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The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-11-03
VOL. I.--NO. SO.
The Baby's Hand,

What is it the baby's hand can hold?
Only one little flower, do you say?
Why, all the blossoms that ever blew
In the sweet wide wind away from the dew,
And all the jewels and all the gold
OF the kingdoms of the world to-day
The baby's hand can hold.
What is it the baby's hand can hold
Why, all the honey Of all the bees,
And all the valleys where summer stays,
And all the sands Of the deserts ways,
And all the SHOWS that were ever cold,
And all the mountains and all the seas,
The babys hand can hold.
What is it the baby's hand can hold
The baby's hand 30 pretty and small?
Why, just what the shoulders of Atlas bear.
Bonding him down in the picture there
(Now all can tell you is surely told)-
But that is the world2 Well, that is all
The baby's hand can hold.
How is it the babys hand can hold
The world ?-yee, surely ought to know
For oh, were the baby's hand withdrawn,
Down into the dust the world were gone,
Folded therein as you might fold
The sad white bud Of a rose--just So
For the baby's hand to hold.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-11-03
Making Horn Combs.

Upon entering the factory where horn
combs are made, says a correspondent,
the first sight presented to view was the
pile of horns in the rough. The odor
was not pleasant. A man sat in front of
cutting machine. He had leather pat
terms of the size wanted, and would
wrap it around the horn and put it under
the cutter. One horn makes two pieces
of different shapes, both of which are
large enough for two combs. These
pieces are thrown in one pile and the
odds and ends in another. Those de-
signed for combs are subjected to a pro-
cess through hot oil, which softens the
horu, so that it can be reduced from
round to fiat shape. Then it is laid
away to dry and season. After that it is
cut the right length, allowing an inch
for shrinkage. The machinery is exact,
and beautiful for cutting the teeth in the
comb. A man stands by the feeder.
The strips are laid on part of the ma
chine, which is heated by steam.
While the horn strips are warm they
are placed between the two horizontal
bars Of the machine, which has sharp
knives, and also dial, upon which are
numbers. These numbers represent the
number of coarse teeth, which are the
first ones made on the comb, and then it
gives little turn backward, or a skip,
and proceeds to make the fine teeth.
When the horn is taken out you can
scarcely see that any impression has
been made, but If you pull the two ends
the combs separate, for there are two,
the teeth of which were interlaced. The
combs are handled many more times be-
fore they are finished.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-11-03
Bound to Beat.

She was an elderly lady, and as she
seated herself on one of the stools in a
Nevada store and asked to be shown
some caliker," she remarked that
when che was "gal she thought--sh
was powerful lucky if she got twelve
yards in dress, and she thought it q
"singful waste of stuff to put in more;
but she had just "heern" that Mrs. X.
was agoin' to hev forty-two yards in her
new caliker, and she hoped that there
might be cloud burst in seventeen
minutes if that air woman should stare
round at her in church and make re-
marks about her clothes. "You kin list
cut me off forty-thr yards, and I'll
have it made pin-back fashion, with an
overdress and square mainsail, and q
fyin' iib and back-acticn then II iist
like to see that stuckup Mrs. K. put on
airs over me-"
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-11-03
Mr. Warner Tries IT.

