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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-09-17

Young son. William. who have been
here for the summer with Mrs Moses
father. SIR. Richard Cant. left Wed
La sday afternoon for their home al
Louisville.
Miss Catherine Theobled has re
turned to Nashville.
Upper Lewis. Of Gallatin, is at
tending the fair here.
Mrs. Harvey Neild. Of Fayetteville,
IS visiting Mrs. o. L. DOrtch.
Mrs. T. H. Hindman. of Pulaski, is
listing Mrs. Augusta VOORHEES,.
Jno. A. Baxter. of Nashville, is in
Columbia today for the Fair.
NJ. Mccormack, visiting Elk from
Nashville. is here for the Fair today
MISC Lille Dean Smith will arrive
today to be the guest of Mrs. Billing
ton.
Misses Elsie and Hazel Hooten are
visiting Miss Bessie Tucker in West
End
Misses Allie Davis and Sadie Hamp-
ton are guests of Miss Fannie Lou
Butts.
Mr.. T. A. Notgrass has returned to
Jackson, Miss, after a visit to rela- ,
tives here.
Messrs. Rupert E. and E. NJ. Bar
nette of Gallatin, are registered at
the Bethel.
Miss Sarah Sloan, from Nashville,
is spending the week with Miss Mag
gle Lou Sloan.
Miss Carrie E. Smith, of the city
schools, has gone to Mt. Pleasant to
visit the schools there.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar James, of Flor
ence. are up attending the Fair and
relatives and friends.
Mrs. Proctor Polk and Miss Kate
have returned to Nashville, after
visit to Mrs. Knox Fleming.
Miss Sallie Sullivan and Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. A. Sullivan, of Nashville, are
with Mr.. and Mrs. w. l. Wilkes for the
Fair. IS
Miss Pauline Evertson, of Gallatin,
s here attending the Fair.
Mr. and Mrs. W. ]. Beasley of Cen
reville are here for the fair today ;
Circuit Court Clerk N. L. Clardy OF 5
rutherford county, is in the city to-
lay.
Prof. Gordon NJ Bentley, State
is the guest of Mrs. J. s
J. Jones. IL
Miss Birdie Paisley and Mr.. Yer
on Smith of Pulaski are the guests z
f Miss Bessie Fly.
Mr.. Dixie Blair, of Lawrenceburg, &
} visiting relatives here today and 4
the Fair IL
Miss Ellen Julian of Mississippi, g
primer Institute girl, is in Columbia g
eeing her many friends. 9
DR.. Barnett, of Clemson, N. c.. is
he guest of Mr. and Mrs. John L. g
ones during fair week. 8
Mr.. and Mrs. Trotwood Moore and ::
on, Merrill, and two little twins are
18th Mr.. and Mrs. Wooten Moore and
tending the fair. B
Messrs. Wiley B. Embry and J. T.
1oolen, of the Comptroller's office at D
ashville, were out today to attend
lie fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Miller, of Cape
irardeau, Mo-, are here attending the
air. Mr.. and Mrs. Miller are the n
tests of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Tanner ~
! East Ninth street Mr.. Miller is
brother of Mrs. Tanner and Is gr
'osperous business man of Cape. ce
irardeau, and is acting as judge co
the Fair. ed
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-09-17
Dress Goods and Silks

The largest collection of Dress Goods and Silks We have
ever shown for Fall season
80 inch Broad Cloths, 81 90 to 50 90 yard
"A inch all wool Serge Fancy Worsteds and Sutr.~
81 90 yard
IS inch Serge Cheviots Striped Suitings all the NV
styles and colorngs, soc yard -
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-08
ALL WANT IMPROVEMENT.

