Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FIRE INSURANCE E. J. NORRIS, Agent Edgefield, South Carolina Representing the HOME INSURANCE COMPANY, of New York, and the old HARTFORD, of Hartford, Connecticut. The HOME has a greater Capital and Surplus combined than any other company. The HARTFORD is the leading com pany of the World, doing a greater Fire business than any other Co. See insurance Reports PRUDENTIAL LIFE "HAS THE STRENGTH OF GIBRALTAR." E. J. Norris, FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE. k [very Boy Wants a Watch! We want every pipe and cigarette smoker in this country to know bow good Duke's Mixture is. We want von ?o know that e-err crain in that b?? one ano a half ounce 5c 6ack ts pure, clean tobacco - s delightful smoke. And von should know, foo. that with each 6ack yon now {jet n book of cigarette papers and A Free Present Coupon These coupons are good for hundreds of valuable pres ents, such r.s catches, toile? articles, silverware, furni ture, and dozens of otbe? articles suitable for every member o* the family. Y*?n ?hil surely like Duke's Mixture, made by 1.\?<:ett & Myerf -it Durham, N. C., and th?? precut:- cannot fail ?o pl easa you and y?urs. A? a special offer. during January and February only we will send yon our new illustrated catalog of presents FREE. Just send us your name and address oo a postal. Coupons from Duke i Mixture maybe assorted viith taja trent HORSE SHCE,J.T..TINSLEY'S NATURAL LEAF. GRANGER TWIST, coupons (rom FOUR ROSES (lOc-tm double cout-on\. PICK PLUG CUT. PIED MONT CIGARETTES. CLiX CIGA RETTES, anti a'hn taft 'ir coupons ixtuett hy ut. Premium Dept. ^^^x/? *??$p?AAs xfc?aooo &n ST. LOUIS. MO. tl ti 15 fl 8 CORTR?GHT METAL Roofs Put on 26 Years Ago are as good as new, and have never needed repairs-never need attention of any kind, ex cept an occasional coat of paint. Storm-proof Fire-pVoof L?ghtning-proo Don't buy that roof fer thc nev/ building, or re-roof-the until you hive examined the Cortright Metal Shingles. Stewart & Kernaghan EDGEFIELD, S. C. Thousands and thou sands of women, who have everything that heart could desire to make them happy, are miserable on account of womanly trou ble. If you are of this number, step worrying, and give Cardui a trial. lt has brought health and happiness to thousands. TAKE The Woman's Ionic Mrs. Delphinia Chance writes from Collins, Miss.: "I suffered terribly from womanly troubles. We had five doctors, but it seemed I could not get any better. I decided to try Cardui. After I began to take it, I got better every day. Now I feel as well as I ever did." Try Cardui, today. E-66 SEEP IN PERFECT HEALTH. You owe it to yourself, your family and your work to keep in the best possible con dition. If you have strong, ready muscley -rich, heathy blood and a clear brain, yea con do more and better work and reall) live, and enjoy living and be a blessing to those you love. Much of the eternal grouch and many of the aches and pains you see every day are caused directly by a lazy, torpid, over worked liver, and all of that may be abso lutely cured by R. L. T. (Richardsons Laxative Tonic). One fifty-cent or dollar bottle of this magnificent tonic will prove to you that it is the finest laxative and thc quickest strength building tonic ever of fered sick, suffering humanity. Get a bot tle from your druggist today, and keep it always in the family medicine chest ready to put the Liver right in one night or cuni malaria, constipation, or bilious fevers in the shortest possible time. If not on sale in your town, write R. L. T. Co., Ander son, S. C. R. L.T. A Perfect Tonic THE BEST LIVER MEDICINE 50c a 11.00 per Bottle. All Dreg Sera. -JUST PUBLISHED j Venter's NEW INTERNATIONAL Dictionary, (Ci. C. Merriam Co., Spring! ic!J, ?.Ia::. } surpasses the old Internatioral as mach as that ireh exceeded its predecessor. On the old 'osndatinn a new superstructure has been bui!t. ; Thc reconstruction bas been carried cn through lair/ years by a large force cf trained u-orkers, .adcr the supervision cf Dr. 17, Y. Harris, orme- United States Commissioner of Edsca io.:, p.r-A reenforced tv marty eminent spec.';!- . ?ty. Thc definitions have been rearranged nnd [ TiT.IIfird. The number of terras defined kai ; cen more than dollied. Tho etymology, ynonyin.-, pronuncia! ion, Lave received ur. pi.rtag scholarly labcr. Tho language cf j English literature for over ccven centuries, t!:c I tercinolcgy of thc arts and icienccs, and tlc every-dcy speech cf stree'., shop, and hcasc- ? hold, arc presented wilh felines* end dearie:.?, b size of vocabulary, ia riclmrss of general j information, and ir conveciencc of CC9sn!ia-'j tion, the boole set? a PLW mark in IexicograpLy. | 400,COO wore1* and pirases. 6000 illustrions. 