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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-08-18

eminently fair and just arrangement
and division, fair registrations and
honest elections are not held, the
fault will not be with the laws, but
with the administrators.
The Taylor Dibrell coup has not a
legal peg upon which to stand. 1t
was patiently an afterthOught Had
the leaders OF the faction assumed to
be represented by Dibrell and Taylor
believed for a moment that they
could secure control of the election
by the simple expedient of a midnight
caucus of two machine politicians,
does any reasonable being suppose
for an instant that the desperate eff
forts to enact the BaXter-Leach cleo
ton infamy would have been made?
1t is too absurd to think about. The
scandal and expense and exposures
resulting from the abortiVe attempt
to railroad that odious measure
through the legislature contrary to
the express will of the people would
have been saved.
The DibrellTaylor eXpedient was a
dennier resort. 1t was that or nothing.
1t proved the desperate lengths to
which the liquor power would GO in
It's unholy effort to get its infamous
hands upon the election machinery
Of the State Fortunately the great
bulk of the former Patterson follow
ing in the State have no sympathy
with this fiasco. They acknowledge
the fairness of the State board and
have acQuiesceL is the action OF the
legal authorities. 1t has no doubt
daWned upon the machine politicians
at Nashville that, blind and enthusi-
astic as their following appears 10 be,
there are lengths to which the great
bulk of the Patterson partisan9 in
Tennessee will not go. There are.
some things which they will not APP
prove. And it was doubtless the re-
alization of this fact that caused the
political buccaneers and piratical
schemers to halt in their mad effort
to seize the power which the laws and
DEGREES of the peoples representa-
tives had vested in others.
The situation should teach les
son. 1t should show the politicians |
who spend al their waking hours in |
ana in tricks that are dark |
md ways that are vain, that the great
body of the people mean to be fair
md honest. 1t should teach the self
appointed guardians of the Democrat
c party that there are Democrats Of
ven the strictest regularity who will /
lot approve every infamy even if
one in the name of Democracy
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-08-18
COLUMeIAs SCHOOLS.

The success Of any enterprise de
ponds upon the support and encOur
agement given it by home people
This is to a certain extent largely re-
sponsible for the success of Column
bias schools While there have been
some knockers. there never was set
OF schools that have more loyal sup
porters than has the Columbia Militia
Ty Academy, Columbia High School
and the Columbia Institute, and there
never we're three schools that deserve
the cooperation of locality more
than these three.
1t is folly on the part of parent to
send away TO a school when there are
three such institutions here in their
midst 1t is here for your choosing.
You can get anything you want--if it
Is learning coupled with discipline
all three of these institutions pride
themselves upon standing abreast
with any institution of learning in the
South.
The vast difference in the town
when school closes for the vacation
of the summer months-so noticeable
that it takes one some time to become
accustomed to the quietness. The
long columns of young ladies from the
Institute are missed Off the streets
in the afternoons when they are TAX
en- out for their daily exercises. Their
trade is missed from the stores.
The files of cadets from the c. M.
A., with their college yells and mer-
nv making, their blue suits and sol
dierly like manners cause vacancy
on the streets and in places of bust
ness. The pupils of the County High
School, which number a hundred or
more. while not marked with any par
ticular uniform or badge to distin-
guish them from the others, neverthe-
their happy and CHEEKY greetings to
each other on the streets as they de-
part for their homes, causes a gone
ness.
Il is now only short three weeks
until these schools will open for an
other term and there will be a vast
difference in the appearance Of things.
The town will take on a different ap-
pearance. There will be more life
and vim in the business and every
thing in the town.
Columbians are proud Of these In
situations OF learning and right Justly
so should they be, and when the roll
is called on the morning Of opening,
II is to be hoped that Maury county
will be, and there Is no reason why
she should not be, we'll represented
In all tire Of them.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-08-18
WILL OF LATE
GEN.G. W.GORDON
DATED NOVEMBER "a, 1910, AND
IN OWN HANDWRIT-
ING.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aug. 16.-The
will of the late Gen. Gerge w. Cor
don, commander-in-chief of the Unit
ed Confederate Veterans and member
of Congress, was admitted to probate
Tuesday. The will is written in Gen
Gordon's handwriting and is dated
Nov. "a, 1910. Judge l.. B. McFar
land is named as executor. Gen
Gordon, in his will, planned for the
funeral which was given him by com.
rades who wore the grey. He re.
quested burial in Confederate uniform
and a military burial. All real and
personal property except that other
wise bestowed, goes to his wife, Mrs.
Minnie H. Gordon.
Gen. Gordon bequeaths the battle
flag of the Eleventh Tennessee Regi-
ment, which he commanded, to the
Tennessee Historical Society of Nash
vile.
The saber he carried in battle goes
to the same institution.
In speaking of the civil war he
calls it war brought and waged by
the commerce, avarice and envy OF
the north"
Under the will Gen. Gordon's
field glasses and haversack go to the
Confederate Historical Association Of
Memphis.
To his niecee he leaves $1,000 each.
To his nephew he leaves 5000. To
his great nieces he leaves $3.50 each.
To Thomas Robertson, of Austin.
Tex, is left 5000. The sum of $500 is
left a kinsman, Clifford Gordon, an
inmate Of a home at McKeesport, Pa.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-08-18
EVEN SMART MEN FAIL

