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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-12
A Florida Panther Story,

While hunting near the coast, a few
days since, it was my misfortune to wit
ness sickening and heart rending seen
near bayou. My companion and self
had been hunting two or three days
previous near the locality, and shot
four deer, one of which ran toward that
spot, SO badly wounded that I thought
it would fall within two hundred yards
of the place at which it was shot but
as we had as mauy as we desired for
that day me did not trace it. On our
return, two days aftrrward, to hunt near
the same place, noticed buzzards fly
ing near the spot where suspected that
the deer had gone, and suggested to my
companion to g. to it, just TO satisfy
myself that was correct in my sur
mise, and also to show him how accu-
rately I could shoot; for he continually
taunts me with the number of deer that
carry with them evidences of my poor
craftsmanship. On approaching the
spot the stencil was so unpleasant that
we were In the act of retracing our
steps when l noticed a buzzard hop as
if chased, and insisted on going far
en- u b to be satisfied that I was cor
rect. On nearer approach, a most hor-
rible scene was before us. About TWEEN
ty PAGES from a bayou, a number of
immense alligators were keeping off a
flock of buzzards from partially eaten
and decomposing body of human be-
ing, and near by, the carcass of a pan
Their The head and limbs of the
human being were severed from the
body, ard were scattered in an area of
fifteen feet. The head was bruised,
scratched, swollen an eaten so that it
could not be recognized, except that it
was a white mans. Nearly all the flesh
was eaten off the bones, and SO recently,
too, that the traces of large teeth were
noticeable. The carcass of the panther
was also devoured. A large, heavy
sailor knife. stained with blood, was
near the trunk of the human being, and
there were other evidences of a desper-
ate struggle for life between IL man
and the panther. AS we approached
none of the guardians over the dead
moved until my companion threw q
heavy pine knot into their midst, when
the smaller retreated into the water, the
l 'rger moving sullenly in that direction
but never going farther than the edge
all the tipe closely Watching every
movement we made.
When my companion began to collect
the bones of the man for interment
while 1 held both guns, the alligators
near the edge, became ferocious, and
about ten rushed madly toward us. We
stood our ground, and fired four times
fatally wounding, if not killing, as many
| al igators. 1 looked toward the bayou
and its surface was covered with alliga
tor heads as far as the eve could reach
which came toward the shore, I suppose
to learn the cause of alarm. AS we dc
not wish to wage war with the alligator
kingdom, amid the stencil which wal
nearly sitting, we retreated.
All inquiry has failed to furnish in
formation in regard to the man, excep
what has been detailed above. It il
conjectured that he was an unfortunat,
sailor who had been shipwrecked ant
cast ashore, and who, in seeking t.
reach some habitation of man, was over
taken by the sad misfortune which be
| fell him. Courier.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-12
Significance of the Fingers.

Each finger, and the mount oil the
base of it, is named from planet. In
the normal hand the second finger is
the longest, the first nearly as long as
the third, and much longer than the
fourth or little finger. Jupiter is the
first finger. Ii it be long and not i'll
shapen, and if the mount at its base be
well developed, it indicates noble and
lofty character and religious-minded
person. II disproportionately long it
will mean different things according to
the type of hand in which it may be
found, or according to the type Of that
particular finger in the first type an
over-lOng first finger would denote an
inclination to the fantastic or the exag-
gerated in religious matters or it
might mean religious madness or if
other signs in the hand favored this
view, it could be taken to denote pride.
Pride is a form of worship-the love of
self. In the second type of hand the
excessive development of Jupiter might
mean ambition, or, if it were in hand
that was eminently unselfsh, it would
stand for a something puritanical in
ty. In the third type a very long first
huSC1 "OuIu p1OOdOlJ o1sS4u1ly NduIUy
The second finger is Saturn. If too
prominent, it announces melancholy, or
misanthropy, or downright cruelty, ac-
cording to the type of hand; but if the
finger be within one purport on, this
sadness may take the form of pity for
others, or it may mean merely be-
coming gravity. The third finger is
Apollo, and belongs to the arts. In a
pointed" hand Apollo will give poetry
and music (composition); in "square"
hand, painting, sculpture (here art
leaves the domain of the purely con-
templative; it becomes partly active
from the combination of manual skill
with what is only Imaginative; and in
a well-shaped hand Apollo will give his
torical power, an aptitude for acting, or
a love of theatrical amusements. On
the stage, art is joined in the closest
manner to motion. The fourth finger
is Mercury. IF we'll proportional it
promises a scientific turn of mind,
resourcefulness and di plomacy-tact
The thumb is Venus. Chirognomony
and palmistry agree in almost all par
ticulaBs about the thumb. In both
systems it is treated as the most i'm
portant part of the hand. The upper
joint, that with the nail, stands for the
will &; the second division, the reason
ing difficulties !; the base, the animal
instincts
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-12
Thought and the Condition of the
Rrain.

