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The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-06-01

The nomination Of Horace Greeley for
President by the Cincinnati Convention causes
considerable comment here. Boiling Repub-
hcans look wise, and Democrats pretend to re-
joice. The fact in, drowning men catch at
strawu; and after cropping their way in the
dark for the last three years, they pretend
they can at last see through the fog that has
envelopSd them.
How have the mighty fallen! A once pow
erful party are now ready to humble them
selves and sacrifice all their long cherished
doctrines, hitch on to the tail Of any new par
ty, Ostensibly to beat Grant, and then call the
position their own. We see the most ultra
and violent denunciAtors Of Greeley, hereto
fore, now calling upon the Democratic Convsn-
ton to endorse the farce enacted at Cincinnati,
and thus furnish them o semblance of q party
in which they can more gradually wigsle
themselves out Of existence-for die they
must, only to be remembered - . thing Of the
paat. unWept and unhonored
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-06-01
WILLIAM GHLBERT'S
PATENT
MaCadamized Pavement
Cheapest MOst Durable Pavement In Use.

THIS Pavement. q which the above "a an Illustration
10 mot Coucrete but virtually Stone Pavement, allied
In with Elastic Cement and k free from all dust e.
ccpa such n accumulates from good stone paving.
TINS Pavement has I'll the merits Of mAc@dAlmtncd
road for durability iAr materials are eoncernea
and rsndsred suitable for any city une ruttrg osns'
prevented by the application d the CRIB.
Those dnsFOun u obtaining all nocea~Ary information
can DO 20 BY applying 70
DEFhOn, MICA.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-06-01
COOK COUNTY
SAVINGS BANK!
Washington and Franklin-sts.,
CHICAGO.
DIRECTORS:

WmuAM B. 0aDM, MAHLoN d. OgBwN,
HRNRH r. PAYBON, 0Boaen TAvLoR,
REDMOND PRNDvnLLR, wmA1Am Ina.
FRAxK C. TAYLoR, N. .. BOrrOM
Among the stOckholdevs are:
z Prndivlla, Member Board uf Publie wogAu; w. j.
OnAhan Kx City Collector }. b. sullivan: Dr. Joseph "
Hcnrotn, Consul for Belgium John JoBss A. C. Heung
President nlnoh ssAaas zeitun@- Miehasl Brand a
Busch Brand; Henry Wischemeyr; FrsdeEi1k LseE !;
Peter Hahn; George p. HAnsen Formerly Health o.
and County Agent; Geo. p Bay; Rev. Pnul Andur-
zen; Martin PAulssn.
MD. OGDEN, President,
r. C. TAYLOR, Vice Prest.
GEO p. HANSEN. Sec'y.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-09-20
Nothing Remains ut Rest.

1t is falIacy to suppose there is any
such thing as rest for matter. There
Is not particle in the universe which
is not on the move, not drop of fluid
on the globe that is perfectly quiescent,
not fibre in the vegetable kingdom
i'm state OF inactivity. In animal
bodies, from monads to the complicated
organism of man, every part aud par
Gel, even in the solids, are incrssant-
ly moving among themselves, and
their component elements never cease
TO act i'm accordance with that univer-
sal law till death stops the machinery.
Even then a new eiies of movements
commence at that accommodating point.
Chemical dissolution of organic struc-
lures is but liberation of molecules,
the aggregation of VIII ch Was necessary
f.r cOrporeal beginning and suisse
queiIt growth and they then diSper.e
to enter into new relations and new
forms, and thus one never end ng cir
Gle of activity chara, teIiZeS the ma
teriai universe.
Death is a dissolution of the union
that existed for limited period o.
what is called life with organized mat
ter. How that union commenced j. rs
much of a Divine mystery as their
separation. They ale distant i'm nature
aud character, although one cannot
manifest itself without the brains and
nerves of the other.
Astronomy reveals the astounding
intelligence that there are no fixed or
stationary bodies in the unsurveyed
regions of celestial space. Even the
fixed stars, as they were once cOnsid-
cred, permanent landmarks in the
heavens, are cOurs.ng with unde-
fined rapidly i'm the train of countless
globes of shining glory, on "a circuit
too distant to be followed even by hu-
man imagination, i'm the boundless
realms Only known to that God who
controls the mighty whole.
Everything, Therefore, is moving.
When motion ceas; there will be
a wreck of worlds and a crash of an
entire universe. Life is motion inertia,
to our infinite minds, is death. Ma
ture, however, neither modIfies nor
repeats law, and consequently, thu Sc
now in force will operate with unerring
certainly through the endless cycles of
eternity.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-09-20
Lila and OTOya Railway i'm Peru

