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VOL. XX VII. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 24. 1902. NO. 52. ;. vi T was just before the Christmas of ' I 1S50 thnt four little Alabama girls were as busy as four llttie girls * Lily Langhorne, Lucy Waller, Mat tie Harwood.and Lizzie Ella Manning " . -could be. They were to" have a dolls' party on the -Monday after Christmas, and they could talk of notblng else. Eal Stanley discovered that the girls brid a project on hand. The whlsper . ing behind desk lids and around 'the stove, and the long conferences during recess, told the secret, . although;the strictest silence .about their plaiis^was maintained in the presence of.the boys. Lily often let slip an uiugn?rded re mark about the coming festivity; and then clapped her hands' over her moutffJf-she" saw Hal Stanley near, '?ozih?zziei Ella, had said over and over again, '.Whatever you do, Lily Lang horne, don't you tell Hal Stanley. I don't want him to know one word about It until It is all over!"" "I say so. too!" exclaimed Mattie Harwood. "Why, aren't you going to * i let him come to the party?" asked Lily, in a'pathetic voice. "Let him come!" said Lizzie Ella. "Fm astonished at you, Lily Lang horne. Don't you know Hal Stanley well enough_to know we don't want him at our .pJSrty?. What are you think ing" about?"' * .1 thought maybe you'd jet vb im come, after .we had-ilnished'fixin' .our . things?" said Lily. *- * '.'Well, you thought wrong-he shan't come any titue'if 1 have anything'to do wirti ir," asserted .Lfezie -Ella. " "He lets me vide'on his ?p^ny''some times, and leads him all around the ? front yard," said Lily, meekly. "Yes, and pinches you when he" takes ." you off'the pony; doesn't he?" retorted Lizzie Ella. * "He don't pinch me bari," insisted Lily. ; "Well, Lily Langhorne, you are a strange girl, I declare. I should think you wouldn't waut him at tbe party," answered Lizzie Ella, with a toss of her head. "Oh,T don't want him, if you don't, ^. Lizzie J-:?U.. Only b^--^vfcl-~fa??s?HW^ comm', aTiylrOw," salc? Lily. '"Very "well.*! said Lizzie Ella, still provoked, "none of the boys shall come if Hal Stanley is to come. If he comes I shall not come, and my sister shall not mate thc dolls' dresses, and I won't lr y ruy hand to a thing. I did think- o could have some boys and have : dance, but we'll have girls cnoug.- to make a set." "It would be nice to have some boys," said Mattie Harwood. "Ed. Waller can dance." "Well, wc cau't have them. My mother says we cannot invite thc oilier boys and not invite Hal Stanley, and I -will-not-have-Hal Stanley at our dolls' party. Now. you've got it," said Lizzie Ella defiantly, a* she walked f?way from the group of girls. And so it was settled that the dolls' party should be enjoyed without the presence of boys, and the preparations for the event began. The Saturday before the. eventful Monday the table was already decorated with frosted cakes and fruits and candies. The dolls in all their fiuery were in their seats. The table was beautiful. The bright colored caudles and the gay dresses of the dolls hone among bouquets and garlands aiid bowers. Everything had been arranged to perfection, and the door of the room was closed. After the dance the girls were to enter the room and stand around the table be hind the dolls. Each girl was to have a match, and at-,a given signal each was to light the three candles iu front of the doll behind which she stood. They had practiced the marching and standing until they could-do it without a mistake. All were to light the can dles at once, so that an illumination should burst over the table like a flash. . By 4 o'clock Monday afternoon the girls had arrived in full dress. They talked and played games, and every thing was delightful. The moment ar rived when the procession was to _-- i-~ mareh to the table where the fine for eign ladies in national costumes await ed them. The music on the piano struck up and the girls started. OU they went, keeping step to the march until they reached the table and each girl (itood in her place. Not a mistake had been made; the girls were radiant with happiness. The signal was given and suddenly the table was a blitze of light. The pyramid of snowy cakes and the sparkling candies and brilliant fruits and tiny bowers and wreaths made a fairy .scene. A burst of ad miration went round the table. "Oh! oh! oh! oh!" sounded from one to an other. They were too delighted to speak, when suddenly a scream Jrafe ?come: brought everybody back from fairy land. It Was fcily Langhorne. "The dolls! Oh, .the dolls! where are the dolls? Oh! oh! oh!" Then every girl asked the same ques