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sIo;loc Idea Of the Creation.

Joaquin Miller, in his Life Amoag
the Modocs," /" gives the following idea
of the creation of the world as that
entertained by the Modoc Indians (:
The Great Spirit made Mount Shasta
first of all. He pushed down snow
and ice from the sky through a hole
which he made in the blue heavens
by turning a stone round and round,
till he made this great mountain; then
be stepped out of the clouds on to
the mountain top, and descended and
planted the trees all around by put
ting his finger on the ground The
sun melted the snow, and the water
ran down and nurtured the trees and
made the rivers. After that he made
the fish for the rivers out of the small
end of his staff. He made the birds
by blowing some leaves which he
took up from the ground among the
trees. After that he made the beasts
out of the remainder of his stick, but
he made the grizzly bear out of the
big end, and made him master over
all others. Having done that, the
Great Spirit converted Mount Shasta
into wigwam, and its volcanic
eruptiOns are the outcome of the fire
that he lights in the centre of the
mountain. The development of man
was later occurrence. The daugh-
ter of the Great Spirit venturcd too
far, got astray, and fell into the power
Of the grizzly bears, and she was
forced to marry one of them, and the
red men were the fruit of the mar
riage. These red men were taken
under the protection Of the Great
Spirit; but the grizzlies were punish
ed by being compelled to walk on
four feet, whereas before they hal
walked on two. To this day the
grizzley bear is never slain by the
red men, who recognize him as a sort
of klnsman." rrr-
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-12-31

When are skipping lambs like liter.
airy volumes? When. they are bound
in sheep
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-12-31

To THE CITIZENS OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Your attention u specially invited to the fact
that the National Banks are now prepared to re
ccive subscriptions TO the Capital Stock Of the
Centennial Board of Finance. The funds realized
from TINS source are to be employed in the erection
of the buildings for the intcTna ,innal Exhibition
ami the EXPENSES connected with the same IL is
confidently believed that the Keystone State will
5c represented 5y tie name of every citizen alive
10 patriotic cOmnicmoratiou OF the one huudredth
5irth-dayoi the nation. The shares Of stock are
Dhered fer 10 each, AMI subscribers VIII receive
handsomely steel engraved Certificate OF Stock,
suitable ioT framing anl preservation national
memorial
Interest at the rate Of six per cent per annum
will be paid on all payments Of Centennial Stock
from date of payment 10 January J. 1879
Subscri beTs who are not near n National Bank
can remit check or pos.o.sec order 10 the under
signed.
FRED. FRALET. Trepsurcr.
91+ v aluu' St. Philadelphia
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Srrnfula. nr hinv's ENil. White

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SweiiuEs. Ulcers EysiFaas- Swelled Neck,
Goitre, Scrolu!ugs luHaWUatioaS. lEjolent
Iudammatiou>. Mc-cur;a Affections, Old
Sores, EruptiUIs oi lie ~Eiu, Sore Eyes, etc.
In these. Is in all other constitutional Dis
eases, WALKERS NINFGAE BI1TEEs have
shown their great curative powcTs IN the
most obstinate and mtractayie cases.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25
Watching at the Wrong Holes.

Many men are very watchful against
temptation on sides where they are in
no danger of being tempted. Here is a
man who never says ten words in day;
he is silent and thoughtful and he tells
you that he keeps a guard over his
mouth that he is determined not to sin
by talking. But it is not by talking
that he is apt to sin he is not in danger
on that side; and yet there is the
Waterman going up and down in front
of that door, which does not open more
than once or twice day anyhow. Here
is an ugly devil of suspicion and envy
and jealousy that has possession of him
and causes him to sin but there is no
guard over that. It is where their pass
sions reside that his temptations come,
but he has no Waterman there. He
makes up for neglecting the points
where the danger is, by putting all his
force at the points where there is per-
feet security. Here is man that says :
81 guard myself against stinginess. !"
Bless his dear soul he never had feel
ing of stinginess in all his life. His
trouble has always been looseness. He
never could keep anything. Here is a
man who is a spendthrift, a scatterer,
a ne're-do-well, and he says: 81 am
determined that will not be miser."
There is not the slightest danger of it,
in his case. But how is it with the man
who is miser? He tells you that he
has watched these spendthrifts through
life, that he has never seen them come
to any good, and that he early took
warning from them, and determined
that whatever came, he would not be
squaDderer, by observation-disclosures, of
what God gave him-and he never has
been. He watches himself continually
for fear that he will give away some
thing and his watch is greatly bless ed
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25
The Vital Drain.

