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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-03-12

no longer have this body of heroic
and devoted men to follow.
The part that the Confederate sol
der has played in the history of Am
erica since Appomattox makes the
most entertaining and altogether the
most remarkable chapter ever written
in the annals of any people. Defeat
ed on the field of carnage, the Confed.
crate soldier won the greatest victory
over adversely and seemingly insur-
mountable odds that is known in all
the history of the world.
There is only one army that was
ever comparable to the Confederate
army in respect to the service that
it rendered after defeat and demo.
bilization and that was the Ground
heads" of England who were dis
banded after the restoration of the
5tuarts.a 1t is recorded by Green
that the only thing that distinguish
ed these discharged soldiers from
their fellow citizens was that they
were little more prompt, of a some,
what higher standard of honor and
integrity in their dealings with their
fellowmen and were known far and
wide for their sobriety and fine char.
acters. But the parallel between them
and the Confederate soldier for the
quarter of century following APP
pamattox is hardly accurate. The
Confederate soldier, who had served
and fought and suffered for four long
years without pay, or provision and
without the hope of it, returned to
homes destroyed and lands devastat.
ed, the very foundations of his social
and political and business fabric
gone. BY the side of the problems
taat the Confederate soldier faced and
solved those. that confronted the sol
Tiers of the late war pale into insig
nificance.
Neither hoping for nor asking any
favors of government, on the contrary
for years an outcast in the political
life OF his country, the Confederate
soldier set himself resolutely to the
task Of saving the civilization of the
white man. and the institutions of the
Anglp-Saxon in his native land, TO
binding up the wounds of war and to
restore devastated land to prosper
ity. He succeeded without the aid OF
any governmental bounties and it was
a quarter of century after the shout
ing and the tumult of war had ceased
before even the manned and the Grip
pied of his own ranks received pit
lance from the state governments.
Perhaps had his pathway been
easier, had his task been lighter the
Confederate soldier would not have
developed into the worlds highest
standard of Christian citizen. When
men sacrifice, when the cross presses
down hardest, they feel an citation of
spirit and know an enobing Of the
soul that can never be experienced
amid plenty, prosperity and happi-
ness.
The service that the Confederate
soldier rendered to the South, to
Christian civilization, to the Anglo
Saxon institutions, in the days, dark
and then bright, that followed his de-
feat on the battlefield, can never,
never be forgot 1t is with inexpress-
ible sadness that The Herald records
the fact that he has passed forever
from the arena of national political
conflict. 1t prays to the God Of all
that his sacrifices and devotion may
be an inspiration to generations that
are to come.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-03-12
HITS
SOLDIERS BONUS
FORMER ARTILLERY MAN SAYS
SERVICE MEN DON'T
NEED 1T.

WASHINGTON, March 5.-Flat sp-
position to financial relief legisla-
ton for former service men, the first
to be expressed by a former soldier,
was asserted today before the house
ways and means committee by Wal
ter W. Burns, OF Greenpoint, n. T.,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-03-12
THE Ex.sERvlcE MEN.

