Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The mom Who bides his time and day by day Faces defeat full patiently, And lifts a mirthful roundelay; However poor his fortunes be. He will not fail in any qualm. Of poverty the petty dime It will grow golden in his palm, Who bides his time. -James W. Riley. CHOICE, COOL DISHES. Digestive troubles are not caused from any one food usually, but ~from too great an amount and too great a variety. Salmon Mayonnaise. Set a can of the best sal mon into a saucepan of bolling, water and cook for 15 minutes. Open and turn it out on the platter without breaking the raoUl. The finest salmon contains noth ing that need be removed. Pour over it a half pint of mayonnaise dressing, containing a tablespoonful of horse radish. Garnish with circles of hard boiled egg and serve with Saratoga potatoes. Boiled Cucumbers.-Pare and cut the cucumbers in halves, lengthwise, mid boil in salted water until tender, but still firm, then drain. Make a sauce of one tablespoonful each of but ter and flour and one cupful of the water in which the cucumbers were cooked ; add salt, pepper and the juice of half a lemon; when thick and smooth, add ona half a pimento, shred ded, and one tablespoonful of cooked peas. Lay the cucumber on strips of toast and pour the sauce over them. Green Peppers in Tomato Sauce. Cut up two quarts of fresh tomatoes, add one teaspoonful of salt, and boil over a quick fire for half an hour, stir ring occasionally; then strain. There should be a pint or more. Put half a cupful of oil in a casserole, and when hot add two cloves of garlic finely minced, fry these until brown. Now add the strained tomatoes, a table spoonful of minced parsley and three basil or bay leaves. Boil ten minutes. Cut ten green peppers in strips, remov ing the seeds and steins, add them to the tomato sauce and cook half an hour. Serve hot. Stuffed Peppers.-Cut off the stem end o' four sweet peppers and fill with rice, chicken, celery, onion juice, salt and popper to taste. Moisten with olive oil and a little tomato. Sprinkle light ly with cheese and bake 40 minutes. Apple with mint is well liked, using a bunch of mint to flavor the jelly, then color a" delicate green if desired Use this with lamb. . miLnuau lo IN ITERATION Famous Matanuska Coal Fields Opened Up by Uncle Sam's Engineers Sooner Than Expected. Uncle Sam's new Alaskan railroad ls now in operation. At least it is open for traffic now for a distance of 71 miles and coal is being carried from the famous Matanuska coal fields to tidewater at anchorage. The first coal carried by the new rord was loaded onto a train at the Doherty mine at Moose Creek. The Importance of this event was evident ly ?ppreciate? by the pioneers in the territory, for there was a large crowd of men, women an;! children on the scene when the loading of the coal fro) i the bunkers to the cars was be gun. A special train, that had been chartered by the Anchorage chamber of commerce, carried au enthusiastic party of citizens from that city and vicinity. Chairman William C.* Edes und Lieutenant Mears of the Alaskan engineering commission, which is in char,;e of the construction of the rail road, wore also in attendance, as was Bi>h..p Rowe of Alaska. The honor of dumping the first car load of coal from the bunkers to the train was enjoyed by Miss Babe White of Anchorage, who also has the distinc tion of having driven the first spike on the railroad. It was pointed out that the government's railroad had en tered the coal fields at a much earlier date than had been expected. The opening of these coal fields is regarded as a most important benefit to boUi Alaska and the Pacific north west. It means cheaper fuel for that general country, and lt is confidently predicted that it will be followed by new industrial and mining expansion. STOP THAT COUGH! A hacking cough weakens the whole system.drains yourenergy and get-? ?viorse if neglected; your throat is raw. your chest aches and you feel sure all over. Relieve that .Ci?!d at once with Dr. King's New D scovery. The soothing pine bal bam h-*a!s the irritated membranes, and the antiseptic and laxative j qualities kill the germs aud break up your cold. Don't let a cold lin ger. (?et Dr. King's New Discov i?< to day at your Druggist, 50. 1 v. never You Need a General Tonic 1 Take Grove's i Trie r-ld Standard Grove's Tasteless * cl:.') Tonic is equally valuable as a ( Gc: ra? Tonic because it contains the ( '.. j .. ,vm tonic propertiesof QUININE - ci:?i . " ' >IT. lt adi on the Liver, Drives . i--- ria, I^nrrcbes the Blood and Beil - . tae Whole System. 