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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20
Very Serious Question.

Under what style and titles should a
sovereign address the chief magistrate of
a republic? In writing to the president
of the United States her majesty makes
use the dreadfully patronizing formula
of "My good friend" The Duke of
Rutland employed some similar phrase
when he issued proclamation TO the
farm laborers on his estates Kaiser
William, in cOngratulating Gen. Grant
on the American centenary, writes
Great and good friend" which strikes
one as at least better than the British
formula. The Emperor Francis Joseph
begins his letter with Honorable and
dear friend" while the car says simply
an. lie president" The czar, perhaps,
shows the best taste Of all, for the other
mOnarchs, by using an out-ofthe-way
form of address, seems to show that they
thought of beginning with "My broth
er," but on reflection decided that they
could not quite, and so bit on a
compromise. The question is a serious
one, and might worthily engage the great
mind of Lord Beaconsfeld.
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belief N a mind which penetrates and
permeates the whole universe, aud which
hence envelopes every heart, it will Lave
poured into mortals a new motive and
into death itself new consolation. And it
does indeed seem that the new science,
should it ever be established, will De fol-
lowed, not by atheism, but by a new
conception of the omnipotence of God.
Instead of dressing up the Deity in the
form of Moses or David, the universe
will all become the form of the Al
mighty every constellation will be in
cluded in His diadem, every howery
world be interviewer in His wreatLs; all
the floods of light become the folds
and trains of His garments. In
all times christians have loved
here and there to venture upon
this thought. From st. John, wEo saw
the creative word coming from all the
universe and encamping in the Christ,
to all the mystics of the seventeenth
century the mind has attempted 70 bring
the Infinite nearer to itself. But the
fear of pantheism on the one hand, and
the feebleness of the intellect on the
other, have always come to lead the
head back to great man on throne as
being the lawful representations of the
Eternal. Oh, that some science may
come, if come it has not, that shall
throw down our craven images in our
temple, and shall cast our hearts into an
omnipresent soul, as drops of water are
cast into the sea! Do you desire to be
lieve that a million years ago Deity
placed in certain seeds the germs of life?
Would we not better feel that the Father
is still in the sunbeam that plays around
our pathway at noon and in the moaning
winds that sigh at midnight? 1t is high
time that those who break the laws of
right, whose loves are full of all inius-
-tice and vice, should feel that there is
an omnipresent mind and power whose
empire they insult and whose very pres
ence they pollute with their deeds and
character. The human soul needs for
its virtue a ruling mind never to be alb
sent, never to be evaded, but always
present with reward or punishment the
religious heart needs to have its love in
fuenced by the thought that the Being
it wOrships is in the very air that touches
the cheek, and is mysterious agency in
the very tomb where the earthly body
returns to dust. Such a Deity, rescued
from the iIon-like form of the past inagi- |
nation, can become incarnate in Christ. |
can enter the soul of the penitent, can
explain the mental and moral phenomena |
of earth, explain its learning, its pro-
gress, its love, its beauty, and then can |
enter the chamber of death and make it |
the gateway Of a second existence.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20
Defects of the Human Eve.

In a recent discussion before the phys
ical society, London, one of the speakers
remarked that, though the eye has been
considered to be achrOmatic because it
practically is so, it is easy to cite evil
dence of the defects of the organ in this
respect. For instance, to shOrt-sighted
persons the moon appears to have blue
fringe, and, in using the spectroscope,
the red and blue ends of the spectrum
can not be seen with equal distinctness
without adjusting the focusing glass.
Again, a Black patch of paper, on a
blue ground, appears to have fringed
edge, if viewed from even short dis
tance, while a black patch on a red
ground, when observed under similar
conditions, has perfectly distinct mar
gin. In the opinion of the speaker re-
ferred to, it is the overlapping of images
in the eye which produces the mental
impression that there is no want of
achromatism.
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Horned Men in Africa.

