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' VA*! ' * . . - THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. (VvfEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29,1894._VOL. LIX. NO. 31. Fruit Drying. Harper'* Bazar. Only perfect fruit, neither unr nor over-ripe, should be select Huckleberries and currants n< no farther preparation than wa ing and picking over. Cherr andplatte need to have their p removed, and peaches requi in addition, to be pared and qu: tered, while the other fruits ne to be pared, cored, and cut ir quarters 01 still smaller divisioi The old-fashioned method' threading the quarters of apples pears upon strings, to haug in lo; 0 festoons on the sunny side of I house or against the kitchen wa had many disadvantages. In ti first place the drying was nece sarily so slow *.hat some parts the fruit were almost sure to b come in a measure decomposed b fore the drying was completed, ar in the second place the festooi were exposed to the attacks ( hosts of flie? ; and at the preser day we know that it was not wit! out reason that the ancient Philh tines named their Spirit of Evi "Beelzebub, god of the flies," fe there are no more industrious dif seminators of disease than the] The fly which has come from pu tri offal to alight upon some sligh scratch or pimple may be instant] brushed away, but perhaps not be fore he has had time to deposit th blood-poison which may produc the dreaded carbuncle, or even thi almost surely fatal malignan pustule ; or by alighting upon ar tides of food, it may bring infee tions which produce many sorts o; stomach trouble or even trphoic fever and cholera. Tin dishes or flat sheets of tin are most convenient for this use, but are apt to imparta disagreea ble flavor. Thin boards of some odorless wood answer a good pur pose, but it is not easy to so place them that the oven will hold many at a time. There is no danger of their burning, for the oven hot enough to burn the wood is quite too hot for the fruit, which : ~ ^?uT?T?e cookeor^stejjlj?fi^r?'?T The best way is to have a set of agate-ware or porcelain-lined drip ping-pans kept for this purpose only. In each spread a single layer of the fruit. Place the pans in the oven in a pile, one above the other -not in such a way as to make closed dishes of them, but "criss cross," so that the hot air may have free access to the fruit-till the oven will hold no more. In this way a good deal of fruit may be done at one time. The heat of the oven may be first tested by putting in a small portion of the fruit to be dried, as not only do different fruits require different tempera ture, but even various sorts of the same fruit; a good deal depending Lipon whether the season has been wet or dry, that which is gathered in a dry season demanding not only a lower degree of heat, but a shorter time than that gathered in a wet season. All varieties of even the same fruit are not equally good for dry ing. As a rule, the more acid the fruit the better will it preserve its qualities. The old-fashioned sour red cherry-known in some parts of the country as the "English" is far better for drying or preserv ing than any of the sorts which are much more delicious when eaten fiesh. The same is true of the damson-plum, though almost all plums dry well. Comparatively few sorts of pears are good for drying. The sweetest and juiciest sorts, like the Bartlett, and juciest sorts, like the Bartlett, Virgalieu, and Seckel, being almost worthless. But there is a nameless sort, a hard, green, sour thing, not worth gathering for any other pur pose save pickling, which is per fectly delicious when dried and stewed. Almost all old-fashioned orchards contain one or two trees of this kind, piobably allowed to remain because they are very pro lific, and country house-wives know their virtues. This pear is the only one we know of which is bene fited by the use of sugar is drying. If about a tablespoonful of granu lated sugar is sprinkled over each quart of the fruit, and allowed to stand upou it for an hour or two before being put in the oven, a rich syrup is drawn out in which the p?ars may be dried. When done they should be immediately pack ed tightly ic Btone jars and sealed, otberwi*9 they attract both ants ?nd flies, Fruits which are dried without ?ligar are k*pt in sealed paper bag?, and huug in a dry cool store-room until needed for use, Unlike tba sour pears, quinces, though equally tart, would be in jured by sugar. Every one who has preserved quinces knows that they roust be cooked until quite tender before the sugar is added, for from that moment no amount of cooking will have any other effect than to harden the fruit. Quinces for drying should be cut; into comparatively thin Blices thf round way of the fruit, pared, and cored. When cooking the dried fruit, remember to add no sugar until the quinces aro as tender as j desired, and then add as little as may be palatable. The less sugar used the better both for the flavor, oi the fruit and tho health of the person eating it. Dried fruits should be carefully md quickly washed before cook ing; quickly, becauso none of the flavor should escape to be thrown iway in the washing water. Then ;he fruit should be put into cold vater, and allowed to soak until t begins to plump out into some hing resembling its original pro-j )ortions. Then put into a preBerv ng-kettle, set upon the fire, and )rir.g to a quick scald, after which t may be set back from the fire to | vhere it will just simmer until lone. Perhaps one of the chief easous why dried fruits are so faithful is that they cannot be ised without a good deal of cook ng. This destroys the tendency o fermentation, which is the bane if fresh fruits, especially those rhich have had to come far to aarket. If sugar is to be added, t may be done a few minutes be ore removing from the fire, or wait | mtil it is brought to the table, rhere each person may suit him elf as to quantity. It should be mentioned that all ruits-for all have acid qualities -should be cooked only in ves els which can impart no flavor, .gate-iron or iron with a porcelain ning is good when new, but ehould ot be used after the 1 ining is at all roken. An earthen-ware preserv Dg-kettle is best. _Godis, Xicer'n People,_ elected. A few weeks ago, in this city, a oor widow died, leaving one child, little lame boy, to the cold char lies of the world. After his mother's funeral the ttle fellow was taken ill from the ombined results of grief and neg ;ct, and if was then evident that e would soon be united to hiB only riend. f?e was left alone much of the ay, there being no one who could pare the time to stay with him. t was often noticed that the voices f two persons could be heard in is little room. But when those n charge entered he would be alone nd anparently asleep. Ono day they listened, being Luite sure that no one was with the hild, and they overheard this trange monologue : "Is you right there, mamma?" "Yes, jny little boy, I is right 1?re!" "Was you went away yet!" "I went back to Heaven to tell jod about my little boy." "Did you was afraid, mamma?" "No, my little boy, because God s niceru'n pooples." "Did you tell God about rae, namma?" "I told him I had a little boy lamed Harry-an'-an'-" There was a loud noise of sobbing ;hen, and then the listener without jried, too. Presently the child's roice resumed : "Did you told God to let me come jp there, mamma?" "Yes, my boy, an' He said bimeby, bimeby.'" "Mamma, I'se-so-tired-an' ?leepy-an'-I wan't to come an' ?tay with-you-an' God." There was a long silence then, broken by no cry or sob. The lis teners went in after resolving in their hearts to be thereafter very patient with the motherless one. But death had been kinder than they. Spanish lovers of bull-fighting are inconsolable. Guerrita, the only remaining great fighter, has declared his unalterable decision to retire from the ring. The reason given is that he is worth over $200,000 and that his wife suffers terrible anxiety every time he fights. The dedication of a Baptist church at Lexington Court House, S. C., leaves only one county seat in the State without a Baptist church, viz., Mount Pleasant. There is only one other town in the State of any size without a Baptist church, the town of Summerville. On an Ostrich I arm. C. W. Carey, in the Strand Magazine. It is during the breeding season that the male ostrich becomes so savage, and his note of defiance "brooming," as the Dutch call it is heard night and day. The bird inflates his neck in a cobra-like fashion and gives utterance to three deep roars. The first two are abort, but the third very prolonged Lion hunters all agree in asserting that the roar of the king beasts and of the most foolish of birds resemble one another almost ex actly. When the birds are prop erly savage they become a great source of amusement or, as some think, of danger. Certainly, to be overtaken all on a sudden without time for preparation by a cheeky bird is one of the greatest ills flesh is heir to, and might result disas trously to the uninitiated, but old hands are always all there on an smergency. Undoubtedly