tion, except Lizzie Ella, who shrieked, "Who did It? who did it?" And where were the dolls? There In the chair of each one "sat a dirty rag doll with a black face and a woolly head, wearing-.a red calico turban in stead of a wreata of roses. . "It's Hal Stanley, hateful Hal Stan same with r>o?e thc babe lying tn a manger. Luke H. 16. ff m ley!" screamed Lizzie Ella. "Hal Stanley!" echoed all the girls. "We'll never speak to him again!" During the excitement a servanl opened a closet door in a corner of thc room. "Look hyah, Mistis," called she tc Mrs. Langhorne, "hyah's de dolls. Pei grashus sake, jes look!" And sure enough there hung thc dolls. The Parisian lady, with bet hands tied behiud her back, was hang ing from a peg; the Spanish lady was dangling by her feet; the Switzerland lady was tied and gagged so that she could not speak one word; and the la dles of Russia and Holland, Denmar!; and Sweden and Prussia wore hanging In disgrace. Mrs. Laiighorne's scissors cut thc gallows, and she handed to each glr her treasure. The fine spangles and laces had suffered from the execution but the lady dolls were soon placed ni the table and the rag dolls wen thrown aside with contempt. "Your dolls are not dead if they hnv< been hanged," said Mrs. Langhorne "They are as much alive as they evei were." Sunshine followed the storm, and tin girls did enjoy tne remainder of tin evening. Nobody ever discovered win hanged the dolls.-The Household. IufantilO Deduction. "I guess paw hasn't got so mud money this your," said little brother. "What makes you think so?" asket little sister. "'Cause he was tolling me that i wasn't right to impose on Santa Clan just because the old feller was good natured."-Indianapolis Journal. Kot an Exhaustivo Treatise. "And now," said the literary mn: who had earned $100 by a syndicat article on "What to Buy for Christina Presents," "if I only knew what soi of a Christmas gift to get for my wif I should be perfectly happy."-Chicag Tribune. -Legend of tho MIstTetoo, Christmas-is never'Christinas with out the holly wreath and the mistletoe. Christians venerated the-holly or holy tree because'to tli?m the little thorny . leaves - and red berries made in a I Imbath typified, the crown of thorns and "thebloody drops.. Doubtless they introduced this solemn reminder at thc festival in order not to forget the sa credness of the occasion in the g?ner*? 1 festivities. $ Thc mistic hush, mistletod-or mis tletoe, as. we know it-owes its Uso' .h's a/;festal docuraU.cn. to pagan' times. .According- to the "Scandinavian Joguiid, ?ald?ir, t?io %0st beloved.. df.'all?tl?e' gods, hnd'a premonition that death im pended. Thereupon His mother,. Frigga, ; besought everything that was begotten of earth, ali-,'fire or water to swear not-to harm her spn. But In her request she overlooked the insignificant little mistletoe. Loki, the god of destruction, disguised as au old woman, visited Frigga, and, learning of her oversl, ht, liurried back to Where the gods were assembled. There they were amusing themselves by hurling all manner of missiles at Bnldur, and all were turned aside. But Loki with an arrow of mistletoe pierced Baldur's heart In reparation, the mistletoe was given to Frigga to do as she saw,fit, provided It touched not earth. ?rid she, to show that she bore np ill will, hung it up, and every one who passed ? 'nm? i tgmut??uMUM "i i .i.'..,*f*r" ". * j ' under it received a kiss as a token that, instead of hatred and jealousy, the mistletoe now stood for love and for giveness. Their Christmas Gifts. "I thought it better to get you some thing useful," said Mr. Dossill to his wife, "so I have bought you a, couple of good brooms for your Christmas present." "That was very thoughtful of you, my dear," replied Mrs. Dossill. "I share your ideas, and have bought you a good strong coal-scuttle for you to carry up fuel from the cellar in." An old English recipe for plum pnd c ding is as follows: Mix together one and one-halt cupfuls of currants that b have been cleaned, washed and dried. 2 one and one-half cupfuls of .stoned J raisins, one pound of suet, chopped line; three-quarters ol' a pound ol' stale bread crumbs, one-quarter of a pound of brown sugar, one-quarter of a pound li of Hour, the grated' rind of one lemon and one-half pound of minced candied :1 orange peel. Beat live eggs, not sep arating thc whites and yolks, add one t cupful of liquid to them and mix thor s oilghly with Hie other ingredients. I- Boil for six hours. When wanted for use boil six hours longer. When ready to serve, uumould, stick a sprig of holly in the centre, and wreath with ? a hard sauce. Tlie difficulties of .candy* mig&lng' have been greatly exaggerated. Any otic ..WiJ h a Mt tie patience- can ;^pake very.good confectionery; The. 