This road, which is to master the
attitudes of the Andean chain. is build
ipg for 27,000,000 reals, by Henry L.
Meiggs. Commencing at Cailao, OF
the coast, it will cross an altitude OF
over $1,000 feet, and terminate al
Oroya, 1900 feet above the ocean.
The center of supplies isat You'll, at IA,
600 feet altitude Grading has been fin
ished IS mile s, and the work of tunnel
ing the crest of the Andes has begun
from both ends, with 400 Inca In
dams engaged on it. The tunnel will
I've 5000 feet long, and elevated higher
than the summit of Mont Blanc. 1t is
distant from the western terminus Oh
the Pacific only 60 miles. The gradient
for the railroad is 211 feet per mile
called there a four per cent grade.
Forty miles from Callao, it has been
necessary to resort to Va turntable
and switch, where the railroad takes
IN up grade in reverse direction for
several miles, and again returns. form
in. almost figure s. The mule trail,
by which materials are carried over,
passes an altitude of Is, 500 feet, amid
cluster of peaks covered with perpet-
nal snow. 1t is hoped by this road to
develop the silver wealth of the Cor
dilleras. With the exception of some
coal, rudely taken out and transported
on the backs of llamas, at S25 per tun,
nothing can he obtained for fuel except
dried turf, buffalo chips (25 cents "a
sack, and dried llama dung. Such
items viii cradle those unacguainted
with tie country TO appreciate the fact
that this work is one of the greatest
events of the age.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-09-20
Draught Horses.

No opinion could be more incorrect
than the too generally received one
that a horse draws by virtue OF or in
proportion to his weight and size. i
this were the case, the largest and
heaviest animals could draw the most
and his weight on the scale would
best test of his capabilities. But facts in
abundance prove ii otherwise. Draught
does not depend altogether upon
weight and size. 1t is in great measure
the result of a vital power. Although
weight can render some assistance, the
power OF draught is chiefly owing to
muscular action and nervous energy,
which, again, are intimately connected
with anu greatly dependent OH the
temperament of the animal. The jen-
net, mule, ass and blood horse, have
much more energetic temperament
than the carter, and consequently pos
SEES more muscular power than the lat
ter, in proaoi ton to their weight and
size. Their leverage, however, is not
nealy so well for draught, aud in that
respect, whenscOmpared with the or
diuary cart horse, they labor under a
decided disadvantage.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-09-20
Exercising Horses.

A correspondent of the American
Farm Journal says:
at is evident that old horses are ca
pable. of doing more work than young
horses, and with less fatigue or injury,
too; and yet they require very little
exercise, while at the same time a
young horse needs exercise daily, and
should therefore he taken out of the
stable several times during the day,
and led aroun,' during the day, if moth
ing more. / Allow from observation
that the health of many fine young
animal has been injured by being kept
too close in the stable. 1t is bad prac-
tee to let them stand too long in the
stable at one time, and should be avoid
ed as much as possible. Now the best
way tn exercise a young horse is to
walk him slowly; yet some persons,
observe, trOt and run them around in
a ring until completely exhausted. We
often hear of valuable young horses
being badly injured i'm this way, and
rendered unfit for future servive,
through such severe training. 1t is
not necessary to undergo such severe
exercise to prepare them for the turf,
but few can stand such severe usage as
that. IT would not he the case If horses
were older, thu refOre il is evident that
the principal cause of young horses
breaking down il, that they are too
severely trained, and that too while
very young. Let those persons who
are in the habit of training young
horses at tender age take warning
and it will repay them.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-09-20
Hedge Fencing.

