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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-17
Deem Flowing.

It has been truly said that an increase
of one inch in the average depth of
blowing throughout the United States,
would produce a larger amount of profit,
as compared with present results, than
all the gold received from California.
We believe this assertion; but we do
not believe that all soils without being
previously SUBSIDIZED are fit for this i'm
mediate increase in depth. We know
that even clay subsoils, which approach
esSwithin few inches of the surface,
after being thoroughly subsoiled, are
SO ameliorated as to be capable of adj
mixture with the immediate surface
soil; and We are equally well aware
that subsoiling cannot be performed
with any profit in clay subsoils con-
tanning excessive amounts of water
that such soils must be first underdrain-
ed and the subsoiling precede an in
crease of depth in surface blowing.
But there are millions of acres capable
of being plowed to douple the depth to
which they have received an incision
from tool of any kind, with increased
profits. Even in the State of New York
there are thousands of acres at this
time, which have never been plowed to
greater depth than four inches, COM
posed of loan entirely ready to be
disintegrated by surface blowing to
the depth of twelve of fifteen inches
with increased profit, and there are few
soils that may not be at once plowed to
depth of an inch or more than its
former depth. The adage &c that many
farmers own another farm Immediately
under that which they now cultivate,
cannot be too often repeated, and the
judicious farmer, whose will has been
SO often quoted, as having informed his
sons that he had buried sum of
money at a depth of twelve inches
somewhere on his farm and they must
find it, improved the quality of their
products by the disturbance of the soil
more than he would benefit them by
the supposed legacy by direct improve
ment. Less manure will produce a
larger amount of crops in a deeply dis
integrated soil and it is not true that
the deeper you pillow the more manure
you require. II is true that the more
thoroughly manure is divided, the
greater will be the amount of the crops
produced, and this is the more certain
ly brought about by deep than it is by
shallow blowing.
No practical farmer can doubt that in
deeply plowed soils, crops are less an
noyed by drouth and by insects, and if
blowing is useful at all, it must be use
full precisely in the same ratio to the
amount of soil disturbed, provided that
the roots are capable of appropriating
a greater amount of soil by its distur-
bance. Who doubts that roots will
travel to the depth of twelve or fifteen
inches, or even double that distance?
Who doubts that the line passing down
through the soil, will rest on the surface
of a cold and disintegrated subsoil
Who does not know that many farms
supposed to be worn out have been re-
vived by the increase of a few inches in
the depth of blowing? Who will lon
ger he contented to use pitful one
horse pillow, skating it through the soil
like harrow with one tooth, when by
deep blowing he can more than double
his crops?
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-17
Pluck.

Few virtues are more popular, more
fascinating, and, unfortunately, more
rare than pluck. | do not refer to the
blind, spasmodic, feverish and impulsive
manifestations that usually come under
that head. / mean that steady, cool,
quiet invincible and persistent quality,
founded on neither ignorance nor mis-
calculation, spirred on neither by EMU
latlon nor conceit, following out,
through clearly forseen and well-appre-
clated dangers and difficulties, some pur-
pose, be it good or bad, which is the
fortunate heritage of some individuals
Pluck is totally distinct from physical
courage; rather, the latter is but an ele-
ment OF 1T. 1t is, perhaps, best described
as moral courage in relation to physical
matters. No eminent man has retained
the height he occupies without it and
no one who possesses it but has in him
the most valuable element of great
man. The world pays him its most
heartfelt if not its loudest homage.
There are few who cannot sympathize
with it, for it is peculiar to no class in
life; and, though always retaining its
individuality, it accords just as we'll
with the muscles of the prize fighter as
the transcendent genius of Napoleon
Either may exist without it; but then
the Napoleon is a vulgar schemer, and
the prize fighter a brute-and there are
plenty of both. 1t is virtue benefcent
solely through its own intrinsic quality.
In whatever cause displayed it is always
a noble and enrolling trait If exer-
cised for good so much the better: if
not, it still remains pluck, and COM
mands admiration.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-17
A Talk About TORlics.