In the light of the discussion now
engaging the attention Of the public
over what ought to be done for the
exservice men, nothing could be more
pertinent than comment which The
Herald made on this subject at the
time of the return Of the Tennessee
regiments from France. In it's issue
of April 2, last, The Herald said:
Col Luke Lea made most grace
full response to the ovation that was
rendered his fighting regiment in
Nashville. He expressed appreciation
of the cordial reception which the sol.
diers had obtained. Then he added
that the soldiers were not returning
with the hope or expectation of being
rewarded for the sacrifice that they
had willingly made for country and
civilization. we ask nothing said
Col. Lea, but the privilege of return
ing to our accustomed places in the
ranks of American citizenship He
took occasion also to inyeigh against
Bolsheyism and to pledge the services
of his men to stamp out this enemy of
American institutions.
Col. LEAFS attitude is the correct
one and it is to be hoped that it is
shared by those for whom he spoke.
His men are deserving of rewards.
They are sure to receive them. That
has been the history of this country.
It's soldiers have not been neglected.
They will assuredly be rewarded il
they acquit themselves as well in
peace as they did in war.
"The Herald has long felt that much
of the slush wasted about taking care
of the returned soldiers was unappre-
ciated by the men who faced death. 1t
has long believed that all they asked
was a fair and equal chance in the
race of life; that they would be the
first to resent the effort to make them
the petted and spoiled wards of the ma
ton. Although some of them may
have been boys when the tocsin of war
sounded, they are all full grown men
now. They have demonstrated that
they not only can take care of them
selves but they have proven that the
interests of the nation and humanity
can safely be committed to their care.
"The soldiers who are returning
from the battlefield want most of all
to get their discharges from the army
and enlist once more in the ranks of
American citizenship. Asking no spec
ial favors Of government or of their
communities, they are more than con-
tent to work out their own destinies
under the benign institutions which
our fathers bequeathed to us. They
are going to be a powerful force for
the best in American citizenship"
This is the position that The Her
aid takes today. 1t has not changed.
The sentiment which Col. Lea express
ed, above quoted, is still the sentiment
of this paper.
The course of this paper during the
past year has been true to the ideals
above expressed. 1t has urged that
preference be shown the men who
served and sacrificed during the war.
No paper in this section has done
more perhaps as much, to secure posi-
tions for the ex-service men. 1t has
full confidence in the patriotism and
devotion of the men who carried the
flag to France and it does not believe
that a majority of them will ever give
approval to any policy, which, while
temporarily advancing their interests,
would in the end prove disastrous to
the nation.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-03-12

Englands tobacco bill for the year
is in excess of s25O,OOO, 900.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-06-12
NOTED RUSSIANS
SLAIN ON YACHT

women, became exhausted from the
cold waves breaking over the vessel
and from lack of food.
Unable to manage the yacht, the
party made a despairing effort to put
it ashore on the desolate beach near
Sulina. There they succeeded in
launching small boats, but Roumanian
guards, under strict orders to permit
no landing through fear of the bolshe-
Wiki, ordered them to return to the
vessel
1t appears that some coast fishermen
offered rescue when the vessel began
settling. owing to the consequent
Of the heavy seas, but sol
diers prevented. That was the last
known Of the vessel until it stranded
King Ferdinand and Queen Marie of
Roumanfa have taken great interest
in the investigation. especially because
when the royal family was driven into
exile and the capital removed to Jassy,
the king and queen were offered the
magnificent home of the Felzfeins,
across the Bessarabian border.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-06-12
Black CaSketS Now
Reported Out of Style

SaK FranciScO.-To be buried
In black coffin isn't stylish.
Pale pink, cerise. old rose,
blue, lavender, purple and white
these colors are most in de-
rnand nowadays, says w. H.
Vincent, casket manufacturer
here for 80 years. Not more
than one person in twenty pre-
ferS the sOmber black, according
to Vincent.
Sometimes we get an order
for a striped coffin, or a green
one" Vincent a asserted. THE
color usually is in accordance
with the last wish of the de-
ceased"
Almost every variety of coffin
now sells for five times the price
of a few years ago, Vincent said.
The strictly modern hermetical-
ly sealed bronze casket brings
$1,000 wholesale.
Vincent has a caller now and
then who chooses his own coffin.
Usually it is an old man who
thinks his relatives won't prop
erly look after his BURIAL" said
Vincent.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-06-12
RELICS
OF LOST RACE,

