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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-21
"BEEF STEAK JOHN
HOW CAPT. JOHN SMITHS AT
TACHMENT TO STAKE"
CAME NEAR COSTING
HIM HIS LIFE.
(Simeon Ford at Baltimore Hotel
Mems Convention.)

(Simeon Ford at Baltimore Hotel
Mems Convention.)
Speaking of food, l see your Nor
folk friends are having a celebration
in honor of a stake" party partici-
pated Ia by Captain John Smith and
one Pocahontas.
Three hundred years ago last week
Captain John nearly lost his life
through being too firmly attached to
stake. From that time on he was
known as Beef Steak john" John,
having gone up against the crafty
red man and coming out second best,
was tied to a stake, newspapers and
kindling were piled about him, and
kerosene poured theron. Old Pow
haitian struck a safety match on his
deerskin jeans and touched Smith off.
At that moment Pocahontas bounded
on the scene with a ravishing smile
and a Babcock fire extinguisher.
John was greatly put out at the in
terruption, but seeing that Pocohon-
tas was perfect lady, he remarked
with true southern chivalry, Madam,
if music be the food of love, play on"
So she played the fire extingusher on
him.
And then the Indian maiden, with
the devotion of the opposite sex ever
characteristic of maiden with Indian
blood in them, flung herself at her
fathers feet and said: pop, be care
full not to SINCE that milk-fed broiler
from over the big water. Let me
have him and marry him, and I'll see
that he gets what's coming to him in
the way of roasting and basting.'
And SO the fond parent, dashing
away a tear. united Smith from the
stake and tied him to the female
maiden, and they lived happily ever
after. in evidence of which | point
with the pride to the Smith family
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-21
A FEAST OF
MANY NATIONS
MARYLAND CHICKEN FIGURES IN
ODD cAsTRoNoMic FEAT.


Aondon Cable Dispatch in New York
Sum-
A rather curious bet between an
EngIishman and an. American has just
been made public. 1t was won last
week by the former. The English
man made wager that he would give
in London seven dinners, typical OF
seven different countries, on as many
nights.
The continuous feed began with a
real English meal, with turtle soup
meat roasted before fire and good
English cheese. On the next night a
French dinner in true Partisan style
was given, and this was followed by
a German repast, with kalbsbraten
and Kaiserschmorren.
Then an Italian dinner was gwen
with minestrone, frito and mlsto ana
A Russian dinner, pre-
coded by zakouska and followed by
sturgeon, took place on the next night,
and then real old-fashioned Ameri-
can dinner of okra soup, Maryland
chicken, stuffed peppers and sweet
corn. Finally, as wind-up OF the
week of fine confused feeding, an
Indian dinner was partaken OF, Win
shirwa. several curries and withaw
Both men survived the ordeal, and
the American gladly paid up for what
he called an experience.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-21
MORE INDIANS
ARE AT WORK
INCREASE IN NUMBER OF RED
MEN WHO LABOR.

Spring on the Pine Ridge Indian
reservation this year means great &C
tiyity among it's Indian residents,
numbering now about 1000 in all,
says the Deadwood correspondence
of the st. Paul Dispatch. Much OF
the seasons work is well under way,
and crops of corn, oats and potatoes,
in addition to the garden truck, will
be raised. While the land is essen
TALLY stock raising land, not being
well adapted to farming on account
of the dryness, yet more interest is
being taken yearly in the matter OF
farming, and this year will see prob
ably one-third more land under actual
cultivation.
The Indians are also giving intelli-
gent attention to the question of stock
raising. So far their stock consists
chiefly of cattle and horses, but 1t Is
noticeable that the latter are improV-
ing much inP quality. Instead OF the
tough little Indian ponies, inferior IN
all other respects, the Indians are
now buying good class of horses.
Many of the Indians are engaged in
the business of freighting from the
railroad at Gordon to the reservation,
and often as many as thirty or forty
teams may be passed on the road win
supplies for the agency, and driven
by Indian owners. For this class OF
work excellent horses are employed
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-21
CITY MANS IDEA
ABOUT COWS
HE THOUGHT "SMALL ONE"
ABOUT RIGHT FOR HIS
FAMILY.