the best weapon barring a wire fence-is a good ?tcut stick or a blunt pitchfork. A.S a rule, if a bird means to have pour life or die in the attempt, he marges,from about thirty yards, ?vhen you receive him at the bayo net's point. He rushes at you with lashing eye, looking the very em bodiment of fury. Drawing him jelf up to a height of ten feet or nore, with wings outstretched and lissing like a cobra, he makes four )r five strikes. You retreat a pace >r two, so as to avoid the fork )iercing through his neck, and hold lim oft* at arm's length till he^ earns that bis efforts are useless. )rawing the fork sharply away, rou strike him a blow on the neck, enderiug him insensible and tak ng away his breath. This quiels lim for a whrle, till he recovers rom the bewilderment and makes , fresh charge, when the fork is .gain presented. I have seen a bird sc savage as o charge seven times in fifteen ainutes, twice receiving the .rongs of the fork through his ieck^ On ahorseback one is evenJ ?O?& oDnoxiot; K ??_caadi?rt>*?1 n foot, but, BO long as the horse 3 not afraid and will standup to he bird, there is no fear of an ac ident. AB he charges take care to iave your horse well in hand, and s the bird makes his first srrike atch him by the neck and hold on or all you're worth, till the bird lecomes exhausted from want of >reath and falls. Perhaps it may suggest itself to ome of my readers what would e8ult supposing three or four birds ackled you at once? It is a very are occurrence for more than one lird to charge at a time. Should hree or four male birds all imagine it one particular moment that you ire the meat of each one of them ?eparately, they first of all tackle ?ne another, the conqueror fighting roxi. The Color of the Arab. The Edinburgh Review. "The kings of horsekind are ;hose of a dark color," is an Arab proverb, while another Eastern say ing is that "one should be slow to buy a cheatnut horse, and still 3lower to sell one of that color which has turned out well." If we visited a horse fair in Meath or Yorkshire, it would be easy to find plenty of farmers and dealerBwho would recognize in these aayings from a distant land opinions which they cherish just as warmly as the Arab of the desert. We see this similarity, too, in the defects of the two races. The disease known as spavin is prevalent among Arabian horses; it is a constant ailment likewise of the English hunter, and the Eng lish race horse; it is a disease, so to say, of the speedy horse, of that which is much galloped. Curb and ringbone, also diseases with which the horse owner in the country is only too familiar, are equally well known to the Arab, and the foot, which in our day is so frequently tho seat of lameness, is alBO, though apparently not to so great a degree as in the West, likewise troubled with defects. But into these tech nical details this is not the place to enter ; it is sufficient to say that the qualities which go to make a good horse are the same all over the world, and though the Arabian horse has some features which give him a character of his own, yet, so far as the qualities of a good horse are concerned, he differs lit tle from his Western brother. We must not, however, pass away from the typical Arabian without a word as to color. "In England an antiquated idea lingers that the authentic Arab muet be gray." Such an impression may, perhaps, prevail among persons altogether ignorant of horses, but the sport of racing in India has so increased our knowledgo of the Arabian horse that 30upder views now exist among horsemen. Two extracts from Gon. Tweedee's work will give all the information that ia needed upon this point. His Highness, the late Amir Fai Sal of Najd, who was a high authority on Arabian horses, stated that the finest "may be of any color ; that the prevalent color among the first blood was various shades of gray; that, on the whole, color went for little, and height for nothing, and that blood was everything." An Dther author sums up the matter thus : "Practically the Ku-hai-lan jolors are bay and chestnut, and ;he numerous different shades of rray and roan." Into the relation )f c >lor to temperament it is ?m )08B?ble here to enter. Such a dis uission, interesting us it would be o the lover of the horse, belongs, lot only to the Arabian, but to the quine race all the world over. Sir Henry Morgan. - i 'he Gentleman'? Magazine. j After running away to Bristol, ^ fhere he bound himself as a ser ?n t for four years, he was duly ^ ransported to Barbados and there old. Having faithfully served ie