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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-11
"VJVE LE ROTp

"The king is dead. long live the king!,'
Blue eyes are veiled, no! for the brown
A later smile extracts the sting,
And so the world goes up and down.
In green sea-caves maiden fair sH
Slept, braided DER by weed and shell,
With eorals braided in her hair, Fl
And waters murmuring her knell.
Upon the shore lover wept,
And cursed the storm and cursed the wave
And cursed the cruel sea that kept
His heart from breaking on her grave.
April last, tears fell softly down
Upon the primrose buds of May;
Each tear-drop and each yellow crown Ii.
Meath summer sunshine passed away. F
But, ere the roses August bloom, - .s-.- - -
Forgot were vows and sorrOwing wild
Beside the oceans emerald tomb
He looked in dusky eyes and smiled. EE
He crushed violet in his hand
1t was his dead loves favorite flower
The petals fell upon the sand,
And stained it with purple shower.
He told her hearts could never feel
But once such perfect love as this;
That not eternity could heal
lovers heart bereft of bliss.
She brightly blushed, nor said him nay,
Nor heard the story of those waves;
For her the months were always May,
Bright waters hid no dreary graves.
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4 BABY INTERVIEWED

TO LITTLE, ONE JUST A WEEK OLD.
Oaiy baby, fhout any hair,
Sept Just little fuzz here and there.
Only baby, name you have none:
Barefooted and dimpled, sweet little one.
Only baby, teeth none at all:
What are you good for only to sauau?
Only baby, just q week old:
What are you here for, you little scoId1
RABY's REPLY.
Only baby what should be9
Lots o big folks has been little like me.
'Aint dot any hair 'es have too:
'Sposen haven't, dess it TODD grow.
Not any teeth-wouldnt have one:
Don't det my dinner by gnawing a bone.
What am here for ? at pretty mean:
hhos dot better right, 7 ever You seen?
What am doOd for ? did you say;
Eoer so many good things, every day.
1ourse L squaI sometimes, sometimes bawl,
Ley dassant spant me, cause ], Sc so SMALL
Only baby, 'es sir, ats so;
N II you only could, you'd be one too.
Ats all have TO say: you're most too old,
Dess det into bed, toes dettin cold.
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Chinese Executions.

The Chinese Government is based on
two fictions: first, that the emperor Is
the Son Of Heaven; second, that he Is
the parent of the Chinese people. In
harmony with these principles, loyalty
to the state is inculcated not only as u
religious but as flial duty. But all
sentimental fictions are liable to abuse,
equally in politics and religion. Tho
code of Draco was not more cruel than
the parental discipline Of the Chinese
Empire. Passing by the palace OF the
Tai-tOu, with its ostentatious imperial
banners, we turned sharp corner, and
entered long, narrow, cheerless street.
Here, no gay sign-boards or banners re-
lieved the night. The shops are SOM
bre, and there are few travellers. IL is
the malefactor road-the street through
which the condemned convicts pass,
from the palace to the place of execI-
ton. II was almost night when we
were admitted, under a strong but low
gateway to q close area hundred feet
long, scarcely more than twenty fee
wide; on one side low stone-buildings
on the other a high blind wall /; n walk
paved with large fat stones in the mid
die of the court. A potter was noise
lessly at work shaping vessels, some 10
be used for receiving the blood, others
the hands and feet, and others the
heads of the victims. Sometimes only
a single execution takes place, but
usually short delays are made for tho
convenience of bringing executions to-
gether. They vary in number from two
to fifty, and, in times of political dis
turbance or fragrant piracy, fifty and
even a hundred executions take place at
once. DIR. Grey, who has studied Chi
nese history carefully, is Of opinion that
no field OF battle, ancient or modern,
has witnessed so much violent destruc-
ton of human life as this Aceldama.
The customary form is decaI alton.
When the condemned come within the
gate, they march up the paved walk and
take their places, kneeling inward on
either side. An imperial officer at the
upper end of the court reads, in dis
tinct voice, a rescript of their names,
crimes, and sentences. A practiced
executiener, with a long sword which
he wields with both hands, proceeds
down the line. The culprits stretching
their necks forward, the executioner,
swinging the instrument in continued
circles, completely sewers a head at
every blow. The heads fall into vases
filed with lime nevertheless, the pave
ment is besmeared with blood, and the
effiuvia rising from this horrible place
taints the atmosphere of the most dis
tant part OF the city. We saw crosses
leaning against the wall, prepared for
inhicting punishment in that form, and
many baskets, each of which contained
a head ready to be transported 10 the
city gates, and 70 distant parts of the
empire. -iSeUdrd's Travels.
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prussian Department Clerks.

