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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-04-29
The Tea-Leayes

Arthur was looking with much in
terest at some tea-leaves in the bottom
of his mothers cup.
"How different they look after they
are cooked, don't they, mother?n he
said.
"Yes, dear, | think We may find
some perfect leaves in the teapot
She took a tablespoon and brought
up spoonful of fairgrounds from
the bottom of the pot and laid them
out ON a saucer. \ little examination
brought to light n very fair pointed
tea-leaf.
"How can they make them into
those hard, dry-looking grains?" he
asked.
"This is all done by taking the tea,
leaf by leaf, and rolling il up between
the thumb and finger. Just think of
the labor required to make up one
pound of tea; and then think of the
millions of pounds sold every year in
our country alone. How many people
it must employ, and how slowly the
work must seem to grow under their
hands Just think of it, leaf by leaf!
Yet every leaf helps swell the amount.
1t Is good lesson of the power of lit
ties. If all workers should say, the
little can do will never amount tn
anything, l might as well stop my
work. where would the millions Of
pounds come from? Just so with the
little atoms of good we may do In the
world. 1t seems as though you could
do very little, does it not Arthur? Yet,
remember these tea-leaves Do your
little and urge your next neighbor to
do his part. Littles fit into one ano-
ther wonderfully well, and if we could
keep the chain unbroken, what q hap
py world it would be! Far greater re-
suits would come of it than ever will
spring from the tea-worker's tasks
See how many good, kindly deeds you
can do every day; and, If you like,
you may say softly to yourself, as you
pass along, "There is another tea
leaf"
And mother gave her boy a kiss and
q smile as she rose from the table. /
wish all the little ones would reuem.
Der the tea-leaves.-Prcs5Werina
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SWEDISH LADY DOCTORS. The ''Ca-
rolinska Institute" in stockholm, has
expressed its willingness to admit fe-
male students to its lectures in the pub
lie hall. Instructions i'm antony win
be given to ladies separately. Clinical
lectures will also be given separately to
female students. but the Carolinska In
stitute requires that those who join this
class shall possess the same preparatory
knawledge as the male students, viz, q
degree of knowledge corresponding to
the so-called university certificate Of
having passed a successful examiua-
ton in medico-philosophy.-Me,oY York
Observer,
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a. eys,m',uJ x,,,e1M !. !,

they spfaug suddenly Non it and
pressed the bolster down on the face OF
the sleeping man, and notwithstand-
ing his hard struggles to free himself
and save his life they smo:hered him.
When he was quite dead, the man
sprung dark lantern, and they exam.
ined the clothes snd the saddle-ba al
the deceased. In the latter they found
money and valuables, which they ap-
pr0priated, they then lifted the body IN
the sheet, and bearing it between them,
taking the light also, left the room. 1
was in darkness, and my dream was
ended. I aroused every one in the
house with my screams of terror, and
father and mother had to remain up
with me all night. 1t was long time
before recovered from my fright, and
what seems most singular to me is that
the dream occurred exactly at 12 2o'clock
midnight. The woman of my dream
l have never seen, but the man was
one and the same person in appear
ance as the man!-vision! ghost !-or
whatever you may please to call it, of
that night. don't know how you
would feel in similar situation, but /
know how did, aud words cannot de-
pict the dread that overwhelmed me.
A suffocating sensation came over me,
and in imagination / could feel that
fearful bolster descending upon my
face, and depriving me Of breath. /
could hold cut no longer, my nerves
and strength were completely over
come, syncope set in, and ] became un.
conscious. ssss..
When I came to, the sun was just
peeping in through the window, aand
gave promise of pleasant day. For a
few moments / could not recall the
events of the previous night, but they
gradually arranged themselves before
my mind, and although disturbing me
considerably, all that awful fear that 1
had then experienced had passed away.
l arose, washed and dressed myself.
On looking at my watch, / found it had
stopped at t,Uelre O'Clock midnight! =
need not expatiate further; suffice
it to say, that 1 reached Win good
time for the train and came to New
York.
did not say anything to the land
lord about the occurrence; he was q
stranger to me and a gentleman, and
sAN hOS WAcAA W lu1b u1o lCClluSo III
cause him to think me a Iunatic. 1 !
made up my mind it must have been q
dream, or some nervous phantasm. of |
the brain caused by my fatigue and |
wetting of the previous day, and |
thought little or nothing more about it |
until saw the paragraph you havejust |
read. l have never endeavored to ac- |
count for it in any manner; I do not
10 SO now; it must, however, remain
% me one of those inexplicable myste-
les which time and eternity can alone
lnfathom. will say this much, how
sver, that the "old red tavern :" men
ioned in that article, and the one
where l remained over night and had
hat visitation, were the same. But
Until / read that article never had
heard anything in regard to its preyi-
,us history. |
The Western paper in which the para
,raph appeared is welcome to thefuse
# the above story, if it will further the
olution of the mystery of the discove-
y of the human remains near W..
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Character.

