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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-16
The Imaginative Sex.

Mr.. T. W. HigginSon believes in i'm
agination, and that women excel in that
high province of mind. He says: :"
rejoice that in women, at least, here, as
in Germany, the imaginative faculty
still retains its hold. I remember that
when Mr.. Emerson was lecturing IN
Boston, many years ago, an eminent
lawyer declined going to hear him on
the ground that Mr.. Emerson was so
hard to comprehend but, he added,
'my daughters understand him and
they GO The remark was generally
quoted by the lawyers admirers as good
satire, and by Mr. Emerson's admirers
as good praise. Let any one notice in
our high schools, where boys and girls
recite together, which sex cares the
most for literature; and he will find
that if literature is of any value, the
preference affords grounds on which the
intellect of women may be defended.
Cotton Mather says that Arius sup
ported his blasphemies by first convert
ing five hundred virgins thereunto ; and
most of our poets have first won their
way by enlisting an admiring constitu-
ency of women. The imaginative dis
position is there, in the feminine ma
ture but if women have not criticised
as profoundly and created as grandly,
even in literature and art as men, it is
owing to other causes, often expounded
and forming a part of the general in
tellectual encouragement under which
they have labored. Woman has at last
fought her way into the field of fiction
and now stands at its head, both in
quantity and quality of work but it is
true, even here, that she has fought her
way through sneers and Encouragement.
It is a significant fact that the two
greatest living masters of fiction are
women who have found it for their ad-
vantage to write under the names of
men. % George Eliot and George Sand.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-16
The Head of the Table.

Many a hardship and badge of con-
tempt has been changed to an honor by
using it discreetly and wesring il nobly.
The place of lady hostess at the head
of the table is said to have been first
assigned for reasons less creditable to
the men than we had supposed.
In Queen Elizabeth's time the fashion
came into vogue of placing the princi-
pal joints and pieces of meats at the
head of the table, above the salt, in
order that the chief guests might re-
gale their eyes with the promise OF
good cheer before them, and also be
conveniently served to the choicest cuts.
This custom involved the necessity of
carving the meats after they had reached
the table; therefore the ladies were
invited to sit at the head of the board,
that they might perform the service
which had before been delegated to the
professional carver.
1t was thus from no desire to compli-
ment the fair sex that woman was, in
the beginning, promoted to the most
honorable place at the table. It was
for the selfish convenience of her lord,
and not for her own dignity, that the
position was accorded to her and as,
in medieval society, she ministered to
her guests by preparing dishes for their
enjoyment, often bearing them to the
table herself, so she now, in the capac-
ity of carver, continued in the rank of
a servitor.
But, with the tact which is her dis
tinguishing characteristic, she has grad
ually converted the carver's stool into a
throne of state, and assumed the right
to preside over the company through
an Office which originally authorized
her only to help them with food.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-16
Purifying the Blood.

Many respectable families take it fol
granted that some kind of spring medi
cine is necessary to set the human sys
tenn in working order as winters cold
gives way before the approach of warm
weather whereas it is only necessary
for them to cease to do evil and learn
to do we'll" in their daily eating, drink
ing, breathing, working and playing.
Persons who have learned and pay
heed to the laws of health find no neces.
sity for spring medicines. They are all
of the time purifying the blood by their
simple daily habits. They aim to make
their blood of good nourishing mate
rails, and to "cleause" it by pure air
breathed into tho lungs.
1t seems to me more and more aston
ishing that the human body can stand
so much abuse, especially In the way OF
bad air. People shut themselves into
such close rooms in wirter, especially
at night, that it is no wonder that they
are driven to all sorts of stimulants to
whip up their tagging energies, and no
wonder that they are =" all run down
at the end of winter. One of the most
common mistakes is the supposition
that air is pure in proportion to its
coldness, SO that you have only to open
a door into an unheated room, which is
itself a reservoir of foul air, perhaps,
in order to ventilate sufficiently the
living room or sleeping room. But the
mistakes in diet alone are enough to
account for the biliousness that prevails
in early spring. A winter diet made
largely of fat pork or of hot pancakes
saturated with butter or fat will pretty
surely bring some sort of sickness in
it's wake,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-16
A Great Volcano.

