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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-13
What the LECTURERS will Talk About.

Mr.. Jenkins, of London, known as
the author OF "Ginx's Baby, !" is to visit
the United States, the coming season,
and lecture on the " England of To-
day " aud the English Satirist." John
B. Coughs new lecture is entitled
Now and Then" Mrs. Livermore
will give her views upon Women's
Husbands" Rev. W. FL. Fl. Murray
will tell what he knows about the
Perfect Horse, which is good deal.
Ex-President Hill, of Harvard college.
will descant on the tStraits of Magel-
Ian" and "Juan Fernandez. Mrs. Leon
owens has prepared new lectures on
Siamese life. DR.. Hayes, the Arctic
explorer, announces " Far Northern
Life and Scenery" and the History
and Progress of Maratime Discovery -
Thomas Fitch, of Nevada, will give the
experiences of GA Sagebrusher in Vi
enna." James Parton will take hand
purely as lecturer-in our "Scan-
dalous Politics" which may, perhaps,
introduce some illusions to the salary
grab. DR.. Dio Lewis has the import
ant themes: "Our girls" and 'sOur
Eyes. DIR. John Lord has q number
of lectures on representative men. SEN
atOr sumner Will lecture II his health
will permit, and Wendell Phillips will
also doubtless be heard, Senator Bout
we'll is also named as lecturer, next
season. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's themes
are Paris and ''Sonto Domingo"
Col. T. w. Higginsons are London
and fThinking Animals" Bishop Gill
bert Haven will lecture ON Mexico,
Prof. John Fiske on the "Darwinian
Theory" and Kate Reynolds on
sc Charles Reade
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-13
Oats as a Manure

Kentucky farmer writes: I have
seen frequent inquiries how to reclaim
old and worn lands. A quick and cheap
plan is to SOW the land in oats as early
as you can in the spring; as soon as ripe
pillow under; keep off all stock and Won
will have"a tremendous full growth of
oats. Plow them under in October. or
if South, the first of November then
SOW rye, Craze in the spring and feed
down; when ripe pillow under, and You
will see one of the finest rye fields Won
ever saw; or, if You wish, SOW clover on
the rye the first spring; it is verv
effectual and cheap. [ saw the above
tried in Tennessee when was a boy !;
the land was so worn that the oats did
not exceed knee-high; they were plow-
ed under when ripe, ndagain in Novem-
Der. The land was planted in corn the
the next year and made a large yield ::
it was before the days of clover. 1 have
tried it repeatedly since with good sue
nnSS
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-13
Chinese Labor a Failure.

Chinese labor; according to the San
Francisco journals, is d failure in that
city, as far as the boot and shoe trade
is concerned. The manufacturers who
for two or three years back have en-
ployed Chinese workmen, are now dis
charging this class of hands and taking
on white men and boys es rapidly as
possible. The reason given for this
step is that the Chinese, after d few
months instruction, at 81 % day, be-
come adopts, and then breaking their
contracts, set UP for themselves and
undersell the regular manufacturers.
These practices are rapidly Increasing,
TO the injury of the legitimate trade.
The Chinese, though stimulating the
boot and shoe business, it is believed
cannot become first-class mechanics,
and their work is greatly inferior to
that of white hands, as they only follow
patterns, and that not always accurate
ly. The plan now adopted is to induce
white boys to become apprentices to
shoe-making, and then to form squads
under the superintendent of skilled
and experienced foremen. It is belieY-
ed in San Francisco to be cheaper to
hire white operatives at $3.50 day
than Chinese at $1.25. The boys get
along very we'll and are turning out as
good work as Chinese operatives who
have been employed for the same
length of time.
Considerable trouble has been expert
enced in keeping the boys to their work,
as there is no apprentice law in Califor-
MIA. The system, however, is to en-
ploy the boys for three years at wages
of SIS and $40 month for the first
six months, 500 a month for the second
six month, $25 month for the third
six months, and so on, rising So
month for every six months. A portion
of the wages is retained as security that
the boys will remain until the three
years have expired, when the entire
amount is paid over. The manufactur-
ers are endeayoring to secure a passage
of an apprentice law at the next session
Ct the California legislature, so that
the boys may be compelled to remain
steady at their work until they have
thoroughly learned the trade.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-13
Hungarian Grass.

