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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-03-12
Quite Romantic.

The following story, as wss told to us,
happened near Lake city, Ind, where
there lived, at the breaking out of the war,
a awealthy farmer whom we will call Blank
This man kepta large number of servants;
among them was good and religious
young girl, possessing unusual personal
attractions She was courted by an Off
Ger of some rank in the Federal army,
while at home recruiting for his regiment,
When the day of his departure came, he
made know to the servant girl how Deep
ly she had interested him, and begged to
know if there was any hope. She con-
fessed that his attachment was recipro-
Gated, and they were at once affianced.
"Should Mr.. Blank" said Jennie,
"come to know of this, / should at once
be discharged. He believes that it was
his daughter for whom your visits were
intended"
"Should this be so," returned the fond
lover, "oniy write and let me know, and
you shall net suffer-"
With an affectionate kiss, and promise
that both would be punctual in their let
ter writing, they separated, he to join
his regiment among the boys of the Poto-
mac.
He waited long and anxiously for It'd
ings OF his loved one, but not one word
was received to ease his troubled mind.
Finally, his own letters were returned
What could IL all mean? Was Jennie
falsef He could not believe it.
After the soldiers departure, Mr.. Blank
took Jennie into room, fastened the door,
and, with q rawhide in his bsnd, com
manded her to tell him ii she was betroth-
ed to Colonel -. When the poor girl
had told him all, he had her blindfcided,
taken to the great city OF Chicago, and
there left, without friends or money.
He reported that she had died OF chol-
era. and, to make the deception complete,
built false grave.
When the war was over, and Colonel
-. returned home he made his way al
once to the old graveyard, and sought oul
| that OF his lost Jennie. AFTER Datning tne
little mound with tears. he made MS way
to the house of Mr.. Blank to learn the
particulars. While he wss there the
/ guilty man ordered the tombstones for tne
/ false grave. In due time they came, ane
were placed at the supposed grave Will
some evergreens and flowers.
Col- had been q mourner from
two wears before the war closed unit
December, 1858, when business called hin
to Chicago. There, In street car, with
bundle of soiled clothes which she wa
taking home to be washed, he found hi
buried Jennie. He few across the car
taking her in his arms and almost scream
ing with 10y. He could scarcely believ
his ewes, but 1t was Jennie, and no mistake
He had found her at last.-Kansos OF
(Mo.) Journal Of Comuseres.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-03-12
A Chinese Novel. Hwa Tsien XII
The Flowery Scroll.

II people are to be judged by their
literature, we cannot be far wrong In styI-
ing the Chinese pedantic, pompoas, affect
ed and inane. II would be easy to prove
this from the books they regard as their
classics. But let as take the novel before
rs, which, no doubt, Is tolerable reflex
of Chinese genteel life. The plot, TO be-
gin with, is the most jejune imaginable.
with an astounding hyperbole at the end.
It resembles squib that fizzes disagreea-
bly, for Q long time, and then goes off
with bang that makes the ear ache A
youth named LANG Is sent with some
birthday gifts to his aunt Yao, and falls in
love with his cousin, Miss Yao Sien. In
stead of proposing for or to her at once, he
passes months In blubbering In secret and
wiping his eyes with his long sleeves. The
young lady isequally given tothese provok.
Ing wsterworks, and repays him tear for
tear In Q way which would have exaspe.
perated Mr.. Sam Weller to madness. But
not content with this Stiffness, the lovers
indulge in long rhapsodies about the moon
the blossoms Of the peach-tree, and &C
forth. Notwithstanding his despair, ths
broken-hearted LANG e careful "to ar
range his garments" every time he get
up or sits down during his lamentations
In the meantime his father, In Ignorance
Of what Is going on, engages him TO an
other young lady, one Eiss Yu Khine
When LANG hears this am, -h-awakinI
news, he falls down hike g eS.pse and /
brought to his senses only by the severe
but rather homely, expediens of admin
istering to him powerful dose of pills.
| The administration of the cathartic put
an end TO the cold water sy stem on whicl
the lovers have been living, and Introduce
the fiaring hyperbole with which the stor.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-03-12
A Remedy for snake Bites.

