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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-11-26

President Taft breaches civil SER
vice reform and especially is he con-
cerred that the census bureau shall
he free from politicians, but when It
comes to making the appointments he
Yields as obediently to the behests OF
the congressman and party bosses as
~ the National convention was about
to assemble.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-11-26

Two years ago the railroads were
hard pressed for track room to store
their empty freight cars. Now they
are placing rush orders for tens OF
thousands of new cars in an effort to
meet the unprecedented demand for
facilities for moving the resources OF
the country.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-11-26

in one day, but were more '''" =,
hours. One night was spent =" \,
Cumberland Mountains, Wne'' ~,
party was lost and went h''"' ,,,
out of the way. Seven tres W" T..
punctured and the machine was
quently out of fuel.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-11-26

President Finley advises people TO
stick to the farm. Funny that this
character Of advice always comes from
those VINO did not stick to the farm.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-11-26

His numerous friends join in ex-
pressing the hope that DR.. Forgey will
be speedily restored to the full enjoy
ment of his accustomed health.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-11-26
IS LADIES, AND MISSES SAMPLE
SUITS Va OFF.


SUITS 70 OFF.
These come in all the new fall
shades & Black, the Misses are IA,
16 & 4S & the Ladies' are "a to 40.
No two alike. They were $500 to
$4,000 each, u off.
GREAT REDUCTION IN LADIES'
G. MISSES CLoAKS.
$4,000 Coats $22.5o.
Long Black Cloth & Peau de Sole
Silk Coats.
$500 & $4,000 Cloth G. Rain Coats
$3.50.
Sc inch Black & Tan Cloth Coats &
Silk Rain Coats, $3.50.
$3.50 & $500 Long Coats $3.50
Black Cloth & Fancy colored Chew
lots.
Fifty Long Black Beaver Cloth
Coats, $1,000 each.
Twenty-Five "a lnch Beaver Clotn
Coats, in Navy, Brown & Tan,$69O
each
One lot of $1,000 to $500 carried
from last season, Tan, Black, Grey
& Reds, $3.50.
MISSES G. cHILDREN's cLoAks.
In all the new fall styles & colors.
twenty-five Children's s to IL Cloaks
that were bought at very great re-
duction, $1.9S each.
WOOL DRESS GOODS
$3.50 & $500 Dress Goods CSC a
yard.
Sixteen pieces Of $3.50 & $500
Broadcloth & Fancy Panaja Cloth, so
inches wide, Red, Brown, Green, Navy,
Black & Old Rose, CSC yard.
soc G. 65c All Wool chaIIes, Csc a
Yard.
Light ground with Red, Navy &
Black Polka Dots, Csc yard.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-11-26

That girl up in Indiana who bested
burglar in hand to hand encounter
is probably suffragette leader.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-11-26

NEW THINGS IN LADIES' FANCY
NEckWEAR.
Twenty new style Fancy Collars 20
each.
$3.50 THIRTYsIx INCH MORE
SILK SIPS
Black, White, Brown Mulberry Ma
Wy & Red.
Thirty-six Inch Taffeta SILK, S@
a Yard.
In all shades & Black.
WHAT WOMAN DOES NOT WANT
A SET OF FuRs?
We have them. All the new shapes
and coIors.. $500 to $3.50 set,
Single Neck Pieces from $1OO to
$500 each. Black Lynx ana the ever
Pretty Coney seem TO have the call
this season.
FIFTY PATTERN HATS Thai
HAVE LOST HALF THEIR
PRICE.
but none of their beauty. $500 70
$4,000. Pattern Hats on sale Satur
day morning half price
HAS YOUR HOME A HAPPY ia
PRESTON?
There is an expression IN homes
Just as there is in faces. We are III .
position to furnish you with Curtains
Rugs. etc to give it that taStelul ef
preston that it should have.
Ten 9x11 Brussels Rugs $ll.oO ea'l
Eight 9x12 Seamless Brussels Fus'
$500. These are the kind general'
sold at $22.5O.
Ten handsome 9x12 Administer hugs
$21.O0 each.
FIFTY PAIR ALL WOOL ~
BLANKETS, $500 A PAIR
in white with colored border and S'S'
and small plaids, in pink, 0lue' '''
& tan.
Warm Quilts for bed covering ="
to $1,000 each.
The Forrest City times., 1909-12-24
GOOD GOVT REMEDY

