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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-19
MUCH SUFFERING AS
A RESULT OF THE
EXTREME COLO
PREVAILING CONDITIONS PRE-
ClPITATE SERIOUS RESULTS
IN CITIES.
Low TEMPERATURE is GENERAL
Groceries and Coal in Transit Forced
to the Sidetracks and Round Hous-
es for Different Reasons, as a Re.
suit of the Freezes.

The weather conditions throughout
the entire country have been the
most severe during the week just
closing of any during the entire win
ter, in that the disagreeable condi
lions have been more general than
usual. The market conditions in all
the great marts of trade have been
congested as never before and as a
consequence there has been much
suffering incident to the lack of the
necessities for comfort against the
biting weather.
Cars upon cars of groceries have
been sidetracked, run into round
houses and tied up for lack of engines
to pull them to their destination. Coal
cars have been confiscated in some
sections to alleviate suffering while
those at the point of the shipping des-
tinations suffered on account OF the
non-arrival of the fuel.
Thousands upon thousands of car
loads of corn that have been SHIPPED
to the markets with the expectation
and hope of getting the cash returns
with which to supply the necessi-
ties against suffering and want, are
standing on the tracks and cannot be
moved until there Is a moderation in
the weather. and thus the funds for
these shipments are withheld and in
many instances there is want and
suffering as a result
In many of the large cities there is
suffering untold, and the relief COM
mittees of the various charitable or
CARNATIONS, the municipal authori-
ties and the drain on the private purs-
es is taxed to the limit
Cotton and wheat both show losses
in quotations during the week and
corn is at a standstill. The necessl-
ties of life are advancing, and will
continue to advance to an appalling
extent if the widespread conditions
are not moderated within a very
sort time.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-19
NONRESIDENT NOTICE.
CLERK & MASTERS OFFICE.

CLERK & MASTERS OFFICE.
Columbia, Tenn, Jan. s, 1912.
Robert Black, colored, Complainant
Austin Polk, colored ct al, Defendants
1t appearing from affidavit filed In
this cause, that the defendant, Aus.
tin Polk, colored, is a nonresident OF
The State OF Tenn essee.
1t is therefore ordered that he en-.
ter his appearance herein before or
within the first three days of the next
term of the Chancery Court, to be
held at Columbia, on the first Mon.
day in February next, 1912, the same
neing a rule day of said court, end
rlead, answer or demur to COMPLAIN
ants bill, or the same will be taken
for confessed as to him and set for
hearing ex parte; and that a copy of
this order be published for four con.
secutive weeks in The Columbia Her.
aid
A Copy-Attest:
A. y. AKIN, Clerk e Master.
Noah W. Cooper and ]. H. Dianing,
54t Solicitors for Complt.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-19
Our Resources
$l,2OO,OOO.OO
.Maury
National
Bank
FALLS FROM TRAIN,
HAS ARM MANGLED
BROUGHT TO DR.. ROBERT Pill
LOWS iNFIRMARY FOR
TREATMENT.

Lee Tucker, aged Is years, fen
from freight train Saturday near
Busby Switch few miles below Law
renceburg, and had his left arm 50
badly mangled that it had to be cut
off close up to the shoulder.
When asked just how the accident
occurred he said, Just like fool
boy will happen to such things; fool
ing with a moving train"
He was brought to Lawrenceburs
by the train that ran over him and
Drs. StockaId completed the ampu-
tation and he was then brought here
and is now in DR.. Pillows infrmsry,
where he is being treated.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-19
HAS QUALIFIED
AS GUARDIAN

The Manly county Trust Company
has qualified as guardian of Robert
Lee Church.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-19
RURAL CARRIERS
HAVE HARD TIME
SERVING PATRONS
SMOOTH ROADS THE MOST DIFF
FICULT OF TRAVEL
NOW.
CULLEOKA CARRIERS MISS TRIP
Country People Doing But Little
Travei.-Goins Only to Their Mail
Boxes-Worst Road Conditions
For Past Ten Years.

