davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23
The Adulterations of Coffee.

We seem to be gradually accumula-
ting n stock of information with regard
to what are euphemistically known as
'trade secret" which cannot fail to be
of service to the housekeeper. The
latest secret which has oOzed out relates
to the composition of coffee-a bever-
age with whose simple ingredients its
drinkers already supposed themselves
to be familiar. 1t was believed that
warranted pure coffee consisted of
coffee and chiccOry mixed in relative
proportions varying with the taste.
prudence or moral sense of the dealer
1t now appears that its composition is
somewhat more complex than was i'm
agined, and that the chiccory itself is
not an ultimate element. The inland
revenue board of Great Britain are
- surprised TO find that there is a trade
in adulteraied chiccory. A chiocory
rooster has been taxed with mixing
scorched rye with the article which he
sells to chiccory dealers, and has admit
ted the soft impeachment. He has,
moreover, "no doubt that the dealers
to whom he sells it mix it with coffee,
and sell the mixture to the public under
the latter name. No dOubt this revela-
ton materially increases our knowledge
of the composition of this article of
food, but it would be eminently unset
entific to infer that we are even now full
ly acquainted with its ingredients. 1t
vet remains to be seen whether the
scorched rye Is itself pure, or whether
We only await n further confession from
n rye scorcker that he also adulter-
ates the article in which he deals.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23

who sees his food coming and wishes to
hasten it. And here they come at last,
the gaunt, wiery, slouching fellows, with
their bushy tails, and flat narrow heads,
and yellow, thievish, murderous eyes.
Crack the foremost of the pack rolls
over on his side, kicking convulsively !;
but rest gallop on unheeding. Crack |!
crack and two more fall dead, plotting
the snow with smear of dull crimson.
Some of the boldest pursuers swarm up
to the sledge, and attempt to leap over
its projecting sides, while we pound
their heads with the butt ends of our
pieces. and crop their paws with hatch
cts, and slash them across the eyes with
hunting knives, The two hindmost of our
party meanwhile blazing away over our
shoulders as fast as they can load. And
so for time the running fight goes fierce
ly on, making altogether a very striking
tableau. But ''the pace is too stiff to
last" as your leader remarks with a
knowing grin. A run at full speed
through deep snow tries even full
grown wolf too severely to be continued
beyond a certain time, and in the face of
stout resistance the beasts cowardice
is sure to come to the surface sooner or
later. Already three or four gaunt,
shaggy veterans, who have probably
had good supper over night, begin to
hang back as If doubling the wisdom of
risking their lives for hypothetical
breakfast. The speed of the rest slack
ems by degree, and at length the whole
pack drop off as if by tacit agreement,
leaving us to pursue our way unmolested.
As we emerge again upon the open plain,
across which the first beams of the rising
sun are just beginning to fall, we see
the last of our grim followers sinking
like belated spectre into the gloomy
shadows Of the forest which we have
OI1ittn5
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23
Dress. the aanra Of Fashion.

The spontaneous and increasing diff
ference between the male and female
dress marks the growth of q nation in
higher civilization, and points to the
different work of man and woman. In
the beginnings of things there is
general commingling, chaos Of individ-
ualities and officers. Woman is but an
inferior sort of man, always more weak,
sometimes more beautiful. The distinc-
lions of nature are imperious, but have
no significance beyond their existence.
Women do pretty much the same work
as men, and wear pretty much the same
dress. AT the worst they are low, at
best they are not high. But rising
In the scale, the dividing-line defines
itself more and more sharply. The
man's world evolves itself, rough and
palpable, from the chaos; the woman's
world, too, floats into the finer light,
less palpable, but not less real. For
MS world and work the man folds away
his delaying draperies, and arrays him
self in compact and enduring substance J;
for her world the woman as instructive
~ and UnerringlY wraps herself in in
trIcacy and vOluminousness and beauty
-uuerringly, because she is none the
less accOutered for her world in being
ercumbered for his. The higher the
man, the higher the nation, the higher
the civilization, the more he takes upon
his own brawny shoulders the pioneer
toll, and reserves her for the secondary,
the social, the invisible, the all-prevad-
ing. So, dear lady, though your dress
may be a little in advance of your life,
though you may have put on the attire
of the future white yet under the yoke
of the lingering and brutal past, take
courage. You suffer and are hindered,
but YOU are in the line of promotion.
Let Philip your king rejoice in his pro-
pria qu@ maribus, for that way conflict
and victory lie for MIN. But when your
clean soul IS yexed that you cannot pre-
serve your spotless dress for much
sweeping and busting and DISTINGUISHING,
rejoice over the coming woman, whose
feet are already beautiful upon the
mountains, and whose sole house-clean-
ing shall be to keep the chambers of the
heaTt-all hearts-pure ahd fresh and
fragrant. Gait Hamilton.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23
Lord Lvtton's Women.
From Blackwood,s NLaqazine.