It is now a well-established physio-
logical foot that mental action is a dis
tinctly physical process, depending
primarily on a chemical reaction be-
tween the blood and the brain, precisely
as muscular action depends primarily
on a chemical reaction between the
blood and the muscular tissues. With
out the free circulation of blood in the
brain, there can be neither thought nor
sensation, neither emotions nor ideas.
1t necessarily follows that thought, the
only form of brain action which we have
here to consider, is process not mere
~ depending upon, but IN Its turn
affecting, the physical condition OF the
brain, precisely as muscular exertlon OF
any given kind depends on the quality
of the muscles employed and affect the
condition of those muscles, not at the
moment only, but thereafter, conducting
to their growth and development If
wisely adjusted to their power, or caus-
ing waste and decay If excessive and
too long continued. 1t is important to
notice that this is not mere analogy.
The relation between thought and the
condition of the brain is reality. So
far as this statement affects our ideas
about actually existent mental power,
it is of little Importance; for it sis not
more useful to announce that man
with a good brain will possess good
mental powers, than to say that mus
cular man will be capable of considera-
BILE exertion. But as it is of extreme
importance to know of the relation
which exists between muscular exercise
and the growth or development of bodi
ly strength, so it is highly important
for us to remember that the develop
ment of mental power depends largely
on the exercise of the mind. There is
''training" for the brain as well as for
the body-a real physical training
depending, like bodily training, on rules
as to nourishment, method of action,
quantity of exercise, and so forth.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-12
What is Genius ?

We have had many definitions of ge-
MUS, and many refusals to attempt to
define it, as somewhat that is indefna-
BILE, thing that eludes and takes some
shape, and when we think we have it,
we have it not. Like beauty, inspira-
ton and instinct, it lies in a region of
uncertain and shifting lights is itself
and not itself; appears to be this till
another view dawns and it must be that;
but the last will not stick better than
the first, in the presence of some other
revelation. But after all the learned
clamor, what if genius was SO simple a
thing as a larger and finer degree of
sensibility, plus of vital heat, some
more feeling and spirit among our tai
ents. Every one knows what advan-
tage lies in being kindled. For he who
could say nothing before can say any
thing now, and with rare logic, imagin-
alton and persistency sterility becomes
suddenly fertile, as if the desert were
to bloom and bear fruit at once; cow
ardice gives place to courage, or we
have exchanged our fawn for lion. Am
the same man, to-day, I was yesterday ?
Now so aerial and 1.-THE and full of rapt
visions and eager for better commun-
ions, having down my rare books for
rare occasions, or fleeing to gaze again
and worthily at some fine landscape or
work of art, but then only mole with
out eyes in some dark corner, an oys-
ter in the mud, or a foolish bat flying
blind in the day. The same and not
the same the same plus a heat that
has freed the frozen and pent-up cur
rents, or a quickened sensibility that
gives me to myself, installs me III full
command of my powers, and befriends
intuitions and spontaneities, as better
atmosphere gives sharpness and range
to the eye.-SHnaoer Ellis.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-12
DeTvishes.

