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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-05

CHEAP MEAT AND PLENTY Of IT
Thanks to the transcontinental railway
lines, it is now possible to ship cattle TO the
cast by hundreds of Thousands without
subiecting them to the flesh imPalIinlg
worry and risks of long drive" while
the method which has recently been in
lroduced of slaughtering cattle at the
shipping entrepot and sending the car
casses eastward in refrigerator cars can
not fail to give new stimulus to the
trade. 1t permits very large saving on
the cost Of transportation, while, by
bringing to the market rich, juicy meat
fresh from the pasture, instead OF the
carcasses of lank cattle, slaughtered after
fortnight of semi-starvation and worry
in cattle train, it reduces to the mini
mum the shippers risks. 1t appears
from well-founded estimates that the
number of cattle shipped this year VIII
be from thirty to eighty per cent. greater :
than during any previous year t1, anp
there is no reason to anticipate any Iaii-
ing off in the future.
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ReOrganizing the United States Army.

The committee on military affairs Of
the United States house agreed Upon &
bill to teofgani&e the army, it being
Representative Banning's bill, with some
amendments, and ordered it to be re-
ported favsrably to the house. 1t does
not reduce the present effective force IF
the army, but reduces the ritimber of in
fantry regiments from twenty-five to
twenty, ard the cavalry from ten to eight,
thus reducing the number of infantry
officers fifty-five and of cavalry officers
fifteen, and increases the size of the COM
panies and regiments. 1t does away with
the regimental organization of the artil-
lery, reducing the field officers of artillery
seventeen. 1t consolidates the quarter
master and cumnlissary departments into
one designated as the department of sup
plies, making large reduction of officers.
1t provides fer board to examine Off
GERS and for the discharge of all worthless
and inefficient officers, and for an exam
ination of the condition of retired officers.
All officers who lose their places under
the bill are placed upon list of super
numeraries, and are permitted to resign
with one years pay for each eight years
| of service, or remain in service to per-
form such duty as they may be assigned to.
commissioned officers and soldiers by the
commissioned officers, and for the promo
tion of non-commissioned officers to COM
missioned officers. 1t abolishes the Office
of Judge advocate, fixes the pay of first
sergeants at $40 per month, makes the
headquarters of the general of the army
at Washington in time of peace, and pro-
vides that he may act as secretary of war
in the absence of the secretary or tenn
Porary vacancy in the Office.
II provides that suffers and post
traders shall be frs: elected by council
of the administration, approved by the
department commander and the general
of the army, and appointed by the secre-
tary of war. 1t reduces the staff of all
general officers, and requires the general
of the army to report reforms to Congress
annually, and to look to economy in all
branches of the army. The bill is ap-
proved by the testimony of many of the
officers Of the army. 1t is a reduction of
about two hundred officers, and proposes
reforms which, if adopted, will, a Wash
ington dispatch says, it is claimed, add
greatly to the efficiency of the army.
THE Burlington (Vt.) Free Press
says: John Hall, of North Troy, has
seven children, four of whom, under
fourteen years old, weigh exactly 200
pounds each. The youngest are twins,
girls ten years of age, healthy and intel
hgent. Two boys, one about twelve and
the other something over thirteen, are so
much alike that they would pass readily
for twins. These children have each ten
well-formed fingers, two thumbs and
twelve toes,
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PUBIIC OPINION. Mr.. Disraell is
credited with this reminiscence: | re-
member that 1 once asked one of the
most sagacious gentlemen who ever sat
in this house-Mr. Walter, the father OF
one of our colleagues now in the house
of commons-and who had great knowl-
edge Of the press and Of public opinion
Il asked him, How do you ascertain
what is public opinion ?" Well, he
he said, the way | ascertain public
opinion is this-petitions may be got np
and meetings may be got up, or the
country may feel a great deal without
expressing its opinion either by petitions
or by public meetings; but" he said
there is an infallible test, and that Is
the post. The way I always know what
is the real feeling of the country Is the
letter-bag." He then had the conduct %
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ia, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, NAY 5, 1916.

