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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-10
GermanY as a NaYal Power.

Germany keeps her own counsel with
more success than any other European
nation, and to it is attributable her sue
cess in arms over France. She only
publishes her preparation by the accom-
plishment of her aims. She cannot
longer, nor does she desire to conceal
her military prowess, but she is again
silently moving to strengthen herself on
the sea as well as the land. Cuxhaven
is to be raised TO the Importance of "a port
of entry, and united by rail with every
part of the kingdom. 1t is said the
government has under consideration the
union by canal of the German ocean
and Baltic This canal will run from
Kicl through Holstein, and from the
point of starting would carry. with 1T the
commerce of the country to Lubec,
Dantzic. .Uhristianstadt, Stockholm, Riga
and Cronstadt. There are indications
not only that Germany intends to open
up highways of trade, encouraging pro-
duction by cheap transportation, but
that she intends to protect the mouths
of these avenues, and guard these ports
of entry by naval outfit sufficient
for the purpose and equal in rank to
her military front.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-10
The Fever Tree.

Dir. Pedro L. n. Chernois, of Bahia,
gives very interesting account OF tho
history, uses, propagation, medical mis-
cellaneous properties of the EucdtylotuS
GIObui,Is, an immense tree introduced
into various provinces of Brazil from
Australia, and called, as in Spain, ar
core, deG .te6re, from its marvellous
results in the treatment of intermittent
fevers." The tree is colossal, some
times attaining height of 300 feet, and
a diameter of thirty feet; ranging often
from fifty to seventy feet in height and
ten to twenty in diameter. All parts are
aromatic, less so in the trunk and bark,
more so in the small roots, flowers, and
leaves. 1t is II comparatively new medi-
cine of much promise, and is given in
telnally for intermittent fever, i'll doses
of from one to four drachms of the
powdered leaves--twice during the in
termissions-or in infusion, two drachms
in four ounces of boiling water, J. morn
ing and evening. Aqueous and alcohol
ic extracts, in doses of from two to
eight grains, are also used for the same
disease. One or two drops of its essen
tial oil, on sugar, in pill or capsule, are
advised in bronchial and pulmonary af-
fections, laryngitis and catarrahal apho-
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-10
Travel i'm Ancient Times.

Owing to the absence of roads, as
well as convenient means of carriage,
there was no general spirit Of travel in
ancient times. Now and then some
adventurer, athirst for knowledge, made
his way into far countries, iourneying
on foot, or horseback, or by sea, and
taking years for an expedition which
can now be made with comfort and safety
in a few weeks. There was less travel
in Europe than in the East, where the
camel furnished convenient means of
transportation, and where the great
treeless wastes of country offered fewer
obstacles than the forest-grown regi ons
of the West. But all over the earth
soldiers and merchants were the only
classes of men who saw much of the
world beyond their native villages and
cities. The great mass of people lived
and died in the place where they were
born. Beyond their native precincts
the world was an unknown region,
whence now and then an adventurous
man returned with marvellous stories of
the wonders he had seen and heard.
People staid at home because the means
cf travel were confined to the very
wealthy, outside of the two classes Just
mentioned. For many centuries there
was very little improvement in modes
of conveyance. Even the luxurious and
self-indulgent "Rois Faineants," or
Lazy Kings, of France, who hourished
in the seventh century of our era
those mere phantOms of royalty, who
passed their lives i'll sensual pleasures
while the affairs of state were admins
tered by others-were accustomed to
make their journeys from place to place
in Ox-carts of the rudest description,
resembling a common country hay
wagon of our time. The place of
springs were supplied by a liberal pro-
vision of cushions, which saved the
royal good-for-nothing' sides from
bumps and bruises as the huge wagon
thumped and iolted over stones, stumps,
and mud-holes. Under any circum-
stances it must have been a very I'M
comfortable method of travelling.
Up to the middle of the sixteenth
century the most common modes of
travelling was on horseback, with car
riers, and heavy goods were conveyed
by means of pack-horses. In Shaks-
pears Henry ", Act Il, Scene l., two
carriers appear i'll the inn yard at
Rochester. One has a CANNON of bacon
and two RACES of ginger, to be delivered
as far as Charing Cross; the turkeys in
the pannier of the other are quite
starved. We see that people travelled
in companies, from one of the carriers
saying: "Come, neighbor Mugs, we'll
call up the gentlemen; they will along
with company, for they have great
charge;;" and that they were on horse
back is shown by Gadshill bidding the
hostler bring his gelding out of the
stable, and one of the travellers saying,
"The boy shall lead our horses down
the hill: we'll walk afoot a while, and
ease our legs" Journeys on foot were
rare, even at that time, owing to the in
security of the roads, although in the
Middle Ages pedestrians on religious
pilgrimages were protected by the
sacredness of their purpose.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-10
Old Sam Houston,s Eyentful Life.