There are so many obstacles TO the
abolition Of fences that, although it II
most desirable and abundantly practi-
cable If all interests were to become CD
incident, it is Improbable that fences
will ne abolished for q good many
years to come. except i'm some excep-
tiOnal cases. But fences i'm the D-exn
time must be had, and timber must be
planted for other purposes than posts
and rails, and it - \ question what
timber shall it be? Doubtless the
chestnut, for all purposes, is most prof
liable, the easiest grown, and the most
rapidly available. 1t may he grown
with ease from the seed, or will spout
from the root, so as Ia be fit for use for
posts and rails, il eight ysars; it will
thrive i'm a very extensive rspse ~
climate, and almost all soils, dry and
wet. sandy, Gravelly, and rocky; and
when full grown will produce Valuable
crops of nuts, and timber which hars
high value for furniture, house-baild-
ing, and ornamental purposes; while
i'm the ground it is next to cedar IN du-
rahility. There is no other tree that
combines ali these or so many advan-
tages, and where plantations Of timbI
are proposed, the bulk Of the planting
should certainly be of chestnut.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-09-20
Farmers Must Seek q higher Social
la. Training.

A few of the best educated and cul
turcd men i'm America are farmers,
and their studiOus SONS are grazing the
same occupation. But such are small
proportion of the whole.
1.-THE fault, dear Brutus. is not in our stars.
But in ourselves, that we are underiings."
Farmers, as a class, ought to cult
vate better manners i'm parlor, kitchen,
field; at fire.ide and table. Urbanity
and rusticity originally meant merely
city life and country life; it is not by
accident that thes. words have come
to signify politeness and bOorishness.
Only through human contact can we
acquire polish, and by lack of this at
traction as a class, have come to under
value the valuable manners which
mark the gentleman. Integrity and
benevolence are not a guarantee of pO-
likeness; there must be added to these,
intercourse with well bred people.
To recover. what we have lost, or
gain what we have missed, let us seek
to construct q society about us, to en-
courage neighborhOOd gatherings, far
mers' clubs, agricultural societies, and
evening parties of every innocent kind
that may bring us in contact with
others. To this end let us try CO
operative farming-ihousands fly &c
the city because they wish to "see
folks" To this end, also, We can, if We
will, learn from our wives, for they art
often better read and usually better
hammered than we.-Hearth ana
Home.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-09-20
The Healthfulness Of Lemons.

When people feel the need of an
acid, if they would let vinegar alone
and use lemons or sour apples, they
would feel just as we'll satisfied, and re.
ceive no injury. And a suggestion
may not come amiss as to good plan
when lemons are cheap i'm the market
A person should, in those times, pur-
chase several dozen at once, and pre-
pare them for use in the warm, weak
days of spring and summer, when
acids, especially eitric and malic, or
sthe acids of lemons and ripe fruits. are
so grateful and so useful. Press your
hand on the lemon and roll it back
and forth briskly on the table to make
1t squee eye more easily, then press the
juice into a bowl or tumbler, never
into tin; strain out all the seeds, as
they give bad taste. Remove all the
pulp from the peels and boil in water,
p mt for dozen pulps, to extract the
acid. A few minutes boiling is enOugh,
then strain the water with the Juice Of
The lemons, put a pound ofwhite sugar
to a pint of the juice; boil ten min
utes, bottle it, and your lemonade is
Ready. Put a tablespoonful or two of
this lemon syrup in a glass of water.
and you have cooling, healthfui
drink.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-09-20

Those most competent to give an
opinion, supported ny the discl6 sures
OF the rocks, which are records IN the
great volume Of Nature more enduring
than public libraries, are satisfied
that the first birds on the earth were
waders, and not organized for flying.
They were very large, too, and their
long legs fitting them to search for food
on the margins Of muddy lakes and
lacustrine shores. This h inferred from
the foot marks of those monster bipeds
found on the red sandstone In the Con-
neCticut valley. The stride from step
to another shows they were tall, and
known to geological science rs 07,ni-
ttichnites. There may have been 9th
ers on q smaller scale of construction.
But they were extinct probably or dis
appearing with the advent of birds with
wings. The ostrich, etc, are tolerable
representatives OF the non flyiOg birds
of old red sandstone ages, both in their
stiIted legs, toes, resembling ornithich-
mite tracks, and their undeyeloled pee
tOral stumps, which are merely the
anatomical beginning of the wings ex-
hibited in higher families, their success
sors.
When birds appeared that could soar
| In the sir an internal modification OF
structure came with expended wings,
and the weight and exterior form were
essentially changed and dipini+hesi In
size. The condor il probably type al
the most gigantic of flyin: birds Whose
appearance belongs to the tertiary for
nation of the globe.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-09-20

