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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-01-14
SELECTING BABIES.

If you were going to baby auctio
and wanted little one to cheer you
home, what kind of baby would yo
ask for? You probably hadn't though
about it. Then what kind of bah
would you imagine those who do g
where they have them want? 1t will
doubtless be a matter of surprise t.
know that it is the little blue-eyed
lfair-haired, dimple-cheeked girl bah!
that is most in demand. Records
compiled by foundlings home IL
Cleveland, Ohio, show that nineteenth:
| of the people who have choice in the
matter want the kind of baby de
scribed
1t is usually the people Of moderate
means who adopt children. There are
of course, wealthy folks who go to the
homes for heirs and heiresses, but as
rule those who are not overly blessed
with this worlds goods are the per-
sons most anxious to share what they
have with the little ones. For this
reason one might be led to the con-
clusion that boys would be in greater
demand than girls. On the contrary
the facts show the very opposite. Nine
people would adopt little girl as
their own where one would take the
boy. At least that is the experience
of one of the largest homes in the
country and human nature, 1t may be
supposed, is not radically different in
the Ohio city than it is elsewhere.
So far as we have observed the
olive complexion and lustrous brown
eyes of the brunette are about as
much in demand in the matrimonial
market as the fiaxen hair and eyes
that reflect the blue of the heavens of
her fairer sisters. But the case is
evidently very different in the baby
market. We have no preference in
types of womanly beauty. To us all
women are beautiful; some little more
30 than others, but we must confess
a preference for the fair-haired, blue
eyed baby. They come just a little
nearer rejecting our conception of an
angel than the darker type of beauty.
When they reach womanhood charac-
.er and not personal appearance give
hem the angelic appearance.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-01-14
REGISTRATION BOOKS
WERE OPENED TODAY
ALL OVER COUNTY
CONSIDERABLE INTEREST SHOWN
AND FAIR NUMBER GET THE
CERTIFICATES.
THE COURT HOUSE BOX LEADS
Fifty-two Registered at 2 O'clock
Seventeen at Mt. PIeasant-Eioht
at Culleoka-Some of The Other
Points.
(From Thursdays Daily.)

The registration books were opened
to-day at all the precincts in the coun-
ty for the supplemental registration.
With the county election three weeks
off, and with many candidates in the
field, there is much interest in the
present registration, as there is a de-
sire upon the part of all the aspirants
to bring out full vote. The books
will be open for the balance of the
week, and this will be the last oppor-
tunity to register before the election.
The registration is proceeding with
reasonable dispatch, and reports from
number of boxes throughout the
equity show that the voters who are
not already equipped with the neces-
sary credentials are hustling to get
them
The heaviest registration reported
from single polling place is from
the Court House at Columbia, where
Major j. T. Williamson and Esq. H. r.
Fariss are in charge of the books. At
2 o'clock fifty-two persons had regis
tered there, and Of this number twen-
ty were renewals. Thirty-two were
new.
At Dooley's Store, also in the Ninth
district, but three had registered at
that hour.
The reports from other places scat
tered over the county showed the fol-
lowing registration at o'clock:
Culleoka, 8; Hampshire, Is; Bigby-
vile, z; M. Pleasant, H.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-01-14
wHY uNpEMocRATIcf

The Governors Nashville organ de
cIares that with the exception Of IN
prohibition laws passed BY the las
Legislature all temperance Legislation
in Tennessee has been Democratic
Why are the Adams law or the Pen
dIeton bill more Democratic measures
than the Holiday law? No good
reason can be given why IL one il
Democratic all are not equally so.
The original four-mile law, the act
| Of 1899, the Adams law and the Pen
dleton law were passed in exactly the
same manner. Not one of them was
party measure. Not one Of them
stood the test of a Democratic caucus.
Not a single one OF the laws men
toned was demanded in the Democrat
ic platform. Every one of them re-
ceived a majority of the votes of both
Houses as required by the constitution
and that is why they are all today on
the statute books.
The Holiday bill received major
ity of the Democratic votes in both
the Senate and the House. Then
how can any newspaper contend that
it is an un-Democratic act or that it
was passed in an un-Democratic man
ner?
OF course this discussion is intended
merely to generate prejudice and
make more difficult the enforcement
of the law. Had the bill been properly
enacted without the vote of single
Democrat it would be none the less
a law and none the less entitled to |
support. A legislator represents the |
people and not a political party. No
,ne would enquire whether the Demo
cratic or the Republican party was
for the law against MUIR
Ter. BY the way have not the liquor
,rgans been telling us that the porhi-
,ition question was moral and not
political question?
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-01-14
FIGUERS & SON
HAVE BIG SALE
CLOCK CONTEST WILL ADD TO
THE ATTRACTIONS OF Low
PRICES.

