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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22
Mr.. Warmers Garden Work.

Jubilate have got my garden all
hoed the first time l. / feel as if I had
put down the rebellion. Only there are
guerrillas left here and there, about the
borders and in corners, unsubdued-
Forrest docks, and Quantren grass, and
Beauregard pig-weeds. This first hoe
ing is a gigantic task it is your first
trial of strength with the never-sleeping
forces of nature Several times. in its
progress, was tempted to do as Adam
did, who abandoned his garden on ac-
count of the weeds. The only drawback
to my rejoicing over the finishing of the
first hoeing is, that the garden now
wantszhoeing the second time. I sup
pose If my garden we're planted in cir
Gle, and started round it with hoe, I
should never see an opportunity to rest.
The fact is, that gardening is the old IA
BILE of perpetual labor and I, for one,
can never forgive Adam Sisyphus, or
whoever it was, who let in the roots of
discord. / had pictured myself sitting
at eve with my family, in the shade of
twilight, contemplating garden hoed.
Alas it is dream not to be realized in
this world. My mind has been turned
to the subject of fruit and shade trees
in garden. There are those who say
that trees shade the garden too much,
and interfere with the growth of the veg
etables. There may be something in
this but when 1 go down to the potato
rows, the rays of the sun glancing up
on my shining blade, the sweat pouring
from my face, [ should be grateful for
shade. What is a garden for The
pleasure of man. [ should take much
more pleasure in a shady garden. Am I
to be sacrifice |, broiled, roasted, for the
sake of the increased vigor of few veg
etables? The thing is perfectly absurd
If / were rich I think would have my
! garden covered with an awning, so that
| it would be comfortable to work in it. It
might roll up and be unmovable, as the
great awning of the Roman coliseum
was, not like the Boston one, which went
! off liz Il high wind. Another very good
way to do, and probably not so expen-
sive as the awning, would be to have
four persons of foreign birth carry sort
| of canopy over you as you -hoed. And
| there might be person at each end of
| the row with some cool and refreshing
| drink. Agriculture is still in a barba-
rous stage. [ hope to live to see the day
when can do my gardening as tragedy
is done, to slow and soothing music, and
attended by some of the comforts have
named. These things come so forcibly
into my mind sometimes as I work, that
perhaps, when a wandering breeze lifts
my straw hat, or bird lights on a near
currant-bush, and shakes out full:
throated summer song, I almost expect
to find the cooling drink and the hospi-
table entertainment at the end of the
row. But I never do. There is moth
ing to be done but to turn round and
hoe back to the other end.-Iribane.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22
The Postal Trouble with France,

Our postal authorities have stated their
ultimatum to the French Minister rela-
tive to the proposed postal treaty with
France. The last proposition of the
French government fixes letter postage
at nine cents, and requires our govern
ment to pay for sea transportation both
WAYS. Mr.. Creswell proposes, as a fina-
lily, to fix the rate at nine cents for let
tiers on the basis of one-half ounce and
one-third ounce, according to the stand
ard of the country from which they are
dispatched free to destination without
the interchange of accounts, each coun-
try to pay its own sea postage. The diff
ference in the standard of letter weight
between the two countries, France ale
lowing but one-third ounce for single
postage, has long occasioned serious
complications. It is very difficult to adj
just the amounts by reducing the weight
to the different standards. The adop-
ton of a treaty with two different stand
ard would, doubtless, ultimately require
our government to furnish postmasters
with scales adapted to the metric sys-
tenn. The marquis de Noailles express
es his fears that this proposition may
not meet the approval of his govern
ment. The recognition of the different
standards of weights he regards as a Sc
rious objection, inasmuch as France has
treaties with all European countries on
the basis of ten grammes, or one-third
ounce. He considers that other coun-
tries, and the people of France them
selves, might demand the choice of a
half-ounce standard, if it should be per-
mitted to the United States. However,
the postmaster-general, who has now
been four years engaged in this matter,
considers that the time has come for an
ultimatum, and it is probable that. if
this proposition is not accepted, the
negotiations. will, for the present, be
discontinued
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22
Language of the Fan.