Hon. John a. Pitts has written
singing and altogether apt comment
upon the amazing announcement OF
Hilary Howse as a candidate for re
election. Pitts is a very able mar
and he is usually correct in whatever
position he takes upon public mat
ters, but his confession that he was
fooled by Hilarys promise to enforce
the prohibition law shows that even
the smartest and brightest of men
have intervals that cannot be termed
altogether lucid" Since as able a
man as Pitts confesses that he once
supported Hilary Howse we feel some
consolation for the fact that we once
felt kindly disposed toward the am
bition of one John Ikey Cox to be
Governor of the State. Any way Pitts
cant point the finger of scorn' at
us for that mistake.
Seriously it hard to understand how
any person Of average intelligence
could have taken Hilary seriously
when he promised to enforce the laws
Of the city of Nashville. We did, not.
Our columns two years ago were full
of warning to the people Of Nashville
We knew Just what conditions would
follow the election of Howse as the
cftv's chief executive and we com
mented in somewhat scathtng terms
unon the failure of two of Nashville's
papers. the Tennessean and the Ban
ner. to take up the fight then for law
and order. But these papers now adj |
NIT that we were right then, While
Mr.. Pitts and probably others voted |
for Mr.. Howse under the mistaken
idea that he would do his duty in the
enforcement of the laws, we do not
believe that any considerable number
If voters did So On the contrary IS
S our deliberate judgment that a ma
ority Of the voters of Nashville ap-
prove the Mayors course and voted
or him upon the understanding that
lis promises were mere ropes or
sand. If they shall re-elect him, as
low seems altogether probable, no
me can be surprised at the liberal
tv" of his next administration. We
.ssuredly have a poor opinion of the
yoter who would now support the
Mayor upon the idea that he intended
O enforce the law for the suppress
ion of vice.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-08-18
BOOST THE FAIR.

If the people Of the city and CCun-
ty will only do their part Maury
county will this year have the great
est county fair ever held in Tennes-
seq. 1t is purely a peoples institu-
Ion and it should be a matte" Of
pride with every citizen to do his
share toward making it the success
that it should be, The premium list
is not only the best ever offered by
county fair but it will compare fay
orably with that Of the State fair,
County pride, a spirit of enterprise,
a laudable desire to give Maury COun-
ty a fair worthy of its magnificent
resources, these were the sole and
only considerations which prompted
fifty patriotic citizens and firms to
finance the fair And it is the duty
as it should be the pleasure of all
good citizens interested in the pro-
gress and development Of the re-
sources of the county to boost the
enterprise. Invite your friends and
neighbors and customers to come to
the fair. insist upon their making
exhibits. Every one will get an alb
solutely fair and square deal That
is a certainty. Now get busy and
help to create interest in ana cnthu-
siasm for the big fair.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-08-18
TWO ROAD CASES
ARE ADJUDICATED
PETITION re CLOSE THE Ora
HAM LANE NEAR CULLEOKA
is REFUSED.