A correspondent of the New York
Tribune, writing from Berlin, says A
department clerk, who must, as an in
dispensable condition, be a graduate OF
some university, and who may be able
to write dispatches, in half-a-dozen Ian
guages, receives, perhaps, n salary Of
$140O. Profound scholars, men who are
familiar with science, with philosophy.
with literature, with law, and who
might fill professorships in any OF these
departments, work faithfully in a gov
ernment bureau on salaries which bare
ly save their families from actual want
And they do not steal. They do not
dabble in stocks. They do not attend
caucuses, nor stuff ballot-boxes, nor
"make combinations" nor lie and
cheat, and bear false witness. They are
honest by education, by instinct, by pa
triotism. They work faithfully year at
ter year, on their meagre salaries,
prouder of their spotless names than OF
all the treasures of the world, ana
spending their leisure in the consola-
tions of pure philosophy.
Iowa employs 16,l teachers, ~
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TWO MOODS.

I plucked the harebells as went
Singing along the riverside
The skies above were opulent
Of sunshine. +" All what'er betide,
The world is sweet, is sweet" cried,
That morning by the riverside.
The curfews called along the shore;
The boats put out from sandy beach;
Afar heard the breakers roar,
Mellowed to silver-sounding speech;
And still I sang it DER and DER,
The world is sweet for evermorel I"
Perhaps, to-day, some other one,
Lettering along the riverside,
Content beneath the gracious sun, r
May sing, again, fWhate'r betide,
The world is sweet" shall not chide,
Although my song is done. rags
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Memory

Should we be gamers if the memory
of the world were strengthened so that
everybody could always recall at will
all the things he wishes to recall Most
people will probably be disposed to
think that this would be a questionable
boon, unless, indeed, an access of mem
ory brought with it at least an equal
acce's of judgment and sympathy.
Many persons lament their defective
memory, and wish they could tell You
things-"but my memory is so bad :"
and we secretly settle with ourselves
that " 1T is best as it is" for the tax on
our attention will be the less. Un-
questionably, attention becomes more
fastidious as the world grows older ;
we are more chary of it than our fore
fathers. Hence it may be observed
that memory does not now hold the
place it once did as an accomplishment.
Nowadays a good memory meets with
as little envy as any quality that can be
named; where it exists, it is not thought
worth while to dispute it. The way is
rather to magnify the wonder while de-
nouncing it as, in injndicious hands, a
dreadful engine of social oppression.
A good memory is to be kept out of
sight, like woman's learning, and only
aired when you are quite sure of your
company. 1t was not always so /; people
used to vie with one another in exercises
of recollection opportunities were de-
vised for its display friends recorded
extraordinary feats. In the summary
of qualities in old biographies memory
takes a prominent place its triumphs
are enumerated, the injurious surmises
of adversaries and suspicious doubters
are disproved. But perhaps people
discovered that when memory was cnl-
tivated as an art it was rarely put to its
best uses. The elaborate compliments
gabbled over so correctly by Thomas
Diafoirus were a satire on a system that
did not always put the wisest foremost.
Men of thought and learning were
baff1ed and kept back for the want of
verbal memory or of nerve to use it.
The real importance of verbal memory
of this sort sank when the art of print
ing came in and reading became a COM
mon accomplishment, though its pres
tige lasted some time longer: People
therefore, are right in valuing memory
now according to the use it is put to,
for its practical services to its owner, o,
for restoring to us what is otherwlsr
beyond our reach. What memory e
tains is the sole test of what it is W ort-
In its moral aspect the memory may
sometimes indicate an unusual warmthh
tenderness, and tenacity of affection,
but, on the other hand, there are win;
dictive memories, which retain only
or impertinent memories,
which treasure up precisely the things
born to oblivion, or which we should
choose to be forgotten. And so, too,
there are frivolous memories, which re-
tain only trivialities, and entangle the
mind in a maze of nothings To have
a verbal memory like Dick Swiveller's
with tags of verse and cues OF
rhyme, is, somebody has said, as vul-
gar, as destructive of any train of
thought worth the name, as the stable
boys habit of whistling easy airs upon
the mere mechanical excitement of a
bar or two whistled by some other
blockhead in some other stable.-SdttIr-
I<,a,
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A LESSON IN FRICTION. steam
ship Saragossa was lately put upon the
ways at Baltimore, supposed to need
only new caulking and copper. The
caulkers got to work, and the seams be-
tween the planks dressed out with the
irons preparatory to driving in the new
oakum. Imagine the astonishment of
the caulkers when one day the iron, sub
iected only to feeble blow, went clear
into the vessel. A closer inspection re-
suited, and it was discovered that for a
distance of 80 feet on each side of the
keel, and beneath that portion of the
ship where the boilers rest, planks which
eight years ago were three and one-half
inches thick, were now mere boards of
one-half inch in thickness. They were
not worm eaten, and to all appearances
were sound as when first spiked and
bolted to the huge skeleton of a ship.
And here a lesson in the power of fric-
ton may be aptly illustrated. Beneath
the boilers of the Saragossait was discov-
cred that particles of coal had dropped
from time to time, and the mere motion
of the vessel, as she rocked at sea, had
shaken the loose pieces of mineral from
side to side ON the planks, and worn
them to the thickness of boards used in
the ordinary skiff, such as are used on
our creeks.
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"A story is being told of fashiona-
BILE tailor. One of his aristocratic GUS
toners, thinking to annoy him, went
up to him as he was walking on the Pa
rade at Brighton at the most fashionable
hour of the day, and said to him, "See
how badly this coat fits. The great
Sartor was equal to the occasion. TAX
ing up piece of chalky substance at
the side of the road he marked sundry
hieroglyphics over the back, and then,
turning him adrift, said, "There, my
lord, you go and show yourself to my
people, and they will soon put you
right"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-11

The REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT IN Enc
LAND is certainly increasing very
rapidly. There are 28republican clubs
in England, Wales and Scotland togeth-
or, four of which are in London, one in
Wales, and two in Scotland, and the
rest in the provincial cities of England.
They hang together we'll, have no dis
sensions among themselves, and stand
by their men. The fine recently impos-
ed by Judge Brett upon Mr. Odger Gn-
directly, by making him pay the heavy
costs of his suit for, having said the
prince of Wales could never succeed To
the throne without a protest. has been
promptly paid for him, j. A. Taylor.
M. p, and Thomas Hughes, M. T.,
being among the subscribers. The re-
publicans are just now circulating large
numbers of pamphlet, by Mr.. Austin
Holyoake, entitled, would republl-
can form of government be suitable for
England? ?" The inclusion Of woman
suffrage in the republican programme
shows that the radicals have no faith IN
the contention of Disraeli that il would
be a conservative measure. They will
gradually be more willing 10 risk the
measure than the tories, when il comes
to the point. The crisis of this question
is approaching, and a vast number Of
ladies have petitioned both DisrReli and
Gladstone to support it. Some hope
has been gathered from the fact that Mr..
Stansfeld has been equal 10 the innova-
tion appointing n woman 10 be one OF
the local government board inspectors,
with the usual salary. The lady is Mrs.
Nassau Senior, widow of the distinguish
ed author. Her duty is to inspect the
dwellings and general treatment Of
children who are boarded out.
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Etiquette of Acceptances and Regrets.

