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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-01-18
A 1o,oOo-MILE WALK.
[Bay City (Mich) Cor. Detroit Free
Press

[Bay City (Mich) Cor. Detroit Free
Press
Edward F. Buckley completed a TO-
OOO-mile walk on December %, start
ing in March, 1902, the time covered
being four years and ten months.
Walks to and from business or about
town do not figure in this total.
Buckley has won several medals for
fast walking. Some of his trips which
figure in the 10000 mile total were
long ones, many being 72 miles in one
day. Fifty miles without a stop Is
another one of his feats.
Buckley walked only 900 miles the
first year, 1902, but in 1903 increased
II to 1900. In 1904 he walked 1000
miles and the fourth year, 1905, COW
cred $500 miles. This year he made
a distance of 300 miles, climbing to
the top of Pixies Peak in Colorado.
Buckley has walked from Jackson,
Mich. to jamestown, N. Y, in seven
days. with j. NJ Hutchinson, of jack
son. He has walked from Toledo to
Port Huron and trampled the New
England States, visiting Boston and
New York.
Buckley and Hutchinson plan to go
to Washington, D. G.. and Philadelphia
in 1907 and viii tramp through six
states.
On the sleeve Of Buckley's walking
Jacket are three stripes, a red one in
dicating that he has walked 1000
miles: blue. 5000 miles; gold, 1000.
Buckley organized the Overland
Walking Club, on the same plan as
the Sunshine Walking Club. OF Jack
son. in Bay City, three years ago.
There we're eleven members then. now
there are thirty.nve. Not member OF
the club has seen sick day since.
No smoking. drinking or other ex-
cesses are allowed. Buckley refrains
from the use OF meat. claiming II Is
detrimental to health.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-01-18
HE WAS GLAD roo.
kansas City Journal.)

Luther Burbank, the plant wizard.
has demonstrated how different modes
of treatment will have different eff
fects on apples. and he holds that the
same is true of men. BY way OF IL
lustration he tells IT good-natured
fellow who had shrewlsh wife. One
morning after abusing him roundly
she drove him to work without his
breakfast. While on his way down
town in street car he heard sour
looking woman DISPUTE with the con-
ductor regarding her fare. AT length
she said: 'Ts there gentleman IN this
car who will stand up and see lady
insulted?" The hungry man whose ma
ture had been spoiled rose eagerly.
eyes, madam" ne said. Il win"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-01-18
LARGE FUNERAL.

The funeral of John Jones. colored
wednesday at ST. Paul's A. NJ
r. church. was the largest colored fun.
eral ever seen IN Columbia. The
services we're at the church and the
interment was in Rose Mount cemeetry
under the auspices OF tS>NMascnic
lodge. OF which deceased was a mem
Der. The funeral procession was
more than a mile long.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-01-18
pIrdent Genius.

A company OF young American tour
,sts visited the home OF Beethoven
IN Bonn and were unrestrained IN
.ha,r axnressions OF wonder, admira-
ton and approval of the room wnere
.ha master had lived and worked.
Tbev asked many questions about
paethoven. and finally one young lady
seated herself at his piano and pro
ceeded with true American confidence
- nlay the moonlight Sonata" Bee
throven,s own work, in his own ROOM
- his own piano. Such an interest
ing combination!
m cold caretaker stood there stern
a,a si,ent When the performance
was over the young lady turned 10 the
old man and said;
IT suppose many musicians nave
soor here and have played on this
instrument"
opaderewskI was here last year.
madame
"Ah," she sighed.
anut- continued the faithful guard
Ia .vheu some one arged him to play
on Heethoven's piano, he sid NO.
~ -. ~, worthy. "---Youth's Companion,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-01-18
RELIGIOUS NEWS.
Week or Prayer closes.

