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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-09-27

times stands beside her as she tells these
tales, old aud blind and toothless, and
there are nc deer now. Yes, up that
road she had ridden herself, a gay
young bride, coming for the first time
to the husbands house full Of hope and
JOY. There her babes had been born,
grown TO be men and women and gone
forth.
Out Of the door went at last her hus-
bands long funeral train, and nothing
wal left her of her life but its memories.
There she sat thinking and knitting,
telling the old stories. How could she
be so content, the young people often
thought.
The tall clock stood in the hall licked
as it had done for seventy years. In the
glass cupboard were stored a sacred tea
service with gilt edges and a silver tea
pot that had been a wedding present.
"Fox's Martyrs" and the "Pngrim's
Progress" were in the bookcase and the
big Bible on the stand, and there were
black prOfiles of choked-looking gen.
tlemen and ladies, with wondrous puffs
on their heads, on the walls; up in the
bedrooms were rag carpets and high
post beds and chests of drawers and
long presses. How many heads had
rested on those pillowsp What happy
dreams had been dreamed, what bitter
tears shed!
And down In the parlor, with its
hard, upright sofa, guests, with strange
dullness of which no one dreamed, had
been entertained, and lovers had wooed
and won, and doubtless there had been
little tragedies, such as 60 on between
lovers through all the generations.
Story after story has told itself In the
old house.
They are not all happy ones, but they
make the old house different from a new
one. Memories Turk in the very walls:
and who shall say that the spirits of
those who lie at rest In the old church.
yard yOnder, under tombstones on
which moss has grown, do not some
times fit through it-unseen but felt
bringing softened emotions and tender
recollections as they pass?
The very trees in the garden are not
as other trees. They have their stories.
Under this a first kiss was taken under
that hands met in an eternal parting.
Down in the orchard is a baby's
grave-the baby would be fifty years
old if he lived tO.day-but only a little
while ago his mother sat there and shed
a tear over It.
The new house is fac and costly and
modern, but there is no poetry in it,
and there will not be until at least two
generations have made it an old house
and haunted it with sweet ghosts, as
they did the old one.
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An Old House.

There is something in an old house
that can never be in a new one. The
new one may be handsomer, 1t may
have higher ceilings and broader panes
of glass, a medieval mantelpiece and
French paper or the walls and Persian
rugs. You may be proud of 1t, but you
loved the old house-the dear old place,
almost as old as the great trees at the
door. A tall man could touch the CELL
ings with his palm, and the great man
tlepieces were stiff and ugly; but there
In the freight, used to sit once upon a
time, the old grandmother with her
knitting, while the children climbed
on her knee and she told them stories
of her youth.
Out of that window-the little win
dow with the diamond p%anes-she had
looked to see her young husband COM
ing home after a long days hunt,
flushed with exercise, bright and hand
some. There lay the great red deer he
had shot; yonder the dogs were KEN
nelled-the great brown eyed dogs.
One Of their race then unborn, some
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XaInahIe Work.

The we'll knONu advertising agents,
Messrs. 5. NJ. Pettengill a Co., OF this
city, have Just issued la a handsome
form their "Newspaper Directory and
Advertisers Handbook" for 1877. Ii
IL without doubt the most yalusble and
trustworthy compilation Of It's kind
published Ia this country, and a work
which no advertiser or newspaper pub
Usher should be without. No fewer
than s,57l newspapers or periodicals
are described, showing the day and
place OF publication, character, pub
Usher, circulation; in short, all that an
advertiser requires to know regarding
any medium published. Besides the
general list there is a list Of periodicals
by counties, which must be valuable to
those who desire to reach any particu-
lar section of the Continent, and tables
OF daily and weekly newspapers having
a circulation of 5000 copies or over, re-
ligious, agricultural, and other class
organs, Two or three striking portraits
Of prominent editors are scattered
throughout the volume, which, alto
gether, gives us a capital idea of the
wealth and variety of American journal
ism, and proves the immense connection
and great business facilities which Its
publishers and compilers must have at
their command. - ". Y. Scottish Amer.
,TouTu1L.
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SCIENTIFIC.

