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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-26

The women's centennial executive
committee have raised $4,000 for the
erection of pavilion in which to exhibit
every kind of woman's work. To this
collection, women of all nations have
contributed.
The list of special buildings is con,
stantly increasing, and the present indi-
cations are that their total number will
be from two hundred TO two hundred
and fifty. Most of the important foreign
acknowledgement, Germany, Austria,
France, Sweden, Egypt, Japan and
Others-are putting up one or more
structures each, for exhibition purposes,
or for the use of the commissioners, ex-
hibitors and visitors. Offices and head
quarters of this kind, usually of consid-
cradle architectural beauty, are provided
by the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey,
New York, Connecticut; Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, Missouri, Kansas Nir-
gin;a, West Virginia, Nevada, Wiscon-
sin, Iowa and Delaware and it is likely
that others will follow the example.
4 number of trade and industrial as
sociations, which require large amounts
of space, are provided for in special build
ings. Among these are the photo
graphers, the carriage builders, the glass
makers, the cracker bakers, the boot and
shoe manufacturers, besides quite a num-
ber of individual exhibitors. The great
demand for space renders this course ne.
ccssary to a considerable extent, espec-
tally for exhibitors who have been tardy
in making their applications. In the
main exhibition building, for example,
three hundred and thirty-thrce thou
sand three hundred square feet of space
had been applied for by the beginning of
October by American exhibitors only
whereas, the aggregate space which it
Mas been possible to reserve for the
|United States department is only one
hundred and sixty thousand square feet.
About one-third is consumed by passage
ways.
The machinery building, like the
ohers, is already fully covered by appli-
cations. There are about one thousand
American exhibitors in this department,
one hundred and fifty English, and one
hundred and fifty from other European
countries-which is about two hundred
and fifty more than entered the Wen
ma machinery exhibition. Extra provision
has been made for annexes to accOmmo-
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-26

The shoes were of the same material as
the dress, often skillfully embroidered.
Country girls sometimes carried the
broadcloth shoes with peaked toes in
their hands till they got to church; but
the pink satin and yellow brocade shoes
of city maidens were supported on clogs
and pattens. Mrs. John Adams asked
her husband to send her from Philadel-
phia in 1775, ''two yards of black Gala
nance for Shoes" saying she could not
wear leather if she went barefoot
By way of silently reproving the vanity
of their wives and daughters, the sterner
sex appeared in immense powdered wigs,
stiffiy starched ruffles, glittering knee
and shoe buckles, embroidered silk vests,
white silk stockings, and coats of every
hue but black, Trimmed with great gilt
or silver buttons. With these elaborate
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-26
A Hundred Years Ago,

A story is told of family living in
colonial times, whose extravagant habits
excited the alarm of the village. " For
the eldest son got a pair of boots, the
second an Overcoat, the third a watch,
and the fourth a pair of shoe buckles !;
and the neighbOrs all shook their heads,
and whispered to each other: That
family ison the high road to insolvency. q"
Legislation in New England tried to
restrain extravaganza in dress, and laws
were passed against wearing laces, en-
brOidery, needle-work caps and "im-
moderate great sleeves" A century
later we find people making much the
same complaints, and quotirg "good old
colony times"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-26
AphOrisms.

1t is the cause. and not the death
that makes the martyr.
The best way to cure the body is to
quiet the mind.
When firmness is sufficient, rashness Is
unnecessary.
Death may expiate faults, but it does
not repair them.
In politics there is a wide gulf be-
tween promises and performances.
The throne is but bit of gilded wood
covered with velvet.-NopoLeon.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-26
Programme of Events.
THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION.

THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION.
Reception of articles commenced Jan
uary 5.
Unoccupied space was forfeited April
26.
Main exhibition opened May 10.
Grand ceremonies on exhibition
grounds, July 4.
Trials of harvesting machines, June
and July.
Trials of steam plows and tillage i'm
plements, September and October.
Exhibit of horses, mules, and asses,
September ! to September Is.
Exhibit of horned cattle, September 20
TO October 5.
Exhibit of sheep, swine, goats, and
dogs, October 10 to October %.
Exhibit of poultry, October % TO Nov
ember 10.
Main exhibition closes November 10.
Exhibits must be removed by Decem-
ber 81,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-26
MAIN EXHIBITION BUILDING.

rection when accidents occur, not being
vivacious and on the lookout, as a gene
raj thing, but even in the reverse, rs her
mother is said to have stated, who is no
more, but died in the full hope Of a
blessed resurrection upward of three
years ago aged eighty-six, being chris
tian woman without guile, as it were in
property, in consequence of the fire of
1849, which destroyed every solitary
thing she had in the world.
" But such is life. Let us take warn
ing by this solemn occurrence. and let
us endeavor to so conduct ourselves that
when we come to die we can do 1t. Let
us place our hands upon our hearts and
say with earnestness and sincerity that
from this day forth we will beware of
the Intoxicating bowl.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-26

TAs, ETC.
Knights Templar (Masons), grand pa
rade, June l.
Order of Good Templars, special gath
ering, June l3.
International regatta New York Har.
bor), June %.
Yacht regatta, Delaware river, in
June.
Sons of Temperance, special gather
ing, June.
International series of cricket matches,
June and September.
Congress of authors in Independence
hall, July 2.
Parade of Irish societies dedication
of fountain), July 4.
Parade of military organizations, July4.
United American Mechanics, parade,
July s.
Knightsof Pythias, parade, August %.
International rowing regatta, August
20 to September 10.
International rife matches, in Septem-
ber.
International medical congress, Sep
tember 4.
independent Order of Odd Fellows,
parade, September 20.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-26

wardrobes of the men to keep in order,
what wonder the women had no time to
cultivate their Squirrels brains ?" to
quote one of the gallant croakers of the
time.
After all, we fancy the most ardent
lovers of the past would hardly be in
favor of the early days of the republic
With the mahogOny sideboard rescued
from oblivion, the spinning wheel set up
in the parlOr, and the quaint china tea
set upon the closet shelves, we can all cry:
ooh! those pleasant times of old, with their
chivalry and state,
love to read their chronicles which such
brave deeds relate.
love to sing their ancient rhymes, to hear
their legends told
But Heaven be thanked live not in those
blessed times of oil l."
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-26
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

CARY STOCKING, the smallest man in
Connecticut, is dead. He was only thir.
ty-six inches high, and at the time OF
his death was sixty-four years old.
A STORY is told of a venerable negro
| in Iowa who was on trial for an ofense
agaist the state. When the case was an
nounced in court, "The state of Iowa
| versus Sampson Cesar, the aged african
exclaimed: "Wat de whole state Of
Iowa agin dis chile Den surrenders y
TWO LIVES.
Born-he grew to manhood fair.
Wcak-he stray'd from mothers care.
Mad-he wed a woman low.
Drunk-he dealt deadly blow.
Hung-he broke a mothers heart.
Wrong-e'en from the very start
Born-he grew to manhood fair.
Strong-he priz'd mothers care.
Loved-he wed maiden pure.
kind-he help'd the needy poor.
Dead-is mourn'd by every one.
GoOd-oh, true and faithful sonl
THE coaching absurdity which some of
the New Workers have borrowed from
the English seems likely to live longer
than the celebrated New Jersey fox
hunts, which ended so well for the fox
The Murray Hill women have taken
fancy TO it, and are eager to display
themselves from the tops of the coaches.
COLERIDGE writes " was at dinner
once in company with aman who listened
and said nothing for long time, but
nodded his head, and thought him in
telligent. At length, toward the end of
the dinner, some apple-dumplings were
set on the table, and my man, had no
sooner seen them than he burst forth
with, "Them's the iOckies for me p /
wish Spurzheim could have examined
the fellows head"
THIS is the kind of accidents that be.
falls English ladies: The Hon. Mrs.
Fetherstonhaugh has met with a serious
accident while out hunting with Mr..
Talby's hounds. In the course of n run
she came to gate which WAS chained
up, and although a man was standing
near it at the time he refused to open il.
Mrs Fetherstonhaugh then had to take
rather an awkward fence, and in so doing
her horse fell, and one of her arms was
broken at the elbow.
LUCY" said prudent citizen yes
terday to his daughter, Lucy, do not
be so naughty TO young Driver, the son
of the expressman round the corner.
This, my love, is a democratic country,
where the only aristocracy is one of vir-
tue and intelligence, and the coal-heaver
is rs good as the king, or would be if
there were any coal -heavers and
kings, which there are not. Kind hearts
are more than coronets. and simple faith
than Norman blood. Deal gently with
young Driver, therefore, till after we
move, and perhaps we can induce him to
move our things cheap. If l can save
enough money out of our moving bill /
will buy you and your mother new silk
lresses and take you up to Saratoga for
he summer"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-26

