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Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-12-09
Sand as 5 Cutting Instrument.

) Asfew years aee it came into the head
of some one. TO utilize the cutting power
Of sand, as shown in its effects where il
is blown against the glass OF light
-houses. The sapd~ blast IAN instrument
by means of which fine, sharp sand ~
thrown against the surface to be cut
was the result, and its practical value
has noE been demonstrated In such a
variety of methods and spplications as
TO admit Of mo doubt in regard TO its
permanent plsce 10 operative mechan.
isms. H reprodpees on glass the finest
steel sngzavings; it caryes the most
delicate designs on cut glass it en-
graves calneos, andfft does in Ave min
utes that which takes the most industri-
sous stone-cutter hours I'd accomplish,
solid granite and marble dissolving be
fore it quicker than snow fnelts ma hot
sun. And all this is the result OF the
simple principle that sand viii oct upon
the s1rface OF glass and other minerals,
but not upon any vegetable or animal
substance; so when q surface OF glass OF
stone is partially covered with paper,
cloth, leather, grease, or ink, the sand
Will fall harm1esaly away from the
paper, etc., but viii eat into the mineral
as certain as acids eat into steel
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A Sweet Domestic Scene.

A correspondent of the Providence
(R. ~ Journal writes from that city to
say At noontime I often take walk
ON the park promenade, and about that
hour may be seen women with pals,
etc., bringing dinners to their husbands,
who labor on the streets. A woman
came, met her husband, and they seated
themselves on the greensward, and
spread on the grass the dinner, he giving
the wife some of the edibles. After
drinking from the pail he gave it te her,
gave her kiss, and went to his ma<k.
and she to her happy home. On one of
the benches sat man and wife; she had
brought bis dinner. After gobbhng it
down he took up the pail, and, after
tasting it, dashed the contents into her
face and went to his work. The poor
woman, taking her shawl, wiped her
face, gathered up her pail, ETC., and
started for her miserable home. want
ed to put my cane over the brute's b ad,
but I feared he would be too much for
me, and let him 60.
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Young Keizle's Awakening

"My son." said old Keizle, appear
ing at the head of the stairs with q sus-
picious looking strap in his hand, "it
is now the rose time of morn, and
Aurora shines high in the Heavens,
warming the heart of the lark as he
scars aloft filling the air with his melo-
dies. Awake, my son, and breathe thou
the freshness of the newborn day |"
"Let the world heave on its ocean noise,
I ask but sleep" said Tom, as he pulled
the blankets close about and turned
over; but old Keizle was not to be triaed
with, and, gathering the blankets in one
hand, he roared: "But, my son, the
busy day, walked by the lark, hsth
reused the ribald crow, and them in
fernal hogs are in the cornfeld raisin'
blazes with the fodder! Git up, you
lazy, s.orin' hound you, or I'll blister
your hide wuss'n q yellow Jacket" 'A
come |" replied Tom, as he rose from
bis couch Of rest and rye straw with tb6
alacrity of streak of spring ightniAh he
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Questions and Answers.

How many tons Of hay are contained
in 8 stack whose circumference is sixty
seven feet, and height 205 feet, ton
measuring 512 cubic feeta Answer.
About 143.
What is the best and most convenient
article for covering steam pipes running
to radiators for heating public or private
buildingsa Answer. Felt bound in can
vas. When laid in box underground,
what is the best filling9 Answer. Plas-
ter of paris. Would you paint the pipes
with coal tar before covering or filling 2
Answer. Give them a coas Of red lead
paint. Is coal tar a conductor of heat ?
Answer. Yes.
At what season of the year is it best
to trim trees and bushes, and why :
Answer. Timber trees are usually felled
in the winter, when the trunks and bark
are free from sap. Fruit trees are
trimmed in the spring, that the vigor of
the tree may be expended in the fruit,
instead of on the growth Of the tree
Scientific Hnaerican:
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Small Change.

