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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17
Half Alive

1t is sad thing pass through life only half
alive. Yet there are thousands whose habitual
condition is one of languor and debility. They
complain of no specific disease; they suffer no pos
tive pain, but they have relish anything
which affords mental sensuous pleasure to their
more robust and energetic fellow beings,
In nine cases out of ten this state of lassitude
and torpor arises from morbid stomach. Indi-
gestiOn destroys the energy of both mind and body
and regular assimilation of the food, every organ
is starved; every function interrupted.
these circumstances of depression? The system
hour or two to sink afterwards into a more pitt
able condition than ever, as 1t assuredly would do
If an ordinary alcoholic stimulant were resorted to
but radically and permanently.
How is this desirable object to be accomplished?
rying experience of quarter of century, is east
y gwen Infuse new yigor Into the digestive or
Do not waste time in administering temporary
the tountain-he of physical strength and energy
the great organs upon which all other organs de
By the time that dozen doses of the great vege
feeble rs of the ysneptc VIII begn Ia fa m
benign influence. Appetite will be created, and
Persevere until the cure is compile e. until health.
full blood fit to be the material of flesh and muscle
channels of circulation instead of the watery pa
buIum with which they have heretofore been i'm
perfectly nourished.
The largest workshop of the body is the liver
whose office it is to withdraw the bile from the
blood. When this inn ortant organ acts sluggishlv
or frem any n.y. cause becomes diseased, pr. Jayne's
Sauatlve Pills afford immediate relief, and soon
bring about natural action.
IF YOU have chills periodic headache. or any
bad feelinsS caused by malaria, ShallenberRer's
Pills Will remove the trouble at once. They are
antidOte.
CHILDREN OFTEN LOOK PALE
AND SICK
6om 40 other cause than having worms in the
GomRch.
BROWNS VERdIFUGE COMFITs
Sill destroy worms without injury to the ct,nu
icing perfectly WHITE, and free from ali uo.Ur
ing or other injurious Ingredients usually use0 10
worm preparations.
CURTIS a. BROWN, PrOprietors,
No. 2I5 Fulton street, New Yors
Sold By druggists and chemists, and dealers II
medicines Al TWENTY-FIVE CE STS BOX.
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For FARMERS" Wealth and Wond-
ers of the Boundless West" It is new, and
having wonderful sale. Advertised in this
paper.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17
CLOTHES
WRINGEl

The rogues COMMONWEALTH
shalt not squeal.
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A PRov1DENTIAL MAN.-This title
now justly belongs to a physician who
has added to the list of medicines new
remedy, which appears to include any
that is most valuable in the old pharma-
coppia, and not to include any of the
drawbacks with which the so-called
specifics of the faculty are chargeable
The providential man is DIR. Joseph
Walker of California, whose Vinegar
Bitters have achieved, in the short
space of two years, a degree of popular
ity never before attained by any adver-
tised preparation in this country. We
have too much confidence in the shrewd-
ness of the American people to suppose
that this sudden and surprising celebri-
ty is the outgrowth of a delusion. In
deed, we have reason to know that it is
founded on innumerable and well au-
thenticated cures of almost all the bodi-
~ ills that flesh is heir to. Not the
least among the merits of the famous
tonic and restorative, is its entire free
dom from alcohol, as well as from all
mineral drugs. It is composed exclu-
sively of rare vegetable extracts.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17