In her interesting work, "The Ha-
waiian Archipelago" Miss Isabella Bird
tells of a journey she made to the great
volcano of Mauna Loa. This mountain,
which is situated somewhat to the
south of the centre of the island of Ha-
waii, is the highest active volcano in
the world, rising to a height of Ii, 760
feet. The whole of the south side of
Hawaii down to and below the waters
edge is composed of its slopes, its base
being $50 miles in circumference. "Its
whole bulk above height of 8, 900 feet
is one frightful desert" though vegeta-
ton, in the form of gray lichens, little
withered grass, and hardy asplenium,
extends 1900 feet further up. During
Miss Birds visit to the summit, the
thermometer registered IL degrees of
frost. The crater Mokuaweoweo is six
miles in circumference, II, 900 feet long,
5000 feet wide, with precipit0us sides
800 feet deep. The crater appears to
be in a state of constant activity, and
at times overfows, carrying destruction
to the lowest levels of the islands.
Since white men inhabited the islands
there have been ten eruptions from
Mauna Loa. OF the condition of the
crater the following description of what
she saw on her visit, accomplished
amid hardships that few men would
care to undergo, will give the reader
vivid idea: "When the sun had set,
and the brief red glow of the tropics
had vanished, a new world came into
being, and wonder after wonder flashed
forth from the previously lifeIess crater.
Everywhere through it's vast expanse
appeared glints of fire-fires bright and
steady, burning in rows like blast fur
naces; fires lone and isolated, unwink-
ing like planets or twinkling like stars !;
rows of little fires marking the margin
of the lowest level of the crater fire
molten in deep crevasses fire in wavy
lines fire calm, stationary and restful
an incandeseent lake two miles in
length beneath a deceptive crust of
darkness, and whose depth one dare
not fathom even in thought. Broad in
the glare, giving light enough to read
by at distance of three-quarters OF a
mile, making the moon look as blue as
an ordinary English sky, its golden
CLEAN changed to a vivid rose color,
lighting up the whole of the vast preci-
pices of that part of the crater with
rosy red, bringing out every detail here,
throwing cliffs and heights into huge
black masses there, rising, falling,
never intermitting, leaping in lofty jets
with glorious shapes like wheatsheafs,
corruscating, reddening; the most glo-
rious thing beneath the moon was the
FIRE fountain of Mokuaweoweo." On
the east flank of Mauna Loa, about
900 feet in height, is the crater of
Kilauea, which, Miss Bird says, has
the appearance of great pit on a roll
ing plain. ''But such a pit 1t is
nine miles in circumference, and its
lowest area, which not long ago fell
about 300 feet, just as ice on a pond
falls when the water below is withdrawn,
covers six square miles. The depth of
the crater varies from 800 to LOO feet
in different years, according as the
molten sea below is at flood or ebb."
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-16
How Pianos are Injured.

There are more pianos injured by i'm
proper tuning than by legitimate use
and the consequent natural wear of the
Instruments. The frame of agood piano,
fully strung and tuned, is made to resist
tension equal to about seven tons.
This severe strain relaxes as the strings
recede from pitch, but is renewed when
the piano is tuned, and it is frequently
discovered, as result of this repeated
process, that the frame is bent or bel
lied /; and. at the hands of tuner lack
ing judgment, an instrument of this
stage is soon injured beyond remedy.
With reasonable use, piano is expected
to remain in good condition for seven
years, and the best makers will so guar
antee their instruments but the incUn-
petence of some tuners Injuries thou
sands of instruments in few years.
In tuning piano, the correct method
is to begin in the centre of the instru-
ment, on middle G. Yet many tuners,
when leaving middle g, instead of going
down the scale and tuning the lower
notes first-thus Immediately bringing
the greatest tension to bear upon the
frame, and forming solid foundation
upon which to operate-win go up the
scale, beginning with the highest notes,
leaving the bass strings until the last,
with the invariable result that, when
the tuning of the lower portion of the
piano is completed, the upper octaves
are decidedly away from pitch. Every
time piano is tuned in this manner it
increases the liability of bending the
frame, and renders the instrument more
difficult to tune and keep in tune.
Many tuners do not carefully note the
condition of the frame of a piano, and
adapt their treatment to the circum-
stances of the case, with full knowl-
edge that bent, weakened, or very old
frame will not stand the extreme tension
or sustain the strings at the high pitch
which can be put upon and borne by
frame and wires which have never been
injured through ignorance or neglect,
and bear no special marks of time or
use. There are very few pianos, even
those of the best description, that will
stand at concert pitch. We're the mat
ter generally understood by the owners
of pianos, they would consider it
greatly to their interest to have their in
struments tuned by persons in whose
hands there is the least possibility of
accident or iniurV"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-16
Romance of the Sea.
Story of an Ice-Bound Psrty of Fish
ermen.

