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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25
Spring Hats.

A woman who is considering the mat
ter of her spring hat is an interesting
subject for contemplation. First she
buys straw frame that looks as if it
had been struck by a hurricane and then
sat down on by an entire coroner's jury.
After that, when she rides in a street
car, she drinks in the details of every
spring hat that enters, and learns them
all by heart, and does mental sums over
the cost of the ribbon, and makes up
her mind to have flowers in hers like
those worn by the woman in the corner,
and lace like that gaudy-looking crea-
ture in the middle. And then she
walks down the street and studies all
the hats that come along, and when a
woman passes her with one on she
twists her neck round to see how it
looks behind, and is Disguised to see
that the woman is also dislocatlng her
neck, to see how she trims her hat.
When she arrives in front of millinery
store she fingers until she has Analysed
all the spring hats in the window, and
she determined to trim hers nineteen
different ways, and decides not to have
flowers like the woman in the corner.
Then she shoots into the store and asks
to "see hats" with the air of a person
who has a whole female seminary to rig
out in $50 head-gear. She examines
every hat in the establishment, over
hauls ten bushels of flowers, gets about
1913 worth of work out of the saleswo-
man, and then says she Will look farther
Then she goes home with her mind fixed
on thirty-eight or nine different styles
in which she wants to trim her hat.
After while she begins to think she
ought to have feather in it, and she
passes two or three sleepless nights
trying to decide whether to put one on
or not.
At last she resolves she will. Then
she lies awake two more nights endeav-
oring to determine whether it shall be
red or blue. She buys the trimming
and sews it on in seventy successive po-
sitions, her mind filled with the deepest
anxiety as to whether the feather should
go on the right side, the left side, or on
top. She puts it on the right side, but
Just then Mrs. Brown passes the front
window with feather on the left side
of hers, and so she changes it. The
very next morning Mrs. Ferguson calls,
and her feather is on the right side, and
then another change is made. At
church the next day Mrs. Smith has
feathers on both sides, and Mrs. John
has one on top. Then more sleepless
nights and more painful uncertainty.
At last, in utte&, despair, she takes the
hat to milinef and pays ten dollars to
have it trimmed. When it comes home
she pronounces it hateful, and picks it
to pieces, and broods over it, and wor-
ries, and frets, and loses her appetite,
and feels life to be burden for two
weeks longer, until suddenly she hits
the right thing, and becomes once more
serene and happy, and puts the hat on,
and goes out and makes millions of
other women miserable because their
hats are not trimmed exactly like hers.
As wife woman is a blessing as a
mother she is an inestimable boon as
an organizer of spring hats she is simp-
ly an object of compassion.-Mac Ade-
Ter.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

SAwDUsT FOR STABLES. CORES
pondent of the London Field says I" I
litter the horse on it to depth of nine
inches, raking off the damp and soiled
surface every morning, and spreading
evenly little fresh, removing the whole
four or five times a year. It's advanta-
ges appear to be many, of which I will
state few which give it, in my estima-
ton, its great superiority over straw. It
is much cleaner, and more easily ar
ranged; and, of course, much cheaper
at first cost, making, in the end, ex-
cellent manure. It is peculiarly bene-
fetal to the feet, affording them cool,
porous stufing, a substitute for the soil
of earth we always find in the hoofs of
horse as grass, and presents the near
est resemblance to a horses natural
footing-the earth. We never had
diseased foot since the introduction of
sawdust in the stable, now some years
since. Horses bedded in sawdust are
freer from dust and stains than when
in ordinary litter simply because saw
dust is a better absorbent, perhaps,
and testify their approval of it by fire.
quently lying down for hours in the
day. It has also the recommendation
of being UNBEATABLE, an advantage which
all in charge of horses with the habit of
eating their litter will admit.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

Captain Judkins, for many years
commodore of the Cunard Line of
steamers, had certain way of express
ing himself in reply to what he deemed
pointless questions from passengers.
In fact, dove-like sweetness of man
ner was not the commodore's best point.
On one of his latest voyages he had
among the passengers Bishop Little
john and wife of Long Island. Mrs.
Littlejohn, one day, being near the
commodore, asked him if it was going
to rain. "Ask the cook, was his bluff
reply. ''I beg pardon" said Mrs. Lit
tlejohn, cam L not speaking to the
cook"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

