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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-06-24

The success of Weston In walking
one hundred miles in less than twenty
two hours naturally calls attention to
previous achievements of the same
character OF these we find . very in
teresting account in q work on Pedes-
trianism, published in Aberdeen in 1918.
1t seems that Robert BARLEY, of Nor
folk, who was born in 1719, used fire.
quently to walk from Thetford to Lon
don in one day, returning the next the
distance, 81 miles, Reed, of Hamp-
shire, in 1871, made fifty miles in lit
tie more than 8 hours. In 1762 John
Hogue made 100 miles in q hours and
Is minutes. In 1857 Foster Powell
walked from Canterbury to London
Bridge and back, in q hours and 80
minutes, the distance being 100 miles.
In 1905 Joseph Edge, Of Macclesfield,
walked 172 miles in 40 hours and 20
minutes. In 1788 John Boty walked
700 miles. in IA days, and Dowler, Of
Towcester, walked 500 miles in seven
successive days. In 1911 Oliver walk.
ed 100 miles in q hours and fifty min
utes, and Edward Miller did the same
distance in % hours 25 minutes. In
1872, Jonathan Waring, of Lancashire,
walked l36 miles in 81 hours, and Clan.
willie, Of Shropshire, walked 142 miles
on the Bath road In % hours and As
minutes. In 1872 Lieutenant Creates
walked y miles in II hours and Sc
minutes. -i..ifYi 40 81 IL
The greatest pedestrian of all, how
ever, was Captain Robert Barclay, a
descendant Of the celebrated Quaker
Barclay, of Ury. In 1901, while in
training to walk upon q wager, he
made, in the park of Lord Fulkenberg,
ITO miles in 80 hours n minutes. In
1903 he walked 100 miles in 19 hours,
over the worst road in the kingdom,
and just the breaking out of q severe
storm. Exclusive of stoppages, the
distance was performed in II hours 80
minutes. In this walk he was attend
ed by William Cross, his servant, who
made the distance in the same time as
the master; and subsequently Cross
walked 100 miles in 10 hours, II min
utes, on the Aberdeen road. u" - q
RS In 1907 Barclay walked 78 miles in
IA hours, over the billy roads OF Aber-
deenshire.a In the course of this year
he ran 10 miles in 2 hours and 8 min
utes, making the first 8 miles in 80
minutes, though the road was hilly and
bad. In 1909, when he was % years
old, Barclay accomplished the great ex-
plOit Of walking 1000 miles in 1000
hours. In the course Of this feat his
weight, which was 1S6 pounds at start
ing, fell off 80 pounds.
From these facts it will be seen that,
brilliant as was Weston's success on
Wednesday last, he has still great
deal to accomplish before his name can
be found at the very head of the noble
catalogue of walkers.-M Y Sun.
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The following beautiful poem was written
by Charles Dickens:
when the lesson and tasks are all endesi.
Ana the school for the day Is Dismissed.
ana tne little ones gather around me-
~ DIG me goodnight and be kissed:
v! the little white arms that encfrcIe
Ny neck in tender emb.ace:
}! the smiles that are halos of heaven.
shedding sunshine and love on my face.
And when they are gone, sit dreaming.
Of my childhood too lovely to last: :"
O1 love that my heart will remember.
ErH m1hei ihe IL % waSes to the pulse ofthe past,
A partner Of sorrow and su;
Wnen the glory of God was aDout me.
And the glory of fgiadness within.
U! my heart grows weak asa woman,s,
WI, ana the fountain of feeling will fiow
Wnen think of the paths steep and stony.
OF the tee1 OF o fns dear ones
VI tne tempest of fate blowing wild:
U there's nothing on earth half so holy
AS tne innocent heartof child.
They are idols Of hearts and OF households:
Ihey are angels of God in disguise:
HIS sunlight still sleeps IN their tresses:
his glory still beams in their eyes,
o! those truants from home and from hen.
W
They nave made me more manly and mild,
And know now how Jesus could likeu
The Kingdom of God to a child.
1 ask not a life for the dear ones,
All radiant, rs others have done,
But that life may have Just enough shadow
To temper the glare of the sun:
would pray God to guard them from evil
But my prayer would bound back to my
All a seraph may pray for sinner,
But the sinner must pray for himself
The twig is so easily berded,
II hor nj Sha1 4 fhar rla ar,d ff<.r r<xls
L have taught them the goodness Of knowl.
edge,
They taught me the goodness of God;
My heart Is a dungeon of darkness,
Where i shut them from breaking a rule.
My frown Is sufficient correction:
My love Is the law of the school.
/ shall leave the old house in the Autumn.
To traverse its threshold no more:
All how I shall sigh for the dear ones
That meet me each morn at the door:
shall miss the good-nights" and the
kisses,
And the gush of their innocent giee,
The group on the green, and the flowers
That are brought every morning to me.
/ shall miss them at morn and at eve
Their song in the school and the street;
i shall miss the low hum of their voices
And the tramp of their delicate feet;
When the lessons are all ended,
And Death says, 1.-THE school Is dismissed.'
May the little ones gather around me,
To bid me goodnight and be kissed.
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Josh Billings welcomes Spring as fol-
lows: 'Spring e. came this year ~ much
as usual. Hail, butuous virgin, 5000
years old and upwards, hale and harty
old gal, welcum tew York State and
parts adjacent. Now the burds Jaw,
now the cattle drover, now the pigs
skream, now the geese warble, now
the kats sigh, and nature is frisky; the
virtuous bedbug and the nobby cock
roach are singing Yankee Doodle and
E" coming thru the rhi." Now may be
seen the musketeer, that gray outlined
critter ov destiny, solitary and alone,
examining his las years bill, and now
may be heard, with the naked ear the
hoarse shanghigh bawling in the BARN
yard" =. saar .ai -'a
1t has just cost man months inn
prisonment in London to walk the
streets with placard inscribed: "En-
glishmen! behold, behold a victim of
Injustice! / confidently ask, is it not
shameful and cruel treatment for man
who has rendered to his sovereign and
his country for 80 years good and faith
full service, and bearing an irreproach.
able character, now to be, with a wife
and seven children, compelled to cell
matches to procure bread, solely
through the grossest injustice displayed
toward him by his military superiors
james Sealey, late schoolmaster,
l05th Regiment"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-06-24

