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Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-08-01
Farmhouse Notes.

CANNING FRU1r.-The time for canning
fruit is at hand. Tin cans have been
largely used for both fruit and vegetables:
but glass is certainly preferable. All
fruits contain more or less acid, which,
in some cases, acts upon metallic vessels.
Tin cans are made with solder, an alley
into which lead largely enters. This
metal is easily corroaed. and poisonous
salts are formed. 1t is believed by many
chemists that persons have been serious
~ iuirred bv eating tomatoes. peaches,
ETC., which have been put up in tin cans.
To Boil New PoTAToEs. - These
should be out of the round but a shot
time before cooking. Wash them well,
rub off their skins with coarse clot1,
and put in boiling water. When per-
fectly tender, pour the water from them.
and let them stand by the side OF the
fire, with the lid Of the saucepan parti-
ally removed. When the potatocs are
thoroughly dry, put them in hot vege-
table dish, with a piece of butter the
size of a walnut; pile the potatoes over
this and serve. II the potatoes are too
old to have their skins rubbed off be-
fore boiling, they should be cooked in
t'eir Jackets" drain, peel, and serve
them as above.
How TO RESET AN OLD ASPARAGUS
BED.-In the fall when the seed is ripe,
instead of burning off the tops of the
Asparagus, as is the usual practice, I
cut them off close to the ground and lay
them down on the bed, cover them with
manure and let them remain until Spring,
when I remove those that have not rot
ted and cover the bed again with man
ure. I find that by this process 1 can
re seed the bed without the trouble Of
sowing the seed. The young shoots
Ghould not be cut until they are from
one to three years old. The philosophy
of it, l suppose, is that wnen the tops,
which are full of seed, are cut off and
laid down, the placing OF the manure on
them sprouts the seed and in the Spring
following they come up.-C. E. T.
Burlington, Ky.
STIR THE SURFACE. does not fol-
low that although we have plenty of
rain, the soil will remain moist. Evapo-
ration is very active beneath our hot
Summer suus. Heavy showers tend to
compact the soil and render it imper-
vious to water which remains on the
surface until evaporated. Little benefit,
then, accrues. unless the hard crust
baked by the san is broken up and the
soil mellowed by cultivation. 1t is then
rendered porous and absorbent ard is
less inclined to give up its moisture at
the demand of the scorching heat, while
at night, cooling more rapidly than the
air, it recoudepses AMI retakes in abund-
suce the moisture it has been forced to
give MP during the day. Thus the crop
never suffers during succeeding drouth,
for the soil is always in condition to
supply its needs from the atmosphere
when denied supply from the clouds.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-08-01
CHAPTER II.
A GREAT STEP TAKEN.

In the midst OF the Antarctic ocean, little
offthe route from New York to Australia, there
lies large island named Kergu5 lens Land, or
i as Capt. Cook called 1.-THE Island OF Desola-
ton.
1t was discovered just hundred years ago,
Tin 1712,) by the French naval officer whose
name it Dears. 1t was uninhabIted then, and
is to-day as deserted as ever.
The smallest schoo boy among our readers
can find it upon his map OF the world about
midway between the south end OF Africa and
Australia, well up toward the South Pole:
1t is hundred miles in length by fifty
breadth, and is consequently three or fou
times as large as Rhode Island.
Its coasts are so wild and dangerous that It's
discoverer, during the two expeditions that ne
made to it, did not once bring his ships TO an
chor in any Of It's bays ana harbors.
Its shape is very irregular, but something
like that OF an hour-elass, it being nearly cut
in two by couple Of large bays; but these two
divisions are unequal In size, the northern pen
insula being much larger than the southern.
Its coast line is wildly broken and jagged, ts
innumerable CULTS being long and narrow, ano
its promontories are correspondinSly shaTp ano
slender, reaching ont into the ocean nke M
gers.
The body Of the island indeed resembles that
Of some huge monster OF the antediluvlan Worio
even as its capes and headlsnds resemble such
a monsters unsightly limbs and claws.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-08-01
Figures From the Census.