3 There seems to be misunderstanding
about the printing Of fractional curren-
cy. The Treasury department has made
no change in its work Of redeeming
wornout scrip with new, and not even
the printing of ten-cent pieces has been
stopped. Though il hss been 80 pub
slished very extensively, there can be no
contraction In the volume of fractional
paper currency TIL coin is ready TO
Issue. except, OF course, such contrac-
Hon as & incidental to the redemption.
Anew fifty-cent note is issued because
otthe counterfeiting Of the note of that
denomination heretofore in circulation,
The mints are constantly employed In
making silver coins, and whenever the
prospects of the gold msfket and the
condition Of business render the effort
to exchaa e silver for paper possible the
.frAasurx xi11 - she
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My agitation was rising. The nurse
glanced at the doctor, and the doctor
nodded at the nurse, and in another mo-
ment a bundle of flannel was laid on my
left arm, and trembled with eagerness
as I pulled it open. A fat, pulpy, red
face met my view, with nose that seem
ed to be spread half over it, two weak,
swollen eyes feebly blinking at the light,
and a mouth that was slit from ear to
ear-in fact, the orthodox newborn
baby. {.
But I don't think saw what she was
like. was experiencing the thrill that
comes over woman when the child of
the man she loves is first placed in her
arms, and in the unconscious little crea-
ture beside me I saw only Hugh's repre-
sentative. Hugh, in his strength and
beauty-Hugh in his imprudence and
boldness-Hugh in his love for and pro-
lection of me-Hugh on his death-bed
Oh had never missed Hugh before
as I missed him when I first held his
baby in my arms Where was he to re-
;oice over this wonderful thing with me
to be thankful for my safety-to as
sure me he would love it for my sake
and his own2 Where was the father of
my child2 I only felt half mother
without him. The first word I uttered
is I looked at my little daughters fea-
lures was his name. The first welcome
I gave her were the tears that welled up
weakly into my eyes at the remembrance
that he could never see her.
"Hugh!" I exclaimed, brokenly, as l
squeezed the little bundle to my bosom
and turned my face round upon the pill
low.
"Come come ! this will never do -
said the doctor, as he hurriedly mixed
some horrid decoction in glass. "Here,
my dear, drink this: and nurse, take the
child into another room until Mrs
Powers mas had Sleep"
"No, mol" said, irploringly. 81
will drink whatever you like, doctor ;
hut pray don't take my baby from mel"
evil you promise not to talk any
more, then, or even to Think"
"I will promise anything if you will
leave my baby here. p.
So, fearing the effect of opposition, I
suppose, they did as I desired them,
and, with my lips pressed upon the face
of my infant, who, with the instinct Of
young animals, seemed to understand I
was her mother, and to be quite con-
tented to lie where she was, sunk off
into sleep as placid as her own.
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The difference between "eaI" and
a "put" is simply that in one case you
bet that stock will go up, and in the
other that it will 60 down. There are
pages of most agreeable reading, es.
pecially to those who happen to be short
of that S1O6, ,25-for here is set forth
that Toledo and Wabash Jumped from
16 to Sc, lake Shore from 81 to 72,
Panama from 122 to 165 (the latter net
ting the fortunate investor 50, ,450), with
many items of like characte.. 1t don't
seem to make much difference whether
it is "put". or "call, " for upon the
word of the writer-you can make
money faster in this than in any other
way. All that is wanted, says the pamph-
let, is a "careful Judgment" If John
Thomas is not willing to stake his fnan-
cial reputation on a put or call, he can
be accommodated with "double priv
Iege ;" and we are informed whether
the stock rises or falls, you are certain
to make profit and it is impossible to
loee. Then comes the "stradGle, which
is double privilege with a difference.
The writer very honestly says: cat the
same time, we wish all who contemplate
stock speculating to understand that, In
order to make the largo profits we speak
of, they have to risk the money they in
vest" This looks very much as though
that double privilege business was a fic-
ton, and that the single and simple
privilege the speculstor has is to pay his
money and-lose it. Very few of the
uninitiated 60 into Wall street and come
out with any privilege" in their pock-
cts. The demoralizing effect OF such
ventures is more thar pecuniary loss,
and no wise man will deal in them
NeU York Express.
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4 Bad Appetite.

