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COUN f ?if" t Begin to plan your i gest and best fair eve It will last for three d The grounds will b( room for the largest ever been brought to ] aggregation of good, TALK UP THE FAIR IF YOU LIVE IN ED It is the purpose of the managers to make every department bet ter than the-fairs that have been held. The farmers will give more hearty support than heretofore and the agricultural ex hibits will be more varied and of even higher class than in the past. A big brass band of e: give free concerts throuj pare your exhibits and to do likewise. - Novembei i?iO TY FAIR 1 exhibits for the big r held in the county, ays, Nov. 5, 6, 7. 3 enlarged to make p carnival that has Sdgefield. ^strong clean shoves/ -IT IS YOUR FAIR GE FIELD COUNTY. li Let every section take an interest and be well represented in every department. The parades this year will surpass even all former years. The I ladies who are plan ning this the most at tractive feature of the faif will leave nothing undone to I insure success. f xpert performers will ^hout each day. Pre urge your neighbors p 5, 6, 7. Once Started Continued Through Life, Say Detectives. Sleuth Tells of Apple, Chewing Gum, Secret Packet and Dog Collar Schemes in Stores-Loss From This Source Heavy. New York.-Four Years ago Lottie Groas married. Her husband knew that she had Barred a term in Moy amenslag for shoplifting. But she promised him-and she meant lt that she would never steal again. And then the hk.cy came. "I wanted pret ty things for ber," said Lottie. "And so I went back to the old game. If I couldn't. quit for the best man In the world I guess I never can quit Stealing is like a disease-except that it can't be cured." That's about what the detectives think. Once a man or woman gets well started at stealing and be or she ls a thief for life 'The big stores lose more by am ateur shoplifters than by profession ale," said D. J. Botter, manager for the criminal department of a detec tive agency. "A woman steals some trifling thing, that catches her eye and gets away with it Then she comes back-and keeps on coming back. They never let up." Cotter takes the professional thief catcher'g view of the defense of klep tomania. Now and then there may be a kleptomaniac. Most kleptomaniacs are just thieveB. They get started to stealing-and it's like rolling a snow ball down hill-the stealing grows. "There was the woman we may call Anna Eva," he said. "She is one of the most dangerous professional store thieveB and shoplifters-there is a differnce in the terms-in the country. Her husband is a captain of a lake vessel. So is one of her sons. They have a good home at Cleveland, where the daughter is married to a good man. But Anna Eva began to steal' She has been a professional thief for years, and now has a prison record. "Mind you, she has no criminal as sociates. 1 do not suppose ehe knows another thief to speak to, though she may know them by sight. She has nothing to do with other crooks. She just stealB. She travels most of the time, living at good hotels. She is a kindly, placid, pleasant woman of mid dle age-and a professional thief. Like all the others, she began as an amateur." "I don't know that there are any particularly new schemes against which store managers should be on the alert," said Cotter. "Every one knows the old trick with a hunk of chewing gum? The Lrst thief Bticks a ring under the ledge of the counter with the gum. Then the other comes along and runs his band under the counter edge and gets the ring and vamooses. Open umbrellas are often uoed a? receptacles. The neatest trick turned lately was In the west, when a good looking, well dressed man sauntered into a jewelry store with an apple in his hand. He looked at a tray filled with valuable rings. "Wah!" be suddenly sputtered. "This apple is wormy." Whereupon he threw the apple into the street The confederate, on the lookout, picked up the apple and the gem which had been hidden in it and made off. An almost equally nifty de vice is to equip the collar of a pet dog with a secret pocket When the stolen ring has been placed in the pocket, while the operator i? petting the animal, it leaps to the floor. "Catch my dear little doggie," yelps the bereaved shoplifter. Every one hurries to oblige. The dear little doggie Ats its little tail into the groove and scampers for home, SB it has been trained to do. The shoplifter profits by the fact that the managers of stores hesitate to prosecute. They believe that hon est customers are inclined to shun stores in which such arrests are fre quently made, fearing that an entire ly innocent action might lead to an unpleasant seizure and search. But the total loss by shoplifting and by store thieves is BO great that the Na tional Retail Dry Goods association was recently formed for co-operation in protection. TAUGHT ROOSEVELT TO DANCE Dancing Master Who Died at Eeighty Eight Was Also Instructor to Many Other Notables. New York.