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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-13
said. ''I declare, Jennie, 1 don't like

said. 'I declare, Jennie, don't like
the look of it. :"
The night was gray and soft and still,
and all about us fell the snow, which
| seemed to be creating itself out of the
feathered and shadowy underbrush and
the white quiet atmosphere. The scene
was so strange and weird that ! felt a
moments hesitation; the next instant
the imp which had possessed me all the
evening set my blood dancing with
mischief.
promised to be home tonight" f"
said /, eluding Abijah's OBTAINING hand
and with a mocking, dancing step ]
skipped upon the plank.
Abi)ah stood still on the margin and
looked at me. Job stood still also one
moment, and. holding up his lantern,
looked at Abiiah.
Then he hid, sarcastically, "By your
leave, Mr.. Plummer this is a bridge
for two, and if you've no mind to be
getting over, I'll step along myself"
And it was Jobs hand that, touching
me timidly, steadied my fool-hardy
steps, and Jobs lantern that fiickered
over the phantom banks beyond and the
deep creek below that treacherous
quiver, as if the heart of the thing were
being broken, and my own beart leaped
up with sudden terror, a despairing cry,
a whirl of darkness and chaos, and felt
the bridge tOtter and crash, and thought
l was being swept away into annihila-
tion. Some strong arm grasped me then,
not tenderly, but with a clutch that
reused every faculty, and, trembling,
conscious, struggling for life, 1 found
myself olingipg to the slippery edge of
the other plank, with Job holding me
fast by my raiment, as we hung for a
moment in peril together, while the Ian
tern foated away below In the debris.
Job speedily regained some sort of
footing, and slipping, sliding, by slow
and painful effort we reached the other
side.
1 believe 1 laughed then when came
to myself, shook out my snow-encum-
bered garments, and looking down, saw
Jobs faithless lantern cleaning like a
fitful fire fly away out of reach, and felt
sure that Abijah Plummer was still
watching on the other side.
Job stretched ou6 over the brink,
looked down at the useless lantern, and
shook his fist, perhaps at the invisible
Abijah.
Job, oh, job" I said. taking his
hand, I'm sorry spelled beautiful
tonight" did not laugh now. I was
full of strange excitement.
"Who had a right to spell such a
word but you, Jennie % answered Job,
gravely.
But Live lost the books, job"
Give lost something too, said Job.
We stood still for-~8 moment and
looked at each other. And rfpeEe was
that in Jobs face which never shown
but once in any human face, and which
all men and all women know when they
see it.
Then Job reused up aud said, lightly,
" Will you get along the rest of the
way without Abijah Piummer ?"
Ali the rest of my life, [ replied.
Since then Job has often said to me,
softly, as we sat in the twilight, "They
can't say l didn't win a prize at the
spelling match"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-13
FROM EAST TO WEST.
BY SUSAN COOLIDGE,

Inc boat cast loose her mooriugs.
dood-bye,' was all we said
Uooo-oye, Old World, =" we said with a smile.
Is nu none looked back as we sped
5nlRlng wake of foam bebiud-
10 the heart Of the sunset red.
hSSNlly drove our plunging keel
Ine warning waves between,
AeaNlty strove we night and dsv
Against the West Wind keen
b5It, Ike foe, to bar our path
a zoe with an awful men,
Never token met our eyes
FROM the dear land far au.v.
No storn-swept bird, no ir. ffsi,'',- -,
10 ell Us where we Jav Dr@hch
"zaFlly searched We hon. - -
HioI.eh the mist and driving spr,v
3, al in flashing moment
me ioE-Veils rent and Geg-
AIu bLtbcsoTne South Wind ca,,,1. ,,..-.,
A. lI n "nlstted the cor5age through. -''-''
- ~ stars swung loE their silver laD,Ds
uome OF airy blue.
AAiu, Dreathed from unseen distaH aHO
C..sW NV and joyous AFR
C1Eessod our senses suddenly
~ WIN raptuTe fresh aud rare
- - n 'ae breath Of home !" we cried
We feel that We are there
U, Land. whose tent-roof is the dore
ID Of Heayenh purest sky,
"lSse ns mighty beart inspires the wind
or glad, strong liberty.
H'hhd4hg upon thy sunset sEorp
beslde ne water high.
Long may thy rosy smile be bri,bt
Above the ocean dim:
N Aouhg, uudauntCd voice be heard
'aiiing the whole world kin.
And ever be thy arms he'd ont
20 take the stO.m-tossed I'M
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HonOrs to the Departed Statesman.