Decisions were handed down this
morning by the road commission in
the matter Of closing the cross roads
the Scott Hollow road to the Valley
road from CIlleoka to Stiversville.
The commission refused to reopen
the road from its junctue with the
new road near Jonas Ingrams to the
corner of John P. Graham, but it also
refused to close the road from Ora
hams line to the Valley road. 1t is
presumed that appeals will be taken
to the circuit court.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-08-18
THE LAST VETERAN.

With the death Of the lamented
Gen. George w. Gordon, of the Tenth
district, The last Confederate soldier
from Tennessee in the Congress of
the United States has Joined the
great majority Of his comrades on
the other side OF the river. IL is
probable that never again will one
Of these gallant old heroes who fol
lowed Lee and Jackson and the
Johnstons through storm and stress
and faced death on an hundred fields
of carnage represent this State in
the Congress of the United States.
I For the past six years Gen. Gordon
has been the only Confederate veter-
an in the delegation.
Since reconstruction days a major
ity of the States delegation in the
national halls of legislation were
soldier of the gray. Bate and Har-
ris and Bailey and Whitthorne and
Turley, members of the Senate, we're
al lof them gallant Confederate sold.
lers And the list of veterans who
have served in the House from this
State is q long and honorable one.
But there is not now in the delega-
ton single member who was old
enough to shoulder a musket or I'M
sheath a sword in that long AMI I'M
equal conflict. We are rapidly get
ting away from the war. The death
of Gen. Gordon and of numberless
other veterans during the past two
or three years emphasizes that fact.
1t will not be long until the Conieder-
ate soldier will be only a memory but
what a blessed memory, what heri-
tage Of the men Of the New South!
Of the present delegation in Con-
gress Taylor and Moon and Sims
were youths when the war comenc-
ed. Sells was not born and Austin
was in knickerbockers. Byrns and
Hull and Garrett did not come upon
the scene of earthly activity until a
decade after the shot that was heard
around the world had been fired.
And Luke Lea was not born until
fourteen years after the sun had for
ever set upon the Confederacy be-
hind the hills of historic Appamat-
OK.
Gen. Gordon had lived a long and
Useful life. He was a splendid sold
er but if anything a better citizen.
lie was as great in peace as he had
)een brave in war. In every station
o which he was called he served
With fidelity, with honor and with
redit. He was a worthy successor :
f the other Gordon, of Lee and of
vans as the commander in CHIEF of /
he United Confederate Veterans.
md it is worthy of note that less i
han a month separates his demise
rom that Of Gen. Clement A. Evans, =
is predecessor as the commander in Il
hief of the fast diminishing ranks "
f the veterans. l.
The Tenth congressional district
as had ADLER and more brililany re- :,
in Congress than Gen. -
ordon, but it never had a truer
atriot or enc who strove more earn "
silly to serve mis- country than he
no has just ended "lifes fitful few
:" And he has crossed over to rest
the shade where abide the mighty
gions whose valor will ever be an :,
SEPARATION for sohg and story.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-08-18
NO PRAYER MEETING
AT M. E. CHURCH

On account Of the absence OF the
pastor, DR.. W. T. Haggard, who left
this morning for Sumner county.
where he went to conduct the funeral
OF Porter Graves, one of the most
prominent and substantial citizens of
that county, there will be no prayer
meeting at the First Methodist church
tonight.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-08-18
THE WAlF.

