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I HE A .tlERALD. VOL. XLIII. COLUMBIA, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2.), 198. NO. -K rssswouii, rii.Miiiim.ii mi II If. HPIi'.ll w II. Cj. . --r r NEWS AND COMMENT. The launching of the battleship "WiHConsin will take place to-morrow at San F rancisco. : Hon. E. Jarvis, of White'county, fatlier of the "Jarvis Liw," has de clined to enter the race for Speaker of the Senate. TJ. S. Grant, Jr , is relying on his father's name and the backing of Senator Hanna to elect him Sena tor from California. President Timothv Dwight, of Yale, lias tendered his resignation, to take effect at the end of the pres ent university year. The Secretary of the Navy has or dered a court of inquiry to meet at Norfolk and investigate the aband onment of the Maria Teresa. Hon. Brooks Nor fleet, of Mem phis, is being pushed for the posi tion of Speaker of the next house of representatives in the General Assembly. The latest figures on the complex ion of the next House are: Repub licans, 185; Democrats, 159; Inde pendents, 14; Republican majority over all, 12. The complete vote for Congress man in the Sixth Congressional dis trict is as tollows: John Wesley Gaines, 11,537; Napier (colored), 1,388; Gaines' majority, 10,149. The entire Sixth Virginia infan try (colored) is disarmed and under arrest at Camp Macon, Ga. The regiment had set out for Macon to take possession of or kill the white provost guards. Rear Admiral Dewey has con tracted with Hone: Kong wreckers for the recovery of the steel gun boats Isla de Luzon, Isla de Cuba and Don Juan de Austria, sunk in Manila harbor May 1. The battleship Formidable, said to be the largest warship in the world, was launched last week at Portsmouth, Eng. The ship is of 1R.M0 tons disnlacement. is 400 feet long, has 75 feet beam, and cost 1,- 000,000 Tv the wisdom of the War De partment it is to be Puerto Rico and Habana hereafter instead of Porto Rico and Havana. Incidentally there are to be but three military division in Cuba Habana, (Jama- guay and Santiago. Gov-elect Roosevelt will be in augurated Governor of New York on Sunday. The laws of that State require that the Governor and other State officials be sworn into office on tha first Hav of January, and that date falls on Sunday. A delegation of business men from Pana, 111., last Sunday notb floH One Tanner that the city was in a state of terror on account of the riotous miners and that the troops now there were not able to cope with the emergency. Another company was ordered to the scene. A National quarantine conven tion was held in Memphis last week Resolutions were adopted calling for the organization of a National Tinman nf Public Health in the Treasury Department, with an Ad visory Council to be made up of one member from each State. The War Investigation Commis sion has established the fact that ample medical supplies were sent with the Santiago expedition, and also that they were not to be had when needed. As to who prevented the landing of the supplies, the com mission is Btill unable to ascertain. The crand jury at Philadelphia has returned true bills against iTnitd States Senator M. 8. Quay, hi. snn Ilichard R. Quay and ex- State Treasurer Benj. J. Haywood, -1 tkom nith rnnsDiracy to ciiaign'8 niv... 1 - unlawfully use public moneys de posited in the People's National Bank of this city, for the purchase and sale of stocks and for other pur poses not authorized by law. Tt is said that Representative- ipet ltriLrham H.Roberts, of Utah, 1 .nJioH from the House of may uo cpc..v Tianrpaentatives on the charge of be- . i..rriaf Tinhprtd was elect- iu8k"Vp tt...i. ea on me uiuuhbv mits that he is living witn more kno wife, but says he married them before the law admitting Utah into the Union on the condition of the abolishment of polygamy, was passed. mm mm 1 AP: S -mmm , -. j; MmMSA Iff illlllllS UNCLE SAM HAS COD & jt jt jt TtT3.ijHiv!; Dinner f," j. F-F1E, Oh-h, Ef fie! What are you doing now?" Her moth er's voice was muf fli'il by distance, for she was in the kitch en and Eflie was in the front bed room upstairs. "1 just airing the front bedroom, ma." "Uh,I didn't know but you was stop ping to look at that new dress again. N'o time to stop now, with all this 'thanksgiving work t do. Land alive! are those pies burning?" Etlie heard her dash to the cook stove and open the oven door with u clung. She improved the opportunity to muffle the new dress in the old summer one which protected it from dust und hang it hastily upon its peg in the closet. then her mother heard hr sweeping the front stairs with all her might. Mrs. Hill shook her head. "I ll just bet she