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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
Training in Civilitv.

In view of the expected deluge it may
be hardly worth while to trouble our
selves about the coming race yet, If our
children are to be taught anything, or
to have any training, whether for life
In the bush or a share in the universal
republic, they must be instructed in
clvilty, which is only another name for
decent and comfortable intercourse with
ones fellows, whoever they may be.
The growing emancipation of young
people from old-fashioned forms of re-
spect would seem to be making them so
unendurable in society that they are
more and more exiled from it. What
does it profit that they possess all
knowledge if they do not behave "ac-
cording to their age and condition ?" Af-
lection is damped for the learned little
roughs, who would have been delightful
if only tn y had been trained in habits
or respect by attention to its outward
and visible signs. "Nature is" not al
together ga holy thing" whatever
Squeers and Rousseau may assert; she
has to be reformed from the cradle, and
infant-school teachers can witness how
important the conduct of the body is in
training children. We see how charm
4LlS ~ 10 III d 4elSSld1 C11I1u 10 KISS Ills
parents hand, to remain standing until
hidden to sit, and listen until asked to
speak. The disciple of these Tartars
and Cossacks is the same in which our
Philip Sidneys and Jane Greys were
trained, which gave models to Vandyke,
and kept green the family affection that
was once our boast; and we hardly do
well to neglect it. We certainly pro-
vide sufficient discomfort for ourselves
during those few minutes in whith our
Berties and our Hildas, admitted to the
drawing-room, endure the miseries of
shyness or inflict the miseries of rude
ness; both of which would have been
avoided if habitual good manners had
put everybody in his right groove. The
humors of the rising generation are al
most past joke. We shall soon pain
fully understand why our ancestors sent
their sons to learn behavior as pages in
other households, AMI the Gaelic laws
of fosterage applicable to prince and
peasent may regain approval. Our few
remaining opportunities of learning
manners are disappearing before COM
petitive examination; yet fortunately,
so long as military service remains, Ger
tain gestures of respect will continue to
be recognized as necessary to dicipline,
and disciple as necessary to serviceable-
ness.-LOndO7l ReUie1O.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
Modern Dictionary.

Water-A clear fluid once used as a
drink.
Honesty-An excellent joke.
Tongue-A little horse that is contin-
ually running away.
Ny dear-An expression used by man
and wife at the commencement of a
quarrel.
Bargain-A ludicrous transaction, in
which each party thinks he cheated the
other.
Doctor-A man who kills you to-day
to save you from dying tomorrow.
Wealth-The most respectable quality
of men.
Esquire - Everybody, yet nobody,
equal to Colonel.
Jury-Twelve prisoners in box to
trv one or more at the bar.
States Evidence-A wretch who is
pardoned for being baser than his COM
rades.
Modesty-A beautiful little flower
that fonrishes in secret places.
Lawyer-A learned gentleman who
rescues your estate from your enemy
and keeps it for himself.
The Grave-An ugly hole in the
ground which lovers and poets wish
they they were in, but take uncommon
measures to keep out of.
Money-The god of the country.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
Conscience.

I remember reading, when very
little boy, about child who was in the
habit of going to an upper room or loft
where there was store of apples. She
went from time to time to steal the fruit,
but she met with something that greatly
troubled her. There happened to have
been placed in that store-room an old
oil-painting. It was a large face, the
eyes of which, go to what part of the
room the little girl might, seemed to
follow her; and they appeared to be
saving to her, as she stopped down to
take up the apples, ''Ah I see you. It
is very naughty. You are sure to be
found ont" This so annoyed the little
culprit, from time to time, that she was
determined to put stop to the threaten
ing of these two staring eyes so she
>procured q small knife, or a pair of
scissors, and struck them out All, but
there were still two large holes in the
place of them, and she never, could
look at them without thinking of the
eyes, and what the used to say to her
She had put out the eyes, but she had
not, nor could she, get rid of her con-
science. Moreover, the very means she
had used for SHINING without rebuke
only served to discover her guilt, for,
when what had befallen the painting
came to be found ont, it led to such in
quiries as at last to reveal the whole
truth.-N Y Observer.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
Smut in Wheat.

