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Simplicity in Living.

To live simply, to master and control
our expenditures, is a sore need in all
classes. The influences, which sur
round us, the ideas in which we have
been brought up, the habits which we
fall into as q second nature, all sway us
in the same direction. Every family
and every class seems to have caught
hold of the skirts of the one above it,
and to be desperately holding on.
Well, as Mr.. Goodwin Smith says, the
best thing they can do is to let go-the
only thing indeed which will give them
selves any comfort or make their lives
of real use in their generation. The
moment they will do so, and begin rcsO-
lutely to live without regard to what
their neighbor on the right spends on
carriages, or their neighbor on the left
in upholstery, they will find themselves
rich for all good purposes. From that
moment it can no longer be said of us
with truth, that we dare not trust our
wits to make our houses pleasant to our
friends, and so we buy ice-creams.
And this most needed of all reforms is
just the one which every soul of us can
carry through for himself or herself
We cannot sweep our whole street. No
doubt But every one of us can sweep
our own doorstep, and, if he will do it
quietly and regularly, anon his right
and left hand neighbors follows, and be-
fore long the whole street is swept.
And in this way, and by this means, can
almost all those social tangles which we
have been glancing at casually, this
evening, be set right. Simple living
To it even the great household ques-
ton, at once the most ridiculous and the
moss harrassing of social troubles, will
III the end yield, will begin at once to
look not wholly insoluble and hopeless.
Speaking of this sore question in the
Nation, the other day, one of the wit
tiest of American essayists took up the
cudgels for Bridget against her numer-
GUS accusers. "My good friends, he
argued, "what else have you any right
to look for? The things which Ameri-
can life and manners preach to her are
not patience, sober -mindedness, faith
fulness, diligence and honesty but
self-assertion, discomfort, hatred of su-
periority of all kinds, and eagerness for
physical enjoyment y and the words
come home, 1 fear, with singular force
to us islanders also i'll these days. Let
us hope that the picture of the good
coming time which he goes on to draw
may prove true for us also. Whenev-
er the sound of the new gospel which is
to win the nations back to the ancient
and noble ways is heard in the land, it
is fair to expect that it will not find her
ears wholly closed and that when the
altar of duty is again set up by her en-
ployers, she will lay on it attractive
beefsteaks, potatoes done to a turn,
make hbations of delicious soup, dis
play remarkable fertility In sweets, an
extreme fondness for washing, and learn
to grow old in one family. Thomas
HtlnhRR.
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VOL XVIII. NO. A.

this man is made by good tailor his
hair, teeth, cheeks, and boots are in
| order; his manner is cool cockney he
does not add so distinct an aspirate to
the vowels the roll of his letters is not
so perplexing. What he knows of Rome
he CLEANS off fashionable nd-books,
and what he knows of society he steals
from Mrs. Gore. He affects an ex-
penditure which he does not maintain !;
he plays, if he can, where he is sure to
win. He may be seen in galleries and
churches, dangling from the ladies of
party, to whose entertainments he hopes
to be invited. They permit him to at
tend them, and would pay him for the
service in money. We meet at this cafe
the moral Enghshman, who reads Glib
bon, Sismondi, and Madame de Stael /;
upright in his back, and mean in his
transactions who cheats the vetturino
and quotes st. Paul in the same breath.
You see this man at the galleries, plain
ly dressed, spread out, reading Murray,
with his hat held behind, in q position
which makes it impossible for another
to enjoy the same picture. This man
aspires to place under government, or
would accept the Office of musical critic
to a penny paper. He if qualifying him
self for person of taste, and when he
gets to London will talk about the styles
of different painters, and the architect
ure of celebrated buildings, in terms
which no one but himself can or should
understand. BE is abrupt, dry and
didactic to his interiors, servile and fiat
tering to those above him, while to those
upon his own level he exhibits himself
as a person eminently CITED.
Artist have heard it said that n
modest Englishman was never known.
Critic-The haughtiest people of
modern times. In what striking colors
does it contrast the degradation of
Europe, when this little island governs
the continentl We have expected to
see France declares herself independent
Why should she depend upon England
for the idea of her movements ? Look
at the unique meanness of her conduct
to Spain, in relation to Gibraltar, which
she has mystified into a smugglers'
cavern. Each vessel that passes this
accursed rock, bristling with cannon, is
to raise her flag, or the Eng
lish coarsairs will fire into her
Artist-It is with nations as with boys
at school, the strongest fellow rules.
The English not only carry this strength !
in politics and commerce, but in litera-
ture and the arts. If the Times news
paper says to England, You must pass
such an act in the Commons, she passes |
it. 1t is the way of the English. One |
thinks that not even on the edge of |
river without name, in California, a
can eat his johnny cake,
without reading what the Times news
baper has to say to it.
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The Englishman in Rome.


