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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-08-15
OLIFFTON PREPARATORY SCHOOL,
" NEAR Nj ARkHAM STATION,
FAUOUIER COUNTY.

Terms: $3.50 per scholastic year. No extra
charges. Apply to
R. JAQUEL1N AMBER, Principal.
AMBLER rs my AsslsLrnt, who has this ses-
sion graduated at the University in Greek Lat
in and German.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
HarrowingYUorn After Planting.

great many farmers are of the opin-
Ion that it won't do to harrow tba
ground over after planting corn. In a
great many lnstances-in fact in the
majority of cases-it is the best thing
you can do. Specially is it the case
when the season is late like the present
one. '>--'
Before the corn has come up, and
long before it has made it's appearance
enough to pillow, the ground needs stir
ring up. The ground must be moisten-
ed In order that the corn may get good
start. Now, how are you to do this
Inc corn has scarcely penetrated the
surface, and of course it is impossible
to plow 1t with a cultivator or pillow,
Then take common harrow and RIM
over the ground few days after il has
been planted, and you may rest assured
that you will be amply repaid for your
labor. Many farmers think the harrow
Will scatter the grain, but this is'not the
case. One good narrowing is equal to
a good blowing after the corn has at
tanned a considerable height, while it is
much faster.
Farmers, use the harrow more after
planting and before blowing, and your
crops will yield more. Narrowing
comes INTO good play not only Just after
planting, but further along in the sea-
son. If you have no cultivator. take
out some of the teeth of your harrow
and harrow the rows. This often does
much good, and can be easily done be-
Tore the coru is high enough to be gone |
through with the plow.-E xoAan1e.-
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
Practical Lessons to Women.

In receWA letter on "The Uses and
Abuses OF The Skin and Hair" DIR.
Mary j. Studley said "Our skin is
formed of scales similar to those of
fishes, oily smaller in fish these scales
are smoothed away and others allowed
to come, in their native element, the wa
ter;ours are influenced in the same man
ner by the air. The exclusion of this in
huence affects some of the appendages
OF the skin. When long confined by
hats, excess of any covering, false hair.
etc., the natural hair falls out. The
present fashion coiffures will soon make
US all wig-wearers. The hair has been
provided with pomatum by nature, and
needs no other this like all skin an
pendages grows better aud is healthier
from frequent cutting being analogous
IN this respect, as in others, to grass.
Dyes of all kinds are injnrious. having
a--tendency to cause paralysis. Re-
gardlng the nails, if not trimmed at all.
they will grow to certain length and
then drop of-those of the hand grow
four times faster than those of the f ct.
owing to the restrictions of the Iatter's
covering. In sickness the nails become
thin. DO not clean them with knife
use wood or ivory, which will not irri-
tate the skin under the nails. Sweat |
glands are another appendage of the |
SKIN which needs special attention. !
Each human being is provided with |
twenty eight miles of respiratory tubing
drainage pipes of the system. Imag-
inc the effect of closing these, which is
done often by uncleanliness and expos
lre to damp atmosphere. Much neu-
'a!gia is caused from want of free per-
'piration, as is Bright's disease of tie
Kidneys; the skin not being allowed to
10 its share of elimination, these and
'ther evils are the consequence. The
'ody needs the tonic of water over its
'ntire surface each day /: soft, fresh
Vater, with little, or, better still, no
Dap when used, white CASTLE is the
'est. Too much friction after a bath
ften results in skin diseases. There is
20 need for sponges or wash cloths
he hand is better adapted than either.
10 not use coarse towels or hair nit
ans etc
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
Copper in Pickles.

DIR. Hassall writes as follows to the
London Times: Many years since.
when 1 first took up the subject of the
adulteration of food, it was scarcely
possible to meet with a sample ~
pickles or bottled fruits and vegetables
which, in fact, was not made green with
salt of that metal. In some cases the
copper was added directly to the frnit or
vegetables; In others the vinegar was
allowed to act upon the copper vessels
IN which 1T was placed. Well, this
practice since that time has been vi0or.
ously denounced, and now it is a rare
thing to meet even trace of copper in
any such articles, with the exception of
West India pickles. 1 much fear. how.
ever, that this state of things will not
continue. A grocer at Glasgow was re-
Gently summoned for selling Indian
pickles adulterated with copper. DR.
Thorpe, the city analyst, deposed that
he found the pickles to contain OIL ner
cent. of copper. The defence was that
all Indian pickles contained conner
that the quantity was too small to he
and that, moreover. Messrs
Odllng and Dupre had found that con-
per was naturally present in some yege-
table substances; and another certifi-
safe was handed in from another ANALYST.
sailed for the defence, urging these
points, which wound up with the re-
mark that he considered the pickles
we're more injurious than the conner
hey contained. Ultimately, the case
vas withdrawn on the ground that a
small per centage of copper might ap-
pear In the pickles from the manner in
which they are prepared and thus the
of these articles are
aught that they may now resume their
I'D practices, so far as pickles are con-
'erned, and that the present law will
lot touch such cases.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10

