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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-09
A Tender Touch of Sentiment.

Mrs. Oliphant, in her recent novel,
" For Love and Life, shows her bound
less sympathy with all the griefs that
parents suffer from the self-will and
the wrong doing of children and she
touches one sorrow that is often borne
but seldom confessed, when she writes:
Many a volume has been written
about the love of parents, the love of
mothers, its enthusiasms of hope and
fancy, its alterations of the unworthy,
its agony for the lost 4; but do not re-
member that ary one has ventured to
touch upon still more terrible view of
the subiect-the disappointment, for
example, with which such a woman as l
have attempted to set before the reader
"a woman full of high aspirations,
noble, generous, and perhaps an IN
warrantable personal pride, all intensi
fed by the homely circumstances of
life around her-sometimes looks upon
the absolutely commonplace people
whom she has brought into the world.
She, too, has had her dreams about
them while they were children, and all
things seemed possible-while they
were youths, with still some grace and
freshness of the morning yelling their
unheroic outlines. But a woman of
seventy can cherish no fond delHsion
about her middle-aged sons and daugh-
ters. who are, to all intents and pur-
poses, as old as she is. What dismal
sense of failure must come into such
woman's heart while she looks at them
Perhaps this is one reason why grand
father and mothers throw themselves so
eagerly into the new generation, by
means of which human nature can al
ways go on deceiving itself. Heavens +!
what difference between the ordinary
man or woman of fifty and that ideal
creature which he, OR she, appeared to
the mothers eyes at fifteen The old
people gaze and gaze to see our old
features in us and who can express the
blank of that disappointment, the cruel
modification of those old hopes, which
never find expression in any words ?"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-09
SUMMER-TIDE.

There are blossoms in the garden sweet and fair:
There's sense of wondrous fragrance in the air:
And the meadow-grass is swaying,
The hckle breeze obeying;
And tie daisies lift their white heads everywhere
There's twitering in the tree-tops when the eartl
Rejoices at the mornings glorious birth,
And the little birds. awaking,
Their leafy ne4 forsaking,
Fly hither and fly Thither in their mirth,
And the bees about the buttercups fly round
With lazy, humming, droning sound,
And they gather all the sweetness
OF the sumner-days com pleteness
Where the fields with clover-blossoms most abound
There are feecy clouds above me soaring high,
Light and iazily, across the azure sky:
There are shadows shifting lightly
As the sunbeams follow brightly;
And the day in peaceful beauty passeth by.
And silvry sound of soothing melody
From within the grand old forests come to me:
lis the tiny brooklet gliding
Beneath the trees, half-hid'ng,
The while it rpples forth its song of glee.
And when day is done the distant eyening-bell
Ringeth out, while echoes soft the sweet tones swell
Till the stars, their bright watch keeping,
From the shadOwy skies are peeping
And gentle silence comes at last with us to dwell.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-09
Profitable Politeness.

The Boston Traveller. in commenting
on the prevail nee of rgdeness, tells the
following incident that happened some
Yeas ago:
There Was a very plainly dressed
elderly lady who was frequent Gus
toner ct the then leading dry goods
store In Boston. No one in the store
knew even her name. All the clerks
but one avoided her and gave their at
tentiOn 20 those who were h tier dressed
and more pretentious. The evception
was a young man who hdl c5nscien-
tons regard for duty and system. He
never left another customer TO wait on
the lady, but when at liberty he waiteI
on her with SIS much attention rs though
she had been a princess. This con
timed a year or two until the Young
man became Of age. One morning the
lady approached the young man. when
the following conversation took place
lady" Young man, do vu4I wish TO
go into business FOR yourself 2"
Yes, ma'am," he responded " out
I have neither money, credit nor friends,
nor will any one trust me"
Well" continued Che la3v. "vau
g. and select a good situation. ask what
the rent is, aud report to me, handing
the Young man her ad Eress. The voung
man went, found a capital location,
good store, but the landlord required
security, which he could not give.
Mind nj of the lady's request, he forth
with went to her and reported.
"Wen," =" she replied, "you go and
tell Mr.. - hat I will be responsible"
He went, aud the landlord or agent
was surprised, bat tha bargain was
closed. The next day tho lady called
to ascertain the result. The Young man
told her, but added, "What um TO do
for goods? No one viii trnst me"
"You may go and see Mr.. -, and
Mr.. -, and Mr.. -, and tel. them
to call on me-"
He did, and his store was soon stocked
with the best goods in the market.
There are many in this city who ramen-
bcF The circumstances ana the man. He
died many years since and left fortune
OF three hun red thousand dollars. So
mucl for politeness, so much for civil
ity, aud so much for treating ones eld-
ers with the Difference due to age in
whatevsr garb they are clothed.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-09

atmosphere make them quite salient
enough against the ancient, sombre
back grounds of these picturesque old
towns the artist need not dress them
up in colors which their natural sense
of the fitness of things would Rpudiate."
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-09
Discoveries in the Colosseum.