A paper by Capt. J. S. Hay, on the
horned men of Africa, was read at the
recent meeting of the British association.
He also exhibited sketches of two Afri
cans with horns. Mr. Hyde Clarke said
it was very difficult to assign any reason
for the appearance of the horns, but
there was no doubt that Capt. Hay had
seen them. One way might be that they
had been inserted or inoculated into the
face; but Capt. Hay informed them that
it was the object OF the parents to re-
move the horns, which he regarded as a
natural growth. One suggestion was that
this was class of malformation, of which
there was a memorable example in the
case of the "porcupine man." who had
horny plaits on various parts of his body.
Hehad not heard from anybody any suffi-
cient explanation with regard either to its
being natural phenomenon arising at
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20
POOL BETTING.
Radical Reform Demanded by Patrons
of the Turf

Radical Reform Demanded by Patrons
of the Turf.
One of the most serious evils of the
turf is thus discussed, editorially, by the
Turf, Field and Farm.
That the trOtting associations receive
ANYTHING but a small revenue from the
tax on pool sales are not to be questioned
for moment. At some of the tracks
the tax after dividing with the pOol-sel-
Ter, frequently amounts to five and six
thousand dollars. The commission
which the pool buyers pay in the march
from Cleveland to Springfield amountsto
a small fortune. Capital would soon be
eaten up by the percentage charged on
the in and out speculation on heat races,
did not the winnings largely Outnum-
Der the losses. The tax would ruin any
man whose aggregate winnings only
equaled his aggregate losses. Almost
every speCulator knows this, and there
fore he is not particular as to the means
by which he wins. The odds are so
great against him that he is tempted
into schemes which will not bear the
light of day. All the knavery practiced
in the trotting turf is Matched i'll the
interest of the pool box.
There are thousands Of people whoa
fond of racing, but who will not coun-
tenance a sport used to foster a gambling
spirit. We might as well look the truth
in the face first aslast. When professional
drivers lament the evils of the day, it is
time for park managers to be up and on
guard. The question for them to take
into serious consideration is whether they
can best afford to do without the five
per cent. tax on pools, or the one dollar
at the gate.
Those who believe in moderate instead
of extreme measures have suggested
plan which possibly might work we'll
They propose to retain the pool stand but
to allow no pools to be sold on a race
after the race has been called. They ar
que that this would breakup the cembi-
nations, as the speculator would have no
chance to hedge after placing his money.
If the judges believed that horse was
not trying TO win they could take him
out of the hands of his driver and put
some one up behind him in whom they
had confidence. When made TO realize
the fact that honest Judges would see to
It that horses were honestly driven, the
spectators would back their candid judg
ment of the capacities of the contending
horses, instead of lending his support to
a job. He would be without protection
should he attempt to pursue any other
course. To give force to this plan the
telegraph would have to be looked after.
1t would be ne cessary to instruct the
operator on the park grounds to refuse
every dispatch offered him giving the
betting odds. Unless this were done the
horses would be manipulated in the in
terests of jobs put up in the pool rooms
distant from the scene of action.
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A Son Dives Three Times for His
Drowning Mother, and Rescues
Her.

On Thursday, the oath ultimo., Fred
Bergman, aged twelve years, rowed his
mother, Mrs. Bergman, and two of his
sisters, both younger than himself,
across the st. CrOix, in New Brunswick,
to Calais, in a small boat. When they
reached their destination, Fred. helped
one of the little girls to Chamber up the
wharf, and took her to a place of safe
ty. When he returned for the other, he
found her running about the boat,
screaming: "Where is my mamma ?"
Fred. rightly conjectured that his moth
er had fallen overheard, and being a
capital swimmer, though so young,
dived Immediately into the water, where
he saw bubbles arising, and had the
good fortune to aid in bringing her to
the surface, but could not do more, and
Mrs Bergman, like every other person
in danger of being drowned, kept hold
ing on to him, while both were sinking
again; whereupon Fred. cried out:
q Oh, mother, don't drown mel" on
which, still retaining her senses, Mrs.
Bergman dropped her hold on him, and
pushed him from her, and then sank
the second time. Fred, in an agony of
grief, dived and pulled her to the sur
face again. Again she sank. Happily
there was no current at the time, and,
when the noble little fellow helped her
up the third time, he succeeded by a
superhuman effort in placing her right
hand. which was open, on the stern of
the boat, and there Mrs. Bergman,
though by that time utterly unconscious,
took hold and held on till Fred mounted
the wharf and brought some men at
work near by to her assistance.-iT.
Stephen Journal.
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A TRAPPER'S STORY.