Many people are afraid of sowing
wheat because they think that it is an
uncertain crop, liable to be destroyed
by smut or rust. / have grown wheat
for many years, ..and though have some
times suffered from rust, until I hit
upon changing my seed every year, /
have never had q particle of smut, and
no one need have any il he will only
take necessary precautions. l always
soak my seed in strong brine, not blue
stone water, which 1 believe is good too,
but prefer the brine because know it
to be good. 1 put the seed in a big
barrel or hoghead, half full of the
strongest brine I can make, and stir
it with q stick until every grain becomes
saturated. then skim off all the light
grain and foreign seeds which float upon
the surface, leaving nothing but heavy
sound wheat. 1 then pour off the
brine and put it in a barrel fixed Oh
legs like a ley barrel, with holes in the
bottom covered with a strong net, which
will keep in the wheat and allow the
water to run out. then pour into the
barrel sufficient quantity of thin white
wash Qime and water,) which runs
through and gives every kernel a coat
ing of the whitewash. After this is
done, I spread out the seed to dry, and
then it is ready for the sower, Since /
have done this have never had a smut
ty ear in my wheat, and those of my
neighbors who have adopted my plan
have had similar experience.
Since / have been in the habit of
changing my seed every year, that is
using seed brought from a distance, I
have escaped the rust. Icannot explain
the reason of this. can only state the
fact Southern Farmer.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21

Disseminated people are sometimes
gifted with what they fatter themselves
by calling candors; if anything does not
please their peculiar whims, they can
by no manner of means be beguiled in
to passing it by, or thinking it is any
but radically wrong. They "candidly"
say they don't like the thing-they hate
the person, who has not one redeeming
Characteristic while person of liberal
vision might, while seeing the imperfec-
tion, find many good qualities. This
feature of our malcoHtent might be toll
erable, however, if, when by chance
anything or person did please him, his
candor would instigate him to acknow-
ledge the pleasure afforded him. But
candor does not go that far with him.
He never can ''speak his mind" unless
he has a mind to say something dis
agreeable. This may be a virtue as far
as the question of truth may be con-
cerned but it is not invariably best to
give utterance to all that may be true.
In the reverse, would it not be better to
endeavor to look for the good in men
and things than to be ever watching for
and anticipating evil? There can hard
ly be any doubt that such a rule of ac-
ton would conduce more certainly to
peace of mind, make people companion
able to their friends, and gain for them
selves reputation for amiability and
good nature
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
The Miseries of Self-Importance.

Observe how self-importance makes
man moody and unhappy. He who is
always thinking of his own excellences
renders himself thereby unfit to enjoy
the good of others, and is prone to inn
agine that every token of affection given
to another is an insult offered to him
self. Hence he is touchy, sensitive,
irritable and envious. He takes offense
when none is meant, and even when
those around him are not thinking of
him at all he interprets their conduct as
if it were studiously discourteous, and
goes through the world smarting from
wounds which have sprung not so much
from neglect of others as from his own
overweening self-conceit. There is no
surer way to make ourselves miserable
than to think of ourselves more highly
than we ought to think. It isolates us
from all about us. It cuts us off alike
from human sympathy and divine as
sistance. It makes us very Ishmaels,
with our hands against every man and
every mans hands apparently against
us. It gives jaundiced hue to the be-
havior of those who, SO far from mean
ing to do evil to us, have our best inter
ests at heart, and love us with self-sac-
rificing affection. The map who has a
wound about him, no matter where it
may be, feels it to be always in his way.
Let him do what he will, or go where he
NAV. he cannot move himself but he is
conscious of its pain. In like manner,
he who has this feeling OF self-impor-
tance is continually smarting. Some
body has always been sighting him.
He is constantly complaining of having
been insulted, and when honor is given
to another he feels nothing but that he
has been overlooked. Thus he shuts
himself out from every festival, and
mopes most of all when others are mer-
nv. May God deliver us from this
idolatry of self. on whose altar all true
nobleness and real happiness are COM
pletely inundated Rev. w. M Tdy-
Tor.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
Hereditary Transmission in Hand
writing.