ARoman correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Daily Gazette says: Fragments
of marble roughly sculptured, which
are thought to have ornamented the
base of the interior of the arena, have
been recently found in the excavation
of the colosseum. These sculptures give
a vivid idea of the combats of the are
ma, and will have an historical impor-
tance. Gladiators, tigers, lions, ele-
plants, and bears are represented in
the heat of the combat. On one piece
of marble is seen a gladiator with a
long iron lance, who fights with two
bears that threaten to attack him. An
other sculpture represents two gladia-
tors fighting, one with a shield and
another with a lance. It seems that
the heavy iron shield could be used
also as an offensive weapon, and this
variety in the advantages and disadvan-
tages of the combatants made the re-
suit of the struggle moro interesting.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-09
Darwin's Devotion to Truth.

Darwin sinks no difficulty; and, sat
urated as the subject is with his own
thought, he must have known, better
than his critics, the weakness as we'll as
the strength of his theory. This, of
course, would be of little avail were
his object a temporary dialectic vic
tory, instead of the establishment of a
truth which he means to be everlasting.
But he takes no pains to disguise the
weakness he has discerne1; nay, he
takes every pains to bring it into the
strongest light. His vast resources en-
able him to cope with objections started
by himself aud others, so as to leave the
final impression upon the readers mind
that if they be not completely answered
they certainly are not fatal. Their neg
ative force being thus destroyed, you
are free 70 be influenced by the vast
positive mass of evidence he is able to
bring before you. This largeness of
knowledge and readiness of resource
render Mr.. Darwin the most terrible of
antagonists. Accomplished naturalists
have leveled heavy and sust aint d criti-
cism against him-not always with
view of fairly weighing his theory, but
with the express intention of exposing
it's weak points only. This does not ir-
ritate him. He treats every objection
with a soberness and thoroughness
which even Bishop Butler might be
proud to initiate, surrounding each fact
with it's proper relations, and usually
giving it significance which, as long
as it was kept isolated, failed to appear.
This is done without a trace Of ill
temper.
He moves over a subject with the
passionless strength of a glacier; and
the grinding of the rocks is not always
without a counterpart in the logical
pulverization of the ebjec or. But,
though, in handling this mighty theme,
all passion has been stilled, there is an
emotion of the intellect incident to the
discernment of new truth, which often
colors and warns the pages of Mr..
Darwin. His SUCCESS has been great;
and this implies not only the solidity of
his work, but the preparedness of the
public mind for such revelation
Popular Science Monthly.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-09

A backwoodsman, describing a
steamboat, said cit has a sawmill
on one side, a grist mill on the
other and blacksmith shop in the mid
die, and down stairs there's a tarnation
big pot boiling all the while.''
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-09

AT a recent baby-show in Wiscon-
sin twenty-seven women started home
tearing each others hair and hoops.
Nine-tenths of the women shouldn't be
permitted to have babieJ. They can't
bear rivalry. If all women were ban
ished from the world, we would never
have any trouble at our baby-shows.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-09

war. Eleven delegates voted for res
olution commencing the suggestion to
the attention of the governments, but
the remaining nine abstained from vot-
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-09

"A man who goes to Kansas to settle
on a homestead must expect to eat roots,
sleep on the floor, fight gnats and get
away from the Indians for the whole
five years before he can begin to enjoy
lie.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-09

"A Saratoga belle was thrown into
commissions, and her health seriously
impaired, because her bean wanted to
dance with her without wearing gloves,
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-18
The Manufacture of Iron.

The antiquity of the manufacture of
iron on large scale is shown IN an arti-
Gle by Richard Mallett, upon the work
ing of iron in India, where, according
to this author, it had been carried on
upon a scale so stupendous as to rival
the production of the largest S. cam
hammer in Europe at the present day.
Among other illustrations mentioned is
that of wrought-iron pillar at the prin-
cipal gate of the ancient mosque of Ru-
tub, near Delhi, which is as large as
the screw-shaft of first-class steamer
This is lengthy, spindle-shaped, and is
surmounted by capitalof elaborate In
dian design, carved by the chisel in the
solid iron. The entire length is about
60 feet its diameter near the surface is
Is inches; it contains about so cubic
feet of metal, and weighs upward of II
tons. Near its middle is an inscription
of 16 lines in Sanscrit, from which its
age has been assigned to the third or
fourth century of the Christian era.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-18