In the year of 1899, Arkansas Terrific
ry was visited by nobler refugee than
commonly came to its seclusion. A
voluntary exile from the Executive
Mansion of Tennessee, followed by the
fury of political press, and that pub
lie, full of uncharitable Interpretation
which believed the worst, Sam Houston
resolved that the sun should forever
shine upon his back, and the East be
forgotten in the misery of his spirit A
Governor, elected at the age of thirty
four, by II, 900 majority, he had proved
the reverse of the couplet:
Art hath no charity for him
Whom love hath satisfied.
He had married younger lady, and,
after three months of living together,
they separated. The reasons, neither
ever gave. All rushed forward with a
reason, and that the. basest; but none
guessed the shortest one: that the wo-
man did not love him. Like Hester
Prynne, implored by the preacher, in
public, to tell the name of her betrayer,
when the preacher himself was that, it
may be said over Sam Houston: "He
would not speak! Wondrous strength
and generosity of mans heart. He
would not speak! He resigned his Of
fee, bowed his head, and in the splen-
dor of young career, departed for the
desert. He landed at the mouth of the
White river, and ascended the Arkansas
to Little Rock, but not to tarry and
take root again in public station; for
apprehending this, the political papers
even there DETAINED him. Many years
before, he had been adopted into Che
rokee tribe, and he had come to claim
its sympathy and brotherhood. Four
hundred miles by land and water he
pushed up towards the Falls of the Ar
kansas, and his father, Oolookets, the
Chief, fastened likewise to approach
him. The young Governor of Tennes-
see stood before the savage, and was
greeted by his Indian name:
Colennah, said the Chief "you
have become great Chief among your
people. You have suffered there, and
have turned your thoughts to my wig
wan. am glad of it. 1t was done by
the Great Spirit
For little space, Houston relapsed
into the Indians own drunken and
maudlin sorrow. His strong nature re-
vived again, and he became the Indian
champion at Washington, and the
scourge of the swindling agents and
traders who imposed upon them. They
revived at this capital all the ISLANDERS of
Tennessee, but his scars had healed, and
would not bleed anew At last, an Ohio
Congressman slandered Andrew Jackson
in his name, whom Houston revered.
Then there was an affray ON the avenue,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-10

Never say you will do presently what
your reason or your conscience tells you
should be done now.
No man ever shapes his own destiny
or the destiny of others, wisely and
we'll, who deals much in presentlles.
Look at nature. She never postpones.
When the time arrives for the buds to
open, they open-for the leaves to fall,
they fall. Look upward. The shining
worlds never put off their risings or
their settings The comets even, ezra
tic as they are, keep their appointments; ;
and eclipses are always punctual to the
minute. There are no delays in any of
the movements of the universe which
have been Predetermined by the absO-
lutte will of the Creator Procrastina-
tion among the stars might involve the
destruction of innumerable systems );
procrastination in the operations of ma
ture on this earth might result in
famine, pestilence, and the blotting out
of the human race. Man, however,
being a free agent, can postpone the
performance of his duty and he does
so, too frequently, to his destruction.
The drafts drawn by Incidence upon
the future are pretty sure to be dis
honored. Make nO,0 your banker. Do
not say you will economize presently,
for presently may be bankrupt nor
that YOU will repent and more atone
ment presently, you may be judged.
Bear in view the important fact, taught
alike by the history of nations, rulers,
and private individuals, that presently
iS too late
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-10
Disappearance of Cedar Creek, Beneath
E 1r the Natural Bridge, Va.