In LeIand's Egyptian Sketch Book"
he writes "The dervishes sang and
chanted with tremendous energy, and,
as the spirit entered them, let off cries
much like those which are to be heard
in camp-meetings and at revivals. Then
they begin to bow, keeping the legs
straight. This is not easy to do. Just
try it. Put your back to the wall and
try to pick up a sixpence at your tip
toes. I believe there are howlers who
can do it with their mouths. AS they
bowed all together they uttered what I
believe was ALL0h! Recovering their
perpendicular they bowed and Allah'd
again. They increased the time, work
ing magnifcently; in about a m mute
the whole fifty of them went like one
man, and the Jerks were superb /!
Closing my eyes, I realized curious
thing-that no one could have distin-
guished by sound alone any difference
between the dervishes and a hundred
horse high-pressure steam-engine.
Something like dreamy feeling of the
olden time stole DER me. Methought
/ was in the sanctum adjacent to the
press-room, while the fourth edition
was being worked off. Once in while
the noaQ Q6FY1Sn or an aSSlSbdnG uGI0T6u
shrill cries, and these 1 thought came
from newsboys out in the street. l
opened my eyes they had got up to
the highest rate, and we're running her
off at eighteen thousand copies an hour,
1 mean fifty-two hobs and fifty-two
Allahs in a minute. I know this, for
one spectator timed them and joyfully
proclaimed it aloud. Suddenly one of
the dervishes, who had distinguished
himself by his zeal, became mel baGs,
or possessed, and fell down. Had he
been a Methodist or Roman Catholic,
a disciple of Madame Guyon or any of
the five hundred writer's whose names
are given in Poiret's DE Mystics,
should have said that he was inspired,
or at least have shook my head gravely,
and tenderly declared that it was won |
derful and not to be lightly spoken of.
It is thus that 1 feel and think ever of
Convulsionnaires. But as he was only |
a poor devil of a dervish, and misera-
BILE heather of Mohammedan, it was
plainly enough only an epileptic fit,
and we regarded it accordingly"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-12

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-four barrel. Now most ladies under
similar circumstances would have ut
tered few feminine shrieks and then
sought safety in the garnet. But this
one possessed more than an ordinary
degree of female courage. She sum-
moned the hired man and told him to
get the shot gun, call the bull dog, and
station himself at convenient distance.
Then she climbed half way up the stairs
and pounded the -four barrel vigorously
with pole. Presently the mouse made
its appearance and started across the
floor. The bull dog at once went in
pursuit. The man fired and the dog
dropped dead. The lady tainted and
fell down the stairs, and the hired man,
thinking that she was killed and fearing
that he would be arrested for murder,
Lit out, and has not been seen since.
The mouse escaped.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-12
TANNING SHrEpsxrNs A =

TANNING SHEEPsKINs.- correspond
ent of the Scientific American gives the
following plan for tanning and dyeing
sheep-pelts F.: Wash the pelts in warm
water, and remove all feshy matter from
the inner surface, then clean the wool
with soft soap, and rinse the soap thor
oughly out. Secondly, apply to the
flesh side the following mixture for
each pelt: Common salt and ground
alum, one quarter pound of each, and
half an ounce of borax. Dissolve the
whole in one quart of hot water. When
cool enough to bear the hand add rye
meal to make thick paste, and spread
the mixture on the flesh side of the
pelt. Fold the pelt lengthwise, and let
it remain two weeks in an airy and
shady place, then remove the paste from
the surface, wash and dry. When near
ly dry scrape the flesh side with knife,
working the pelt until it becomes thor
ough1y soft. A beautiful blue may be
impaired to the wool by using the fol-
lowing recipe: Add a wineglassful of
sulphuric acid to a gallon of water.
Put into the solution tablespoonful or
more of imperial blue, regulating the
quantity of dyestuff to the shade of
blue required. Put in the pelts and
boil for ten minutes. After boiling the
pelt will need working again to make it
soft.
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H1oLETsl IN AUTUMN.
BY HOWARD sLYEDoN

knew should find the daisy
With her forehead so brave and white,
For the sun is her lover, to comfort her
And to keep her in beauty bright.
And she folds the last of her kisses
In the golden well of her cup;
Then fearless sleeps in the frosty fields,
Till the morning wakes her up.
And the purple pink of the mountain
Droppeth her velvet train,
Where the stricken glory Of forest leaves
Is shed in a scarlet rain;
And mods to the late red clover.
And the stoical immortelle,
And the timid buds Of the dewberry
Hid down in the sunny dell.
But the violets, o the violets
I thought they were all asleep,
Each on her pillow of thistle-down
In the pine woods dark and deep:
But they stood in hapless beauty
Under the sullen skies,
Each lamenting her mother, spring,
With the sorrow of dewy eyes,
Five o. them, April's darlings,
On a bank of yellow moss,
That long ago the south wind
Had forgotten to blow across.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-12

