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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-30
CRAVING REST.

oh for the leisure to lie and to dream
By some woodland well, or some ripping stream
With cool green covert of trees overhead,
And fern or moss for my Yerdurous bed!
To rest and trife with rushes and reeds,
Threading wild berries like chaplets of beads,
Letting the breeze fan my feverish brows,
HeariRg the birds sing their summary VOWS.
oh for the leisure to lie without thought,
Upon the minds anvil the ingot unwrought;
The hammers that beat in my temples at rest;
Calm in lifes atmosphere, calm in the breast!
To iou or saunter, to laugh or to weep,
Waken the echoes, or silence to keep,
With no human being at hand to intrude,
Or question the wherefore of manner or mood.
Oh! for such leisure to rest and 10 stray
In green haunts of nature, if but for day,
Through leaves to look at the sky from the sod,
Alone with my keart, my hopes, and my God.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-30

action the ensuing winter and we trust
will b come law. The rates fixed by
the bill are nearly so per cent. below
present charges, while the length of the
telegram is 80 per cent. greater. Night
kilograms will be transmitted at still
greater reduction.
The charge of telegraphic letter of
25 words sent by night 1900 miles or
less will be only 25 cents. Such low
rates will make the telegraph a public
blessing, bring it within the reach of
all, and enable the press to establish
new and independent news associations.
We shall refer again to this subject
The IRdeDeTdent
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-30

USEFUL ADVICE To BoYs.-To throw
stones. Fold each one carefully in a
feather-bed, and give good notice to all
the neighborhood when you are going
to pitch.
To carry gunpowder in the pocket.
Soak it well in cold water, then wrap it
up in a cover of oiled silk.
To slide down the banisters. Let a
surgeon sit upon the lowest stair. Also
carry a pailful of poultice in each OF
your hands, as You may need it..
To get rid of studying your lessons.
Eat a hot mince pie every night for one
week, before going TO bed.
To cure creaky boots. Wear them
always in going to the cake pantry.
To be polite to sisters. Get their big
brother to introduce you to them.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-30

There are some cheering indications
of a revival of the southern trade. A
late number of the Charleston News
notes the presence in that port of q
larger number of vessels that have been
seen there at any one time since 1865.
In the cotton trade alone that city
shows a gam of 10000 bales over the
previous year.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-30

The Agriculturalist says that fleas
NAV be readily driven away from dogs
by confining the infested animal on
bed of horse litter from which the
dung has been shaken out. The odor
soon drives them away. Carbolic acid,
potash, ETC., are dangerous, aad may be
worse for the dog than for the fieas.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-30

M. de st. Lorent, French photo
grapher, has invented a process by
which he claims to have reproduced
landscapes in colors which nearly ap-
proach those of nature.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-30

Bricks adapted for ordinary building
purposes are made in England from the
refuses of the coal mines.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-30
LAWYERS.

A ATTORNEY AT LAW,
~ Columbia Tennessee.
s-EII atten, all courts to be holden for Maury nc
I'D Joining counties. .
Once, Whitthorne Block. xSc1%u
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-20
How to Get a Good Price.

If farmers expect to obtain the
highest market price for their pro-
ducts, the articles sold must be of
prime quality, whether furnished by
individuals or associations. The pro
prietor of creamery or butter fac
tory, not far from st. Louis, furnishes
a single retail groceryman in this city
with butter, and receives therefor
fifty cents per pound, the year round.
The butter is put up in small and
neat packages, and is uniform in col
or and quality, and is delivered regu-
larly to the consumers. The demand
far exceeds the supply. By this
method the consumer and producer
are brought nearer together, and the
result is mutual satisfaction.
In order to obtain a good price, the
producer must establish reputation
for furnishing an article that is strict
ly choice. The brand of the produc-
er should be an ample guarantee
that the article offered for sale is fully
up to the standard, so that when the
consumer sees the brand of the max
err he knows just what he is purchas-
ing, without even the trouble of ex-
aiming it. In this age of adultera-
ton, when ground bone, gypsum and
kaolin, are used to adulterate so COM
mon an article of food as flour, it is a
source Of great satisfaction for the
purchaser to receive directly from the
producer pure article of food. The
tendency to adulteration makes a
good article all the more valuable.
The business man in the city is as
anxious to procure pure article of
food as the farmer in the country is
to furnish it.
Some arrangements ought to be
entered into by which the products of
the farm could be cheaply and regu-
larly distributed to associations of
regular customers in the city. If a
grange in the country would put its
products together, and appoint one of
their number, who is competent to
properly inspect butter, cheese or
whatever the product may be, and
possess the courage to reject all in
ferior articles, and put the brand of
the grange only on those that are of
prime quality, they would always
command the highest market price.
If this method was adopted there
would be but little opportunity for
trickery and dishonesty. Honesty
and fair dealing is the true policy of
the husbandman. No other organ
ization Of which we have any knowl-
edge can inaugurate and carry out
this desirable reform SO efficiently as
that Of the Patrons of Husbandry.
What grange will be the first on the
roll of honor? p Colmae's Rural
World.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-20
The Health of Farmers.