One of the most reasonable rules Of
etiquette is that which requires prompt
replies TO invitations. The reason why
an invitation TO dine or 10 an opera-box
should be answered as soon as received
is so evident that il will not admit Of
questioning; but many who are pune
tilious in these particulars are remiss
in sending promptly the acceptances or
regrets for parties and balls. Most Of
those who neglect this duty do 80 from
thoughtlessness or carelessness, but
there are some who have the idea that
it increases their importance 10 delay
their reply, or that promptness gives
evidence of eagerness TO except or 10
refuse. Others, again, are prevented
from paying that direct attention TO an
invitation which politeness requires by
the inconvenience of sending n special
messenger with their notes. Where any
doubt exists in reference TO the ability
of the person invited to be present at
soiree or ball, an acceptance should be
sent at once; and il afterward prevent
ed from going, a short note of eXamin-
alton or regret should be dispatched.
It is we'll known that a few words make
all the difference between q polite and
an impolite regret. Mrs. Gordon re-
Rrets that she cannot accept Mrs. sgd
news invitation for Tuesday evening"
is not only curt, but would be consider
ed by many positively rude. The mis-
take arises, however, more frequently
from ignorance than from intentional
rudeness. "Mrs. Gordon regrets eX-
tremely that she cannot except Mrs.
Sydney's kind invitation for Tuesday
evening"" is all that is necessary. All
answers to invitations given in the name
of the lady and gentleman of the house
are generally acknowledged 10 both IN
the answer, and the envelope addressed
to the lady alone. Some persons are
in the habit of sending acceptances tO
invitations for balls even when they
know that they are not going; but this
is very unfair to the hostess, not only
because she orders her supper for all
who accept, but because she may wish
to invite others in their places If she
knows in time that shey are not TO be-
present. No house is so large but II
has has limit TO the number of people
that can be comfortably entertained;
and some ladies are compelled by the
length of their visiting-list to give two
or three entertainments in order 10 in
clude all whom they wish TO invite.
When the invitations are sent out ten
days in advance, if answered within
three days, the hostess is enabled TO
select from her other lists such Of her
friends as she would like 10 pay the
of inviting twice, in case
the number of regrets which she re-
ceives will permit her TO do so but de
laving the answers or accepting with no
intention of going, puts IL out Of her
power to send other invitations. Homo
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Iowa employs 10, 1913 teachers, g.
305 Of whom are women
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MAccAssoR Om.-Two pounds OF
olive oil, drachms oil of origanum,
81 drachms oil of rosemary. Mix. This
preparation will hasten the growth of
the hair and Tnske it curl.
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DIR. Harrison, of Columbia. 8. c.,
is the enemy of babies with mortuary
inclinations. An infant daughter of
Mr.. Shepard died, recently, of whoop-
ing cough, and half an hour after DR..
Fl. applied a galvanic battery and re-
stored it to life, but the babywasn't to be
bluffed and popped off again, nine days
after; again the battery thwarted its
design, but eighteen hours after this
last resuscitation it died finally and tri-
umphantly. A gentleman Of yeracity !"
vonches for the story.
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Ayers Cathartic Pills,
For all tho purposes of Laxative

Perhaps no one medi.
cine is SO universally
required by every.
body rs n cathartic,
nor was ever any be.
fore SO universally
adopted into use, In
every country and
among dil classes, as
this mild but efficient
purgative Pun. Tho
obvious reasc: q,
that L. Is q more relia.
hln md for y,,nrn af
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SOUTH CAROLENARAILROAD
eypUxsysSsAs-
FIX mI 1lIssS n : a n
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CHAnLEsTos, s. q Decer.ser %. 1871.
ON AND AFTER SUNDAY nEcEMKRR
" "a, the Passenger Traia ON the soash
Garolina Railroad viii run as follows
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e.xss 4! ~ 4 ssbstfEaleior Horses
.sssfFis sI9et-4-. 4 !

tSanf ssss rs & tes s-4- !. 4 t,,.Js.
ne all asssosOing horse question liA.
sfsshcd that point, whefs from discussing
ihe proper remedy for the disease, We
sNsanss 20 the consideration Of what
ssnnsy enable aus 10 escape in future
sAv deisy ind convenience attending the
wishdtawai OF many horses FROM SER
Sica. We find in Hen. Erastus c
Rssaist's Interesting work. "A Run
TAsongh Europe she following account
efaH use eg <oxen in iIialya What i.
shsrs 10 pssseSt such aa employ mont OF
shen ssssFggrTiaY i tr
Il noticed here, what ! do not rcmon-
Der % have ever seen in a city before l
hs esep szen qsad p9ie .sariously than
xithass IN crossing The Appeuiucs, !,
Sske Ofoxea wasyadded for mn extra p,ir
&shs leaasrs % take our diligence up
the mountain sleeps, which was littls
esA. I'D Italy i had iSIseia seen an OK,
hsrnessed sometimes with horse aud
selnesiWss with. q don keyrbut here in
Trieste oxehappsar tobatheiiisual beas 5
saf afdcn for the dray service of the
EIFeets sT9nd, what struck mo as useful
sseomOay for the drayman of small means
] ,x:sS the practice of working single OK
'ais'Aea work asipgle horso in the cart OF
dssg sersiee Of our cities. A single OK
'assdl ycoSts quartz do price of good
ssse, will draw quite as large a load
ihasen more reliable and trustworthy
g AiataiGed at less expense---is more
Fhasay and patieat, and when his life
eeases 20 be useful his deaf h brings back,
ID slis price Of beef allhis original cost.
Nsse they have crossed with the buffaln.
you Gee them lying down at their dry.
sd heHing theeud all about the public
S'aSgs4N Tho single OK is h,rnes sed in
ssasssR tho shafts ofhis drsy, and in
solitary tsesulnsss moves solemuly
shtS tie directs aaasloug e che wharves
ass stsg bis four @heelsa dray the wheel
30 pse .kan eighteen iaehas iu diameter
- =. ig sEagon body often q vast wicket.
I eashsar OF sppeslod willow twigs tiht
sisssg and oapacious. Il. s,s
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An African Cooking Stove.