A new Haven Agriculturalist called
his friends to social gathering in his
pear orchard the other evening, and de-
sired each one to pick out a branch on
which should grow the pears for his or
her eating, the name of the person be-
ing affixed upon a label. In the harv-
est time they will meet again and en-
joy the fruit so generously and ingeni-
ously disposed Of 9Ft III
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ROthschild as q Mendicant.
The following curious letter appears
in the last number of the London Court
Journal: ...-

The following curious letter appears
in the last number of the London Court
Journal: .
Mr.. Editor-One of our contributors
i'm recent article, mentions an ancec-
dOte in which the Baron James de
Rothschild is represented as having sat
for a beggar before Scheffer, the paint
er. This anecdOte is perfectly true, but
is not complete. Here are the partic-
ulars: While the banker, covered with
rags and tatters, was putting himself
into a position before the artist, en-
tered the studio. Feeling touched with
the miserable appearance of my friends
model, I approached him and put a
louis into his pocket. Ten years later
1 received one morning q letter con-
tanning a check for ten thousand francs,
with the following words: "Sir: One
day you gave 8 louis to me in the stu
dio Of AIRY Scheffer. have made good
use of it, and herewith send you the
little capital with interest. A good ac-
ton is never lost. Your grateful ser
want, Baron James de Rothschild.n
Immediately went to Rtthschild's
bank, where / found the baron, who
showed me how the Louis had been
made to reach the great sum of ten
thousand francs. t- a.r
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-06-24

