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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-23
KEEPING. OFT OLE nERT

The events of the past week teach us a
lesson of the danger of debt which may have
good effect next Winter at Washington
The recklessness which has been SO conspicu-
GUS i'll private speculations has characterized
great deal of our financial legislation also
Encouraged perhaps by the rapid reduction of
the war debt, Congress has not only enor
mousy increased the national expenditures
and reduced the national income, but has pro-
ceeded, with utter disregard of the future
to saddle Us with fresh obligations whose
magnitude is but half understood. We
have made ourselves responsible for
the bonds of the Pacific Railroad, and
when they mature we shall doubtless have To
pay them. 1t is seriously proposed that we
shall assume the Southern State Debts, un
known in amount and largely fraudulent. Gov.
Shepherd assures the taxpayers of the Dis
trct of Columbia that it is already arranged
probably with the President and some of tho
leaders Of the Republican Darty-that Congress
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-23

said in the important article published on
another page, from The Times of June 90, 1873.
1t is from the pen of Mr.. Sampson, the we'll
known editor of The London Iimes's financial
column, and an authority of eminence in the
financial world. Mr.. Secretary Richardson
also will do well to stop talking with special
correspondents long enough to read Mr.. Samp-
sons views. of brandy as a cure for panics of
the kind now raging.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-23
Dnslness Nonres,

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-23

A Washington dispatch says that Attorney
General Williams has strong hopes that the
demurrer in the case of the United States
against the Credit Mobilier Association will be
overruled. If he has such hopes, he is more
sanguine than most people who have examined
the subject. To enable suit to be brought
in this case. an act of Congress was specially
passed; and under this special law the pro-
ceedings in the United States Circuit Court
for Connecticut were begun. Some Of the
defendants now demur on the ground that
they do not reside in the jurisdiction of the
Court, and that the legislation compelling
them to appear there is unconstitutional. This
is one of the several leading points of the
defense. Should they be overruled, however,
great victory would be gained in the inter
est of those who desire to see railway man
agement reformed. We should soon find out
that the Government has some rights that
railway corporations must respect.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-23

Lake County, Illinois, does not want any
body's back pay. The Hon. John f. Farms
worth, who was one of the first to at
tempt to get his share of the plumber out Of
his hands, distributed his back pay among the
counties of his Congressional District. THE
TRIBUNE told Mr.. Farnsworth that that was
all very well, but the money did not belong
anywhere but in the United States Treasury.
That Lake County has found this to be the
fact. and has sent its share to Treasurer
Spinner shows good degree of honesty and
perspicacity in the Lake County mind.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-23

letter expressing an opinion on the merits OF
the case. A few days ago he prohibited the
claimant from making appeals to the public
in his own behalf. Now he has fined the
editor of one Of the provincial journals $780,
for publishing comments on the trial, and
threatened the delinquent with imprisonment
If the offense should be renewed. The Chief
Justice seems determined to institute tyr
amy of the judiciary. We should not be sur
prised, however, if one result of his efforts
would be to bring dscredit upon the judiciary,
which can only retain the esteem of the people
so long as its powers are exercised with dis
elimination.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-23

Mr.. William B. Taylor, the present State
Engineer and Surveyor, will be presented to
the Utica Convention Tomorrow as the candi-
date of the Canal Ring for denomination to
the office he now holds. Mr.. Taylor's record
as a member of the Canal Board will show
that he has uniformly voted in favor of all
the jobs and steals which have come before
that important body since he has been in of
3ice-now nearly two years. He has previously
served one or two terms in the same capacity
and the Canal Ring know that they can abb
solutely depend on him. If the Republicans
are sincerely DESTROYS of reducing the present
oppressive canal taxes they will not put MIR.
TAYLOR ON their ticket. If they are wise, and
alave any regard for Mr.. Taylors feelings,
they will not set him up TO be shot at, for
his armor is altogether too thin.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-23

Sir Alexander Cockburn is likely to obtain
an unenviable notorety for his extraordinary,
not to say arbitrary, proceedings in the Itch
borne trial A month or two ago he severely
Ieprimanded several proprietors OF English
journals for publishing. AS Il matter OF news. a
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-07
Dinners.

