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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-05-29
BREEDER
SELLS FINE YOUNG
BOAR TO HAVANA
A. FLEM THOMAS SHIPS SON or
NOTED DERoW HOG TO PEARL
OF ANTILLES.
RECEIVES A VERY LONG PRICE
Clarence Gracey, the Famous Berk-
shire Expert Declares He Is One
Of the finest Of the Type He Has
Ever Seen.

A. Elem Thomas, of Culleoka, one
of the leading hog breeders of this
section Of the state, today shipped to
Havana Cuba, one Of his fine young
registered boars. He was sold to
Roscie A. Morris, Of Havana, who is
one of the leading breeders of fine
Berkshires in Pearl Of the Antilles.
While Mr.. Thomas would not state
exactly what he received for the
young boar 1t is understood that it
was an extra fancy price and would
require in the neighborhood of four
figures to properly express it. Mr..
Thomas was assisted in making the
sale by the celebrated Culleoka
breeder, Clarence B. Gracey, who de-
clared to Mr.. Morris in cablegram
that he had never seen finer young
specimen of hog flesh and that he
would stake his reputation on the
hog.
The boar sold by Mr.. Thomas Is
son Of the famous Artful Bells Lord
Premier Second, once owned by Mr..
Thomas but onw the property of J.
D. B. DeBow, of Nashville, this hog
was full litter mate Of the $1,000
boar sold by Charles P. Hatcher, OF
famous Blythewood, to Mr.. DeBow.
The Cuba boar is out Of Lord Pre-.
mier's Maury Bell, one Of the most
royalty bred hogs in the county, be-
ing of the noted Maury Bell family.
The fact that Maury county's fame
as the breeding place Of fine Berk-
shires has spread to Cuba is pretty
good evidence, were any lacking, Of
the great value Of the hog industry in
this ection.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-05-29
FORMER COLUMBIAN
NEW MODERATOR
HIGH HONOR FOR DR.. W. ]. MAR.
TIN, WHO ONCE TAUGHT
HERE.

The election OF DR.. W. J. Martin a.
moderator Of the Presbyterian assem-
bly, session at Kansas City recalls
to the minds of many of the older
people Of this city that DR.. Martin
once taught in Columbia. He is well
remembered by those who went to.
school to him. He was here for sew
eral years. Subsequently he became,
the president Of Davidson College in
North Carolina.
His selection was unexpected. He,
was not spoken Of for the post pre-.
vious to the assembly. The honor is
a great one. and there will be many
in the city who will be glad to hear
of their old teacher being honored 30
signally.
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anti-Rye men voted the other way.
The contests in Carter and Haw.
kins and Lawrence counties were de.
cided the same way, the committee
by votes Of six to four seating the
anti-Rye delegations. The commit
tee has now under consideration the
Shelby contest.
The contests so far decided by the
committee will add more than one
hundred votes to the combination,
should the convention concur, which
is regarded as altogether probable.
1t will place the Rye-Lea crowd in a
hopeless minority. That Preston is
steadily gaining ground is indicated
here this morning. His followers are
enthusiastic and confident while
there is gloom, thick, murky, dark
and forbidding gloom in the ranks OF
the Lea-Rye forces.
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B0v|kES BiN|SHED
FROM STREETS OF
PHOSPHATE CITY
COW LAW CARRIED BY VOTE OF
NEARLY TWO TO ONE
TUESDAY.
INTEREST in FIGHT WAS INTENSE
w. J. Howard, E. r. Lyon and r. N.
Bullock Were Elected Aldermen by
Large Majorities-cow Was the
Only Issue-Heavy Vote 'Polied.

After a hot contest, in which prac-
tically the whole citizenship OF Mt.
Pleasant voted, the COW was Danish.
ed from the streets Of the phosphate
city for at least another year.
The interest in the election was
intense. Mass meetings were held
the night before by both the white
and colored voters. Organization was
perfected and plans made to get out
the entire voting strength Of the
city. The only qualification was that
10 voter should own property in the
|corporattgu. The sole issue was
whether or not the cows should be
|allowed to run at large on the streets.
Over three hundred votes were poll
ed. For the cow law the candidates
flor aldermen were w. J. Howard, e.
If. Ligon and R. M. Bullock. Against
the COW law were Mumford Smith,
DR.. J. z. Anderson and Jos. w. How
ard.
The individual vote was as follows:
w. ]. Howard, 20S; E. F. Ligon. I'll;
|R. M. Bullock, ZIG; Mumford Smith,
lie; ]. E. Anderson, 1872; and Joseph
w. Howard, 116. The vote was near
lily 2 to against the bovine.
The result of the election means
that the nuisance or COW law, upon
which the fight was made, will be
RETAINED, as all the candidates favor
ling the retention of the cow law were
elected.
| AS an instance Of the feeling that
was aroused upon the question, very
flew Of the citizens went to the con-
vention at Nashville, as they thought
that it was more important to stay at
home and cast their ballots upon. the
local issue.
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MOTHERS DAY AT
MT. NEBO SUNDAY
AooRESS BY DR.. w. T. HAGGARD
THE FEATURE-SPEcIAL MU.
SIC NUMBERS.