My experience and observation with
Hungarian grass have been decidedly
in favor of it, as both a profitable crop
to raise for home consumption and for
seed. All my stock prefer it to either
clover or timothy, fact / have demon
strated the past winter to my satisfac-
ton. One other fact I have also dis
covered. It must be sown very thick.
Three pecks per acre, on good land,
will produce a fine crop of excellent
feed. The hay is very fine when thus
sown; if sown thin it is coarse and I'M
palatable to stock. On one half acre,
sown last June, I cut two tons of most
excellent hay, besides getting twelve
bushels of seed that will bring, in
the Louisville market, 81 50per bushel.
The hay, as feed, was worth at least
SIS per ton; two tons, $50; twelve
bushels of seed, $19; total, S48, from a
half acre of ground. Labor spent
half day blowing and sowing, man and
three hours, say 81; hauling to barn
threshing out seed, one man and three
horses, one day, 81 so q tramped out
the seed } total cost of production,
~ 20 HeG proIt, StO 10. Inc expense
on 50 small crop is more in proper
ton than it would be on a larger one.
If moi sown before July, it will make a
crop, forty to fifty days being sufficient
to grow crop, in average seasons.
Some years ago it was a very popular
grass, but farmers became opposed to
it, complaining that it was too coarse.
If sown thick, from three pecks to one
bushel per acre, that objection loses
force, as it makes good hay if properly
managed. As to market value, not be-
ing known, it has none in our markets.
L expect to grow crop this season for
home consumption, and for change of
feed for ry stock.-F. L. IN Rural
World
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-13
Training of the BODY.

President FELTON,, in discussing ply
steal training, said that among the
Greeks, people so wise in all which
concerns the physical man, there were
two widely different systems of training,
one adapted to the athlete, the other to
gentlemen and men of learning. The
former resulted in immense develop
ment of muscle and crude strength,
while the latter resulted in a wonderful
grace, agility and beauty. The former
proudced the great wrestlers, but was
deemed unfavorable to intellectual ge-
mus, while the latter was resorted to as
the surest means of securing that deli
cate susceptibility and elastic vigor
which characterize d the Greek poet and
orator. A prodigious abnormal deveI-
opment of muscie-the result of long
continued, special, intense training
destroys the balance between mind and
body, and, while it produces a splendid
animal, leaves the brain with less than
its share of power. Plato says, eek
cess of bodily exercise may render us
wild and unmanageable, but excess of
arts, science and music makes us fad
died and effeminate. Only the right
makes us wise and manly.'
Uphold truth when thou canst and
for her sake be hated; but know thy
individual cause is not the cause of
truth, and beware that they are not con-
founded, Goethe,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-13
The Corn Crop of 1873.
From the Chicago Tribune.

The prospects for a large growth of
corn in 1873 are daily diminishing. The
lateness of the season has been remar-
kable. The cold, raw and wet weather
has prevailed in all parts of the coun-
try. Though there are many conflicting
reports concerning the extent of the
corn planted, it is now tolerably certain
that the area is not moro than half as
extensive as in 1872. The season has
not been, and does not promise TO be,
propitious. Even if as much land was
planted as in 1872, the probable pro-
duction would fall short of last year.
The bad weather has not been peculiar
to Illinois, but has been the same gen.
orally throughout the corn-growing
States. These States last year pro-
duced the following quantity of corn !:
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Feeding turkeys on walnuts,