Perhaps there are no people in thu
county who have experienced more
of the discomfort brought about by
the weather during the winter than
have the rural carriers in the various
sections. Those from this Office have
been making the trips with regular
| ity but during the past week have
been a little later on their arrival at
the Office in the afternoon than US
ual and Friday they were from
thirty minutes to an hour behind
their usual time. They one and all
say that this has been the worst
spell of weather they have exper-
fenced since entering the service
and some OF them have ben in it for
ten years.
There were no country people in
the city and the carriers report that
they hardly saw an individual on
their trips with the exception of per
haps hale dozen or such matter
who met them at their mail boxes
to transact business with them,
when they would hurry back to the
fires inside their homes. There
seemed to be no cross country travel
to be seen anywhere and only such
moving about the farm houses as
was necessary to the proper care or
the stock and the gathering Of fuel
These public servants who have
had experience with every character
of road that the country has had dur
ing the past ten years, say that the
smooth roads were the most difficult
Of travel while the roads that were
cut up and rough offered the. most
resistance to the slipping feet Of
the horses
The carriers from Culleoka failed
to go out Friday, and one man out
of the Office here said Friday was the
worst Of any that his ten years had
brought him. The horses have sur-
fered more than the drivers and is
telling on them.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-19
ANOTHER VICTIM
Of DEADLY FLAMES
PER|SHtS IN COUk y
MRS. TOM BLACK, IN AN AT.
TEMPT TO SAVE CHILD, FOR
FEITS HER LIFE.
This Is the Fifth Case OF Burning to
Death Since Winter Fires Were
Started In Maury County-Snould
BE Warning.

Mrs. Tom Black, living on the Maui
ry-Williamson county line about sew
en- miles north of Santa Fe, was burn
ed to death last week at her home.
Mrs. Black was in the room with one
of her small children when the lat
ters clothes caught ON fire and Mrs.
Black, in attempting to put the fire
out. was herself enveloped in the
flames. The child was saved, but
Mrs. Blacks clothin, being largely OF
wooden material, burned rapidly and
before any aid could come to her she
was burned to death. She was fear
fully burned and died in awful ago
ny. The little chilo, whose life had
been saved by the devotion of the
mother, tried in vain to extinguish
the flames. She threw water on her
mother, but the task was too much
for her. Mrs. Blacks remains were
buried the next day.
This is the fifth case of burning to
death recorded in Maury county dur
ing the present winter and it Is only
about half gone. Several children
have suffered similar deaths in va
Nous parts of the county. These hor-
fible cases should prove warning
10 people of the dangers of getting
zoo close to the fire, a great tempta-
ton in this extremely cold weather.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-19
EcIEY KIDNEY Pill 8

'lv'avs give satisfaction because
thev always do the work. J T.
shelnut, Bremen, Ga. says: 81 have
used Foley Kidney Pills with great
satisfaction and found more relief
from their use than from any oIher
kidney medicine, and I've tried al
most all kinds. 7 can cheerfully re-
commend them to all sufferers for
Kidney and bladder trouble" Foley
pills will cure any case OF kidney OF
bladder trouble not beyond the reach
Of medicine. No medicine can do
Hore.-WCLLRIDGE co.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-19

To feel strong. have good appetite
and digestion. sleep soundly and en-.
Joy life. use Burdock Blood Bitters.
the great sytem tonic and builder.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-19

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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-19

Cures baby's Group. willie's daily
cuts and bruises, mammals sore
throat. grandma's lameness DR.
Thomas Electric Oil-the great
household remedy.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-19
Your
asa!|sg

Had it occurred to you
that your FINANCIAL
STANDING and ability
is fixed by your financial
assistance? If you had
Morgan or Rockefeller as
a close friend and hnan-
cial ssis.ant your credit
ard ability would be
multiplied. No one doubts
that.
The same rec soning
applies in th> matter Of
your selection of a bank
ing relation If you select
the best and the strongest
bank for your friend and
financial assistant, you
will have multiplied your
financial ability and
standing.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-06-15
STOLE RIBBONS FROM GRAVES
Girls Arrest Reveals Shocking Prae-
tice in English Pottery District
Used Them for Hair.

