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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-17
DEATH BED !.
CONFESSION
LEADS TO RECOVERY OF JEWELS
WORTH A FORTUNE.
Bag Containing Them Lay Hid in ST.
Louis Exposition Building for
Two Years.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 15.-Acting under
instructions cabled from England,
Jno. B. O'Brien, a laborer employed
in the wrecking of the Worlds Fair
buildings, has unearthed an alligator
bag containing jewels valued at $780,
900, which were stolen from Mr.. and
Mrs. P. Henry Clayton, of Devonshire,
Eng, during a visit to the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition two years ago.
The jewels were stolen from trunk
and they were not missed until the
Claytons had returned to England,
after tour of the world They had
no means of knowing where the jew
els had been stolen. About. a month
ago a Hindoo servant, who had been
in their employ during their trip was
fatally injured by an elephant in In
dia and on his death bed confessed
that he stole the jewels while in St.
Louis.
He said that he became alarmed
and fearing detection had dropped
them into hole in the wall of the
Manufacturers building. Later he
again wished to secure the gems but
on returning to the place he had Sc
GREETED them, could not reach the bot
tom of the space between the plaster
and the side of the building. Fearing
TO awaken any inquiries Or ask assis-
tanse the Hindoo departed from St.
Louis with the Claytons, leaving the
jewels in their hiding place.
O'Brien was generously rewarded
and was also employed by Mr.. Clay
ton as bis personal attendant.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-17
-EYNGHING Scene
PORTRAYED ON SOUVENIR pos
TAI CARDS IN MAIL.
Held Up by Postmaster at Salisbury
N. c., and Action Approved at
Washington.

/ WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-Souveni1
post cards of lynching scenes cannot
be sent through the mails, such being
the decision of Acting Postmaster
General Ramsey, of Salisbury, N. c.,
where post cards, portraying the dan.
Cling bodies of the negroes recently
lynched there, were placed in the local
postoface. The action of the local
postmaster in holding the cards until
the subject could be investigated is
highly commended by postofice Of
ficials here. The justification of the
order is that the pictures are of such
gruesome character that they should
not be circulated through the mails.
Heretofore the only ban placed on
postal cards was against those of
the obscene and suggestive variety.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-17
Foolish Faiths OF People.

The hopelessness of weaving men
and women from foolish and fanati-
cal beliefs, no matter what examples
may be presented to them, is illustra-
ted afresh by the announcement that
during the present week twenty-five
men and women will sail from port
in Maine to establish a new religion
in the holy land. Their boat is an
old brigantine, their faith belief in
prophet" named Sanford, while
their religion is known as the RE
ligion of the Holy Ghost" or.-as the
vulgar term them, "Holy Ghosters."
Not only their faith but their wealth
and their domestic happiness are in
the hands of this pretender prophet,
who is equipping two other boats to
carry his crack-brained followers to
Observation-Disclosures Press.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-17
suNELowER PHILOSOPHY.

How little attention people pay to
"An Appeal for Fair PLAY"
If you make a success of your bust
ness you must get along in spite of
opposition.
Always say when man dies that a
large circle" of friends are mourn
ing, and don't get out your measuring
string.
Half the worlds troubles are due
to an overestimation of the other fell
lows money and belief that it can
be had by work" instead of labor
1t is easy for a girl to visit a long
time in summer on a. pocket full of
clothes; owing to the hot weather a
shirt waist may easily be washed,
dried and ironed in night.
A favorite way the women have of
saying something awful without really
saying anything, is to ask when some
other woman is mentioned: Did
you ever see her kitchen?"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-17
HOW BATS MOVE.
(New York SUM-

