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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-11-01
IN
TENNESSEECITIES
FEDERAL JUDGE MCCALL CHAR.
AcTERiZEs CONDITIONS IN
THEM AS ANARCHY.

JACKSON, Tenn, Oct 31.-Mak
ing a strong plea for law enforce
ment In his charge to the grand jury
of the United States district court
which convened here Monday morn.
ing, Judge John e. Mccall dig,ess.
ed into a discussion of the enforce.
ment of the state laws against the
sale of whisky, characterizing the
conditions that exist in the large
cities as anarchy. Instead of fail
ing" to enforce the liquor laws the
officers and jurles had refused" to
enforce the laws, Judge Mccall de-
clared. His charge consumed one
hour. He/touched on all of the fed
eral statutes most frequently violat-
ed in his instructions to the Jurors.
The entire morning session was con-
sumed In empaneling the iuries.
The afternoon was given over to the
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-11-01
CHANCELLOR BEARDEN
RENDERS DECISION IN
THE BACK TAX CASE
SUSTAINs THE ASSESSMENTS,
BUT DlsALLoWs PENALTIES,
INTEREST AND COMMISSION.
DISCUSSES The LAW In DETAIL
The Amount Of the Judgment Is De-
creased Almost by Half by the
Terms of the Decision--Both Sides
viii Take an Appeal.

Chancellor Bearden this morning
rendered his decision in the back tax
cases that have been the subject of
much discussion and litigation during
the past twelve months, wherein the
Tennessee Fertilizer Co., w. ]. How
ard, J. H. Carpenter and J. H. Car
penter, executor, were the defend
ants. The decision sustains the as
sessment of the property in question
but sets aside the interest, penalties
and commissions. The total assess
ment, according to the decision rem
dered by Trustee McFall at the hear
ing of the case before him short
time ago, aggregate $4,511.25. With
the interest, penalties and commits
sfons allowed would approximately
bring the sum up to the rise of
$4,000.
In rendering the decision Chancel-
lor Bearden went at length into the
assessment and back tax laws, dis.
cussing them infinitely.
These suits were begun early in
1911, and have attracted wide atten-
ton nthat there has been an ef-
fort to show that the assessments
were made in violation of both the
state and federal constitution.
The attorneys In the case are Pee
bles & Forgey and w. J. fowler for
the revenue collector, J. r. Jetton.
and Crockett owen, Holding & Gar
ner and Hatcher & Hatcher fo- the
defendants.
Both sides will appeal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-11-01
CROWDS SEE THE
DANTE PICTURES
NEW GRAND Is CROWDED WITH
PATRONS TO WITNESS PoR.
- TRAVAIL OF INFERNO.

From the opening to the close of
the New Grand Wednesday night
there was crowd there was a crowd.
ed house to see the pictures of Dan
te's Inferno, as advertised to be
shown here Wednesday and Thurs
day of this week, matinee and nights.
All the horrors of Dante's word paint
ing of the internal regions is shown
through his entire trip with Virgil as
his guide. The pictures are a mar
vel Of the motion picture art In nu-
merous ways.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-11-01
PERSONAL.

