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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08
Planting Potatoes.

DR.. Hexamer, of New York, as q re-
cult of an experiment of planting the
potato i'm seven different ways, found
one large potato, whole, i'm each hill (;
the next best from two large half pOta-
toes, cut lengthwise; next the seed end
of large potato; next from medium
sized potato, planted whole the small.
est from half potatoes. A medium po-
tato he planted whole; large ones he
cut in half; and the largest in four
pieces, each lengthwise, always taking
care to select his best and sOundest pO.
tatoes for seed.
]. r. Warder, Of Ohio, in an expert
ment with Harrisons, found that large
seed cut in halves gives the most sala-
potatoes. He says: "This experiment
in connection with one made last year,
would induce me to cut good salesble-
sized potatoes for seed in preference to
planting them whole; and in years Of
scarcity to use small potatoes, with
care not to plant them too closely to-
gether."
Professor Daniels, of the Wisconsin
Agriculture College, in an experiment,
found that cut seed gave more from
the same weight of seed, except where
small potatoes were used, than whole
ones die. The whole potatoes produced
the most vigorous plants; those cut,
the least.
Each and ell these testimonials con-
firm DIR. McLaurin's theory. DR..
Rexamer's experiments are the most
elaborate, and brlug him to the same
conclusion that DR.. McLaurin arrived
at, as the result of much observation
and experiment. Professor Daniels
found an increase of the crop by cut
ting the seed, but admits that they were
less vigorous. Science of Health.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08
Offensive Breath.

What is more disagreeble than an
offensive breath? Perhaps filthiness of
person which would produce an un-
pleasant odor and unpleasant appear
ance to. the eye; but we are speaking
more OF persons of responsibility, who
move in good society. 1t is not very
uncomon for such people to have
breath so offensive as to make their
near presence extremely disagreeable.
There may be several causes for this,
but one of the more common is decayed
teeth and the want of care respecting
the cleanliness of the mouth; and
singular as it may seem, one may have
an offensive breath and not know it,
and it is subject on which friends are
very reluctant to speak, so that one may
have a bad breath for a year and all his
friends be aware of it, and lie not know
it. Let us recommend to all persons
to keep the mouth clean. After each
meal one should remove with a stick
or quill all loose particles of food from
between the teeth, and rinse the mouth
with cold water; and a soft brush at
night and in the morning, and q nice
little toilet soap on the brush, may be
used. Nine out of ten who annoy
their friends with bad breath might
obviate it entirely bv following these
directions i'm regard to the mouth
Science of Health,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08
Annals Of the Poor.
BY ANNA L, RUTH.

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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08
Different Conception of God.

A great many persons call that con-
ceptiop which they have Father" !
have no objection to that. But, though
they do not believe in Christ, if they
should tell me what it was that they
called "Father," 1 should find that
every bit of it was what they got from
Christ under q new name. Men who
disagree in regard to the name OF the
being whom they worship are looking
at the same Savior, with the same
qualities, and under the same circum-
stances. And though there may be
jealousy among worshippers Of differ
en} faiths, there is no jealousy in heav-
en- between the Father, the Son and
the Holy Ghost. Whoever approaches
any conception or view of God with
childlike faith, with yearning love,
with real desire to know the truth
and to follow it, will be accepted. God
will not stand upon etiquette of q grace
which everything shall be done accord
ding to a prescribed method and in q
certain way. He has fatherly heart /;
and no father ever rebukes a 5hild be.
cause it says "mother" instead of "fa-
ther'' when it rushes into the house
after long absence from home. Mo-
ther is father, and father is mother, SO
that the child's love to either is love to
the other in ordinary circumstances.
And if it is so with US on earth, how
much more is it SO with God in the
heavenl.- land !-Beecher.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08
Mental Power OF Men and Women.