mortal hall, and it is to be permanent
1t stands just in the rear of the original
art gallery and communicates with it.
1t affords sixty thousand square feet oil
wall space available for paintings, and
contains twenty-four galleries, each forty
feet square, besides two galleries, each
one hundred feet long by forty feet wide,
and two transverse central corridors,
twenty feet wide.
Independence Hall.
The hall of the independence, on Chest
nut street, between Fifth and Sixth, was
commenced in 1929, and completed in
1874, having been designed for the use of
the provincial assemblies and the long
hall formerly in the upper story was
often used for grand official banquets
given to governors, distinguished
stranger and generals, and to the men,
bers of the first congress when they ar
rived in IVA. 1t was originally de-
corated with stately steeple, which was
taken down in IVA on account of decay;
only a small belfry was left to cover the
bell until the year 1928, when the pres
ent steeple was erected as nearly like the
ancient one as circumstances would per-
nit. The ancient bell, formerly used for
the clock, is remarkable for its prophetic
inscription. Originally imported from
England in 1852, but cracked in its first
ringing, it was recast in Philadelphia,
and the inscription" Proclaim liberty
throughout the land, and to all the poe
pie thereOf"-was placed upon it. This
was more than twenty years before the
independence of the colonies was dreamed
of; yet, when the declaration was signed,
this very bell was the first, by its merry
peal, to 'prOclaim liberty throughout
the land" 1t now occupies a place in
the south vetisbule of the building. The
Declaration of independence was signed
in the chamber on the left of the prin-
cipal entrance. Some years since the
antique architectural decorations and
furniture of this room were re-
moved, and their places supplied
with new furniture and tapestry
in modern style This error has
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-26
Machinery BuiIding.

This structure is located about five
hundred and fifty feet west of the main
exhibition building, and as its north front
stands upon the same line, it is practi-
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-26

Just before Admiral Nelson went TO
sea for the last time, he spoke to the
painter West of his Death of Wolfe,"
and asked him why he did not produce
more pictures like that. Because, my
lord" responded the painter, there are
no more subjects" "D-n it." said the
sailor, " / didn't think that" and asked
him to take a glass of champagne.
"But, my lord, | fear your intrepidity
will furnish me such another scene and
if it should, shall certainly avail my
self of it," "Will YOU" said Nelson,
pouring out bumpers, and touching his
glass violently against Vests. will
you, Mr.. West then hope that ! shall
die in in the next battle" He sailed a
few days after, and within a year West
had on his easel the "Death of Nelson"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-26

since been repaired, as far as possible, by
restoring the hall to its ancient appear
ance. The portraits of nearly every one
| of the signers now adorn the walls. Open
daily.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-26

Born-he grew to manhood fair.
Strong-he priz'd a mothers care.
LOved-he wed maiden pure.
kind-he help'd the needy poor.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-26

THE coaching absurdity which some of
the New Workers have borrowed from
the English seems likely to live longer
than the celebrated New Jersey fox
hunts, which ended so well for the fox.
The Murray Hill women have taken a
fancy to it, and are eager to display
themselves from the tops of the coaches.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-26

Hung-he broke a mothers heart.
Wrong-e'en from the very start.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-26