Massachusetts, is winning an hon
orable reputation for the excellence
of her statistical reports. Among the
most valuable of these is that of the
Board Of Health, which devotes a
number of pages to the health of the
agricultural population. The facts,
it is said, are gathered from the re-
ports of leading physicians in the
State. The diseases to which farmers
are most subject are, in the order of
their frequency, rheumatism, dyspep-
STA, fever, ague, lung diseases and
consumption. These, and other dis
eases not named, are produced by
overwork, improper diet, exposure,
and defective dwellings. The rene
dy for the evil effects of overwork is
simple and obvious, namely, don't
Easier said than done, of course, es-
peclally in Massachusetts; but if ones
whole mind is given to solving the
problem, then something may be eff:
fected.
In regard to diet, the report says:
Bad bread is common; much Of it
made with unwholesome substitutes
for yeast; meat is almost always fried;
too much pork and beans are used;
pies and cakes are too plenty; the
diet is not sufficiently varied; coffee,
tea and water are too freely used;-
(the element last named, we suppose,
being used in excess internally rather
than externally and too much fat
used in cooking and baking.
The advice which follows is nat
ural deduction from the foregoing:-
Use more fresh and less salt meat;
substitute broiling and roasting for
frying; eat more fruits and vegeta-
bles, and less pies, cakes and sweet
meats; make better bread, and, final
ly ALLURE feather beds and ventilate
sleeping apartments. For some of
these evils we can see no cure but
cooperation. Fresh meat, for in
stance, can hardly be obtained in
some parts of the country; if obtained
would probably be cut up and cooked
in such inartistic fashion as would
not develop its most nutritious quail
ties. This and the other faults of
farmers diet would find natural So
luton in cooperation.
If the farmers will confne their at
tention more to such practical sug-
gestions as are contained in the re-
port, there will be less dyspepsia. 1t
has been noted, too, by intelligent
observers, that farmers are more sub
iect to the attacks of disease in the
fall than at any other time. This is
doubtless due to the overtaxing of
the system during the busy season.
A change of scene and associations,
even if only for few hours, will
often do much to counterfeit the eff
fects of this exhaustion. Go fishing
or hunting, if you cannot take more
elaborate recreation; but try at all
events to secure for all hands short
recess when the harvest is over
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-20
To Measure Corn in the Ear.

A farmer asks how to measure corn
in the ear in crib or bin. There
are several rules for this, but the
most common is what is called the
2s-inch rule; that is, upon the sug-
gestion that box l foot square and
% inches deep will hold a bushel
when shelled. This rule applies only
to the dent or gourdseed variety OF
corn. The cubical contents in feet
are first ascertained, and this multi.
piled by 8 and divided by I, which
will give the bushels Of shelled corn
of Sc pounds. Thus crib that is 80
feet long, s feet wide, and 13 feet
high in the average, will hold l,425
bushels, and two of them 1850 bush,
els. A common wagon box, IL feet
long and 2 feet high, will hold %
bushels Of corn in the ear. Another
rule for the farmers boy is to reduce
the contents to cubic inches, and
divide by 4,O32, which will give him
the bushels.-C Correspondent Of CHI
cugo Tribune.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-20

