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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-15
'FIGHTING BOB'S"
FLAG IS FURLED
"ElcHTING BOB" TURNS OVER
THE BIG FLEET TO ADMIR-
AL THOMAS.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 11.-Rear
Admiral Robley D, Evans flag was to-
day hauled down from the main truck
of the Connecticut in San Fracisco
barbor amid a salute of thirteen guns,
and tonight the first commandment
chief of Americas first battleship feet
is on his way to his home in Washing
ron 70 remain on waiting orders until
the date of his retirement for age, on
his SD birthday, the 18th of August.
AS the blue ensign Of the retiring
commander huttered down to the af-
ter bridge of the Connecticut, a new
flag of similar design was broken out
in token of the presence of a new chief
Rear Admiral Charles H. Thomas.
on board of the sixteen battleships
the six torpedo boat destroyers and the
auxiliaries of the Atlantic fleet, an ad-
dress form the retiring commander
in-chief was read, which expressed the
great regret the Admiral felt in leav-
ing the ships and his thanks for the
loyal support of the men and officers
during his long tour of command
Oakland's reception to the officers
and the men OF the fleet began earl
today with the arrival of crowds from
the surrounding country.
More than 5000 men were in the line
Of the military and civil pageant which
moved through the principal streets
of the city and the blue Jackets
never received a warmer welcome.
When the parade was dismissed all the
men were entertained by the women
of Oakland with an elaborate barbecue
dinner.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-15
The Land Of Fire and Ice.

An example of the strangeness of
Iceland is furnished by the volcano
Malta. This is buried under immense
snow fields. but from time to time its
fires burst through the glittering
blanket, and then such foods are pour
ed from the melting ice that a great
stretch of country between the volcano
and the sea is inundated and huge
masses of ice are carried out into the
territory lying between Malta and the
sea. so suddenly come the floods.-Chi-
cago Record Herald
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-15

Cellar Hin brand Of Nhiskey is man
ufactured, while inst across the line
Is the home Of jack Daniels famous
No. I" The liquor forces. OF course,
ere dghting Senator Csrmack with
an their might. and according to in
huential and prominent men here To-
day. they have already begun TO give
statewide"
Il was learned today that one hun
dred pints OF a certain famous brand
came here two or three days ago for
use at this debate and from certain
peculiar and suspicious Interruptions
during Senator Carmack's speech, it
seen its duty and done il"
In spite of all this, however, there
is an aroused sentiment here that au-
gurs an suspicious result in the coun-
ty next month. Many good citizens
who have grown tired of the debauch-
ing influences that follow after whis-
key factories are wearing the red rib
bons. and are determined to smite
the rum traffic hip and thigh when the
time comes. A we'll known citizen
Of this town told me today that he was
going to vote for Carmack because he
was for anybody that would put the
saloons and distilleries out of bust
ness. He has seen so much of the
evil that comes from the business in
this county that he realizes the bene-
fits to accrue from statewide prohi-
bition.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-15
TORNADO RAzES
OKLA, TOWNS
GREAT LOSS or LIFE rs REPORT
Ed FROM MANY SEC
TONS.
MANY PEOPLE Are INJURED
Property loss Is Heayy-communi-
ties Are Isolated and News Hard
to Get.

WOODWARD, Okla, May ia
succession of tornadoes swept over
the district lying twenty-five miles
southwest, south and southeast of
Woodward late yesterday and last
night. Several small and isolated
towns, all of the railroad and with
out telegraphic communication, are
reported destroyed, many persons have
been injured and several are report
ed killed.
Seven towns are reported to have
suffered damage more or less severe.
They are Grand Arnett. Vici, Mutual,
Estelle, Cooley. and Richmond At
each place casualties are said to have
resulted.
Grand, the county seat of Ellis
county, is said to have been wholly
destroyed The towns of Estelle,
Cooley and Richmond also are report
ed to have been devastated The vii
lagos where the damage is reported
are all small places. Grand is the
largest of the seven, and it has only
few hundred inhabitants.
The scene of the tornado is the
northwest corner of the old border
of Oklahoma close to the Texas and
Kansas state lines. AS far as learn
ed. it traversed four counties and COW
cred a distance of seventy-five miles
in length. Yesterday and last night
there was a terrific rainfall in this
part of the state following oppressive
weather-ideal cyclonic conditions.
At Little Robe. fifty miles south
west of Woodward, Mrs. ]. E. Hale
was killed.
The little town Of Cesto, Dewey
county, also is reported wiped off the
vet been obtained
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-15
MANY FOALS AT
EWELL FARM
FAMOUS BAY COLT ADDED TO
THE HOLDING AT NOTED
FARM.

