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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-04-24
r ME m MEXICO,
Our Sister Republic Ofers Special AGva1
age for Its CULTIVATION.

age for Its Cultivation.
1na recent report by the United States
Secretary of Legation at Mexico it is
stated that Mexico offers special ad-
vantages for the successful cultivation
of the ramie plant The State of Vera
Cruz is admirably adapted-from its fire.
quent rains and facilities of irrigation
in the zone which extends from Jalapa
to Tuxtupe1s E9ssing through Cordoba
to the cultivation of ramie; and, in adj
ditton, the railways penetrating these
districts offer ready means Of Transports
ton to market After its second year
the plant can, as it does in Venezuela,
yield four, FIVE and even six cuttings
year. Both white and green ramie can
be cultivated in Mexico, but the white
is preferred, as it is very robust and
yields a superior fiber to the green
ramie. White ramie comes from China.
The leaf underneath is white, veined
with green, and the leaves and stems
are very hardy. Owing to this hardi-
ness the plant will grow in almost any
climate, but nevertheless, has predi-
lection for sandy, hight soil, with
well-drained undersoil, as the roots rot in
swampy ground. Soil impregnated with
nent, In order that the stems may grow
straight and narrow, without lateral
branches, it is necessary that the plants
should be crowded together, having a
space of not more than half yard be-
tween each; the stems will then give
much superior fiber. After the second
year wedding Is no longer necessary, as
the multiplicity of roots docs not allow
the growth of any parasite, Once
started, the plants will last for years
without being removed. 1t is stated
that the plants will live for more than
fifty years, but to obtain this result an
annual manuring Ia Indispensable. In
spite Of the assertion of some cultiyators
that the fallen leaves suffice to manure
the land. experience shows that the best
results are obtained by using manure
Again, the leaves may be used for max
ing paper, as is done In China. The eul.
tivation of ramie requires but small
outlay and very slight labor. and, as the
| harvests arc numerous when once the
plants are fairly started the return is
| prompt It is expected that weaving
end spinning mills will be established
in Mexico for making use Qt the fibre,
but II Is thought the richness Of the
soil will prove such that the production
Of raw material will far exceed their
! capacity Of consumption, and that Eu-
rope will take any such superfluity, in
preference even to hennequin. Mr..
Whitehouse states that none of the ma
| chimes at present in use for decortica-
ton give satisfactory results; all are toe
! expensive. and none do sufficient work.
! journal Of the Society of Arts
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How TO Wash the lair.

For washing the hair, says The
Ladies Home Journal, 4 small piece
of kitchen soap put in very hot water
until thick white sud is achieved,
is best. Use this first water to cut ont
the dust, and after that, wash the
soapy water out of it thoroughly with
clear water that should be very hot,
holding your head over a basin and
letting it be poured from a small
pitcher. Dry the hair first with
towels, and then do not braid it while
it Is damp, but have it either famed
until it is dry, or, if possible, stay in
your room aud let it hang loose until
it is free from all moisture. Do not
be induced under any circumstances
to use a fine comb UPON ii: it is death
and destruction to the hair and not
good for the scalp. If there are
obstinate spots of dandruT, rub in a
little vaseline aud brush that place
we'll the next morning
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The First Sien.

Perhaps you are run. down, cant
eat, can't sleep, can't think, can't dc
any thing to your satisfaction, and
you wonder what ails you. You
should heed the warming, you are
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and the Electric Bitters you VIII find
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the use of this great nerve tonic and
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good digestion is restored, and the
liver and the kidneys resume healthy
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ut w. p. Woodbridge & Go. IS drug store.
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KISMET.
rEor the HERAhp.i


Kissed by the SUMS benignant rays
Walked softly from it's Silly dream
Adown the rugged hillside way,
There comes a merry silver stream.
The panorama broad to view
Shows but the sunshine's golden
beam,
Enticing by each splendent hue
This life on which the high lights
CLEAN.
1t bounds DER rock, and leaps DER
And Winds the grassy plains, about,
Hurrying the idlers where they lag
Pursuing them with gleesome shout.
Now singing here, now joying there,
Careless and gay as childish mood;
Now basking in the sunlight fair
Now kissing sorrows needy BROOD.
Then on it rolls as though to prove
1t asks no other life than this
There runs no stream however
But meets some fall or preclp1ce.
Though left behind the homeward
shore
Still on and on it eager flows,
Gayer, happier than before
Gathering friends where r 1t goes.
Thus greater grown it sweeps along
With meier touch of greater pride !;
Still keeping true the under song
l follow but higher guide:
The magic.rine Kings frosty kiss
Vaunteth not the kingly power,
Disdaiuing such quiescent lissI
1t passes with the passing hour.
A river waits around the bend
The coming stranger to embrace;
Nor is there aught that will forefend,
To meet thu powers face to face.
10, straightway yields with pleasing
grace
The lesser by the greater won
Lifs's streams were dry, were there no
trace
Of sweet affections smiling sun.
AENA ]. HAMILTON.
Louisville, Ky,
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Watches for $28 cash, land send to
any address by registered mail, or by
Express G. o. D., with privilege OF
examination.
Our Agent at Durham, n. c.,
writes:
sour jelUeLerS hare confessed they
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One good agent JOGHted in each
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From Midway, XIV.