Goethe, surrounded by his old friends
and famous literary companions, i'm one
of his convcr tions thus spoke of HIM
self and of the formation of his char
acter:
/ remained true to myself and lived
| in my own way the says of his old
days among the circle of his famous
/ literary cOmpanions), so / have always
! live; and beyond this i'm the stars, l
trust. 1 have selected some already,
where intend to carry on my pranks.
Character does not take the place Of
knowledge; but it strengthens it. The
absOluteness of my character has al
ways come well to my assistance in
all the affairs and complications of life.
could keep silence for months, and
endure like dog, but hold my object
fast ; and if then / could go forward to
its fulfillment, 1 pressed with all my
strength directly toward the goal, and
let what would, happen at the right or
left. But how often have been cul-
minated. Most frequently when my
acts We're noblest! Yet the clamor
of men did not trouble me at all. /
would rather hang myself than be
eternally denying, eternally in Opposi-
ton, always lying in wait for the faults
and weaknesses of a companiOn,u a
neighbor. One must not see old friends
again; one does not come into sympa.
thy with them again; each has learned
a new language. He who is in earnest
with his self-culture will shuD this the
discOrd that must occur can only act
,troubliDgly upon US, and it dims the
pure picture of former friendship. If
one played no mad pranks i'm youth,
and if one did not carry away back
well beaten, where would one find ma
terial for thought in age? A man
should read a book, and allow il. to
make its impression upon him-givea
himself up to this impression then he
will form right judgment of its value.
THREE TRAITs.-Genius may be de-
fined "a q certain faculty which is
without knowledge or experienced ef-
fort. 1t is high capacity under the
power of inspiration, the flash of no
ble thought rushing suddenly on the
brain, but shaped into perfection by the
from within outward, and is its own
Gnu anu theh Soeo "oioau ioi an "'Ni-
ence.
Talent, however, is something prae-
tical in its operation. 1t is solid sub
stance. 1t grasps the primary q uali-
ties and relations of things; it works
from without inward; it finds, it mod
els, methods and ends in society; goes
to the soul only for power, and then ex-
lists i'm exhibition.
Tact is the power to control and di-
rect, as well as to realize the practical
workings of common sense. 1t is the |
exemplification of sound judgment as
contra-dIstinguished from mere imagi- |
nation. Tact is common sense shrewd-
ly working out the accomplishment of
q given end, subordinating and MAX /
ing others tributary to its final success.
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The Penalty Of Pride.

From the New York world.l

From the New York world.l
In response to the resolution of the
Board of Health, directing " the chem
list to examine the various hair tonics
washes, cosmetics, and other toilet
preparations now in use, and to report
what Ingredients, if any. they contain
of q character injurious or dangerous
to those who use them,' DR.. Chand-
Ter. the chemist to the Board, has pre-
pared o long and interesting report OF
the results of analyses OF most of the
various hair tonics, washes and
restoratives, lotions for the SKIN, en-
amels and white powders, now sold
for the purpose of renovating the
complexion or repairing the ravages
of time. He sums mp the case, at the
conclusion Of his report, in the fol-
lowing paragraphs:
1t appears from the foregoing:
l. With very few exceptions, the
hair tonics, washes and restoratives
contain lead i'm considerable quanti-
ties, that they owe their action to this
metal, and that they are highly dan
Qerous to the health of persons using
them.
2. With a single exception, the To-
tions fer the skin are free from lead
and other injurious metals.
3. That the enamels are composed
either of carbonate of lime, oxide OF
zinc. or carbonate of lead, suspended
in water. The first two classes of en-
amels arc comparatively harmless, as
harmless as any other white dirt when
plastcred over the skin to close the
pores and prevent its healthy action
On the other hand, the enamels COM
posed of carbonate of lead are highly
dangerous, and their use is very cer-
tain to produce disastrous results to
those who patronize them.
4. The white powders for the skin
are harmless, except in as far as their
application may interfere with the
healthy action of the skin.
Respectfully submitted,
C.. F. CHANDLER, Ph. d.,
Chemist to the Metropolitan Board o.
Health.
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Five Cents Worth Of Glue.
BY MRS. s.. Z. M'CONAUGHEY.

