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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-10-27

They allow their children to stop for
he circus, or for a picnic, or be-
'ause they have company or for a
score of other reasons that are EQUAL
y as frivolous. The matter Of get
ing an education is a business End a
very serious business too, and there
are very few people who ever obtain
IN education outside of the school
room. Of course not all educated
folks come from the school room but
the number who receive an education
otherwise is small.
The attendance at the Columbia
public schools last year was excep-
tionally good, but it promises TO be
even better this year. If it continues
as it started out the first mon-h it
will be nothing short of remarkable.
the average for the first seven grades
was over ninety-six and six-tenths per
cent. There are 500 pupils enrolled
in the first seven grades. This
means that there was an average dali
ly attendance of 4S3. In other words
out of 500 pupils only seventeen per
day were absent or less than four to
The hundred. 1t is seriously to be
doubted if there is a public school In
Tennessee that can show better rec
ord. 1t is one upon which the teach
ers and parents of this city deserve
generalization Wherever there is
good attendance, strict regulations
and a considerable honor roll 1t can
be readily assumed that the school
Is doing efficient work. There may
be better cubic schools in the State
than we have in Columbia but on
Missouri. And the situation is one
that is particularly gratifying to The
Herald for in all the bounds of Ten
nessee there is not to be found a
more earnest, more persistent or a
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-10-27
KEEP THE RECORD RIGHT.
In a recent issue the Mt Pleasant
Record said:

. In a recent issue the Mt. Pleasant
Record said:
The Columbia Herald does not al
ways keep its logical sequence on
straight. A little while agone it
made scathing arragnment of the
recall, condemning it as wholly bad,
un-American, dangerous and destruc-
tive to our liberties and civilization.
But in contrast to this view
1t had a half column in
Thursdays issue unreservedly
laudatory of Woodrow Wilson as
a fit man for the Presidency, Though
lie is a we'll known advocate of The
recall. The Herald says, There Is
nothing in his views to unduly alarm
the business interests of the country
It closes its fulsome eulogy of this
great champion of the recall idea by
saving, He will have to change his
way of doing, and his way of taking,
or he will surely be elected President
of these United States"
1t would be just as well, certainly
fairer, if our neighbor would keep the
record straight. The Herald has re-
peatedly denounced the recall OF the
judiciary. 1t believes that the adop-
ton of the recall would be ANITA
mount to mob rule. 1t would suhstt-
tute for TIE peaceful and traditional
processes of he law the whims and
fancies of a majority of the elector-
ate very few of whom would be dual
flied to pass upon the questions at is
sue. The same position has been
taken by woodrow Wilson. Upon no
occasion has he given sanction to this
dangerous innovation. On the contra
ry he has taken pains to let j. be
known that he was unqualifiedly OPP
posed to the recall of judges. There
is no disagreement between The Her
aid and Woodrow Wilson upon this
issue, and the suggestion that there
is displays. an ignorance that is re-
gretable.
However in this connection we may
say that there are doubtless issues
upon which we do not or may not
agree with Mr.. Wilson. We may not
think as he does upon all public
questions but absolute agreement is
not necessary in order to accord him
our support. This journal tries to
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-10-27
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.

The Herald has always insisted
hat children could not get the inesti-
nable benefits tina a public school ed
lcation confers if they did not attend
'egularly. The child who attends
school at rare intervals does not re
aeive much benefit from the school
md is frequently a positive detr1-
nent to the others of the grace Or
lass. The average attendance in the
State has increased in recent years
but it is still too far behind the EN-
rollment. Of course there are fire.
luently cool reasons for the absence
Of a child from the school but too
often the fault is that of the parents.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-10-27

scribed as politician VINO is dead. "
Of course there d occasionally nen
in office by viltUe Of the irresistible
public demand that they shall serve
the State but the cases are Iare.
The election of Hughes as Cove, nor
Of New York is case in point. We
have such q habit of talking about the
ambitious politician who heads the
opposition ticket and the sterling pa,
triot that leads our own ticket that
many of us actually believe what we
say.
The West is progressive, that is it
Is little given to embracing isms
and fads because it's people are less
conservative, more inclined to try in
and "nostrums" than are
the people of the more conservative
East and South. However, what we
all denounced as isms and fai,acies
twenty Yeas ago are eminently con-
sentative doctrines now. And while
we cannot subscribe to all of tue in
novations OF the West many of the re-
forms are real and will last.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-10-27
THE AUTUMN.

