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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-08
THE LAW OF THE DESERT.
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One man was killed and another
wounded yesterday over canteen OF
water and desert jury today held the
survivors justified for their part in
the shooting.
Bill and Lynn Despair, prospecting
for placer gold in the Colorado desert,
became lost in the trackless sweep
of sand. In their wonderings they
came. half crazed from thirst, upon a
well beside the abode hut of Arthur
Jones, a grizzled hermit of waste.
The Despains became nearly frantic
with joy, for Bears well, the next
watering place, was a hard days ride
distant. But when they asked to fill
canteen Jones refused.
The prospectors began to draw wa
ter from the well any way, when Jones
opened fire on them from the door of
his abode, Bill Despair fell with a bull
let in his hip.
Before Jones could fire again Lynn
Despair had shot him dead. Then
Despair dragged his brother into the
hut and went for help. Bill Despair
will recover.
Neither prospector was arrested
IS I. 3 So,
pending the decision of the Coroner's
jury generating them.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-08
CHEAPER TO SKIP
THAN PAY DEBTS

LAWRENCEBURG, Tenn, Feb. L.
Fred Pagel, a liyeryman here who
disappeared few days ago, has been
heard from at some place in Arkan-
sas His property has been attached
for some $4,000 debts, which will not
be paid in full. He is the second bus
mess man to take secret departure
from this town of late, the other be-
ing r. B. Robinson, a jeweler. Both
were heavily involved.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-08
mt. PLEASANT BUILDIN6
COMPANY CHARTERED

The charter Of the Mt. Pleasant
Building Company has been filed for
registration. The capital stock is
$40, 900 and the incorporators are
Messrs. Percy S. Chandler, w. D.
Cooper, Ernest Erwin, E. Dan Smith
The company has purchased a large
and valuable lot in Mt. Pleasant and
will erect a handsome building. They
will also deal in other real estate and
building enterprises.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-08
GROUND HOG DAY

Saturday was ground hog day, and his
ground hogship could certainly not see
his shadow at noon in this vicinity
1t fact it had cloaded up for a rair
about that time and poured down soor
afterwards. The winter is therefore
over, according to the weather proph
cts. Flowers are already in bloom, ant
the cold weather we have had LASTED
only few days.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-08
Shooting the Bridesmaids.

An interesting innovation was made
at a recent wedding at Tunbridge
Wells.
In place of the usual gifts of jewelry,
the bridegroom presented each of the
bridesmaids with pair of dainty
shoes, mounted with silver, the idea
being that there is as much good luck
in new shoes as in old boots. London
Daily Mail
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-08
THE BABY

Where did you come from, baby dear!
Out of the everywhere into the here.
Where did you get your eyes so blue?
Out of the sky as | came through.
What makes the light in them sparkle
and spin?
Some of the starry spikes left in.
Where did you get that little tear?
found it waiting when got here.
What makes your forehead so smooth
and high?
A soft hand stroked it as ! went by.
What makes your cheek like warm
white rose?
Something better than anyone knows.
Whence that three-cornered smile of
bliss?
Three angels gave me at once a kiss.
Where did you get that pearly ear?
God spoke, and it came out to hear,
Where did you get those arms and
hands?
Love made itself into hooks and bands.
Feet, whence did you come, you
darling things?
From the same box as the cherubs'
wings.
How did they all just come to be you?
God thought about me, and so I grew
But how did you come to us, you dear?
God thought of you, and so I am here.
George Mcdonald.
Il Looks so Different Then.
Mr. Guggenheim, of Colorado, is the
latest public man who takes refuge
behind the claim that the reporter
misquoted" him. II always appears
that way to some men when they see
their boasts in cold type.-The Com
moner.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-08
DIRECTING AN INCREASE
IN RURAL GUARD OF CUBA

WASHINGTON Jan. 31.-As re-
suit of a conference at the White
House today between the President,
Secretary Taft and Gen. Bell Chief Of
Staff, an order has been issued direct
Ing an increase of the rural guard Of
Cuba from 5000 to 10000 men. The
purpose is to avoid increasing the num-
Der of American troops In. the island
as originally intended, the native
guards being more acceptable to the
people.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-08
out of STYLE.