yeranda. While thinking about It he
hobbled into the woodshed and there
saw the bucksaw.
Then he had an inspiration Seiz-
ing an AK, he tackled the tree him
self. Finally getting the tree down.
he started to saw 1t up for firewood
That night he slept the sleep he used
to know before he knew how to dine.
That job finished. he tackled another
tree that threatened to fall The dew
lis were cast out.
The other day DR.. Prescott went
forth into the streets of the village,
taking the saw with him. When
ever a surprised parishioner COM
mented upon the agility with which
he walked the rector pointed l. the
saw and told of the cure
The trustees of the church are de.
lighted about the improvement in
DR.. Prescotts condition, but are wor.
ried about the shade trees on the
church lawn. II may be necessary
either for the rich parishioners to
substitute some simple cereal for
pate de foie gras when they have the
rector TO dinner or for the church to
purchase a piece Of timber land near
the village.
The Forrest City times., 1909-12-24

North Ann river. where he helped
build a pontoon bridge. the Union
forces were surrounded, and the or
der was given to destroy the bridge
Eighty-five men were detailed to do
the work A death toll of SO was
claimed. and Myers was one of the
two who escaped.
While the forces were lying before
Petersburg there occurred an incident
which he will never forget One of
the guards doing duty at the home of
DIR. Samuel Witbars. a supposedly
northern adheren:. but a confederate
at heart. complained of feeling i'll. and
Myers was ordered to provost duty.
The night before two guards had been
found with their threats cut. and My
ers was more than ordinarily eau
tious that night
1t was almost midnight when he
saw something moving outside the
house that resembled Newfoundland
dog Challenging the object three
times and receiving no answer, he
fired, and then running over, struck
the object terrific blow on the head
1t was DR.. Withers, large razor In
The Forrest City times., 1909-12-24
FINDS RARE GEMS IN BIRDS
American klond iker Presents to Can
ada Many Specimens Found in
Gizzards of Ptarmigans.

Ottawa, Ont.-Wilson Foster. Klon-
dixie prospector. has presented the
Dominion museum with $1,000 speci-
mems of minerals secured in the Klon-
dixie region, gold. topaz opals. etc
Many of the specimens We're taken
from the gizZards of ptarmigans and
grouse found in the rich mineral bear
ing districts of the Yukon They rep
resent almost every kind of precious
stone except diamonds.
While prospecting here Foster no
ticed the birds always picking away
at stones and trapping many he was
astonished at the variety and value
of the stones found in their gizzards
One curiosity he is giving to the
museum is mastadons tooth, weigh
ing Ii pounds.
He will present TO the British mn-
scum at London. where he is going,
collection made No OF $4,000 speei-
mems of minerals. probably one of
the largest collections in ths world
Fosters baggage consists of two
trunks, but in these two he has not
less than 100000 mineral specimens
from all parts of the Yukon
Foster IS native of st. Louis.
The Forrest City times., 1909-12-24
Pacific's First Concrete pier