Regarding this Oft-discussed question,
Professor Maudsley says: 1t has been
affirmed by some philosophers that
there is no essential difference between
the mind of woman and that of
man; and that if a girl were subjected
to the same education as a boy she
would resemble him in tastes, feelings,
pursuits and powers. To my mind it
would not be one whit more absurd to
affirm that the antlers of stag, the
human beard, and the cockscomb are
effects of education; or that by putting
a girl to The same education as a bow
she could be sexually transformed into
one. The physical and mental differ
ences between the sexes intimate
themselves very early in life, and de-
clare themselves most distinctly at
puberty. If the person is hermaphor-
dite, the mental character, like the
physical, participates equally in that
of both sexes. If either sex is mutt
lated, it approaches in character the
opposite sex. While woman preserves
her sex, she will necessarily be feebler
than man, and, having her special
bodily and mental characters, will
have, to q certain extent, her own
sphere of activity. When she has
pretty we'll divested herself of her sex,
She may then take his ground and do
his work; but she will have lost her
feminine attractions, and probably
also her chief feminine functions
.Scribner's.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08
The Aleuts Of Alaska.

The Aleuts of Alaska are evidently
somewhat different stock from tn
indians of the mainland, and seem
resemble more the Japanese than any
the Asiatic people. They possess con-
siderable adaptability, and up to GER
tain point are readily taught. The old
Russian Company maintained several
schools in which Aleut children were
taught to read and write the Russian
language; and at the present time the
Alaska Commercial Company supports
schools on the fur sea islands. where,
during eight months in the year, the
Aleut children are given the rudiments
of q good English education. The
quality which most distinguishes the
civilized from the uncivilized man is
that of providence. Sufficient for the
day is the evil thereof" is emphatic
ally the motto of the savage; and it is
only as some considerable degree of
civilization has been secured, that the
desire of savings for the needs of thefu-
ture begins, to operate. Judged by
this standard, some of the Aleuts are
making great advances. A considerable
SUM of money has been saved by those
engaged in the fur seal fishery; and at
least one of them has quite large de-
posit to his credit in q San Francisco
savings bank. Some part of the ims
provement is also owing, no doubt to
the better accommodations which they
now have, for the habitation makes the
man, almost as much as the man makes
the habitation. Until very short time
ago those engaged in the seal fishery
lived as the Aeuts lived, in Underground
huts, or rather caves, which it was i'm
possible to keep clean or free from
smoke; but the American Company has
now provided for them comfortable
board houses above ground, in which
they are learning to live much more
like rational beings.-Aldskd Herald.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08
SOCIETY AND FASHION.

Full sets of dead gold are the last in
masculine jewelry.
Trimmings on dresses will be more
elaborate than ever this winter.
Vocal music will be an addition to
some of next winters weddings.
Updressed kid gloves still seem to be
very much worn on the street.
Wedding cards next winter are to
be enameled, white, small and plain.
1t is said that next winter q long
dress on the street will be O thing un-
known.
The latest handkerchief cases is
made of canvass, trimmed with Russia
leather. EF
Young ladies now have their mon
ograms embroidered on the instep of
their bottines.
The swiss lakes are witnessi1g quite
q gathering of the American clans just
Al present.
Most Of the new fall wraps are 10
the sacque Talma form; about the
prettlest is the Dolman.
Tinted cards and note paper, light
brown, dark greenish grey, and stone
color are pronounced "cOrrect."
Two street fashions have departed
this life, the perpetually carried um-
brella, and the universal bOuttoniere.
Goats of arms of "new and original
design" are breaking oct with greater
yirulence then ever this fall.
The cool days always require warm
t;pts for the wardrobe. and the Toilette
should suggest warmth by its color.
Ladies and gentlemen promenad.
| Ing together of afternoons this fall, are
commanded by fashion to walk arm In
] arm.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08
Shakspeare's Handwriting.