One of the most agreeable entertain
ments of an epicurean kind which is
given at Washington is that of DIR.
Ninian Pinckney, who stands second on
the list of medical directors, and is the
nephew of William Pinckney and broth
er of Bishop Pinckney. DIR. Pinckney's
quarters are at the Washington navy
yard, and he is celebrated for feeding
turkeys on English walnuts, admins
tered whole, shell and all, without
cracking. A few weeks ago, I had the
pleasure of attending a dinner given by
this hospitible epicurus to Pay-Director
Cunningham. A turkey reposed in the
centre of the table, of remarkable size,
and of flavor not equaled by the most
delicate capon. Before we put the
knife into the dish for Dives, another
turkey was brought up to the door, aad
the process of feeding him was achieved
Fourteen full, large walnuts, whole,
were put III the wondering fowls bill,
and slipped down the gullet by the fin
gers, outside. As the first walnut went
down, the turkey looked up with one
eye, In a baffled sort of way, as if won
derlng whether he was assisting at a
comedy or going to execution. At the
third walnut he turned up both his
eyes, as if now assured that it was not
the intention to kill him by starvation
At the fifth walnut, his Inconsistencies
was unbounded, and he wore the look
of man who had been reading thrill
ling story in the Ledger, and had sud
denly bumped up upon the words :" To
be continued in our next" Continued
it was and, after the seventh walnut,
Sir Turkey gave up the conundrum,
closed his eyes resignedly and, when
the fourteenth walnut slipped down his
gullet, and they were all ratified by the
hand, SO as to produce from the bird s
interior q sound as of q macadamizing
job going on there, his expression was
plainly to be read: Gentlemen, you
know what this is for, and I presume
that your consideration for myself will
enable me to reflect upon the perform
anee with the eye of faith 1t takes
about three weeks to fatten turkey IN
this way, for the animal, unlike the
mills of the gods, grinds exceedingly
small, but very fast. He undergoes
considerable digestive wakefulness, but
the secretions come to his rescue the
shells are melted down, and the walnuts
are assimilated, so that he natures in a
| fractional part of the life he had been
destined to. 1t seems that this trick
had been discovered on the way around
Cape Hop, on a certain naval vessel
which contained a great many turkeys,
and nothing for them to cat A humor-
GUS officer said that, sooner than see his
turkeys starve, he would feed them on
the table-dessert. A few of the animals
died, but the majority survived, and
proved to be palatable beyond all pre-
vious experience. The experiments
made with turkeys are said to demon
straits the fact that fourteen walnuts is
the limit which a bird can stand, and
that less than eight will not produce
| the flavor attainable.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-13
GRACTESS KITTY
IL E11zAnrru EkERs ALLIE.

AA EAA1AhtsIH AhEAiS ALLEN
ssracie's kitty, day by day
Moped beside the fire, and pinned
Would no longer frisk or play,
Or the worsted ball unwind.
Oracle coaxed, Play, kitty, do -
Kitty answered sadly, "Mew!n
All in vain were dainty fare,
Bread and milk all warm and new,
Downy nest and tender care,-
Thinner. weaker still she grew,
Could no longer run or purr
Lay in bed, and would not stir.
Oracle trailed her long white gown
Down the stairs at early light,
Wonderi3g " if kitty tn grown
ANY better over night;
Found poor kitty cold and dead
In her pretty basket-bed.
Oracle made another bed
Where the morning-glories climb:
With red rose-leaves lined and spread.
And perfumed with pinks and THYME
Rarely has a human head
Found so soft and sweet a bed.
Gracie's little tender hands
End at last their loving task:
Sobbing by the grave she stands,
Then she lifts her face to ask,
While the slow tears downward roll,
Mamma, where ith hty'th thOui ?"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-13
Tobacco Culture.

When the plants are too large to
admit the pillow, use only hoes to keep
down the glass and weeds.
Wait till a considerable NUMBER of
plants begin to button for seed before
You commence to top, when these will
rlpen about the same time. Topping
must be done according to appearance
and promise of each plant, strength of
soil, and time-the work is done, First
topping for medium tobacco should be
from ten to twelve leaves, rarely more,
printing off lower leaves, neither too
high nor too low, but just high enough
so that when the plant ripens the lower
leaves may be well off the ground.
Continue topping as the plants are
large enough, observing as the season
advances to top lower and lower, SO as
to bring in the late plants before frost.
After the tobacco begins to grain,
that is, to ripen, neither pillow nor hoe
should be used, as it has been found
best to sacrifice pounds to color.
The plants, after being topped, should
be kept clear of worms, and the suckers
should be pulled off before they grow
too long. Mind, do not be in hurry
to cut your tobacco before fully ripe,
and enough fulSF and uniformly ripe TO
fill a barn. Have your barns close Qog
ones are best,) well daubed and dry
Cut the tobacco of uniform size, color
and quality, putting about seven medium
plants to an ordinary four and n half
feet stick.
Aunt Grace-My dear children, you
will all be pleased to hear you have got
q new brother. Small son and heir
Oh, how awfully iollyl Let me be the
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-13
Charcoal and SULPHUR for Hogs.

