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Christmas Cakes A GERMAN NOVELTY GERMANY for many years has been the land of Christmas nov elties, and each year the kai ser's ingenious toy, candy and cake makers devise some oddity which proves irresistible in luring small er .-at sums from the pockets of Yule 3e shoppers. One of the latest ma ulas ls for quaint and humorous Christ mas cakes, which are literally cartoons in sugar and dough. The cakes are decorated with all sorts of funny fig ures made of colored sugar aud In munv instances are not the crude art [ GERMAN CHRISTMAS CAKE - A SOLDIER 8AL.urrxo products one would expect under the circumstances. The Bavarian peasant, for example, is a fair type of the liv ing original as he Is pictured in the i German comic weeklies. A Munich waitress carrying ti well grouped bunch of foam capped steins of the [beverage for which Muuich Is cele jbrnted at home and abroad", even if she does suggest Salome a trifle, ls de cidedly lifelike, while the saluting ssl fdier by his very attitude suggests that foam capped steins and sentry duty do not aissiinilnto very well. The German authorities have done much to encourage the toytnaking In dustry, particularly by collecting toys from nil the world that the toymnkers might acquaint themselves with the wants and peculiarities of foreign markets. The wooden auiiuals of the )ast have been eclipsed by the me .hanical toys. A submarine boat rhlch sinks into the water and rises {again, all with oue charge of soda Cocking VVi.h Sunlight. Sun cooking-roasting and boiling by sunlight iiister.d of coal or ga*-has Ibeen going on for ;)00 years. There ire sun stokes that roast a sir'o.'x? or Jboll a soup to perfection. They ave (only used, however, by scientists. A Jsun stove consists mainly of a mirror fa spherical mirror ou a joint. There ls also a reflector. The place for pot or plate Is so situated that the mirror's rays can be focused on it accurately. A German, Baron Tchernhauscn, was the first sun cook. He began in 1CS7 to boll water, and lu JOSS he had very good success at baking eggs. Slr John Herschel and Buffton are other fa mous names associated with sun cook ing. lu California various sun cooks have boiled a gallon of water in twen ty minutes, roasted meat in two hours and poached eggs in fifteen minutes quite as good time as the ordinary fire makes. An odd thing about meat roasted by sun rays ls that it has an unpleasant taste. This ls avoided by the insertion of a plate of yellow glass betweeu meat and mirror. In all aolar stoves the sheet of yellow glass fig ures.-Cincinnati Enquirer. Queer English Laws. "No statute law of England ever can be obsolete." a legal journal says. "Once enacted, it continues in binding force until repealed." If such be really the case, there ought to be some lively times ahead for several classes of the community. For instance, what will builders have to say to the act which penalizes any person who erects a house without at taching to it at least four acres of 'land? This was one of "good Queen Bess' " laws, and it has most certainly never been repealed. By another unrepealed statute, which dates back to the first year of King James I., it is enacted that not more than a penny may be charged for a quart of the best old ale nor more than a halfpeuny for a like quantity of nv?3mall beer. The penalty for each In fraction of the act is 20 shillings, so that if it were rigidly euforced lt would not need, apparently, a licensing bill to ruin the brewers. Then, again, a Catholic owning a horse ls still legal ly obliged to sell it for ?3 to anybody who chooses to offer that sum for it London Graphic. Crazy. ? "We find the prisoner not guilty by reason of Insanity." . "But the plea was not that of in sanity," remarked the court. "That's just the point we made." re joined the foreman. "We decided that any man who didn't have sense enough to know that an insanity plea was the proper caper must be crazy."-Phila delphia Ledger. He Was Sensitive. Blobbs-You're pretty much stuck on Miss Gobbs. aren't you. old man? Hobbs-I was once, but after what she said to me last night I'm not going to pay any more attention to her. Blobbs - Gee! What did she say? Hobbs- "No!"-Cleveland Leader. Freshman Mathematics. Fresbby-Professor, is it ever possi ble to take the greater from the less? "There is a pretty close approach to it when the conceit Is taken out of a freshman."