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Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-28
Farmers Ruined by Mice.

The London Daily NeaOs says: The
Scotch farmers, with all their shrewd-
ness, are apparently utterly beaten by
the mouse. So far at least they have
been unable to devise any means of rid
ding themselves of the armies of these
insignificant creatures which have quar-
tered themselves on the border farms.
About three months ago the attention of
the public in general, and of local agri-
cultural clubs in particular, was called
to the depredations caused by these tiny
quadrupeds, which, it was suddenly dis
covered, had increased to such an alarm
ing extent as to have actually destroyed
large expanse of pasturage and to
threaten to overrun this country. The
land is represented as resembling the
ground in the neighborhood of targets
for rifle practice, being literally riddled
with holes; the whole of the vegetation
is destroyed in certain localities in
Teviotdale, not merely the blades of
grass being eaten by the mice, but the
roots being consumed as well. The
consequence has been that the sheep
have been robbed OF their natural food,
and the recent lamhing season has been
one Of the most disastrous ever known,
both ewes and lambs being deprived of
sustenance and perishing in numbers.
The plague is almost identical with that
which has so seriously interfered with
the progress of sheep farming in New
Zealand, only there it is the rabbits that
have caused the mischief: and unless it
can be stamped out it threatens the
ruin of many sheep breeders and wool
growers. One farmer in New Zealand
has actually sacrificed $1,000 acres OF
land by inclosing that area with a solid
masonry wall in order to prevent the
spread of colony Of rabbits which had
taken possession of portion of his
farm. But land is too scarce and valua-
BILE in Scotland to permit of such an
heroic method of cure. The question
for the Scotch farmers is whether they
can reduce the number of the mice by
encouraging the increase of weasels,
hawks, owls and other carnivorous birds
and beasts, or whether they must take
the law into their own hands and drive
out the enemy. The unfortunate part
of the business is that the little rodeuts
are of no value, unlike rabbits, whose
skins and flesh are both of a certain
worth, and tney are too small to attract
sportsmen with their guns. One thing
is certain, that the Scotch farmers will
not in future encourage the use of the
gun at hawks and weasels, but will
rather encourage the visits of these
mouse catchers.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-28
Anxious for Work.

"Do you know where I could get a
harvest hand2" eyes; do you see that
man across the road holding the awning
post in front of that saloon2 We'll, 60
for him, he wants work" They met
and commenced negotiation. 'What
do you pay for harvest handss" 81
pay from $l.5O to $3.50. 1t depends all
on the man." "Well, sir, guess I am
your man; want work, bat whether l
work or not depends all on the wages"
"I live nine miles from here, and if you
60 out with me in the morning and
work one day, then we'll fix the wages
satisfactorily. "Is there cover to
your wagon?" "No,; sir, no cover, but
a nice spring seat" "No cover y
yelled the laborer, "do you think I'd
ride nine miles in an open wagon to get
work in the harvest field !" Why, you
must be sick! Stranger, 'pnll down
YOUR yest.'"
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-28
Fashion Notes.

Bonnets will have long strings in the
fall.
Hats of every kind are to be worn of
the forehead.
Fancy feathers are to take the place
of ostrich plumes.
Velvet bonnets will take the place OF
felt ones this fall.
Turbans will be the fashionable round
hat next season.
Greenish tinted cream is the new
shade Of this popular color.
Colored beads in thick cable cords are
shown for fall hat trimmings.
Russian greens and very dark bronze
shades are among the new colors.
Undressed kid gloves of very dark
shades are brought out for next season.
Partisan ladies are wearing low, loose
coiffures held in nets of wide silk
braid.
The new Derby hats have high, slop-
ing crowns, with brims pressed flat on
the sides.
The new imported suits and garments
of all kinds are l;rofusely ornamented
with buttons.
Navy blue, almost black, is seen in
the new fall goods for polonaises. 1t is
to be piped with cardinal red and WORT
over cardinal red silk petticoats.
The new French flowers are made OF
materials producing startling effects,
such as silk petaled roses, wheat of
green velvet, and shaded leaves of vel
vel, satin and chenille.
White dresses of antique damask
linen are very much worn at the sum-
mer resorts. They are profusely trim
med with Hamburg embroideries and
ribbon bows and sashes.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-28
Cheese Making on Small Scale.

