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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21
Mr, Carriers Catarrh Snnff.

There are mean men in this world,
men who would ruin another's chance
Of earning a livelihood just for a joke.
Mr.: Garter is the vi?tim OF one of these
men. Mr.. Garter is dealer in catarTh
snuff, which he peddlos about in boxeB.
The snuff is compound perfectly pleas
ant 10 take and very efIicacious. The
other day Mr.. Garter called upon Squire
Ink, the lawyer, who is very irascible,
and great sufferer from catarrh. He
urged Squire Ink to try the snuff, as
sured him that one application gave in
slant relief, and that it was so pleasant
TO take that one would never know that
he had tried 1t. After repeated assur-
ances on this last point, Squire Ink con-
sented to test the mixture, and Mr.. Gar
ter produced q box, and said, "Take a
very large pinch" The box had been
tampered with by some fend who had
filled it with red pepper. Squire Ink
Obeyed; he took an enormous pinch of
it; then he sneezed. 1t wasn't q single
Bneeze, but a succession of awful
"achoos" that seemed of sufficient
violence To yank Squire Inks head off.
Tears flowed from his eyes, and when
be would check the thing for a mo-
ment, it was only that it might COM
mencG again with redoubled power.
Garter was awfully shocked. He patted
Inks back and said 81 never knew it to
affect any one so before. | can take
quantities of it. See herew and tLen he
went Autchakachoo. cachoo- cacboo.
cachoo- choo-choon and then the same
thing over again. There they both stood
and sneezed until they had almost loos-
ened their hair at the roots, and felt us
though they had been through a thresh-
ing machine. Squire Ink was the first
to get able TO speak: "What the deuce
does this mean, sirP" he yelled; II ca
cachoo-I-don't kl o--cachoooooi re
piled Garter. "Don't knowP III teach
you to practice your internal art on mel"
and he grabbed Garter and hurled
him from the window, and then he
seized the snuff, jumped out and forced
Garter to inhale lot more of it. Then
he left the unhappy Garter, and three
policemen who came long picked him
up. But he sneezed 80 nat they couldn't
hold him, and when, after he had partly
calmed down, they got him into drug
store, he sncezed six bottles off shelf,
end the next day, while he was in bed
at the hospital, he got notice from Ink
that he was sued for 100000 damages.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

What is smaller than a mites mouthp
A man who reads paper six months
nd then refuses 10 pay for Il.
The pachymeler, lately patented in
Vienna, which measures the thickness
Of paper TO the one-thousandtl part OF
an inch, is outdone by the micrcmeter
caliper, now coming into use in this
country, which determines the thickness
ofpapcr or anything else to the tcn-thou-
sandlh part of an inch.
Tie names of T.any strangers who
migrated tp Russia have become so
altered that scholars are unable to trace
their original form. They have, how
ever, discovered that the Russian
Khomutof was once the English Ham
ilton.
In BrGsIau, Germany, there are three
thousand people who do not receive
their correspondence until it has been
examined by the police. II any of our
readers are on writing terms with any
of these three thousand Breslauers we
advise them TO write Horace Greeley
sort of hand, in order to comrel the
police TO earn their salaries ard per.
haps to commity cide,-Nor7'tStOwn
Herald
When General Grant was in Milan,
Italy, on his tour around the world, he
was met on the street one day by we'll
dressed woman, who stopped him and
asked the general if he knew her.
"Yes," said he, "you kept an apple
and fruit stand near the gate leading to
the war department in Washington"
He asked her what she was doing in
Milan, and she replied that her son had
shown great musical talent, and she was
there to give him the benefit of instruc-
ton under the best Italian masters.
That son is now the basso of the Stra-
kosch- Hess company, and sails under
the name OF Signor Montifirie.
A woman has carried her point in the
United States courts. Judge Lowell
has rendered decision in Boston in
favor of Helen M. Macdonald in her
suit against John Shepard. The contest
was waged over strip of waterproof
material which is designed to be sewed
10 the bottom of II lady's dress to pro-
tect it from moisture and dirt. The
history OF the litigation up to the present
point has been interesting and some
what unusual, and has also attracted
considerable public attention from time
to time, as sympathy for Miss Mac
donald in her struggle to obtain what
she believed to be her rights has mani
tested itself. The feature that makes the
history particularly interesting is that
Miss Macdonald has conducted much of
the case itself, examining the witnesses
and even arguing before the courts.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21
CITY and Country Cousins.

