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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
A PROSPECTIVE
HOUSEKEEPER

A charming young lady went into
the principal stationer's shop in
country town and asked to see some
thin notepaper. After selecting what
she desired she hesitated for a mo-
ment,
do you make any reduction 10
clergymen? she asked softly.
Certainly, madam said the sta
toner, with great promptness. Are
you clergyman's wife?"
"N-no," said the young lady.
"Ah, clergyman's daughter, then"
said the shopman, as he began to tie
up the paper in neat parcel.
"N.no," was the lady's hesitating
reply. Then she leaned across the
counter, and spoke in confidential
whisper But If nothing happens |
shall be engaged to theological stu
dent as soon as he comes home from
college this term. "-Casselps Satur-
day Journal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
THE WIDOWS
OBJECTED

The editor of little western paper
was in the habit of cheering up his
subscribers daily with a column OF
short pertinent comments on their
town, their habits and themselves.
The department on account Of its
intimate personal flavor was the most
popular thing in the paper.
On hot day, when simoom whis-
tied gayly up the streets of the town,
depositing everywhere its burden OF
sand, the editor brought forth this gem
of thought:
"All the windows along Main street
need washing badly"
The next morning he was waited on
by a platoon of indignant citizens
who confronted him with the para
graph in question fresh from the
hands of the compostor and informed
him fiercely that he had gone too far.
After hasty and Mortified glance he
admitted that he had.
It now read:
"All the widows along Main street
need washing badly. "-Everybody's.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
IT The RACKET
LET THE WILD
MEN BE WILD
NO USE IN TANNING WHEN THEY
DO NO HARM.

There seems to be an epidemic OF
so-called wild men" in these parts,
says the ST. Louis Globe-Democrat.
One was captured on Goose Island
recently, and another is reported in
this vicinity. Parties of tame men
are now seeking the latter. 1t is not
right. If man chooses to be wild"
and does no harm, society should not
interfere. To capture him and in
carcerate him in jail merely because
he seeks happiness in a primitive way
is an act of tyranny.
1t is because the wild man does not
conform to ordinary 1sages, and not
because he does any harm, that the
authorities seek to imprison him. And
envy, we believe, is at the bottom OF
it. The ordinary citizen, had ne the
courage of his convictions, would run
Wild in hot weather. Such getting
back to nature would benefit him, and
when the weather improved he could
return to his labors with renewed
energy and zest.
We approve of the wild man. He
should, however, have the foresight to
organize a cult, and thus by force OF
numbers defy public interference. A
flock or covey or drove or herd of wild
men could not be readily handled. We
suggest the formation Of wild
mems" society, to revel in the joys OF
primitive life every summer.
That is how the wild men who
canoe, motor, golf and fish manage 1t.
They organize and pretend that 1t is
fashionable. And a wild man in an
automobile is more dangerous to So
ciety than one who merely sleeps in
water hole or sits in tree, making
noise like a rain crow. These simple
and harmless pursuits should not be
interfered with by people who are
afraid to essay them.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
GIVESCHATfANOOGA
$4,000 POPULATION

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Aug. 3d.
The report of the National Board OF
Fire Underwriters, of New York city,
on the fire fighting facilities of Chat
tanooga, received today, is a most in
teresting document. In brief, the re-
port gives Chattanooga and suburbs
population of $4,000, the gross aver
age loss per fire from 1902 to 1906 was
1918, etc The report goes into an
exhaustive discussion of the city wa
ter company's plant, saying that the
supply is ample for fire protection,
but in reference to the equipment OF
the department it says that the ladder
company, the chemical company and
the engine company are poorly loca-
ted, being in the southwestern edge OF
the congested district. The report
says the fire discipline is good and
suitable regulations are well enforced,
but the fire department is too small
for city the size of Chattanooga.
The report was made when Chatta-
nooga had no buildings of fireproof
construction, but mention is made OF
The James skyscraper. 1t says the
building laws contain few satisfactory
provisions and the provisions OF the
laws on explosives and inflammables
are unsatisfactory, etc.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
RECOVERED IN
GREAT WRECK
slxTY-EIeHT MEN. MOSTLY AMER
IcAN MECHANICS, ARE MISS
ING-NEW DETAILS OF
THE DISASTER.