1t is nothing less than marvellous
that man who wrOte as he wrote -
and, altogether, no man ever wrote
like him-that a poet, the arthOr of
such plays and such poems; hat a
man possessing so many friends and
admirers, with whom his co~respOn
dence must have been extensive,
should not have left a single Inc beg
hind him trace by bis own hand. O.
all his poems and plays there does not
exist a page, a line, a ngle wo ID in
manuscript. .iU Shakspear's manu-
script plays could not have perished in
the fire which destroyed the Globe
little account of them himself; but
how great would our estimation be of
a single act of any one of Shakspeare's
plays in his own handwriting! We
have just now among us a parallel to
the tulip mania. Thousands of pounds
are willingly paid for picture which
the same number of shillings would
once have purchased. Rather let us
say that the shillings were given for
the picture, and that the pounds by
thousands are giver for the painters
name. Well, what would not be will
ingly paid for the sake OF shakespeare s
nanle) for the original manuscript,
say, of Hamlet? There would be a
fierce fight among the competitors for
even a single passage. We fancy the
lines beginning with 1.-THE quality of
mercy is not strained" or those that
open with "She never told her love-"
and hundreds of others, could not be
had for guineas covering each letter.
What contention there would be for
the first love-Ietter, addressed to any
one! A costly hOlograph! Alas ! there
there are neither lines nor letters. All
that have been saved of Shakspeare's
handwriting is confined to couple of
signatures of his name to certain
deeds, and in those subscriptions the
name is spelt differently. Even the
forgers have not dared to produce a
letter by Shakspeare.-Ien,pte Bar.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08
RAILROADS.

The Pennsylvania Railroad contem-
plates the erection of monster (the larg
est in the world grand junction depot, at
West Philadelphia.
The Texas Pacific railway is to be L.,
SIS miles in length For $50 miles the
road will be an air line, and in stretch of
Sl5 miles there will be but six bridges.
Thirty miles of track are laid on the
Mississippi, Ouachita and Red River road,
eighthy-fve miles graded, and fifty more
to grade to the starting point of the South
ern Pacific.
The first passenger railroad built in
the United States was the Baltimore and
Ohio 1t was commenced in the 1928
and the entire line OF 36l miles completed
in 1857 Its cost was S3l 100000.
The grading and masonry of the
Lynchburg and Danville Railroad, which
is the southern prolongation of the Or
ange, alexandria and Manassas, will be
finished by Drcember /. Its completion
will give Baltimore direct and unbroken
communication with Danville, Va.
Missouri, Arkansas and Gulf, is the
name of company just organized in Ar
kansas to build the section in Arkansas Of
a railroad from Springfield, Mo-, to the
Gulf of Mexico. The length of the road
will be about 625 miles, ard the cost is
about S25, 900 per mile.
-Vicksburg, Pensacola and Ship Is
land. Vicksburg has subscribed 100000,
and Warren county Tin which Vicksburg
is situated) $300,000 to this road. The
road bed from Vicksburg southwark to the
Big Black III miles, is nearly completed
The route beyond the Big Black is not full
ly determined, but it is expected that it
will intersect the New Orleans, Jackson
and Great Northern, either at Hazlehurst,
Beauregard or Brookhaven. 1t is 10 be of
3-feet gauge.
New Orleans, Mobile and Texas, this
company report that it is embarrassed in
its efforts to raise money to extend its line
by distrust in the securities of the State
of Louisiana, largely occassioned by a cir
cular signed by 300 prominent citizens of
New Orleans, which threatened repudia-
ton Of certain State bonds should they be
negotiated. The State has agreed to issue
S2,500,0l0 bonds in payment of a subscrip-
ton of the stock of this company, intend
ed to secure the extension of the road to
Texas. A recent meeting of the citizens
called by the Railroad Committee of fifty
of New Orleans passed resolutions that
there was no intention to repudiate any
portion of the bonds issued to this COM
pany, provided that it should complete its
road to the Sabine and the branch to
Shreveport, pledging themselves to assist
the company in every way in their power;
and expressing the opinion that there
should be no further delay in the begin
ming the work
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08
Cement Mortar For Brick Dwellings.

