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Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-07-04
BEAUFORT, S. c.. THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1872.

SOUTHWESTERN SToCK-RAISING.--Stock-
raising is carried on in the Southwest on q
scale of grandeur which is almost incon-
ceivabIe to persons living in the vicinity
of the great cities Of the North and East,
where land is worth ten thousand dollars
an acre, the corner lots sometimes sell for
a hundred thousand dollars apiece. For
example, there is farm, or rancho, in
Texas, which contains one hundred and
forty-two thousand and forty-eight acres.
1t is know as Rolideaux Rancho, and lies
between the Neuces and Rio Grande
rivers. 1t is peninsula, running far out
into the Gulf Of Mexico, and the head of it
is guarded by thirty miles of plank fence,
with herdsmen's residences at intervals OF
three miles along the whole distance. II
man had farm in this region as large
as the island of New York, it would be
looked upon as pretty good-sized piece
Of real estate; but this Texas rancho is
more than ten times as large as the island
of New York. And it is stocked on 6
scale commensurate with its extent
Thirty thousand beef cattle, and tens ol
thousands of horses, mules and sheep feed
over its grassy stretches, and yield vast
revenue to their owner. There are Other
ranches in Texas, comprising respectively
over hundred square miles-sixty- four
thousand acres-and stocked by thousands
upon thousands of cattle, horses, mules
and sheep. And so favorable to stock
raising are the soil and climate of that
State, that the increase of stock is said to
average twenty-five per cent. per annun'
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-07-04
Hay Sixty Years Old.

The farm is remarkable for It's odd
characters, leading isolated lives, taking
no paper, and never venturing beyond
the nearest market.town. We have
heard of men who kept their hops and
wool safely stored for twenty years,
waiting for higher prices. And lately
we have fallen upon gentleman of the
old school. who boasts of hay in his barn
cut in the year 1912. He has an excellent
grazing-farm, and hay has always been
one of its chief products. He inherited
propensity to keep over old stacks
from his father, and the propensity has
grown with his years. At the close of
this season of foddering, when hay has
been quick of sale at forty dollars ton,
he has at least hundred tons on hand.
Stacks are numerous, from two to SIX
years old, and some so old that the tops
grow an annual crop of weeds. He
could have got thirty dollars ton for
his hay year ago. 1t has startled him
that hay has risen twenty-five per cent
in a year. 1t is easy by ciphering to
show that he has made thousand dol
lars by holding on, within year. He
holds confidently for a rise, and expects
fifty dollars ton next spring. The hay
crops on hand to-day are worth more
than the farm would sell for. He never
ciphers on the waste OF dead capital or
the reproductive power of money well
invested. He has been so saving of hay
that he has always been afraid Of stock
ing his farm up to its full capacity. The
one thing needful in his life has been
more old hay. This is good illustration
of the persistent abuse of old proverbs.
It is well enough for farmer to keep
over a few tons of hay to guard against
the contingencies of dry season, which
may compel him to sell stock at loss OF
to buy hay at extravagant prices. But
hundred tons of hay unsold, when
worth $40 a ton, is another story
Hearth and Home.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-07-04
Brevities.