1 am alive as yourself, " said Berthe.
calmiy-and then, followed by Mr..
Portman, she walked down stairs into
the drawing-room, where Mr.. Montres-
sor was leisurely reading the paper.
LIS that you, my darling Josepha 4"
he asked, without turning his head
Come here and give your Jerry q
kiss
Mrs. Brooks bit her lip.
"You are under a mistake. Mr.. Mon
tressor," said she. "You and vonr
darling Josepha may clear out as soon
as you please I"
Bertha !" Mr.. Montressor's classic
jaw fell, his eyes expanded. Bertha |!
Alive and we'll? Has Providence worked
a miracle?"
/" Exactly u said Mrs. Brooks. ssProy-
ldence his evealed to me the real char
acter of those in whom l trusted SO inn
plicitiy-something little short of a
miraclel'
Mr.. Montressor lost his itch wife. but
Miss Josepha johnson did not gain a
husband. She is an old maid still for
that dear man" had too much common
sense to throw himself away on homo
less governeEs. And Bertha Brooks still
remains a widow, devoted to Blanche
and Bessie.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
Artichokes as Stock Food.

A correspondent of the Kansas Farm
er relates the following experience with
artichokes
/ planted about one-fourth acre with
about one-half bushel, cut very small.
dropped in burrows two feet and half
apart and about eleven inches apart in
rows; gave them about the same atten-
ton as potatoes. Early in September I
cut them before frost and used the
stalks to roof my stable, thinking they
were good for nothing else; but found
it very difficult to keep nv horse from
eating himself out doors. He wouId
leave corn and hay for these stalks. I
think had about fifty bushels on the
one-!quarter acre but they were very
small, which made it tedious gathering
them. think they were too thick. I
snail plant again this year. Top the
stalks once or twice during the season,
to make them "stocky :" cut before
frost /; shock as corn when cured, stack
and cut them in machine, mix with bran.
steam or cook them if convenient.
think thew will furnish a large
of valuable feed. 1 think the
roots OF tubers will grow all winter.
when the ground is not frozen. Dig in |
the spring, or turn your hogs in to dig |
them for you. They are choice feed for |
mich COWS, and, coming as they do
Early In the spring, when succulent food
s fcarce, help the yield of butter.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
ode Provisions, JosrARn
Couple of DarI<ies Express Their Ideas
About Civil Rights,

A Couple of Darkies Express Their Idea.
About Civil Rights.
A sapient-looking Fayetteville darkey.
oscllIatlng between twenty and twenty
i've summers, overlook an old negro
on the street the other day, and
Wedglng him in a fence corner, pro-
ceeded to acquaint him with all the
gorgeous provisions of the civil rights
bill. Young Africa impaired to old
Africa fund of valuable information,
"thusly }"
Well, Uncle Billy, Summers swivel
rights bill has passed the senate oh de
United States widout murmur."
" LIS dat so, Josiar ?"
Jess SO, Uncle Billy. And saw.
Uncle Billy, we colored pussons is gwine
to see whose pervisions is in the not.
Yves gwine to be allowed to ride free
on de railroad, smoke in de ladies' car.
and put our feet on de percussions of de
seats wheneber we please |"
" LIS dat so, Josiar ?"
Jess so, Uncle Billy, And saw
Uncle Billy, we's gwine to be allowed
to stop at de hotels and set at the head
OBJ de table, and hab de biggest slices
OBJ de chicken, and lay around in de
parlor and spit on de carpets, and make
the white trash hustle themselves and
wait on us without grumbling and
Wheneber de boss of de concern
shoves bill at us, well hab him sent to
washington and obscured in de pleni-
potentiary." -A
lis dat SO, Josiar %
Jess SO, Uncle Billy. And saw
Uncle Billy, ives gwine to be allowed
to go to de white schools, and set up on
de platform wild de teachers and learn
gehogref ny, riggermanometry. eebom-
my, Duteh, French, Choctaw, algebray.
rneumatIcs, de rule OBJ trice and de
diarrhea.
Good God is dat SO, Josiar ?"
jess so, Uncle Billy. And saw
Uncle Billy, we's gwine to be allowed
70 be buried in italic coffins wild lookin'
glasses on de top OBJ dem, and dew will
nao TO carry us on hearse to de grabe
yard and bury us on top oh de white
folks, so when de day OBJ resurrection
am arrived and de angel Gabriel come
'oot1n' along, he'll sing out troo his
trumpet, All OBJ you colored gemmen
Use fust 7 And say, Uncle Billy. de |
oervisions OBJ dat bill"
ons, Josiar ?" O- '
"Well, Uncle Billy, as was gwine
IN to state, de provisions of dat bill"
Stop right dar, Josiar. You saw
lars pervisions in dat bill ?"
jess SO, Uncle Billy. De pervis-
ons OBJ de bill"
Stop right dar, Josiar. Eff dar's
'ervlslons in dat bill, I want sack OBJ
Lour dis berry mint. Dam de smokip'
de ladies' car, and de gehography, and
10 Latin, and de italic collins |! want
e pervIsion. Josiar. Dey's all dere is
:. de bill wuff cent.-FayettevtLL
Tenn. ErDTess.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
The Good of Milk