loss ofammonia it is only necessary to
cover the heap with good soil or loan
to the depth of eight orten inches.
Previous to putting on the soil, q
bushel of plaster Of gypsum may adj
vantageously be sprinkled over the
heap. The whole mass should be
perfectly covered so that no avenues
of escape are afforded to the volatile
products. In this way, the soil be-
comes in a few months SO saturated
with fertilizing material that it is a
valuable agent to apply to crops in
itself.
To prevent loss by teaching, it is
well to throw over an exposed heap
Of excrement a covering of straw or
old hay. If the form is like a stack
of hay, nearly all the water will run
off the sides, and but little percolate
through. 1t is miserably slack and
wasteful to haul out manures into
fields in the autumn or winter, and
allow them to remain without any
protection. During the past two
years more eXcrement has been pro-
duced at the fin than we could con
veniently use upon our fields, and in
removing it from the cellar we have
protected it in the manner described.
One heap has thus been covered for
two years, and its valuable properties
have not only been preserved, but by
the processes of spontaneous decom-
position the products are now ready
for immediate assimilation by plants,
and the soil applied is nearly as valu-
able as the material which it has COW
cred and protected. Three years ago
some heaps of manure were carted
upon meadow in winter, and owing
to tlowage from the lake it was deem
ed best not to disturb them until the
meadow was thoroughly drained.
Several of them, spread last season,
gave most extraordinary returns in
grass, and the two remaining heaps
have been opened this season and
found in perfect condition.
There is no difficulty in preserving
manures out of doors, if the measures
are are adopted which we have here
presented Boston Jou'malof Chem
tstyy.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-20
A History of Moving Machines

The Oldest moving machines,
though very rude, were used by the
Gauls. A cart, having blades ar
ranged in front, was pushed forward
into the grain by oxen hitched on be-
hind, and thus cut on the heads. A
system Of six rotating scythes was
made by Joseph Boyce in 1899, and
an attempt to use the same principle
was made by Gompretz and Mason
in 1852. In lS11-1S15, Smith, of
Deans, once brought out u machine
in which short vertical revolving
cylinder carried knife on it's lower
end; but all Of these rotating ma
chimes have proved impracticablc.
Robert Meares, in Frome, in Somer-
setshire, established, in 1900, the
shear principle as the only practical
one. Salmon, in Woburn, in 1907
built a machine with row of blades
and fingers moving over them, and
also applied the reel. The Scotch
parson, Patrick Bell, of Forfarshire,
in 1926, and William Manning, of
Plainfeld, N. j., in 1882, were the
founders Of the present style of ma
chine. Manning was the first to at
tach the draught at the end of the
machine, all others previously having
been pushed from behind. Obed
Hussey, of Cincinnati, attached the
side platform and slit-fngcr. Nc
Cormick, of Rockbridge, Va, now of
Chicago, in 1885 improved the Man
ming and Hussey machine, and the
appearance of these at the London
Exposition in 1851, was the signal
for their Introduction into general
use.
The oldest threshing machine Tex
cept the antiquesD was made by
Michael Menzies i'll 1882, or perhaps
at the same time by Tull, consisting
of a rotating cylinder with fails.
Several others followed shortly, some
like a -four mill, and in 1895, Will
oughly, of Bedford, made one like
that of Menzies, which Won Thaer
brought to Germany, and which
served as model for the Mecklen-
burg thresher. The machine of James
Waldropp, Of Ampthell, in Virginia,
is on a similar principle, only the
beaters are sticks moving up and
down. Finally, in 1885, Andrew
Meikle, of birmingham, East Lothian,
laid the foundation of the present
form, by using drum with four
beaters parallel to the axis, that car
ried the grain between itself and
concave, furnished with similar rods.
An American, named Moffitt, in 1854,
substituted spikes for the rods, though
Menzies' machine adheres to the old
system.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-20
Preserving Manures.

1t often happens that farmers are
limited as regards room for the stor-
age Of manures under cover, and the
question rises, "what is the best meth
cd Of preserving animal excrement
in the open field?" 1t should be un-
dcrstood that if we introduce safe
guards to prevent loss in two direc-
tons, we accomplish all that is nee
essary. Animal manures may be
weakened by loss Of volatile ammo
mia and other gaseous products, and
also by which the most valuable
soluble salts are dissolved by rains
and carried away. To prevent the
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-20

The foundry for casting shadows
is the sun.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-20

A GOOD SALAD.-A correspondent
of the Gar0ner's Chronicle SAYS:
Hereis salad what will delight those
who eat cucumbers with bread and
cheese: Take tomato, not overripe,
and cut it into slices, as you would a
cucumber, take a small onion, and
cut it up as fine as you can, sprinkle
it over the tomato slices, add salt,
pepper, and vinegar at discretion, and
you will have salad which, as a rel
ish, puts the cucumber to shame.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-20
GRANGE DIRECTORY.