'easiest candies to make; are those prepared from confectioners' sugar and eggs. The sugar Is of One qjial?ry mixed With certain gums tG give it consistency and requires no troublesome boiling, hence its pophlf v* Jty. : ' To make thc c.'iiiOy from thc silgar, several eggs arc broken and the Whites \ are separated from the yolks. *The yolks may ' set aside for use in tome | ho?sehol. "ration, ns only the whites ; are needed or the cfihdy. Fora pound box of candy the w'illtes of two eggs are about suilicient. The whites are put in a cup and mixed j with p.h eqilal (quantity of wafer'and ; about half a teaspoonful uf extract of j vanilla or whatever other -'flavoring extract is to.- b& used. Thc liquid ls then gradually mixed with the sugar until a paste of-nbriilt thc consistency of dough has been made. The ctfi?po* jgjjir? fii??trty there umsmfy tte aricia multitude of fl)? heaven ly, boft -praising Ga? %} j' 0*) cV/eying, earrb p?<&e,?0(t?mll toward me?. . I bom itt 9etb!<rb4*?tt of ? ja?ecxi m thc ?ny* of ' ficrotVihe hitig, b?x?? tlj*re mm tuife m*n from tb? e<xft to Jeru/?n, sition is thoroughly worked together with a strong wooden or metal spoon of large size. A clean white cloth is spread on the table. The hands being thoroughly washed, a little butter-the unsalted kind is best-is spread upon the An gers, and the pieces of candy are worked into shape and placed in a pan on a piece of oiled paper. The pan is then put away until the candy hardens. These candies may be colored brown by mixing melted chocolate with the candy when the eggs and flavor arc put in. The juice of spinach will im part a green that is a perfectly harm less coloring. The kernels of English walnuts placed on the top of tlie bits of candy, half a kernel to each piece, make deli cious confectionery. A sort of nougat can be made by slicing shelled English walnuts, blanched almonds and clean white pea nuts. The slices of nuts should be mixed with the sugar and eggs while still quite liquid, care being taken not to break the nuts more than neces sary. The substance is then formed into bars and set aside to dry aud barden. Chocolate creams may be made hy taking the white sugar and whites of eggs and molding tile pieces of candi' into little conos. These are set aside for several hours, or a day. to harden. Some melted sweet chocolate is pre pared in a howl and each of tho cones is taken up on thc point of a clean, new halpin which has boon scoured with sand soap before using and one hy one they are dipped into the chocolate un til they are thoroughly coated. They are Hun ranged on sheets of oiled paper on buttered pans and left to harden. Cocoanut candies may be made by mixing shredded cocoanut with the sugar as tlie candy is being made. In order that a rainbow may bo pro duced, the sun must not be more than forty-two degrees above thc horizon. . ARCTIC MOTIVE IS FAME THE B'.'BBLE REPUTATION OUT WEIGHS LIFE AND TREASURE, And from This 1'olnt of View tho Quos, tlon "Doa* SoHCcliiiiGr for tlio North Polo Fay?" Answers Itself - A Clever Analysis of tho Arctic Explorer. Eighty-four, seventeen, 84.17. Looked at in any way, wi i tien In whatsoever fashion, they do not soeni to mean more ur to bo more thin just eighty-four, seventeen-a common combination of four figures which an untutored child might write over snd again upon 9 Slate. Juggle them this way and that, as a conjuror would four S^ass balls, and still they are Just eight a'.ld four and one and seven, for aught we know who have not been instructed in their singular significance. But the other day a man carno out of the north and stood on a bleak and fcr o.uuing hill at Cape Sabine, and shook his head, and said, "Eighty-four, seven teen." What he meant wa? this: That pluck and intelligence and mon ey had once more combined in vain; that Lieut. Peary had made a northing of only 84 degrees and 17 minutes, and had missed by 360 miler i~e goal of his ambition, and that the arctic still kept its mystery safe within its cruel, white and seductive bosom. Whether all this should be set down as splendid romance or plain, ordinary folly depends much upon the point of view. Like little Peterldn, when he found a skull in thc cornfield and wanted to know "what they killed each other for," there are many very sensible people who sanely live and die, make love and pay their taxes, and do not understand at all this thing called "arctic explora tion.". Indeed, there is so much of a haze and bolo around the arctic explorer that to find out the man and his mo tives is almost as difficult as to attain to the pole itself. No glorious knight of the Table Round ever engaged in more shadowy, intangible quest, with less hope of what the world calls re ward, or earned the plaudits of a more .thunderous, gaping audience, tl?an these knights errant of the snows. The truth is that the great arctic motive is composed of many wants and impulses-imaginations. thirst for knowledge, love of adventure, the am bition to excel, and the mere eagerness that men have to be doi-e something. The Vikings wer? arctic explorers De cause they wanted to find-Nivlheim, the mythical land where the frost giants played. Eric the Red loved the cold sprav on hi? ohe?v T -*- iU II lt! _.