T. N. Figuers & Son, in this issue,
announce their annual January Clear
ance Sale. 1t has been custom of
this house for several years to hold
these annual sales and this year they
are offering some exceptionally attrac-
tive bargain throughout the entire
store. In addition to the attractive
bargains they will put on their clock
contest that has been running at their
store for the past eight weeks, ex-
except that It will be for every after.
noon at three o'clock during the sale
at which time $500 will be given
away every day during the sale. which
will last for eight days, making total
OF $1,000 in premiums. Read the ad.
vertisement The sale will begin Fri.
day morning.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-01-14
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

| The Murfreesboro Home Journal an
nounces that beginning with the pres
ent year its subscription rate will be
1.50 instead of 81, the rate long main
tanned. The Home Journal should not
lose any subscribers as the result OF
it's increased rate. 1t is well worth
the fifty per cent increase. There are
country papers that are high at 81 a
year, but our Murfreesboro neighbor
is not in that class.
This incident brings to mind the
fact that the newspaper is probably
the only necessity of life land few we
take it, will deny that in this day and
time the newspaper is an actual neces-
sity) that can be purchased as cheaply
today as it could have been twenty
years ago when everything that enters
into the makeup and publication OF
newspaper was worth just about half
what it is now. Publishers every
where should raise the price of their
productions. White paper is fifty per
cent higher than 1t was decade ago;
printers are being paid from fifty to
100 per cent more than they received
then; rents have grown apace, in
short there has been an average in
crease in the cost of producing news
papers of at least fifty per cent. The
public should at least bear part OF
this burden. The action OF the pub
fishers OF the Home Journal in cour-
ageously demanding what their paper
IL worth cannot be too highly com
mended.
The day OF the cheap paper cannot
last much longer unless there is a de-
cline in the cost OF production. Two
suggest themselves as
of the problem. One is a re-
duction OF the size of the paper, the
printing OF less news; the other is an
increase In the subscription rate.
Sooner or later. IL present conditions.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-01-14
SLASH,NG PRICES
AT CAREERS STORE
SOUTH MAIN STREET HOUSE
WILL BE THE MECCA FOR
BARGAIN SEEKERS.

AS usual the dry goods house OF p.
CARRIER, announces its annual clear
ance sale for January in this issue.
This house has two different ads in
this paper and is teaming with splen-
did bargains. This sale will open Sat
urday morning when the doors OF the
store on South Main stre( will be
open to the buying public. An addi-
tional corps OF clerks have been en-
gagged for the sale and every effort
Will be made to wait on the trade.
The store will be aglow with red tags
and every article in the house will be
marked in plain figures. Read the ad-
yertisements and take the paper with
you to the store. Sale will begin Sat
urday morning.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-01-14

Congress is going to investigate the
increased cost Of living. Farmers of
Maury county could doubtless give
some valuable and very accurate in
formation as to why people are paying
more for what they eat than they did
few years ago There will be lie
tie complaint on the score of higher
prices as long as the people are get
ting better paid for what they produce
than ever before.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-01-14

It is evident that the people of Nash
vile are determined to have that mil
lion dollar endowment for the Peabody
school, no matter how exacting and
humiliating the terms imposed by the
donors They have a right to accept
any conditions that may be asked IL
they want to, but 1t is highly probable
that the Methodist church will have
something to say about the right of
the Northern trustees to define its re-
lations with Vanderbilt University.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-01-14