A writer says: eff one wishes to
grow t1eshy, pint of milk taken be.
fore retiring at night will soon cover
the scrawniest bones. Although nova
days we see a great many 1esbly fe-
males, there are many lean and lank
ones who sigh for the fashionable meas
ures of plumpness, and who would be
vastly improved in health and appear
ance could their figures be rounded
with good solid flesh. Nothing is more
coveted by thin women than a full
figure, and nothing will arouse the ire
and provoke the scandal of one of those
clipper builds as the consciousness of
plumpness in rival. In cases of fever
and summer complaint milk is now
given with excellent results. The idea
that milk is 'feverish has exploded.
and it is now the physicians great re-
lance In bringing through typhoid
patients, or those in too low a state to
be nourished by solid food. It is mis-
take to scrimp the milk-pitcher. Take
more milk and buy less meat. Look to
your milkman: have large-sized, we'll |
illed milk-pitcher on the table each |
meal, and you will also have sound
1eSh and light doctors bills"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
Improving Seed Wheat.

Sow none but the largest and most
perfect kernels. 1t has been NV prac-
tice for the last sixteen or eighteen
years to run my wheat for seed over a
very coarse seed screen, SO as to sow
none but the very largest kernels. By
so doing have improved my wheat SO
that have sold nearly all of nv wheat
at home for seed. But in 1871 I hit
upon new plan. I had a piece of
Treadwell wheat that was injured bv
insects in the previous fall and killed
by frost in the winter, so that there
were spots not worth cutting. After
harvest I observed a few scattering
heads of unusual size. II occurred tie
me that there was wheat that had with
stood the ravages of the insects and
the rlgor of the winter. I gathered
enough to SOW one rod square. from
which 1 realized twenty pounds of
wheat, of unusually large, even berry.
which was at the ratio of over fiffv
bushels per acre; last harvest had
twenty bushels which weighed sixtv-six
pounds to the bushel. It is NV opin- |
ion that we realize the best crops from
The best and most perfect seed in the |
vegetable as well as the animal king |
dom. Cor. RatrdL NeaU Yorker.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
Pasturing Sheen.

