Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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???lill?M i I 11 Ililli ll 11 nggij_ i wu -g= TOAST MERINGUE. ' This is a sort of idealized toast .which proves tempting tc the capri cious appetite of an invalid. A slice of thin, evenly browned toast is dropped for an instant into fresh boil ing water that has a pinch of salt in it. Over the range meantime have a tiny saucepan or cocotte with, tiree tablespoonfuls milk and a little piece of butter about the size of a. hazelnut. As'soon as hot add the sfi31y beaten white of one egg.and let cook .just long enough to heat thoroughly. Pour the cream and egg over the toast, cov er with, a hot plate and get. it to the invalid as quickly as possible. Like most other foods prepared for the sick the success of this dainty depends on Its careful making, attention to details and hot and ? quick service. - New York Telegram. BEEF HEART-VEAL STUFFING. Soak heart three hours in cold wat er; remove muscles; take -out every atom of blood; make filling as fol lows: One pound of uncooked veal, chopped fine?. one-quarter pound of salt pork, ct?ppped fine; one-quarter -ound sausage meat, two heaping ta ?espoons of dried bread crumbs, a blespoon of onion juice, one tea poon salt, one-quarter teaspoon lacKpepper, one egg, slightly beaten. Mis all these ingredients well togeth er-and stuff the heart; wrap tight in cloth; sew it; stand in small saucepan point down; cover with boiling water, simmer slowly three hours, then, take it out; remove cloth; bake in a quick oven one hour, basting every ten min utes with a little melted butter; serve with brown sauce or pan gravy.-Bps? ten Post MUSHROOM DISH. A mushroom dish new to many per sons combines oysters with them. The mushrooms are first cooked in butter. Then they are placed cup side upward in a shallow- dish, an oyster is put into each cup, it is sprinkled with salt and pepper and the dish is put into the oven and kept there until the oysters plump. They should be served with bechamel sauce. For the sauce season a cup and a half of white stock with a slice of carrot, a slice of onion, a bit of bay leaf, half a dozen whole peppercorns, a sprig" of parsley, and cook for fifteen or twenty minutes. Then .strain, blend with three tablespoon fuls of flour and the same quantity of butter rubbed to a cream, add a cup ful of hot milk, season with salt and pepper.-New York Sun. sour, fruit and it will require much less silgar. . . . If you wish, to iron a starched gar ment in a short time sprinkle it with hot water instead of cold. When salad dressing shows an in clination to curdle, add a small pinch of soda. Good treatment I have lately learned for a rusty wire clothes line is a coat of paint; two coats are stiil better. Boiled or roasted meat, intendfd to be eaten cold, will keep better and more moist and tender, these warm days,, if wrapped with a cloth moist ened with weak salt water. Tomatoes canned cr fresh cool tb-? system and improve the appetite. 1 have found they are nicer peeled with a sharp knife than they are when skins are removed by pouring boil ing water over them. One way to utilize beautiful pieces of real lace upon an afternoon toilette is to employ it as undersleeves, drawn into -he cuffs at the wrists. Fruit can be hulled much more -quickly and comfortably if a bowl of cold water is kept close at hand, into which fingers are dipped whenever a crushed berry sticks to them. Left-ovir biscuit, which are far from palatable warmed over, can be cut into slices and toasted or buttered on both sides; cut into dice and browned-in the oven as a substitute for croutons. The New York Times tells of a wo man who carries when traveling iu her bag a small wire toaster just big enough to fit over a glass globe. With this at hand it is easy to get a cup of hot tea at short notice or heat curl ing irons without holding them in the flame or dimming the light. , Thc Resources of Siberia. Under Government encouragement lt is said that Siberia is gaining 200, 000-farmers per-year." Among its ex ports are cereals, butter, wool, leath er ?nd dried and preserved meats. Already this remote country,. which the popular imagination is apt to pic ture as a vast waste, the abode of frost and snow and misery, is becom ing talked of as a possible competitor with the well known cereal producing countries of the world. A member of the French Bureau of Foreign Com merce estimates that, on the basis of the present population of Russia in Europe, Siberia can sustain SO.000. 