Special to The Herald.
SPRING HILL, Tenn, May Sine
latest arrival of foals at Ewell Farm
is from the most famous mare IN
the country, and is by John r. Cen
try Everything is decidedly active
around the farm and mares are com
ing every day from all parts Of the
country.
ROYAL Princess by Baonne Prince,
2:21H, dam Lady Sherman, 2;25.
foaled a bay colt Wednesday night by
John R. Gentry, 2:OOh. Royal Prin-
cess is owned by Robert W. Goelet OF
the Illinois Central Railroad. Royal
Princess was a famous show mare
and is the grand dam of the handsome
bay colt Walton Gentry, exhibited at
the recent horse show in Columbia,
and which has been shipped North
recently to be trained.
Ewell Farm recently purchased from
William Farmer of Franklin, Tenn,
| a bay colt by John R. Gentry, dam by
McEwen; second dam by Bostick s
Almont; third dam by Lexington
| (thoroughbred.) This colt is hand
some show horse and will be fitted for
The Columbia Horse Show this fall and
will also be sent to Nashville and
Memphis to try for the blue ribbons
in the show ring.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-15
RAYS AND SKATES.
They Are Known to Fishermen as the
Jokes of the Sea.

They Are Known to FISHERMEN as the
Jokes of the Sea.
The rays and skates are the jokes of
the sea Their bodies are as fat as
the pancakes made by the man in
white on a griddle in the window of
beef and restaurant. Their eyes
look upward. and they have tails as
slender and tapering as the whip of
a ringmaster of circus.
In the United States the most com
mon rays are called skates. The
whip tailed rays because of their long
slender tails with their erectile spines
at the end, capable of inficting severe
and dangerous wounds. are frequently
called sting rays. The common sting
ray feeds on oysters. CLAIMS and other
valuable mollusks and in the Atlantic
waters is known as the 'clam cracker
OF the skates the commonest as well
as the smallest species on the Atlantic
coast is known as the tobacco box;
the largest is aptly called the barn
door. On the western coast of the
United States is found the big skate,
which reaches a length of six feet,
two feet larger than it's eastern rela-
tive.
Because of It's habit of rolling itself
I'D when caught the common skate has
been called bonnet skate" 1t is also
known as the hedgehog ray"
On the New Jersey coast the trawl
fishermen cut off the broad, feshy
wings" and they are sold for sad
dies" sometimes bringing 5 and even
10 cents a pound. These men call the
fish "possum, 'sea possum" and bob
tailed skate" As a rule. anglers throw
the fish back into the water as being
of no value.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-15
LOUISIANA MAY
STOP GAMBLING
LIKELY THAT THE STATE WILL
ALSO PROHIBIT RACE
TRACK BETTING

BATON ROGUE, La, May 1O-Race
track gambling, prohibition and cot
Eton futures are the three big issues in
sight before the opening of the Louis
lana Legislature tomorrow 1t is gen.
orally believed that the hardest fight
will be made to abolish race track
gambling. and with it the racing which
for years has been a feature of the
winter season of New orleans. II is
certainty that if the race tracks es-
cane absolute closing they will be sub
iected to rigid regulations covering
betting.
The fight against cotton futures
here will be the same that has been
successfully waged in several other
Southern states. 1t is known that
members of the delegation from Red
River Parish intend to introduce bills
of this sort but the representatives OF
this parish to date have been almost
the only outspoken anti-futures adj
vocates. and the movement has not
vet gained sufficient visible support to
assure it of anything like success. The
influence OF the New Orleans Cotton
Exchange the largest in the South,
and in addition one Of the large actual
cotton markets of the warld, Is
strong factor against the anti-futures
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-15
TO HEAR SUIT FOR
KILLING SHEEP

The suit of Messrs. j. II. Murphy
and A. /. Sellars against Vanus Ne.
villes and Jim Hudson, both colored,
for the killing of twenty sheep belong.
inc to the plaintiffs about two weeks
ago, will be heard Friday afternoon
before Esq. Guest. The loss on the
sheep is estimated at $125 and the
killing is said to have been done by
dogs belonging to the defendants.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-15
MARIAN LIFE
Conditions Make Fer Creatures Of ~
Advanced Order Of Intellect.

