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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28
PHYSICIAN WHO HEALED HIMSELF

| A PHYSICIAN WHO HEALED HIMSELF.
If railroad director we're dashed to
every locomotive, there would be fewer
railroad accidents, and if doctors had to
take their own ply ic before admiRis-
tering it to their patients, fewer people
would be poisoned. DIR. Joseph Walker,
of California, took this course when he
first compounded the famous Vinegar
Bitters which now rank as an inestim-
able household remedy in all parts of
the United States. He healed himself
with this specific before he offered it to
The world. He introduced it with
simple statement of the manner in which
he had discovered its vegetable ingredi-
ents and then cured, while wandering,
sick and poor, among the California
tribes. He stated what the preparation
had done for himself and few sufferers
from dyspepsia, biliousness, rheuma-
tism, lung diseases, and many other
prevalent disorders, believed him, tried
the new restorative and were more than
satisfied with the results. In this way
the sale of the Vinegar Bitters began,
and we mention the fact as an evidence
that in this age of intelligence and in
quiry, nothing that is really valuable to
mankind can prove pecuniary failure
even though it may lack the help of
capital, and have to fight its way against
powerful opposing interests. Within
two or three months after its introduce
tion, the article became self-supporting,
and it now yields magnificent annual
raVenua
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28

By DR.. R. V. Pierce, NJ. D., of the Worlds
Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y.
healthy liver secretes each day about two
and half pounds of bile, which contains a
great amount of waste material taken from
the blood When the liver becomes torpid or
congested, it fails to eliminate this vast amount
of noXious substance, which. therefore, re-
mains to poison the blood, and be conveyed to
every part of the system. What must the con-
dition of the blood when it is receiving and re-
tanning each day two and half pounds of
poison Nature tries to work off this poison
through other channels and organs-the kid
neys, lungs, skin, ETC., but these organs be-
come overtaxed in performing this labor in
addition to their natural functions, and cannot
long Withstand the pressure, but become Nari-
ously diseased.
The brain, which is the great electrical CEN
tire of all vitality, is unduly stimulated by the
unhealthy blood, which passes to it from the
heart and it fails to perform its Office health
fully. Hence the symptoms of bile poisoning.
SYMPTOMS OF LIVER COMPLAINT AND SOME OF
THE DISEASES PRODUCED BY IT,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28
Ignorance and Skepticism.

A commissioner of the London
Times, sent out to gauge religious feel
ing in the Mediterranean countries, re-
ports practically that he caa not find
any, though he fails to express himself
with the conciseness of the celebrated
chapter on the snakes of Iceland He
says that the Italians, Spanish and
French are all merely superstitious, by
reason of their ignorance, and not reli-
gious at all. The Italians especially are
not disposed to trouble themselves
much with religious questions, or go to
the trouble of any bigotry for anybody.
What religious ideas they have, they
hold on about the same ground as that
upon which they put faith in the I'M
luckiness of Friday. This explains the
small result which all the Protestant
endeavor in the Latin countries
amounts to. We fear that this man
tells good deal of melancholy truth.
1t all proves that the culture of ignor-
ance is rather more productive of skep-
ticism than the culture of knowledge.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28
Green Fodder

It was the unanimous opinion of the
committee on the dairy, at the last ex.
hlbltion of the Essex county mass. }
agricultural society that green corn fod-
der is the best article that can be used
for COWS giving milk, taking into con-
sideration its value for food and the
ease with which it can be raised. One
of them has tried an experiment., which
he stated as follows "Four COWS were
selected from his herd when the pas.
lures were scorched with excessive
drought. Two of them were fed night
and morning with green corn, stalks as
much as they would eat the other two
were fed with English hay, of medium
quality, as much as they would eat; all
going in the same pasture during the
day. Their milk was carefully measured.
After about two weeks their feed was
changed. Those that had been fed with
corn were fed with hay, and those that
had been fed on hay were fed on corn
for about two weeks longer, and the
milk was carefully measured. The re-
suit was the same. There was no per-
ceptible difference in the quantity OF
milk produced when fed on green corn
fodder or English hay"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28
Self Dnnandenra-

Many an unwise parent works hard
and lives sparingly all bis life for the
purpose Of leaving enough to give his
children a start in the world, as it is
called. Setting a young man afloat
with money left him by his relatives is
like tying bladder under the arms of
one who can not swim; ten chances to
one he will lose his bladder and go to
the bottom. Teach him to swim, and
he will not need bladders. Give your
child a sound education. See to it that
his morals are pure, his mind cultivated,
and his whole nature made subservient
to the laws which govern man, and you
have given him what will be of more
value than the wealth of the Indies.
YOu have given him start which no
misfortune can deprive him of. The
eal lier you teach him to depend upon
his own resources and the blessings of
God, the better.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28
Narrowing a Distinguished Foreigner.