ermen.
The Baltimore Sun publishes an in
teresting story from one of the men
rescued from the ice off the cost of
Newfoundland and brought to Balti-
more by the steamer Nuremburg. The
party are all Irishmen, or of Irish de-
scent, and comprised nearly the entire
able bodied male population of the
little town of st. Marys, Newfound-
land. When returning to shore in the
evening of the day on which they board
ed the e-bourd brig, they found the
ice had parted about mile from shore,
leaving a space of half a mile of clear
water, when night came on, with storm
of rain, sleet, and finally snow, incapac-
itating several of the party and when
morning dawned seven corpses were
counted. A heavy mass of ice twenty
feet square foated near, upon which
nine of the party got, hoping that it
would drift towards shore, and they
could save themselves.
When it had foated three hundred
yards from the ice upon which were
their comrades, it grounded, and the
unfortunates remained upon it for three
days and nights, during which time six
of them. All the food they had in that
time was small white fish which was
frozen in the ice.
The eighteen men remaining, after
the nine Roated Off, made their way to
the abandoned brig. All expected to
die in her, and some had lost their
senses before reaching her. The ice
moved for a week in sight of land, and
the fisherman were on her ten days.
The narrator says he has a family of
died leave families as large. The ten
men will be taken in charge by the
British consul to-day and be sent home.
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Chinese Science.

The Chinese have been astronomer
longer than we have. We have OBJ
servations dating back two Thousand
years, as to the position of the ecliptic
Their astronomy appears, however, Il
have been very little more than record
of events, until the empire was con
quered about A. d. 1900 or 1850 by g
new monarch, who brought with him
the astronomy of Eastern Asia. They
have an equatorial instrument at least
SIX hundred years of age. It consists
of circle in bronze tipped up towards
the north pole, another circle at right
angles that carries pointer, playing
around UPON the edge of this circle.
In little building are tablets concern
ing the celestial bodies, and also some
memorial tablets of some of the early
Jesuit missionaries, who held the post
of imperial honor in China. On the
top of the wall is the observatory
founded in 1880 or 1910 by the Jesuit
astronomers, who imported some of
their instruments from Paris and some
from Picking, about q dozen of those
instruments are in good state of pre-
servation. They don't look much like
modern instruments, and they are only
occasionally resorted to by the Chinese
savant. To astronomers they are very
curious as works of past astronomy.
Here is o quadrant of Chinese work
manship. Among others is globe
with the stars set in gold-a beautiful
piece of bronze workmanship. The
Chinese quadrant has an armillary
sphere to determine latitude and longi-
tude. Their large sector can be pointed
in any direction, and will determine the
angle of any two bodies in the sky.
In the quadrant from Paris the French
workmanship in bronze does not excel
the Chinese. The observing chair runs
around the circle pier precisely in the
same way as the observing chair In the
Cambridge dome runs around there.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-16
The Dictionary Business.