London.-Arnold Bennett has given
in his books some curious glimpses
of the life and character of the in
habitants Of the pottery districts, but
he told nothing SO extraordinary as
that which was revealed by a police
court case heard at Fenton, Stafford
shire.
Two young girls were charged with
stealing ribbons from wreaths which
had been placed on a new grave in
the cemetery. The prosecuting So
licitor said that there had been so
many complaints of offenses Of this
kind that these cases had been
brought as a deterrent The two
girls, who were caught in the act of
taking the ribbons from the wreaths,
were discharged with caution.
Inquiries show that ribbons are
stolen regularly from the potteries
cemeteries by girls. who use them to
tie up their hair or to decorate their
dresses
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-06-15
Would Blow Up lcebergs

Il have seen icebergs Of vast propoar ].
tions-fully three miles long-aaa
standing $50 feet out Of the Wa1ei3
These monsters are frequently @ vs.
observed along our shores as late y
the year as the month OF August, ~
they are at present. allowed TO dlsap.
pear by the natural process-slnas,.=
the suns rays. Their collapse y
sometimes very sudden. ren1emps.
on one occasion observing ials0
berg through binoculars. It was w ".
or fifteen miles away. Having 1nspssss
ed it leisurely, I handed the glasses y
friend at my elbow. He, looking s !.
ward the berg, cried, I cant see i {.
I took the glasses and looked as ip,s
and was startled to find that the gsse,1
ice-block had disappeared. t hau,4
suppose, been honeycombed py5 ~
suns rays and had suddenly collapssa 3
I could see small pieces Of iee hvs
ing around, but the great befs ~
broken up.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-06-15
WHY BABIES DE
Woman Charges Kindness Kills
Many of Them.
Mrs. L. S. B. Robinson in Address De-
csares Infants Would Thrive on
Care Given to High Breed
of Puppies.


ST. Paul.-"If we thought half as
much of our babies as the breeders OF
thoroughbred puppies do OF their
animals We would not tolerate the
shaking, fondling and Guiding Wlth
which we seek to quiet and amuse
them" said Mrs. L. S. B. Robinson OF
the Baby Welfare association, at a
meeting of the Bethel Woman's clue.
mo man who has high grade pup
pies will allow any one to fondle or
fuss with them. The father who losses
his baby up to the ceiling and makes
him laugh until he gets fairly hyster-
ical is responsible for much OF the
chronic nervousness which develops
as the child grows up.
1T is a crime to bounce and toss
a baby until the food In It's stomach
is SO shaken up 1t cannot be digested.
The tendency to shake our babies
is due to American nervousness. The
babies cry and we do not know what
to do for them. 1t is far better to
put them on the bed and let them
cry. If they are comfortable and are
not hungry, it will do them no BARN,
whatever, and it will be better for
them. Babies are very easily trained.
1T is often sacrilegious statement
to say when baby dies that God
took it, it died through the fault OF
the mother, who will not do what she
should for the baby. More babies are
killed by kindness than anything else.
The mother does everything the neigh
bors, friends and relatives tell her.
America has the highest infant NOR
tally rate of all the better governed
countries. One bab.- in every i've
dies before it reaches the age of one
year. Food Is the most important
thing to- the young baby, and 1t
often. We need city ice company
which would furnish the poor fam
lilies with few cents worth of ice
each day, for Ice is an absolute neces-
sity. Milk which has been exposed to
the warm air becomes poisonous.
Then flies are the cause Of much
sickness to babies and to adults. 1t
| the fly does not fall into the milk
and drown, to be fished out. 1t crawls
along the edge Of the pitcher, and then
the milk is poured out over the germs
| it leaves. II we cannot afford screens
we can at least afford netting, and
this will keep out the flies. Better go
without new hat and let theschil-
! dren go without new clothes and get
some screens.
Don't wait for your babies to get
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-06-15

cended by steep stairways on one or
more sides. The interior mass is of
earth and stones, or of stones and
mortar. In some cases the slopes were
filled In to smooth slant.
The loftiest is the pyramid of Ell
Castillo, or the Castle, at Chichen liza,
which, Is of the stepped type. hThe
large t and most imposing is THU So
called governors palace, at Uxmal,
which stands on natural elevation
artificially heightened by stone blocks
and rising in three terraces. It is
considered by ethnologists the most
simportant prehistoric structure In
America. The building, 800 feet long,
40 feet deep and 26=feet high, is COW
cred with marvellous elaboration of
sculpture, one belt Of which, ten feet
wide, running entirely around the pal
ace, contains 10000 stones, nearly ev-
,ery one Of them separate work of
art.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-06-15
Newfoundland Man Suggests Way OF
Keeping Steamer Lanes Safe
From Monsters.