-Jewish Ledger. Over and Under. "Archie is fairly going crazy over ...his new motor." "That's strange. Every time I've seen him he has been going crazy un der it." The trouble with many a man's in tegrity is that it needs constant vindi cation.-Chicago News. The Gift. By FR.ANK H. SWEET. [Copyright. 190$, by American Press AssO' elation.] HE Christmas chimes are sounding on the air, And, as I sit and listen to their sweet, Unearthly music, gone is every care, Forgot is ali the turmoil of the street. The troubles that the path of man be sot, The vast anxieties of human life, All fade away, and every fond regret ls lost in all their glad and joyous strife. WHAT though I seem alone on this fair day, t j From happy comradeship stand isolate. With none to greet me as I walk my way. To merely live I count a happy fate To merely listen to those joyous sounds That through the crisp of winter call so free, Although the merrymakers on their rounds Pause not to think of or remember me. 1ST not enough that on this Christ mas morn, This glad birth morn of him whose day it is, My heart, but yesterday so sad, forlorn, >oth open to the message that was his? Is't not enough to know that from above The tidings of a sacrifice divine Com? as a gift of an eternal love That I have but to take to make it mine? [Cite ChHstmn%r\aygrj IRISH POINT OF VIEW. It is a merry Christmas When there is lots of snow, For then through my good shovel Some gojden coi- I know. And 'tis a merry Christmas When not a flake is seen, For Christmas to the Irish Is merry when it's green. B. Z. MUNKITTRICK. Lucky. Rustic-What's the matter? Motor st-Matter! I can't get this car to go. Rustic-Then it's the lucky man you ire, for just yesterday a motorist got ?early smashed to bits here because ie couldn't get his car to stop. Her Dig. Miss Antique-Just think of the ?erve of that impecunious follow to iroposci to me! Miss . Caustique - Nerve? Why. it vas absolute recklessness.-Milwaukee Sews. < Considerate. Jasper-Whenever n prent niau die? Longhair writes a poem about him. Rasper-Well. I must commend his consideration in not writing lt before j he great man dies.-Boston Globe. Store Yoi To The Planters ( There seem? to be a d of the planters to hole a.r prices and we take them our Warehouse will store and insure t cents per bale, per mc advances on same. We have just recen Coln: ? an "Weber 1 4'Which are as good as 1 the most", which we w to the wagon using pul We would also state, eotton-seed, at our War ways find Billie Lott on Give us a call, and it will be no fault of ours. Yours ams Wa1 Getting an "Old Man." "Speaking of new men," said the boss of tbe skyscraper builders, witb a twinkle, "comical things happen even up here, the same as in n theater. Sometimes in nish seasons there ain't enough hand.-* to go round, and we have to take 'em green as the hi'ls. I had one once, a kid from Vermont, a whale of a kid. with bones like a horse and eyes awful anxious to please eyes that made you like him. He's one of the best men I've got now, but then he was green as God made him." The foreman stopped to chuckle. " 'Go up to the eighteenth floor,* 1 told bim one day, 'and bring down an old man.' I was busy at the time, and when I saw the kid stare 1 said kind of sharp that if that old man wasn't here in five minutes the whole blamed building would probably go to smash. This was just my way of making him hustle, but be thought I meant it word for word. He went up on the run. and in a few minutes he came down with a sputter" -? wing old feller held like a vise In his arms. " 'He was the only old man on th? floor.' said the kid, "and he wanted to stop and argue about it. but from what you said I knew what it meant so I just grabbed him and came.' "You see." the foreman added kind ly, noting my puzzled expression, "an old man happens to be the name of a tool we use."-Everybody's Magazine Making Caricatures. The way in which some artists can distort features without making them unrecognizable is certainly very re markable. Thomas Nast possessed this faculty to an extraordluury de gree, and he had a very peculiar way of adding new faces to his mental photograph gallery. When a fresh subject would arise in politics, for In stance, he would invent some pretext to call upon him at his office or house and hold him in conversation as long as possible, studying his features. When he took his departure he wotrld purposely leave his cane. Once out side, Nast would make a hasty pem il sketch on a card and would usually find that his memory was