Had the photographers anything to
do with melting the present spelling
match mania /? Certainly the dictionary
business must be looking up of late.
At any rate the idea is an excellent one,
and it ought to be popularized. When
city superintendent of education and
editor of an educational journal out
west confesses that he has all his life
labored under the delusion that cal
lege" is spelt with sd" and the chief
of the New York associated press comes
to grief on the word innuendo," and
ex-senator Carl Schurz spells "pianis-
simo with one SIS" and ex-senator
land ex-Vice- Presidential candidate)
Gratz Brown gets foored on "cosmo-
graphical, the necessity for spelling
matches is tolerably apparent. In this
connection an incident about General
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-16

The liver is the great depurating or blood
cleansing organ of the system. Set the great
housekeeper of our health at work, and the
foul corruptions which gender in the blood
and rot out. as it were, the machinery OF
life, are gradually expelled from the system.
For this purpose Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. with small daily doses of DIR.
Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets are pre-
eminently the articles needed. They cure
every kind of humor from the worst scrofula
to the common pimple, bletch or eruption.
Great eating ulcers kindly heal under their
mighty curative influence. Virulent blood
poisons that lurk in the system are by them
robbed of their terrors, and by their persever-
ing and somewhat protracted use tho most
tainted system may be completely renovated
and built up anew. Enlarged glands, tumors
and swellings dwindle away and disappear
under the influence of their great resolvents.
Sold by all dealers in medicines.
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Strange Matches.

1t is an historical fact that Frederick
of Prussia formed the idea of compel.
ling unions between the tallest of the
two sexes in his dominions, in the hope
of having an army of giants. The
reader will, in all probability. recoIlect
the following ludicrous incident. 1t so
happened that, during a rather long
ride, the king passed a particularly
tall young woman, an utter stranger
He all8hted from his horse, and insisted
upon her delivering letter to the COM
handing officer of his crack regiment.
The letter contained the mandate that
the bearer was instantly to be married
to the tallest unmarried man in the SER
vice. The young woman was somewhat
terrified, and, not understanding the
transaction, gave an old woman the let
ter, which was conveyed to the COM
mandlng officer and this cid woman
was, in a short time, married to the
handsomest and finest man in the crack
regiment. It is not necessary to say
that the marriage was an unhappy one
particularly SO to the old woman.
In this connection comes another an
eciote. A rich saddler directed in his
will that his only child, daughter,
should be deprived of the whole of the
fortune unless she married saddler.
A young earl, in order to win the bride,
actually served an apprenticeship of
seven years to a saddier, and afterwards
bound himself to the rich saddler's
daughter for life. But the union was
anything but happy one; the bride,
neither by birth nor breeding lady,
reflected little credit on her bride
groom's choice and repeated quarrels
we're followed by separation. So it is
with all unequal matches gold and
brass won't unite. Common sense SAYS,
" Young folk, marry within the boun-
dairy OF your social and religious circle. -
There is, then, no reasonable ground
for complaint and recriminasion. Many
matches which might, with ordinary
prudence, have proved at least moder-
ately comfortable, so far as regards the
dispositions of the parties, have, through
the inequality of their social relations,
proved miserable, because, like the
Prussian king, they did not well con-
slder what they were about.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-16

The HoT SPRINGS OF KANSAS "A dis
patch from Washington states that
the suit for the possession of the Hot
Springs of Arkansas has been decided
IN favor of the government. This will
be good news for the people living in
the struggling village, paying high
rents to claimants of the soil without
being afforded the poor protection of
even a town corporation. The lands
In dispute embrace four sections, tax
ing in the two mountains, all the hot
springs, and the greater portion of the
valley, with the "rat hole" as the CEN
ter of attraction. The government will
probably establish large hospitals in
the valley, and give long leases upon
portions of the grounds for the cree
ton of hotels, residences, etc. If the
government acts wisely in the matter,
the springs will in a short time become
the most populous watering place in
the world,-St. Louis Democrat.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-16

Scott, revived. He had drawn up the
rough draft of an order, in which the
word wagon" occurred. The general
inserted one "g" too many, and his
clerk, on discovering it, timidly asked
on what authority he spelled "wagon 7"
with two "g's." s'On the authority of
Lieutenant General Scott, commanding
the armies of the United States, sir, I"
Numbered the pompous old general.
The clerk, at least, thought the author
ity sufficient.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-16

THE art of voicing reeds, the most
difficult and important in the manu-
facture of cabinet or parlor organs,
was invented by Mr.. Emmons Ham
lin, of the Mason & Hamlin Organ
Co., in 1849. It has been universally
adopted by American and largely by
European makers, but none have at
tanned that high stan lard of excel
Ience in it which is reached in the
Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organs.
This fact is universally recognized by
musicians.
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Cheap Homes I'm Texas.