A Spanish Iady's fan has a language
of its own, which her eyes are said to
interpret. AS the fans are held, or
waved or shaped, they tell us whether a
lady is married or single, widow, or
not disinclined to marry, willing to
fiirt, sentimental or practical, for what
quality she esteems you, and upon what
she prides herself Flowers have also
a mute expression, which we are, in this
latter age, too prosaic and unromantic
to use. The French women of the re-
public employ jewelry to symbolic
sentiment. Perhaps it is a recommen-
dation that it has none of the simplicity
of the customs of older times and other
nations with less jaded tastes. A ring
worn by lady, when ornamented with
pearls and garnets, signifies sad heart.
A gordian knot in plain gold, worn by a
gentleman, is an advertisement for a
wife; if 'on the finger of lady, for a
husband. A doubt of the sincerity of a
lovers intentions is ring in the figure
of snake, with precious jewel in its
head. Good faith and the absence of
suspicion are signifed by two hands
Joined together, wrought in simple gold.
A lady with an extensive assortment of
rings thus relieves herself of much en-
barrassing explanation.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22
The Zone of Life.
Ingignifoant as is the SPOT We inhal

insignificant as is the spot we inhabit,
e zone of life, the area which not only
all that live and breathe and move in
habit but in which all vegetation is con-
tanned. is still more limited. From the
submarine forests in the lowest depths
of the sea, to the highest altitude to
which the condor scars, above the per-
petual snow is but twelve miles. Within
those scanty limits, six miles of air above
us, six miles of water beneath, every
thing that has vitality is confined. If
the salamander lives in the central fire,
the exception is so small as scarcely to
be worth mentioning. The air presses
upon the earth with force equal to SO
| feet of water, and upon every average
| human body with weight of Is tons,
which only does not squash us fiat as
pancakes, because the air surrounds us
on all sides, including our insides, and
thereby the weight is balanced To
most of us nature is one vast mirage,
suggesting intimate delusions; and even
to the learned many things still remain
to be cleared up by slow moving science
| in future ages. Who would imagine,
upon the face of the matter, for instance,
| that in an airless world not sound
| could be heard. On the contrary, in
still and silent space, one would con-
cieve that we might hear pin drop
from the moon. Hawksbee demonstra-
ted the contrary of this fact in memo
rable experiment before the royal socie-
| ty, $50 years ago. He placed a cork
under the receiver of an air pump in
such a way that the striking of the
clipper would continue after the air had
been exhausted while the receiver was
full of air, the sound was quite audible,
when it was empty all was silent. Again
when the air was introduced there was
| feeble sound, growing in intensity as
the air grew denser. At the top of
Mont Blanc the report of pistol is no
louder than that of a common cracker
let off at the level of the sea. "Above
two miles," says Mr.. Glaisher, who, as
| everybody knows, is an @ronaut of con-
siderable experience, " all noise ceases.
[ never encountered a silence more COM
.plete and solemn than in tho heights of
the atmosphere, in those chilling soil
tudes to which no f.. terrestrial sound
reaches" On the other hand, clouds
absolutely facilitate the transmission OF
sound. Above a great city, to the
height of from 1000 to ], 800 feet, there
is always a noise, " immense, colossal
and indescribable The whistle of a
steam engine is heard at 10000 feet, the
noise of train at 5000, says NJ. Flam-
marion; but Mr.. Glaisher testifes tc
having heard this latter when 22,OOC
feet up in the air the barking of dog
and the report of gun rise each up to
5000 feet the shouts of a crowd OF
people, the growing of cock, the toll.
ing of a bell, to 5000, and the shout OF
human being to $500 feet. Chambers
| Too,n,,oT
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22
Medicinal Potsons ON the wane,