The difference between "city :" and
their country cousins is more marked
than most people believe. The first i'm
preston which a man has on finding
himself for the first time in great city
is of vague excitement, accompanied by
a sense of danger. The multiplicity OF
objects appear fantastic to an eye accus-
toned to rural scenery; the unintermit
tent noises, the entangled yet purposefu,
movements, and, above all, the shifting
panorama of unfamiliar human faces,
combine to throw the visitor into a
state of mind totally strange to him.
And amid so much tumultuous life he
sees death everywhere on the lookout
for q victim. But if the visitor to these
strange regions looks at the faces OF
those he meets in search of some rehec-
ton of his own purturbation, he looks
in vain. The countenance of the city
man, as he treads his way along the
street, is curiously impassiye. At a
first glance it appears also TO be unob-
servant; but this it is not. For although
he seems to look at nothing, 1t soon be-
comes evident that he sees everything.
He mechanically informs himself, out OF
the corner of his eye, of everything that
might tend to obstruct or threaten him
and though he passes through thou
sand people without encountering the
gaze or treading on the toes of any one
of them he will recognize an acquaint-
ance OF calculate to an inch the rate oi
speed at which he must make the cross
ing in order to escape the omnibus from
one direction and the truck from the
other. Doubtless custom and memory
will account for large part Of it; yet
the impassive face would probably APP
pear far less impassive than 1t does had
not the contraction of the facial muscles
brought about by the constant assaults
of innumerable impressions and the inn
possibility of responding TO them all, be-
come in n manner fixed. The houses
and the pavements, the vehicles and the
hubbub, produce an effect on these mus
cles just the reverse Of that exercised by
the hills and dales of the country; taeV
press them in instead Of drawing them
out-in other words, the mind resists
them instead of .sympathiSing with
them.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21

Markhead thought over the distance,
and concluding he had full two.hours
start OF them, resolved TO take it easy
He made the squaw unpack some cold
venison which they had in one Of their
sacks; and the two strange COM
panions lunched very convivially to-
gether, for the long run Markhead had
taken had given him good appetite.
Assisted by the squa =, he next packed
up all the Indians peltries, and lashed
them on the backs Of the ponies, maxi
Ing up a sort of pony train, at the head
Of which he placed the squaw. Then
collecting his own property, he mounted
his horse and set of, driving the whole
train in front OF him-master of the
situation-leaving, in fact. nothing of
any value behind.
Once out en- the plains, clear of the
crags and timber, Markhcad drove his
rgular cavalcade on at great pace,
and travelling all the rest OF the day and
all that night with but brief halts,
reached trading-post-Laramie fort,
probably-toward the end of the next
day. The feelings of the outwitted
Blackfeet on their return TO the place
where they had left their ponies,
after their unsuccessful chase after
Markhead, may perhaps better be left
TO the fancy of the reader.
The young trapper realized about six
hundred dollars from the sale of the
captured ponies peltries, buffalo robes,
and other property.
The squaw was some time afterward
reclaimed at the fort by a Backfoot
chief, whose wife she had been when
captured. On Markhead being pointed
out to him at the post, he said He big
warrior. He play beaver on Indian"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21
Words OF Wisdom.

You should never give advice. If the
person to whom you offer it is wise he
doesn't need it; if he isn't he won't take
it.
No man can be brave who considers
pain to be the greatest evil of life; nor
temperate, who considers pleasures TO
be the highest good.
The passions of men of society differ
as much from the passions ofthe natural
man as the fruits Of grated tree from
those OF a wild one.
The keenest abuse ofour enemies will
not hurt us so much in the estimation
of the discerning rs the injudicious
praise of our friends.
Sense can support herself handsomely
in most countries for some eighteen
pence day; but fantasy, planets and
solar systems will not suffer.
A man should never be ashamed to
own he has been in the wrong; which
is but saying, in olher words, hat he is
wiser TO day than he was yesterday.
Don't covet the possessions of any
man until you are willing to pay for
them the price which be paid; then you
will not need to covet them, for you can
70 and get them for yourself.
French emigrants are beginning 10
C0neto Amayica in numbers.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21
How to Eat,