Mrs. Rena Camball, from Midway
states that for the last ten years she
has suffered intensely with sick head
ache at times and has been entirely
cured by DR.. Haie's Household Oint-
ment. 1t cures headache in a few
minutes. Mrs. Campball says she
would not be without it if it cost ten
dollars per box. James Ritter, Of
Midway, states that for three months
he had suffered from a severe pain in
mis- breast and was entirely relieved
from pain by DIR. Hale's Ointment
1t is the great pain and skin cure
30 cents box at Rains & Son drug
store. To- Oct241y.
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1T HAS a HISTORY.
Interesting Account of a Bell Taken from
Submerged Ship.

Interesting Account of Bell Taken from
Submerged Ship.
When you visit the room of the
Natural History Society on Boylston
street ask tho custodian to point out ta
you ships bell which rests upon eHe
Of the shelves. This bell has history
attached to it About the year 1856 or
1857 firm in this city sent out an eX-
petition under the charge of Mr.. Whip
pie, the noted submarine diver Of the
day, fully equipped with armors and
divers, to explore the banks of the Gulf
of Mexico for submerged articles Of
galue, Tho expedition returned in dne
time from a successful trip, the vessel
loaded with kentledge chains and an
chors Among the many crafts discov-
cred and explored was British frigate.
From this was taken the ships bell,
stamped with the broad arrow; also,
from the hull, several sheets of copper
stamped with the initials of the dock
yard in which the frigate was coppered,
and also the year of its application, A
statement of these facts, with q sheet
of the copper, was sent to the late
George Sumner, who was then in Lon
don. He placed them before his friond,
the Earl of Clarendon, who was then
connected with the British Admiralty.
On examining tho records Of the dock
yards, 1t was ascertained that two
trigstes were coppered tho year Of the
stamp, and were sent on their way &C
join the feet about to attack New Orr
leans at the time of its successful de-
Tense by General Jackson. They were
never heard Of after leaving their moor
ings. One of these was the frigate dis
covered by Mr.. Whipple. In this acct
dental way was communicated to the
Government and friends of the officers
and crew intelligence of the fate of the
snip, Perhaps a second Whipple may
discover the resting place of the United
States sloop-of-war Albany, which dis
appeared in the same waters, carrying
to the bottom, among other noble souls,
Lieutenant John Quincy Adams grand
son of the President of that name, who,
if he had lived ton years longer, would
have added lustre to his patriotic name
and family. A more accomplished and
gallant officer than Lieutenant Adams
never trod the quarterback. The bell
is overhung with massive canopy of
coral, which !s considered OF great
scientific value as showing the growth
of coral In O definite number of years.
R0ctoD Cafurdau Evanino Gazatfa
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Pure and Pleasant.

And highly effective. These are
Qualities possessed by the rev medi-
cine DR.. HaIe's Household Tea, the
great Blood Purifier and Nerve Tonic
1t has no equal as an Alternative, act
ing directly upon the liver and kid
neys aud upon the nerve centres, re-
storing the entire system to a healthy
action, giving brightness to the eyes,
inducing sweet refreshing sleep and
making ii Il pleasure to live in tie
enjoyment of perfect health. Thi-
finest of all remedies is for sale at sc
cents per package 1T Rains & Son
drug store. (G) oct2+ly.
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Ninety Nine Per Cent Discarded.

VI OChb
MI. Box, the Editor of The Ladies'
Home Journal, recently gave some
interesting figures relatives to the
manuscripts received by his magazine
during 1890. Owing to Its de-
partments peculiar character, the
Journal probably receives more
manuscript than any magazine
published. Mr.. iok says that he
received at his Office total number
of u, POS manuscripts. OF these, $3.50
were poems; ZIG stories and IL ,I79
miscellaneous articles. OF the poems,
G6 were accepted; OF the stories, only
81, and of the articles 40, of which
latter, however, over 800 were Sc
licited articles. Thus. ii will be seen
that of the entire $1,000 manuscripts
only 497 were accepted; a trifie over
three per cent. Deducting from this
the 800 accepted articles written at
the Editors solicitation, the net per-
centage of unsolicited manuscripts
accepted is brought down to 1917, or a
little more than one per cent: Sta
tistics sues as these show how much
liter trn-h is being written and the
sum6er of persons writing who ought
TO be employing their time at some.
thing else and better.
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Minister Ito chronic toner, who j.
leaning up against a fence. Uncle
John, where do you suppose you will
go when you die, if you continue to
get drunk like this? Uncle John
(thickIy)-if I can't go any better'n
can now, l shan't go thic) anywhere.
-D9rIEC's UdOuziR
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MANY vears nrnclice have given Q.