Conditions Make FER Creatures Of N
Advanced Order Of Intellect.
Whatever its actual age. any life
now existent on Mars must be In the
land stage of its deyelopment-on the
whole. a much higher one than the M
rine. But. more than this. Il should
probably have gone much further II II
exists at all. for In its evolving Of terra
hrma Mars has far outstripped the
earth. Mars surface is now all land
Its forms OF life must be not only ter
restrial as against aquatic, but eNe7
as opposed to terraqueOus ones u
must have reached not simply the
stage of land dwelling where the pos
sfbilities are greater for those able To-
embrace them. hut that further poin'
of pinching poverty where brain Is
needed TO survive at all
The struggle for existence In the
planets decrepitude and decay would
tend 10 evolve intelligence to cope with
circumstances growing momentarily
more and more adverse But. further
more. the solidarity that the condl-
tions prescribed would conduce to n
breadth of understanding sufficient u
utilize it. Iptercommunication over the
whole globe is made not only possible
but obligatory This would lead to thc
easier spreading over it Of some dOmi
nant creature especially were this be
ing of an advanced order of Intellect
able to rise above its bodily limitations
to amelioratiOn of the conditions
through exercise of mind. What alb
sence of seas would thus entail alb
sence of mountains would further
These two obstacles to distribution re
moved. life there would tend the
quicker to reach a highly organized
stage Thus Marian conditions them
selves make for intelligence. -Percival
Lowell in Century.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-15
Hiding Places of Diamonds.

II the Regent diamond as shown In
the Louvre is only model in paste
and the real stone is hidden away. 1t is
a case of history repeating itself for
In 1897 when the Regent diamond was
pawned for house furniture to NanGen-
berg, a banker of Amsterdam and be
was demonstrated with upon the dan
ger of exhibiting 1t to the public he
replied: 1.-THE Regent that is In the
glass case is sham. The real Regent
Is In my wife's stays."-Pall Mall Ga
Zette.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-15

Two boys of strict Free church par
entage and upbringing in a Scottish
town were comparing iniquities. One
boosted that he had furtively been at
a circus show "Ah. but ! have done
worse than that" said the other, for
I've been once in the pit at the theater
and twice in the Established kirk
Blackwood's Magazine.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-15
For the Next One.

Nagger--Tve put one poor chap on
his feet, anyway Mrs. Nagger- Whom
have you been fooling your money
away on now? Nagger Your next
husband. madam! I've had my life in
sured. -London Telegraph.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-15
His Weinht.

"what do you think young Chumpley
weighs?"
about 200 pounds on the scales and
about ten ounces In the community.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-15
A Pert Answer.

Mistress (astoundedl- can't read
Norah? Coed gTclous' How did you
ever learn to cook so well? New Cook
Shore, mum, OF lay It t not bein' able
to rade tn cookbooks. Town and Coun-
try
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-15

Aged Admrer Think Of all the lux
urIes a rich husband like me could
give you! Miss De Young rich
father would do just as well! Marry
my London Standard
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1908-04-03

Should there be more than one
correct answer, or should two or more
tie in being correct or nearest. correct
in their solutions, awards will then be
made upon penmanship and general
neatness and completeness of contest
ants papers. 3
If you are fortunate in getting
one of our Credit Checks as an award
and already have a piano, the Check
may be disposed Of to some one less
fortunate, providing such transfer is
properly Endorsed by us.
There are no limits or restrictions
as to the number Of contestants in any
family, but only one prize will be
given in such family.
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Rules CoVer,l1iIA
Contest and
Awards

