davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-02-13
The New School. Books.

Probably the best thing we
have seen on the quadrienuial Sc
lection of books for the
schools comes from the New Or
leans Daily States, and the more
significant because that journal
is understood to be near the
powers that be. How it ever
came to utter views so heretical
we cannot guess, as we thought
the impression general that the
children" pronounced with by
phen between the syllables)
were the mere tail to the educa-
tional dog. But the States says:
I'VE are of the opinion that the
members of the board will spare
themselves much worry by
adopting at the outset one or two
simple rules for the government
of their course and then adher'
ing to them rigidly. The first Of
these rules should be to make
the fewest possible changes in
the present situation and the
second should be to give every
reasonable encouragement to
Louisiana authorship. The pub,
lie schools are maintained for the
children of Louisiana primarily
and only. In latter DAYS we fear
the impression has taken root in
many quarters that the schools
are maintained for the benefit of
board members, of school teach
ers, of the vendors of furniture
and equipment and as a founda-
ton for Il comprehensive estab-
lishment of ornamental officers
and employees. We must get back
to first principles and accord to
the children of the State the pre-.
mier place in our public school
system. Those whom we en-
ploy to look after the education
of our children are entitled to re-
spect and consideration only in
proportion as they meet the re-
quirements of the responsible
positions they are appointed to
fill, and the true teacher is the
one whose best teaching is done
outside of text books
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-02-13
Diet for Rheumatism.

Rheumatism is now considered
by many doctors to be a blood
disease and should be treated by
rigid dieting, medicines, at least,
in the first stages, are less effect
i've than curling the appetite.
If one is of rheumatic tendency
he should eat little or no red
meat, no sugar, sweets and acid
fruits and should drink plenty of
water.
This may seem like a severe
treatment for a small complaint
at the first, only tWinges.
1t would be a good thing fer US
who are inclined to take rheu-
matte twinges lightly to recall
the definition of a celebrated man
who had been a great sufferer
from rheumatism and govt. IF
you put your hand into a wise and
let a man press as hard as he
can, that is rheumatism; if he can
be got to press a little harder, it
is govt
Before that wise takes such a
hold that it can not be loosened
take precautions. Dieting may
not be pleasant, but it is pleas
anter than being a rheumatic
victim with only ones self to
blame.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-02-13

Governor Sanders inspected
Southern University (colored)
farm and said that it would have
to be made self-suppOrting or be
sold. Improved methods of agri-
culture will be tried. No stud
ent vii be given a diploma who
has not done a quota of farm
work. The farm was purchased to
give instruction in dairying and
trucking, an admirable idea. 1t
should be carried out. In this
connection, we may say that we
think that white people do not
give enough encouragement to
Frances Joseph of New Orleans,
who is giving the neglected
children of her race a good in
dustrial education and moral
rearing. She teaches the girls
to be good cooks and seam
stresses and the boys learn car
pentering and cobbling.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-02-13
CONCERNING CLOTHES.

A nearby contemporary has
been displaying in large space
most persistently for several
weeks the legend: Wear your
old clothes and don't forget to
smile.'
Salutary advice this, if you
cannot afford any but old clothes.
If you must wear your old
clothes; wearing them with a
smile not only helps in saving
other peoples pity, but it shows
that you are brave and CHEEKY,
and the old clothes are probably
more your misfortune than YOUR
fault.
But at this time when econ
omy is preached in season and
out of season, with reason and
without reason, there is an ele-
ment Of danger in the sartorial
admoniti0n of which we would
fain warn our readers.
Wear YOUR old clothes, if you
must, and wear them cheerfully,
but if you have the price Of new
clothes in your purse, your peck
ct, or your bank, buy them, man,
buy them, and wear them with a
smile. Seeing them
Some forlorn and ill-clad brother
Will take heart again.
The price Of your good clothes
Will put just that much money in
circulation, and some one else in
turn, may be able to buy clothes
with it, and 50 on in endless sue
cessiOn.
For it is not in times Of stress
that the poor hoard money.
They cannot. What they have
and get barely sufices to meet
their needs. They keen money
in circulation. But the well-to-
do man, who retrenches, who
brushes and benzines his old
clothes and holds back the money
new ones would cost, keeps out
good times, just that much.
And so we amend the advice:
If you can afford it, wear new
clothes and wear them with a
smile!
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-02-13
Country Life Board.