II is 6dsEk&g .I9 Goar dsas
iitslo housokeepcrs, says the HearM and
q Aome VII eRshaye to prepare for the
cable snSk shcfe morsels as an ele.
plants trunk aud feet, or tho feet of a
hippopo,Shas . SsiIli sIsEy may ike to
know how ssHs Ifieass, who consider
sheso things aaiHty articles o.
food, na4asc p s99k them
You lssy sheskRFe ,ths, Africans have
- cooking satoNeaspar ranges like those
on whichAsuf ainnenstAse esaked. They
hava am entirely s.Ssiglaalinveation of
their own. saEsef sasaTsH lj.
Whsas : s. ,sesgSqEESs Rss nSa prepare the
sanPtiRE dslisaeies I'VE have named, he
digs is thelgroHpda1roead hole, about
four feetaih dismateBBish perpendicular
sideu, re % WelL,ai gna this hole he,
kindles and Keeps burning for four
Rcafs, q fiercely efEGa 5At.he end of
this time she sides Of the small weIl,will
be red hot, aud the bottom will be
covered with mass of glowing embers.
Directly upon these GOALS the cook
places the lsA EEass witch, pro :
seesed by tkeif thick Tough skins, will
: net bum. He then cDgers the top OF
the hqls ybyieyiRg aoposs{e long sticks
ofsresk wood ,Saadqays ever them a few
sEmfais of !EsA 8asaa which he gathers
fer che purpose from tho banks of some
, neighboring stream. He next spreads
mud thickly oyer, and on top CT the
mud be piles earth and sods, closely
beating them islpxhsitE Ellis sisto retain
all the heat gEithiatRf cprions oven, an
Important point, as thirty six 1boubrs are
ssa uirel to properlytBaks the enornou.
= ssss Of 'hs'elephaPPsana hippops.amus
When, ut last, the anxious cook thinks
Ms Wanda are e'nfesdy. he carefully re
lnosSS rho s0aEao Bfder these he i;.nl.
5ae coating of mud perfectly hard, Ike
. thick crust, while beneath this the
aags have retained sufficient moisture to,
prevent them aan, burning, although
she oyss. j :sss.asll 3 apal s.eaniing.
I The Cook hub d6a to set the assist
ancs Of ono 81 i}aA66 }aA66 others to lift out the
heavy and hot feet, ~hich they lay up n
mat covered with green reeds instead
eeea dish. E3aTa 90 81
Tie gfsa: tblask feet do not, at first,
sssm very iasitih2 tstisfter ''ttie shoes
---thst 10 ahsskiusnvlhsve been removed
. peEese.alyy white sitsssiayPd and very tcmptins
i10kingr meat iseEPsssd, which is said
bFnthossr.hor llayatsiedi.r tito be dslie,.
icass ana 10 spegksvulames in pfaise Of
this AilicaB ieo6gihg stsss- tsi I,roa Sd
ft-2f-tss3 ssss-ss tSk A4gfl 1tta
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AT Private Sale.

FINHB PLANTATION forming 4 part 81.
L. the Estate of the late Gel Keitt ans
known as the DARBY PLACE. The tract
consists of about 600 acres, one half wslE
1imbcred, the remainder E;ch, Bed, Leans
Seia, adapted to Crops Of all kinda. These
are the Finest Lands in the District, ans.
wero valued at $50 per aero in 1866. ReuldI
be sold for one.hslf thai ,rice new. OnS
fourth cash, the rensair or in three install
cured by mortgage of tho same.
This is espleadid chance for any oae d.
string TO secSro Rich Lands, ane Water Pow
err excellent Cattle Range and . RoGnsd
Noigsborhood. Apply TO
Mrs, T. N. EBTTT.
Or . q KsEfF, .Esq
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&S TO S2O PER- DAYi Agensa.
VU WANTED! All classes Of working
people, Of cithor sex, young or old, make
more money at work for us in their spare
moments, or all tho timo, than at anything
else. Particulars free. Address q
G. STINS0N & CO., *.
sep 10 Portland, Maine.