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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-18
Intelligence of the Jews.

The Jews are q nation of exiles.
Scattered among civilized nations,
they still retain their own customs and
the peculiarities of their race. They
are more numerous than in the most
fouri>hing period of their history ID
Palestine.
1t is greatly to their credit that they
everywhere take a high position in en-
terprise, intelligence and morality, and
stand among the foremost citizens. The
most wealthy bankers of Europe. and
many of the most distinguished states
men and scholars are Jews.
Recent Investigations in Prussia
prove that the Jews are more eager for
education than either Professionals or
the Catholics. The Protestants have
fifty.five per cent. of the population.
and seventy-four per cent. of scholars
in the higher schools and the Cath
olics have forty-three per cent. of popu-
lation, and have less than eighteen per
cent. of the scholars. The Jews have
only one per cent. of the population,
and have nearly nine per cent. of the
scholars.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-18
About Our Bees.

Uncle Sam has bees enough to give
us all sting! There are two million
bee-hives in the United States. Every
hive yields, on an average, little over
twenty-five pounds of honey. The
average price at which honey is sold
is twenty-five cents a pound. So that
after paying for their own board, our
bees present us with a revenue of over
So, $4,000. To reckon in another way,
they make clear gift of over a pound
of pure honey to every man, woman
and child in the vast domain of the
United States. In 1856, over twenty
three and One-third million pounds of
wax were make and given to us by
these industrious workers. The keep
ing of bees is one Of the most profitable
investments that our people can make
of their money. The profits arising
from the sale of surplus honey average
from fifty to two hundred per cent. of
the capital invested.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-18
How to Plant Apple Trees.

1t is astonishing how much diversity
of opinion there is and has been, about
the distance apart to plant apple trees.
After an experience of fifteen years, l
would plant apple trees not less than
twenty-four feet apart, from that
to thirty-two feet. Apple trees planted
sixteen feet apart, when they get large
enough to bear, are found by experience
to be entirely too near each other, the
limbs inlerlOck, and it is difficult to get
through the orchard with wagon
and the want of light and room causes
the leaves to fall from the lower limbs,
and the other trees become unhealthy.
Young orchards should be cultivated
like a corn field until the trees begin to
bear, and there is no better crop to
grow among your trees than corn. Let
the row of trees have the ground
of the row to themselves, and then cult
vate the row of trees the same as a row
of corn, but let it stand, as it forms a
protection to the trees in winter. After
the trees begin to bear, seed the ground
to clover-clean, no blue grass or tim
othy mixed with it-and don't take the
clover off for hay hut either turn i'm
the hogs or cut the clover and let it rot
under the trees; and whenever the
clover gets crowded out by blue grass
or timothy, pillow it up and seed down
again with clover. This is not theory
with me, but it is based on observation
and successful practice.-Io,od Home
stead.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-18
Height ana Measure.
Bone Felon Arrested Congealation.

DIR. James B. Walker, of st. Louis,
Mo-, says in the Medical Archives =
Not long since 1 was consulted by q
young lady who was suffering from an
incipient felon. The distinguishing
characteristics of the painful affection
were already manifest-pain, throb-
bling, some tnmefaction, and the ner-
vous excitement, indicated plainly
what was in advance unless the in
flammation was arrested; and the
command was, arrest it at all haz-
yards.
This starting point had been two
days previous to her application of
treatment. I could think of nothing
offering such prospect of success as
cold, as low as the freezing point. Ad-
ding equal parts of snow and salt in
tumbler. 1 placed the finger, it being
the middle one, in the freezing mix
ture. For few seconds there was an
increase of the sensibility of the part,
and it was with difficulty that could
persuade her to hold hes finger in the
mixture. By degrees the pain subsidized
and at the end of two minutes perfect
insensibility had followed. 1 removed
the finger, and after a few minutes the
sensibility returned, and with it came
the pain, throbbing, etc. The applica-
ton was renewed, and the pain ceased
and insensibility ensued. This was
repeated AS often as the pain returned,
and in about two hours, alternating
the application and removal, there
was no return of the painful sensa-
tons, and the difficulty entirely ceased,
and there was no felOn. The indura-
ton remained several days, and the
skin gradually exfoliated.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-18
Pine Trees rs Medical Agents.

Although some forests are regarded as
malaria, and oak trees and hazel
bushes have been insalubrious in Eu.
rope, like the the timarind in the East
yet the air of the pine forest appears
always grateful to the lungs, and has
been considered wholesome, although
of its absolute curative influence there
is little evidence; and indeed it must
be difficult to procure such. The idea
of pine trees exercising a balmy intlu-
ence is very ancient one. Pliny con-
sidered that the air of pine forests was
more useful in asthmatic difficulties
than the voyage TO Egypt, recommend
ed in such cases in those days now we
go to the south of France or to Min
nesota.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-18
Good Manners.