WAGES ABRoAD.-Sixty cents day is
considered good wages for a working
man in any of the European countries,
except Great Britain, where the wages
are somewhat higher. In the tyrol silk
region and in Italy they often do not
get more than ten cents. In the coun-
try in Germany ten cents is the common
pay. Women there often get but five
cents. In Sweden men often work from
four o'clock in the morning till nine in
the evening, and do not get more. Dur
ing the late war many poor women in
Berlin were hired to knit stocking for
the soldiers for five cents. The profit
Of the poor who keep petty shops, sell
trinkets in the street, or act as suffers
do not average more than three or four
per cent. BARRIERS in Berlin, since the
raising of their prices, get five cents for
hair cutting and two and half cents
for shaving. Servants at hotels get
from three to eight dollars a month.
get but ten dollars year. Sometimes
these classes cannot get work at any
price.
A DEATH SCENE.-The death scene of
Gu0 uuh0 Vi OEuuS"lCh iS Sdlu 10 nave
been strange one. On the bed lay the
duke stentoriously breathing, his blond
curly wig pushed back, the plaster fall
ing out from his wrinkles, the white and
red paint, with which he had initiated
youth, run together, and making hide
GUS amalgam. The poor pottering old
chamberlains, who had served him I'M
til servitude had become a habit and
almost a happiness, blubbered aud
fused about. Viola, who seems, so
strange is the nature of woman, really
to have cared for him, sat apart and
wept; the doctors solemly whispered
to each other and occasionally felt his
pulse. And English Smith, gentle
man of eminently respectable and essen
TALLY British appearance, with long
mutton-chop whiskers, kept one eye on
his client and the other ON the money
chests,
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THE HOUSEHOLD PaNACEA,
AND
FAMILY LINInIENT

La the best remedy In the world for the following
complaints, viz: Cramps In the limbs and stOm
sch pain In the stomach. bowels or side rheuma
tam in all It's forms. bilious collie, neuralgia.
cholera, dosentery, colds flesh wounds. burns, sore
throat, spinal complaints. spTains and bruises.
ehils and fever. For Internal and external use.
Its operation In not only &c rellsve the patient,
but entirely removes the cause of the complaint.
It PenstTates ana pervadss the whole system, re-
torng healthy action to all its parts and quicken
ing the blood.
The Household PanAcea Is purely Veg
stable and ell healing.
Prepared by
CURTIS a. BROWN,
No. XI5 Fulton street, New YcTA.
FoE sale by AL drucGists
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The Popular Science Monthly says
"One of the great dangers attending
the use of the various sedatives en-
ployed in the nursery is that they tend
to produce the opium habit. These
quack medicines owe their soothing and
quieting effects to the action of opium,
and the infant is by them given a NOR
bid appetite for narcotic stimulants.
The offering for sale of such nostrums
should be prohibited, as tending to the
physical and moral deterioration of the
race. In India mothers give to their in
fants sugar pills containing opium, and
the result is a languid, censual race of
hopeless debauchees. In the United
States the poisonous dose is admins
tered under another name but the con-
sequences will probably be the same"
A Hard-shell Baptist minister over
in Indiana, who married fortnight af-
ter his wife's death, made the following
satisfactory explanation in the pulpit
the Sunday following: 81 searched the
Scriptures from Genisees to Reverla-
tions, and found plenty of promises to
the wider, but nary one to the widerer.
And so / took it that the good Lord
didn't waste sympathy on q man when
it was in his power to comfort himself,
and having first rate chance to marry
in the Lord, did SO, and would do so
again. Besides, brethren, considered
that poor Patsy was just as dead as she
ever would be-"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17

Open to conyiction-A piokpooket,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17

IF YOU have chills. periodic headache. or any
bad fePlinss caused by malaria, ShallenberRer's
Pills Will remove the trouble at once. They are
antidOte.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17

The largest workshop of the body is the liver.
whose office it is to withdraw the bile from the
blood. When this Important organ acts suggishlv
or from any cause becomes diseased, DIR. Jayne's
Sauative Pills afford immediate relief, and soon
bring about natural action.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-17
Suggestions About Coffee.

