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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-21
Be Not Idle!

A wise and judiciOus writer truly
says that there is q fault we all condemn
in the young and in others, and too
often indulge in, without remorse,
ourselves. That fault ia idlenees. There
is busy idleness, which sometimes
blinds us to its nature-we seem to
ourselves, and, perhaps, to others, to
be occupied but what is the result of
it all? What Hannah More calls a
quiet and dull frittering away of time, |"
whether it be "unpro6table small
talk, or inconstant idle reading, or
sauntering over some useless piece of
work." is surely not redeeming the
time" and yet how many days and
hours are thus unprofitably wasted,
and neither ourselves nor others bene.
fitted. All woman who have much
leisure are liable to this fault; and besides
its own sinfulness, for surely waste
of time is sin, it encourages a weak,
energetic frame of mind, and is apt to
produce apathetic content in trifling
occupation; or restless desire for ex-
element or amusement, to help on the
weary time these trifies cannot kill !;
and those who have their time entirely
at their own disposal, with perhaps no
definite duty to occupy them, should
guard resolutely against waste of time.
Make duties for yourselves; fix hours
for your different occupations; do with
your might, whatsoever your hands
find to do; and carefully and conscien-
tiOusly ascertain which of your en-
plOyments..is not ,oorthy Of all this care
have a motive, reason for all you
do, and frequently examine yourselves
as TO what you are doing; and surely
you will find time too precious to be-
squandered, or frittered, or idled away.
Our Home Journal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-21
DYsncpsia or Indication

Who of our readers has not suffered
from the ills and varied forms of this
hydra headed tormenter, which origi-
or more particularly in its muscular or
fibrous coating, which becomes pale and
feeble. 1t would require pages to de-
scribe all the symptoms and various
sympathetic affections of indigestion,
and the torture to which the dyspeptic
is subjected, but which may be COM
pressed into one brief comprehensive
sentence: You feel sick, depressed, and
unfit for the duties Of life Neverthe-
less, there is nothing more certain than
that dyspepsia i'll all its phi" ses, can be
thoroughly eradicated.
There is but one way to cure indiges-
ton, viz: by toning and strength
ening the stomach and general system,
gently relaxing the bowels if constlpa-
ted, and regulating the liver if disor-
dered. A remedy for this human peace
destroyer is California Vinegar Bitters,
which have the rare merit of containing
no alcohol, the virtues of the medicinal
California Plants, which constitute their
healing and curing agencies, being ex-
tracted 10y ney chemical process. The
popular verdict is that they are the most
perfect article for the stomach, and are
to be taken "a circumstances may le-
quire, with the fullest confidence, and
that by their means can the return of
this distressing remedy be prevented.
We are satisfied this remedy is of great
value. Com.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-21
What is Water!

Before closing, may / be permitted
to ask and TO answer the question,
What is water? 1 suppose some of my
readers are ready to make the Dog
berly-like reply, "Water, sir, is water"
That certainly reaches the point by a
| very short cut, but to the thinking, in
quiring man it is not quite satisfactory.
Let us answer the question from the
standpoint of the chemist. Water is
r,,>t. The red powder that falls from
iron which has long been subjected to
| the action of moisture, is rust of iron.
1t is the oxide of a metal, and so is
| water. Water is the rust of hydrogen
ium, true metal. This wonderful
element 10 human eyes have ever
looked upon, and probably never will,
as in its free state it exists only in the
form of an invisible gas. Quite re-
| Gently, science has demonstrated eX-
perimenta!ly, what has long been sus-
pected, that hydrogen gas is a metal ,
| and capable of assuming a solid form in
alloys. Oxygen, by uniting with this
gaseous metal, rusts, oXidizes, or burns
| {, and water is the rust or ashes. This
strange metal, hydrogenium, and its
OXi'le, play an important part in all the
operations of nature. 1t is not alone
confined to the little ball of earth upon
which we live, but it exists in the
stellar worlds above us, and in those
misty points of light. the nebuia,
which have so long puzzled and per-
| picked the astronomer and men versed
in the physical sciences. The recent
discoveries by means of the spectre
scope have proved that this element
enters largely into the uniformed, chao-
| tic masses of matter, moving in space,
| of which the worlds are made. 1t is
ready, when the formative act is fully
accomplished, for taking its place, in
combination with oxygen, as water, to
| aid in the sustentation of animal and
vegetable life upon spheres so far dis
tant that our imagination even cannot
reach them.-FrOnl DR.. Nichols Fire
side Science.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-21
A Great Farmers Maxims.