The st. Petersburg IGlobssays that the
personal expenses of the, Grand Duke
Alexis, during his travels in the United
States, amounted to upward OF S2oo,ooo.
Russian agriculture, is of very pri-
mitive character, They use. the same Old
wooden pillow that had served their an
cestors before civilization came to them.
A Bachelors Union has been formed
at Kalamazoo, Mich. We never heard
of but one bachelors union that was
successful, and that was called marriage.
No person can enter the Russian do
minions without an accurate description
being taken of his person. His age,
employment and the object of his visit
ing the country are alirecerded.
Those best,acquainted with the topo-
,graphy of the Colorado desert are conf
dent that larger subterranean, stream
runs under Il, and tnat the entire desert
may be reclaimed by. .artesian wells.
The California Republican is iicorrup-
tible A man sent the editorSa basket OF
strawberries and leader. He ate the
berries and sent back the leader, which
shows that his morals are all right.
1t is SO pleasant to know that DAgassiz
! has found few species ef-gasteropods,
fourteen kinds of shinederus, including
an ouryeal, fifty specimens of ophiuraus.
and, to crow the whole, a large helias-
ter.
At boarding house in Chicago, com
noI Il - ha
proprietor, who evidently has sharp eye
to business, says that /" it is good as the
boarders go to bed quick cause he smell
so bad" yre Es'
A band, which serenaded young
married couple, in one of our suburban
towns the other evening, selected Pc
cuiiarly happy and fattering piece
known as "The Monkey Married the
Baboon's Sister. 80 sH
A correspondent of the Iowa Home
stead describes pear tree which was
grated on the hawthorn in 1903, and
which is now about fifty feet high, trunk
five feet nine inches IN circumference.
1t bears fifty bushels ofpears annually.
A sportsman who, during the shooting
season, had gone to pass week; with .
friend in the country, on the strength
of general invitation, soon found, by
gentle hint, that he would have done
better to wait for special one. 81 saw
some beautiful scenery" was the visitors
first remark, "as I came to-day by the
upper road" "You will see still finer"
was the reply, "as you go back k7to- NOR
row by the lower one" ta a.
A lady correspondent asks US # Dolly
Warden can be box plated, whipped and
gathered in a yoke, or is it best to have
insertion and founces with putting. We
think that neither way is good. Two
rows of bobinette, hem stitched, and in
serted with double gathered rufHes OF
brocade tape, with guyset and hem
stitch or two at each end, and this quilt
ed and made en- reoers in the back, with
bias cuttings, double puffed, of blue Or
candle, running transversely across the
whole, lined with point applique ticking,
and futed, would be for more stylish.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-07-04
A Word to Fathers.

We have read story of little boy,
who, when he wanted new suit of
clothes, begged his mother to ask his
father if he might have it. The mother
suggested that the boy might ask for him
self. II would" said the boy, "but don't
feel well enough acquainted with him."
There is a sharp reproof to the father in
the reply of his son. Many father keeps
his children so at distance from him
that they never feel confidently acquainted
with him. They feel that he is sort of
monarch in the family. They feel no fa-
miliarity with him. They fear him and
respect him, and even love him some, for
children cannot help. loving somebody
about them; but they seldom get near
enough to him to feel intimate with him
They seldom 60 to him with their wants
and trials. They approach him through
the mother. They tell her everything.
They have a highway to her heart on
which they 60 In and out with perfect
freedom. In this keeping off plan fathers
are to blame. Children should not be
held off. Let them come near. Let them
be as intimate with the father as mother.
Let their little hearts be freely opened
1t is wicked to freeze up the love foun-
tains of little ones hearts. Fathers do
them an injury by living with them as
strangers. This drives many child away
from home for the sympathy his heart
Graves, and often into improper society.
1t nurses discomfort and mistrust, which
many child does not outgrow in his life
time. Open your hearts and your arms,
oh, fathers! be free with your children 4:
ask for their wants and trials; play with
them; be fathers to them truly, and they
will not need a mediator between them
selves and you.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-07-04
Farmhouse Notes.

SUGAR BEErs FOR SWINE. "A writer in
the Practical Farmer. says that he finds
the sugar beet very good to fatten his
hogs with. He begins with the beets
and finishes off on corn. As the result OF
his experience, he found that his hogs
fattened earlier, with material saving
of corn.
PoTAToEs.-I once lined some pota.
toes, says a correspondent, and found
that they could not be boiled soft.
I couldn't eat them hard, and I did not
think it would be honest to sell them,
so | threw them away. I would not ap.
ply lime as some do, even to dry the
pieces when they are cut for seed.
SoRREL.-I have seen, says Mr.. Stew.
art in the farmers club, old ime-kilns
perfectly green with a growth of sorrel
The fact is that no farmer who produces
40 or so bushels of corn per acre, or two
tons of hay, ever complains of being
troubled with sorrel. If the soil is vel
manured the crops grow freely, and
sorrel, as well as other weeds, become
duu hlllCu OuU.
CURE FOR WHIsTLNe N HORSES.
have tried the following, and cured 6
horse that whistled badly. The recipe
was furnished me by skilled horseman.
Put from 10 to 20 drops of spongio
tosta on the tongue of the animal in the
morning and at night the same propor.
ton of Fowler's Solution, in the same
manner. Repeat alternately from fou,
to six weeks, giving more or less accord
ing to the severity of the case.
To PREPARE RHUBARB FOR PIES OF
TARTs.-Cut the stalks from the plant
ridding them of their leaves. With 6
knife scrape off the outer skin, and cut
transversely into little pieces, being sure
to remove any fbres that adhere, just as
you do in striuging beans. To each
pound of this substitute for fruit allow
half a pound of sugar if for immediate
use, one pound if designed to keep as
preserve. The addition of little grated
lemon rind is esteemed by most persons
a great Improvement to the flavor. Spice
of any kind, however, may be added il
fancied. This is the most common use
to which rhubarb is put.
Mock GoosEBERRY-FooL. up and
scrape as much rhubarb as will be enough
to half ill glass bowl of the size you
wish to use Stew in enough water to
cover it well. When tender, rub through
a colander to smooth pulp. 10 quart
of the fruit, well sweetened and favored
with lemon peel, add quart of sweet
cream, stirred smoothly in till well mixed
Heap the bowl up high with whipped
syllabub. If you have no cream, substi-
tute quart of custard, made with the
yolks of six eggs. In place of the sylla-
bub, use the whisked whites of the six
eggs, sweetened with six tablespoonful
of fine white sugar, and brown the top
slightly with hot salamander or clean
shovel.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-07-04