One evening, we employed ourselves
with brief consideration of foreigners
in Rome.
Myself-The English and the German
nations are represented in a complete
style. Italy to them is a gallery of
statues and pictures.
Artist-The Engl1shman, if he will
not fight for Rome, loves to spend his
money in it. A German is easily satisfied
ed in his treat. The painters who come
to study love to live as poor as rats.
Critic-They are rich-in hair. You
allude to the English. Their pretty
cafe is in the Piazza di Spagna; cal!
it theirs,-an italian establishment, of
course,-because fine specimens of this
nation may be seen there. Sometimes
a couple of old John Bulls, menof small
fortunes, bachelors, who take Rome
easy,-.go about on foot, and dress In
rusty Black. There is an affectionate
conduct in this sober class they enjoy
life, accomplished in that best of the
fine arts,-having a good time. Polite
to strangers, cheerful and hospitable, L
like to hear them talk about the Venus
and the Hay-pollo. We see, too, at this
cafe, the well-shaped buck, in green
coat, as if he had just ridden in from
hunt, with bright red cheeks, the pink
of neatness, and perfect cockney,, his
thick, rich brogue az distinguished as
that of the Irish peasant from the most
Irish counties. The haberdasher, and
that class of persons more common than
any other, the Englishman who tries to
keep on good terms with people just
above him, and to assume a loftier air
than they take who stand ON his own
level abound at this cafe, The dress of
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plaster and Pntatoes-

According to Mr.. Compton, author Of
the prize essay on the cultivation oS tho
potato, very remarkable results are OBJ
tanned from plaster by dusting the vines
with il as soon rs they are through the
soil again Immediately after the last
plowing and hoeing, and at intervals
through the growing season. The first
application may be light, tho second
heavier, and after that more bountiful,
2O3 pounds TO the acre. IL renders tho
plants less palatable TO the insects, and
appears to be fatal 20 the fun ] family.
The vines retain bright lively green
color, and the tubers continue swelling
until growth is stopped by the frost ;
besides, potatoes thus grown are so
sound and free from disease as 10 be
easily kept for the spring market, with
out loss by rot. Hr. Compton says he
has seen field, all planted with the
same variety, at the same time, one half
of which had received no plaster, where
the yield was but 60 bushels per acre,
and many rotted, while the other half,
to which plaster had been applied,
yielded 300 bushels per acre, and not an
unsoundOne among them.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-16

"What do You call rich nam p" he
asked, with q merry twinkle in his fine
eyes.
"One who, like ysu, can easily earn
one hundred thousand francs q year.
Why, you can build yourself a magnifi-
cent yacht, and 60 in il from one end Of
the world to the other"
Here found something else that
bothered M. Dore when dreaming of
his contemplated voyage around the
world. He could never set foot ON a
ship without suffering severely from
sea-sickness. Like Gar Nicholas of
Russia, he loves the sea, despite the
cruelty with which il treats him when
ever he ventures out upon it. One day
he told me he had been sick for weeks
IN consequence of a trip across the
Channel.
told him that there was no remedy
against sea-sickness, but TINT lie would
probably soon overcome it. Gladly
would / go to New York tomorrow"
he said, "but for my aversion 10 this
nauseating sickness" His young wife,
he added, was greatly in favor OF the
scheme, because she believed that his
depression of spirits would be remedied
by so thorough a change Of air and
places. She had brnvely promised TO
accompany him, even il he took her TO
the north-pole, or TO the .cannibal is
lands.
At this, both of us laughed heartily.
Nj. Dore rose from the chair, shook
hands with me, and left the place. As
he opened the door, saw that he heav-
ed a sigh, and that his face had resumed
its sombre expression. La Petite Re
Ulte de PQriS
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Queen Vintoria,s Dairy Farm.