The object of tonic is to increase the elasticity
and strength of the muscular fibre, and to invigor-
ate the general system. As a means to accomplish
these ends it is expected to improve the appetite
and the digestive power of the stomach. These are
certainly important considerations; but to cure
dyspepsia, bilious affections chronic debility, in
termittent fever and other complaints involving
arrangements of the liver, the bowels, the nerves
and the secrerive organs generally, something
more than mere tonic is required. Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters may be safely pronounced the
best and most wholesome invigorant extant, but
the other special medical properties which belong
to this remarkable vegetable restorative have as
much 20 do with the wonderful results it produces
its tonic virtues. For example, IL has certal
Alternative qualities which literally change the
functions of the body without causing any undue
evacuation by perspiratiOn, vomiting or purging.
Its entire effect is to put the whole machinery OF
life in perfect order to purify all the fluids, lnclud
ing the blood and the bile, and not only to operate
as an aatdOe disease, where IL exists. hut to
strengthen, regulate and otherwise to improve the
condition of the stem TO render II proof against
ViCiSSitudes OF temperature, change of water, ln-
feCted air, and other predsposIng causes of liver
and bowel disturbances and epidemic disorders.
Hence ii is a medicine ior all seasons and chimes,
useful alike the traveller ami the resident i'll
unhe tlthy REGION and an invaluable safeguard
ag4inst the physical disturbances which accrue
from cold, damp lnclemenJ weather, well as
against the mental depression which is apt TO
whelm the weak and nervous at this somewhat
gloomy per Cd of the year.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-17

ONE form of Catarrh begins with uneasiness
of nose; the nose is obstructed by the thick
ened lining membrane and feels dry, desire
to pick it, bleeds little, sores soon start,
spread and get deeper, crusts form on them
large and hard to get away, matter discharges,
flesh is eaten and the bone decays, breath very
offensive and face becomes disfgured. Terri
BILE disease! Nothing will cure but DIR. Pierces
Golden Medical Discovery taken earnestly to
correct the blood and system; locally, use DIR.
Sages Catarrh Remedy, heating specific, and
to apply it properly, DIR. Pierce's Nasal Douche.
This reaches all the diseased parts. All these
sure means of cure sold together for % by
druggists. COS.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-17
A New Method of Adjoining Our Houses.

A New Method of Adorning Our Houses.
Considerable progress has been made
in the production of substitute for
paper that would be boon to hospitals
as well as private houses. The new
wall decoration to supersede paperhang-
ings and paint, are thin sheets of metal
painted over by a patented process.
They are artistic in appearance, like
most French products and said to be
durable. T'infoil in sheets, thickness of
ordinary writing paper, is the material
on which this new style or mural decora-
ton, including guiding, is executed.
Tinfoil is pliable and supple, sufficiently
tough not to be easily torn, and offers
smooth uniform surface. 1t forms an
excellant base for the work executed
upon it. It also possesses the advant-
ages of being waterproof, a property
well-known to architects and builders,
who frequently use it to cover damp
walls, on which without that covering
any decoration work would soon perish.
The process of executing the painting
on tin offers no difficulty. The sheets
are manufactured of a width and in
lengths suitable to their application on
the surface to be covered. At the man
u1dOOOIy LII L did e1C
made use of are from thirty to forty
inches, and the length five metres, OF
rather more than five yards. The APP
plication of the painted metallic hang
ings of either wood, stone, plaster or
iron surfaces offers no difficulty. The
operation is somewhat similar to put
ting up paper-hangings, with this differ
ence-that with the latter the paper is
pasted over at the back before being
hung, and with the former the surface
to be decorated is covered with thin
coat of adhesive varnish, on which,
after it has been left to dry partially,
the painted tin is affixed with great ease.
So little is the difficulty that any skilled
paper-hanger can, after few hours
practice, do the work successfully.
From the extreme fexibility of tinfoil,
mouldings and cornices are covered with
the metallic hangings in most perfect
manner, and with a smOOthness of sur
face and sharpness of outline at the edge
and mitres which the painters brush
cannot rival. The varnish used for fixing
the material is of the nature of gold
size, but more adhesive. Being of itself
"hydrofuge," it adds to the protection
of the paint against damp. If all this
be true, we may as well wish the
patentees success.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-17
UEAD kEA1HE En-.

The dead leaves strew the forest walk,
And withered are the pale, wild flowers;
The frost hangs blackening the stalk,
The dew drops fall in frozen showers.
Gone are the springs green, spouting bower
Gone summers rich and mantling vines,
And autumn with her yellow hours
ON hill and plain no longer shines.
I heard clear and wild-tone note,
That rose and swelled from yonder tree
gay bird, with too sweet throat
There perched and raised her song for me.
The winter comes, and where is she :?
Away-where summer wings will rove,
Where buds are fresh, and every tree
Is vocal with the notes of love.
Too mild the breath of southern sky,
Too fresh the flower that bushes there
The northern breeze that rustles by
Finds leaves too green and buds too fair.
No forest tree stands stript and bare,
No stream beneath the ice is dead,
No mountain top, with sleety hair,
Bends DER the SHOWS its reverend head.
Go there with all the birds-and seek
happier cline, with livelier flight:
Kiss, with the sun, the evenings cheek;
And leave me lonely with the night
III gaze upon the cold north light,
And mark where all its glories shone-
See-that it all is fair and bright,
Feel-that it all is cold and gone.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-17
To Make a Good Collector.