The envelopes containing the SOL
utions of the Rebus as submitted by
the contestants will be opened for
record short time previous to the
date on which the awards are to be
made. The answers will then be ex-
amined in the presence of three i'm
partial judges, Judge J. F. Henry,
county judge, R. V. Bice, deputy
comfy auditor, A. j. Ross, assistant
cashier Devils Lake State Bank.
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Credit Checks

Good on the purchase price of any
new piano, p'ayer-p'ono, or piano
PLAYER in our WdrerOOmS
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This is your opportunity TO
*tc1te fine piano. oinncs
:: oyer or r. cA'i;:s ctciT
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Prize No. q

Prize No. A-To the person sub.
hitting the; fourth best solution we give
absolutely free of charge beautiful large
mission Rocker suitable for lady OF gent
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-03

Any erroneous reflection upon the
character, standing or reputation Of any
person, firm or corporation that may ap-
will be gladly corrected upon it being
brought to the attention OF the manage
ment.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-03
FIREMEN AS ARTISANS.
Everything From Baby Buggies to
Power Boats Made i'm Stations.

Much has been written about fire.
men. For years they have been the
popular heroes of the land. Thou
sands have delighted in the stories
of their bravery and achievements,
Their thrilling adventures and es-
capes from death as the routine of
their daily lives is an ever popular
subject in song and story. Every
phase of their life and work is ia
miliar to the public-with one ex-
ception. This story is about that one
exception.
In the loft or basement of nearly
every station house in Cleveland is
carpentry shop. From these shops
are turned out some of the finest ex-
amples OF mission furniture. art glass
domes, and art metal work to be
found anywhere in the country, and
as they are not placed on sale or
exhibited, except in the humble
homes of the fire fighters who make
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-03

Austin dispatches say that Gov
ernor Campbell's friends are a bit
alarmed over the Williams candida
cy, but the governor seems to think
their fears are without good founda-
ton. 1t is noticeable, however, that
the governor is busy with his cam
paign and that his official family is
filling the state papers with ''politi-
cal dope" calculated to prove that
the Campbell administration Is be-
yond all comparison the greatest in
the history of the state and that to
defeat him would be a public calam-
ity. One of Mr.. Campbell's Denton
county admirers asserts the princi-
pal, In fact about the only, opposition
to the governor comes from the tax
dodgers, moropolists and pass pack
| ers." But IL that is really the case,
which we do not for a moment be-
lieve, there are more tax dodgers,
monopolists and pass-paokers" in the
state of Texas than we ever had any
idea of before. In fact, the chief ele-
ment among the pass-packers, the
politicians, is undoubtedly for the
governor and, at least here in Den
ton county, the principal opposition
to him comes from the plain people
who have neither political axes to
grind nor political favors to curry.
Denton Record and Chronicle.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-03
W. A.OWNBY City Editor
Residence Phone, Bell No. 28s.)
THE POWER TO RESIST OPPRES-
SIVE TAXATION.

The people should never permit
themselves to be deprived of the
power to scare off" the man in pol
tiles when he jumps on them and de-
mands too much taxes. 1t will be alas
and alack for the taxpayers when the
tax gatherer can demand all he
wants without being responsible d.
rectly to the voters. Long distance
tax hunters have never been satisfac-
tory. What Texan would be willing
for tax assessors to come from New
England or Old England and fix the
amounts which he must pay? How
could the people of Texas save them
selves from oppressive taxation when
the men responsible for II WIRE en-
tirely beyond their influence or
their reach! A free people should re-
serve the right to elect their tax
CATERERS. unless they really have no
care as to how much Is to be extort-
ed from them, says the Dallas News.
The other plan has never meant but
the one thing-extravagan extor-
ton, oppression. 1t meant this in
colonial times, and even in bible
times; and 1t means this today
The man in politics prefers an au-
tomato, irresponsible tax fixer, Why?
Because it takes what it wants and
saves him from direct responsibility
for large appropriations, more Offices,
higher salaries and extraordinary de-
mands for revenue. 1t is shrewdly
contrived machine that never works
should never suffer themselves to be
deprived of the power to elect their
own tax gatherers, or the power to
saddle responsibility for increased
and unjust burdens upon somebody
duly answerable to them at the bal
lot box. When they do this they have
surrendered the very best of all their
means of self-protection.
A result of such loss of power on
the part of the people is now found in
an appropriation of s156 .000,0 600 a
year to pensioners, forty-three years
after the war closed, when even a
friend of the soldiers like Gen. Grant
put the high water mark at $50, 000,-
900, and another friend of union SOL
diers, President Garfield, declared
the limit had been reached at s25,-
900, 000. In congress pension bills are
pushed through (even after the bu-
reau has rejected them). at the rate
of forty per minute. There has never
been presented before such desperate
and scandalous grabbing for the pub
lie money. Why? Because the vote is
not even taken down, and the par
ties In power. being afraid OF the PEN
sion vote, have SO arranged II that
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-03