The Richmond Journal says:-We
have the following facts from gentle
man who recently visited the Natural
Bridge:-On passing into the gorge be-
low the bridge by the usual route, he
was surprised to find the bed of the
stream Cedar Creek dry and unsightly
The keeper of the hotel stated that about
two weeks before the creek suddenly
disappeared from under the bridge, and
our informant, on following up the gorge
found the stream pouring down into the
earth, and seeking some unknown chan
nel beneath. On careful discrimination
three leaks we're found, the largest be-
ing through fssure or fault, in the
limestone bed of the stream. These
the visitor partially stopped up i'll a few
minutes, and sends scanty stream on
its way TO the bridge. Similar facts
were revealed by further examination
and the conclusion is inevitable that the
rocky substratum of these limestone hills
is throughly honeycombed by the
action of the wate;. The conclusion is
further sustained by the fresh discovery
of caves, some of them of considerable
extent, in the immediate vicinity of the
bridge Some fine stalactites from one
of these caves are exhibited at the hotel.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-10
A Bears Home,

In spite of powerful limbs and stout
muscles, the bear is poor specimen of
carnivorR. His weapons are less terrible
than they seem and he uses them only
on exceptional occasions. We say this
especially of the brown and black; yet
even of the grizzly it is not without its
application, for had that immense brute
the ferocity of the tiger, what scourge
it would be.
Open the bears mouth, and you find,
not sharp and keen, but broad and fiat,
grinders rather than incisors, to cut and
tear; and in fact roots, young shoots and
and fruits, satisfy his enormous appe-
tite. His favorite food his choice lux
ury, is honey Look at his feet the
large sole coming heavily to the; ground;
his course is no sudden bound no feet
and stealthy steps but slow peaceful
march as the animal drags its weight
along, or climbs the trees and branches.
The bear seems to be a transition be-
tween the monkeys and carnivorR-
lar, apes ashamed of the change come
over them. AS if ashamed he leads a
hermit life in the woods, and mountains
sleeping much of his time in summer,
and almost the whole of winter, So
that the animal, rivaling the lion in size
has the habit of marmot.
He is domestic, and needs home. If
he finds in his domain a cave or hallow
tree, his fortune is made. If not he
goes to work, brings branches, and heaps
them up with covering of moss, so as
30 make comfortable bed.
The two sexes do not even keep to-
gether; brief period seems to comprise
the married life, when they seperate,
each to follow its solitary life.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-10
The Housewives Table.

The following is very valuable
housewives table, by which persons not
having scales and weights at hand may
readily meaure the article wanted to
form any recipe without the trouble of
weighing. Allowance to be made for an
extraordinary dryress or moisture of
the article weighed or measured:
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Wheat -four, one pound is one quart.
Indian meal, one pound two ounces
are one quart.
Butter, when soft, one pound is one
quart.
Loaf sugar, broken, one pound is one
quart
White sugar, powdered, one pound
one ounce are one quart.
Best brown sugar, one pound two
ounces are one quart.
Ten eggs are one pound.
Flour, eight quarts are one peck.
Flour, four pecks are one bushel.
LIQUIDS, ETC.
Sixteen large tablespoonfuls are half
pint.
Eight large tablespoonfuls are one
gill.
Four large tablespoonsfuls are half
gill.
Two gills ars half pint.
Two pints are one quart.
-Four quarts are one gallon.
A common sized tumbler holds half a
pint.
A common sized wine glass is half a
gill.
A tea cup is one gill.
A large wine glass is one gill.
A tablespoonful is half an ounce.
Forty drops are equal to one teaspoon
full
Four teaspoonfuls are equal to one
tablespoonful.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-10
MORNING IN THE FOREST
BY PAUL n. HAYF


