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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-24
WHY THEY ARE TRAMPS.
Facts Cleaned by an Investigator
Concerning the Tramp
Fraternity.

An eminent professor who spent some
time travelling about the country asked
every tramp that he met why he didn'i
work. He interviewed 1000 Migrants
and, chasing them according to the rea.
sons they gave for not earning their
bread in an orthodox manner, we get the
following:
Six hundred and fifty-three said they
were willing to work, but could not oh
tain any; 445 could not give any reason
that would hold water; 301 thought that
no one ought to have to work, and il
some people were foolish enough to do
so--well, they intended living on those
said people.
Four hundred and seven were on their
way to procure work at distant towns.
having letters in their possession prom
Using them employment at the said
towns, and the remaining 1874 were wait
ing for relatives to die and leave them
their money.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-24
QUEER FREAK OF NATURE.
Body of Prehistoric Animal Found
Embedded in a Big Lump
of Coal.

A wonderful freak of nature was un.
earthsd recently in Roswell, N NJ, in
a car OF coal. The remains of some pre-.
historic animal were found imbeGdtd in
around lump OF coal Weighing Al pounds
The tail Of the animal was sticking cut
of one Size, and one leg and part of q
shoulder out of the other. The head hac
rotted off. and the balance of the car.
cass was as dry as bone
The fur on the front part of the body
was soft, fluffy and white and black
The fur of the tail was jet black The
body resembled that of house cat. anu
in the round lump of coal measures IL
inches in length.
The curiosity will be sent to the
Smithsonian institution at Washington.
The lump of coal came from the Wash
ington district and the PiCtou mines.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-24
SHOCK KILLED HIM
Father. Seeing Son Imper-
sonating Corpse, Fell
Dead in His Seat.

CULLMAN, Ala, March Ia. "
Noodall, n welI-knoWn citizen Ut Ccn<
man County living 1T o. Ui Hope,
dropped dead Friday night while Y1t-
Messing the closing exercises ofVbe
Good Hope school. The pupils 1T Vie
school we're presenting a dialogue, ia
which one of the pupils acted The part
OF corpse When the corpse appeaIAd
on the Stage Mr.. No,dail, v no wasM
the audience, dropped dead in bis seat
A sad feature of the affair Is the FAC
that Mr.. Woodall's sou WAS acting as
the corpse. Mr. Woodall himself had
been asked To take this part, but de-
clined. He was sufferer from heart
trouble, and it is thought that the
shock caused hy the sight Of his son as
corpse caused his death Mr.. Woodall
W as about 80 ears of az e and prosper
Gus farmer Of that e ctioh, and we'll
known over the county. He leaves
wife and several children.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-24
Automobile Railway.

The Hanover Railway company is
making trial trips from Hanover to
Soltau with steam automobiles. The
third-class carriages can take SO pas
sengers; the second class have seven
seats, and there are also seven standing
places There is no locomotive for driv-
ing these cars, but machinery in the
carriage, which can be driven by one
man. If these trial trips should prove
satisfactory the scheme will be tried on
a larger scale.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-24
SPREAD OF PLANT LIFE.
Various Odd Ways in Which Seeds
Are Transported from One
Place to Another.

Weeds migrate as well as men. Ac-
cording to the recent statement OF q
professor of botany, there are already
600 varieties of weeds in New England
which were not to be found there when
the country was first settled. Within
less than 25 years after the landing OF
the Pilgrims, says Youths Companion
one observer counted more than 40 new
weeds which the Europeans had brought
with them, to say nothing of the human
varieties. Nature employs all sorts Of
methods for spreading life about the
planet, and does not seem to care Wheth
er the life be that of weed or of PLAN
fit for human use. Indeed it uses suct
unromantic materials as old rubber
overshoes for seed-carriers, as many
new weeds have appeared in river
valley in Connecticut since factory wat
established there that Utilities such cast
off things. The overshoes come from
all parts of the world The cloth lining
.s.torn out before the rubber is used, ant
from the seeds that have found lodg
ment in such an apparently unpromislne
place plants have grown on the dump
heap, and their seeds have found fertile
soil multiplied and fiourished. What
a romance there is in the life OF such .
seed; ripened, perchance, in Asia, trod-
den in the mud and carried on board ship
on the feet of a passenger, thence taken
to Europe, where it was picked up by
the boot of an American, was finally
ldislodged in the overshoe, and found its
terminating place in Connecticut
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-24
Stockholders Meeting.