r. By MRS. j. L. MCONACGHEf.
Ig Georgia had broken the rocker of
from his Christmas toy-horse, and wa.
incOnsOlable. i s
"Oh, never mind" said aunt Eva
"just run out and get me five cents
worth of glue, and we will see what
cen be DONE" a
The glue was found a few doors
down the street, and as there was nc
glue-pot In the house, aunty extempo-
rized one. She begged an old tin box
of mother, and set it inside of a tin
cup with water in it. She put the glue
Iin the tin box, with q little water to it,
and then set allson the back of moth
er's stove quite out of the way.
Now, Georgia, amuse yourself with
something else until after dinner, and
then you may see me doctor this disa-
bled horse"
The little boy was comforted, and
with such prospect before him, could
take pleasure in his multitude of other
toys as before. While there was no
hope of restoring the other, all the rest
prOfited him nothing g. I r
After dinner the toy was mended and
set away, and as auntie had her hand
in the business, she asked if there was
anything else she could do for any.
body.
"WOuld that stick on the back of my
photograh album 2" asked Alice.
ITO be sure it would, dear. Bring
it on" .-. -f.t
Would it tinker up my geogra-
phy?" asked Ralph, producing the
book.
"Bring me all the broken-backed
books" said auntie, cheerfully. l
"Youmight get the stereoscope fixed
up,". suggested mother. You know
how much We have wished that it was
in order, when the young people are
in evenings 80
"You remember your fan, Lucy"r
A "Dear me! Yes; won't it be nice if
that can be mended. 1t is such
pretty FAM" e,.v - e..rv -
So they kept coming, and auntie had
q busy time of it. But such a satisfac-
ton and convenience as that small in
vestment in glue afforded the whole
family! So many little things were
put to rights, which had been wholly
thrown aside for want of just q drop
or two of glue. Twenty-Five cents
worth of glue year in a household,
well used, will, l may safely say, save
more than twenty-five dollars worth
of property, and twice that amount of
ncOnvenience.-WO Working FdrDser.
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INDIAN MATRIMONIAL ADvERTIs-
ING.-Bombay is ahead of Bengal. In
the Mdtrashtdrd Mittra widowed
Brahmin girl advertise for husband
"of good family and ordinary educa-
ton, well behaved and under twenty
five years of age" Along with the
girl Mahrathee KarkoOnship, tenabIe
for five years, is Decentralization PIT
friOf.
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tsan 3astfs,
60 rnE sorr xo. !

Young Yo...,ss kitty sat 'Snittins. " My darling
al have had most beautiful dream;
J shall I ten NJ" She gave slight shake o
And answered I'm turning the seam y
reached for the mesh, speckled soft lux.
That she heidi her fingers SO small;
But she answered can't leave my work
only think!
Don't tease me SO, Kitty, my dear little
You are dying to hear-f-n be boundr' =,
Just wait" she said, smiling as prign' d.
"Just walt till I've knitted a round"
Iwaited impatieut. and then drew near,
And pushing the curls from her broM, w. ,.,,
] said: q Are You ready, my Kitty, my dSar' ,s
She answered /: +" I'm narrowing no"
stu nearer drew-put my arms round her
And. breaking of silence the seal, .sur
Repeated; Dear Kitty "hs' "'"' y '''
She @ answered: /. I'm setting the heei!'
rn,,sa and frowned-I looked upat the
atShe Goals meath the forestick aglow, :
And then at dear Kitty-She held up the
SAVING: Would you put white in the
toeT
"You shall hear me, Kitty. you dearest OF
girls
And then, If you Will, you may scofff'
She shook loose the hand l had laid on her
curls,
And She said: " I'm just binding off,
81 dreamed of cottage embowered with
trees,
And under the bluest of skies
She checked me with" Sit farther of If you
please,
Ny needles viii get in your eyes,"
81 dreamed you were there, like rose at my
door,
And that love, Kitty, love, made us rich.
"I told you to sit farther of, once beforeT T
She answered "I'm dropping stitch
She knitted the last, and had broken the
thread,
When cried /" Am only friend?
Or may be lover 2" She quietly said
pray wait till I've fastened the end.
"win you marry me?" Here the worst
came to the worst, --......r-.
There was nothing to do but to go;
For learned at the last, what might have
known first,
II was ali her soft way TO say, No! "A
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There were recently confined in the
enitentiary at Joliet, ILL.,, 1872, con-
victs, the largest Humber that had ever
been congregated there at one time.
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asntA,, as7t...st.
BY EDWARD A. BARNES.