O gracious breath Of sunrise! divine sir.
That lrood'st serenely DER the purpliag hills,
o blissful vsllcys, nesting. cool, and fair,
In the fond arTs Of yonder murmurous r1llr,
Breathing their mystic measures tO the sum-
0 dew-besprinkled paths that circling run
Through sylvan shades and solemn silence-.
Once tsf1fe ~ bring my fevered spirit sleepl
The joyful breezes frnrsiIt with forest balm,
Faint, in rare watts Of perfume, ON my brow;
The woven lights and shadows rife with calm,
Creep slantwise twixt the foliage buigh on houeh
Uplifted tcayvuward, like yerdant cloud
Whose rain is music, soft as love, or loud
With jubilant hope, for there entranced, aparf,
The mock-bird sings, close TO Natures heart
Sky forms about the greenery, out and in,
Fit meath the broadening glories Of the morn;
The squirrel, that quaint sylvan harlequin,
Mounts the tall trunks; while swift as lightning
born,
OF summer mists from tangled vine and tree
Dart the doves pinions, pulsing Vividiy
Down the dense glades till glinlmerng far aud gray,
The dusky vision softly melts away.
In transient pleased bewilderment, I mark
The last dim simmer of those lessenng wings,
When from lone copse and shadowy covert, hark!
What mellow tongue through all the woodland
rings!
The deer-hounds voice. sweet AS a golden bel's,
Prolonged by fyiug echoes round the delr,
And up the loftest submits mildly borne,
Bsnt with the blast of some keen huntsmanz horn.
And now, the checkered vale is left behind;
climb the slope, and reach the hilltop bright;
Here i'll the bold freedom, swells a sovereign wind
Whose gusty prowess sweeps the pine-clad height
And the pines, dreamy Titans reused from sleep
Answer with mighty voices, deep on deep
OF wakened foliage surging like sea;
And DER them smiles heavens weird inhnitN.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-10
Curious Inventions,

Among the inventions which patents
have recently obtained in the United
States are the following: A device for
attaching buttons to clothing with a
screw-driver; an attachment to pianos,
SO that the strings may be touched mid
length by pendal movement, and
sounds similar to a violin or guitar OBJ
tanned; a child's carriage, 50 arranged
when the handles are dropped pawl
stops the wheel and arrests motion at
once, and when grasped the pawl is re-
leased; pencil sharpener, that also op-
pencil; breastpins and earrings, with
tubes to hold artificial flowers
an apparatus for drawing ON boots
consisting of strap passing round the
body below the waiste, having at each
end a hook to engage the boot tugc. a
medical compound for the smallpox
composed of salt-petre, gum camphor,
and charcoal; bouquet-holder of soft
metal, that after filling with flowers and
water, may be closed at the top: lady's
comb passed into the back hair in the usUl-
sl manner, and the leaves allowed to
overlap and press upon the chignon, a
spring serving not only to retain the Or
nament in place put the chignon, also a
head light for locomotives, with an
adjustable number placed in front of the
light, and also with a movable colored
screen to be operated by the engineer;
toy bank, in which an automaton
banker stands to receive money, and
when spring is disengaged, he turns
round the door is shuts, and the money
is deposited in the back part of the bank.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-10
Mr.. Greeley's Advice TO Young
Journalist.

Dear Sir: Yours of the Goth ultimo
only reached me at tlfis place Yesterday.
/ am lecturing i'll the West, and shall
not return to New York for several days
vet.
Ny own course Uniformity has been
TO stick to any thing | could find to do,
and never leave place so long as any
work remained to be done there. i think
you will find that the wise course 1t.
may seem that larger wages may be
earned elsewhere; but exPenes are usu-
ally prOportionate to earning, and re-
mOval exposes one to the loss of all the
position or reputation he may have gain
ed. Character is the basis of business
and prosperity, and charcter is more
easily developed in the country than in
the city, Men seldom bound to fortune
or position; they must grow. After a
few years you will be wsnted to con-
duct a journal lin your own region;
look carefully into the inducements,
and be not too hasty in accepting, for
your time will come. Be careful OF
debt: he who owes nothing, and has a
chance to earn his daily bread is hap
pier than he is aware OF, Make friends
and gain knowledge; few years Will
render them useful to you. With hearty
good wishes, j remain yours,
HORACE GREELEY.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-10