The patriaTchs took no mercury, no bismuth, no
iodine, no bromide of potassium, no strychoria, no
quinine. Happy gentlemen! they did rot even
know of the existence of these Specifics and yet
they lived until it seemed as if death had forgotten
them. Their medicines were herbs and roots.
They nave left this fact on record, and the world
seems to he now taking note of it and returning
the first principles of medication. Hostetters
stomach Bitters, the purest and most eficacious
vegetable restorative of the day, is also the most
popular. Thousands of persons who only a few
years ago believed implicitly in all the poisons
which figure IN the pharmacapia now pronounce
this paatable tonic and Alternative an al-suficient
remedy for dyspepsia nervous debility, constipa-
ton, bilious complaints, headache, intermittent
fevers and all the ordinary disturbances of the
stomach the liver, the discharging organs and the
brain The time is not far distant when most of
the powerful and venomsus drugs now so reckless
Iy administered by practitioners of the " heroic -
school, in that might easily be controlled by
philosophical physicians. AS IL is. the thinking
public, who are generally ahead of the profession
ais have already put the dangerous preparat Ons
aside and adopted Hostetters Bitters in their stead
as a safe and excellent household medicine,
adapted to almost ailment except the organic
and deadly contagious diseases. For more than
twenty Years this famous restorative and proven
tive has been annually strengthening its hold upon
pu hlic confidence and IL takes the lead OF
every advertised medicine manufactured in this
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

UNsoUeHT BEAUTY. This beauty of
nature which is seen and felt as beauty
is the least part. The shows of day, the
dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains,
orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight,
shadows in still water and the like, if
too eagerly hunted, become shows
merely, and mock US with their unreali-
ty. Go out of the house to see the
moon and it is mere tinsel it will not
please as when its light shines upon
your necessary journey. In private
places, among sordid objects an act of
truth of heroism seems at once to draw
to itself the Sky as its temple, the sun
as its candle. Nature stretched out her
arms to embrace man, only let his
thoughts be of equal greatness. Will
ing does she follow his steps with the
rose and the violet and bend her lines
of grandeur and grace to the decoration
of her darling child. Only let his
thoughts be of equal scope, and the
frame will suit the picture. Emerson.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

The whole number weighed 3,605
pounds, or a fraction less than 112
pounds average. We had 400 loads of
good manure, fully the equivalent in
value of all the hay and straw consumed
by the sheep. You will see that we
confne our sheep very closely. [ am
satisfied that they do much better so
confined than when suffered to roam
over the fields. The hay and straw and
grain were all fed under one shelter,
and the sheep had free access to water
and salt, as before stated. [ consider
this provision indispensable, and ven
ture to say you cannot fatten sheep
prohtably without it. After an expert
ence of twenty years in feeding sheep,
am also fully persuaded that the con
hnement of which [ have spoken'is pre-
ferable to larger liberty. This winter
we are feeding 400, and giving 800
pounds of grain day. They cannot
eat so large amount at two feelings, so
we feed three times a day, giving also
all the straw they want, but no hay.
The grain is ground feed and shelled
corn, for [ find sheep will do better on
mixed feed. You will see that this bu-
siness of feeding sheep in the winter to
sell in the spring markets does not in
terfere with the other regular business
of the farm whether it be raising grain
or other interests that require attention
during spring and summer. We buy
the sheep in the fall. and turn them off
before the close of March. I may add,
[ have fed all kinds, and all the breeds
in common use, and my success has
been greatest with grade merino weth-
ers. They are more hardy, and do bet
ter in large fiocks than the coarse wool
breeds.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22
THE MOST THOROUGH PURIFIER OF :
Izl.an InIaCnN-EIlEn


CURES ALL HUMORS, FROM A COMMON
ERUPTION TO THE WORST SCROFULA.
Ry its use Cancers are cured, and
Cancerous tumors are dispersed without the sur
geon's knife-Scrofula conquered, and Consump-
ton prevented and cured.
Venereal Diseas es. Mercurial and Miner
al Poisons and their effects eradcated, and vigor-
GUS health and a sound constitution established.
Female Weakness and Disease
Dropsy general or partial; Swellings. external or
internal; and TumOrs are reduced and dispersed
ia q very short time.
Fever Sores are soon removed by this powerful
detergent medicine.
Sc0rbutfc Diseases, Dandruff, ScalY
or Rough Skin, and Pimples quickly give way,
leaving the skin smooth and fair.
Chronic Diseases, Fever and Ague, Dis
ordered Liver, Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Nervous
Affections General Debility, in short, all the
numerous diseases caused by bad blood are con-
1uered end give way before this most powerful
Corrector, the King of the Blood
Each bottle contains between forty and
fftv ordinary doses costing only one dollar
From one to four or five bottles will
cure Salt Rheum Seald Head, Ring Worm, Plm-
plies on the Face, Biles, ordinary Eruphons, ETC.
From two 10 eight bottles will cure
Scaly Eruptions of the Skin, Ulcers, Sores, and
Canker in the Mouth and Stomach Erysipelas,etc.
From two TO ten bottles wf1l restore
healthy action to the Liver and Spleen, will reg
ulate the Bowels and Kidneys
FrOnn two to six bottles will be found
efectual in curing Neuralgia, Slck-Heauache' 81
Vitus Dance, and Epilepsy.
From five TO twelve bottles VIII cure
the worst cases Of ScrOfula. -,
From three to twelve bottles VIII
nure severe and obstinate cases Of Catarrh.
From two to four bottles Will cure the
worst cases of Piles, and regulate Costive Bowels
From two TO ten bottles VIII cure
bad cases of Dropsy.
Price 81 per bottle, or bottles for s..
Sold by all Druggists
D. RANSOM, SON & CO., PrOpr's,
can+aetir,oniaIsi in local column. Buffalo, n. \,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