2oetru.
"BORRIOBOOLA GHA.-

IN THE INTEREST OF " HOME MISSIONS" "
a stranger preached last Sunday,
And crowds of people came
To hear a two hours sermon
With misunderstanding name;
Twas all about some heathenS,
Thousands of miles afar,
Who lived in a land of darkness
Called Borrioboola Cha"
So well their wants he pictured
That when the plates were passed,
Each listener felt his pockets,
And gcodly sums were cast .-
For all must lend a shoulder
To push the rolling car
That carries light and comfort
To Borrioboola Cha"
That night their wants and sorrows
Lay heavy on my soul,
And deep in meditation
took my morning stroll,
Till something, caught my mantle
With eager grasp and wild,
And looking down with wonder,
saw little child
A pale and puny creature,
In rags and dirt forlorn,
What can she want? questioned,
Impatient 10 be gone
With trembling voice she answered,
1--WE live just down the street,
And mamma she's q dying,
And we've nothing left to eat"
Down in a wretched basement,
With mould upon the walls,
Through whose half buried windows
Gods sunshine never falls; T-
Where cold, and want, and hunger,
Couched near her as she lay,
i found a fellow-creature
Gasping her life away,
a chair, a L. oxen table,
A bed of dirty straw,
A hearth all dark and cheerless- ~
But these i scarcely saw,
For the mournful sight before me,
The sad and sickening show
Oh |! never had / pictured 81,
A scene so full of woe. -A
The famished and the naked,
The babes that pinned for bread,
The sQualid group that huddled
Around the dying bed
All this distress and sorrow
Should be in lands afar,
Was / suddenly transported
To "Borrioboola Char"
All, mol The poor and wretched
Were close beside my door,
And had passed them, needless,
a thousand times before.
Alas for the cold and hungry
That meet me every day,
While all my tears were given
To the suffering far away.
There's work enough for Christians
In distant lands, we know;
Our Lord commands Ills servants
Through all the world to go
Nor ONLY TO THE HEATHEN-
This was His word to them:
" Go preach the Word, beginning
FIRST at jerusalem"
o, Christians! God has promised
Whoe'er TO these has given
A cup of pure cold water,
Shall find reward in Heaven.
Would you secure the blessing,
You need not seek il far;
Go find in yonder hoyel
A Borrioboola Cha"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-06-24

Eleven years ago a citizen of Mont
gomery, Ala, bet a hat with ciflzen
Of Troy, that the Montgomery and -
faula road would reach Union spri1H
before the Mobile and Girau -
reached Troy. At last accounts it =
q neck and neck race, each having oLlX
about two miles to go on.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-06-24

Colonel Egbert, formerly chief of
police of Richmond, by military ap-
pointment, has received an appoint
ment in the secret service of the Treas
ury Department.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-06-24

The army worms are devastating
Iuba Valley, in California. A few
days ago they appeared opposite the
river from Marysville, and after strip
ping the willow trees of their foliage
swarmed over the railroad bridge in
such numbers that the wheels of the
next train of cars mashed thousands,
and slipped on the track so badly that
the train stopped.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-06-24

To PURIFY RooM.- Set a pitcher
of water in room, and i'm few hours
it will have absorbed all the respired
and pcrspircd ga es i'm the room, the
air of which will have become purer,
but the water utterly filthy. The
colder the water is, the greater the
capacity to contain these gases. AT
ordinary temperatures, pail of water
will contain pint of carbonic acid
gas, and several pints of ammonia.
The capcity is nearly doubled by re-
ducing the water TO a temperature of
ice. Hence, water kept in the room
awhile is always unfit for use. For
the same reason the water from pump
should always be pumped out in the
morning before any Of it is used. I'm
pure water is more injurious than
impure air.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-06-24

A cable dispatch states that the Ecu
menical Council, ON the End inst, de
cided that the dogma of Papal infalli-
bility shall be proclaimed on the 10Th
of this month, in honor of the feast of
st. Peter. Extensive preparations are
being made to celebrate the occasion,
and it is said that the display of pomp
and pagentry will surpass any demon
stration of the kind ever witnessed in
Europe.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-06-24

III.-FRoM THE BRIDES STANDPOINT.
My husband and my brother are a
couple of-well won't call names
They share the usual male delusion
that women see nothing and know no.
thing; and that men, being lords of
creation, move in a sphere so exalted
hat our poor optics cannot reach. And
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1870-01-06
MORTGAGE SALE.-WHEREAS DEFAULT TIA!