The man whose step is not more
elastic, whose view Of life is not more
roseate, whose love of nature ie not
quickened at this season of the year
is indeed an unappreciatiye beng,
He is blind tc the beauties of nature
and the virtues Of mankind. This is
the season when the normal being
longs for the country, when there is
an irrepre3sible impulse to get close
to natures heart.
What is more delightful than a
frosty morning in october in the
country. Especially if the country"
be located in Maury county. The TO-
liage of earth is painted as the hand
of God alone can tint it and its va
ried hues, it's myriads Of color, it's glo-
Tious and gorgeous raiment are sights
that must inspire one with deeper
love of life. There is a tinge in the
atmosphere that quickens the step,
that turns age toward youth, that ex-
hilirates and intoxicates.
This season brings with it visions
of pumpkin pie, and sausage and back
bones and spare ribs and 'possums
and Eaters and pop corn and hickory
nuts The long evenings around blaz-
ing log fires, the signing of the winds
around the house, the feeling of COM
fort that comes from contemplation
of we'll filled cribs and bursting gran
cries and overflowing smoke houses,
all combine to make the season the
best of the whole year.
One is almost irresistably tempted
to forget the cares of business, to
leave the office or the store to fate
and 60 to the woods.
For there Is a pleasure in the path
less woods"
And the man who cannot realize
what there is of joy, of the renewal
OF youth, of the experience that Genes
from a closer relation with the Eandi-
work OF God in its primeval form. is
indeed and in truth blind to the great
est glories Of this world. And he who
views nature at this season and does
not think of the harvest eternal has
surely missed one of her greatest les
sons.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-10-27
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
PREACHERS IN TROUBLE.

Cases like that OF Rev. Mr.. Richie
son, the Boston miliG-e2 cAarged
with the betrayal and subsequent
murder Of one of his choir girls, are
made the occasion for derogatory
comment concerning the ministry Of
God. Other cases of domestic infe-
licity and other transgressions Of the
moral law involving ministers are
pointed TO q S evidence that the minis
try is lacking in moral worth.
On the contrary correctly viewed the
space given to the Richeson case ana
to others Of similar character, and
the comment which they have ELECTED
is proof, were it necessary, of the SUI
perior moral worth Of the ministers,
In order to get good display in the
news papers of the country, to secure
unlimited space and be played up"
In the parlance Of the news gathering
game a story must be unusual Or out
Of the ordinary lt should have fea-
lures chat appeal to human interest
Ordinary, every day events are not
news. There are hundreds Of cases
of divorce, Of the involving Of the
other woman" that do not get into
print save in the columns ofthe local
press There are murders THAI do
not get ten line notice in the papers.
They involve people about whose do
ings and lives there is little or no
public interest. They are common
place occurrences about common
place folks.
But the story" of the moral trans
gression of a minister of the gosnel is
always good news" in the newspaper
sense, because it is an uncommon oc-
currence. The very fact that it is
news" is sufficient evidence to prove
the high moral standard of the minis
try. If Richeson had been laDorer
or bar tender or a street car con-
ductor his crime would not have re-
ceived ten lines notice, If any, outside
Of the community in which it was
committed. But being preacher the
"story" is good" in every cline sufh-
GENTLY civilized to boast daily pa
per. Cases of similar nature are
rare, very rare among the ministers
of the church. And that is the very
fact that gives news value to the
Richeson case. The display which the
papers are giving the details Of the
case and the interest which the peo- i
pie are mantfesting Is the very best
possible evidence of the high esteem
in which the great body of the min
listers are held by the public.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-10-27
NATURES LABORATORY.