A young housekeeper, says CORE
spondent, inquiries how to make cheese
on small scale. [ will send my method
of cheese making, which l have found
to be very good: Cut the rennet in
small pieces, aud fill jar half full ;
throw in two haudfuls of salt and fill
mp with water. Strain the nights milk
in tub and add two spoonfuls of rem
net to each pail of milk, as sufficient to
f -rm firm curd in half an hour. As
soon as the curd will break square across
the finger it should be cut in pieces all
inch square. Let it stand until morn
ing, then dip the curd to drain. Scald
the tub, strain the mornings milk, and
proceed as tefcre. When the whey
covers the surface of the curd dip it.
When the curds are drained sufficiently
they should bo scalded by pouring On
hot water to raise the temperature to
ninety-eight deg. or one hundred deg,
stirring constantly Let the curd re-
main in the hot water until thoroughly
done, then drain and hang in cool
place. Proceed with the next days milk
in the same way. When the curd is
cold chop both together; add one spoon
full of sslt to each pail of milk. P'ess
lightly at fir t, steadily following up tie
pressure until the whole is firmly set
together. The cheese must be turned
every day, kept we'll buttered, and rub
bed often to keep off the flies. If in
clined to spread, bandage will be
needed.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-28
4 Curious Study in Currents.

At the gathering of people on the &C.
casion of the opening of the Centennial
Exhibition, striking example and
illustration was observed of the fact that
crowd lives only by the aid of the
ascending current from the bodies of the
persons composing it. The observer
was sitting on the platform i'll front of
Memorial hall, and all the space between
this platform and the Main building, a
space of probably one hundred and fifty
feet in width by five hundred feet in
length (of dense crowd), was occupied
by about forty thousand persons, stand
ing as closely as comfort would allow.
The air was quite warm, about seventy
five degrees Fahrenheit, and light
breeze was blowing from the west.
There were many smokers in the crowd,
and it was noticeable that tie course Of
tobacco smoke, which showed white
against tue brown front of the Main
Exhibition building, indica' ed the course
of the current at different points. A
breath of smoke on the outskirts of the
crowd was dispersed irregularly. A
puff of white smoke anywhere toward
the middle of the crowd rose with great
apparent rapidity until it was lost to
sight by ascending above The line of
roof of the building the background of
white clouds, with which the blue sky
was then broken, not allowing it to be
distinguished higher up. The swiftness
with which the smoke rose showed that
the ascending current in the center OF
so thickly thropged and so large space
was rapid. In fact, it showed set OF
currents like those at a fre-on the
outskirts tending toward the center, in
the center upward.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-28
Life in Arizona.

An Eastern gentleman engaged in
mining in Arizona has written to friend
in New York, giving an account OF the
difficulties under which mining opera
tions are prosecuted in that Territory.
He says: The amount of progress l
make seems to me small, but you can
have no idea of the difficulties which
have to be constantly met and over
come. The labor is very unreliable, and
it is hard to get days work for day s
pay, and there is strong feeling OF
jealousy between the whites and Mexi-
cans which is hard to overcome. The
weather is hot beyond belief. Never, L
think, less than ninety degrees in the
shade, and from that up to 120 degrees.
There is no lumber in the country, and
all the building has to be done with
cottonwood poles, and hauled five miles
on jackasses to the mine. In addition,
1 have had to pack water five miles, as
we have had no rain, and the tanks at
the mine are exhausted. We have now
killed three rattlesnakes in the house,
besides any quantity of scorpions, etc.
In opening my trunk was stung in the
finger by q scorpion. L bound a poul-
tice of onions and tobacco on the wound
and drank three full pints of whisky.
1t make me very drunk, and 1 think
killed the other poison, although my
whole hand and arm was numb for
day or two. It is pretty hard country,
and three men have already died of
thirst near here. My last letters were
sent here from the -- mine (only
fourteen miles distant) by an old Scotch
man. The letters did not arrive, and
we searched for him and found him dead
only four miles from camp. He was
stripped and his nails were worn from
his hands by scratching in the sand for
water. We have sent out twice and
brought in men who were crazy and
blind and speechless from thirst. The
sun is terribly hot, and the rocks 80 hot
that they blister the flesh if touched.
You can hardly realize what country
it is. nor how expensive it is, as well as
hard work, to accomplish much. Trans
portation, more than anything else, is
the great bugbear.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-28
An Iceland Cave.