term, he shipped himself to amaica, determined to follow his atural bent in the direction of j iracy, and at once found a satis actory engagement. His resolution and courage in i av?rai prosperous expeditions on tie Spanish coasts were much ad- y lired, and having noted the ill c fleets of the extravagance and t ebauchery popular among his as- I sci?tes, he practiced a thoughtful ic conomy, "lived moderate, having ?st designs in view," and soon in- .c ested his honest savings in a ves- 'C ?l of his own. Prize after prize' ? id he bring into Port Royal, by i ipid ?teps ascending the^ladder ? ext attracted the attention of the t steran Mansvelt, who engaged v [organ as his Vice Admiral. e With fifteen ships and 500 men, c ley swept down upon the little r. dand of St. Katharine's, on the t rich coast" of Central America, q nd made themselves masters of it, f ;aving a garrison in the place, f hich they intended to keep for f beir own use. The adjoining 1 jland they also pillaged, and a g urther attack upon the territory r f Costa Rica itself was only cut t hort by the vigorous efforts of the r rovernorof Panama. t The island of St. Katharine's- i 'hich the Governor of Jamaica re used to occupy-not daring to 1 ive such open eupport to the e irates, was, shortly after Mansvelt ? ad "ended his wicked life," re- e aken by the Spaniards. Morgan, now an independent ?irate king, soon fou?d himself at 1 he head of twelve ships and 700 ?ghting men. He first thought of 1 tracking Havanna, but decided to ' legin with a smaller enterprise K ipon the "fine inland town" of 1 'uerto del' Principe. Owing to the scape cf a prisoner, the place got , he alarm, and the Governor set .mbuscades, blocked up the roads, md encamped with an armed force 1 n front of the town. Morgan and lis friends were "surprised," but wald not think of retreating-it vas, indeed, too late. They took io the woods, avoided the ambus :ades, and soon reached the plain, vhere the Spaniards awaited him. The usual result followed. "Noth hg could stand against the fury of he pirates, who fought like BO nany madmen." After a regular iugagementof four hours, in which ;he Governor and many otherB were silled, the Spaniards fled, and the ;own, after some defense, was taken. Edenfield Circuit. [lev. M. M. Brabham, in S. C. Advocate. I closed on Tuesday, 14th inst., i gracious meeting held for about tun days in our Edgefiold church. Rev. Dr. Gwaltney, pastor of the Baptist Church, preached two very impressive sermons for me, and I bad the sympathy and prayers of all the good people of the com munity. The congregations were very good when not interfered with by the rains, (as was the case the first days of the meeting,) and God's blessed word found its woy to the hearts of very many. Six joined, a number were converted and many Christian people greatly revived, Ai Unexpected Remonstrance. Nw York Herald. A civil engineer tells this story: While overseeing a gang of men vho, with mule teams, were haul iig loads of dirt, a friand of mine -a ventriloquist-came up and stood by my side, watching the rmi at work. rYesGntly a mule, driven by a larg, red-headed, and fiery-tem per<d Irishman,' balked'when right in\fi:ont of where my friend and I weo standing. The Irishman soon los; bis temper and began to be labor the animal with his rawhide. Ev3ry now and then the mule woild turn his head and look re proachfully at the angry Irishman, bm" still he refused to budge an irih. 'Now, just watch the Irishman," thf' ventriloquist whispered in my eat. At that moment Pat, losing all patience, give the animal a tremen dous kick iu the ribs with his Qpfcvy boots. *The mule turned his head, and looking the Irishman in the face mpned his mouth. 'D-n you, don't you do that igkin!" The voice sounded as :hpugh it came direct from between ;He mule's parted lips. ?The whip dropped from the Irish nin's hand. For a moment he stired at the mule, and then tvith )ux uttering a word, he whirled input and bolted dowu the valley is'fast as his two rather lengthy? imbs could take him. Thc Lover's Trick. ?hiladelph ia Record. That all is fair in love and war vas recently exemplified in the idee of an up-town young man who i?d a tailing out with his best girl, til on account of another fair | ?Harmer. J Girl No. 1 heard of the existence ?f .Girl No. 2, and immediately he arne as cool toward the unfor tunate young man as one well can n this kind of weather. The swain requestion was most anxious to be test girl, P th? good graces of his nth a frigid reception. For sev rai days he was in