Pierre Blot, in IN article in Harper
Bazaar, says "Let our readers under
stand that it is a mistake to think that
to give a dinner to friends, or relatives
or ven a dinner of ceremony, it is ne
cessary, nay, indispensable, to have Just
such dishes and such wines, because
other people have them served on their
tables. I6 is much better and much
more pleasing to the guests to be orig
inal-we meal to make ones own bill
of fare, and not initiate other peoples
dinners. We once heard a frequent
diner-Out exclaim 'These dinners are
shockingly m~onotonOus; n knows in
advance what dishes III coming there
are the classic salmon, the chronic fllet
Of beef, the innumerable roasts, accom-
panied by the matter-of-course ice
cream TO chill the stomach, instead of
something that would help digestion
We are of the same opinion. Ice cream
is good, but not as a dessert. An hour
at least should be allowed the stomach
after dinner before taxing it with the
hard work of digestlng so chilly a dish.
The dinner is the principal meal of the
day, and the one that restores the waste
of the system most, being generally
taken after the days tasks are done,
and being composed of more nutritious
and more numerous dishes hat the
other meals. As the mind and stomach
cannot both work well at once, it is GER
tainly according to hygienic laws not to
eat much or heavy food at breakfast and
lunch. 1t is different at dinner !; be-
sides, having no work to perform after
it, the enjoyment of having the whole
family assembled is one of the best
condiments that can accompany the
meal.
Wives and mothers, have flowers on
the dinner-table have attractive look
ing dishes : have palatabIe food have
cheerfulness ! have a cup of warm cot
fee or tea after the dinner! You are
then pretty sure to have warm hearts
around you. Do not freeze the stom-
achs of the members of your family at
the dinner-table, and then run the risk
of freezing their hearts. Keep the ice
cream for the evening, TO refresh the
palates that may have been parched by
conversation or singing.
Another important thing, and which,
like nearly all other domestic duties,
devolves on the wife and mother, is the
selection of the daily food. We have
tADldl16u WIdb 10 SGENG dHu HOW TO
serve it; we will add n few directions as
a guide. First, understand that by
good and proper food, we do not mean
costly food. Many have poor food, and
consequently poor dinners, though they
have paid a high price for it, while
others have good and properly prepared
food for a reasonable price, the differ
ence between the two being only in its
selection and preparation.
Cookery is a branch of chemistry as
we'll as an art. Soups, sauces, gravies,
stews, etc, are compounded as careful
ly as a chemical preparation. They act
on the system according to preparation
that is, if we'll prepared, they do good;
if not, the opposite. Cookery is the
science that keeps in order the animal
mechanism of humanity. The physi-
clan is only called in when, through
causes entirely independent of cookery,
that mechanism is ont of order.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-07
. USEFUL RECIPES.

Misunderstanding of the stOm-
ach is the immediate cause of the sem
sation so-called. Sips of cold water will
relieve it. Dry solid food will cure it.
Avoid milk and sugar.
Bone FELoN.-The following is re-
commended The yolk of an egg, with
equal quantity of homemade soft soap
and common salt, and a t~easpoonful OF
turpentine, mixed well, and applied as
a poultice ON going to bed.
Cold FEET.-Never go to bed with
cold feet without applying a hot brick,
hot bag of sand, a jug of hot water, or
some warming material. Cold feet are
often caused by tight shoes, stockings,
or garters. When the the feet are ha-
bitually cold, a smart walk or run be-
fore retiring, will often make them
comfortable for the night.
LICE ON ANIMALs.-The best exter.
minator of lice on any kind OF animal,
saws the RurdL NeW Yorker, is fine
sand or road dust put on the back from
the head to the tail.
WooLLy TASTE IN MUTToN.-Rev. D.
Mills, HammontOn, n. j., says this fla.
vor called wOolly is owing to the alb
sorption of gasses from the stomach and
intestines, consequent on the cooling OF
the carcass. If the sheep is cleaned
rapidly, it is prevented.
SUGAR BEETs. -The culture of sugar
beets is rapidly spreading in the United
States. Not only IS a permanent mar
ket for them about to be established il
the beet sugar factories now springine
| into existence, but they are found to bt
| excellently adapted as food for stock
Mich cows, fattening oxen, sheep, ant
hogs, all devour them, and in their cul
ture no methods of implements othel
than those needed for the ordinary cul
ture of turnips or rutabagas are re
| quired.
INsECrs.-James Wick gives these di
rections for the treatment of insects
that infest hOuse-plants in winter: 81
the green fly, or aphis, appears, wasl
with sOapsuds frequently, and occasion
ally with q little tobacco water, or
decoctiOn of Quassia chips. If the rec
spider comes, it shows the plants are il
too dry an atmosphere. Burn a littl,
sulphur under the plants, the fumes o
which will kill the spider, and after
ward keep the stems and leaves vel
meistened. Occasionally, but not of
ten, worms appear in the pots. Thi
can be avoided in n great measure b,
careful potting. A little weak lime
water is sometimes of benefit in sucl
cases, also five drops of liquid ammo
mia to a gallon Of water, though, pei
haps, the better way Is to re-pot, re
moving the earth carefully, so as not t
injure the growth of the plans.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-07
Are the Planets Inhabited.

