The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-12-14
TENNESSEE
: MOSES
JAS. HoRwITZ, FROM HAYWOOD,
JOURNEYS WEST.
With His Family of Thirty-six He is
En- Route to Oklahoma to Found
a Colony OF His Own.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. Trailing at the
heels Of a gray-bearded giant, his wife
fourteen children and twenty-one
grandchildren, living under the pat
riarchal form of government of Biblr
cal times, filed into the union station
and lined up military fashion before
the ticket Office window.
Declaring that the soil of Tennessee
was no longer fit to sustain a sturdy
white man. James Horwitz, II years
old father and sole hereditary dicta-
Tor of the Horwitz family of thirty
seven persons, issued "a ukase for a
general exodus to land more fertile.
Oklahoma is the State selected for
settlement and Jackson Township,
thirty miles south Of Guthrie, the site
for the colony, The family will raise
cotton, said the patriarch.
The head of the family is a military
man. He served in the Twenty-fourth
Tennessee throughout the Civil War
in the Confederate army He has rul-
ed his little family well, he said. Mar
tial law" has prevailed in the house
hold ever since the marriage of the
eldest daughter. At each wedding a
VOW was enacted from the contract
ing parties to remain under the roof
of the patriarch and accept his gov
eminent. Horwitz is at once the Su-
preme Court, the two houses of legis-
lature and the President with the big
stick. His rule has not been tyran-
nical. He has been patron of the
arts and is a firm believer in educa-
ton.
Yesterday when the family lined up
before the ticket Office window, the
persons who were waiting for trains,
gasped in establishment
Now, lessee, chillum," said Hor-
witz with a delicious drawl, how many
Of We be there? Sixteen full tickets
and twenty halfers, mister"
Then the group broke up and sec
lions of the family went on tour of
inspection round the Midway.
When train time came the head of
the family whistled melodiously and
his flock quickly gathered around him.
He drew a sheet of paper from his Ca
pacious pocket and read the roll.
Susan" he said, have We got your
two chillum by your side? And, Eben-
ezer, where be your wife? Mary, ia
cob, Michael, William, Silas, David,
Moses, Sarah, James, Jr., answer If
We are present. Now, all follow me.
The Horwitz family resided in
Brownsville Tenn. not far from the
early home of Gov. Folk Horwitz
referred with pride to the fact that his |
native town produced the Governor of |
Missouri. He is feet inches tall |.
well preserved and walks with a mill
tary bearing He is intensely proud |
OF his family, regards his government
as a model, and says that every one of |
his subjects" is happy.
He sold his farm in Tennessee. be-
cause. he said, it was no longer pro-
ductive. He bought large tract of
land in Oklahoma and will devote his
time exclusively to the cultivation OF
cotton.
The entire family will be employed
IN the farm, from the toddler to the
Stalwart giant. A house will be built
especially for the accommodation OF
he family. All the necessaries of life,
save manufactured goods, will be pro-
luced on the farm. Besides a general
store there will be maintained a
school, church, with the head of the
amily as the ruler. medical ward
ind court of justice.
All the children are sturdy. large.
ramed. Every one is intelligent.