The people of Cairo are not alone
in their efforts for Improvement in
their city affairs. as is apparent from
the following editorial in the Globe
Democrat of Friday:
Throughout the country CONNER
cial as well as civic organizations
are taking more interest in the
proper government and development
of cities American cities are grow
ing at an unexampled rate Compare
them with what they were twenty
wears ago and the transformation 60
ing or will ho understood. The
wealth of these cities has increased
even faster than their population
aud this wealth is the basis OF taxa
tirn Yet there is not in the whole
country q city that can offer Itself
as p model in government, aud it is
stated that not one is living within
its means.
Good municipal government has a
widening circle Of friends ard active
workers, but their task is Just fairly
begun This month will witness in
Now Pork City the meeting of a cen.
ference to consider a wise planning
ahead 10 municipalities and to show
the immense loss resulting from the
lack q intelligent plans, The con
fcrcrcc will seek to define the be-
hccs for economic, hyEenic anil kin
drcd action. 1t win discuss street..
rlon spaces. congestion, height Of
buildings. health regulations and
many other subjects on which re Is
the well being cf the population Of
cities. Net ward politician will he
there. He would he as much Of Gu
ricsity in that presence as tho confer
c7cc will be to him He would dis
cliss them as wise guys" and pro
coed with his dirty. and open Grim
NAL. methods of manipulating votes.
81 Louis should wake mp to what it
has at stake in the coming election. "
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-08
social forces and tendencies.

social forces and tendencies.
Never was there such reckless
plunging in experimental legislation
on the subject of the liquor traffic as
there is today. Most OF the expert
iments are not only futile but disas-
trous They interfere with the pri'
lvate conduct of citizens, disturb con
ditions, destroy property and deprive
thousands of the means of living
without accomplishing the desired oh
iect. Extreme measures are always
futile. Prohibition does not prohibit
and excessive regulation nullfies reg
ulative laws.
There is a chaotic tumble of pro
posals bearing upon the liquor traffic
before our state legislature: nor Is
this condition exceptional. Practi-
cally every state legislature is afflict-
ed with food of bills on the subject.
Some of them violate fundamental
principles of government Many of
them disregard public policy and de-
fly the lessons of experience. Most of
them ignore human nature and the
strongest social forces. Nearly all
are raw, crude, impracticable 1t is
better TO learn from the experience
Of others than engage in disastrous
The whole problem of liquor legis-
lation should be divorced from the
hysteric emotionalism and evangelism
which are now the most conspicuous
factors in the attempt to influence
public opinion and legislative bodies,
It should be placed upon basis of
scientific inquiry and sober judg-
ment.
There is no surer method Of en-
forcing public opinion and guiding
legislative action into safe channels
han by thorough investigation. The
work of wcll-selected commission
,reated rot for the purpose OF regu
ating the liquor traffic, but to obtain
and make recommends
ions based upon its researches
would be invaluable at this time.
Ne need light"
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-08
LET Us HAVE LIGHT"

Under the above healing the ST.
Louis Post Dispatch. commenting re-
Gently upon Gov. Hadlcy's PROPOSE
ton to appoint a commission to look
into the liquor traffic in the state. and
the best methods for its regulation.
spoke editorially as follows:
Gov. Hadley's reported plan for
the creation of commission to study
the liquor traffic and the working Of
lews and methods adopted in other
states aud countries to control and
regulate it for the guidance of the
state legislature in dcvising laws on
the subject. is sane and sensible Tn,
only sound basis of legislation is full
knowledge of the principles. the
facts and the results of experiences
ard experiments in the past.
The governor is right in saving
that the liquor question is social. nci
political Social questions are deli
cate and intricate. They require the
most intelligent consideration and
treatments, Efficient leg -lar2n fol
the regulation of social customs ant
conduct can only be framed by care
tul study and wise comprehension o.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-08
LEGAL DECISIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Federal Regulation Of Intra-State
Commcrce-Undcr the safety appli-.
ancc act penalties were sought 10 be
recovered against a carrier for NOV
ing a car with defective coupling
dGyicc between two points within the
state Of Alabama. In United States
v southern Ry. Co. 1G4 Federal Re
porter. 81. defendant asserted that
tho act in question was invalid, as it
enabled congress, under the guise OF
regulating commerce. along the scv
cral states, to regulate the instru-
mcntalities Of railroads used in carry
ing on intrastate commerce. irrespcc-
tive of whether the fundamentally
was at the time Of such use engaged
in intrastate commerce The United
States District Court upheld the
validity Of the statute. and conclud-
ed that it's provisions extended to a
transportation, between points in the
carrier regularly engaged in inter
state commerce.
| Liability of insurer For Fires
Caused by Earthquskes-The prop
erty of the insured was consumed in
| a general conhagration in San Fran
cisco which had its origin in the
| earthquake of 1906. The fire was
started at several points in the city,
and snrcad to the insured property.
| The policy provided that the company
should not he liable for loss caused
ldircCtly or Indirectly by invasion,
or for loss or damage &C
casicncd by or through any earth.
uuaFes. in Williamsburg City Fire
Inns. Co Y. Willard. 1911 Federal Re
porter. i0l. the United states Circuit
Court of Appeals held that although
the words directly or indirectly APP
piled to invasions. they could not be
made to embrace earthquakes; "oc-
casioned" was equivalent to caused"
the phrase by or through" was a
lmere repetition of words meaning
the same thing; a loss indirectly
caused by the progress Of a fire from
a distance. originally started by an
Earthquake. was without the exemp
Ition.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-08
WILL REASSIcN FLEET
3attIcshipr viii Take New Positions
in Various Divisions in Hamp-
ton Roads Today