CARY STOCKING, the smallest man in
Connecticut, is dead. He was only thir-
ty-six inches high, and at the time OF
his death was sixty-four years old.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-08-17

high command. Why, remember when
we were chasing Lee, and had him up
against Appomatox. Custer rushed into
the rebel liues and wanted LOngstreet to
surrender the whole army to him. You
see Custer imagined that if he could
frighten Longstreet into a surrender all
he would have to do would he to turn
over the whole rebel gang to Grant, but
Longstreet, who had wonderful sense,
quietly told the furious young man that
he did not command the army to surrep-
der it and that Lee was off TO see Grant
on the same business. Then Custer must
rush into politics, and went swinging
round the circle with johnson. He
wanted to be a statesman, and, but for
influence with Grant, the re-
publ cans would have thrown him; but
you see we all liked Custer, and did not
mind his little freaks in that way any
more than we would have minded tenn
per in woman. Sheridan, to keep Gus
ter in his place, kept him out on the
plains at work He gave him fine COM
mand, one OF the best cavalry regiments
in the service. The Colonel, Sturgis,
was allowed to bask in the sunshine in
arge city, while Custer was the real
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-08-17

since the 18th, and as favorable as
during the same period last year. There
has been no change in acreage since last
report. The stands of cotton are good
and the plant is forming and blooming
well, especially on the up lands, but
some damage is reported in The bottom
lands from heavy rains. In a few
counties grassboppers and cut worms
have appeared, but no material injury
by them is anticipated. The crop is
generally ten days later than same
time last season, and the plant smaller
but vigorous and healthy, and the
average condition equally as good as last
wear.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-08-17
THE BREIMER.

All day the white-haired woman sits
Resides the open door, and knits;
Ne living thing her dim eye sees,
As busy With old memories,
she dreams her dreams Of what has been,
Aud knits her Old time ianCies 10.
She thinks Of q ose who long ago
Went out across the threshold low,
How many tunes her lie ening ear
Has THOUGHT familiar footsteps n,ar,
And she has started up TO find
A dead leaf ru Ting In the wind.
But never as Of those who lie
Beneath the wide and tender sky,
With folded hands on quiet breast,
All wrapped with peace and rest,
She thinks Of them. For her they tread
The green earth with her, None are dead.
Though years have fallen like the leaves
Ab)ve the graves where summer weaves
Her grass-frinRe cOveTlet, TO keep
Safe hid from as the ones asleep,
She sees them all, Not grass ROT mold
Can hide the oneg she lOv,d Of old.
She talks with them. when brown-winged bees
Make D., v in the locust trees;
She thir Ks he comes and sits with her
Whose '"'"e was loves interpreter.
q dream young again to-day,
What Inatter II your head is gray
Sometimes she thinks that round her knee
Her child Ell play I'm happy glee,
And when they tired and sleepy grow
She sings some song Of long ago,
And on hei loving mother breast
She rocks her little ones to rest.
o dreamer, knitting all the day
Your dreams in with your stitches gray,
Yours is a happy, happy heart
a haunted world from ours apart;
he years that turned your tresses gray
Has given you back your youth to-day.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-08-17
GRAVE AND GAY.

Why is it that dirty pair of cps;,
protude much farther than clean one.
despiteall endeavors to hide them?
While the average man is footi,o
around for half an hour, trying to Omen
patent-lock gate, Genius will Come
along and kick the thing clean off tbs
hinges.
Joaquin Miller's poem Of on.,
thousand lines says that tie Orep,D
river rolls
In land m far that yon wonder whether
The God would know II shOuId you drop deal.
In land so far thTOui h the wilds Gnd wealth.
That the sun falls weaIy and flushed and +CJ
That the heaven and earth seem coming togatI!
Seem closing together a book that Is ressd i'"ef
Mrs. Shoddy Ito shopkeeper,-
" Show me a thermometer-one of Won,
very best" Shopkeeper-" This, ma,am
is one of our finest; Venetian glass and
the best quicksilver" Mrs. Ssh
yer? That would be very nice for The
kitching, but want one for my boodoor
Haven't you one with quickgoldp
"A born chiropOdist-The boy who j.
always at the foot of his class.-Commer.
ciaI Advertiser. By the same rule We
that the boy who is at the head
of his class is a born bar5er.-BOstoD
Commercial Bulletin. Yes, you'll find
Just such little shavers in every school
"A tumulus of unusual size has IateIv
been opened near the Nordfjord, in Nor.
way, dating apparently from the year
300. It was stored with all the magniH.
cent belongings of viking chieftan. A
BOWL of precious enamel, a store of amber
massive belt of bronze, rank among the
most splendid trophies of the viking pc,
iod which have come down to us. There
we're also some stone balls fattened On
ne side, with a dint in the center of the
'ase, which some regard as marbles, fiat.
ened for use on board of ships; but
theirs argue that they belonged rather
0 a peculiar game now no longer in
ogue, and played on shore. This the
ry is supported by reference found in
be ancient sagas.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-08-17
THE COTTON CROP IN THEMOBILE DE-
PARTMENT.