("Baby in Basket Found at Toll
Gate-Pronounced by those who have
seen it to be the most beautiful babe
they have ever beheld. Daily Her.
aid, Saturday, August IL, 1917
They drew the basket cover aside
A beautiful babe lay sleeping:
A bright smile ore it's face did glide
AS the sunlight in came creeping.
Twas a pleasing sight in this un
friendly world,
That op'ed wide the baby peppers;
So, it lay in it's basket snugly culled,
And found on it's new-found keep
ers.
Smile on, wee one, keep smiling
OF thy wondrous beauty we've been
told, wee one,
OF those marvellous eyes of blue:
Why should the mysterious life
they've begun
Have aught save a roseate hue?
Society, we know, with its customs
decree
Conventionalisms most stern;
But the world, though ever SO old 1t
must be,
Has yet from it's infants to learn.
And such lessons have they taught,
wee one.
Already the papers proclaiming thy
birth,
Say: without pride of ancestry"
you're here.
But what's the opinion of a newspaper
When Gods word is at hand and 20
near?
It was Moses,wasn't it, midst bull
rushes found,
Who once spoke with God face to
face?
Suppose his frail craft had not car
TleQ aground
Who can tell who'd have filed his
place?
Oost thou know, wee one, wee one?
t has puzzled the world, with its
wisdom to spare,
Since the mystery of life first be-
gun,
70 know why the waits have been
chosen with care
To do the great things they have
done.
The answer, wee one, is perhaps with
you;
Is it because they are the children
of love?
I not, then Gods law being fixed, is
still true
Divine problems solved only
above"
10 smile on, wee one, keep smiling!
j MADISON SHEPPARD.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-04-22

The location of this property right in the line of the city
growth, the investor handsome profit within
short time
These lots selling rapidly. Do delay This property
just three blocks from Roseneath Road Think how values
will jump when this splendid boulevard wdened and Monu
Avenue extended the Three Chopt road and line
down Tilden All of these improvements
assured.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-04-22
PRICES $3.50 to $3.50

Small cash payment, balance monthly,
On Monument Avenue Franklin, Grace and other fash
onabe streets
Statesmen will be at our office all day Monday with three
automobiles ready take you inspect the property
No interest No taxes.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1911-11-25
Adding Two More Stars to the FLAG

as they have a. great deal Of leisure
Tune the sailors manage to do their
own official Geedlework when the
flags are called in for the addition of
stars and the rearrangement of the
field Of stars -~-
The addition Of one star to the flag
sometimes proves an easy task. The
amount of work involved depends
upon the position of the stars already
on the flag. If there is room at the
bottom of the last row of stars for
the addition Of another then it is
merely a matter Of adding that extra
star and this is comparatively easy
job. But the field of stars seldom
lends itself in that kind of manner
to the work of adding additional
stars. The symmetrical arrangement
Of the stars is a matter of the utmost
importance and this requires much
much thought and skill on the part
Of the officials to whom is entrusted
the work Of designing a field with
the extra stars added.
The first work when tho design Of
the new flag has been sent out to tho
arsenals. is to rip off the stars that
have to be placed in different posi-
tons. This work is done by rows of
women who are armed with sharp
pointed knives. They place the star
to be oemoved on a padded base that
holds the cloth taut. Then they care.
fully rip out the stitches until the
star is removed. This work goes on
for weeks and sometimes months, for
all the flags in the country must be
rearranged. AS the stars are ripped
off they are dropped in baskets and
not used again, new stars being sewn
on to replace the discarded ones. The
new stars are cut by means of a die.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1911-11-25

The shoe shining business was at
one time monopolized by Afro-Ameri-
cans, but that was many years ago.
In recent years the Greeks have taken
up the business and hundreds have
grown rich in business. In Chicago
recently two Greeks, Georgis & Bugus,
of 1854 South State street, filed lease
for their eight-foot store at a rental of
$275 month, in the recorders Office.
William J. Georgis, who is 81 years
old, came to Chicago five years ago
and obtained place as a bootblack
with Jim Bugus, who then had a shoe
shining stand in the Palmer House.
Later the two formed a partnership.
Last February, Georges, who is known
to his patrons as Little Joe," bought
a lot at SiXty-third street and Fifty
sixth avenue for $500, and erected a
brick building costing $4,000. Other
Greeks have amassed fortunes of $780,
600 to $4,000 in the shoe shining bust
ness.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1911-11-25
Federal List of Immortals' Growing

before firing to determine whether
the animal is doe or a buck. In
case the animal happens to be the
two-legged variety that brief pause
before pulling the trigger is enough
to save human life" More than $50
persons we're killed last year in hunt.
ing accidents. This was considerably
larger than the number in 1909, which
in turn was So per cent. in excess of
the 1908 fatalities. "Of the Al killed
so far this year." said DR.. Palmer,
the largest number were reported
from Michigan. with Is deaths, New
York coming second with nine, Wash
ington and New Jersey being tied for
third place with three fatalities each.
I'm proportion to it's population the
United States leads the world in the
number Of hunters within it's borders.
Unfortunately it also leads in the pro.
portion Of fatal hunting accidents.
There is five times more interest in
game laws in this country than in
any other country. We estimate that
there are almost 100000 American
hunters. In several of the western
states the hunters constitute as much
as IL per cent. Of the population"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1911-11-25
Uncle Sam Teaches Filipinos to Farm