Washington, March THE battle
ships Of the Atlantic fleet viii he re
ASSIGNED TO the various divisions on
MoHday. The Connecticut will re-
main the flagship Of the fleet. being
at the head Of the first division. The
others in this division will be the
Kansas. the Vermont and the Louis
lana In the second division will be
the Minnesota alone for the present
It i tho intention Of the navy depart
ment. however to assign the New
Hampshire the Idaho and the Missis
sippi TO this division when the lie
re-assembles. The Georgia, the New
Jersey, the Rhode Island and the Nc
braska compose the tltird division
while the fourth divisions consists oil
the Virginia, the Ohio, the Missouri
.anI tho Wisconsin.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-08

yellow journalism went wrong on
The Taft Inauguration in one Chicago
newspaper office as a result of the
Washington blizzard which upset the
arrangements, and in an early edition
it presented its startled readers with
an impassioned story of 10000 men
in the inaugural parade and OF
scores of thousands that damned
the sidewalks and oiled every seat
in the grand stands" 1t was great
though unfortunately not true. In
view of the facts-the snow filled
streets. the abandoned plans and the
disappointed crowds-the printed
story was luminous reading.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-08

The Country Club" correspondent
this morning points out some of the
advantages of the Commission form
of government for cities. This form
has proven successful in cities where
ii has been tried, and decided lni-
provement in many ways over the
form now generally in use, being
simpler and concentrating official re-
sponSibiHtH. There is a movement on
foot in Illinois to have law passed
which will permit cities in the state
to adopt it, One OF the things
that this form Of government
would do would be TO abolish ward
lines and prevent "Iog-rolling 0r
quarrcling in the city council over the
question of street lamps or crossings,
II is no uncomon thing that propo-
sition by one alderman to have a
light or a crossing put in at some
point in his ward, to have aldermen
pop uf all along the line 'ach de-
like recognition tDr his ward,
aud il this Is not granted to vote
against all But the commission plan
has many advantages. 1t would be in
line vita cleaner politics and with
better government generally.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-08
RECALLS FOUL MURDER
Dwelling in Philadelphia IN Which
Eight People Were Killed in
1856 Burned.

Philadelphia, March THE last Of
q chain of incidents in connection
with a famous murder case of 1886
occurred today when a frame dwell
ing in the southern section of this
city in which eight persons were mur.
dered was destroyed by fire. The kill
ing of the eight persons shocked the
country at the time Christopher
Deerlng, his wife ana four children
q young woman visitor and Il lad who
worked around the place were kiIlel
with an axe while they slept by An
ton Probst, who had been employed
by Decring The bodies were discov-
cred two days later The murderer
thumb Which he had accidentally cut
off whilc doing his awful work, was
found near the body of one of the vic.
Tins. This find led to the arrest and
conviction of the murderer The only
member Of the Decriug family left
alive by Probst was a lad who. when
the murders were committed, was Wis,
iting relatives. This survivor, Will
liam Decring, q few weeks ago met a
violent death, falling on an icy side.
walk and fracturing his skull
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-08

| believe the wave of self-dcstructior
which. from newspaper reports. apparent :
is sweeping all over the country Is due &c
a relaxing, II not an utter reiinquIsh'ng, 81
modern life on the vital realities. Men axe
becoming less sensitive 10 their personal re
sponsihiity TO their creator. They forge
they we're placed here TO struggle. The
true spiritual life is to be won only by con
tinual conflict with evil. Too many people.
] am afraid, seek only happiness instead OF
bcing worthy of life. When. life With It's
many cares becomes too great a burden
the aenostic. doubtful about the unknown
, free himself from pain and take the risk
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-08
TODAY IN HISTORY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .
M arch 8.