The week of prayer came to close
Sunday night at the G. p. Tabernacle.
The Rev. Cochrane Preston Saturday
night preached from the subject The
Coming of the Kingdom" Friday
and Sunday nights the Rev. ]. I.
Cotton preached Sunday night one
of the largest congregations OF the
series, was present to hear the Rev..
J. It. Cotton preach from these Words
found in Romans 1871: i beseech
YOU therefore, brethren, by the mercles
living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto
God whichis your reasonable service.
These words came from that grand
Anostle Paul, when he was preaching
not only to the ministry, but to each
and every member of the church, that
each one ought to be living sacrlhce.
Showing that God so loved us that lie
gave His Beloved Son, that through
Him we might have everlasting lie.
And that each and every protesting
christian should live in that higher
nlane of christian living, and that we
should separate ourselves from the
things of this world and not mix ana
mingle with the world. He told OF
his experience sometimes in vlsltlns'
how 1t panied his heart to hear OF some
one in his charge that was not living
the life they ought to live. And then
az the great membership Of the grand
old Methodist church. That II each
member was living sacrifice' nolyt
and pure within, what power they
would he for the evangelizing OF the
world And then in conclusion ne
sinsisted that each protesting CHRISTIAN
tonight should reconsecrate him OF
herself to the Master and live that lie
+hat would honor and glorify our
Father. which is in heaven. Ana at
lost that we should be like Him apd
coo Him as He is. and especially TO
the unsaved that they tonight, should
not nut off their souls welfare ana
their souls best interest, and that
they should give their hearts and
lives to God, and live that hfe that
would honor God, and be a blessing
70 the community in which they lived
And thus closed one of the most gra-
ious services to all, who have been SO
fortunate as to attend.
~
,,,o 80 tba w G.. T. u, will
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-01-18

rhe ladies of the w. c. T. o., VIII
1,>At Friday afternoon/a at oclooA
with Mrs. Ed. Turner.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-01-18
The INCOMPARA-
BILE CARMACK
His Latest Speech in the Senate IS
peeiaily Brilliant.

Robt. Watkins. the well known Wash
Ington correspondent. writing Of Sen
ator Carmack's speech upon the
Brownsville incident says:
Senator Carmack was never in bet
ter spirit and equipment for a great
speech than he was today. and the re-
suit was that those who heard him In
past brilliant performances In the Sen
ate were quick to admit that his re-
sources of intellectual combativeness
had been increased. instead of dimin-
ished, by any recent political discom-
future. His bold attacks upon Sena-
tors Foraker and TIlman, one a Re-
publican and the other a Democrat,
and questioning of their motives In
assailing the President, and the Ten
nessee Senator's own disclaimer of
anything but partisan interest In the
success of President Roosevelt in any
thing but doing the right thing, were
phrased in such far5ion as kept the
Senate and the galleries in a contin-
uous fervor of ser rational emotion.
The speech was hugely enjoyed. The
picturesque presentation of the Ohio
Senator as he appeared in the eyes of
the country. and especially of the
South, in the days when he wore the
soubriquet of Fire Alarm Foraker"
and whirled the blo~iy shirt, kept the
vast audience in a CONFUSION of
amusement In which the victim him.
self Joined as though he simply could
MT help it. Next most enjoyed was
the bestowal of attention upon the
Pitchfork from the Palmetto State, as
Commander-in-Ch of the Army Of
South Carolina, when he tok occasion
to dismiss a compa ~ of South Caro-
lima soldiers. He soon had Tillman's
face distorted and his body writhing
The colloquy between the two was so
palpably a complete rout for the for
midable terror from South Carolina
that he finally subsidized, and did not
recover his spirits until Carmack turn
ed his attention to the sufferings of
the Republican party under the incu-
bus of Rooseveltism, and declared that
its wretched alternative in it's bat
tie with Democracy would. in 1908, be
Nominate Roosevelt or give us back
our PLATFORM Only then did Tillman
recover his nearest resemblance to
good nature, his least semblance to
Mephistophelian leering and contempt.
1.-The audience, Senate and galleries
often laughed during the speech, and
at it's conclusion there was so much
applause the Vice President had to
warn against the demonstration. Sen
ators and Representatives, who had
come over, fiocked about the Tennes-
see Senator to shake hands in con-
graduation. Foraker and Tillman
walked OH together, Laughing, but ere
long the Ohio SEM tor joined in the
ovation to Carmack and put his arm
about him, with TillmAn, who was not
lacking in magnanmtty and seemed
to feel that he had been compensated
by Carmack's exposure of the hy-
pocrisy of the Republican party, which
caused the Senate who had been
laughing to drop doleful jaws.
"Carmack never made a greater
speech, nor one in be tied temper, new
er certainly one more brilliant. A
Democratic member of the House, as
he emerged from the chamber, wav-
ing his arms in enthusiasm, said:
"Carmack is simply Incompatible. :"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-01-18

Some of these big magazine editors
are humorous at times. In response
to this inquiry from an amateur
"what does poetry bring In New
York; one OF them replied:
1--WE have no regular prices. but "
you ship II in crates or carloads we
believe that you can realize ~ cents
pound for It."
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-01-18
wan, up.