The Great Texas Real Estate and Gold Dis
tribution takes place 18th OF May, when GA, 600
acres of choice land in the best portions OF
Texas, near the principle railroads; Is houses
in Houston population 20, 000) and 2, 1875 prizes
in Gold Coin will be given ticket holders. The
enterprise is Endorsed by the City Council of
Houston. Send 81 to J. E. FOSTER, the man.
ager, at Houston, Texas, for ticket, circular,
descriptive pamphlets and maps OF Texas.
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AT EVEN TIDE 1T SHALL BE LIGHT

Eortn 70 thy work from morn till night,
=, Ihroueh fog and din thy path would be-
whist at home upon tue height
Would work, and rest, and wait for thee.
but now along the way of life
Through dust and diR my path mustoa'
Whilst thou, above all mists and STRIKE.
Waitest st Home, on high. for me.
viii not all them weary ways;
No murmur ever left my lipsi
vii not sigh DER dres'y days,
Though darkened by thy lights eclipse.
Presence wraps me everywhere,
The Presence in which thou art blesti
The Face, the Sun of Worlds, is there,
Yet bright to Us the gliste1ing west.
The work IS good. the way is right
But yet, think, an hour shall be
At evening on the home-llke height
Which viii be morn to thee and me.
Sunday Magazine.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-16

NONE of the present styles of dress
require a large amount of material,
unless an inordinate amount is used in
trimming the skirt, so that any style
can be applied to moderate patterns,
jsifaiciously arranged, and rendered as
effective as if the amount of material
used was much greater.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-16
VETERINARY surge,

VETERINARY surgeons all over the
country are recommending Sheridans Cavalry
Condition Powders for the following trouble in
horses: Loss Of appetite, roughness Of the
hair, stoppage of bowels or water, thick water
coughs and colds, swelling Of the glands,
worms, horse all, thick wind, and heaves.
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A FRIEND of ours who is chief ole,

A FRIEND of ours who is chief clerk
in the Governmental Dlspensary, says that nc
medicine chest is now complete without John
sons Apodyne Lniment. We always sup
posed it was prescribed by law; il it is not, il
ought to be, for certainly there is nothing in
the whole nldte1id Ynedicd OF so much import
ance to the soldier and the sailor as Johnson'f
Anodvne Eminent
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ARE Won aware that the premonitories

ARE you aware that the premonitories
of consumption are coughs, colds, bronchitis,
pains in the side and chest, difficulties Of
breathing, etc? II you permit these symp-
toms to run on tubercles will be the result,
and end in consumption. Now, if you want to
cure these diseases, use Aliens Lung Balsam
without delay. For sale by all medicine
dealers.
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With persons desiring to exchange southern or
Western Lands. deprecated corporation bonds or
debts any kind for ~. Louis property. bargains
procured for investors in st. Louis property, and
full in Information To value and titles i'm parted TO
clients WEsrcoTT HERMAN n RAISRN. ounsel-
lors retained to prosecute all Irrigation pertain
ing to titles, corporations, etc ID. Is. WADDELL,
Investing Agent, SIC Pine street. 81. Louis Mo.
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Patented 1873. The best Elastic Truss
Made only by Pomeroy & Co., 744 B'dway,N. Y.
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Do not Despair. Your cough can be cured.
DIR. TUFTS Expectorant is the remedy. Thousands
attest its efficacy. Try it.
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These TTusses are sent ny mailto all parts OF the
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Before purch asinR any other write for Descriptive
Circular Jree) to the
ELASTIC TRUSS COMPANY,
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