The hrst concrete pier on the Pa
enc coast. and a big one it is. has
been completed recently. Extending
IN a straight line l 1000 feet out into
the Pacific ocean this latest examine
In wharf construction is at Santa
Monica. where the longest wharf in
the world-the Southern Pacific rail.
road pier at Port Los Angeles-fs
already located.
So far and the piles of the land.
ward end of the new pier have been
IN position for several months-the
sea has not made the slightest i'm
preston on the concrete posts Tere.
dos, those sea worms which make the
HE OF the wharf builder continuous
nightmare, are powerless to penetrate
the new piles; barnacles cling to them
IN small numbers, but can do no dam.
age, while the strongest waves of the
sea break aimlessly against the
smooth concrete and without f,eleteri.
Gus results to the wharf which they
support.-Cassier's Magazine.
The Forrest City times., 1909-12-24
Build Steel War Balloons

partments to enable the craft to keep
atioat in case any one compartment
is injured. This feature is in line
with the decision reached by the
French aeronautic engineer in build.
Ing the new army airships.
The car is to accommodate 20 pas
sengers as we'll as extra ballast in
the form of two aeroplanes of the Far
man type. All arrangements will be
made TO provide cooked food for pas
sengers and crew, which will be pre-
pared on board. There will also be
miniature salons and sleeping hunks
1t is proposed 10 carry aeroplanes
TO use them in case of war like tor
pedo craft. The great airship itself
Is regarded by the inventor as a large
ironclad. 1t will naturally be able to
resist attack that would destroy rub
Der or aluminium craft. and will be SO
constructed that II can ram aerial
opponents.
Being made of steel. Il can hold gas
far better than any other vessel. IL
is not so affected by changes in the
atmosphere. which cause contraction
and expansion. and will lose only
small percentage of its buoyancy in a
year.
The Forrest City times., 1909-12-24

one hand, his form enveloped in a buff
falo robe. dead, Myers was court-mar-
tailed and acquitted.
In the battle of Fort Harrison. in
a hand-to-hand encounter he was
struck in the mouth with the butt of
a confederate musket He ran his
bayonet through the man who had
struck him, killing him Instantly; but
Myers still carries the scar of that en-
counter.
In the battle of Fredericksbur his
clothing was shot into shreds and his
canteen shot of his person. but he
was uninjured In the battle of the
Wilderness he was not so fortunate
however, for he was. shot below the
knee. and lay on the field four days be-
fore he was found He was finally
mustered out of service March Il,
1866, at Philadelphia. Many years he
spent in travelling; but for some time
has been living quietly, as BELTS his
years, at Lime Ridge.
Mr. Myers is Frenehman by birth,
and his grandfather came TO this
country with Lafayette and served as
a cayalryman.
The Forrest City times., 1909-12-24
Metal Aircraft to Garry Twenty Pas
senaers, Sleeping Bunks and Two
Aeroplanes.

Vienna AT the Daimler Motor
works here a dirigible balloon of soft
steel IS being built Instead of using
rubber and silk. like Capt Thomas
S. Baldwin, the American airship
builder, or aluminium. like Count Won
Zeppelin. Herr Won Walaeh, the Aus
trian inventor. makes his entire gas
balloon OF steel.
Though the craft Is we'll advanced
in construction. details are carefully
guarded It's size cannot be learned.
but 1t is known that the steel walls
OF the balloon will be a little over a
half inch thick and consist of many
3sx39 plates All the plates are
welded in annular form by an cleo
tTicai process
The balloon IS of the familiar cigar
shape, painted with a specially in
vented mixture to make it alright
and is covered with a silk paper. in
stead of silk cloth to reduce fric-
ton
The estimated weight of the balloon
is over $4,000 kilos and of the gasoline
engine fuel about $500 kilos This
fuel will enable the ship TO sail "a
hours.
Following the Zeppelin principle.
the gas reseryoi. is to have three COM
The Forrest City times., 1909-12-24
Daniel Murder Trial Beams.

