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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05
CAMPHOR FARM
ING In TEXAS
NEW SOURCE or SUPPLY IN
PRODUCT NOW CONTROLLED
BY THE JAPANESE.

Camphor farms are the latest addi
ton to the resources Of the Lone Star
State So far there are only TWO. both
OF which are operated by the gov
eminent. but Texans confidently ex-
pect their state to become one of the
great camphor producing regions OF
the world.
Practically the entire supply of
camphor now comes from Formosa.
The demand has increased to such an
extent that the attention of all the
leading countries of the world has
been directed to opening up a new
source of supply. This is made neces-
sary by the fact that in the manufae-
ture of modern explosives which are
used in high power guns camphor
forms an important ingredient.
Now that the Japanese government
controls the worlds supply of the
product, it is by no means certain
that it may be obtained in the desir-
ed quantities at all times in the fu-
ture. In order to provide against any
such contingency as this the growth
of the camphor shrub is being encour-
aged in Texas.
The camphor experiment farm at
Wharton was established nearly al
year ago The shrubs have thrived
we'll, and they are now as
high as a mans head.
The process in operation in For
nosa for extracting the camphor is to
chop the trees down and cut them in
20 small pieces from which the cam
)hor is then distilled. DR.. Watkins |
will adopt different method in |
Texas.
He sows the camphor seeds like
wheat or oats and the shrubs quickly
prouts. When it has attained
Ieight of about three feet it will be
ut down by moving machine at
eight of about one foot froM the
round. The several portions will be
ut through the distilling process and
he camphor extracted.
From the tender stubble other
boots will spring up, and the cutting
recess can be repeated once a year
)r several years 1t is asserted that
better quality of camphor can be OBJ
lined by this method than by the an
ent process that is in use in For I
losa. The crop requires no atten-
on except the sowing and harvesting.
1t is claimed by DR.. Watkins that a
rye portion of Southwest Texas is
,ecially adapted to successful cam 4
Tor growing. At present prices one
re of camphor would yield a profit
about $3.50. 1t is expected, how E
Ter, that when it's cultivation be-
mes general in Texas there will be Il
drop in prices.-Southwest.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05
Land Sale
z r. Choate
vs.

Richard. Baugh. e. d.
In the Chancery Court. az C5.u,,f.
Tennessee.
Pursuant to a decree ente-a+ 81.
above styled cause az the AprsI Ta--
1907 on minutes at page $50. I vir =
Saturday, the 18th day Of August ion,
at II O'Clock noon, at the Court Hons,
door in Columbia. Tennessee. 81, !.
highest bidder, the land describes :
said decree bounded and deScriba5
follows, to-wit: A tract of about !;
acres in the End Civil Districr :.
Maury County. Tennessee and in tbs
suburbs of Theta, Tennessee. brsns
ed as follows: On the M ~
by 2. r. Choate; on the eas,
by R. Choate and Dan Goodloa.
on the south by the Theta road an5
Robert Jameson: on the west bv I'm,
ma Norwood and Anderson Pointer
Terms.-Said sale will be made an
a credit of ~ and "a months. excen,
the sum of one third, which will Ia
required in Cash on day of Sale. Sals
free from the equity Of redemption
Notes bearing interest from date .,
sale with good personal security wifi
be required Of the purchaser, and lien
retained to secure the payment of tia
purchase money.
This, the 14th day of June. 1907.
14-4t A, n. AKIN, c & NJ.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05
u the interminable hours.

or the interminable hours.
Our eyes can in another's eyes reaS
clear.
When our world-deafen'd ear
Is by the tones OF a loved voics
caress'd-
A bolt is shot back somewhere in our
breast.
And a lost pulse Of feeling stirs again
The eye sinks inward, and the hear;
lies plain.
And what we mean, we say, and what
We would. We know.
A man becomes aware of his Ife's
flow,
And hears its winding murmer; and
he sees
The meadows where it glides, the sun.
the breeze.
And there arrives a lull in the hot race
Wherein he doth forever chase
That flying and elusive shadow, rest
An air OF GOODNESS plays upon his face,
And an unwonted calm pervades his
breast.
And then he thinks he knows
The hills where his life rose
And the sea where it goes.
From THE Buried Life
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05
INDIREcTIoN.