An order has been issued by Commo-
dore Ammon, acting secretary of the
navy, directing, in pursuance of the pres
luents order announcing the death of
Aex-1resident johnson, that the ensign
at each naval station and of each vessel
| of the United States navy in commission
| be hoisted at half-mast from sunrise to
sunset, and that guns be fired at inter-
walls of half an hour from sunrise to
sunset at each naval station, and on
| board of flag ships and of vessels acting
singly on day of funeral, where this
order may be received in time; other
wise on the day sitter its receipt. The
| officers of navy and marine corps will
wear the usual badge of mourning at
| tached to the sword hilt and on the left
| arm for the period of thirty days. An
| order was also issued from the war de-
partment reciting the order of the pres
| ldent and directing that in compliance
with his instructions troops will be pa
raded at 10 A. NJ. on the day after the
receipt of the order at each military
post, when the order viii be real to
| them and the labors of that day will
| thereafter cease. The national flag will
be displayed at half-staff at dawn of
day, thirteen guns will be fred, aud
"t'OA ""iNS 0O 1A'CA falS VI thirty HILL
utes between the rising and setting of
the sun, single gun, and at the close
of the day a national salute of thirty
seven guns; the officers of the army VIII
wear Grape on the left arm and on their
swords, and the colors OF. the several
regiments will be put in mourning for
the period of thirty days.
A NEVADA woman has pair of gloves
and pair of shoes made from the hide
of Pawnee Indian, and she says she II
never wear any other kind.
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A Striking Letter.

The following letter in the handwrit-
ing of ex-president Johnson has been
found among his paper =
"GREENvTL1E, June 90, 1873. ALI
seems gloom and despair. have per-
formed my duty to my God, my country
and my family. have nothing to fear.
Approaching death is to me the mere
shadow of Gods protecting wing. Be-
meath it almost feel sacred. Here,
know, can no evil come. Here will
rest IN quiet and peace, beyond the
reach of calumny's poisoned shaft, the
influence of envy and jealous enemies,
where treason and traitors In state, back
sliders and hypocrites in church, can
have no place; where the greatfact will
be realized that God is truth, and graft
tude the highest attribute of men,
SIC itltT Gd GStra. Such is the way to
the stars or Immortality"
The following is written on the margin
of the page containing the above
Written before leaving on Sunday
evening, while the cholera was raging IN
Its most violent FORM" 1t will be re-
mleS3mbered the ex-president left Greene
VILE after being attacked by cholera,
When,. as he said, all seemed gloom and
Miss REED, an American Amazon,
entered the jumping ring at a recent
horse-shOw IN London, and when. after
she had got her horse three times over
his fonces, he Jumped deliberately into
the pond, she kept her seat brayely.
and brought the ugly little hunter ont
amid the applause of twenty thousand
people,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-13

OF the popular patent nostrums which
some disinterested people, "for the
good of their fellow-creatures, sold at
two dollars bottle, consisted simply of
a few cents worth of iodine in solution.
Iodine is dangerous, however, in over
doses, affecting especially the eve.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-13
MARK TWAIN.