Hyou buy your coffee already Drowned,
always brown it over. This develops q
better flavor, and increases the strength.
The reason is that the desirable quail
ties are made available by the heat, but
go back again gradually, and may be
brought out again by heat as before.
In consequence of this, coffee should
always be Drowned, or Drowned over,
at the time it is wanted to be used.
Then it is fresh, with all the flavor and
strength developed
It will benefit it to keep it corked up
tight after it is Drowned. 1t should
never be left exposed to the air in this
condition, as it will loose it's strength,
and absorb odors that come into con
| tact with it. Hence the grocery faint
of the coffee of commerce, both the
Drowned and the unbrowned, as both
have the property of absorbing, being
good disinfectants.
In purchasing, get the raw material.
The Drowned is oft an inferior or de-
fective article, colored to hide the de.
feet. The best way is to get sample
and test it. If good, secure quantity,
and keep in dry place and pure air,
using as it is wanted. Mocha and Java
are the best kinds.
Grind coffee fine, or better, pound il
| in mortar. This brushes and reduces
| it to condition to take in water the bet
| ter, so as to extract its substance, which
it will readily do when finely reduced
else more or less of the strength will
remain unclaimed. I have expert
mented upon this, and taken coarsely
ground coffee after it had passed
through the coffee-pot, re-dried it, pull
verified it, and made fair cup out OF
it. You not only get all or nearly all
the strength, but you get it readily, SC
| that the faint of the vessel is little per
| ceptible if the vessel is of stone OF
earthern, not at all.
To avoid long standing in the vessel
to settle, add the white of an egg and 6
little water to the ground coffee before
it is STEPPED, and mix we'll leave not 9
dry dust. Let the quantity of water
and egg be sufficient to moisten, and nc
more. If more is added, the egg viii
cook; and as it holds the coffee, the
water cannot well reach it, and you viii
have a weak cup of coffee, tasting OF
the egg. It is nice thing to apply the
egg properly; but when so done, it viii
clarity the liquid, making it sparkling
and clear like wine.
Never, never boil coffee. When viii
people learn to heed this important in
junction? 1t has been preached time
out of mind, but seems to do no good
Look at the amount of poor coffee thai
is made with its strength boiled away
what is not left in the coarsely ground
mass. The better part is readily
thrown off by boiling, the extractiv'
matter, much of which is Objectionable
taking its place. Steep, then, as YOU
would tea, bringing to the boiling point
but not exceeding it. A few minutes
will suffice, stirring in the mean tim,
the surface occasionally, so as to expe
dite the settling Country Gentleman
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CAUTION.

Be not deceived. Call flor ALIENS LUEe--1
SAM, and take no other.
Directions accompany each bottle.
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IISE MENlENHALL'S POCKET MAPS

NTORKING agents with energy, CAn clear $50 a
w week teling an article uf universal use Per
manent employm Mt guaranteed Address, with
stsmp. REED BROTH FIR. Pittsburgh, PA.
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CHILDREN OFTEN LOOK PALE
AND SICK
THIRTY YEARS EXPERIENCE
OF AN OLD NURSE.

Sold by druggists and chemists, ami desIers !,
Medicines At TWENTY-FIVE CE STs A BOX.
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slO - PER DAY commission or $40 week stl-
- LD AIRY, ana - pcuscF. We onrr 10 uud viii
pay u. Apply now, q. WIENER a Co., Marion, o.
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See notice in local column
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WIInIIEE IN fHE FAR WEST.

THIRTY YEARS adventures among the Indians
huntiug wild animals. IN Mexican wars, ctc.
ThrlIingty Interesting and very fast selling. write
for extra terms; or, II you wish TO begin ~ once
~ +. A. MUTCHINsoN q Co, st. Loulg Mo.
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T,RE NORTON,

GUCCEsSORS TO LEE q LEANlTr manuinc-
- turprs Of Senrn y patent saw mil head DOCKS.
Young America " circular saw mills pertable
and stationery steam engines and boilers, dealers
In belIiup brass goods STEAM pipe fittings, etc.
southwest corner second aud broadway. Cinctn-
natl. Ohio
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ARE You DEBILITATED.