no member is responsibleeto his con-
stituents, to the voters, for the steal
ing, the plundering of the people that
Is now perpetrated openly. The ag-
gregate result is found in the APP
preparation largely misapproative)
of $1,026, 100000 at one session of
congress. ~
If the people had held fast to their
authority and power, such extortion
and oppression by the irresponsible
man in politics would be impossible.
They must hold fast to their right to
elect their tax CATERERS in Texas
and in other states, or. In few
more years. the man in politics, with
an automatic scheme OF doing the
business, can take just what he wants
and not be responsible to the people
any more than the billion-dollar con-
gresham now Is.
OF course, with the people to Sc
lect their own tax gatherer, leaving
with the voters the power to resist
injustice and extortion, there will be
some irregularities and some inc
qualities. But local self-government
is democratic at this point If it is
democratic anywhere else; and, at
last. it must be, as some would say
a choice between two evils--the ir-
regularities that come of local self
government and OF the power of the
people, or the extravaganza, extor-
ton, oppression and tyranny that
never fail to come when the power
of taxation Is turned over to the
ambitious man in politics. The one
system means that the people rule
and govern. The other plan means
that the private citizen is merely a
helpless tax-bearing animal, who is
quite sure to be condemned as per
jured tax-dodger when he essays to
protest, and to be penalized merci-
lessly If he even dares to complain
The people OF Texas may not believe
it, but their power at this vital point
is slipping out of their fingers; and
when such prerogative is once lost
it can never be regained.
What power has any voter or any
number of voters in Texas to stop
the open raiding of the national
treasury? All that 1t remains for the
voters to do is to pay trust prices fol
hardware and other necessaries and
thus, in extortionate prices, put III
more and more and more money fol
the all-powerful man in politics tt
misappropriate. Already any effor
to make it otherwise is vigorousl.
condemned and is apparently hope
| less. With a hundred similar instan
ces before him the Texas taxpayer
as well as the taxpayer in siste
states, should see to it that he holds
fast to his great prerogative at this
vital point. Human rights and pop
ular liberty themselves hinge upoI
this one power to resist oppressive
taxation.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-03
WEALTH OF GAR NICHOLAS
Income From the Imperial Damains
500, 200, 900 Annually.

ST. Recommendations the i'm
perial state treasury pays out $500
600 per annum for the needs of the
imperial house of Romanof-Holstein,
principally for maintenance OF pal
aces and the officials and servants
attached to them, 1t should not be
supposed that this constitutes the
cars income. His principal sources
are the imperial domains, which are
the joint property of the members
Of his family and what are known
as cabinet properties, lwhich belong
to the monarch Urly as car, and on
his death are transferred to his sue
cessor. From neither the imperial do
mains nor the cabinet properties,
which consist principally of Siberian
mines. have figures been published.
1t is mo- exaggeration, however, to
state that the income from both
amounts to over 100000 an
nually.
The imperial domains once belong
ed to the church, but passed into the
possession of the house of Romanof
century ago. They include estates
comprising 21,32S,000 acres, about
a third of which is highly cultivated
land, and a tenth occupied by fac
tories and dwelling houses. Under
the head of imperial domains is also
included certain capital accumulated
by various emperors, and to this
must be added the $25,000,090 re-
ceived from peasants on the imper-
ial domains as the price of their free
dom.
In words of comparison, Nicholas
II receives from imperial domains
and cabinet properties the income
from land larger in proportion than
! the whole of New England, and quite
as rich In cultivation, manufactur-
ing, and much more wealthy in
mines.-New York Times.