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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
Miss Kellogg on Foreign Music
Teachers.

! A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial, writing of conversation
with Clara Louise kellogg, says that
the 0rinlG donna spoke as follows con-
cernlng foreign music teachers "They
give their pupils no rest. It is to the
interest of the teacher to do so, for
when new comet rushes forth the
questionis, who was her master !? It is
the best card in the world for him, and
he knows il, and puts in his best. When
Grisi first appeared, the question ran
through Europe, who taught her p
and the teacher was run down with
pupils. True, he never produced an
other Grisi, but he has brought out a
good many voices, Then there was
Wartel, who gave us Nilsson, but that
was his greatest feat. He has done
nothing since, for there are but few who
san stand his exacting method. He
would break an American girl down in
no time. Why? Because our Ameri-
can damsels don't have the physique,
and will dissipate. It is nothing in the
world but an absolute waste of money
for young American girls to go to EU-
rope. They have completely democrat
lied those foreign teachers, as Ameri-
cans have demoralized Europe. There
are the Milan masters they do their
biggest business now swindIing Amer
lean girls. They tell them lies about
their voices, and coddle them up with
great ideas as 10 their future, and all
Just to get their money out of them.
Whv, these girls have only to hint that
they come from America and they are
taken in NEST wofully. / tell you, sir,
it is a downright shame" "And do
YOU really think they can be educated
there ?" '"Most unquestionably. They
have only to practice self-denial and
study necessarily and hard, and the day
would not be far distant when the voice
of the foreign opera singer would no lon
ger be heard in this land. Do you know,
am fairly disguised with our people for
running after foreign singers as they do
instead of trying TO bring out our home
talent. Naturally American girls have
the sweetest voices in the world. No
country on the earth produces finer nat
ural voices, and if the people of this
vast and glorious republic would only
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
Fruits which Everybody Can Grow.


We might, perhaps, place under this
head most of the species adapted to our
climate, but some of them require more
attention than others, and more than
the aforesaid " everybody" may be will
ing to give them. Nothing worth hav-
ing can, as a rule, be had without some
labor or expense, and no good fruit
bearing trees or plants will take care of
themselves altogether but we will
name few things which require so lit
tie skill, attention or labor, that any
one who deserves to have anything bet
ter than "hog plums" and haw berries
on his table, will be willing to give them
the small amount of care they demand.
1. Strawberries, selecting such varieties
as Wilson's Albany, Longworth's Pro-
life, and humans Prolific, can be had
in abundance for home use with tri-
fling outlay of labor. 2. The black
cap raspberries, planted alongside the
garden fence, where they will be shaded
during part of the day, do we'll with a
little attention. 3. Figs, such as Brown
Turkey, Brunswick, Black Ischia and
and Celestial Sugar fig require little
but the planting, and never fail. a.
ScuppernOng grapes, and other varIe-
ties of the southern muscadine species,
do not tax our care much, and repay
us largely. s. The Wild Goose plum,
and other kinds of the Chick asaw type,
ask but little and give much. 6.
Peaches will flourish in the fence corn
ers and old fields, but will repay some
attention. Z. Where the soil suits
them, and the borer is not too destruc-
tive. apples of native varieties are grown
with ouly moderate degree of atteR
ton Those who will not take the
trouble to have these fruits, deserve
nothing better than hog and hominy,"
year in and year out.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
THE OLD HOME.
BY WILL WALLACE HARVEY.


An outdoor quiet held the Earth
Beneath the winter moon,
The cricket chirped In coy mirth,
And the kettle crooned, upon the hearth,
sweet, old-fashioned tune
The old clock licked, Crowsy rase,
With the clicking Of the cricket,
And red Goals in the chtmney-place
peeped out, with many rosy face,
Like berries in thicket.
The cranes arm, empty, stuck out stiff.
ana tlnware on the shelves
1WlnkIed and winked at every Cliff.
In the Pickering fire-ligtt, as if
They whispered to themselves.
The good dame, in her rufled can.
Counted her stitches slowly.
aha the old man, with full many gap,
Read from the big book on his Lap.
Inc good words, wise and holy,
The old clock clicked the old man read,
Hls deep voice pausing, lowering
ne Ine k !s1 EIe nodded, dropped her head
Inc LUIS OF Doth were heavy as lead
Ihey were sound asleep and snoring.
On, hale Old couple sweet each dream.
while all the milk-paus tiltinp-
Puss paints her whiskars IN the cream
HI john and the belated team
BRING Maggie from the quilting.
May time, pray, when failing years
MAKE thin my voice and tbrapple,
Flnd my last days Of life like theirs.
as sweet with children's love aud pravers
ana IKE winter apple.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
A Method Of Reducing Ron.s.