The notion that appetite is low de-
gree of hunger, and hunger an intensified
form OF appetite, does not seem to be
borne out by facts. The two desires or
longlngs are different in their nature.
Appetite is the craving of the apparatus
of taste, and sometimes of the digestive
organs; while hunger is the demand OF
organism as whole or of some Of its
parts of food. Use the words appetite
and hunger how you may, there are
actually two needs to be expressed, and
much mischief arises from confounding
them. The one cry for food which we
call appetite is an affair of habit or CO.
price, and may, for time at least, be
stimulated by appealing TO the sense OF
taste, or promoted by certain cordials
and stimulants; but, looking at the
matter from a physiological point of
view. it is difficult to see what we can
gain by exciting the organs of digestion
to AXE food unless the system is in a
condition to receive il. The rational
mode of procedure would seem to be to
wait the expression of a need in the
system-in short, to look TO hunger
rather than appetite as an incentive to
the act of feeding, instead of exciting
the palate and sense organs to take food
when we have no organic reason to
suppose that there is an inner need OF it.
There are certain evil consequences OF
the civilized mode of feeding by ap'
petite on the basis of habit, which it
may be useful to point out. First,
separating appetite from hunger and
developing it as an independent sense or
function. there naturally springs up
fashion af life which may be described
as "liviiA.r to feed" The pu7veyor OF
food trades on the tastes and cultivated
longings of the consumer, and the con-
sideration what TO eat and what TO
drink comes to occupya place in the
self-consciousness which it was probably
not intended to fill, and in so far as tins
is the case man is more anima! and less
spiritual and intellectual than he ought
TO be; although it may be conceded that
the refined taste of cultivated nature is
less offensive than the simple voracity
OF the savage. There are some who
contend that man is the gamer by the
developments of his appetite. If this be
80 the gain is good not unmixed with
evil. Another drawback is that by
severing appetite from hunger we lose
the indication of quantity which nature
gives with her orders for food. The
man who eats a regulated number Of
meals daily, with q duly stimulated and
organized habit, probably eats much
more in the twenty-iour hours than mis-
system requires, or the organism as a
whole is constituted 10 deal with
London Lancet.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21
Too Courteous.

Courtesy may suffer from exaggera-
tion. By too much courtesy we become
discourteous, and excess OF civility
makes us uncivil. A gentleman of in
finite complaisance was about to take
leave of another of like disposition.
The latter insisted on seeing him to the
door OF his house. The former refused,
and after many gracious words locked
the door on his host and ran down the
staircase; but the host, opening his
window, lightly leaped into the street
aud was ready to hand his guest into his
carriage. "You might have broken
your neck" said the entertained.
"True, replied the entertainer, "but
better so than break the canons OF po-
liteness."
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21
German Proverbs.
ION.

One has only to die to be praised.
Handsome apples are sometimes sour.
Little and often make heap in time.
1t is easier to blame than to be better.
1t is not enough to arm; you must
hit.
Would you be strong, conquer your
self.
There is no good in preaching to the
hungry.
Better 20 supperless to bed than run
In debt.
Speak little, speak truth; spend little,
pay cash.
To change and be better are two diff
ferent things.
Better free in n foreign land than a
slave at home.
Charity gives itself rich, but covet-
business boards itself poor.
Everybody knows a good counsel ex.
cept him that hath need of 1t.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21
A Curious Will Case.

A very curious illustration OF the
chances of litigation is found in the
Hesdra case. A colored woman of this
name, by q long life of industry and
thrift, accumulated property estimated
at $4,000. She left a husband, who
claimed at least part of the property,
but offered to waive that claim on re-
ceipt of $4,000. This WAS refused by
the other heirs, but while overhauling
some papers the old man found a will
by which the deceased bequeathed to
him the entire amount. This will has
Just been approved, and the other heirs
get nothing. How much they now re-
gret they did not accept the old mans
proposition. .-New York Letter.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21

Coaches run between Bristol and Memphis
without change.
No Sunday delays.
Baggage checked through.
WIN. KERR,
Passenger Agent, Knoxville, Tenn.
JAMES II. OGDEN,
Genl Pass. Agt. Knoxville. Tenn.
T, s. DAVANT,
Asst Gen1 Pass. Ag't Memphis, Tenn.
J. W. SUTTON,
Passenger Agent, Chattanooga, Tenn.
O. O. MoMILLtN,
Ticket Agent, Chattanooga, Tenn.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21
The Dangerous Hare.