DiuOrce and the Marriage BOnd.-As
monogamy is likely 10 be raised in
character by a public sentiment requir-
ing that the legal bond shall not be
entered into unless IL represents the ma
tural bond, so, perhaps, 1t may be that
maintenance Of the legal bond will come
to be held improper if the natural bond
ceases. Already increased facilities for
obtaining divorce point to the prOba-
bility that, whereas, in those early
stages during which permanent mono
gamy was being evolved, the union by
law Originally the act OF p%urchase) was
regarded as the essential part of mar
rlage, and the union by affection as
non-essential, and whereas at present
the union By law is thought the more
important and the union by affection
the less important, there will come a
time when the union by affection will
be held of primary moment and the
union by law as of secondary moment:
whence reprobation of marital relations
in which the union by affection has dis
solved. That this conclusion will seem
unacceptable to most is probable may
say, certain. In passing judgement on
modified arrangement suggested as
likely to arise hereafter, nearly all err
by considering what would be likely to
result from the supposed change, all
other things remaining unchanged. But
other things must be assumed to have
changed pari pasSu. Those higher SEN
timents accompanying union of the
sexes, which do not exist among print
tive men, and were less developed In
early European times than now (as is
shown In the contrast between ancient
and modern literatures,) may be expec-
ted to develop still more as decline Of
militancy and increase of industrialness
foster altrulsm; for sympathy, which is
the root of altruism, is a chief element
in these sentiments. Moreover, with
an increase of altruism must 90 a de-
crease of domestic dissension. Whence,
simultaneously, a strengthening of the
moral bond and a weakening Of the
forces tending to destroy it. So that
the changes which may further faclli-
tate divorce under certain conditions
are changes will make those conditions
more and more rare.-POpuldr Science
Monthly.
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business Ants.

A gentleman who was recently
lounging on Sand Hill, Chlcopee, tells
a curious incldent-of some ants which
he observed. His attention was attract
ed by a constant double stream of ants
marching in two directions past him.
Watching the procession closely, he
noticed that all the ants going in one
direction carried an egg in their mouths,
while the ants coming back were empty
handed or mouthed. Following up
those who labored and were heavy
laden he found that they deposited their
eggs In a new nest on higher ground,
and one hundred and ten PAGES from
their old nest from which they were
mo wing Springfield (MdsS.) Union.
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The Loneliness of an InvalId's Life.

