biscuit batter should for this
purpose be a little thinner than the or
binary batter. If made as follows, the
biscuit will be light and fluffy: Sift
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder
with two cups of -four. Rub in a piece
Of ~butter-about a undergraduates
carefully mix the whole with two s~ant
u D of milk. Grease your griddle with
beef fat. not butter, as that burns Sc
easily. and not lard, as that gives a
had taste to the biscuit. Grease the
muffin rings also, and place them on
the griddle. Fill them half full with
the mixture. Cover the griddle with a
pan or deep tin cover, and let them
cook slowly-rising before they brown
| If the fire beneath them is too hot they
| will burn. AS in everything else, com
mon sense is needed in this matter.
Some housekeepers would call these
| English mullins, but they are not fol
English mullins proper are raised over
| night with yeast, and are generally
served split and toasted.-N. Y. Trib-
I me
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-07-15

count for very much in America, since
thousands of families keep no ervan
and very comfortably do their W
work, while thousands Of others are per-
fectly satisfied If they can manage to
hire a single moderately satisfactory
maid-of-all-work.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-07-15
-Four Facts For
Sick Women
To ConSidez
lydia E. PinEham's Vegetable Compound
Has an UnequaAed Record of Cures
Mrs. Pinkkam's Advice Is Confsden-
GaL Free, and alsoays Helpful

FIRsT.-That almost every operation
In our hospitals performed upon women
becomes necessary through neglect OF
such symptoms rs backache, irregular
and painful m~enstruation, leucorrhoea,
displacements of the uterus, pain i
the side, burning sensation in the stom-
ach, bearing-down pains, nervousness,
dizziness and sleeplessness.
SEcoND.-The medicine that holds
the record for the largest number of
absolute cures of female ills is Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
1t regulates, strengthens and cures
diseases of the female organism as
nothing else can.
For thirty years it has been helping
women to be strong, curing backache.
nervousness, kidney troubles, all utter
inc and ovarian Inflammation, weak
ness and displacements, regulating
menstruation perfectly and overcom-
ing it's pains. 1t has also proved itself
invaluable in preparing for childbirth
and the change of life.
THIRD.-The great volume of unso-
licited and grateful testimonials on file
at the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn,
Mass, many of which are fsom time to
time published by permission, give ab-
solute evidence of the value of Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
Mrs. Pinkham's advice.
FoURTH.-Every ailing woman in the
United States is asked to accept the
following invitation. It is free, will
bring you health and may a v your
life.
Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation
to Women.--Women suffering from any
form of female weakness r invited to
promptly communicate with Mrs. Pink
ham, at Lynn, Mass. All letters are
received, opened. read and answered
by women only. From symptoms given,
your trouble may be located and the
quickest and surest way OF recovery
advised. Out of the vast volume of ex-
perience in treating female ills Mrs.
Pinkham probably has the very knowl-
edge that win help your case. Surely,
any woman, richor poor, is very foolish
if She does not take advantage OF this
generous offer of assistance.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-07-15
MAKE THINGS M
In the City One Can Make Changes
from Winter to- Summer Furnish
ings with Welcome Results.

Light, pretty hangings and materials
as well to make such bangings of, have
progressed at a wonderful rate, yet so
insensibly has the progress been made
that most of us are only conscious of
It now that so many houses put on
summer dress as a matter of course.
1t is a big relief, even If you're only
going to stay in town for a couple of
months, to get rid of heavy hangings
and have a change, SO far as possible,
In your surroundings. It's better for
your winter things, too, for dust and
summer weather play havoc with ev-
erything; and winter styles, unlike
those of summer, are rarely made with
any intention of putting in the tub.
If you're going away, on the other
hand, to your cottage, there are a
thousand things to do to make II
bright and gay, yet none that need be
expensive.
More and more people are taking ad-
vantage of summer as an opportunity
to change things a little, making sum-
mer slips to button winter sofa pillows
in-saving the wear and tear on the
winter slips, and yet not having to
take up precious space in the store
room with two sets of pillows.
Every sort of thing is to be had In
summer guise-table overs OF linen or
cotton; the daintiest Powered screens,
made to match the design OF the wall
| paper exactly and given an odd little
new treatment that frames the flowers
in green; bedspreads and shams that
match the rest of the room, until a girl
who can do anything at all with ham
mer and needle can turn her room into
a summer bower, like those of the la
dies in old romances, with a delightful
ly practical difference.
In lots of summer cottages each
room is given its distinct character
one made into a rose room, another a
| violet, another morning glory, and so
on. each treated in a different way, the
change in treatment keeping the repe-
tition of flowers from seeming monoto-
nous.
There's a deal of art and a lot OF
good taste to be employed in choice
and arrangements. White curtains for
the windows of a red oom are rather
too brash-too sharp a contrast. Use
instead the soft ecru shades, or, even
if the merest tint seems still too white,
Arabian color-a deep coffee color-is
always good, like the lace itself from
which the color takes it's name, for
curtains.
This year cluny is used more than
ever before in the net curtains, white
or Arabian color, whichever best suits
the room you want them for-prefer-
ably white, if both go with paper and
coIoring equally well.
If you use double draperies, use
white next the window, and be careful
to keep from too heavy a coloring fol
The overhangings.-Louisville Courier
Journal.