Prohibition advocates need not be
discouraged because the liquor inter
ests have scored the first nomination
for the next Legislature. Two years
ago Currie Dixon, OF Haywood county,
was the first nominee and the Legis-
lature passed the Holiday bill; four
years ago Fred l.. Schubert was the
initial nominee and the Legislature
enacted the Pendleton bill. From
which we cannot conclude otherwise
than that the early bird does not al
WAYS catch the legislative worm.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-01-14
MUST INCREASE THE
YIELD PER ACRE OR
FACE FOOD FAMINE
SOUNDED BY PRESI.
DENT OF THE NEW YORK
CENTRAL.
Despite Succession of BountifuI Har-
vests The Speaker Points Out That
Prices Have Been Steadily AdVanc-
ine-ProbIem For The Economists.

| BOSTON, Jan. 1--WE must in
crease production per acre by more in
telligent methods or we must face the
relentless, certain day when we shall
not produce food enugh to supply our
own necessities" said President viii
liam c. Brown, of the New York Cen.
trail railroad, in an address tonight
before the New England Railroad
Club. The wages of labor, he de-
clared, must continue to advance in
fair ratio with the steady increase in
the cost of living.
Many representatives of New Eng
land railroad interests were gathered
about the banquet tables at Hotel
Somerset. In addition to President
Brown, Gov. Eben S. Draper was also
a principal guest and speaker.
President w. c. Browns speech,
coming, as it does, at the height of
new food tide of national prosperity,
was intended for a warning of the
most serious import. 1t gains added
force by it's reiteration of the recent
admonitions of James ]. Hill, as well
as those of visiting studetns of our
internal affairs, and it is especially
timely in view of the fact that the
employees of all the railroads east OF
the Mississippi are formulating de-
mands for an increase in wages, based
on the increased cost of living.
In this connection Mr.. Brown says:
Wages must go up in about the
same proportion that the purchasing
power of the money the laborer earns
goes down"
Mr. Brown said in part:
The most portentious cloud discerni-
Bile upon the political or economic ho-
rizon at this time is the steady, relent-
less increase in price Of everything !
hat goes to make up the cost of liv-
ng.
With succession of bountiful har-
vests, the price of grain has steadily
advanced until the prices of 190S-1909
show increases over those of 1898 as
ollows.
Corn, an increase of 1922 per cent;
,ats, an increase OF 85.1 per cent;
wheat an increase of sos per cent;
potatoes, an increase of 70.5 per cent;
lay, an increase of 497 per cent.
With normal increase and no d.
ease to deplete our herds, values have
increased marvelously Notwithstand-
ng the advent of the automobile,
Iorses and mules show an increase In
alue OF more than 100 per cent.
The product of the foreset make an
aually marvellous showing. Anthra-
lite and bituminous coal have adj
anced 20 to AZ per cent, respectively
ard 113 per cent; pork, 50 per cent,
nd tallow, So per cent. During this
ime farm lands in all parts Of the
Vest and Middle West have fully
Dubbed in value.
This unusual phenomenon OF steadi-
Y rising values in the face of long
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-01-14
NO YOUNG FISH
FOR DUCK RIVER

Uncle Sans supply of fish has run
so low that there are none available
for use in the Duck. This information
is contained in letter received by
Postmaster Jackson, in reply to a re-
quest made by him. Mr.. Jackson has
placed many young fish in the Duck,
and is largely responsible for the rep
utation of that stream as a fishing
ground This time, however, he failed
to get immediate results, but expects
to secure the fish later on. The letter
from the Fish commissioner follows:
Department of Commerce and Labor
Bureau of Fisheries,
Washington, Dec 81, 1909.
MIR. John w. Jackson,
Columbia, Tenn.
Sir
The supply Of fish for distribution
having become exhausted before your
application was reached, it will be
necessary to continue the same on file
until next year, when it will have spe-
cial consideration and take precedence
over all requests of a later date.
Respectfully,
GEO. w. BOWERS,
Commissioner.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-01-14

continue. the papers Of the country
must choose between the two. Prohts
have never been large in the news
paper business. certainly they have
never been sufficient to meet a nifty
per cent increase in cost without some
addition TO the selling price.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-01-14

Whatever opinion one may enter
tain OF any OF Mayor Blddle's other
appointments none will deny that his
re.appointment Of the members OF the
present efficient are department is de
serving OF praise.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-01-14
BACK TO THE FARM.