A fastidious man from abroad and a
local mine owner sat opposite each
other at dinner in Virginia city, and the
Enterprise gives this version of their
conversation Dundreary-"Deah me,
this is disgusting (holding up his knife
and gazing fxedly at its point. This
Is eithaw the second or third hair-I
think it's the third-that I have found
IN this buttah!" Comstocker-
" You've not been here long, / Judge !;
otherwise you would not have COM
planned of hair in the butter" Dun
dreary-" Not complain of hair in the
buttahI You surprise me, sir. How
could / do otherwise 2" Comstocker-
Those hairs, sir, are just as natural
to Washoe butter as butter is a natural
product of milk. They are just as
clean as the butter. All our butter
comes from the great valleys of our
state, where hourishes that most nutri.
tious and truly wonderful plant, the
white sage. On this our cattle feed
and fatten. This white sage has many
virtues. Strange as it may appear to
you, sir, from the white sage is manu-
featured a most wonderful and very
popular hair restorative. Well, sir, in
a country where all the COWS feed on the
white sage do you think it likely that
the butter would be bald-headed.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28
Curious Origin of a Quarrel.

Edmund Yates has introduced the
new era into modern literature of the
personality painting novel. The late
N. 2. Willis was to some extent its
pioneer, but it was left to Edmund
Yates 10 carry it to perfection. There
figured in London for some years per-
son named Joseph Ady, who had a
rather lucrative love of communicating
to vast number of people something
to their advantage" and whose cham
bers, when searched by the police, were
found to contain the addresses and de-
scriptions of every one whom he had
ever seen or with whom he had been
brought in contact and not long since
professional beggar was dragged to
light whose rooms were covered with
the names and addresses of distinguish
ed charitarians, labeled, "Easily gull
ed" "a weakness for disabled sailors
lost leg at Trafalgar; good for fiver,"
and so forth. The study of Mr.. Yates
is, in a similar spirit and taste, decor
ated with sketches of the eyes, and hair,
and casts of the chins, and noses of
every person of any distinction whom
by accident he may have encountered.
Indeed, one of his noses got him into
much trouble, and was the direful cause
of a long, wordy war and social en-
arrangement between the two greatest
novelists of our time-Dickens and
Thackeray. Mr.. Yates ventured on a
description of Mr.. Thackeray's nose, a
subject on which he was especially SEN
sitive. The slaughterer of snobs took
the part of his nose, Mr.. Dickens that
of its painter. The conflict was only
Gained by the withdrawal of Mr.. Yates
from the Garrick club.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28
Movable Rocks.

A correspondent of the Chicago In
ter Ocean, writing of Colorado trip,
says: cone feature continually i'm
presses the observant tourist with q
sense of the mutability of the most
stable things in this neither world OF
ours, and that is the constant wearing
away of the hardest rocks which are
exposed to the air, wind, rain, and frost
in these everlasting hills. Granite is
almost a Synonymous for durability
and permanence, but in all of the can
yons that we visited there were abund-
ant evidences that it was slowly wear
ing away. It breaks up into little
cubes and slides down the mountain
sides, being often seen in huge piles at
their base. These gradually work down
into the brooks and creeks, and are
rolled away and ground to powder. FL
nally they are deposited in the soil.
Large portions of the soil all over the
west are made of this disintegrated and
comminuted granite, and it is a most
valuable ingredient. In like manner
the stratified rocks are also wearing
down. In the Garden of the Gods
Glen Eyrie, and in all the canyons
the grand columns, strange forms,
startling precipices, and yawning CULTS
are due to the erosion which is going
on all the time. The mills of the
gods grind slowly, but they grind ex-
ceedingly small or something like
that-says poet, but they grind all
the time, in summers heat and winters
cold. The winds constantly carry away
infnitesimal particles. It goes on so
slowly that we take little note of it in
an ordinary lifetime. Biologists, how
ever, estimate that all of the continent
of America will yet be worn down and
carried into the oceans but as it
will require six millions of years to
effect it, the price of real estate is not
likely to be affected by the waste dur
ing the lifetime of the present genera
ton"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28
Prevention of Hog Cholera.