RESCENT GRANGE, No. 1572.-Regular meet
ings en- the last Friday before the full moon OF
each month Place:-Meets at the residence OF
T. s. Stone, three miles south of Jesup, and
nine miles southwest Of Independence.
S. G. MASON, Secretary.
WINTHROP GRANGE, No. 611.-Meets at Win
throp on Friday on or before the full moon Of
each month.
s. G. PIERCE, Master. S. w. RICH, Sec
WEST BUFFALO GRANGE, No. 1216.-Meets
Tuesday, on or before full moon.
j. d. RUSSELL Master.
MIDDLEFIELD GRANGE, No. 52s,-Meets on
Wednesday, on or before full moon.
b. DU BOIS, Master. E. j. WIGG, Sec.
SUPERIOR GRANGE, No. 352.-Meets Saturday
on or before full moon, Mt No. School House
HaZeton twp. G. NJ. MILLER
7. MESSENGER, Secretary. Master
BYRON GRANGE No. 267. Meets at Justus Du
KEGS, on Tuesday evening, on or before ne
moon EDWARD GLEASON Master
A. KNOWLES. Sec.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-20
AoritnltMral Column.

The reading columns on this page will be devot-
ed mainly, to topics pertaining to FARM and
HOUSEHOLD. The farmer readers of the BULLETIN
are requested to write for it,
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-02-19
RULES EOR lEN1'.

The rules and regulations to 10 obsery-
cd by Catholics daring tho season Of lon',
are as follows.
First. All the faithful who have COM
pletcd their 2ist year are bound 30 ubseryc
the fast OF lent unless dispensed Tor To-
gitimste reasons.
Second. Oae meal day only i. allow
ed, except on Sunday.
Third. This meal is no. 20 DO taken
uni about noon.
Fourth. On those days on which per-
mission Is granted to eat meat both meat
and fish are not TO be eaten az tho ssmc
meal, evon by way of condiinen,.
Fifth A collation. or partial meal u
allo wcd in the evening. The general
practice Of piou; christ ans limits its guam.
tity TO the fourth part OF an ordinary
meal.
Sixth. Breed, bu,,er, cheese, frui. of
ell kinds, selads, vegetable and fish are
permitted at the collation.. MIX ard cgcs
are prohibited.
Seventh. Custom hls m.i, 10 lawful
10 drini 10 The morning some warm liquid,
such ss tea AID coffee, or chin chocolate
made With water
Eighth. Necessity and custom have
! authorized the use OF lard instead of
batter, in preparing hsh, vegetable,
| etc,
Ninth The following person. are not
| bound to observe the fast, viz. All under
twenty-one yesrs OF age; tho sick; women
| in u delicate condition and those nursing
infants; those WAC are obliged to do hard
work, aud all who through weakness can
not fss. without injury 70 their health.
Tenth, by dispensation, the use Of iish
meat will be allowed at any time on Sun
days, and once day on Mondays. Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturday., with the
exception Of Holy Thursdays, and I'll,
second and last Saturdays Of lent.
Eleventh. Persons exempted from tht
obligation of fasting, by sSe or lsborioui
occupation, are not restricted 10 the use OF
meat at ono meal, only on those day.
on which its ice ia granted by dispense.
ton. Others Dispensed from tho fast for
other csuses, ss we'll rs those who pro
obliged to fast, nrc permitted to u:o meat
! only NJ one meal.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-02-19
MARKET REPORT.