While little Christabel and her yet
smaller sister were playing her moth
er was announcing to grandma: Our
neighbor Mrs. p, has new baby"
Instantly Christabel turned in eager
excitement.
"Oh, mamma she asked, what is
she going to do with her old one?''-
Pittsburg News.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-08
ANNIVERSARY OF
C. P. CHURCH
Had HUMBLE BEGINNING IN OiON-
SON COUNTY.

N,netv-seven years ago today three
humble ministers of the gospei he'
IN the home Of one of the three eNo-
room log cabin in Dickson COUNT
Tenn for the purpose Of yrayer IN
consultation as 10 81; Wisest coui
70 pursue in TN effort to spread me
gospel in what was then caiieu
the Cumberland Country" says tne
Nashville American.
These men had once been MINIS
ters in the Presbyterian Church Ou.
differences arising over questions u
doctrine, polity and the educationa
qualifications Of country ministers
caused dissension and a division re-
suited and these three ministers start
cd out to battle for the cause OF Christ
in the great Cumberland country
which at that time was sparsely set
tied. The three ministers IN Ques-
tion were Samuel McAdam, at whose
bouse they met. and Finis Ewing and
Samuel King.
The one question that troubled the
minds of these good men was what
course they should pursue SO as 10
nroperly care for the spiritual wei
fare of the people Of the Cumberland
country. Much time was spent IN
prayer for divine guidance.
The three ministers the nconstf
tuted the Cumberland Presoytery
electing Samuel McAdam Moderator
and Young Ewing, a son OF FINS
Ewing, Stated Clerk. One Of the nrst
acts was to ordain into the ministry
Ephram Mclean, a young licentlate.
The next meeting of the young denom-
ination was at Ridge Meeting House,
Sumner County, on March 20, OF the
same year, with fourteen members
present, and again on Oct. 70, at LED
anon Meeting House with sixteen
present.
First Synod.
BY the fall of 1913 the young de-
nomination had grown strong enough
to constitute a Synod, and on Oct. .,
1913. the first Synod of the CumDer-
land Presbyterian Church was consti-
tuted in the old Beech Meeting House,
Sumner County, where the Loyal
Cumberland Presbyterians held their
historic rally on July Il, 1906. The
first Synod elected Nm. McGhee as
Moderator, and FINS Ewing Stated
Clerk.
The first General Assembly was
constituted at Princeton, KY, on May
10. 1929, with Thomas Calhoun as
Moderator, 1929. The first meeting
of any of the church bodies in Nash
Vile was the General Assembly on
May Is, 1882, and again in 1888 and
1894 The Moderator at the first
Nashville meeting was Samuel King,
one of the founders of the church.
Some of the most noted preachers
during the early struggles of the Cum
berland Presbyterian Church were the
three founders and VIM. McGhee,
Thomas. Calhoun, David Foster, Reu-
ben Burrow, Robert Donnell, Milton
Bird, Richard Beard, H. S. Porter, s.
G.. Burney, t. G. Blake and the late
DR.. Baird, who served the First Cum
berland Presbyterian Church Of Nash
Vile. The late John Frizzel, Of Nash
vilIe was the General Assmebly's Sta
ted Clerk from May Is, 1873, to May
II, 1883.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-08
MANY MULES HERE.

In spite of the unfavorable weathe-
many mules were brought to town Mon
day and changed hands at good prices
It was bad overhead and under foot
but buyers and sellers stood out on
the streets nearly all day long
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-08
QUICK ACTION.

An employee in Delaware depart,
ment store asked for an hour Of, and
In forty minutes he was back, married,
That was pretty quick action. But
when he went home that night he
found that he had been divorced
Nashville American.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-08

Between Christmas presents and the
summer vacations of his family a
married. man truly has his troubles
Chicago News.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-08
DAVID N. PEARSON
GETS APPOINTMENT

Special to the Herald.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. February l.
Governor Patterson today appointed
David N. Pearson of Bolivar, to be
trustee of the Western Hospital for
the insane.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-08
Him and Her.