New York Sum-
Bats are remarkably Independent of
the sense of sight A naturalist de-
scribes some experiments demonstra-
ting this fact: Covering the eyes of
a bat with wax, he released the crea-
ture in room. 1t first of all made its
way to the door, but instead of strik-
ing this lowered few inches off,
slowly making its way along the top
edge and down the side, apparently
guided by the incoming draft of air.
Next thorough exploration of the room
was made, and throughout the exam
nation it never once struck either
chairs or table and swerved aside
when a stick was placed in its path.
AS result of this experiment natural
lists believe that bats have an acute
perception of atmospheric currents
and vibrations resident in the nerves
of the wing membranes.
This matter was thoroughly investi-
gated so long ago as 1898, when, by
the cruel experiment of binding the
animals, it was shown that they could
cross a room across which silken
threads were stretched in such a way
as to leave just sufficient space for
them to pass between with outstretch-
ed wings. They not only succeeded
in passing the threads without touch
ing them, but they avoided with equal
ease the walls and ceilings. Even
when the threads we're placed still
nearer together they managed by con-
tracing the wings, to pass without
contact. Branches Of trees were sim
iarly avoided, and when tired they
suspended themselves on the walls
of the room as easily as If they enjoy
ed the use of sight.
From this it was inferred that these
creatures possess a marvelously deli
cate sense of touch in the wing mem
branes. But it is also regarded as
probable that this is increased by the
expansion of the skin of the external
ear and by the development of folds
of skin on the nose and muzzle. In
some bats, indeed, a perfect rosette of
such skin is developed in the latter
region as in the 'leaf-nosed" bats, and
it is supposed that the additional lobe
II.
performs a similar function.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-17

districts of the county to the nomi-
mating eonvention-that is the real
election day. If the people on that
day choose good, sound. safe men as
delegates. they will nominate men of
tleir kind, All power and response
blltty rests with the people We hope
and trust that every Individual Tenn
perance Democrat in Maury county
will do his part We hope their
wives and mothers, sisters and sweet
hearts, win see that they do their
duty.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-17
A Long Step Toward World Pea

A Long Step Toward World Peace
The international American Con
gress in Rio De Janeiro has twice af
firmed the principal of arbitration
and will today pass a resolution de-
claring that there is urgent necessity
for all American republics to send to
The Hague delegates instructed to
support an arbitration convention.
1t would not be easy to exaggerate
the value of such a declaration. The
United States, Mexico and Central
as well as South America are con.
cerned in this emphatic declaration.
This is the whole New World except
ing British America.
The countries represented in or in
fuenced by the convention cover near
ly one-fifth of the land area of the
globe. They have now less than one
eleventh of it's population, say $780,
100000. but are destined by climate
and natural wealth to far greater
share of the earth's activities than
they now possess.-New York World.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-17
sErTER Times Jusr AHEAD.

In speech at Warrensburg, Mo-.
Tuesday, Governor Joseph w. Folk
aid:
I'VE are in the beginning of the
greatest moral awakening America
has ever known. The next four years
will be distinguished as the time in
which the reign of lawlessness and
privilege ended, and the reign of equal
rights for all became fixed in National
politics and the conscience of man.
kind. The fact that this awakening
against wrongs has come when pros
perity abounds, shows it does not pro
coed from spirit of discomfort, but
springs from the moral sense of the
people We are entering upon the
best age the world has ever known.
The Legislature of the State should
not be controlled by any special in
terests, whether corporations or n
quor sellers. The latter seem to be
organizing to get men favoring them
in the General Assembly. 1t is time
for the people to wake up, and see
that men go to the Legislature who
will represent the people. Have the
candidates speak out on these ques-
tions. This State belongs to no in
terest. 1t belongs to the people and
should be run by them"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-17

They told it during the Senatorial
campaign that a deal had been made
between Carmack men and the whis-
Key men in this county, whereby If
the whiskey men would raise the
license and support Carmack, they
would be let alone" for two years;
but they could not prove it, it was
not true, and the people refused to
believe it. Then in the race for coun-
ty offices they claimed that friends of
some of the nominees had made the
same or similar deal; but they could
not prove it, it was not true, and the
people refused to believe it. Now
they have started the same old story,
as regards the legislative race; but
they cannoUprove it, it is not true,
and the people will not believe it.
Besides, who had the authority to
make any such deal? The offices belong
to the people, and they have the right
to bestow them upon whomsoever they
please. And in order to have their
wishes obeyed to the letter, they
should be watchful and earnest, pains
taking and careful to choose their
best men as delegates to the legis-
lative convention. The election day
is not in November; the day del
egates are chosen by the several
- atHfsa arnt.f4 .assfffs rf
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-17
EIectricity,s Fire Hazard.