Mr.. and Mrs Ben Larabee have re
turned to their home at st. Louis.
Esq. C. c. Ross was in Columbia
early this morning on legal business
He returned to Mt Pleasant on the
morning train.
w. r. Harris was in the city today
together with his brother, Chas. Har
ris, of Leftwich. Mr. Harris lives at
Woodbury. and is serving his third
term as register of Cannon county.
F. P. bearing and Geo. NJ Barker,
of Jacksonville, Fla. spent Sunday in
Columbia.
Col. H. G. Evans went to Pulaski
Sunday to attend the funeral of
Brown McMillin
]. P. Kidd, of Lawrenceburg, and
Edmund Hughes, of Mt Pleasant,
were, in Columbia today.
Il J. G. Bradford, Thos. H. Bradford,
Kasper Kuhn, John Burton and A. D.
bcdtIy, VI NdSuFlllc, lOIlHcu dill duJO-
mobile party that dined at the Bethel
House Sunday +"
Miss Darlington, of Memphis, is the
attractive guest of Miss Annie Gray
Maddin at "Summerside." Miss Ed
rington's mother is pleasantly remem-
bered here as Miss Jennie Bethel.
Mrs Joseph w. Love and little
daughter, Josephine, and mother,
Mrs. Mary D. Warfeld, will leave to-
morrow for their home at Chickasha,
Okla, where Mr.. Love recently en-
tered business. They will be Joined
by Mrs. Amos Warfield about Dec. l.
Miss Mary Jones is visiting at
Hampshire.
Mrs. Claiborne Taylor, Of Culleoka,
Is in town today.
T. C. Britain went to Hollis Cor
ner on business today.
Rev. and Mrs. w. T. Haggard are
spending the day in Nashville.
Miss Annie Lizzie Hurt, Of Chapel
Hill, now teaching music at Hamp-
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trial Of few minor cases. The
court will be in session until the end
of the week.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-11-01
WIFE'S AFFECTIONS
BRING TOP PRICES
CALIFORNIA r. r. EMPLoYE
GETS HUNDRED THOUSAND
FROM oRcHARpIsT.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. sl.-A
judgment of 100000 for the allena-
ton Of wife's affections, one of the
largest judgments of that character
ever awarded in Los Angeles, was
placed on record today. It was given
by Judge Walter Bordwell, of the
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-11-01
OVER THE COUNTY.
e

Mr.. and Mrs Joe Borum are the
parents of ten pound girl, born Sat
urday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hardison are
the parents Of fine girl. born Mon
day night.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-11-01
AN AGED CITIZEN
DANGEROUSLY ILL

John Dean, an aged resident of the
city living on Ninth street, is dan
gerously Ill at his home today. He
has been sick several days and his
affection has taken the phase Of
slight paralysis.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-11-01
NASHVILLE BOY
KILLS BROTHER
PLY BURGLAR AND DIDN'T
KNOW SHOTGUN WAS
LOADED.
Special to The Herald.

Special 70 The Herald.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Oct. 81
Clifford Johnson, aged fourteen, &C.
cidentally shot and killed his broth
er, Cannon, aged IL, this morning at
their home in East Nashville. The
boys were playing burglars and Cliff
ford used shotgun. He didn't know
the gun was loaded. The boys par.
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. J.. R. Johnson,
We're both away at work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-28

| Friday morning Mr.. Bowser got up with
! a bad hump on his back, and as he ate
| his tea and toast he requested Mrs
BOwser to telephone for a lawyer to draw
up his will and added with considerable
zest that he should leave every dollar of
his possessions to found an asylum for
tramps. She telephoned, but the lawyer
had gone off on a hunt, and his office boy
declined the job. The cat was barred out
of the room all day, and word was sent
to the cook that if she didn't stop banging
the dishpan about, the hand of justice
would clutch her throat with mercilesS
grasp. There were moments when Mr..
Bowser wanted Mrs. BOwser to hold his
hand and promise that she would visit
his last resting place once a week during
the rest of her life, and there were mo-
ments when he charged her with getting
up in the middle of the night to run
poisoned darning needle into the back of
his neck to cut short his days. The bell
was munled, the curtains drawn and to
all anxious inquiries the cook replied:
No he isn't dead yet, nor have they
sent him away to an insane asylum, but
We are prepared for the worst. He may
sink away as softly as a canary bird o.
he may try to tear the house down before
he goes
Mr. Bowser was still alive when Satur-
day morning 'dawned, and. although ne
announced that his end near, he in
sisted on creeping down stairs to his
favOrite lounge. Mrs BowSer had used
up five pounds of flaxseed and a pint of
arnica on the cancer, but was still hard
at work and making no complaints. She
announced a decided Improvement, with
signs of a burst, but he took no interest
in her words. At noon, however, ne
aroused himself and admitted he had net
been the husband he ought to have been
and asked for forgiveness for his many
shortcomings. She freely forgave him,
and hour later he demanded to know
why she hadn't struck him with the ak
as he lay sleeping, instead of resorting to
poison. The afternoon waned and even
ing came, and it was necessary for Mrs
Bowser to visit the drug store after more
flaxseed. The druggist was kind-hearc-
ed man, and he did his best to cheer her.
He had had 80 years experience in the
drug business, and in all that time he had
never known a cancer on the back of tile
neck to prove fatal. Such a thing taken
in conjunction with a head-on collision,
the collapse of a building or an earth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-28
Our BriIIiancy Costs High.