was standing still in the middle of the floor doing nothing, if sin; wasn t admiring that new dress. She's that absent-minded now, what'll she be when she gets grown up and thinking of beaux?" LIhe was almost l'J and her mother had been married ut IS herself; yet she alwayif thought of Eflie as a school girl. Ellie was cleaning the parlor now. It was the day before Thanksgiving, but warm us late October. The dead leaves rustled in the light wind and patches of green here and tlicro showed that the frosts had been light. Kllie began to decorate by pinning bunches of pressed ferns and autumn leaves in the Nottingham lace curtains. She re hearsed a b(cue to herself, as she did so: 'Of course we'll get to church early to-nior- ... 11 .., : I 'tl row: pa 11 manage mar, sue sari. ten go traipsing up the aisle when only the old folks are there. 1 11 know when druii ville comes in, though; I'd know his step anywhere!" She stood with a bunch of gay leaves poised 111 air; I tlo hope pa 11 sit back in th' corner of th' pew, as he does sometimes then Granville can see me right away in my new blue dress, lie didn't see anything like it in Cuba, it Lily l'etitt did say the Cuban girls are so pretty. 1 never cared for such dark complexions myself. To be sure, Granville is dark himself, but that ia different. 1 11 not look when lie comes in; no, I'll not turn my head even a tiny hit. Then, after awhile. I 11 Just gmnce serosa and smile at Dan Archer not much of a smile, but it will seem a good deal to Granville! She started anil ran a pin into her finaer. os her mothers voice reached her: "What jou doing now, Lme? I'inning th' leaves on th curtains Oh! 1 uian t know buL what you d got t studying again; it was bo quiet in here. Well, now, it doea look nice!" Etlie w as working with guilty haste now 'Granville '11 be waiting to see us go out; "EFFIE. TOC'LL HAVE TO STAY AT HOME." I know that," idie said to beiself. "To think lie's been back two whole days and I haven't seen him yet! I wish we didn't live o f ir. 1 wonder if lie's got the house- -;f I enve him vet? Lily l'etitt says he ..ii i, . iifrsi.l I was a kind ot a flirt. Well, goodness Knows, ne can n-v me alone if he a afrai.l ot me: 1 can 1 ueiu it if Dan Archer does like me-at icast. i don't suppose 1 could, and-yes, ma, I'm coming right now!" , , . Thanksgiving day was clear and colder. Mr Hill hinted at the ossibdity ot snow, but then he had no new dress to wear to Hove REASONS FOR BEING THANKFUL THIS YEAR. church and could think calmly of falling weather. Evidently Mrs. Hill had something on her mind; all during breakfast she kept clear ing her throat, and several times while they were washing the dishes she made ns if to speak, then closed her mouth once more. As she hung the dishcloth on its nail, she turned to her daughter: "See here. Eflie," she said, "1 pu"ss you'll hnve to stay at home this morning and get dinner. Your pa 'wants me to go. His cousin, Micah rTill. is rnmine over with his second wife, and your pa thinks 1 ought t' be there. You won't mind, "will you? It ain't as if you had anything special t' go for." Tears sprang to Eflie's eyes. She turned her back silently, and her mother accepted silence as assent. "She don't mind," she Baid to her hus band, as they drove out of the yard. "I guess she thinks it might rain an' spoil her new dress. Well, 1 do want to see th' woman Jane Hill's husband has married. Oh, Effie!" she called back, "don't get t' studying and forget th' cranberries. The herbs for th' turkey are on the right-hand shelf" her voice died away in the dis tance. Alone, Eflie dropped her head on the table and cried. She must wait three more interminable days before seeing Granville! After awhile she went upstairs and, after listening a moment, though she knew there vwis no one in the house, she raised a loose piece of carpet and unearthed her greatest treasure. It was a tear-stained copy of the Weekly Clarion, and it described the land ing of the gallant Third and the subsequent skirmish in which "Corporal Granville Linker, of this township, who had dis played great bravery," was shot in the arm. And suppose he had died believing all WHY, EFFIE. I NEVER SAID THAT." those things Lily l'etitt told him!" Effie cried. She was putting away the paper, the dii app' aranec of which had caused her father such annoyance, when a thought struck her. "Mercy, the cranberries!" she cried, dashing downstair to find a black, Btieky mass in the bottom of the kettle. "Oh! what will ma say! Whoever heard of a Thanksgiving dinner without cranberriea, and there are no more in the house!" The traces of her carelessness removed, the turkey in the oven and