MIR. Warner, a respectable and law.
abiding citizen of Baker street, rode
home in an express wagon the other day
having hand fire e1tinguisher and the
driver for company.
What's that thing ?" asked his wife,
in contemptuous tones, as she opened
the hall door
"What's that2 Why that's a fire ex-
tinguisher-best thing you ever saw
meant to have got one q year ago."
Jacob, you are always making fool
of YOURSELF" she continued, as she shut
the door. "Every patent-right man
gets around you as a cat lays for a
mouse"
"Does, eha If you know anything
at all you'd know that every store and
Office in Detroit has got one O. these.
They've saved lots O. buildings, and may
save ours"
"You throw it on the fire, don't
you 2" she asked, in sarcastic tones.
He carried it up stairs into O closet
without replying, and she followed on
and asked:
"Does it shoot fire out 2"
eff you don't know anything I'll
learn you something It is full of
chemicals you strike on this knob on
top and she's all ready to open this fau-
Get and play on the fire."
She grinned as she walked around it,
and finally asked:
around3"
"No, I don't get horse to draw it
around. You see those straps2 Well,
I back up, put my arms through them,
and here it is on my back"
"I see it is," she sneered.
"And can't run to any part of the
house with it2" he demanded. "See
see 2'-
And he cantered along the hall, into
the bedrooms and out, and was turning
the head of the stairs when his foot
caught in the carpet. He threw up his
arms and she grabbed at him, and both
rolled down stairs. He yelled and she
yelled. Sometimes he was ahead, and
then she took the lead, and neither of
them had passed under the string
when the extinguisher, humping and
jamming, began to shoot off its charge
of chemicals.
You old -" she started to say,
when stream from the hose struck her
between the eyes, and she didn't finish.
"What in-o-u-c-h |" roared Mr..
Warner, as he got dose in the ear.
They brought up in heap at the bot
tom of tie stairs, the stream playing
into the parlor, against the hail door,
and up stairs by turns, and she gasped !:
"1Il have you sent to foolasylum /"
Who's a fool! !" he roared, dancing
around with his eyes full of chemicals.
I'm fainting |" she squeaked.
;" And I've broken my back ~ lie
shouted.
It was sad house when those two
highly respectable old people got so
that they could use their eyes and dis
cuss matters calmly. And she doubled
up her fist and hoarsely said
Take that investigator, or extin
guisher, or whatever you call it, back
down town and tell everybody that you
are lunatic -
And he said:
~ know more than all your family
pnt together !"-DetroH Free Press.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-11-03
Promised Land for Women,

Olive Harper writes of domestic life
i'll Greece, that in one respect it is the
promised land for women; for the hus-
bands, in devotion to their wives, are
themselves their only parallel. She
says A Greek man is only content when
he can lavish upon his wife all the lux
uries in the way of dress the female
heart can desire. He is only happy
when, in company with his wife in the
house, in the garden or on the prone
made, she is the best dressed of all the
fair. With the Greek husband there is
no grumbling consent to bestow upon
you enough to buy q pair of boots, while
he spends ten times that amount with
his friends in champagne suppers; no
long-drawn visage as he doles out
stingy sum, while delivering solemn
lecture as to female extravaganza. Not
bit of it. On the contrary, the Greek
husband does not lead his wife through
by-streets for fear of dry goods stores
when she wishes to go ont for little
walk. He leads her, on the contrary,
past the most fashionable stores, and OBJ
serves with the eye of a critic, all the
new styles, and is really, ladies, really
and truly willing to spend his money for
his own wife. Even for fear that she
should not be considered so lovely as
some one else, he goes to parfumer's,
he buys cold cream, rice powder, deli
cate pinks for cheeks little blanched by
the stern realities of motherhood he
buys q little black for eyelashes, to
brighten eyes that have become some
what dimmed by tears, perhaps, or
vigils over sickly babies, and he not
only gives his full and free consent to
their use, but he himself will artistically
apply them, and afterward compliment
his wife upon her beauty till her heart
swells with love that he knows so well
how to retain, fresh as when the first
vows were plighted. Yes, of verify,
the Greeks are bad men, but good hus-
bands and tender fathers.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-11-03
What They Live On.

What do you think OF this matri-
monial business, anyway9" said free
and-easy young man on Chicago street
Car to another at his side.
What you mean that which the
papers are talking about 30 much-mar-
ried people living on 81, 200 yeara" in.
quired the other.
eyes, that's what mean," said the
first speaker, "do you think they are
correct in saying that man can live on
that amounta ."
"I do" was the reply, "in fact
know from experience that they can.
I'm reporter myself" the speaker con-
tinued, "and live on $3.50 year-S7 Q
week."
LIS that soa" exclaimed the other.
"Why, I'm reporter, and live on Se. F"
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-11-03
All About Advertising.