deficient as to some detail. He would then return, ostensibly for the cane, and auothcr look at the victim would enable him to perfect his sketch. After that he had the man forever. When Joe Kep pler was alive he used to make fre quent trips to Washington for the pur pose of seeing statesmen whom he wanted to draw. He was very clever nt catching likenesses and scan-fly | ever referred to a photograph. A Wonderful Bird. One day a wonderful bird tapped nt the window of Mrs. Nansen's (wife of the famous arctic exploren home at Christiania. Instantly the window was opened, and in auother momeut she covered the little messenger with kisses and caresses. The carrier pi geon had been away from the cottage thirty long months, but it had not for gotten the way home. It brought a note from Nansen, stating that all was going well with him and his expedition In the polar region. Nansen had fasten ed a message to the bird and turned it loose. The frail courier darted out into the blizzardly air. It flew like an arrow over a thousand miles of frozen waste and then sped forward over an other thousand milos of ocean and plains and forests and one morning entered the window of the walting mistress and delivered the message which she bad been awaiting so anx iously. Would Let Folks Know lt. Somebody seut this to the society editor and made affidavit that It really happened. Here it is: They were out at an aft ernoon card party. A stout woman dropped a card to the floor. "Would you be so kind as to pick up that card for me?" she inquired of the little wo man at her right. "Certainly," said the accommodating woman at the right, picking up the card. "You see," explained the stout wo man apologetically, "I've got on a brand new fifty dollar corset, and I'm afraid I'll strain it if 1 lean over." "Hum!" commented thc other wo man enviously. "If 1 had a fifty dol lar corset I'd wear it on the outside. 1 really would." - Cleveland Plain ir Cotton! }f Edgefied County: isposition on the part I their cotton for high pleasure in offering facilities, where we heir cotton for thirty )nth and make liberal red a car load of nitons LCL lagons? the best, and better than ould be pleased to sell j^j >lic. that we are buyers of ehouse, and you will al the spot. we don't do business, it Trill y. rp 1845 Christmas igos ? For upwards of half a hundred years our store ? has been supplying the needs of the Christmas I I shoppers of Edgefield County. j I While mir experienced Inner was in the Xorthevii markets lie made his parchas- i jg es to suit the tin.'people of every class ami taste. y 1 ? ?I See Our Beautiful Assortment of Cut Glass I Prices very low. We have the prettiest assortment of China ever shown in this |j \ market. Our vases are particularly handsome and are heilig greatly admired 1 OUR DOLLS ARE BEAUTIFUL, | All sizes and prices. Just the kind we brought to Edgefield for Santa Claus. Have you seen our pictures? Large assortment at popular prices. We Want Everybody to Come and See For Themselves. PENN & H Successors to G. L Penn & Son. m m i 1 m I 1 rm ss ? m ?Sc s3 Dorn & Minis uggestions ? Shopping Made Easy at Our Store The season in which hearts are made happy by the exchange of Christmas ft? gifts is almost upon us, and to those who? have great demands upon their Sgj time the selection of suitable gifts for father, husband, brother and gentle- gig man friends is rather a difficult undertaking. This problem is made easy j?g at our store by our large stock of useful as well as beautiful merchandise, figg that is suitable for holiday gifts. gag fe* We carry a very large stock of stylish > and dependable clothing in all the popular I tm&^nx fabrics, weaves and colors. ? We sell the celebrated Crossett Shoes and can fit you in vici, gun metal. French calf or patent leather. Full assort ment of sizes iu all of the popular lasts. We carry a full stock of stylish hats for men and boys in all of the latest blocks and colors Here are a few suggestions for Holiday gifts: HATS SHOES SUITS CRAVATS COLLARS CUFFS HOSIERY SUITCASES SUSPENDERS LI NEN HANDKERCHIEFS UMBRELLAS SILK HANDKERCHIEFS OVER COATS KAIN COATS DRESS GLOVES DRIVING GLOVES m m A very large shipment of Beautiful Neckwear has Just been received: ordered especially lor the holiday shoppers. Other lines have also been recently replenish ed in order to meet the needs of our patrons and friends. We invite you to call at our store. It will be a pleasure to show you through our large stock. RUTHES MIMS