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Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-12-07
The Battle Of Blenhein.


1t was . summer evening,
Old Kasper's work was done;
And he before his cottage door
wss sitting in the sun,
And by him sported on the green
His little grsndchild, Wilhelmine.
She saw her brother Peterkin
Roll something large and round,
That he beside the rivulet,
In playing there had found;
he came to ask what he had found,
That was go large, and smooth, and round,
Old Kssper took it from the boy,
Who stood expectsnt by;
And then the old man shook his head,
And with . natural sigh,
"'Tis some poor fellows skull, said he.
"Who fell in the great victory.
"I find them in the garden. for
There's many here about,
And often when I 60 to pillow,
The plowshsre turns them out;
For many thousand men" said he,
"Were slain in the great victory"
"Now tell Us what twas all about"
Yonng Peterkin he cries,
And little WilheImins locks up
With wonder ws.t;:.s eyes;
INV tell us all about the war,
And what they killed each other for"
at was the English" Kssper cried,
That put the French to rout;
But what they killed each other for
] could not well make out
But everybody said" quoth he,
THAT twas q famous victory.
"My father lived ut B!enheim then,
Yon little stream hard by;
They burnt bis dwelling to the ground,
And he was foicc1 70 hy;
So with his wife and child he hed,
Nor had he where to lay his head.
with fire and sword the country round
Was wasted Tar and VIDE,
And many childing mother then,
And new born infant died.
But things like that, You know, must be
At every famous victory.
"Great praise the Duke Of Marlbro' won
: And our good Prince Eugene"
"why, twas very wicked thing"
Said littls Wilhelmine. ~
"Nsy-psy, my little girl, quoth he,
"Itwas famous victory.
"Al d everyb2 dy praised the duke,
Who such fight did win"
"Bus what good came Of it at lsst'"
Quoth little Peteikin.
"why, that I cannot tel" said he,
BAT twas . famous victory"
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-12-07

SMART BoY.-A smart boy, after eat
ing q green apple, exclaimed: "Oh.
dear, I've chewed an Odd Fellow
AN Odd Fellow3" asked his mother.
eyes; he is giving me the grip" That
youngster will be an ODD enough fellow,
If he lives long enough.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-12-07

The British admiralty have ordered
the immediate construction OF six sf"tl
coryettes to serve as cruisers IN the Pa
eifie and Chinese waters.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-05-05
Pat and his Masters Pig.

A stingy man is 80 nearly related to 9
thief that he should not be surprised il
thieves get intimate with him to his
cost, as is illustrated in the following in.
cident:
A Yorkshireman, having killed a pig
and not wishing to divide with hii
neighbors, as was the custom, said tl
his man (who, by the way, was son OF
the Emerald):
"Pat, if I give the neighbors, who
have given to me, a piece of my pork,
I'll have none for myself. Can you tel
me what am to do2"
"Bedad, sir" said Pat, "it's myself
that can do that same thing"
"Good I" said the Yorkshireman
rubbing his hands, and looking mt Pat
Now, tell me what am to do2"
Faith, sir" said Pat, "sure and
when the crathur is claned, just be
afther hanging it against the door,
where livery mothers son Of them will
see it and early in the morning, before
any one is about, get up and take in
your pig and hide it away. Thin, when
your neighbors come, just be afthei
telling them that the pig was sthole.
"Capital idea, Pat 7" exclaimed the
Yorkshireman." "I'll do it."
So, when the pig was cleaned it was
hung up outside, so that the neighbors
might see it. The countryman anxious
ly awaited the approaching night, and
at last retired to bed, but not to sleep.
Pat, under cover of the darkness of the
night, crept around the house and stole
the pig.
What was the astonishment of the
Yorkshireman when, at early dawn, he
arose to hide away his pig, but found
no pig there, can be better imagined
than described. Pat came in with his
"Top o. the mornin' to ye, sir, and
giving him knowing wink said I:
Master, how about the pig
"Wen, Pat, the pig was stolen in
reality"
Faith, and that sounds just as
natural as if you had lost your pig, %
said Pat, with another knowing wink.
"But, you blockhead, tell you the
pig was stolen"
Faith, and the sorra q bit o me
thought you could act 80 well. Just
stick to that it's natural as lfe."
But" roared the now irate York
shiremau, ct tell you the pig was
stolen
"Och said Pat, stick to it, and
yer nabors will behave you, and sorra a
bit of it they'll get. Faith, l didn't
think we could do it 80 well.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-05-05
PAW PAW, MICH friday MAY s. 1876. E

