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THE COLUMBIA 1IEKALI): FUIDAV, FEU1UIAKY 12, 1897. 7 NO ONE OAY AD. WITH 1'IUAKETTES MUST (50, Suith the Honorable (ienenil Assem bly of Tennessee. Tun IiiiixirtHiit KWtlun Hills I'n l-t HfinliiiK, hikI Iwii Otlirrs Are NeHrlnj; tlii (imil. Prices Quoted hold good until Goods advertised are closed out. One case Ginghams 3 1-2C One case extra good soft finished A Bleached Domestic 5c. 1000 y'ds 4-4 Sea Island Domestic. ..4 1-2C. One case extra good 3G-inch Pe- nangs, new designs 7 1-2C. One case Duck, worth 15c 10c. We are convinced that one or two days' special sales is not justice, as only a few jan attend on these days, so from this date TRADE PALACE prices will hold good as long as goods quoted are in stock. ' New Embroideries at a price to surprise you. New wash goods. Handsome Bronze Clock Given to Every Cns ' tomer Free! Call and See Them. wrestling with Mr. Thompson's rail road commission hill. The hill had been recommended for pasture by the Judiciary Committee with a number of amendments, all of which were adopted. Only one of these amendments was of material im portance, namely, that one which provides that the railroad compa nies shall furnish thecoimnissioners with passes over their lines. The hill was carried over until Thursday. Mi W AY'S ntOOKK DINGS. St'init". Mr. Honk struck a blow at patent medicines by the introduction of a hill requiring vendors of such medi cines to have a printed formula on the wrapper or label of each bottle. The solons ought to strike a blow at the bill. Mr. Collinsworth introduced a bill to prohibit the opening of the Cen tennial grounds on Nmidiy. The bill appropriating $100,hm) to t he Nashville Centennial came up for discussion. The hill whs amended to read $5u,ooo instead of flOiUHK). and passed by n vote of 21 to 12. The vote in detail is as fol lows: Senators voting. aye Messrs. Hartlett, Butler, Canada, Case, Claiborne, Clement, Cline. Dahhs, Fitzgerald, Oillhain, Gihnore, (Juild, (Sunn, Hainner, Houk, Keeney, Lee, Mann, Taylor, Tipton and Mr. Speaker Thompson 21. Senators voting no Messrs. Bate, Boyd, Collinsworth, Ellis, Evans, Hodges, Hurt, Parker, Smithson, Thomas, Waddell and Whitta ker 12. The Senate adjourned until Mon day morning. Hue. Mr. Monterverde introduced a bill to make it unlawful to enter any theatre or place of public amuse ment in this State with covered head, and to prescribe a penalty for the game. A bill was introduced by Mr. Mynatt making it a misdemeanor to play an uncivilized game called foot ball. Mr. Colli nsworth's Senate bill to make it a felony to kill fish by the use of dynamite or any other explo sive, passed. The penalty for the violation of this act is fixed at not more than three nor less than one year in the penitentiary. The House adjourned until Monday. MONDAY'S l'l!Ot:KKI)IXGS. A HETEROPHIL! I ST. HOW HE INJURED THE FINANCIAL IN TERESTS OF THE CONFEDERACY. T TRADE PALACE. .C.PETRI7Proprietor. OUR CORRESPONDENTS. Continued from First Tage."i BIGBYV1LLE. Kiobyvii.lk, Fkb. !. We have ex perienced all the changes incident to the winter weather, and feel that it would be useless to expatiate, for Big byville has been no exception, but re ceived her full quoto. Itev. IJ. E. Iortph, of Columbia, occu pied the pulpit at Recce's church on .Sunday st 11 o'clock. Hpn. J. H. Courtney, our worthy Rep Teoentative, came out to see homefolks Saturdayreturning Monday. Misses Media Willburu" and Nettie Fleming spent several days the past -week very pleasantly visiting at the home of Mrs. Jim Uiddens on the Camp bellsville pike. Miss Lucretia Dew, of Sunnyside, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Ashley Moore. Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Kersey, of Pulaski, -gladdened the hearts at the parsonage for a few days recently. We are sorry to learn that little Lillie Moore, the Parsonage pet, has not been right well or several days. Miss Pink Gordon has recently suf fered some little indisposition. We hope for her a speedy recovery, as she is not only greatly missed from our so- cial circle, but is to he one of the princi pal participants in the play at the .Academy Friday night. Messrs. tluv Zueearello and K. M. Pender have been victims to most acute suffering for a week or more. Mr. Zue earello was on a visit ut Mr. J. 1 Max well's. We hope to see them both up noon, as Mr. Pender is greatly missed from our streets. Berry Owings, of Santa Fe, stopped over with Bigbyville friends Monday night. Berry has many friends here who always extend him a cordial wel