Be on time to the minute when the
debtor says '"come tomorrow at nine
o'clock"
Sit on the steps and wait for his re-
turn when he says 81 am just going to
dinner"
Insist on stepping out to make change
when a man "has nothing less than
twenty"
Go to an cold stager" every day for
month with a cheerful countenance
"about that little account"
Don't mind edging into a crowd to
ask a fellow
Take dollar in part if you can't get
ten in whole, and "credit it" with alac-
rity.
Always suggest check when the
money is not in hand, as he can get it
"cashed" tomorrow.
Always have that account on " top"
so the man can have no excuse for put
ting you off
Don't mind asking for it Immediately
after being " treated" or pleasantly
entertained.
Never be in a hurry" will wait till
you get through"
Cough or salute when the "hard
case" wants to pass without seeing you
In fine, be patient as post, cheeful
as duck, sociaPle as a flea, bold as a
lion, weather-proof as a rubber, cunning
as a fox, and watchful as as parrow-hawk
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-17

PINTs and quarts of filthy catarrhal dis
charges. Where does it all come from? The
mucous membrane lining of the chambers of
the nose and its little glands are diseased, so
they draw from the blood its liquid, and expos
ure to the air changes it to corruption. This
life-iquid was to build up the system, but it is
extracted and the system is weakened by the
loss. To cure, gam flesh and strength by
using DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
which also acts directly upon these glands,
correcting them. Also apply DIR. Sage's Ca
tarrh Remedy with DIR. Pierces Nasal Douche,
the only method of reaching the upper cavities
where the discharge accumulates and comes
FROM The instrument and two medicines sold
for 81 by all druggists. 621.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-17

The American Agricaturist, speaking about
the great merits of CABLE SCREW WIRE
Boots and Shoes, says ga trial of these goods
for several months past, and the testimony we
have from dealers prove this method of fasten-
igg soles to be a g cd improvements there is
no ripping, the wioholds until the sole of the
shoe is fairly worn ont
WHooPING CoUaH.-I find your Hive Syrup
and Tolu an excellent remedy for whooping
cough and Group, especially for the former,
which is prevailing in neighborhood south of
us. I must not be out of the Syrup; please
forward me supply without delay.
White Pigeon, Mich. w o. AUSTIN.
Who says DIR. Miller's Magnetic Balm con-
tains magnetism? Those who have used it
for collie and bowel complaints.
See advertisement in this paper
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-17
THE WEEKLY SUN.

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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-17

DISEASED LUNGs ARE GREATLY ON THE In
CREASE IN THIS CoUNTRY.-The sudden chang
ing of weather has done much to give rise to
Consumption. But there are thousands of
cases who bring it ON by their own imprudenoe,
such as wearing damp clothing, and going from
the warm room into the cold air and checking
the perspiration which causes irritation of the
lungs, and then matter or phlegm will collect,
which nature will try to relieve by coughing
it up to prevent pustules from forming. If
nature does not raise the matter with ease and
stop this inflammation, tubercles will soon form
and Consumption will soon follow. Aliens
Lung Balsam will cure and prevent thousands
of cases of Consumption, if it is only taken in
time.
For sale by all Druggists
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-17

ga Slight Cold" COughs.-Few are are
of the importance of checking a cough or
'slight cold" which would yield to mild
remedy if neglected, often attacks the lungs
almost immediate relief.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-17

The propriety of giving condition medicine
to horses, cattle and sheep was discussed and
admitted by many of the agricultural societies
throughout the State last fall, and we believe
that in every case but. one they decided III ia
vor of Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders.
Good iudgmenh
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-17

DIR. Hall says the best medicine in
the world, more efficient in the cure of
disease than all the potencies of the
materia medica, are warmth, rest, clean
illness and pure air. Some persons
make it a virtue to brave disease " to
keep up" as long as they can move a
foot or crook finger, and it sometimes
succeeds; but in others, the powers of
life are thereby so completely exhausted
that the system has lost all ability to
recuperate, and slow and typhoid fever
sets in and carries the patient to pre-
mature grave. Whenever walking, or
work is an effort, a warm bed and cool
room are the very first indispensables to
sure and speedy recovery. Instinct
leads all beasts and birds to qrietude
and rest the very moment disease or
wounds assail the system.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-17

SAID PARENT TO CHILD" just look at
those Shoes, only bought last week; good as
new, all but the toes, which are worn through.
Money thrown away, feet wet, stockings soiled,
all because they were not Metal Tipped" Pa
rents, take your choice, neat, genteel, Silver
Tipped shoes, which never wear ont at the toe
or shoes without Tips, with ragged holes and
protruding toes. Which looks the Best
Which is the CheaDest
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-17
Nakeu Anlmals ana moomy norses.