Christian. The making him one did not
warp his generosity or diminish his
courage; on the contrary, it gave intelli-
gent direction to the one and broader
field to the other. If his Sunday school
class progress faster than the other
classes, was it q matter of wonders /
think not. He talked to his pioneer
smallfry in language they understood |
1t was my privilege, a month before
he died, to hear him tell the beautiful
story of Joseph and his brethren to his
class without looking at the book" I
leave it to the reader to fancy what it was
like, as it fell, riddled with slang, from
the lips of that grave, earnest teacher,
and was listened to by his little learners
with consuming interest that showed
that they were unconscious as he that
any violence was being done to the sa-
cred properties.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-05-05
A Slight Mistake.

A slim gentlemen of rather seedy ap-
pearance, with q bag in his hand, called
at Danbury bank on Saturday, and
asked to see the cashier. The boy took
a good look at the party, whom he saw
to be travelling agent of some kind, and
then went into the back room with in
formation. He returned and said the
cashier was very busy just now. The
stranger set his bag down, and, leaning
against the wall, prepared to wait.
He'll have a good time II he waits
till Mr.. C comes out here" whis-
pered the boy to the teller.
"You bet," replied the teller with q
jocular wink.
But the man waited. Years of expe-
rience, perhaps, had taught him the
wonderful sublimity Of waiting. Once
the cashier appeared in the door, but
seeing the bore still there he precipitate-
ly retreated. Shortly after he fed over
to the other bank to tell the cashier of
the way he had outwitted the book
fiend. He had been there but minute
or two when the slim man appeared and
asked for the cashier. The official OF
that bank was obliged to admit his pres
ence.
CT want to make deposit of S5, ,000,"
said the slim man. "I was going to
take it to the other bank, but got tired
waiting for the cashier to come in"
The cashier for whom he bad waited
shot back to his own institution, and
when he got hold of that boy he gave
him clearer idea of singing sounds
than he ever had before or will, perhaps,
ever have again. Danbuyy Neaos.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-05-05
The PhIladelphia Census.

The people of Philadelphia have
stood up and been counted by Mayor
Stokeley's police. The result shows a
population of 817, ,448, an increase of
over twenty per cent. since 1870. This
is greater rate of increase than there
was between 1850 and 1860, the rate for
that whole decade being only nineteen
per cent. For the decade ending 1870
the rate of increase was thirty-eight per
cent, which would be equivalent to
about twenty per cent. for the period
from 1870 to the beginning of 1876.
This growth is very gratifying, consider
ing the severe business depression which
has prevailed for three years past, and
we doubt If any other Eastern city has
increased in population 30 rapidly
Philadelphid Times.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-05-05
THE sEAMsrREss STORY.