Of course all newspapers want adver-
tisements, just as all merchants desire
to sell goods-just as all manufacturers
desire orders for their wares-just as all
farmers desire customers for their pro-
duce-just as all laborers desire a posi-
ton in which they can get an equivalent
for their labor. The solicitor for adver-
tisements is not in any sense different
man from him who waits upon you for
an order for goods, and yet he is gener-
ally considered bore if he asks for your
advertisement. You look at him as
though you were about to confer an i'm
mense favor if you yielded to his re-
quest. You don't advertise as though
You were investing in something that
would prove advantageous to yourself
You seem to think that when you pay
for advertising you are donating to the
newspaper man. You do other things to
bring your name and business before
the public-you ornament your place of
business to attract customers-you hang
out an expensive sign, and arrange your
wares attractively, and hire men to ask
people to buy your goods. But when
you are invited to make your wishes
medium in the world, you begin to won
per man without absolutely kicking him
out of your establishment.
Here you make great mistake. Be
cause you don't hear from an advertise
ment rs soon as it is inserted is no proof
that the advertisement is doing no good.
One seldom hears any good of himself.
To prove how much effect notices Of
ones business are, note how sensitive
most men are in regard to what is said
of them in the newspapers, especially if
the notice is not altogether compliment
tary note, too, how jealous are many
about what is said favorably of another
in the same line of business. Thus do
men tacitly admit the power of good
and evil OF notices in the public prints,
and yet these same men will cry out
"Well, don't see as it does me any
good to advertise. This theory that
advertising is simply comforting o favor
upon the editor of the newspaper is the
silliest of notions. One might as well
say he buys his groceries at Smiths just
to patronize him, or his dry goods of
Brown just to keep him from starving,
or gets shaved ut Thompson's because
he wants to encourage the tonsorial art.
It's all bosh. You trade where you can
get the best return for your own good,
and not from any desire to sustain your
newspaper. advertiser.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-11-03
He Yielded.

"Tom. you shall take wife" Now love
forbidr' F
81 found you one last night" "The deuce
you did ~
"softly-perhaps she'll please you." "oh, Of
coursem
Eighteen" Alarming l'' "witty." "Nay,
that's worse"
Discreet" "An shown Handsome" To
lure the fellowsr' s.
/" High born" cay. naughty r. "Tender
hearted" Jealous
" Talents o'erhowing." cay, enough, sluice
mer
"And then, Tom, such fortunem "Intro-
duce mer
The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-04-24
Circumstances Make Women.

The queen, speaking of unappreci-
ated women, says the woman who might
have been "a Joan of Arc or Maid of
Saragossa, in favorable circumst ances,
hcmmed in by the narrow chances of a
small locality is only rather masculine
person, who has, probably, independent
notions on the subject of dress, and
whose boots would not bear the impress.
sive Of Bond Street. The unattached
sister of mercy is fussy, kin,i-hearted
person, who has the most extraordinary
pleasure in Nursing sick folks, and who,
as often as not, gets no thanks for her
pains. The possible Hypatia or Olym-
pia Of e village town is aimply very
odd young woman, who has the
straugest notions and the most eccen.
trio ways of expressing herself;' who
has, moreover, the character of reading
undesirable books, and whose words
and ways form part OF the staple local
gossip, not losing in transmission.
Yet, the power is the same in the coun.
try girl who is half despised and half
feared, rs that which once founded a
school, and has been celebrated by
historians and biographers. centuries
after. One Of the unsolved mysteries
of things as they are, is the waste Of
life aud energy that goes on in the
physical world and the world Of mind
follows thai of matter. There is per-
petuai smothering of potential queen
bees into ordinary workers, useful, but
not tprolifio'; industrious, but not mag
niticent; and possibly, excellence is be-
ing forever pressed into grooves where
only the tamest and most commonplace
powers can exist. We plant too many
| of our oaks in iron. bound fower-rots,
nnd never give them the chance even of
fracturing the mold. We put scrub
bing- -brnsh into tho hands of our Cor.
inuess, and set Sapphos to tic down the
jams, and see that the house linen is
neatly mended. All sorts of lovely
faculties which would have made men
The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-04-24
The Golden Rule of Agriculture.