The fire hazard of electricity as
computed from the fire losses in
New York city from 1902 to 1905 is
very slight compared with the other
causes of fires. The total number of
all other electrical causes was in that
time only 961, which is 1.S4 per cent
of the total number of fires. The to-
tai loss from these 361 fires was s207,-
go. which is LIS per cent of the to-
tai loss from fires due to all causes.
Much Of the credit is due to expert
inspection and to rigid insistence
upon good work in wiring Omaha
World-Herald.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-17

Give us law providing for the en-
ployment of State bank examiners
Nashville American.
What's the use! Two of the three
banks which failed in Columbia years
ago, were National banks, visited reg.
ularly by bank examiners. The Birm-
ingham bank just looted of one hun
bred thousand dollars by one of the
tellers, is a National bank, regularly
examined. Bank examiners are mere
grafters.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-17
WANTED DAMAGED WHEAT

Wanted, 10000 bushels damaged
wheat. Highest market price paid for
same. See us and bring sample
CITY GRAIN & FEED CO.
&w-tf-aug6-d3t&w3t
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-17
A Boomerang.

Out in Missouri, according to We
racious chronicler, young man
bought 1000 extra fine cigars, had
them insured for the full value, smok-
ed them them up and demanded the
insurance, claiming that they had
been destroyed by fire. The case was
taken to the court and the Judge de-
cided in favor of the young man. The
insurance company then had the
young man arrested for setting fire
to his own property and the same
Judge ordered that he pay a fine and
go to jail for three months. Now If
they had been cigarettes he might
have escaped on the ground that he
was mentally irresponsible.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-17
GAS AT 80 CENTS
New Workers Will Get lIIuminant at
That Price by Law.

NEW YORK, Aug. 15.-The Con-
solidated Gas Company must supply
it's consumers with gas at so cents a
thousand feet as provided in the law
passed by the State Legislature at its
last session was decided today by JUS
tice Giegerich in the Supreme Court
when he granted premptory writ
of mandamus compelling the company
to furnish to consumer at the So
cent rate.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-17
A distinction Without a difference.

Most of the public questions for
merly settled by the village debating
societies are now pushed up to the
Chatauqua assemblies for solution
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-17
Marcus Had Mo Limit.

Mark Hanna was the original stand
patter; but the poker game he had in
mind was not the piker game Chair
man Jim Sherman is dealing.-Wash
ington Post.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-17
SPARRING.
HE.

11.
If I were you and you were I,
I'll tell you what I'd do.
I'd smile upon you pleasantly
Whene'er you came to WOO,
And some day when you told me that
Your lifelong happiness
Depended on my shy consent
I'd softly whisper YES"
SHE
If you were /, and l were you,
Instead of standing there
And beating all around the bush,
AS if / didn't dare,
I'd make up my mind once for all
From doubling to be free,
And plump and straight I'd, ask of you
Dear, will you marry me?"
-Somerville Journal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-17
PROMPT DELIVERIES.

