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JAPAN's ITCH FOR CONFLICT.
What Effect Is This Leaven of Belliq
 erent Longing to Have?

From Richard Barry's 'Underlying Jap
 anese Humanities" in the September Century.
 Among all the definitions I have heard of the possibility of war between Japan and one of the white nations, the clear man of known diplomatic aloofness. He former member of the cabinet. and A was speaking to an American when he leaven of belligerent longing will have on said:
 Japan has history fully as long and filled with as many glorious achieve. ments as yours: it entities her to a self respect equal to yours. And she must demand that full equality before the customs as well as before the laws of nations to which her history entities her. So long as she Is placed in the class and treated with the disrespec, shown by whites toward Chinamen In dians, negroes, Filipinos or Cubans there Is laid down the gauntlet of an irrepres- sible conflict"
 Meanwhile it is well not to forget that a million soldiers are now in Japan who
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The woman's central committee for
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will be In charge of the kindergarten school at Brewton this winter.
 Miss Marguerite Williams will reopen her Kindergarten at the Margaret Allen school on Monday morning.
 MT and Mrs. Hugh Morrow have re- turned from New York
 MT. and Mrs Henry Dean will return tomorrow from Mississippi.
 The wedding of Miss Irene Benson Cox to Dr. Robert Elias Hogan at Powderly on Wednesday evening was beautiful event at the home of the brides uncle, Prof. w. II. Gieser.
 The bridal party entered the parlor to the strains of Mendelssohn's wedding march The bride. with her maid of honor Miss Marnie Mathews, were await ed by the groom and his best man, MT. J. C. Armstrong. The bride and groom stood under a beautiful floral bell of white carnations and ferns during the impressive ceremony which was per formed by the Rev. w. H. Giesler' an uncle of the bride.
 The brides gown was an exquisite ere atlon of white chiffon over silk. She wore Q brides veil with orange blossoms and carried a shower bouquet of brides roses and lilies of the valley. The maid ! of honor wore a beautiful gown of net over silk and carried a large bouquet of pink carnations.
 Dr. and Mrs. Hogan left after the re- ception for New York, Boston and Mag ara Falls. After November 1 they will be at home at Fossil, Ala, where Dr. Hogan is in charge of a hospital
 The .out-of-town guests were Mrs. Haz- gard and Miss Annie Harden of Vicks- burg, Miss; Miss Gussie Gains of North port, Alt, and Mrs. w. l.. Sibley of War rior, Ala.
 The parlor and dining room were dec orated with palms. ferns, trailing vines and brides roses. The reception hall and library were beautiful with golden rod roses and plants.
 Mrs. w. B. Rue, who presided at the piano, and MT Beatie with the violin, rendered delightful musical programme before the ceremony. The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Brother { hood of Railroad Trainmen will give an Ice cream social at the residence of Mrs. Janle Eubanks, corner of Twenty street and Eighth avenue. north, Tues ] day evening, next. the proceeds from which will go to the striking Commercial Photographers.
 MT Y II. hllsOH, Jr., mas 1eluTneu from the gold fields of Nevada and Cali fornia.
 Mrs. J. w. Clay has returned from North Carolina, where she passed the summer.
 Miss Mary Clay has returned from Huntsville.
 The friends of Col. Rolfe Saunders will regret to hear that he is suffering from an attack of paralysis and Is now
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day for Anniston to enter the Noble institute.
 Mrs. Emmett Belknap, who has been the guest of Mrs. J. H. Phillips, has returned to New York.
 The wedding of Miss Varina New ton and MT. James Brooks Moss will take place on Wednesday evening at the Cumberland Presbyterian church. The ceremony will be performed by the Rev. I. D. Steele. Miss Newton will have for her matron of honor Mrs. Elihu Green. Miss Maud Newton a sister of the bride, will be maid of honor. Miss Pearl Phillips will be bridesmaid.
 The men in the wedding party will be Mir Bertram Phillips. MT. George Brown. MT. Rolf Green, MT. William G. Wood. MT. Elihu Green MT. Archibald Trimble of Birmingham and MT. Shaler Houser of Anniston.
 During the musical programme pre- ceding the ceremony Miss Ida Nun nally will sing a solo.
 Miss Elizabeth G. Jones, a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, and who has a studio in the Watts building, will give a recital at the Cable Music hall Thursday evening at o'clock. The programme will be as follows:
 TarantelIe-Nieode.
 Gavotte-Bach Saint Saens.
 Marchen CFairy Tale)-Raff.
 Ballad As-Chopin.
 Caprice Espanol-Mosh owskt.
 Ious Bois-Staub.
 Rigolletto-Verdi-L -Liszt
 Mrs. J. II. Phillips, president of the board of directors of the Birmingham Free Kindergarten association, calls a meeting of the board for Wednesday morning at half past 10 o'clock at the Hillman hotel. A large attendance is urged as business of importance will be brought before the board.
 The children's department of the kin dergartens and the training school will open September 30. The prospects of the training school are more encouraging to the board than ever before. Applications are being received from number of young women not only in Birmingham but from adjoining cities. At the meet ing of the directors on Wednesday morn- ing they will be glad to confer with any applicants for the training school.
 Miss Agnes Wilson, who will succeed Miss Drew, as superintendent of the free Nndergartens, will arrive in Birmingham from Louisville the latter part of the week She will be with Mrs. J. H. Phil lips at her residence in Norwood Miss Wilson Is considered one of the finest kndergarteners in the south and under her instruction tho schools in this city and the training classes will be brought to still greater efficiency.
 Miss Florence Turner, graduate of the Birmingham Free Kndergartens school,
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at the Ezes infirmary in Nashville. Col onel Saunders was returning from Hen dersonvlle, N. C., where he had been visiting his daughter, Mrs. J. w Clay, and was en route to his home fin Athens.
 MT. Milford R. Hardin of Dallas. Tex. is visiting his luhcle, MT. T. A. Duncan, at TIA North Twenty-ffth street.
 The members of the Birmingham coun- ell No. 172 United Commercial Travellers of America, have issued invitations to the ladies of the members to a reception in the palm room of the Hillman hotel next Friday. September 27 from till 6 o'clock. This is intended strictly for the ladies.
 The woman's central committee for
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setsss asSs s,s Feder X Berk s.;,ss asSs s,.