The Commission on the i'm
provement of country life reports
that everywhere the people are
rsking for good roads, a parcels
post and rural free delivery.
The Commission furthur finds
among farmers ignorance of the
exact possibilities of agriculture
of their particular sections of
country, no adequate system Of
agricultural credit, shortage of
labor, often complicated by in
temperance among workmen; a
lack of institutions and incent-
ives that tie the laboring man to
the soil; the life of the farm Wo-
man is burdensome and narrow.
The farmer is handicapped by
the speculative holdings of lands,
monopolistic control of streams
and forests, waste Of natural re-
sources, and by restraint of
trade.
Some of the remedies for the
conditions set forth lie with the
National Government, some of
them with the States and COM
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-02-13
THE BROTHERHOOD or
ANAN[AS.

1t has long been considered no
dishonor to be named by Presi-
dent Roosevelt as a a member of
his Ananias Club. The list con-
tains the names of too many hon
Orable men. 1t is as Representa-
tive Rainey of Illinois says: The
requirements of membership in
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-02-13

Did the dense ignorance which
Miss Boyson imagines pervaded
the South before the civil war
proceed from the planters whose
sons were educated at Yale, Har-
ward and Princeton, and whose
younger children were never
without a tutor from New Eng
land? And why we're the officers
who served in the Confederate
army so ill-trained after instruc-
ton at West Point?
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-02-13

New Orleans is now entertain
ing President-elect Taft, delight
fully we know, dignifedly we
hope. This way of throwing fits
over men, whose IDEAS and poll
cies are entirely different from
our own, should not be.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-02-13
Raise Corn, Not Cain.

So long ago that it has become
a classic, William Allen White,
of Emporia, Kansas and the
world at large, wrote an editorial
entitled Whats the Matter with
Kansas" and he summed up his
conclusions on that head BY urg.
ing Kansas tt" raise more corn
and lessshell."
Now comes the staid and sober
Department of Agriculture of
the United States with the self
same advice for Louisiana. After
conference with Representatives
Pujo. Ransdell and Watkins, and
director w. R. DodsoA, of the
Baton Rouge experiment station,
the Department has drawn up a
bulletin addressed to the farm
ers of Louisiana, telling them
that the boil weevil is a blessing
in disguise, since it will force
them to realize the untold re.
sources that lie buried in their
soil.
This is well. The crop of muir,
ders and less bloody crimes in
which both Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi have been excelling of
late is interesting, but not profit
able. We can raise Cain to the
Queens taste; now let's all turn
to and raise corn. O. Item.
Two persons were guillOtined
in Abb, France.
Representative Bennett, of
Kentucky, is making an effort to
have Congress to acquire, for the
benefit of the Congressional Lii
brary, a rare collection of manu-
script books which once belonged
to Chief Justice John Marshall.
In joint session the House and
Senate counted the electoral vote
and declared Taft and Sherman
elected President and Vice Presi-
dent of the United States.
The House passed the bill pro-
viding for the government of the
Panama Canal Zone.
The thirtieth ballot was taken
for Senator in the Illinois Legis.
Azure without result.
City Attorney Samuel L. Gil
more was declared the Democrat
c nominee for Congress from
yhe Second District.
A New Orleans barber was
of selling lottery tick
It's and it was stated the entire
Ottery firm was in that city.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-02-13

which teachers and writer's pro
nounce abominable, but it GER
tainly solved the problem of His
tory made easy for the pupil.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-02-13

Law may bar Knox from the
Cabinet of President Taft. Emol.
uments of office were raised dur
ing his term as Senator.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-02-13

In Freeman ys, .s,8
Natchitoches, the fa'''si 4
recover property fr0u :. ~
because said son did ~, I'd
with the terms Of the E VI I
which were that he > 9gk5
mort his aged parents . :.
err needed no sucn a,,at cb1s
The law requires tha' I'd
should support tns'f hi |
whenever necessary Il 4
wise parent will KEEP t0bp|
ertv for his executors Z
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-02-13