come. Wishing the Hkhai.o continued suc cess, we remain your humble RKI'OHTKR. Mr. C.T. Buford is building a neat little cottage on his father's farm. A few more buildings in this vicinity, and then we will be ready for pavements to be laid. We would like to read something from "Alma's" gifted pen. With best wishes for prosperity to all, I am the same, Gipsy Rlaik. The dyspeptic curries a dreadful loud on his bnek. It sue inn as if tut were really mude up of two men. One of tliem ambi tious, broiuy and energetic; the other sick, listless, peevish and without force. The weak man weighs the otherouo down. The dyspeptic may be able to do pretty good work oitu day, and the next day because of some little Indiscretion la eating, he may be able todo nothing at all. Must cases of dyspepsia Mart with constipation. Consti pation is the cause of nine-tenths of all lui nmn sickness. Koine of its symptoms are sick and bilious headache, di.ziuess, sour stomncn. loss of appetite, foul breath, windy helchiiiits, heartburn, pain and distress af ter eating. All these are Indicative of de rangements of the liver, stomach and bow els, and nil nre caused hy const ipnt ion. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant I'ellets are the uuickest, easiest and most certain cure for this con dition. They are not violent In action. Hend 21 cents In one cent stamps to World's liispensary Medical Association, Hutlalo, N.Y., and receive I)r Pierce's HKW page Common Nense Medical Auviser, illustrated Did von ever stop to think what indi gestion reallv means It means simply that vour stomach is tired. If out legs are tfred, we ride. The horse and steam engine do the work. Why not give vour stomach a ride; that is, let some thing else do its work. Foods can be di gested outside of the body. All plants contain disrestive principles which w ill dothis. The Shaker Digestive Cordial contains digestive principle and is a preparation designed to rest the stom ach. The Shakers themselves have such unbounded confidence in it that thev have placed Id cent sample bottles on the market, and it is said that even so small a auantitv proves beneficial in a vast majority of cases. All druggists keep it. LaxoTj is the best medicine for chil- dren. Doctors recommend it in place of castor oil. KNOX CHEEK. Esos Cheek, Feb.!.-The weather is verv disagreeable at present. We are having an abundanee-of rain. We are glad to report the sick all im proved in this vicinity, with the excep tion of Mrs. i. W. Stephenson, who still remains quite feeble. Dr. Laws preached to a large crowd last Sunday at lireenwood on "Holi ness." He will preach at the same place attain the first Suuday in March Mrs. Mamie Stephenson was called to the bedside or ner momr., Klir.abeth tiibb.at Carter's Creek, last week. Mrs. (Jibb was resting easy tun day, when Mrs. Stephenson returned home. , . ... Miss Knla F.pps. of Harpeth. is visit- dug the family of her uncle, r Wells, on F.non Creek. A Mounter Musical Instrument. The most gigantic harp ever con str.K'tcd, as far as the record goes, was tln.t mude by Vcritau, the provost of Burkli, near Basel, Switzerland, in 1787. That was a long while ago, hut the fame of M. " entail's gigantic harp was such that it is still occasional lv mentioned bv writers on the rare and the wonderful, just as the sea serpent, bloody vain, live mastadons, etc., are. M. Veritau's colossal musical instru ment was 320 feet in length, and, on that account, was constructed in an open lot instead of iu a harp factory. It was mast simple in construction, consisting of 15 wires strung tightly between two K)les. These wires were of different sizes, the largest being one-sixth of au inch in diameter and, the smallest one- twelfth of an inch. They were stretched north and south and inclined in such a manner as to form an angle of from 20 to 30 degrees with the horizon. This queer instrument was not intended its an exaggerated tov, but was constructed for the express purpose of foretelling changes in the weather, which were calculated by Professor Veritau accord ing to the different toucs the instrument made when the wmd was blowing through it. St. Louia Republic. J. 11. A Royal Rider. Queen Henrietta of Belgium, by birth an Austrian urchduchess, continues, in spite of her snow white hair and rank as a grandmother, to occupy her time with circus riding. 