No. 2I5 Fulton street, New YoTt
Fog sale by AL druggists.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-10-31

A THRILLING SCENE AT SEA-A
brief dispatch lately made the simple
statement that an insane woman threw
her children overheard and then attemp-
ted to drown herself while on the voyage
from Europe in the City of Brooklyn.
The painful story as told by passenger,
is as follows: "Whea the vessel was
two days out from Queenstown woman
rushed up from among. the steerage pas
sengers, bringing her two little boys with
her. She then threw them overheard,
in a frenzy, and then leaped overheard
also. An alarm was raised, the steamer
stopped and boat sent back. The wo-
man, then a mile distant, was seen float
ing on the waves, supported by her
clothing. She was reached and taken
into the boat alive. One of the boys
was found dead, the other was not seen
again. The children were bright and
pretty little fellows, who had been the
pets of many of the passengers. Their
mother was suffering from sickness and
had become temporarily insane, in which
condition she committed the strange, un-
motherly act. She was apparently an
intelligent and refined person, in some
what destitute circumstances. She lived
in Liverpool, but her husband was in
this country, and with her children, she
was on her way to find him. When the
City of Brooklyn reached New York the
woman was just beginning to recover, ant
was beginning to inquire for her chill
dren."
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The Horse.

Charles Dickens's opinion of the horse
is found in his writings, as follows: 81
object to the personal appearance of the
horse protest against the convention
al idea of beauty as attached to that an
imal. / think his nose too long, his
forehead too low; and his legs Except
in the case of the cart horse) ridiculous
ly thin for his body. Again, consider
ing how big an animal he is, l object TO
the contemplate delicacy of his consti-
tuition. Is he not the sickliest creature
in creation? Does child catch cold rs
easily as a horse? Does not horse, for
all his appearance of superior strength,
strain his fetlock as easily as | sprain
my ankle? Furthermore, to take him
from another point of view, what help
less wretch he is! No fine lady requires
more constant waiting on than horse,
Other animals can make their own toilet;
he must have a groom. You will tell
that this is because we want to make his
coat artifcially glossy. Glossy! Come
home with Dle, and see my cat-my clev-
er cat, who can groom herself! Look at
your own dog! See how the intelligent
creature currycombs himself with his
own honest teeth. Then, again, what i
fool the horse is-what poor, nervous
fool He will start at white stone or a
piece of paper in the road as if it were a
lion. His one idea, when he hears q
noise he is not accustomed, to, is TO run
away from it. What do you say to these
two common instances of the sense and
courage Of the absurdly overpraised an
imal? l might multiply them to two
hundred if | chose to exercise my mind
and waste my breath, which can never
do. prefer coming at once to my last
charge against the horse, which is the
most serious of all, because it affects his
moral character. / accuse him boldly
in his capacity of servant to man, Of
slyness and treachery. / brand him
publicly, no matter how mild he may
look about the eyes or how sleek he may
be in the coat, as a systematic betrayer,
whenever he can get the chance, of the
confidence reposed in him."
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A Wonderful Fossil.

A very wonderful fossil is now ON ex-
hibition in this city, and an effort is be-
ing made to purchase it for the Academy
of Science. 1t was found last April
while blasting for coal near the west
bank of the Missouri river, about Is
miles north of Sioux City, Iowa. 1t
was imbedded in about ten feet of con
glomerate rock. The fossil was much
broken in being severed from the sur
rounding rock, still nearly every portion
of the monstrous reptile was Obtained
The fossilized skeleton is So feet in
length, and weighs 2,607 pounds. 1t is
not in the likeness of anything now liv-
ing on the earth, and in the opinion OF
the scientists who have examined it, it
is unlike, in several respects, any fossil
reptile ever before discovered. Compar-
ing the spinal column with that of ex-
listing reptiles, it is believed that the
living animal must have been at least
seven feet in circumference at the larger
part of the body. 1t is supposed this
interesting creature fourished about a
half million years ago. Prairie Farm
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Man Left in Well to Starve.