Every hock-master is anxious to get
his sheep at pasture as early in the
spring as possible. This is a laudabIe
and wise practice, but is sometimes
done at the expense of the pasture. and
not always to the best advantage of the
flock. Ii the pasture is blue grass. and
OF ample extent, the sheep NAV be
turned on as soon as the grass fairly CD
pears. If the pasture be of clover. the
damage to the field will, perhaps. not
be severe; but if of timothy and clover
sheep, which snaw very close on short
pastures, often do irreparable damage
by eating away the bulb at the surface
OF the earth, which is a part of the
plant, and absolutely necessary to the
existence OF this grass; indeed, a mead
oW may be mown with a scythe so close
as sometimes to kill the crop. How
much greater, then, the nee ssity of
feeding sheep until the grass is sufi-
GENTLY high, SO that no danger NAV o.
cur IN that direction. Many farmers
believe that every day gained in turn
ing the stock to pasture is SO much feed |
saved. Such, however, is not the case: |
TOR every extra day the flock is kept in |
the yards the grass is getting better
and better; and, when the flock is
turned on, after weeks delay, perhaps.
The pasture is in such condition thai
'he animals are not obliged to gnaw at
he very roots to get scanty supply of
lead grass mixed with a few short
'pears OF soft and watery blades. Be-
ldes this, if turned to pasture too soon.
he flock is almost as much inclined to
efuse good hay as when turned on full
PASTURE. The consequence is they stop
rowing and lose flesh, and the wool
'ecomes prematurely loose, and in anv
vent is reduced in quantity and quality.
20 not be in too great hurry, there
pre-, to turn out in the spring, espe-
tally if few warm days may have {
tarted the grass. Gold weather will 4
1rely intervene, perhaps severe storms
rain, snow and sleet. The grass will :
eep, and the sheep Will be far better !
It IN the barn. or in good, warm sheds.
nd you will have the satisfaction of /
moving that you can keep them ND to I
leir feed without loss of appetite or !
eterloration of the wool. Once checked +
this season, wool does not SO readily i,
cover as earlier in the season; and, as g
q animal begins to thrive Oh the grass !.
I'd warmer days come on, instead of Il
owing, it loosens and sometimes be-
ms to drop off before shearing time. fl
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
Treatment of Horses During the
Heated Term.

The New York society for the preven.
ton of cruelty to animals has issued
the following circular relative to the
treatment of horses during the heated
term:
The society for the prevention of
cruelty to animals would call attention
TO suffering horses and mules in orr
streets during the hot season, and re-
commend drivers and others having an
1mals under their care the most consid-
crate treatment. It would also recon-
mend feeding small bundle of wet
nay or a couple of quarts of oats in ths
mldd!e OF the day; use but little corn.
as IL is very heating, and soak whatever
is used IN salt water for twentv-four
hours before feeding; to use the wet
sponge on the head to furnish a little
drinking water as often as practicable.
when not overheated, and as a further
means OF refreshing the animal, throw
water upon the legs and such parts as
are maple to chafe by perspiration or
otherWlse,; to drive slowly and lessen
the load usually imposed in cooler
weather to loosen the check-rein. or
better, dispense with it altogether: to
cover the animal with fiy-net, or. per-
ierable, with a'light sheet. The follow
ing preparation is recommended for an
I II suffering from being over-heated :
10 one pint of water put one ounce of
chiorlde OF ammonia, one ounce of sweet |
spirits OF nltre, one dram tincture of |
aconlte; give teaspoonful every hour |
or Two. On the passenger railroad lines /
'he society would advise driving, even
walking, when the weather is on
9resslye; to use the sponge as above
recommended, and to have men at pro-
1er INSTANCES alorg the line to water
ne ANIMALS to keep them shaded when
'racTicahle, and to provide extra horses
o relieve the load on up grades.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
HoMEs1cK


o time, great A-srrs that feel the knife;
Tha--FestOrer, canet thou al
The wide gaps broken out OF life
BY love and dutys bitter strife7
o friend, and canst thou. as they say,
Soothe ali our troubles on thy breast,
Till, calm in death, they pass away,
And, one BY one, are laid to rest
In unknown graves, beyond our quest?
Nay, there's q sickness past thine art.
All me while I'm beyond the seas
There II be sore place in my heart
That, at touch, Will throb aud smart,
Nay, nay, with all thy skfll-with all
The care and cunning thou mayst spend
Thou canst but weakly patch the wall
That wrench of parting came to rend;
That gap no masons hand can mend.
And as for buried sorrows lone,
Hears every sound above its head;
Joys and properties may run
With happy footsteps DER the dead
This grief Of absence feels the tread.
o time, thy graveyard is a street
Thy graves no scu,ptured records crown;
Yet this one, trod of many feet,
Still shows the heaped earth fresh and brown
No foot of joy can press it down.
There velvet MOSES soon will creep,
And gray and golden hchens grow:
There sweet white snowdrops soon viii peep,
And purple violets bud and blow,
From winters bosom, cloaked in snow,
There summer lights and shades will fail,
And soft rains patter through the trees
There slender grasses, frail and tall,
viii wave and whisper in the breeze -
Twill be grave in spite Of these.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
" Wife " or Lady 2"

