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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05

"Eue," he said. II cant your help"
Nobody feels 1t more than / do. No
body is more exorbitantly keen to have
share, a part, when the real fight
comes" He stopped; then he turned
slowly and their eyes met. IF a man
IL to succeed in such DESIRE" he went
on deliberately, he must exclude all
others. He must have one purpose,
one interest, one thought. He must for
get that
Eve lifted her head quickly that
he has a wife," she finished gently. II
| think understand
There was no annoyance in her face
or voice, no suggestion Of selfishness
or Of hurt vanity She had read his
meaning with disconcertiDg clearness
and responded with disconcerting gen
crosby. 4 sudden and very human dis
satisfaction with his readjustment
scheme fell upon Loder. Opposition Is
the whip to action; tod ready acqul-
escence the slacke1ed rein.
Did say that?" he asked quickly
The tone was almost Chilcote's.
She glanced up; then sudden, in
comprehensive smile lighted up her
face
You didn't say, but you thought
she answered gravely. Thoughts are
the same rs words to woman. That's
why we are so unreasonable" Again
she smiled. Some idea, battling and In
COMPREHENSIVE to I.Oder, was stirring
In her mind.
Conscious of the impression, be NOV
ell still nearer. You jump to conclu-
sions," he said abruptly. What |
meant to imply
twas precisely what I've under
stood" Again she finished his sen
tence. Then she laughed softly. How
very wise, but how very, very foolish
men are! You come 10 the conclusion
that because woman isis interested
In you she Is going TO hamper you ia
some direction, and after Infinite pains
you summon all your tact and you set
about saving the situation" There was
interest. even touch Of amusement.
IN her tone; her eyes were still iXed
upon his In an inlennable glance You
link you are being very diplomatic"
The went Oh quietly, but In reality =
Tou are being very transparent. The
woman reads the whole Of your mean
ne in your very nrst sentence--if she
laan't known It before you began to
peak"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05

Many leading Democrats who, be
fore they left here after the adjourn
ment of the congress, talked to me
anent the political situation and out
look, gave it as their opinions and
coincide with them, that the two great
issues for the Democrats to advocate
in the next campaign would be tariff
reform and reduction and incidentally
the control and destruction of the
trusts OF the country who are doing
business in restraint of trade, and
States rights as opposed to the idea of
Secretary Root and President Roose-
welt. AS the case stands today, the
present administration stands for the
present tariff wall and the mainte-
nance OF the trusts meath it's shadow,
and as rank and broad a species of
extreme Federalism as was ever ad
vocated by Alexander Hamilton Are
we to have State sovereignty or a
strong centralized government. Think
it over.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05
SMALL ASSIGNMENT

r. T. Cole who has been running
small grocery on South Garden
street under the firm name of Dial
& Cole, filed deed of trust Tuesday,
naming Frank H, Smith trustee. The
assets consists of the stock, fixtures
and accounts. The liabilities amount
to only $3.50, and consist chiefly of
accounts of less than $50, due whole
sale merchants
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05
GREEN BUGS
RAVAGES
Wheat and Oats in Oklahoma Have
Suffered Most Severely.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. April g.
C. V. Topping, Secretary Of the Okla
homa Miller's Association, who has
received reports from every section
of Oklahoma, in report made public
today. estimates that Is per cent. Of
the wheat and rs per cent. Of the oats
crop is destroyed by the green bug.
There is. he says. not q section where
the pest has. not appeared. while in
some sections both crops are wholly
destroyed. The bug is now beginning
TO- ny, .apd. 4 is believed the next ten
days VIM see the END OF Its rayaGes.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05