Not only admirers of Senator
Tillman but all Southern sympa-
thizers are glad to hear of Till
mans victory in the Senate over
the reappointment of Crum to the
collectorship of customs at
Charleston, S. G. Crum's name
has been withdrawn. The collect.
or will be named by Taft, and it
will be a test of the latter's sim
certify in trying to win his way
into the Solid South.
The bill to repeal the death
penalty in Russia was tabled by
the Douma.
King Edward of England was
the guest of the municipality of
Berlin.
The American four-masted
schooner Sarah w. Lawrence
was wrecked off Cape Henlopen,
Delaware.
The California Assembly (low-
er house,, reconsidered the vote
by which the separate school bill
was passed and then defeated
the measure.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-02-13

Judge Brunot Of Baton n v
has pronounced in f'V e,, I
Interpretation OF 'lie J, n
feet meaning in an alf -
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-02-13
munities in their corp'l's
pacities, some with s0lali''''l
CARNATIONS, and some
individuals acting alone

The young son Of ., = 7
Jones of Baton Rouge Y !,
cessfully passed bis .
tons for West Point
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-02-13

The bill to repeal the death
penalty in Russia was tabled by
the DOuma.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-02-13

A New Orleans barber was
convicted of selling lottery tick,
cts and it was stated the entire
lottery firm was in that city.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-02-13

City Attorney Samuel L. Gil
more was declared the Democrat
ic nominee for Congress- from
the Second District.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-09-03
THE BIG MASS MEETING
REQUESTS CITY FATHERS
TO APPROPRIATE 100000
THE PEOPLE ASSEMBLED SHOULDER RE
SPoNSIBILITY FOR NORMAL SCHOOL
DONATION.
BUT ONE DISSENTING MADE BY REPREsEM
TArvE cITIzENs-HoN. W. 3. TURNER, CHAIRMAN

massmeeng representative clens
night adopted the following o
Aldermen appropriate one
the Middle Tennessee Nor
mails hooin Columbia:
MASS-MEETING OF THE CITIZENS OF coLUM-
RA IN ASSEMBLED THAT WE ARE HEART
ILY IN FAVOR 100000 THE MIDDLE
TENNESSEE LOCATED IN OR NEAR
THE CORPORATE RECOGNIZING THAT 1T
WILL TO TO HAVE THE
PLACE, THAT 1T WILL BE
SCHOOL LOCATED HERE, THERE
HONORABLE BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDER
MAKE THE APPROPRIATION OF
$coooooo PROVIDED
PLACE.
meeting, which called the
public regarding
which
meeting
learning
and the
physicians
capitalists clerks calling represented
did limit discussion putting final
desiring views number of short
H. dissenting speaker and he cast the
only dissenting vote Mr. Fulton
moment of enthusiasm that
Waned He was given respectful attention.
ment variance with those o hearers.
After the adjournment
of Mayor and Aldermen
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-09-03
DAILY RECEPTION
WELL ATTENDED
JUDGE ERWIN HOLDS INFORMAL
SESSION AND TAXES
HONOREES.

Judge Erwin's daily reception was
attended this morning by the largest
assemblage of dusky society that has
honored the judge for many moons.
The unusually large attendance was
caused by the fact that this mornings
affair was in honor of Mesdames Izora
Sowell and Minnie Childs. The
placidness of the occasion was marred
by the cool feeling existing between
the honorees, but this feature added
considerably to the spice and enjoy
ment of the entertainment. Just to
entertain the guests, Judge Erwin al
lowed the honorees to recount in full
their grievances, and in addition there
was a supporting cast of witnesses
who entertained the crowd with con-
ficting variations. So conflicting
were they that it was hard to tell
just what the matter was except that
Izora and Minnie just naturally don't
like each other much and that both |
are stars of the first constellation !
when it comes to calling names. |
Judge Erwin ended the pleasure of
the occasion by informing the hon
)rees that if they did not get along
better within the next month he
would reserve choice seats on the
county road bench for them for a
ERIN of thirty days. He asked each
o leave in his keeping $5.40 to cover
he costs of the frappe and spices
eryed at the reception Allen Will
Jams, another member of the colored
ace, was charged with using improper
anguage and fined $10.95.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-09-03
FRUITS AT THE FAIR