"A barristcr, to avenge himself on
an opponent, wrote "Rascal' in his hat.
The owner of the hat took it up, looked
ruefuIly into it, and turning to the
Judge, exclaimed: &" / claim the prOtec-
ton of this honorable court F; for the OPP
posing counsel has written his name in
my hat, and / have strong suspicion
that he intends to make off with it.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

In the case of 10 BARRIERS brought
before him, Justice White of Rich
mOnd, Va, has decided that shaving on
Sunday has become a necessity by long
usage and public opinion, and is an ad-
junct to that proper cleanliness which
is next to goodness, that it is necessary
for the proper attendance upon the
church services, and due observance
of the sabbath.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25
To BREAK up colds. fevers. infiamms

To BREAK up colds, fevers, infamma-
tory and bilious attacks, take full cathartic
dose of DIR Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pei
let's when the attack first comes on, and follow
with two or three Pellets each day until per-
feet cure ia effected They cure these cases
by arousing all the secretions, relieving OBJ
structions, thus reducing the action of the
heart, relieving the co1gested blood-vessels,
softening the pulse, producing gentle perspi-
ration, snd subduing the heat and fever.
Twenty-Five cents vial, by all druggists. 648
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

"A Tennessee lady presented her
husband with pair of twins and in due
season added triplets. "Dear me-" ex-
claimed an astOnished neighbor, 81
s'pose Mrs. Stebbing will have quad
rupeds next, and then centipedes.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

Mr.. Carpenter of Marquette, Mich,
had not the slightest idea that he was
about to create an atmospherical dis
turbance when he knocked the ashes out
of his pipe on the head of powder
keg. And when a fellow-workman con-
veyed all that was left of Mr.. Carpenter
to his wife in a bag, she quietly re-
marked: "Just his luck hang him up
in the wood-shed, where the cats won't
get him. till night"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25
Dead Statesman.

Austerlitz killed Pitt as surely as
Trafalgar killed Nelson. Each died fo1
his country, but that country mourned
more deeply for the great admiral,
stricken down in the battle where he
was the victor, than it did for the great
minister who died of a broken heart.
The last book he read, at Bath, was
Miss Owenson's (Lady Morgan's) "Nov-
ice of St. Dominic" That now unread
able romance, Pitt said, he could not
lay down till he had finished it, and
thence did the "Novice" come to be
the rage for a time. People almost
fought to obtain it at the libraries, and
nothing in literature was talked of but
a book which has long since fallen out
of literature and of memory altogether.
People, too, fought for another novel,
ga Winter in London" in which fash
ionable life was illustrated by an inca
pable whose name and works are equal
Iy wrapt in oblivion.
Fox did not long survive his great ri
val, Pitt. He died.on the 18th of Sep
TENDER, 1906. A week previously,
when he was already dying, he tranac-
ted public business. He gave an au-
dience in his bedroom to George Jack
son, with Instructions as to how the
latter was to act on his new mission to
Germany. There was a mixture of the
solemn and the ludicrous in the scene.
When Jackson was announced, Mrs.
Fox, in complete dessha6iIle, was in the
room. In her furry she slipped into a
closet, and, as the interview was pro-
longed, the ightly-draped lady kept
signaling to Mr.. Fox, as if he alone
could hear her, by little coughs and
murmurs, to warn him not to over-ex-
ert himself, or to dismiss the envoy,
that she might be set free! At mo-
ment when there was pause in the
conversation between the minister and
his agent, the fair captive tapped at the
panel, and asked if the young gentle
man was not gone, and complained of
being cold. The dying statesman
looked at Jackson with languid smile,
and with friendly wishes babe him fare
well, as it proved, forever.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

1t is an oddity of Scotch humor
seat it plays continually around the
A verest religious faith in the world.
ANY reader of Dean Ramsay is prepared
to believe the story that this notice was
lately posted in the vestibule of a kirk
n Scotland 1.-The person who stole
Songs of the Sanctuary from pew No.
80 should improve the opportunity of
singing them here, as he will have no
occasion to sing them hereafter.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

