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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-01
POSTAL CLERKS
PAY INCREASE
TENNEssEANs WILL GET SUM or
s2so,coo MORE a NEAR-5iLL
PROBABLY WILL PASS.
Rural Carriers Increased Frssn $40
TO $40 a Year-RaiIway Clerks
Get 800 Raise.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Jan. So.-h
Is estimated that the postal employees
of Tennessee viii receive Increases in
salary aggregating about s2sO.OOO II
the report of the House Postoface
Committee goes through Congress. as
is practically certain that it will
There are some 1850 rural free deliv-
ery carriers in the states who are
down for an Increase of 1920 year
each. The total increase which they
win get is about $1s5.0O0. The total
increase which the railway postal
clerks. of whom there are some $50
in the state, will get. will be about
$4,000. There are some 800 clerks
in postofices and the same number
of letter carriers who are down for a
raise of about 800 year. Their in
creases will aggregate 100000.
OF the fact that every one of these
classes deserve a raise in salary there
can be no doubt, but easily the most
deserving of them are the railway mail
clerks. There are about $4,000 of them
in the service Divided into shifts OF
eight hours each, there are about
1900 of them at work each eight
hours of the twenty-four. Department
al statistics show that about So pei
cent. of all the mail in the United
! States is handled by the railway pos
tai clerks.
When it is considered that there
are thousands of tons of mail handled
every day and that the average force
of men which the government pro
vides to handle it during any hour Of
twenty-four is less than 5000, and
when it is considered that the bulk Of
this work must be done amid all the
dangers of fast moving trains, and
while the clerks are on their feet &C
commodating themselves to the lurch
ings, Earrings and joltings of these
cars, it will begin to appear how hare
and wearing on them the work of the
railway postal clerks really is.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-01
WINE TASlER

LONDON, Jan. 30.-King Edward
has reduced the expenses of the roy
al household by many thousands Of
dollars since he came to the throne
His principal economics have been in
the abolition of. numerous sinecure
posts, the holders of which, under
Queen Victoria, derw comfortable
salaries for doing nothing in particu-
lar
One glazing example of this bad
system was the employment, at sal
airy of $4,000, of an entirely useless Of
fetal known as the wine faster. This
individual used to stand by the side
board during dinner in Windsor Castle
and hand the wine to the footman.
Noticing. this superfuous function
airy the King inquired who he was and
how much he was paid. When en-
lightened His Majesty lost no time in
requesting the wine faster" to find
some useful employment elsewhere.
The butler now handles the wine In
Windsor.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-01
cox WANTS
A VOTE
OF THE PEOPLE INTERESTED BE-
FORE SALOONS ARE A5oL-
IsHEp FROM ANY TOWN.

Special to the Herald.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, January 81
In the House the Election Committee
reported there was not sufficient merit
in the Fayetteville election contest
case from Claiborne county 20 go into
the proof. and recommended that the
contest be dismissed and that Mr..
White be seated as the legal repre-
sentative and Mr.. White was declared
to the regular representative from
Claiborne county.
Mr.. Harris introduced bill to reg
ulate the employment of persons IN
der sixteen years of age in maNufac-
turing establishments. A senate bill
to repeal the charter aof Lynchburg,
passed. The House passed the Ora
ham dog law. The Senate had al.
ready passed this-law and it is now up
to the Governor.
Speaker Toilet this morning in
structed the door-keeper and sergea ut
at arms to hereafter allow NJ ore but
members and state officers on the
floor. Senator Cox introduced his bill
to provide for vote before saloons are
hereafter abolished from any towns OF
cities of the State.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-01
MOST APPALLING
CONDITIONS RESULTING FROM
FAMINE IN CHINA