This has been a moOted question
among those most qualified to answer.
Reasoning from analogy, it is hardly
possible that such magnificent worlds
are within telescope Inspection, far
surprising our own in celestial beauty
and ma ynitude, are solitary globes des-
titute of living forms organized for en-
ioying as much as we enjoy in onDec-
ton with the planet on which our lot
was cast. This earth is inferior in many
respects to the group to which it be-
longs-and why should it have been Sc
lected for the displays of organized be-
ings instead of some other of far greater
capacity occupying a higher position in
relation to the center of the solar sys-
tenn.
One modern philosopher has attempt
ed to show that it IS only in the partic-
ular circuit in which the earth moves
that life can be developed. On either
side there must be a perpetual mOnoto-
ny without organized, vitualized forms.
Assertions and proofs are widely differ
emf. 1t IS IL accordance with the econ
only of divine government to believe
that every one of the planets Ill the So
lar system and millions more beyond,
are teeming with living beings similar
to those occupying this, fitted to the
conditions of physical structure of those
distant spheres. With the spectroscope
it has been demonstrated that the CON-
position of those worlds is essentially
like the earth in metallic resources, and
why not in all OF! er respects?
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-07
A Mechanical Eye.

No mechanic can ever obtain distinc-
ton unless he is able to detect ordinary
imperfections at sight, so that he can
see If things are out of plumb, out of
level, out of square, and out of proper
shape and unless he can also detect
disproportioned or ill-shaped patterns.
This is a great mechanical attainment.
We say attainment, because it may be
attained by any ordinary person. OF
course there are defective eyes, as there
are other defective organs-the speech,
for instance, Is sometimes detective
but the eye IS capable of the same train
ing as any other organ. The muscles,
the voice, the n of hearing, all re-
quire training. Consider how the artist
must train the organs of sight in order
to detect the slightest imperfection in
IN shade, color, proportion, shape, ex-
preston, &c. Not one blacksmith in
live ever attains the art of ~hammering
square, yet it is very essential to his
occupation. It is simply BECAUSE he
allows himself to get into a careless
habit; a little training and care is all
that is necessary to success.
The fact is that the eye is not half as
much at fault as the needless mind.
Some carpenters acquire the careless
habit OF using a try-square every time
they plane off a shaving, instead of Civ
ing their minds right to their business
and properly training their eyes; and
unless they cultivate this power of the
eye, they will always be at journey
work. Look at the well-trained black
smith he goes across the shop, picks
up the horses foot, takes a squirt, re-
turns to his anvil and FORCES the shoe,
and it exactly fits the foot. Contrast
him with the bungler who looks at the
foot, FORCES the shoe, then fits the foot
to it, often TO the ruin OF a fine horse.
Now the fault lies in the proper shape
for the foot he should determine to
make the shoe fit the foot, in place of
the foot fitting the shoe, and should
follow it up until the object is accom-
plished.
A very good way to discipline the
mechanical eye is to first measure an
inch with the eye, then prove it with
the rule, then measure a half-inch, then
an eight, and so on, and you will o
be able to discover at a glance the diff
ferance between a twelfth and q six
teenth of an inch then go to the three
inches, six, twelve, and So on. Some
call this guessing, but there is no guess
work about ID; it is measuring with the
eye and mind. Acquire the habit of
criticizing for imperfections every piece
of work you see do everything as
nearly as you can without measuring
without spoiling), or as nearly as you
can trust the eye with it's present train
ing. If you cannot see things mechani-
cally, don't blame the eye for it it is
no more to blame than the mouth is be-
We cannot read, or the fingers be-
cause we cannot write. A person may
write a very good hand with his eyes
closed. the mind, of course, directing
the hand. The eye is necessary, how
ever, to detect imperfection.
Every occupation in life requires a
q lechanically-trained eye, and there
fore we should realize more than we do
the great Importance of properly train
ing that organ.
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HANDFUL OF DIST