A GRAMMATICAL DIALoGUE.-The fol
lowing conversation between a young
lady who wrote for magazines and an old
gentleman who believed he could speak
English, occurred somewhere in Massa,
chusetts, and is quoted for the benefit OF
grammarians
Old Gentleman-"Are there any houses
building in your village"
Young Lady-"No Sir. There is new
house being built for Mr.. Smith, but it is
the carpenters who are building"
Gentleman" True; I sit corrected.
To be building is certainly different
thing from to be being built. And how
long has Mr.. Smiths house been being
built2"
Lady-Uooks puzzled moment, and
then answers rather abruptly "Nearly
year."
Gentleman-"Howm much longer do you
think it will be being built Z"
Lady-(explosively) Don't know"
Gentleman-'I should think Mr.. Smith
would be annoyed by its being so long be-
ing built, for the house he now occupies
being old, he must leave it, and the new
being only being built, instead Of being
built as he expected he can not"
Here the gentleman perceived that the
lady had disappeared.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-07-04

VAccINATIoN.-About two years ago a
Small -pox Hospital was established at
Hampstead. near London, on account of
the increasing prevalence of that disease.
The Superintendent lately published an
account of his observations in that hospital
of the effects of vaccination in mitigating
the severity Of the disease. Nothing
could be more conclusive than the result
The percentage of deaths among those ad
mitted without vaccination marks was
55.43. Among those with one mark the
percentage of faal cases sank to 1879 !;
among those with two marks 1t was 1929 !;
among those with three marks only 1858
per cent died only S.38 of those with
four marks, and only 6.l3 Of those with
five or more marks. OF cases of small -pox
after successful re-vaccnation there were
but three out of 622l, but there were
many cases to prove the fallaciOusness OF
the doctrine that persons not susceptible
to vaccination are proof against smallpox
But the conclusion is that successful re-
vaccination after the age of fifteen years
is sure protection against the disease.
Cases are rarer than those of second small
pox, and are very mild when they do
occur.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-07-04
The Heat Of the Day.

There must be those who bear the heat
And burden on with weary feet
They toll along the noontide way,
Nor rest when comes the fall Of day.
Through dewy morns, through tender ewes,
Loves labor keeps them binding sheaves
Which no man cares for: One on high
Will count their earnings by-and-by.
o patient heart heroic will
That bends to work such strength and skill
The angels sometimes stoop to ask
The meaning of thy daily task.
God knows, beyond an angels ken,
The grandeur God bestows on men
Whom sorrow, failure, pain, and loss
But crown anew at every cross.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-07-04
The Fisheries,