What He Remembers About Steamboat Racing
on the Mississippi.
Racing was royal fun. The public al
ways had an idea that racing was dan
oerous whereas the very opposite was
the case-that is, after the laws were
passed which restricted each boat to
Just so many pounds of steam to the
square irch. No engineer was ever
sleepy or careless when his heart was IN
a race. He was constantly on the alert,
trying gague cocks and watching things.
The dangerous place was. on slow pop
ular boats, where the engineer drowsed
around and allowed chips to get into
the "docter and shut off the water
supply from the boilers.
In the "flush times" of steamboat
ing, a race bstween two notoriously
feet steamers was an event OF vast i'm
portance. The date was set for it several
weeks in advance, and from the time
forward, the whole Mississippi valley
was in a state of consuming excitement.
Politics and the weather were dropped
and people talked only of the coming
race. AS the time approached, the two
steamers "stripped" and got ready
Every incumbrance that added weight,
or exposed resisting surface to vino
or water, was removed, if the boat could
possibly do without it. The "spars
and sometimes even their supporting
derricks, were sent ashore, and no means
left to set the boat afoat in case she
got aground. When the Eclipse and A
l.. Shotwell ran their race twenty-five
years ago, it was said that pains wers
taken to scrape the gliding off the fan
ciful device which hung between the
Eclipse's chimneys, and that for that
one trip the captain left off his kiC
gloves and had his head shaved. But
always doubted these things,
If the boat was known to make hel
best speed when drawing five and hal
feet forward and five feet aft, she wal
| carefully loaded to that exact figure
she wouldn't enter a dose of homeo
pathic pills on her manifest after that
Hardly any passengers were taken, bu
because they not only add weight bat
they never will "trim boat" They al
ways run to the side when there is any
thing to see, whereas a conscientious
and experienced steamboat man would
stick to the center of the boat and par
his hair in the middle with a spirit level
atlanta Monthly.
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How HE RESISTED TEMPrATIoN.-A
member of a colored church in Vicks-
burg was the other evening conversing
earnestly with an acquaintance, and
seeking 10 have him change into better
paths, bat the friend said thai be was
too often tempted to permit him 10 be-
come Chrissian.
"War's yer backbone, da. ye can't
rose up and stand temptation e1-
claimed the good man. wis dat wRy
myself once. Right in dis here town /
had a chance TO steal q par o boots
mighty nice ones, too. Nobody was dar
TO see me, and reached out my hand
and de debbil said take EN-. Den a
good sperit whispered fur me 70 leave
dem boots alone.
"Aud didn't you take 'em ?"
No, sah-not much. / took a par o.
cheap shoes off de shelf and left dem
boots alone !"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-13
Learning to Swim in French Bath.
ing-house,

The baigneur of the gala dress, hold
ing lad on the end of a cord, is wordy
and severe in his instructions, consist
ing of a running something after the
following fashion
Listen well, young man. Cut the
water with your closed hands straight
before you, then separate them swiftly
draw up your legs, heel to heel sepa-
rate and strike out are you ready 1t is
well, let us begin, Now, then one, two;
one, two one, two"
The baigneur, counting for each
movement as he walks along the plat
form, and occasionally holding a pole
before the swimmer to give him conr-
age, resumes:
"Ah, Monsieur, that is not the way
to do it; let us begin again. Now for
it, courage. Strike out; one, two" and
so on, the lad making strenuous efforts
to grasp the receding pole, for the pos
SCISSOR only let's him catch it when he
shows disposition 10 sink, which he is
never allowed to d. completely, as be-
ing too demoralizing. An occasional
gulp of water and the continual ha-
rangue from overhead, are discour-
aging, and the boy is dazed half the
time and does not know what he is about;
then the master asks him where his
courage is, and ventures the opinion that
he is a wet hen, this being the equiva-
lent of our muff. The father of the lad
often stands by and watches this opera
tion with tender solicitude, and when
thu offspring comes out of the water
chances are that the father and son en-
brace each other with effusion. TO an
American who has been learned on the
end of board, or been thrown into
deep water, yet untaught, and allowed
to get out as best he can, this system of
ropes, belts and professorship is
singular. Hilbert Rhodes IN Scribner.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-13

AFFAIR FROM HOME.
see q shadow in q chair,
see a shadowy cradle go;
hear ditty, soft and low:
The mother and child are therei
At length the balm of sleep is shed;
One bed contains my bud and flower;
They sleep and dream, and hour by hour
Goes by, while angels watch the bed.
Sleep On and dream, We blessed pair
My prayer shall guard ye night and day;
Ye guard me so, We make me pray
Ye make my happy life prayerl
r. III. SrOdddr2,
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POETIC EXCERPTS.
WHAT THE BIRDS SAY.
Do you ask what the birds say?

WHAT THE BIRDS SAY.
Do you ask what the birds say?
The sparrow, the dove,
The lnnet and thrush say, 81 love, and love y
In the winter they're SILENT the wind is strong (;
What it says don't know. but it sings loud song,
But green leaves and blossoms,
And sunny warm weather,
And singing and loving,
All come back together.
But the lark is so brimful of gladness and love,
The green fields below him, the blue sky above,
That he Sings and he sings, and forever sings he,
az love my love, and my love loves me-"
-COiertdge.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-13
The Gambling HeIls of Gotham.