1t is necessary the health of the body that It's
exhausted and refused particles should be carried
off by the excretory organs and it is equally neces-
sary that the waste matter thus expelled should
be replaced by few elements derived from digcsted
and assimilated food 1t is evident therefore, that
good digestion and perfect assimilation are essen
tial to bodily vigor and it is because Hostetters
Stomach Bitters powerfully assist these processes,
that it is regarded by the intelligent classes whose
opinions are founded on observation, as the only
absolute specific for dyspepsia and its attendant
ills at present known. When the system. either
from constitutional causes overwork, excess, anx-
iety, or actual disease, is in an uDnaturally re-
Taxed condition, something more than its ex-
hausted particles passes through the pores Vital
ity leaks through these ventages. Elements
which should remain in the blood and enrich 1t
are evolved, and that fluid becomes then watery
and incapable of removing the solids of the body
as fast as they decay. The consequences are
emaciation, debility, nervousness, loss of spirits,
and a general. or perhaps a rapid. decline of all
powers of life 1t cases like this that the
storative properties of Hostetters Btters most
conspicuous, The first two or three doses some
times produce a change IN the feelings and aspect
of the invalid that is perfectly astonishing and by
perseVeTtng use of this SuperlattVe vegetable
tonic and Alternative, the vital drain is sure to be
the constitution reinforced and the brain relieved
of the cloud that obscured it,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25
Foundered Horses.

Many horses are called little foun-
dered when it is only stiffness of the
cords of the neck and shoulder caused
by the check rein. You have often
seen horse step back in his stall after
he had been out to show off his best
points, and put his nose down to the
floor. The groom, with wise look,
will remark, "The old man gave him a
hard one to-day" while in fact the
horse was only stretching out the cords
of his neck and then, to make
the matter still worse, the ignoranus
ties the halter shorter, so as to ttmake
him stand up in his stall" That action
was an error, for if you gag him up"
and then refuse to let nature restore the
equilibrium, you will in a short time
create a contraction in the cords of the
neck and shoulders, and the horse
shows a stiffness which appears to be a
founder. My preventive is to feed from
a manger on a level with his feet and
over twenty inches in front. This let's
a horse feed as he was made to eat a
horse never was made to eat like gi-
raffe. Another objection to high man
gers, and never saw anything in their
favor, is, they irritate the throat and
windpipe, and create a tendency to
heaves. If hOrsemen would use more
common sense they would need less
medicine. Rural Net0 Yorker. -
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

HoT WEATHER. is consolation
to some persons in the thought that
others are in a worse condition than
they are, aud for such we extract these
brief statistics from the Boston Journal
in reference to heat:
In Thibet the summer temperature is
maximum $50 degrees. In Senegal
and in the West Indian Island of Quad
aloupe, the summer Temperature often
reaches 100 degrees, which is the utmost
that Europeans are called upon to en-
counter. 1t is enough, however. In
Persia the thermometer rises to 125
which justifies the shah in absenting
himself for one summer. At Calcutta
there is frequent heat of 100 degrees;
which is about the limit in Central
America. In the deserts of Africa,
which have had an undeserved reputa-
ton, the maximum is ITO degrees; the
same that is reached in the inland val
legs of California. The maximum for
Utah is 105, Greece 104, Arabia lob,
Montreal, curiously enough, being the
same, New York 102, the other northern
States SO. For a glance at the other
side we have Nova Zembla, which has
an extreme midsummer heat of "a de-
gress, the refrigerator of the nations.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25
THE GRAND PACIFIC HOTEL