QUEBEC. Aug. 30.-Sixteen bodies
have been recovered from the tangled
mass OF iron and steel that was to
have formed nearly half the great
cantileyer bridge over the 81. Law
renee river, near this city, and which
collapsed last night. Sixty-eight men,
who we're plunged one bundled and
eight feet into the swirling water, are
missing. Two bodies are plainly visi-
Bile beneath the tons Oh steel that Jut
above the surface, but the remains
cannot be gotten at.
Jesse j. Hess, who tended an cleo
trio crane near the shore, said today
that a week ago one of the Orders
near the formost pier had buckled
slightly, but no attention was paid to
this, as the bridge seemed perfectly
strong despite this supposedly minor
buckle.
A rigid investigation is to be made
by both the civil and the Dominion au-
thorities and Sir Wilfrid Laurer, the
premier, has announced that after the
probing is finished, reconstruction viii
be begun.
Expert engineers visited the scene
of the tragedy today, and went over
the ruins. They found that the but
tresses were not, damaged, having
been OF great strength. But it is said
that some miscalculation as to the
tensile strength of the structure had
been made, and that when great
strain was imposed the weak spot
succumbed to the weight.
A locomotive and several freight
cars were moving on the great arm
of the bridge when it collapsed. En-
gineer Hess was in the locomotive
with Fireman Davis. Hess was picked
ND in the river, but Davis lost his life
According to Hess, who is in the
hospital at Lewis, he felt the bridge
tottering and stopped the engine, but
The Dig machine SlIu uOWA LhC loAio
despite the brakes.
The scene along the shore today
was intensely pathetic. Old and young
women sat on the shore weeping. BY
hundreds boats were going up and down
the shores searching for bodies. Men
were also stationed at different places
to catch any bodies that might pass
down the current. Two brothers
named Proulix were found dead. Their
father escaped with slight bruises.
Chief Engineer John S. Doane, Gen.
Supt. VIM. E. Reeves and P. l.. Scalp
ia came from Phoenixville, where
the Phoenix Bridge Company
has its plant. They will aid in the
investigation. A E. Mulligan, of Phoe-
nixville, who had charge of the con-
struction work. is also expected.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
Keep Cool; It's Easy.

Eat lightly, keep god-natured and do
not hurry.-Springfield Republican.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
LOSS ESTIMATED
AT 100000
coURIER-JoURNAL PLANT SUI
FERED MORE FROM WATER
THAN FIRE.

LOUISVILLE. KY. Aug. So-The
loss on the Courier-Journal plant
which was Quilted by IRE shortly after
midnight last night. is estimated to
be about 100000. The machinery.
while damaged to some extent BY wa
ter, can soon be put in shape. The
other papers of the city have offered
the Courier-Journal the use Of their
plants until arrangements can be made
for the paper to resume operations in
its own place Of business.
The principal damage was done by
water. the roof and the top story be-
ing the chief sufferers by fire. The
Courier-Journal and the Times were
issued from the Herald plant today
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
NOR
Trying MISTAKE
(Kansas City Times.)


Probably it is too late for the smart
set of Newport to help matters now;
bur if it had taken the precaution to
brush up a little on history and even
familiar literature it might have
learned that the great-great-grand-
father of Prince Wilhelm of Sweden
was born poor Gascogne soldier of
fortune. Think of the auriferous
aristocracy of Newport actually run
ming after and lionizing a prince
whose first royal ancestor was that
Bernadotte who was not born to the
purple any more than old Commodore
Vanderbilt or the first Astor who
traded in furs in America, but who
first served Republican France and
who next won a marshals baton from
Napoleon!
Could anything be more dishearten-
ing? Why, Prince William is not
more than one or two generations
better off in the ancestry line than his
Newport hosts themselves. One has
to go back only six generations at
most to find the dark blot on his es-
cutcheon-an ancestor who worked
for living. And then the first OF
his dynastic line was actually the war
minister of the directorate and the
consulate "a, Government supported
by the plain common people of France.
1t would be well If no mention
should be made of these dlscouraging
circumstances. The mistaken and
confiding Newport set would be quite
inconsolable to discover that 1t had
crooked the pregnant hinges of the
knee to a scion of royalty sprung from
the soil in only the last century. But
1t is greatly to be feared that conceal
ment will be impossible. The crowd
that was disappointed in its fond am
bition to have real Prince to lend
distinction to its social events will
very surely be spiteful enough to dis
close the bald facts in the case-even
If they don't shrug their shoulders and
put up their eyebrows at the Prince
and the stuyvesant Fishes.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
NOT UNClvILIzED
RED MAN is JUST AS TAME AS
WE, INSISTS THE BIG CHIEF.
cleveland Plain Dealer.)