If good manners are not to die out
among us, reverence must be restored.
The old man must be honored, the
weak must be considered, the illustri-
Gus must be deferred to, and most of
all, women must be respected. Wo-
men have the matter i'm their own
hands. They can compel men to be
well-mannered and men who know
how to behave with pOliteness towards
women will end in behaving with
politeness towards each other. Haul
teur always implies want of considera-
ton for Others, and is therefore no part
of politeness, save when indeed an i'm
pertinence has to be quietly but effec-
lively resented. If we were asked to
name the word which embOdies female
politeness We should name gracious
ness" Women should be gracious !;
graciousness is their happy medium
between GOODNESS and familiarity; as
self-respect is that of men between
arrogance and downright rudeness.
Probably there can be no true polite
ness where there is no humility, either
real or well assumed. In a self-mak-
ing age we cannot be surprised at
meeting with so much self-assertiOn
and so much aggressiveness We can
but wait for the time when the process
will be complete, and the individual
will be well-bred enough once more to
recognize his own insignificance.-
Temple Bar.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-18
Dressing Mutton i'm Texas.

Hang the sheep by the heels and cut
his throat thoroughly wind-pipe,
swallow, jugular-vein and all. He
will die very quick. So soon as life is
extinct, or motion ceases. remove en-
trails with sharp knife, opening
completely from tail TO tongue. This
job l generally get through with in
Just about half a minute.
am satisfied that the peculiar flavor
of badly handled mutton, said to come
from the wool, is due to the entrails
lying too long in the animal. 1 pay
no particular attention 10 the wool
other than is demanded by neatness.
On the plan above named frequently
kill muttons four miles from home, tie
them TO my saddle, take them home,
and even allow to remain over night,
without skinDing, aud no wooii.h
flavor results. My mutton is proven
bal for its deiicacy and sweetness, and
now YOU have exactly how l manage
il. Chambers county, 7erds. c. b.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-18
Life ola Bee.

Adair says there is perfect system
governing the work of bee; that,
contrary to former notions, which sup
posed that the different offices of the
bee are directed, as system of police
in a government by head, and were
executed by The exercise of reason and
discretion, they are involuntary, and
each bee i'm succession performs all the
duties. AS it increases in age, II Is
crowd,d outwardly by the develop
ment of others in The center. From
nurse in the brood nest, its labors are
first transferred 10 the wax structure ;
thence to the gathein ing aud storing OF
honey; and wht II it is no longer of use
as productive agent, il takes its place
i'm the living wall that protects what 1T
can no longer produce, and finally Is
cast off like the withered leaf.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-18

y1ncing the little hats al in . row,
Ready for church on the morrow you know;
Washing wee faces and little blacks lists,
Getting them ready and fit to be kissed;
Putting them into clean garments and white;
That Is what mothers doing tonight.
Calling the little ones all round her chair,
Hearing them lisp forth their soft evening
prayer;
Telling them stories Of Jesus Of old,
who loves to gather the lambs to his fold;
Watching. they listen with childish delight
That b what mothers are doing to night.
Spying out holes in the little worn hose,
Laying by shoes that are worn through the
toes,
Looking Ger garments SO faded and thin
Who but mother knows where to begin?
Changing q button to make IL look right
That Is what mothers do after night.
Creeping 80 softly 10 take last peep,
After the Titles are all asleep;
Anxious to know II the children are warm,
Tucking the blankets around each little
form:
Kissing each little face, rosy and bright
That Is what mothers do after night,
Kneeling down gently beside the white bed,
Lowly and meekly she bows down her head,
Praying only as mother can pray,
God guide and keep them from going
astray."
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-18
Fall Work on the Farm.