Alien, the new alloy of two parts
of aluminium and one OF zinc, makes
very perfect and durable casts of even
the most delicate ornaments and
proves to be adapted to many pur.
poses. It takes a beautiful polish.
Compared with cast iron, the alloy is
equally strong. much more elastic.
and Is greatly superior In It's resist
ance to rust. The last named quality
entities this material to
consid cration. - - r1t Il st
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05

c..g Correspondence of the Herald
WASHINGTON. ID. c.. April l.
things on tap at the nations cap
Just now seem to be the spring
Of Presidential bOoms and the
sident's war with the railroad
|nagers.
he Taft boom seems to be the only
sidential boom that shows anything
a growth in the ranks of The Re
s blicans. and it comes as straight
Ia the White House as anything
ever came from there. Roosevelt
hply dominates his party and be
des it like a Colossus. He is IT
everything he says must go or
+. |nething will bust. The party lead
stand aghast at everything he says
/. does. They get tongue paralysis
(. wobbly in the legs like a young
II every time he pops his whip or
bids the big stick The so-called
ders of the Republican party are
i worst sort of political doughfaces
syer saw. They allow Roosevelt to
.hpletely dominate them and run
r. them like they were lot Of pig
Is. He is now setting up his own
bdidata to succeed him, and there
no one to say him nay, apparently.
6w have the mighty fallen Think
what would happen to Roosevelt II
Ire we're still men in the Senate like
hiking and Blaine and Edmunds and
ad Stevens and Zach Chandler and
liver p. Morton. Why they would
hid him over a political barrel and
s,nk him with a board. They would
h vince him at one sitting that there
Ire enough brains and power and
re enough men in the Senate, and
III they would not submit to his dc
lion as to laws or candidates. The
ST time he whistled for the grizzly
J grizzly would come. Alas! the
,nts are gone and the pigmies OF
ngress are ruled as with rod OF
N by the greatest fakir and fraud
American politics. Every other
,wspaper correspondent here would
/ the same thing if he dared to DO
He does not dare. His paper IS
tied from the business office and II
uld cost him his job. I defy the
ole outfit, and the country press OF
country is now the only place
ere the people can get the truth.
T the, Republican party is salts
! to cit down and allow the Presl-
# to dictate who 1t shall and must
q for at the next election, ana
0 write it's platform, then the Dem
ats can look on complacently. IT IS
amily row and is no concern of ours.
hey are so weakened as to allow
, to walk on their necks it VIII
,ply add to the gaiety OF nations
the next election. Let 1t go at
(. ii
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05

So far as the Democrats are con
cerned. they are not doing much talk
|ine as yet, concerning Democratic
Residential candidates. It would
|snem from the newspaper talk all over
|fhe country that Mr.. Bryan has the
aid all to himself, but l note that ne
|r#eently said that he had not made up
hts mind to be a candidate. That Is
|aken here to mean that If Roosevelt
Intends to force his own nomination
|on the Republican convention, which
bel can do If he wants to, and many
heople believe that Is what he means
bv all his recent grandstand plays, that
|Mr. Bryan would think 1t useless 10
Eun, inasmuch as Roosevelt has stolen
hi his thunder and he Bryan recent
81 has been booming Roosevelt In his
paper. the Commoner.
10 would be rather embarrassing for
MI Bryan to run against a man who
has been advocating (even though 1t
bad string to IT. every theory ana
d&a that Bryan has advocated In the
ASt ten years with the exception OF
|he silver question, and that is a dead
ssue. There is only one thing in
Inch Roosevelt has not gone as far
Ii fsrHar, and that is the government
|~i1 3Fship of railroads. Mr.. Bryan
|robh6ly would not have that as an
Ee,S1 IA his platform, because every
|oukh0rn State would stand against
|im nN the convention to a man, and
hat means something.
There are other men in the Demo.
rafjt party who are mentioned as
|rrr,rrntial possibilities In the SO.
ali0d conservative class there are ex.
|ttpFney General Judson Harmon, OF
|h;o. md Judge Gray, of Delaware
|ldR6 Bray would be persona non
FafAzfO the advocates of Mr.. Bryan
Etanse he went off with the Demo
|atIc Exposition to Bryan In 1896 and
loo bulge Harmon did the same
ling ID 1896, but returned TO the fold
1900. Both OF them probably
ould be met by the same stay at
nie xote that 50 crushingly defeated |,
|dfo parker In 1904.
Thera really has arisen here {
|nle honest sentiment for
|nihefn man for the nomina'
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-05-29