Lord Lytton, with all his gifts, did
not possess that of drawing women. It
is rare among men-almost, if not
quite, as rare as the faculty of repre-
senting men is among women, though
the failure in the one case is very much
like the less remarked upon, and less
noticeable, indeed, from the fact that
women have but lately come to occupy
leading places in the works of fiction
A beautiful and sweet abstraction of
woman kind with hair, eyes, throat, etc. ,
nicely put in, with smiles and tears
handy, and a few pretty speeches, is
all that is really necessary for a hero
inc of the good old fashioned type.
Lord Ly ton has two of these types, the
heroic and the gentle, as indeed Sir
Walter Scott also had aDd most novel
lists of eminence keep within these safe
lines. The sentimental splendor of VIC
lante, the sugary sweetness of Helen.
may dazzle the hasty reader; but how
to come to any sort of realization of
those young women we are unable to
inform him. Every mortal man has his
tether, and here is one in which Lord
Lytton's tether is apparent, though he
does his best by glowing diction and
lavish sentiment to throw glamour in
our eyes and blind US to the fact. He
does blind us so far that we accept the
graceful outline enveloped in rainbow
mists of beautiful effect as the symbol
of woman-woman the CONSIDER, woman
the inspirer,, as he himself says. The
abstraction is enough for him-he has
no need for anything further; neither,
we suppose has the majority of readers,
or the typical would not have been SO
long and SO placidly accepted instead
of the personal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23
Wolf Hunting in Russia.

A correspondent of the London Morn
ing Post gives a lively account of wolf
hunting, which is one of the favorite
sports in those parts of Russia where
the animals have disappeared before adj
vancing civilization. At some abnormal
hour between night and morning you
are aroused by a vigorous shake aud a
horse admonition to "tumble up and
look sharp about, for there's no time to
lose" You make hasty toilet, and,
sallying forth, see In front of your hut,
in the dim light OF the coming dawn, a
huge, dark, shapeless mass of which, as
your eyes get used to the darkness, as
sumes the form of u broad, heavy three
horse sledge with very high sides not
unlike an enormous washing tub, around
which fit three or four spectral figures
with lanterns, the fitful glare making
their grim bearded faces look grimmer
and less human than ever. Guns, am
munition, haversacks, ETC., are slowed
away in the bottom of the conveyance !;
and last, but not least, young pig pro-
testing against his abduction with a
loudness and fluency that would do
honor to a HYDE Park meeting. All be-
ing now ready, the hunters squeeze
themselves into their places the driver
shakes his reins with a wild whoop, and
away we go into the darkness. Mile
after mile of the frozen waste goes by
like dream, till at length the spectral
shadows of the forest begin to gather
round us, and the squeals of our I'M
lucky pig (whose ears one of our party
is now pinching vigorously begin to be
answered by another sound, which no
one who has yet heard it will easily for
get; not the long melancholy howl
wherewith a supperless wolf may be
heard bemoaning himself on the out
skirts of our village any night in the
week, but the quick, snarling cry of one
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23
The Will of Napoleon III.

The will of the late Emperor Napole-
ION Ill, which shows his personal for
tune to be about 5000, 900, subject to
claims which will reduce it one-half,
shows that, whatever may have been his
faults, that of personal avarice and in
dividual money-getting was not among
them. When he became President of
France, in 1913, he had a considerable
individual fortune. For full twenty
years he exercises almost absolute pow
er and had an immense salary as En-
peror. BY his order or talk he could
at will put up or put pown stocks and
public funds. Many supposed that he
availed himself of the opportunity, and
was worth many millions of pounds
sterling. But it appears that there is a
great difference in his favor when COM
pared with our Ulysses S. Grant, who
very poor at the commencement of our
war, has contrived, upon his own mill
tary pay, to amass a large fortune. The
will of Napoleon is characteristic Of the
man. It breathes the same supersti-
tious reverence for the memory of Ma
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23
A SIMMER Day
Sunshine over the meadow lands,
Kissing the crimson clover,
And EnnCbfna har,p4fno 4b. in. - :.