'A year ago she gave in the riding school of the royal palace at Brussels a seinipublic performance, in which she and her daughter Clemen tine put their horses through all kinds of fancy paces and trick riding with the skill of professionals. They leaped their horses through burning hoops and over flaming hedg"s, and her majesty jump ed a pet horse over a dinner table cov ered with flowers and lighted candela bra. Then she drove u team of 20-in-haud herself, mounted ou her favorite mare. Little was done by the solons of t he upper house Monday, save the in troduction ot a number 01 new bills and the passage ot several bills on third reading, all being measures of minor importance. House. The following new bills were in troduced : By Mr. Courtney, of Maury. To change the time of holding Circuit Court in the several counties of the Ninth Judicial Circuit. By Mr. Woods To fix the ago of consent of persons in making mar riage contract and requiring county courts to refuse the issuance of mar riage licenses to persons under the age. The age of consent is fixed a; 21 for males and 10 for females. Mr. Matthews' bill to abolish State Board of Equalization passed by u vote of 04 to 3. the was H'KSDAY'S rilOCEKIUMiS. .Senate. The following new bills were in troduced : By Mr. Claiborne To prevent doctors from prescribing for patients while drunk. By Mr. Uillham To . provide for the establishment, maintenance and government of the reformatory de partment ot ttie Tennessee Indus trial School. The cigarette bill, which had previously passed the House, was taken up for its third reading in the Senate. After some discussion as to the constitutionality of the bill, the opposition being led principally by the Republicans, trie Dill passed by the following vote: Ayes Messrs. Bate, Boyd, Clai borne, Collinsworth, Ellis, Evans, Gillham, Guild, Gunn, Hamner, Hodges, Lee, Parker, Taylor, Thom as, wauueii, wnitaKer ana .Mr. Speaker Thompson 18. A oes Messrs. isartiett. uutier, Canada, Case, Pabbs, Houk, Hurt and Mann 8. House. The Green election bill occupied the greater part of the time in the House Tuesday. After a great deal of discussion pro and con, the bill passed by a vote of 52 to 31). VE1NKSI AY'S 1'ItOCKKDINC.S. Senate. The Senators amused themselves Wednesday by passing a quartette of election bills and hurling at one another darts poisoned with the venom of politics. Mr. Green's election bill pricked the bubble of indignation of the Re publicans, and the explosion rang out sharply through the corridors of the State house. The warfare was carried on all during the day, and became red-hot at intervals. After the smoke of battle had cleared away, it was found that four election bills had been passed. They were as follows: Mr. Johnson's bill to preserve the purity of elections by defining offenses against the elec tive franchise and prescribing pun ishment for the same: Mr. Green's bill providing for the appointment of election commissioners: Mr. Hamner's bill extending the Dortch law to counties of 60,000 and over and to towns of 2,6t)0 and over; Mr. Canada's bill providing for the ex tension of the registration laws to counties of 50,000 and over, and mak ing it the duty of the registration commissioner to appoint one of the three judges at each precinct in their respective counties. The first two bills have beeu passed by the House, and now cnly await the Governor's signature to become laws. The Ho line. House spent a dull day Mr. IJlauk Was Kent to England to Solicit Aid and Failed -Tho Message lie Sent to Sir. Mvmminger Was tlie Opposite of What He Supposed. Th Southern Confederacy was only a few months old when a financial agent was sent to England on a very impor tant mission. Mr. Blank was a politi cian and a banker. Ho was also an ele gant gentleman, with many influential acquaintances on both sides of the wa ter. Before leaving Richmond he had a long talk with Memminger, the secre tary of the treasury. "If I find that England will aid us," he said, "I will send you word hy some reliable blockade runner. It will be a very "brief message, but you will undcr rt.r.id it, while it will mean nothing to the enemy if it should be intercepted " The confidential agent slipped through the lines, and iu less than a month was comfortably established in Loudon. In the metropolis he found many southern ers and many prominent Englishmen who sympathized with the secessionists, lie r,aw Mr. Yancey, the Confederate minister, every day, and tho two work ed together iu harmony. Mr. Yancey was a practical man and was not long in coming to the conclusion that no aid was to be expected from the British gov ernment. "Tho abolition sentiment controls here," ho said to Mr. Blank. "Some of the statesmen would like to help the south iu order to break up the