prohibition will hold it's regular prayer meeting Tuesday afternoon at o'clock at the First Methodist church. The com- mittee will meet at o'clock.
 At the Southern club this evening Csi- mans orchestra will present the following programme:
 Overture, Stradella, (Verdi)
 Selection, William Tell, (Rossinni0
 Intermezzo, La Likete, tGamvin.)
 Waltz, Luna. Linckle.)
 Selection, Nils. Modste, (by requesD, GherbertD ....=#
 Hungarian dances, (Brahms)
 Medley, popular songs various com pOserS.
 1dyl, the Glow Worm, Gincke0
 Selection, the Singing Girl, CHerbertO March, Coronation, (Meyerbeer)
 Mrs. George Woodward of Trotville, Ala. who has been visiting her daugh . ter Mrs. c. O. Jenkins, has returned home accompanied by Mrs. Jenkins and her little son George.
 MT. NJ F. Williams has returned from Montgomery.
 Mrs. W. M. Byrd. Jr.. and little son William Fitzh ugh have returned from Fredericksburg and Fortress Monroe Va, where they spent the summer visiting relatives.
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loads and for express work and general transpor tation. 1 hope to see the time when there will be no truck horses in New York. At Hilsley besides the tour ing cars, and the broughams and the Linn cuisines, there are number of smaller motors, and among them at least half d dozen runabouts for the servants hall and for the general traffic of a large es tablishment. I have three depot wagons run by electricity and a special omnibus for the servants for their Sunday church. going
 But I find for the present the motor is hailed in this land as a sure indication of prosperity and on account of it's show and Its noise and the impression it maNes upon the crowd and ignorant people. there are many beggars, so to speak, on horseback who ride in automobiles. This Is an Irish bull. perhaps worthy of the source from which came the original ex- presslon. I see in many of the newspa- pers advertisements of loan offices where advances may be obtained by pawning a motor and l have no doubt that the ln- stallment plan Is carried out quite exten- sivey in the trade. There is now pleth- ora of motors and everyone rides. But the pathetic part of it all was the re- quest of an old woman of the New York slums, who not long ago was knocked down by an automobile near the Thirty fourth street ferry. She was severely if not fatally injured. and yet with becom- ing pride she scorned the hospital am bulance and insisted that she be taken to her tenement in the machine" The pain ard the agony she was suffering would be greatly allevlated no doubt, when her neighbors should see her brought home in a great red pant.ns motor. They would bemoan their i'll for tune, that they, too, could not have heen injured and they would have willingly prostrated themselves before the Jugger- naut. in order that they might too have the happiness of ride and a pulling up with much pufflng at their house doors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
All ladies interested in the FLETCHER MUSIC
 METHOD

are invited to meet Mrs. Bridges at her studio, 2004 Fifth avenue, Mon day, 3 o'clock.
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two years ago were in Manchuria wait ing and eager to enter again the most momentous struggle of history And we may ask ourselves what effect that house beauties, and nearly all have a nation of forty million people when one-tenth of the male population is pos sessed with the itch for conflict?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
VULGARITY OF THE MOTOR
 CAR AS GENERALLY USED