Idly she sat in her rocking chair,
woman Of forty, pale and plain
There were streaks OF gray In her soant hight hal
On her brow deep burrows OF care and pain.
Needle and thread from her hands had dropped.
The hands that nervously clasped and clung,
Az with voice that faltered and often stopped
She spoke of the days when she was young.
"Yes, it's twenty years since saw him last
Twenty years since we said goodbye.
I've heard folks say time goes so fast
They couldn't have known such years "a l.
Twenty years! remember yet
Just how he spoke and looked and stood
When he said. Now, Mary, you mustn't forget
All you have promised -ss If could
,There'l be many to tempt yon away from me,
Never heed them, whatever they say;
Wait for me, Mary. wait patiently,
And think of me always, by night and by day.
90. Never mind II the years are long,
shall write when I've time TO spend;
shall be true, and you must be strong,
And look to the end, Mary, look TO the end
".0ne thing more, Mary, give 1t due heedl
Bear your joys and your sorrows alone;
Then when come shall feel indeed
You have been always and truly my own.'
$50 he left me-twas hard to bear
My lonely life with never a friend,
But he wrote, ss he said when he'd time to spare.
And treasured his words and looked 70 the
al thought of him always, by night or by day,
Just as he bade me-his will was my law,
And asked no help on my weary way,
Though often my heart was sad and sore.
"waiting thus for the years 10 pxss
never counted them as they rolled:
Perhaps IL I'd cared to look in the glass
might have seen was growing old.
"And 30, when fifteen years had gone,
He sent for my picture from over the sea
All ! when sent II, I might have known.
II had been wise, what the end would be.
BY the very next mail letter came
Not his-he couldn't be unkind,
But his sister wrote and he signed his name,
To tell me that John had changed his mind!
"'You see abe said, you are old and plain.
Too old for Johns wife, to tell the truth -
I laid down the letter and cried with pain,
For hadn't given hfm all my YOUTH
"Well, there was nothing 70 do or TO say;
John had right 70 change his mind;
Just went on in the same old way,
Only-I left my hopes behind.
" There were some that tried TO comfort me then,
Saying, Best be rid Of fckle heart
And John was no better than other men,
But that never seemed to ease the smart"
So she ended her simple tale,
Twas an Old old story, told oft before,
For one heart viii trust and one will fail
Until time and change shall be no more.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-05-05
An Ancient Town.

San Antonio is the oldest city in Texas.
It's history dates back two hundred years
before the country was settled by Amer
leans. The old Alamo, about two hun
dred years old, stands on the military
plaza, and is still in good state OF pre-
servation, being now occupied as a Gov
ernment store-house. II was here the
gallant Crockett and Bowie fell. San An
tonic is the military headquarters for the
southwest and perhaps the best business
place In Texas.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-05-05

JIM CRow, an old man, and Turk Tur-
ner, were found killed by gunshot
wounds, the other day in Lee county,
Texas. Turner was covered by fresh
beef hide. Two beeves had been killed;
part Of the carcass of each was found
in q wagon IN which Grow and Turner
were supposed to be ridingat the time of
the tragedy.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-05-05

LORD DupPIIN has bought the race
horse Petrach for $62, 900.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-05-05
WHOLE NO. llOl.


To do so no more is the truest iniie-
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-07
fiL7in! .IadGeGa ;,iI.,,rssi,i; q:
Farming as q Business.

4; AS business, farmiugh not ranked
with other branches of business, such, for
instance, as manufacturing and the like.
It has been conducted loosely, without
any special regard to order or system
Few farmers think it necessary to keep 3
set of books, ,iplHhich. to make entries Of
their transactions. No account is kept
of the sales of stock, grain, ETC., and none
7 of the purchase of supplies. No notice
is taken of the actual cost of producing
a crop,- When the end of the year comes
they have very, little idea how much they
have made or lost. Now suppose mer.
chants and other business men should
adopt this slipshod policy of.carrying on
their business, what would be its condi-
tioni in very short time? Would it not
be miserably jumbled up? And would
not this state of things lead to bankrupt
cy and ruin? The same argument why
merchants should conduct their business
upon systematic plans applies with equal
force to agriculture. If the one is bus
mess, SO is the other, and if the one finds
itIindispensable to keep an accurate re-
cord of its entire proceedings, so the other
will find it equally important.
= The farmer will suffer and suffer pro.
digiously, if be never knows the state of
his business. 1T is an easy matter for
him; to record every sale he makes or
every perchase. There is no necessity
/ of bis being,a scientific book-keeper to
do this. Many of them have sons com.
petent to do this work, and il is good
schooling for them. In England farm
ing is carried on systematically as any
other business. No one. pretends to con-
duct his operations without q regular set
of books; and many wealthy farmers
employ .book-keepers just as our mer-
chants do. The result is that every
farmer can tell at the close Of each year,
Just how he stands, how much he is out,
or what he has made or lost.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-07
W VOL. j XII.---N0. < s.
Hl-tW ,'"'ENl.'F' f'''"7
He's Nothing but a Farmer.