George Barr McCutcheon's new
novel, The Flyers" is a story about
the Opponents of two couples who
meet and beget complications. 1t is a
comedy Of errors to make time for the
reader pass at rapid pace
The newest biography Of Napoleon is
one by Dr.. Max LEM. An English
translation is coming out shortly. The
Paris Figaro, by the way, is quoted
as saying that no fewer than between
500 and 600 plays-dramas, comedies
and operettas-have had Napoleon for
their hero.
A timely book to be published soon
is a volume dealing with the economic,
development of the negro Il, rne South
by Booker Z. Washington and w. b..
Burgbardt Du Bots The ideas adYanc-
ed by these men are said to be sara
and logical and the remedies suggest
ed for correcting the evils existing in.
the South are practicable and reason
able.
The Russians appear to be intensely
interested in Conan Doyle's detective
hero. In st. Petersburg five dramas
clustering about the personality of
Sherlock Holmes are now on the stage.
Two are dramatizations of the stories;
third is called sherlock Holmes in
st. Petersburg" another is sherlock
Holmes Daughter" and the fifth is
brought out as Madame Sherlock
Holmes"
The book on German Army life, aus
elmer KIeinen Garrison, which reused
so much bitter feeling when it was,
first published, brought little but vex--
alton to its author. A German CORE
spondent says that Lieut. Bilse ire
ceived for it's publication six months;
Imprisonment, loss Of his career, and.
the munifcent sum of f165. The.
Viennese bookseller to whom he sold
the right is said, on the other hand,
to have Melted Eli, 900 through it's sale,
no single penny of which fortune came
to the luckless author. The law al
lows it and the court awards it The
figures are we'll attested."
Among the judiciOuS utterances on,
the question Of spelling reform is this
from Prof. Goodwin Smith: The lam
guage of Shakespeare, Milton, Bacon
Burke and Macaulay has its qualities.
and very high qualities they are, in a.
way, but regularity, either structural
or phonetic, can never be one of them.
You cannot cancel effects of English
history. Simplifed spelling might in
way be gain. Simplification of the
notation of time might very likely be
a gain. But it would have involved a
great confusion for some years and a
jettison of our books. 1t surely is
doubtful whether the change would
pay.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-05-29

It took only five hours to try young
man In London who was accused Of
murder. Late IN January he went into
the Office Of a rich London merchant
and shot him dead. A little less than
two months later he was put on trial
The evidence was submitted, and the
Jury, after q few moments delibera-
ton, found him guilty. No technical
objections or collateral issues were al
lowed at the trial. Such commendable
dispatch has been known a few times
IN the American criminal courts, but
Is rare. Lawyers and laymen alike be-
wall conditions which make 1t possible
TO drag a murder trial over six weeks
or two months, to the Generalization
Of newspaper readers in the whole
country.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-05-29

becomes dry. This improvement will be
appreciated as an important advantage
when it is remembered that contraction
frequently results in tent stakes being
pulled from the ground. The stake has
one end formed into a screw, so that 1t
can be turned and fastened in the
ground. To assist in the turning q
lever is provided, the center Of which
fits over the top of the stake. Between
the end Of the tent rope and the stake
is a coiled spring arrangement. After
the tent has been erected and in event
of the tent and rope getting wet, the
spring will be compressed. Consequent
" there will be no likelihood of the
stake being pulled from the ground.
AS the tent and rope become dry the
spring expands and takes up the slack,
keeping the tent anr rope taut.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-05-29
He Acted for the Best.

The conditions under which one per-
son may undertake to correct the hab.-
its or reform the manners of the pub
lie are so varied that it is often q,
difficult matter to decide what is best
to be done. The author of "OtheP
Memories, Old and New" describes an.
Incident which came under his obserVa--
ton In England.
A very full train was within a few
minutes Of starting from Manchester
for London. A gentleman had gone.
the whole length of the train and saw
only one vacancy, and this was Occur
pied by a Gladstone bag.
In his difficulty he opened the car
riage door, and was about to remove
the bag, when the passenger on the;
opposite corner told him that it be-
longed to a friend who had taken the
seat
WELL" said the other, who was evil.
IDENTIFY a man of experience and who,
grasped the situation, "the train wila
start In a minute, and fear your
4
must go to London by this train, and
1 will keep this seat till your friend
arrives" He sat down and took the
bag on his knee. Then he took out
his watch and said, There's only half
a minute left I'm afraid your friend
will be too late'
He got up and kept looking out anx-
iously for the belated friend till the
whistle sounded.
WELL" he said, "we're off. Your
friend has lost the train, but he must
not lose his bag" and with that he
threw the bag out on the platform.
Here! What are you dcing?" cried
the other man, but too late. THAT
was my bag p
what a pity" returned the other,
blandly. 81 thought you said it was
your friends. 1t seemed a pity that
he should suffer the loss of his lug.
gage"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-05-29