- finlay into darkness and barely escaper] Ginnunga gap, the abyss of the world's end-a most excellent adventure, indeed, and fine stuff for grandfather talcs and minstrelsy for many and many a day. Then came thc medieval dren m of a northwest passage by the open Polar Sea to the wealth of India and Cathay. The idea took firm hold upon tue rich fifteenth century imagination; and even as late as 1C07 Henry Hudson tried to find in the north an open wa terway to the Pacific. Dreams? Yes, But, says Nansen, "England has to thank these chimeras in no small de gree for the fact that she has become the mightiest seafaring nation of the world." Splendid dreams, indeed. Ul tima Thule! The words fairly tingle with the reiterated romance of che centuries-bold voyages into uncharted deeps where thc blue bergs held their sway. As for modern motive, Nansen gives the clew to it when he writes often and again of "wresting the secret from these unknown regions of ice," and when he said of his proposed 'attempt to drift across the pole from the New Siberian Islands to ihe Greenland coast. "It is not to seek for the ex act mathematical point that forms thc northern extremity of the earth's axis, that we set out, for to reach this point is intrinsically of small moment. Our object is to investigate the great un known region that surrounds the pole." Nansen reached 86.14. All of which does not yet make clear the bootless toiling, the useless sacri fice, the magnificent courage that arc tic sacrifice, the magnificent courage that arctic explorations exact. To find thc true incentive, we shall have to go deeper yet, and touch those hidden springs that tumble men headlong into such mad, forlorn and futile do ings as mystify the gods. Only the other day a little dried up man, with his face scorched to a crust, like lava, returned to Algiers with a simple, brief story of having traveled 2000 miles among the Moroccan Ber bers, a somewhat peculiar people, who would have made a fine but deplorably ugly example of him, if they had pene trated his disguise. He had no partic ular business in thus taking death by the arm, except a desire to know things. So with that woman, Mrs. Workman, who recently climbed Loongma glacier in the Himalayas, af ter indescribable hardships and per ils, just because she wanted to do sometning big and exceptional. She doesn't like pink teas. It is a mighiy good thing, we cannot doubt, that, all success lu the world is not spelled with the same set of characters. Most men like to excel. Some choose seven figures on the cred it side of the lodger. Some take to mu sic, to painting, even, in their extrem ity, to the romantic school of fiction. I There are men who devote many toil : some hears to mastering the carom; I at least two or three have sacrificed their fine intellect to chess; while the lives that have been "thrown away," wiih splendid fury and abandon, just to carry a slippery pigskin ball across a muddy field to a whitewashed Une ca?led goal, are really enough to keep prudent folks awake at night to the prejudice of their health and the peril of their precious happiness. So, after all, the reason why men try to reach the prue, going blithely through silences that are at one with the silence of the stars, over white nesses that are akin to the whiteness of death-the reason is that the pole is there, and, within the limits of his tory and tradition, no man has seen it. What more, forsooth? And this adven ture has one marked advantage, too, over mest other avenues of spright ly endeavor: There is only one No *h Pole, and unless the earth come a cropper in inc celestial fields, ?md zrt to spinning on another axis, the mnn who finds it shall not need to sit tV-rc, and watch it. He will have-won hi? Eureka for all time, and may res; fa such temperate zone, ot* serenity RS his rare and restless spirit can com mand. And, finally, who knows? Colvrobus could not have foreseen thc Declara tion of Independence when he sailed out to Pud something. Franklin did not dream of the telephone