The interior of Iceland, as is generally
known, is great uninhabited grassless
desert, for the population (only about
10000 for an area one-fourth larger than
Ireland) is mostly confined to the sea-
shores and neighboring valleys. In 60
ing from coast to coast this desert must
be crossed it edges the inhabited land
as the sea does on the other side, and
gives il a wild charm-for US, at least,
who suffer from over-population. We
were now on the borders of this region,
crossing a great valley or plain OF old
lava, with background of snow noun
tains. The lava was rather like a very
rent and crevassed glacier, but all black,
the somber coloring being only relieved
by the parches of gray and yellow
lichep. Right in the middle rose the
isolated conical hill, Erick's Jokiill, with
dark crags below, and perpetual snow
and ice above. Even on that sunny day,
the scene conveyed the strongest impress
sion of vast, weird, remote desolation.
We rode over the lava till We reached a
great gaping pit, and then dismounting
We clambered down over rough rocks
into the cave of Sortsheier, which they
say runs for two miles underground.
The floor of the cavern was of transpa-
rent hard ice, covered near the entrance
with some inches Of water. The last
sight of daylight, looking back, was
therefore very pretty, as the ice gave a
perfect blue reflection of the overreach-
ing rocks. Now Lighting candles, we
scrambled Oh over icy slopes. Down
in the clear depths we could see the
strange black shapes of the lava, as
Dante saw the traitors like flies In amber
in the ice of his frozen Inferno. All
this carvern must have been once a
huge bubble in the boiling lava, and these
fantastic powders flung from some furi-
GUS yalcano. Then came the frost giants
and made the place their summer palace,
for where the cavern is at its highest
and the clear ice stands in tall columns,
and frettsd arches reaching to the roof,
it is curious and pretty enough for any
fairy tale. In the light of our torch,
the whole place flashed back prismatic
coIors with blaze that made our two
little candles seem very dim when it was
out. At the end of the cave, in hollow
rock, we found seals and coin, and
carved names left by former travellers,
some of them dating from early in the
century. We added our names, as we
were the first ladies who had been in the
caverns-not that there is any special
difficulty about going there, but that,
speaking broadly, no ladies travel in
Iceland. We were glad to return to the
warm daylight, feeling convinced that
the outlaws who once inhabited these
caves must soon have become tie most
rheumatic of men.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-28
Harvest Home.

Into the harvest fields to-day
Singing J. went
The fields where once met the May,
All flower and scent;
And there rich autumn, warm and sweet
Went laughing through the windy wheat
In glad content.
Both hands were full Of grass and grain,
Both feet kept time
To some low murmuring refrain,
Some breathing chime,
That blew through golden ears and leaves
The promise of the full ripe sheaves
In quaint old rhyme
This is the happy harvest time:
Then cut the corn and press the wine;
Gather the sheaves, and load the vain,
And bring the harvest home again."
And was glad as glad could be
To meet her there;
"Oh, queen!" said, "giye unto me
My harvest fair
My splendid lover, strong and true
Whose witchipg eyes Of tender blue
My heart epsnare.
The golden corn, the ruby wine,
Is not the best;
A richer harvest home is mine,
A sweeter quest,
Give me my lovec In his kiss
/ have a rou0ded world of bliss:
Keep all the rest"
-Harper's.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-28
T1cKLED. has been tickle,

T1cKLED. Iowa has been tickled
nearly to death to think that an ear OF
Iowa corn has been carried back to Bra
zil by Dom Pedro, because the emperor.
appearing to be amazed and delighted
with the remarkable size and appearance
of Iowa corn, begged an ear at one OF
the stations on the Burlington and Mis-
souri, River railway while passing
through the State. It has since trans
pired that the imperial party were learn
ing the American game of poker, and
only wanted that corn for checks.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-28
How Turks Eat.