MAJ OHE'S LAbOhA UNI,
Farmers as rule take things for
granted. They plant such crops as
their fathers did and sometimes get
AS good results but often are disap-
pointed They frequently find their
farms growing poorer and they DO not
know why. A few planters make
heir land more productive each year
md many of them cannot tell why.
We mean the real reason, for effect
llways follows a cause, Some land
hat formerly grew clover abundant
will not now produce it, and the
same holds with other crops, corn, sol-
Instance.
Good land naturally contains those
elements necessary for the production
Of all crops, but these elements can
become exhausted and some of lem
are deficient in most fields that have
been cropped for a generation or
more Take, for instance, the virgin
soil of the Blue Grass. 1t contains in
abundance lime, phosphorus, potash
and nitrogen Grain uses large qdan-
Cities Of phosphate and potash. To
5acco calls for potash, clover needs a
lime soil. In a lime soil that element
not likely 10 be come exhausted,
1ut it does occur and either or all 9th
ers may become deficient. Nitrogen
is the principle that usually gives
out first and at the same time
the element that can be more
aheaply restored and done by
nature. That is why clover benefits
and, but often clover needs other
dement's to make it 40 Its best or
row at ali. The great fields Of the
West formerly grew corn to pelfec-
ion. Later it gave out because the
Jtrogen supply failed. Glover then
esvorcd chat element but the. hme
md phosphates failing, clover refused
to grow; it was starved out. Chemis-
ly came to the aid of the farmers
.nd The worn out fields were treated
With ground limestone AID phosphate
rock Glover then grew abundantly,
md corn has come into its own again
An engine cannot run with either coal
or water alone; it takes both to make
steam So it takes all necessary ele-
ments to make crop of any kind,
and if the soil lacks them they must
be added. The agricultural stations
In the State are ready at any time to
help a farmer solve these problems.
Some farmers are chemists enough to
work them out for themselves, others
solve them without knowing why. in a
lap-hazard way, but the thousands OF
acres are worked over without intel
igence and fail Of good crops. There
ire always good reasons for such fail
Tres and farmers stand in their own
light when they do not understand
hem and correct them. Each year
armers pay millions of dollars for
heir nitrogen supply when clover
hould do it without any cost, only If
hey would give the legumes what
hey need to manufacture 1t with, at
much smaller expenditure than
omplete fertilizers cost-Our CCun-
ry.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-10-27
LAW AT NASHVILLE,

That even the supporters of Fila-
,ious Howse at Nashville are ready to
concede that a wide open town, the
open and notorious reign of vice and
crime, official approval Of all the low
est kinds Of evil are not altogether
profitable 20 the community, is shown
by the announcement that the lid"
IS going to be put On to a certain ex-
tent And this announcement Is Of,
dciaf tog ii comes through the FER
sonaf organ of the aforesaid HllarI-
Gus.
Even If the law enforcement ticket
lid NOT win no enc, in view Of rese
Developments, can say that it d.t ROT
accomplish results. Fled It not aeeu
for certain political alignments in the
city Of Nashville growing out Of the
recent State campaigns, Howse would
never have been elected the second
time That fact is now plain. The
Patterson element voted for him sol
idly almost, because he represented
that faction, but many of them are
evidently heartily ashamed of the TACT
and are ready to recant. They ZEAL
ize that present conditions are intol-
cradle, that they are not only an ire
nc pnh ln in ia1ry IN ha 70 10 mi
of Nashville but they are doing irfin-
lite harm to the commercial interests.
The action of the mayor is con-
fession that every charge made by
the opposition in the recent campaign
was true 1t is an open admission
that Nashville was not "slandeIed"
for SANDER is always false. And I'M
til conditions are materially imp owed
in Nashville, until the partnership be-
tween oficialdom and crime and vice !
IS dissolved the Christian parents OF
the South owe it to their children and |
to their God to patronize educational
institutions where there is some sem
blance of respect for constituted au-
thority and some degree of reverence
for the thirgs that are decent.
Although beaten in their fight to
elect Mayor who would enforce the
law because it is, right to do go, we
extend congratulations to the Banner
and Tennessean upon the success of
their fight. They made II so warm
for even the victor that he has been
forced to a recognition of the virtue
If their pie form. Nashville can new
ar, never appreciate the debt that it
yves to these two fearless opponents
# the right and foes of crime and h.
vice and the leaders In the recent
fer the work that they did
or its moral and civic regeneration
They have won victory without par
lllel in the history of American cit
es. They have forced the victorious
Mayor to 'lay down" on his best
riends and espouse decency notwith- |
standing his boasts of doing as he
,leased while a candidate.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-10-27
MISSISSIPPIAN
AS A PROPHET
THINKS THAT CLARK OR Will.
SON WILL BE DEMOCRATIC
NOMINEE.
GREENSBORO, N. c., Oct. 24.--