BY EDWARD A. BARNES.
What Is ever pure and BRIGHT,
Filling home with happy light.
And which only death can blight?
A mothers love.
30 What b like q jewel rare, .-..ss
Lovely, with a tender care,
And which you so freely share?
-.-~ A mothers love.
What Is ever deep and true,
Changeless as the ether blue,
Giving all its wealth to you?
mother love.
What is that which spekketh cheer,
When your childish grtefs appear,
Soothe your heart and checks your tear
A mothers love.
Children, heed me, when say,
And this mandate, too obey,
Cherish sweetly while you may,
A mothers love.
While, mid earthly scenes you live,
Never by your actions grieve
That which only God can give,
a mothers love.
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Nearly 200 Philadelphia girls we
married to foreigners last year
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Foul deeds will rise, sei-.1
sThough all-the earth o'erwheim them K
mems seyeS-[Shakspeare.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-02-11
DIED.

PARKER-At Wellsburg on tho night Of Feb.
it'll, 1870, Of CONSUMPTION, LIEZlH g., youngest
daughter OF Granville Parker.
"IlCssed arc the dead that die In the Lord"
The regular readers Of tic 1STELLlGENCER will
be paIned to recognize In the above announce.
mGnt the name OF the author Of many beautiful
little poems contributed to our columns dur.
Ing tho past 1--WE or ak years; while many In
this city had personal acquaintance with tho do.
ceased and will be flGd with sorrow at tie
tidings Of her untlmGly death. Finding thu
consumption prcyIng upon her, Miss PARKER
spent the summer OF 1868 In the mountains of
New Hampshire, and wrote US two or three
charming letters thence. Last summer she
spent ut Oakland, and was greatly invIgOratcd by
tho mountain air; 40 much so that her father and
friends were much encouraged. No intimAtiOn
Of change Tor the worse Ind reached Us till the
announcement Of her death came to hand ycster
day. The deceased was All anlabIc, eiftOd and
extremely interesting young lady, greatly be.
loved aud admired by all who knew her. That
size should bc thus cut OF In the flower Of youth
rll wOmanhOOd, with all the promise Of her rare
gins fresh upon her, IL n painful reminder that
the faIrrst flowers arC tho first to fade, and that
the world holds Its most exquisite SpIritS by the
frailcst ties. 10 the rrcAvctl father and fam
lily, we can buI tender our heartfelt symVathy Ia.
their unutteFablC sorrow.
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WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP
WAslrrSo7oN, Feb. 0.

"NnhAANNASANl " = SNs ~
ANOTHER contested election case turns
i'm from Texas. This makes twenty-five
elaborate cases ofwhiCh the House has Ia
lisr,osc at this session, or do great injustice
to the parties. The House will have Il
adopt new rule Of some sort to obtain a
decision in allthese cases, for 1t is morally
impossible that one Committee shall IN
vestigAtc them all.
TnI SUPREME CoURT-The prevailing
sentiment relative to the Supreme Court
Is illustrated by two bills brought into the
Senate this afternoon. One came from
Senator Wilson, and increases the number
Of Judges to ten, adding ono TO the present
number. Tho object Of this measure
seems to he to put the Court into such
shape that II Gun not declare against the
COnStitutiOnallty ofthe Legal Tender act,
The other bill comes from the Senate
Judiciary Committee, and requires each
Judge 10 live In the Circuit where he
holds Court. II does not apply to the
Chief Justice, and grows out Of the oppOsi.
ton 10 the confirmation Of dOar and
Bradley.
GRANT POR 4 REDUCTION or TAXA
TIoS,-Thc readiness Of the President to
avow change Of opinion on public Ques.
tiOnS when satisfied that he Il wrong, Is
shown By what he now says about the
reduction Of taxation. In his message last
December he took grounds against the
project for reduction, and held that We
had better continue our present policy fOF
another year Flo ms lately spoken on
the subject In private conversation, and
says further study and observation have
convinced him that the country needs and
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Commercial and Financial.
The Ante-LegaI Tender Debt.