Instances of furless rats and mice,
which seem to have become established
as races in this country, have been re-
corded in the Field and elsewhere, and
some time ago the occurrence of nude
example of the common British shrew
was placed on record. The following I
now cite from Azara's, Natural History
of the Quadrupeds of Paraguay"
Most persons have seen those naked
animals called Chinese and Turkish
dogs, which are altogether destitute of
hair but few are aware that young
kid, in everything similar to others, ex-
cept being naturally destitute of hair,
and having a skin similar to that of the
dogs alluded to, was brought from Cor
dova to Tucuman to the lady of the last
Viceroy, Don Nicholas de ArredOndo.
1t unfortunately died IN the neighbor-
hood of Buenos Ayres, but my friend
Don Felix Casamayor preserved it, in
order to enable the said lady to carry
it with her to Spain. l am told that
this is race perpetuated in Tucuman.
/ myself saw, in Paraguay, fowl capa-
BILE of engendering, which had very few
feathers ON the wings, and not more
than twenty ON the rest of it's body, and
was assured that it was a variety
which was perpetuated.
Azara also remarks that he has seen
many crisp-haired horses, called in
Paraguay 11ictai; their hair is curly,
like that of the negroes of Guinea, and
their hoof as narrow as that of Spanish
mules, in which they differ from the
common run of horses. 1 have seen
them of various colors, but not piebald
or white; the tails and names are also
curly, and much shorter than in other
horses. L have seldom seen one whose
name was six inches long, and the tail
was of the same dimensions" (meaning
of course tho hair upon it. "These
horses perpetuate their race; when
crossed with others they produce mixed
breeds, and are accounted to be stronger
than other horses, although / doubt it;
but as they are ugly, attempts have
been made to exterminate them by
emasculation, and even by killing the
mares. This object cannot be obtained,
for some always proceed from ordinary
parents" Subsequently he designates
the hair as short and woolly like that of
negroes. OF course it was an animal of
this kind which was exhibited by the
redoubtable Snowman Barnum, as that
marvellous production of nature, a
wOOlly horse.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-17

New York brides throw bouquet
at the groom as the ceremony concludes.
After a week or two she finds the coffee
pot a better weapon.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-17

The great end of prudence is to
give cheerfulness to those hours which
splendOr can not gid, and accumulation
can not exhilarate. Those soft intervals
of unbended amusement, in which
man shrinks to his natural dimensions
and throws aside the ornaments and dis
guises which he feels in private to be
useless membranes, and to lose all eff
feet when they become familiar. To be
happy at home is the ultimate result of
all ambition, the end to which every en-
teEprise and labor tends, and of which
every desire prompts the execution. 1t
is, indeed, at home that every man must
be known by those who form just es-
innate of his virtue or felicity; for
smiles and embroidery are alike occa-
sional and the mind is cften dressed for
show in painted honor and fictitious be-
nevolence.
You can't scold people out of their sins,
but it is 40 trouble to coax gentlemen to wear
the Elmwood Collar for they all like it.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-17

IT is well to get clear of bad cough or cold
the first week. but it is safer to rid yourself of
it the first forty-eight hours, the proper rem
edy for the purpose being DIR. Jayne's Expec
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-17

MORMON SECRETS sent free. Address An
drew Henley, Omaha. Nebraska.
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Stanmering Institute,

Opened at the st. Cloud Hotel, parlor-rooms
No. 80, Nashville, Tenn, under the charge of
DIR N. A. Moses of Virginia, and ]. b. Love
of Nashville Tenn, for the treatment
and cure of stammering and impediments in
speech. All persons wishing to be relieved of
that distressing malady will please avail them
selves of the opportunity at once. Our sue
cess in curing stammering and impediment in
speech has not been equalled in this auy
other country. Certificates from Nashville
and the principal cities of the United States
testify to our ability, we both having been
stammerers over forty-three years. We guar
antee a cure i'll all cases, where no malfor-
nation of the lungs exists. Patients of course
must be present. Terms reasonable.