VALUATIONS.
Foss1r. REmA1Ns-The Pittsbnro o.

FOSSIL REMAINS. Pittsbur9 Com
mercial says: In Westmoreland county,
several workmen recently unearthed the
petrifed body of man. From the alb
domen upward all was in a perfect state
of preservation, excepting a portion of
the face, the right side of which was
filled with innumerable small holes, APP
parently made by some insect, and pre-
senting a honeycomb appearance. Mere
ly the outlines of the lower part of the
body were discernible, and fell to pieces
as soon as exposed to the air. At the
right side of the body were found sew
eral arrows, stone knives, and various
other implements of unknown use, in
Guiding an oval-shaped stone, about
three feet in circumference and a few
inches in thickness, and covered with
several hieroglyphics. Under the left
arm was found the skull of some enor-
nous bird of the crane species.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

POPULAR FA1LACY AND DEoEPTIoNs.-
It is an infrmity of man to cling to the
teachings of past generation, and to
stubbornly resist the light of reform
and progress. Health-reform and tenn
growth are jealousy watched
over by the poison bitters compounders.
One great prevailing deception of the
present age, is the impression that
every human biped of either sex must
be stimulated, and the poisoned chalice
is labeled "Medicated Bitters, the bet
ter to paIliate their use and prolong the
epidemic. One of the most jealous
workers to cure this malady, DR.. Joseph
Walker, inventor and proprietor of the
famed California Vinegar Bitters, be-
ieves in making bitters that are =" true
medicine" and advises the sick man to
swallow draught that will wash out
the leprosy of his disease. In this faith
he is steadfast, and his Vinegar Bitters,
though a contradiction to the general
character of all other bitters, are, as a
great success and life vitalizer, evidence
of one popular fallacy and corrected.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22


Ggar BitterS are a purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the ma
tive herbs found on the lower ranges Of
the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor-
mia, the medicinal properties of which
are extracted therefrom without the use
of Alcohol. The question is almost
daily asked, "What is the cause of the
unparalleled success of VINEGAR BIT
rERs?" Our answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient re-
covers his health. They are the great
blood purifier and a life giving principle,
a perfect Renovator and mvigoratOr
of the system. Never before in the
history of the world has medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities of VINEGAR BITTERS in healing the
sick of every disease man is heir to. They
are q gentle Purgative as well as Tonic,
relieving Congestion or Inflammation of
the Liver and yisceral Organs, in Bilious
Diseases.
The properties of DIR. WALKERS
VINEGAR BITTERs are Apcrient Diaphoretlc,
Carminativc, Nutritious, Laxative, Dluretle,
Sedative, Counter Irritant, SudOrltlc, Alsera'
tive, and Ambitious,
II. II. MCDONALD d CO.,
Druggists and len. CTS, San Francisco, California
and cor. of Washington and Charlton SITS, N Y.
Sold by all Druggists and Dealers.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22
EoRGEr ME NOT