IN addition to the children's day
exercises, which will be held at the
N' Nebo church Sunday morning,
'nere will also be services in the aft
eFhoon They will be devoted to the
eeleoration Of Mothers Day The fea-
tufe OF the afternoon will be the ad.
oress OF DR.. W. T. Haggard. of Co
'umoia, There will be special musi.
cal numbers.
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JERSEYS AVERAGE
OVER S83 A HEAD
At THE BIG SALE
sEvENTY.SEVEN cows, BULLS
L. AND HEIFERS BRING
- $6,423.
1WEN7Y.fOUR COWS $ls2 each
Buyers Present From Several States.
J. p. Whitney, Of Spokane, WASH,
probably the Heaviest Purchaser.
Hutton Cattle Bring Highest Price.

The Jersey sale held at South Side
Park Monday afternoon was a sue
cess in every way. The seventy-sev.
en- head sold for $6,423, grand aver.
age of over sS3 per head, for bulls,
COWS, heifers and calves. The TWEEN.
ty-four COWS sold for an average OF
s13,.
The attendance at the sale was
splendid. There were buyers, not
only from this county, but there were
several from other states. One OF
the most active buyers, and the one
who probably purchased larger NUM-
ber than am one else was J. P. Whit
ney, of Spokane, Washington. He
took away to the coast some Of the
best cows and heifers that were of.
fered at the auction.
The local buyers were strong bid.
ders. Some of the highest priced
stuff in the catalogue was kept at
home. They were acquainted with
the merit of each individual and had
carefully inspected all of the cattle
before the sale started.
The highest consignment sold was
that of j. l.. Hutton. One of his cows
brought $215, another $195 still an.
other $175, while some others brought
well over $1OO. His stock was among
the best bred in the sale, carrying
the blood Of the deepest purple.
As whole, 1t was the concensus OF
opinion that the stock sold very we'll
Some did not sell for as much as II
ought to have brought, while still 9th
ers went pretty high.
Most of the crowd went to Spring
Hill today to attend the sale there
of Percy Braown and others. The
same auctioneers, Coils. D. L. Perry
and R. r. Bailey, will conduct the
sals
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-05-29
FORCES
AGAIN vICT0RS. OVER
ONE HUNDRED MAJORITY
OF CREDENTIALS FAVORABLE TO
THE PRESTON DELEGATION, BUT MINORITY
is SUBMITTED AND RED HOT ARGUMENT
RESULTED, COL. RICE A. PIERCE MAX
ING VIGOROUS ATTACK
ON HOOPER