This city will always be great center
for gambling, because the blacklegs of
all nations center here. Every game
known among civilized nations here has
it devotees, and even the "heatten
Chinee" has gambling resort. Gam
bling is here ingeniously adapted to all
ages and tastes, as well as to all nations.
There is the ten cent keno hole for clerks
and apprentices, and there is the splen-
did he'll for men of better tastes and
more money. The fascination with which
the practice holds it followers is beyond
description. A few years ago a man
named Green, who styled himself :" the
reformed gambler" delivered lectures
on the frauds which marked every form
of gaming. This did not impair the busi-
ness in the least, and l am under the i'm
preston that Green went back to gam
bling after the lecture season was over
in order to prepare himself for the plat
form. just now our best gamblers are
the watering places. 1t is surprising
how neatly they manage to divide off,
so that no resort shall be 0vercrowded.
One would think the scheme was gotten
up in q committee of the whole. Here
are Newport, Long Branch, Saratoga
and Cape May to divide the attention of
the gambling fraternity, and each place
will have its due proportion. Dancer re-
mains In town all the year round, with
brief vacation. His place is in such a
center that it need never fail of business.
Besides the Astor House, which is i'm
mediately opposite, there is French's
hotel, which is only separated by the
park. These provide an abundant out
Of town patronage, and then there is the
rush of city youth, who like to play
down town because it is farthest away
from their residences and less liable to
discovery. If Dancer would give us
book of his experiences and reminis-
cences it would contain some curious
revelations. He is the veteran of the
faro table, and can remember such men
as Pat Hearne and Jack Harrison, who,
in their day, were the princes of luck
and the favorites of the blind goddess.
Dancer could tell some strange secretg
concerning the failures of eminent mer-
chants and brokers, and the defalcation
of distinguished officials which was sim
ply due to nights spent in his company.
-.NeaO York Letter.
EFFECIIvE.-Yesterd morning a
long haired, thickly- bearded stranger
entered Griswold street barber shop,
and in response to the inquiry If he
would like to be shaved he replied &:
eyes, sir, you miserable, contempti.
BILE, skulking highway pirate, ! would. ="
He removed his hat, drew a big navy
revolver, cooked it, and sitting down in
a chair with the revolver In his hand he
continued
"Now, 60 ahead If you ask me to
have nv hair cut, or say that have
dandruff, or cut my chin, or ask me to
buy your hair restorer, I'll shoot you
dead in your tracks !"
That barber didn't say one word while
shaving that man.-Detrot Free Press.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-13

REMEDIES FOR THE RHEUMATIC.-A
medical correspondent of an English
journal says that the advantages of as
paragus are not sufficiently appreciated.
Those who suffer with rheumatism are
cured in few days by feeding on this
delicious esculent; and more chronic
cases are much relieved, espt cially II
the patient avoids all acids, whether IN
food or in beverage. The Jerusalem
artichoke has a similar effect in relieving
rheumatism. It may be we'll to remark
that most plants which grow naturally
near the seacoast contain more or less
iodine, and in all rheumatic complaints
iodine has long been favorite remedy.
One who has been in the drug business
told the writer some years ago thatmany
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-13

A NOTEWORTHY GRAvEYARD.-A Gu
rious cemetery exists in Paris. Moth
ing human is entered therein, yet IL has
it's tombstones, its dead celebrities, it's
graves, sought by the multitude that re-
member the occupants the Yoricks
who have delighted then, in life. This
is the official cemetery OF he Jardin des
Plantes. Over seven hundred bodies Of
animals that have died are suried In Il.
The favorito elephant Chevrette, the
first giraffe ever seen in Paris, aud tho
huge rhinoceros which died quito re-
Gently, are all there. This rhinooeros
was one of the best known of all the an
/, imRls in the Jardin des Plantes, having
been in captivity nearly thirty years,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-13

In China the Roman Catholic religion
is making rapid progress, Confucian-
ism is gaining, Professionalism is spread
ing very slowly, Buddhism is at stand
still, and Mohammedanism is losing.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-13
American LONELINESS in the Surf,