The successful life of Mr.. jacob
Strawn, the prince of American
farmers, is attributed to the close OBJ
servances of the following maxims,
originated by himself:
When you wake up do not roll over
but roll out. 1t will give you time tC
ditch your sloughs, break them, harrow
them, and sow them.
Make your fencing high, strong and
tight, so that it will keep the cattle
and pigs out.
If you have brush make your lot Sc
cure, and keep your hogs from the cat
tie; for if the corn is kept clean they
will eat it better than if it is not
BE sure to get your hands to bed by
seven o'clock-they will rise early by
force of circumstances. Pay hand,
if he is poor hand, all you promise
him; if he is good hand, pay him a
little more; it will encourage him to
do still better.
Always feed your hands as well as
you do yourself, for the laboring men
are the bone and sinew of the land,
and ought to be well treated.
l am satisfied that early rising, in
dustry aud regular habits, are the best
medicines ever prescribed for health.
When rainy, bad weather comes, SC
that you can't work out of doors, cut,
split and haul your wood.
MAKE your racks, fix your fence or a
gate that is off its hinges, or weather
board your barn where the wind has
blown the siding of, or patch the ROOF
of your house.
Study your interests closely, and dc
not spend your time i'm electing Presi.
dents, Senators and other small officers,
or talking of hard times when spend
ing your time whiting stOre-boxes,
etc.
Take your time and make calcula-
tons. Don't do things in hurry, but
do them at the right time, and keep
your mind as well as your body EN-
plOyed.-Rurdlist.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-21
The True VITALITY of Life.

The mere lapse of years is not life.
To eat aud drink and sleep to be ex>
posed to the darkness and the light
to pace round in the mill of habit, and
turn thought into an implement of
trade-this is not life. In all this but
a poor fraction of the consciousness of
humanity is awakened; and the sancti-
ties will slumber which will make 1T
worth while to be. knowledge, truth,
love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone
can give vitality to the mechanism of
existence. The laugh of mirth that
vibrates through the heart; the tears
that fire. en- the dry wastes within; the
music that brings childhood back; the
doubt that makes us mediate; the
death that startIes us with mystery;
the hardship that forces us to struggle;
the anxiety that ends in trust-are the
nourishment of our natural being.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-21
How to SleeD.

We are often asked for prescription
for preternaturally wakefui persons.
The "high pressure" principle on which
many Of our business men work their
brains and abuse their bodies, begets
an irritable condition of the nerves, and
a morbid state of mind, very antagonis-
tic to quiet and refreshing sleep. Such
persons will often go to bed weary and
exhausted, but cannot sleep, or sleep
dreamlly and fitfully, or lie awake for
hours, unable to sleep at all. We have
tried many expedients to induce sleep,
with more or less success, and have
read many recipes which proved better
in theory than in practice. The very
best method we have yet discovered is
that of counting Breathe deeply and
slowly without any straining effort and
with every expiration count one, two,
three, ETC., up to one hundred. Some
persons will be asleep before they can
count fifty in this manner. Others will
count ten, twenty, or thirty, and then
forget themselves and cease counting.
In such cases always commence again
at once. Very few persons can count a
hundred and find themselves awake,
but should this happen repeat the dose
until cured.-Science of Health.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-21
$3.50 TO SIC per Day. Agents
Wanted. male and female. Circulars
free. Sample sent post paid for 60 cts.
III. ID. BRIER & Co., Atlanta, Ga.
Causeless Depression.