A MELBOURNE (Australia) newspaper
says that Professor Halford has discovered
ammonia to be perfect antidote for the
bite of poisonous snakes, and that several
cures have been wrought with it. One of
these is described. A railway laborer
was bitten by brown snake. He soon
become drowsy and laid down. His COM
rades becoming alarmed sent for medical
assistance, but by the time it arrived the
man was comstose, and his lower extrem-
tiles paralyzed. Galvanism and other
usual remedies were applied, but without
effect, the poison having obtained too
strong hold on the system to yield to
any treatment employed In this extrem-
ity the medical man first called in caused
Professor Halford to be telegraphed for.
The Professor Immediately repaired to the
place and made an operation as follows !:
An incision was made through the skin,
exposing thesuperfcialr rsdisl vein, and the
point of the syringe being introduced into
the vein, the injection (of ammonis) was
completed. The beneficial effect was mar
velous and immediate. From an almost
pulseless state, and from q stupor verging
on death, the patient speedily become con-
scious. He has been steadily recovering
since, and, at the date of the letter, was
reported to be nearly well Medical men
are said to be enthusiastic believers in the
new remedy,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-03-12
A Winter Funeral.

To BURY friend in winter Is kind of
trial that connects strange inward emo
tions of feelings which it is difficult to mas
ter. We have cleared away the snow, and
hewn a passage down through the solid
pavement of the frost, and then in that
inhospitable place we come to bury our
departed; be it child, or wife, or mother,
or much loved friend, our heart shndders
SiE feeling Is protesting, The soi'smnisy,
so-called, goes on, and before we have
gotten our own consent the "tribute of
respect" is ended The frozen chips Of
earth. loosened again by blows, are piled
on the loved ones rest, and we turn 10
20. "Will it storm tonight The wind,
alas is bowling even now in the trees,
and the sleeting has already begun. .
God, it shall not bel We were going to
be fools, we see, but now the spell is
broken. Our departed is not in that grave
and we scorn to say our farewell over it.
Let the SHOWS fall heavy, If they win, and
the winds rage pitiless and wild above,
ours it shall be to thank thee, Father, Lord
Of the warmer cline, that our dead one
lives with thee" Practically, almost
nothing will more surely compel faith in
Immortality, even if one chances TO be
unbelieving, than to bury friend In win
ter And, as a matter of fact, it is not in
the fresh, unbursting life of the spring, or
in any other softer season of the year,
that we think of immortality with half the
tension that we do at winter funerals. We
ask It instinctiyely, as we do a fire for
the cold.-Dr. BuShHdI.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-03-12
Beauty On Skates.

A PRETTY girl On skates, If any girl can
be otherwise than pretty, clad in one OF
those jaunty, fur-trimmed plises that
Cupid himself must have fashioned, the
little form bending to and fro In undulous
and rhythmic motion, the glowing cheeks
and radiant eyes kissed BY kindly win
ter into tenfold beauty, is such sight a.
the holiest and hardest of anchorites
might be pardoned foZ falling in love
with.
And II she be, on the contrary, q poor
skater, the charm Is, II anything, highten-
ed, at least to her cavalier There Is such
an irresistible fascination In her absolute
dependence on his protecting arm; there
Is such Q charm In her pretty terrors, her
delicious helplessness, her graceful tum-
bles such q music In her little shrieks Of
dread and her self accusing laughter; and
then 1t Il % delightful to pick her up
after each comical upset, and she is
throughout 70 good-nstured, and 20 CRATE
ful, and 90 provokingly pretty, that she Il,
If anything, more adorable than If she
sksted like championess.
An ice-pond, too, on bright still night,
with the moon and stars all 10 their places
to smile an encouraging approval, Is no
bad place to make love In. When the
most adored of her sex asks you, for ex-
ample, As you 60 gliding like the wind
over the CLASSY surface, "If this isn't
heavenly" and says "she could go on 80
forever" what is easier or more lat
ursl than to press little tighter the tiny
hand that nestles In your own, and sug-
gest that it is heavenly, and that it will be
her fault if yol don't go on forever
Round TdHe.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-03-12
A Juggler's Trick.