000 inhabitants, although now it has not one-tenth of that number. At produces one-tenth of the world's yield of gold, but owing to climatic obstacles many of ita mines are not worked, and its immense coal deposits have hardly been touched. A Rugby (England) laborer named John Rimmer is stated to have gone about with his neck, broken for more than three months. ??mr TOPICS, jfgsp ATTEMPT TOO MUCH. In starting into the poultry busi ness the average man or woman is apt to get too enthusiastic and at tempt to do too much. The better way is to start on a smajl scale and enlarge as your experience z*A capa bility will justify. The notion that most everybody can make a success of raising poultry on a large scale has been disproved times without number.-Farmers' Home Journal. DIPPING NECESSARY. It is advisable to dip sheep twice each year, in the spring and in the fall. The spring dipping should be done shortly after the shearing has been done, at which time the lambs Bhould also be dipped, as the ticks are likely to leave the ewes and get on the la.mbs after the former have been sheared. In using the coal tar dips, we have obtained better results by using solutions that are recommended In tho directions accompanying the preparations. Dipping is the only practical method of keeping the flock safe from the ravages of ticks, lice and scab.-Oklahoma Station. BALANCED RATION WITH SILAGE Wallace's Farmer says that the profit in feeding corn silage depends much upon the other feed with' it, and says: The best balance we know of for silage is clover or alfalfa hay. In fact, we do not know any kind of balanced ration that can be provided so cheaply for dairy farmers, and to a certain extent feeders of other cat tle in the corn belt, as from thirty five to forty pounds of silage aud about eighteen to twenty pounds of clover or alfalfa hay. This in itself Bhould provide for the cow a fairly well balanced ration. It is all grown on the farm, and hence it is cheaper lhan anything that can1)e purchased. NEW YORK STATE FARMS. While the New York Stat? Bureau of Agriculture has been in existence only three, years, it has in that time been Instrumental in the sale of $3, 000,000 worth of farms, which also means their rehabilitation. It has also sent out several thousand farm laborers to those who need their as sistance and maintained an office in the State Agricultural Department to attend to correspondence in relation to tbr sale of farms and the'engage ment of agricultural labor. It has also advertised the opportunities for farming in New York State, posting notices in European districts which send, the most desirable immigrants. The latest bulletin contains a. list of D36 farms, at prices varying from $20 to $50 an acre, and in some cases smalb payments may be made. To those who desire it, the State Bureau will also furnish a scientific report as to the products for which each farm is best adapted.-Weekly Wit?' tess,_: Dees it p2.y to remove suck^s from :orn? Would be pleased to have the editor, or any reader, express his opinion on the subject.-Subscriber. If the ragweed has got the better af your pasture you will have to let it go this season. Turn it under just when it is at its best, and add what manure you can get during the fall and winter. Next spring sow blue grass on the field, and you will be likely to get a good stand. Your pasture is worn out, we think, or the ragweed could not have got such a start there. In good soil bluegrass will hold the ground against any thing. Ragweed is a fairly good fer tilizer, and it is much better to let it grow than to leave the ground bare. Iron weeds must be grubbed out, but they do not often grow with ragweed, generally in low, wet ground. Foxtail and crab grass are very harmful to the corn crop,"as they take nourishment from the corn roots, and draw the moisture from them, but you cannot do much towards eradicating them this late In the season. They should have been turned under and smothered out a month ago. Let this year's experi ence teach you a lesson that will last you a life time. Never let crab grass or foxtail get the start of you.