Mr.. Porter Warren, of New Hamp-
shire, gives the following easy and cheap
formula for reducing bones
If the farmer will set aside a cask, in
some convenient place, for the reception
OF bones, and throw all that are found
on the farm into it, he will be likely to
find collection at the end of the wear
that would prove a valuable adjunct to
his manure heap. Place them in a
large kettle mixed with ashes, and
about one peck of lime to the barrel of
bones. Cover with water and boil. In
twenty-fOur hours all the bones, with
the exception, perhaps, of the hard
shln-boGes, will become so much soft
ened as to be easily pulverized by hand.
They will not be in particles of bone,
but in pasty condition, and in excel.
lent form to mix with muck, loan or
ashes By boiling the shin-bones ten
or twelve homs longer they will also
become soft.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
How Detroit Lover was Going to
Get Even.

Some five or six weeks ago a young
man named Charles Perrin, twenty
three years old, and a carpenter BY
trade, fell in love with a good-looking
girl whose parents live on Orchard
street. Charles has red hair and q
freckled face, and although the young
lady treated him courteously when he
called at the house, she had her mind
made up that she could never wed a
red-headed man. After an acquaiHt-
ance of three weeks he asked her to be-
come Mrs. Perrin, and was greatly taken
down when she told him that she
couldn't think of such thing. Charles
then sought to have the old folks put IN
a good word for him, but they declined
to interfere. He continued his visits,
perhaps hoping to soften the girls
heart, but Thursday evening the crisis
came. He went to the house with a
bottle of acid in his pocket, prepared to
spoil her beauty if she did not give him
a favorable answer. There was no one
at home but the girl and her mother,
and Perrin first invited the girl to take
a walk with him. She refused to go,
and he asked to see her alone. She
also refused this request, and the lover
Lad just got ready to draw the bottle
from his pocket when something bit
him. He thought it was dog, but it
wasn't. The cork had worked out of
the bottle, and his coat-tails were turn
ing brick color at the rate of yard
minute. The acid wasn't content with
the coat-tails, but struck out for flesh,
and in about minute the young man
was dancing around the house as if to
escape a bullet. Shouting and whoop-
ing he got out of doors and threw off
most of his clothing and rolled in the
mud, and it was so ne time before any
one could find out whether he had
snakes in his boots or had sat down on
brad -awl. He was so badly burned
that two men had to help him to his
boarding-h house on Fifth street, where
physician dressed the burns. There is
a good deal of laughing at his expense,
and if he makes his appearance at the
house again he will be arrested, as he
told one of his friends in advance that
be meant the acid for the girl.-Free
Press
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04

LET US CONSIDER the intro
duction of distilled spirits in the six
teenth century, they have been habitu-
ally prescribed as remedies. We know
that alcohol, in all its forms, is per-
nicious to health. Knowing these
things and that under the system of
treatment which includes their use, the
mortality among the sick is, and ever
has been, enormous, is it not worth
while to try the effect of a remedy
which combines in their highest excel
lence the qualities of tonic, an altera-
tive and regulator contains no min
eral bane or murderous alkaloid or al
coholic poison does its curative Office
without pain and with uniform certain
typ DR.. Walkers Vinegar Bitters full
fills all these conditions, and is now
effecting the most extraordinary cures,
in cases where every "specific" of the
faculty has ANONYMOUSLY failed. Con-
slider, in view of these facts, whether
any sick person is justified by reason
and common sense in declining co tt st
the virtues of this undefiled and ire
sistible remedy.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
FARMERS READING.
Fail Flowing.