One of the most marked institusions of the
outgrowth of life in our larger centres of
population Is the great hotel, and no feature is
more notable and remarkable in New Chicago
than the vast caravansaries that are to make
her the hotel city of the continent. The larg-
est hotel structure in the world is the Grand
Pacific, a cut of which we give in this ISSUE
at once the pride and the marvel of the Gar
den city. Its immense size and elegance are
well indicated in the engraving, and very re-
liable in suggestiveness as to the appointments
and adornments of the interior. The Grand
Pacific covers an area of $4,000 square feet. an
entire block, bounded by Clarke, Jackson. La
Sale and Quincy streets. Opposite, on Clark
street, is rapidly rising the vast government
building, also occupying an entire square. The
material of the fronts of the great hotel is the
beautiful olive-tinted Ohio sandstone. The
structure cost over one million dollars, and it's
furnishing by the lessees, Messrs. George W.
Gage David A. Gage and John A. Rice nearly
four hundred thousand dollars, an expendi-
ture warranted by their twenty years lease,
and securing throughout a richness, elegance,
and sohdity that will give enduring attractive
ness to the hotel and carry it's fame among
travellers all over the globe. The carpets of
the house, Administer, Aubisson Wilton and
English Brussels, are all i'll new styles, and
largely In special designs, and aggregate over
six acres. The beautiful carpets of the corri-
doris, eleven feet wide, amounting to over a
mile in length. The features of the hotel that
most strike the visitor and guest are the two
immense interior courts, used respectively for
the grand Office and the office arcade The
principal dining hall is 1876 by IS feet; the la
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

dies ordinary is IS by 70 feet the grand parlor,
100 by Is feet the noble promenade with its
Corlnthian Colonnade is $50 by 80 feet. The
kitchen, fitted up with the most approved APP
phances of the cuisine is lao by 100 feet The
system of protection against fire is perfect
The floors are filed with cement, and the
floor beams bricked in between partitions
The house has its regular diciplned fire brig
AIDE of fifty trusty employees. Standing iron
columns from the street. vast tanks in the
roof, the most powerful steam pump in the
city, with 1000 feet of hose always kept at
tached in various parts of the house. A tele-
graph fire alarm in every room, and the new
and perfect electric clock system of Prof.
Hamlet are among the appliances and safe
guards against confagration. From three n.y.
drants on the roof the hotel force can protect
their own structure and help the safety of ad-
joining buildings. 1t will be difficult to sug-
gest feature in great hotel which the Grand
Pacific has not. The entire work of carrying
the structure to completion has been for many
months in charge of the lessees, whose repu-
tations and fortunes were made in the Sher-
man House destroyed in the great fire. Few
strangers will visit Chicago without making
the Grand Pacific one of the principal lions of
their visit. Twenty months have given Chica-
go a marvellous beauty in her structures,
which in extent more than restore her former
business capacity Her streets are now lined
with tall blocks which are unsurpassed in va
riety and richness in any city in the world. Our
readers will thank us for the presontment of
the largest and most striking structure of all.
the Grand Pacific, which on the first day of
June, 1873, opened it's doors to guests
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

CALIFORNIA s BIGGEST NUGGET. How
much we owe to California Her pre-
cious metals have enriched thousands
of our fellow-citizens, and have proved
the main stay of America in times of
national pecuniary embarrassment. Her
mining industries have given employ
ment to myriads of mechanics and labor
ers. She is the land of promise to the
fortune seeker. But the Golden State
has lately sent us a new treasure. Her
last nugget is DIR. Walkers California
Vinegar Bitters. The health-giving
principles contained in this curative are
a more precious boon than gold. In all
affections of the liver and stomach, re-
mittent and Intermittent fevers, rheu-
matism, and pulmonary diseases, it may
be relied upon. AS blood depurent
and invigorant it is unequalled. purify
ing the circulation and infusing new
vigor into the debilitated frame. 1t
conquers that most unyielding of all
complaints, dyspepsia, and we know of
no other remedy that can accomplish
this. Its entire freedom from alcoholic
spirit, which retards and neutralizes the
effect of any medicine, and which forms
the basis of many of the pseudo bitters
and tonics, doub1y enhances its value to
the sick. The papers of the United
States vie with one another in doing
honor to DIR. Walker. We, too, add
our voice, and say all honor to the man
whose science and skill have enabled
him to draw from the vegetable kingdom
such a balsam for human suffering.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