word was spoken. Our very heart
strings might have snapped with their
terrible tension We turned project
ing angle of the wood, and square,
black object, half buried In a rank tan
gle of weeds and grass, was before us.
We had found the Lost Cabin! nothing
now but an empty pen of scorched and
blackened logs. @
I disentangled pick from one of our
packs, and stepped within the in
closure. It, too, was choked with weeds
and, bending them aside, I saw, grin;
ming upon us in its hideous solitude, a
human skull! Poor Harry! The In
dians had intended that his cabin should
be his funeral pyre, but only the lighter
materials of the roof had ignited, and
the green logs had refused to burn. L
struck the pick into the ground, nea,
the center of the cabin. Once more /
lifted it, and drove the long wedge of
iron to the handle in the loose soil.
The point fastened in some hard sab
stance; and, at the same instant, Har-
per, uttering o cry of mortal anguish,
fell heavily at my feet, a rife-shot roar
ed in my ear-and I dropped into
oblivion
Then it was night-a long, starless,
and dreamless night of clouded intel
lect and slumbering soul. When the
cunning forces of Nature had repaired
the fragile structure, and the dawn of
reason came, they were telling the
story of a stage-driver ON the Oregon
and California route, who, many months
before, had captured a nude and sun
bronzed wild -gibbering like a
monkey, but harmless as a babe-near
the boundary-line, and had sent him
north to Portland. 1t was the story of
my own rescue from the southern wilds.
For the rest, Harper must have fallen
by the accidental discharge of his own
rifle; and my mind, strung by the high
excitement of the search, weakened by
the despotism of one absorbing idea,
and dazed by the apparent interposition
of the supernatural, had given way I'M
der the shock, and the mere instincts of
of the animal nature had provided me
with sustenance, and prolonged my
life
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-10
An Immense Timber Region.

| There is more lumber around Puget
| Sound than / ever saw before. There
is one channel called Hoods Canal, that
seems to run from Port Townsend, go or
| 70 miles toward the Columbia River,
and perhaps not averaging over half a
mile wide, and if one half of what people
said about the timber growing there was
| true, and it was here in this market, 1t
would build the Northern Pacific Road.
! The timber is fir and pine. There are
three kinds, the white, the yellow, and
the red, predominating 1t has coarse
grain, more like hemlock, but is free
| from knots, and the wood between the
seams that separates the layers, Is of n
red color, and soft This kind of tree
grows to an enormous size. Indeed, all
that the timber thieves there think of,
and exert their ingenuity for, is to find
trees small enough to handle to advan-
tage, not liking to grapple with the big
ones. We went through portion of
this forest when he went to Olympia by
stage, and it was very rare to find tree
es small az three feet through at the
butt. They were from five. to six
seven, eight, and sometimes nine or ten
feet through at the butt, and marvellous
ly tall, some $50 feet high.
What would you say if stated that j
saw tree that would make an amount
of lumber more than the average for
five acres in Michigan Every one that
knows pine lumber land in Michigan
knows that 10000 feet is more than an
average, taking the whole of the pine
lands of the State perhaps 5000 would
be the fair average. At 10000, five acres
would have $4,000 feet. Now, suppose
we take tree ten feet through; that
ought to square six feet. A piece of
square timber one foot in length would
contain 36 cubic feet, or of board meas
ure 432 feet. Suppose you had went on
in that way until you had worked up 200
feet, you would have 200 times 432 feet,
that is, sc, 400 feet, and then you have
20 or 80 feet beyond that left. j saw
there trees ten feet through at the butt,
sound as they could he, straight as an
arrow, more than $50 feet high. 1t does
not make very good finishing lumber, Ms
it is coarse. But all over there are
enormous white cedars which even grow
on the island, and which make very fine
finishing lumber. 1 was told at Olympia
that this white cedar lumber brought
$40 per 200 at Portland.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-10
Women Like to be COurted.

Now, can this be so? 1t is probably
an old story, but we do not remember
to have seen it before
The poet Campbell says that he once
heard alady of distinguished beauty and
rank defend Sir Thomas Lawrence from
the charge of having been culpable in
paving attentions to ladies without in
tending to follow them up with an offer
of his hand. A gentleman remarked
that Sir Thomas was highly blamable.
"No," replied the lady Gt was rumored
that she herself was the object of the
great painters attentions), emo, not ex-
actly-not so much to blame" said she,
musingly. "What," said the gentle
man, " You astonish mel Not to blame
for such conduct?' 'No, not so much, :"
was still the musing response. "Can
you really, madame, defend such
behavior as desertion? "Why, sir, 4"
interrupted the lady, ito confess
the truth, 1 am firmly of the opinion
that the majority of women would
rather be courted and Tilted, than not
to be courted at ALL"