when Le played with kites in a thunder storm Every new outpost of science, ov?,ry star that swims into our ken, every is land of the seas surprise the world 'ind often its discoverer, too. What is there at the North Pole? The Garden of Eden, or an awful spectacle of ice ..md snow and night? No matter; it is still unknown; and human curiosity i* stronger yet than death, and fears not man nor devil nor any unseen thing. E. A. Bingham in the New York Mail and Express. BEANS AND BEANS. To Know Tlicin the f??v;int Mnsf He Fa miliar With Some Kl ?r ll ty Yarletle?. Did you ever watch heans grow? They come up out of the ground as if they had been planted upside down. Each appears carrying the seed on top of his stalks, as if they were afraid folks would not kno^' that they were beans unless they immediately told them. In early accounts of American discovery beans are mentioned as found among the native tribes. In 1492 Columbus found beans in Cuba. According to Dc Vegas thc Indians of Peru had sev eral kinds of heans. Ir Bancroft's "Native Races" the beans of Mexico arc mentioned. De Candolle assigns the Lima bean tn Brazil, where it has been found growing wild. Seeds have leen found in the mummy graves of Peru, In southern Florida tne Lima hean seed white blotched or speckled with red, is found growing spontaneously in abandoned Indian plantations. It has not been found wild in Asia, nor has it any Indian or Sanscrit name. It reached England in 1779. In central Alrica but two seeds are ever found in a pod. It is not prob able that the common kidney bean (Phaseouts vulgaris) existed in the recite, or useless, only, to behol? and contemplate the wonderful works of thc Creator." In the report of the Missouri botan ical gardon of 1901, H. C. Irish gives an exhaustive paper upon "Garden Beans Cultivated as Escaulcnts." He gives ten pages of pictured beans, re minding one of 80 varieties a boy in Vermont collected and carried to the fair many years ago. In tho United States beans are soaked In water, then boiled and baked. In old times the Vermont beans were soaked in cold water over night, then boiled all the forenoon and baked all the afternoon in a brick oven, generally in .he company of brown bread and Indian pudding; also a bit of salt pork was added be fore hoing laked, the rind evenly slashed. ? GUAINT AND CURIOUS A lake schooner was loaded at Du luth the other day with 8440 tons of ore, equivalent to 281,333 bushels of wheat. This is the largest cargo ever floated on the great lakes. The famous Rat Hole mine, in the mountains of Arizona, was discovered by a woman who watched a trader rat carrying things out of her tent to its hole in the rocks. The mine, it is caid, has paid millions in dividends. One of the largest happy families on record was recently broken up by tho police of Paris, France, because tho neighbors complained of the night ly racket. Thc hostess of this home kept 70 chickens, 30 pigeons, one goat, four cats, eight dogs, one parrot, and V?. small birds. Captain Harland of the British steamer Hardanger reports having run into a rain of bats on the trip from New York City to Baltimore. The ship was attacked by great numbers of the bats, and it was with great difficulty that those on deck could protect themselves from their sharp fin-like wings. The largest apple in Boone county, Kan., has been found growing on a tree in a millet patch, on the farm of Mrs. E. A. Jones. The tree was small, and wos not supposed to have any fruit on it; but this apple, which is of the Ben Davis variety, is 15 inches in circumference, and weighs a pound. The millet around where it grew was ll feet high. The bicycle cyclometer which is made so economically and compactly for uso on the bicycle has evolved into a machine used now for a great many purposes. One form or another of the cyclometer has now been adapted to p number of machines where it is de sired to keep tab on the number of pieces turned out. The latest article of this kind is a tiny device b;- which the officials of telephone companies are enabled to know at a glance which of tho girls nf the telephone exchange are chirking work. The machine is fastened in an inconspicuous place on thc switchboard and mak^s accurate record of every teelphonic connection made by the girl attending that parti cular part of the board. The record is made automatically. The counter Is attached at will by simply inserting two pins into two socket screws. The operator after inserting the plug presses the lever, and when this is don? the instrument registers one. Large shipments of th? best makes of wagons * :i and buggies just received. 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