The "Tables of Occupation" which
have just been completed at the United
States census Office, show that of the -,
sos, 1923 persons pursuing gaintul occupa-
tions, 9.S02 03S were born in the United
States; $50 SOP in Germany: 949, 164 in
Ireland 901, IT'S in England and Wales
1888 in Scotland; 109,6S1 in Sweden
Norway and Denmark 5s, 1877 in France ;
189, ,307 in British America, and As, 800 in
China and Japan.
Of the total number 022,47l were en-
gagged in agriculture; 2707, ,421 in manu-
features, mechanical and mining pursuits
1,191,29S in trade and transportation, and
2,6S4,793 were rendering personal and
professional services.
Of the Germans returned, 224,531 were
engaged in agriculture, 90s,231 in manu-
factures, &C., 112,297 rendering personal
or professional services; 96,432 of the
latter being classed as laborers, and A.
866 as domestic servants.
Of the Irish returned, 13S,425 were en-
gagged in agriculture, 264, 4,62S in manufac-
ture, &c, 119,09l in trade and transpor-
tation; 425,6l7 rendering personal and
professional services, of whom 229, 9,l99
were classed as laborers, and 145, 956 as
domestic servants.
Ofthe English and Welsh returned H.
173 were engaged in agriculture, 142, ,63l
in manufactures, &C., S,440 in trade, &c,
u 683 in personal and professional SER
vices.
OF the Swedes, Danes and Norwegians
returned, 50,480 were engaged in ag-icul-
ture, 21,2S3 in manufactures, 1864 in
trade, &C., 29,354 in rendering personal
and professional services.
OF the natives of British America re-
turned, 4S,2SS were engaged in agricul-
ture, 76,457 in manufactures, 1866 in
trade and transportation, 4s, oo9 in person
al and professional services.
OF the Chinese and japanese returned,
1852 were engaged in agriculture; 2l,7o2
in manufactures, &C., $3.50 in trade and
transportation, 19, 4SO in personal and pro-
fessional services, 5,421 of the latter being
classed as domestic servants, and 1861 as
launderers and laundresses.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-08-01

LIVER COMPLAINT, LIVER DISEASE, i. e.
BIZ IoUsNEss. - Bilious complaints - by
som termed liver disease-are very CON-
mon il. this country. The ordinary indi-
cations, such as yellowness of the skin
and viii Of the eyes, pain in the right
side under the inferior ribs, with some
times difficulty of respiration and trouble
some cough re familiar to host of suf-
ferers; but the liver, sometimes, is in q
very upsatisfactor state without the pres
ence of symptoms. When we reflect that
the liver is the large I gland in the body,
that it secretes the bile which lubricates
the bowels and keeps the Il in order, is the
great blood purifier or Gle nsing machine
of our systems, it may truly be called the
Housekeeper of our Health. Sudden trans.
itions of climate temperature, r impure
air, or water are disturbing elemen which
arrest the functions of the liver, an rem
der it torpid, producing diDrhea. ay>en-
Mrv, bilious remittents, Intermittent IL.
GERS, and general prostration, and un-
healthy state of the whole organization.
1t is not surprising that q medicine which
can restore the healthy operations of the
liver, should command general attention.
Such medicine is CALIFORNIA VINEGAR
B1rrERs, the Housekeeper's Towel and
Broom.-COm.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-08-01
Lost Health Regained.

Selt-nsglect lays the foundation Of much bodily suf
fering As rule are more socitous to repair and
their houses stock in trade and other perish
able property than repair and preserve themselves
They eau see when wall requires prop, Q weak
structure girder but appear to be unconscious Of
Indifferent to- the cracks and flaws and evidences Of
decay in their own fra and sensitive organizations
The consequence of this want Of common prudence is
that thousands fall by the waysde in the prime OF life
every year who might have lived to~enjoy hale and
hearty old age they had resorted to the proper means
OF recruiting their failing vgor at the proper time
Seeing what that famous vitalizing and invigoratns
elixir Hosteters Stomach Btters has done for count
less mutudes of the enervated and broken down, and
with the long, unbroken record Of its before him,
it seems amazing that any sufferer from premature
decay weakness, dyspepsia, bousness, chronic
constipation or disease remttent or intermittent
character should delay, for hour to seek tho
aid which its tonng regulating and nvgorating proper
ties have never failed to afford.
1t eIaggeration to that Hostetters Stomach
Bitters is the most faithful ally of nature in her sug
giles with weakness and disease that medical botany and
honest chemistry have yet given to the world
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-08-01