Clarksyille.-O r. Daniel. who shot
and killed DR. John W Mitchell last
September. and was later indicted by
the grand jury on charge of first
degree murder. was brought into the
circuit court here for trial Monday.
The prominence Of the parties ard
the wealth of the deceased has at
tracted more than usual attention 20
the case. The two men were part
ners, and evidence at the coroner $
jury tended toward domestic rela-
tionships which ended in the tragedy.
The defense won bail for Mr. ban
lei behind closed doors, and after an
indictment had been voted the &c
PENDANT was again admitted to bail
Mrs. Daniel, who was in Austin,
Tex, at the time of the shooting. is
expected to be at the trial
The Forrest City times., 1909-12-24

One of the new natural curiosities
in the state is hot salt water we'll
which spouts to height OF 60 or 10
feet. The we'll is located in Da. las
county and was an oil prospect.
A plan is under way to form a sys-
tenn of drainage bitches which will
drain thousands of acres of rich and
alluyial lands in the St Francis Riv-
er basin in Northeast Arkansas.
The Iron Mountain has Just pur-
chased depot site at Wynne at a
cost of $4,000. A building which is
TO cost about $4,000 will be erected
Because of friction in the Trinity
Cathedral at Little Rock. neither the
doan nor the bishop conducted ser
vices Sunday.
A call was issued Monday for a
state convention of landowners. Nor
chants and professional men to meet
In Little Rock on January 81. The
object is TO advertise Arkansas 70 the
outside world in proper and effective
manner.
The Forrest City times., 1909-12-24

fast? Have you got to lay in a store
or starve through the winter? Go to,
girl, and give US squirrels a show"
Pretty soon she noticed that his
chattering had changed. but she didn't
look up nor try to interpret it. What
he was saying was:
4 young man, \ young man. A
young man is coming this way"
OF course. Miss Dolly would have
scrambled up to look for the young
man and make out whether he was tall
or short, light or dark. handsome or
homely. Not getting the alarm. she
continued 70 deyour fat chestnuts.
He's got a gun! He's got gun,
He's got gun on his shoulder" ex-
claimed the squirrel, as he hid behind
a limb and peeped out with one eve.
They ought to have been plain to
the girl as Greek. but she never even
missed bite. 1t couldn't be charged
that she was thinking OF man. Young
or old, and so in an absent-minded
state
And he's going to pepper meme
me- shouted the squirrel as he disap-
peared into hollow limb.
This time Miss Dolly family com.
pretended and looked up Flash-bang
scream, She scrambled up and
down again with moan, and was too
overcome to hear the squirrel shrek.
ing out
He's shot girl He's shot a girl,
He's missed me and shot a girl"
What is It? What have 7 done .
What's happened?" cried the voice If
a man bending over her, and Miss
Dolly shrank away and looked up ~
see young man with a gun In his
hand at her side. Her hand NO..
clasped to her chin and blood was ooz.
ing from under her fingers.
II have wounded YOU" gasnos
the, young man, as he turned pale.
Yes, you have You have tried IN
kill me-"
"Oh, no. no, no. shot at a squirrel
in the tree. l give you nv word 7
shot at a squirrel"
But l was sitting on the ground
here"
Yes, but one of the shots must have
struck a knot and been DETECTED
am sorry-so sorry, can't tell Won
how sorry | am. May | see the wound >
Perhaps the shot only glanced off"
And perhaps | shall carry a HORT.
BILE scar there all my lite" she renlied
with stamp of her foot. You are a
nice man TO be given charge of a gun
How many other folks have you killed
Or wounded this morning"
Co for him, Dolly-go Tor hint"
The Forrest City times., 1909-12-24

The first frost of the season had
come, and Miss Dolly Meserve was on
her way down 10 the back lot with a
basket on her arm. A big chestnut
tree had stood there for no one could
remember how long, and this fall it
simply hung loaded with burrs. The
frost probably had opened hundreds OF
them
The back lot was half a mile back
of Farmer MeseTve's house, and the
girl with the basket was his daughter
who had just completed term &C q
seminary and was home for good. Il
was a biting morning, and she had
donned her mothers hood and shawl
and borrowed a pair of yarn mittens
from brother Will
Yes; the frost and the morning
breeze had done their work. A bushel
of chestnuts peppered the earth and
more We're falling. and the basket
Miss Dolly had brought held only
two quarts She was a girl who dotted
on chestnuts and hadn't had any for
three years. SO II was easy to tel
what she would do on finding the
ground covered With them She sat
down and began to shuck and eat
She turned her back to the wind
snuggled the old gray shawl closer
and began to eat and eat and eat
She hunted for the very biggest and
latest. and didn't mind the squirrel
chattering and seolding on the limbs
above
She knew he was there TO get his
share. and she had a halfformed idea
that when she got through eating she
would throw clubs and give him a
scare Had she been familiar with
squirrel lore she would have under.
stood him during the first five minutes
to be saying;
We'll. upon my soul this is cheeky
of you Haven't you been to break
The Forrest City times., 1909-12-24
GIRL BURNED TO DEATH.
Mother Seriously Hurt in Trying to
Save Unfortunate Child.