The season is at hand when the
farmer should begin the preparations
that are to end in carrying through
the winter his stock and grain and all
he has upon the farm. Preparation,
guided by good judgment, is now the
most essential part Of the years work.
The leaf of the tree and plant has been
warmed and heated through all the
hot summer months, but now takes on
the glowing, amber tint of richness.
1t is soon to fall and be replaced
another spring by the same self-like
representative of life and beauty.
There is now coming little time
that the farmer should devote to the
fixing up of fences, removing old rails,
boards, trees that have fallen in grain
fields, to the wood-pile or house. 1t is
q good time to haul out manure and
spread it over the summer fallow or
upon land to be fall plowed. 1t is a
good time to fill up bitches in fields,
along fences or rOadways, as the fall
rains will make them much deeper,
unless now filled and made secure. 1t
is the time 10 give your swine all the
decaying fruit and garden truck not
needed elsewhere; it gives them a
start that will materially aid the corn
meat they are soon TO take on. Horses
should be taken from the pasture and
fed grain at least once day from this
time forward. These remarks apply to
horses and FLIES that have been upon
the pasture, and those who have been
used upon the farm. Mich cows need
now little feed in the morning, to
g. ol0 81,
thy that will soon be shown of its
sweetness and nutrition by the frost of
all the fall season. Stock cattle need
new ranges, where they may be in
duced to feed by the change OF locality
and the change of pasture. Sheep
need sailing daily, and change of
pasturage. Fowls of all kinds should
be allowed to roam where they will
over the farm, to destroy the enemies
of tree, plant, fruit end cereal.
It is now the best time in the year
to paint all your buildings anew; ;
white-wash your fences, dig wells,
open choked drains, lay down tiles to
remove moisture from the surface,
throw out sawdust from ice-houses and
prepare all the filling of the same at
as early day as solid ice has formed.
Set your fence posts up straight; gates
that have become sagged should be
made to swing with ease; clear out the
litter from the cellars aud root-houses,
retaratory to the filling before winter.
In fact, do anything that looks towards
the preparation for winter, and you
will not do amiss or strike blow that
is not beneficial to the farm.-Rurdt
World.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-18

Perhaps NO more forcible evidence from . we'll
known source can be given Of the great power OF
Mansfield q HigbeeS Magic Arnica Liniment than
Is contained In the annexed letter nom MI. T. L.
Brinly, the celebrated pillow manufactures:
LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan. 2, ISL.
Messrs. Ndnseeed & Hi0bee.
GENTLEMEN: Whilst was attending the Agri-
cultural Fair at Memphis. was suffering very
much from rheumatism In my right leg. was
stopping with my friend DIR. Peters; he kindly ten
dered me some Magic Arnica Liniment. On going
morning felt much better. much so that
could attend to my business ali the next day. with
very little pain. The Doctor then insisted that
should take u along with me, and IL was very Tor
tunate that did for got very severe fall at the
Kimball. in Atlantis. that bruised me up very
much went TO INV room and applied the Magic
Armies Liniment and was entirely relieved, being
the nexu morning free from pan. and was able 70
attend the blowing match. Please send me half
dozen bottles OF tie Magic Arnica IMMINENT by Elk
press, {. o. ID. 1 consider IL the best IMMINENT
ever saw. T. F. BRINLY.
OF FIRMLY. Mics q Hardy, Louisville, Ky.
PSI Will give you more evidence OF the vaue
OF Magic Arnica LnimenL Several days ago we
were unloading two large grindstones for our fac-
tory, one OF the stones Tell breaking into four
pieces, one ~ which struck young mrn In my en-
pioy, Knocking him down, as we thought killed.
We picked him up; soon conscious, he said MS
side was injured sent to my house for the Magic
Anica Liniment, rubbed hiIn well with IL and sent
him home: thai night had him well rubbed again
With the same IMMINENT. and the next morning he
was able to come to the shop. and the second day
he resumed work. His name is Edward Hume: he
Will give you certificate IL you visit. You et
liberty To use this; don't fail To send the lini
ment. i. E b.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-18

A table showing the area of the States
and territories of the United States, and
the number Of families and dwellings, CIV
ing the total BY States, has just been pre-
pared BY the census Office. The total area
OF the United States and territories Is
gwen - $500. 84 square miles, and of the
States. 1884, 487 The number ofpersons
to the square mile is 1910; for the State
alone, 1921. The number of families for
the whole country is 1873, 1863, and per-
sons to each family So. In 1870 it was
6.28, and in 1850, $50. The number of
dwellings for the whole country is 1912, 833,
and person to each dwelling were Sal. In
1860 the persons tn each dwelling were
5.54 and in 1850, 5.95, The largest State
(Iexas) has an area Of 273, 1856 square
miles, with 2.98, persons to each. The
smallest State (Rhode Island) has ,406
square miles. l66 43 pesons to each. Mas
sachusetts has l85. "a persons to the square
miles; Connecticut 1875, and New Jer-
ses l08 81. No other have over 1000, and
only i've other have so. In only two OF
three of the States have average number
of .persns to family reaches 81, and in
only two or three it falls below Al. In two
or three the number of persons to dwell
ling IS fraction over six: only in Nevada
does it fall below four. OF the States,
only California, Nevada, and Texas, have
an area foyer 100000 svuare miles.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-18
The True Test.