Many years practice have given C..
A. Snow & Co, Solicitors of Patents
at Washington, d. c.. unsurpassed
success in obtaining patents for all
classes of invention. They make a
speciality Of rejected cases, and have
secured allowance of many patents
that had been previously rejected.
Their advertisement i'm another col
umn, will be oc interest to inventors,
patentess, manufacturers, and all
who have to do with patents. If.
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Itch, Mango and Scratches Of every
kind, on human or animals, cured il
30 minutes by WOOlford's Sanitary
Lotion. This never fails. Sold by
Rains and Son. febi3 3m
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A Painfully Refined woman.

In a suburban town there is tele-
phone in the house of a gentleman
whose wife is fastidiously refined. She
frequently has OCCASION to use the in
strument but as might be expected,
even q telephone association with low
and unrefned people deeply hsrrows
the good lady's soul. She declares that
she frequently detects the odor of liquor
and tobacco when doing her marketing
or communicating with the livery stable
over the telephone. Her last move is
probably unique in the history of the
telephone. The other morning she drove
to her butchers and told that individual
that whenever he or his assistants
spoke TO her through the telephone
they must wash their hands and put on
coat 'It Is highly indicate"
she said, ''for you to speak to lady
with unclean hands and in your shirt
sleeves, and unless you cease doing so /
shall have to trade with the other
butcher person" That lady ought 70
l!se ander glass case. on some lonely
mountain peak, far away from mankind
This rk-a-day world Il mos the placs
ter AeF.-E Y. Tribune
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"Jlmmic is very unfortunate boy"
said Mrs. Simpson. He Joined an
athletic club, and the first hme he
went tn ~ he broke one Of the hest
records they ever had, "-ClGVcIand
World.
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The SOCIETY BORE.
Don't Expect q Piea&snt Evening when
You Happen to Meet Him.

You Happen to Meet Him.
It Is peculiar-thats elf-satisfaction of
men-some men. A man will monopo;
lie the conversation for two straight
houra Every one will be thoroughly
tired out vote him q stupid bore, and
take little pains to conceal it First one
will excuse himself. another will walk
away, q third will remember an import
taut engagement, but tho man will go
right on talking until desperation seizes
the rest, and there is no one left to lis,
ten. Yet be will never discoVeT that he
was entertaining himself instead of
them, and will 60 away and tell his
next victim what delightful time. ha
has been having, and how interested
his listeners we're in his experiences.
One night one of those individuals with
Q head crammed 80 full of technicalities
and book knowledge that there was nc
room left for practically, fixed his eyes
on o starry sky, jammed his hands In
his pockets and commenced discourse
;about the planets, space and the earth's
orbit to several people sitting on the
piazza He talked; they listened When
he discovered they were really listening
bis voice took on that tone that voices
w Wu0h OWtlGTS
that listening is synonym for ignor.
snce, and he reveled in the fancy that
he was the teacher and they his pupils.
The more didactic he became tho more
room his frame needed, and he COM
menced to stride up and down the piazza.
1t was impossible fore anyone to try to
escape The man was guest and there
was no pause in the discourse that
would allow one to take two steps away.
At the end of the lecture those who
were not asleep vowed solemnly never
to be caught in such trap again, and
the man had immortalized himself as
the personihcstion of a bore, A few
days afterward the host heard that the
guest had spoken of the lecture he had
given on astronomy, and said that he
had never had more appreciative list
eners and that he ''held them spell
bound for two hours "-Chicage Herald.
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So many you G men are promisii g
young men Until the age comes VIII. Il
they should be fulfilling some of the
promises of their youth.-1tchisOl
GIObe,
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Change of life, backache, monthly
irregularities, hot flashes, are cured by
DIR. Miles Nervine. Free samples at
drug stores,
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The fact that riches have wings
may be the reason that they enable a
man to oily higher. y Washington
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Briggs-Watts considers his wife n
very superior person. POtts-Ges ;
he takes himself as n standard OF
Observation-Disclosures Journal.
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"The Superhuous Man" is the title
of gently published essay. This
is tie first time that the man who
goes shopping with his wife has
figured in serious literature, We
York RCcOrIeT.
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Breeders
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STAK o.
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TENT b.
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LosT-a fine large case of the chilIs.
Supposed to have been carried of by
Cheatham's Fasteless Chill Tonic. No
reward offered. 1t is gone for good.
For sale by all druggists.
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n. * +. DIVISION.
SOUTH.

n. * =. DIVISION.
SOUTH.
No 81 Passenger leaves Columbia. .g:G5 A, NJ
No % Mix. Acc. bet. Columbia anG Iron City
,, leaves COlunbiae. 80. $3.50. 1879 p. M.
The above trains carrie. passCE gers.
NORTH.
No. 26 mix nee. bet. Iron CITY and Columbia.
leaves Iron CITY ...........-.- 4:tj \. NJ.
" arrives at Column bla ........- S.:iD -
No. % passenger " SHg llied. ......l :45 r. VI.
" arrives at COluln Dia ...........5:2O Z"
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COIumbia Market RepOrt.