Fair are the flowers and the children
but their subtle suggestion 4
fairer:
Rare is the rose-burst of dawn, but tn,
secret that clasps it is rarer:
Sweet is the exultance of song, but the
strain that precedes it is sweeter-
And never was poem yet writ, but the
meaning administered the meter.
Never a daisy that grows. but a mys
terry guideth the growing;
Never river that flows. but a majesty
scepters the flowing;
Never a Shakespeare that scared, but
a stronger than he did enfold
him
And never prophet foretells, but a
mightier seer foretold him.
Back of the canvas that throbs, the
painter is limited and hidden;
Into the statute that breathes, the soul
of the sculptor is hidden;
Under the joy that is felt lie the in
finite tissues of feeling
Growing the glory revealed, is the
glory that crowns the revealing.
Great are the symbols of being, but
that which is symboled is greater;
FAST the create and beheld, but vaster
the inward creator;
Back of the sound broods the silence,
back of the gift stands the giving;
Back of the hand that receives thrill
the sensitive nerves of receiving. !
pace is as nothing to spirit, the deed
is outdone by the doing;
he heart of the wooer is warm, but !
warmer the heart of the wooing,
nd up from the pits where these
SILVER, and up from the heights
where those shine,
win voices and shadows swim star
ward, and the essence of life is de-
vine. Richard Realf
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05
CHOICE BITS
OF THOUGHT

Light flows our war OF hooking words.
and yet.
Behold. with tears mine eyes are wet!
1 feel a nameless sadness DER me roll.
Yes. yes, We know that We can jest,
We know, We know that we can smile!
But there's a something in this breast,
To which thy light words bring no
rest.
And thy gay smiles no anOdyne.
Give me thy hand, and hush awhile,
And turn those limpid eyes on mine.
And let me read there. love! thy in
most soul
From THE Buried Life"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05
OPINIONS OF OTHERS
it's Different Now.

In the days of President Grant
much disagreeable comment was
heard because he used government
dispatch boat to make a vacation run
down the Potomac. Today nearly
every member of the cabinet uses the
nations ships whenever he pleases.
The whereabouts of Secretary Metcalf,
for instance, had not been known for
several days, although he was away
on "junket" abroad the Dolphin
the very vessel, by the way, that poor
old John Roach built and Secretary
Robson was accused of "permitting"
President Grant to use on one or two
occasions!-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05
Just a Precaution.

In a small village in the south of
Scotland an elder in the parish church
was one day reproving an old woman
who was rather the worst for liquor
by saying Sarah, don't you know
that YOU should fly from the tempter?"
Sarah mot too well pleased)-Flae
yersel'i Elder-Oh, Sarah, have
flown! Sarah-Aweel, think ye'll be
name the waur o. anither futter!
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05
THE CAREFUL euEssER.

One man in 20S is over six feet.
One in 100 women carries life in
surance.
One man succeeds In business t
eight who go bankrupt.
There is one sudden death amone
women TO eight among men.
One cold is taken out of doors
where nine are taken indoors.
One In each 1000 couples lives ia
celebrate the golden wedding.-Phil
adelphia Bulletin.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05
Land Sale
j. D. Hood,

Matte Hood, et al.
In the Chancery Court, at Columbia,
Tennessee.
Pursuant to a decree entered in
above styled cause at the April Term,
1907 on minutes at page 675, will on
Saturday, the 18th day of August 1907
at IL o'clock noon, at the Court House
door in Columbia, Tennessee, sell TO
highest bidder, the land described in
said decree bounded and described as
follows, to-wit: Lying and being in
the old 10th. now Sth Civil District OF
Maury County, Tennessee, and bound
ed as follows. Beginning at stake
in Parsons line and running with
Parsons and Linck's line south ~
degrees, 5 minutes; east 25 9O,loO
chains to stone in Linck's line from
which south 81 degrees east 10 links
stands an elm pointer; thence with
public road to Mrs. Anderson's line
then with her line to the beginning.
And from stake at Rocky branch
running with Harlan line south Y de-
gree, west 40-100 chains to a stake
in Mrs. Anderson's line: thence win
her line to public road to beginning
containing SO acres, more or less.
See deed recorded in Book 1O5 Vol
page 160 r. o. M. C.
Terms.-Said sale will be made on
a credit of 6, IL and is months. Notes
bearing interest from date of sale
with good personal security will be
required of the purchaser, and lien
retained to secure the payment of the
purchase money.
This, the 18th day of June, 1907
l4-4t A. n. AKIN, C & NJ,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05
Land Sale
Mann Dawson,
VS..
Sadie Cox, ct. al,