EsToN FOLLOWERS HOWL AN o HISS LUKE LEAs NAME AND
CONFUSION BECOMES WORSE coNFouNDED-LIrrLE Ap.
PARENT CHANGE IN LINE UP EXPECTED THAT ANTI.
RYE DELEGATES WILL BE SEATED FROM ALL OF THE couN
TIES IN coNTEsT-JUDclAL CONVENTION HOLDS STAGE
WHILE THE eusERNAToRIAL NOMINATION wAIrs-THE
LATTER CONVENTION oURNED UNTIL AFTER BuRRow
HAS BEEN NAMED-ATTEN DANCE LARGER, If ANYTHING
THAN ON THE FIRST DAY. ,1l.li,,
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ANOTHER KNOCK OUT. !.
Credentials Committee Votes to Seat
Preston Delegation From David
son County.
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
CONVENTION HALL, Nashville,
Tenn, May 27.-Another solar plexus
blow was directed at the Lea-Rye
forces this morning, when the COM
mittee on credentials by strict par
tisan vote Of six to four voted to seat
the Preston bolting delegates from
Davidson county. The vote came
after a long argument The four Rye
men on the committee, including
whitthorne, Of Maury, voted to seat
the regular delegation, but the six
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-05-29
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
CONVENTION HALL, Nashville,
Tenn, May 27.-It was decided in the
credential report that each Of the con
testing delegations in Marion county
shall each vote nalf of the vote al.
lowed the county. Hawkins, Carter
and Campbell county disputes were
dismissed briefly, with decisions
which had for some time seemed in.
evitable.
Gen. Caldwell read lengthy re-
port on the Davidson county contest
in which the minority recommended
that the Rye delegation be seated.
Gen. Caldwell then moved that the
minority report be substituted for the
majority.
Judge Allison moed that the motion
of Gen. Caldwell be tabled, but with
drew it upon the request Of Chairman
Upton to allow argument.
Col. Rice A. Pierce then arose to
speak for the Rye delegation" FROM
Davidson county. He was at first as
sailed with howls and Kisses, but the
noise quieted down at once when
Chairman Upton pleaded for a re
spectacle hearing Of all the speakers
Instead Of going at once into the mer
its of the contest he assailed Hoop
erisn" and "Stahlmanism" for some
time. He picked up paper to read
an article, and some one bawled Out
Put down Luke Lea papers"
Mr.. Pierce said: II thought this
was a harmony convention" The
sally brought laughter and restored
order, but referring again to Senator
Luke Lea, the bowling was again re
sumed. "You must want pie" was
shouted at him, and he finally sal
down after tribute to the good old
county Of Gibson. Judge Allison took
the floor and was listened to for q
few minutes, when there was renew
ed disorder with many shouts Of "Sit
down"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-05-29
TWO COMMITTEES REPORTS.
Fierce Fight. Precipitated In state
Convention Over Contest In
Davidson County.
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
CONVENTION HALL, Nashville,
Tenn, May 27.--With an attendance
equal to IL not exceeding that of yes
terday and with interest and excite
ment keyed up to an even higher
pitch, the state democratic conven-
tion reconvened at noon. At once
majority and minority reports from
the committee on credentials were
submitted. The majority report is IA
vorable to the Preston forces, recon-
mending the seating of the contestine
delegations in Campbell, Morgan and
Davidson counties. The minority re
port represents the four Rye mem
bers Of the committee and recon
mended the seating Of the regular del
egation from Davidson county.
As soon as the reports Of the com
mittee were submitted the flre works
started. The principal fight is over
the Davidson county delegation: in
fact it is there that the real battle
hinges. 1t is expected that there will
be extended argument over the re
ports before a vote Is finally reached
So far there is NO indication Of any
material change in the line up Of the
convention as shown in the election
on yesterday of John A. Upton as
temporary chairman. It is the gen
eral opinion Of the best informed pol
iticians that the majority report OF
the committee will be adopted by sub.
stantially the same vote that wrested
control of the convention from the
Rye-Lea combination at the opening
OF the convention.
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SPECIAL TO THE HERALD.

SPECIAL TO The HERALD.
CONVENTION HALL, NASH
VILE, TENN, MAY 27.-AT 2:30
O'CLOCK THE CONVENTION BY A
voAE OF 621R TO 52sLa SEATED
THE PRESTON DELEGATION
FROM DAVIDSON COUNTY. THIS
MEANS THAT THE LEA-RYE
FORCES ARE IN A MINORITY IN
THE CONVENTION BY OVER 200
VOTES AND RYE's CHANCES FOR
THE NOMINATION ARE ADMIT.
TED TO BE GONE.
BURROW WAS NOMINATED FOR
SUPREME JUDGE BY AccLAMA.
TloN.
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GOVERNORS FIGHT WAITS.
No Action Will Be Taken Until the
Judge Has Been Noml.
mated.
to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
CONVENTION HALL, Nashville,
Tenn, May 27.-The judicial conven-
tion assembled at 10 o'clock and took
a recess until II to await the report
Of the credentials committee, but at
1880 there was no report. The ex-
ecutive committee decided to call the
gubernatorial convention to order at
noon and adjourn until the judicial
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tContinued on Fourth Pass.,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01