the fire "roared up, she stared dejectedly into the yard. "Oh, how I hate Cousin Jane's husband and his second wife!" she cried. "And why?" asked a voice she had not heard since May. "Oh. tiranville! I why aren t you in church?" "Guess I wanted to see you, Effie, so I said my arm hurl a little; they 11 let me do any thing if 1 mention that arm." "M1..1. Crn.,vill, ia it all riottit niwV she touched it reverently. "As good as ever, Eflie. And 1 carried that housewife half over Cuba. Hut you never w rote." "1 I.ilv Pettitt said you guessed all the cirls would write, so I' "Why, Elite, I never said that. I only wanted you to think of me, and "Hut vou haven't told me nbout the war, she broke in, blushing. "Did you ever kilt a man, tiranville?" "I cue.- 1 did one, anyhow. He was in a tree, picking off our fellows, and I took good aim and fired. He hit the pound nrettv (imck, and it wasn't the fall that killed him. Pretty soon I went down, though I didn't know I was hit. When I came to myself, a good many other fellows were lying about me. Shall I tell you what mv first thought was? Eflie nodded; she was crying. "I won dered whether you i care it I never came back!" Two hours later, when Mr. Hill drove vp, his daughter gave a wild cry: "The turkey!" and ran into the house, which was full of the rich odor of incinerated fowl. I hat was the i ii'iuKsgiving ' upon which Mr. an-l Mrs. I'd! dinH adly on picl.;es and pii'iipl;in pie. .,h id Elfi". th"v ;it w clasped under the tablecloth and ate the ioou of the god ELISA ARMSTRONG. 9$? THANKSGIVING A HOLY DAY. HIS nation stands out alone i::uong all the nations as having no established religion or 110 recognition of Cod in its constitution and laws. When our fa thers met in national convention to frame the trr.;:na eharta of this country the spirit ot mini e 1 1 1 y was strong in that body, and a fear bus been expressed frequently that the godlcssiuss of many of the dele gates had as much to do with its silence as did the general demand for religious tolera tion. There were those who felt that there should be a recognition at least of the super-ruling Deity who presides over the des tinies of nations and who determines the issues of battles and the duration of em pires, liut the fathers who bui'ulcd so wise lv in other directions chose to Le positively silent, and as a nation the United States started out godless and distinctly material istic. Washington, himself a religious man, was so held in the thrall of the skepticism of the times that he durst not proclaim a day of general thanksgiving to Ood, until he was so directed by the congress; and he waited for the same authority before he issued his second and last proclamation. Many years elapsed before another president had the courage to issue another, the war of 1S12-1SU having ensued and ended before this was done. Nor was it until after tne civil war was fairly on that Thanksgiving dav became general in its observance. Lin coin being the first to place it where it is now held lust, namely, the fourth Thursday in November. Even as it now stands, a fixed holy day, it is in no sense binding as to its observ ance. It is a maxim of law, that there can lie no statute that is binding except it have punitory clause, and the president a proc lamation contains no sentence of punish ment against people who refuse to observe its provisions, (iiranwn consent of the peo pie gives it recognition to the extent that places of business are closed; but the in dividual man does as he pleases in that day The various churches hold a service; but, as a rule, there is a painful emptiness of benches, and so many sanctuaries have suf fered from absenteeism that it is the prac tice in most places to hold union services of many congregations, so as to assure a somewhat decent attendance. Usually at these services, even, there is a marked ab sence ot men, women supplying tne wor shipers in far the greater part. No effort is made to accuse the people of to-day of a lack of religious sentiment, liut it is a fact that the people have seen fit to make of the day one of home-bringing and home love and a sumptuous home feast. It is a day of roast turkeys, cranberries, plum puddings, mince pies and other dainty and indigestible foods, and a day when the ab sent ones seek. to get 'back, nnder the home roof to spend the hours with those they love. The Puritans established it as a day ol worship and praise of God for His abound ing mercies, lo this day in parts of New England one may find suggestions of the former-day spirit; but throughout the other portions of the country what of reli: gious spirit pertains to the day is to be found in the silent, unspoken