His excellency, Brugseh Bey, who was
the chief commissioner from Egypt for
Vienna, Eclds else the same, position
here, and so without doubt the e8h.bi-
tion will be as well arranged as it was at
Vienna. Brugsch Bey is the most pro-
found Egyptian scholar in the world,
and is the only person who has succeeded
i1 .deqiphetihg perfectly all the ancient
hiefogiyphics, and has made the task of
others easy in having written a complete
hieroglyphic dictionary. Being so pro-
found scholar in all that pertains to
that land whose buried and forgotten
greatness so much exceed our widest
fancy, it is impossible for any other ma
tion to be represented by any one who
brings 20 sificefe desire To false their
Country TO its proper place In the esti-
hatioh Of all the world.
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one of those powerful Journals which it
Is Che fsshfofi NOW TO quote In the house
of commons. II %as never so when
first entered it. He sad receive
about one hundred letters GAY, per-
hays moro, when there is anything stir
ring in the country; and l understand
and f;fd out what Is public feeling from
the post-bag. 1t is that which tells me
what the feeling Of the codhtfy Is. and l
know it before petitions or public meet
itIfsa-they follow it."
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txCLE Srn's REVIVAL HYMN.

Sif.'s ROSTERS crewed, Ole Mshster's ris,
De sleepin'-time is pas;
Wake up dem lazy BaptisSis,
Dey nightly in de grass, grass,
Dey's migntily IN de grass.
Ole Mahster's blowed de mornin' horn,
He's blowed powerful blast;
q Baptis', come, come hoe the corn,
You's nightly in de grass, etc.
De Meth'dis team S, done hitched; o TOOL
O.. De dayis a-breakin' ,fas.;
Gear. up dat lean ole Baptls' mule,
. Eey's nightly in de grass, etc.
De woikmen's s few an mons'rous slow,
De cotton's sheddin' fas
Whoop look, jes' look at de Baptis' row,
Hits nightly in de grass, etc.
De jaybird squeal to de Iaoekin'-bird; "Stop
Do n gimme none o. yo' sssSi
BETTER Fitig ore cong for de BaPtis' crot,
Bey's nightly III de grass" etc.
An, dc ole crow croak "Do'R, work. no, no -
But Se hel 7lark say, % Yaas; yass, -,
An / spec you mighty, glad, yeu debblish croT y
Dat dc Baptissis's ia de grass" ete.
Lard, 4b'rter IS up to de plowin' match
Lord peerten de hOein' fas'
Yea, Lord, hab mussy on de Baptis' patch,
Deys nightly in de grass, grass,
Dey's mig htily in de grass.
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Come Just as You Are.

lii dne If his recent settitcns ~ the
Hippodrome in New York, Mr. Moody
said: There are great many men that
want to come, and they say, Wait
until am better man, and then | will
come" / never knew man to be saved
that came to Christ in that way. You
can not cleanse yourselves. Every day
and hour that you are staying from
Christ you are getting worse instead Of
better. The very act of yoii staying
away is a sin, and so, instead of trying
to get better, and get ready to come,
Just come as you are and be clothed with
the garments of salvation. He will
clOthe you with His own righteousness.
| noticed when our war was going on
men used to come to enlist, and the man
who came with fine suit of clothes on,
and the hod-carrier in his dirty gar
ments. would both have to take off their
clothes and put ON the uniform of the
government. And sd when tiieh go into
the Kingdom of God they have to put
on the livery of Heaven. You need not
dress up for Christ, because He will
strip you when you come, and put on
you the robes of His righteousness. My
friends, you can not stand before God
in your own righteousness. Come to
God as poor beggar, and He will have
mercy upon you. heard some years
ago of an artist who wanted a model for
the prodigal. He went to many institu-
tions and prisons, but could not get a
man who suited his ideas of the Prodi-
gal One day, however, while walking
down the street, he met poor, mis-
cradle tramp, and he suited the artists
eye, so he asked him if he would be
willing to sit for his portrait. The
tramp said he would, if he would pay
him for It. The artist promised, and set
a day and hour for him to come. AT
the appointed time, while the artist was
sitting in his studio, the man came in,
but he was so we'll dressed the artist
didn't know him, and told him he had
no appointment with him. When the
beggar told him the circumstances, the
artist said: What have you been
doing?" Why" says the man, "
thought if l was going to sit for my
portrait l would get a new suit oi
clothes" Z" All" said the artist, "vou
won't do; l wanted you just as you
were" So, when you go to Christ &C
as you are, with all your rags, youl
filth and your sin, and He will receive
you. / don't care how bad you are
He came for that purpose, and there Ii
not man or a woman In this hall to-day
that is SO bad that Christ would no
have you if you will only come.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-05