For some weeks past, Jacob Wall and
have been in the employ of a farmer
about fourteen miles south of Windsor.
The men did not agree very well from
the start, and after a week or two had
fight, in which the colored man was
badly worsted. Neither wanted to quit
the farmer, and they worked together as
before the fight, though they would of
ten go whole day without speaking to
one another. Wednesday morning they
were sent to clean out and deepen an old
well on the farm, about three-quarters of
a mile from the house and near a log
cabin in which the farmer used to live.
They rugged windlass, got a tub, and
after drawing out the water the white
man was lowered down to see how things
looked for the work of deepening. As
soon as he landed from the bucket the
negro drew it up, and after a moment
shouted down: "Stril1e me, will vel
Ise got you now whar ye won't come up
alive!" Wall expected that a stone
would come crashing down upon him,
but the negro tore down the windlass
and went to the house and told the farm
er that Wall had left to go to Detroit
and have drunk. The farmer had har-
messed up to come to Windsor, and he
hurried off, hoping to overtake Wall and
induce him to go back. The negro got
six dollars from the wife, stole his
clothes cut of the house, and has not
been seen since. The farmer came to
| Windsor and Detroit and did not reach
home until Friday noon. The man
down the well had shouted and yelled
himself hoarse before night of the first
day, but his cries were unheard, and he
made up his mind that he must wait un-
til the farmer came to the we'll. When
the latter got home and found both men
| gone he went over to the we'll and dis
covered Wall, who was pretty well ex-
hausted, being in water up to his waist,
and having badly bruised himself in his
| efforts to get out. The man had a watch
with him and he thinks that the hours
were the longest he ever experienced,
and that he has imbibed enough cold
water to keep the Wall family sober to
| the end of their days.
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The Science Of History.
BY JAMES ANTHONY rnoUDE.

The following are the opening para
graphs Of Mr.. Froudes paper on the
"Annals Of an English Abbey begin
ming in Scribner's Monthly for Novem-
Der:
"Human History, say the philosophers,
is the evolution Of events which lie al
ready in their causes, as the propertics Of
geometrical fguers lie in the scientific de-
finition Of those figures. The qualities
which Euclid proves to belong to the cir
Gle, exist in the circle eternally. There is
no before and no after and the sense Of
sequence Is only in the successive steps by
which proposition after proposition IT,
made known to the limited understanding
ofman. In like manner the unnumbered
multitude Of living things, the animated
throng Of beings which fiji the air, and
crowd the water and the earth, lie epoten-
TALLY in the elemental germs out Of
which they seem TO be developed; and
the life of the individual man, the long
sequel of the acts and fortunes of his
race, and all that he has done and is to
do, till the type is exhaustedsand gives
place to other combinations, is governed
by laws as inherent and an necessary as
those through which the mathematician
developes his differences from the cqua-
tion Of an cllipse.
Were the equation Of man constructed
r 1. 81 -err-.H- ...a
should know all that has been, and all
that is to be, without moving from our
library chairs; but with the knowledge
we should lose the uncertainty which
gives life it, purpose and its intere e.
The pleasure Of existence depends upon
its anxicties, and ir we are indeed bHt
the automata spirituulia which Lcibnitz
defines us to be, then, Of all the gifts
which God has bestowed upon us, the
choicest Of all is the trick which he has
played upon our understandings-which
makes the certain appear az uncertain,
which cheats us with the belief that the
future is in our hands, 10 mould either
for good or i'll. or the dynamic forCe-
Of humanity the most powerful is tor-
ever concealed from MS. The acorn has
produced the oak, and the oaly the acorn,
from the time when oaks first began TO
be, and one oak, for practical purposes,
is identical with another. Man pro-
duces man; but each individual brings
into the world character and capahili-
rfes differing from those Of his fellows,
and incalculablo ,ill they have had room
to display themselves. An idea genera
ted in single mind peneuutes the cir
clo Of mankind and shapes them afrcsh
after its Likeness. We talk of "a science
of hi-tory-we dream that We can trace
laws Of causation which governed the
actions Of our fathers, and from which
we can forecast the tendencies of geuer-
ations to come. The spontaneous force
in the soul of man Of genius viii de-
feat our subtlest calculatons;-and of
all forecasts Of the future there Is but one
on which we can repose with confidence
that nothing is certain but the miore-
seen."