worship that clings to hearts that are warmed in the thought of a happy home and of the loved that are gathered under the home roof. Far be it frosi the individual to pass sentence of condemnation upon such as hold the day in this manner; yet the fact punctuates the statement that the great republic of Amer ica is vet verv far from being a Godful na tion as such. As a day of home life and home love, there is that that is very pretty in the day of Thanksgiving; but there are many who feel that the lesson of the day should point to a more direct and positive individ ual recognition of the liod who alone has the power to cast down and to raise up, and from whom conies all the good that men have and enjoy. Richest of all the nations. most blessed of dod, it yet declines to rec ognize His omnipotent hand in the fruitage of the fields and the vield of the mines and in the product of the mills. WILLIAM ROSPKR CORPE Taught by Kperlnoe. Tndold Knntt-Wot are ye goin' to do to celebrate the day? Wash yer face? Mosvly Wragis N'aw. 1 done that last Thanksgivin' an' wuz hit by fnur dogs dur in' the day. They didn't reco'nie me. Chicago Tribune. - - aimed corn, for Granville IT WAS INDEED WCRTH WHILE HEIIK was n errand ?J 0 !y at tin1 lam .i 1 ii v larr;u Ks one (old Thauksgiv ii'g ui:-lit . Drums bi at. tambou 'i n e s jiiit-'U'il ; cornet and fife added their so prano notes. Sisters and brothers snup new and old hymns. A few of the lately converted appeared ami joined fervently in prayer and praise; but not 0:1c now face greeted the workers. Sister Alicia whispered to Sister Mary: Is it woitli while? Last week we tramped through snowy streets, sang our selves into sore throats, and not one coiivel t did we nnike not one bit of good did we do." They were forming in line lor the street parade. Sister Mary turned around in sur prise. Her clear lime ces gazed into the complainer s brown ones in a penetrating wav. 'Of course it is worth while," s!ie hirped, cheerily. "Who of us dare sav it is not? Uecause we have not always two or three maitdlm, hysterical followers, who shall say that we have not sent so ne lesson home, cheered some lonely, aching heart of saved some soul? Sing, sister, and piav. I' or we mav help some one from sin this very night, whom no one else can reach." The rebuke caused Alicia's clear voice to ring out with uu added pathos- a sense of tier own shortness of faith. It reached a woman, who stood at the window of a line home. She lilted her head 'ind thought: "Poor woman! One who sings like that must suffer also!" The upraised face was white, despairing and sad. Mary Whittcsly had lost all courage. There "OF COURSE IT IS WORTH WHILE." seemed no good nor light; no love nor brightness in lite. Then why live it? W by? 1 ho voice died away, und a series of pic tures presented themselves to her mind. rirst A lovely, happy bride, llersell? Yes. l'hen a happv, blissful mother with a pretty baby in her arms. A gloomy, morose hushanu, wordless at home. Gay onlv when dining out or in the society of those for whom she could not care. Two colIius, side by side; fatlier and mother dead at once. No one now to stand between her and the world. Hie had hugged her baby very closely then, and had tried, shyly, lovingly and inefiectually, to win her husband once more. There was one picture still, the last and . . .... 1 , , , , saddest. nree wecKS past sue nau ueen seated rocking and crooning to her baby. He suddenly stretched his tiny hands to ward some invisible thing.' His little body trembled and stiffened. He was dead. Doe- tors came. They all shook their heads, and said something of a ruptured blood vessel and the brain. What did it matter, since they could not bring back life into that fair body? A period of blankness lollowed this. Ihe poor, desolate heart! all joy had gone from it. Everything now was but care and weari ness. She was tearless, apathetic, indiffer ent to all things; her husband's brutal neg lect failing to arouse anger or scorn. That dreary Thanksgiving night his club friend had dined there. She had left them but a few moments. The wine they had drank gave a higher pitch to their voices, and their words floated clearly to her eara "FOR ME THERE IS ONLY DEATH." She realized that she was the subject they discussed. "1 have fairly grown to hate her! With her superior ways and cold indifference, she is detestable!" "Why don't you swear at her?" advised his friend. "You would soon (lire her of that sublime air, and til ing her to eatlh.' "I wonder I do not kill her!" cried the husband, passionately. "Sometimes 1 wsh she ere dead and I free." His friend laughed. They rose. The wife heard the push of 1 hairs over the hard-poli.