worry such an expensive habit 1t is
extravaganza with the possessions which
money cannot buy-yigor, endurance,
efficiency. All these are drawn upon
By the apprehensiye spirit. Moreover.
II worry once gets the upper hand, it
grows apace. The woman who worries
on Monday because her boy has cold
will worry on Thursday because he has
had one, and on Saturday because ne
may have one. In due time the mother
gets sick, if the boy does not, and thus
justifies her own distorted view. The
world is full of trials and losses and
temptations which we believe to have
been put here by a divine plan, for the
working out of q divine purpose beyond
our ken. But it IS not irreverent to
say that worry is a human importation
into the scheme of things. With the
habit of yielding to it once established,
a woman can be wretched In the most
fortunate circumstances. With the
philosophy which stands above worry
and disdains it one may be happy in
spite of fate.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-05-29
Wanted. A schooI-Teacher.

The British colonial office Is not pro-
fessedly humorous institution, but oc-
casionally its publications. especially
those containing correspondence with
outlying colonies, have more or less Of
a laughable twist. The following let
ter Is from blue book on Tristan da
Cunha. That neglected island had
sought through the Office to get a
schOolmaSter.
Il am sorry" wrote the clerk of the
island, that it is impossible for us to
call whoever Individual in the condi-
ton Of the salary.
IF here was any possibility to sell
yearly sum of our property, which con-
sist in cattle sheep, and potatoes, we
be able and willing to pay the salary
for a man who choose to come at the
Island; also for the house, we have
peecpially comfortable enough for a
man who intend to bring with his
wife.
IF there was a man which choose
to come live with us for a short time
that may be for charity but not for
made live of it, SO he may stay with
one of the small family, and he will
share off with things we get from pass
ing ships and products of the Island.
"Of course be wonderful to you to
hear that in year 1904 only shilling
came in the Island so we have the
consideration to you if that is possible
for us to pay such sum which school
master require.
1.-THE man which be the most need
at the Island is the member of the
Church Of England, but he better be a
unmarried man."
He had better also, one might add,
be a man Of independent means, as
his share of the five shillings received
in a year in the island would probably
not go far toward paying his passage
home
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-05-29