Proud of his ancient. race, Chief
Thunderwater of the Sac and Fox ma
ton is more than skeptical of the
benefits OF white civilization. Thun-
derwater was in Cleveland most OF
last week on a mission well calculated
to maintain his natural pride. He
was undertaking to raise money to
transfer the bones of his ancestor,
Chief Jog-o-sot from the old East
Ninth street cemetery to Lakeview.
Thunderwater is full blooded In
dian, the grandson of a Keokuk. He
has not the tall, 1.-THE form usually
connected with the American aborlg-
inc His eyes, however, stamp him
thoroughbred. They are black, care
lessly active and inscrutable as the
grave. His conversation isvthat OF an
educated man, but he is not learned
in books. IN
II cannot understand the inability
Of white people to value the Indian
at his true worth. Since the first pale
face landed at jamestown the Indian
has been given the worst of the bar
gain. He is now at the last ditcn.
They say we are rapidly disappearing.
BE that as it may, can bear
the cruel wrongs which my people
have suffered even though it may re-
suit in their determination, but Will
not endure having our civilization
scoffed at. We are not barbarians.
Before the whites came to this
county we had developed a civiliza-
ton in many respects superior to
yours of today. If the aip OF civilized
life is the happiness of the people we
must be counted easy victors. we
had solved the problem of adapting
ourselves to our environment.
There have never been a people
healthier than we. Disease was almost
unknown until the white man brought
smallpox. OuT luSulSdl hhVNtSNSS 49,
amply sufficient to cure the wounds
which we might incur in outdoor life
Drunkenness had never been heard or
las for our arts, it is enough to say
that the whites are today vainly seek
ing to learn how to make blankets like
the Navajo womens, but you cannot.
Was our life primitive? Yes, in the
sense that 1t was simple. We lived In
tepees.
II went into a drug store today and
while | stood there newsboy came
running in, his face badly cut. The
druggist said that he could do nothing,
as IL was unlawful for anyone but a
doctor to dress wounds. He sent him
away. Do you suppose that II that
boy had come to my tepee bleeding he
would have gone away uncared for?"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
GREAT BENEFIT
OF ICEBURGI
HOW THEY MAKE THE asANE.
FOR THE OCEAN FISH

When an iceberg is launched NM
it's long journey, says Alfred Sdps
Johnson in the World Today, its m
tom parts are baracled with SAM
powders, and other detritus gatbs
ings from the land surface over vbia
it made its tedious march to the 50,
This burden it gradually casts of n
it melts while drifting down along On
continental seaboard. AS a result \
the deposits thus made through com
less centuries, combined with N
products of erosion carried seawau
the rivers, the sea-bed for many mil
off shore has been gradually filled n
creasting those vast, submerga
plateaus, known as banks" which Il
tend from Labrador to the Bay of hi
day and from the breeding. grounds |
lnnumeraDle ShOalS OF cod, herring all
other valuable, food fishes. In ID
way the bergs have performed i
economic service of incalculable Vi
ue, laying the foundation for one
the worlds most important prOduI
tive industries, and affording a meal
of livelihood to those hardy bands
captains courageous" who each ya'
reap the harvest of the sea. ~
bergs serve a further economic W
pose in that to their tempering inf
ence are largely due the climate CO
ditions prevailing over a great part |
the interior of North America.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-09-06
OUR MURDER RECON-
NEGROES AND INDIANS CoNTRI
UTE FoUR-SEVENTHs OF
THE HoMlclDES.
(Harper's Weekly