Situated about a mile from Windsor,
it is probably the most perfect, as IL is
the most expensive thing Of the kind in
the world. It's dairy department is
thus described in letter TO the Phila-
delphia Bulletin: "We entered beau
tiful cottage, and were shown by one of
the Queens favorite servants into
room about thirty feet square, the roof
supported by six octagonal columns Of
white marble, with richly carved capi-
tails. The floors were Of white porce-
lain tiles, the windows stained glass,
bordered with May blossoms, daises.
butter-cups and primroses. The floors
were lined with tiles of porcelain Of n
delicate blue tint, with rich medalions
inserted of the Queen, Prince Consort
and each of the children. Shields,
monograms Of the royal family, and
bas-reliefs of agricultural designs rep
resenting the seasons, completed the or
namention of this exquisite model dairy.
All round the walls ran marble table,
and through the centre two long ones,
supported by marble posts resting on
basins, through which runs n perpetual
stream of spring water. By this means
the table slabs are always cold, and tho
temperature of the dairy is chill, while
the white and gilt china milk and but
ter dishes resting on the tables are nev-
er placed in water. We drank the do
licious milk, Just brought in bright me-
tai buckets, lined with porcelain, the
Queens monogram and crest glittering
on the brass plates on the covers. In
the room where the butter was made,
milk SKINNED and strained, we feRsted
our eyes on the rows of metal porcelain
lined cane of every size, made TO lock,
and sent to the royal family even as
far as Scotland; so they always have
good milk and batter. The churn was
of metal also, and lined with porcelain,
made in two compartments. The out
side chamber surrounding the cylinder
could have warm or cold water poured
in TO regulate tho coming Of the but
ter" without disturbing the croam.
The lid was screwed on, and the station
ary stand ON which the whole was turn
ed made the work easy and rapid. But
while over sixty cows are daily milked,
and as many more are out grazing, the
royal family are more than satisfied, and
L5ndoners more than dissatisfied 10 see
rolls of golden butter and cans OF cream
sold from the model farm for saving
money for the Queen 1 know the but
ter is sold, for we breakfasted on it this
and we paid for it, not as n
bribe, but a regular market bargain Mt
the dairy"
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BY HORSLEY BROS. & FIGUERs
GUILD,S SIGNAL.


BIZ BRET HARTE.
Two low whistles, quaint and clear,
That was the signal the engineer
That was the signal that Guild, It's said
Gave to his wife at Providence
As through the sleeping town, and therce
Out in the night,
On to the light,
Down past the farms, lying white, he spedI
As husbands greeting scant no doubt,
Yet TO the woman looking out,
watching and waiting, no sernade,
Love song or midnight roundelay
said what that whistle seemed to say:
To my trust true
So love tC you!
working or waiting, Good night!p it said.
Brisk young bagmen, tourist fine,
Old commuters along the line,
Breakemen and pOrters glanced ahead,
Smiled as the signal, sharp, intense,
Pierced through the shadows of Providence =
4" Nothing amiss
Nothing lit is
enly Guild call his wife," they said.
Summer and winter, the old refrain
Rang DER the billows of ripening grain,
Pierced through the building boughs DER head
Fled down the track when the red leaves burnet
Like living Goals from the engine spurned:
Sang as it flew:
" To our trust,
First of all Duty-GoOd night" it said.
And then, one night, it was heard no more,
From StOnington over Rhode Island shore,
And the folk in Providence smiled and said,
As they turned in their beds, " The engineer
Has once forgotten his midnight checr.S
One only knew
To his trust true
Guild lay under his engine, dead.
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HUMOR.
Joint acknowledgements.