-ln< .liana Farmer. Poultry Yard Notes. Eggs saved for hatching should be kept at a moderate temperature and should not be saved more than ten days. Older eggs will hatch but the chicks are not strong. Good ensilage is good feed for chickens. Orly the amount the hens eat up clean should be given each day. Tankage is not to be depende-l on. The hen is an epicure. She enjoys a variety of food. Table scraps, small potatoes, cabbage leaves and vege tables of various kinds are appreci ated. Scald drinking vessels at least once each week. Pour out all water left over in evening. The airing of the vessels over-night helps to keep them sanitary. Keep the- dust boxes of yarded fowls filled and add a sprinkling of insect powder or sulphur each week, and then never be too sure there are no lice lurking around. An Enormous Tree. The members of the Linnean So ciety" in London were recently enter tained by a description of a mon strous tree growing near the city of Oaxaca in Mexico. It is a species cf cypress, and at the height of three feet from the ground has a circumfer ence of 143 liest. Yet the entire height of the tree does not emceed 100 feet. The Rio Grande is shrinking, and efforts are being made to preserve ita waters. MIDAS AND A MAID. I found in books of classic lore A king of wealth untold, And scorned the tale that at his touch All things had changed to gold. Now I believe thc miracle Since greater I behold Carine's bright hair-for al its touch All things have chanted to gold! -Charlotte Rudyard, in Hamer's Weekly. THE REASON WHY. "I* wonder why men don't take more interest in the primary?" "Probably because it is a secondary consideration." - Baltimore Amer? ican. ANYTHING TO AMUSE. Fat Man-"What! Are you going to let this small boy shave me?" Barber-"Let the boy have his fun for once. It is his birthday, sir."-? Fliegende Blaetter. HER CHANCES GETTING SLIM, Ethel-"My husband must be a well bred man. I would like to mar ry: into an old family, wouldn't you?" Kate , (sadly)--"YeS; any old fam? Hy."-Boston Transcript. '' A CUT FROM MISS KEEN. Mr. Sapleigh (on leaving the re sort)-"I think, Miss Keen, I said good-by to you before." Miss Keen-"Oh, always glad to say good-by to you, Mr. Sapleigh."-? Boston Transcript. UNPROFITABLE. "If you'd assume a more genial manner, you'd get along better in business." "Rot! I tried it once, and every body I met wanted to borrow money." -Cleveland Leader. JOLLYING THE POET. J Editor-"You use the expression . here, 'the vault of heaven.' " j Foet-"Yes, sir." Editor-"Do you refer to the oc casion when the cow jumped over the moon?"-Boston Transcript. THE ONE EXCEPTION. "Isn't your climate rather change able?" "Yes," answered Farmer Corntos sel. "I reckon we have about every kind of weather there is, except good weather."-Washington Star. TRANSFERRED. Asker-"So you found your 'pain less filling' sign that the college t"""* took." Pullem - "Yes, the confou: young scamps had stuck it ov restaurant."-Boston Transcript "Yes," answered always lid ?ike V so little that the house could learn to whistle."-1 Washington Star. INDICTMENTS. "He tells me he caught a forty pound bass." "Give you any reason to believe him".'" "Gave me a fairly good cigar."-< Louisville Courier-Journal. THE MONSTER. Mrs. Newlywed-"Yesterday 1 got a lovely parchment diploma from the cooking college, and here's what I'V3 cooked for you. Now, guess what it is." Mr. Newlywed (with slab of om elette between his teeth)-"Th? diploma!"-New York Times.. GENEROSITY MISUNDERSTOOD. "Does your daughter know any thing about cooking?" "Yes," answered Mr. Sirius Bar ker. "I think she is ? pretty gDcd judge. She always insists on our eating the things she makes and nev er saves any for herself."-Washing '.on Star. MATCHED. "I married my first husband foi money and my second for love." "Then you are very happy now, 1 suppose?" "No. Alas! no. You see my first husband married me for love and ny second for money."-Fliegende Blad der. MUST HAVE. "They say a man designed the waste basket hat while on a big spree." "[ understand the fall model is even worse." "Did he have the nerve to design a hat while he was soberiug up?"