| centuries, are sandals woven Of yucca
leaf. yucca fiber and cotton, and here
the very pattern boards over which
the sandals were made. Here, prac
tically untouched by time, are orna
ments of she'll cut into disks, and
beads of turquoise and of shell. There
are arrow points of jasper, bone avis
and needles and fragments of painted
wood-ceremonial boards. doubtless.
The basketry is of two types-coiled
and twiiled-sOme of it In an excellent
state of preservation. Then there are
cylindrical netted disks padded with
corn husks. These are puzzle to the
museums investigators. Some one adj
vanced the theory that they might
have been used as snow shoes, but the
small size and unsuitable shape of
some of the specimens seem to refute
that suppOsition. A wooden cradle
board with It's curiously placed head
piece accounts for the fiatteneti skulls
typical Of all the skeletons of shis an
cient civilization Which have baen re-
covered. A pillow of mating stuffed
with corn huyks. and some human re.
mains wrapped in mating and show.
ing the method of burial complete the
miscellaneous portion of the collec-
ton.
Specimens of Pottery.
The rest of the exhibit is given over
m potfory Tho cpooip,anc a., 90 ,,,h:.o
red and black, and include cooking
and eating utensils. The designs-not
as advanced in conception as some
other of our antique southwestern pot
terry, are, however, frequently skill
fully executed. For the most part
painted in black, or. less OfteA in red,
they are sometimes clearly taken from
textile designs. sometimes made I'D of
free-band curved lines such as would
not have bAsn practicable in textiles,
or, occasionally consist of crude ami
NAL representations. An interesting
broken mug shows hollow bottom in
which little pellets of clay had been
placed so as to produce a rattle. The
cross-msEsiDgs on the edges of the
bowls and drinking vessels are very
characteristic of thu pottery taken
from this Vicinity. Most interesting
among these relics is fhe coiled pot
tery-mad~ by rolling long strips of
Hay and winding them. round and
'ound in the desired shape, as is done
n ceiled iDasketry. In the pottery Of
his. sort the mark of the shaping
humb eali be plainly seen, and was
frequently used TO produce a wave
'attern which often attained to a very
,leasing development.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-06-12
FIndinglof Bodies Reveals One Of
Most Mysterious Tragedies
of Black Sea.
FLED FROM THE BOLsHEvIKI
on Board the YACHT Were Found A.
Coo,Oo0 Rubies in Gold, Paper and
devastating of Roumania is
Pushing investigation.

Eucharest.-The discovery on the
yacht Ostrara, stranded at Sulina in
one of the mouths of the Danube, OF
the bodies of IL noted Russian men
and women, each. shot through the
mead, and not q living person on
BOARD. has presented to the Roumani-
an authorities che of the most mys-
FERROUS tragedies in the Black sea.
The bodies have been identified as
those of members of the noted Rus
siam families of Falzfein and Shadow
ski. The Falzfeins were descendants
of G3rman Mennonite colonists who
settled in the province of Kherson at
the invitation of the Russian govern
ment.
Water in the Cabin.
The discovery was made by soldiers,
who, when they went aboard the help
less yacht, found the cabin half filed
with water and the IL bodies floating
around. On board the yacht were H.
100000 rubles in gold and paper, and
Jewels. Some money and valuables
were found to be missing when rec
lordS Of the victims were checked up,
but the amount was apparently small
compared to the funds and valuables
lleft aboard. Il
The elder Felzfein still grasped a
pistol in his hand when his body was
found, and whether the party commit
tied suicide or were murdered Is a
question that remains unanswered,
and it is believed that the solution of
how the families met their death may
never be known.
An investigation is being made by
the Roumanian authorities, aided by
Russian friends of the two families.
All that Is known is that the two fam
lilies fled their estates to Odessa, and
when the bolsheviki arrived there in
February put their belongings on
board the yacht, which was then towed
by a Russian steamer bound for Con-
stanza.
The tow ropes broke several times, |
owing to severe storms. and finally |
the steamer lost the yacht altogether
and proceeded to Constanza.
Drifts at Mercy Of Storm.
It is believed that later, while the
yacht drifted at the mercy of the
storm, the refugees, six men and five
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-06-12