Rev. NORMAN MACLEOD, in an account
Of visit TO Bombay, gives an account Of
o juggling feat, known as the bamboo
trick he says:
"While the tcn-tom was beating, and
the pipe playing, the juggler, singing all
the time In low accents, snloothed place
on the gravel, three or four yards before
us. Having thus prepared Q bed for the
placed it over tie prepard place, covering
It with thin blanket The man himself
did not wear thread Of clothing, ex-
cspt strip around the loins The time
seemed to have come for the detectives
eyel 80 Just as he was becoming more
earnest In his song, and while the tom
tom beat and the pipe shrilled more loud
ly, I stepped forward with becoming dig
nifty, and begged him to bring the basket
and its cover to me. The juggler cheer
fully complied. I examined the basket
1t was made Of open wicker-work. l
then examined the covering. Il was thin,
almost transparent, and certainly there
was nothing concealed In it then fixed
my eyes on his strip of clothing with
such intentness that it was not possible II
could have been touched without dis
covery, and bade him 20 on. felt per
fectly sure that the trick could not succeed
Sitting down, he stretched his naked ARM
under the basket, singing and smiling .,
he did SO; he then lifted the basket on ths
ground, and behold green plant. about
foot high! Eatis6ed with our applause b
went on with his incantaaionA Atter hav
ing sat Q little, to give his plant time 4
1rovv. he aoaiu ifted the basket and tn
plant was now two feet high. BE askes
"a to wait little longer that We nigh
taste the fruitl But on being assured b.
those who had seen the trick performel
before, that this result would be obtained
I confessed myself "done" without tn
slightest notion Of how. ! examined tn
ground, and found II was smooth and up
turned, Apparently delighted with m.
surprise, the juggler stood up. laughing
Ons Of his companions just then chucke'
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-03-12

A good story used to be told of Choate
by Mr.. Minns, who was q student in his
Office. One day the former came into the
Office, and seated himself before the fire,
began scratching his head with unusual
violence. By-and-by he said in his most
dramatic tones:
81 wonder what becomes of all my
money, Mr. Minnss"
Minns stopped his writing and looked
up at him. His face looked comical
enough. Finally, he ventured to make q
suggestion.
"Why don't you buy small book,
Mr. Choate, and enter in it what you
receive and what you pay out? and
then you will know where your money
goes"
capital idea, Mr.. Minns, capital idea
Won't you be good enough to go out and
buy me one?
Minns bought him the book, and Choate
sat down and made two or three entries
in it
A few months afterward Minns had the
curiosity-seeing the book lying upon
Mr.. Choate's desk--to look into it to see
how he got along xitA his aeesaata. yhsa 10
made on the day Of his purchase. and al
the rest was blank
Mr. Choate might have been . rich mar
If he had had any method in the keeping
of his accounts. After his association witt
his son in-law, Major Bell, lately deceased
his affairs weresmuch improVed.-Harper',
KI0rzine
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-03-12
Rates Of Travel.

In single second 8 snail travels one
of foot; hy, five feet
q pedestrian, at ordinary gait, i've and
three. tenths feet; Q camel, six feet an or
binary breeze, ten feet; running stream,
twelve feet trotting horse, twelve feet
a whale, twelve and three-tenths feet q
fast sailing ship, fourteen feet; reindeer
with sledeo, twenty-five feet; a steam en-
CINE, twenty-nine feet; q skater, thirty
six feet an English race-horse, forty one
feet tempest, fifty feet F; a swiftly thrown
stone, fifty feet; an eagle, ninety i've feet !;
carrier pigeon. four hundred and eleven
feet; musket ball, one thousand i've
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-03-12

concludes. Miss Yao Stems father, who is
an old Mandarin on the frontier. is
suddenly attacked by 100000 sac
cursed rebels" As soon as this
news Is brought LANG, who by
the effect of the wonderful pills before
spoken of has been sufficiently invigor-
ated to pass q successful examination, Is
made duke by the Emperor, and sent of
with 100000 true men to decapitate the
100000 rebelA Unfortunately, his valiant
soldiers are seized with panic, and there
not being a sufficient supply of pills to in
vigorate such q numerous host, they run
away or are slain by the rebels, save few,
who with LiaDg are shut up in noun
tain. On this, Miss Yu attempts TO drown
herself, but, contrary to rule IN China, is
picked up by some boatmen. Reinforce
ments are now sent to Lisng. whe makes
a sortie, and kills half q million ont of
the 100, 900 rebels (this feat Is trife IN 8
Chinese novel; returns to the Emperor,
and is welded by imperial decree, first to
Miss Yao, and then to Miss Yu; after
which, 20 show his good viii to both, he
takes the two handmaids of each as con-
cubines. The moral of the tale Is not
mentioned. 4.
So much for the story. which is fatucus
enough TO please the worst taste. In jus
tice to the Chinese, however. it is only
fair to say that the national character Is
redeemed from the imputstion Of idiotcy,
which writings such as these would natur
ally fasten on 1t, by traits of cunning and
cruelty not to be equalled by perhaps any
other race. Some instances Of these
stronger parts Of the Chinese mind may
be found In the notes 10 this book. Sir ].
BowTils tells rs that the Governor of
KiaDg Su offered to him to behead six in
nocent men, who were on their knees
ready for execution, 10 make up for the
rudeness Of quite different party. In
another place he says: az remember one
OF our servants quietly reporting that his
wife had hanged herself that morning:
he said it wasAvery improper, for she had
chosen a day when he was particularly
busy. To make up for this barbarous in
difference regarding those who ought to
be dearest 70 them, the Chinese have q
number Of petite phrases, with which
they are ready on all occasipns to load
strangers. OF the juniors Of their own
family they speak In the most contemptu.
Gus terms. Thus. man calls his own wife
"the mean one inside" or "the family
foolish one;" and If he have but one son,
he viii say, "Mine Is q niggardly fate;
have only one little bugr-Th London
.Athensum.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-03-12
Missing People.