Paul Theiman, a well-known writer,
says Americans do not want to live the
simple life, so much talked about. 1t
is not their ideal. He says the average
American wants to do something and
be somebody. He Is not content with
q simple, monotonous life. He leads
the strenuous life because he likes the
game. What he says is true. And the
confession of it argues more than any
thing else the need of the simple life.
And moreover, If one wants to win the
game-to beat out his fellows-it is
true also that the simple life, rightly
understood and rightly applied, would
help one up the ladder. Because the
excuses, the discomfort and the wor-
ries, which the simple life opposes,
hamper rather than help. But most Of
us will say: 1t is no use We can't
live your simple life because we have
no chance to do so. And, besides, we
are not built that way. Let us grant
this to be true. Then why not make a
compromise Be as strenuous as your
work and your nature require. Stick
to your task as tightly as the next one.
But relieve the strain once in a while
practice relaxation. BY relaxation is
meant something akin to momentary
iDdOlence-a sensible cessation of
strained effort and recreation that is
restful. If you have but three minutes
and can lie down do so. Relax every
muscle and nerve. Take long breaths
You will do more work and better work
because of the brief relaxation. Some
persons never relax, except in sleep.
The bow Is trained to the highest ten
sion. Some day it will surely break.
1t is difficult to advise as to individual
relaxation. One may find recreation IN
society where another finds only dissi-
patton. One may find 1t In books, an
other in fads. One Is lonesome when
left to himself and another finds rest
in Isolation. But the sensible thing to
do Is to let go and let down every little
while. Few Of us can live the simple
life, but all Of us can practice relaxa-
ton.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-05-29
THE LAST OF HIS LINE.
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When August Bauman died in Lehigh
County, Pennsylvania, not long ago,
there passed away the last of a long
! line Of skilled penmen who have had no
counterparts anywhere else in America.
| Mr.. Bauman was more than the old
! fashioned scrivener, says writer In
the New York Evening Post. He pos
! sessed remarkable skill in producing
wonderful Illuminated initial letters,
like those with which the monks Of the
middle ages adorned their manuscripts,
and in many homes of German Pennsyl-
vania there are examples of his skill.
The reason for his profession is most
! interesting. When the German colon
, lists, the members of the "plain sects,"
were driven to seek sanctuary in Amer
lea, they brought their books with them
In manuscript, because in the father
land they were not permitted to have
even their hymns printed and so, in
, copying these and in making copies Of
other religious manuscripts, they devel-
: oped a class Of men very skillful with
their pens.
In Americans indeed in Germany
they found employment In preparing
birth and marriage and confirmation
! certificates and other family records,
F, which, Illuminated with colOred initials
and framed IN the best style Of the day,
became ornaments Of the walls of that
most sacred of Pennsylvania German
, apartments, the parlor.
Of this line of scriveners Mr.. Bau-
, man was the last. Seventy years of
age when he had a fatal stroke Of apo
pleXy, he was until then trudging along
the country roads day after day In his
chosen territory, carrying always a
, large umbrella and a case in which
were his pens and inks. His inks, of all
! colors, he manufactured for himself.
On arriving In a village he usually
, sought at once the minister, who gave
him list Of all the births and deaths
and marriages since his last visit. and
for each one provided ] small printed
blank. Bauman visited each house in
turn, and generally obtained from each
an order for the appropriate certificate
He had with him samples ranging In
price from twenty-five cents to dollar
or more, and the style having been che
sen, he filed it out from the details in
the clergyman's certificate.
A man or woman of German Pennsvl-
vania, or rather Of Bauman's part of it,
is likely, therefore, to have on the par
lor walls the framed evidence Of birth.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-05-29
EIECrROCuPES FLIES

ELECTROCUPES FLIES. simple and dura-
bic, with no complicated mechanism to
get out of order. AS shown in the ac-
companying illustration, the invention
embodies a grid or screen of parallel
wires alternately positive and negative
and charged with electricity. A fly
alighting on the grid or attempting to
walk upon it and touching the adjacent
wires will be electrocuted, as 1t were,
and fall dead from the trap. The de-
vice is composed of two bars of wood,
between which extend strips of brass.
Live wires connect with a source of
electricity of sufficient power to effect
the electrocution of insects. The COM
mon house fly is readily attracted to
anything bright or shiny, avoiding dark
and dull objects. Hence it may be
found advisable to place the traps near
a window.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-05-29
An UngaIIant Actor.

A well known American actor, who
Is old enough not to consider himself
matinee idol by any means, was
somewhat surprised and pleased in a
st. Louis hotel a short time ago when
a pretty girl stopped him in the cor
ridor and presented him with a rose,
without saying a word. He was more
surprised and less pleased to receive
note the following day reminding
him of the incident and asking him to
send the giver of the flower two seats
at the theater in which he was playing
'as a memento of the occasion"
my dear young lady, ,he actor re-
piled, waxing sarcastic as he realized
what had been the object Of the at
tention he had been paid, Il would be
glad to send you the seats you ask for,
but, on consultation with the manager
of the theater, I have been informed
that the seats are all fastened down
and that he Is opposed to having them
sent away as souvenirs in any event,
so that you will have to be cOntented
with an autograph for a souvenir Of
your benevolence Of yesterday in
d."-Harpers Weekly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-05-29

Learn one new thing every day and
remember it That is the secret Of
knowledge. If you learn too many
things at a time your mental stomach
can not digest or assimilate them all
and you suffer from mental clog. The
cerebral wheels are gummed up. The
machinery refuses to work to advan-
tage. The average mans entire vocab-
ulary is about 5000 words. The unedu-
Gated manage to get along in life with
about 800. Some of the cleverest men
OF the day struggle along with 5000.
Philologlsts may have mastership of
10000. The dictionaries give from
100000 to 100000 words. But most men
are too lazy to consult their dict.ona-
ries; they prefer to write to the edI-
TOR. The press in general Is the infor-
nation bureau of the world.