-Joan H. Trenor, who died at his home in New Rochelle at the age of eighty-eight years, boast ed that he bad taught Theodore Roose velt, William K. Vanderbilt, Chauncey M. Depew and James Gorden Bennett how to dance. Trenor for many years taught members of New York society the art of dancing and accumulated a large ' fortune. He claimed to have built the first apartment house in New York, at the corner of Suth avenue and Forty-eighth street. Women as Strikebreakers. Phoenix, Ariz.-Three women oper ated street cars here as strikebreak ers, despite the threats of the striking railway employes. After a struggle ol' three hours, however, the manipula tion, brakes and other missiles proved to be too much for them, so they quit Ancient Kin at Wedding. Lead Hill. Ark.-Elmira Wagoner attended the wedding of her great great;great-granddaughter here, Dosie Clarkson, who waa married to John Upshaw. be to WR AY I reach JL. ? JflL Tnat purest heaven, other souls < The cup of strength In some great agony. Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty. Be the sweet presence of a good diffused. And In diffusion even more Intense. So shall I Join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of tb? world. -George Eliot. PRACTICAL HINTS. After making sandwiches placa them in an earthen crock and cover tightly; set the crock in a pan of cold water, and the sandwiches will keep moist for hours. To render boots and shoes water proof, rub a little mutton fat around the edges of the soles. Beeswax ia just as good. Save all the tissue paper to put into sleeves and under folds to keep dresses from becoming ci eased. Rhubarb is rich in oxalic acid, which is a good tonic. Spinach is a good blood purifier. Celery and lettuce ls good for the nerves. A piece of garden hose makes a fine rug beater. It may be .split at the end to make the beating more effec tive. When cooking fowl of any kind, turn the breast down, as the white meat needs the flavor of the juice which will then pass into it. Raisins are easily stoned if bolling water is poured on them and they are left in it for a short time. Waxed paper should be saved to wrap about bread or any food that one wishes to keep from drying. Bits of moistened newspaper thrown over a rug or carpet before sweeping saves much dust. Tea leaves well moistened are also good. Asparagus, cabbage and cauliflower are chiefly valued because of the bulk and variety they give to the diet. Rhubarb cut in very thin slices and combined with desiccated cocoanut, served on lettuce leaves with French dressing is not a well known salad. Use the radiator from the fireless cooker fer the iron stand on ironing day; the irons will keep hot much, longer. When buying napkins on the bar gain counter, see that they are square or you will regret your bargain when they come to be laundered. Cheese balls made of either cream or cotton cheese make effective garn ishes for sajafls. They may be rolled in chopped chives, parsley or decorat ed with half nut meats. IO BE a strong hand in the i dark to another in the time of need, to be a cup of strength to a human soul In a crisis of weakness, ls to know the glory of life. -Black. "We can measure our sense of right by the strength of antagonism to wrong. CHERRY TIME. Cherry time will soon be with us, so it is well to look up the good things we intend to prepare. If you are a cherry lover, don't fail to put up a few quarts of the rich dark red cherries for the winter dinner table. Cherry Olives.-Cover the pitted cherries with good vinegar and let stand over night. In the morning drain off the vinegar and weigh the cherries, adding an equal weight of sugar, stirring until it is all dissolved. Cover the jar with a plate.and cloth and set away in the fruit cellar. The vinegar and sugar preserves them sufficiently without sugar. The vine gar may be used with sugar to pre pare shrub for a summer drink. Cherry Pudding.-A simple little pudding which may be prepared by using the fresh or canned fruit: Sift a cup of flour with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a half teaspoonful of salt, and stir in a half to three fourths of a cup of milk, Butter small cups and drop In a little of the batter, then a tablespoonful of cher ries, juice and all, and another spoon ful of the batter.' Set the cups Into a sauce pan of boiling water, cover closely and cook without uncovering the dish for fifteen minutes. Serve with cream and sugar. If cream is hard to get, thicken the cherry juice, add a bit of butter and serve hot A cherry roly poly is a dessert that the youngsters are especially fond of, and this may be served with the cherry sauce. Cherry Pie.-Line a pie plate with a rich crust, fill with carefully seeded fruit, sweeten to taste, sprinkle with a little flour, then add a few bits of butter scattered over it Wet the edge of the crust and cover with the upper crust being careful to provide holes for the escape of the steam. The real secret of a successful cherry pie is the crust and seasoning, as well as careful baking.