Joint acknowledgements.
-Back-ache is n spineall complaint.
What is the present "little game
in female costume2 Backgammon, OF
course.
"A French doctor has announced the
discovery Of a safeguard against hydro.
phobia II is a ladder.
Having traced n number of Hiber-
nicisms 10 a Greek origin, the Rev. DIR.
Hopkins remarks that Irish bulls were
once calves in Greece.
What does the sun bring up in
spring? =? asked n New Britain Sunday
school teacher. "Mud, made answer
a precocious Gradgrind Of an urchin.
"A clergyman in Pennsylvania, in
stead Of saying Let ms pray J" says
"Let us interview the Throne Of
Grace" The dominic had once beena
reporter.
Billy Brown, did you say that my
father had not AZ much sense ms Billy
| Smiths dog? "No, never said any
such thing. All said was that BIlly's
| little dog had more sense than your
| father; that's all / ever said. Well
it's well you didn't say the other, l tel
you."
"A careful bridegroom in Cleveland
kept the wedding-ring in his mouth
| during the fore part of tho ceremony,
so that he could find IL when the proper
moment arrived. He mumbled along
| all right until the minister winked, ~ n
| hint TO produce the ring, when in his
nervousness he swallowed it, and, there
| being no stomach-pump on hand, he
| "A. IL ,rfNl
men, IT, recover the "gold0n pledge.
- In one of thl primary schools Of
Boston the other day, during n reading
| lesson, the name John -, Junior, oc-
currinp. the teacher asked what it
meant. Only one hand was raised "a
little boy, whose eyes were beaming
with the thought of being the only one
| of all his mates who answered. The
teacher asked him what IL meant, and
the answer came prompt and decisive:
cone who was born in June"
The Court Journal prints this
"The German Emperor, while visiting
q village in his land, was welcomed by
the school-children of the place. After
their speaker had made n speech Tor
them he thanked them. Then, taking
an orange from a plate, he asked ''Io
| what Kingdom does TINS Delong lno
vegetable kingdom, sire, replied tho
girl The Emperor took a gold coin
from his pocket, and holding it up, ask
ed, "And TO what kingdom does tins
belong ?" "To tho mineral kingdom
sire, replied the little girl. =" And TO
what kingdom do belong, thcnY ask
ed the Emperor. The little girl color
ed deeply, for she did not like 70 say
"the animal kingdom" as he thougn1
she would, lest his Majesty should 90
offended, whcn bright thoughe cam, ..T,
and she said with radiant eyes, 10
Gods kingdom, sire" The Emperor
was was deeply moved. A tear stood in his MS
eve He ! placed his hand on the ohild's
head and said, most devoutly,. God
nrant Grant that may be accounted worthy
of that kingdom" What we admire in
this story Is the modest uncertainty og
| the Emperor
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COLUMBIA, TENN, FRIDAY, MAY Is, 1873.

that it does not once occur to me
whether am looking green or no.
And this is the true history of my
night journey to Paris You will be
glad, I dare say, to hear that ultimate
" recovered my sapphires and a good
many of my other ornaments. The
police being promptly set on, the rob
bers were, after much trouble and time,
at length secured; and it turned out
that the man in the cloak was an ex-
valet of my husbands, who was ac-
quainted with my bad habit of travel
ing in company with my trinkets-a
bad habit which [ have since seen fit to
abandon
What I have written is literally true,
though it did not happen to myself.
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Bacon on Riches.

Believe not them that seem to despise
riches, for they despise them that des
pair of them none worse when they
come to them. Be not penny-wise ;
riches have wings, and sometimes they
fiy away of themselves, sometimes they
must be set flying to bring in more.
Men leave their riches either to their
kindred, or to the public; and moder-
ate portions prosper best in both. A
great estate left to an heir is as lure
to all the birds of prey round about to
seize on him, if he be the better estab-
1ished in years and judgment likewise
glorious gifts and foundations are like
sacriGcers without salt, and but the
painted sepulchers of aims, which soon
Will putrefy and corrupt inwardly.
Therefore measure not thine advance
ments by quantity, but frame them by
measure and defer not charities till
death. For certainly, if a man weigh
it rightly, he that doth so is rather
liberal of another mans than his own.
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The First Grapevine-A Grecian Le-
gend.

Inc f1TSG tTapeVlne-A Grec1an LIE
gend.
When Bacchus was a boy he Jour-
neyed through Hellas to go to Naxia
and, as the way was very long, he grew
tired, and sat down upon stone to rest.
As he sat there with his eyes upon the
ground, he saw little plant springing
up between his feet, and was so much
pleased with it that he determined to
take it with him and plant it in Naxia
He took it up and carried it away with
him but as the sun was very hot, he
feared it might wither before he reached
his destination. He found a birds
skeleton, into which he thrust the plant,
and went on. But in his hand the plant
sprouted so fast that it started out of
the bones above and below. This gave
him fresh fear of its withering, and he
cast about for remedy. He found q
lions bone, which was thicker than the
bird's s skeleton, and he stuck the skele-
ton with the plant in it into the bone of
the lion. Ere long, however, the plant
grew out of the lions bone likewise.
Then he found the bone of an ass, lar
ger still than that of the lion so he put
the loin's bone containing the birds
skeleton and the plant into the ass's
bone, and thus he made his way to
Naxia. When about to set the plant,
he found that the roots had entwined
Themselves around the birds skeleton
and the lions bone and the ass's bone
and as he could not take it out without
damaging the roots, he planted it as it
was, and it came speedily, and bore to
his great JOY, the most delicious grapes.
from which he made the first wine and
gave it to men to drink. But behold a
miracle! When men drank of it, they
first sang like birds; next, after drink
ing a little more, they became vigorous
and gallant like lions; but when they
drank more still, they began to behave
like asses.
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THE PETRLFLED FERN.