HEAT OF THE SUN-Forever giving
off caloric, yet its temperature never di-
minishing. This is problem that exer-
cises the ingenuity of philosophers who
hold to the old theory, that the sun is a
glowing mass of fire. According to that
conception of its physical constitution
the amount of radiating heat into unmeas-
ured space would have reduced the size
of the centre of the solar system ere this,
since, unless a provision exists fer ao-
cumulating in ratio exactly equal to the
waste, fearful arrangement of the uni
verse must have inevitably ensued soon
after the morning stars sang together in
concert. To meet that necessary contin-
gency, another theory has been announced,
viz, that the suns heat is kept up to the
required status for sustaining all worlds
within its nebular jurisdiction by the de-
struction Of millions of meteors, perpetu-
ally falling within its burning embrace.
Thus, then, otherwise sensible scholars
have reduced the mechanism Of the side.
real heavens to level of bakers shop,
who keeps his oven hot by regularly stuff.
ing it with pitch pine.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-08-01
A Sad Story.

The police of London lately unearthed
a den in which business was carried on
more atrocious than imagination can con-
ceive, and which one, even with the evil
dence adduced, can hardly believe posi-
bic to ex st. The place was devoted to
the manufacture of cripples,-children of
ender age and babes, even, being taken
there to have their limbs twisted out of
shape, their features burned and distorted,
their eyes put out, or to he SO mangled
or manned in other ways as to attract at
tention and sympathy from the aims CIV
ing public. The majority of these children
were orphans or were taken-"adopted,
from almshouses or from very poor famil-
les, while others were undoubtededly sto-
len. The scale of prices for manning va
ried according to age, the cost of twisting
the legs of babe under year old out of
shape being only seven dollars, variety
of other injuries being thrown in tor ten
dollars. Incurable ulcers and sores were
manufactured for from one to five dollars
and so on. 1t is difficult to write calmly
in regard to such atrocious business, and
i is only to be hoped that some punish
ment severe enough can be inflicted upon
the wretches who carried it on. Only
less in degree is the cruelty practised
upon little children in depriving them OF
their proper rest and sleep and compelling
them to perform labor totally untitled for
their years for money-making purposes.
In this connection, says Boston paper,
we call the attention of the chief of police
to the fact that since the beginning of the
Jubilee several little children Of both sexes,
from five to seven years of age, have been
placed upon the streets by some wretched
gatherer of pennies, weighed down with
Aand-organs, under the burden of which
they are frequently compelled to succumb.
One of the hottest days last week one Of
these little victims, apparently not more
than six years old, fell asleep over heI
organ on School street, attracting good
deal of attention and sympathy from the
passers-by. Not only are these children
oomna1lad m walk the streets from morn.
ing until night. but far into the night
There is no eight hour system; rather,
twice that. There is law in this State
for the protection of dumb animals; is
there none for the protection Of these in
fants, who are as helpless in the hands OF
their task-masters as the veriest dumb
animal that existsl
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-08-01
Items Of General Interest.

An Iowan came near losing his life by
the sting Of bee.
A FEW drops of ammonia taken in
water will check excessive perspiration.
The consumption of sugar in the
United States amounts to 100000 tons
annually.
Two French Communists, named
Boudouin and Roillac, who were tried
aud convicted by court-maitial, were
executed at Satory.
Ex JUDGE MCCUNN of New York died
from physical prostration, caused by
anxiety of mind induced by the recent
proceedings against him.
THOUSANDS of barrels of -four are an
nually exported from this country to
Euglaod, which return again in the form
of fancy crackers and biscuit.
The ship Omaha, which left Liverpool
for Calcutta, was wrecked on Saugur Is
land in the Hoogely river. Seven per
sons belonging to the crew of the Omaha
were drowned.
In the San Joaquin Valley is grain
patch thirth-fve miles long and eight
miles wide, covering on area of 179,200
acres the average yield is estimated at
sixteen bushels, which will give total
1885,, 200 bushels, or S6,015 tons.
CRAZY BLACK DICK, who will be re-
memhered by all passengers who have
travelled through Harrisburg, Penn,
during the past four years, fell dead
few days ago. he was in the habit of
running ahead of moving trains and
doubtless saved many lives.
SINCE the San Francisco authorities
have offered premium of $40 for every
dead body recovered from the bay, the
Chronicle advises drunkards and Oregon
fats to give wide berth to the water
front. Ten dollars, it says, may seem a
small sum for murder, but times are
hard and human nature weak.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-08-01
Russian Fashions,