NIldl pCt . 'SSh'S'J
Everybody knows that TINS cOuHAE
has very bad murder record
present we are having about w
murders a year, which is from ely
to twenty-five times as many, IN
portion to population, as such cON
tries as England, France, Germa
and Japan have. Why all this un'
thorized killing? For many reaS'
which help to an understanding e'1
though they do not excuse. we 10
about 100000 negroes and I'll
many newly imported foreigners "D
of whome are very impulsive
weapons. The negroes Kill pD
freely. Out of 1886 persons cnals
with homicide in this country III
2,S39 were negroes and 1,2l5 Were
eign-born whites. These two goruP
comprising one-fourth OF the pOpDt
ton, did four-sevenths of the
ders. That left 9,165 murders p"
distributed among 45,OOO,OOO peOSI
which is not so very bad. It prOO'"
will be found, when the census ~.
tin comes out, that the ratios u
were maintained in 1900
In recent years We have had q w.
Immigration of Italians, Includes
would seem, a good many 'la' AZ a,
desirable. The italians are Ne'
full here, and the good ones az I'D
welcome. But average ltalIan'' t.s
as they are, do not help much ID ~ nv,
ing down the murder ratlo'
have very obstinate ideas Oh Iu''
iect. We read that only one h" ,i
country has ever had a worse NV
recor than ours, and that Is l'"'' ~
read. too. that there was yer! ~ o.,
dying at Fordham hospital Ne"
an italian who had been kicked ~,
to death. An operation was w.
upon him to save his life ou' ~ ~,
clined, saying: IF ] live 10 .
shall kill my assailant and 'neI ,,M
die in the electric chair ! n'e
well die now" One may au''
and sympathlze w."
feelings, but Italians of his sort ~
help our murder statistics
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An Extremist

Doctor, my wife runs 70 eA'
"How's that?' :, q
"she has hot temper
'eet illustrated Bits.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-04-12

81. p. HALL, one Of the pioneer
newspaper men Of st. Paul, died
IN that city last Tuesday, strick.
On down while athis daily duties.
He was one Of the geniuses Of
journalism in the northwest, was
Il tie early days publisher of the
St. Paul Dispatch, the founder
Of the old ST. Paul Globe. and a
number Of other newspaper en-
terprises. The editor of this
paper was q CO. worker with him
On the Globe in 1878.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-04-12

TIE residents, taxpayers and
voters Of the first ward should
= sble to make q quick decision
6etween G. w. Martens and L.
u. Bentley, the candidates for
Gaerman Ia the first ward. Mr..
MArtensis known as q straigh.
forward business man. His Op.
pupent has q well.won reputa-
ti0n for crookedness in every.
thing with which he has to do.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-04-12
The election of F. w. Meehan

The election of F. w. Meehan
. mayor and Messrs. Martin,
Farley and Roberts as council
men will insure a good business
administration for the next two
years. They are men who are
we'll known to the people of Mil
bank as men Of integrity, have
long been identified with the vel
fare Of the city, and are worthy
Of the votes of every citizen who
desires to see the community
progress materially and moral
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-04-12

Do not let your prejudice
against individuals deter you
from voting against the saloon
next Tuesday. Men may come
and men may 60, but the saloon
il an unmixed evil,a detr1ment to
the legitimate business of the
town, q menace to the youth of
the community, and q source of
misery to many individuals and
families. Do not seek an excuse
to perpetuate it.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-04-12

In school matters some pres
sure had been brought upon Mrs
G.. A. Wood In the second ward
md Mrs. w. e. Vandervoort in
the third ward to become candi-
dates for membership on the
hoard Of education. The ladies
e first consented to do so, but
later withdrew their names.
Notwithstanding this the Grant
County News. after being in
1Drmed Of the withdrawal. pub.
lfehes the names Of the ladies as
hoing candidates. The only can.
1idate for member Of the board
= the second ward is f. 2. Mes
mer, and the only candidate in
The third ward is "A. G. Len der.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-04-12