GREENSBORO, N. c., Oct. "a
Senator-elect James K. Vardaman, OF
Mississippi, in an interview today de-
clared that Democracys CHI zee In
1912 would be Clark or Wi. on, and
that with either at the helm, victory
would be easy He was inclined to
the belief that all other candidates
would be eliminated before the date
of the convention. Though an admir-
er of Senator LaFollette, the Missis-
sippian thinks there is no question but
that President Taft will again be the
nominee Of the Republican party.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-10-27
STATE FINANCES
MONDAY MORNING

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Oct "a. The
balance in the State treasury ye-ter-
day was s431, 55016. The receipts
for the day were s7,S84.45. The dis
were s2e,0T4.15. OF this
amount $4,000 went in one warrant
to the building committee of the East
Tennessee State Normal at Johnson
City.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-10-27

that proposition we are strictly from
more tireless worker for common
schools than this journal.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-10-30
The Quickest Cough Cure
Cheap, But UneQualed
\ Whole Pint OF II for 5oc. Saves Veg Ga
Does tns Work Quickly 90 Money
Refundee.

For quick and positive results, the pint
az cough syrup that you make with 60
eent bottle Of Pinsx, cannot be eQualled
II takes hold instantly and viii usually
stop the most obstinate deepseated cough
inside OF "a hours Even GROUP and
whooping cough yield 70 IL quickly.
The user Of Pinex mixes 10 with home
made sugar syrup. This gives you q full
pant-a family supply-of better cough
remedy than you could buy ready mixed
for $50. Easily prepared in minutes
full directions In package.
Pinex soothes and heals the inhamed
pnembranes with remarkable rapidity
II stimulates the appetite, IL slightly lax
alive, and tastes ood-children like It.
Excellent for hoarseness, asthma, bron-
chitis, and other throat troubles, and has
wonderful record IN cases Of incipient
lung trouble.
Plnex 10 a special and highly concen-
trated compound OF Norway White Pine
extract, rich in guaiacol and other natural
healing pine elements. Simply mix with
sugar syrup or strained honey, ia pint
bottle, and 1t Is ready for use. Used In
more homes in the u. S. and Canada than
any other cough remedy.
Pinex has often been initiated, but never
successfully, for nothing else viii produce
the same results. The genuine Is guAran-
teed to give absolute satisfaction or money
refunded. Certificate Of guarantee Is
wrapped in each package. Your druggist
has Pinex or will gladly get It forsSou. II
not, send to The Pinex Co, Fit. Wayne, Ind.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-10-30
ORIGIN OF MARK TWAIN"
Samuel L. Clemens Quoted as Saying
He inherited the Name.

