Brazos Signal (Richmond, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 36, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 13, 1870 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. 3.
[ " LIVE AND LET LIVE."]
NO. 86;
RICHMOND, TEXAS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1870.
The Brazos tii<jnal will bo islhed
every Saturday morning*. ¡Subscription,
20 cents (coin) per mouth.
It ATES OF AD V K l«T|SÍNÍ3 :
One inch, one insertion, $1 00
Eacli subsequent; insertions, T>0
The above rates are in coin.
A liberal discount made on yearly ad-
vertisements. *
All bills are due and payable invariably
in advance.
Obituary and ¿ill personal notices, will
will be charged the same as other adver-
tisements.
~BOYs 1MG1IHS AS A BOY.
Talk about the women and J lie dar-
kles, and the—the—all the rest ot 'em ;
none of 'em all are half so badly usued
as boys are. Ask any boy. I know a
lot, and I can give yon all of their
names. Ask 'em all. They'll tell, you
to bo a boy is to he somebody without
a i iglit in the world. You're to take
all the sass that's given to you, ami
give none back—cause you're a boy.
You arc to pay full fare in the cars
and omiiibusscs, 'cause you're a boy
not a child: never have, a scat, you're a
boy and hot a man. Fat lady gets in
.after it's all full, and looks about her ;
every body looks at you. Old gen-
tlemen says—" My son " reprovingly,
Conductor says, "Come now, you boy."
Ycfti've paid your sixpence. No mat-
ter—that is nothing. You've been on
your legs, with bundles, all day. Who
cares, you're a boy. Now a horse lias
such a load given to him as he can ca.iry
and a man won't take any more than
lie can walk under. Ask boys what
grown folks think they can carry.
There ain't no limit to it. Who
doesn't know a boy who docs a man's
work, and does it w ell for a tenth of
whwt a man would get for it. Who
hasn't read an advertisement for a boy
who can write a gbod hand, understands
accounts,—is willing to make himself
useful;—boards with his parents; is
irustworthy;—no objection to sitting
up all night;—not anxious for meals
at regular times, no impudence about
him. The best recommendations rc-
quireded and two dollars a week wages.
Ask boys whether old fellows don't
make as much fuss about such places
as if they were doing you a fayor4haf
set you up foi: life. - *
Who want's a boy anywhere. Y our
sisters dont in the parlor. Your father
don't; he always ask yon whether you
are not wanted to do something some-
where.
You make your mother's head ache,
when ever you come near her. Old
ladies snap you up. Young ladies hate
boys. Young men tease you, and
give it to you if you tease back. Other
fellows—-it's bccause they arc aggra-
vated so, I know always want to fight,
if they don't know you ; and Avhen you
get a black eye, and a torn jacket, you
hear of it at home. 1
You look back and wonder if you
ever were that pretty little fellow in
petticoats that everybody stuiFed with
candy; and you wonder whether you
will ever hot a man, and be liked by the
girls, and treated politely by the other
fellows, and paid for your work, and
allowed to do as you choose. And you
make up your mind every day, not to be
a boy any longer than you can help it;
and your gruudlathcr, or somebody,
complains that there 'are no^x ys now,4
and wonder if lie remembers the life
they led, that he don't consider it a sub-
ject of rejoicing.
There's only one comfort in it all;
boys will grow up, and when they do
they generally forget all that they went
through in their youth, and make the
boys of tlieii day suffer just as they did.
CU UK FOR CANCER.
Dr. Samuel Baker, of this city, re-
ports to us a remarkable case of cancer
and cure for the same. Ilis statement
is made from information derived from
the afflicted person and her hjishami.
While lecturing at Dceriield upon
his favorite subject, the teeth, his at-
tention was called to this case, and he
made a personal call upon Capt. J. W.
James, of Deerfleld Centre, the husband
of the suffering lady, and learned that
Mrs. James had for a long time been
afflicted with what were called ktllose
cancel's." By the use of the remedy
which she had discovered on close ob-
servation of an old lady who had a rep-
utation for curing cancers, she had re-
moved as many as thirty from her own
body. The remedy used was a satye
made from the juice of the "wood
sorrel," Which was gathered in a green
state, the juice expressed and evapora-
ted to the consistency of a paste, in the
■am, and applied to the cancerous part.
In a few days the diseased portio.i
could be removed, attended with so.n a
'pain. This remedy has been used by
other persons with like suecas an I the.
attention of those atíiiecd was espe-
cially called to it by the editor of the.
Lncouia Dem. whose wife had usue 1
it. suceesfully.
Wood sorrel is general!// to be fmuid
in woods or shady places, growing in
clusters or bunches, about six inches
high, of a pale green color, with a leaf
about the size of the ear <if a mouse,
But in shape of clover, is of an agreea-
ble acid flavor, add is gcncrlly well
/mown by children.
PREPARATION OF wlTi IE-
WASH.
Whitewash is one of the most val-
uable articles in the world, when prop-
erly applied. It not only prevent;; tito
decay of wood, but conduces greatly to
hoalthftiluess of all buildings, whether
of wood or stouc. Out-buiUthigs, and
fences, when not painted, should be
supplied once or twice a year with a
good coat of whitewash, which should
be prepared in the following way :
Take a clean water-tight barrel, or
other suitable cask, and put into it half
a bushel of lime. Slake it by pouring
watcttovcr it boiling hot, and in siííH-
cient quantity to cover it five inches
deep and stir it briskly till thoroughly
slaked. When the slaking has bocji
thoroughly effected, dissolve in water
and add two pounds of sulphate of zinc
and one of common salt, those will cause
the wash to harden, and prevent, its
cracking, which gives an unseemly ap-
pearance to the work. If desirable a
beautiful cream color may be communi-
cated to the above wash by adding three
pouuds yellow ochre ; or a good pearl
or lead color, by the addition of lamp
vino, or ivory black.
For fawn color, add four pounds of
umber, Turkish or American, the latter
is the cheapest, one pound of Indian
red, one pound of common lampblack.
For common stone color, add four
pounds of raw umber, and two pounds
pf lampblack. The wash may be ap-
plied with a common whitewash brush
and will be found much superior both
in appearance and durability to i lie
common whiter ash.
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Bailey, E. F. Brazos Signal (Richmond, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 36, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 13, 1870, newspaper, August 13, 1870; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth181147/m1/1/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.