Union, but tho people will never consent. The south will have to fight alone." Blank felt pretty blue when he heard this, and that night ho wrote the single word "successful" on a thin slip of pa per 'and ikillfully secreted it in au or dinary coat button. The next day he was visited by a southern friend, who remained with him for an hour or more, During his stay he removed the top but ton from his coat and sewed on oue given by Mr. Blank "I understand it all," ho said when ho left. "If I get safely to ilmiugton, I will go at once to Richmond and give this Luttou to Mr. Memminger. I prefer not to know the nature of the message, as you say that it explains itself." "Yes," replied Blank, "it will be understood by tho secretary, and as it refers to a stato secret I cannot say any' thinf? about it. " The two shook hands, and the gentle man with tho precious button took the next train for Liverpool, where ho boarded a steamer bound for Wilming ton. The steamer was chased by Federal cruisers, hut she managed to reach her destination without any serious mishap. In tho course of two or three days the mysterious traveler called on Mr. Mem minger iu Richmond and presented him with a button. Tho secretary cut off its covering in a hurry and smiled when he read the word "successful. " "Did Mr. Blank show this message to you? he asked. "2so. We both thought it best that I should remain in ignorance so that no telltale expression of my face would be tray anything if the enemy captured me." At a meeting of the cabinet that aft ernoon Mr. Memminger was in high spirits. He predicted that the war would be over iu 00 days and said that England was preparing to recognize the Confed eracy and send over her warships to break the blockade. "I have this," he said, "from my con fidential agent, Mr. Blank." The namo commanded respect, and when the secretary said that under the circumstances a loan of $15,000,000 ne gotiatcd in Europe would be sufficient everybody agreed with him. The weeks rolled on, and Erlanger in Paris adver tised for bids for $ 1 5, 000, 000 in Confed erate bonds. Mr. Blank read this at his London hotel and dropped his paper in his agitation. "Well, I'll be d d!" he remarked. "Must bo a mistake. I'll run over and Bee about it." The next day he was at Erlanger's office in Paris. The French banker in formed his visitor that there was no mistake, and then Blank swore vigor ously. The bids rushed in from all quar ters. If the demands of these specula tors had been met, $500,000,000 in Con federate bonds could have been sold. When this fact became known, Mr. Blank again relapsed into profanity. Ho could not stand it, and, despite tho danger of the trip, he mado his ar rangemeuts to return home. His inter view with Memminger was a stormy ouo when he arrived at Richmond. "I intended to write 'unsuccessful! he said after a long talk. well, there is your message, re plied the secretary. "Yon wrote 'sue cessfuL' " "I don't understand it," said Mr. Blank sadly. "Surely your advices from Mr. Yancey should have warped you that there was something wrong." "His dispatches were intercepted," answered the other. "I don't understand it," repeated Mr. Blank. "Perhaps I do," quietly remarked the secretary. "I have carefully noted your talk this morning, and I have dis-coven-d that you are a heterophemist For instance, you say London when you mean Richmond and Richmond when you mean London. You similarly mis use the names of other places and per aons and are. unconscious of it. When 7 Tha highest Step in good and profitable housekeep ing is the use of the famous cleaner Gold Dlst. No woman who wants to make a success in conducting her household affairs, in savin t time and )p X money, fret and worry in keeping her without r.U, If 111 "... .".Y kh U b i vf a' I if I V I 7 Ai -c I VASHIKG POWDER. It keeps the cleaning well done up, with little work and time. Sold everywhere. Made only by THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, Chlcagt, St Louis, New York, Boston, Philadelphia. Great Closing-oat Sale! Everything in our House at Exactly HALF Price! FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS every Men's and Boys' Suit or Overcoat10 our house will he placed at your disposal you select what you want and pay exactly HALF-PRICE for It. All our $0 suits for $3.00 All our $8 suits for 4.00 All our $10 suits for 5.00 All our $15 suits for 7.50 All our $5 overcoats for 2.50 All our $0 overcoats for 3.00 All our $10 beaver overcoats for 5.00 $2 boys' overcoats for 5Q $4 boys' overcoats for 1.35 All our $1 men's pants for All our $2 men's pants lor All our $3 men's pants tor $ .50 . 