i" Twas moonlight night" the trapper began,
As we lay by the bri .ht camp fire
Come; fill up your pipes and pile on the brands,
And draw little higher.
"'Twas moonlight night when Bet andI-
Bet-she's the old mare YOU know
Started for camp on our lonely route
Ger the dreary waste of snow.
4" had been to the clearing that afternoon.
For powder and ball, and whisky, too,
For game was plenty, furs in demand,
And plenty Of hunting and trapping to do.
"a had no fear of the danger that Iurked
In the region through which my journey lay
I'LL bet OF sudden pricked up her ears,
And smiled the air in n curious way.
" knew at once what the danger was
And Bet struck out at a forty gait;
Twas life or death for the mare aud me-
And all could do was to trust to fate.
90 Wolves our track, ten miles fr m homeI
pleasant prospect that eh, boys7
could see them skulking among the trees,
And the woods re-echOed their hideous noise.
I" AT last, as their number began to swell
They bolder grew and pressed us close
So Old Pill-Driver brought to bear,
And gave the leader leaden dose.
Now you must know, if you draw the blood
On one OF the sneaking, ravenous crew.
The rest will turn on the double quick,
And eat him up without more ado.
- IhlS gave me q chance TO load my gun,
With just q chance to breathe and rest
When on they came a-gaining fast,
Though Bet was doing neI level best.
' began to think it was getting hot;
Pill Driver says /. this will never do;
Talk to 'em againp You bet she did,
And right in his tracks lay number two.
" Well, boys, TO make n long story short,
/ picked them off till but one was left
But he was whopper, you'd better believe
A reg'la mammoth in size and heft.
e Yes. he was the last of the savage pack.
Fer, as they had followed the nat'raI law,
They had eaten each other fast as they fell,
Till all were condensed in his spacious maw."
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THE YELLOW FEVER.
Ho" Its Poison Creeps Over a city.

How Its Poison CreePs Over n City.
We quote the following stat ment
lately made by DR.. Elisha Harris, of New
York, who is an excellent authority:
The death rate in yellow fever is from
twenty-five to thirty. five per cent. 1t
was twenty-five per cent. in Shreveport
and thirty per cent. in Memphis. In the
New Orleans epidemic it has usually
been about twenty-five per cent. Balti-
more is much more secure against vel
low fever epidemic than New York is,
for there the greater part of the pOpula-
tion live on high ground, and the dis
ease will not travel up the steep hills of
Baltimore. 1t will be more likely to
travel along the coast, and should the
coming winter be mild one in the south,
we may look for yellow fever in the
spring.
The true nature of the poison has not
yet been ascertained, and cannot be un-
til more scientific progress is made. The
time will come when we shall doubtless
be able to meet the enemy, and fully
understand how it effects its work. The
disease does not travel through the air,
as many used to think. 1t is thing that
creeps on the ground. IL travels on a
level or down a decline much faster
demonstrated by the examination of the
progress of epidemics, particularly the
one which passed through this city in
1922. 1t began at the foot of Rector
street, on the North river, where the
poison had been deposited from a sailors
luggage. 1t travelled slewly up Rector
street, which is pretty steep. Coming
to Broadway, it branched out in both
n Il
the streets leading toward New and Broad
streets.
At the same time it was spreading up
and down, and at one time the fence that
was put up to check its progress inclosed
the city hall and the park. All the
merchants and bankers moved up to
of Ninth avenue and
clined to 90 outside of the enclosure, and
many of the obstinate ones lost theiI
lives as the result of their folly. The
poison was propagated on about an average
of about fifty feet each day, and over
spread nearly the whole city. As l said |
before, the poison goes up hill with ap-
parent difficulty, and, in its march |
the city, it never went over the !
houses, but always round them. Persons |
living in the upper stories of tall houses
would, therefore, not be likely to be af-
fected if they remained in their domi-
Giles all the time.
Absolute cleanliness is the best pro-
lection. Bathing all over once or twice
every day, and putting on clean cloth
ing every time; securing, sweeping,
scrubbiDg, ETC., everything that could
keep the body and its surroundings clean,
would be the course to pursue. People
should keep their spirits up and the
pores of the skin open. Care should be
aiken to keep the dwelling and out
houses dry by the use of lime, and no
me should venture out in the night air
when yellow fever is around.
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COLUMBIA TENNESSEE, FRIDAY OCTOBER 30, 1876
void food in grief. Despondencv