Walls laid with mortar made of
loan and lime, in the outer courses of
walls, wash with every rain and COM
pei hou-ekeepers to wash their wiz
dOws for remedy the following is
Re commended :-lay'the outer courses
of brick in cement mortar made OF
clean sand. good lime, and ROsendale
cement. Where it has been the prac-
tice to use one bushel of good lime. let
half that quantity be employed with
half-bushel of cement For example,
let three bushels Of clean sand, not
loan, be mingled with half bushel of
good lime and half bushei of cement.
Such a proportion Of materials will
make mortar for laying bricks that
will endure for more than fifty years.
If such mortar is prepared as it should
be, only as fast as the masons use it,
the material between the bricks will
soon become about as hard as lime
stone; and drying stones will wash
out no more sand and lime than can
be diSlOdged from good bricks.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

1t has been discovered-by Ger
man, of course-that the tone of q
violin can be greatly improved by i'm
mersing tie instrument In lager beer
and leaving it there until it Is thorough
ly saturated.
1t is said-we have not tried the
the experiment-that setting a glass
fruit jar on . folded towel, thoroughly
soaked in cold water, the fruit can be
poured in boiling hot, with no more
danger of breaking than with tin
can.
1t Is now proposed to utilize scraps
of leather or skin by manufacturing
from them q paper in combination
with rags or other fbrous substances.
For this purpose the refuse cuttings
from any kind of leather are taken,
those of calfskin being preferred.
Society journals prophesy an in
tepsely brilliant social season. We
must have q new set Of society people
then, for those of last year have near
ly all decided to Ego out" next winter.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08
Digging Early Potatoes.

My Early Rose Potatoes are ripe,
and if 1 leave them in the ground dur
ing the hot, dry weather of August,
they will be more OR less injured,
either from the high temperature of
the soil or, if rains occur, partial
second growth may injure the quality
of the tubers. Taking all the circum
stances into consideration, think it is
best to dig them and spread in the
coldest cellar l have, admitting all the
air possible without light. From sew
eral years experience with the Early
Rose, have found it one of the very
best potatoes for use in Spring as well
as Fall and Winter; but. like all the
very early sorts, more difficult to keep
through the latter part of Summer
than in Winter, although no loss need
occur, provided the tubers are carefully
harvested when ripe and stored i'm
dry, cool place -Mooro's Rural New
Yorker
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08
Lightning.

Sometimes Lightning produces COM
plete and instantaneous paralysis. The
suppression of movements in the vic
tim i'm these circumstances is so rapid
that those who have witnessed it
might have thought they suffered from
some illusion. Who would not think
he was dreaming if he saw an unfOr-
tunate creature, full of life and activ-
ity, petrified and motionless as rock
in less time than it requires to witness
the phenomenon? Jerome Cardan
relates that eight reapers, who were
eating their dinner under an oak-tIee.
were all struck by the same flash of
lightning, the explosion of which was
heard far away. When some people
passing by approached to see what had
happened, they found the reapers to
all appearance continuing their re-
past; one still held his glass in his
hand, and another was in the act of
putting piece of bread into his mouth,
q third had his hand in the dish.
Death had come upon them suddenly
while in these positions, when the
thunder-bolt fell. Azrael had seized
upcn them with 50 much violence that
he had impressed upon the entire sur
face of their bodies the mournful tint
of his black wings. One might have
taken them for statues sculptured out
of black marble. The catastrophe was
SO rapid that the faces of the victims
had not time to take an expression of
pain; life was suppressed so instan-
taneously that the muscles remained
unmoved. The eyes and the mouths
were open as in life aud had not the
| color of the skin been SO much changed
the illusion would have been complete.
1t has been remarked also that the
features of persons struck by lightning,
instead by being contracted, usually
assume calm, happy expression and
the conclusion has been drawn that
they enter without shock or pain into
the presence of the Infinite Being. 1t
has even been assumed that death by
lightning is the prelude to glory and
happiness.-APpteton's Journal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08
Greeler,s Speech to his NeIghbors.