Some one was telling story ofa lion
hunt in O6enbach's presence-a story in
which, evidently. he took but little
interest.
Bah" he said, at last, with a yawn;
=" the lion is much overrated beast.
Even the timid hare can, on occasion, be
formidable TO man"
"0h, come, nowl" said every one.
l." Yes, mean what ] say" replied
0Genbach; when one has eaten too
much Of him."
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21
Address 10 Winter.

Ril here you come 10 make US wheeze;
I zee your fingers on the trees,
And hear you shouting on the breeze
The storm clans slogan.
You'll soon be here to nip my toes,
And paint my cheeks with sunset glowF,
And iresco this old chin and nose
VIII blue and purple.
Ihear you've been, you rowing fellow,
Among the AnstTRlasians yellow,
And soaring with your blatant below
The Polynesians.
Touch them kindly. Kindly deal
With those who most thy rigors feel;
In trembling suppliance they kneel
And crave thy mercy.
Bluster around the itch mans door;
Make him unlock HE golden store,
Each year increasing more and more
His deeds ol kindness.
You're getting rough; | fear you pass
Your time too much with Boreas,
And that star-mantled gypsy lasu,
The summer Solstice.
Old friend, together many year
We've journeyed ON through fou and clear,
And now, old comrade, lend an car
To my petition.
This year, Ipray thee, leave thy snows
In cold Arcturus with thy blows;
Oh! Winter, gently come to those
Who have no shelter.
Roar round the miser till he quakes;
Nip him and strip him til he shakes;
Freeze him and squeeze him till he makes
A big donation.
And in the cause OF SCIENCE pray
Keep ont the ice from Banin'S bay,
30 that Polar " savants" win their way
To frozen glory.
Let those we love, though they abide
Far from us now, come TO our side
Happy and well at Christmastide,
And we will bless thee.
Guy Fl. .frery.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21

French emigrants are beginning 10
C0naeto Amayica in numbers.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21
RATES OF ADVERTISING.

Regular rates OF advertising, 81 per square
arst insertion, and so cents each subsequent
insertion.
Special contracts will De made for all AdVer-
tsemenis for four insertions or over.
Transient advertisements always payAbb
quarterly in advance.
Marriages and obituary notices, over ono
,quAre, chs ged for at half regular rates
All Local news 10 cents IhAJ for each In
'ariion.
No notices inserted for lees than fifty eents
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-20
PERSONAL AND MISCELLANE-
Gus.

The late Judge Colt, of Massachu
sets, left a 100000.
Elk Senator Thurman expects to sail
for home about September /.
General D. H. Hill, who was one Of
Lees division commanders, is now
President Of the ArkansaW Univers
ity. The school has 44O students, and
General Hill makes popular execu-
tive.
One hundred and four men own
10,439, 432 acres oflaDd in the British
Isles. The Duke Of Switzerland con
trolls 1909, 546 acres, 2,l14 of Queen
Victoria's subjects CONTROL over 3d.
600, 900 acres.
Cardinal Manning is described By
Mrs. Liyermore as spare almost to
emaciation, and bald as if shorn: his
appearance severely monastio. His
voice and manner, however, are pleas
ant, and his speech is full Of kindness.
Homer, Illinois, had female bar
Der, and instead Of whOoping around
and raising Bob Ingersoll's no such
place about it, the women quietly
raised a purse Of S40O and gave it to
an old bach to marry the shayeress
and take her away.
Texas people do not throw them
selves on epitaphs no matter how
much display they make at funerals,
Down on the Rio Grande a plain
board at the head Of mound tells the
public that thirteen Of them Mexican
Greasers ar planted here"
The Earl Of Gainesborough died
last Saturday. He was So years old,
His eldest daughter, Lady Blanche
Murphy, died in this country three
months ago. The late Earl will be
succeeded by his second son, who was
born in 1852, His eldest son died IN
November, 1877.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-20
Trustees Sale,