A Washington man, wishing to take
his family into the country for the
summer, says the Philadelphia Led
ger. crossed over to the Virginia side
of the Potomac to look at small farm
with a view to renting it. Everything
was to his liking, and negotiations
were about to be completed when the
question of hiring also the farmers
COW came up. II was an excellent
COW. the farmer declared, and even
after feeding her she would give six
quarts of milk a day.
six quarts a day!@ exclaimed the
Washington man. THAT is more than
my whole family could use"
Then, suddenly observing the cali
following its mother about the pas
lure, he added:
'I'n tell you what I'll do! III hire
the small COW. She's just about our
size"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-21
NOVEL CONTEST
FOR A WIFE.
(Easton, Nd, Dispatch to the Phila'
delphia Inquirer.)

(EaStOn, Nd, DlSpatcn TO the FnlIa
delphia Inquirer.)
William A. Kirby, of Trappe, has
been building a fine residence, and
has decided upon a novel method OF
providing a mistress for it. When il
is finished he is to give big house
warming, which has been arranged
for the Fourth of July.
On this occasion, it is said at the
suggestion of the girls themselves, he
will invite all the young women OF
Trappe to enjoy his hospitality, and
the one who behaves the best and
proves the most charming is to be
his bride.
The builders and decorators have
for the glorious day, the neighbors
works. Mr.. Kirby will supply the re-
freshments and entertainment, and
as all the girls of Trappe are among
the pretties in Maryland, there prom
ises to be very lively contest for
husband and home.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-21
ROOTS LETTER
TO BAPTISTS
SECRETARY DECLINES TO SEND
CONGRATULATIONS TO
FRANCE.

Secretary OF State Root has written
70 the Philadelphia conference of Bap.
fist ministers that he cannot comply
with their request to send to the
French government the conferences
resolutions commencing that govern
ment for its attitude toward the Va
tican.
Secretary Roots letter TO the Rev.
Orlando. T. Steward, secretary of the
conference. was read at a meeting of
the ministers. In part u is as fol-
lows:
This department could not comply
with your request with property or
without an infraction of the etiquette
that prevails among nations to re-
frain from any action that might be
considered as expressing either ap-
prevail or disapproval of a matter of
purely domestic concern. For the
same reason the department has re-
fused a request from organizations
in the United States to submit to
the French government protests
against it's action"
Following a discussion upon the adj
visibility of sending the resolutions
to the French ambassador to forward
to his government, the Rev. DR.. Way
land Hoyt declared that the confer
ence had no right to interfere with
the domestic affairs of another coun-
try, and on his motion the resolu-
lions were laid on the table
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-21
CHOCOLATE
AND COCOA
GAINING ON COFFEE AND TEA IN
RACE FOR NATIONAL
FAVOR.
(From What to Eat.)

(FrOm what to Eal.)
Chocolate and cocoa are not likely
to GUST coffee and tea in the national
affections, but they are pushing hard
We are spending million dollars
month for cocoa, which is the raw
product from which both coacoa and
chocolate are obtained.
During the last ten years our i'm
portations of cocoas have increased
200 per cent, while those of coffee
have increased only SO per cent. and
those of tea have increased IA per
cent. At the present time cocoa is
Gaining on it's rivals at more rapid
rate than ever before.
Most of the cocoa consumed IN
America comes from Brazil, the Brit
ism West Indies and the West Indian
islands.
1t is during the last three years
that the increase in cocoa importa-
lions has been most marked. Manu-
facturers have been forced to make
addition after addition to the ca
pacity of their plants, TO increase
their working forces to enormous pro-
portions. and still it has been almost
impossible for them to fill all orders
on time.
Importers of raw products from the
tropics are doing the mosta rusnlng
business of their lives, and importers
OF prepared coceas from Europe must
get busy to keep from being trampled
under foot by American enterprise in
feeding the chocolate tooth" Uncle
Sam has cut.
The cocoa bean possesses more
nitrogen than wheat -four and about
twenty times as much fatty matter
as wheat -four. One-half Of the weight
of cocoa is cocoa butter and one-third
starch.
In Central America cocoa consti'
tutes the principal ration employed
by river expeditions in South Amer
lea cocoa and maize cakes, compris'
ing large amount of nourishment in
very small bulk. are used as food for
travellers on long overland trips; a
case is recorded OF man who at
tanned the age of hundred years
who ate nothing but chocolate and
biscuit for thirty years.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-21
CHINA is FULLY.
APPRECIATIVE
UNITED STATES COURSE RELA-
TIVE TO INDEMNITY.-Is
LIBERAL M THE
EXTREME.
Reimbursement for Actual Expenses
Incurred in the Boxer Campaign All
That Will Be Required, II President
RooseVelt's Plans Are Carried Out.

