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Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-22
The Philosophers stone.

The eccentric but brilliant John
Randolph once rose suddenly in the
house of representatives, and
screamed out the top of hls shrill
voice: ''AIr. Speaker Mr.. Speaker
L have discovered the philosophers
stone. 1t is-pay as you go J" John
Randolph dropped many rich gems
from his mouth, but never a richer
one that. "Pay as you CO." and you
need not dodge sheriffs and consta-
bles. "Pay as you 60" and you can
walk the streets with an erect back
and manly front, and have no fear
Of those you meet. You won't have
to cross the street to avoid dun, or
look intently in = shop window, in
order not to see a creditor. "Pay
as you CO." and you can snap your
finger at the world; and when you
laugh, it will be 4 hearty, honest
one, and not like the laugh of the
poor debtor, who looks around as
though he was in doubt whether the
laugh was not the property of his
creditors, and not included in arti-
cles exempted from attachment"
''Pay as you 60" and you will meet
smiling faces at hOme-happy, cher
ry-cheeked, smiling children "a con-
tented wife-a cheerful hearthstone.
john Randolph was right. 1t is the
philosopher stone.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-22
H HUMANITY.

Rut poesy springs not from rocks and
woods;
Her womb and cradle are the human heart.
And she can find 4 nObler theme for song
In the most loathsOme man that blasts the
sight
Than In the broad expanse of sea and shore
Between the frezen deserts Of the poles.
TLOlreH
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-22
Notice to Creditors.

Office of the Clerk and Master,
In Chancery at jackson, Ten
neSSce.
EHNHE administration of the estate Of Jno.
Il X. Alston. deceased, having been
transferred from the County TO the Chance
~ Conrt, all creditors of said estate are
hereby notified 10 file their claims with me,
within the time prescribed by law.
ID. NJ. WISDOM, G. < NJ.
Ian odd IS73-tt
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-22
Southern Hotel,
Fronting on 4th, 9Th and Walut Sts.,
SAINT LOUIS, MO.
LAVEILLE, TYARNER &c co, Prop'r.

TIME Southern Hotel is first-class in all
Il its appointments. Its tables are at all
times supplied in the greatest abundance, +,
with all the deicacies the market affords.
It's clerks and employees are all polite
and attentive to the wants Of the guests Of
the Hotel.
There il an improved elevator leading
from the first floor TO the upper one.
Isailroad and Steamboat Ticket offices,
News Stand, and West IN Union Telegraph
oillce in HOtunda Of the Hotel.
feb S-tf
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-22
EvERY sATuRsAr,
ADVERTISING RATES.

fIi- one inch space constitutes square
Where advertisements are ordered 10 De
.,nusuaIIy displayed they will be charged
for according TO the space they occupy; one
inch to constitute square.
Sheriffs, Clerks and Rangers " no send
Us their patronage viii recGive the wing
without charge.
TCANDIDATEs-FOr announcing can
didates for County Offices and the LeSisla-
ture, SO; for Congress $50; Tor Munlclpai
and civil district Offices, S5-all in advance.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-22

In trading, he gets most by his
commodity, that can forbear his
money the longest; so does the
Christian, that can with most pa
thence stay for a return of his PRAYER.
Such a soul shall never be ashamed
of his waiting.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-22

An excellent rule for living hap
PLY in society is never 10 concern
ones self with the affairs of others
unless they wish for or desire it,
Under pretense of being useful peo-
pie often show more curiosity than
affection.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-22

Should hell cast all its fiery darts
against US, if our will be right, II il
be informed by the divine win, they
can do us no hurt; we have then, il
may so speak an enchanted shield.
that is impenetrable, and VIII bear
of all
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-22

a young man should be mindful
of the unspeakable importance Of
early industry, since in youth habits
are easily formed, and there is time
TO recover from all defects.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-22
Trustees Sale.
On saturday, March e2, 1877