A man from the country went to a
Leavenworth hotel and when told that
he must register he wrote: Myself
and wife.'-Kansas City Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-31
oUsKER REFLECTIONS.
IFrom the Philadelphia Recor

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
A rousing old time-an ancient
alarm clock.
The show that is a frost doesn't cut
much ice.
Many a war cloud proves to be only
a pipe dream
Was Lots wife the first woman who
wasn't worth her salt?
Detectives are scarcely blessings. al
thought they often come disguised.
Speaking of ancestors, the bachelor
would probably rather have than be
one.
It takes so much courage for some
men to propose that they never have
any afterward.
She is a foolish woman who thinks
she carNmake a front by putting every
thing on her back.
1t has been noticed that the women
who cry at a wedding have all been
married themselves.
Blobbs-"Do know Bjones? L
should say I did. Why, we have slept
together" Substituted to be room
mates, eh?" Blobbs-"No. not exact
" that but we used to occupy the
same new in church..
What do they make those tremen-
dous big cigars for?" asked the tobac-
conist's wife. Those replied the
tobacconist, 'tare made for the men
who have promised to confine their
smoking to a cigar after each meal"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-31
KANSAS CONAENT
HOW i'm HAPPENs.

Having arrived at proper age and
pelng socially and intellectually equal;
tney meet, fall in love and are mar
r1ed. After a time it develops that the
wire Is ambitious. She grows and ex-
panos and spreads out, while her hus-
Dand stands STILL He is a plodder and
II Is soon apparent that their desires,
their tastes, their social lives are
wholly different The wife looks at
her husband and concludes that she
made a mistake; and instead of loving
MIN she hates him, as he is her in
ferIor in every way. She has out
grown him and believing there are
Detter Things in the world for her, she
starts divorce proceedings. And it
just as often happens that the hus-
pdho outgrows, or grows away from
tne VINE. He goes up against the
world and becomes quite a man of af-
fairs, while his wife, who is at home
taking care of the babies and keeping
mousse stops still. The husband looks
ms wife over, concludes he made a
mistake, that he can do better and
the divorce court is appealed to-. But
1t more often happens that they meet
IN youth, fall in love, are married and
tfaVeI mes road together to the end.
Ihey make an even start, each helps
the other over the rocky places, the
love or youth burns steadily, the hopeN
the ambition, the desire for social
dlstinction inspires both, is encour-
aged in each other, cultivated nur-
tured, blended so that their lives are
poth outwardly and inwardly all that
the love, the marriage vows the join
ing of hands at the beginning fore
Swallowed And that the happy mar
r1ages seem to grow fewer in number,
is result of the peculiar social con-
ditions, which seem to encourage
rather than to discourage legal separ-
ations.-El Dorado Republican.
WHERE SYMPATHY IS NEEDED.
There will not be a large crop in
Kansas but the average price of every
product has been increased forty per
cent the past year. This indicates
that much sympathy is being wasted.
The farmers are in good shape and
can stand their half crop but the poor
clerk has to pay the increase in price
of products without getting any in
crease in wages. There is sympathy
coming for the clerk. His dollar does
not go near as far as it used to co.
Lawrence Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-31
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The United States department of ag-
riculture has issued a bulletin on How
to Kill Rats" Here is a good way:
Use a club.
Some Washington weather sharpS
blame the cold spring on to the heavy
snowfall in Siberia. Evidently they
are trying to let Medicine Hat down
easy.
81 see an eastern millionaire had a
funeral procession two miles long"
remarked Mrs. Twogood today. THAT
wasn't a procession" snorted the dea-
con, that was a parade"
When 1.-The gang wants little AL
fonso to- come out and play two-o'-eat
a few years hence will they say,
please, Alfonso Pho Christine Eduardo
Francisco GuiIlermo Carlos Enrique
Eugenio Fernando Antonio, come out
and play?" Not much. They will yen,
Hey, kid, commerce"
The grandmother crop must always
be a good one to Withstand the terri
Bile number of fatalities that overtake
it when the office boys get interested IN
baseball.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-31
HYHAWKER JOTS