III ~ w tAhOA - sAAN III
e@ar BitterS are purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the ma
tive herbs found on the lower ranges of
The Sierra Nevada mountains of CalifOr-
MIA, the medicinal properties of which
are extracted therefrOm without the use
Of Alcohol. The question is almost
daily asked. "What is the cause of the
unparalleled success of VINEGAR BIT
TERS?" Our answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient re-
covers his health. They are the great
blood purifier and a life giving principle,
q perfect Renovation and InvigOratOr
of the system. Never before in the
history of the world has medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities of VINEGAR BITTERs in healing the
sick of every disease man is heir to. They
are a gentle Purgatiye as well as Tonic,
relieving Congestion or Inflammation Of
the Liver and Nisceral Organs. in Bilious
Diseases.
The properties of DIR. WALKERS
VINEGAR BITTERs are Aperient, DiaphOretlc,
Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Duretlc,
Sedative, Counter Irritant, SudOritic, Altera'
tive, and Anti Bilious.
II. II. MCDONALD & CO..
Druggists and Gen. A CTS San Francisco California
and cor. of Washington and Charlton SITS. n. Y.
Sold by all Druggists and Dealers.
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THE BABY.
Bx ASHTON cURRIER.

III ASHTON CUkhIEhs
The baby sits in her cradle,
Watching the world go roun =,
Enwrapped in a mystical silence
Amid all the tumult of sound.
She must be akin to the flowers,
For no one has heard
A whispered word
From this silent babe of ours.
Wondering, she looks at the children,
As they merrily laughing pass,
And smiles DER her face go ripping
Like sunshine DER the grass,
And into the heart Of the flowers;
But never word
Has vet been heard
From this silent darling of ours.
Has she a wonderful wisdom,
OF unspoken knowledge a store,
Hid away from all curious eyes,
Like the mysterious lore
OF the birds, and the bees, and the flowers
Is this why no word
Has ever been heard
From this silent baby Of Ours2
Often she seems to listen
To something we never can know;
Perhaps to the voices of angels
Who silently come and GO;
Making brighter her golden hours
With many word
That viii never be heard
From this silent baby Of ours.
All, baby, from out your blue eyes
The angel Of silence is smiling,
Though silvern hereafter your speech,
Your silence is golden, beguiling
Ali hearts to this darling Of ours,
Who speaks not a word
OF all she has heard
Like the birds, the bees and the flowers.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

A NOVEL HOTEL EXPERIMENT AT New,
PORT. The cliff cottage hotel, started,
two years since, an experiment, has
proved a great success. The colony
comprises a small hotel, eight prettily
furnished cottages, and handsome
grounds the location on the cliff of the
sea. You hire cottage for the season ;
you name your hours for your meals,
and open your dining room door to find
them on the table. Your cottage has
no kitchen; you never hear of cook /;
but your food appears mysteriousy four
times day, smoking hot. With each
cottage you get a servant, who attends to
your wants. A chamber-maid comes in
from the big house, and, while you are at
breakfast, put your chambers to rights :;
and the grounds are well kept without
even an order being given. The COM
pany provides to each cottage every
necessity and luxury, except the single
item of plate, and sends the foo cooked
from the hotel You live in your own
house without housekeeper's cares, and
with all the delights of housekeeper :;
and you have all the freedom of hotel
life with none of the discomforts. Such
a luxurious manner of living could not
fail to be popular with Americans, and,
though I hear this method is far from
inexpensive,it has proved extremely
popular and fashionable.-Sea- side
letter.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-25

WATER AS PRESENTER OF BUTTER.
After being duly packed water-tight,
the packages may be placed in good,
cold-water, such as is found in good
wells and springs anywhere. Any such
good well of water may be used for
this purpose, only be sure the package
is completely under water always; and
if under water several feet deep it is no
detriment, but probably an advantage.
1t is not necessary, but probably best,
that the packages should not rest on the
clean ground at the bottom of the well j;
not that any harm would happen to the
butter, but the outside of the packages
might get soiled and muddy.
A deep tank, kept full of water from
a flowing spring and continually flow
ing, may be the most desirable reser-
voir for keeping the butter in, if the
tank is well covered and kept from free
zing.
No one need be surprised if butter
stored in this way may be kept for years
as good as when packed. Possibly lard
and some other articles of food may be
stored in this way.-Cor. Utica Her
aid
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Intemperate' Cooks.