Van Buren,-Loraine. the 13-year-
old daughter of Mr.. ant Mrs. Richard
West, living five miles east OF this
city, was fatally burned, and in an
effort to save the unfortunate child
the mother was fearfully burned.
The timely arrival Of a neighbor
attracted by the cries of the victim
enabled him TO extinguish the burn
ing clothing of the mother and her
life was thus saved. In their strug
giles through the house fire was start.
ed in three rooms. and it was by
the hardest work that the building
was saved. Mr.. West was away from
home at the time. and the fire was
started by the explosion of coal oil
lamp.
The Forrest City times., 1909-12-24
EpiscopaIian Rector Finds Effec-
tive Cure in Old BucksaW.
Veteran Decides to Sever Gastronom-
icaI Relations with Canvasbacks,
Terrapin and Wines and Turn
to Tree Chopping.

New York.-The Rev. ]. Prescott,
OF St AIMS p. +. church. Sayyille.
J.. l., has added a bueksaw to the
weapons with which he fights the
world the flesh and the devil and the
other day he appeared on the streets
of the village with the bueksaw over
his shoulder to show his parish how
effective he is.
DR.. Prescott or he isn't doctor
already he will be soon. having dis
covered something) has been the rec
tor of St AIMS for 81 years and for
the last two or three years has sui
fered great agony of mind and body
because he was popular and had so
many milliunaires among his summer
parishioners. He never gets a chance
20 eat wholesome meal OF crumbs
with Lazarus. but day in and day out
has 10 sit up at the table with Dives
and the result is he has developed
just as fine a case Of govt as If he
were 4 millionaire himself
But in a very short time Dr. Pres
colt won't have any govt. thanks TO
the bucksaw. which beats goats milk.
and which, let il be said with no ir-
reverence. seems to have been in this
case more effective than prayer. Fast
ing might have helped some. but. as
already explained. the rector never
got an opportunity to fast
There probably never was a coun-
try parson who knew more about can
,asbacks and terrapin and the merits
of rare vintages than DR.. Prescott
He gave up the vintage some time
ago. but il was too late to cast devils
out OF that foot by such simple sac
Fifice. They got wors. and rheuma.
tism came to help them in the torture
of the good dominic
He fed the millionaires OF his par
sh that he might live the simple .ife
Tor a spell in the Mohawk valley
There he had a special goat to pro-
luce his milk supply and for the sake
II variety he added buttermilk But
spite of that Dr. Preseott's govt
pot no better and he returned 20 Say
lille the other day convinced that as
beg as he had to have the troubles
his pastorate he might as we'll
eve the social Joys.
Ii was three days ago that he dis
bvered the bucksaw by accident He
bnted pine tree removed from the
ctory yard. so that more sunlight
sild reach his aching foot when he
it up on the arm chair on the
The Forrest City times., 1909-12-24
HAD CHARMED LIFE.
Mexican Veteran Fought Against
His Father and Brothers.
Pennsylvania Now Ninety Years Old
Helped Storm Vera Cruz Away
Back in 4o's. and Faced Nu-
merous Civil War Perils.