Cove county has Increased its pop
ulation 492 during the past year. This
may not seem many to eastern coun-
ties, but it shows up a big percentage
and means a great deal out on the
prairies.
number of the cherry trees in
Ellis are putting out their third crop
of blossoms. Such perseverance"
says the Headlight, sis praise worthy
on the part of the cherries and shows
they are made of true Kansas stuff"
A wedding party was "shivereed'
out at Salina a few evenings ago, but
when the groom brought out a box of
cigars he discovered that the "serenad-
ing party was made up exclusively of
girls and they demanded caramels.
Society item from the Ellsworth Re-
porter: Charles Mabury made a COM
bined drive of fifty miles last Friday,
for the purpose of getting his best girl
to the Jim Leith dance. But then
Charley has a nice quiet team, that
can be drove with one hand, which
would make the trip seem shorter.
Endless chain performance descrtb-
ed by the Muscotah Record: A Musco-
tab man shores SO hard he awakens
the dog. The dog sits up, howls and
awakens the man. The man swears
at the dog and awakens the baby. The
baby yells and awakens the mother.
The mother growls at the man, who
forthwith proceeds to go to sleep and
start the fun all over again.
The term Hon" is never used in
earnest in many newspaper offices.
The Emporia Gazette tells why, as fol-
lows: An old subscriber and q valued
patron came to the office today OBJ
jecting because the Gazette does not
use the word "Hon." in connection
with various statesmen of low and
high degree. For twelve long years
the word Hon" has been barred from
the Gazette. The proof reader is au-
thorized to kill it even when used be-
fore the name of the president. He is
Theodore Roosevelt, or President
Roosevelt, and senators are never
Hons" in the Gazette. Neither are
congressman. Neither are aspiring
congressman. The word Hon. is
no longer a sign of distinction! 1t has
worn out and it doesn't go.
lola Record: Last fall the officers
ter searching it carefully found small
quantity of beer and confiscated it,
But they didn't find all of it. In the
floor there was a trap door and under
this a big pit had been scooped out for
holding any quantity of booze desired.
lected to take their entire stock with
them. Yesterday a family moved into
the house and happened onto the trap
door and lifting it up found a big
quantity of beer in the hole. They
felt that it was theirs by right of dis
covery and conquest and since that
time they have been celebrating the
find and inviting their friends to help
them. The landlord not knowing that
there was such a large quantity of
booze in the house let the rent go at
the same figure he does when there is
nothing in the hole. 1t looks like
great snap and will be the means of
enabling landlords to raise the rent of
every house that has been occupied by
jointist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-31
!. guarded than the interests Of the

guarded than the interests of the
public"
The meat of the whole matter. the
moral side of the question, is con-
tanned in this paragraph towards the
close of the speech:
Finally, friends, let us never forget
that this is not merely a matter of
business but also matter of morals.
The success of our whole system of
government depends upon our dis
eliminating between men. not with
reference to whether they are rich or
poor, whether they follow one occu-
patton or another, but with reference
solely to whether they act as honest
and upright citizens should act. Let
the local attorneys of the big roads
keep out of politics; and when they
have to appear. before the national or
any state legislature let their names
be put on a special register, and let
their business be aboveboard and
open. There are blackmailers in pub
lie life, and the citizen who is honest
will war against the man who tries to
blackmail a railroad or a big corpora
ton with the same stern determine
ton to punish him as against the man
ton. But let the railroad man re-
member that to purchase immunity in
wrongdoing or to defeat b1ackmaiI by
bribery is the worst and most Short
sighted of policies
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-31

swung leisurely across the sky. ano
flashed directly on the reef. 1t va
the searchlight on the Whlte lily.
Two things it showed Tenant IN thas
single wave of light. Just ahead OF
him was Cutters boat. riding the
waves like a gull. dipping with every
lurching swell, and showing the nexe
instant on the toDmost crest. And IL
was directly in the course of the White
City. And clinging to the little pilot
wheel, striving to guide the launch
back safely, was Muriel her long dark
hair loose and whipped by the wind
across her face. Just for an instant
he saw her. then the great arc of light
had swept back to the far end of the
little lake and all was blackness ahead.
BIindly Tenant drove the little
motor boat forward, and suddenly side
by side, it crashed into the launch. For
one instant the two touched, but in
that instant. Tenant had made the
leap safely. Before he could recover
his balance the motor boat had van
ished like a leaf in the storm and he
was in the launch.
"Give me the wheel" he said hoarse-
w. and as the White City swung by,
the Mike rose on her swell, waveswept
and battered, but secure, with a
strong hand on her little brass-tipped
fPhil. Phil. listen to me- down be-
side him in the boat knelt Muriel,
white to her lips but happy, happy in
spite of the fact that they TWO mad
faced death together but an instant
before. ibid we smash his old boat p
Absolutely" Tenants arms tight
ened about her. The pilot wheel was
very much in the way.
ct knew that you would come she
went on. 81 saw you on the pier, but
/ thought you would come right away
that was why I went out alone.
And light dawned slowly on Ten
nant. 1t was his first lesson in the
contradictions Of Muriel.
"And 1 was going back on that boat
tonight" he said.
Muriel laughed. and pushed her wet
hair back from her face.
"Mr. Cutler took that boat. Phi"
she said.-(Copyright 1907, by p. G.
Eastment.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-31
THE PEOPLE MUST NOT RULE.