The regular annual meeting OF the
stock holders OF the CoiuDb ia Herald
Co.. will be held at the flee of the
ompany on SATURDAY. TIE 8ih day OF
A pril. at o'clock m. for the annual
e. ectiop of officers ard for The traDsac-
ton of such business AS may be brought
before TIT m.
10.4t F. D. LANDER, Manager.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-24
Racing from Pa.

The clippers sped on in the red automo-
bile.
Now that we have eloped," whispered
the timid girl, as she clutched his sleeve,
do you think our money will last?"
Don't bother me about money
shouted che young man. I'm wonder
ing if the gasoline will last"
Just then the lights of papa's pnrau-
ing machine flashed in the distance. =
Chicago Journal
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-24
hskl1los riance1co.

Gov Brady of Alaska protests
against talk of the vile. dirty Eskimo
saying those who make such remarks are
in ignorance. Il don't know what he
may be like in other divisions of the
frigid zone, but l do know that the
Alaskan Indian is as fine a type o. his
class as can be found anywhere. Take
them as a whole, they are sober ana in.
dustrious, make homes and adopt civili-
cation readily. They are truthful, hor-
est, hospitable, gentle and kind
hearted"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-24
PEACE ON AREASONABLE BASIS

A dispatch from st. Petersburg says
powerful influences, including several
of the Emperot's ministers, are strong
" urging that the time has come to in
dictate to Japan 'Russia's dasire for
peace on a reasonable basis" One CT
The Emperor's ministers is quoted as
saying that Russia can make "a digni-
fed peace without glory, but not
" ithont hon, r." be suggests as par
tial program that Russia should re-
nounce her entire Manchurian policy.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-24
Willing to Trade.

Rapson- Uneasy lies the head that
wears a cro.<n."
Snapup-What If it does? Uneasy
lies the head that doesn't wear crown
sometimes, and there must be some con
ISOLATION in having headache from such
an aristocratic cause.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-24
No Bitter Feeling

Tomson-Didnt it make you furious
to think that bunco steerer succeeded
in getting the last few thousand of
that cranky old aunt of yours?
Jonson-No. we think he rather got
the worst of it. You see, in order to
get it. he had TO marry her.-Detroii
Free Press.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-24
Defined in Confidence

Little Willie-Say. pa, what is a re.
mote period?
PA remote period, my son, is the
period due at the end of your mothers
remarks. Remember, however, | am
giving you this explanation in strict
confidence Chicago Sun.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-24
Fru:+ IN Zealand

ireland is mailing bold bid for Lead
Ing position in the British fruit mar
tets. Orchard cultivation is being en-
outraged by the authorities and ar
engagements are being actively prose-
cuted for the drying and pacing of fruit
L American fashion for expectation.
The Irish fruit is among the finest in
the world.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-24
TAX PROPOSED ON
THE FAMILY COFFEE POT

The proposition advanced by some
members OF Congress to place duty on
coffee Is exciting considerable interest
The idea was suggested tentatively, it
is said, for the purpose of sounding the
public. 1t is thought that the inhabi
their attentio1 to raising coffee If en-
couI aged by the imposition of a duty
upon importations Of the product from
other countries.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-24
Table Lamps.