BY ZErA.
Only a hardful of dust,
I've brought to my cloister gray
Insect and bloom by the hedge-row are lurking,
Yet from the great Fathers lowliest working
I'd gather my lesson to-day.
Only a handful of dust,
The wind, in its breathings, might whirll
1t once may have waved in some grand forest tree
Or tempted, in fOwerlip, the lettering bee!
Or tossed in in some fair maiden's curl.
Spurned by the foot it upheld,
Twas almost to Rothingness thrust;
And yet, it may be, bitter tears have been shed
1t may be, some requiem low hath been said
Over this handful of dust.
Only a handful of dust!
But he who created it all
Weighed all in the hollow of His mighty hand.
If I could annihilxtc one grain of sand,
Would earth from her equipoise fall2
All! and God weigheth the soul
Its intents, its feelings az well.
One duty neglected, one stain left within
Yes, even one cherished desire of sin
Could Danish my spirit TO he'll
Only a handful Of dust!
Yet soon il may bloom in a flower,
Or grow in q leahet, or flash in an eye,
On mount in a bird-wing aloft to the sky;
Made vital by Gods quickening power.
I. who am made Of the dust,
Beholding the face If my God,
Even 1 shall be changed to his image at last.
Nav hope of that life, with its glSIy 50 vast,
Ilumine this life Of the sod!
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fallen on the street, and had strength
only to tell them where to take her.
Bangs never heard her voice again ia
kindness or in wrath. He watched her
all that night, as she lay in a heavy
stupor on her wretched bed in the cor
ner. In the morning, he ran to the
mission for Miss Clara. When they
reached the garnet together, the poor
old creature was gone. Bangs felt as
he had never felt before, while he stood
there thinking of her wretched life and
darkened death. The next day the
overseer of the poor attended to her
burial. When it was over, Bangs stole
to his old corner of the garnet and
lifted Clara from her hiding-place.
"Clara," he whispered, ''granny is
dead. Where shall we go? This is no
place for a lady like you. l think if
we went away, Clara, I could grow to
be good and decent"
"Come, then, and try"
Hearing the voice, he looked up.
so teacher is that you? Clara and
me were just talkin' about goin' off
somewhere, and workin', and tryin' if I
couldn't get to- be a d~ecenter chap.
She seems to take it, miss !; and as for
me, do you know, teacher, I've been
thinkin' of late, as how faint no way to
do to be fightin' and knockin' about ?
If Clara'd bin here a year ago, 1 might
ha' helped poor granny to get along
better. She's gentle and ladysome in
her ways, Clara is"
Some persons would have thought
Bangs was crazy, but Miss Clara knew
better.
Perhaps it was the kind teacher, or
her brother who took him into his work
shop, perhaps it was the "ladysome,"
doll, perhaps it was the mission-school
and its lessons, or, more than all, the
help that came when Bangs learned to
ask for it. Whatever it was, not a
happier, steadier fellow than Bang can
be found in the great city to-day.
He is almost a man now, but Clara,
grown 10 larger, lies in her box still,
pretty and fresh as ever
"Fhere's no knowing" Bangs, says,
"but what some day I may have a little
girl of my own, and then if she's good
enough and smart enough and genteel
enough and Christian enough, there's
no telling but she'll find Clara sitting
under a sparkling tree on some fine
morning, wishing her a merry Christ
mas"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-07
The Judgment OF 1he Public.