Ill; ~ IS generally conceded that excert
FIt3 very light lands all soils are bene.
m1ed by fall blowing. Care must be
Exercised Exercised, however, that they are in
proper condition of dryness. The freez-
Igs and thawings of winter allow of
tneir being plowed when more saturated
WIN water than IS otherwise safe
american Frg1,,e,. -
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
Average MIX ornCn,u-

At a meeting at jamestown. New
York, according to the Country Gen
tleman, several dairymen agreed that
one hundred and fifty pounds of butter
per COW annually is about the average
product of diaries generally.
The largest yield reported by any one
present was nine hundred and nine
pounds from three cows, selected from
fifteen, and bad two hundred pounds
per COW for his dairy. One with dairy
OF tWenty-nine cows had the following
average for past four years One hun
bred and seventy-five, one hundred and
sixty, one hundred and fifty six, and one
hundred and fOrty-six pounds.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
CAUTIO N.

On account of the popularity Of the Wheeler
d Wilson Sewing Machines, parties have
largely been engaged in purchasing old and
second hand machines of that make, and i'm
posed upon the public by selling them as new
begs to advise the public that any one desiring
to buy their secondhand machines can be
supplied by that Company direct, on better
terms than others can afford them, and be as
sured of what they are buying. Address
WHEELER & WILSON MFG CO.,
625 Broadway New York.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04

"A Scotch woman, whose name was
Margaret, did nothing but swear and
abuse, instead of answering the minis
ter. say, Margaret, says he, "dinna
ye ken where a. the sinful gang ?"
"Deil TAX them that kens, as weel as
them that speers," cried she. Say,
they gang where there'll be
wailing and crashing of teeth" "By
my trow, then" says Margaret, "let
them gnash that haze them, for. dell
stump haze had these twenty years."
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
How Much Timothy-seed to Sow.

A correspondent of the Rural World
writes [ SOW on good land one peck.
on poor land one and one-haIf to two
pecks, for the reason that on good land
the seed will stool more, and if the seed
is good, and the land in good condi-
ton, good stand will be secured from
one peck, and the fist crop will not
have to be allowed to become dead-rine
that the seed may scatter to help ont
the stand that ought to be had from the
seeding. Many farmers practice this
plan, but 1t Is poor economy. The lib
eral sover viii reap literally. / there
fore would advise that seed enough be
soWn at first, even if it takes two pecks
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
California Beet Sugar.

The beet sugar factory at Sacramento
is reported as under successful opera
ton the working ND of this years crop
having commenced Sept. 90. The crop
of sugar beets TO be worked up amounts
TO nearly 10000 tons. The fieId-capo
of 40 men is gathering the crop as ran
idly as possible. The factory is worked
night and day by gangs of As men each,
relieving each other. The sugar pro,
duced is said TO be superior to any other
raw sugar In the market.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
Largest Pench Orchard II, trs ,u0r,a

Shellcross, who resides near Middle
ton, Del, the Horticulturist says, owns
the largest peach orchard in the world.
Last Last year he shipped to New York I25.-
OOO baskets of fruit, and It is estimated
that he lost, by being unable to procure
labor to pick, about $4,000 baskets
more. On several days he loaded, from
MS orchard, ten car loads. Mr.. She'll
cross orchard reaches along the public
ROAD TO Tor more than eight miIes-gener-
any on either side-and covers an ex-
tent OF towards of 1000 acres.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
Praise the Children,