1t may be, mid the sacred, solemn places
Where now your home is set,
1t may be, ringed around with seraph faces,
You do not quite forget.
The little home beside the sunny meadow,
(The sunshine died with you)
And this poor visage, now the faded shadow
OF features once you knew;
And yet fear, alas so fair is heav'n,
SO dear the dead above,
What are we, earth and I, that it were given
To us to keep your lover
Still by the form DER which the mound
nodded
In yonder hallowed spot,
Sweet seraph, in celestial clasp1ngs folded
Love and forget me not
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

WE see that Proctor & CANDLES
EXTRA OLIVE Soar is becoming very
popular in our city, it's quality we know
is superior, and being nicely perfumed
we are not surprised that consumers
prefer it, and that it has large sale.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

WANTED. National Life Insur-
ance Company of the United States of
America, wants an agent in every town
in the country, and will pay literally
for business secured. The principal
features of the company are its great
financial strength, its low premiums,
and its liberal policies. Its plans are
easily understood, and those devoting
only portion of their time to insur-
ance are enabled often times to accom-
plish gratifying results, We do not
know of company better deserving of
patronage by those wanting insurance,
nor one with which an agent could more
advantageously connect himself. d. A.
Rollins is president, and Jay Cooke IS
chairman of the finance committee.
Address branch Office of company, at
Philadelphia.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

THE TRUE HARVEST OF LRE.-No
man ever followed his genius till it
missed him. Though the result were
bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one
can say that the consequences were to
be regretted, for these were life in
continuity with higher principles. If
the day and the night are such that you
greet them with Joy, and life emits a
fragrance like flowers and sweet scented
herbs, is more elastic, more starry,
more immortal, that is your success.
All natures your congratulation, and
you have cause momentariIy to bless
yourself. The greatest gains and values
are farthest from being unprecedented,
we easily come to doubt if they exist
Perhaps the facts most astounding. and
most real are never communicated by
man to man. The true harvest of NV
daily life is somewhat as intangible and
understandable as the tints of morning or
evening, is little star dust caught,
fragment of the rainbow which have
clutched. THoreau.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

The Peoria Review man tells his
story of sharp Juvenile of that city ::
In a vigorous chase after rats, Friday
afternoon, a boy on Jefferson street
broke down shelf in the cellar and
inundated six jars of preserves. He
gazed on the ruins without a sigh,
caught and killed the rat, laid it among
the debris, and daubing his faithful
dogs nose and legs with the fruit, sent
him up stairs, while the boy hid in the
coal shed. He heard feminine shrieks
of dismay; he heard the wrathful OBJ
iurgations of his sire he heard the I'M
suspecting dog led into the back yard
and shot, and spreading forth his hands
said solemnly, Another victim of cir
cumstantial evidence"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

Ii YOU don't want to disgust every
body with your offensive breath, cure your
catarrh upon which it depends. $500 reward
is offered by the proprietor of DIR. Sages Ca
tarrh Remedy for a case of catarrh which he
cannot cure. 1t is sold by druggists $50.
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CANvAssInG BOOKS SENT FREE FOR
PROF, FOWLER'S GREAT WORK

On Manhood, Womanhood and their Mutual
Inter-relations; Love, It. Laws, Power, etc
Agents are selling frOH 20 20 30 copies % thla
work n day, and we send n canvnating p,5pk Nee 70
any book agent. Address. stating rEpcf cnce ttc't
NATIONAL. PUBLISH fNN co. So LOUIS MO-
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

"A London paper says that the roof
of Westminster abbey, in which chest
nut was used, was recently examined,
and found to be perfectly sound. It is
nearly 500 years old.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

You who lead sedentary lives, print
tiers, tailers, shoemakers, etc, will find great
relief for the constipation from which you so
often suffer by taking Simmons Liver Regula-
tor. 1t is simple, harmless, vegetable COM
pound, sure to relieve you, and can do no in
i17ryr
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22

MANY of our readers, who are looking
about for something to do, can find
pleasant and profitable employment in
the business of life insurance. 1t re-
quires no capital, save a horse and bug
gy to travel through the county, and
to active men the recompense is certain.
We recommend the selection of some
strong old company like the New York
Life, with large assets and liberal plans,
one that is popular wherever known,
and one too that everybody knows.
A man who takes applications for life
insurance is doing good. It is in every
sense a good business. A letter drop
ped to the home office of this company,
at 346 and 348 Broadway New York,
will meet with a ready response. Try it.