despair, thor- J lUghly convinced that there was io balm in Gilead. Inditing a let er*to Girl No. 2, in which he re tested her to cease annoying him nth her unwelcome attentions, he ?laced it in an envelope and care ully addressed it to Girl No. 1. ?he next day he sent her a tcle ;ram saying that he had made a uistake in placing two letters in heir envelopes, and that she had irobably received a letter not in ended for her? Would she please .eturn it to him? The scheme worked like a charm. The foxy epistle was returned with i very gracious note, and now iverything k moving along imoothly once more. Order as a Fetich. iarper's Bazar. A house where there is no orderly :outine is a very incomfortable jlace, no doubt, but too much or ier may be equally disagreeable md wearing, the nerves of the family being rasped as were those )f the people who lived with IV Willer's wife. People to whom order is not the means to a desired end, but the 3iid itself, give themselves and Dtbers a great deal of needless tiouble. A chair or a book out of place distresses them. A blur on the window-pane drives them to distraction, unless they can at once remove it. A meal slightly delay ed beyond the appointed hour loses far them its savor. Order is their fetich. In vain thMr friends beg them to be phil osjphicdl, to try elasticity as a sort of bluffer against annoyances. They shake their heads weary, and keep on fretting. And th? fretting marks their foreheads and indents tteir lips and writes its record on their faces, while husbands and children sigh for a little cheerful htppy-go-lucky disorder. The dfughter of the over-orderly mother isoften, by the law of reaction, an absurdly unsystematic personage. Weather Hints. Hirper's Young People. Watch the sky for what are call ee "mares'-tails," These appear in? after clear weather show the trek of the wind in the sky. A roiy sunset predicts fair weather. I Ared sky in the morning foretells bal weather. A gray sky in the j miming means fine weather. If tb firBt streaks of light at dawn an seen above a bank of clouds, loik out for wind ; if they are close to or on the horizon, the weath will be fair. In general, soft, de, cate colors in the sky, with inde nite forms of duds, mean fa weather; gaudy, unusual coloi and hard-edged clouds mean rai and probably wind. A dark, gloomy, blue sky windy; but a bright, light bli sky indicates fine weather. Gene allv, the softer clouds look, tl less wind (but perhaps more rail may be expected ; and the harde more "greasy," rolled, tufted, < ragged, the stronger the comix wind will prove. A bright yellow sky at suns< presages wind : a pale yellow, wet orange or copper-colored, wind an rain. Knew Her Weak Points. Sun Angelo Standard. Wife-This is a nice time c night to come home; ain't yo ashamed of yourself? Husband (pulling off his boot and carefully putting them on th mantel)-Don't-er scold. Couldn' get away a moment sooner. Hai a-hie-big aigument. W.-Big fiddlesticks. H.-Fact, I 'sure you. Wadche think? All-er-boys of the lodgi in it. Question was, which of ui had---er-most amiable and-er beautiful wife. I beat 'em all. De scribed you-hie-roses, teetl pearls, lips cherries-temper-e; -hie-line nangel. Offered t( fight 'em if they wouldn't admit it. They gave in, 'n here I am late, laie-er-victorious, finesl wife in-er-world. W. (with a sweet smile)-Yoi are a sad fellow, John. I'm afraic you'll never be anything better Let me help you take off your coat dear. OFFICE OF J. F. GREER, ? COUNTY JUDGE, 1 GREEN COVE SPRINGS^ CLAY CO., [ FLA., May 23rd, 1891. J Gentlemen : Twenty-three yeare ago I was attacked with inflama tory rheumatism, I was attended by the most eminent physicians in the land. I visited the great Sara kot TspringB^Y^AT^rja^'alod many other watering places, and always consulting with the local physician for directions; finally came to Florida ten years ago. About two years ago I had a se vere attack of rheumatism, was confined to my room for twelve weeks, and during the time I was induced to try P. P. P., [Prickly Ash, Poke Root, and Potassium,] knowing that each ingredient was good for impurities of the blood, after using two small bottles I was relieved; at four different times since I have had slight attacks and I have each time taken two Bmall bottles of P. P. P. and been relieved, and I consider it the best medicine of its kind. Respectfully, J. F. GREER. Rheumatism Is emphatically a blood disorder caused by inability of the kidneys to throw off certain poisons which accumulate in the tissues about the joints and