The Russian serf, usually so mild and
submissive, becomes terrible in his cups.
One glass of brandy and water renders
him wild beast. The vice of this people
is that they drink too much-an excusa
Bile vice, however, as the climate makes
stimulants a necessity. A coachmaD
waiting at the door of his masters house
has recourse to brandy in order to resist
tie rigor of the cold The first glass pro-
vokes him into drinking second, so that
at length the remedy becomes worse than
the evil, and if, under such circumstances,
the coachman sleeps, it is never to wake
again. The effects of this extreme cold
are sometimes alarming. Foreigners in
Russia have often lost their noses or their
ears, or even a piece of their cheeks,
which had suddenly become frozen. One
morning while on my way to Peterhof, !
met a Russian who quite suddenly, after
having picked up handful of snow, COM
menced to rub my left ear. In the first
moment of this friendly assault | had
placed myself on the defensive, but hap
PLY soon appreciated the humane motive
that impelled his action. Indeed, my ear
had already commenced to freeze, and
the sympathetic man had perceived it by
the white appearance of the part threat
ened.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-08-01
The Losfer and Free Lunch Men.

The loafers and free-lunch men are
dressed in various guise, but where they
manage to procure their wardrobe is
shrouded in mystery. In point of fact, it
is exceedingly difficult to discover how
they succeed so admirably in eking out an
existence at all. They toll not, neither
do they spin, yet they ''get aloRg;;" though,
to be sure, they generally come in at the
tail end of the fashions. They do not as
general thing, cut anybody except bores.
The knife is very seldom brought into
requisition except for the purpose of
splitting pigs head at lunch-table.
But It'll amusing to watch the movements
of one of this class at that time of the
day when his fellow lunch-6ends dive in
to saloons and rum cellars to partake of
smoking soups and suspicious looking
"beef," at which they tug and pull with
fearful voracity. One of these will quietly
enter bar-room and patiently bide his
time ill he appears to see an expected
friend saunter in alone or in company,
he does not care. He then, in an Off
hand way, glsnces at the days paper
(Which he never purchases) and INDUCES
in loose gossip, spiced with blasphemy,
without which he never could by any
means pretend to "smartness." A few
persons approach the bartender, and the
lunch man approaches the dishes. A stray
acquaintance loiters round to take drink,
and "chunmy" (alias luucher) pokes his
nose into conversation and talks of every
thing and everybody, curses his luck, "a
convenient term nowadays for laziness),
and then wishes war would break out,
though the coward would be the last to
smell powder. he is profuse in his boast
ing. He is lavish in his praise toward all
disturbers of law and order. because he
knows that tipplers belong to that class,
and "set 'em up again" is sure to be the
word when "full talk" is INDUCED in by
such characters. Should this inexplicable
lunch-fend not happen to be called to
drink, he devours whatever he can, and,
while the bar tender is occupied, tries to
escape unnoticed. Thus he thrives on
his low craft; and yet, withal, he leads a
wretched life of mean dependence, with
ability to do better, if that ability were
properly directed. He will lounge for
hours around the street-corner-and,t to
do him justice, he will say thousand
witty things and speak sensibly on thou
sand topics; he will often entertain sound
political views, and give solid reason for
the faith that is in him, and manifest an
amount of perception and shrewd sense
which would procure for him decent
living, if he only managed to dispense his
knowledge through the proper channels
and in the proper manner. But no; he
would rather loaf, borrow or beg from
weeks end to weeks end, till theft finally,
in the phrase Of his class, "winds him up" "
and the penitentiary gives him home
and a shelter from perhaps darker fate.
This is no mere sketch of the imagina-
ton. 1t is the simple and unvarnished
truth.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-08-01

THE HoUARD CAsE.-The delay in DR..
Houard's release is because Senor Martos
wants Minister Sickles to ask for Hou.
ards pardon. This Gen. Sickles refuses
to do because the position assumed is that
Houard is not guilty, and that he is, there.
fore, upjustly held. Sharp notes between
Gen. sickles and Senior Martos are being
exchanged, and kilograms to and from
Washington are transmitted regarding the
affair.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-08-01