-? Louisville Courier-Journal. Objection Sustained. Among the curiosities of the law is (he following,reported hy thc Roches ter Post-Express: At a term of the circuit court in one cf the up-river counties, not long ago, a horse case was on trial, and a well known "horseman" was called as a witness. "Well, sir, you saw this horse?" said the defendant's counsel. "Yes, sir, I-" "What did you do?" "I jest opened his mouth to find out how old he was, an' I says to him, says I, 'Old feller, I guess you're purty good yet." " "Stop!" cried the opposing counsel. "Your honor, I object to any conver sation carried on between the witness and the horse when the plaintiff was not present." The objection was sustained. > , "NEW YORK. AS A Diagram showing the. proportion of Roman Catholics, Jews and Protest ants In New York Cityv THE KAISER AS A PLAIN CITIZEN '"For the Congo a smelting plant toi treat 1000 tons of copper ore daily! has been ordered from thc United States. THE G "How long has your wife taken tc uSince she has become jealous of Handy Spoonholdcr. Among the numerous minor in ventions that seem trifling in them is tci*'cS b-.:: ??CU to ?av.C? io l?? C?? fert cf humanity is the open holder i devised by a New York man. lt is a | MISSION FIELD. Diagram showing the division of the Protestant population of New Vork City in the yea - 1905. -From the Home Herald. Novel Medicine Chest. One pf the most ingenious of inven tions is the medicine chest designed by a? Arkansas man. With this chest there is no eccusc for a person not taking his medicine on time or Cor getting the medicines mixed. The cabinet consists of a stand with two little drawers at the upper"corners and a desk portion on top. In front of the desk portion is a little "door, just about wide enough to admit a bottle, and inside is a series of re volving trays. One of these trays is provided with numbers indicating minutes, another with numbers indi cating the hours of the day, and a third with ordinals indicating the hours, of the day and night. Each tray is divided into little compart ments at each hour, so that at a cer tain hour a bottle in that compart ment will be waiting at the door. This is brought about by a clock mechanism which operates the trays, all cf which are connected to a shaft ar.d moved by the clock, thc face of which is visible in the front of the stand. It now remains for the inven tor to add an alarm attachment and it will be practically impossible to miss medicine time. - Washington Of ntl Cnough Said. You were t. long time in tory with Mr. Willing y child. What was go "Did you ever sit In ory with papa before im?" suppose j! did." * 'Well, mamma, ?t's the 1. ' '-Boston Transcript, Specialist Arrived. -'This place is healthy, t-"It was up to the time that a noted specialist from New York got into the habit of spending his summers here. Now we have an operation every week or so."-Life. UARD, ) going in the kitchen?" the cook."-From Fliegende Blaetter. simple little device, but it is of great convenience for use on tall glasses, such as those used for iced tea, etc. Thc device consists of a piece of metal bent at the tcp to form two arms, with the opening between them just wide enough to admit the handle of a spoon, inserted sideways, and with the wide part just narrow enough to keep the handle of the spoon from slipping through. The lower part of the holder consists of a flat strip which runs down inside the glass and a spring clip on the back which goes outside the glass and clamps the whole firmly on. The spoon, when not in use, is hung on the holder and does not fall into the bottom of the glass. While the device fits on the edge of any receptacle, it is chiefly employed where the receptacle is deeper than the spoon is long.-Bos ton Post. < Japan In 190S made 200,000,000 pounds of paper and imported 4S,-( 000,000 pounds, a consumption of 30S.000.000 pounds, or G.3 pounds per capita of the population. ? New York City.?