Sunshine over the meadow lands,
Kissing the crimson clover,
And sunshine haunting the lily-cups
And the yellow bees hung over:
And sunshine over the hazy hills
And over the dimplinG river
And wish that the sun and the summer day
Might shine and last forever.
We walked down by the meadow path,
The broad highway forsaking,
For the quiet Of that lovely spot
Seemed better for our love-making,
And was silent, and she was shy,
As we walked down through the clover,
But we thought it the sweetest summer day
That ever the sun shone over.
We heard the birds in the waving grass,
as they twittered to each other
About the nests they had hidden away,
And the of each glad birds mother,
And we tho't as we walked that summer day
Through the clover-blooms together,
That at last the world was in perfect tune
In the glad, bright summer weather.
I cannot tell what said to her
AS walked knee-deep in clover;
But l know that the robins merriy sang
Their sweetest of sweet songs over;
And down in my heart loves own bird sang
A song that was gladder, sweeter,
And its echo Joined with the worlds glad hymn
Aud made the daY completer.
And when We came uD the meadow path,
Our hearts sang over and over,
q o sweet, glad day for blossom and bird,
Aud for every biithe young lover !"
And yet / know not the words she said,
Or whether she spoke at all;
But of all sweet days that summer day
1 count as the best of all.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23
The Rabagas Hat.

We commend to our American dress
reformers the story of how the rabagas
hat, now so fashionable in Paris, was in
vented. For long time it was a mys-
terry, but the narrative of its origin has
recently been told As it may in time
work its way to our side of the ocean,
it will probably interest those who may
chance to wear it, to know that that no.
tOrious creature, Cora Pearl, as the
story runs, attended a brilliant supper
at the Mason Doree after Witnessing
NJ SardOu's play of 50 Rabagas" While
at the table the whim seized her to
manufacture a new sort of hat, which
she predicted would soon become the
fashion Carrying out her caprice, she
took hat of one of the gentlemen pres
ent, cut the brim off with a table-knife,
and requested the owner of the hat to
crush it with his fist with all the force
he could give to the blow. This WAS
done, and the result was a nondescript
head-covering, round in shape, and with
most uproarious turn. She then call
ed for a green veil and a ribbon, and
declared she would wear that hat for
the rest of the season in the Champs
Elysees and elsewhere. She was as
good as her word, and after while q
fashionable modiste took up the idea,
and ladies who neither knew nor cared
whence the hat originated adopted the
fashion as an exquisite novelty. This
eccentric bonnet is not only curious III
shape, but it is worn curiOusly. It is
covered with veil and is placed on the
back of the head, as Is it were going to
fall every moment.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23

ADDING Poison TO Poison. is
no disease in which the blood is more
or less impregnated with the unwhole-
some matter, and the direct, inevitable
effect of all preparations containing
spirituous excitants is to increase the
volume of poison in the veins, and
thereby aggravate and prolong the
malady. Hence it Is that dyspepsia,
bilious fever, cholera-morbus, lung
complaints, govt, dropsy, rheumatism,
nervous disorders, and cases of general
and local debility, originally mild in
type, are frequently rendered chronic
and dangerous by dosing the sufferers
with the alcoholic bitters advertised as
medicinal stimulants. As counter
blast to the canards put forth by the
proprietors of those pernicious com
pounds, the plain, honest, philosophical
| statements of DIR. Joseph Walker, rela
tive to the nature and effects of his Cal
ifornia Vinegar Bitters, are doing a
world of good. He has opened the eyes
of the public to the important fact that
pure vegetable tonic and alternative,
unpolluted by alcohol, if not an absolute
specific for every variety of disease, is
the nearest approach to it yet attained.
His Vinegar Bitters are Unquestionably
working such wonders in affections of
the stomach, bowels, nervous and mus
cular systems, and the glands and res
piratory organs.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23
Plant Trees.