ought to be the trade mark of ev' ny
dealer in Rum Bitters. But no; toprO-
claim their real mission would ruin
them, SO they sail under false colors,
and do their deadly work surreptitiOus-
~. Fortunately their triumphs over
credulity are nearly at an end. Ever
since the introduction of DIR. WALKER s
CALIFORNIA VINEGAR BrrTERs the sale of
all the burning fluids advertised as
"tonics" has been rapidly declining.
They are still the unwholesome solace
of individuals who wish to satisfy a
morbid appetite for strong drink, with
out compromising their responsibility ;
but the sick are everywhere discarding
them, and adoptingthe Vinegar Bitters.
The success of this wonderful vegetable
remedy astonished DIR. Walker himself.
He believed, when he gave it to the
world, that it was an unequalled tonic,
flee from the objections urged against
the medicated fire. waters and dilutions
of strychnine, quinine and other pow
erful alkaloids employed in modern
practice but he scarcely expected that
it would prove a specific for chronic
dyspepsia, liver-cOmplaint, incipient
consumption, confirmed rheumatism,
govt, scrofula, nervous affections, gen
eral debility and all diseases that disor-
ders, without destroying, the vital ma
chinery. Yet this, unless thousands of
witnesses have conspired to deceive the
public, is actually the case.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-09-20
To Drive Away Rats Without Poison,

We know of three methods: First
the old French pan; this is followed
chiefly in Paris by men who make it a
special business. They take q deep
tub with water Oh the bottom, and a
little elevation in the middle like an
Island, on which is only place for Just
one rat TO sit on: The top is covered
and has large balanced valve, OPEN
ing downward; on the side of this
valve piece of fried pork or cheese is
tied, and when a rat walks on it to get
the cheese, the valve goes down, drops
the rat in the water, and moves back
in position. A road is made from a
rat hole to the top of the tub, by means
of a piece of board rubbed with cheese,
so as to make the walk attractive for
the rats. In the course of a single
night some ten, twenty, or even more
rats may go down, and if the island
was not there they would be found
most all alive i'll the morning quietly
swimming round; but the provision of
the little island saves the trouble of
killing them, because their egotistic in
stinct of self-preservation causes them
to fight for the exclusive possession
of the island, OH which in the morning
the strongest rat is found in solitary
possession all the others being killed
and drowned around him. Second,
the New York plan, invented by one
of our friends. The floor near the rat
hole is covered with thin layer of
moist causiic pO.a-sa. When the rats
walk on this it makes their feet sore !,
these they lick with their tongues,
which makes their mouths sore: and
the result is that they shun this local.
ity, rot alone, but appear to tell all the
neighborhood about it, and eventually
the house is entirely abandoned 10y
them, Notwithstanding the houses
around may be teeming with Iats.
Third, the Dutch method; this is said
to be used successfully i'm Holland we
have, however, never tried it. A num-
Der of rats are left together to them
selves in very large trap or cage,
with no food whatever; their craving
hunger will cause them to fight, and
the weakest will be eaten Ivy the strong
est. After short time the fight is
renewed, and the next weakest is the
victim, and 50 it goes on till one strong
rat is left. When this one has eaten
the last remains of any of the others,
it is set loose; the animal has now ac-
CURED such taste for rat flesh, that
he is the terror of ratdom, going round
seeking what rat he may devour. In
an incredibly short time the premises
are abandoned by AL other rats, which
will not come back before the canibal
rat has left or has died. Manufacturer
and Builder.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-09-20
A Wonderful Fertilization.

On Wednesday week party OF
hunters while wandering in a sort OF
dell, about three miles north of Spin
neville, discovered as wonderful Gaze
of petrificatiOn as ever was heard of.
A buffalo, full size, and of solid stone,
was found-bOdy erect, with the head
bent downward as in the act of eating
grass. The place where it stood SEEM
ed 10 be bed of creek. How the
animal hapI ened to die and still re-
main on its feet till it turned to stone,
is question that scientists will take
interest in. Mrs. A. M. Meeker, who
saw the animal, and gave us infOrma-
ton concerning it, added a sequel
which we are sorry to print. The
hunters, instead of trying to secure the
curiosity in the state in which they
found it. went to work to secure pieces
of it, as evidence of the fact that such
a petrification was discovered. They
knocked out its eyes, broke off lis
horns, and otherwise mutilated it.
And so unless something is done, the
Stone Buffalo will be carried away
piecemea.. This would be really too
bad. If the discoveries had stopped to
think for a moment, the idea of the
money value of so wonderful curiO>i-
ty would hive kept them from bieak-
ing it.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-09-20
American and German Farming.