muscles. P. P. P., very simple, quickly and surely cures this disease neu tralizing impurities in the blood. Experience and science both en dorse P. P. P., as the only infalli ble blood puri er known The Lawrenceville (Ga.) News tells this remarkable story : "One of the most remarkable things we have ever heard of occurred in T. R. Powell's family last Sunday. Mr. Powell played with his ten month's-old baby for half an hour, and it never seemed in belter health or livelier. Finally Mrs. Powell took the baby to put it to bed. In dressing it she found a needle sticking in its stomach. Tho eye of the needle was all that could be seeu of it, and it was with difficulty that Mrs. Powell extract ed it. The remarkable thing about it is the fact that the baby did not cry while the needle was piercing its stomach, nor did it even wince when the needle was taken out. There was no temporary soreness, and the child does not seem to have felt it," A farmer from Wayne county, North Carolina, says he has he rd twenty farmers in that county say that so fine are their crops that if they get 7 cents for their cotton they will be able to pay their debts. A negro, whose name is Robert Powell, and who lives at Campville, a station on the Florida Central and Peninsular railroad, about eight miles from Rochelle, claims tc have invented a perpetual mo tion machine. Sherman's Pathetic Little Joke. McClure's Magazine. Aloug with perfect discipline, every day showed some proof of Gen. Sherman's sympathy with the common soldiers. He had his humorous side with them, too. When the army reached Golds borough half the men were in rags. One day a division was ordered to march past him in review. The meu were bare-legged and ragged, some of them almost hatless. "Only look at the poor fellows with their bare legs," said an offi cer at the General's side, sym pathizingly. "Splendid legs," cried the Gen eral, with a twinkle in his eye ; "splendid legs. Would give both of mine for any one of tnem." There are 280 iron and steel man facturing establishments in Penn sylvania with an invested capital of ov-er $200,000,000. The largest rose bush in the United States is in Mobile, Ala. Its trunk for five feet above the ground is nearly a foot in circum ference. For Sale or Exchange for Oats. Bacon, Hams, Shoulders, Lard. Cottolene, Meal, Flour, Grits, Salt, Sugar, Coffee, Soap, Soda, Starch, Tobacco, Rice, Plantation Hard-| ware, and in fact everything in the staple and fancy grocery and plan tation hardware line. _W. W: ADAMS. AUGUSTA & KNOXVILLE R. R. Fort Royal & Western Carolina B'y. AUGUSTA, GA., July 5,1894. MR. Tiros. J. ADAMS, Editor, Edge , field, S. 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Will practice in all Courts of South Carolina and Georgia W. N. BURNETT Successor to GEO. B. LAKE, CYCLONE & FIRE INSURANCE Office over Bank of Edgefield. Norris & Cantelou. / ATTORNEYS AT LAW. EDGEFIELD, S. C Will practice in all the Courts of the State. Evans Brothers, Attorneys at; L/aw, EDGEFIELD, S. C. ?LW Will practice in State and Fed eral Courts. Also in Courts of Georgia THC PRICe OF PHOTOGRAPHS IS GREATLY REDUCED. tDmT* Just received apparatus for takiug Childrens' Photographs quicker than heretofore. ?JE ' Photographs taken iu CLOUDY WEATHER. R. H'' MIMS. Notice, Gin Owners. Examine your gin ribs and seo if they are worn, aud if they aro replace them with the it prevents motes from being pull ed through with the lint and cotton from collecting between thc ribs which causes nearly all lires in gin houses, it also deanes your seed much cleaner. Gives you a better sample thereby increasing your custom. They pay for them selves in one seasou's ginning. The Lemain Rit has a removable wearing plate just where the saws pass between tho ribs, this plate is made of hard steel and can be removed by simply pressing dowu a spring, and at a cost of only FIVE CENTS. So when you put in the Lemain Rib you never have to buy another set, and can always renew for only five cents. It will be money in tho farmers pocket to gin his cotton on these ribs. For particulars address, F. J. BOATWRIGHT DARLINGTON, S. C. If you need new ribs in your gin write to P. J. Boatwright and he will send an agent to see yon. Sample rib can be seen at G. B. Courtney's Gin Shop, Edgefield, S. C. To All Whom It May Concern? APETITION will be presented to the next Legislature of South Carolina, convening next November A. D. 1S?U, to lay oil a new county out of the northern or Saluda portion of Edgefield county, S. C. S. T. EDWARDS, Chair. Com. B. F. SAMPLE, Sec'ty Com.