On Saturday, March %, 1875,
q viii sell at the Court house door. in
4 Jackson. 10 the highest bidder, the fol-
lowing described town lot, with all the
tenrmcntS aud improvements thereon:
Situated i'm the city oi jackson, Madison
county. Tennessee, and bounded aS fol-
lows. 10 vii: Beginning on the East side
uf Shannon street, 1t the Northwest cor
u,.r at the lot belonging 10 w. 5. Caltaway,
now occupied by II. l.. Binford as Il private
residence; runs thence East with the North
line Of said lot to its Northeast corner:
thence North 70 North alley; thence West
with the South side OF said alley 10 its out
or section with shannon Street; thence
south 70 the beginning
Said house and lot will be sold as the
property OF ID. D. March and Emoline
March. TO satisfy deed of trust executed
ro me by said ID. q. March and Emeline
March on the 2lSt day OF December, 1871.
Title 10 said property considered unques-
tionable. but will convey only AS Trustee.
rST TERMS CASH.
J.C.M NJ. GARLAND,
febl5-aW. Trustee.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-22

If there is any person to whom
YOU feel dislike, that is the person
of whom you ought never TO think
much less to speak.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-22


Commit the following to memory
and you viii have at your tongues
end" the names of the monarchs of
England from the time of the Con-
quest down to the present date:
First William the Norman, rhen william
his son,
Henry, Stephen and Henry, then Richard
and John,
Next Henry the Third, Edwards one. two
and three,
And again after Richard three Henrvs we
see,
Tive Edwards, Third Richard, If nightly 1
guess,
Two Hearys, sixth Edward. Queens Mary
and Bees.
Then Jamie the scott, then Charles. whom
they slew,
Then followed Cromwell, another Charles
too,
Next James, called the Second. 7scended
the throne,
Then William and Mary together came
on,
TIL Annie, Georges four, and fourth
William al past,
God sent them Nictoria. the youngest and
last.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-22
LegnI Rate of Intero.,.

A bill wasintroduced in the House
by AIr. Perkins to make the legal
rate of interest six per cent, but
not to interfere with the rate of bor-
rowing or lOaning money. This
would practically repeal the usury
laws, and leave the price of money
on the market to be regulated by
the supply and demand, Just as any
other commodity representing val
ne. We hope the bill will pass with
out opposition. Six per cent. will
do very well as legal rate, but cap
italists cannot be forced to lend
money at that rate, nor can evasions
OF the usury law be often detected
or brought to light. The hardship
is on the borrower, who is cOmpell-
ed to put up cOllaterals instead of
giving lien or deed OF trust on
real estate. If he fails at a given
time TO pay back the money his val
uables are forfeited and sold. But,
IN the other case, where the debt is
secured by reality, he has more time
IN which to redeem his property, be-
cause transfers are not made SO
readily. The lender has all the ad-
vantage under the present law, and
seldom exacts less than three times
as much in collaterals as the money
loaned.-AeDl. Ledger.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-22
PURELY VEGETABLE.

This unriyalIcd Medicine Is warranted
not 30 contain a single particle Of MERCURY
or any injurious mineral substance, but :is
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-22

1T was a sad funeral 10 me, said
the speaker: "the saddest have at
tended for many years"
That of Edmendson.'
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-12-05
Cramming Children.

Cramming has defeated more than one
parents mbition-spoiled more brains
than it ever filled. Parents forget, or per-
haps never realize, that each child has a
separate and distinct individuality, to
which it has the most perfect right. The
world, in its heedlessness and Indifference,
may and will int rfere with this self-owner-
ship; but the parent has no excuse for
combative management. Artists are born
musicians are born so are writers,
may bend the twig of a wilow-tree till
doomsday, and you cannot put apples on
the boughs. So you may try to make a
civil engineer out of young man who
cares for nothing under the sun but the
harmony Of sweet sounds-to whom vio-
lin or piano is clover, friend and home"
You may unfit him for both professions
Chat is nothing uncommon), but make
a surveyor he will not, though you wear
yourself out in the cndeavor. There are
a few, very few children. whose temper
ments are so plastic, and whose natural
gifts are so numerous and varied, that they
take to almost everything with equal
facility. These are the exceptions, and
should on no account be set up as models
for your children, who are called by nature
for especial departments ofwork. Another
thing-ifyou particularly desire to make
fools or rogues ofyour little ones, constant
ly repress them. For the production of
such results there is nothing like it. Mo-
theirs are "nervous;" Ooh! if something
could he done to strengthen the nerves of
American women,) and fathers are tired
neither wants to be "bothered." Conse-
quently, the little questioners are snubbed,
and hurried off to bed, or confined in the
nursery, or worse than all, sent off to the
street, to find the companionship they are
denied at home. Who is to blame if such
children develop into busybodies, tattlers
and rowdies, or grow up sullen, dissatis-
fed members Of society There is no
question bt fore men of 80 much real i'm
portance as this one of rearing children.
Its consequence cannot be over-estimated.
Children have rights which parents and
guardians are bound to respect; and the
sooner these trainers and instructors of
youth become familarized with the idea,
the better it will be for the coming man
and woman.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-12-05
Home AdOrnings.