There is an idea that praise is too
good thing to be given to the chill
dren that it too rich for their mental
and moral digestion. Some parents are
SO afraid that child will grow proud
that they never praise him, and this
course is often DISASTROUS It is apt to
produce too much self -assertion-fOr
seIf-assertion is a legitimate outgrowth
of withholding commentator from one
who is entitled to it, or it will eDdanger
seIf-distrust or melancholy hopelessness
of disposition. Praise is sunshine to
child, and there is no child that does
not need it. 1t is the high reward of
ones struggle to do right. Thomas
Hughes says that you can never get a
mans best out of him without praise.
You certainly can never get a child's
best out of him without praise. Many
a sensitive child, we believe, dies of
hunger for lack of kind recommended
ton. Many a child starving for the
praise parent should give runs off ca
gerly after the designing fattery of
others. To withhold praise where it
is due is dishonest, and in the case of
child such a course often leaves a sting
ing sense of injustice. Motives of COM
mon Justice as we'll as rega' d for the
future of the child should influence the
parent to give generous praise to all
who deserve it. OF course there is a
difference in the constitution of chill
dren; some cannot bear so much praise
as others, and some need a great deal.
It should never be indiscriminate. We
remember a wonderful woman who
tar ght a school in one village until she
had educated part of three genera
tons. She was one of the most sue
cessful of teschers, but her success lay
in her gift of praising with discrimina-
ton. A bad boy who was a good
scholar got praises for his brll!iancy
sandwiched between her abomination of
his bad behavior, and so was won to
better life and we recall good girl
who had no gift for learning rapidly,
but who was saved from utter despair
by the praise she got Tor her untiring
industry. Into the discouraged heart
of the children the praise of the teacher
came like sunlight; and the virtues,
like frnit, can only ripen in sunshine.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04

Mr.. Archey McKissick, of RJckdale,
Pa. in writing to Dr. Wishart, says: my
son was pronounced incurable with consump-
ton, but hearing of your Pine Tree Tar Cor
dial, we purchased three bottles, and he COM
menced using it, and from that day to this he
has been getting we'll"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
Value of Farm Products Per Acre.

The last volume of the agricultural
repor5-which has been so long DELAYED
has Just been printed at the govern
ment printing office. The following
table shows the average cash value of
farm products per acre in this country.
according to the report of the statistic
Ian of tho denartnsnt
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04

encourage our girls to perfect their mu-
steal education, and the girls would
only give up their folly and cultivate
their bodies and taste, we would soon
have as fine opera as the foreigners
,orOduoa -
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04

-"That dog of yourn few at me this
morning, and bit me on the leg, and l
now notify you that intend to shoot 1t
the first time / see it. The dog is
not mad" "Mad know he is not
mad. What's he got to be mad about =?
It's me that's mad"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04

EVERY READER OF this paper, can receive,
free, a copy Of the best Agricultural and Fam
ily newspapers in this country by addressing
Moores Rural New Yorker, 70 Duane street,
New York
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
Shocking Facts About Boston Ladies.

Ladies' who patronize Our iewelry,
dry goods and similar establishments,
sometimes do it in a way that is any
thing but pleasing and profitable to the
proprietors. The latter, anxious to ac-
commodate, often permit customers to
take to their homes articles which they
cannot decide to purchase at the stores.
We have read of jewellers recognizing
their flashing diamands, thus tempo
rarily entrusted to some fair customer,
upon the evening before it was returned,
with the conclusion regretfully ex-
pressed that they "won't suit ;" and the
vendors of costly shawls, elegant
sacques, and other garments, have even
recognized their goods doing duty on
special occasions, to be returned next
day by the wearers, with the assurance
that they were compelled to state, re-
gretfully, of course, that they won't do
at all. We had supposed that New
York alone furnished the parties who
perpetrated such Jokes upon the gallant
traders but such is not the case. Re
Gently a nice velvet garment was sent TO
the house of a lady customer from one
of the dry goods firms of this city, she
desiring to give it a critical examination.
1t was returned with a good sized cut
in it, which the customer had attempted
to stick together with some adhesive
substance. In making her pattern from
the newest Partisan model she had I'M
luckily nearly spoiled the garment.
Still another lady wished to examine an
elegant new velveteen sacque just from
Paris, and it was sent by well-known
dry goods firm to her home. 1t came
back to the store with a dash of egg
yolk upon it about the size of the Brit
ish Isles in an ordinary map of Europe.
Whenever she had worn the garment
she had unconsciously plowed through
the omelette in passing the butter or
the apple sauce to her next neighbor
We have but one comment to make
Don't 90 such things, ladies, especially
especially Boston ladies but if you
must do so, keep the borrowed sleeves
out of the velveteen. Then the sales
men and proprietoTs will die in utter
ignorance of your little prarks. -Bos-
ton Times
Ne man ever wOrshiped a brazen
image who had once tusseled with a life
ooopt
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04