BOSTON, June 1S.-Sir Chentung
LANG Cheng, the retiring Chinese
Minister to the United States, who is
in this city, made the following state
ment to the Associated Press:
Il shall make public today the con-
tents of an official note which | re-
ceived from Secretary Root last Sat
urday night, which shows the remark
ably high sense of justice which the
United States has used in all her deal
ings with China. You remember that
after the Boxer trouble, China agreed
to pay an indemnity of $24,440,77S.Sl
on account of the losses entailed by
United States, as well as for personal
property lost by her citizens during
the Boxer campaign. Four years ago
your government was good enough to
promise me that when the time ar
rived, as a token of sincere friendship
for China, the original figures of the
indemnity would be revised.
True to the promise of the execu-
tive officers received note from Mr..
Root last Saturday saying that the
President directed him to say in his
next message to Congress he would be
pleased to recommend that China be
relieved of all obligation in excess or
final revised amount of the indemnity,
which had been set at $11, COB, 1889.
That, as you can see, will save CHINA
over $12,O0O,0O0, and also an interest
at per cent This final action is an
other monument to Americas high
sense of justice, and | feel called upon
to say-not because ! am a retiring
Ambassador-th personally feel
that America is one of China's strong
est friends"
WASHINGTON, June 18.-The
State Department fully confirms the
statement of the Chinese Minister
that it is the intention of the Presi-
dent to release from the payment OF
all but the actual expenses to which
the United States was put by the
Boxer uprising of 1900, provided that
Congress shall give it's consent. The
fact that the indemnity is being col
lected under the terms of treaty
makes it impossible for the President
to act alone in this matter. But upon
the reassembling of Congress next
winter the President, in his annual
message. will recall the facts con-
nected with the assessment of the in
demnity. and will suggest that the
payment of more than the amount ac-
tually expended be RENTED.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-21
FLATLY REFUSE
TO QUIT OFFICE
PROGRAMME or ALL APPoINTEEs
OF ScHMITz At SAN
FRANCISCO.

SAN FRANCISCO. June l9.-Judge
Lawlor today. on request Of Attorney
Drew. signed an order permitting Eu'
gene Schmitz to leave the County jail
for consultation With his attorneys.
The order is identical with the one
issued yesterday.
Not only will Schmitz resist all ef-
fort to transfer the reins OF govern
ment to acting Mayor Gallagher. but,
according to his attorneys. all of the
Schmitz appointees will fatty refuse
to relinquish ONCE when their resig-
nations are called for.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-21
CAlRO'S CURSE
OF BLINDNESS

Harriet Quinby in Leslie's WeeklyD
The first thing that impresses the
stranger in Cairo is the number OF,
blind-men, women and children-tO
be found everywhere in the shops and
on the streets Ophthalmia is very
prevalent throughout Egypt Because
of superstition concerning the evil
eye." the native mothers of the middle
or the lower class do not wash the
ewes of their babies at all. Watching
the flies buzzling unheeded around
and upon these blind children, a
stranger hastens to buy a hyWnlst.
These are for sale everywhere, ana
are quite attractive with their orna-,
ments of fancy beads and palm-leat
fibre. Blind beggars greet one at
every corner. Even in the high-class
Egyptian families there are many
blind. The lower classes of Egyptians
are given much to hasheesh-that u.s.
the lower classes in the large cities
and. although it is against the law to
sell it. one will have the hasheesh
places pointed out, and the men VINO
smoke the drug are seen everywhere
They are distinguished by the peculiar
appearance of their eyes, which be-
come red swollen, and laggy UNDER
meath, and by the peculiar color OF the
skin, which resembles somewhat the
skin of a Chinese opfum-smoker
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-21
AMDUSHED AND
SHOT A NEGRO
.ENRY TUNeETT. GILES COUNTY
YOUTH, MAY HAVE TO AN
SWER MURDER CHARGE.