The best adornment which any one, how
ever knowing or skilful, or active, can bring
to any habitation is uniformly cheer
full, smiling face, and the loving spirit
which irradiates it. That brings sunshine
within the household, better than any
which can come from without, and peace to
its happy possessor, as we'll as to all behold
ers. One who bears within him wherever
he goes, q genial and generous disposition,
a benign aspect, kind words and gentle
manners, with, when tenderly appropriate,
the sweet influence of golden silence also,
reflects itself to all eyes, from everywhere
around him. The home, where such one
goes out and in, at morning and at even
ing, is to the weary, aching hearts ofothers
the very gate of heaven.
But there are physical, intellectual, artis-
tic and moral adornments that belong to u
perfect home-to the preparation of which,
in the end, all the growing family history
should, at all times, powerfully tend. Even
a plain home can be made to have an air of
universal welcome in it, by its scrupulous
neatness and order, and by few trailing
vines without and summer flowers within,
and with plenty of light and air in its scan
ty apartments.
In most homes, in these privileged days,
engravings can be, at least in a few Of them,
easily obtained, to be hung upon the walls
or placed for more careful and studious
observation in well-kept portfolios Stereo-
scopes are cheap and promotive, in their
way, of the aesthetic enjoyment and culture
of family. Music can be brought in some
form to lend its charms to the common cen
tire of family gladness.
Pleasing effects can be secured by little
skill in adapting colors to each other, in
the choice of carpets, wall paper and furni.
ture, and in their harmonious disposition
Much do books, choice books, grace any
home, or any hand, in which they are found
A home, however lavishly garnisbed with
wealth or art, and all the more so for any
sach pleasing and gratifying contrast, seems
to be utterly tame and spirtless to one
visiting it who finds it void of books, or of
all books but those which are cheap and
frivolous. Even a newspaper or monthly
magazine of any character, laying around
in a house, advertises the fact at once that
there is some intellectual vitality within
its walls, and that mere material things do
not shut out all higher thoughts from the
hearts of its inmates.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-12-05

