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FOTI THE HOUSEWIFE Household Notes. A spoonful of sugar added to the wa ter for basting roast beef will give a rich brown color as well as fine flavor. Kerosene is excellent In cleaning hardwood'dr stained floors. Remove -dust and wipe a small piece at a time. Then rub the oil off with a flannel , cloth. If instead of spirits of camphor cam phorated oil be used In cleaning fur niture it will not only remove the white, stains, but restore the polish as weP. - A small button of garlic In a quart of vinegar will give lt a mysterious, delicious flavor, and it will Immensely improve salads or anything in which , it is used. Cereals For Children. -~ Authorities claim that it Is very in jurious to allow a child to make a full j breakfast of cereal While a chlhj-p may appear to thrive for a time, trou ble will afterward follow. This Is not so much the ifanlt of the cereal-top comp?tition has produced some very' * excellent " breakfast foods-but with-v the manner of cooking and . masticat ing. Composed largely of starch and.-; ?j tough fiber, cereals should be thors-, oughly cooked. Those which do not need cooking before serving should be well heated aud all moisture or dampness removed. Cereals are some . times improved by. adding raisins, ? ; dates, prunes and figs.-New York ?j . Post. _ , For Egg Stained Dishes. s Every one has experienc 7 the. an*,.- ? noyance of not being able to.-waob,, dishes on which there, have, been, .e?g^ ?j without a great deal of trouble. . When - dishes on which there is egg are to be washed rinse them well in cold wa ter when piling them up ready for. / washing. Then wash in the usual way, and It will be found that the egg will not stick Dearly so much and will , be easier and more quickly removed than if the dishes are put directly in the warm water. , , Egg stains can be removed from sil ver by means of a dry cloth and com- , mon table salt. SANG HER VERY BEST. i - : Frederick trie Great Was Posted and I Marie Frausch Was Wise. There is a good story told of a pi Ima" douna Damed Marie Frausch..who lived ID the time of Frederick the Great Whenever anything or anybody dis pleased the haughty Frausch she. after the mauoer of prima donoas lo geoer al. would suddeuly become too hoarse" : . to sing. One evening there? was to be 1 sung an opera in ber repertory, and it 1 was expected that the king would at- 1 tend. 1 At the appointed hour the manager f came forward aud anDouoced that, owlDg to a ?ore throat. Fraulein ** Frausch was unable to appear. The people were preparing to leave the house, but his majesty rose aud .commanded them to keep their seats. 1 A few moments afterward an officer ; and four dragoons entered the capri cious stager's room. "Fraulein." said the officer, "the king ' inquires after your health." "The klug is very good," said Frausch. with a pout, "but I have a sore throat" "His majesty ls aware of the fact and has charged me to take you to the military hospital to be cured." Fraulein, turning very pale, suggest ed that they were jesting, but was told that Prussian officers never indulged ' In persiflage. Soon she found herself , In a coach with four men. "I am a little better now," Frausch . faltered, "and I will try to sing." "Back to the theater!" said the officer to the coachman. ... The fraulein began to think she had yielded too easily. "I shall Dot be able to sing my best," she interposed. "Pardon, fraulein," responded ?the of ficer, "but I think yon will." ? "And why?" ,..:?<" " . [r "Because two dragoons is-attend- i ance behind the scenes haye, orders to " carry you off to the military hospital at the least cough." ? Fraulein Frausch never sang/better than she did that night.-Chicago Kec ord-Herald. Saw Her Chance. "No man shall ever kiss me. except my future husband," said the girl as she was about to Jeave the gate. "Suppose I agree to be your future'!-^ " "Why, then, ISL ki? you." al?/?lid ./ /eagerly. And she did. Her mother was informed that he had proposed, and the old lady cailed on him the next day to. arrange mat*, tera, and before he ..knew it he wai eternally hooked. It was a very, mean advantage, but a bird in the hand ls worth two on the garden gate. . Another Way. Out of IL . i Nobody had ever had reason to ac- i cuse Abel Pond of being dishonest, but he was as sharp a man in af bargain, as could be found in the county.