Best quality, lowest prices, prompt
deliveries, our motto-give US a trial
order for feed and be convinced.
27-4t CITY GRAIN & FEED CO.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-17
THERE CAN BE NO BETTER
TRAINING

For a prospective business man than
that offered by Jennings Business Col
lege, Nashville. Tenn.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-17
THE STANDARD OIL coMpANrs

Head bookkeeper at Nashville is a
graduate of Jennings Business Col
lege.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-17

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Fgsws ttf ,eaf asF7, sii Feaai
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-12-15
BY DIR. JOHN A. WIDTsoE

the rational use of water consists in
the use of about fifteen inches of water
distributed throughout the season ac-
cording to the needs of the different
crops of the farm. Should this view
be correct, it will mean at least the
doubling of the irrigated area without
the expenditure of another dollar for
the construction of reservoirs or ca
nails. The time will come when the
reclamation service of the United
States will have finished it's first great
reservoir and dug it's first great canal.
1t will then find itself ready to allot
the water to the farmers. A question
that will Immediately arise will be,
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-12-15

moment for the purpose of impress
ing upon the irrigation farmer the
necessity of measuring the amount
of water which he receives upon his
farm and which he applies to differ
ent fields. 1t may be more correct,
perhaps, to say that the canal COM
panies should be impressed with the
necessity of knowing how much water
is taken into their respective canals
and how much they deliver to their
various customers or stockholders. If
this work were undertaken by the ca
nal companies it would soon follow
that the farmer himself would give
more thought to the actual amount
of water which he received and the
best disposition that he could make
of it. There can be little real prog
ress in the farmers work in irriga-
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-12-15

labor in a recent bulletin. Through
statistics supplied the department by
Consul George e. Baldwin, of Nurem-
berg, Germany, it is learned that the
worlds hop crop for 1906 will be
92,500,000 pounds short of that of
1905; that this year the United States,
for the first time, takes the lead as
hop-producing country, and that Amer
lean hops command a higher price in
England than the product of any other
country. Hitherto Germany has been
the leading hop-producing country
with England as a close second. In
Germany the crop this year is nearly
forty per cent less than that of 1905,
and in England the falling off is
quite fifty per cent.
This year the United States is the
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-12-15

in view the water requirements of
various soils and crops.
The chief difficulty in making the
farmers work with irrigation rational
lies in the fact that the farmer him
self will probably feel that the nee
essity of knowing how much water
snail be used under different condi-
tions, and applying that knowledge,
places another burden upon him.
However, when he may be so richly
compensated for this extra work as
has been shown repeatedly, that diff
Guilty should be easily overcome. 1t
is necessary, however, that a campaign
be instituted at the earliest possible
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-12-15

how much water shall be considered
the right amount for the production
of ordinary farm crops? Not only in
general, but on different kinds of soil,
on the sandy, clayey, loamy, calcerous
and alkali soils, characteristic of the
arid region, which all differ materially
in their water requirements. 1t will
hardly do for one of the experts of
the reclamation service to allot the
water according to his private opin-
ion. The allotment must be done in
a manner based on rational experience
and experiments. By the time that
the reclamation service shall have
finished its first great undertaking
there will be considerable data of the
kind at it's disposal, for a number of
western experiment stations are under
taking elaborate Investigations having
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-12-15

II ERHAPS the most prevalent idea
in the irrigated sections of this
Il country is that plants do best
and. yield most heavily when they re-
ceive very abundant irrigation. In
my experience 1 have yet failed to find
one farmer who has refused to apply
to his fields all the water that he
could possibly obtain, though in many
cases it was manifest that the large
amounts of water led to injurious over
irrigation Plants respond very rap
idly in yield and quality to the water
applied to the SOIL but in reality they
can get along with very small amounts
of water and in many respects do bet
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-12-15

ter when the amount applied is below
rather than above the best In fact,
the irrigation farmer who is able to
control the amount of water applied
tn plants controls one of the most i'm
portrant factors of plant life. The air,
the sunshine, and the soil, the farmer
must largely accept as they exist, for
he is unable to modify them material
ly; but the fourth great factor in plant
growth, water, is completely under his
control; and by judicious irrigation
the farmer may obtain marvellous
control over his plant kingdom. In
this respect, agriculture in an irri-
gated section is greatly superior to
the agriculture in districts of abun-
dant rainfall.
am of the opinion that as our
knowledge grows we shall find that
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-12-15
PROPER USE OF IRRIGATION WATER

tion until the old haphazard method
of guessing at the amount of water
received and used is changed. The
greatest advance in the farmers work
in irrigation will be progress in the
application of known amounts of water
to fields and the controlling of the
amount of water applied SO that the
farmer may be able to reap the larg-
est possible profits from the water
which enters his farm.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-12-15

The Hop Crop of the World.
Some very interesting information
for American hopgrowers is furnished
by the department of commerce and
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-10-13
BABY COVERED With SORES.
Would Scratch and Tear the Flesh I'm
less Hands We're Tied-"WOuld Have
Died But For CLticurn.''