Two SUMNER DRINKS. Remedy for
beneficial perspiration, from the Greek
Sixty-fve drops of neutralized spirits,
contaminated through the incubation of
very little water, small donation of
mint put upon top of it, with billet of
ice upon the top of that, renovated with
very little nutmeg teaspoon set in
the tumbler; stir it well and take it per-
sonally. We then find the pressure of
the atmosphere evaporate, after which
we enjoy systematic health.
A later recipe from the French half
fill China punch bowl with slices of
pineapple (the rine cut therefrom) and
lemon cut very thin, arrangd in alternate
layers, each layer being thcikly strewed
with white granulated sugar Pour
over the fruit as mtsch claret wine as
will fill the bowl cover closely, and let
it stand six hours. Then put in piece
of ice, and when cold, turn into bottle
of plain soda-water, and serve in large
goblets, with slices of pineapple and
lemon.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

The dogma is the poem reduced to
prose; an artists study used as an en-
gineer's plan psalmist's outburst of
feeling read before a social science
board 1t is like measuring Noah's
mythical ark with yard-stick.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

Said tipsy husband to his wife,
g You need-neednt blaine me
Twas woman that first tempted man to
eat forbidden things" woman may
have tempted man to eat forbidden
things, said his wife, g but he took to
drinking of his own accord"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

"A woman never realizes her neces-
sites till she attends an auction sale.
They tell of a woman in Baltimore who
has provided herself with 800 pairs of
stockings, wooden and cotton. She is
evidently intending to organize hose
company. ..0.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

WE see that PRooToR & CANDLES
EXTRA OLIVE Soar is becoming very
popular in our city, its quality we know
is superior, and being nicely purfumed
we are not surprised that consumers
prefer it, and that it has large sele.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

Douglas Jerrold said, one day, he
would make pun upon anything his
friends would put to him. A friend
asked if he could pun upon the signs
of the zodiac, to which he promptly re-
piled BY Gemmini, / Cancer.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

The negro king desired to be por-
trayed as white. But do not laugh at
the poor African, for every man is but
another negro king, and would like to
appear in a color different from that
which fate has bedaubed him.-Hei1e.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25
-Virginian tanners find tob,

-Virginian farmers find tobacco
growing more profitable than grain
growing, and the area of the former
planted, this year, is larger than usual.
During the past six months there have
been inspected at Lynchburg A, 22S
pounds mere than during the whole
previous wear.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

There is a good deal of sound wis
dom in the suggestion of the farmer
If you want your boy to stay at home,
don't bear too hard on the grindstone
when he turns the crank.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25
$40 10 $50 F asR,1 RA veg 1o r5sIs'
PRrticulars free. A. %. BLAIR a 60, ~. Louia,ho
Rookbridge Alum SPRINGS. Va.

TTNHIS CELFBRATED WATCHING PLACE
II IN now open TO receive guests. Those wIo arc
afflicted with scrOiulat glnndulnr HWrllinRH and
cutaneous eruptive diseases. crysipilBF. letter,
eczema, &c. Chrenic diarrhun, AID dysentefyi
dyspepsia, bronchitis, chronic thrush. drUpsy ana
plies. should lose time In CUmltg "a this fOun-
tain OF health TO be healed. For the cure ~ many
OF the above diseases this water stands unriVRlled
among the mineral water OF the United EtAtes.
JAS. A. FHAEtEH. Proprietor.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

An Iowa farmer sprinkled Paris
green on his potato tops to kill the
bugs, and three valuable horses died
from nibbing the tops. And then the
bugs laughed at him.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

Such horrid feelings as I experience
no one can imagine. feel Respondent, as
though something awful was going to happen:
Use Simmons Liver Regulator, if you would
avoid such feelings.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

At the depot, Monday evening, an
eager-looking man jumped from the
train and clasped waiting woman IN
his arms. "Heavens my wl1e, salu
he. mercy! my rutfies, sad she.
Which showed what both were thinking
of
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

If horse has a good constitution,
and has once been a good horse, ne matter
how old or how much run down he may be- he
can be greatly improved and in many respects
made as good as new, by liberal use of
Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

A GENTLEMAN afflicted with the chronic
rheumatism says, mo description of my
case can convey the vast amount of benefit
have received from the use of Johnson's
Anodyne Iiniment. believe it is the best
article in the world for rheumatism.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

Hook said to some man with whom
a bibliopolist dined one day and got ex-
tremely drunk: Why, you seem to
have emptied your wine-cellar into your
hnnk.seller
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25
TO INVESTORS.