A news special to one Of the Nash
Vile papers records the fact that man!
persons living in Dickson, discouraged
over the increased cost of living anC
the stationary level Of wages. are
leaving town and moving back to the
country. This Is unquestionably the
best solution we have yet observed
for the Increased cost of living" prob
lem that is engaging the attention OF
the lawmakers as well as keeping
father awake o. nights in vain at
tempt to figure out how he will make
one dollar do the work of two dollars.
The constant drift of people from
the country to the cities; the crowd
ing of the towns and the consequent
depopulation OF the country has un-
doubtedly contributed more than all
the other causes to the upward ten
dency OF the prices Of the necessities
OF life. There are very few If any Of
the agricultural counties of Tennessee
that will show an increase in the coun-
try population as compared with ten
years ago. On the contrary the towns
will nearly all show substantial gain
in population. BY the last census sew
eral of the richest agricultural coun-
ties of Middle Tennessee showed an
actual loss Of population. Conditions
In Tennessee are not unlike those
which prevail in other States.
Legislation cannot cure the ills of
which the people are complaining.
Food stuffs are costing more for the |
simple reason that there are more
people to feed and fewer are engaged !
in the task Of producing the grain |
and meat and other articles of diet
necessary to feed them. The demand |
is entirely too great for the supply. |
Prices cannot be regulated by law and |
even If they could it is very doubtful
if Congress or Legislature could be
induced to pass an act that would re-
quire the farmers to accept fifty cents
for their corn where they are now get
ting eighty cents; or sixty cents for
wheat that they are selling for SLIPS
or to take four dollars for hogs that
are bringing them twice that sum.
Congress has no power to force wages
to level that will bear some just
and reasonable relation to the cost Of
living.
There Is but one remedy for the
problem that will actually solve it.
For the past thirty years the growth of
the urban population has been very
much more rapid than the increase in
the country population. The tax on
the American farms has been too
heavy People must go back to the
farms. There is no paucity of land.
There is vacant land enough in this ;,
for 100000 families and then
we would not be crowded.
We have always wondered what :,
here was in city that would attract =
people from the country where they
nave an abundance Of good air, light, :,
water, fuel and good associates to
enement house where they have none :
# these most desirable accessories OF
life. But there are millions of people
Who would arther live in squallid
Misery in dingy old tumble down,
unless, airless and dirty hovel in a N
ity than spend their days in comfort Ell
nd decency on the farm. 1t will be s.
indeed a blessing in disguise If the ia
Ugh price of food shall turn the tide 10
nee again countryward. it
th
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-01-14

There won't be many insurgents in
Congress when the President gets his
patronage axe to working we'll. The
average Republican 10 not going to
surrender his place at the pie counter
even II TO hold II he must sacrifice q
few convictions.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-01-14

We deny that there is any popular
disappointment over the failure of the
Republicans to revise the tariff down
ward People who we're so foolish as
to expect genuine tariff reform from
the Republican party are not going to
advertise their all too susceptible and
gullible characteristics.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-01-14
A $3.50 Administer Rug Free
Guess How Many Pins in the Boy

display show windows ordinary
will tcky studded
revolving platform which will
pins
every half dollar spend
titled The who the
fine $3.50 ALI
be handed n time during the sale.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-01-14

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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-09-17
w ESTER RN.