When the Indiana editors went to
New York they had the honesty and
good taste to register their names with
the addition, where proper, and wife. I"
For this very proper pro cedure a New
York paper, which probably didn't know
any better, made fun of the visiting
boosters, alleging that the msrIied edi-
tors should have signed " and lady,
a very equiyocal designation. We are
glad TO notice that one IndiEuian hits
back from the shoulder and Just between
the eyes. The Union City Times says
''The disparity in the use of terms
arises from the dissimilarity in the So
cial habits of New York and Indianapo-
lis. In indianapolis we call our
wives wives because they ae
our wives IN truth and in fact, bore
OF our bone and flesh of our flesh,
the mothers of all our young boosters,
and as such we eat with them. and sleep
with them, and travel with them, to the
exclusion of all other ladies, especial
ly when the registry assigns but one
room Tor both. "
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
Tools for Farmers.

Don't buy a chest with tools ready
for work. If you have had a good deal
OF experience, and know what you want.
you can buy chest and select the tools
yourself, but If you get one which some
one else has furnished, you may, to be
sure, get good set of tools, but there
will be many for which you will find
but httla use. Even regular mechanics
nave different W. Us of using tools, and
an ingenious amateur will often make
shlft TO do without certain tools which
a carpenter or blacksmith consider in
dlspensable. Here are SEINE good sug-
gest1ons which we clip from the Agri-
culturlst: Every farmer should have
a small room, tight and warm, which
ne can lock, and where he can keep his
small tools. Then he wants a good
solid work bench, with an iron wee on
one side, and q wooden one on the other.
For iron working, he wants a solid
piece OF iron for an anvil, seven-pound |
steei-face hammer, a riveting hammer,
large and small cold chisel, 2 or 3 |
punches from to inch, a trimmer and |
ccunter-s1nk, to be used with bit stock, |
q screw plate that will cut screw from |
/ TO inch; then with round iron of |
the various sizes, and ready-made nuts,
he can make any bolt he wishes. For
carpenter work, he wants a square. a
shavIng-horse, drawing-kn knife, a set of
planes, anger from to inches, bits
rom to inch, bit stock, thin chisel
rom to l inch, framing chisels from
TO inches, fine hand-saw with
coarse cross cut and a rip-saw, large
cross cut saw for logs, and a grind
stone"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
Growing Tea in Georgia

Those who have investigated the SUBJ
lect know that the obstacles to growing
tea success fullr as an article of com
merce, In much of Georgia and part of
other southern states, is the want of ex-
perience, but chiefly of cheap labor.
The tea tree of China has been grown
by several persons in Georgia, from the
Piedmont region to the sea coast. The
shrub is a hardy and vigorous ever
green, and thrives as well with us as it
does in China and Japan. It grows
from three to five feet high-a neat.
compact, laurel-leaved shrub, with pref
ty, white flowers in spring and, is quite
ornamental.
1t is perfectly hardy will stand any
exposure in this climate, as has been
tested in this city (Athens), and many
other localities in Georgia.
A well-grown shrub five or six years
old, will yield, in a season, three to six
ounces.
1t is now generally admitted that
there IS but one variety of the tea tree
grown IN China-the apparent difference
being the result of altitude, aspect.
soil and cultivation. -
Seeding plants can be purchased of
some of our nurserymen at reasonable |
prices, and they are easily propagated |
from seeds (Which they bear at three |
10 four years old and stool cuttings.
1t would be an easy matter for any
family that has home and few feet
Of ground, to produce their own tea
md little to sell. It's general intro
luction for home use, would most like
y lead to its production for market.
There would be many things for our
people to learn to be able to manufac-
ure the article as we get it from China:
'ut very good tea, and free from aduI-
GRAFTON, can be made by simply picking
nd drying the leaves in the same man.
er that sage leaves are cured.
The different qualities of the COM
lercisl article is the result of the aside
rom the soil, cultivation, etc. } time of ]
licking the leaves, the manner of cur !
~, and the amount of adulteration.
The shrubs can be transplanted any !
me from November to April. !
OEtIter11er.
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The Road to Wealth.

Uniting our destinies when she was
not Is and was only 10 years old, nv
devoted wife and myself, without any
patrimonial estate, acquired during a
happy union of more than fifty -fve
years comfortable independence, ra-
tionally enjoyed as the fruit of our CO.
operating energies. After devoting to
The advancement OF our children ut least
$50, 600 IN various ways, still retaining
property sufficient for the comfort of
my desolate old age, desire that what
! shall leave behind me undisposed of