The Turkish restaurants at dinner
ime are wonderful sight. The guests
squat round mat, the host brings in q
whole sheep and tears it open with his
hands, whereupon the guests seize upon
the rice, with which the interior OF the
animal is stuffed, and after kneading 1t
in their fingers into balls till it is quite
brown, they put it into their mouths,
the flat cakes of horrible, indigestible
maize bread supply the places OF nap
kins, and are then eaten.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-28

\ CHANGE. In 1867 Russia supplied
forty-four per cent. and the United
States fourteen per cent. of England s
1rmaud for foreign wheat. In 1873 the
United S.,!rS >Ulplicl forty-four per
cent and Russia only twenty one per cent.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-28
DEFAcISG COUNTERFEIT NoTEs.

DEFAc1NG COUNTERFEIT NOTES.-The
circulation of counterfeit bank notes
will be materially lessened in the Uni
ted States by the strict enforcement of
the act of Congress requiring bank
officials to deface such notes on pre-
sentation and thereby render them en-
tirely worthless. The secretary of the
treasury has issued a timely circular on
the subject.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-28

Mrs. Henry Holt, of Nashua, dropped
dead in O fit while looking at her hus-
bands face in the coffin an hour before
his funeral. They had been united il!
marriage nearly half a century, and i'll
death were not divided.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-11-02
SLIPPERY SAM :.
A few Reasons why the Republican
Party should be retained
in Power.
Tilden's Record as a Rebel Sympa-
thizer during the War is
fully Established.
Tilden's Tax Steal,

Tilden's Tax Steal.
Warrington Telegram to Chicago Tribune.
Tl1den's income tax furnishes its
own explanation. Unless Mr.. Tilden
authorizes his personal and political
friends to make public the contents of
the books which they have so jealous
~ guarded from tho Government off.
GERS, the charges against him will be
considered to have been presumptive-
ly proved. If those Charges are false,
Mr.. Tilden's friends are the sole Gus.
todians of the proof of their falsity.
These friends do not deny the charges
or claim to be able to disprove them,
but maintain that no legal power can
compel the disclosure either of their
truth or falsity, and with this threat
and defiance they fall back upon what
they assume are their legal rights.
The evidence already obtained by
United States District-Attorney Bliss
seems pretty clearly to establish, both
by fair legal presumption and by abso-
lutte proof, these facts:
That the Pittsbarg & Fort Wayne
Railroad Company, about 1869, paid to
Tilden $50, 900 for services, this being
the year in which he returns only $l7 >
600 income; that this payment and
Tilden's receipt for it is among the
papers OF that Company ; that the
books containing this information have
been transferred to an officer of the
Company who is special political
friend Of Tilden, and who refuses &C.
cess to them. This refusal seems to
have a special significance, as it comes
from board Of Directors of whom
Tilden Is one.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-11-02
Horace Greeley and the South.

Gen. Merritt, who accompanied
Horace Greeley on his southern cam.
paign tour, says in card to the New
York Tribune:
At Jackson, Miss, he warned the
people of the danger of permitting the
young of either race to grow up in ig.
norance and vice, and urged that the
wall of prejudice should be broken
down. He went so far as to urge his
hearers to commend the noble exam.
pie of those Christian teachers who
had left home and friends to help to
educate the poor and unfortunate race;
and he also warned them not to be led
by demagogues against the true inter-
ests Of their country. He feared a
condition of things which we now see,
a Solid South under old leaders, and q
revival of a hope that in some way the
verdict of the War may be reversed,
and he did what he could to avert it.
With his well-known opinion of both
Tilden and Hendricks as political lead.
ers, and his outspoken opposition to
all oppression. can any friend or ad.
mirer of his doubt but that, were he
now in the editorial chair, he would
with his od-time and characteristic
vigor support the Republican candi-
dates as the surest means of "promot-
ing the prosperity, the happiness, and
true glory of the American people -
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-11-02
Trees. Girdled by Rabbits.