This expression is often used but it is manifestly
absurd. Gloom and melancholy are not spouta-
neous They are unnatural mental conditions and
usually have corresponding causes. If there is no
apparent reason for dependency, it is a symptom
ofphysical disease. In nine cases out of ten the
stomach, the liver and the bowels are responsible
for the cloud which rests upo. the BRAIN In all
such cases immediate and permanent relief may be
obtained by the use of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
II the digestive organs are weak an invigorant is
necessary; If the liver disordered ami Alternative
is required if the bowels constipated or irregu
lar n gentle aperent is needed In that famous
vegetable remedy these three medicinal properties
are comminglcd with several others Of a scarcely
less important character, and hence it speedily
cures every species of hypOchondria arising from
material causes, by removing the causes them
selves.
In the summer, when disorders of the stomach
and bowels. bilious complaints and all diseases
viii affect the assimilating and secretive organs
are especially prevalent, the importance of having
this invaluable tonic Alternative and corrective in
every dwelling, and within the reach Of all who
travel by land or water, cannot be overestimated
would I've next impossible to find settlement
near or remote, unprovided with a stock Of this
famous vegetable restorative.-Com.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-21
Foxes as Sheep-Herders.

The millennial era, when Lion and
the lamb shall lie down together"
seems to be on the eve of Inauguration
in California, where, in one locality, it
is reported there may be seen, almost
any day, u large flock of sheep berded
by foxes. These guardians of she lamb
are three i'm number-One q gray fox,
and the other two of the species known
as the red fox. In point of intelligence
these novel shepherds are said to great
" surpass the best trained shepherd
dogs. They perform their work well,
and from morning to night are ever on
the alert. The gray one seems to con-
troll, aud liz a great measure direct, the
actions of the other two. A gentleman
informs us that he saw the gray fox
pursue and attack a hog that had seized
a lamb and WAS making of with it.
The contest was short and sharp, and
resulted i'm the hog dropping the lamb
beating hasty retreat. The fox picked
up the apparently uniDjured lamb and
carried it hack tn the flock. People of.
ten wonder at the remarkable instinct
displayed by well trained shepherd
dogs, but what will they say when
they hear this apparently well-authen-
ticated fact?
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-21
A Geological Talk Concerning Niagara
Falls.

Professor Cunning, during a recent
course of geological lectures, spoke as
follows about Niagara Falls and its
history:
Ten years ago, he said, he stood on
Prospect Point and looked searchiDgly
at the American fall. Within few
days he had stood there again, but
what he saw did not answer to the
image his mind had carried for ten
years. The rim of the precipice is more
indented. Here and there mass of
rock has fallen, leaving notch, the
beginnings of a little horseshoe. The
great horseshoe itself had changed. At
the point of deepest water and deepest
green the curve is deeply nOtched.
Any observer whose knowledge of the
falls covers only a few years will see
that they are receding.
The recession has been very slow,
the speaker thought not more than six
inches year. AT the present rate of re-
cessiOn it would have taken 5000
years to cut channel from Lewiston
to the present site of the horseshoe.
The speaker drew a section of the
river bank from Lewiston upwards,
and showed the seven groups of strata
OOihC W tllC bCt"CCu
and the falls. The rate of recession
would depend on the character of the
rock at the base of the falls. At the
whirlpool very hard, f1inty sand
stone appears on the waters edge.
Through this the fall would cut its
way slowly. Here for ages the cata-
ract was almost stationary.
Above the new suspension bridge
the Clinton group dips to the waters
edge. These rocks are compact, and
here the falls made another halt. U.s.
600 years are not enough. We can
only approximate, but perhaps 15O, 600
would be a closer approximation to
the age of the channel than 1900
years.
This is not all. We find an old river
bed filled with drift between the whirl-
pool and st. David's. Perhaps
100000 years for the entire history of
the fall would not be above the de-
mand. We think of this as long, and
our wonder is that the falls are so old.
But he who looks with a geologic eye
thinks of the time as short, and that
the falls are so young. The upper lakes
are old 1t was dry land long before
the Allegheny Mountains were lifted
up. The river which drains it should
be old; and yet the Niagara, perhaps, is
only 2O0,0 years old! How shall we
account for the drainage of the lakes
through so many millions of years not
registered i'm the channels of Niagara
The speaker drew section of the
upper lakes, and showed that the Nj
agara River at the head of the rapids
is only thirty feet niger than the face
of Lake Michigan. A barrier more
than thirty feet high across the Niagara
plateau would throw the waters of
Lake Erie back on lake Michigan, and
the drainage would be through the
Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexica:
Western biologists have found an old
river channel from the lake to the IL
linois, and the speaker drew sections of
a great barrier which once stretched
across the plateau. The old river bed
in Illinois and the broken bridge across
the Niagara plateau account for the
extreme youth of the falls.-LOckport
IN. " Union.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-21
The Largest Telescope in the United
States.