bloomsbury. Pa-One OF the few
survivors In Pennsylvania OF the Mex
lean war OF 1S46-IS. a veteran of the
civil war. a man who has fought in p
battles, was thrice wounded, holds
four honorable discharges. and who,
when but a lad. saw much Of the civ
ilized world. is John Sylvester Myer
of Lime Ridge. Columbia county. now
90 years of age but who looks easily
20 years younger.
Few men have hac such an expert
ence as this old man. who fought with
the union army because be believed
its cause to be right. while his father.
who disowned him because of his 10y
atty, fought. with seven other sons. foi'
the lost cause of the rebellion And
from that day. Myers. whose father
owned 1900 slaves. has see nneither
father nor brother
\ rover from boyhood. he left home
near St. Louis, when but IL years of
age. and going down the Mississippi
on small boat to the Gulf of Mex
leo. shipped as cabin boy on an
Esslish bound vessel. Three trips
he made. and in 1894 left the vessel
and struck out through Germany,
Switzerland, Russia. Italy and France
In the last named country he was ar
rested and 1t was charged that he
was there in the service of another
country. His fathers money and in
huence purchased his release.
At the outbreak of the Mexican war
he enlisted as a marine and was one
of those who scaled the walls of Vera
Cruz. From there the vessel upon
which he was taken TO the scene of
war was sent TO China. and Myers
went along.
He attempted to settle down to
everyday life and located at Danville.
but the wander-lust soon gripped him
and ii was only month or two until
he had enlisted with the government
to do teaming from Omaha to Cali
fornia. In that service three years,
he made six trips through the Indian
frontier and figured In many a fight
with them.
He was one OF the first to respond
when President Lincoln issued a call
for men, and he was captured in the
Shenandoah valley in 1862. but the
confederates left so small guard
over their prisoners that the latter
set upon them, and, killing them, ef-
fected their escape.
He participated in nearly all the
most important battles of the war. At
The Forrest City times., 1909-12-24
Piucked.

My first case said an eminent
lawyer recently, involved young
woman whose common sense was
about as good as were my chances Of
success After protracted struggle
we got jury which l. in my youthful
blindness OF hope. considered esne-
c1ally favorable to my cause. / drew
my client aside and whispered in a
triumphant tone:
Madam, the jury has been picked
She turned her baby-blue ewes full
upon me.
On, I'm so glad she gushed. be
cause I'm a little superstitious and [
always did have the fullest confidence
IN bald-headed men "-Pittsburg Dis.
patch.
The Forrest City times., 1909-12-24
All Over Arkansas
TWO DIE IN NINE EXPLOSION.
Charred Remains of Victims Taken
from Hartford Shaft.

Charred Remains of Victims Taken
from Hartford Shaft.
Hartford the result of an ex-
plosion which occurred in a coal mine
operated by Bolan-Darnell Coal Com
pany. \. F. Welch. married, and VIII
liam King, unmarried, are dead. and
a fire which threatens the destiic-
lion of the entire mine is ragiais III
a dozen or more rooms where The
men have been al work daily.
The dead men were shotfrers ana
had entered the mine after all the
other miners had come out Oh the
shaft The miners were on their
way to their homes when the force OF
a terrific explosion shook the ground
upon which thew walked. and vas
followed by a deatening roar.
The men rushed 10 the entrance OF
the shaft and the relief party started
into the mine For u time the fire
burned so fierceIy that it was I'M
possible for the meH - descend MO
the mine. but they finally succeed
" ~ SeitiiiiS al tn At+l=Nsi tAaiA ~
bodies of the unfortunate men were
recovered. The TWO men who lost
their lives We're burned almost pc
yond recognition
Two large streams Of water were
turned into the mine. but the flames
gained rapid headway, and the prob
ability of controlling the fire was net
encouraging at any stage. Just what
caused the explosion Will probably
never be known, as the only men
who were in the mine at the time
were the two shotfrers whose lives
were lost. Under the mining Iuies
of the district only two shothrers go
into mine at one time for the Dur-
pose of firing the shots. and this pre-
cludes the possibility of anyone being
in the burning mine.