2700 pages. VVme lo tac pnb?jticrt for Spcc!icen PST?. ?9 Very Serious It is a very serious matter to asl: for ene medicine r.nd have the \vrcr.? cr.c given y cu. For thir. reason v/s urr-o you in buying tc bc careful to rot thc genuine 'LACK- EIRA?IGH ? Liver ??i??lciz? The reputa*..' tr. cf tl-Is o'J, relia- [3 ble modicir.c, f;r cor:-.tip^Ion, in- [J digestion and liver trouble, is firm- ?9 ty established. IL ?oes not imitate S other mc J:d.:cs. leis better thar, bj othirs, cr it would nnt be thc fa- H voritc liver powder, with a larger i'j sale than all others combined. SOLD IN TOWN F2 1 ?'KOHbHLY IVlADh GKAPE JUICE Steaming ls Considered Better Than Stewing If Best Results Are to Be Obtained. There is something worth remem bering about the making of grape juice, contributed by a student of do mestic science: Crush and steam the grapes, instead of crushing and stew ing them, as was the old method. To the crushed fruit add one quart of wa ter to every IC quarts of grapes, and place the kettle containing them over a second kettle containing hot water. It is claimed that the substitution of .steaming for stewing does fuller jus tice to the grape. After they have been rendered thoroughly tender, pour the cooked fruit into the jelly bag and let it drip over night. Ry morning the sediment will have settled at the bot tom and the clear top can be poured off. The juice is now ready for bot .Ling. After it has been strained into bottles (glass fruit jars may be used to as gcod advantage) covers and rub bers are put on and the bottles are set on a rack in the boiler, or on the shelf of thc steam cocker. If you use the boiler, or a kettle, add cold water un til it comes up about two inches on the bottle or jar. Bring the water gradually to the boiling point, and let the boiling continue from 30 to GO min utes, according to size of jar. Seal the Dottles, and the juice is read?' to store. HOUSEHOLD JI QUESTIONS Scorch marks of linen may be re moved by rubbing with a fresh cut onion, the garment being soaked in cold water after. Keep some folded newspapers handy upon which to place soiled pots and pans, and save cleaning smutty rings from the tables. When preparing a turkey or chicken, try' rubbing it inside with a piece of lemon. It will whiten the flesh and make it more tender. After cleaning the shelves and in side of pantry drawers, give a coat of varnish or enamel, and they will clean as easily as oilcloth. Avoid open shelves in kitchen or pantry. Have at least a curtain to keep out the dust. A window shade of the right size is liked by many. To prevent pictures from slipping and hanging uneven, hang them first face to the wall, and then twist around, making a cross in the wire. Croquettes or other foodstuffs to be fried in deep fat should stand for fif teen minutes in the warm kitchen be fore being cooked, to brown well. Ragout of Lamb. Cut the necessary amount of shoul der of lamb into square pieces of equal size. Take off the pink skin and saute or fry in a blt of butter-an ounce is ???!igb for three pounds. Add some small onions and brown for 10 min utes. Dredge with flour, a tablespoon to a pound, and stir well for two min utes. .Moisten with boiling water or white broth, a pint to a pound of meat, and season. Let cook for 45 minutes. Two minutes after it begins to boll thoroughly skim off the scum on the surface. Serve on a hot dish with green beans and an equal quantity of new carrots, cut in small pieces, steamed and well seasoned. Open Apple Pie. Line a rather deep pie plate with pastry and put a rim around the edge. Pare and cut tart apples into half inch .sections, lengthwise and stand them close together all around the edge. Then fill the center with sliced apples, all it will hold, filling in the chinks well, as the apples shrink in baking. Add sugar, a few grains ol salt, nutmeg or cinnamon and dot all over with hits of butter, Bake in a moderate oven until apples ?ire done and serve hot or as soon ns cool. Not to good after first day. Egg Cutlets. Put two tablespoonfuls of butter Into a sauce pan; add two tablespoon fuls of flour and blend over fire; add one cupful of milk, boil three minutes, stirring all the time; add two yolks of eggs, remove from fire, and add two tablespoonfuls of chopped, cooked h:--.:n, six chopped hard-boiled eggs, seasoning of salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Turn out onto a plate to cool. Shape into cutlets., Brush over with beaten egg. roil in bread crumbs, and fry in smoking hot fat. Serve hot. Boiling Cracked Eggs. An egg that is cracked can be boiled by Inclosing it in a piece of soft paper. When the paper becomes wet it ad heres to the egg. and prevents it from coming through the shell. This pro cess should be successful In every case where the crack is of a moderate length. Washing White Stockings. When wai,hing white silk stockings use tepid water and pure white soap. Rub gently with the