Urn shaped table lamps are especial
favorites with standards of dull brass.
Ground glass shades, inset with jewels
are used with these lamps.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-24
Excels His Teacher

Miss Pert-What an intelligent little
thing your dog is!
Cholly-Yaas; tausht him myself.
"The idea! 1t seems impossible! -
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-24
PAP0OSE POPCORN
A New SEED Discovery Cor >
FORAGE, POULTRY, POPPING

A subscriber to the Southern
Agricultural secured the origi-
nal seed from an old Indian in
Northwest Texas. After expert
menting with 1t seven years he
wrote that paper: with good
ground and care II will make
from so to 100 bushels to the
acre, and planted thick and cut
stalk and oil II will make more
feed and better feed than any
thing l ever saw. The old In
dian said poultry FED on It would
never have the cholera. have
not lost fowl with cholera
since | have been raising 1t. 1t
also pops beautifully" This ar
ticle brought hundreds Of re-
quests for seed, and now only
few bushels are left. Send 10c
for q 3 months trial subscrip-
ton to Southern Agricultural,
80 c. p. BLDG, Nashville, Tenn,
and you win get 100 seed by re-
turn mail. also details Of $50
prise seed-grewing contest.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-24
Descriptive

Flora-You know I've beeL so anx-
lous to hear from that friend Of mine
who is on such an interesting trip to
South Africa.
Dora-Yes.
"Well. I've had long letter from her
and all she says is we had beautiful
trip around the Horn. All the rest
was about a man she had met on
board!"-Detroit Free Press.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-24
Had a Tooth.

Mrs. Beaconstreet-I hear that some
thing interesting has happened at your
house, Emerson.
LiCtle Emerson-Yes; my infantile
hro.ner has developed what appears to
he n hicusDid.- Pittsburg Post.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-24
The Vaughan Manufacturing Co.

DEALERS IN
Posts, Shingles, and all Kinds of Build
ers Materials Rough and Dressed Lum-
Der, Sash. Doors, Blinds. Mouldings,
Felt Roofing, Iron Roofing, Tin and
Cutters, Laths, Builders Hardware
Carpenters Tools, Glass, Etc.
Columbia, Tennessee.
opt. l-eod&w
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-12
GIRL BEHIND THE GOODS.
Gets In a Good One on the Old Lady
Who Wears the Naughty
Air

''Some women make me dead tired"
said a sales-duchess, with the 12-inch
pompadour, as she stood behind the pat
tern counter, relates the Washington
Star.
Say, l wish you'd write little piece
I'm going to speak to you. and put it
in your paper. It's about the fool things
these women trot in here and gurSle
for. It'd make a cat CrCss-eyed to get
next to them when they go paving over
the stuff and then toss their heads and
trot along in sort of I'm-the-only-thin
righteousness style. I've got cinch
over some of the other sales ladies,
though. cause they have to ask here for
what they want. and they can't make me
open the package, either. The picture
OF the garment is printed on every pat
tern, and if they don't like it they can
scoot along. But some of 'em GER
tainiy make me tired.
There was one of EN- in here to-day.
She had two others with her. but they
were all right. cause they didn't open
their mouths until she had made her
break, and then they laughed at her and
she made a naughty turn toward the
door, an II bet a bunch of vi lets she
don't speak TO either of EN- for whole
day at least Well. as l was sayin', the
bunch sashayed in here and up she
waltzes 10 my counter She gave me
the frozen face stare and put on all the
English she had ever read in those
dollar fifty -now-1S-cents' novels
over on the book counter.
Have you any tails?' she gurgled
Il looked up real sassy-like and
stepped up onto a box so as to show her
that her French heels didn't make a bit
of difference in our heights, and pre-
tended to not know what she was talk
ing about.
Sure l says. I've got six
Let me see EN-, she says to me, real
naughty again.
They're at home with their mother
says l, giving her the real innocent
stare
What do you mean?' says she with
real you-may- kiss-the-royal-mit tone.
Kittens says l. They're at home
with their mother. You just ought to see
EN-. They're the cutest things ever
We'll. you'd ought to seen her grab
her skirt and dart along The other
girls laughed and followed her. While
just looked astonished and watched her
till she got out. Do you know what she
wanted? You don't? Well. I'm not sur
prised. She wanted a shirtwaist pattern
with tails hanging down behind You
know the kind. Say. put that little piece
in your paper, won't your"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-12