Few are they who, in the activities of
robust life, pause to think of the loneli-
ness of the helpless invalid-Of the iso-
lated bondage of weakness. TOa young
wOman who is cut off from all youthful
amusements and pursuits, who is re-
strained from love, who, within four
walls, is bound to her couch by chains
as cruel as if they were made of steel,
whose hands are forbidden any response
to the busy motions of her mind, there
come hours when every sympathy
wearies of its ministry, and mercenary
attendance must seek relief from its
burdens, She must be left alone, her
hands folded in patient waiting. Re-
miniscence, idle dreaming, aspiration,
regrets, tears-these come in pathetic
routine to fill the heavy hours when
society departs. Great, silent heroism
are wrought out in intervals like these,
more wonderful than the common mag
nation can conceive; or great moral
disasters are suffered, from which there
is NJ recovery.
In one direction or the other-toward
cheerful, self-forgetful, ever-buoyant
fOrtitude; or toward fretfulness, impa-
tience, discomfort and weak complain
ing-the INVALID always g%ravitates.
Wine, long shut from the sunlight,
ripens into nectar or vinegar. The al
tentative is mainly fixed by the amount
of sunlight it had the privilege of alb
sorbing when it hung in clusters upon
the vine.
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1t is very unsafe to pronounce any
queer word or phrase a new coinage,
because you are pretty sure to find, if
you look into the matter, that it has
been used somewhere or other from
time immemorial. But there is GER
tainly one American word, which has
cropped out within a few years, that
we may reasonably regard as a new
coinage, ami that word is ''skedaddle."
1t is a ridiculous but graphic word
which came into general use during
"late unpleasantness, and means
to run away, or to be routed and scat
tered in fight. A good many college
boys went to the war, and although
they didn't usually carry Sanskrlt die
tionaries in their knapsacks, like the
German soldiers of 1870, they at least
knew a little bit of Greek, and more
than one of them could no doubt have
told you that ~Skeddnnumi means to scat
ter, and also to be scattered, to dispense
to "put" or take to flight. Now, what
can be more natural-to talk after the
manner of the Cox school of mythOlo-
gists-what can be more natural than
to suppose that some ingenious student
soldier converted skedannumi into ske-
daddle, thereby taking away its learned
and ponderous sound and giving it n
vernacular twist which made it tickle
peoples ears, and thus gave it cur
rency. So here at least it is fair to
suppose that we may have a word of
American coinage, especially as in Hall
iwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Pro-
vincial Words skedaddle does not APP
pear, and nowhere else have ! found
any trace of it in England. Thus
argued, with some show Of a priOri con-
dence. But my English friend lost no
time in upsetting my hypothesis.
"Why," they exclaimed, "we used to
live in Lancashire, and heard skedad-
die every day of our lives, 1t means to
scatter, or drop in a scattering way. If
you run with a basket of potatoes or
apples, and keep spilllng some of them
in an irregular way along the path, You
are said to skedaddle them, Or If you
carry q tumblcr full of milk up stairs,
and what De Quincy would call the
'titubation' of your gait causes n row
of drops of milk on the stair carpet to
mark your upward course and awaken
the ire of the housekccper, you are said
to have '~skedaddled the milk"
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GA place for everything, and every
thing in its place." said the patriarch
to his daughter. "Select a wife, my
son, who will never step wei a broom
stick" The son was obedient to the
lesson. "Now," said he pleasantly, on
a gay May day to IL of his compan-
ions, 81 appoint that broomstick to
choose mt a wife. The young lady
who will not step over it shall have the
offer Of my hand" They passed from
the splendid saloon to the grove. Some
stumbled over the broomstick, and 9TH
ers jumped over it. At length a young
lady stopped and put it in its place.
The promise was fulfilled; she became
the wife of an educated and wealthy
young man, and he the husband of a
prudent, industrious and lovely wife.
lie brought a fortune to her, and she
knew how to save one. 1t was not easy
to decide which was under the greatest
obligation, both were rich, and each
enriched the other.
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DOMESTIC.

SACHETs OR SCENT BAGs.-Various
powders, ETC., placed in silk bags or
ornamental envelopes, are agreeable to
smell and also economical for imparting
a pleasing odor to linen aud clothes
as they are packed away In drawers,
for they prevent moths. For heliotrope
powder, take half a pound Of orris-rOot,
one-quarter pound of rose leaves, two
ounces of powdered tonquln bean, one
ounce Of vanilla bean, one.half drachm
grain musk, two drops otto of almonds;
mix ii all by sitting through a coarse
sieve. This Is one Of the best sachels
ever made. For lavender powder, take
m pound of powdered lavender
one quarter of an ounce of otto of
lavender. For patchouli, use One-half
pound of ~patchouli GROUND fine, and a
very little of otto patchouli. This herb
is often sold In its natural state as i'm
ported, and is tied up in half pound
bundles. Sandal wood sachet powder
is good and consists of the wood ground
fine. Cedar wood, when ground, forms
a body for other sachet powders, aud
will keep moths at a distance. Dried
%fennel, when ground, is also used for
scent. bags, and ground nutmeg is liked
for this purpose.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-09-27

Rain PoWer.-A writer in C0rahW
Magazine says that the amount of heat
required to vaporize a quantity of
water which would cover an area of 100
square miles to a depth of inch, would
be equal to the heat which would be
prenuced by the combustion of half a
million tons of coal, and that the
amount of energy of which this con-
sumption of heat would be the equiva-
lent corresponds to that which would
be required to raise a weight of up
wards of 1000 millions tons l mile
high. To evaporate the annual rainfall
on New York State alone in a year
would require about five times the an
nual coal output of the United States.
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THE LOVERS CONVERSATION.