hands. Hinte in told water and add a little bluing to '.he last rinsing water. This keeps them from becoming yellow. Ginger Pudding. One-half t upi ul molasses, one t<?a spoonful ginger, one-half lemon, one tgg. one-half cupful milk, one tea spoonful soda, one teaspoonful cream tartar, e::e tablespoonful batter, one half cupful chopped raisin:--. Water Sponge Cake. This is a small sponge cake: 0:?e ogg. one-half cup of sugar, one-hnl* I eas pc cu lernen juice, three table R-anons >f old water, three-quarters cap of (loi!;- sifted with cn;; teaspoon baking powder. KEEP SCISSORS IN KITCHEN Innumerable Ways in Which They May Be of Far Greater Service Than the Knife. A pair of scissors in the kitchen are of invaluable assistance-not the lamp scissors or the dull pair that is black with age, nor the garden pair, nor yet those with the missing points, but a new. sharp, shiny pair that will cut. It is a difficult matter, for instance, to remove the white pith from grape fruit with a knife; one digs and jaba, and finally cuts out the offending cen ter and. incidentally, makes a help in the fruit through which the juice drips onto the plate. Xot so with the icfrebrs. A snip, a pull, and there it ls without trouble or mutilation. And bacon! How few women can slice off tlu; slippery rind, while with scissors every morsel can bc quickly pared awry without a vestige of waste. In cutting off the legs of a lobster, in breaking open the claws am! cutting through thc tall, the sci* .-. r.- ?v|!| r?0 v-cv"-: uncomplainingly without the nid of the hammer and ice pick. In preparing vegetables they are In comparable. Try them in cutting the rccts from spinach, trimming rusty lettr.ee leaves, shaping flowerets ol cauliflower, and cutting up asparagus. Dice up the pineapple with them, cut up the meat and fish for salads, re move the veins from shrimps, use them for the fish fins and save you; fingers. TOWEL DESIGNS ARE PRETTY Natural Colors Introduced to Add tc Effect, and Results Speak for Themselves. When the dainty cross stitch designs In natural colors were fashioned in garlands from flowers and bowknots on towels last year many declared noth ing could be prettier, but now the darn stitch and the bias stitch, also In natural colors, have been intro duced and they certainly are attrac tive. At the present moment, however, no towels are meeting wich popular favor like these variously termed the "modi eval design," tho "20th century design' ?nd "Venetian point"-designations that are confusing in both period and place. There is some excuse for this a? the designs show the influence of lace's evolution and do not cling tc any ene decided type, but borrow beauty from all. The work ls done in a sort of buttonhole stitch, combined with punch work. Covering a chicken with cheese cloth will prevent lt from getting scorched or drying too much while roasting. When the fowl is ready for th6 oven sew it in a piece of cheese cloth, and baste it through this cov ering, only removing the cloth at thc time the chicken is ready to be served, when you will find lt has an exquisite golden brown color. Nasturtium leaves, the tiny greec ones, give a delicious flavor to both hot and cold tea. When making picnic sandwiches turn thc leaf upside down, and you will rind that you can cut thinner and evener slices. Hamburg Steak and Potato. Take a pound of cold boiled pota toes, pour on them a wine glass of hot milk or water, add a big lump ot dripping, cold bacon fat or butter mash to a pulp, then beat up with a fork until quite light; take three-quar ers of a pound of hamburg steak, make into small cakes, sprinkle a lit tle finely chopped onion on top ol each cake. Make the potato pulp inte thick, round cakes and put a cake of hamburg steak on each. Place in a well-gresed bag. Close and seal lt; cook in a not oven for 25 minutes. Graham Mut Dread. One cake compressed yeast dissolv ed In cup of warm water with one tea spoon sugar. Let stand until foamy Make soft sponge with four cups warm water, two teaspoons calt. ont teaspoon lard, two tablespoons sugar and white flour. Add the yeast and let stand until very light. Mix into soft loaf with one cup sugar, one-half eui walnuts cut fine and two and one half pounds Graham Pour. Let tisr and make into four loaves. Bake in moderate oven one hour. . To Soften Butter. When butter gets too hard for use In winter fill a bowl with boiling wa ter. Allow it to stand for a few mo ments until the bowl is thoroughly hot Empty out the water and plac the steaming bowl over the plat" n! butter. This may be done in a few minutes before one wishes to use i'<< butter. Th'TO is no waste and 'vir flavor of the butter is not impaired a* by heating at the stove. When Cooking Eggr;. Here is :i fact worth, knowing when you cOok eggs. A spoonful of flour added fo tv grease m which eggs are to be fri^i! will preven? them Iron: breaking or Btieking to the pan. Rye Sandwiches. Cut rye bretti into very thin slicv. and any fanciful shape. Spread wi:'i a tilling of cream cheese, (irate the cheese. Rub to a r.aste with melted butter. Seaso.i with salt and pepper and spread. THE WOMAN THAT I CROSSED HIS PATH By PAUL TRENT. It was the third time that the two men had made the same seat on the embankment their resting place for the night. 