In a valley centuries ago,
Grew little fern-leaf, green and slender,
Yeining delicate and hbers tender,
Waving when the wind crept down so low,
Rushes tall and grass and moss grew round it
Playing sunbeam darted in and found it;
But no foot of man e'er came that way -
Earth was young and keeping holiday,
Useless? Lost? There came thoughtful man
Searching natures secrets far and deep;
From a tissure in rocky steep
He withdrew a stone, DER which there ran
Fairy pencilings, quaint design,
LEAKAGE, veining, hores clear and fine,
And the ferns life lay in every line;
So think God hides some lives away,
Sweetly to SURPRISE us the last day.
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Have you upon your farm no water
power that, at little expense (and now
is the time to attend to it. might be
utilized for some work hitherto per-
formed by man or beast? There are
thousands of beautiful, meandering
sti cams all over this southside country,
at present babbling along over their
rocky beds, amid a wilderness of briers
and brushwood, that, by little drain
ing and ditching, might be diverted in
to other channels and made to move
machinery Of any kind used upon the
farm.
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MYLOTE.

A fair, sweet face-a form of grace,
And golden hair, of beauty rare.
All this has my Love
And more!
Two soft, bright eyes, blue as the skies /;
Two cheeks of snow, where roses blow
All this has my Love
And more!
small, white hand, with golden band;
A charming smile, which can begnile-
ALI this has my Love
And more!
A heart-all mine--where doth combine
Love, gentleness, and tenderness
All this has my love
And more!
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NHAR1ES CLEAR,
~ ATTORNEY AT LAW
Columbia, Tennessee.
Special attention given to the collection Of claims
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-10-29
THE COERTa

SPECIAL TERM, judge Hanaphrits -Yesterd,,
the following cases we're taken up:-De Leon va
Adams; order oyerruling demurrer Adams Va
smith, decision sustaining exceptions to auditor s
report. Rachel Nslor VS.. A l;son Major; order for
rule on def ndant. Stanton VS.. II pkins; decree dis
missing Dill. kroreb rger KroneberRer: sinh
mitted. In re Jacob Ramsbusg & Sons; order re-
stralnlng the removal certain goods Adj ,nrnsd
Today, De Leon VS.. Adams: d cres overruIinc de-
niurrer, with costs, with Lave to answer over
stanton vs. ID skins; decree dsmisSing hill Dixon
VS.. Campbell; order Of reference 10 auditor: Rail-
man VS.. Bsllpan; order appointing L Schaia euar-
disn ad htem. Nancy Krons berger W. vii lam
kronehe order disnissins bill vii 81
Dc I. ndant without prejudice. McDade VS. Williams
restraining order issued
CIRCUIT COURT, JRdss Neutrality-suspicious. vs.
Heler, trustee; jury out. LYON vs.. Hamliuk; judg-
msni by default. Wynn vs. Brown; Judgment below
amrmed Lewis VS.. Holmead; on trial.
POLICE COURT, Judge Smell To-day Sam
mel Harrison forfeited collateral for disorder Jas
McGunn, profanity; SO Lemual Goodley, forfeited
$50 Tor carry ing cor Cesled W apOns Andrew nit
ney, loud and boiHerous; SIS. Edward II lward
same, So. VIM. Williams, same. SIS. Susan Curry
throwing stones in the street; S. George Bond
and James II Jackson, charged with lewd and in
decent conduct in public square: George failed To
apes ar AMI an att hment ordered 10 be ssnad
10 bring MIN in; case postponed Jane Smi h,
charged with larceny Of some table linen; contin,
ned. Edward Howard, charged with resisting ana
assaulting officer NJ KenRa; $40; John Bowie az.
sanlt and battery on John Gray; as and costs Hem
~ Jones, larceny Of clothing; SIS, or Jail Lizzie
Rhoule, assault on Anna Mack, SIS.