- When the building committee applied to .him for a site for the new.library he.was ready to sell them a desirable lot, but not at their price. "I couldn't feel to let lt go under $600," he said, with the mild obstinacy that characterized all his dealings, with his fellow men. "It wouldn't be right." "You ought to be willing to contrib ute something for such an object," said the chairman of the committee. "If it's worth six hundred, why not let us have it for five hundred and call it you've given the other hundred?" "M'm-no, I couldn't do that," said Mr. Pond, stroking his chin, "but I tell you what I will do. You give me seven hundred for it, and I'll make out a check for a hundred and band lt over to you, so's you can bead the list of subscriptions with a good round sum and kind of wake up folks to their duty."-Youth's Companion. A Safety Match. "Papa, what ls a safety match?" Mr. Henpecked (looking carefully to see if his wife is withl/ hearing)-A safety match, son. is when a bald headed man marries an armless wo man!-Short Stories. Couldn't Lose. "Things seem to be coming your way of late." "Couldn't be any softer if I was the hero of a poker story."-Kansas City Journal. Irascible Von Bulow. During Hans von Billow's leader ship of the orchestra at Hanover u tenor of ..fame: was .engaged to play a star role in "Lohengrin," and while the singer was rehearsing his part Bu low was forced to go over the same bars a number of times without the new actor beginning to sin;. Tired of his wasted efforts, the leader stopped the orchestra and angrily turned to the singer. Y "I know that a tenor ls proverbially stupid," he, said,. "but you seem to make an extensive use of thia unwrit ten law." - At another time, while one of his grand Intermezzos was being played with great feeling by his musicians, a peculiar noise, hardly perceptible by untrained ears, annoyed the leader for some little, time. At first he thought it resembled the flutter of wings, but soon; he discovered an elegant lady farming herself In one of the boxes close by. Bulow kept on with his ges tures, fixing his eyes on the offender In i manner which meant reproof. The lady, not heeding this, was suddenly surprised by. the leader dropping his at lek and turning toward her. "Majaron," he\crled, "If fan you must, please at leant keep time with your In fernainuisai.ce!" ? . An Exception to the Rule. "It ls- an Invariable fact," said the professor at the club, "that the sense of. sight tra reis more rapidly than the sense of sound. You will observe, slr, that when a blt of ordnance is fired from a fortiess or a man-of-war you see the puff pf smoke, tbat comes coin cidently with the ? explosion several moments before, you hear the report tibuesreot ? Thus >iuhv-ai*ifaiys" ."Not- always,**.,?aid little Tod ge rs from the corner. "I know of a case where hearing antedates seeing by really considerable lapses of time." "I . know of no such thing In the whole broad range of science." retort ed the professor pompously.- "Perhaps you can enlighten us, slr." "Well," said Todgers, "it's the case of an Englishman and a joke. In al most every case the Englishman hears a joke about a week before he sees lt, and" But the professor bad gone, and they say that nowadays when be sees Tod gers he shies off like a frisky horse In the piesence of a motor car.-Harper's Weekly. Waterproofing Matches. Perhaps some of your readers would be Interested to know that I have found a simple. Inexpensive way to waterproof matches. Into some melted paraffin, care being taken that it was as cool as possible, I dipped a few or dinary parlor matches. After with drawing them and allowing them to cool lt was fonnd that they scratched almost as easily as before being coated with the wax. Several-.were held un der water for six or seven hours,, and all of .them lighted as easily as be fore Immersion. When the match ls scratched the paraffin is first rubbed off and the match lights in the usual way. Matches treated as above would be very useful on camping or canoeing trips, as they do not absorb moisture. Since more rubbing ls required to light them than the ordinary match, lt would be practically Impossible to set them on fire by accidental dropping. Scientific American. . Tom, Dick and Harry. "Some folks have a hard time to find odd enough names for their children," Bald a man In an uptown club the other evening;-?Tbey.?.will search through all kinds of, "aooks. on the sub ject, consult all fT,t^^irfiflifV; ""fl ?TT1* tlves and .anally burden the.youngster with something never, fcetu ? ?afore. "I know one man, however-he ?3 a banker and lives onaEnd-a&anue -wro, while he did notjjpend, much time In search of names, adopted a scheme which ls very nove.'. It took five years to carry out- the scheme, DOW complete. The 2rst*x?y*;enamed Tom; the second Dick and ;.he third Harry.. This particular trio is about as much talked about in. the .neighbor- , hood a s the noted. Tom, Dick and Har ry of whom ?early every one bas heard."