| lied in consideration of the birds nat
ural longevity and strong powers OF
flight. which make it possible for 6
single individual to be seen repeated
ly over period of many years and
in widely separated places.
up to the present time, the only
region where the bald eagle has main.
tained encouraging numbers has been
the coastal region and large river val
leys Of Alaska. Here 1t did breed
In numbers surprisingly large for a
bird Of its size. But the Alaskan
bounty law, which provides for the
payment of so cents for each eagle de-
stroyed. although it went into effect
only on April 80, 1917, had already,
by April 10. 1919. resulted in the kill
ing of 5000 eagles. Moreover, the
bounty seekers have undoubtedly not
confined their depredations TO Alaskan
territory, but have extended them in
to the British provinces adjoining
Alaska. in order to swell their gains
1t is possible that by this time more
than one-half-perhaps more than
three-quarters-of the entire species
have already been sacrificed.
ST action is to be taken, IT must
be at once. For protection. to be eff
fective. must come. not merely before
the species has been annihilated, but
before it has been so reduced as to
suffer the weakening effect of inbreed-
ing or the failure Of the scattered
individuals to find each other and
raise young.
"In view Of all that is known by
naturalists of the habits of this in
offensive bird, the hostility to the
eagle in Alaska is based rather on
transformation and ignorant prejudice
than on any real damage done by the
birds. The tales of its ferocity and
destructiveness to game or domestic
animals are for the greater part pure
fiction. for the rest, usually gross OK
aggeratiOns. Moreover, it is the DEM
onstrated policy of the United States
of agriculture-wise from
discOuntenance bounty
laws for the determination of birds
of prey. Much money is spent each
year in the control of harmful rodents
whose increase is favored by the de-
structon of such BIRDS For our
American eagle there is the added
plea of its patriotic significance. And
finally, as it is a migratory bird. the |
right to DESTROY IL cannot he claimed |
by any state or territory. Like most |
Of our other migratory birds. it should |
be protected by the federal govern /,
as the effect of the |
laws adopted .or its pres |
.rvation IN most of our states is be- |
ng aLnulled by the action of single |
territory.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-06-12
Interesting Material Unearthed
in Ruins Near Aztec,
New Mexico.
LIVED N COMMUNITY HOUSE
Customs Of Prehistoric People Are
Learned From the Various OBJ
jects Oiscovered-Ornam
Practically Untouched by
Time.

New York.-Temporarily displayed
in the west corridor Of the American
Museum Of Natural History, on the
first floor, can be seen some interest
ing relics of lost race-the prehis-
toric people who built and lived in the
great community dwelling, now in
ruins, near Aztec, N. NJ, which Mr..
Earl H. Morris has for the past three
years been exploring and restoring for
the American museum. Mr.. Morris
has gathered great deal of material
which will in time be placed on per
manent exhibition. But the six shelves
in the corridor give an idea of the ma
ture of the objects which have been
found and of the customs 20 which
they testify.
Here. outlasting their wearers by
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-06-12

AVE YOU ever seen
a bald eagle-the
american eagle" our
national e m b | e m?
Yes? Then you don't
need to be told what
a thing of beauty and
power he is. Nc
Then take II on falt
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-06-12

Since the commencement Of our mu-
tual welfare league among the prison
ers." said he. I'VE have had fewer
escapes than ever before, although
there is more opportunity to escape.
once. however. IL fellow with long
term escaped. He was caught and
brought back. saw him and he asked
me to give him another chance. !
don't know just what TO do with you.
said you'll only try to escape again.
warden said the prisoner. I'll
not try to escape again; you have my
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-06-12
Travels 2.7o5. 500 Miles.

Jamaica. L. LATTER a continuous
service of "a years on the Long Island
railroad James D. Rushmore. a con.
ductor, retired. He Travelled 2.75O,5OO
miles. never missed train and re-
ported for duty on. 1870 mornings
during his career.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-06-12
Honor Among
Thieves" Also

You have heard the expression,
"honor among thieves"
| have heard it many times. but |
have never heard such good Illus
tration of the phrase as the one given
me the other day by Lieut.. Con
mander Thomas Mott Osborne. warden
of the Portsmouth, naval prison.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-06-12