Sadie Cox, ct al.
In the Chancery Court at Columbia
Tennessee.
Pursuant to a decree entered in
above styled cause at the April Term
1907 on minutes at page 642, will on
Saturday, the 18th day Of August 1907
at IL o'clock noon, at the Court House
door in Columbia, Tennessee, sell to
highest bidder, the land described ia
said decree bounded and described as
follows, to-wit: Lying and being in
the old 18th, now 10th Civil District
of Maury County, Tennessee and be-
by Mary Cox, wife of w. j. Cox to
Dorcus E. Cox, wife of Jacob Cox as
shown by deed in r. o. M. c. in Book
@, page - and confirmed also BY
deed of W. J. Cox to Jacob Cox and
Dorcus E. Cox, recorded in R. o. NJ.
c. Book x, page 528, to both OF which
papers reference Is here made, being
more particularly described as fol-
lows: Beginning at a sassafras, the
northeast corner of zoo acre occu.
pant entry in the name of Thos
MAICuSll, HOItH 40 TuuHluB SOutH
with the same 33 poles to W. j.
Mitchell's corner; thence east with
his line SO poles to a stake with red
oak and hickory pointers; thence
west with Craig's line $50 poles to a
red oak bush, his corner; thence west
40 poles to his corner; thence north
IL poles to stake in Woods line,
west 8214 poles to a stake by white
oak in his line; thence along the top
of a ridge south Az degrees, east Al
poles to sassafras; thence south 80
degrees, west 20 poles to an oak;
thence 8 degrees west, so poles to
hickory with black oak pointer;
thence with ]. T. Mitchell entry east
lO2 poles to the beginning, containing
LOG acres.
Terms.-Said sale will be made on
a credit of 6 and IL months Sale
free from the equity of redemption
Notes bearing interest from date Of
sale with good personal security will
De required of the purchaser, and lien
'etained to secure the payment of the
purchase money.
This, the 14th day of June, 1907
14-4t A. N. AKIN, C & M,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05
THE BLESSINGS OF TODAY.

! TIE bLESoiN6S OF lODAI.
II we knew the woe and heartache,
Waiting for us down the road;
If our lips could taste the NORWOOD
If our backs could feel the load,
Mould we waste today in wishing
For a time that ne'er can be,
Would we wait in such impatience
For our ships to come from sea?
Strange we never prize the music
Till the sweet voiced bird has flown
Strange that we should slight the vic
lets
Till the lovely flowers are gone,
Strange that summer skies and sun
shine
Never seem one-half so fair
AS when winters snowy pinions,
make their white down in the air!
Let Us gather up the sunbeams
Lying all along our paths;
Let us keep the wheat and roses,
Casting out the thorns and chaff;
Let us find out sweetest comfort
In the blessings of today.
With the patient hand removing
AL tho hrier- from ou' way
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05
Excessive Express CHARGES.

One express company announces
dividend of 200 per cent. another no
long ago "cut a melon" and a thirC
has an enormous surplus for which
the minority stockholders are clamor
ing These facts indicate that the
people pay entirely too much for car
rying packages by express. The rates
could be lowered considerably and
still leave great profits of the stock.
holdres. Every effort in this direction
has met with failure, for the great
express companies are in a sort of
agreement which prevents competi-
ton, while the railways stand in with
them, and it is generally believed that
railway managers have large financial
interests in these corporations.-Phil-
adelphia Inquirer.
The Japanese Influx.
Viewed from the economic side, the
Japanese immigration would not
alarm the country, although it might
incite new Mysteries in San Francisco.
Japanese immigration, even IL it were
allowed to come without interruption,
would hardly make much Of differ
ence in the labor market, except in
San Francisco's case, and that towns
conduct and morals are not calcu-
lated to win 1t much consideration
from the rest of the country. Japan |
is too small in population to be ever |
able to spare enough emigrants for |
the United States to do much damage |
70 this country. The labor market in
San Francisco Is depressed, but it is
5chmitz and his fellow-bandits and
he men who elected them who have
lalted the work of rebuilding the city
ind who have set up a quarantine
against it from the rest of the coun-
ry. Still as violation in United
states law, this Japanese immigration
will have to be looked into. 1t raises
m issue which must be dealt with del
cately but resolutely. American
avs and not Japanese interest, con-
enience or prejudices, must govern
Louis Globe-Democrat
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05
One on John.