London.-Among the mass of sug-
gestions that have been made in con-
sequence of the loss Of the Titanic,
one of the most curious comes from
a resident in st. Johns, Newfound-
land, James E. Grant, who has had
extensive acquaintance with icebergs
along the coast of his own country
In an interview he said:
Il would suggest that an iceberg
destroying service should be estab-
lished without delay, under the con-
troll of an International board. My
proposal is not that you. should wait
for the icebergs until they make their
appearance in navigab1e waters, but
that you should attack them at their
source, just as they break away and
drift into the. gulf stream, and that
you should blow them to pieces with
powerful explosives Icebergs are
formed by the overflow of fresh water
from the. high banks on the coast of
Greenland. The water freezes, the
ice Is added to the snow, and the
spray of the sea, and the bergs becom-
ing detached sail down into the gulf
stream, and up to the present have
been allowed to come into the North
Atlantic, where they are an obvious
danger to all vessels plying there.
.'Lloyds and other insurance or
CARNATIONS would, am sure, welcome
the formation of a service such as /
indicate, and would be likely to sup
port 1t financially. Besides, If such a
thing were in full swing, an appre-
ciable reduction might be claimed in
insurance rates on some routes.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-06-15
STRENGTH OF THE INSECTS

When one is asked to name the
strongest animal he generally begins
with elephants as the largest, and con-
tinue with oxen, horses, and on down
through creatures of lesser size. But
for real strength proportionate to size,
one must go to the insect world. A
mans strength is absurdly small COM
pared with that of an insect. The bee
tie will carry 500 times its own weight
on its back To be proportlonateiy
strong a man would have to lift 75,OOo
or 100000 pounds, a weight winch
only the biggest steel freight cars
carry. If man were placed under a
box containing five times his weight,
he would be held there indefinitely.
But to hold a beetle down the box
would have to be 1900 times as heavy
as the beetle.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-06-15
HYMNS Saved His Life

and ALL Frightened out Of my wits,
it suddenly came to me to try one of
those wonderful Moody and Sankey
hymns.
ii Scarcely had my voie rung out
Unto the night with the frtt few lines
than the wolves stood still. By the
time had finished the chorus-wouId
you believe it, man-there was a
crashing and a rushing in the woods.
Those wolves had turned tail and
were running away from me me as
hard as they could, yelping like
whipped puppies.
II think they reasoned: The report
of a gun I know, and the bowling OF
other wild beasts know, but what on
earth is this?'
"On another occasion was riding
along, singing one Of the Moody and
Sankey favorites, will You Go? VIII
You Go to the Eden Above?' to keep
up my courage. Rounding a turn sud-
denly, came upon a group Of resting
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-06-15
Minister When cornered by Savage
Animals Starts Singing and
Is Spared.

New York-The Rev. John Daniel
McEwen, explorer and missionary,
who has just returned to civilization
after II years spent In the Brazilian
wilderness of the state of Bahia, has
uncovered a new use for Moody and
Sankey hymns. Said Mr.. McEwen:
lis wonderful how those Moody
and Sankey hymns will stand a man
in good stead when he is roaming
about Wild country.
'Why, one day I was riding through
the deep wood on my horse, when |
heard the howl of savage wolves, and
I saw a pack Of them dashing down
on me to devour me. was unarmed.
First bethought me to dismount and
get club, but then says to myself:
What earthly good would the club
be against all those rapacious wives?
They would eat me up, horse, stick
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-06-15
TAME DEC0Y FOR vULTUREs

The Tibetans of the upper Mekong
valley have an interesting method OF
catching vultures, the feathers OF
which are used for making fans. They
fasten tame vultures to stone pedes-
tails near the cliffs where the wild
birds live, and when the latter are
sighted one or two Of the decoys are
loosed and the men hide in huts. Near
the pedestals heap of carrion has
been placed in a rough wooden cage,
SO constructed that it is difficult for
the birds to make away with piece
bodily, though it is easy enough to get
at; they therefore hop clumsily round
the cage, pecking and tearing furious
ly at the sinking morsels, in full view
Of the savage birds above. The car
rion is the bait, the tame yultures
are the decoy No sooner do the wild
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-06-15
MOGULS Of india
Rulers to Whose Powers George
v. Succeeded
TamerIane Was til, Pioneer-Wariike
Dictators Followed by BenefIcent
Shah Jahan, Who Built the
Tai Mahal.