ST do not believe that the council
should submit the bond proposition to
the people because it might carry. -
w. H. Davis, ex-mayor.
Certainly not. 1t is entirely wrong
for the people to rule. Especially
is it wrong when the people might op-
pose the interests of a corporation. 1t
might be fatal to the scheme of our
friends, the Edison company.
Besides the people do not know
what they want. The citizens of To-
peka are not intelligent enough to de-
termine whether they want to turn
their business over to a corporation or
do it themselves. OF course not.
So the people must not be allowed
to vote on the lighting proposition
for they might vote to keep the profits
on street lighting for the city instead
of turning them over to the Edison
company.
A bas the peoplel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-31
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
From the Chicago News. ]

lFrom the Chicago News.1
A misflt bargain isn't fit fo- a..
thing. Al any
All men are brave until there il 8
demand for bravery. -
If you would learn of a mans GOA
deeds attend his funeral e'ON
1t takes a lot of good luck to enable
some men to reach the top.
The average woman reta NO..
1oyment out of a cry than a laupb
II a girl can only get engaged sho l..
seldom in hurry to get married -
People would have but few w.,
troubles IL they didn't try to act
A woman doesn't care If bar 49,
are size too large-after the undor
taker gets busy with her. uer-
Most people waste lot of vaI,,ab,.
. .lIne 1elling their troubles to other
peopie VINO are not even interested.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-31
GLOBE SIGHTS.

4
From the Atchison Globe.]
The very worst use you can make of
energy is to use it I'm quarrel.
We never knew anyone who did not
say, ct can get along with anybody"
/ House-cleaning may be no worse
than Christmas, but 1t comes twice a
year.
If you are young enough. that is the
| only excuse required for getting up a
picnic.
Here is something you never hear
of these days: A bride who does the
! family washing.
A boy can see no more reason for
going to bed early than he can for
getting up early.
Until they come, most any man will
tell you how he would get the upper
hand of burglars.
The most a woman will concede in
the way of praise for her sons wife Is
that she tries hard"
1t always seems more foolish when
| two persons form a suicide pact than
when one goes it alone.
Old women getting married attract
as much unfavorable comment as old
| women wearing young millinery.
The trouble with what is called a
musical laugh" is that it usually
sounds as if it were made to order.
The out-of-town lover imagines he
cuts a great deal of ice, but he should
observe how short-lived is the void
when he goes home
If you get a cold in the summer
there are always plenty to cheer you
up by reminding you that a cold in
hot weather is worse than at any 9TH
er time.
Country children are scared by
stories of eagles carrying away and
devouring children in the same way
little ones in town are warned against
kidnapers.
If it is true, as the spiritualists
claim, that the spirits of our ances-
tors are constantly flying around us.
our women ancestors must be up in
the air all the time with indignation
over the scraps wasted these days that
would make good carpet rags.
How people seem to enjoy hating
each other! A correspondent saws
dogs are better than men, and that
the man who hates a dog should be
watched. Isn't this nonsense? A dog
is loafer, cousin to the wolf. Dogs
are usually agreeable, but why
and have no responsibilities. When
a dog kills a sheep, people do NOT
abuse the dog, but say killing sheen IS
nature; but they do abuse the sheep
owner for failure to guard his sheep.
Some people, we often think, carry
their admiration for dogs to a foolish
extent.
A newly arrived Shade in Shadsland
spent much time with his head resting
on his hand in deep study. What wor-
rles you?' blew from the lips of an
other Shade. The Respondent Shade
shook his head in doubt as he REPLIED.
wish l knew. The last look I had
of my wife's face as I passed into
Shadeland showed more of resentment
than grief. had always been a good
husband; why should she have looked
resentful." Perhaps" said the Older
Shade, who had been there a long tins
and knew people better. you died at
an fnopportune time. THAT'S iust
it," exclaimed the Respondent go
the carpets were up and the curtains
down when came down sick: no vror
der my wife got mad. 1t was house-
cleaning timel" uSe-