Samuel L. Clemens Quoted as Saying
He inherited the Name.
The familiar story Of the origin OF
Samuel L Clemens use OF the name
Marx Twain Is now declared to be
Incorrect Ii pictures Clemens, Mississ
sippi river pilot, listening TO the men
heaving the lead st the bow OF a river
boat and singing out. by the mark,
three; by the mark. twain" Tableau!
Clemens smites his brow and solilo-
quizes. There is my nom de plume"
1t is true that the name originated
with the picturesque cry OF the man
with the lead, but a man other than
Mr.. Clemens first discovered the pic
turesqueness. That man was Captain
Isaiah Sellers, who furnished river
news for the New Orleans Picayune.
To Professor William Lyon Phelps of
Yale Mr.. Clemens confessed that it
was from Sellers be got the name,
Professor Phelps story is quoted In
Professor Henderson's Mark Twain"
According to this book, Mr.. Clemens
said to Professor Phelps: Captain Sci:
lers used to sign his articles in the
i
1868. l liked the name-and stole it
think have done him no wrong, for
seem to have made this name some!
what generally known"
Professor Henderson records u mum:
Der OF interesting incidents connected
with the use of this name. For awhile.
when he was a miner In Nevada,
Mr.. Clemens sent TO the Virginia City
Enterprise humorous letters signed not
mark Twain" but "Josh."
When he became a regular reporter
on that paper and reported the legisla!
ture he signed his reports Mark
Twain" When questioned as to his
use OF this name Mr.. Clemens declar-
ed: II chose my pseudonym because to
most persons it had no meaning and
! also because it was short. was a
reporter in the legislature and wished
to save the legislature time. 1t was
much shorter to say in their debates
Mark Twain than to say The I'M
principled and lying parliamentary re-
porter of the Territorial Enterprl sc! "
Mr.. ClemeL5 made the name known
on the Pacify coast, but the word at
large did not hear it for years after
the jumping Frog" reprinted in hun
dreds of exchanges without credit. had
jumped into such notoriety as is rarely
accorded well hammered frogs. la fact,
its first use in any eastern magazine
was n flasco.
Mr.. Clemens made a great scoop on
the Hornet disaster when he was writ
ing up the Hawaiian Islands in 1866,
says Professor Henderson. His ac-
count Of the disaster Mark sent to
Harpers Magazine, where 1t appeared
in December. 1866 But, alas, it was
not as "Marl Twain" not as drawl-
ing, lovable river pilot sort of person
that the world beheld the new author,
for he had not written his pseudonym
plainly on his copy, and Harper's
| cheerfully introduced him to fame as
mike Swain"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-10-30
Lonu Arrow Flichts.

There was a marvellous archery feat
performed some years ago by Sir
Ralph Payne Gallwey on the links at
LIE Touquet. Shooting with Turkish
bow, he covered a distance Of 367
yards with his best arrow, thus break
ing all records achieved in recent
times. This performance, however,
seems to have been exceeded with the
old national weapon Of yew. Meade,
a famous archer under Charles l.,
states that the ordinary range of the
bow was from 800 to 400 yards. The
longest shot automatically recorded in
England is that Of a secretary Of the
Turkish embassy, who in 1874 shot an
arrow 463 yards with the wind and
Ais against 1t In the presence OF
several members of the Royal Toxo-
pnilite society, who measured the dis.
lance and preserved the arrow.-Pall
Mall Gazette.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-10-30
SNAP SHOT s

Even shining light casts shadow
Five is the great sacred Chinese
number.
Aquatic birds are more numerous
than land birds.
A camel, when in want of water,
means continually.
Each German regiment has attached
to it chiropodist.
The toughest test of endurance is
trying to stand prosperity.
If man regales himself when he
eats is what he eats regalia?
The unexpected is likely to happen
about as often as the expected.
And if a man has wooden leg is it
a constitutional amendment?
1t keeps some people busy trying to
dodge the language hurled at them.
To our view the autumn girl appears
trifle more animated than the sum-
mer girl.
The charm that every woman holds
to the very last is her delicious meal
culableness.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-10-30
Not Purely Curiosity.

Among the passengers in one of the
cars of a train running between
Springfield and Boston was a nervous
little old man who evinced a keen in
terest in a sinister looking person who
took a seat beside him.
How do you do?" said the nervous
little old man to the sinister looking
person. Now, what might your name
be? Do you live in Boston or beyondT'
"What business is 1t of yours where
1 live or who I amp" growled the
other.
strictly speaking. it amt none Of
my business" admitted the old gentle
man mildly, "but it's jest like this:
I've got a cousin in this part of the
state that I've never seen, and I've al
ways thought 1 might come upon him
some time jest by asking folk their
name and so on."-Harper's.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-10-30
Rummage ! Rummage /!

The ladies of st. Anne's Parish
who annually conduct these bargain
chances are preparing another of their
rummage sales, which will be held in
the lower room of the Chapel corner
of Prince George and East streets, on
the nights of Thursday and Friday,
November and 3.
All those who have clothing, or in
fact anything that they desire to dis
pose of in this way, are asked to
send rummage to Miss Adele Ran
dali, Randall Court, Miss Sue Allen
Munford, 212 Prince George street,
or Mrs. Westbrooke, 154 Conduit
street. oct. 25td.