open place on the mountain side, and there
within about 40 yards of him, he saw his
two dogs at the root of tree, and three
bears in the top, one of them very large
one. Although it was his purpose to take
them all he selected the largest first. The
tree was on the opposite side of the chasm
from him, and on firing, the bear rush
ed down the tree and seizing one of the
dogs by the head slid down into the bot
tom of the chasm, where Wilbur, in his
eagerness to relieve his dog, met him, and
there they met all in pile. He had left
his empty gun behind, and it was now, as
he expressed it, hand to hand fight, be-
tween q 400 pound bear and himself, the
dog having been disabled. For few min
utes they took it lick about, with this diff
ference-Wilburn not striking lick amiss
with his tomahawk, while he successfully
lodged each pass of the bear. They were,
by this time, within dozen PAGES of
beetling precipice, towering above the tops
of the tallest trees, toward which the bear
turned and made q rush, when Wilburn
mounted him, and gave him the last fatal
lick between the eyes with his tomahawk,
just as his fore feet dropped over the edge
of the cliff. One foot farther, or one lick
less, and they both would have pitched
headlong hundred feet or more down
jagged rocks, and the bears and wolves
would hereafter have prowed and depre
dated at will in that locality, as their NOR
tai foe would have gone to the happy hunt
ing grounds where his fathers and people
have long since gone.
Wilburn has the skin of the bear with
him here now, and it is as large as an or
binary blanket. Wilburn was 81 years
old yesterday-the goth day of November
and will follow q bear or gang of wolves
from so to 100 miles, over the steepest and
toughest mountains, and never fails to cap
ture his game.
If any of your readers would like to have
photograph of the remarkable man Of
whom have been writing, the artist who
took it can furnish any number at % cents
each, and l will take pleasure in seeing
that they are properly forwarded. have
no interest in the matter, other than de-
sire to see laudable curiosity gratiiied.
Respectfully, G. B. c.
ABINGDON, VA, Nov. 21st, 1878.
p. Wilburn will start on big wolf
hunt next week, TO point about 100 miles
east of here, in the spur of the Alleghanies,
and when he returns with his trophies l
will give you his report as he gives it to me.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-12-05
--a% -
Benefit of one Advertisement.

If there is one man on this continent
above another who appreciates the benefit
Of advertising, it is Orange Judd. A num-
Der of years ago, when he and his wife
spent their evenings in putting up pack
ages, and apenny had its full value to
them, he sent boy with check for 500
to the Herald Office, with instructions to
pay what was due, leave the rest for future
advertising. The boy being dull of COM
prehension did not understand him, and
told the bok-keeeper to use 800 for one
day. The next morning what was Mr..
Judd's horror on taking up the Herald to
see "Read the american Agriculturist" re-
peated for nearly whole column. He
rushed down to the Office for an explana-
ton, and found that they only followed
instructions, and there was no help for it..
"We are ruined" he said to his wife, "a
whole years advertising gone in day."
But instead Of being his ruin it was the
beginning of his success Immediately,
subscriptions poured in from all parts of
the country. The AgricultTist soon became
an institution and its proprietor is one ofthe
richest men in New York. MIR. Judd has
continued from the day of his lucky mistake,
to be one of the most extensive advertisers
in the country and he has his reward.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-12-05

VALUE OF CASTOR OIL.-We have used
neats-foot oil both in its simple form and
prepared in various ways, also the much
pulled and highly-vaunted harness and
leather preventative oils, sold in cans at
the stores; also all the oleaginous, butyra-
ceous, and other lugubrious substances
known to the farm kitchen, but we give
the preference over them all to castor oil.
We have had boots year old that we
oiled with it and the leather was soft.
smooth and waterproof to the last time
they were used. We apply it clear, with
out heat. A little lampblack mi ght be
used on old leather, but it is seldom neces-
sary on new, as the oil itself seems to keen
the backing on and renders the leather
black and of fine appearance. Those who
have been annoyed with hard, cracked,
water-soaked boots, the surface ofthe leath
er rough, without backing, and the eath-
or shrunken and wrinkled so as to chate
gall, and otherwise punish their feet, will
find castor oil, well applied, to be in every
way satisfactory. We have used it for
wagons and buggies, and find that it is in
every way superior 1t will wear longer.
lubricate better, and is the least obiectiona,
BILE of anything we know of We use but
very little at cnce, not enough to cause it
to run off and catch dirt at the end of the
hubs-C0r. Germantown Telegraph.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-12-05
Scientific Items.