In every hog pen there should be de-
posted weekly a quantity of charcoal.
The hog eagerly devours this substance,
and is greatly benefited and strength
eHed by its use. 1t prevents any I'M
pleasant diseases, and contributes large
ly to the fatty secretions. A few spoon
fuls of pulverized birthstone, or flowers
of sulphur, IN a Little dough, should be
administered as eften as once fort
night to swine while fattening. Soft
coal forms fair substitute for both of
these substances, as it is chiefly carbon,
with which some sulphur is combined.
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D. RANSOM, SON & CO., Propr's
See notice in local column.
R RP ID. ID .

nr. Pierce's Pleasant zsurgative
Pellets, OF Sugar-CcatedACo noenir7ied Root
and Herbal Juice, Anti-BiieNais Granules-the
Little Giant" Cathartc, or AfflfHhz in fhay70
Physic, scarcely larger than mus-
tard seed, yet representing much cath9riic
power as large repulsye pills, bsg U1osfScHrelfHe
and bto,omst, pet ss'ifLy arr kfaGp l,'r'Hf'Tg.
Being entirely vegetable, no partic-
ular care is required. pSTtiIe using them. For
Jaundicea EzSadaehe' Impure
Shoulders, EigEHtncss OF Chest,
Dizziness, SOUR Eructatfons, Bad
Laste in M0Aths bilious attachs,
TnternaI FeVNr, Rush of BLOOD
10 Head, TBloaSed stomach, IEiEa
COIOred Urine, &IOOUy FOrebOd-
ings, take DR.. PieTAe's Pellets.
One or two, taken dali Nor TIME, will cure
PimPles, Islotchc& Erupsi3ns,
BOiIs, Scrofuious SNCes and yiTu-
lent Affections OF Stkin3 tn ro3t
and Bones. No cheap wosd or paste board
boxes, but kept fresh and rel56le in vials. 8
cents, by druggists or So agdozen- Manufac-
turcd at the worlds DiEpc usarys los.
So, 81, 81 and So West SenecaSot., BUFFALO, N. Y.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-13
Converting Weeds into Manure

A ready method of utilizing weeds
and garden refuse so as to convert them
speedily into a valuable manure, con-
sists in laying them in trench, in sue
cessive layers, with unslaked lime be-
tween, and then cover the whole with
earth. The mass will be converted into
an excellent manure, and the additional
percentage of lime viii have its import
Rnce in the economy of the farm.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-13

The principal corn producing districts
are the central portion of Illinois, the
northwestern portion of Missouri,
western Iowa, part of central Indiana
and Kansas. Michigan, Minnesota, and
Wisconsin can hardly be classed as corn
producing States, as they have little or
none to export. The corn-growing dis
tricts form but comparatively small
portion of the area of the States in
which they are located, and yet they
supply the surplus that makes good the
deficiency in the product of other
States, and furnish the amount required
for foreign export. The entire export
of corn in 1872 did not exceed perhaps
%, 000,0 900 bushels. The corn-growing.
districts are for the most part in the in
terror, and depend on rail cemmunica-
ton to reach markets.
At the present time the market is
overloaded with corn, and hence, al
though the anticipated deficiency is al
ready understood in commercial circles,
the price does not advance. The pro-
portion of last years crops still on the
farm is very much a matter of guess
work, but is supposed to be large.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-13

Faust, and the most celebrated compo-
ser for the organ living, is using the
Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organs in his
concerts, in London, and writes to the
English agents for these instruments,
commencing them highly.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-13

BLESSED are they that seek relief
from liver complaint" "biliousness," bad
blood, pimples, blotches, eruptions rough
skin, salt rheum, erysipelas and scrofulous
diseases, by the use of DR.. Pierce's Alt. Ext.
or Golden Medical Discovery, for hey shall be
happy i'll knowing that the cure is complete.
Sold by druggists. 642.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-13
Strawberry Culture.