avoid food in grief Dependency is
nothing but the result of incomplete nu-
triton of the nerves, which give way un-
der outward pressure it is only neces-
sary TO be judicious, and give good nour-
ishment to respondent persons, such as
will invigorate and prove of tonic value,
and the nervous system will return to its
natural elasticity. Dependency ex-
hausts the nervous system greatly, for
all thought is action, and desponding
thought wastes more force than joyous
thought Nervous diseases are the con-
sequence of continued waste of nervous
action and incomplete nutrition, and
require nothing but judicious dietic treat
ment. We have at the outset of our
movement always maintained that all
nervous disorders and so-called lunacy
can be greatly affected by diet, and we
maintain this now healthy and judicious
food molds the character and nourishes
tho hroiu
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SerVia.

Servia is almost purely an agricultural
country, and ninety per cent. of her pop
ulatiOn are engaged in that industry. 1t
has an area of only 10000 square miles,
and yet it has population about the
same as the state of Iowa-Iowa has a
population of 1881 900, and Servia
1856, 900. Servia lies ON the south side
of the Danube, where they have strip
of fertile soil, fully equal to Iowa's best.
1t adioins Hungary on the north, lying
between the last named country and
Roumania and Bosnia. Servia is mostly
mountainous and barren, and yet it has
over ,000inhabitantst to every square miie
in the territory. The reader can form
some idea of its density of population
from the fact that ordinary towns in this
country of 1000 inhabitants occupy
about one square mile. So that all Ser
via is as crowded as our towns, and yet
they subsist on agriculture.
They are hardy, healthy and brave
people, and have stood the assaults of
various enemies. At the treaty of Paris
in 1856 Servia was placed under the pro-
lection of the great powers of Europe,
but from ssme cause, in 1862, war was
declared against them by Turkey, when
the European powers decided that Tur-
key must evacuate their posts in Servia,
and that peace and protection should
continue to be guaranteed to them.
Hence the interest that the European
nations are now taking about the eastern
question.
Their language is Serb or Illyran.
They are well prepared for war, having
powder mills, cannon of the best quality,
and 10000 stand of Peabody muskets.
Their militia numbers about 100000,
and they can in forty. eight hours call
into active service 10000 men, being
more than the United colonies of
America could in the revolution, while
they have not one hundreth part of
frontier to protect; and not such i'm
mense marches to make to mass their
forces upon any one point. In great
emergencies, they could bring into SER
vice 200, 900 men. 1t is said their can
non factory and musket armory are in
active operation, and that they have all
the modern conveniences and comforts
of warfare in transports, ambulances and
hospital stores. They have three hun
dred and fifty field as well as an abun-
dance of siege guns. They have mill
tary school at Belgrade, and in addition
their chief officers have been thoroughly
drilled in the French, Austrian and
Prussian schools and armies.
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Cur Study of the Attributes of Deity.

From recent sermon by Prof. Swing.
1t is not only certain that the new
sciences need not harm christian doc
tine, but it is possible they may abso-
lutely reform our ideas of God. When
we inherited the notion of the Almighty
being a person like a human person, we
fell heir to a very inferior conception
a Deity fashioned like the colossal David
of Angelo, has not been the best form
through which or in which the human
family could behold its maker and Judge.
The Deity thus embodied, thus central
lied, was too easily removed from the
homes and paths of men. All human
hearts have always thought of Him as
being elsewhere, and hence He has been
too far away to alarm the sinful and to
comfort the sorrowing. Wicked men
have felt that they could hide from
Him; that millions and millions of miles
lay between their little actions and the
White Throne. Devout hearts have
looked up with tears, wishing for the
wings Of a dove, or the wings Of light
and thought, that they might fy away
and find the infinite rest. In his error
and weakness, the christian has compared
his prayer TO a telegraph that ran from
earth to the realms of the Father. If
any science can come with power to over
throw these childish symbols of Deity
and to give us Father filling all space
with his presence, we shall all hasten
to call that science the noble benefactor
of religion. 1t must be remembered that
personal God" does net imply To-
Called or humanized God. A personal
God is a power conscious Of self-a mind
"a consciousness. To picture this mind
as a person like king or a Judge was
the error of the infant-man If, by de-
grees, science can remove this idea from
the earth, erase it from the memory of us
who are living and exclude it from the
generation to come, and give to the soul
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Food for the Nerves.