Every citizen who has no trees about
his residence should see to it, and plant
shade trees about his place. To esti-
mate the value of groves and shelter
belts in this country would be as diff
cult rs to estimate good health in dol
lars and cents no man knows how to
appreciate them until having enjoyed
either one or the other, he is deprived
of its blessing. The benefit to be de-
rived from a grove in summer is that of
shade and protection from flies. While
the belt of timber, if properly arranged,
Will protect the farm from devastation
of the storms of winter, they will both
furnish protection to man and beast
from the chilling winds, and add fifty
per cent. to the value of the place.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23

Coughs and COlds.-Sudden changes of
climate are sources of pulmonary and bron-
chial Troches, let the cold, cough or irritation
of the throat be ever so slight.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23

DIR. d. GILMORE of So Warren ST., Jer-
sey City, N. J., has certain cure for cancer.
He uses a vegetable extract that takes out the
cancer, roots and branches, when the sore
rapidly heals, and never ulcerates. In its early
stage charges nothing for treatment and medi-
cine until cured.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23

THE PUREsT AND SWEETEST CoD-LIvER OIL
is Hazard & Caswells, made on the sea shore,
from fresh. selected livers of the Cod only, by
CAswELL, HAZARD & Co., New York. 1t is alb
solutely pure and slceet. Patients who have
once taken it prefer it to all others. Physi-
clans have decided it superior to all other oils
in market.-Conl
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23

To BE taken in the place of quinine
or bitters of any kind; the dose is small and
its virtues undoubted. It will be found cheap
er and better than any other remedy for that
purpose, and alao as general plantation and
family medicine Simmons Liver Regulator
has no superior.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23
A hill was renen-

"A bill was recently passed in Con-
gress authorizing the President to
cause such experiments to be madeand
such information to be collected as in
his opinion may be useful and impor-
tant to guard against the bursting of
steam boilers, and requesting him to
communicate the same to Congress-
The sum of 100000 is appropriated
for the purposes of the act.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23

MANY persons suffer with sick head
ache and nervous headache, usually inducnd
by costiveness, indigestion, etc. Such persoes
will find relief, if not cure by keeping the
bowels open with small doses of Parsons
P1rgatiYe Pills.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23
DR.. RAILWAYS
PRrfPGt pDrg2tjVG and RGgUI9tinU Pl


perfectly tastppss, elegantly coated with awe
gum, purge, regulate, purify cleanse and strength
ed. RAILWAYS PILLS, for the cure of all dtsp
ders OF the Stomach, Liver, Bowels, Kidneys, Blai
der, Nervous Diseases, HpadGche Constipation
COstiveness, Indigestion, Dyspepsia. Bii Ousness
Billions. TvpnuS and Typhoid Fevers I2h2:an:a
ton the Bowels, Piles. and all Heterogeneous
the Internal Viscera. Warranted to effect a posi-
tive cure. Purely Vegetable, containing ne meT
curry, minerals or deleteriOu5 drugs -
Hz-ObserYe the following symptoms resulting
from disorders of tbe Digestive Organs:
Constipation. Inward Piles, Fullness Of the Blood
In the Head, Acidty or the stomach, Nausea,
Heartburn Disgust Of Food. FulinesS O: Weight in
the Stomach SOUR ErnuatiOns. sinking or Flint
tering at the Pit of the stomach, swimming of tn
Head, Hurried and Difficult Breathing. Fluttering
et the Heart, Choking or Sutfocating Sensations
when Is Lying Posture, Dinness of Vision Dots,
Webs before the sight, Fever, and Dull Pain In
the Head. Deficiency of Perspiraten, YellOwncSs
OF the Skin and Eyes, Pain in the side, Chest,
Limbs, and sudden Flushes Of Heat, Burning In
the Flesh. A few doses of RAILWAYS PILLS
will free the system from all the above named dis
orders. Price rs cents per Box sold by NIL
Druggists.
REND . FA LSE AND TRUE" Send one let
ter stamp 10 RIA DIVA IL co, No. 81 Warren ~,
N Y. Information worth thousands viii be sent
YOu.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23
manifest Absurdstses.