J. A. Fuller was at GrOton on
land business duringthe week.
Those fine postal card at Niles
Art Studio are the talk of the
town.
Market day--tomorrow-Sa Sat-
urdsy and every Saturday, rain
or shine. See VIM. Schone.
About fifty OF the p. N. Lar.
sons friends formed q surprised
party on him last Saturday even.
Ing. The evening was passed In
various amusements.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-04-12

On the saloon question there is
but one issue. Is it right or is
II wrong? II it is q good institu-
1tOn then there should be no
necessity for q license. , II it is
wrong, It is wrong and you can
sever make it right by any kind
q . license.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-04-12

ORTLEY, formerly Sand Cut,
st q recen tly election voted in
saloons. Now they are having
troublesome people there, be-
6eving the votes werenotcounted
correctly.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-04-12

The Albee Independent by
@. e. Tuttle made its appearance
Monday. 1t is full of advcrtis-
ing and certainly started out in a
1Ourishing manner. Success to
it.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-04-12

TaE FIRST copy Of the Ortley
Optic by Editor Knappen is at
h1nd, and from the display of
advertising-should beasuccess.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-04-12

/ hes cby announce myself . candi-
date for . member Of the Board Of
Educatior from the Frat Ward.
j. G.. Rswson.
The Grenada sentinel., 1907-03-02
Investigation Demanded.

Last year the administration with a
great flourish of trumpets prosecuted
the Northwestern Print Paper trust
and succeeded in having it's dissolu-
ton decreed by the court How worth
less this kind of trust-busting is can
be judged by the fact that the trust
is still doing business at a new stand
and under a combination that has
so far escaped the Injunction of the
court. Hon. John Sharp Williams, the
leader of the Democrats in the house
of representatives, is trying to pass
a resolution directing the department
Of commerce and labor to make an in
vestigation with view to discovering
how far an agreement between the
various paper mills operates to fix
the price of print paper in the United
States; the cause of the ability of the
mills to combine, and the cost to the
publishers and the people of their
combination"
These law-br.aking trust barons pay
but little attention to fines, and the
enforcement of the criminal section
of the antitrust law, which would put
them in stripes, IN the only punish
ment they fear.
The Grenada sentinel., 1907-03-02
CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES.
Republican Doctrine o. Expedienc,
Would Breed Cnaos.

A few years ago 1t was generally
conceded that the constitution OF the
| United States, the supreme law of the
land, was like the laws of the Medes
| and Persians, that changed not. But a
new theory has now been put forward
by those in high places that expedi-
| ency is of more Importance than pre-
serving the constitution intact. They
would read in clauses that are not
there and override other clauses that
are there to obtain immediate results
on the basis of their own interpreta-
ton Of what should or should not be-
To keep governments from disinte-
grafton and despotism, even in re-
public, there must be fundamental
law, before which all must bow, until
necessity forces a change, which under
the constitution of the United States is
very difficult to obtain. 1t requires two
thirds of congress, or two-thirds of the
legislatures of the states to propose
amendments and three-fourthS of the
states to ratify such amendments. Pub
lie opinion must be well nigh unani-
nous to accomplish the change, and
this our Republican reformers cannot
wait for, so they propose to stretch
or comfort the law to accomplish their
purposes. Those who would abet them
in their unconstitutional proceedings
should remember that the rights of all
the people are very fully protected
and the rights of the states preserved
by the constitution and the amend
ments thereto, and that if a breach
is made in the outer wall the citadel
itself will be in danger, which would
mean chaos or despotism. There is,
however, nothing sacred about the
constitution; it was made to be amend
ed, and what the United States cannot
accomplish under it, the states indi.
vidually can do, and what neither can
do is reserved to the sovereign peo-
pie.
The work for those who would make
changes must therefore be done de-
Gently and in order, and the proposed
new laws must be so surely of ad,
vantage and necessary that almost
none will question them. The great
mass of the people have more to lose
by stretching the constitution than
they would gain by the new Republi-
can doctrine of expediency, for who
can say that the disintegration and
annihilation of law that would ensue
would not lead to an end of free gov
ernment? Let us therefore be patient
of the ills we have that We may not
suffer from still greater ones that
we know not of.