The last issue of Vogue discusses the l motor car craze with characteristic | frankness. Observes Vogue;
 There is something lacking In dignity in the motor. It has its good points and possibly after few years it will become less the unwedly machine that 1t now is, and perhaps it will be a little less com mon. Naturally you can have expensive motors, beautifully finished, provide artls- tic liveries for your motor drivers and second men and attendants, and this age requires also that you have a garage filled with machines of different kinds and models for different purposes. But machine no matter how perfect 1t may De in its appointments, will never have the chic, the smartness of a vehicle which is drawn by blooded animals. There can be , convenience, speed and comfort In ma chinery and It's accomplishments, but 1t savers too much of the workshop to be arlstocratic As enjoyable as trip through the northern middle states by motor Is at this time of the year, 1t lacks the prestige of the coach and its various relays of horses and different posting places.
 There is a cheery exhilaration produced by the coaching horn, that can never be even initiated or reached by the most strident or complicated of steam whistles. The horse responds to the driver and &C., knowledges his mastery Any mechanic can with sufficient study, drive a motor.
 However, one must have so many of these machines nowadays, simply to save ones horses The motor does away with the pieturesqueness of the road, but 1t has proved the best friend in the end to the horse It Is admirable in it's appliance to all labor, to hauling. to carrying heavy
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Dancing School,

Miss Moseley gives private lessons in dancing Residence. 203O Sixth avenue. Bell telephone No. 3667
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Hon. w. A. Covington, of Georgia, will speak against whisl<y this afternoon at Jeffer- son theater at 3:30 o clock. All men urged to come.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-12-20
SOUTHERN WILL
NOT DEFY LAWS
REDUCES RATES IN ALABAMA
PENDING DECISION or
COURTS.
AGREEMENT WITH The GOVERNOR
Railroad Agrees to Put Into Effect
Passenger Fares of
2La Cents.

MONTGOMERY. Ala, Dec. 12.-
Rather than tempt the wrath of Gov
Conner any further, the Southern rail
way today agreed to put in effect q
~ cent passenger rate and to con
tinue it until the courts have finally
passed upon the whole rate question,
The agreement was entered into at
conference with the governor which
was hold by j. 3. Thompson, assistant
to President Finley of the Southern
railway.
Some time ago the road agreed to
put In effect in Alabama as low a rate
as that demanded in any other state
through which it passes. This latter
agreement was not entirely satisfac-
tory to the state authorities, who de-
mahded that the 21a cent rate be es-
ablished. The capitulstion of the
Southern today will put an end to the
rate controversy until after the courts
have made their ruling. A.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-12-20
CRIMES CHARGED E
TO N. Y. BANKERS
ATTORNEY GENERAL DIRECTS AZ.
! vENvsopts TO- AETAaRes or
HAMILTON BANK co.

NEW YORK.. Dscy 12--Attosnes
General jackson today called the at
tention of District Attorney Jerome
to the affairs of the Hamilton Bank
& Trust Company and Excelsior Fire
Insurance Company, and declared that
octs Of a criminal nature appeared 70
have been committed therein.
In the case of the Hamilton Bank
Mr.. Jackson sent to Mr.. Jerome a
copy of the report of the receiver Of
the bank, in which he set forth certain
overdrafts alleged to have been made
by William R. Montgomery, former
Vice President, and now President of
the bank, which, Mr.. Jackson said, APP
peared to be in violation or the penal
code
Mr. Jackson did not define the
grounds of complaint In the case OF
the International Trust Company, but
declared that perjury and perhaps
other criminal offenses appeared to
have been committed in the organisa-
ton Of the Excelsior Fire Insurance
Company.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-12-20
DIFF RENT VIEWS
OF ROOSEVELT
SOME OF HIS FOLLOWERS STILL
BELIEVE THAT HE
WILL RUN.
HE WILL GET THE NOMINATION
Declares Postmaster Jackson, While
Chairman Hopkins Says Taft
is a Winner.