From the stir that is being made
the fruit exhibit at this Fair will be
the most extensive we have had for
years and will consist of several hun
dred plates. The list embraces all the
standard varieties of fruits. And the
premiums are largely increased, both
in amounts and numbers.
j. l.. JONES' the superintendent, re-
quests you to bring in all the varieties
you have. Five varieties make plate,
but at least ten of each should be
brought in so if one gets bruised an
other can take its place. If they will
hang on the trees until the Fair, let
them stay there, that is the best place
for them, but If they begin
to fall and you do not
think they will last, bring such
varieties to J. L. Jones' Office, Brown
Block and he will have them put in
cold storage and shown at the Fair
without costs to you. Don't hang
back and say the other fellow will
nave his there, and that will do, but /
BRING yours and tell him to come in |
that the longest pole will knock the
40 roi ~, MAN,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-09-03
500 REWARD 500

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at leas;
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all it's stages, and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being
constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Ca.
tarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system, thereby de
stroying the foundation Of the disease.
and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and as,
sisting nature in doing its work. The
have so much faith in its
curative powers that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that II
fails to cure. Send for list Of testi
Address F. J. CHENEY & co.
Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-09-03
TO HAND PLUMS
TO ATTORNEYS
TIPPED OFF THAT GOVERNOR
WILL NAME PURYEAR
AND BARR.

Special to The Herald
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 27.-It is
tipped off that Gov. Patterson will
probably appoint Hon. H. H. Barr of
Dresden and Hon. David Puryear OF
Gallatin, as council to assist Attor'
ney General Gates in clearing up the
title to land around Reelfoot Lake
and declaring the lake to be a public
fishery and hunting preserve under a
law passed by the last Legislature.
Mr.. Puryear is member Of the Low.
er House of Representatives.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-09-03
JACOBS DENIED
RIGHT OF COUNSEL
ATTORNEYS CLASH REGARDING
AUTHORITY OF INSURANCE
COMMISSIONER.

w. B. Bragg, Deputy Insurance Com
missioner, spent Friday in Columbia
examining witnesses regarding the
burning of a house on the farm of w.
j. Jacobs, in the Carter's Greek neigh
borhood. The house was burned some
time ago, and the insurance has been
paid. About a dozen witnesses were
examined, after which the investiga-
ton was deferred until next Friday.
During the investigation a contro-
versy arose as to the right of Mr..
Jacobs to be represented before the
Commissioner by attorneys H. p.
Figuers and j. C. VOORHEES, appeared
for Mr.. Jacobs, whom they claimed
was indirectly accused of arson, as it
was common rumor that the State
Would1 attempt to show that a negro
had been employed by Mr.. Jacobs to
apply the torch. They contended
hat the commissioner was vested
with magistrates authority to bind
over to the grand jury or to commit !
o Jail, and that the constitution Of the |
State guaranteed a defendant the I
light of cousel. After heataed argu-
nent they withdrew, and the investi-
cation proceeded. j. H. Dining rep
esented the commissioner.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-09-03

on education. he proceeded on an
argument along financial lines. and
urged that the 100000 be aPpro-
rated.
J. NJ. Bates.
j. NJ Bates asked TO be heard be-
fore the question was put and urged
the appropriation. The resolution
was then put TO a vote and nearly
everyone In the house voted in its
favor. Mr.. H. o. Fulton was the only
man on his side Of the question to
rise and vote adversely to the adop-
ton Of the resolution.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-09-03
w. c. Salmon.