-New York Times. In.Vain! "In vain, in valnr cried the young man distractedly. His hair fell in long wisps, about his brows, and his coun tenance was deathly -white. The crowd pressed, close. "In vain, In vain!" he cried again, With wringing of banda and gnashing of teeth. "Whatr cried the crowd. "What ls in vain?" 'The letter *rl'" cried the young man. as he escaped.v Dignity of th? English Waiter. The English hotel walter belongs to a race which ls slowly hut surely be coming extinct and carries, about him the . melancholy aura ot the doomed. Every head walter at ?-British Inn has liyalpa ac least.tho. making of a duke's butler.. No glimpse o? avarice mars the perfection of his monumental man ner, and if at the last he condescends to accept your vail lt 1? with something of the air of a discrowned king.-Lon don Sketch. Where Women Aro Warted. What strikes .you about .Auckland ls the dearth of women. It. is said to be the same all over New Zealand. There are far mo?e men than, women, and lots of men have to go without wires. -New Zealand Herald Not.8ang.uine. Majestic Person-Do you know, my lad,, that every British boy has a chance of becoming, prime.-, minister of England ? Youngster ., (thoughtfully) Well, 111 sell my chance for a shilling. -Tit-Bits. A. Ch i ne co. Story. . A Chinese barber while ; shaving a customer's head drew blood and put one of hts fingers on the place. Again he made a cut and put down another finger, and so on until he had no more fingers free. "Ah.*" said he as he paus ed in his work, "a barber's trade ls dif ficult. We ought to have a thousand fingers!"-Scrap Bonk. Apt Pupil. "Didn't I see the grocer's boy kiss you this morning, Martha?" "Yes'm. Bat he alu';: to blame, ma'am. 'Twas the iceman set him tho* had example." j Successors to G L Penn & Son. Housekeepers should see our lib? of-table Hue?is, towels, sheet ings, bed spreed?, etc., before making their purchases. r May & Tompkins. We invite the ladies to see our rupp and Wilton velver art. squarpp La ree assortment to select from all beautifnl designs. Ramsay & Jones. Marked For Death. "Three years ago I was marked for death. A grave-yard cough was tearing my lungs to pieces. Doc tors failed to help me, and hope had fled, when my husband got Dr. King's New Discovery," says Mrs. A C Williams, of Bac, Ky. The first dose helped me and improvement kept on until I had gained 68 pounds tn weight and my health was fully restored. This medicine holds the world's healing record for coughs' and colds and lung and throat diseases. It prevents pneu monia. Sold under guarantee at W E Lynch & Co., Penn & Holstein, successors to G L Penn & Son. drug stores. 50c and ???1.00. Trial bottle free. The handsomest 12-piec- toilet sets ever shown in EdgefHd. Ramsey & Joues. NOTICE: On the 12th day ot December 1908, in the i ffice of the Judg" ol Probat^ for .ridgefield county, South Carolina, the undersigned will make a tina! sett.ni!?-u? on lb** estate of William Welln, deceased, and at the sume time application will be made lor a filial dis charge frc m his truet as admiui. tra'or of s?id estate Ali p^rs-m having claims against guid Hhtatn are heieby notified I0}?rei? nt same duly a'testf-d on or before said dale, or be d' barred payment. L. F. Durn. 11-11 4 t Keystone Traction Well Drillers Are Mon ey Makers. Everybody uses water. A drilled well is the only way of obtaining a pure, cold and unfailing supply. Dug wells and springs are simply cess pools collecting disease breed ing surface drainage. 85 per cent, of Typhoid fever is contracted from bad water. . A.Keystone drill will penetrate the bed rock and tap the pure unfail ing streams below. All surface water is securely cased off. A drill ed well rarely goes dry in the most protracted drouth. It is safe. There is more money in a keystone Drilling Outfit than in a threshing machine and you work all the year round instead of three months out of twelve. Machine is the most com plete on the market and is not to be confounded with cheap and flimsy outfits. Drills a six-inch hole through any formation to any depth at.the rate of 50 -feet a day in ordinary formations. Costs $5.00 a day to run in fuel and labor. Will go anywhere under its own steam and can be set up and put at work in 30-minutes. Write for catalog No. 1. Keystone Driller Company. Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. yt PROSPERITY COMES to the man who gives hie mind to his business. You cannot do that if you spend half of ynur time in worryiug over how to guard your cash. No way you can devise is ae safe as deposit ing it in THE FARMERS BANK Opeu an account to-day and you can give all your atten'.iou to your business without having the engtest worry about the safety of what you already have. The Farmers Bank of Edgefield, S. C. \ERCKms TREES Ar* MM good M th? beti. 60 rm*? ta i? omr gumma*. Cc ta hf Frte. f. J. ?EICHHAMS CO" (lae.) AUGUSTA. GA. I teft*a wi Steaks. ErtaUUMdUG? With a for If you do not n In replenishing om Furthermore, we can Now we invite yoi purchases, as we can I Free? will give oi tonier buyi j WOOL SIM ESBKnBBBBBBBHl We are oftering sor sold in the next two v we say. .What aboul a beautiful rusr or a v< *. ????? ttbri but space will no Call at our two For Sale Real Estate No. 101. One of the Best Hotels in any country Town in the South, 14 Rooms and all appurtenances, already furnished, well established, well equipped, well patronized. Situated near the business part of the Town of Edgefield, S. C. This Hotel is known and patronized by the T. P. A.s from all over the country. No. 102. A comfortable Cottage on Buncombe Street, in Edgefield, s.e. No. 103. A Cozy Cottage near the business part of the Town in Edge field, S. C. No. 104. Residence on Jeter Street in Edgefield, S. C. ' . No. 106. 00-acre Farm between Edgefield and Trenton S. C. N/o. 106. 200-acre Farm about 10 miles South of Edgefield, S. C. No. 107. The Capt. Lewis Jones place-70 acres ^beautifully located in town of Edgefield. Purchaser could sell almost.enough-town lots to pay for the place. 2 4-room dwellings. . For Rent. Two Cottages in Edgefield. If you have- any Real Estate, Houses, Lands for Sale ot to Buy, or any business in Real Estate I beg to offer my services in giving same prompt attention. Lot me know of your Wants and Don't Wants. E. J. Norris, Insurace and Real Estate Agent. City Pressing Club. I respectfully announce to the ladies and gentlemen of Edgefield that I have opened a Cleaning, Pressing aud Dyeiug business iu our town, and herewith solicit their patronage. Our workmen are first-class in their line. They clean and press not only geutletueu's clothing, but also bats and ladies' skirts and cloaks. , (BAH orders will be nttendpd to promptly HP<I with gr^at thon-uah iie?-i*. Absolute ta I lKf act ion {?ti.nr ant' -d. UIVH us your work. M. Lewis Stevens. R' arof Gray's Barber Shop. v \ 19 READY ] Tremendo! ce of courti lake your friends and L . large stock of merchandise, i I supply servicable merchandise i to come and look carefully thi not only make your selection ea To every customer v $25.00 between no\ ie pair of all wool ll ng $10.00 worth w LWL; ne geuine bargains along man veeks they muse be carried ove? ; a stylish suit or over coat for ? ?ry h indso.Tie A-t Square. Th t permit. > stores and let us mak 6 salesforee will take gi I Cheaper Water. VVe are glad to annriuniw to our patrons that we can now eupply thero with 5 gsllon demijohn Glenn Springt? wa?? r for $1.75. \ Penn & Holstein. Successors to G. L. P?tm & Son. RLBBER TIRES: I hav* a machine for resetting your old fires OT putting ou new onep Bent rubber tire? carried in stock All work guaranteed. W. H. P -well. We would be glad for the housewives to see our large stock of Crockery. We have plain and decorated ware, and can supply the needs of every home. Rainsey <fe Jone*. A superb line of pocRet knives, Boker'e and Miller Bros; "both tag ai d pearl haudloe. * May & Prescott / Soeisette for evening dresses ip the talk of the town. We have it in all of the popular shades. May & Tompkins. Large line of- stationery, tablets, paper, envelopes, etc., at B. Timraons. .BANK ED?EFIID. EDGEFIELD, S C. State and County Depository DIRECTORS. J. C. SHEPPARD, W. W. ADAMS, J. H. BOUKNIOHT, T. BL RAINSFOR J. M. ( 'oui;, B. S. HOLLAND, A. S. TOMPKINS, C. C FV.LI.FR W. E. PRESCOTT. OFFICERS. I. C. ?II IC PP ARD, President. W. W. ADAMS, Vice-Prei dent. E. J. M IMS, Cashier J. H. ALLEN, Ass't Cashier. Pays interest on deposits by special contract. Money ro loan on li hera 1 terms'. Prompt and polite attention to bus ness. YOUR Account ^oliciied DRYING'S NEW DISCOVERY Will Surely Stop That Cough. FOR THE is stock and large BOUS salesmen. pved ones happy, it will not be out fault. ?ve purchased many things suitable for holiday gifts. , as well as that which is beautiful, rough our entire store before you decide upon your .sy but we can save you money. rho buys goods to the amount of v and December 25th, 1908, we -4 BLANKETS and to any cusr e will give an extra large all y linas, realizing thet unless some heavy goods are r to another season. Come and let us prove what i Christmas present? Nothing is more suitable than tare are seoras of appropriate ?gifts we might men e good every statement we make. Our .eat pleasure in serving you. aa, s. o. rice only \ one. You Need it in Your Home THE Southern Ruralist OF ATLANTA, GA. Is the Greatest Agricultural Paper tn the South today. It covers every de partment of the farm and home. 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