fOn what curious combination Of
coporal structure, mental character, and
training" says Mr.. Darwin, "must
handwriting depend Yet every one
must have noted the occasional close
similarity of the handwriting in father
and son, although the father had not
taught his son. A great collector of
franks assured me that in his collection
there were several franks of father and
son hardly distinguishable, except by
their dates. Hofacker in Germany re-
marks ON the inheritance of handwrit-
ing and it has been even asserted that
English boys, when taught to write in
France, naturally cling to their English
manner of writing" l am disposed TO
think that peculiarities of handwriting
are generally rather the opponents OF
particular types of nervous organiza-
ton, than resultants of purposiye train
ing. In a primary school in which
handwriting is carefully taught, it will
often be observed that very close
similarity prevails among the individual
pupils whilst in a school of which the
pupils, belonging to a higher social
class, exhibit more marked diifereutia-
tion of mental type, therei is far greater
diversity of handwriting. The follow
ing curious case, which occurred in my
own family, and which can q am assur-
ed be exactly paralleled elsewhere,
seems to afford a strong confirmation OF
this view: A gentleman who emigrated
to the United States, and settled in
the backwoods, before the end OF last
century, was accustomed from time to
time to write long letters to his sister IN
England, giving an account OF his family
affairs. Having lost his right arm by
an accident, the correspondence was
temporarily kept mp by one or other OF
his children but in the course of few
months he learned to write with his left
hand and, before long, the handwrit
ing of the letters thus written came b. be
from that of his for
mer letters.-PTof. w. b. Carpenter
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
A House in California One Thousand
Years Old.

The loftiest house, aud the most per-
feet In the matter of a chitecture have
ever seen. was that which a wood. chop
per occupied with his family ono winter
in the forests of Santa Cruz county.
Il was the cavity of a redwood tree, 24O
feet in hight. Fire had eaten away tho
trunk Mt the base, until n circular room
had been formed, l6 feet in diameter.
AZ 90 feet or more from the ground was
a knot-hole, which afforded eRress for
the smoke. With hammocks hung from
pegs, and few cooking utensils hung
upon other pegs, that house lacked no
essential thing. This woodman was in
possession of a house which had been
1000 years in process Of building. Per
laps on the very day IL was finished he
came along and entered in. How did
all iack-knife and hand-saw architecture
sink into insignifcance in contrast with
this house in the solitudes OF the great
forest Moreover, the tenant Jared like
a prince. Within thirty yards OF his
coniferous house n mountain stream
went rushing past 20 the sea. In the
sx,irls and eddies urder the shelving
rocks. II one could not land half a-doz-
on trouts within an hour, he deserved
10 90 hungly as penalty for his awk.
wardness. Now aud then a deer came
ont into the openings, and, at no great
distance, quails, rabbits, and pigeons
could be found. What did this man
want more than nature furnished him
He had n house with n "cupola" 240
feet high, and game at the cost Of taxi
ing 10. This Arcadian simplicity would
have made a lasting impression, but for
n volunteer remark, that nothing could
be added 10 give life more perfect
zest. "Well, yes, F" said he, 81 reckon
il you are going back TO town, you
might tell Jim to send me gallon OF
whisky, and some plug tobacco" II
will not do 20 invest u hollow tree with
too much sentiment and poetry. II
that message had not been suggested
we should have been under the delu-
sion to this day that the lives OF those
people, dwelling in n house fashioned
/. 600 vears apo' were rounded toa per-
feet fullness, without one ARTIFICIAL want
-OUerLaRd Womthiy.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
Alsike Glover.

A Michigan farmer gives his expert
enee with Alsike, or Swedish clover, as
follows 81 1t is better adapted to~cold
climates than any other variety, as it
does not heave out so badly in freezing,
on account of side roots. It affords fine
crops of hay, may be cut twice in the
same season, and yet leave a good stand
for winter pasture, remaining green long
after the other grasses have failed.
The stalk does not become dry immedi-
ately but remains green and nutritious
after the seed-pods are ripe. The
foliage is luxuriant, and we are of opin-
ion that, above all other clovers or
grasses, this is the one for the Eastern,
Middle and Western States"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
Folded Hands.