The mind, as it is called, and the body
are one, and can only act by the same
laws: whether action proceeds from the
nervous centers and is invisible, or
from the muscular system and is invisi
bic, it is action produced by force gener-
ated within. The German Professor
Helmholtz has lately brought the calcu-
lations ofthe force that has to be engen-
dered within our comprehension, and if
such force has to be maintained, it can
only be done by nourishment or food.
Food consists not only of organic, vege-
table and animal matter, but also of air
and water, and therefore change of air
is often invigorating to the nervous sys-
TEN. Our ideas of the minds work are
still very confused, for all nervous ac-
tion is produced by exertion or waste of
force. Grief is nervous exertion; JOY is
nervous exertion; every thought Is ner-
vous exertion, and all this exertion wants
maintaining and feeding Whenever
exaustion appears, or so-called disorders,
it is nothing else but the consequence OF
want of nOurishment. Grief makes a
greater claim on the nervous centers
than joy, and it is exceedingly wrong to
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-20
Bitterness of the French to the Ger
mans.

The continued bitterness of the French
to the Germans is shown in the general
disfavor with which the admission OF
German exhibits to the forthcoming in
ternational exhibition at Paris is re-
ceived by the Freuchmen. They threaten
to leave the German department of the
exhibition severely alone. Another in
dication of this hostility was shown in
the uproar raised in France over the re-
port that Mile Erckm8nn, a daughter Of
the French author, of the Erckmann
Chatrain literary partnership, had mar
ried a Prussian NJ. Erckmann is an
Alsatian, though he left Alsace when it
came into the German possession, and
now lives in Paris. The Indignation ex-
pressed in France was great and general.
Now NJ. Erckmann comes out in a letter.
denying that any Mile. Erckmann has
ever married a Prussian. but cOnfessing
that his niece, Mile. Weisse, the daugh-
ter of a deceased sister, did make such
marriage. He protested strongly against
it, and when the young lady persisted in
marrying her Prussian, NJ. Erckmann
wrote at once and broke off relations be-
tween the families.
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No Fun In Him.
Detroit Free Pree


One of the members of the Methodist
conference recently held here, was out
for walk at an early hour one morning,
and while on Howard street he encoun-
tered strapping big fellow, who was
drawing a wagon to the blacksmith
shop.
"Catch hold here and help me down
to the shop with this wagon and I'll buy
81 never drink solemnly replied the
good man.
"Well, you can take a cigar"
never smoke"
The man dropped the wagon-tongue,
looked hard at the member and asked:
"Don't you chew?'
mo, sir" was the decided reply.
You must get mighty Lonesome" s"
mused the teamster.
al guess Pm all right feel first
rate"
"Pll bet you even that / can lay you
on your back" remarked the teamster.
"COme now, let's warm up little"
d" | never bet"
"Well let's take each other down for
fun, then. You are as big as 1 am, and
I'll give you the gnderhold.
q never have fun" solemnly answered
the member.
"Well I'm going to tackle you anyway.
Here we go!'
The teamster slid up and endeavored to
get a neck-hold, but he had only just
commenced to fool about when he was
lifted clear off the grass and slammed
against tree-box with such force that
he gasped half a dozen times before he
could get his breath.
"Now you keep away from mep ex-
claimed the minister, picking up his
cane.
"Bust me if don't" replied the
as he edged off "What's the
use in lying an saying you didn't have
any fun in you, when you're chuck full
o it! Blame it! you wanted to break
my neck, didn't you'll You just hang
around here about five minutes, you old
Texan you, and I'll bring on a feller
who'll cave in your head"
81 never hang" said the minister, as
he sauntered on, and the teamster leaned
On his wagon and unused.