Marry, sir, she's the kitchen wench,
and all grease, and know not what use
to put her to, but to make a lamp of
her, and run from her by her own
light. So wrote Shakespeare, in the
COMEDY of Errors" and, since then,
the unfortunate servant of civilized so
clety; the flushed female who unites
the discharge of domestic drudgery
with those mysterious manipulations on
meat and vegetables called cooking,
has been sometimes the comfort, but
more frequently the bane, of every
British home. Born at once to a dis
tinguished yet lowly position of life,
her shortcomings and failings have ever
been noted and criticised, without much
being done for the amelioration of her
condition. Among the delinquencies
laid to her charge is that of fondness
for alcoholic drinks, and partiality for
the society of the nearest policeman !;
both social Offenses, apparently pecu-
liar to the British cook, as we never
hear of them in connection with for
eign domestics holding similar situa-
tions. As there is no physiological rea-
son why our cooks should too frequent
ly betray tendency toward liquor, the
explanation must be sought for in their
surroundings, and we need not travel
far in order to discover it. Our sub
terranean kitchens are, as a rule, I'M
wholesome, unventllated ovens, in
which maximum of available heat is
extracted from maximum of wasted
fuel. Tasting the dishes in progress,
enveloped in perpetual culinary steam,
and dripping with perspiration, what
wonder is there that thirst should be
created, and craving for drink devel-
Oped? Chemistry and cookery are not
only closely allied, but they are re-
garded by many of their enthusiastic
professors as belonging to the fine arts.
What does Ben Jonson say of the Lon
don hancock: ...- ...--..-
90 A master cook: why, he's the man of men,
For, professor he designs, he draws
He paints, he carYes, he builds he fortifes,
Makes citadels of curious fowl and fish
Some he dry-ditches, some meats round with
Mounts marrow-bones: cuts fifty angled Gus
tards;
ReaIs buIwark pies and for his outer works.
He raiseth ramparts of immortal crust $3.50 {
And teacheth all the tactics at one dinner" -
But the chemist has long ago ac-
knowledged the necessity for ventila-
ton, and has judiciously abandoned the
rudimentary and comparatively barbar-
GUS coal-fire for the more satisfactory
and clearly gas-stove. Herein, indeed,
lies the secret Ventilate your kitchens,
compel your cooks to trust more. to
weight and measure, and less to taste,
use gas alone for every culinary opera
ton and the drinking cook will speed
lily disappear, and be only dimly known
to our grandchildren through the pages
of some ancient NOVELETTE, London
Food Journal.
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The professor of the future is sup
posed by Mr.. Quincy, writing in the
Old and New, to address his class in
this style We have come together,
young gentlemen, to pursue some stu
dies in political economy. We shall
use Mr.. Mills work as a textbook but,
in connection with it, I shall, from time
to time, advise you to read portions of
the works of other authors. By free
interchange of question and reply we
shall make our study interesting. Some of
the forms of the old recitation we shall
find it we'll to retain. From time to
time, I shall ask those who are willing
to be called upon to give in their own
language the results of our reciting and
conversations. [ may answer a ques-
ton about the examinations that are to
be passed at the end of the term, by
saying that I have nothing to do with
them. For a statement of what will be
required, together with the penalties
for failure, / refer you to the regula-
tions issued by the business managers
of the institution. I will mention only
that these examinations are minute, and
will be conducted chiefly in writing
They will thoroughly test your real
knowledge of the subject of our study
by evidence as nearly infallible as the
experience of experts can devise. But
LET this be the last word or thought we
will give to them. We have only to
feel the interest and value of the science
as it opens before us and we need
trouble ourselves as little about the
tests of the examiners as the wise man
is concerned about the ways in which
the world will find him out.