A SENSIBLE BRIDE.-In these days of
foolish display, good word must be
said for Miss Stewart, daughter of Sen
ator Stewart, who was married in
Washington last night. To begin with,
the bride is said to be one of the most
sensible as well as beautiful young
ladies in Washington. She cooks,
sews, markets for the family, and is
versed in every useful accomplishment.
Her wedding cards, eschewing the silly
custom of the times had no monogram.
The wedding was in her fathers house,
at an earlyhour, and followed by good,
old-fashioned dance. There was but
one brides maid, the brides sister.
The bridal trousseau was purchased en-
tirely in Washington, and every article
of it made at home under the personal
supervision of the bride and her
mother. Finally, the newly welded
couple do not make tour, but set
tie down at once to common sense hap
piness. All this is refreshing. -Ln-
diondDOlis Journal.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-18

KEEP IT FROM THEM.-Don't give
liquor to your children. Possibly you
can do it with safety, but the chances
are against it. One of the first literary
men in the United States said to a
writer, after speaking on the sub
iect of temperance: "There is one
thing which, as you visit different
places, l wish you to do everywhere ::
that is, entreat every mother never to
give drop of strong drink to child.
have had to fight, as for my life, all
my days to keep from dying drunk
ard, because was fed with spirits when
a child, and acquired taste for it. My
brother, poor fellow, died a drunkard.
1 would not have child of mine take a
drop of liquor for anything. Warn
every mother, wherever you go, never
to give drop to child"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-18

WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE. "A CORE
spondent of the London Garden gives a
recipe for this popular sauce. He says
81 do not offer it as Lea & PERKINS,, but
l do say that it is equal, if not superior
to it, in my opinion. 1t is not recipe
copied out of book, but one have
known long time. Halt pound shall
lots; l OF. pimento, powdered; ! OF.
mace, powdered; ! OF. cayenne; half a
nutmeg. powdered Id. anchovy fish !;
l o. salt; pints vinegar; 6 OF. soy.
Chop or bruise the shallots, beat up the
anchovy fish, mix all together, let it
stand for month or so, and lastly strain
through a coarse sieve"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-18
Medical Notes.

A FRENCH doctor says that vapor
bath at a temperature of 144 degrees,
on seven consecutive days, will cure
hydrophobia.
FEVER AND AGUE BTTTERs.-Take
boneset, wild cherry bark, and poplar
bark; make an infusion by adding a
quart of warm water let it cool, and
drink when thirsty. This is a certain
cure for fever and ague.
Corn meal, heated and placed in
bags, is recommended as substitute
for hot water bottles and such like APP
pliances, for restoring warmth to the
sick. 1t is said to weigh less, retain
heat longer, and does not chill when
cold.
NICELY trimmed mutton chops put in
a covered Jar, with little water, pep
per and salt, and cooked in a slow oven
for three hours, form, it is asserted, ex-
cellent food for an invalid or delicate
child, as the meat is not so hard as In
the ordinary ways of cooking.
A WE'LL KNOWN physician says that he
considers the following prescription for
purifying the blood as the best he has
v
one-haH ounce of horse radish, one
quart of hard cider. Dose, one wine
glassful four times day.
THE following is said to be an excel
lent cure for rheumatism Half tea
spoonful of Rochelle salts, to be taken
every morning, half an hour before
breakfast. Hot drinks, spirits, wine,
beer, cider, pepper, and spices are to be
avoided, and all grease, except good
sweet butter. Fresh meat OF poultry
may be eaten twice day, but salt meat
and fish must be abstained from.
THE following is said to be one of the
best applications in cases of burns or
scalds, more especially where large
surface is denuded of the skin: Take
one dram of fnely-powdered alum and
mix thoroughly with the whites of two
eggs and one teacup of fresh lard
spread on cloth and apply to the parts
burnt. 1t gives almost instant relief
from pain, and by excluding the air
prevents infammatory action. The APP
plication should be changed at least
once day.
1NFANTILE THUMB-SUCKING NOT
HARMLESS HABIT.-Dr. Dobell, in the
British Medical Journal, remarks : 81
have observed that a peculiar and
rather common deformity OF the chest
is caused by the habit OF sucking the
thumb in infancy and early childhood
The weight of the arm on the thorax of
the child during sleep produces depres-
sion of the ribs in the line occupied by
the arm when the thumb is placed in
the mouth. As this is very important
effect of thumb-sucking never hither-
to pointed out, think it desirable to
place this note on record for the benefit
of other observers"
BRUISES, Burns, SPRAINs, ETc.-Dis-
solve one ounce camphor to eight ounces
spirits of wine add one ounce oil tur-
pentine; one ounce spirits sal ammoni-
&C one-half ounce oil of origanum one
large tablespoonful of liquid laudanum.
Rub well with the hand four times
day. The above is one of the best
recipes for all kinds of bruises, sprains
and swellings, both In man and horse,
ever tried it viii never fail Try it
DR.. q. W. Daois, an Chicago Courier.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-18
THIRTY YEARS EXPERIENCE OF
AN OLD NURSE.

MRS. wIEsLOw,S SOOTHING SYRUP Is THE
PkksCRIP" ION Of one OF the best Female Physi.
clans and Nurses in the United States, and has
been used for thirty years with never falling
safety and success by millions Of mothers and
children from the feeble infant Of one week old to
the adult. 1t corrects acidity OF the stomach re-
heves wind collie, regulates the bowels, and gives
rest, health and comfort to mother and child We
believe 1t to be the Best and surest Remedy in
the World in ala cases Of DYSENTERY, and DIAR.
kHEA IN CHILDREN, whether 1t arises from
Teething or from any other cause. Full direction
for using will accompany each bottle. None Genu.
Inc unless the fac simile OF CURTIS PERKINS ID
on the outside wrapper.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-18

THE old question, Does lager intoxi-
cate ? came before a court in DAYTON.
Ohio, day or two ago. A German tes-
titled eff you drink five or six glasses
of lager, in little while you viii feel
more pleasant as if yon drink five or six
glasses of water in the same time; and
if you drink five or six glasses of water,
in little while you will feel more dis
appointed as if you drink five or SIX
glasses of lager in the same time" The
jury were out four hours, and stood
seven to five.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-18

The Secret OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of
Grecian mold, well-turned neck and beautifully
rounded arms, are no doubt very nice things to
have, and ladies who possess these charms have
reason to be thankful to Mother Natures yet, after
all, the most captivating of all womanly charms
is pure, fresh and brilliant complexion. This
superlative fascination any lady may secure by
using HAGAN's MAGNOLIA BALM.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-18

How TO LIGHT A DARK Room. To
light dark room looking out on mar
row yard or street, let the glass be
roughly ground on the outside, and set
flush with the outer wall. The light
from the entire visible sky, and from
the remotest parts of the opposite wall,
will be introduced into the apartment,
reflected from the innumerable faces or
facets which the rough grinding has
produced. The whole window will APP
pear as if the sky were behind it, and
from every point of this luminous sur
face light will radiate into the room.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-18
Ye Old Mexican Mustang Imminent has

fe Old Mexican Mustang Liniment has
produced more cures OF rheumatism, neuralgia.
sprains, scalds, burns, salt rheum, sore nipples,
swelling, lameness, chapped hands, poisonous
bites, stings, bruises, &C., &C., men, women and
children, ard sprains strains gals, stiff joints,
Inflammation, &c, in beasts, than all other hni-
ments put together. It will do what is promised
or ye money refunded.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-18

A QUEER PosT-OFFCE. The smallest
post-office in the world is kept in bar
rel, which swings from the outermost
rock of the mountains overbanging the
Straits of Magellan, opposite Terra de-
Fuego. Every passing ship opens it to
place letters in or to take them out.
Every ship undertakes to forward all let
tiers in it that it is possible for them to
transmit. 1t hangs there by its iron
chain, beaten and battered by the winds
and storms, but no locked and barred
Office on land is more secure. 1t is not
in the track of mail robbers.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-18
CHILDREN OFTEN LOOK PALE AND

from other cause than having worms In the
Atomach.
BROWNS vERMIFUGK COMFITs
will destroy Worms without injury the child,
being perfectly WHITE and free from all colorine
or other injurious ingredients usually used in
worm preparations.
CURTIS BROWN, Proprietors,
No. AIS Fulton Street, New York.
Sold By Druggists and Chemists and dealers in
Medicines, at TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A Box.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-18

A DISCOVERY has been made in Ger
many tending to show that the trans
formation of vegetable matter into coal
is in reality much more rapid than
biologists have hitherto believed. In
an old mine in the Hartz mountains it
has been found that some of the pine
timber originally employed in the con-
struction of the levels is converted into
substance closely resembling Ignite
or brown coal. 1t is certain that this
wood cannot have been in the mine
which is near Clausthal, and is known
as the Dorothea mine-more than four
hundred years.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-18

For chafed shoulders in horses, wash
with warm soft water and CASTLE soap
and then dress with crude petroleum.
If liberated, wash them with carbolic
soap and apply petroleum afterward.
If possible, let the horse rest a few
DAYS
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-18

Terminating the Hair.-when the hair
ceases to draw from the scalp the natural lubri-
cant which is its sustenance, it's vitality is it
were, suspended. and, if not promptly attended to-
badness will be the certain result. The one sure
method of avoiding such an unpleasant catastrophe
Is to use LYONS KArHAIRoN, which, when well
rubbed into the scalp will speedily reanimate the
HAIR and prevent from falling out.