l1S62-The Confederate ram. the Mer
rlmac, appeared at Hampton
Roads.
l1S64- General Grant formally pre-
scented with his commission as
lieutenant general.
IISS5-Coal discovered in South Da'
kota.
1SS7-Henry Ward Beecher, famous
pulpit orator, died in Brook
lyn Born III Litchleld, Conn.,
June "a, 1913.
1895 Congress appropriated $4,000,
600 for par purposes.
1906-American troops killed 600
Moros in battle near Jolo.
Biography.
Ruggicro Leoneavalla, the famous
composer, was born in Naples, March
8, 1858. As a youth he dreamed of a
military career, but abandoned his
plans in this direction to take up the
study Of music. He went to France
where his lack Of funds caused him
many hardships In the midst of his
struggle to make a living by doing
odd musical jobs as he could find he
wrote poem called "Medici" He de
cided not to wait for the production
of "Medici' but to write something
that would be produced at once. That
was how he came to produce Il Pag
liacco' in five months. On May H.
1892. It was produced for the first
time, ana the next morning Lconca.
yallG was famous.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-08
CHANGING NEGRO POLICY
Georgia Republicans Wiling for
Whites to Get Office in Postal
and Revenue Service.

Macon, Ga. March develop
.ments in the federal postal and revc-
nue. service in the central portion of
the state seem 10 reveal changed
policy in Georgia among republicans
with regard to the continued employ
ment of negroes in government Of
fiices. 4 number of negro mail car.
riers have been dropped in Macon
and many other changes fully bear
out such a view
It is believed in Macon that the
Taft administration will swap all nc.
gro republican interests wherever II
can he done for new white forces
Employees about the government of
fees, It is said. therefore may find
many other changes not to be ex
planned by any other theory
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-08
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.

Average number of complete
and perfect copies of the
Cairo Bulletin printed daily
and Sunday during the year
1898 $50. .2os4
Average numeber Of complete
and perfect copies of The
Cairo Bulletin printed daily
and Sunday during the month
OF January 1909 ............ Pap
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-08
4 SNOWY MAY.

Tho May Queen this year is going
to have the same kind of time that
fell to President TAFT for his Undue
ton into office, il representations are
worth anything. A rural understudy
for Old Prob says that we are to have
no less than nine SHOWS during the
month Of May His basis for this CON
clusion is the thunder We had in Feb
ruary. For every season of thunder
in that month there will be snow in
May Single cIaps do not count; It
must be something more prolonged;
and the aforesaid Old Prob declares
that he counted nine of these sea
sons during the month just passed.
We arc not disposed to take issue
with the prophet for the antics of the
elements seem to allow of almost any
possibility. We have had summer heat
and thundcrstorms in January, so i,
seems only a balancing of accounts
20 give us snow in May; and possibly
by the time June comes around we
will get some April heather. Any
how, we will he Interested to watch
for the verilication of the old mans
forecast. --CommerciaI-Appeal.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-08

They say that there are no goniuses
these days. Perhaps, of course, many o.
the modern lumnaries who are modestll
rated as merely brilliant or clever wouic
have been found among the immortals II
less fastidious days. But, even so, the
times seem almost too democratic for the
birth of so pronounced a patrician as +
genius His aristocracy is matchlessiy eN
elusive. 1t needs to grow in fcudal socIe
ties. These can view without a quaIm ia
>,cr-fccding of the capacious NAV of IL
national genius with all that is denied II
comsoner of cultivation and energy an
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-08
January Circulation.