STEINBERGER's DISASTROUS FALL
The fall of Steinberger ought To he a
warning to future adventurers who may
dream of usurping a cannibal throne.
They must understand that lesnness Is
the indispensable condition Of safety.
1t is generally known that not a single
missionary has been eaten since Banting
nnbIisbed his famous Instructions how
ia become thin. Had SteinbcrgeTT
prasped the meaning of this fact, ana
kept himself down TO the missionary
standard of weight, he would not nave
miobt still be de fact0 monarch.
Eternal emaciation is The price OF power
among the cannibals, and the fate OF
Stein6erger, who slowly fattened to his
fall. shows that the tenderest feelings OF
the human stomach can not be safely
outraged and defied.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-05

4 The San Francisco News Letter de-
scribes the newest discovery in natural
history, being an insect which has beeN
cchristened without consulting the
scientist-or, as the News Letter calls
them, the "bug sharps"-a "man bug"
The description is as follows: "The
creature has a body of dark green
coler, notified with yellow or orange-col-
ored spots. This is about five inches
long by two and a half broad, of a beetle
shape, and terminating at the head in a
rair of red and very vicious looking eyes
and two horny mandibes of like color
and decidedly snappish appearance.
! 1t has no appearance of wings. Its most
lipeculiar feature, however, is a single pair
of spidery legs attached to the lower end
of it's body. These are about twelve or
fourteen inches in length and singularIv
resemble those of a man in regard to the
number of joints and the fact that it
stands bolt upright on them. The crea-
ture stands some foot and a half high.
walks with long, crane-like stride, and
is like nothing so much as an immense
June bug on stills. Its only known food
is mice, and these, when introduced into
sthe large bird-cage that confines it, it
seizes with sudden dash of its foot or
claw and dispatches voraciously." 1t
was found on the island of Iwiwau, some
sixty miles south of Steinberger's do
main.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-05

4 SAD PIcrURE.-A lady who has been
paying the miikman seven cents per
quart all winter ventured to remark the
other day that now, as grass had started,
he could afford to sell it at six. '' Grass %
he exclaimed, as he gave her a terrified
look, grass started You ought to see
the COW | turned out to Craze last
week! She walked five hundred
times around fifty acre lot after one
mouthful of grass, and when she got that
IL was full of nails, old bottles and
clothes-pins She has been under the
Doctors care ever since, and if lose her
I'll have TO put up the price to ten
csntsw The lady is not an agriculturist,
and she couldn't say anything more.
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HOUSE.

In the house, on the 18th, the report
of the election committee on the Alabama
contested election case of Bromberg against
HaralsOn was taken up. The report was
unanimous, declaring the sitting member,
Haralson, entitled to the seat. The report
was agreed to. The house then took nm the
Floyd contested election case, the resolution
or the majority of the committee being that
Mr.. Walls, the sitting member, is not en-
titled TO the seat, and that Jesse j. Finlav.
the contestant, is, the resolution of the mi
nority being TO the opposite effect. Several
speeches were made, but no vote was taken
Mr.. Scales introduced a bill to refund certain
direct taxes on land, collected from citizens
of the late resurrectionary states At the
evening session speeches favoring the transfer
of tue Indian bureau to the war department
were made by Culberson. Hooker and Ban-
ming. Adjourned.
In the house, on the 18th, Mr.. Lord
reported a replication to the plea of juris-
diction filed on behalf of Belknap. The
replication was adopted and ordered COM
municated to the senate. The sergeant.at-
arms reported that he mad obeyed the writ
of habeas corpus in the Hallet Kilbourue
case, and that kilbourne was ordered bv the
Judge into the custody of the marshal. Mr..
Whitehouse introduced bill for retiring
the interest bearing debt of the United States
into United States consols bearing four per
cent gold interest and having forty wears to
run. Referred. Mr.. O'Hrien introduced a
bill to provide for the coinage of centennial
coins. Referred. The bill provides for silver
dollars and half dollars one side of the coins
TO give corresponding value in the coins of
the other principal commercial nations The
house then resumed consideration of the
Florida contested election case After sew
eral speeches, the report was adopted-I13
to 50. Mr.. J. J. Finlsy was declared entitled
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NORMAN MLEoD was once preaching
in district IN Ayres, where the reading
OF sermon is regarded as the greatest
fault of which the minister can be guilty.
When the congregation dispersed, an old
woman, overfowing with enthusiasm,
addressed her Deighbor: "Did We ever
hear any thing sac gram NVasna that a
sermon?' but her expressions of admi-
ration being met by stolid glance. she
shouted. "'Speak, womanl wasna that a
sermon?'' "Oh, ay," replied her friend,
sulkiIy. "but he read it" Read it, D
said tho other, with indignant emphasis,
81 wadna ha cared if he had whustled it. y
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-05
Curious fraHsfsr. in Stewards Estate