If a person, who is unable from
illness to sign his will, has his hand
guided in making his mark, the sigma
ture is valid.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04

If YOU have been wearing paper col
lars and have not yet tried the Elmwood, we
would advise you to do so at once. They fit
splendidly. All the edges are folded, so they
will not turn out, and the collars will not soil
as easily as others.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04

A PRoTRUDING toe is not a pretty
sight, and is never seen where children wear
SILVER TIPPED Shoes. They will save half
your shoe bills. For sale by all dealers.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
Choosing n Berkshire.

Pure Berkshire hogs should be Jet
black In color, with a thick coat of fine
black hair, but choose one with coarse
hair rather than one that is short of
hair. White is only allowable on tips
of cars, feet and legs, face and tail, but
not too much white, as they are always
black breed, and plenty of hair de-
notes strong constitution. There is
no such thing as a white or spotted
Berkshire hog, and the men who get up
such stories to sell mongrel stock are
swlndlers. and ought TO be sent to
prison. Choose a Berkshire with short
prick ears, and as short a face as posi-
bic, with a broad back, carrying its
width back well over the hams Cit is
much easier to find them broad over the
shoulders than the hams), and by all
means they should be deep in the heart
place (from the top of back Just behind
the shoulder level and smooth all over,
IN fact as near a hewn block as can be,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
Ton,c ana Recuperant plantation

DIR, TUFTS LIVER PILLS invigorates the debil-
tated organs builds up the tagging nervous ener-
giles and imparts vigor to body and mind.
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The Bestmog. for the South.

We have recently received letters
from many valued friends induiring
"what is the best hog for the south %
One of the good effects of having
raised an abundant crop of corn Is the
generally diffused desire TO raise our
own meat, and rs that good work must
now be commenced from the foundation,
the inquiry as to the best and most pro-
titahle breed is natural.
We unhesitatingly answer that the
Berkshire, or a cross of the Berkshire
and Essex, is incOmparablv the best hog
for our country and climate. We are
intimately acquainted with persons in
Tennessee, and other states, who have
raised the Berkshires for several years,
and have brought them to a perfection
such as We have never seen attained by
any other breed. Give them a good
range, and access to plenty of water.
and they Will increase, multiply and
replenish the earth. At fifteen months
old, with ordinary care and sufficient
food, they viii weigh from $50 to 400
pounds, and, owing TO their small bone,
there is less difference in weight between
n Berkshire alive and one slaughtered
than any other hogs we have ever
known. Where crossed by the Essex
the hog has more size, and is, perhaps,
more industrious in roofing" for him
self; but, in our experience, the mere
Berkshire is not deficient in this lat
ter particular.
OF all hogs, we consider the Chester
the worst for the country. If it is not
as carefully fed and groomed as a race
horse, it becomes NANCY, fails to put on
flesh, and produces nothing but bone
and ears, A few years ago there was a
rage for White Chesters. People sent
to Chester county, Pa, snl paid as
high as $50 to $50 for a pair of pigs,
which, on arrival, they we're found to
be large-eared, big-boned, tbriftless an
imals. which needed as much attention
as a lady's lap dog. In favorable eli
mate, with unremittiDg attention and
haud-feeding, the Chester Will attain an
immense size in three years. But who
can afford to wait three years for a Oa-
con hog? Who can afford to pay this
attention to his hogs A good Berk-
shire SOW will produce three large lit
tiers in fifteen months, and, if in proper
condition, will raise every one of them.
There is no better food to fatten the
.Berkshires than sorghum when the seed
Is ripe.-SOUfheyn Farmer.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04

A Cincinnati paper speaks about
" the youngest son of Brigham Young, ]"
but when we remember that he has
thirty-saven youngest sons, how can any
one tell what the Cincinnati paper
means?