There is so much. truth lin the follow
ing, which we clip from the Earn. and
SHOP, that most of the young ladies of
!. BUR- country may read it with immense
proftl: Young men; gallant young men,
are, naturally inclined to conduct them.
selves in such a way as win the esteem of
young ladies. By q strange delusion, 9
large number OF the young ladies of our
country are pleased with no young men
except those whose faces and hands are
as soft and smooth as an infants. The
sun-burnt face and brawny hands of the
farmer or mechanic are very disagreea-
BILE: 'p-'r ~.
l"He's nothing but q fariner,"1 said a
little miss, few evenings since, as she
scornfully curled her pretty lip, on being
introduced to 8 fine, generous, open
hearted young fellow, whose broad and
expansive forehead was the symbol Of
his broad acres: "He's. nothing but q
farmer" And who was she that looked
thus disdainfully on one Of Gods noble
men? She was the daughter of broken
merchant, whose fortune had been ruined
by the extravaganza of wife. and fool
ishly proud daughter. Though her
fathers fYealbhaf Been wsung bylmisfor-'
tune-and: he had paid the penalty Of
extravaganza by being incarcerated in
the home prepared for, criminals-his
daughter had not yet learned the differ
.ence between pride and worth, extrava-
gance and wealth. The noble man who
ate the bread of industry, and looked
every man in the face, with an indepen-
IdeHts which said, "I owe you nothing"
was in her estimation "only farmer. nm
+ Did: these foolish persons ever eread
their Bibles, they would find that God
himself has selected his prophets and
kings from among farmers!. Noah was. a
husbandman, land planted a. vineyard !:
Abraham was rich in cattleland Aot.hadi
flocks and ,herds---insomHeh that there
was not pasture enough Tor: H bot6,t and
!!they divided the country. Z Lot selected
the plains of Jordan, and Abraham took
The billy, country of Caananaae go
7 Jacob .was a great cattle grower, as ne
presented Esau with five hundred cattle.
Moses was a wool grower, and Gideon
was taken from his threshing flo6i. Saul
was herdsman, even while he was King.
David was shepherd and was taken
from that occupation to be King of Israel,
and the ancestor, according to the flesh,
of the Messiah. a!Uzziah was cattle,
grdwer.. Elisha was plowing with twelve
yoke of oxen probably breaking up
prairies, or turning up subsoiL when
Elijah cast his mantle on him prophet.
Z And yet, though God has honored the
Observation-Disclosures his kings and
prophets from among the farmers-there,
are some SO foolish as to cry out, 20, ne
is nothing but farmerF"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-07

THE PAINLESS DEATH.-Prof. Tyn-
dall,,in recent holiday lecture at the
Royal Institution, London, thus speaks
of the painless death by electricity I:
"Franklin was twice struck senseless by
the schock. He afterward sent the dis
charge of two, large jars through six 70.
bust men; they fell, to the ground and
got up again without knowing what had
happened, they having neither heard nor
felt the discharge. Priestly, who made
many valuable contributions to electrici-
ty. received the, discharge, of two jars, but
did not find it painful. This experience
agrees with mine. In the Theater of the
Royal Institution, and in the presence OF
an audience, I once received the dis
charge of a battery of fifteen tLeyden jars:
Unlike FrankGn's six men ! did not fall,
but like them I felt nothing: 1 was sim
ply extinguished for sensible interval.
This may be regarded as an experimental
proof that people killed by lightning
suffer no pain" The measured velocity
of electricity is many thousand times
greater than the measured velocity OF
Sensation in the nerves. Hence the
electrical conclusion reaches the center
of life, without any posaible announce
ment by the eye, or ear, or sense OF teel-
ing There is abundant evidence that
death by rife ball traversing the brain
is for the same reason entirely without
consciousness or pain. But q rifle ball is
a tortoise compared with the electrical
flash. The Ruhmkoff coil places artif-
ciallightning in our,hands. If society
must kill it's members let this instanta-
neous doom be substituted for the SLOW
torture and brute violence Of the gallows,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-07