From time immeorial 1t was the GUS tom in Japan for the head of a noble house to adopt a son if he so desired and make him not only heir To his fortune and estates. but of his titles The disinherited heir In such q case occupied the position of a younger son but often he was adopted by some no- bleman, perhaps by relative. Tho eyer, always the scion of some otler noble house.
 The commercial classes in Japan SOW in this custom ready method of en- nobling their family. All that a wealthy merchant. banker dH business man had to do, was to pay some poor but an cient Japanese feudal lord a sufficient- ly large sum of money to adopt his son. and the latter became at once the prospective head of a noble house. IE- der royal edict made in 1906 sho parent and immediate blood relatives of the adopted heir to noble house became themselves of noble rank cor responding exactly to that Held by the brothers and sisters of an English no- bleman
 The Japanese nobleman who adopts a son for money payment has. how ever, to part with a certain percentage of it to the royal coffers. The royal
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.frum Shakespeer to Buther M. Clay with
 out a pebble and get away with it. When the Senit is engaged in sum lerned and hy- provided discussion consuming canal tolls, or the sevven hundred and forty ninth Mex ican crissis, and sum Seniter seys sumthing that IS not strictly accurate and in keeping with historrick facts, up rises the seenyer Seniter frum Mississippee, who promptly sets the erring Seniter rite. q hope the Seniter will pardun me- will say John Sharp, "but reely must correct him at this point. In the third vollum of the Crate Fiji lossifer Bolo's history of the Peeruvans, a Nobull rase of peepul who invinted the just ly celebrated Peeruvian Bark, and in the forteenth chaptur, third vurse, secund par ragraft, it seys." Then Seniter Willyums
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consent is necessary to all adoptious and though in bygone ages it was never refused. modern developments hayc suggested to the minister of finance at tho Japanese eea-s afaa .ss-- dom of making the person wno wenia the royal consent to an adoption Gin certain circumstsnces) pay for 1t.
 There are -four degrees in the Jap anese peerage, marquise, count. yis- count and barca. Admission to the last degree al the present time costs about S50O,00O and to the next another sa50,- ooo only the son of n baron or vis- count can be raised to the higher ie- grees of the peerage. A commercial ari- stocraey has thus arisen in Japan. By many of tho old fcudai lords the new aristocracy is detcsted. but the con, , morcial aristocracy in Japan have ,,- come economically the dominant class, and with their development the oli aristocracy are ultimately bound l.,, disappear. Indeed somc of the oldest families have accepted their inevitabla destruction with the eastern stoicism. They have disinherited their heirs, have resolutely refused to adopt one from the class they detest and have openly avowed themselves the last of their
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Selling Titles ;n -Japa1---By Robert Dun,,