50 cents. ' NO LONGER THE BOOTJACK Day When That Implement Wa? "la Use Has Passed Away for All tho Time. The other day a gentleman wita pleasant recollections of old-time cus tom, habit and social usage in Ameri can life, wanted a bootjack and tried to buy one, only to find that none could be bought It was a melancholy discovery for a man whose memory of other customs was' lively and loving and Indicated that the whola picture of American life had changed. If the bootjacks have gone, the *>oots must have, ani if the boots have then a whole rang? of outdoor activities have disappeared. To see a bootjack would bring them all back, the rustic or semlrustic activ ities of the little American communi ties in which the day was begun by getting up In the cold and building a fire and was ended by getting the boot Jack and dragging tightly imprisoned feet out of stubborn boots. The bootjack ls the symbol of bad roads, faulty means of communication, community and family isolation, nar rowed but healthy amusements, bad food, which we now recall sentimental ly as ambrosial, bad tasts In all the material circumstances of life, which we now recall sentimentally as quaint. The bootjack was one of the most highly complicated pieces of domestic mechanism, not many generations from this one, which lives by turning electric switches and pressing but tons. HAD BROUGHT PA'S PRAYERS Lad Conveyed Substantial Comforts for the Family of the Af flicted Pastor. Once upon a time sickness came to the family of the poorly paid pastor of a country church. It was winter, and the pastor was in rinancial straits. A number of his flock decided to meet at his house, and offer prayers for the speedy recovery of the sick ones and for material blessings upon the pas tor's family. While one of the dea cons was offering a fervent prayer for blessings upon the pastor's household there was a loud knock at the door. When the door was opened a stout farmer boy was seen, wrapped up comfortably. "What do you want, boy?" asked one of the elders. "I've brought pa's prayers," replied the boy. "Brought pa's prayers? What do you mean?" "Yep, brought his prayers, an' they're out in the wagon. Just help me, an' we'll get 'em in." In vestigation disclosed the fact that "pa's prayers" consisted of potatoes, flour, bacon, cornmeal, turnips, ap ples, warm clothing, and a lot of Jol lies for the sick ones. The prayer meeting adjourned in short order.-? Kills Kitchen Odors. One of the most useful applications of electricity about the household is a motor-driveh exhaust fan for the kitch en. Attempt to ventilate this room by opening windows and doors ls bound to fail, especially in the winter I time. Without a ventilator thc odors from cooking will penetrate the entire I house and linger in the rooms long I after the meal itself is gone. The j motor-driven fan consists, as the name suggests, of a small motor at tached to a powerful fan in an upper pane of a window, near the range. The device is mounted well toward the top of the room. Tho motor is attached to the lighting circuit and provided with a suitable snap switch for start I ing and stopping it. During tho oper ation of cooking the switch is turned, and the fan forces out a steady stream of air, carrying with it all smoko, gasea and objectionable odors. Where the Games of Yesteryear? I have wondered sometimes why the boys in the town where I live now nev er play marbles or spin tops. In the past five years I have -not seen a sin gle game of marbles or once heard the ?brill request. "Gimme a peg at yours." It is not strange that the slingshot has vanished, for automobile tires use up all the available rubber. But why should tops and marbles vanish from the earth? They have gone the way , of the delightful children's matinees at the old Boston Museum, no doubt, j and the Kate Greenaway books, and the jackstones little girls used to toss by the hour, sitting on the front steps. It makes one feel middle aged and mournfully reminiscent. - From the Atlantic. Housewife Works for Others. The "hired girl" does not yearn for technical training, according to the women who have conducted a Minne apolis survey of the domestic help problems; also, they say, the average household could not afford to employ a highly skilled worker In the hinter land of the back porch. Eros, lt seems, ls quick to discover comely cooks who have gained proficiency, and the housewife's time and labor In training a girl all go to making comfy some home other than her own. All 8hou!d Be Advertised. There is no legitimate business, manufacturing an article which people want or should have, which cannot ie advertised. The thought that there s not enough profit in a line of goods tor advertising is frequently a falla dous one. The idea that only novelties :an be so exploited? and that staples ire not susceptible to advertising has >een proven to have no real founda ion. GOOD