LYNNVILLE, Tenn, June 10
Henry Tungett, the young man who
shot and probably fatally wounded
Alex Alexander, a negro, on Squire
Luther bubbles farm at Yokely yes
terday afternoon, was given a pre-
liminary trial this morning before
Squire ]. C. Hannah. He waived ex-
animation and was bound over in
81 900, in default Of which he was
remanded to jail.
From the best information obtain
able II seems that Tungett, who works
for Squire Hubble, and the negro, who
is cropper on the same farm, had had
a previous difficulty. Tungett Dor
rowed a shotgun, saying he wanted to
kill a hawk, and returned and secreted
himself in a thicket by which the
negro, who was blowing passed. He
fired one shot and the negro started
to run, but fell from the second shot,
both of which took effect in his shout
der and neck. j. N. Colvert, who re-
sided near by, heard the shots and
seeing the negro fall ran TO the scene.
The wounded man was speeches. and
in a dying condition. Tungett made
no effort to get away. He is about
10 years of age and resident OF the
Yokley community. At last accounts
the negro was alive but the physicians
say he will die.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-21
NEW WAY OF
POOLING A WIFE
HINT FOR MEN WHO STAY OUT
LATE o'NlGHTS.

The hands of the clock were mark
ing the hour of twelve, midnight, says
an exchange. She had been waiting
two hours for him. Her anger, from
gentle simmering, gradually in
creased in temperature until the boil
ing point was reached. She was
ready for him, and as he entered the
room she opened her mouth to pour
out the accumulated contents of the
reservoir of her wrath. But before
she could get out word, he said:
Look here, lovey, dye think mar
riage is lottery?"
She was so taken back that she
could only murmur that she didn't
know.
1T amt" he said. The other fell
lows at the club have been arguing
that it is-that's why I'm late. But
I said: How can marriage be lot
terry when q fellow has only to look
around him to pick out the first prize
same as ! did? No lottery about
that"
She brought him his slippers, and
FIVE minutes later she was opening a
box of sardines for him with his best
razor
And Robinson winked solemnly at
the canary. and enlarged inwardly on
tho virtues Of the soap which Is SOFT.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-21
LARGE DIVVY BY
ADAMS EXPRESS
STOCKHOLDERS JU6lLANT OVER
BIG PLOT OPENED FOR
THEIR BENEFIT.

NEW YORK, June 19.-The Adams
Express Company cut a 24.O00. 600
ma ION for its stockholders yesterday
The news was not announced until
sfter ene business day in Wall street
had ended, but the cutting will proba.
bly do something tomorrow in the way
n, knocking holes in the funeral pail
which has overhung the field for
months. Once before, in 1898, the
Adams Express Company cut a huge
melon for it's stockholders. That was
a s12.OOO,OOO melon, just half the size
OF the one handed out today
The $4,000 melon amounts to a
200 per cent dividend distribution on
the stock. The capital of the COM
many consist of 10000 shares, which
are generally quoted at a par value
of 500. Adams Express is joint
stock association, which was formed
in 1854. On a basis of 100 the $780,
600 shares have par value Of $780,,
100000, but the stock has market
value of $500 a share, or a total Of
100000
The $24,OOO,O0O melon will be dis
tributed in the form of collateral trust
4 per cent. bonds, just as the $4,000
600 was distributed nine years ago.
For each share of stock a shareholder
will get 5000 in bonds.
Announcement of the melon cutting
was made by Levi c. Weir, president
of Adams Express Company, in cir
cular addressed to the stockholders.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-21
CLOCK ACTS A
DETECTIVE

According to a contemporary, says
the Enquirer, labor detevtion clock
is in use in some American factories.
It has three hands, and is attached to
the machine tool at which a work
man is engaged. One hand tells ex-
actly when the machine was set go 9
or stopped, another indicates %
speed at which the machine run 4
the third shows whether the to- >
been cutting, or whether the VIC K n
has allowed the machine TO run N.Y.
out doing work.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-21
YAGRANT LAW, SAYS
HIGGINS, IS ALL RIGHT

FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn, June Is
Judge Joseph c. Higgins holds that
the vagrant law enacted by the recent
legislature is constitutional and IN
sists that it be enforced within the
bounds OF his judicial circuit. Other
judges, he said, had declared 1t I'M
constitutional but he is among the
number who hold that it is constltu-
tional
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-21
TO BE SOLD
FOR DIVISION.