Mr.. Crimsonbeak-M dear, II is
said that the Greenland whale attains
an age of 400 years.
Mrs. Crimsonbeak--But, John. you
must remember that he wouldn't un.
less he stuck to water!-Yonker's
Statesman,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05
TESTIMONIES
OF GHOSTS"
MEN HAVE BEEN HANGED ON THE
EVIDENCE" or Spirits"
DAYS or THE lNFLU-
ENcE or GREAT
SUPERSTITION.
Case in England Where a Bloody
Apparition" Caused a Man to Die
on the Gallows-Narrow
Escape of Another.


The testimony of a ghost" would
not now count for much in court Of
laws, says a writer in the London
Standard; but the day has been when
it has suffered to hang a man.
A girl named Anne Walker was sup
posed to have been sent away for her
good b. a substantial farmer. Some
time afterward a so-called apparition
appeared to a neighbor. with its head
all bloody from wounds, and telling
him that she had been murdered by
the farmer and an accomplish.
Her body, the apparition said, had
been buried in a spot which she de-
scribed, and she begged the man to
whom she appeared to bring her MUIR
derer to justice.
True enough, the body was found in
the place mentioned and the men were
brought to trial. The sensational
character of the case was intensified
by one of the jurymen declaring that
he saw the child of the dead woman
sitting upon the shoulder of its
father, the farmer Both the culprits
were hanged.
There was a ghostly accuser in a
case with which readers of Scott are
familiar. Soon after the "45" an Eng
lish soldier wandering near Bramar
met violent death. Years passed
and then came a story of communi-
cation from another world.
A farm servant declared that in the
night spirit had appeared to him,
declaring itself to be the ghost of the
soldier, whose bones it said lay still
unburied. The Highlander must see
to their decent interment and have
the murderers, two men named,
brought to justice.
The Highlander promised, but did
not keep his word, and second and
third time the spirit appeared and up {
braided him for his breach of faith.
Alarmed at last and no longer dar- {
ing to delay, the man called COM I
panion, went to the spot which the t
spirit had indicated, and there found
the bones of the murdered warrior /
in a moorland tract called S
the hill of Christie. P
The story of the Highlander came to a
the ears of an anti-Jacobite, who caus- Q
3D. the matter to be brought to trial e
before the court of judiciary, Edin- 9
burg. There the tale was corrobora- a
ed by woman who had seen naked
figure enter the place on the night
spoken of by the many.
1t was an age of superstition, in
district more than commonly given to
and the jury seemed
disposed to find the two men charged 81
,uilty of murder. H.
But it happened that the principal M
witness spoke only Gaelic. CT
Now said counsel for the defense, M
in what language did the ghost n
peak?" ~
In as good Gaelic as ever heard ne
] Lochaber," was the reply. 70
Pretty good for the ghost of an III
nglish soldier" said counsel ID
And that question and comment Sc
aved the necks of the men at the bar. III
he jury could believe in ghost, but DO
OF in an English ghost speaking III
aelic. nc
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- mi
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05
Kept Jumping.

"How's things in Lonelyville?' asked
the first farmer.
"Everybody's on the jump" replied
the second farmer, proudly.
Then the automobiles have struck
your town. to, have they YoRkers
Statesman.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05
The Possibility.
(Kansas City independently

(Kansas City independently
Stage Manager-Great snakes!
Stop! Don't move that scene yet.
Supe-Its most time.
Don't touch It, Juliet is there dead
in the tomb. II you move that can
vas It will let In a draft and she'll
sneexe."
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05
THE POWER OF A MOTHERS
VOICE.