Doctors disagree. Each school of medicine has
Iy, 1t is clear that few, If any ofthem, can be right.
But if medical men cannot agree upon any theory
or system o practIce, the public find no difficulty
in agreeing as to notorious matters Of fact. For
instance, they nave observed for many years that
Hostetter's Stomach Bttters uniformly cure dys-
| pepsia, constipation, rheumatism, biIiousness, ner-
vous debility, and many other diseases which the
prescTiptionists OF the pnarmacopseia do not and
cannot cure; and they know therefore that there
can be no mistake about it. On this point they are
firm and positive. They take their stand on To-
controvertible facts. and they state 10 one another
verbally, and some times by letter, what they
know about relieving and preventing sickness
with the standard vegetable tonic and Alternative
OF America.
Here, then, the invalid has a guarantee OF value
that can be relied upon, viz: The sober judgmen Of
the public. After twenty years of observation and
IcT's BitteTs The best tnvigoratng and regulating
medicine at their command, and give evidence OF
the faith hat * in them b. purchasing more of IL
than of any cher adverttred med cine manufsc
THTed on this continent. A large number of ply
s'clans, too, ! owever much they may differ on
other points in the therapeutics, admit the extra
tive, and recommend il as a preventative Of naa'a
1ious diseases, and as a rem edy In intermittent Ind
renittent fever.
RoUeH, wISTRY. CHANsEABLE WEATHER. pre-
Dr Jaynes Expectorant as promptly cures when
f~aitEfHlIy administered.
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Uh1 OUOhE IL OU'I
Financial Agents Northern P. r. r. Co,

The New WORLDS GRAND REMEDY
The Old World has played its part in
vegetable medication. But the botany
of the New World is as yet imperfectly
explored. One new and most important
revelation from that land of wonders
California-has astonished the scienti-
fc, and accomplished such cures of dis
eases of the stomach and bowels, bill
ious complaints, m~alarious ~fevers, ner-
vous affections, and all diseases pro-
ceeding from a vitiated condition of the
blood, as have never before been wit
messed.
Before WALKERS CALIFORNIA VINE
GAR BIrTERs all the alcoholic and mine
raj medicines are rapidly falling into
disuse. They a not resist the over
towering evidence brought forward
every day of the immense superiority
of this medicine. Not a drop of any
variety of distilled or fermented liquor
or mineral poison enters into its compo-
sition. It is a gentle aperient, a tonic,
derived from entirely new vegetable
sources, an u~nrivalled stomachic, admi-
rable in all pulmonary diseases; and,
in fact, as near to universal remedy as
botanical discovery and scientific skill
can hope to attain. DIR. Walker acon'
| siders it a cure for all diseases not or
ganic, and really the great variety o
diseases in which it is successful seems
to warrant the opinion. Every famil!
needs such a remedy. 1t " pain
anxiety and doctors bills. We know
what trouble it is to keep the bowels o
children in order, and any remedy tina
will strenthen and regulate their weal
and variable digestion must be a dones
tic blessing.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-07
External Heat and Animal Life.

When an animal. is subjected to the
poisoning effects of heat, it presents &
series of uniform and characteristic
phenomena. 1t is at first a little dis
turbed, then painting, its movement of
respiration and circulation accelerate, it
Crews slowly hotter through the circu-
~latiOn, which carrying the blood con-
tinually from the surface to the centre,
bears heat also along with it, then ut a
given moment Is fails into commissions,
the beating Of lis heart ceases, and it
dies uttering a cry. By means of the
thermometers is noted that the temper
AZURE of the animal, il every case, is
higher by four or five degrees (cent)
than the figure which represents the
normal warmth. Thus at first the ami
NAL is excited, its functions seem to be
performed with fresh vigor, very much
as, in the first rays Of April Sunshine,
the pulsations of life in all beings be-
come nor rapid but this stimulus is
only feeting, and soon, when it reaches
a certain degree, this heat gives place
to the cold of death.