-'ned floor. .siie pitied her husband. '1 Ins wn Kcd woman, herself, should be dead. It would be better. Oh, ves jniljijjner. 61 Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum Alum baking; powekrs are the greatest menacers to health of the present day. ROVAl BAKINO POWDER CO., NFW YORK. navuig found a iloak, s! about her and crept oniet'i this wo!":!:i,-hovv should si tamly, the river -that was e wrapped it cut. To kill do it? C'er c st ; and she. hurried 0:1. At the m-;h r of n dark street sh paused for the S:i!v:it:-vi Aruiv to pass. icy t"eini'i(l a'o:v in rn uneven way, siH-uting a bve.y nielodv, that rounded but alf a h' tii'i. It iinnovrd pti I delisted t lit- 1 1:1 zed wo.iiiin. Sister Alicia was not sitting. Mary Vi'hittes'y lonl e 1 lifter them a see- "Those are the sort who would expect me to pi-Hv, I suppose. That is religion. To pray? W'hv should I?" Yet, when the long walk brought her to the water's edge, she did km el and, stretch ing up her anus through the biting, snow decked air, cried out: "To whom can 1 pray? I have no friend, parent, husband, child, lover! No, nor even (!od! 1 am all alone, l'or mo there is only death. Welcome! Welcome! Thou sweet, black, silent death! With thee comes peace!" She arose, stepped to the pier's edge, and threw off her cloak as she pre pared to spring. A sound of music arrested her attention. The Salvation Army was turning t he bleak coiner that led river-ward. Sister Alicia's voice brought these words clearly to her dull ear: "Do thy friends '.tFi:rp, forsake thee? Take It to the Lord In prayer: In His arms He'll take and shidd thee, Thou wilt fir. d a solace thi re." The slender figure stood (uietly, calm, a moment; then trembled violently. Sho saw the better pints of life; the happier days before sadness had clouded her mem ory nnd dulled her soul. She realized tha sin of this; and sank to her knees, praying, hoping; imploring the God whom her lips had just denied. "Help me to be strong!" she cried. "To I'car niy life, O Lonl, as it is ordered. Help me to leave my death to Thee, that nothing be lost" and there fell 011 her spirit peace. It was as if God's hand had rested on her head. As she rose, brave and trusting, nnd turned her licet steps toward home, in an other part of the city, the ' Army" was dis persing. The tired soldiers were limping forlornly. It was bitterly cold, yet Sister Alicia never noticed it, and her lace shone. bright and happy, under Iter ugly blue bon net. As she passed Sister .Mary, her shapely little hand rested a moment on the older woman's arm: "Good-night," said she then added, half hyly: "God bles.-i you, sister. I feel as though it had been 'worth while' this Thanksgiving night." ELVIRA FLOYD Fi:oi;MCKE. 1mt Im YIIiIm'I Sr.lil. "I canr.ot, cannot thnrkru'. lie, Don't ak me to, I hep : Thackcplvlni? r.fvr ci men Put see Pome f-;tuw pulls my Ug!" N. Y. World. I! I h Ax octi I Ion. ipoo'ier I :it t he doov Soiled Spooner (:it the door - 1 nrn willin to work, r.uuldni. but competition keeps me from gittin' :iiyt!rn" to do at mv trade. Mrs. ( ,:.oIsoul - W ii" I h vour t ruse : Soiled Spoon-T Onrvin' Th?-ks"ivin' tur- Vovs fur lonely widows ! threat H.-ipplncss. "There is one thing which should make this country celebrate Thanksgiving day with a great deal of enthusiasm," remarked Ilo.iack. 'Whrt is that?" asked Tomdik. 'Congress isn't in session yet." Detroit Free Press. A Redeeming: Fentare. "It is certainly a terrible thing," mused the turkey, as it saw the farmer approach ing with his ax, "to tie cut olf like this in my prime. Hut after all death has its com pensations. At least I shall hear no more Thanksgiving jokes about getting it in the oeck." N. Y. Journal. A TlinnkoKlvInK ( Inch. Fhe (after "yes" has been said) What did you wish when you puiled the wihhbone with me? He I wished that you would accept me. And you? S he- Oh, I w ished that you would pro pose X. Y. World. CURED BY CUTICURA I was sntlerin; tortures fmm a diswueil scalp. 1 wrs scratching my head from morn ing till night. I.ittln pimples tmka out ail over mv head. 1 had no rest. I washed my hf with hot water and CrTKTRA H'ap, iml !plil rPTiorHA a dresjlntr. Now my le-ad hasn't pimple on it, and mv hair i Crowics splendidly. ADA C. HAUKF.LU J?0 Grand St.. Jersey City, N. . I thought I would go frantic with Itching grain humors. I lost conslderahle of my hir ot which I had sn abundance. I tried several remedies, the failed. I tried CrTicrm a Soap, relief immediate, itching completely pone. Mra.M.Jt'DAN,24 HslluiayM., Jersey City. tuM thrmrtwat th nrit. fTTt BSC ro., fti' frop., bueua. Uuw le Product l.uzuiua.1 tlux, tn-