'Is Mike Clancy here?" asked the
visitor at the quarry, Just after the
premature explosion.
mo sor." replied Costigan; hes
gone"
'For good?"
"well. sOr. he whit in that direc-
tIon. TIT Bits
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-01-18

ne Ia great who 10 what he 10 from
nature and who uevsr rsmlnds us Of
Vthers. Emerson.
New-York tribune., 1907-05-12
HOW IT is SPENT.

What does the good old dame Mrs Trim"
do with her income" This is another question
not easy To answer. Under her wing are eight
chapels-St. Paurs in Broadway. between Full
ton and Vesey streets; 81. Johns i'm Varick
street, above Beach. Trinity, in 25th street near
Broadway, St. Chrysostoms. in Seventh avenue
az "9th street; ST. Augustines, in Houston
street between the Bowery and Second avenue;
st. Cornelius's. on Governors Island: ST Ag-
ness. In 9lst and 92d streets near Columbus
avenue, and St Luke's, In Hudson street, oppo-
site Grove street Connected with the church
and the Chapels several church benevolent
and social organizations Schools plav a CON
siderable part in TrinityS activities Besides
the Sunday schools. there day and night
schools. ktndergartens and industrial and house
schools. Attached to each of the churches and
chapels is day school for Episcopalian chill
dren. Their chief differences from the city
public schools are that the grades are called
forms, IN the English manner. and the pupils
attend religious services every day and receive
religious instruction. In two of the schools the
students prepared for college These are
the school connected with the mother church
and the one attached TO Trinity Chapel in 25th
street near Broadway. From the latter school
pupils may enter most of the colleges without
having TO pass entrance examinations The
church maintains five scholarships in Trinity
Coilese. hartford Conn. which are awarded 10
those who make the best records in the schools
1t is the pride of the headmasters of these
schools that boy may receive an entire educa-
tion from the kindergarten to a collegiate de-
gree. without cost to himself except for his
living expenses while at college, These schools
are attended by students from ont az tbe ci+S
are maintained where free instruction is given
In English. mathematics. bookkeeping typewrit
ing, shorthand, etc. In the various parish
schools there are 20 teachers. 4I5 bows and I6O
girls The amount spent on them last wear wa y
S3i. 163 %. va was
The church also maintains a hospital for tb.
sick poor, spending S15.699 81 ON il last vear
More than two hundred patients were treated
az the hospital, which is at No 80 Variclx street
In the parish connected with the difrerant
chapels are I.2l1 communicates
The total expense of the work OF the nar,sh
last year was S152. 139 81. II one NAV fudga
rrom the hazy form OF the report I'm the vear
book, or this more than one-half was recaivad
from collections and contributions The vestr,,
appropriated from the funds OF the corp,ra ioI
Tor purposes outside the parish S31 500 p5
Trinity has been criticised i'm times naSt e..
alleged niggardliness in assisting other parisbes
out OF her great resources. DR.. Dix i'm his state
ment said that about $4,000 was contrihutaJ 10
otner churches and institutions outside the mar
lsn. ana added that the corporation had ont ;
standing loans made to churches bayond r.
I.inits oi the parish amounting to over S365 Coo
on which no interest y CHARGED. hssidss wh,os
New-York tribune., 1907-05-12
TRINITY'S INCOME.

What is Trinitys income? DR.. Dix, the rector.
in the latest OF the few statements which have
been made voluntarily regarding Trinity's &c
Ceipts, SAID: Many articles having from time TO
time appeared in the public prints regarding the
fabulous wealth of Trinity parish. we will state
that the annual income of the corporation last
year from all sources was less than Sif1OH
not including collections and contributions Ia
the churches" CThese latter all used for
church work Within and without the parisht-
The collections and contributions at the church
and eight Chapels amounted TO SSO.296 9S
The income from the producing property.
therefore. was - per cent. according To- Dr-
Dix'S statement. After deductinE Sl%I 00n, the
amount, according to the statement paid for
taxes and water rates. and Sl31.Wh. declared by
the same authority To have been spent for
pairs and insurance premiums. the net income
II one may assume that the SIIJOOO is the gross
income (Which is not Clear from the Teport foI
last year was SIl3NpO. a shade less than 81,
per cent In making ground leases, the
prevailing rate among real estate men appears
TO he per cent or the assessed valuation.
The Sailors Snug Harbov owns a plot Of about
twcnty-one acres of land bounded by Sth and
10th streets and Fourth and Fifth avenues. This
estate is leased sites for buildings in the
same manner as Trinlty's property IS leased.
Much smaller in area. its holdings produce
S4i3.3lb The most noteworthy building upon
II is the WanamCker store The Sailors Snug
Harbor makes an annual report to the Legis-
loture and the Board Of Aldermen IN which Il
tolls the state of its finances. Apparently it's
income Il trife under { per cent or the as
SeSSCu valuation OF It's holdings
New-York tribune., 1907-05-12
LOW PRICE OFFERED.