Tract OF land known as the 1. "
Walker place, on the Hampshire pike
four miles from Columbia, consisting
OF 240 acres, more or less. VIII DC
sold AS whole, or in lots. For fur'
Their information address r. @. WALK
Err, Agt, Columbia, r. r. NO q; OF
call Citizens phone 1888 rings
w&sat-may 17-2mos
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-21
BRICKS MADE OF FLOUR.
From the Baltimore SUM-

From the Baltimore SUM-
In England much interest has been
shown of late by the army and navy
authorities in a new method OF pre-
serving -four by means of compress
sion. With hydraulic pressure appa
ratus the -four is squeezed into the
form Of bricks, and experiments are
reported to have shown that the pres
sure destroys all forms of larva life
thus preserving the -four from the raw
ages of insects, while it is equally Sc,
cure from mold. Three hundred
mounds of the compressed occupy the
same space as 100 pounds OF nour ~
the ordinary state.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
lFrnm New York Press.l

(From New York Press)
There are those you like and those
Won don't speak to by marriage.
It is better to be sorry that you
didn't marry a girl than that you did
Nobody could have much fun II
there weren't laws, rules and regula'
lions against It.
The easiest way to have man get
the best OF you is to think you are
smarter than he is.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-21
HOW ABOUT SOUTH ccARoLINAa

"They are criticising GOV Ham
Patterson, of Tennessee. for issuing
too many pardons, but there are PROB
ably more people in need of pardons
in Tennessee than elsewhere, says
the Charleston News and Courier
Are we TO believe that South Carolina
has been left off the map?-Chatta-
nooga Star.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-21
And Yet He Is Happy.
neslie's WeekIy.O

Sometimes | think have more
troubles than any other man on
earth"
"Nonsense!" Look at Thompson.
He's got wife, an automobile, ana a
sure system for beating the races
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-07-06
COSMETIC BATHS OF 1880
Years Ago Women Sought Aids to
Beauty as They Are Reputed to
Do To-Day.

The following rules for cosmetic
baths may be Of interest to-day
they are taken from a ladies maya
zine published in Boston rs years
ago:
An aromatic bath-Take one or
more of the following aromatic
herbs: Balm, sweet basil, marior-
am, hysson, lavender, mint, Or any
other herl, that hos an agreeable
scent; boil in a saiicient quantity
of rain or river water for the space
Of three or four minutes; strain off
the liquor, and add to it a little
brandy or camphorated spirits of
wine. This is said to be an excel
lent bath to strengthen the limbs
it removes pain, the consequence
of cold, and promotes perspiration.
A cosmetic bath-Take two
pounds Of barley or meal, eight
pounds of bran and a few handfuls
of borage leaves. Boil these ingre-
dents in a sufficient quantity Of
oring water. This both cleanses
ld softens the skin in a superior
tegree.
An emollient bath for the feet
Pol in a sufficient quantity Of wa
ter a pound Of bran, with a few
marsh-mallow roots, and two or
three handfuls of mallow leaves.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-07-06

person coulu get rlcn garnerlng seY
weed. On the face, such an indus-
try would seem as proftless as the
extraction of gold from sea water.
Yet the income of Japan for sea-
weed each year amounts to 2,000,-
900.
Entire towns upon the coast Of
Japan are devoted to this queer in
dustry. Recently the government
took up the cultivation of sea
grasses, offering prizes for the best
method of increasing the yield and
for producing iodine from sea
plants.
The coarser varieties of sea grass
are stewed in soups; other kinds are
used in the manufacture of glue,
plaster and starch.
Farmers living near the coast use
the coarse, ropy kelp for fertiliz-
ing their land, with good results.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-07-06
0EfS4-RaaB d87ElsqsEs7N


gain access to the sacred precincts.
Then when harvest time arrives
the gatherers must not eat fish Zone
of the staple articles of food) for
fear their breath might contaminate
the aroma of the precious leaves.
They must battle at least three times
a day, besides wearing gloves. Apro-
pos of this fine tea, there is a true
story of a wealthy San Francisco
lady who was in China, and one of
the court officials, wishing to do her
great honor, promised to send her a
casket Of some extraordinary tea.
In due time an exquisitely packed
box arrived containing tea. She
babe many Of her society friends to
a series Of afternoons" at which
this tea was served, its delicious
qualities expatiated upon and all
seemingly enjoyed the beverage.
AT the end Of the season when the
casket was almost empty she found
a very small beautifully decorated
box, which on opening contained
the priceless tea.
What she had used was the dried
tea leaves that had been used prob
ably time and again by coolies. 1t
seems that rare and costly tea is
packed in tea to preserve the aroma
and flavor. 1t was such a rich joke
that the hostess told the story, and
the old society set in San Fran.
cisco had a good laugh.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-07-06

Miss McFlimsy-Papa, l must have
$500 at once; l have positively nothing
to wear.
Mr.. McFlimsy-Does your mother
know you're out?