In one column of the recent issue of
a newspa per was an article dealing with
the increasing abandonment of farms
and lack of producers of the nations
food. In another column was an article
giving the results of a test in a normal
school showing that the young women
studying to be teachers, all of them
graduates of city high schools and some
of them graduates of woman's colleges,
failed to recognize the commonest
things of everyday life and couldn't
name even a potato plant with the po-
tatoes attached, or recognize an ordi-
nary beet.
In tests of observation it developed
that an alarming proportion of these
normal school pupils could not name
the location of their city's 10 principal
public buildings. though none Of those
IN the test had lived less than five
years in the city and others had spent
all their lives there.
In a class of 100 graduates of high
schools and six graduates from the
woman's college. 9$ were unable to cor
rectly name the branch of a plum tree.
This in itself is not so remarkable, for
probably the majority of city people
wouldn't know a plum tree if they saw
1t. But this same branch was passed
among 100 pupils a second time and
95 of the class failed to recognize that
it was the same bit of plum tree that
had previously been examined. This is
more significant than the failure to REQ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-28
ognize the potato plant or to locate the
principal public buildings of the city.

ognize the potato plant or to locate the
principal public buildings of the city.
Is the fault with our schools or with
the students?
Are the young folks so Eighty that
| it's a hopeless task to instruct them?
Or are the systems of education along
lines that fail to teach the wholesome
and necessary things needed in our
daily lives?
Is it at all extraordinary that our
farms are lying waste when we are
educating our boys and girls to be con-
sumers and not producers?
What kind of a trained mind is 1t
plum tree branch so that the same
branch will not be recognized upon a
second view?
The fact is that we are all trained
superficially. 1t is all on the surface
City people gaze only over the tops of
things. There is so much diversity that
they seldom take the trouble to OBJ
serve one thing carefully or to study
deeply into any condition. They have
no time to waste-that's the feeling and
practice.
The same spirit is in the schools So
much must be gone over in such a short
time Only the surface is SKINNED.
Concentration is neither practfced nor
required. Thoroughness is the rule.
It's our habit to sneer, in fact at any
body who is SLOW" though slowness
means sureness. Pupils marked bril-
liant" in hig. school and college failed
in every essential in the normal school
tests referred to.
1t is a purely American trait. I doubt
If these tests could have resulted as
they did in any but an American
school. We are all for brilliancy. moth
inc for thoroughness- And our bril-
liancy" is costing high. for IT means
that We are failing to take account of
the common things of Iife-the very es-
sentials of right living
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quake shock had brought about direfll
results, but alone by itself was not great
ly to be feared. Mrs Bowser return ed
home in more cheerful spirits, and as she
softly opened the front door she was
alarmed to hear Mr.. Bowser dancing
about and singing a verse of topical
song. At the door of the sitting room she
beheld him cavorting about with the cat
in his arms and the bandages off his
neck, and as she cried out in alarm he
turned and SHOUTED:
She's gone! She's gone for sureP'
Mr. Bowser's cancer had broken and
death had passed him by. He cackled and
laughed and chucked her under the chm;
but. suddenly remembering his policy, he
drew himself up stiffly and said:
Yes woman, your fourteenth attempt
to assassinate me has failed. and you can
instruct your lawyer to see my lawyer to-
morrow morning.
But what did DOR she asked
Poisoned a darning needle as 1 slept
and then jabbed mel
You can't believe it,! 49, .
And but for my strength of VIII II
would have been boil instead of can
GER Think It over tonight and tell me IT
the morning how much alfmony you
1912, by Associated
Literary PreSS.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-28
According to Uncle Abner.

When a friend tells you something
unpleasant it is always for your own
good
tory of this country when there wasn't
somethin' wrong with the tariff.
When a Teller gifts old enough to
know better it is too late fer him to
take advantage of it.
If all of a persons troubles really
happened he would never live to be old
enough to vote.
Lem Purdy says any Teller who
wears a collar and necktie on week days
is a dude and will bear watchin'.
There amt nothin' colder in this
world than pair of clippers when a
barber slaps 'em on the back of your
neck.
It doesn't matter much who's elected.
1t is always a grand victory for the
common people temporarily.
The greatest thing that can happen
to any cat is to some day have his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-28
A WOMAN'S OBSERVATIONS.
CBy Edna K. Wooley.)
Something to Think About.