Olive Logan writes from Long Branch:
cit seems strange that the irrepressible
coquetry of the American woman should
not have niched itself Ito use Nine. de
Sevigne's expression) in her bathing
costume. Women of the most marked
elegance in drawing-rooms obey the law
of our land and make the vilest scare
crows of themselves to go into the surf.
More bathing dresses are let out IL Long
Branch in q single week than are so dis
posed in a whole season at all the French
resorts combined. Every French lady
frequenting les bGins de mar pays spe-
cial attention to providing herself with
as carefully selected in regard to its be-
cOmingness in colCr and cut; its fit
must be as perfect, its freshness as un-
doubted as any dress that madam wears.
Some of these costumes are really
charming, and when donned enhance the
beauty or elegance of their wearers
quite as much SIS any other. A delicate
rose flannel, with knife plotting of white,
hat trimmed in accordance, pink hose,
and straw shoes, navy blue serge with
stripes of yellow, green and brown me-
rinOs-these are some of the combina-
tiOns which dwell in my memory from
last season. Many ladies have several
such costumes extravaganza scarcely
worth mentioning, as the materials from
which such dresses are made are very
cheap. But whatever a French lady's
sea- bathing costume may be-her own
and three or four of them in the season,
or hired from day to day from Ia bGig
ne1tT-One accessory is absolutely indis-
pensable. Imean the long flannel cloak,
which it would be to offend the plainest
propriety not TO wear from the moment
the bather leaves her cabin until she is
ready to plunge into the sea then the
cloak is thrown off, ta--be Immediately
donned again on leaving the water.
Sometimes the beach is literally strewn
with these clOaks. Each claims her
OVID, and never heard of a misapprO-
priation. To dispense with these cloaks
warm and dry after leaving the sea-
and to run along the sands exposed to
the wind in dripping bath-dress would
be considered piece of imprudence in
a hygienic sense, and to dress and go
away without having first equalized the
circulation by the use of the hot foot
bath would be looked upon as sheer
madness only worthy the barbarity of
American customs. male ana Iemalo
attendants keep all buttons, strings,
ETC., in perfect order upon the bathers'
costumes, and it is considered necessary
to thoroughly wash away in fresh water
every trace of the sea for the proper
preservation of bathing costumes. It is
true that many A merican ladies here at
the Branch have their own bathing cos
tunes, but these are almost invariably
made of dark flannel, and no effort at
coquetry is attempted"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-13

A NEVADA woman has pair of gloves
and pair of shoes made from the hide
of d Pawnee Indian, and she says she II
never wear any other kind.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-13

Jupiter, Mars, Saturn and Venus AL IN Sight
TheT Jo1nt appearance For tbs Engage
nent Onl,'
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-04-29
A Model Juror.

A Juror in Erie, Penn, who was unable
to follow the evidence sufficiently closely
to satisfy his own mind, last week sought
out the defendant in the case, and got
all the facts he deemed necessary. The
result is thus set forth by The Erie Dis
patch:
When the Lehman vs.. nlig jury re-
tired, upon the first vote cast, eleven
were in favor of a verdict for the plain
tiff, and one for the defendant. This
one is.a farmer, passing the prime of life,
conscientious, dignified parsonage, a
pattern of probity and simplicity, who
wouldn't ON any consideration have his
verdict influenced by improper motives.
After some persuation he yielded to the
very strong majority against him, not
because he thought them exactly right,
but becarse the majority was overwhelm-
ing. After the verdict had been rend-
cred he explained his position in this
manner: During the trial he had suffered
considerably from rheumatism and neu-
ralgia, and the pain had attracted sc
much more of. his attention than had the
evidence that he was not very clear what
the testimony had been, and SO, to en-
tighten himself upon it--having passing
acquaintance with the defendant in that
suit-he sought him out on the evening
preceding the morning when the jury re
tired for consultation, got from the sait
defendant a full explanation of his theor,
in the case, conceded heartily in hi
views, and, after an hour or SO in con
versation with him in relation to it, wen
to bed fully convinced that the sui
should never have been brought, ant
that the defendant was entitled to a ver
dict, which impression he carried unim
paired to the jury-room.