have to rehearse one day after another
in the heat of midday. Miss Due has
demonstrated that she has a future be-
fore her, and as leading woman she
has been most popular with Honolulu
audiences. Mr.. Sosso played his diff
cult roles to the satisfaction of every
one. though he also had the arduous
duties of stage management. Miss Sci
wyn caught the favor of the people
from the first with her clever acting
and her inimitable song work. Chas.
Elder is an accomplished ''villain >
and always pleasing.
George Hernandez and Anna Dodge
did the comedy roles to perfection, and
it would be hard to find others who
could keep the audiences in the good
humor that they produced. William
Marion played his roles with a natural
ness that was refreshing. Albert Fent
looked and acted his parts as few can.
His singing with Miss Selwyn during
the last few performances made a dis
tinct hit, and both received much we'll
merited applause. Grace Lamont and
William Daul have appeared less prom
inently. but have won much praise for
their clever acting.
Beyond the merely professional part
of their visit, all the members of the
company have proved themselves
most pleasant people and they have
made many friends here. A word of
appreciation is also due to the mana
gers, Frank Wyman and Willis Bass,
who are very popular here. The Ellie
fords will take away the good wishes
of Honolulu people for their success.
{" NV Friend from India is the fare
well play of the Ellefords tonight.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-12

Tonight is the last night of the Ell
the company viii depart for the coast
in the Ventura tomorrow afternoon.
They have been here over a month ana
played every week night during the
noon. Many companies would have ex
hausted the interest of the people long
before this, but the sEllefords are play
ing to as large houses at the end of
the first week. 1t is doubtful whether
any other company which has visited
Hawaii can show the record that the
Ellefords have had every season they
of numerous counter attractions, I'M
usually plentiful this season, there has
hardly been a night when the house
has not been full and many, many
nights it has been crowded.
All classes of people have attended
the Orpheum during the season and all
sorts of plays have been given. The
class of productions that has been Civ
en- is such that no one has been offend
ed, and the whole season has been one
of unmixed enjoyment to those who
have attended the plays.
The work of the players has been
most excellent, and they have done
well considering the eli
mate, which is very hard on those who
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-12

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-12
No Longer of Value.

Mrs Hussie-Six of that dozen Of
eggs were rotten.
Dealer-Sorry, very sorry, Mrs. Hus-
sic. 1 hope you didn't break the
shells?
Why. of course I did! How could
1 tell whether they were good or
bad?"
If you hadn't broken the shells we
could have taken the eggs back. We
have other customers, you know. But
now they are no use to us."-BostOn
Transcript.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-12
BETTER TIMFS AHEAD
The West Indies are Turning from
Sugar to Fruits and Cotton.

The West India islands may be very
Atlantic and gulf States with two
striking exceptions. In the islands the
staple commodity was sugar instead
of cotton. and the proprietors of most
of. the largest and richest estates were
abSenteeS-a system that has done
more to hamper the islanders in their
economic development than any other
two causes combined. Slavery was an
established institution, although it
lacked some of the harsher features
that characterized the system in the
South; the planting aristocracy was
powerful, jealous and intolerant, and
sugar was crowned king. Men lived
by it and died for it, swore by it and
dreamt of it.
The planter positively refused to
learn the lesson that a country which
is entirely dependent on a single in
dustry is every day on the brink of
ruin; and although he had the adVan
tage of climate and soil capable of
producing all that any tropical region
could produce, would not be divorced
from his first love, but chung to his
idol presumably for the sake of all
it had been to him and done for him.
After the close of the Franco-PruS-
sian war, when Germany and Austria,
and to a smaller extent. Russia, began
to foster the production of beet sugar
the West India sugar industry gradual
" began to decline. Wages fell till
they reached only one-third of what
they had been, and the style of living
was greatly lowered. And yet it is az
most ridiculous to an observer to note
that all that has been done to better
that condition has been a series of
futile attempts to resuscitate the sug-
ar industry by precisely the same an
cient methods. The home planters
lacked skill and initiative; the absentee
proprietors across the Atlantic cared
no longer for their unremunerative es-
tates, most of which they had never
seen: and having already reaped a rich
harvest out of them. they We're per-
fectly willing to leave them to their
fate and to devote their capital to
nawer and more lucrative fields
Il took the planters a. long time to
learn that the abolition of slavery
seventy years ago meant the increase
of their incomes, and in the same way
it has taken them long time to see
that it is hopeless to contend against
bounty-fed sugar fostered by govern
ment aid with the rude appliances
they have on their estates. But the
point which has always been most
strongly emphasized is the Iethargy
and listlessness of the colonial planter
situation.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-12