the peerage and at the same time cer- tain ancient privileges of the feudal aristocracy. more especially those in re- gard to their ownership of land which were interfering with industrial de- velopments. were declared to be at an end.
 The first of the new aristocracy were serected from army and navy officers and diplomatists. all of them of an cient birth an dconnected with noble houses. The late Viscount Hayashi, who was ambassador in England, was one of these. The commercial classes were rigidly debarred. however, from admission to the titled class. But not for long. There were bankers mar chants and captains of industry who were influencing the government of the country in no little degree and they were beginning to aspire to be ad- mitted to the privileges. both social and political. which the titled class in Japan possess.
 Curiosly an English merchant and bank CT had much to do with the admission of the commercial classes in Japan to the peerage. This was Sir Marcus Sam uel. Sir Marcus visited Japan in his early youth and subsequently became financially interested in many enter prises thefs. He helped to negotiate
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the first Japanese loan of S200O0, GOO, aud for this service the Order or the Risin,, Sun was bestowed on him. This ordcr Is one of the most anciens and highest of distinctions that the Mikado can offes and practically hitherto. had never been given to one not of noble rank. The bestowal of this order oss a merchant wealthy and influential though he was. proved the signal for the admission -f the Japanese commercial class to the peerage, and 1t was probably Intended tc be so, for Sir Marcus had indicated to certain officials how the royal cofYers might be filled. as is the purse of the political party in England wno happens to be in office by the safe of titles Since then many leading personalities in the Japanese world of commerce havo been admitted to the tilted class and most of them have purchased their titles
 The purchase of titles in Japan 10 not openly recognized It is not mentioned in the press. but it has become op- vious that any successful merchant. fnancier or man of business can, If he chooses to pay for the dignity. become ennobled and admitted to an the prfvf- leges of the ancient titled class. There is a custom in Japan which makes the purchase of title an easy and simple matter
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" oKIo, February 2s.-(special)
 The most recent and in some
 \ ways most remarkable of social developments in Japan is the manner in which its peerage. once certainly the most exclusive and probably the oldest th the world has in the past few years become entirely modernized. Up to 10 or I2 years ago the feudal aristocracy of Japan was an absolutely and entire ly distinct class, infinitely moro dis tinct and exclusive than the English titled aristocracy even in feudal times. Their titles, privileges, and ownership *of land dates from the remotest period, and to the masses this aristocracy was like the stun; 1t always had been and would always continue to exist.
 Up to 1897 there was not a peer in Japan whose house had not been en- nobled from time immemorial. Peers were. it is true. raised from one de- gree of the peerage to another but the erst ennoblement went back to prac- 0caliy prehistoric times. And then sud- denly in 1897 Japan awoke to the fact that this titled class had become an anomaly In country that had been 50 rapidly developing along western lines. royal edict was issued that subjects who had served their country with distinction should be admitted to
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will quote at sum length and detail the afor- sed Fillosifer, while his colleges sit around with there fly y-traps open an no one dares to challenge the absolute correctness of what he seys. Not that John Sharp is putting enny thing ovver on them-not by jug
 full Menny is the Senter who has gone to the trubble to check John Sharp up with the hope that he would find sulnthing rong, but there was nuthing doing When he quotes frum sum book you, will find it in the book just as John Sharp has spessified, and in case you don't it's the book that's rong, not John Sharp. In this mannur John Sharp has erned the just distipctsion of be- ing the best red man in the Senit When Suthern folks air in Washingtun, and feel called upon to enny perticuler swelling up
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and pointing with pride to the South s con- tribusion to the Legislative machinery of the country, John Sharp is always amung those pointed out. He is ranked amung the big men of the Senit.
 Theere is no man in the United States Senit who. looks moor like a reel United States Seniter than James K Vardman. Seniter Vardiman looks like a Seniter he acts like Seniter, and he. is Seniter He has had a stormy and varied career. In his fite for public recognision; the Seniter at tracted the attenson of the hole country, and erned the reputasion out of his state of being sum kindsof wild and woody per sun whose sole occupasion and delite was stalking knee deep in the gore of Missisip- pee's cultured populasion. Far be it frum
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IAA1ISIOh fDDl1Uh: lIdsl week we " discussed the plain people of Kan esy sas as reflected in the United States Senit. 1t is our purpose this week to get closure home-not that we know enny thing moor about matturs closur home, but becawse it suits our conveeniense to do so.
 Although we have previously ritten sumthing consuming Mississippee and hur seniters we reealize our short cummings and freely acknowledge that 1t Is as impos- sibull for us to do jnstise to so vollumnius a subject in one story, as it is for ennyboddy else Having taken this moddest attitude we will now proseed.
 Mississippee is phase maid famus in times past by the Honerabull John L. Sulli- wan and Woodrow Wilsun, both of whom tarried breefly and interestingly in the State. The formur long enuff to syentiffi- cally mock the block off of persunnel frend and the lattur long enuff to extin- sgulsh fire and get his name in the papers The State is penetrated frum the North to the South by the Illinoise Sentral Railroad and ingrown desire to reduse the repub- lcon populasion, if the occasion demands it, and with dew regard to rase, colur and preevius condision of survitude. On the west side the State is occasionally fringed by the sMississippee Rivur, a stream composed en- tirely of watur and Ohio real estate We say occasionally fringed becawse at sertain inturvals the Mississippee rivur rises up and spreads out like Mexican insurrect- sion and when she does so, there is usuelly moor watur in Mississppee than there is beer in Burlin. When the Msissippee Rivur becums peeved and violint the na- tives take to the tall timbur-the taller the bettur.
 Misssslppee has won moor or less fame m the producsion of cottun, corn, potatoes, boll-weevils rice, muskeeturs, chills and feevur, and Thomas U. Sisson. The State is demmycratc with much emfasis, and there exists an old-fashioned prejudise in favur of the original Constitusion as ritten by the farthurs, without amendmints, especially without the fifteenth amendmint. Mississip- pee is represinted in the United States Sen it.by two high-strung, nervus, Suthern gen tIemen, both ernest friends of the plain pee ,pul of Mississippee, and joined togethur by ties of mututel survise and the commun honor of "hailing frum Old Missip.''
 The Honerabull John Sharp Willyums , has been operating round Washington for good menny yeers, and on the average is considered one of our best little operaturs. John Sharp's spessialty is knowing things '~that happened yeers and yeers ago and the ability to rise up sudden and confrunt his opponint with an array of startling facts And figgers and pressedents that weer pulled off by our forefathers or sum uther emminintly respectabull persuns, which ut terly confuses and subduews John s sed op- ponint, who is newer in enny posision to dispute it. The mass of mattur that John Sharp has red and stored away back in his think box is simply appawling. He can get up and offhand quote enny grate authur