A correspondent of the Springfield
Repubtic0n, writes from Dresden:
OF the two and half millions inhab-
itants ofSaxOny, two thirds live in the
country (platt-land) and 10000 are
landowners, 0,O0O possessing each
more than two cares, and OOO be-
ing their own farmers, 1. e., working
their soil. The valuation Of the land
outside If the cities reaches nearly
$500, 900 W0 ard an annual facvest IL
valued at $45, 900 90. The $1,000 far.
mers in Massachusetts. with valua-
ton in land of less than one-fifth as
much, get more than twO-thirds as
much for their crops as the Saxon far
mers. The Saxon farmers, however,
never ask whether farming pays.
They maintain q slow, but sure pros
perify and during the third OF a centu-
ry, have advanced the rate of produc-
ton prOpOrionately with an increase
of nearly so per cent. in population.
This advance has not been through the
American avenue of introducing new
methods, but probably by u closer aud
more desperate forcing OF the old and
settled methods of farming.
The railway recently took me over
thousands Of acres of crops in the pro-
cess of harvesting, in the kingdom aud
Prussian province of SaxODy, q region
that for the mOat part won d delight the
eye even of an American farmer. living
as level and mellow to the plough ~
TIE gentle-rolling pillows of Illinois.
Often as far as the eye could reach on
each side of the railroad stretched one
cultivatedexpanse, unmarried by feuces,
but checked all over with infinite inter-
change of crops, scarcely any one field
of one crop being more than one or two
acres in extent. Yet in all these thou
sands of floors" certainly here q
field is a floor not moving or
reaping machiue or horscrake was to
be seen. Every su-ath had been bag
gled off and tumbled together by the
old fashioned scythe, every winrOw of
hay had been collected with a putter-
ing hand rake, every sheaf Of grain
bound by wOman's arm, and when
the crop had finally gone off upon
wheelhairows or drawn by harnessed
cows, the serried rows of stubble ex-
posed the antiquity of the mowers
tools, aud his or her unskilfu ness 10
using even those. Imagine a scythe
three feet in length, four inches broad
at the heel, fixed in a straight snath,
and hand rake with a young saplipg
stripped OF its bark for a handle, and
you have specimens of the outfit of q
German haymaker.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-09-20


teaspoonfuIs of ammonia in . quart of
hot-sude. Put In your silverware and
wash, using an old nail brush or tooth
brush for the purpose.
just here we have given rs, in the
Scientific american, . most valuable
receipt as follows: st
TO KEEP ICE.
Make double pocket of strong wool.
en- cloth, no matter how coarse and
faded it is. Have q space about two
inches or so bet en- tire inner and out
er pockets, aud ck this space as full
as possible with feathers. You have
no need to use geese feathers; hen
f athers are just "a good. With peck
ct thus constructed and kept closely
tied at the mouth, few pounds Of ice
may be kept week.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-09-20
Growing Southern Crops.

The Memphis Farm and Hme
speaking of labor at the South and tn,
system of growing their crops, utters
the following sensible opinion:
Then, again, it is In my judgement
impossible TO raise either cotton OF
sugar successfully by any other means
than the large plantation system
Everybody will admit that this is true
of sugar, and am satisfied that it il
equally true of cotton. Were oui
planters to divide their plantations
into .mall farms and sell them to set
tiers in such size as the latter could
afford 10 purchase, the cotton, rice,
and sugar supply would Immediately
fall off, because the small farmeas could
not afford to purchase the machinery
necessary to make these crops. In grain
and stock raising sections these re-
marks do not apply. There small farms
would succeed very well, and do not
say that they might not be of adj
vantage. But in the cotton, sugar,
and RTE producing regions how could
a small farmer with his thirty or forty
acres of land purchase the machinery
of sugar house, q rice mill, or the
appliances now in employed
for ginning and packing cotton?