The Northern Pacific Railroad Company having
determiDed TO close It's 7-3O first mortgage gold
loan at aggregate not exceeding thirty million
dollars, and thereafter to pay no higher rate Of
interest than per cent. ON further issues of its
bonds the limited remainder OF the z $40 loan
is now being disposed OF through the usual agen-
cies.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

"A Detroit pig was struck, fair and
and square, by lightning, last week,
and the only effect was to take the kink
out of the animals tail.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

-Masons and odd-fellows, like ma
sons and hod-fellows ascending a lad
der, get up by degrees.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

The trade in invisible inks, rem
dered visible by heat, has noticeably
increased since the introduction of pos
tai cards,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25
JULY COUPONS AND
DIVIDENDS

is called to this favorable opportunity for obtain
ing these bonds.
in payment of the cOmpany's land at Ito, they
in constant and increasing demand for this
purpose, and will continue 10 be after the loan Is
closed, fact which much enchRnces their value
and attractivenesS as an investment
The company has more than so miles OF It's
road built and In operation, including the entire
eastern division, connecting Lake Superior and
the navigation Of the Missouri river; IL has earned
title to nearly ten million of its land grant.
and sales OF lands have thHs far averaged $3.50 per
acre.
All marketable securities are received in eN-
JAY COOKE a. CO.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

THE steamship Atlantic, after having
successfully encountered violent storms,
was wrecked when almost in sight of
the harbor she was seeking. Many a
man Las acquired fortune by patient
industry, and lost it at the last, leaving
his family destitute. 1t follows that
every man should insure his life. Life
insurance affords absolute protection to
the family. Be careful to select a good
company, one that you can always de-
pend upon. The New York Life Insur-
ance Company offers every inducement
to insurers, having assets amounting to
500, 1000, 900, and every desirable form of
policy. Full particulars can be had by
addressing the home Office at 346 and
348 Broadway, New York, or by calling
on one of their agents. Good agents
wanted everywhere.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

SIS TO $50 SRfr gay & clS AssR5 o. wort wort
lug people OF either sex, young or old, make more
money at work for rs. IN their spare moments ~
all the time, than at anything else. Particular
free Address a. ST. NssON q co. Portland Me.
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Kenmore University High School,
Amherst Court-Housc, Va,

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virginia, and presents many ADJ ant ngcH tnCom-
parable with those OF Others. students also re-
ceived for the summer. New session b"gins SEPT
18Th, 1873 For Catalogue address the Principal.
TINEA.-TEA AGENTS wanted ~ town and
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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25
DR.. A. TRASk'S
MAGNETIC OINTMENT
FOR THE CURE OF
INFLAMMAToRY DISEASES.


