The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-28

The time is AuguSt-only late spring
at this altitude of more than 1000 feet,
with streakings of constant snow on the
northern faces of the cliffs, while flow
ers bloom on sunny exposures. The
hour is sunrise The spectator seems
to stand ON a rocky mound, which is
gemmed with yellow, crimson and blue
flowers, among which are few gray ar
temisia a splendid group of pi1aalS pom
derOs0 rising q little beyond, catching
the early light and breaking it into
straight shafts as its falls on the ground |
and athwart their cuir-colored trunks. |
To the right rises the sheer precipice of /
a granite cliff for 1000 feet, it's base |
nearly reaching the lake below, its
splintered crest touched with the 'hea- |
venly alchemy" of GLORIOUS morning."
Through this cliff. the road-bed and |
blasted, and some of the dead trees |
which the flying rocks cut down are |
seen lying in the declivity, or standing |
bare of branches. The railroad, with |
its enveloping snow-bed, is indicated |
plainly enough without any obtrusiOn |
of its ugliness, the puff of blue smoke
that the train left as it plunged into a
short tunnel suggesting with touch of
beauty all that is not seen. At the foot,
far below, winds the Dutch fiat wagon
road, which was the pioneer of the rail
way, and over which much of the early
freightage to and from Washoe was
transported slowly and costly It is |
only picturesque trail in the painting.
We look down to it over a tumbling sue
cession of hillocks which are really the
tops of mountains seen from a great ele-
walton, partly clad with cOniferOus trees
and bushes, dwarfed by distance and
foreshortening. To the left of these are
two tiny lakelets, circular, set in SCOOP
ed basins of granite, fed from melting
SHOWS and secret springs, and girdled
with conifers which are partly reflected
in the cold waters. But further down
into the middle of the picture, set deep
in the rocky fastness, lies the uneven
oval of Bonner lake, stretching to the
vaporous valley of the Truckee and
bounded by Il distance of mountain
peaks that rise like islands above the
mist, dominated by the square crest of
Mount Washoe, which overlooks good
part of Nevada. We have been looking
eastward all this time. The sun is only
about an hour high. The vapors that
shrouded the lake all night have lifted
at his touch, gathered into cumulous
masses, and are rolling off in line of
cloud, which is reflected in the classy
water. Just crimpled with faint cats
paw The surface inequalities on the
slopes descending to the lake from the
foreground, with their alternating light
and shade, are very finely felt The
picture, as whole, is remarkable for
its local truth Even in the details-in
the hOwery foreground and the groups
of stately trees-we see the results of
careful study. The conspicuous trees
are all portraits. The geology and fora
of the scene can be described from the
painters work. We feel confident that
it will be ranked among the very best
Mr.. Bierstadt has produced; and it has
been sold to G.. p Huntington of New
York, vice. president of the Central Pa
cifc railroad San Francisco Bulletin
How Mr.. McFadden Grew Rich.
Samuel McFadden was a Waterman
in bank. He was poor but honest,
and his life was without reproach.
/ The trouble with him was that he felt
he was not appreciated. His salary was
only four dollars a week, and when he
asked to have it raised the president,
cashier. and the board of directors
gldIGu du It'll JLIOlISu UIlSlI > JSCbdCICS,
and frOwned on him. and told him to go
out and stop his insolence, when HI
knew business was dull and the bank
could not meet its expenses now, let
alone lavishing one dollar on such
miserable worm as Samuel McFadden.
And then Samuel McFadden felt de
pressed sad, and the naughty scOrn OF
the president and cashier cut him to the
. soul. He would often go into the side
yard, and bow his venerable twenty
four-inch head, and weep gallons and
gallons of tears over his insignifcance,
| and pray that he might be worthy Of
the presidents and cashiers polite at
tentiOn.
One night a very happy thought
struck him; a gIaam of light burst up
on him, and gazing down the dim vista
of years with his eyes all blinded with
! Joyous tears, he saw himself rich and
respected. So Samuel McFadden fool
! ed around and got jimmy, monkey
wrench, a crOss-cut saw, a cOld-chisel, a
| drill, and about a ton of gunpOwder
| and nitro-glycerine. and those things.
/ Then. in the dead OF night, he went to
| the fire-proof sole, and, after working
at it awhile, burst the door and brick
/ into an immortal smash, with such a
perfect success that there was not
! enough of that safe left to make a car
/ pet-tack. Mr.. McFadden then proceed
/ ed to load up with coupons, greenback,
! currency, and specie, and to nail all the
! odd change that was lying anywhere,
so that he pranced out of the bank with
over million dollars on him. Hethen
retired to an Unassuming residence out
/ Of town, and sent word to the detectives
where he was.
A detective called on him the next
! day, with a soothing note from the cash
! Ter. McFadden treated it with lofty
scorn. Detectives called on him every
! day with humble notes from the presi-
dent, cashier, and board Of directors.
| At last the bank officers got up a mag
niicent private supper, to which Nc
! Fadden was invited He came, and as
| the bank officers bowed down in the
! dust before him, he pOndered well Ovegl
the bitter past, and his soul was filed
with exultatiOn.
Before he drove away in his carriage
| that night, it was all fixed that Mr.. Nc
! Fadden was to keep five hundred thou
sand dollars Of that money, and to be
unmOlested if he returned the other
| half. He fulfilled his contract like an
! honest man. but refused with naughty
disdain the offer Of the cashier to marry
his daughter.
Mac is now honered and respected.
He moves in the best society, browses
around in purple and fine linen and
other good clothes, and enjoys himself
first-rate. And often now he takes his
infant son on his knee, and tells him of
his early life, AMI instils holy princi-
pies into the child's mind, and shows
him how, by industry and perseverance,
and frugality, and nitro-glycerine, and
monkey-wrenches, and cross-cut saws,
and familiarity with the detective sys-
TEN, even the poor may rise to af1iuence
and probability .-Mark Train.
To Make Cows Give Milk.
4 writer who says his COW gives all
the milk that is wanted in a family of
eight persons, and from which was made
two hundred and sixty pounds of butter
this year, gives the following as his
| treatment. He says: