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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-20
Hints to Farmers.

1t will pay the farmer to devote a
arge share of the winter to men al i'm
provement. If his business seems to
demand from fourteen to sixteen hours
hard work during the summer, while
the mechanic labors but ten, he should
endeavor to make good use of his spare
hours now, or he will find the men en-
gagged in other kinds of business will
get the start of him. If you have not
already made it practice, begin now to
keep farm accounts. 1t matters not
much what system you adopt, if you can
accomplish the end, which is to know
just how you are getting on in the
world. Take an inventory of your farm,
stock and tools and all other property.
Tren enter in book all your PURCHASES
and sales, each on its appropriate page.
At the end of the year you can look
back and know just how much each
crop sold has come to, and if you have
kept a separate account with each de-
partment, all the better.
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HERBALIsTIo REMEDIES, former
days, if member of the household be-
came indisposed, the family-head, un-
der instructions from the gray-haired
dame, went to the forest or the field, to
gather herbs or berries, from which were
quickly made invigorating extracts,
which ere many days brought the pa
tient safely around, and saw the family
gathering once more without a missing
member. How is it now !? The slight
est indisposition brings the family
physician" with his handsome carrisge.
He feels the pulse, examines the tongue,
looks very grave, writes few lines of
hieroglyphics, charges a big fee, and
leaves, only to return the next day and
find his patient mercurialized sufficient
~ to be really sick. A week or two of
attendance follows, and therein lies the
secret of wealthy physicians. Com
pare the physique Of the present age
with the past, and the story is complete.
Reader, discard chemicals and try
herbs. If you are i'll, try the great
herbalistic remedy, DIR. j. Walkers
Vinegar Bitters. CIV f
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Alligators and Establishment.

81 suppose said I, <'that there's no
doubt about an alligator's eating ducks?"
doubt about it, repeated the captain.
"Bless my buttons. you ask this yere
Cap'n Peters Twin yere at Enterprise
about it. He knows. seen him fifteen
year ago with Arthur Summer an three
Inglish lords--their names was Sykes
a shootin' ducks up above Persimmon
Island nigh onto Thorn Hill, an the
gators TUX every duck clean. Thar was
Cap'n Peters an all the lords kivered
mp in the maiden cane, a poppin' away
like porter bottles. an the ducks fallin'
like rain, ina tie set-off from the river.
AS fast as a duck fell a gator picked
him mp. Thar was three gators in the
set-Off, an the way they Tux down the
ducks was a caution to snakes. You
ought to hev seen Peters an the Inglish
lords when they stopped shootin' an be-
gan to look for the ducks. Thar wasn't
a duck in sight, but thar was three ga
tors with their heads out of water, a
lookin' at the Inglish lords an sayin'
Bully TO you, boys We don't know
your names, but you're a dom us a
power o good It didn't take the Ing
fish lords long to get tired O duck shoot
in. The gators wuzn't satisfied with
takin' their ducks, but they made away
with three of their blooded retrievers.
Lordy, young man, next to a Niger a
gator loves an Inglish retriever"
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hfnnn PER WEEK can be mad by any
NIilIIIl smart man who can eep his business
WlUUU TO h n self Address Is. +. era Err,
jersey City, New Jersey.
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Robert Bonner's New York Ledger

The New York Times contains the
following just and appreciative edito-
rial notice:
The New York LOGGER recently entered upon
a new volume, and the proprietor, Mr.. Robert
Bonner took occasion to FAY few words to
his hundreds of thousands of readers. He
tells them that the liberaltv which has been
shown in the pa il the management of his
paper will be continued throughout the new
year that all the old sfavorite writer's will
continue to contribute to its pages: that he
will be constantly on the watch for any new
developments of real rising genius" and that
he is determined to keep up the Ledger as
the best family paper in the world"
That these pledges will be kept, Mr.. Bon
ners well known enterprise and high charac-
ter afford sufficient guarantee. He may
fairly claim the credit of having estab-
lished popular journal which is absolutely
free from any moral reproach or stain. III
too many of the trumpery journals which
have been set up in the vain hope of Compel
ing with the Ledger, the lessons taught to the
young are of the most injurious character.
Parents are depicted unnatural tyrants from
whom it is duty and virtue to escape. H
boy flies from his home, meets with stran-
ger of boundless wealth and liberality, is in
stantly adopted as a son and heir, and achieves
exploits which rival all the feats of all the
heroes known to history. Many a boy has
found out to his sorrow how little these wild
and mischievOus stories represent the actual
conditions of the battle of life. Too often
the teaching is even more pernicious-vice
and profigacy are openly inculcated. Mr.
Bonner's Ledger has always been free from
this abominable poison. Hence it has been,
and is, freely ADMITTED into thousands of
families all over the country as a companion
and friend. No profane word, no vicious
stories are ever allowed to appear its columns.
Among its contributors are some of the most
highlysesteemed clergymen of the day and
many of the ablest writers in general htera-
ture. 1t has two columns every week of re-
plies to correspondents, which are full of
practical good sense and sound advice. In
the number before us questions ON great
variety of subjects are asked, from knotty
law points to delicate subjects connected with
engagement and marriage, and all these ques-
tions are answered carefully and with great
good humor aud worldly wisdom. In this sin
gle number also there are eight different sto-
ries, either continued or complete in them
selves articles by the Revs. Henry Ward
Beecher and DIR. Hall /; many admirable COM
ments on topics of the day, and great vari
ETY. of useful and miscellaneous reading. A
better publication it would be hard to find;
and while bearing our testimony to the fact
that it well deserves the wonderful success it
has achieved in the past, may we add our wish
es for its redoubled success in the future.
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A Terrible Maledtion,

CuTren Owens was one of the most re-
markable men that this most remarkable
section of the state has produced. If
he had been educated-and eff he had
let liquor alone what might he not
have achieved, since even in his crude,
unpublished state he originated meta
phors which were wont to completely
astound all who ever heard them?
a" Well, Curren," said a friend, greet
ing Mr.. Owens the first day after the
news of South Cardinals secession
reached him, "South Carolina has
really seeded what do you think
Of it?"
"What do I think of it?" replied
Mr.. Owens, drawing himself up full six
feet high. "Why, sir, I wish that I
were the Great Creator of the universe
for only oue-half minute, I would
mould old mother earth into one vast
columbiad I would load her with
shovels, plows, harrow-teeth, fax-hack-
els, brass-headed swapping turtles and
all the jig jugs of h-ll, and [ would
rain them on South Carolina for thou
sand years -HarrOdsbarg Cor. Cou-
3'icT- Journal
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SONG OF THE ENGINE.
With a clang!

a
With clank and a cang!
With clamor, and clank and elanPi
With catter and clamor, a clank and clangl
With veins full of fire, and the artery steam
Reused to the pulse of feverisn dream;
With q gray plume trailing, heecy and pale,
Like mist-boats sailing to sea with the gale;
With the ring and the rattle of lever and wheel,
And the blow and the battle of track and of steel
With tremulous spring, like the launch of a wing
From the coRdor's cliff where the wild vines cling
An eagle of iron, with sInews Of steel
And blow of pinion like avalanche peal;
With talons of fame and blaze in the blood,
1 tunnel the mountain and compass the flood;
startle the morning and shiver the noon,
Aud splinter the cold, pale rays of the moon
From pine and from granite to orange and palm,
From storms of sleet fury to zephyrs of balm;
From Alleghan summit 10 Michigan wave,
From the life of the East TO the pioneers grave,
Dragging train,
As a flying prisoner drags his chain;
Climbing the grade,
Painting and sullen, but uDdismayed.
Then away to the prairie, with antelope speed,
Betting the forest and slimming the mead,
Awaking the bear from his underground lair,
And startling the deer to a leap in the air
Breaking the Indians solitude rest,
Pushing the buffalo far to the west;
Skirting the current with spur and with thong,
Where the drain of the continent thunders along,
NJ king aud mingiiRg the races of men,
Bearing the Now in advance of the Then
Then ceasDg the rattle of lever and wheel,
And parting the battle of track and of steel,
Aud ending. at last, the roll and the race,
Aud checking the flight into gradual pace
WITH clatter and clamor, n clank and a clang!
With clamOr, and a clank, and a Clang!
With a clank and a clang!
With clang!
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CONSTANT EMPLOYMENT at home male
~ or female, $50 to $50 week warranted. No
capital required Full paI tIculaTs and a valuable
sample sent free. AID Tess with 6 cent return stamp
A. u. YOUNG, $50 Fifth ST.. Williamson gh, n. Y.
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DIs Ws wv tAAhCh y
egar Bittef'S are a 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 therofrom without the use
of Alcohol The question is almost
daily asked. +" What is the cause of the
unparalleled success Of VINEGAR BIT
TERsw Cur answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient re.
covers his health They are the great
blood purifier and q life giving principle,
a perfect Renovator and InyigoratOT
of the system. Never before in the
history of the world has q medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities of VINEGAR BITTERS in healing the
sick of every disease man is heir 10. They
are gentle Purgativo as wei! as a Tonic
relieving Congestion or Inflammation of
tho Liver and Vlsceral Organs, ia Bilious
Diseases.
The properties of DIR. WALKER's
VINEGAR BITEERS are Aperient, Diaphoretic,
Carmnatiyc, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretc,
Sedatiye, Counter Irritant. Sudoritic, Altera
tive, and Anti Bilious
II. "a. MCDONALD ~ CO.,
Druggists and Gen. A CTS. san Francisco. California
and cor OF Washington and Charlton SITS. y. Y.
Sold by all Drug gtsts n"d Dealers.
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New Scheme of Easy Payments
b FOR
MASON & HAMLIN
Cabinat0Organs.

THE Mason & Hamlin Organ Company
i have arranged n new system, under
which they now offer their well-known
Organs
For Rent, With Privilege OF Purchase,
at prices and on terms extraordinarily
favorable.
Payments may run through one TO
four years.
All rent which has been paid allowed
and deducted on Organs purchased and
paid for within one year.
An organ may be returned after six
months at cost of only reasonable rent,
il for any reason il is not wanted longer.
If an Organ be retained and rent paid
four years, il becomes the property Of
the party hiring, without further pay
menk.
Organs will be rent on this plan 10
any part OF the country accessible to our
warerooms or agencies. Only knowl-
edge Of the unrivaled excellence Of our
organs, and practical experience that
they will be found so attractive in use
that scarcely any of them will ever be
returned, warrant this offer 10 supply
them on such terms.
EB-Terms of renting, containing full
particulars, with descriptions of Styles,
Rents and Prices; also, Illustrated Cat
alogues and Testimonial Circulars, sent
Free. Address,
MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN CO.,
Boston, NEW YoRK, OR CmcAao.
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IcicleS.

The kind we mean is not melted by
summer suns it fourishes equally
well in the dog days as in January. The
human icicle is the one we alIude 10. 1t
has no bowels of compassion, no milk Of
human kindness, no love, no pity, no
charity, nor sympathy. 1t is very
cold icicle: its PAINS are like frog
backs its feet are covered with cold
cleanliness and its breath, when it
speaks, freezes people. If the human
icicle prays, it prays for "me and
my wife, and my son John and his wife, -
leaving the rest of mankind out in the
cold if it exhorts, it exhorts man to
flee from the the wrath to come and-if
it siugs-well, the human icicle never
does sing, because there is nothing in it
music can be made of. Il it gives, it
gives because something IL to be gained
Oy it, and not because it is pleasanter to
give than receive if it lends helping
hand to struggling humanity, it is with
the understanding that struggling hu-
manity is good for the principal and
forty per cent. interest lift counsels, it
is to get somebody into its meshes that
it may be the more easily plucked.
That's what the human icicle is, par
tally.
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DEATH-RATE OF VARIOUS CITIES. DIR.
Charles p. Russell gives a tabulated
statement of the mortality of the vari-
Gus states of the union, from which we
borrow the following regarding the
death-rate of various cities: The high
est DEATH ate in 1872 was exhibited by
Memphis, where the deaths were 46. 6
in each thousand Inhabitants. Other
cities followed in this order: Savau-
nah, 392; Vicksburg, 365; Troy, 80 !;
uoboken, %. 8; New York, 32.7; New
ark, 36.1; New Orleans, 500; Boston,
3O5. The rate for Philadelphia was
only 261; Brooklyn, PSI; ST. Louis,
201; Chicago, 2Z6; Baltimore, 25. 1
Cincinnati, 205; San Francisco, 17.2.
This compares not unfavorably with
the mortuary statistics of British cities,
where the lowest rate was 214; that of
London. Bombay. and Calcutta, show
only 292 and % respectively. The
highest known death-rate prevailed in
Valparaiso, Chill, 66 8.
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Decentralization. Wade Hampton
has issued a circular in behalf of the
Southern Historical Society, in which
to every woman of the south who has a
pride in our past glory or our future
honor; who wishes to place upon the
record for all time TO come the vindica-
ton OF our people; who desires to see
the whole truth laid before the august
tribunal of history; who cherishes
amid all these evil times love and rev
erence for our heroic dead, or who
hopes that our children shall not de-
nounce their fathers as rebels and trail
tors, to aid this sacred work. To in
sure the success of the society it will
be necessary TO obtain a large member
ship, so that the unavoidable expense S
incident to its work may be met"
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Dairy Management.

DIR. Nichols, of the Boston Journal
of Chemistry, gives some very useful
hints relative to the management of
dairy COWS, which are very timely at
this inclement season. He says: The
extreme senitiveness of the tmammary
functions in COWS to the influence of
cold, fatigue, excitement, unpleasant
odors, etc, is indeed surprising. We
have been greatly interested in observ-
ing the effect of cold upon the milk
secretions as seen in the herd of COWS
upon the farm. During the past sum-
mer, in the hot days of July aud Au-
gust, the animals resorted to the lake
to drink, and after shaking their thirst,
they would wade into the water and re-
main sometimes an hour or two with
the legs half immersed. This habit, it
was found, invariably diminishes the
flow of mil at night, and in order to
learn the extent of the diminution,
careful observation was made. It was
ascertained that standing in the water
an hour diminishes the flow to the
amount of eight or ten quarts in a herd
of thirteen cows. The loss was so
great that whenever they resorted to
the water they were driven away to the
pasture again at once. The nature of
the water supply, and the conveniences
of access, are most important points in
the management of mich COWS. A
draught of ice cold water, taken by a
COW III winter, cuts short the milk yield
for the day from one to two pints.
The influence of a cold current of air,
and cold drinking water upon COWS in
milk, is not of transient nature; it
stands for a longer period than day or
week. Many fine animals are ruined
by careless exposures every year, and
self-interest and feelings of humanity
should prompt all COW owners to keep
dilligent watch over their welfare and
comfort. L right man in charge of
herd of twenty COWS, which have been
badly managed, will in one month raise
the tactical products so that the in
creased cash returns will pay his own
wages. This is q statement which has
been verified more than once.
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Dogs as a Source of Revenue.

Some one who has been figuring upon
the subject puts the number of dogs in
the United States-from poodle to mas
tiff-at five millions. The commissioner
of agriculture estimates the subsistence
of these dogs to cost annually fifty mill
lions of dollars, and the value of sheep
they destroy at two millions dollars as
the yearly average. Here is the sum of
fifty-two millions dollars worse than
wasted every year on canine nuisances,
which might better be in the govern
ment treasury, to the relief of tax bur
dened industries. Dogs, if not absc-
lutte nuisances, are at best dispensible
luxuries and should be brought into the
category of taxable commodities, by the
general government.
Very few dogs are of any real value
to their owners, nd very many OF them
are positive nuisances to the public.
Here is fine game for revenue officers.
A specific tax upon all dogs, of one dol
lar even, would afford a revenue of five
millions of dollars, at the estimate we
have accepted of the numb.r T. But we
believe this to be far less than the real
number in the whole country, and a
less tax per capita than we would re-
commend, SO we may safely estimate
that ten million dollars of revenue
could easily be derived from this source.
Everybody who is able to indulge in
the luxury of dog, is able to pay a
liberal tax, or if it should lead to a
summary reduction of the canine brutes,
the wealth of the country will increase
by the greater number of sheep kept by
farmers. Every dead dog viii add more
than live sheep to every flock in the
country; so if the collection of the dog
revenue fails it will, nevertheless, be
a benefit to the country. Let the
ways and means committee proceed to
put dogs upon the tax list and specify
what the tax shall be-a good round
sum-and instruct collectors of internal
revenue, that all unstamped ours fund
outside their kennels, are subject to
seizure and decapitation, unless re-
deemed by payment of tax and cost
within a specified time. There would
be something of howl among poodles
and terriers at first, but that would
soon "die out" and nobody would be
hurt. We commend this dog question
to the serious attention of congress.
There is mine of revenue in it.
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NASHVILLE.

Cotton is steady with moderate demand,
at Sc. 7509.00. Wheat is quiet and unchanged,
at $1.50@1.60. Corn, 75c. Oats, 60c. Coffee
quiet and unchanged. Provisions are quiet
and unchanged. Lard, 1Oc. Bulk meats
Shoulders, 7c; clear rib Sides, $40; clear
sides, Sc; all packed. Bacon-Shoulders,
734c. Hams Sugar cured, new, 1910. Whis-
ky-Demand fair, and market firm, at $1.01.
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NEW ORLEANS

Flour Double extra, s6.OO@6. 121; treble
extra, s6-30@7 90; family, S7.75@9.0O. Corn
White, Tie yellow, Sic. Bran, $1.00. Hay
Choice, $22.50. Mess pork, $16.75@17 90.
Sugar Common. SIC. Whisky-Louisiana,
99@$1.c0; Cincinnati, $1.O4. Corn meal.
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Growing Onions.

Select loan or sandy loan, free or
nearly so from surface stones such a
soil should be mellow, deeply stirred
and rich. The onion is a rank feeder
and will only give satisfactory returns
on very fertile surfaces. AS fertilizer
for the crop, there is nothing better
than well rotted horse or yard manure.
This should be plowed under and then
dressing of 400 to 500 pounds of finely
ground bones or superpho sphate scat
tered broadcast, or sprinkled on the
rows before sowing the seed. Rake over
the surface, making it level and at the
same time removing all the stones, hard
humps of soil, etc. Then mark out
with common garden marker the rows
O foot apart, and not more than half an
inch deep. Sow the seed in these rows
with seed-drill that covers and rolls.
With fresh seed, the growth of last
year, four pounds will be enough to
stock an acre for large sized onionss
Two of the best varieties for market are
the Wethers6eld Large Red and Yellow
Danvers, Wethersfield preferred. When
the seed is sown with good machine
of which there are half a dozen or more
different patterns-there will be no need
of bush narrowing. When the land is
in good heart and properly prepared,
the seed fresh and culture clean, 400 or
500 bushels to the acre is about an
average yield. Twice that quantity has
been so1n, but such crops are excep-
tional.
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-Ex Gov. Seymour writes, in a pri-
vate letter which HIS found its way 10
the press "When you go to Albany
visit the museum of natural history,
geology, etc, in the state agricultural
hall; ask the keeper TO show you a
piece of coral stone, which has to my
knowledge been dripping oil for twenty
years in that building. 1t may throw
some light on the oil question.
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Flaw is law" unused his honor, as
he adroitly removed the coat from a
mammoth unbaked peanut and dropped
the kernel where it would do the most
good. GA man may be a murderer, and
you may have thousand witnesses that
he is murderer, but yet you can't con-
vict him of stealing Eood scow be-
cause b , is q murderer"
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TFzIRTY YEARS EXPERIENCE OF AN
OLD NURSE.

Mrs. winsIow's Soothing Syrup is the prescrip-
ton of one of the best female physicians and nurses
In the United States, and has been used for thirty
years with never falling safety and success by nil
lions of mothers and children, from the feeble In
FAINT of one week old to the adult 1t corrects acid
ity of the stomach relieves wind collie, regulates
the bowels, and gives rest, health and comfort to
mother and child We believe IL TO be the best and
surest remedy in the world in all cases of dysen-
terry and diarrhRa in children, whether 1t arises
from teething or from any other cause. Full dt'
rections for using will accompany each bottle.
None genuine unless the facsimile of CURTIS q
PERKINS is on the outside wrapper.
Sold by all medic me dealers.
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ST. LOUIS.

Wheat-No spring, $12O15; No. red
winter, SLAB. Corn-No. q mixed, 6O1SC06Ic.
Oats, 4Sc. Whisky, 96c. Mess pork, $3.50.
Hogs firm Shipping lots, S5.00@5.25 pack
ing lots, $5.40@5.75 extra, $500.
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Cur this notice out and bring it with
YOU. We are authorized to refund the cash to
any person or persons who shall buy and use
Parsons Purgative Pills and fail of relief and
satisfaction.
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NEW YORK.

Flour-Superfine Western and State, $3.50
@6.1O; extra Ohio, $6.40@8.00; st. Louis,
Sc 65@11. 90. Whisky, 9919c. Wheat-No. 2
spring. $1.54@1.57. Corn-New Western mix
ed, 80@S3c. Oats, 6206213c. Sugar, 100
Sc. Mess pork, $16.1215. Middles Heavy,
long cloar, SEC short clear, 8Sc.