A strawberry grower states that to
two barrels of rain water he put one
quarter of round of ammonia and one
quarter of q pound OF common nitre,
and with this solution he sprinkled his
strawberry beds every night when bios
soming. The result was double the
amount of large strawberries to that
Just adjoining not so treated.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-13

THE PUREsT AND SWEETEST COD-LIvER Oil
of Hazard e. Caswell's, made on the aea shore
from fresh, selected livers. of the Cod only, by
CAswELI. HAZARD & Co., New York. 1t is alb
solutely pure and S1oeet. Patients who have
once taken it prefer it to all others. Physi-
clans have decided it superior to all other oils
in market-COn1
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-13

Stop those chills that have been har
RAISING you so long, as they sometimes end in
that fatal disease called by come the cup
Country Yellow Fever" They can be very
easily stopped by taking Simmons Liver Reg
ulator. Do not delay; go at once to your
druggist and get package and be cured.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-13
Ants Nests in Gardens.

F. M. G., in Nature, says 81 have
found very effectual remedy for the
annoyance of ants nesting in the garden
paths and borders. A strong solution
of carbolic acid and water poured into
the holes kills all the ants it touches,
and the survivors Immediately take
themselves off. Care must be taken
in its use, as it destroys animal and
vegetable, as well as insect life.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-13

"A clergyman said, the other day,
that modern young ladies were not the
daughters of Shem and Ham, but the
daughters of Hem and Sham.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-13
CriDpIed Constitutions,

1t is difficult to ruin strong constitution. To
weaken. iujure or cripple this source of physical
vigor and endurance is an easier task, and may
always be accomplished by positively disregarding
or violating certain hygeian laws. the Observance
ofwhich is essential to the weIi-being of the body
and to the sustainment of that vital force by which
it is animated and supported. But good constitu-
ton is wonderfully elastic, and after it has
been very hardly dealt with by It's possessors. all
its pristine vigor may be recovered if the proper
course of treatment is adopted. HostetterS stom-
ach Btters may be justly denominated constitu-
tional tonic. Not only does it improve The appe
tite, stimulate the stomach tone and regulate the
disordered liver and bowels and steady the tremb-
ling nerves. but it also (and this is its most impor-
tant effect restores the stfminal strength of the
system, where it has gwen way under the pressure
of excessive labor. exposure, privation acute os-
ease, fast living, foul atmosphere, extraordinary
heat or any other cause. In summer the constitu--
ton is often severely tried by long continuance
of hot weather. Nothing tells more heavily upon
the sources of vital acticity than solar heat, and
hence the expediency of recruiting and replenish-
ing them with wholesome, vegetable tonic. like
Hostetters Bitters, during The summer months.
-.
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Consumption is decay. Soothing, expectsrant rem
edies only useful palatves they do not reach
the cause-they do not stop the decay. Tonic mcdi
zines strengthen the li forces and prolong the bat
tie but the decay goes steadily on, and sooner or
later the victim must yield Climatic changes are
sometimes good. but they seldom wholly cure. In
short, the very first thing to be done is to STOP TE
DECAY then apply the restorative tonic and strength
giving treatment. Think moment. The Lungs are
Observation-Disclosures ucerations, cavities and depos-
its OF poisonous matter tphsl are forming The cir
culatiOn carries this poison all over the body vast
ing, loss Of appetite, enervaton, night sweats ARD a
the terrible symptoms APPEAR is IL worth while 20
doctor the symptoms, which merely the results,
while the decay which Is the cause, is eating up the
These two things arc well known by the best physi
clans:
1st Car6ohc acid postisely arrests Decay. 1t the
most powerful antisepuc In the known world. Even
dead bodies preserved by it. Entering into the
circulation, II at once grappes with corruption, and
decay ceases. 1t purines the sources of disease.
I'd. Cod LfUer on Is Natures best assistant In resist
ing Consumption. 1t Ia AT once food, tonic, pu-
rider, and healer. II braces up and supplies the
vital forces feeds the wasted system and enables ma
ture to regain her foothold For these purposes moth
ing compare with Cod Liver OIL This is the the
DRY of
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The Confcssicr,s of am Invalid.

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