Messrs Alvin Clark & SoHs are max
ing, at their establishment in Cam
bridgeport, Mass, the larg&t reflect
ing telescope in the United States, for
the Naval Observatory in Washing
ton. 1t will cost $4,000, and has an
object glass twenty-siX inches in di-
ameter, being eleven inches larger than
the one at Harvard University. The
glass alone when finished will be
worth S23, 900. The two glasses-for it
requires two TO make an object glass
weighed in the rough about two hum
dred and fifty pounds, and cost 81, 900
about SOS per pound. They arrived
i'm this country about six months ago,
from Birmingham, England, and ever
since the work of polishing and pre-
pairing them has been continued unre-
mittingly. Over fifty pounds have
been cut from the flint glass, which
now weighs one hundred and ten
pounds, and the other glass has been
reduced to seventy-three pounds, and
neither will vary much from these
weights when finished. 1t is expected
the telescope will be ready for mount
ing in lS14-BostOR Times.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-21
New Theory Of Earthquakes.


At scientific lecture delivered in
San Jose, California, the lecturer, Prof.
Stewart, said that for many years he
had closely observed and studiously re-
Elected upon earthquakes and their
cause. The result of his reading, study
and observations, is an opinion that
they are caused by the meeting of cleo
trical currents which move, one upon
the earth surface, the other in the re-
gion of the clouds, and that they are
brought together by those natural con-
ductOrs, vapOr and rain-clouds-the
meeting of the two currents upon the
surface OF the earth causing an earth
quake. Prof. Stewart also maintains
that these terrible phenomena are con-
trollable by the same means that we
control lightning and prevent it, through
iron conductors, from destroying our
houses. He says the iron rails of rail
ways are as logically conductors of the
electricity that causes earthquakes as
ightning-rods are of the electricity that
comes from the clouds during thunder
storm. He maintained in his lecture
that by means of these and other con-
ductors it is in the power man to so dis
tribute the force of the electric currents
which cause earthquakes that they will
be as harmless as the lightning conduct
ed down ightning-rod into the earth.
He says that the trans continental iron
track and wires are already doing this
valuable service for California, in send
lug part of the earthquake forces far
and wide into the heart of the continent,
by which distribution the danger and
intensity of the shocks are lessened
there. The late earthquake furnished
the most opportune and assuring proof
of the soundness of Stewards theory.
Exactly the atmospheric condition
which his theory requires to bring the
two electric currents together then ex.
listed; and what TRANSFERRED upon their
meet ting was precisely that which his
theory called for. The shock was felt
all along the lines of the railways from
Oakland to Winnemucca, being the
most severe at points nearest to that
point where the cloud-conductors were
most dense, and where the opposing
electrical currents may be assumed to
have been first brought together. OF
the line OF railway any considerable dis
lance there was no perceptible shock,
or at least only a very slight one. Al
San Francisco, hitherto supposed 10 be
standing on the most quaky ground,
there was not shock enough to cause
alarm, though at Oakland it lasted over
a minnie, and it was startling. In San
Jose it lasted not less than a minute and
half, part of the time severe enough
to shake the plaster from walls, and
everywhere to drive people in alarm
from their beds and a number out OF
their houses. At Calf, directly on the
line of the railway, twenty-five miles
west of San Jose, the shock was strong
enough to throw one person out of bed,
and it was also heavy on the line of the
road eastward. Since the railway track
has been laid down there have been foul
other earthquakes, all following the
same course this one followed, none OF
them reaching San Francisco at all, and
all of them being most severe in the
towns directly upon the line of the rail.
way.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-21

10 be the wife of man who had no
love for you! What "lower deep" can
there be than this for proud and SEN
sitive woman?
Jenny turned with tears i'm her eyes
to meet the stalwart husband as he
came from the field.
well, little woman," he cried, and
then she got the hearty kiss for which
she was looking.
Yes, Margaret was right. The butter
and cheese were of little consequence,
while love like this made her task easy
to endure.
And the rosy-cheeked little woman
bent fOndly down over her "Hiram"
as he flung him, elf down on the porch
seat, and famed him, talked to him,
| brought him lemonade, and made him
thoroughly happy and at rest.
Poor Margaret! Happy Jenny! Never
again would she wish to be mOre-only
farmers wife.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-21

Is e. sk ,Sss 10 9 q ssi a. q pleasure!