We look wistfully into eyes that have
been wont to send back loving glances,
and weep to see them growing dim we
kiss lips that yesterday were eloquent,
now cold and speechless; we see them
carry to the place of graves, those who
were our hearts best loved, and because
the eyes were closed, and the quiet
hands folded over n pulseless breast,
we say" Their work is ended T. It is
not so. for their works do follow
them" The last touch Of their hand
fingers with us, their step on the stair,
and ~ the door, thrills on our ear ;
so4o gift of theirs it may have been in
the long past, is changed to holy tai
isman. Some prayers that we heard
them breathe years ago in our trusting
childhood, becomes a living voice to
guide us,
:. For touching so, they draw above,
Our common thoughts to heavens unknown"
The busy hands are still, the mortal
forms we loved and cherished, have put
on such shining raiment, that our tear
dimmed eyes may not behold th"m, but
the work they commenced still goes on.
They are still working through their in
fuence that cannot die. working for
God Yes, even they, our loved and
missing, they whose chairs are vacant
in our homes, upon whose names we
do not call, since dropping our hands
from ont their clasp-they went from
us, never needing tears or prayers
"Went out from us, far away.
From the dark world they knew,
No twilight in their gateway
The golden gate assed through.
Into the sudden glory
Out of the dark they tTOd;
Departing from before
At once to life and God"
So shall it be with her, the aged saint
who went out from our midst little
while ago.
It was on Thanksgiving day that they
laid her down in her last sleep, and
thought how meet it was, for she never
ceased speaking of the Fathers good
ness, until earthly speech was swallow
ed up in endless song.
=" 1 have had happy life" she would
say. "God has been very good to me
I gave my heart to him when [ was ten
years old, and He has kept me ever
since"
Nearly seventy-five years her name
had been upon the record of His follow
ers below, and written in the " Lambs
Book of Life. ,"
Kept! oh yes! He keeps very safely
all who so love and trust in Him. A
little child when she first learned to
praise Him; with the earnest simpli-
city, and loving trust of a little. child
she was praising Him all the journey
through, and when she came to the di-
viding Jordan, her hfe-song was echoed
back to us
How happy are they,
Who their Saviour obey!"
We know-that the feeble hands are
folded very peacefully. She has faded
from out an earthly home, but her work
is not done, for children, and children's
children shall tell to other little ones
the story handed down of her holy life,
and it's beautiful close, so this memory
shall live, and not die. "She followed
Jesus from a little child.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
Churches in the United States.

The report on the state of religion in
the United States, prepared by Rev.
Henry B. Smith, d. D., of the Union
Theological Seminary, and presented
to the General Conference of the Evan
gelical Alliance, recently in session at
Amsterdam, is document of great in
terest and value, containing within a
small compass vast amount of infor-
nation in regard to the state and pro-
gress of religion in this country. We
conderse from the annexed statistics,
which will be found convenient for re-
ference -
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21

Grace church on Broadway, New
York, is to rival Trinity with a sc, 900
chime of bells. Some trouble, however,
is anticipated in the setting who shall
preside at the bell ropes. Hitherto
Brown, the sexton, has been the the
autocrat of Grace church. Even the
rector although nominally superior,
knows that Brown is his senior, and that
hence he may properly be styled the
dean of the church. Brown, however,
cannot ring the chimes, and hence q
performer must be hired for this pur-
pose. Thus the honors of Grace church
must be divided, which will be very
hard on the dean. Grace church has
existed thus far without any bell, and
these innovations are perplexing to an
aristocratlc sexton.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
MBER OF CHURCHES, ETC, IN THE UNITED STATES

United Brethren about 3, 200 societies.
Moravians. about $4,000 communi-
cants.
Unitarians about 300 churches.
Universalists include abou& 600, 600
of the population.
Friends or Quakers, orthodox, about
54, 900 members.
Friends or Quakers, Hicksites, about
A0 OO0 memberS
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21

To WASH FLANEL. rub soap
upon it. MAKE suds by dissolving the
soap in warm water. Rinse in warm
water; very cold or hot water will
shrink flannel. Shake it ont several
minutes before hanging to dry. Blan-
kets can be washed in the same way.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
-Stone. boats are very handy