The above is correct statement OF
the CIRCULATION of The Cairo Bulletin
forthe year 1908 and for the month Of
January, 1909.
CLYDE SULLIVAN,
Business Manager,
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this Ord day of February 1909.
LEO ]. KLEB,
Notary Public.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-08
GET THE MONEY.

Some time ago the grocerymen OF
Cairo presented an ordinance to the
( CITY council of Cairo, which they de-
sired to have made into law for their
own protection, 1t proposed %
raise the license on hucksters to
what they thought would be- and in
tended should be prohibitive figure.
The city coursil refused to adopt ih2
ordinaToo ty very decisive vote
and the city council was right. ii e
reasons for refusing to adopt 1t were
several: the ordinance was intended
to serve the interests of few at the
expense of the many-it was to bene,
fit the grocers and deprive the great
consuming public of the opportunity
of buying from hucksters: and II was
not a revenue ordinance. because 1t
was prohibitiye, or intended and cX-
pected to be So
Very much the same situation is
presented now with respect to the
saloon license ordinance pending be-
fore the city council. The measure
proposed is framed in the interest
of the few against the many, and so
far from being a revenue ordinance,
Ii is in fact a cleyerly yelled scheme
to prevent the adoption of a sensible
revenue ordinance and eventually to
reduce the city's revenue by some
thousands of dollars.
There has been talk about Jump
ing on the saloon men, which is al
together out of order There is no
disposition to Jump on the saloon
men when street is in bad con
ition and needs paving the Board Of
Local improvements orders II paved
at the expense Of property owners,
and there Is no talk of jumping on
the property owNers. When the
Board of Education finds that n new
school is needed II calls for a bold
issue and no one says anything about
jumping on" the tax payers. When
Uncle Sam needs money to carry on
a war he orders business men to put
revenue stamps on their checks and
the man who world talk about
dumping on" the business men
would be locked upon as foolish.
The people of Cairo need better
police protection. better fire protec.
ton. better care of streets. Also
they want their city pulled out OF
debt so as to save thousands of dol
lars in interest every year. They
need money for all these things, and
the only way they can get it under
the law is by raising licenses. The
only way they can get sufficien'
amount of money. under the law. is
TO double the saloon licenses. and
the licenses on wholesale ami mail
order houses.
This is the proposition in a nu
she'll: IT is a purely business propo
sition. and there is no getting away
from II.
II will not he and need not be
= hardship on the saloon men to pa,
this Increased license. They nee,
not pay it If they do not wish to
They can raise the prices of thei
beverages to make up the extra $500
per year. and thus place the bunlcI
OF the tax npon the consumer, wher'
an taxes fall ultimately. anyway.
The allimportant thing for to-
peoples servants to do is to pu
money into the city's purse. let tn
burden fall where Il may, and giv'
the people police protection. fire pro
lection. clean streets, and freedom
from Understanding debt
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-08

edge he has failed to assimilae and could. Mud
society is impoverished IN the same measure II sgf-
fers all his pains and more Its mammoth system IS
poisoned by the Ignorance and the starvation and
the CRIME of the great unwashed even as the midi
vidual constitution is infected by the faint IN any
part or organ.
In this way society will be given the complete
use of all its constituent parts to the fullest capacity
No member will be exploited to the neglect Of
another
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-08

The Bulletin is on sale at the fol
lowing places:
CoIeman's, 214 Eighth Street.
Halliday House News Stand.
Blue Front Restaurant.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-08
Modern
Culture
Not Fndi-
vidual
By ADA MAY KRECKER.

substance they admire the glory and art that are coSd
oong his renowned cans and manuscripts an
discoveries.
democratic order people fail to he happy unless other foN
are ocoy easy So we every gets share
goodies And consequently nobody has much the adyanag
still But they look TRIVIAL Pe'd
Athens than 80 cent OF the poPaf
were saycs or of medieval Eng land lcae And
these differences mocr notion is developing Wa
some such democracy Ward has toru ID hs sGpsdou
educational scheme
In This he proposes that the principles of all the leading phases
knowledge every child and youth lie argues That ever
educated member the community inefficient by the of know
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-03-08
Superstitious Brokers,

About the London Stock Exchange.
few years ago. and probably now, a
man might have been seen with a
small bag Of nuts. The brokers would
bus these for luck.