In referring to the arrest Of the mas
ter of the little boy acrobat, Prince
Leo, in New York, the World says
But With whom lies, after all, the true
responsibility for the existence of shames
and scandals such as this3 is it not
clear that the public themselves have
themselves to thank for Ito The Com
prachicos would never have been at the
trouble Of slashing the faces Of babies
into .caricatnres OF humanity, or oil
breaking their backbones, or dislocating
their limbs, had not the average civiliza-
tion of the times been so low and the
average taste Of the times been so de-
prayed that monsters were sure to be
regarded with delight and amusen4nt
rather than with pity and with pain.
Men Like the father and the lessee OF
"Prince Leo " would certainly have
found something better to do than to
train trembling child to rivals tom cat
on clothes line, If they had not known
that hundreds and Thousands OF their
fellow citizens of both sexes would
gladly give q considerable fee to look
upon a trembling child attempting, at
he risk of its life, *. rival q, tom cat on
Sclothes, line. The demand creates the
supply. The vulgar and stupid popular
appetite for spectacles favored with the
SPICE of cruelty and OF danger to the
phformers, breeds such brutal fathers
a1d villainons speculators as those with
whom tardy justice is dealing to day In
New York. Let them be. .chastised and
Looked up by all means. But let every
mm and every woman, too, who reioices
to know that they are to be chastised and
locked mp, ask himself and herself to-
day whether he or she is after all really
without sin in the matter. For the vital
thing. to aim at is not 80 much that poor
little " Prince Leo |" should be rescued
from his dreadful trade, though that is
well, ,.or that the tormentors Of poor lit
tie g Prince Leo . should be, themselves
delivered over to the tormentors,
though that ,also is well, but that the
whole business of tormenting poor little
PRINCE Leos should be put an end to in
the only efficient 1aYr by 80 purifying
and eloYsting the popular taste as 20
m Ike The exhibition Of Prince Leos as
unremnnefatiyeas in the eyesof civilized
humanity it Is repulsiye aud disgusting.
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Your First sweetheart.

You can never forget her. She is SO
young and innocent and pretty. She
had such a way of looking at you over
her book at church. She alone, OF all
the world, did not think you q boy of
eighteen, but wondered at your size and
learning, and your faint foreshadowing
of sandy mustache, and believed You
every inch man. When at those stupid
evening parties, where boys and girls
who should have been eating suppers OF
bread and milk, and gone to sleep hours
before, waltzed and Airted, and made
themselves sick over oysters and cham,
pagne, You were favored witha glance
of her eye, or whisper OF her lip, you
to the seventh heaven imne.
dMtely. When once upon a memorable
eve, he poiked with young Smith, and
never evse looked at you, how miserable
You were. Ris funny to think of now |;
but it was not fuppy then, for you were
awfully In earnesfS. Once, at q picnic,
she wore white dies, and had roses
twined in her hair, ana she looked SO
much like b bride you fafsly trembled.
Sometimes you thought, UNJUST such
snowy costume, with Just such Nossoms
in her hair, she might stand bef6se the
altar, and you, most blessed of>$all
mortals, might place gold ring upon
her finger; and when you we're ~left
alone with her for q moment, some 81
your thoughts would form themselves
into words, and though she blushed and
ran away, and would not let you kiss
her, she did not seem to be angry. And
then, when you were somewhat parted q
little while, and when you metagain she
was walking with gentleman, q large,
full grown, whiskered man, OF twenty
eight or thirty, and hadneither word nor
smile for you, and some well meaning
gossip informed you soon pvafterwafd that
she was .fengaged to tie tall gentleman
with black whiskers, and that g f,~as.a
splendid match lit was terrible news to-
you, then, and sent you off to some
busy town far from: your native place,
where, after a good deal .of youthful
grief, and many resolutions to die and
haunt her, you recovered your eqda-
nimity, and began to cali love stuff and
nonsense. You have 9 rich wife OF your
own now, and grown-up ShildreR--ay,
even two or three todd ding grandchil ldren
about your hearth; yonr hair is gray,
and you lock your heart up in the fire.
proof safe at your counting house when
You 90 home at night. And you thought
you had forgotten that little episode of
your Nineteenth year, until the other day
you read her death in the papers. You
know she was o stout lady who wore
glasses, and has died older than she was,
in that olden time but your heart went
back, and YOU saw her smiling ~
s,ausaa-susTw ham sD0ut her
face, and yourself q boy again, dreaming
of wedding robes and rings, and you laid
your gray old head upon your office
desk, and wept for the memory Of your
first love. =
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A. FAMOUS CAKE.-Four pounds of
-four, two pounds of butter, and two of
sugar. Stir the butter and sugar to-
gether thoroughly, then mix half of it
with the -four, together with a tumbler-
ful of good homemade yeast, and one
quart of warm milk. Beat it and pat it
with both hands until the ingredients
are thoroughly mixed, then let it stand
in warm place until it is light, say five
or six hours. Then add the remainder of
butter and sugar, two.pounds of raisins,
and small quantity of pulverized mace.
This may stand over night, and put in
pans for baking early in the morning.
It should rise in the pans, and then
bake an hour in slow oven. This cake
requires no eggs, and is used by eeono-
mica housekeepers in winter, when eggs
are dear. The loaves, nicely frosted.
will be preserved moist for long time.
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An Innocent Man.