Ray Roberts was killed a. Miller,
Neb., Monday while trying to board
moving train, and Verne Reynolds was
fatally injured trying to alight from a
moving train.
In the heart OF San Mateo county,
California, the most beautiful orchids
in the world are raised. and this fact
lie being recognized by King George V.
OF Great Britain, who has sent $1,000
for one Of the rare plants for the
Sandringham conservatories.
A heroic statue Of the Rooeeveltian
bird-the stork-will adorn the fac
ade OF the new court house at Tulsa.
Okla, which is to be built at once in
official recognition OF the anti-race
suicide tendencies Of the people OF
Tulsa county where the birth rate
since statehood was established has
Overwhelmingly exceeded the death
rate.
The government is preparing TO
build what will be the longest fence
ever constructed in the world. II will
extend from El Paso to the Pacific
coast and will divide the United States
and Mexico, c distance of over 1000
miles The fence will be OF barbed
wire, fve-strand. Work on the big I'M
dertaking will commence within few
weeks.
A severe wind, hail and rainstorm
in Texas which swept over four or
five counties Friday night and Satur-
day did untold damage to crops. es-
pecially to the cotton crop, which was
entirely stripped from the fields by
the wind or ruined by the hail which
was unprecedented for Burleson,
Brazos, Houston, Grimes and Walker
counties II is estimated that the cot
ton crop was ruined in about 250,000
acres, being beaten down by the hail
and later washed away.
California: legislature. convened in
special session three days ago by call
of Governor Gillett, passed the two
state constitutional amendments
Thursday that provide S10.000.0oO for
the Panama-Pacihc International ex-
position at San Francisco in 1915. The
two amendments mean a total Of $17,-
500 900 with which San Francisco will
20 before congress in December when
asking the governments approval Of
the exposition. as $7.5o0. 900 Is the sum
San Francisco subscribes voluntarily
to the exposition fund.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-09-17

of Colorado, and that these letters
viu be given TO all newspapers which
maintain a mining department, espe-
cially to mining journals and invest
ors' publications. The letters will be
absolutely authoritative and will e1-
plot the mineral industry and r.
sources of the state in a systema Iic
manner and where it viii do the mos
good Boston, New York and PhiIa-
delphia papers. and also periodieals
published abroad, will be supplied
with these letters from time to tine.
The first news letter will be pre-
pared the latter part Of this week. Mt
Paddock will visit every mining Sec
tion OF Colorado and will seek the CO..
operation OF commercial organizations
in mining towns and cities.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-09-17
WEEKS NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS

The city OF Chicago surpassed the
city OF New York in the gross amount
of postal receipts for August.
The population OF Dayton, o, is
116,577, an increase OF 31,244. or 36.6
per cent, as compared with s5,332 in
1900
At least nine laborers were killed
outright Sunday and 10 others we're
injured in the collapse of an overhang-
ing shoulder OF rock from above the
western mouth of the cid Erie tunnel
which connects the Erie terminal in
Jersey City with the westward divi
sion.
Railroad gross earnings for August
make a satisfactory comparison with
those of . year ago. the total Of all
United States roads making returns
for the month aggregating 33I.i25 927,
gain as compared with the earnings
of practically the same roads during
the corresponding period last year of
l0.1 per cent.
The trip to Panama which Presi-
dent Taft had planned to take in no
vember to inspect the work that has
been done on the isthmian canal, may
be given up. lit is understood that
several Republican leaders have en-
deavored to convince the President
that the political situation requires his
presence in this country.
New York.-Bradstreet's said Sat
urday in part: "Deyelopmenrs of the
week have been largely favorable, in
cluding better weather and crop re-
ports, a larger distribution of fall
goods by jobbers and retailers, more
cheerful reports from the iron and
steel trade, some resumption of tex
tile mills. a reduction in the number
Of idle cars. and shading in prices
OF leading farm products.
Before a half hundred former resi-
dents Of the Centennial state and sew.
eral Colorado delegates to the National
Conservation congress. Hon I. n. Stew
ems. personal representative of Gov
ernor Shafroth, presented a silver
trophy to Governor Everhard of Min
nesota at the state fair Friday. Gov
ernor Everhard in turn gave the
trophy to A. D. Van Sickle Of Warren.
who won the prize offered by Colo.
RADIO for the best peck OF oats exhib-
tied At the corn show in Omaha last
December. In his speech Mr.. Stevens
said that next year Colorado will win
back its trophy.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1910-09-17

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