bow often we hear the remark, "l've
been to see a friend. And how few
ever fully feel the value of that word.
When enemies gather around when
sickness falls ON the heart; when the
settled sadness of the soul, like death
itself, comes down; when the world is
dark and cheerless, then IL the time to
test the value and full meaning of the
term. The heart that has been proved
like true gold, redoubles its energies
when a friend is i'm danger. He who
turns from suffering or distress betrays
his hypocrisy, and proves his own self
interest. Let the true friend feel that
his kindness is appreciated. and has
not been thrown away. Real fidelity
may be rare. but it does exist, aud it's
power is seen and felt. The good, the
kind, the generous, are around US
everywhere, If we would only seek
them out. There are many who would
sacrifice wealth aud fame, everything
but homer, to serve q cherished one,
and the move through the worldquiet
and "a recognized because no oppOrtu-
nifty has been offered to draw them
cut,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-18
Mosquito Manure.

The Scientific american has the fol-
lowing: "At Stratford, Conn.,, where
mosquitoes are as thick as a fog, lives
an ingenious Yankee, so they say, be-
lieve it who may, who puts these in
sects to profitable uses. He has in
vented a large revolving scoop net
covered with lace, which is put in mo-
ton by windmill, water power, or
steam. The lower half of the scoop is
placed in water. The upper half moves
through the. atmosphere, and at each
rotation draws immense numbers of
the squitoes' down into the water,
where they drown and sink to the bot
tom. Every revolution of the net
draws in an ounce of mosquitoes, or a
tun for every thirty two thousand
turns of the machine. The mosquitoes
thus collected make a splendid manure
for the land, worth twenty-five dollars
q tun,n
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-18

A lady correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette gieves the following on putting up
fru Is for the winter use:
In the first place it is of the utmost i'm
pOrtant to have the best fruit Those who
live in cities are obliged to take what ever
they can get, to q great extent, so that the
fruit that comes to them is often too ripe
or bruised, while we who live in the coun-
try always have the best.
Gather the peaches(if the fruit you have
Just before you want to can them, taking
care net to bruise them. We prefer them
for canning purposes when they are ripe.
If they are too ripe they become mushy
when they are cooked, and do not look so
well when used.
Have your cans all ready before you be-
gin to work at the fruit, as the fruit soon be-
comes dark by standing. Always use tin
cans for peaches and pears 1.-THE newer the
better) as they exclude the light Prepare
the fruit for one can and put it mp in be-
fore you begin the next. You will save
time by it, besides the fruit will be of a
lighter color and will all be sweetest alike;
whereas if you put enough peaches for
several cans in your preserving kettle at a
time, the FIST csnful will be too tart, can
put one pound of sugar ('circle c. is the
best with one quart of water in porcelain
kettle. Place ON the top of the stove so
that it will come to broil about the time
you have the fruit ready. Peel three
pounds of peaches, place them in the boil
ing syrup, let them boil from one to three
minutes according to the ripe1ess of the
fruit. then can'quickly.
Peaches and pears canned in Il is way
will keep two years if placed in a cool, dark
dry place.
We prefer to sweeten all our fruit suffi-
GENTLY when we can it, as it is then always
ready for use, and is much nicer than when
canned with little or no sugar.
There are some further hints which it
would be well to follow
Use q porcelain kettle instead of brass,
Take care that the cans are free from rust
Have none but the best of sugar, and use it
freely. Make your own sealing wax.
Another correspondent of the same jour
nal gives the following on canning CORN
Il have been quite successful in canning
corn to keep we'll. I cut the corn from
the cob put into.a bottle and covered with
water. Then dissolve two ounces of tar
taric acid in one pint of hot water; add six
tablespoonsflls of liquid to each gallon of
corn, and boil the corn i've minutes after
it has been put in; then put it in cans and;
be careful not to press the corn tightly, but
but let the water stand over it, and seal and
keep in cool place. When you open the
cans, empty into crock and wash through
a couple of waters; add half teaspoonful
of soda, two tablespoonful of sugar to one
quart of corn, aud finish with salt, pepper,
butter, and, if you like, little cream and
-four. Now cook FIVE minutes and will
assure you that your corn will taste quite
natural"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-18
The NeapOlitan.

A most comfortable garment for the
ladies, the coming winter, is the Nea-
politsn, a refund, half-loose saque, with
deep Dolulan sleeves that fold over
the arms i'm a way that dispenses with
the use of the muff 1t is shown i'm
the new Siberian cloth-a thick, soft,
fleecy beaver in the fashionable bronze
brown, gray, and plum-color. The
trimming is wide soutaohe braid, in
Gothic designs, and the new brown
fringe called bear fringe.