Here is something that every woman
ought to read and ponder:
The general superintendent of GER
tain railway company has issued an
order that hereafter domestic troubles
will be considered sufficient cause for
an employees discharge from the rail-
roads service.
Undoubtedly" said the general
superintendent, domestic troubles &C
count for a number of accidents. A
man whose home surroundings are not
pleasant often cannot get the proper
amount of sleep while off duty Some
times words which may have passed be-
tween him and his wife. ltnger In his
mind after he has taken up the work
for the day. Loss of sleep and worry
of the latter sort are bound to exercise
distracting influences
Every mans success in the outside
world depends greatly upon his home
environment. That is where a wife is
so important a partner in the matrt-
moniaI firm. The woman who scolds
her husband away wearied and wor-
ried each morning. has herself to blame
if he is failure in his work.
This is not the first railroad company
that has decided to discharge employees
because of domestic troubles. One of
the greatest railroad systems in the
country has had this unwritten rule for
years.
At first thought it seems a heartless
rule There are domestic troubles that
can't be helped, it will be argued But
consider. for instance. the responsibility
of the engineer of a passenger train.
If his mind is occupied unhappily, 1t is
not in fit condition to be on the alert
every moment, as 1t must be to safe
guard the human freight he carries. A
conductor who is worrying over trou-
bles at home isn't in fit condition to
grasp the contents of orders or to
transmit them to his engineer.
A man who must listen to complaints
and curtain lectures, who is harried by
a fretting wife and unruly children
during his time at home, hasn't had
enough rest of heart and mind and
body rightly to perform his duties as
the family breadwinner.
There is really no excuse for most
family troubles. They are brought
about by discomfort, bad tempers, mis-
self1shness, unwillingness
to bear and forbear.
Much of the home peace lies within
the hands of the wife. If she will not
do her share to preserve the peace and
of her home-even little more
than her share, if need be-she is failing
in her duty as a helpmate, and she can
not censure an employer who refuses
TO retain the man whose efficiency has
been lowered by her own failure to send
him away from home each time re- |
,reshed and comforted and ready for |
the fray.
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internal economy stretched on a Stradi-
Varius violin.
And say. the common people seem
to be getting more common right
along.
One cent postage is goin' to make it
lot easier for the chumps who want
to write love letters.
There amt no woman who looks al
good at o'clock in the morning as she
does at 8 O'Clock in the evening.
Elmer Jones of our village gave away
nine engagement rings last year and
didn't succeed in gettin' one of them
back. 1t is costin' Elmer more to stay
single than it would to support a wife
Amry Tubbs, who is a very sanity man,
has read the Bible through seventeen
times in two years. In the meantime he
mas been Twin on his wife's folks.
Miss Euphemia Perkins, our poetess of
passion, is certainly getting along. She
has written some poetry that has been
in this country.
When a Teller gets to the point where
he is entirely satisfied with himself he
hits the back trail from that moment.
1t beats all how many bright young
men, who might make money, have a
hankering to start opposition news
paper in a small town.
Mrs. Anse Frisby says her young son
is so bright that she is awfulIy afraid
that when he grows up he Will try to be
president
1t seems as though the entire popula-
ton Of Norway, Sweden and Denmark
must be busy making those safety
matches that light only when scratched
on the box.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-28
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