Plants live n double life. They have
a two.fold nutrition-mineral and or
ganic. Their mineral food is derived
from the soil and the organic from the
air. While the organic constituents of
plants are generally uniform, by strict
analysis Of their ashes it is discovered
that the different classes are marked by
the prevalence of certain mineral ele-
ments. Some abound in potash, others
in lime, some in phosphates and others
in silica. Different parts of the same
plant have also their preponderatipg
elements. Thus it appears that the
reason why alt crops arc not suited to
the same soil is variation OF the min
eral elements. All crops ore not suited
to the same soil, and mainly because it
is deficient in certain mineral elements,
or they exist in too large quantities.
The fertilization of soils is the ad
dition to the soil of suitable pabulum
for tho growth and Development of
plants. If allowed sufficient time,
plants can extract organic materials
from the surrounding atmosphere to
attain vigorous growth; yet if we ap-
ply to their roots manures yielding am
monia, carbonic acid, nitrogen, ETC., we
supplement the atmospheric supply and
hasten their development. Liquid ma
nures are, therefore, of high value, as
their action is immediate and powerful.
But if this policy is long continued it
will exhaust the eoluble mineral ele-
ments in the soil and render it COM
paratively worthless. Hence, in all
permanent systems of agriculture, min
eral fertilizers can no more be dispensed
with than organic.
Long continued cropping removes
from the soil all the available mineral
constituents of plant food, unless we
restore to the soil in the shape of ma
nnres exactly what is lost in the crop.
ThiH, then. is the golden rule of agri-
culture. BY failing to heed this i'm
POI tant principle millions of acres of
the choicest land have become worth
IL SIS, and millions more are now under
going the same ruinous process.
We should economic every source of
fertility. Manure heaps should all he
sprinkled with some absorbent, such as
gypsum or diluted lphuric acid, to
prevent the escape of ammonia, liquid
excretions preserved in tanks that none
Of it may be wasted, ashes saved and
spread on the fields. Compost heaps
should be formed where all refuse ami
NAL or rvegetable-may be utilized; and
while the accumulation of filth and
noisome odors is prevented, the soil Is
enriched and farming made remunera-
tive. With fertilizers the careful farmer
can accomplish much without them he
can accomplish nothing Cor. Aneeri-
can Farm Journal.
The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-04-24
The Etiquette of Court Presentation

The Court Journal gives the follow.
ing in review Of the etiquette Of the
court of st. James drawing-rooms ::
"The LADY wishing to be presented
must Grst find lady willing to present
her, and also to attend the drawing
room at which she wishes to be pre-.
sented for, although it is by no means
necessary that the two ladies should
pass at the same time, or even that they
should meet, ills absolutely dc 1-iguersss
that lady who presents another should
attend the drawing-room. This pre-
liminary being arranged, the presenter
gives her friend note addressed TO the
Lord Chamberlain, stating her inten-
tion of attending certain drawing
room and of presenting Mrs. Jones.
This note Mrs. Jones leaves at the Lord
Chamberla,n's Office, ut least two clear
days before the drawing-room, accom-
panied by large card, on which is
Iegibly written Mrs. Jones, presented
by Lady Brown or, 'Mre. Jones,
presented on her marriage by Lady
Brown From the Lord Chamberlain's
office she receives on application two
pink presentation cards, on which pres
entation' is printed in large let
ters. These she takes 70 the palace
with her, giving one to the page
in-waiting at the corridor at the top
OF. the grand staircase, and reserving
the other to be given up ut the
door of the presence chamber, where it
is han 'ed from one official to another
till it reaches the Lord Chamberlain,
who announces the name to the queen.
Care should be taken by the lady to
write her own name and also TINT of the
lady presenting her very legibly, so that
there may be no danger of mistakes.
In the case OF the presentation of
bride, it is usual for ler to be present
ed by her husbands mother, sister, or
some, other member of his family, if
possible and convenient; but this is
matter of taste, not of necessity"
The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-04-24
The Japanese.

