Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, December 09, 1908, Image 12
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
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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?
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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:
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"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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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