Water boils in the open air at the level
of the sea at temperature of 212 degrees {;
once hot enough to boil, the excess of heat
being conducted away by the steam, it can
be made no hotter; but as boiling consists
in the formation of vapor within in the
water, of sufficient force to throw the wa
ter up against the atmosphere resting upon
its surface, its boiling temperature, ofcourse
depends upon the weight resting upoa its
surface; hence remove the air and it will
boil ut common temperatures, and if the
pressure of its own vapor be also removed,
it will boil until it freezes. This interes-
ting fact can be shown with good air
pump and little strong sulphuric acid to
absorb the vapor which the pump will not
remove. Shut within a steam boiler, the
pressure upon its surface is increased to any
degree within the limits of the strength of
the iron, and the temperature of the boil
ing point is thus raised, but not proper
tionately to the pressure, as has been found
by experiment.
Under pressure of three atmosphere or
about A Tbs. to the square inch, water boils
at 275 degrees, under four atmosphere or
about SO lbs. to the square inch, it boils at
2919 degrees, under five atmosphere, at
3045 degrees, and under ten atmospheres or
147tbs. to the square inch, at 1921 degrees;
thus slight increment oftemperature over
800 degrees calls for vast increase ofpres-
sure, so that it is probable that no vessel
ever made by man would resist water heat
ed to redness.
Under single atmosphere a cubic
inch of water forms 100 cubic inches of
steam, hence if flashed into steam instanta-
neously like gunpowder, it has almost
twice its explosive power. This happens
when water is thrown into red hot emp
ty boiler.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-12-05
Cost of Raising Wheat.

Mr.. William H. Gibson, in an address
before Farmers Association of Illinois,
made the following interesting statement
"The average price for wheat, corn, and
hay, for twenty-five years in st. Louis has
been for wheat, SIPS; corn, So cents; and
for hay, $20.S6 per ton" In making an
estimate on the profits of wheat culture, he
estimated land at $50 per acre, of which
the average yield of wheat was Is bushels,
corn 40, oats 40, and of hay II tons to the
acre; taxes about so cents per acre interest
on wear and tear of machinery, 20 per cent.
on first cost, which is about 20 cents Der
acre for the reaper and mower, 40 cents for
drill, and five cents per acre for tire plow,
&c.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-12-05
Poe tic al.

DO 1T.
II you've got sword to draw-draw it;
III you've any pluck to show-show it;
Opportunities are made
Hunt the sunshine, not the shade
Ii you've any pluck to show-show it.
If you've only wood to saw-saw it;
II you've but pillow TO hold-hold it
Brawny sinews herald health,
Deep-plowed burrows lead to wealth.
If you've but pillow to hold-hold it,
Have you cheering words to speak ?-speal
them,
That the sorrowing poor may help--help them
All are brothers here below
IT'S q world OF sin and woe;
Stretch the hand the poor to help-help them
Have you any wife to love ?--love her;
If you've any home to keep-keep it;
Rowing hearts come back with pain,
Youth once gone comes not again
If you've any home TO kecp-kcep it.
Were you born to be a man-be one;
ldleness is twin to crme-shun it,;
He who strives the goal can win,
Laggards drown in waves of sin;
ldleness is twin to crime-shun it.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-12-05

A German peddler sold man liquid
for discriminating bugs. "And how do you
use ts" inquired the man after he had
bought it. "Ketch tc bug un drop Won lit.
tie drop into his mouth" answered the
peddler. "Pshaw" exclaimed the pur-
chaser, ~ could kill it in half the time by
stamping on it. "Vell," explained the
German, "that is a good way too"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-12-05
The P. & O. Railroad Important Ar
rangement.

In the CHicdoHidH of Nov. list we
copied an article from the Portland
Press. which gave somewhat infinitely :.
important negotiations which have been
tor some time III progress between the
Eastern Railroad. the Portland X Og-
dcnshurg and The Montreal. Chamhly
and Sorcll railroads. These negotia-
ti"n> have now been completed and
the necessary papers signed.
BY virtue of the arrangement thus
effected, the early completion of Il new
aud shorter line from Portland and Hos-
ton To Montreal i assured. and an
other through trunk railway between
the West and the Atlantic. The East
en- Railroad, which now effects a juno
ton with the Portland and Ogdcnshurg
At North Conway, y. H.. has agreed to
guarantee To the latter road Il certain
fixed proportion of the gross receipts ON
all business over the entire line. an al
rangcment which is /" go into effect at
once. and L" continue permanently.
The Portland and Ogdcnshurg road. on
its part has secured all the necessary
charters and franchises ion the extern
son of It's line from sheldon. VT. hN Il
new and easy route, only sixty miles in
length, to Montreal. The greatest por-