Samuel Collins, one of the charterers
and crew of the fishing schooner Frola O.,
of Gloucester, seized in Trinity Bay by
the cutter Stella Maria, for alleged illegal
fishing, arrived at Gloucester recently,
and has sworn to an affidavit of the par
ticulars of the seizure, before Collector
Babson, OF that port, which has been for
warded to the proper authorities at Wash
ington. The affidavit sets forth the fol-
lowing facts
That the Euola O. was at anchor, was
not fishing. and had not been fishing in
shore; that she was boarded by the Gap
tain of the cutter Stella Maria, who en-
gagged in friendly conversation; that Capt.
Cunningham asked the Captain OF the
cutter in regard to the treaty, as he would
not fish in shore until assured that he
had right to do so; that the Captain Of
the cutter replied that the treaty had
passed Parliament by large majority,
and that in his opinion there would be no
trouble in fishing in shore; that the Cap
tain of the cutter said his was not rev.
enue vessel, but lighthouse tender, and
had nothing to do with the fisheries; that
some of the crew, boarding the cutter,
asked what brass gun was for on board
lighthouse vessel, and were told that
it was to be put on Bird Rock as signal
gun; that, acting on these assurances, the
Euola G. proceeded to fish, and the next
day the Captain of the cutter came down
stream and laid in ambush, as be afterward
informed them, from noon until o'clock
in the evening, waiting for the wind to
die away, so that the schooner could not
escape, when, with three Indians and sew.
en- white men, ALARMED, he came along
side and boarded the schooner; that he
then read his commission and took charge
of the vessel, ordering one of his men to
the wheel; that, when charged with bis
duplicity by Capt. Cunningham, he re-
piled that he had no right to give Ameri-
cans information; that they must look
out for themselves. The schooner was
taken to Father Point; telegraphs were
exchanged with the authorities at Ottawa,
and the schooner was towed to Quebec by
the steamer Druid. s
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-07-04
Sewerage Waste.

The enormous loss to the country of
fertilizing material through the waste Of
sewerage of our large cities shows re-
markable lack of enterprise on the part
of our people. In Europe great progress
has been made in the introduction OF
means for utilizing the sewerage OF cities,
and practical exl eriments indicate that
this is work which can be carried on
with great profit to those who undertake
it. At Crossness, near London, are the
works of g "native guano company" "
which is now in successful operation,
deriving its material from sewerage.
At Crossness is the reservoir for the
southern sewerage of the great metropo-
lis. At this point 50,0O0,0OO gallons Of
sewerage are daily discharged. The
works of the guano company are built
on one side of the Government pumping
station, from which is drawn daily 500,-
900 gallons of sewerage, which is ope-
rated on by the A B G process, SO called
because alum, blood, charcoal, and clay
are the ingredients used for purifying
the stuff, 5000 gallons of the A B G
mixture being added to $4,000 gallons of
sewerage. The whole is conveyed into
mixing pits, whence it Is transferred into
tanks, where it remains from four to six
hours. During this period the precipi'
tated matter accumulates at the bottom
as fine as mud, and the water which has
become clear, odorless, and chemically
pure, is drawn off. The residue is then
dried and packed in bags for the farmers
use, meeting with ready sale at Sl7 30
per ton. This leaves profit to the
manufacturers of SO ton. 1t is esti-
mated that if the whole of the sew erage
of London could be treated in this man
ner, the result would be clear profit of
over six millions of dollars annually on
the manufacture, while the lands of
Great Britain would gain in value much
more than the cost of the guano from
the return to them of so much fertilizing
material.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-07-04
Execution Of Communists.

The bloody work still goes on in France.
Three of the Communists were lately exc
cuted, and the execution is thus described
by correspondent
The priest, going up to each in turn,
kissed him on both cheeks, in what seemed
to me hurried and perfhnctory manner.
Then, when the sentence was being read
to the prisoners in quick, low, quite in
audible tone, Boin made long haranguel
much of which was lost in the perpetual
rolling of those ghastly drums. But one
could distinguish snatches of sentences
such as "Soldiers, you are children of the
people as we are, and we will show you
how children of the people can die. Nous
mourons innocents," and then opening
wide his light coat-he wore no waist
coat-he offered his white shirt-front for
mark, and striking his heart with his
open palm, he exclaimed: "Portez armes
en- iouel feu! tirez au ceur! This he re-
repeated several times, and while he was
yet speaking, standing out clear away
from the poteau, and looking death at ten
PAGES literally in the face, sword flashed
in the sun, and the three men leaped from
the ground only to fall to it in horrible
contortions. The smoke and report we've
unheeded, for all the senses of the horri-
fed spectator were arrested by the awful
spectacle of writhing limbs and twisting
hands. Boin seemed to be rewarded for
his bravery by suffering less than the 9th
ers, but Serizer literally rolled over, and
Boudin also moved. The surgeon then
went up, examined Boudin first, and then
directed one of the sergeants in reserve to
to give the coup de grace in the ear. Then
Serizer was examined and treated in the
same way; and lastly, after considerable
interval, Boin was dragged into position
and dispatched. cannot give you any
idea of the sickening impression produced
by this seemingly deliberate butchery. |
say seemingly, for the men may have
been dead, but, in any case, surely if the
coup de grace must be given, it should be
done at once. / did not time the pro-
ceedings, but long as my description is, |
believe that not more than two minutes
elapsed from the time that the ambulance
wagons came on the ground to the time
that the volley was fired. Several more
minutes, however, elapsed before the dull
thud of the last coup de grace delivered
right into the poor wretch's ear struck
upon the ground. have seen something
of The horrors of war at Sedan and Stras-
bourg; I have witnessed the degradation
of public hanging in England, but have
never seen anything so horrible as this
supplemental butchery of the coup de grace.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-07-04
Accepts the Nomination.