Would Scratch and Tear the Flesh Tn
less Hands We're Tied-"Would Have
Died But For CLticura.'
My little son, Wien about a year and
halt old, began to have sores come out
on bis face. had physician treat him.
but the SORES grew worse. Then they be-
gan to come on his arms, then on other
parts OF his body, and then one came on
his chest. worse than the others. Then
called another physician. Stiff he grew
worse. At the end of about year and a
halt OF suffering he grew SO bad l had to
tie bis hands IN cloths at night to keep
him from scratching the sores and tearing
the flesh. he got to be a mere skeleton,
and was hardly able to walk. My aunt
advised me to try Cuticura Soap and ONT
ment. l sent to the drug store and got
cake OF the Soap and box OF the ONT
ment, and at the END OF about two months
the sores were all well. He has never had
any sores Oh any kind since. lie Is now
strong and healthy, aud can sincerely
say that only for your mos: WONDERFUL
remedies my precious child would have
died from those terrible sores. Mrs Egg
bert SHELDON, X. +. ID. Nc. !, WoodvilIe,
Conn. April -. 1905"
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-10-13

Or the east VINO dieG of cancer in
England in 1901 probably the majo. ty
We're operated upon by cutting out the
diseased part, comments the London
News. The expectations from radium
and the A-rays will end in diSappoint-
teDance Of cancer lie in the impurities
Of the blood, and can only be con-
tended against by process of purifi-
cation. Cancer is not formed when the
blood is pure. and will wther away
when its impure sources are removed.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-10-13

In the photographic museum of Rot.
terdam may now be seen a beautiful
carpet which the Shah of Persia re-
Gently presented to Queen Wilhelmina
as souvenir Of his visit to Holland
some months ago. Woven into the
carpet is the following inscription in
PERSIAN: Presented by his Majesty
Mozzafter ed Din, Shah, Emperor OF
Persia, to her Majesty Wilhelmina.
queen OF Holland. In the year of the
HedJlra 1920" The carpet measures
shlrtS-six square yards, and in each
square yard there are $50. 1000 stitches
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-10-13

Spelling reformers should bear In
mind the history of asparagus, which
shows how, even in the days of die
Goaaries, word fashions change. In
the eighteenth century, even in ele-
CANT usage, the delicacy was regular
~ called sparrow grass" A diction-
airy Of 1871 says that sparrow grass"
is now SO general that asparagus
has an air Of stiffness and pedantry."
"Spcrage" has been the usual Eng
fish form in the sixteenth century. but
In the seventeenth herbalists brought
Lack the original Greek and Latin
spelling "asparagus." Pepys varies
between "sparrow-grass." "asparagus'
and "sparague." No doubt the eigh-
teenth century relapse was the last.
and the "a is back for good now.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-10-13
SWEET MILK SCONES.

Ehehalf pound flour. one-half ounce
II. one teaspoonful cream tartar
half teaspoonful baking soda, one
] milk, one ounce butter. one-half
spoonful salt. Rub the butter
*Atly into the flour, add the sugar,
- Of tartar, soda, salt and mix
q Mix all into a light dough with
. milk, turn onto a Toured board.
Il lightly until smooth, roll out and
khto eight pieces. Lay the scenes
4. creased baking tin; bake in a
n quick oven for ten minutes. To
y the scenes, brush them with a
X egg before putting them into
. oven. These are good breakfast
hsdtutes for the hot rolls and are
~ and quickly made. The original
e was cut triangularly in shape.