The subjoined translation from an
editorial in leading Japanese journal
is full of practical good sense, worthy
of a nation Of much higher civiliza.
tion. The growing commerce between
Japan and our Pacific states and thus
with the Union, causes IN increasing
interest in the progress of that peculiar
people. We quote:
Many among us are desirous that our
civilization should take equal rank with
that of Europe and America. But, as
our country if poor and the people are
ignorant, we must first promote agri-
culture, so that the land should yield
moro abundantly. We should promote
commerce. We should promote the ed
ucation Of our children aud compel
the in6olent to be industrious !; and
when all this has been done it will be
tine to talk about rivalry with foreign
countries. But our scholars who desire
all these changes immediately are like
those who wonld set child to hard Ia
bor, or who imagine that the poor
should abound in luxury like the rich.
We do not mean to say that we are in
the same condition that we were several
years ago. But, rs we have said before,
the first and most important thing to
be done is to build schools, and to Sc.
cure the diffusion of useful knowledge
among the people; then to make an nd.
vance in commerce and agriculture, SO
IS not to be decorating the outside only
and doiug SO much expensive work in
vain. Our scholars OF European sci
ence ought to be assisting both tho
government and the people. This is
the manner in which they will best show
their patriotism. And we entreat them,
too, to have little patience, and to
cool their ambition that all these
changes should occur at once Let
them prepare the way for them, 30 that
when they come We may be ready for
them and they may be really to our
profit.
The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-04-24
MONSOON PACHA.
by GEORGE II. Dow..ER

Mougoor Pacha, it is pleasant to meet
Here, In the heart Of this treacherous town--
Where faith Is peril aud courtship cheat.
More false To tho touch than rose Ovcrblowi-
With a soul that is true TO itsolf. your own.
Monsoon Fachn, as two gentlemen may,
Civilized, city-brcd link orr hands;
Snw from tho town to tho dest rt away!
Ours is q friendalip whose spirit demands,
The score of the sky and the stretch of the sands.
Monsoon Saca, doif yonr courtier's garh;
Wo have given to courtesy all Of it's dueE
Spring to your throne OH the back Of your barb,
Shake 20 the brcczes your regal burnons, and
wave your ancc-:ceptcc wherever you choose.
Monsoon, my chief! nh, ! know you at length
King of tho desert. your children como
10 cluster, like sheep, i'll the shac of your strength,
Or to strike, like young lions, for country and
home,
When your eyes aro nb!aze at The roll of the
drum!
MouEonr, my chief. now ono ga'lop to SEQ
The land that you have sworn that no dcsr"t shall
grind
Though un-tanncd aud arid, by Allah lis free!
It's crops are THESE auces these sons of the wind,
Our Etceds are ita nocks grim harvest tn bind.
N0nHoor, my chief! how we dash ocr the sand,
Kissing behind us like storn,-driven snow!
= Flash the long guns of yonr Wild Arab band,
Brandiah the spears, and the light lcreeds throw,
AZ, half winged, through the shrill-2inging
hres zes go!
Monsoon, my chief! send the horses away;
The sports Of your tribe | have seen with de-
light,
Now let us watch while the rose tinted day
Fades FROM the desert, and pcRce-bcaring night
Shakes the fret gem on her brow in our sight.
Monsror my host 10, enter your tent,
AS brother b7 brother, hands clusping. tx led
] sleep liac child In Il dream Heaven sent;
For hnvo not eaten the ealt and the bread b?
And Monsoon VIII answer for me With his head.
The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-04-24
Fhe Dress-Pattern Trade.

The New York correspondent Of the
Boston journal writes :" A great bust
ness hss grown up apparently out OF
noihinPs The business liz the making
of aresspat'erns out Of fimsy sort of
paper lanade for that purpose. The
amouraot business done is simply mar
yelona :s. .':sssan gh il -ledtas4in.tko baSls=
woods, in the country, and in the re-
motest}and sparsest districts can at the
cost Of a dime or so secure the latest
'fashiohG for themselves and children.
One OF these establishments sued n
house in New York on note given for
goods delivered. The defense set ND
was that there was no consideration. A
quantity of goods were brought into
court ahd their fimsy textures exhibited
to the inspection of the intelligent Jury.
The jury gave verdict for the defend
ant on the ground that there was no
property in such material. Yet the
dealings in this frail fabric nre hardly
equaled by any other branch of trade.
One house does $780, 900 worth of trade
year. The paper is manufactured
expressly for the work, and is sent into
the city tons at time. A single order
exhausts 5000 reams. This house has
1000 agencies. They ore in every part
of the United States. in Canada, and
across the seas. Orders tor patterns
coma in from S25 to 81, 900. The largest
establishments in New York, Brooklyn,
Philadelphia, aud Chicago buy $500
worth Mt time. One hundred and
fifty hands are kept constantly ut work
to meet the orders. And yet New
Jersey jury affirms that there is no mar
ket value in this business. %