Mr.. w. G. Salmon was next called
on. He said there were so many
points in connection with this ques-
ton, that it might be argued all night
and still not run out He then pro-
ceeded along an argument from a
financial standpoint He said this
was an opportunity that would not
come again in fifty or hundred years.
81 take 1t that the school will be cheap
at any price" He said that the
Board would be doing its duty to ap-
propriate a hundred thousand TO this
school. That so far as he knew there
was not a man In Columbia who had
held ten minutes conversation with
another person, informed on this sub
iect and who was still opposed to the
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-09-03

The crowd began assembling some
minutes before the appointed hour
and when the house was raped for
order there were fully three hundred
people present. The meeting was
called to order at STA by Chairman
Turner, who stated the purpose of the
meeting "The question that is be-
for the people of Columbia tonight is
how much shall the people of Column
bia offer for this institution" He said
that the Board of Mayor and Alder
men wanted to give every dollar the
city is able to give, but they did not
want to appropriate more than the
citizens wanted to give. With a few
other Introductory remarks, Mr.. Tur-
ner called on Mr.. w. B. Greenlaw to
make the opening remarks.
w. B. GreenIaw.
Mr.. Greenlaw began by telling just
how the Board of Education, of which
he is a member, felt toward this ques-
ton "If you fail in getting this institu-
tion you will regret it only once and
that will be all the time" He said
that this would be as great a thing
for Columbia as the Peabody Normal
is for Nashville, as the Peabody school
is endowed with million dollars
while the school to be stationed here
will yield an income that will equal
the income from a million dollars.
"The question is, is the corporation
of Columbia able to give this?'
believe | am correct in saying that
Columbia is the richest town in the
state in proportion to the population"
He said that Columbia's taxable prop
erty is about two and one-half million
dollars, and that it is always a safe
thing to appropriate ten per cent of
the taxable value to enterprises of
this kind. He believed that the in
crease of taxes would pay the interest
on the debt. He said further that
oShOOi 10 Oh1 VI tHt 6iSdlcSl dSSSlS w
a community and will increase the 6
value. He pointed out by {
way of illustration the remarkable t
raise In property in West End and '
that this was on account solely of C. c
NJ A. He said, however, that If the
c. NJ. A. had to be done away with a
in order to get the Normal he was T
opposed to the Normal This brought p
forth prolonged applause.
Jas. A. Smiser. v
Mr.. Jas. A. Smiser was next intro h
1uced Mr.. Smiser said he believed a
everybody was in favor of the Normal i
school coming to Columbia He heart. \
ly agreed with Mr. Greenlaw in his
He said that he thought
his mass.meeting ought TO urge the
Mayor and Aldermen by means OF G
strong resolution to appropriate hun u
bred thousand dollars. He said that n
from dollars and cents standpoint. to Of
say nothing of the great moral and in. n
tellectual uplift. this appropriation S,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-09-03
Col. Allen Brown.

AT this point there were calls for
Col, Allen Brown, Briefly he said
that the appropriation should be made
He spoke Of the wonderful resources
of this county, referring to the gift OF
North Carolina to Gen. Green. He
said town had to either go forward
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-09-03

could not be put into anything SC
beneficial as the Normal. "To my
mind it is almost impossible to cal
culate the accrued benefits that would
come" He then enumerated the va
rious benefits that would be derived,
showing the trade it would bring the
grocer, the shoe man, the clothier, etc.
1T will benefit every line of life can
think of except the poor forgotten law
yer, and it seems to me that every
body should be hollering for the Nor
NAL except the lawyer. If it takes
the hundred thousand dollars let's go
down in our pockets after it." Mr..
Smiser said it would bring an atmos-
phere of literary effort and learning
and help boost the educational uplift
that has taken place within the past
few years.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-09-03
II. P. Fisuers.

II. P. Figuers said he thought Mr..
Erwin had made a speech that should
settle the matter He favored the
100000 appropriation, and that there
was no use talking about 1t any long
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-09-03
LET'S CONTRACT
FOR COTTAGE

George p. Frierson has let the con.
tract for the building of a handsome
cottage on his lot in Mayes Place.
The contract was awarded to the
Vaughn Mfg. Co.
Subscribe for The Herald.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-09-03
Judge Holding.

Judge Holding said that as Mr.. Fig
uers had remarked that he was
ready. to vote, he supposed that he
meant he wanted the last say and he
was willing to let him have it. He
favored the appropriation of 100000
if necessary. He was not prepared
to say whether it is necessary.