MsMrTts, + tru4ty Is.-Elour dun
and unchanged Corn meal lower 2 A.
Corn Urn, 95c OATS dull but holder,
not willing to msEe cpnces,ions, 45c OIL
tered. Hay dul and price. ere nominal.
Bran quic, sud weak. IL Provision,
quiet Gui unchanged.
CrScISN Ar, February Is - rloar
steady and Unchanged. WEoa,. +0a-
| AZ Corn 5sMtJO. Ds.s qg,s AID
stesdy 4G(a5}. Rye firm al. Barley
grn. No fall ! s;CGl Is. EGG. steady.
Butter i.iner, for beet grade. Chease
Grin. Pork, dull and nCmiuni IL 90.
Lard, dull and nominal. stesU quoted ~
crs GiG.5-; clear rib 1iS7..; clear ~ b.
con duh and 1rooping; shoulders 6 Z; clear
rib s.@,si; clear 81. Whisky hfin ~.
ST Louis, February iT.--Flour NE
25(g5o; XXX g Ijto7 %; f.p,Ily, : %
as %. Whes, iirmer, for spring No
| lstfl 20; fall quiet and unchsnrot
Corn ilrmer, No mixed 5oG,Goc. Oa,.
in better demand and higher, No mixed
&c. Barley steady, No spring | sjGn
20; choice Western and Northern Op
Bscon esEier for buyers couo.rv. shout.
A''t ~ 'AdAI sih'0 N'NAI ''p o. lsaIl
more active, steam -. Whiskey steady
9Cc
CHrcAoc, February ls.-floar duh and
unchanged. Wheat demand sc.ive an
higher No spring 2l@l 2lt; No .,
~ cs.b, 20 March; ] 22I April; Noa
J H. Corn demand active and advanced.
No miyad 81 cash; 81; March, 5si
april. Mats, fsir donSni and advanced
No 2, AZ cash 8, March. Rye scarce and
firm; No ., siC5sil. Barley quie, and
wesh; No 2, 90; western s5Gl 81; No
., ! 60. Pork dull ard declined to Il II
cash; II 90 March; II 40 April. Lard,
quiet AID unchanged. Bulk meats steady
and unchanged. Whisky, isir demand n.
lower rates 70
NEW ORLEANS, February lS.-Flour
shipping lots scsrca, supper 3 90; Xxx
Q 90; xxx 00,97 30; family 75Gs
Corn dull and lower; yellow sO@s3. Oats.
dal! and scarce GWcg6l. Bran dull SOL
Hay dull, choice Il. PORK dull ut IL; dry
salt moa's quiet at Gi@,si; 81 packed.
Bacon dull IT 1iG9l; hams l261l2I. Lard
duh, fierce 9i@9,; kea TO- Sugsr dull
inferior jl953i common CGlGl; fair GsGO.
L prime s 4 choice o. Molssses dull, in
ferior 80; prime fsrmenting a.. Cofios
quiet 24l@2S. Corn moal scarce and
firm at 4 90. Whisky lower, Louisiana
%; Cincinnati o..
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-02-19

tho tariff was so cent. per pound. Every
sneeHs was about a cent, to protect Amer
lean manufacturers from foreign sneezcs.
Hence, was about 60 tell how much IL
would cost us, tstiir and ell, TO prevent
these descructive moths, by using this ar
ticlo OF SNUFF, when 10 found an adiu-
tant IN nay friend fro,n Kentucky, MIR
Beck).
This pamphlet. is the result or our in
quirise.
"Preseryation Of clothing and ,qpirsgo
OF tho army and navy by tho process of
Cowles " Co., for MOTH etc. This IL just
out-ls73. There ia ne tobacco, no pep.
per- no cs'rphor, no leather chips, which
our mothers used. In plain words, they
u,c some sort of solution. guess it
smells ha1ly-psrhsps petroleum; but
whatever it Ia IL costs money, and has the
"imprinatur' of our best officers. This
pamphlet haa tolerably fair representa-
ton Of the result. OF tho microscopic tin.
can catorpilcr, which breaks its egg and
goes into cocoon made out of
the stun it feeds on, st the rate Of
say $4,000 a .yOar. But now does this
plan We pay SO much for save cur govern.
ment? Messrs. Cowles ~ Co. say that
=
leave tho goods la the solution for houre (;
thon they dry them Oh n machine which
makes, think, 800 revolutions per mia
ute. This makes the ss,ura.ion more per.
feet. Laughter.
Mr.. Whcccr--I de.iro to ask my col
league question. Has no studied tho
history Of the party moth 1t has fed ON
! hl' party, and no chemical process hiss vet
been Invented, l believe, TO STAY its rava-
| ges Laughter
Mr.. CoE-i omitted, rs tho House will
see. cit! OF difference to tho majority and
thoir feelings, TO dra" any psrtlaan or po-
| llticAl lesson ont Ct these mO,ha ard their
| predatory habits. Laughtof.l | have
| muterlsis, however, for speech of on
hour and quarter op that point. II tho
| gentleman viii allow ino, | will say il is
mostly in connection with tho Admins.
traIioa. Laughter.
And, sir, since ] an chsllerrel e. 1t By
my frieni-rct ptcyokci, for he never
prOvokcs any ono, except to admire him.
and love him, the more one knows him
| | will eDdeavor g. read in tho life and
character ~ tho moth som" OF those attri.
butcs which arc making the roop,s REGARD
the Administration 60 carefully.
The real moth that We have 10 daa
with, Ia political way, is u comUiuatio
al tho lGckey moth, which generally
hann!s the White House and hoyera atcu,
the purlIeu. Of power, and the hawk moth
which 10 sometimes in the army or educa
ted there. All these moths, you will find
have political and destructive .iguif
canoe. you ne!e how they are hatch
O.; how thew hide in cocoous; tow they
creep into dark places through cranniea
bow thcy go into rlo,,t' where goods ar,
Stored; how they lie al summer qqiotly
-- Laughter; ,!s merniers gatherin abou
the sreaaor.