'How's your father Z" came the whisper,
BAshful Ned the silence breaking;
20, he's nicely" Annie murmured,
smilingly the ques ion taking.
Conversation tagged q moment
Hopeless Ned essayed another
Annie, I-I,"-th en q coughing,
And the question, "How's your mother
Mother! o, she's do ng finely"
Fleeing fast was all forbeArance,
When, in low, despainng accents,
Came the climax, Flows your parents %
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NATURES REMEDY. -
YEGETINEw
IKE CRELI Bloop PuRlnER

THOUSANDS will bear testimony tand do 1t vol
untarily), that VEGETINR is the best medical
compound yet placed before the public FOR rem
ovating and purifying the blood, Graduating all
from the system, invigOrating and strengthen,
ing the system debilitated by disease In fact It
IS, as many have called It, ''rhe Great Health
RestOrer."
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Combination Wood and Iron Pavement.
BY permission of the Commissioners
of Sewers of the City of London, a pOr-
ton of the new wood paving in Beech
street has been charged with iron q
cwt. to the square yard) by way of ex-
pertinent. The object is to increase the
durability of wood and preserve and
protect it from heavy racking traffic,
and to the test the practicability of Sc
curing small blocks of iron without
framework, and 80 as to deaden the
noise and counterfeit the other disad
vantage of metal, as hitherto applied.
The ordinary wood paving blocks are
beveled by machinery on the upper and
lower edges, and between each row is
laid a row of cast iron blocks of double
wedged section, thicker at the upper
and lower surfaces than in the center,
so as to fit mechanically between the
bevelied wood blocks, which on section
are thicker in the center than at the
upper and lower surfaces. The iron
blocks weigh 16 lbs. each, are rounded
and serrated on surface for foothold,
and perforated for grouting material,
and are bedded in sand on the ordinary
concrete bed.
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Ia a notorious fact. 1t is therefore Of vital i'm
portsnce to check malsdies in their biIth, ere
they have Il chance TO develop other and more
dangerous disorders. As a means Of checking
complaints which, il allowed 10 proceed
finally di- order the entire system, Hostetter's
Stomach BItters is a medicine the use Of which
cannot be too strongly urged upon the sick
and feeble. The physical functions are regu-
lated by it. IL insures the acquisition OF vigor
by the debilitated. and it substitutes 4 cheer
full condition OF mind for gloom and despon-
dency. Dyspepsia, constipation, liver com
plant, and kidney and bladder troubles yield
TO It's remedial influence; it counteracts a
tendency TO govt aud rheumatism, and invig-
CRATES the nerves. Moreover, it is derived
from purely botanical sources, and in this, al
in every other respect, is superior to the min
eral remedies of the pharmscopeis
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Rheumatism Quickly Cured.

Durang's Rheumatic Remedy" the great
Internal Medicine, will positively cure any case
OF rheumatism on the face OF the earth. Price
81 a bottle, six bottles, s.. Sold by all Drug
gists. send for circular to Helphenstine d
Bentley, Druggists. Washington. D.. c..
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HoMINY FRITTERs.-COok the hominy
well; let it boil down pretty thick be-
fore using; add to one quart boiled
hOminy about half a cupful of sweet
milk, n egg, a little salt and flour
enough to fry and turn without run
ming; only enough lard required In
frying to prevent burning; too much
milk and -four toughens them.
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PURITY OF CoFFEE.-A simple, practi-
cal test is given In the American Artisan
to test the purity OF coffee, by which
many authorizations of that article can
easily be detected, even If the taste is
not a sure index. If a %teaspoonful of
genuine ground coffee is thrown into a
tumblerful of cold water, 1t will float
upon the surface. Most substances used
in adulterating coffee will sink at once
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Mothers, Mothers, Mothers.