WASHINGTON, Jan. oV.-lhS @P
palling conditions in Chinalas the re-
suit of famine as told in Chinese news
papers and other mail advices reach
in the State Department with the
warning given by Consul General Rod
gers of the possible effects OF the out
break which daily occur in the famine
districts. have attracted the atten-
ton of the Government authorities and
developments will be closely watch
ed.
One of the greatest dangers which
the relief workers confront is an ep-
idemic. In the great concentration
camps which have been formed by
refugees. who have fed from the
stricken districts to the south by tens
of thousands, the people live; some OF
them only partially clothed, others en-
tirely naked in mud huts held togeth-
er by mating. Medical supplies and
skill are badly needed in these self
formed camps as well as food and
clothing. The native officials and auth
tiles are doing their utmost to control
the situation. but the task is now far
beyond them, and outside aid is bad.
ly needed. The Government has open
ed public relief works where men can
secure employment Estimates have
been made of the cost of feeding each
starving person and the total amount
will reach $4,000 IDEALLY. This esti
mate is based on calcusatiop that
100000 people are actually starv
ing.
Some Of the incidents of the famine
related in the Chinese press are most
revolving. story is told of one fam
iy--the mother and father and two
children. The mother left home IL
search for food. While she was away
the father, despairihg OF aid, threw
both children into the river. The
mother returned and learning wha
had happened, threw herself into the
river and wac drowned. The grief
stricken father followed and thus tbs
whole family persisted.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-01
BOARD OF TRADE
Citizens of Spring Hill Meet and Or
ganize One in that Place.

SPRING HILL, Tenn, Jan. SON
Monday night an enthusiastic crowd
of citizens organized the Spring Hill
Board OF Trade. VIM. Hughes was
elected President, Squire John S.
oail, Vice President, and r. n. Ayres,
Jr., Secretary Treasurer. A commit
tee was named to write to the Nash
yilles Board Of Trade for copy of the
constitution and bylaws, to be adopt
ed to local use. Two important mat
tiers were settled-to raise $1,000 to
macadamize the old Military or MT.
Carmel road to the Williamson codnty
line, and also to organize the Spring
Hin Land Improvement Company at
once and TO build houses. The Board
will hold monthly meetings, and the
membership is already about fifty, and
an active committee is at work to
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-01

Too great care cannot be exercised
by the farmer folks in handling and
using meat that is soured or spoiled.
It may be practical, when evidences
of faint appear, ito spice it to the
April day again" by continued resalt-
ingstby burying in the ground, or by
Sulphur smoking. All of these pro-
cesses have been suggested by con-
temporalies, and the names given of
substantial men who have found them
efficacious. If any or all of these rem
edies will make the meat sweet and
wholesome. the remedy should be CIV
en- the greatest publicity, tor the loss
throughout the State will be tremen-
dous. But. more important than the
loss of pork, is the danger to human
life from the consumption Of meat that
may be poisonous. No man has
right in morals to sell a piece of meat
that he would be afraid for his family
10 eat. It is better to lose a ton OF
meat than to endaHser the life of any
innocent purchaser;-Nashville Amer
lean.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-01
WINCHESTER
BANK CLOSED
STOCKHOLDERS PETITION FOR A
RECEIVER is GRANTED.
Hon. Jesse M. Littleton is in Charge.
Failure of Heavy Borrowers is
Responsible.

WINCHESTER, Tenn, Jan. 3d.
stockholders of the Bank of Winches-
ter filed bill in Chancery Court to-
day to have the bank placed in the
hands of a receiver. Chancellor Nc
Connell this evening appointed Hon,
Jesse M. Littleton receiver. The bank
is capitalized at $4,000 and had about
100000 deposited. The loans and dis
counts amounted to about $350,000.
The failure was caused by the failure
of some heavy nonresident borrowers.
1t is thought depositors viii be paid
in full. None of the merchants or bus
mess men Of Winchester will be SER
iously injured.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-01

Judge Gordon Is taking his own
sweet time about appointing that com
mittee TO Investigate and report Hpon
the condition Of me Maury County Poor
House. II the premises are not spank
ing clean when the COMMITTEES visits
there. IL win not be for the lack OF
time 10 clean mp. But suppose they
ere clean. they cannot be kept clean
How can an institution Of that sort
be kept clean. and the inmates made
70 battle and keep themselves clean.
with no bath rooms. or water closets?
The County needs a new house. not a
cleaning up Of the present polluted
buildings.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-01