1.00 . 1.50 All our $4 inen'i pauts nr. for '.00 All our fine pants, odds and ends, worth from $5 to $(!, k) w closing out price .?) Jeans pants ow for .() BOYS' SUITS AN All our $1 suits A for P ot All our $2 suits , nA for l.yrvt All our $:i suits for 1.50 D KNEE PANTS. All our $4 suits kJ .... for iUU Boys' 7'c knee pants, double ,w seat and knee, all wool, for All our&icand 4oc knee pants w for .!) SPECIAL HAT SALE. Black derbys worth from $2.50 I Alpine hats wortli from $2 to QK to $3, for ouu. ?3, elosinsr price ouu All 50c hats n , All of our 20c woolen socks 4rk at JiSOC.I for .IU $2 genuine lamb's - wool shirts or drawers for ipi..JJ $1.50 camel's hair or nat- mC ural wool undershirts at. . u All our $1 undershirts Kn for ou All our 65c undershirts for.... OU All our 35c shirts for All our tJVic unlandered white shirts for All our $1.50 laundered I white shirts, strictly a I fine dress' shirt, united I brand, closing-out price. .16 .25 .75 -Gloves at any Price to Close Out. BOOTS AND SHOES. All our $3.50 custom-made a . -.p shoes for 4l.j All our $3 shoes , rn for 1 .50 All our $2 satin calf shoes , nn for ,UU All our $1.50 ladies' shoes r for .O in all styles and toes, heel or spring heel. AU our 11 tie $2.50 ladies' shoes , nr for 1.5 All our boots must go at any price. Men's buckle Arctics nr for ,b Men's rubbers n for ,40 Ladies' rubbers ( n for ID REMEMBER, I mean business. Everything in my house will be sold at exactly half-price for the next thirty days, no matter what you want to buy. I am determined not to carry over any winter goods. 50 cents wil buy $1 worth of goods at DAVE BOGATZKY'S A STAR CLOTHING HOUSE, The Acknowledged Cheapest Clothier. North Side Public Square. you sent me that message, the word 'un successful' was iu your mind, hut, being a heterophemist, you wrote au opposite word and mined the Confederacy." "I may have made a mistake, sir," said Mr. Blank, rising from his chair, "but I am neither a lunatic nor au idiot. I have tho honor to hid you good morning." Heterophemy is a fatal thing iu di plomacy. Chicago Times-1 lerald. Eleven Timri Around the Earth. Just think of itt "Eleven times around this glolw of ours" in the space of 60 seconds! Can you imagine any thing that moves with such remarkable speed? Sound travels only 12 1-2 miles per minute, and a riflo ball (if its speed were not diminished by resistancc)10 1-2 miles. Light passes through a distance equal to 7 1-2 revolutions of the earth in one minute, but electricity travels so astonishingly fast that it is able to com plete the circuit of the earth 111-2 times in 60 seconds. St. Louis Republic. Stranger Now. "Don't you think, Mrs. Spitcly, that this hat is a little too gay for a matron ly woman like me?" "Not at all, my dear. You know that you're years younger than you look." Detroit Free Press. The bluebottle fly is purely a meat fly, subsisting altogether upon meat and offal and laying its eggs in decomposed animal matter. An ordinary brick weighs about four pounds. THE LONGFELLOW STATUE. A Fitting Memorial of the Port at Tort, land, III lllrthplaros. One of the iM'St instances of what the statue of any great man should be at any rate, iu the respect of its situation, its perspective with regard to other me morials and the local estimation iu which it is held is the htatue of Long fellow at Portland, hy Mr. Franklin Simmons. It is a dignified seated figure of the poet in bronze, occupying a con spicuous site in the best part of tho town, in the middle of a square which is now known as Longfellow square. The statue was raised a few years ago by a fund solicited through a wide field, but chiefly obtained, I believe, in Port land. The sculptor was chosen tlirough that curious local spirit which has af fected unfavorably many of our archi tectural and other monuments. He waq avowedly selected because he was a "Maine man," though he had never seen the poet. However, the result in this case seems to have been happy. The statue has mnch beauty, and the like ness is said to be excellent This statue stands in the poet'i native town, as is entirely proper. It may ap peal every day to the eyes of thousands of young people, born Tery much as he w as born, who should see in it the sug gestion of possibility for them. Poetic ally it makes the stranger fancy the genius or spirit of the uian still linger ing among the scenes of his youth, and it symbolizes the satisfaction which ev ery man feels to have his name remem bered in his native town. J. E. Cham berlin ia Atlantic.