Do Ne right o child Of pleasure,
Let ~ hnrt be free n N stsin
spun mn thee each rclfish treasure
Love the good, and thou ehalt cain'
In The gilded haunt of beauty
Vt the demon doth invite:
oeaftn mind thy noblest duty
oaen me wrong, and do the right.
Do the right o child of sorrowr
Never let ny hopes grow faint:
fof me sunshine comes Tomorrow
etrive 10 be . worthy saint.
Zen though life TO thee seems dreay.
And thy prospects dark as night,
Never let thy faith grow weary
Danish wrong. and trust the right.
Do the right, and never falter:
Never be ashamed to own
That he right thou " Il not palier-
Nor Its happiness cisown.
Be good and faithful servant.
Though your station in the fight
May be humble, yet, III fervent,
Thou wilt conquer with the right.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-21
The Mischief Carrier.

The slanderer himself is not more
odious than the person who carries to
the ear of one friend the injurious OBJ
servation that happens to drop, from
another. Such one is the slanderer's
herald. and is altogether more odious
than the slanderer himself. by his
vile officiousness he makes that poison
effective which else were inert-for
three-fourths of the ISLANDERS in the
world would never injure their object,
except by malice of carriers, who I'M
der the mask of double friendship, act
the part of double traitors.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-21

ALTHOUGH the gold pen is now extern
sively used, we would be led to the con.
clusion that, after all, the steel pen is
the popular implement, from the fact
that for some years previous to Joseph
Gillott's death his mandatory in
Birmingham produced an average of
10000, 600 pens annually. elliott COM
menced llakiDg his famous steel pens
about thir.y-fve year ago. How many
tons of them he has manufactured!
Surprising that for the last thirty years
only half of $50, OOO, 900 had been the
annual average production, the pens
mt out by this one man-allowlng each
pen to be an inch in length-would
reach nearly one and half times around
the earth, if laid lengthwise. The
number of books, sermons, lectures,
essays, letters, newspaper editorials,
stories, poems, school compositions,
amp copy books written with these pens
is subject worthy of wondering
thought,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-21

The Belgian farmer raises excellent
crops of cereals, roots, grasses, etc.,
and they are very particular in the Sc
lection of seed, in procuring it from
foreign country, if possible, and in
sleeping it in liquid manure before
sowing. In the north of Ireland,
where flax is grown extensively, the
farmers prefer seed brought from Rus
STA or Holland to that grown by them-
selves, as they find the change very
beneficial. The finest dubious and
tuberous rooted Towering plants are
annually imported into England, the
United States, ETC., from Holland and
Germany, and the change is very ben
eficial for two or three years. Forest
trees seeds obtained from the noun
tains of Tyrol terminate in other parts
of Europe with much greater vigor
than those of home growth.
The geLuineness and sound condition
of agricultural seeds depend very much
upon the care bestowed by the seeds
man iii the selection of his stock, and
also on the character Of the growers he
employs. Foreign agricultural seeds
are sometimes damaged by kiln dry
ng, and mixture with deadened seeds,
of some cheap kind. Ripe seed is
sometimes deadened by ki'n-drying,
and then mixed with cabbage or turnip
eed, TO which it bears close resem-
blance. In importing seeds from. q
ountry, great caution is necessary in
rider TO prevent imposi.ion.-Tduton
G0zeffG
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-21

Jolnson's An0dyne Lininaent may be
used to advantage where any Pain Kill
Ter is desirable. In cases of severe
cramps and pains in the stomach, it is
undoubtedly the best article that can be
used.
Habitual constipation leads to the fol-
lowing results: Inflammation of the
kidneys, sick and nervous headache,
biliousness, dyspepsia, indigestion,
piles, loss of appetite and strength; all
of which may be avoided by being reg
ular in your habits, and taking, say one
of Parsons Pargativc Pills nightly, foI
four or six weeks.-Com.