Corrected by Holding e. Cochran
weekly, Thursday, April %, 1891.
COTTON.
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My baby, when two months old, had a
breaking out with what the doctor. called
were each one solid sore. / tried everything
but neither the doctors nor ANYTHING else
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Baby One Solid Sore

TRIED EVERYTHING WITHOUT RE
LIEF NO REST NIGHT OR DAY
CURED BY CUTICURA
REMEDIES.
Nevada County picayune., 1891-09-10
Dost Thou?

Young man, dost thou go abroad al night and rush the grower; and perambulaic with the boys and fig ure for the substance of the jackpot and bank their shekels against the ever slippery ringer? Art thou a guzzler of beer and aplayer of cards / Dost thou suck q ten cent cigar, and hast thou lost thy grip on the ways that are right and wisdom which is good in the world: Verify, verily l say unto thee, if thou art in bad row of stumps, it will not be long before thou dost know thy name is pants? Thy heels will fly up ere long and thou will wake up and find thou hast fallen into the soup. Keep thy eye on the gun, and monkey not with the intoxicating juice of the bug. Steer widely of the man with the aces and in the ripened years of thy life thy pockets will be full of rock" " and of the earth, while those who do not mind not these commandments are taking of the lunch which is free.
Nevada County picayune., 1891-09-10
CROSSING THE DIVIDE"

Bill raised himself tremblingly up- on his arm and looked at me with q strange pallor gathering in his face, was alarmed and tried to persuade him to lie down. But he would not and remained in his upright posture, resting against me for support.
 "Ralph," ;" he said in hoarse whis- per, "do you remember the time we crossed the divide together and went to prospcctin' on the slope:"
 "Yes, Bill" " l answered soothing ly, "but we'll talk about that some other time. You must be quiet now.
 'I cant be quiet, Ralph. Pm rnnnin' down. cant last long an must speak. Ralph "
 "Yes, Bill"
 "We had hard tussle when we crossed the divide, didn't we?'
 "It was rough trip, Bill
 But we kept cheerin' each other on by talkin' about the Golden Gate an the yeller dust we was goin' to git-didn't we? -
 "Yes, Bill"
 "We were goln' to become rich in a few months, Ralph, but that was thirty year ago, an here we are in the same old rut.
 I did not speak and Bill continu- ed:
 An the Golden Gate-there wasn't much sparkle about that, was there"'
 "Only rocks, Bill"
 Then Bill was silent. His head fell on his breast and l was about to lay him down when he reused up and whispered:
 s'Ralph, old friend, am l goin to find any gold across the divide?' ?'
 1 colud not answer him. My heart was full and turned from his plead- ing eyes.
 "Cause 1 can see the white tops of the mountains, he went on shading his eyes with trembling hand and looking up at the dark rafters, an they're harder range than the rock ics, Ralph, he shirercd. "There' s a cold wind comes down from the snow an ice on their tops an il makes me cold. Let me lie down, Ralph, an cover me up. There thank you, old boy. Pm afraid, " he added after pause, "that my life ain't been right-l,m afraid l shan't find anythin' but rocks when 1 get over there. No Golden Gate, = he unused wearily, as his eyes closed, "only rocks-rocks.
 And l wept beside him and lived an age in the hours of that night. And when the sun came and threw his beams over the lonely mountains, my comrade had gone. He had "crossed the divide"
Nevada County picayune., 1891-09-10
Being a Sister to Him.

A brother, who is taught by his sister to be gentle and considerate of her feelings, is not apt to forget his duty toward some else's sister when he shall take such to his heart and home. This influence every sister has in her power. She would have the same regard for the neatness of her dress at the breakfast table be- fore her brother as she has at dinner before the brother of some other girl. She should be as kind and careful in her conversation to him as she is to the friend he may bring home with him. Young men very often judge a girl by her sisterly qualities.
 II knew she would make a loving wife from the way she treated her brother when, to all appearances, was apparently unobservant," said a friend of mine recently, when l ask ed what guided him in his choice of wife. Tell me what kind of sis ter she is. and l will tell you what kind of wife she will be-" is a com mon saying among men. Many a man has measured girls character by that standard, and many man is doing it today. Edward w. Box in Ladies Home Journal.