Hon. Horace Greeley made speech
at Mass Meetingof Liberals and Dem
ocrats at Pleasantville, near Chappaqua,
on the 18th, which we copy entire, as it
is probably his last speech during the
campaign:
Mr.. Chairman, Fellow-Citizens and
Neighbors You are aware doubtless,
that have Stunned, or seemed oshun,
any meeting which has been held in the
county for political discussion during
the present campaign. Yet, when I
heard that this meeting was to be held
in our immediate neighborhood, and
addressed by our representative in Con-
gress, and our well beloved candidate
for Lieutenant Governor, it seemed to
me that I should show an undue reti-
cence or shrinking if I hesitated to oobey
the call to appear before you. I am
here; then let me say very few words,
not interrupting the course of your
speakers, on the initial grounds of the
controversy in this election. I believe
that great abuses have silently and grad
ually grown up in the administration OF
our government, under the influence of
an extraordinary and desperate civil
war. believe that change is desired,
too, in order that these abuses may be
assailed and corrected. But will not
speak of these things, because might
seem to be commencing myself. Let
me say few words, in addition tothose
you have heard from the previous
speaker, as to the causes of the separa-
ton of parties. We all know that
slavery existed in this country, during
all its long existence, down to seven or
eight years ago we all know that good
men, patriotic men, differed, butt think
not so much with regard to the nature
of slavery, its mistakes, its wrongs, as
with regard to our duty. Some honest
men. patriotic men, said: swell, we
have abolished slavery in New York;
we cannot abolish it in Virginia; there
fore we have nothing more to do"
Other men among them said "We
have abolished IL In New York; we
ought to do all that we can to abolish u
in every part of the country" Wewere
at variance with regard to slavery in the
territories, and so On. Well, slavery is
dead, and if every man in this country
were to undertake to revive it, they
could not revive it in q good many
years. There is no more possibility
that it should be revived, than there is
that the thousands of men who died for
our eoa itry shoul1 come to life and par
ticipate in our present struggles. It is
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08
The Indian Boa.

We do not mean by Boa long fur
tippet for the neck, which serves as a
comfort in cold weather, but mighty
living reptile, whose gentlest pressure
is death.
The IytliOn, a large serpent, is known
as the Indian Boa-thirty feet in
length. 1t acts the tigers part, lying
in wait in q hot, steamy swamp, or
beneath the underwood of a dark,
marshy forest. There it turks, half
floating in the water, half stretched on
the land, or partly twined around
some rugged tree, and partly extended
like withered branch, the color of the
creature serving to deceive the eye of
the beholder. Patiently it waits, until
q deer, a buffalo, or human being
passes that way, or comes to a stream
to drink; then, as rapid as an arrow,
it throws its body into folds or knots
around the bJdy of its victim, and
bears it to the ground. So great is its
strength, that the bones of an OK snap
in an instant. Having crushed its prey
in its folds, until a snapeless mass re-
mains, it then slowly untwines its
length, raises its head alOft, the tongue
rapidly moving to and fro, and Dre-
pares to swallow its prey. The work
proceeds slowly, and with many eff
forts its vast jaws spread out, and, as
the crushed mass proceeds into the
inside, the body of the boa expands to
four times its usual size. The creature
now sinks into state of stupOr, and in
this helpless condition it is easily killed.
The negroes, who have great love for
its flesh, now attack it, and carry it
home, cut it up in slices, and feed on
it for days.
The boa is native of the hotter pOr-
tiOns of South America, where it is the
terror of man and beast. The swift
ness of the deer is no protection; the
monkey is not safe among the branches
of the tree; nor the large fish in the
stream. 1t can climb, swim, dart
along the ground, and thus show itself
to be superior to all other living things.
Let us be thankful that the boa is un-
known in our land.-Our Young
Folks Illustrated Paper.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-08

Short women are mostly selfreliant
The most fashionable danes of London
war cheap jewelray.
Swash joggerl is the name of a clique of
Kansas politicians.
French code for kissing: Give your hand
to a gentleman to kiss, your cheek to a
friend. but keep your lips for your lover.
The Bolivar Bulletin says that the mos
quitoes in the Big Hatchie Bottom, Tenn.
are so big that they bark.