Don't fail to procure MRS. WINsL0W'S
SOOTHING SYRUP for all diseases OF teeth
ing In children. 1t relieves the child from
pain, cures wind collie, regulates the bowels,
and by giving relief and health to the child,
gives rest 10 the mother.
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Equal TO TIE OCCAsIoN.-Lady-'T
want some tea, Mary. Isuppose mamma
did not leave the tea caddy unlocked ?"
Mary-"No, Miss. But l know where
Missis keeps the key. 1t is under the
clock in the study"
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THERE had been a heavy thunder
storm, and the parched earth and wilted
vegetation drank in the refreshing
showers. 81 should think the plants
would whisper to each other how deli
cious it was" he exclaimed, enthusias
tically. EYES," said she, sail but the
onions; they wouldn't be likely to
whisper with such a breath"
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To CLEAN HAIR BRUsHRs.-It is best
to clean two at a time, in this way.
First comb them we'll, to remove the
loose hair or dust, then dip the brlstles
only in very warm water, sprinkle each
brush with plenty of powdered borax
and rub the two together; after they
are thoroughly cleansed, have a pitcher
of hot water and pour it over the
bristles; keep the back of the brush as
dry as possible; shake the water we'll
out, and dry quickly in the sun ;
brushes washed in this way will retain
their stiffness.
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How TO WHIP CREAM.-To one quart
of sweet cream add aquarter of a pound
Of powdered sugar, and flavor with
orange flower water, or some other
essence that you may prefer. Set a fine
copper wire or hair sieve over a large
dish. Whip the cream with an egg
beaten, and rs the froth rises remove ii
carefully with a small skinner and
put 1t on the sieve to drain. 1t is then
ready.
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"No," sHE replied, and she blushed
prettily, AS she slipped her number
skies back beneath her dress; ono, | do
not wear so small a shoe as ones. My
size is quite large-I wear twos."
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The foolish man rusheth out to see
the mob and is shot through the lungs,
but the wise man huggeth the constitu-
ton of the United States to his bosom
and abideth in the cellar until the evil
days be over.-Burlington Hdiokeye.
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81 HAVE often wondered" said a
would-be wit, to an eminent divine,
"why, at a dinner, the goose is always
placed before the clergyman" ''That
was just my case when saw you placed
before me-" the clergyman quietly re.
marked.
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PRESERVATION OF EGGs.-The most
effective preservative for eggs that has
yet been proposed is linseed oil, or
%cottonseed oil may be used instead. By
carefully coating fresh eggs with either
of these oils, and packing them, small
end downward, In any dry, porous sub.
stance, that is a n.conductor of heat,
such as chat, cork-cuttings, or maple
sawdust, they have been kept in perfect
condition and without loss of weight
for six months.-Selected.
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FORCED MEAT.-Take bread crumbs
(dry bread grated is as good), add one-
third as much chopped suet, thyme or
other herb to taste; salt and pepper;
beat up eggs enough to wet it to a
paste; stuff your roast, fish, or fowl
with it, or lay it in the pan among the
gravy,
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Yot'RE a fool if you're a walker in a
pond, you're philosopher, ifyou ponder
in you're walk.
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TRADE-MARKs-Exactly so. That is
why the brow of the man of business is
so often furrowed.-Fanny Folks.
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A BEGGAR in France solicited twenty
sous of a gentleman, adding, 81 have
great need of twenty sous" The re-
quest was refused. The beggar added,
''Then | know what | shall do" The
gentleman reflected upon this reply, and
at once thought that possibly twenty
sous would save the fellows life. He
ran and gave him the money. "And
what were you going to do if had re
fused you the giftS" inquired the
donor. "Going to doY" retorted the
rascal, "why, [ was going to work."
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WHEN is the best time to read the
book of natureP When Autumn Is
turning the leaves.
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"I'HAT beats anvil" exclaimed a shoe
maker, as he looked at a s%hoemakinf
machine,
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ECONOMICAL SPONGE CAKE.-Three
eggs, N cupful each of flour and
sugar, three tablespoonfuls baking
powder, o~ne-quarter pint milk, sailed
and favored to taste, made thin. 1t is
nice for jelly cake or strawberry cake.
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81 NEE thee every hour" is what
the clock said to its striking apparatus.
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"WHAT's in anameP" About twenty
seven letters, if its a Russian name.