-The blouse which shows no visible closing is always-a pretty and attractive one, and thii model includes the new deep, narrow chemisette that is so attractive and becoming. It is made with the new sleeves, too, that are cut off to show pretty close fitting under ones of thin material and it is equally well adapt ed to entire gowns and to the separate blouse. In the illustration it is made of silk cashmere with trimming of banding, chemisette and under sleeves of tucked chiffon. Almost all the in coming materials are soft enough to be tucked, however, and for the chem isette and under sleeves lace, net and muslin, and, indeed, all pretty ma terials of the sort are appropriate. The waist is made over a fitted lining and consists of fronts and back with the chemisette. The lining is i closed at the centre front, the waist Invisibly at the left of the front. .The sleeves are tucked to give a novel and becoming effect and arranged over the linings, which are faced to form the under sleeves. The quantity of material required for the medium size is three and seven-eighth yards twenty-one, twen ty-four or twenty-seven, or two yards forty-four inches wide, with three fourth yard eighteen inches wide for the chemisette and under sleeves and two and one-fourth yards of banding. Stationery. Fashionable correspondence paper Is of various textures and shades. Ther^ is the kid finished pape, in oak grained effect, which comer in sheets and envelopes of two sizes and is exceptionally smart; the cross bared weave wita a white or colored border resembling the finishing of a hemstitched handkerchief; what is known as French dimity, white, gray, blue and buff linen; a thin, fine qual ity of lawn, which appears in maize, mauve and dawn pink, and linen and glace fabrics which have envelopes daintily embossed in embroidery pat terns. Herringbone weaves, showing cor duroy and pique effects, are steadily gaining ground, as they come in all the fashionable shades and in the three customary sizes. Satin, bond finished and linen fabric stationery of note, letter and commercial size may be conveniently purchased in the form of a writing tablet which is pro vided with an envelope drawer. Among stationery novelties are small sheets of crossed barred weave engraved with the first name of the writer and intended only for corre spondence with intimate friends; featherweight sheets, accompanied by gray lined tissue envelopes, for for eign correspondence, and "hasty note" paper, with perfumed gummed edges, which provides an envelope When properly folded. - New York Herald. Military Effects. The Russian Cossack and the mili tary effects Md fair to have a strong vogue lu millinery. i ki of Fashion Batiste Hats. Hats made in fine batiste are enjoy ing a remarkable vogue. Pannier Revived. There is a persistent rumor thai ;he old-time pannier will soon be with is again. Blue and White. A rough sea-blue pongee with broken line of white is very trim in a :ailored suit. The coat can be finished with a. handsome lace coHlar. A mili :ary effects with soutache is chic on a. jacket front. Velvet Novelties. New velvets are the moire, which closely resemble tbe text ure of baby lamb, and then there is si crepon vel vet with an irregular rib. Velvet brocades and also polka dotted velvets are among the novelties. \ New Reticules. The newest bag to be carried with thc white gown, in which the hand kerchief and other small and neces sary articles are kept, is of Irish crochet. These reticules may be made of two round medallions care fully crocheted together, except at the top, where an opening is left. Knotted cords are run through the top, by which the bags are carried. They may also be made of hand-darned filet net and Italian filet doilies.. Exercise Suit. The exercise suit makes an im< portant feature of the modern ward robe, for women long ago learned that a few moments given over to system atic exercise is one of the greatest of all aids to perfect health and sym metry. This suit is simple and prac tical, yet smart withal and " can be utilized either for the gymnasium or in the home. In the illustration it is made of light weight serge, but all the materials that are used for suits of the surt are appropriate. Tho knickerbockers or bloomers are com fortably full, yet simple, and the blouse portion is made in conformity with the latest style. The three-quar ter sleeves are those in most general use, but long ones can be substituted, if prefcred. The suit consists of blouse and knickerbockers. The blouse is made with fronts and back and is finished with a belt av. the waist line. The knickerbockers are laid in pleats at their upper edges and are joined to waistbands, aud these waistbands are buttoned onto the band of the blouse, so that there ls no possible danger of parting, no matter how active an hour may be enjoyed The quantity of material required for the medium size is eight and one eighth yards twenty-seven, five yards forty-four or four yards fifty-two inches wide.