Founded on q Rock THE disappointed sd-
yenturers who have from time to time attempted TO
run their worthless pot ons against DRAKEs PIANTA.
r1os BrrrEps vow that they cannot understand what
foundation there is for its amazing popularity The
explanation 10 simple enough. The reputation OF
the world-renowned tonic is founded upon rock,
the Rock OF EXPERIENCE. AL its ingredients are
pure and wholesome How, then could tricksters
and cheais expect to rival 1t with compounds OF
cheap drugs and refuse liquor, or With Iquorless
ash in state Of acetous fermentation or course
the charatans have come to grief Their little game
has failed. Their contempt for the sagacity Of the
community has been at y punished. Meanwhile
PLANT ,TIoN BIrrERs seems 10 be IN fair way Of
eventually superseding every other medicinal prep
sra,ion included In the class to which Il belongs In
avery State and Territory Of the Union It 10, to-day.
the accepted specific for nervous debility dyspepsia.
fever and zQue RI. umatsm. and al ailments fnyol.
Wing dsnciency Of vital bower.1lCom.l
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-08-01

GUNPowDER BURNs.-Pieces of old lin
en- dipped in cold water will afford relief
in cases of burns from gunpowder. As
soon as the pain is allayed, apply dress
ing of equal parts of lime water and lin
seed oil. If the burn is raw, apply to the
surface well-besten whites of eggs. A
gunpowder burn generally looks worse
than it is, owing to the deposit of black
powder on the surface.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-08-01

No Person can take these Bitters accord
ing to directions and remain long unwell, provided
their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or
other means, and vital organs wasted beyond the
point OF repair.
In the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness OF the Chest
Dizziness, Sour Eructations OF the Stomach, Bad
Taste In the Mouth Bilious Attacks Palpitation OF
the Heart, Inflammation OF the Lungs, Pain In the
region of the Kidneys, and hundred other painful
symptoms are the of-springs OF Dyspepsia one
bottle will prove better guarantee OF lts merits
than lengthy advertisement.
For Female Complaints, In young or Old,
married or single, at the dawn OF womanhood, or
the turn Of life, these Tonic Bitters display so
decided an influence that Improvement Is soon
perceptble.
For Infiammatory and Chronic Rheu.
ma tism and Gout, Bilious, Remittent and Inter
mittent Pevers Diseases OF the Blood, Liver Ki..-
news and Bladder these Bitters have no equal
Such Diseases are caused by Vitiated Blood.
They nre n gentle Purgatfve as well as
q Tonic, possessing the merit or acting as
powerful agent In relieving Congestion or lnnam.
nation OF the Liver and Visceral Organs, and IN
Bilious Diseases.
For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, letter, Salt
Rheum Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils,
Carbuncles, Ring-worms, Scald- Head, Sore Eyes,
Erysipeas Itch, Scurs Discolorattons OF the Skin,
Humors and Diseases OF the Skin Of whatever name
or nature, are literally dug up and carried out
OF the system in short time by the use OF these
Bitters.
Grateful Thousands proclaim VINEGAR BTr.
rIRs the most wonderful Invigorant that evG
sustained the sinking system.
II. H. MCDONALD g. co.
Druggists and Gen. Agts., San Francisco, CAL, d
cor. OF Washington and Charlton Sts., NY.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS 4 DEALERS.
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Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-08-01

fyou wish to buy or sell any Railroad
Bonds, write to CHARLES W. HAssLER,
No. Wall Street, N. Y.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-08-01

Afact worth remembering cents worth
Of SHERIDAN's CAVALRY CONDITION PewDERs
given to horse twice week, will save double
that amount in grain, and the horse will be fat
ter, sleeker, and every way worth more money
than though he did not have them.-[Com.]
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-08-01
How foolish you are 10 be annoyed by iii

How foolish you are 10 be annoyed by flies
and mosquitoes WIN you can not only XII and
drive them ont of the house, but keep them out
yet perfectly harmless to animal life, and
also kill all bugs, reaches, insects on plants,
&C., by using Chennock's Patent Powder Gun
& Death Dealing Powder. Gun and large pack
age Of Powder sent free by express for sl.00.
Agents Wanted. WEBB MAN'F'a Co., Sc Cort-
land St. New York-TCom.1
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-08-01

DRNK.-Drink kills many people. The
more man INDUCES in stimulants in this
weather, the weaker he becomes-the
more he drinks Of anything, the thirstier
he is. 1t is by neglect of the most ordi-
nary precautions that 30 many people lose
their lives.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-08-01

~ As remedy fol Bronchial Affec-
tions and Chronic diseases of the Lungs,
nothing ever before discovered equals DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. 604.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-08-01

Married ladies', under all circumstances, will
find PARSONS PURaATIvE PILLS safe; and, in
small doses, q mild cathartic. They cause no
gripping pains or cramp.-[Com.l