Any day in the year advertisements can
be found in the daily newspapers to the ef-
ctthat Madame R, the seventh daugh-
ter of seventh dsughtey causes speedy
marriages, gives lucky numbers, and IN
formation of absent friends These no
tices, duly parsded under the head OF As
trology," are the shadows gullible friends
clutch at. Hence it happens that the
cisiryoyants derive q considerable income
from this false pretense. In about six
cases out of ten recourse is had to these
cheats. and satisfaction found in their pre-
tended revelations Like the orscles OF
Old. these are sufficiently ambiguous m
their replies TO suit eli possible contin-
rencies and circnmstances and SO manage
&c keep the fraud alive and remuneratIye.
If the absence has been Of long contnu-
suce. it is the fashion to State thst the miss
ing is dead, taking care to svoid SUCH oe-
tails of time and place as wouio ieaa 70
detection of the swindle by lnvesugsuon.
But the precaution is hardy necessary,
for the sesrchers are so eager for some
thing positive that they snap eagerly .,
,eace in il. The clairvoyanfs know
his and have settled upon the desth's.
head as their surest card. of course Il
souetimes happens thst the grave gives
nm the clsirvoyant-dead, who reappear
in the home circle, but in the JOY Of theil
return che fraud is forgotten, and the fsl
libility of .he medium rarely bruiteo
abroad. TIE clairvoyants know this too
and continue TO play deaths head, only
guarding against Immediate accident BY
demanding the prescribed fee in advance
AS the clsirvoyants do not keep book
of accounts with their patrons 1t Is impos
sible TO say exactly how much they re
ceiye. and from how many different per
sons, for their pretended. revelations con
cerninr missing persons But If any ons
of the greasy Madames can be taken II
any 'one Of her maudlin moments, sh'
viii probably confess that the MISSING
branch of her art pays better than tn
speedy marriage fraud, and nearly as vel
AZ the lucky number hoax Without sucl
conSession, however. 1t is certain tha
knavery makes q substantial banquet OF
wrecked hearts, and viii until such tint
AZ The lawmakers shall think it proper =
nrote,t the guIlible. and consign these falls
propkets TO the custody Of q jailor.-Ed
ioard Orapsey, in Harpers Aagdssns.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-03-12
Failing Eyes.

PERSONS suffering from DYSPEPSIA, or any
other malady, must take care Of their eyes
Any disease impairs the strength, and the
nervous system is depressed; and when
laborirg under this form of depression the
eye b particularly liable to become weak.
The reason of this is, that of the ten nerves
which 60 off from the brain, six ale dis
tributed wholly, and the other four par
TALLY, to the eye. Through the great
sympathetic nerve, the disturbed stomach,
or liver. or intestines, communicate with
telegraphic speed with the brain, and
% with the eye. The first advice TO be
gwen with recurrence to the comfortable
use OF she eyes undoubtedly Is to keep the
intestines and liver and stomach In a
healthy condition; In other words, 60
everything to confirm the general health.
II this be impaired, do not read, and, espe-
cially do not write long, without giving
the eye rest. The great remedy for an
eye whose disease depends upon the nerve,
and not the muscle, Is rest restl rest =
Montpelier (Vt) Journal.