nell; NJ. at A, Frank c. Palmer; l. G.,
Harry L. White; O. G., Charles H.
Norbert.
Honolulu Temple No. Rathbone Sis
ters: NJ. E. c., Ida J. Turner; +. s.,
Sallie L. Williams; E. j., IWilani *.
Dayton; NJ, Margaret Ferguson; NJ. of
r. and c., Grace O'Brien; NJ. of F.,
Florence E. Lee; p, Alice Menaugh;
G., Jennie Jacobson; p. c., Marguerite
Z. Moore.
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she turned her attention to the cultiva-
ton of cocoa, her Industrial problem
was solved. Jamaica had previously
tried the cultivation and export of log
wood; but when the Elder Dempster
Steamship Company, of Bristol and
London, guaranteed that they could
transport all the fruit the island could
produce in specially fitted steamers,
and sell it in England at a fair profit.
the planter loosened his hold on sugar
and ceased to believe in the proverb
All sugar or nothing
The other islands were more tardy
in coming into line principally because,
on account of their very limited size,
they did not feel justified in launching
out too boldly, but in 1897 a board of
commissioners was appointed for the
islands, with headquarters at Barba-
dos, and to them was given the duty
of investigating the conditions and pos
sibilities of the islands, and of foster
ing every industry that could be of
benefit to them. And what has been
the result? Any one can easily guess
Through the indefatigable efforts of Sir
Daniel Morris, the chief commissioner
the islands have begun slowly, yet
surely, to break away from the thral-
dom of sugar cane, while that which
they are cultivating is being done on
scientific principles.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-12

Fruit is being. grown to an extent
never before known, cocoa is already
an established industry in more islands
than Trinidad, and the cultivation of
cotton started purely as an experiment.
has already reached the stage of sue
cess. Only six weeks ago, a shipment
of cotton from Barbados and ST. Vim
cent fetched from to I cents a. pound
more in Manchester than the best
American articles, and bananas from
the former island were pronounced su-
perior in quality and flavor to any that
had hitherto been imported. Already
some prominent English business men
have come forward with the offer of
assisting in every possible way the
growth of the cotton industry. Aeri-
cultural societies have been formed in
each of the islands, and local as well
as general meetings are held at which
subjects of common interest to the is
lands are discu sed and ways and
means proposed for lettering their in
duS trial development along manufac-
turing lines The planters ana lner-
chants have taken hold OF the situation
with will.
Down in those islands to-Iay the
" uetIS Oh prosperity nave AGAIN Leg IN
to revolve. slowly it is true, but sure
~ if the people viii bat follow The OK
ample that has been SCI. These neglect
ed portions of a great empire have
had largely to solve their own Indus-
trial problems. 70: tie mother country
has done little or noth'ng for them save
to use their lucrative offices as fer
tile fields for their discredited officials
and degenerate noble. That day is
almost past; the colonies haze learnt
the lesson of retrenchm4nt and self
dependence. and While To the royal
commission must be given its due
NEED of praise for Che work it has
done, to the colonies themselves must
be attributed the credit of ut last re-
moving the beam from heir eyes, ana
viewing the industrial situation in the
light of present day Developments
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situation.

Trinidad was the first of the islands
10 break away from the trammels of
sugar and devote her attention to some
industry that was yet in it's infancy.
Fortunately she had in her asphalt
lakes a veritabIe gold mine, and when