The Boston Globe says:s The case o1
Moses F. Wheeler, pardoned by the
governor, appears to be one of peculiar
hardship. He has been serving out 9
life sentence in the State prison since
1868, having been convicted of.the crime
of arson for setting fire to the First Par
ish church and q dwelling house IN
Brighton, Mass, and if the h-bed
confession of woman, upon which his
pardon WAS secured, is trues he was en-
Sirely innocent of the crime.
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Styles and Fashions.

> The Providence Journal relat$stLe
incident of lady entering fashidaabae
millinery store in Boston, for the spur-
pose of having little alteration hade
in the face trimming Of her bonnet.
She selected flower suitable fa the
purpose from those laid before hea and
the desired change was quickly effested.
1t was q single rose, with. delicate, spray
attached to it. =" How much shdn 1
pay 2. she asked the modiste. q Ten
dollars" is the reply. < Upon thu the
good, honest, old-fashioned editor nor
alizes that if singlesfbwer costs ten
dollars, what will ga love Of bonnet "
cost with all the fashionable adjunce of
birds, wings, feathers, lacss and flowers
Then he delves back into the deepSre-
oesses of the,long past and recalls The
time when twenty five dollars was asm-
ficient allowance fora years millinay,
even for fashionable outfit, including
a new winter bonnet and q new sun3nsr
one, while the last years bonnets altsisd
and to look as good as new answered lbr
more-ordinary. occasions. Then tAGe
came before him visions Of bright 4es
and pretty faces that he saw under the
made over bonnets, looking quite Us
sweet and attractive as the maidenam
the present extrayagant and degenerb
days. Those, however, were days.l$
the song says, "too beautiful to laaf
They must have been long before @
war times, before the vulgar show ell
extrasagance had been inaugurated t43
has led our women into the adoption N
the enormities perpetrated under 81
name of fashion. If women only h9
how ridiculous some of the latest 81
called styles of bonnets make them a
pear to the male eye. it is Just possib$
that reform might be effected. 10 tel
of e1travagance 10 the average nin4
teenth century woman, is very much liz
showing red cloth to bull and merea
e1cites her to anger. Turn her to rid
cule and, like man, she is much NOR
readily vanquished.
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Dead Leaves.


4 month ago-how beautiful
To-dsy-how sere they lie |!
The glory of the forest fled
Like splendor from the sky:
trample on the fallen leaves
That yesterday, like gems,
Flashed brightness on my wondering eyee
From countless diadems.
They answer to my needless feet
With crispness in their tone:
"Tread lightly for the beauty's sake
Thine eyes in us have known;
We were but shadows, when we glowed
In crimson, Of thy pride
We still are shadows Of stall,
And just before it ghde!"
Iwould the withsred leaves we're fair,
That I might shun to tread
Their dying verdure in the dus
With which my hopes fall dad;
For when, in crimson and in gid,
My ripened joys shall fame,
The brief, bright besuty Of the leaves
is theirs-to sere the same
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Iheash.s. % satarasy Nisht,

Thoughts Tor SaturdaI Ni9n s.st
II Is better to reconcile an ensmy than
TO conquer him.
I have found Il hard TO persuade men
that death is sunrise. - e:sss S !,
Death has this also, that it openeth
the gate to good Jane and extinguishes
envy. s Z
aThou shalt NOT get found out iss
not one Of Gods mandments, and
no man can be saved by trying 70
keep il. 81 u =, s..
Lost yesterday, BET 4een sunrise and
sunset, two goldel5 hours, each set With
sixty diamond miantes. 30 reward -
offered, as they are gone foreter.
Hannah More said To- Hofsce Wal
pole: g IF I wanted to punish sI encny
Il should be by festeniDg on him the
trouble OF constantly hating somebody -
At what employment wouId Jon have
death find you2 Formy part 4 woulds
have. il to be some hnmane, beneficent
public c4spirited, noble action.
Ayoung Southern lady objected e
the sssming improperly Of carrying her,
petty cares q the .Slmiehty God, as ssd:
vised by her cokred mamma, be-
cause they were so petty. 8 Bress yes Z
honey, was Aunt Mil3y's wise reply,
ssso dey is; bnt deys 9 y the troubles
Eyou's got &: Z:
s. A child will hifer from the spirit
which pervades housshold, whether
Al - 1.,,,,.,x 80 = frxyk 90 - H<4~fs
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j. MYSTERY OF THE SEA.
A Strange Stsry sfa Discovery
by Sailors or -Four Dead Bodies On Kesf.