London.-The coronation Of George
V. at Delhi, the city OF the great mo-
guls. made him heir and successor to
their imperial power. The history OF
these predecessors Is one OF strange
contrasts.
First of the great moguls was Tam
erlane, the mighty conqueror, type
Of overweening arrogance, unre-
strained by any fear of God or man.
In Marlowe's drama he kills his SON
Calyphas for skulking from the battle,
and with insensate fury urges on the
captive kings who draw his chariot,
The somber story is only relieved by
the tenderness Of the fierce warrior
for his wife democratic, and his bitter
grief when she Is lost to him by death.
Babar, the adventurer, was the most
fascinating of his race. Poet, philoso-
pher, artist and musician, he was
skilled in the lore of nature and in
the knowledge of men. Withal he set
himself to become a strong military
leader and chose Tamerlane as his ex-
ample. 1t was in the Punjab that he
met the Rajah Sanga, 1.-THE old lion OF
the Rajputs, minus an eye and an arm
and lame Of one leg" and won that
great victory Of India over Hinduism
by which was achieved the empire OF
the great moguls In India.
His ambition accomplished, Babar
lived for three years at the palace OF
Agra, ruling his newly acquired coun-
try with justice and severity.
From his fort Of red sandstone at
Agra, Akbar, son OF Humayon, ruled
territory stretching from central
Asia to the delta of the Ganges- The
Prince Of Dreamers," mystic who
stroye to preserve the mastery OF the
spirit over the flesh, Akbar was never
theless daring soldier, a great states
man and wise legislator. Clothed In
the saffron robes of the aseettc, he
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-06-15
FOUND DIAMOND IN TROUT

In the stomach Of a speckled trout,
cut open to determine what sort OF
bait was advisable, Henry P. Parrot,
Homer Musser and Hugo Sillisch, OF
Bellingham, Wash, found one-carat
diamond of the finest water. The
three men had rowed far up the lake,
when Parrot got vigorous bite, and
a three-pound trout soon houndered on
the bottom of the boat, One Of the
party suggested cutting open the
fish's stomach to discover what sort
of food the fish were taking and the
gem rolled out
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-06-15
Child fnhates a Mail

London.-At an inquest at Hammer
smith on the twoand -one-half-year
son of a laundryman, who died in the
West London hospital, the doctor pro-
duced two-inch nail which he said
he had found in the child's lung. The
nail, he said, must have been inhaled,
and not swallowed. It had caused If
ritation, and blood poisoning had set
in, causing death. The father Of the
boy was unable to explain how the
gail came to be in the child's lung and
the jury returned verdict OF acci-
dental death.
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would walk alone on the hifls and
muse on the sorrows OF humanity and
the bitter sufferings entatled on the
women Of his land.
Akbar, too, passed away, and in the
next century arose another beneticent
despot of the line, the founder and
builder, Shah Jahan. His name is
well known to us by the love he bore
to Arijumand Banu, the most beauti-
full queen in all the world For her
he built the palace of white marble
with its golden pavilions and jasmine
tower, on the walls at Babar's red
fortress at Agra, and when she died
he raised to her memory that vision OF
loneliness, the Tai Mahal.
Shah Jahan practically refunded Del.
hi and reared there the palace where
he held his brilliant court and the
mosque of pearls where he would
spend hours in prayer for his people.
A great and good man, according to
the eastern code of virtue, he served
his country faithfully till in 1859 Au.
ranged, his son, deposed and impris-
oned him in the palace where he had
spent the days Of his joyous youth
with the lady Of the Tai.
In Aurangzeb the race reverted to
the crimes and bIoodshed of Tamerlane
out, though an evil man, he did much
Tor India during his long reign of Sc
| years. On the death of AuraEgzeh In
1907 his empire fell to pieces, and in
the cataclysm the Mahrattas seized
and held Delhi against the Rajput SEEK
and Jaut. Another hundred years and
Lake had taken the imperial city, and
! thus, after two centuries OF bitter
strife with native princes and western
rivals, England became the supreme
| power in India, though for fifty years
longer miserable descendant Of the
I mogul house still lived in the palace
| OF the Jumuas