The New York Tribune says, While
the late merchant prince still lay f6bed
for the crave in his house on Fifth
avenue. an inventory of his property
vas taken, The amount, according to
current but perhaps inaccurate report,
being found to be something lihe twenty
five millions of dollars. On Good
Friday, the day after the funeral, his
widow sold the entire property, only ex-
ceptinp the real estate in New York
city. to Judge Hilton himself, receiving
n bavnent the million Of dollars which
the dead man had left the judge for his
service "in managing, closing and
winding up the partnership business
affairs
This is a rapid succession of important
events. The business transactions are
of a gigantic magnitude, and, on their
face seem of so extraordinary nature
that it is impossible to accept them as
embedying the whole case, or as a pos
sible finaiity. They are observed by
the people of New York with the keen
interest of legatees. -.
For there Was given to the public,
with tie will, and by the authority Of
the widow and heir, a letter from Mr..
Stewart to his wife, renewing his oft re-
peated declaration Of his purpose to pro
vide for various public charities, init
mating that he had been engaged IN
celebrating several plans for the welfare
of his fellow beings, and had already
begun some of them, and in the event OF
his sudden death, should depend upon
his widow in carry them out. He ad-
ded, that their friend Judge Hilton
would give any assistance IN his power
and referred her to him for details
There was no intimation that Judge
Hilton was to bestow these charities.
Mr.. Stewart's letter informed his wife
tbas he must depend upon her to carry
out the plans he had devised 1;on For %o,IaTs tine
consideration of the miiiloh uollaIs
which he gave 10 Judge Hilton, in order
to secure and reward his interest in this
matter, the widow has now, under the
Judges advice, sold all the property ex-
cepfing the New York real estate, to
the Judge himself. In other words, the
Judge seems to have traded his own
legacy for the rest of the property.
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JEWISH POPULATION OF THE UNITED
SrATgs.-A Jewish paper published in
London saws that of the six million Jews
in the world. quarter of a million are
10 be found in the United States. We
have no accurate figures of recent date
to confirm or correct this estimate, as
our decennial census returns give nc dis
tinctiye enumeration of Jews; but We
Judge from number Of facts before US,
that the estimate of the London Jewish
paper is far too low. Rabbi Gottheil,
who is we'll informed, and careful in his
language, says that the Jewish Popula--
tion OF this city alone is over 20. 900 and
the Jews are to bc counted by many
Thousands in all our large cities, includ-
ing New Orleans, San Francisco, Chica-
! GO. St. Louis and Cincinnati. There has
/ been large immigration of Jews to the
/ United States from various countries OF
Europe during the last twenty years
and the prosperity they have enjoyed
1 has enlarged the current in this direction
| from wear to year.-Ne'o York Sun.
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ACCORDING to contemporary, a Gu
riOus case has been decided in the court
of Justice at Munich. 1t has always
been the custom to deck the two towers
of the cathedral with flags upon occa-
sions of public festivity, and until re-
Gently this practice had never given rise
40 any misunderstanding Since the
uni6cation of Germany the Archbishop
os Munich has always hOisted the yellow
;snd white flag with the keys of st. Pc
ter upon the towers on saints days,
while upon political holidays the munic-
ipality has displayed from the two tow
ers the black, red, and yellow flag, sur
mounted by the imperial eagle. Upon
the last anniversary of the battle of
Sedan, these emblems of the new empire
HOated proudly in the breeze" but the
chapter of the cathedral protested against
their exhibition, basing their objections
upon statutes which date from the elev-
cnth century. They instituted proceed
ings against the municipal council, and
the trial lasted several days. The Judge
at last decided that while the body of the
cathedral is the exclusive property of
. the Judges, the towers belong to the city,
(which consequently may deck them as
N { Dleases.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-05