A NOTED professor from the Univer-
"A sity of Chicago, who spent several
months in the Philippine islands as
lecturer at the teachers vacation as
sembly, conducted by the bureau of
education every year at Bagulio, the
summer capital Of the islands, re-
turned recently to the United States.
"Other nations one Of these days will
be coming to the Philippines to see
how the educational triumphs have
been won," he said. in speaking of
the work of the schools there.
Without question one of the tri-
umphs of America in the Orient is
the wonderful work that has been &C.
complished there by the public school
system during the ten years since it's
organization. From a mere handful
of pupils, and an expenditure Of a
few thousand dollars in 1901, the sys-
tenn has developed until now it
reaches into every town and nearly
every village Of the island, and last
year instructed more than 100000
boys and girls. The Philippine gov
erDment spent more than $3,250, 900 Of
local revenue for education.
The services Of more than 5000
American and Filipino teachers are
employed in the various schools of
the islands as supervisors and class
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1911-11-25
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1911
RACES RISING.

when we consider that all the
races are moving on and up to a COM
mon goal it is fair to speak of them
all as overlapping races. And the
backward races are obviously rising
faster than the white race They are
Overtaking us. 1t fills us with admira-
ton and alarm to see how close Japan
and China are pressing upon us.
When we see the AfrO-American pass
ing in forty-five years from total illit-
eracy to only so per cent illiteracy
when we find that they have come to
own in this country farms equal in
area to both Holland and Belgium, it
is not hard to see that no people in
history have risen SO rapidly as they
In an equal time.
I'm our united world the races of
men can never advance separately.
They must stand or fall together.
Competition between them will be in
creasingly close in every line. There
is bound to be conflict ahead greater
and more far-reaching than the world
has ever known-contlict between the
races The only question is, on what
plane will that conflict be? 1t may be
a. doubtful physical conflict with untold
suffering and horrors Of war. Or it
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1911-11-25

w ASH1NGTON.-Now that It seems
" certain that two new states will
Dc added to the Union by March 4.
new Mexico and Arizona being slated
Tor promotion from territories. the
Jag factories run by the government
are In for some busy times. It will
De necessary first for the departments
mere to decide how the new stars
shall be placed on the flag The field
OF the flag is becoming crowded with
stars and 1t is no easy matter to re-
arrange them so that the section re-
served Tor considerations may not be
lnsrtlstically jumbled. This duty de-
aVolVes upon officials of the army and
navy departments who must meet
ana decide how the new stars repre-
sent1ng the two new states are to
DC placed on the field of the flag.
Then the work Of rearranging the
neld on all the flags owned by Uncle
Sam will be begun. and a gigantic
task 1t will be.
Inc army flags are all remade at
the various government depots. the
work being given to women who are
WIDOWS Of army men or daughters
OF veterans with some claim on the
government for employment. The ma,
val hags are usually fixed up by the
sailors themselves, the Jackies being
Just as handy with the needle and
the sewing machine as the women and
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1911-11-25

room teachers Of the academic and
technical subjects Of the courses Of
study. The University of Chicago
sent DR.. Shepardson and Dr. Goode,
two Of it's ablest and most successful
extension lecturers, to Manila during
the past vacation to remain in resi-
dence at the vacation assembly of
teachers and conduct education
courses during the session.
In referring to the class of men
and women engaged in the education
work there. they speak in the high
est terms. II have seen many gath.
erings of educators, but none which
average higher than this one," said
DR.. Shepardson. "The reason, no
doubt, is that nowhere else could such
company be found of men and wom-
en- who are doing pioneer work, who
have the spirit of the pioneer, and
whose earnestness in pursuing ideals
IS reflected in conversation and con.
ference talk"