The debt of Virginia contracted prior
to 1862, which under the recent decision
Of the Supreme. Court, will have to Ike
paid principal and interest in gold, is put
down in the New York papers ut $;39, $685.
900; the Ohio debt $10,114,OOO; that Of
Pennsylvania $O,6SOOOO; that Of the
Cleveland md Pittsburgh Railroad 3d..
100000. The Virginia debt is the largest
in the list, Tennessee being next in order,
with IL debt Of $39, 100000. The New
York debt comes next, &t4,SG0,O 900; North
Carolina $19,t1GOOO; Ohio $iO,l14.OOO;
Missouri $l2,75SOOO. The aggregate Of
this class Of State debts is $lSj,S34, 600.
Add a tilth for the present gold premium,
makes them represent now s999, ,iOi 600.
This addition to the State debts, which
llas already started the suggestion Of re.
pulfAtion, is rather apparent than real,
except ~ To the interest. The country
will hc hack To specie payments before
much or any Of the principal is paid
So long us gold is ut u premium, however,
this decision adds that premium to the in.
tcrcst paid OH these debts; for we believe
every State that llNs u debt save MIasS'l-
chusclts, pays its interest in currency.
The bonded debt Of the railroads 10 (which
this decision applies in the same way, is
estimated above $10O,OOO,0OO. There are
many millions Of county, municipal and
corporate debts besides. The States. the
Railroads, the Corporations and all Others
who have to pay gold interest under this
decision, will have direct interest in
bringing gold down to par; and consider
ing that this debt Of probably $35O,0OO,-
900 will be thrown into that side Of the
scale, in favor Of II return to specie lay.
mcnts, its influence will soon begin TO be
felt in that direction.
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PAPAL INFALLEBlLITY.-We commiser-
ute tic poor people who arc trembling in
uncertainty whether they will be Obliged
to believe in the intallibflity Of the Pope
or not Whether 1t Is true or false,
whether 1t shall lIe an article Of the Cath
olic filth or not, which they must believe
or be eternally damned, Is waiting for de-
CisiOn by the Council ut Rome. Il ha3gs
fire. In theory, the holy fathers are sup.
posed TO be in waiting for the atllatus Of
tho Holy Ghost, which Il to inspire them
to declare this as q dogma of the church.
But meanwhile, there Is great deal Ol
diplomacy and political pipe::laying, which
Is not I'Opularly supposed to be very
closely connected with the revelation Of
Christian doctrine. The breath from
Heaven is suspended while messenger
goes to France to consult tho Emperor.
Noses are counted very carefully, pre-.
paratory TO the solemn moment when the
will of Heaven is TO be made known. In
the meantime, who kn0WsTwhRt TO be.
lievcy The Council ought 10 make haste
and bring the pcrplcxity to m end.
But when the eventful day comes, aud
tho decision il made that the Holy Father
is infallible, there will rise some questions
to puzzle those who arC writing for il.
Precisely when shall he begin to be in.
fallablc, md precisely when shall the
Catholic world begin to believe 1t Once
Il would have been said, when the mail
arrive. But now there Is q telegraph, and
some poor bishop;iN pGrtl6uS intiOeliun,
say, III Kansas, or Oregon, will hear Of II
some hours before II has takm place. II
will be announced at high noon in St
Peters, and ho Will read It in his news.
paper at breakfast the same day. 1t Is
rcather incOnvenient, not to say unphilO.
sophical, to make so important doctrine
depend on the arrival Of the mails, or a
telegraph dispatch. People lie down ut
night, not knowing what may DO on the
morrow. This morning It is doubtful,
and allowable to doubt whether Plus TX.
Is inhlliblc or not. But tomorrow morn
ing he may have crossed the awful gulf
and then wO to the dOubtGr. In these
days Of tho telegraph, conversion will
have 4 to be instantaneous FHorideHct
journal Ga.