A correspondent in Missouri writes
that some years ago a neighbor Of his
had forty apple.trees girdled one win
ter by rabbits. The trees was three
years from planting. ale Immediate
ly took narrow boards, four or fire
inches wide, and long enough to go
above the reach of the rabbits, sharp.
ened one end, and drove them into the
ground so as to form square box
around the tree. He tied the box to-
gether with strong cord and then
filled it with fresh soil and pressed it
in firmly. The next spring the trees
budded and grew as well as any trees
in the orchard land have done well ever
since. He took the boxes away the
second spring and found that new
bark had grown over the entire girdled
part.-When trees are only partially
girdled. the plan described is q good
one. We have known trees to be saved
by binding them round with cotton
cloth and then smearing the cloth with
tar, and by surrounding with q plaster
of cow.dung and loan bound on with
cloth. The object is to exclude the
the air. The chances of recovery are:
increased if the trees are severely
pruned early in the spring. -
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-11-02

or credits was handled BY the Govern.
meDt in q single year. The War was
succeeded by years Of depro ociated cur
rency, want Of credit, with the specu.
lati0n, extravaganco, and 5recklessness
of expenditure in private life, which
have attended every war in every ma
tion of the world. Out of this social
decentralization, the: natural outgroWth
of suddenly-acquired wealth: and reck-
less private expenditure, there came a
looseness Of morals, an undermining
Of integrity, and taste Tor extrava-
gance fully as remarkable in CONNER
cial banks as among officials. Embez-
elements, Interpretations, defalca-
tions, and all the crimes against hon.
esty were general, and were, found in
private commercial banking circles as
well as in official life. The revenues
required ty the Government were en-.
ormous as compared with those in all
previous portions of the national ex.
istence, and the natural inclination of
mankind to evade taxation, to swindle
and defraud the Government, had op-
portunities such as never existed be-
fore. Official dishonesty is necessari.
ly confined to two lines ofloperation :
Plunder of the Government in the COL
lection of the revenue and plunder of
the revenue after its collection. Dur
ing the term of johnson the whisky
tax was SO heavy that it inspired fraud,
which was heavily practiced.
Frauds thus suggested and success
fully practiced survived the return of
the Republican party to power, and it
required time and vig0r to discover
and break it up and bring the guilty to
Justice. This has been accomplished,
as well as the complete breaking UP
of the wholesale smuggling carried on
to the loss of the revenue. No one has
now the hardihood to assert that there
is any robbery or fraud committed in
the collection Of the revenue which
any Government could ordinarily pre-
vent.
Now, what are the facts in the case
of the robberies, thefts, frauds, defal.
cation, and crimes committed on the
revenue after it has been collected
Such crimes exist under every Gov
ernment in the world, and have exist.
ed under the Government of the
United States from the organization
dewn to the present day. These are
all a matter of rec ,rd, and in response
to requirement by the United States
Senate this record has been made out,
brought down to July l, 1875, and has
been officially published. The losses
sustained by the Government through
it's officers, in all manner of thefts,
defalcations, etc, under each Admin.
istration, is given, the percentage OF
loss being on each 81 900 collected.
The following is the comparison
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-11-02
4 VERY OLD SONG.

80, 4 vAh1 O1lO SUM-.
'.To-morrow, ma, Pm sweet sixteen,
And Billy Grimes, the drover,
Has popp'd the question to me, ma,
And wants 70 30 my lover;
To-morroW:morn; he says, mamma,
He's coming here luite carly,
TO take q pleasant walk with me
.Acroes the feld Of barley"
"You must not 60, my gentle dear,
There's no use now stalking;
;You shall not 50 across the field
With Billy Grimes a-Walking.
To think Of his presumption, too
The dirty, ugly drover.
wonder where your pride has gone,
To think Of such lover!'
''Old Grimes is dead, you know, MANN
And Billy is 20 lonely;
Besides, they say, to Grimes estate,
That Billy il the only
Surviving heir to all that's left;
:, And that, they say, is nearly.
A GOOD ten thonsand dolIsss, ma.
And six hundred yeArly!" ss.*= '~
II did not hear, my daughter dear,
Your last remark quite clearly,
But Billy is clever lad,
And no doubt loves you dearly;
Remember then, tomorrow morn,
To be up bright and early,
To take pleasant walk with him
Across the field of barley!"