Is there any good reason why the dictates of
common sense should be sisrsgarded in medical
practice? Surely not. Yet how literally they are
sometimes set at naught in the treatment of dys-
pepsia liver complaint constipation, nervous pros
tration and general debility. How often are pow.
erful purgatives emetics and salivants given in
cases of indigestion, bilious collie and costiveness,
when the disease has already robbed the patient
of strength he needs to combat with the attack.
The absuIdity of giving facilitating medicines to
sick people who are too weak already, is so mani
fest, that it is astonishing how any sane man can
believe in such practice. the rational course un-
der such circumstances is to administer a tonic
and regulating medicine, and the experience ola
quarter of century has proved that Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters is the most wholesome and ell
cient preparation of this class to be found in the
medical repository. 1t is, however, something
more than an invigorant and regulator. Its pro-
perties as an APPARENT and anti-biious agent; its
vitazing and purifying effect upon the blood; Its
utility when given as anodyne. instead OF laud-
anum. or choral, "details some other stupi-
flying narcotic; its tranquiizing tendency in spas
Rlodic affections, and its palatablity, contrasted
with the SickeniDg pills and potions of pharmaco
called the most comprehensive remedy in exist
ence.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23

HAVE you infammatory sore throat,
stiff joints, or lameness from any cause what
ever? Have you rheumatism, or other pains
in any part Of the body? If so, use Johnson's
Anodyne Liniment. Our word for it, it is the
best pain killer in this country.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23

The people of Montana, becoming
discouraged by the slow building of the
Northern Pacific, have finally concluded
to wait no longer, but build narrow
gauge road from Helena to connection
with the Central Pacific at Corinne,
Utah.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23

THE MIDNIGHT HORROR GROUP is in
stantly and effectually layed by giving DR..
Ransoms Hive Syrup and Tolu, or Honey Sy-
rup. The lives OF many suffering children have
been saved by administering this valuable re-
medy in attacks of Group. All families where
there are children should keep it in the house
Price only 35 cents.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23

Dr. MILLER's MAGNETIC BALM. Does
it contain electricity? IT cures by magnetic
influence neuralgia and all pain, and is there
fore being properly called Magnetic Balm.
See advertisement.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23

USE Dooley's Yeast Powder if you
relish light. sweet, wholesome biscuits. rolls.
pastry, etc. Your grocer sells it. Full weight
and strength
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23

An association of New York clerks
propose building large hotel on the
cooperative system, to see if they can
not reduce their weekly board biRs,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23

An enterprising young farmer, living
in Illinois, who had little spare time
at his command, applied year ago to
the New York Life Insurance Company
for an agency. The necessary papers
were forwarded to him and he made a
clean sweep of two counties. Since
then he has taken two more counties
and gone regularly into the business.
He says that it pays better than any
business he has ever undertaken, for the
plans of the company are so popular
that he finds it easy work There are
thousands of neighborhoods where an
agency for this grand old company can
still be had. If you apply, send full
particulars, age, former business, with
two names as references, to the head
office at 346 and 34S Broadway, n. Y.
SOME say that the use of tobacco is
another form of intemperance, but no man is
For sale at all furnishing stores.
THERE man in our town,
And he was wondrous wise,
He had pain from ear to ear,
Another between his eyes;
And when he saw he had catarrh,
With all his might and main
He purchased Sage's Remedy
And has his health again.
It is sold by druggists everywhere. 639.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-23
Chicago,
milwaukee
& st. Paul
Railway.
milwaukee & 81. Paul railway Coz

TXTENDING FROM CHICAGO TO MILWAU-
II k.e, La Crosse. WinOnn. Hastings, st. Paul aud
Minneapolis. Also to Madison, Prairie du Chen,
Austin, Owatonua, Charles city, Mason city and
AlgOEa; also to GAINESVILLE, Monroe, Rpou, Berlin
and Oshkosh.
Embracing more business centres and pleasure
resorts than any other Northwestern line.
Chicago Depot-Corner Canal aud Madison Sts.:
with PittSburg, Fort Wayne IL Pennsylvania, and
Chicago, Alton q Il. LOUIS Railways.D
Milwaukee DepOt-COrner Reed and south Wa
ter streets.
Connecting in 81. Paul with all Railways diverg.
ing thence,
New York Offices Broadway.
Boston Oifice-i Court street.
General Office Milwaukee. Wis.
- =. MERRILL. Genl Manager
JNo. c. GAULT, Assn GEM Manager.
V. II. CARPENTER. q. Z aud II. Ag't.