The Rural World says that one of the
largest hog breeders in Missouri, who
frequently has several hundred head at
once, never has any sick. He gives
them salt, just as he does other stock.
In cooking food for hogs-which he docs
in large wooden boiler holding thirty
or forty bushels-he has the Goals and
ashes thrown in the boiler and boiled
with the food. He also sometimes puts
in salt aud sulphur. His hogs eat burnt
charcoal as freely as they do corn. They
are sheltered from cold and storms by
movable sheds. Occasionally he dis
solves copperas, (sulphate IF from in
wafer and mixes it with their food.
This destroys internal worms and is al
SO tonic. Hogs are subject to colds
and pneumonia as human beings. The
internal organs of the hog more closely
resembles those of man than any other
animal.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28
Deterierated Ghosts.

The Spectator says "There are
stories in myriads of the extreme mat
ter-of-factness and even vulgarity OF
the modern ghosts. Some of them in
sist on aspirating unaspirated vowels and
showing by violent raps their objection
to the authorized and more polite mode
of spelling. Others of them delight
in pinching your knees or neck like a
child who is playing at blindman's
buff. A ghost who was indebted to
Mrs. Guppy, we believe, for the power
to manifest himself in this world was
unpleasant enough to hurl two living
Holsters on the table during a "dark
seance'' in Russell square-was a neigh.
boring fshmoDger, we wonder, short
by two Holsters of his rightful stock in
trade? or did the ghost pay the money
before abstracting the Holsters or did
it catch the Holsters itself at sea with OF
without the aid of a lobster pot p
while the most common of all the
freaks of modern ghosts are those in
which they play violent games with
heavy pieces of furniture.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28
Surgeons Advice.

"You ministers who have got to be
fine and intellectual, clear your Threats
and preach Jesus Christ pull the vel
vet out of your mouths, ye gentlemen
who use fine words, and speak so that
the people can understand you; and
mind Christ, and Christ crucifed. Ye
Methodists who are getting to be very
respectable, get to be as red hot as
Methodists used to be; We Independents,
be like the old Puritans and We Bap-
fists, who seem to be damped with cold
water, or worn out, pray the Lord to
baptize you with fire, and that will be
the very best thing that can happen to
you. Look at your chapels, half full !;
your congregations, half asleep; your
preacher, often reading from his book,
and not preaching at all or, when
when preaching, preaching as though he
we're not awake much lower down than
his neck; his heart is still asleep, and
only his mouth is talking"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28
A Picture of Prince Louis.

A writer in a review of the pictures
in the Paris Salon says: "The picture
which naturally has attracted most at
tention is that of the "Prince Impe-
rial," by M. Lefebvre. The figure
stands erect the hand rests in sup
pleness, yet with spring, and resolve,
upon table; the head rises on slen-
der neck, more after the form of the
mother than like the thick, short type
which marks the Bonaparte dynasty in
common with that of the Caesars. The
head thus rising on gracefully slipping
shoulders asserts itself with modesty,
yet command still the whole bearing
is that of the quiet gentleman rather
than of the would-be emperor. The
picture is carefully painted even to a
fault, as if the artist felt he was tread
ing on tender ground. 1t is impossible
to praise too highly the reading given
to the character too much is not as
serted, yet nothing is surrendered.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28
Dissertation of Churches.

Concerning the Dissertation of church
es a correspondent of the Boston Pilot
says "In Naples the Church of San
Martina, one of the richest churches in
the world in respect to marble statues,
mosaics, and paintings, has become a
museum. In Perugla, one church is
turned into picture-gallery, the altar
torn up, and pictures from converts,
and monasteries, and churches hung
around the walls; another in the same
city is used as hay loft. In Foligno,
the rand old Church of the Domini-
cans, with its Gothic wheel windows, is
turned into a stablesfor cavalry horses"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28
A Trunk Which Gets En-.

Saturday morning there came over
the Great Western road, on its way west,
trunk which made the hair of the
baggage-master stand right up. It was
thirty-four inches long, three feet wide,
and was made of solid boiler-iron, an
eighth of an inch thick. The handles
were of iron, rivited on with great bolts,
and the lid fastened down with an i'm
mense paddock. On one end of the
trunk was painted the words ''She can
stand it % and on the other More
coming |" The railroad men groaned
aloud as they walked around "them
trunk and viewed it from every angle,
and two ominous men, who thought the
owner was going to stop over, made
tracks out of the depot. -Detroit Free
Press
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28
" skulling" Extraordinary.