DIR. Trask was engaged for twenty years in
course of experiments upon the medical prop
critics and power of vegetables, separate and
combined At the age of seventy years he sue
ceeded in presenting to the world, as the result
of his experiments, combination Of Vegetable
extracts, the power of which in removing dis
eases is unequaled in the annals of Medicine.
His discovery consists in combina-
ton of these powerful Vegetable Extracts with
Electricity or Magnetism in the form Of an ONT
ment.
Certain, It Is, that the remarkable and
unprecedented success which has attended its
application in the cure of diseases, stamps it at
once as the greatest discovery of the age, and
calls for trial and close Investigation Of its
If never fails, while there remains suf-
hcient life to restore natural and healthy ac-
ton to the capillary vessels Of the body, and
equalize the circulation of the blood. By this
means controlling power is gained over the
be obtained from any other remedy.
Such Is the power of this cOmbina-
ttOn. that 1t penetrates to every portion of
the human frame; every bone and muscle, vein,
nerve and Hgament is searched out and made
sensible of its purifying and healing influence.
Hence 1t copes as readily with internal as ex-
Numerous Instances are on record
where this remedy has restored health to pa
t1ents so near the grave thae the most powerful
internal remedies failed to produce any effect.
such has frequently been the case in Infiamma-
ton of the Bowels
No patient ever need die with this
tanned
For nhammatory Rheumatism
this Ointment is the most complete remedy ever
prepared For Diphtheria or Putrid Sore Throat
it is unrfvaled.
In ninety-nine cases out Of a
hundred, 1t viii aiferd entire relief to the worst
CAGES of Nervous Headache in thirty minutes
For Nervous Diseases this medicine is
OF immense value.
Affections Of the Spfnes rheumatism,
Lameness, liberated Sore Throat, Bronchitis,
Pleurisy, Group, Collie, Cholera Morbus, Ague in
the Face or Breast, Burns, Scald Head, Scrofula,
Salt Rheum, Erysipelas, Iniamed Eyes, Fever
Sores, Sores, ETC. win be Immediately relieved
by the use of DR.. Trasks Magnetic Ointment.
d. RANSOM, Son q Co., Propr's, Buffalo, N. Y
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1Ky HEN writing to advertisers please mentor
wv the name of this naper. No. 20. S. N. U.

To DRIVE IMPURITIES FROM THE BLOOD use DT
Jaynes Alternative, remedy that stimulates the
absorbents and imparts vigor TO the whole system
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25
OPIUM : NOR 8H!lt !

Medicine compounded by n sufferer, n Surseun q.
=. A. Also cures Drunkennoas. rays
cures. send for work ON ' opium thlluk ana US
Cure" 10 W. -. SQUIRE. NJ. o., WOrthiugtou ,
Greene County, Indiana,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25
Cholera /!

This terrible scourge is threatening
this country again. This fact is well
calculated to impress our readers with
the necessity and the advantage of life
Insurance., and will greatly increase, as
the war did, the number of persons
seeking insurance. It is good time now
for any one fitted therefor, to secure the
agency of a frst-class company. The
National Life Insurance of the United
States of America, chartered by con-
gress, with a capital of one million dol
lars, and charges for insurance only
about three-fourths those of mutual in
situations, is company of which any
agent or policy-holder may well be
proud, and we cheerfully advise all per-
sons looking for insurance or for en-
ployment to address that company at its
branch Office in Philadelphia.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25
Or. PIerce,s eoIdAu MedIcaI DIscovery

Dr.. Pierce's G0Iddn Medical Discovery,
will cure a cOuAh in One-half tho
time necessary q cure IL with any
other medic Inc, Apd IL does IL, mot By DIR
ing ii NS. bit By ,eVr05g;N tie eaESS--SE6dNiHg
Irritation, aud Aealing the Seeted payts. Forall
cases Of HOarseness, Suppression or
Loss of Voice, BroncN Tits, severe
Chronic or LingerinA Coughs, IL
will be found to surpass any meIicine that has
ever before been offered to the p1ble. While IL
cures the severest Coughs il Strengthens the sys-
TEN and purtfies tho blood. BY its
great blood purifying propSt6es. i cures all
Hum0Fs from the WI ScFOfula TO a
common Blotch or E1mp1e.
Four to six botEs are warranted to cure
Salt Rheum ofretter and the worst kind
Of PimpIes on he face, BOils, Carbun-
cles, Sores, e AysiPcla las and Bl Otches
among the hair. Eight to twelve bottles are war
ranted to cure Running OF the Ears,
corrupt or Running Ulcers, ScrOfuI1
and the G9rs. forms on ec ond:ary and Ter
Complaint. s1.OcNor o bottles for
$500, by all Druggists. NRnufaetued at the
Worlds Dispensary, ~ 30, Ga 81 and
SO West Seneca St, BUFFALO, N. ~
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

THE late Gov. GeGry pronounced DR.. shallen
bers er's Fever and Ague AntidOte public hene
faction. A single trial will establish its merit