The asinine bad manners Of the pet
ty colonial Governor in the Island OF
Jamaica win receive much more atten-
ton from the American press than
the trivial incident illustrating his
boorishness deserves II win be i'm
possible to magnify ii into an inter.
national question. There is too much
good sense and good will between the
real principals to permit the remotest
possibility of misunderstanding from
this i'll tempered talk of 'blarsted'
cockney.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-01
BIG SALE In
PROGRESS

Bogatzky & Bauman's Big Inventory
Sale opened last Saturday with rush.
Though many additional clerks were
employed it was with difficulty they
waited on the trade. Mr.. Dave Bo-
gatzky, one of the members of the
firm. was out from Nashville. and as
sisted in the opening, and was entirely
gratified. The sale will continue for
fifteen business days, and the attrac-
tive prices offered by this firm should
result in large attendance each day.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-01
GEN. BOOTH MAPS OUT
EXTENDED TOURS

His Travels For the Year Will Include
Two Visits to the United States.
LONDON, Jan. 29.-Gen. William
Booth, the aged founder and head of
the Salvation Army, has mapped out
travel tours for this year, including
two visits to the United States, that
might well tax the strength of much
younger man. This evening the Gen
eral left here for Denmark, Norway
and Sweden where for two weeks he
will address two or three meetings a
day. On Feb. % he will leave London
on the steamer Minneapolis for New
York He viii spend two weeks in
the American metropolis before pro-
ceeding by way of Canada to take the
steamer Minnesota, on April 1, for
Japan. After travelling through the
empire Of the Mikado, Gen. Booth will
go to Pekin. He has not yet decided
whether he will return to England by
the Siberian railroad or via the Suez
canal. In any event he will be back
in London by July to commence an
other automobile campaign through
the British Isles. At the conclusion
of his trip, in the month of October,
he will again cross the Atlantic for a
two months tour of the United States.
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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-01
Mrs. M. M. West.

Mrs. M. NJ West died Wednesday
night at the hope Of her SON. Mr.. ].
G. Osborne, three miles out on the
Theta. pike. The funeral will be at
the residence Friday morning at IL
o'clock by Rev. Mr.. Allen. The in
terment will be at Rose HILL Mrs.
in her seth year. and was
greatly beloved in her home and by
her friends. She was sisteFp Mr..
David Gregory.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-01
TESTS FINANCES
IMPROVED WONDERFULLY AZ
TER MRS. MANeRUM's DIS
APPEARANCE.
DEFENDANT MAY NOT
TAKE The STAND.

With the examination Of several
witnesses this morning It is expect
ed that the testimony in chief against
DR.. ]. Herman Feist. on trial in the
Criminal Court on the charge Of muir
dering Mrs. Rosa Mason Mangrum.
win be closed. says the Nashville
American. Whether the defendant
will then take the witness stand in his
own behalf is a question in which
many who have been following the
proceedings in the noted case are
greatly interested. 1t Is not believed
that counsel for Fest win place him
on the witness stand. II he were TO
20 on the stand 1t would afford coun-
sci for the State an opportunity 70
place before the jury some transac-
lions with which the name Of the de-
PENDANT has been connected, which
would not help his case, and for this
reason it is believed probable that he
will rely on the testimony Of other
witnesses to establish an alibi.
More circumstantial evidence of a
very damaging nature was offered
against Feist on Wednesday, J. T.
Howell, cashier of the Fourth National
Bank. where Feist kept an account
at the date of the disappearance OF
Mrs. Mangrum, was very important
witness for the State Mr. Howell ties
tifiel that Feist deposited $500 at the
bank on Dec. IS, 1905, and Mrs. Man
grum disappeared on Dec. IA, at night
The page on the ledger on which
Feist's account was kept was intro
duced, and showed that from July to
the date of the disappearance the lar
gest amount he had in bank was
s15O.77, and once or twice his account
was overdrawn.
Following Mr.. Howell, Paul d. Den
ton testified that he presented a bill
to DR.. Feist for $6.40 for his dues to
the Odd Fellows Lodge, and that DR.
Feist handed him a 500 bill, and wit
ness secured the change. Mr.. DentoI
stated that this paid DR.. Feists dues
six month in advance and he has nev
er again been asked to pay any dues
j. T. Howell, Cashier of the Fourth
National Bank, was the first witnes:
called, and was examined by Gen
Bass. Defendant ]. H. Feist has ar
account at the bank, and had an &C
count in 1905. Witness had record
of the account of the defendant, hav
ing the page from the ledger book
On Dec IA, 1905, defendant had t.
his credit 81 cents. On Dec. Is, 1905
defendant deposited $500. The deposi
slips show that the deposit was il
currency. The largest balance pre-
vious to Dec 14.1905, as shown by th'
ledger was $15O.77, and at times thu
account was overdrawn. The tota
deposits for December were $500.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-01
MARI PURE
FOOD BILL