MORTGAGE sALE-WHEREAs DEFAULT HAS
WI been made in the conditions of q certain Mort
gage made executed and delivered by Adaline D. Foot
and Solomon r. Foot, her husband, Mortgagors, to
day Of April A. D. 1867 and recorded in the office Of
tho Register of Deeds in and for Stearns county Min
nesota, the 18th day of June, A. D. 1861 at s
O'Clock A. Y. in Book 'C' Of Mortgages on pages 49,
the payment Of a certain promssory note for -Four
Hundred and seventy-Five dollars, payable in two
years after the date OF said mortgage with interest
10 per cent per annum until paid; and whereas there
g claimed to be due, and is due and unpaid en- said
note and mortgage at the date of this notice, the
sum of Five hundred and Ninety-seven dollars and
Eighty cents, and by reason of the non-payment OF
said um the power to soil which is contained in said
mortgage has become operative, and action pro
Ceedng at law or otherwise has been instituted to re-
the debt remaining secured by said mortgage
any part thereof
Now therefore, noticeis hereby given that by virtue
of the power Of sale containe in said mortgage and
pursuant to the statute in such case made and pro-
vded said mortg 'ge will be oreccsed by sale of the
mortgaged premises lying and being in the county Of
Stcarns and State of Minnesota described as follows
towit: The east half of the north west quarter and
east half of the southwest quarter, of section No
Thirty-four, o. in townsh p No. One Hundred and
Twenty-six, (12G) North of Range No. Thirty three
(33,) West Of the 9th Principal Meridian:
At Public Fendue, by the Sheriff of said Stearns
county, at the front door of the Court House in the
City Of St. Cloud, in said Stearns county, on TILE
18th DAY OF JANUARY, A. D. 1870, at two O'Clock
in the afternoon OF that day. to satisfy the amount
which shall then be due on said note and mortgage
the costs of foreclosure and the further
ty-ve dollars as Attorneys fees, stipulated in said
mortgage to be paid in of foreclosure together
with all sums and costs allowed in thlt behalf by
law.
NJ MICKEY, Sheriff of stear MS Co., Mimi
ABBY A. BROWN, Mortgage
L. ". COLLINS, Attorney for Mortgasee.
Dated Dec. 10, 1860. dec16-7w
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EXECUT10N sALE-BY VIRTUE OF AN Exc
IL cutfon, issued out of and under the seal Of the
District Court for the Seventh Judicial District Of
the State Of Minnesota in and for the County of
Stearns, upon judgment rendered and docketed in
said Court and county on the goth day of November
A. D. 1859, in an action therein pending wherein
Joseph G. Smith is Plaintiff and William Wye and
John Mayall are Defendants I'd favor Of said Plaintiff
and against said Defendants, for the of $l07 So
on which said judgment there is now actually due
said Of $1O78 with interest thereon from and
since the rendition Of said judgment, to me the
Sheriff Of said Stearns county directed and delivered
did on the I'd day Of December, A. D. 1900, levy
upon the following described real estate situated in
the county OF Stearns Aforesaid the property Of
said defendant, John Mayall. to-wit an undivided
one-third of Block Fifty-seven, (57Din the Town of
Fair Haven, according to plat and survey there of
made by John Q. Haven and on file and of record in
the Office Of the Register of Deeds in and for Stearns
County aforesaid, With the appurtenances thereto
belonging:
Now Therefore notice is hereby given, that will
sell the above described real estate together with the
appurtenances thereunto belonging at public suction,
to highest bidder for cash. at the front door Of the
Court House, in the City Of st. Cloud, in said Stearns
county, on the Ara DAY OF FEBRUARY, A. D. 1870,
at O'Clock in the afternoon of that day, to satisfy
the aforesaid execution and pay the amount then due
thereon with the expense OF SALE.
NJ. MICKLEY, Sheriff of Stearns Co., MINI.
By NJ. LAuERAAN, Deputy Sheriff.
L. W. Collins, Plaintiffs Attorney.
Dated Dec. ~, 1869. dec23-7w
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Nd FURTHER NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN
n that the undersigned Treasurer of Benton Coun-
~ or his Deputy will be in attendance ut the several
paces Of holding election places otherwise named
ofTaxes year 1eGs viz:
Town os1angota, Jan. II, 1870, at the place of
holding election u! - Ig
Town Of Watab, Jan. IS, at the house of Henry
Hillman,
Town Of Glendorado, Jan 10, at the house of Mer-
rift Wiseman.
Town of haywood, Jan. 20, at the house of N. D.
Cambell.
Town Of St. George, JAM 81 at the house of Stanley
Russell. - -
Town Of Gin,anton, Jan. q at thehousc Of C. Teller.
Town Of Alberta, Jan. -, at the house OF .. D.
Abbott. = -
From and after the 25th day of January, at the
County Trcasurer's Office in the County House at s""A
Rapids.
TURr1IER NOTICE Is ALSO GIVEN, THAT
r. all Real Estate Taxes must be paid Lefsre tho
DERsONAL PROPERTY TAXES
Must DO paid before the first day OF February
next; if not paid penalty of vo per cent will be
charged, MS required by Section o. Chapter H. Stat
utes Of Minnes uta and taxes and penalties vii! be
collected by d;strain after saf first day Of Resuary
RICHARD CkONhE :..e
IT.. Treasurer Ct Benton C,un.y, Nlihhhso'a: .
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