10y virtue Of deed of trust TO me exeeut.d
- on the 7th day Of August, A. d. 1865. bv
Morris Doyle to secure the payment of certain
indebtedness described in the trust deed Of
record IN the Registers office of Shelby
county, Tenn, in book u, page 4l6, l will, as
trustee, on
Monday, the 22d day Of August, 1881,
at u o'clock m i, in front of the courthouse Of
shelby county. Tenn, Taxing District sslf 10
the highest and best bidder for cash the fol-
lowing real estate; Lying in Shelby couotv.
Tenn near Memphis, beginning al a gfn "a
on the east side of the Randolph road, flTst
southwest corner Of the tract sold BY Crisman
TO Morris Doyle; thence north 84M degrees
east, ~ chains and 10 links to stake In Cook a
north line; thence north 81 degrees west, one
chain and 81 links to stake; thence sonth II
a degrees west il chains and q links TO =
stake on the said road; thence south 26% de-
grees east with said road chain aud 95 links
70 the beginning, containing 2 acres in the
Whoatley and McLemore tract, being the
same land purchased by Dennis sexton ~
Morris dDoy.e, by deed registered in book "a.
All right and equity of redemption speeialIv
waived in said trust deed, and the title Il he.
lieyed to be perfect, but sell only as trustee
This sale Is made under decree Of The Su.
preme Court Of Tennessee, pronounced At Inc
April term 1851, in tho case OF sexton vs.
Powell. GEORGE r POWELL, Trustee.
Malone a Watson, Atty's l201Fo
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-20
FORTY YEARS AGO.
A Frenelman's Analysis ofAmer'
lean Character and Progress.

A Frenohman, NJ. de Bacourt, an
intimate friend Of Talleyrand, travelled
in this country from 1910 to 1912, du-
ring the first visit OF Charles Dickens
to America. His (the Frenchman's)
American Notes" jotted down at
that day, have just been published in
France, and the World translates nu-
merous interesting extracts. There
is substantial identity of the judg-
ments passed by Dickens and de Ba-
court on things and persons American;
but the latter took a larger and more
philosophical view than the novelist.
NJ. de Bacourt analyses American
character as follows:
The American of the North-the
Yankoe-is of the English type, with
something of the fLesse and clever
ness Of the Jew. 1t is in this comki-
nation of British pride, stiffness and
GOODNESS and Of Hebrew astuteness
which makes him unique being
The Yankees are English at heart,
despite the disdain the English pro-
fess for them. From England they
derive their customs, tastes and fash
ions, and even their antipathy for
France and the French. The Yam
KEGS, who are much more civilized
than their Southern brethren would
willingly establish an aristocracy.
They recognize, all the orders of SUI
periority which the English recognize,
and it would take very little change
in New England to establish there
the British system Of government.
The leanings Of the South on the
other hand, are towards France and
towards that which is least good in
France. They are vain, and they are
Jealous Of the superior civilization of
the North, which they wish to crush
out by the principles of extreme Dem.
ocracy. But there is . third race
growing up in the West, beyond the
Alleghenies, composed of settlers
from the East and of German and
Irish immigrants, which is destined,
in my opinion, to take the leading
part in the United States and in few
years to rule the others. The Anglo
American race has proyidential mis-
sion to people and ciVilize this immense
continent upon this mission it goes
forward without thinking of impedi.
ments, and this explains the anomalies
noted by all who have written on
America. But it is unjust to dwell
upon details when the whole
is grand, majestic and impOs-
ing. This population, grown
in sixty years from three millions to
eighteen, will before twenty years
from now have reached the shores of
the Pacific. The defect Of the Amer
leans is in not combining their preten-
sions to the success, and desiring,
wherever they compare themselves
with Europeans, to make themselves
out superior in every Point. This is
their great fault and it renders them
ridiculous, To sum up-l admire
Americans who are are only Ameri
cans.
Few observers, native or foreign, of
the America of 1910 have left SO cred
table a record as.this Of their obser-
vstions. Nothing can be more keen
and just than NJ. de Bacourts criti-
cism on the most conspicuous classes
in New England, unless it be his fore
cast of the future then preparing for
the great West.