Amended and Recommended for Pas
sage by Sanitation Committee.
The Cooper bill TO regulate the sale
of patent and proprietary medicines
is to be Withdrawn and substitute
for the MARI pure food bill is &c be
the only measure of this kind consid-
cred by the House This is the sub
stance of the action taken Tuesday by
the House Committee on Sanitation.
The Committee unanimously recon-
mended as a committee substitute for
all pending bills on the subject the
MARI pure food bill with some amend
ments. One important amendment
provides that nothing in the act shall
be construed to affect stocks OF mer-
chandise on hand in the hands OF re-
tan dealers at the time of the passage
OF the act. The bill takes effect on Jan.
il, 1908.
The MARI bill is substantially a copy
of the pure food law recently enacted
by Congress and applies that law TO
commerce within the borders Of the
State.
In case of drugs, the act provides as
follows:
BE it further enacted, that the
terms, 'misbranded,' as used herein,
shall apply to all drugs or articles of
food or articles which enter into the
composition of food, the package or
label of which shall bear any state
ment, design or device regarding such
article or the ingredients or substances
contained therein which snail pc false
or misleading in any particular, and to
any food or drug product which is
falsely branded as to the State, Tel ri.
tory or country in which 1t is manufac.
tured or produced. =
That for the purpose of this act an
article shall be deemed to be mis-
branded:
Il, In case Of drugs, II it be an imi
tation of or offered for sale under the
name Of another article.
20, If the contents of the package
as originally put up shall have beer
removed in whole or in part, and other
contents shall have been placed il
such package, or If the package fail tc
bear statement on the label Of the
quantity or proportion Of any alcohol
morphine, opium, cocaine, heroin, al
pha or beta eucaine, cholorform, can
nabis indica, choral hydradrate Of
acetanilide or any substances contain
ed therein: provided that no part O
this section shall be construed az ap
plying to the prescriptions of regular
lily licensed physicians. dentists ant
veterinary surgeons, when said prepar
ations are filed orIdispensed for th'
person for whom originally written
nor TO such drugs as are regularly rec
ognized In the United Sattes Phar
macopeia and which are sold unde
the braad bv which they are SO recog
nized"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-01
Mrs. Mary A. Daniel.

Mrs. Mary A. Daniel, of Glendale,
who was so seriously burned a few
days since, died Wednesday from her
injuries. The funeral was at the res.
idence Thursdaymorning,a and the inter-
ment was in the family graveyard.
Mrs. Daniel was advanced in years.
She is Survived by one son, John T..
Daniel, and one daughter, Mrs. L. G..
Hidgon.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-01
/. EDIroRlAL DEPARTMENT.