Stone boats are very handy for
other purposes besides drawing off
stones. Always take one with you to
the field-and have on it crowbar, an
axe, a spade, a hammer, a monkey
wrench, and box of nails, bolts, etc.
Keep the bottom of the boat saturated
with petroleum.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
I'll Temper,


A single person of sour, sullen temper,
what a dreadful thing it is to have
such one in the house There is not
myrrh and aloes and chloride of lime
enough in the worldto disinfect a single
home of such nuisance as that; no
riches, no elegance of men, no beauty
of face can ever scr en- such persons
from utter vulgarity. There is one
thing which rising persons hate the re-
putation of more than all others, and
that Is vulgarity; but trust me, i'll tenn
per is the vulgarest thing that the lowest
born and illest bred can ever bring to
his homo. II IS one of the worst forms
OF impiety. Peevishness IN a home Is
not only SIN against the Holy Ghost,
but SIN against the Holy Ghost in the
very temple of love. Theodore Parker.
The nan who produces the largest
yield to area cultivated, with the least
expense, and increasing the fertility of
his soil, is the most scientific farmer,
however ignorant he may be of the fact.
Young pigs should be fed all they
viii eat and digest. Nothing is better
for them .han corn-pudding and milk
AS the pigs get older and the weather
warmer, corn-meal, soaked for u or "a
hours in cold water, may take the place
of the pudding"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
-Ex-Mavor Kalbfeisch Of Brookly

-Ex-Mayor Kalbfeisch of Brooklyn
left a property which it must be
a real pleasure to his heirs to inherit.
His oldest daughter gets S114, 900,
another daughter and son $10O, 900 each,
and his remaining six children personal
property and estates of similar value,
the whole amounting to 81 500, 900,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21

The PennsyiVHnia Legislature has
adopted n resolution forbidding ITS
members 10 drink liquors on the moor
OF the House.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
An Ingenious Smuggling Device.

Everything that enters Paris has to
pay octroi duty. For many weeks an
elegantly -attired gentleman drove a
well-appointed dog-cart from the out
skirts to the city, being attended every
evening by neat looking groom. One
night the dog-cart was upset in the
presence of the gens-d armies, who, on
going to the rescue, noticed that the
groom had not moved from his seat.
s'Come," said one of the men. The
groom preserved dignifed silence.
ssCome down. cried they, angrily,
"don't you see your master is hurt |?
Are YOU drunk or stupid?" The groom
preserved his English sang froid, and
the employees, giving him a shake, dis
covered, to their unutterable astonish-
ment, that he was made of zinc, and
contained one hundred and fifty litres of
cognacl
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
The Boundary Between British Amer.
ica and the United States.

Few school boys, we dare say, are
acquainted with She fact that the
boundary of the Northwest between
British America and the United States
is unknown. To settle this point two
interested parties were appointed to
perform the survey. Colonel Farquhar
headed the American outfit and left
this city Aug, 26, arriving at Pembina
Sept. 8. Eight days later they COM
menced the survey. Six and forty years
ago boundary line was established
along the Lake of the Woods, but all
marks of it are gone. Four weeks were
spent in this section, when cold wealth
er and the expenditure of $4,000, all
that the American Commissioner was
allowed; on the contrary, the English
Commissioner had the sum of $50, 900
for the comfort of his party. No bound
ary was fixad The United States par
ty retUrne,i 70 St. Paul Nov. 21. We
should mention that Lieutenant Green,
with two companies of inafntry, accom-
panied the party as protectors and
workers in the field. With sixty-seven
soldiers he crossed the Red river.
Captain Arbaugh also went as far as
Roseau river, LAYING there two days,
and then received orders to return to
Pembina. At this latter place, Sept.
Is, the snow was three inches deep.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21

Some hiIlz at last teaai. ta LIT and break:
Some streams began to ga Of wood aud tide,
The sOn,bre lain began betime to take
A hue of weary brown. and Wild and wide
1t stretched it, naked lr.a-t every side. 800.
A babe was heard at .a-t to cry for bread
Amid the deserts cattle lowed and died,
And dying men went BY With broken tread,
And left long black serpsui-line of wreck and
dead