q HEARTY BREAKFAsTs.--ln "a large
majority of cases it will be found that
the best and heartiest. meal in the day
should be eaten in the morning. If the
closing repast of the day has not been
eaten too late, or has not been excessive
in quantity or indigestible in quality, the
stomach will be rested and active after,
the individual has enjoyed cool bath.
The stomach will then respond quickly
with the necessary gastric juice for the
solution of food, and if,a fair amount of
exercise is taken during the day.. o large
mass of food will be assimilated and con-
yerted into blood and tissue. With a
good, substantial; breakfast, no greater
amount of food will be required during
the remainder Of the day. One further
meal will be ample, and that might better
be taken at from two to three o'clock In
the afternoon; thanatiany later period, if
business engagements, only permitted it.
The breakfast may be made from any
kind Of wholesome food, and the fewer
kinds the better. The dinner should be
light and readily digested, if sound sleep
is desired and strong appetite and perfect
powers: of digestion next day, One
tsquare meap In every ,tWenty:fohr hours
is all.that can be taken cafe Of BY MANY
weak stomechs, and more:than this is in
excess and duees~headaehe, nausea,
and distress. If dinners. were abandoped,
and especially late and heavy dinners,
myriads of dyspeptics would be tcured .ju
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-07
Successful Farming.

The first aim and purpose OF: every bus
mess man, whether he is a farmer or a
merchant, is toimake money There may
be-, of course, other motives connected
with this, but undoubtedly the leading
object and incentive to action is money.
This may seem like taking. a low or sor-
did view of the subject, but if rightly
considered, it is not. The law of our na.
ture that impels every man to make his
business source of gain, is unquestion-
ably sound and wise, and all that re-
mains for us is to regulate our conduct in
harmony with that law.
I The man who pursues farming for any
other purpose than to make it pay, Is
simply an exception to q general rule,
and, his success or failure is Of little con-
sequence to the world. But the intelli;
gent farmer who perceives that under all
the doubts and difficulties of his voca-
tion, there still remains a clear margin
of profit, who steadily works out his con-
viction to a tangible result, and the con.
querer's final success, proves his good
sense as we'll as his capacity, and BY de-
velopfng the possibilities of his business,
sheds light upon it that gives new value,
not only to his own farm but to every
farm in the country
| The world never grudges to such man
the honest fruits of his labor, for his ex-
ample is public heritage beyond price.
He shows that the occupation which
feeds the human race is able to remuner-
ate those who engage in it; that the sue
cessfuT farmer, while gradually accumu-
lating an honorable independence, is
helping TO reduce the price Of bread to
the hungry. And this, be it observed, is
not mere abstraction, but a great agri-
cultural fact
The, farmer, for example, who succeeds
in getting large yield OF corn, from an
acre, and at lower cost per bushel than
ever before, thereby contributes to- di-
minish the market price, as well as to
increase the abundance not only of this
cereal, but of nearly all the products of
husbandry. If he has been accustomed
to get thirty bushels of corn from an-acre,
at cost: fifty cents per bushel, which
has been the experience of many farmers,
and if by persistent effort, he works out a
method that gives sixty bushels at forty
cents, which has also been the experience
of some, then his, netpro6t, on a market
price of seventy cents per bushel, is 300
per cent. greater than before. But this
| Is not all. A saving in the cost of corn
indicates a corresponding reduction in
the costiof beef and pork, of mutton and
wool, of milk, butter and cheese, poultry
and eggs.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-07

-"Long Branch has throng of nota-
bles," says correspondent, but they are
not circumstance in numerousness to
the other throng, who are notable to 60
there.
"Where's the barr" asked dirty
looking stranger of the bell-boy of the
hotel lie other day. "What kind of a
BARI" asked the latter. "Why, saloon
bar, of course; what do you suppose l
meant "Well," drawled the boy, Il
didn't know but what you might mean a
bar of SOAP 80
E = These fine summer mornings, just as
a man is trying to get another forty winks
of sleep before breakfast, afford unusual
facilitiss tof. studying tie habits and dis
position Of the common fly. The sagaci-
ty of the insect is marvellous. They
never fail to find, the tenderest, spot on
mans face, and when. found they hold
battalion drill right there, close up in
columns of companies, then deploy in
line of battle advance skirmishers and
throw up. rifle pits, keeping up in the
meanwhile an incsssant crash. of field
music. After this has gone on for q hall
bhour or so, a man thinks he might as
we'll get. up. and help take care of the
baby.