Senator Beveridge this week wound
NJ in Congress what has been emf
nently the most important speech Of
his career. Il was that supporting
his anti-child labor bin Probably the
bin win pass. There seems no posi-
bic reason why II should not If the
American people have the slightest
regard for the future Of their country.
II Is just possible that influences may
be brought 70 bear which viii defeat
the bill. or which II IL passes viii
render it's enforcement Of non-affect.
Nevertheless Senator Beverage has
done a service to the country in bring
ing the matter up. in the way he has
and IL he should do nothing else dur
ing his term in Congress he would be
worthy Of the respect and gratitude
Of the American people.
The details of the bin are matter
which anyone interested may glcan
from the current reports of Congress,
but the question at issue is one too
deep seated TO depend on the welfare
or the misery of any poor little indi-
vidual waif in the cotton mills or the
northern mines and sweat shops. 1t
is a matter that has TO do with the
whole future welfare Of the nation.
Taken individually we may be sorry
for any baby under ten years of age
who is compelled TO labor day in end
day out as bread winner. But when,
as Senator Beveridge declares. there
are two millions such children So en-
gagged it becomes a matter of national
Importance. that the outrage should
be stopped. We may forget about or
ignore the individual suffering of the
poor little wretches, but we cannot
ignore the fact that by such a ssstem
Of industrial slavery the constitutinn
( of the nation is being undermined and
we are put more and more on level
with England and the nations of Eu-
rope, where the healthy, well-bred man
is the exception rather than the rule
A nations strength is most severely
tested in the time OF war, although
this may not perhaps be the test that
humanitarians would like to; see ap
piled. but it has been SO applied quite
recently in the South African wal
where England found to her cost
what it meant To starve her citizens
and dwarf them morally and physically
by over work and child labor in the
mills, factories and sweat shops o.
great cities. We have not yet reached
the point which it was shown by thu
Boer war that England had reached
and If an effective shild labor bill !:
passed and enforced we will have good
chance of escaping such catastrophe
butG the matter is one that warrants
the most serious consideration, an
whether or lot the Beverage bill il
passed the cml.ny may thank M
Senate for having called its atten
ton to one of the most serious men
aces that has evere threatened thi'
country.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-01

There is one man who would like
to see the race question thoroughly
investigated and sifted to the bot
tom in Congress. The man is Sena-
tor Smoot, who escapes separation
from his seat just ss long as the Sen
ate can be kept busy with something
else.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-01

A newspaper man has discovered
that the newly elected Senator Gug-
genheim began life barefooted" II
he keeps on looking up the facts he
may also discover that he did not
have cent in his uocket or even a
nocket.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-01
He Ought to Know.

SO the Standard on Company Is not
guilty. after all, Day says so. Pitts
burg Dispatch,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-01

Pleasure before duty means that
duty will lose out
The Washington herald., 1907-10-12
nusiness sentiment for RevisLOn


Business sentiment for tariff revision
continues to manifest itself. Tie National
Association OF Carriage Builders. at a
meeting In New York, reaffirmed the
resolution adopted year ago 'favoring
prompt revision of the tariff and a
governmental commission TO assist In re-
moving the question of the tariff from
active partisanship." Prompt considera-
ton" of the tariff question is demanded
at the hands of Congress. The National
Paint Oil and Varnish Association, In
session at Cincinnati. adopted resolutions
favoring tariff revision.
The president of the international liar
vester Company, the agricultural ma
chinery trust, a trust which is frequently
accused OF taking advantage Of the high
tariff or agricultural machinery to mar
ket it's product at higher prices In this
country than abroad complains that our
protective policy stimulates foreign taHn
restrictions that hinder the extension OF
foreign trade Reciprocal trade agree
ments, he says, would develop markets
abroad for American manufactures.
These are significant indications OF the
trend Of tariff opinion. The demand for
revision comes not from theorists, nor
from politicians seeking an issue, but
from substantial industrial interests sur
fering from the effects Of an outworn
system Of tariff schedules. Congress is
going to hear from these interests this
winter in no uncertain tone.
The Washington herald., 1907-10-12

approved by the stockholders" So it
will appear In the official records and in
the eyes Of the law. But the whole pro-
ceeding was fictitious, nevertheless.
Nothing is more reprehensible," says
Gov. Hughes, than the abuse of power
on the part Of those who act IN a repre-
sentative capacity" How can such abuse
Of power be prevented if fiduciary
officer cannot be called TO account by
those whom he represents2 The problem
Of corporate management will never be
solved until some way is devised of en-
forcing the responsibility OF officers 10
stockholders, and of limiting the power
of the former to do what they will with
the property of the latter. Our corpora
ton laws are still vitality defective in the
matter of protecting the interests of the
shareholder Some legislation for this
purpose might be quite as useful as the
rate regulation which seems TO have
obsessedst the public mind Of late.