TIE Disraeli ministerin Great Britain
must be considered success in its abil-
ity to find avenues for the expenditure
of cooney. 1t does not propose to
a@cpt the " cheese pairing policy" oi
Gladstone, by means of which expendi-
7ur2s were so curtailed that Il reduction
IN taxation was possible, DisraeIi wants
upwards of ELS, 900, ,OGO for the current
hscal year, an amoUnt larger by several
million por.hds sterling than was ex-
pended IN any one year when Glad
stone WAs at the helm of state With the
prese'Lt sources of revenue there would
he deficiency of nearly $500, goo, and
lhIs the chancellor of the exchequer pro-
poses to make up and have a surplus of
1855, 900 by an increase of a penny a
pound in the income tax. This tax is
made great source of revenue in En-
gland whenever an unusual sum of mon
ey isneeded. A tax of "a penny a pound,
though only a little over two-ffths of
one per cent. will produce, according to
che chancellor of the exchequer, about
-sl,00O,000 per annum. This shows
what immense wealth is concentrated in
the united kingdom in the hands of
the wen who have incomes subject to
t3IStion.
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TIMELY TOPICS.

OR- PRIME admits that comparatively
small proportion of clergymen's son:
become preachers, but Indignantly de
MES the assertion that ministers sons
are the worst in the parish" "Qne prod
lgal,' he says, from the pastor own
fold makes more talk than ninety and
nine apostates from the rest Of the
church"
IHE forests of Europe are estimated AS
being 500,0Oe,O 900 acres in extent. In
North America l ,460, 600, 600 acres are
covered with trees, of which area 9OO.-
OOO,OOO are in British North America.
In South America forests occupy 7OO,-
Ooo'ooo acres. The proportion of forest
iand to the whole area of Europe is COM
Puted at twenty per cent; in America,
twenty-one. Supposing, therefore, twen-
y per cent, to be the proportion in Asia,
Aif1ea anf Australia, the grand total of
the lore It's of the world cover a space of
|'1'4' 100 geographical miles.
AN English judge has decided that a
woman can keep her wedding ring and
wear it when she pleases, but she cannot
give 1t away without his consent 1t is
the one ring that all women want to
have finger in once in their lives. but
which not few are glad to get their
hnger out Of 1t does pinch awfully
sometimes, but it has been remarked
that most women who get their finger
out of one are never quite easy till tney
get il into another. And Herbert Spen,
Ger says the gold ring now worn as an or
namcnt on the finger is the sign of the
iron ring that was worn about the neck
or ankle, and indicates the subsection of
the wearer. A very beautiful reminis.
cenee it must be to one of the strong
minded
Ir Is highly probable that the widow
of Alexander T. S, ,Awart will be annoved
and prosecuted beyond measure bv beg
gars Of vari">os degrees, even now that
Judge HIl' IN IS employed to assist her
IN disbn .fng il. If she had retained the
whole che could not, during her life, give
i" AZ more than the merest fraction of
che interest Of her vast fortune. If she
Enew on whom to bestow it, and occu-
pied all her tine in making small dOna-
ticns, she could not give it ali away
during her lifetime. Supposing her to be
worth $50, 900, 900, and to disburse only
the Interest, she could get rid of SO, 900
day, or 81 900 every working hour. In
other words, she could perpetuaIIy give
away SIC a minute for ten hours of every
working day and never touch the prin-
cipal! If resolved to transfer to others
the entire fortune, it would take her
ear if she counted out $3.50 second.
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EAST.

Farm laborers in Vermont are engaa-
ing themselves at fifteen dollars per month
and board, where last year twenty-five dol
lars was paid.
Besides the losses from the unparal-
leled falling of in immigration, New York
has lost One-fourth of its import trade ip foar
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These lost imports were not diverted to
other ports, nearly all the other importing
cities in this country showing proportional