President Grant In accepting the nom
nation rendered him by the Philadelphi;
Conv entlon, said:
81 accept the nomination, and return
my heartfelt thanks to your constituent:
for this mark of their confidence and sup
port. If elected in November and pro
tectcd by kind Providence in health aud
strength to perform the duties of the high
trust conferred, promise the same yea
and devotion to the good of the whole
people for the future Of my official life as
shown in the past. Past experience may
gn ide me in avoiding mistakes inevitable
with novices in all professions and in all
occupations.
"When relieved from the responsibilities
of my present trust, by the election of a
successor, whether it be at the enc of this
term or next, [ hope to leave to him as
Executive country al peace within its
own borders, at peace with outside nations,
with credit at home and abroad, and
without embarrassing questions to threat
en- its future prosperity.
"With the expression Of desire to see
a speedy healing ofa bitterness of feeling
between sections, parties, or races of citi-
zens, and the time when the title of citizen
carries with it all the protection and privi-
leges to the humblcst that it does to the
most exalted"
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-07-04

Up IN A BALLooN.-The immense bal
loon which has been building for five
months at Chelsea, to be used at the next
Forth of July celebration at Boston has
been entirely destroyed by spontaneous
combustion. The Boston Times says
Mr.. King, the owner, intended to have in
vited about dozen newspaper men to
accompany him to the upper regions, and
there is consequently some disappoint,
ment among the quill drivers on account
of the news from Chelsea. A couple Of
press men met, and this colloquy ensued
TOO bad about the balloon, isn't itT
said the younger to his elder and more
practical brother. eyes, rather severe. y
" But it's better to burn on the ground
than up in the air with dozen reporters
in it," said the first speaker. "Yes, may
be it is.!-but," sitter a pause, sit don't
make half so good an item!' The youth
full scribe was Mortified.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-07-04

WHEN THE DARK CoMETH.-A little
girl sat, at twilight, in her sick mothers
room busily thinking. All day she had
been full of fun and noise, and had
many times worried her poor, tired
mother. "Ma," said the little girl,
"what do you suppose makes me gel
over my mischief and begin to act good
Just about this time every night q
"I do not know, dear. Can you tell me
why ?" "Well, I guess it's because this
is when the dark comes. You know !
am little afraid of that. And then, ma,
1 begin to think of all the naughty things
I've done to grieve you, and that per-
haps you might die before morning, and
so l begin to act good" "Oh = thought
I, show many of us wait till the dark
comes in the form Of sickness or sorrow,
or trouble of some kind, before we be-
gin to act good 7, How much better to
be good while we are enjoying ife's
bright sunshine |! and then, when the
dark comes'-as it will, in a measure, to
alive shall be ready to meet it without
fear" .-
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-07-04

POISONED BY WILD PARsNIP.-Three
brothers were recently poisoned to death
at Flint, Michigan, by partaking of wild
parsnip, supposing it to be sweet-cicely.
They were found dead in the field. Two
companions who had also eaten of the
poisonous plant were saved by swallowing
tobacco, which was administered by their
father
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-07-04

The EFFECTS OF FORESTS. Whatever
may be the climatic influences of forests,
it is certain that they are found to afford
valuable protection to crops. In Wis
consin, on the prairies, the winter wEec..
is seriously injured by the severity oi
last winter, while in the wooded districts
he crop is quite uniniured. .