The general Indifference to the fatR
of the great bird of splendid tradi-
ton is due, beyond doubt, to Thea COM
mon lack of information regarding it's
/ threatened extinction. The situa ton
/ calls for the widest publicity. The
/ sheer vandalism Of the destruction of
the bird should be checked. and check
ed at once. The crusade for It's pro-
lection should enlist the enthusiasm
and sincere effort Of bird lovers and
bird students throughout the coun-
try, of our scientific and patriotic So
| cieties, and of the public press. 1t Is
only by the prompt passage of a fed
! eraf law protecting the American
eagle that our national bird can be-
saved from total extinction"
Let me renew the adjuratiOn OF
Capt. H. w. Shoemaker of Pennsyl-
vania to do what you can to stop the
slaughter of American eagles along
the Alaska coast, writer says In the
Saturday Evening Post. By reason Of
the government bounty offer 5.1O0
eagles were killed in eighteen months.
This is an absolutely unnecessary
waste of life.
Eagles have killed some Of the
young foxes on one or two fox pre-
serves on Alaska islands. though they
have never destroyed the wild foxes
Of Alaska In all the centuries they
have lived together.
Eagles do kill few salmon and eat
a few that are found dead, but in no
wise do they imperil any salmon fish,
cry. They may kill rabbits now aud
again. but in no sense have they been
destroyers of wild game. For the
most part they hang along the coast
and live on fish life. A dead whale
lasts them a long while.
There is no reason on earth why
these bald eagles-of that species
which we have been proud to call the
bird of freedom. of that species which
we have put on our coinage and our
seal-should be destroyed under a
bounty offered by any branch of the
American government.
1t was Capt. Shoemaker, by the way.
who so far as | know was the first
man to put into print the belief that
the best protection of game die not
consist In any Offjcious war upon tho
enemies of the game on the part OF
man himself. Capt. Shoemaker's con-
were that under the old laws
Of nature the strong specimens sur
vived and that the best development
of any species was in the midst nf it's
natural enemies. His theory. bolster
ed by observation, is entirely against
the modern proposition that you can
save quail or grouse by killing crows
Or hawks. or that you can save trout
by killing pelicans.
1t is but q feeble defense that wild
game can erect out Of its increasing
knowledge of man and his deadliness
The mallard learns to dive in three
feet of water instead Of six inches ana
so uses more open water, but he Is not
safe. The covey of quail earns 10 fly
20 the densest swamp on the covey
rise, but it is not safe. The sheep go
Z, the highest mountains, the elk to
he farthest Businesses of the noun
aims but they are not safe. Trans
,ortation and invention on the part
If man have outrun all the resources
If our wild game. So it comes simply
o ii question of whether we want u
J.. don't want it.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-06-12

from those who have that there Is Ii.
more impressive living thing than an
eagle in the air.
Well, there are not many American
eagles left. Civilization has cro"ueo
out what it hasn't killed off. Put
gun in the hands of the ordinary man
and give him chance at an eagle aho
80 times out of a hundred the or
binary man will shoot. Why! Ap'
parently just for the sake OF killing
That's what q guns for and tnat
the way the ordinary man Is made
The writer expects to have 1t brought
up to his credit on the judgment day
that he once had such chance and
didn't shoot.
Most of the American eagles that
are left are in Alaska. And now in
Alaska the ordinary men are killing
off the American eagle for the sake
Of fifty-cent bounty. And the Unit
ed States government which governs
the Territory of Alaska. is in effect
paving this bounty.
Naturally. there is protest against
this most surprising state of things.
]. Fl. Davis, secretary of The publicity
committee of the American Museum
Of Natural History. New York city.
sends out asprotest in which he says:
much has been written in depreca-
ton of the permitted determination of
the wild pigeon. Formerly found in
almost incredible numbers in some
parts of the United States, the species
was utterly wiped out by unrestricted
shooting and the destruction of its
nests. And so rapid was the process
Of its extinction that the Bird had
vanished before the public realized its
need Of protection.
"a similar fate now imminently
threatens the American or bald eagle
our national emblem and one of the
most beautiful and magnificent of our
native birds. And by curious irony,
the destruction is being accomplished
at public expense. as provided in the
bounty law passed by the territorial
legislature of Alaska on April 80.
1917.
1.-THE bald eagle has never been an
abundant species. Estimates of its
numbers have generally been greatly
1t is only on the basis
of the occupied nests that its real
rather its real scarcity
can be estimated. Computations based
ON observations of the birds them |
selves are obviously unreliable. For, |
by its size and habits |
and by its preference for coast regions |
and large riverss over remote forests |
and mountains. it is very apt to at
tract considerable attention. and the |
same individuals are doubtless seen |
lgain and again. This will be real |
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-06-12

word for 1t now. Will you she on
it?'
I'VE shook hands and c" he
would keep his word. He ~ tried
to escape, for there Is ho among
thieves. Boston Post.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-06-12
African e;,a Co.,. inger.

N'''CdH 0fr0 SWee
The Cape canary is '"iv native
bird of Africa that Is nno"n for
his sweet and continr lie Is
TO he found even in. onse Rtser
colony. which is o. 'oi0 OF
song birds.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-06-12

Heipfulness Its Own Reward.
Never lei yourself worry as
whether hose you help will be SUI
GENTLY grateful. Think of heIpfuIyiS
as its own great reward.