'Tm wondering what it'll be like when the cold weather comes." "Sufficient unto the day," Philbank laughed harshly. It was weakness and not vice that had brought him to this state. In South Africa he had fought brilliant? ly, and returned to England with the brightest prospects. But a woman had crossed his path-a woman with the devil's beauty that had made him forget everything save his desire. Career had been sacrificed at her al tar-money had been thrown away and then she had coldly dismissed him. The descent had been rapid, and now for months he had been existing from hand to mouth-and for the last few days homeless and half starved. "I wish to God they'd give me an other chance," the younger suddeuiy said. Philbank looked at him suspicious ly and seemed about to speak, then Lesitated, and finally remained si lent. Could you make good-with an other chance?" he asked at last. "I believe so." "Then you shall have one. Walt a moment." Philbank hailed a passing police? i?.an. "Officer, can you oblige me with a piece of paper and pencil?" he a'jkcd. The constable put his hand in his pocket and produced the required ar ticles. Philbank wrote rapidly, and htnded back the pencil with thanks. "Take this to the Savoy and ask Jjr Colonel Strathmore. But I want your word that you won't say where you have seen me," Philbank said roughly to the other. "Good luck to you." "Thanks, and-" "Cut along." Philbank watched him cross to the other 6ide of the embankment. "I believe I can do it-now," he muttered, and drew near the parapet. For a moment his muscles were taut and then his body relaxed. "I haven't got the pluck." he said with a groan, and he despised himself the more for his cowardice. He was about to turn away, when a shrill cry could be heard some thirty yards off, and a crowd quickly gather ed, all eyes peering eagerly toward the river. He hurried along and asked what had happened. "A woman has jumped over," some one said. Philbank threw off his coat- and dove toward a dark object which could just be seen. He swam strongly, but as he reached her she struggled fierce ly to free herself from his grasp. "Let me die." "Don't be a fool!" he cried, and when she continued to fight he raised his fist and struck her sharply on the temple. Then her struggles ceased and ho commenced to tow her slowly toward the embankment. Her clothes became saturated and his burden the heavier, but still he struggled on. Bodily weakness told at last and his strength wavered, until his arms barely moved. 'Tm done!" he gasped, and his senses were vanishing, when a dark body loomed over them and voices sounded in his ears. When Philbank recovered con sciousness he was lying in a bed with clean sheets, the touch of silk on his skin. "Where am I?" he asked, feverish ly. And kindly blue eyes looked down at him. "Strathmore!" he gasped. "You musn't talk, old man. Go to sleep," was the gentle answer. A couple of days later he was seat ed on the balcony, but now he was well dressed and his stomach was no longer empty. Beside him was Col onel Strathmore. "You are sure you are strong enough to go to the inquest?" the col onel asked anxiously. "Quite sure. And so the poor devil is dead. Well, she wanted to die." An hour later Philbank entered the mortuary and his eyes rested on the face of the woman whose life he had struggled to save. "Heaven!" he cried, and his voice was filled with horror. It was thc woman who had ruined his life. F touched her hand and trembled at i's chill. Her eyes-they were blue- 1 were open, and on her forehead was a bruise. Slowly he bent his head, and the lips touched the discolored , skin; the memory of fierce kisses overwhelmed him. And then he went out to face the world. Mice Aeronauts. j There is a young Hungarian in New York who has an ingenious turn of mind, spiced with humor. His lodging is on thc seventh floor, which for some time had been infested with mice. He traps two. and sometimes three a day. There is a fi ag-pele fixed just below his window in a nearly horizontal position. having fixed an improvised paper parachute to the tail of the mouse, he starts him off elong the pole. The ro dent invariably run? io the other end. then a Budden shake- of the pole, and he is dislodged and slowly and grace fully descends to the street below, whence he scampers along thc pave ment, folie ?ved by his uncanny attach ment, to tuc bewilderment of the pas3 ?'rs-by.