few years ago the trust offered only three
ana half cents a pound to the producer
The claim is made that tobacco cannot be
produced proftably for less than five cents a
pound. Even at that price the farmer
must send his wife and daughter. as well as his
boys, into the fields to do the laborious work
in order to make a profit. Eight or 10 cents is
declared TO be the fair price for tobacco, and
with laborers demanding increased pay. as they
now do, il is hardly possible to make the crop
profitable at these figures.
When the trust offered three and half cents
the farmers began to talk fight and to lay plans
foT retaliation The first definite step was taken
IN the fall of 1904. at Guthrie. Ky, when the
Dark Tobacco District Planters Protective As
ISOLATION was formed. The organization spread
into twenty-five counties in Kentucky and Ten
nessee. The plan was to pool all the tobacco
in the district TO have every farmer identify
himself with the organization and to make the
Dark Tobacco association the sale agent for the
entire district All the tobacco was TO be placed
In warehouses owned and controlled by the as
sociation, and there put through the various
courses necessary TO prepare It for the market
themselves to prepare their crop for market as
the association designated, to deliver it TO places
and persons named. and give the association full
and complete control of the crop
The effort 10 form trust OF the farmers might
have been successful had every tobacco pro-
ducer identified himself with the organization
But every producer of the weed did not do that
and the trouble started. In some counties the
percentage of men who enlisted with the or
ganzation was large, in others il was small
and the leaders could not break down the oppo-
sition easily they at first thought they
could. And In their efforts they had to fight the
agents of the trust. who always busy
pointing out the flaws in the plan
But the Dark District association leaders con-
tlnued to fight. and millions OF pounds Of to-
bacco were sent TO the association warehouses
10 be held until the market right! By TAX
ing this great quantity OF tobacco off the market
the demand was increased and the trusts price
went back TO = and 10 cents, and the indepen-
dent farmer. or the man who had not Joined the
association. Teaped the harvest
tion neighbor his crop still unsold in the
warehouse. He needed ready money, and could
not get IL
Meetings held in the county seats
throughout the district almost every week The
farmers urged 10 stand together They
we're told how they might come into their own:
how they. being the producers. had every right
10 control the price of tobacco and gather in the
riches that were going into the Golfers OF the
New-York tribune., 1907-05-12

and extended her territory to the present line
of Christopher street. The eastern boundary
for a portion of the distance was Macdougal
street. and for the remainder a diagonal line
cutting across lots TO the corner OF Hudson and
Christopher streets. Old Jans's farm is Trinity's
chief holding to-day for she has given away
or sold much Of the land below Canal street
Some Of it went 10 endow St Georges. Grace
ST. MiChaels. St Marks in the Bowery St
Stephens Zion and s.. James's churches and
the French church (du Saint Esprit. a con-
siderable portion Of land in the nefghborhood
Of Murray street and West Broadway was given
as an endowment to Kings College. now Colum-
bia University, condition that its presidents
should always he members Of the Church Of
England and that the Church liturgy should lie
read in the college mornings and evenings
Fifty years ago, when Trinity was investi-
gated by a committee of the State Senate II
was stated that originally the mother OF the
Protestant churches of New York owned = 06N
lots, OF which 31S had been given awav and
there were remaining 691 parcels. 1t was in
New-York tribune., 1907-05-12