The cocktail makes a most accepta-
Bile entree or an opening course at
dinner or luncheon. They are easy to
make and less expensive than many
other relishes that have not such a
high sounding name.
The appended recipes will be es-
pecially suited for the holiday season.
Oyster Cocktails.
Remove the round muscle from 30
small oysters, then rinse, drain and
chill on ice.
Mix together one tablespoon fresh
ly grated horseradish, one-half tea
spoon tobasco sauce, two tablespoons
lemon juice, one tablespoon vinegar,
two-thirds of a teaspoonful of salt,
two tablespoons tomato catsup and one
and one-half tablespoons Worcester
shire sauce.
Add the chilled oysters and serve IN
six cocktail glasses imbedded in crush
ed ice
Garnish with seasonable greens.
Clam Cocktails.
Place four or five CLAIMS in each OF
six cocktail glasses. and dress them
with the following sauce:
Three tablespoons each OF tomato
catsup and lemon Juice, one-half tea
spoon freshly grated horseradish, one
teaspoon tobasco sauce. two table
spoons clam juice, three-quarters tea
spoon of salt and a dash of paprika.
Serve very cold.
Grape fruit Cocktails.
Halve fine grapefruit, then remove
core and seeds. Fill the cavity thus
formed with very small oysters dress
ed with tobasco sauce, tomato catsup
and a little prepared horseradish.
Arrange the grapefruit in deep
saucers and surround with crushed
ice.
Garnish the saucers with holly, mis-
tletoe Or sprigs Of parsley.
The Table.
Macaroni and dried beef-BoiI maca-
roni until tender in sailed water. Put
piece of butter size of walnut in a
spider: when hot put dried beef in and |
let brown then put in boiling water
for amount of gravy wanted, thicken
with flour, salt and pepper to tasta. |
Pour off water of macaroni and put |
in the gravy. Makes a fne !
dish for cold days.
Cranberries-This is an unfat1Ing |
recipe for a most delicious preparation: |
To one quart cranberries add one pint |
water Cover and boil until berries |
burst. Then add two cups sugar, boil
20 minutes without the cover. They |
must not be stirred.
Peppernuts-Four pounds brown
sugar, one pOunQ OnS-IOuFI0
pound citron, one-half pound almonds,
1ne quart butternilk, one tablespoon
each of ground cloves, allspice, soda
and salt, two tablespoons coreander,
one teaspoon each Of mace, pepper and
grated hartshorn-
Pour boiling water over almonds and
remove skins. Chop citron, currants
and nuts very fine, then put them in
he pan with the sugar; sprinkle spices
On too.
Stir hartshorn into one pint of sifted
1our then put in buttermiIk and last,
add enough -four to make as stin as
bread dough. Take a good handful of
he dough and roll it long like a sau-
sage then cut it in small pieces and
make them round like a marble. Put
.hese in the tins about IL inches apart
Ind bake brown. This amount will |
make about one-half bushel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-28

The campaign cartoon of the money king
with the dollar mark clothes.
The nanny goat beard.
The outing flannel nightshirt.
The stage villain with the silk Rat and
dropping mustache.
Sign in every livery stable reading:
whip light, drive slow; money in hand
or no 60"
Mechanical canary bird on the end OF
the bar.
Rectangular pipes.
Hoop rollers fl vaudeville
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-28
1t Is Certainly a Scream.

When a newspaper men gets mar
ried and says: with all my worldly
goods I thee endow."
When the father of the young hope
full artist starts in to explain how it
is right for the father to do certain
things and wrong for the kid to do
them.
When two women get to Quarreling
as to which shall have the privilege of
paying street car fare and neither one
opens her purse.
When a 81, 900 a year minister gets
up and tells an audience of substan-
tiaI business men how to succeed in life
When a lady who has never seen
anything but East Lynne and Uncle
Toms Cabin" reads a paper before the
club on 1.-The Trend of the Modern
Drama"
When a man passes a millinery
store window with his wife he tries to
engage her in an absorbing conversa-
ton on the political situation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-28
ON The SPUR
OF THE AOMENT
A Change of Occupation.
BY ROY K. MOULTON

"A OIIdLEsC
Oh. what has become Of the old-fashioned
farmer,
Who used to go out bright and early
each morn
Before he had breakfast and work in the
barnyard,
Or pillow six or seven large acres Of
corn?
No longer he drives in an ancient wagon
To town with a tattered straw hat and
blue jeans.
He uses a touring car now on his travels.
His wife has the choice of three fine
limousineS.
You see, things have changed since way
back in the nineties.
IT'S years since the old man has fol-
lowed a pillow,
For he and his wife are just rolling in
riches,
They take summer boarders at fancy
rates now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-28

reached perfection and would have taken
the prize at any county fair. The color
was deep red, and the hardness was akin
TO a November pear. Mr.. Bowser took
position on the broad of his back on the
lounge and only moved when fresh pouI-
tees were applied or the cat set up a
wall. Seeing that he was helpless, the
cook decided to stay on, but held herself
ready for any sudden emergency. Along
toward evening Mr.. Bowser delivered a
brief address on Lucrezia Borgta. 1t was
leveled at Mrs. Bowser, and she under
stood.