From returns embracing the period
from the LIST of June to the 1st instant:
Alabama-45 counties, 1l0 letters.
The weather since the LIST of June is
generally reported as having been IA
VOrable. In 10 counties, however, there
is complaint Of too much rain, while in
5 counties there has not been sufficient,
and il Is needed. In ~ counties, the
weather has been more favorable than
last year; in IS equally as favorible, and
in IS less favorable. There has been no
change In acreage since last report. The
stands are good, and the plant is bloom
ing and forming we'll. The present con.
dition of the crop compares favorable
with the same time last year in the
general average, with the exception of
being a week 70 ten days later in some
sections and having had too much rain
in Others. Worms are reported as
having appeared in very small numbers
In 10 counties, but no damage has been
done by them.
MississiPpi--2O counties, 60 letters.
The weather, from June LIST to the 10th,
is reported as having been rainy with
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-08-17
ICE WATER As 4 DESTROYER.
New York Times.

The deadly effects of the ice-water are
particularly noticeable just at present.
When an overheated man desires an at,
tack of congestion of the brain, there is
no plan which he could devise which
would be better adapted to secure the
end desired than that of drinking water
of, or below, the temperature of 81.
Yet this is precisely what scores of 50.
called temperate men are continually
doing. 1t is sufficiently irrational and
dangerous for men to drink brandy and
whisky in hot weather, but it is a ques-
ton whether ardent spirits are really
more Immediately dangerous to health
than are the ice-cold beverages which
even the most earnest teetotaleB"
pour into their astonished and indignant
stomachs.
Water is undoubtedly the most whole
some beverage which we can use, but
there is a vast difference between water
at safe and natural temperature and the
ice-water which alone satisfies the abnOr-
NAL cravings Of the American throat.
Let us by all means drink water, bullet
us decline to endanger our health and de-
grade ourselves below the level of the
beasts by drinking inordinate quantities
Of ice-water. There is not single ami
mal-except man-which ever dreams OF
communicating wholesome water withice.
The ordinary water of the hydrant and
the faucet satisfies the thirst of the wild
elephant and the domestic cat. Poor
fallen human nature, ON the contrary
longs for ice, and gratifes its corrupt
cravings at the costot outraged stomachs
and ruined teeth.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-08-17
nov THE SERVICE FEELS ABOUT
CUSTER.

The truth about Custer is, that he was
a pet soldier, who had risen not above
his merit, but higher than men of equal
merit, He fought with Phil Sheridan
and through the patronage Of Sheridan
he rose, but while Sheridan liked his
valor and his dash he never trusted his
judgment. He was 70 Sheridan what
Murat was 70 Napoleon. While sherl-
dan Is always cool, Custer was always
afame. He was like a thermometer. He
had a touch Of romance about him, and
when the war broke out he used to 30
about dressed like one Of Ryron's pirates
in the Archipelago, with wavmgs aiming
locks, and broad, tapping sombrerO,
Rising to high command early IN life, he
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-08-17

THE Methodist Episcopal General
Conference has voted to have a new
hymn book, end appointed committee
of fifteen to be divided into three
sections Of FIVE each, to 60 over the
whole work, with instructions not to
make any changes, either by emitting
old hymns or admitting new ones, with.
out q three-ffths vote. This matter of
hymn books has become a very important
interest Of literature and finance, as well
as Of religion, in America, and we have
as rich, scholarly, and edifying hymn
books as any nation in the world, and
are likely to 60 beyond any other nation
in the number and size ofour collections.
The recent compilation of Drs. Hitchcock
aud Schaf is said by good scholars to be
equal 10 any in ChristendOm, and
valuable as collection of poetry, az
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