Evidently some of the Presidents
admirers do not accept his decleTa
ton that he will not acc 9t 4 neInina
ton as final The local le 5crs. are
divided on the matter. Postmaster
Jackson, who has been leading the
fight for Roosevelt instructions in this
district. stated this morning that the
Presidents announcement would not
change the situation lie SAID the
Tennessee delegates would be instruc-
ted for Roosevelt and he believed that
the President would be again nomi-
mated.
However" continued Mr.. Jackson,
the President may decline the nomi-
nation. But It is going to be rendered
to him. In my judgment he will be
nominated by. the overwhelming vote
of the convention. and II he 10 not
the next President 1t will be simply
because he will not accept the nomi-
nation. after IL has been rendered to
HIM" AG
On the other hand, 4. S. Hopkins,
Chairman of the Republican county
takes the President ct his
word and says that his declination 10 |
run again assures the nomination, OF |
Secretary Taft. Mr.. Hopkins is one
u the original raft snppprtersB snaS ID
yery much gratified at the Improved
prospects OF the Onion,
From, these statenaeats II, iss platna
hat there win be fight over instruc-
ing the delegates from this district
o the National convention. Interviews
With the Republican leaders at Nash
lille indicate that the same fight will
axe place In the state convention,
ince some OF the leu0ers continue to
rye Roosevelt's nomination.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-12-20
.AND. SALE.
$3.50 Frank Brown,
y VS..

John A. Allen, ct al
In the Chancery Court, at CoiumON~'
Tennessee. =
Pursuant to a decree entered ~
above styled cause at the octoD0,
Term, 1907, on minutes at page ~
will on Wednesday, the 18TH day =,
January, 1908, at IL o'clock noon; "
the Court House door In Columgls'
Tennessee, sell to the highest Dluu en
the land described in said decieo'
bounded and described as follows,
wit: Bounded on the north by Joh W.
Thompson and Bill Kittrell; on Wv
east by Joe Nance and the G,os ,,n
blaze: on the south by Leon " ~ ~
and w. j. Pennington; and on 'u9
west by Bill Kittrell and Lewis CRIME me-
containing about 140 acres q lai, ~
A Plat and survey Of which WIN ~
filed before the sale, and this saIe W.. .he
be both by general boundaries ana NV
plat. "A, m
Terms.-SaId sale will be made On
a credit OF 6, IL and Is month
Sale free from the equity OF redem I,.
ton. Notes bearing interest ~ a.
date OF sale with good PERSONA %
,urfety will be required Of the p%
chaser. and lien retained TO secu''
he payment OF the purchase money! ,SS1
This, the 9Th day Of DeoemoeI' "
eat A. N. AKIN. G . ~
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-12-20
FLAMES CUT OFF
WAY OF ESCAPE
TWO YOUNG WOMEN FORCED TO
SLIDE DOWN ROPE TO
SAFETY.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Dec 15-Finding
the escape by the way of the staircase
cut off by the flames, which totally
destroyed the two-story frame dwell.
ing at SIG McLemore avenue, early
this morning, four occupants of the
second floor, two of them young wom-
en- were forced to slide down a rope
from window in order to save their
lives. They were Misses Evelyn
Davis and Ennea Whitley, Patrick
Davis and George Showers. All four
escaped without injury other than the
shock.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-12-20
PICTURE SHOW
CHANGES HANDS

Vaughn & Johnson have bought the
moving picture show or q. G. Parks
& Co., on South Main street and will
move their chow poperties from the
building they have been occupying 10
the stand of Parks & Co A new
stage will be built and the house fitted
out for flrst-class show business.
The building formerly occupied by
Vaughn q Johnson viii be used for
other business. The trade was con-
summated Saturday night and went
into erect this morning.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-12-20
SUSPENDED BANKS
ARE ALL RESUMING
KANSAS CITY INSTITUTIONS THAT
FAILED ARE OPENING
w AnAiN.

~ ~ &rtIN eWti tAsFt
KANSAS CITY, Mo-. Dec. 1H.-Th>
Union-avenue Bank Of Commerce
which was obliged 70 close BY the sus
pension Of the National Bank OF Com
msfees, WIN resspene foes hassenesss to
morrow morning. All the banks
carried down BY, the. National Banks
fsilssss hsvee neyw hssnp rehahiaitnAsds
Four Government Bank Examiners, are
now working on the books Of the
National Bank of Commerce. and ON
their report win depend whether the
bank shall be re-opened or iQuidated.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-12-20
SANTA CLAUS IS
NOT ON CLUTCHES
STILL THE SAME OLD GENEROUS,
LovA5LE oPTInIsT
or YoRE.
Washington HeraId.)
Says the Nashville American (:

washington Herald-l
Says the Nashville American:
Christmas is coming on apace.
Yes; and Santa is on q erutch.-
Oh, no; he isn't on a crutch, any
thing Of the kind. and he never VIII
Be. He is an able-bodied gentleman.
an optfmist. and he viii make his us
ual round this year. tust the same az
( Of yore. Santa Claus doesn't know
anything about financial furries, or
things Of that kind His habitat Es
! far beyond reach of the voice OF the
pessimist and hard-tine prophet Into
bis snug workship no evil WINGS blow;
he thinkers away. ss willingly and
cheerfully as though no such things
as stock tickers and the like existed
in this sordid world.
None OF the fathers and mothers IN
all this Land should get Il into their
heads that Santa Claus is on O crutch
this year. They should Fesolutely
shut, theiy eyes and ears to such sug>
gestions Christmas is one day in tie
year when the little ones should get
all that f. coming 70 them. without the
slightest { stint To believe that the /
little old gentlemaa Of the white wits
kers and cherry cheeks Is hobbling
along and unable to attend TO his work
With his customary diligence "a very
wrong. II Santa Claus should learn
that the mothers and fathers Of the
and entertained such ideas concern
ng him. he might become discouraged
and go back home before all of the
stockings were filed as beautifully as
las heretofore been his custom That
would be distressing-and utterly
without good excuse. 1t would be the
ault OF the fathers and mothers,
oweyer; not OF Santa Claus.
Let everybody help nip this Santa
'laus on crutch" idea in the bud.
is all mistake. Nothing must be
aid that might in anywise disturb the
erenity of his visit or mar the hearth Il
ess of his welcome. He must be-
, the children, especially -just the
anne generous and good-natured old T
entleman that he has always been. v
-ay he never, never know what it is -
need crutch. r.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-12-20
Land Sale
r. y. Lea, ct al,
~ 8l VS..
f. c. Lea, ct al
In the Chancery Court, at Columbia,
Tennessee

In the Chancery Court, at Columbia,
Tennessee.
Pursuant to a decree entered In
above styled cause at the October
/ Term, 1907 on minutes at page 151, I
will on Wednesday. the 18th day OF
January, 1908, at II O'Clock noon at
the Court House door in Columbia,
| Tennessee, sell to the highest bidder,
| the land described In said decree,
bounded and described as follows, to-
wit:
First Tract Situated in Mt. Pleas
ant Marry County, Tenn, and being
the same tract conveyed to D. r Lea
by 0. E. Daniels and beginning at the
southeast corner. of .Clark's lot, on the
north margin of Blue Grass Ave and
running northwardly along said
Clarks east line, 100 feet thence
eastwardly on line parallel to the
north line of Blue Grass Ave Is feet;
thence in a southerly direction on
line parallel to said Clark's east line,
100 feet, to the north line Of Blue
Grass Ave; thence westWardly along
the north line of Blue Grass Ave rs
feet to the place of beginning, con
tanning $500 square feet, more or
less.
Second tract: Adjoining the first
tract, and beginning at the southeast
corner of e. A. Daniels feed store, on
Blue Grass Ave, running northwardly
along his line to Hankinson & Bakers
line; thence along Hankinson G. Ba'
ker's south boundary line. in an east
erly direction 20 feet to Killebrew Il
Hunters line on Broadway; thence
along their line so feet
% the margin of Blue Grass Ave-;
hence westwardly, along the margin
II said street 20 feet to the beginning
Being the same property described ID
Iced registered In Book 98, vol 4, page
;02, r. o. M. C. Possession given the
st of February, 1908.
Terms.-Said sale will be made On
! credit of 6, IL and IS months
xcept the sum Of 5000. which VIII
% required In Cash on day OF SAFE
n each tract. Sale free from the
guilty OF redemption, Notes bearing
1tefest from date OF sale with gooo
ersonal security viii be required o.
he purchaser, and lien retained 70 ~
IRE payment OF the purchase money
This, the 9Th day OF December. lvV''
cat \ A. N. AKIN. c. Il M.
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LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS


Hampshire. Tenn.
Dear Santa wish you would bring
me a signet ring with nv name IN
graved on il and anything you want
me to have. love good things 10
eat I though would send my letter
early so I would get some OF the good
things. Don't forget Mildred Parks
and Fannie Jaggers. and don't forget
little Richard. he is sick now. Well
goodbye Santa. Give mamma and
papa something.
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Columbia. Tenn Dec. 18th, 19O7.

Columbia. Tenn, Dec. 18th, 1907.
Dear Santa Claus-I am little girl
six years old want you to bring me
large doll dressed real pretty, a
go-cart for it and a big white Teddy
bear, bring brother pair OF skates
and a foot ball, and please don't for
get to bring Miss Jessie pair of
shoes, she wears number fives. Your
little girl,
MARY ELIZABETH MOORE.
"a South Main.