Fl
A Strange Story sfa Shipwrecf,--Disseve
bysaiIers sf -Four Dead Bedies On . kesf.
On the thirtieth of October the brig
Palo Alto arrived in New York bringing
Frederick Hoffman and three sailors ol
the brig Helen @. Rich, which was lost
on the twenty fifth of September on Da-
mas Key, off the Cuban, coast. Freder.
ick Hoffman tells the following interest
ing story in connection With the loss oi
the Helen O. nich:
On Tho nth day after the wrecked
vessel went ashore on the Damas Key,
Hoffman noticed, on q key not far away,
several poles stapding In the rocks. he
directed the attentioa.of the captain to
them, and offered o,go bat 70 the spot
and ascertain II another wreck had taken
place. "A boat was manned, and Hof-
man rowed over wftEtwo men, the dis
tance being about Two miles. On ap-
preaching the shore they were surprised
to discover, totally submerged, the hull
of an iron vessel, disfnasted, but other.
wise apparently intsct.
Upon going ashore they found many
evidences OF The wreck Bits of smasts,
spars and sails, and here and there some
cordage, were. streMn. along the reef.
The Key wass shout Ave hundred feet 10
Aeugth. Near sbyssIhere they had land
Sed they SeaWa ofz06lsf structure, rough
y thrown tQget epf stones piled q foot
or two high nd eSsred with hatches,
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A Toper's Seliloquy:
Leaves hEse their time to fau.
And 90 likewise have I
Thereasonl too's the same- =
Both ooGaes OF getting dry.
But here's the differences twixt them andme--
i falls more harder and more frequently
Items Of Interest.

Il falls more hsrder and more frequently
Items Of Interest.
If captains were less wreckless, there
would be less WRECKS ia5Ssss s
In the last nine months the :yaluA of
steam engines exported from Great
Britain was over 81, ,000, ,000, and Last
year about $12 ,000, 700. -
A Cincinnati merchant has q pair Of
shoes made iii 1776, during the times
that Gried men 3 soles, and he proposes
to exhibit them at the Centennial.
r Molasses has often been used for feed
ing stock Of ali kinds, but If you give
msngel w1rzeI they contain as much
sugar as is desirable In cattle food.
Sugar land probably melasses) does in-
jure fecundity. ,,ssf,.;;
Many very good people are annoyed
by sleepiness In church. The following
remedy. Is recommended Lift the foot
seven HSohes from the floor, and hold, Il
IN suspense without support for the
limb. and repeat the remedy Il the st-
tack returns. 81
Alittle boy, aged four, whose mamms
thonght it rghS to refuse him something
upon which his heart WAS desperately
set, finding tina. there was no nope fnr
him, burst into passion Of tears and
exclaimed "Well, then, what did they
born me for2" ~
a little miss, upon being one day
bAntered because she was = gixl and
having represented TO her thai boys we're
much more useful creatures ID the world,
although they were usually more H61s'
Bile, was asked if she did not wish she
were q. boy. No, indeed, she quietly
replied Tie worse than most bo44
new. - x. ss.:S 2 3 =.
Eating too often Is pnhealt IT =
sWeakeHing aud iripfi0us - mix fresh
food with that phic6 d pazfly digssted3
and the stomach also reeds rest atter
The labor OF digesting . mesl. In grown
persons four or FIVE hours should inteE-
Yene between each meal Children who
are growing fast need simple luncheon
sof bread between meals
Il boy Of Ave years was,the do W
playing besidesa millpond at
field, Mass., III company with =
The little fellow was mls5ed, and the
vas found beside the pond IN sevlS
distress In feponse - the slpests0n
g Where Is Fred iels tho deg inmped
INTO the wsters md - ~ !. he1sae tbs
.apot the body Eas tod xhsn the ~
;ssr 'Ss sas So dssNn ov - = 'nas
~ son !,
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