A mother sang to her child one day
| Al song of the beautiful home above;
Sang it as only a woman sings,
Whose heart is full of mothers
/ love.
And many a time in the years that
came
He heard the sound of that low,
sweet song;
1t took him back to his childhood
days;
1t kept his feet from the paths of
wrong.
A mother spoke to her child one day
In an angry voice that made him
start
As if an arrow had sped that way
And pierced his loving and tender
heart
And when he had grown to mans es
tate,
And was tempted and tried, as all
men are,
He FELL for that mothers angry words
Had left on his heart lasting
scar
B.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05
or CURRENT INTEREST.

The country doctor Is rapidly be.
coming extinct as a species. The men
one meets at their societies look,
dress. talk and act as the men do at
any meeting of city physicians. The
papers presented are quite up to the
city standard. the discussions mark
eddy above those Of the city men. The
surgical experience related would as
tonish some men who think the city
clinics and clinicisns do all Of this
work. or at least all that is well done.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05

Paper bags are absolutely necessary
in certain lines of business. and. con.
sidering that there is no cash return,
constitute probably one of the large
items of expense to stores and market
stalls. The expenditure for ordinary
paper bags, such as are used in gro
Gerry stores. during 1906 reached near
ly $9.20O,0O0. The outlay for all bags
of various kinds amounting to $25. 000.-
900. Near $24,OOO.OOO passed into the
Golfers of the men who make the or
nate, befiowered, fancy boxes for can
dy, gifts and bowers.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05

The shortest street in the United
States is Hague street, in New York.
1t is only long enough to accommodate
two houses.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05

The streets of Boise, ID, are sprink-
led with hot water. The city and
county buildings are heated during
cold weather without the use of fires,
and subscribers to the city water
works system get hot water all the
time without the expense of stoves.
All this has been accomplished by the
Harvesting of an inexhaustible hot
spring.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05

Only--but this Is rare
When a beloved hand is laid in our
When, faded with the rush aud glare
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05

The pencils first used in Italy for
drawing were composed of mixture
of lead and tin. nothing more than
pewter. This pencil was called a
"stile." Michael Angelo mentions the
"stile" and it seems that such pencils
were used commonly over the whole
continent of Europe. At this period
the name q lumbago," or graphite, ,"
was not in use, but instead the name
"molybdena" or "molybdoids," which
is at the present time applied to an
entirely different mineral
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05

Mushrooms grow in many strange
places. One curious field for their
growth has been selected in France.
The st. Denis railway tunnel is no
longer used for the purpose for which
1t was originally intended The ground
therein has been cut up into ridges,
divided from each other by means of
burrows. upon which whole battalions
of mushrooms are now fiourishing. In
Scotland company is now growing
in tunnel 5000 feet long.
1t was originally built by the North
British railway. and is sixty feet be-
low the streets of Edinburgh.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05

The, growth of the average fireeI
nail is computed to be one-thirty-sec
ond of an inch a week, or little more
than an inch and a half a year. The
finger nails, Popular Science Sift-
ings" states, are said to grow faster
in the summer than in the winter Tie
nail on the middle finger grows faster
than any of the other nails, and that
on the thumb grows slowest. 1t is
also said that the nails on the right
hand grow faster than those on the
left hand. According to the rate of
growth stated, the average time taken
for each finger nail to grow its full
length is about four and half
and at this rate a man 20
years old would have renewed ais
nails 1856 times. Taking the length Of
each nail as half an inch, he would
have grown seven feet nine inches of
1ail on each finger, and on all his fiji
gers and thumbs an aggregate length
If Seventy-seven and half feet.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05

The French government has intrust-
ed to Nine. Laurence Kiedler of Paris,
a mission to make an exhaustive in
vestigation into the social and indus
trial conditions of women and children
in America. The purpose of her work
Nine. Fielder says, is to raise the
standard of women's wages in France,
as well as the social standard of her
in every department of
industrial and commercial work.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-07-05

Rich deposits of asbestos covering
hundreds of acres and containing thou
sands of tons of the valuable mineral.
have been located in the mountains OF
Northern Luzon, Philippines. Samples
examined in the bureau of science, at
Manila, says the Far Eastern Review,
are pronounced excellent in quality,
with only or 2 per cent of alloy. The
deposits are inlaid between talcum
and silica (both valuable deposits
and the fields of asbestos are within
few miles of excellent harbors.