A certain French baron, whose scien-
tific tastes led him to collect the skulls
of celebrated persons, one day received
a visit from a man with whom he was
accustomed to deal. "What do you
bring me here ?" asked the baron, as
the man slowly unwrapped a carefully
enveloped package. "The head of
Shakespeare. % Impossible!" "I
speak the truth, Monsieur le Baron.
Here is proof of what I say" said the
dealer, producing some paper. "But, +"
objected the baron, drawing aside the
drapery which concealed his own singu-
lar collection, 81 already possess that
skull. He must have been a rough
who sold you that" was the remark of
the honest dealer who was it, mon
sieur ?" "Your father" said the
baron in a mild tone. "He sold it to
me about twenty-nine years ago." The
broker was temporarily disconnected,
but presently he exclaimed with vivac-
ity, SCI comprehend. Be good enough
to observe the small dimensions of the
skull on your shelf. Remark the
narrow Occiput, the undeveloped fore
head, where intelligence is still mute.
1t is of Shakespeare, certainly, but of
Shakespeare as child of about twelve
or fourteen years old whereas this is
the skull of Shakespeare when he had
attained certain age and had become
the genius of which England is so
justly proud.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28
THE DIVER.
By PEARL RIVERS.

Who wades the summer sea
or pleasure, findeth nought
But shells that empty be;
The diving-ben of Thought.
Upon such shallow food
Can only Idly float,
As floats the lily-bud
Within its leafy boat.
Deep down in depths of woe
He who would Poet be
Must dive, to find below
The pearl Of Poesy.
Once found, some word or line
In all the diver sings,
Will tell Of salt sea-brine
Or stormy battlings.
But strange and happy lot
The world that buys and wears
The divers pearl, sees not
lis set in tears.
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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28

The lads seemed to understand per-
fectly and the next time the teacher
asked them, What is faith ?" they an.
swered with one accord, can apple un-
der a tea-cup."
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28

Fell From a Railroad Car, and nearly
broke his neck. Pat picked him up, rubbed him
with Mexican Mustang Liniment, and sent him on
by the next train. Falls bruises, cuts, contusions
lameness and such accidents constantly occur
ing. There is nothing so sure, safe, cheap and
convenient as the celebrated Mustang Liniment. 1t
costs but 50 cents and 81 90 per bottle, and Fam
lily or owner of Horses should be without it. There
is no flesh, bone or muscle silmeRt upon man or
animal like Rheumatism, Bruises, SPAWN and
Lameness, which it will not alleviate or cure Why
will YOU suffer? Beware of counterfeits. It is
wrapped in a steel-plate engraving, signed e. W.
westbrook, Chemist"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28
On Everybody TOngue.-Eulogium

On Every bOdy5s IOmg Of
the great National Regeneration of Health, PLANTA-
TON BITTERs, on everybody's tongue. This
gratuitous UiUa Uoce advertising is better than all
the paid-for putting to which the owners of bogus
bitters are obliged to resort 1t has a spontaneous
heariness about it which carries conviction to the
: ind of the auditor.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28

CoUGHs, colds, sore throat and SINH
lar troubles, if allowed to progress, will result
in serious pulmonary affections-frequently
incurable. Wishart's Pine Tree Tar Cordial
reaches at once the seat of the disease, and
gives immediate relief.-COm.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28

A PAIR of shoes will cost you only 5
cents more with SILVER TIP on than with
out, and it will add twice the cost of the shoe
to their wearing value.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28

Coop articles are always cheapest in
the end. This is especially the case with paper
collars, as the Elmwood will wear longer than
any Others and look well all the time.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28

"A Sunday-school teacher wishing
his pupil TO have clear idea of faith,
illustrated thus: Here is an apple
You see it and therefore know that it is
there but when I place it under this
tea-cup you have faith that it is
there, though you no longer see it.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28
W F. CODY. ("Buffalo Ri

Mrs. J. B. CUTLER, Beth, Me-, says: My
eldest daughter was sick for three years with
liver complaint and dyspepsia, and your Dis
covery cured her.
Did space permit L could i've hundreds of
testimonials from those cured of liver disease
by my Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pei
lets.
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DIR. RAILWAYS
Regulating Pills.

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ming OF the Head. Hurried and Dimcuit Hreath-
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Go to Riverside Water Cure, Hamilton, Ill
mac Rice Divnrce suit for fraud in ags

The Rice Divorce Suit for fraud in age,
is causing great excitement in Boston. 1t should
warn young men not to marry IN haste. Rice is
but %; his bride 81. He swears that she made him
believe she was but his age, by using Magnolia
Balm upon Ler face, neck and hands. Poor youth !
He probably found her elbows weren't quite SO soft
and pretty. Ought Hagan to be indicted7 We
know of many similar cases. This Balm gives a
most wonderful pearly and natural complexion, to
which we don't object. We like pretty women. To
finish the picture they should Lyons Kathairon
upon the hair. With pearly chin, rosy cheeks, and
soft, luxurious tresses, they become irresistible