proceedings. AS Triuity's policy is that OF re-
tanning her real estate holdings. one may by Sc
curing the assessments OF the parcels obtain a
fair idea Of TTintty's wealth. Worked out on
this basis, Trinity has income bearing real estate
worth Sl4,S6N, leo. The non-taxable property
which Is also non-income bearing exceeds in
value by several millions her taxable land. II
is approximately $2i.5O0.OOO. The value of the
Trinity estate, therefore. is approXma tely
S"",bbS. 100, The famous brown structure. whose
spirc, facing Wall street. has almost been sub
merged hE the surrounding buildings and the
green old cemetery surrounding Il. the
tax books at a valuation Of 81 GOO.UDO. more
than that OF the hundreds Of lots and painted
brCk houses IN old Greenwich Village. which
furnish her incoWe. OF this. the resting place OF
the dust of New York. former citizens is esti-
mated OF far greater value than the fame where
spiritual quickening for the living il offered
Tn" building OF stone and glass Is assessed at
only Sllj,olo, while the site and the churchyard
are put Gown at SlT,iSJ.OOo. St. PauTs Gene
terry IS declared by the tax assessors to he worth
SL3"nWh, while the historic old structure. once
New-York tribune., 1907-05-12
A LARGE ESTATE.

The estate with which Trinity was endo"eA
by good Queen Anne. TWO hundred ana TWO years
ago extended along the shores OF. the Hudson
,piver from Fulton street 10 a point just above
,,ha+ is NOW Canal street Il included all the
land on the west side of what is now Broadway
as far north as Chambers street From that
point the line swung 10 the westward around
t,,e sv-an1p which once lay between Warren ana
canal streets west of Broadway, and then pack
again so that it took in that portion OF NaIick
street south of Canal street Ihe norlheily me
: . ,1,e fe,-,,1 that has been an object of much
envy was diagonal one running parallel TO
and inst north of what is now Canal street, from
W. "etrsp6, of the Hudson which bounded the
< farm on the west, lay where Washington street
: now extends its busy surface The farm To the
: ,nortl, of Annette Jans's farm. known as ''Old
: Janss farm came into the possession OF Trinity
New-York tribune., 1907-05-12
Anarchistic Conditions Prevail
ing in the Dark Tobacco
Belt of Kentucky.

r.vanevil1e Ind May 1O-A fght against the
y Tobacco Trust so wild that it has degeneTated
70 the point OF anarchy is sweeping over the
rreat dark tobacco belt of Kentucky and Ten
nessee.
Millions Of dollars worth Of tobacco and build
.ngs have been destroyed by fire. Millions Of
dollars worth OF tobacco in the form Of the
tender plant, still too young for transplanting
sn the fields has been ruined by marauders and
might riders
Unchecked the work of destruction goes on.
Hardly day passes that some farmer does not
ride into town TO tell of his plant beds being
destroyed. Few weeks passed in the winter
without some barn or warehouse loaded to the
caves with tobacco being destroyed by fire or
blown up with dynamite.
The belt is in the hands Of the might riders -
The members of this gang are unidentified.
Their object is to destroy the man who will not
Join with them in fighting the trust.
When the fight started the sole object was to
control the production OF tobacco and maintain
equitable price. Now the whole matter has
become complicated until almost every form Of
business is affected. Many men have been
financially ruined. Many others will land in
prison If the courts are successful in the prose-
cutions which contemplated. but the power Of
the farmers in this case is so great it is proba-
bic the wheels Of justice will be clogged
everywhere business is more less
lyze9. The district depends upon the tobacco
market for it's money and prosperity. Men are
afraid 20 telk or take any outward stand against
either the trust the farmers, because they
cannot teli where t:eir neighbors stand The
district is I'm the hands OF angry men, who be-
heve their rights are being crushed and trampled
upon hy the rich and powerful trusts, and who
proceed upon the principle that the end justifies
the means.
The blame for the disturbance which has par
alyzed what is probably the richest tobacco pro-
aucing region in the world is laid at the door Of
tie Tobacco Trust IN its various forms - is
charged with forcing the price OF tobacco down
20 SUCH low figure that The who had de-
pended upon his crop for the maintenance of
himself and family simply faced ruin.
To IND the seat Of the trouble one must 20 back
ten years. when the rule OF the Tobacco Trust
first began 10 be felt. To begin with. the dark
tobacco district Of Kentucky and Tennessee
supplies nearly all. IL not all. the tobacco used
IN England and Italy. The dark or heavy weed
is used in those countries as the basis for the
trade supply. The dark district embraces all the
southern counties Of Kentucky and the ones just