DISEASED LUNGS ARE GREATLY ON AN
INCREASE IN THIS CoUNTRY.-The sud
den changing of weather has done much
to give rise to consumption. But there
are thousands of cases who bring it on
by their own imprudence-such as wear
ing damp clothing, and going from the
warm room into the cold air, and check
ing the perspiration, which causes irri-
tation of the lungs, and then matter or
phlegm will collect, which nature will
try 70 relieve by coughing it up, to pre-
vent pustules from forming. If nature
does not raise the matter with ease, and
stop this inflammation, t1bercles will
soon form, and consumption will soon
follow. Aliens Lung Balsam will cure
and prevent thousands of cases of con-
sumption if it is only taken in time.
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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-12

Dutchman called the pressboard, vich
vas made from Wisconsin hictory, vas
very tough" and she laid the hictory
fierce and fast on the old man, who
shufied out of the wagon and fell in a
ditch. The old man got up, said, "his
stomah, it vas very cold, but his back,
it vas very warm" His wife cried out,
How many wives you thinks you wants
now, ould fool ?" But the Dutchman
felt and expressed that one was enough,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-12
What the English Think About Ris-
tori's Acting,

The power of dramatic art could
scarcely go further-it certainly has not
gone further within our recent memo
ries-than in the sleep-walking scene
from "Macbeth," as rendered in the
broken English of the great italian &C
tress. Ristori, aided only by feeble
gentle-wOman and tiresOme physician,
with no assistance from dramatic situa-
ton or from scene, left on the minds of
her audience an impression which is in
deIible, and which none could wish to
lose. The high expectation of the
house was readily discernible from the
irritation with which all preliminary in
terruptions were hushed down, and in
the excited longing with which all eyes
were turned toward the dimly-ighted
stage. That none were disappointed
might easily be determined by the wild
rapture of the triple or quadruple call
which summoned Madame Ristori again
and again before the curtain. The
younger members of the audience
frankly confessed that they had seen
nothing like this before +; and the elder
had to rack their brains in order to dis
cover performances worthy, in all points,
to be ranked with this. To take one in
stance out of many that might be adj
duced-the nervous rubbing of hand
over hand to remove the hideous stain,
a movement which was continued
throughout the scene, was a master
stroke of art. Without being obtru-
sive, the nervous action of those rigid
hands nevertheless held the horror
stricken gaze of the spectators, and
thoroughly conveyed the haunted feel
ings of the wretched murderess. Then,
again, who but Ristori would dare imi-
tate for us, in realistic fashion, the
heavy breathing of the somnambulist;
and who but she could, through it all,
make even her whispered words of ter
ror audible over the whole house ?
Once more the intense artificial calm of
the utterance, "What's done cannot be
undone," and the attempted conviction
of or assurance, "He cannot come out
of his grave" these triumphs of histri-
onic art can never pass out of our mem
cries, any more than can the weird pic
ture of the white figure as, with grand
ly conceived gesture and mein, it
departs from us, reckoning and hoarse-
ly calling, ''To bed! to bed Liver
pool Paper.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-12

A NEGLECTED cough, cold or sore
throat, which might be checked by a simple
remedy like Browns Bronchial Troches, if al
lowed to progress may terminate seriously.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-12
AMER1cAN MANUFAoTURERs Avn VIENNA.

AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS AT VIENNA.
The well-known Mason & Hamlin organ COM
psny have received honors at Vienna. At the
exposition they were awarded the highest
medal for the best instruments Of this class in
the world, and the Industrial Society of Aus
tria has awarded them its grand medal and
diploma of honor for the extraordinary excel
lence of their productions. This distinction
has never been conferred en- more than five
Americans. No other American manufacturer
of cabinet or parlor organs has ever succeeded
in obtaining any award in competition with
European makers. This is tho second time
the Mason & Hamlin organ company have
come out ahead in such comparisons, as they
took the first medal in Paris in 1867. This
company can now produce on an average one
cabinet organ every fifteen minutes of work.
ing time, or about ten thousand per annum.-
Nelo York World
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KING OF THE BLOOD.
THE MOST THOROUGH PURIFIER or THE
BIOOD YET DISCOVERED.

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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-12

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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-12

HAVE you ague in the face, and is it
badly swollen? Have you severe pain in the
chest, back, or side? Have you cramps or
pains in the stomach or bowels? Have you
bilious collie or severe gripping pains? If SO,
use Johnson's Anodyne Liniment internally.