START FOR THE LAMBS Provide Creep to Protect Trough for Exclusive Use of Youngsters Give Mixture of Grain. Q3y H. 1* GARRIGTJS. Connecticut Ex periment Station.) A creep or hurdle should be ar ranged to protect a trough In which ls kept for the exclusive use of the lambs, a supply of mixed grain. This should consist of corn, five parts ; oats, two parts; bran, two parts, and oil meal, one part. Some fine clover or alfalfa hay should also be accessible. The ewes should be encouraged to keep up a good flow of milk, as this, too, is an Important factor in the de velopment of a good lamb. Lambs reared In this woy are less apt to suffer.from stomach worms; command s. higher price per pound, Part of Farm Flock. and those that are selected to remain in the flock are larger and more vig orous, develop a heavier fleece and are generally a source of profit and satis faction. Too frequently the flock master is tempted to* butcher the largest and fattest lambs for the extra value rep resented in the immediate sale. This is a grave mistake, and should never be practiced if a good breeding flock is to be maintained. The same care ful attention should be paid to selec tion as is used in the selection of dairy cattle and luying hens. Wool at 35 cents and lambs touching $13.10 per hundred on foot and wholesale should result In more interest in sheep hus bandry, particularly where the labor problem is a serious one and the need of some kind of live stock is felt MARKING SYSTEM FOR SHEEP Convenient Method of Apprehending Ewes Which Have Neglected or Abandoned Lambs. The farmer who has had trouble or account of ewes failing to give propel attention to lambs, thus losing traci of them altogether, will find that ? system of marks with paint will en able the 'ewes and lambs to be gol together again nt any subsequent dnj in case the lamb be abandoned. Sim nlF,.rrl?wr,'ai'm ner lamb being market at'a different point, says a writer ir j an exchange. We have marked as I many as a hundred in this way and j havo often had occasion to use the i system afterwards in apprehending ? careless ewes. COSTS $100 TO KEEP HORSE I Estimate Given by Farm Management Department of the Nebraska Col lege of Agriculture. The cost of keeping n horse on the farm for a year In eastern Nebraska j Is upward of $100. according to the farm management department of the ( college of agriculture. It cost SG0 for j feed, $7.50 for interest at 5 per cent ? on a valuation of $150 for the horse, : $15 for 10 per cent depreciation on the horse, $12 for 75 hours care at 10 cents an hour, $7.50 fur shelter and* enough more for expenses to make lt total over $100. In western Nebras ka, on account of the lower cost of feed, the cost of keeping a horse .is estimated to be somewhat less -- DEMANDS OF CATTLE MARKET Knowledge ls Source of Both Profit and Satisfaction-Select Animals for Rapid Gains. The man who understands market demands and who has the ability to j select animals for the feed lot that will make consistent, rapid and economical gains throughout the feeding period j and meet the market requirements, ' will find this knowledge a source of both profit and satisfaction. CONSTIPATION CAUSES BAD SKIN. A dull and [limply skin isdueto a sluggish bowel movement. Cor rect this condition and clear vour jomplexion with Dr. King's Ntw Life Pills. This mild laxative ta ten at bedtime will assure you a Full, free, non-gripping movement n the morning. Drive out the dui!, istless feeling resulting from over oaded intestines and sluggish liver. iet a bottle to-day. At all Drug gists, 25c. 1 Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless hill Tonic is equally valuable as a ?eneral Tonic because it contains the yell known tonic properties of QUININE nd IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives ut Malaria, Enriches the Blood and luilds up the Whole System. 50 cents. ures Old Soras, Other Remedies Won't Cure. ! he worst cases, no matter of how lone standin?, re cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr! orter's Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieves aia and Heals at the same time. 25c, 50c, $1.00 GETTING HIS GOAT ? By DEAN HERRICK. Eric Balley had been called np "on th? carpet," and now stood cap In band listening to Archibald Flahav en's tirade. Flahaven pounded hi? desk and hi* apoplectic face took oa an alarming color. "Anyway," he bellowed, "I want you to let Viola alone." So that was ltl Eric had suspected aa much. It wasn't the number of steel rails that had been scrapped after all that was causing this tempest In the general manager's brain. His hand clenched, then relaxed and an amused smile curled the corners of his Hps. But Instantly alive to his posi tion, he sobered again. Flahaven sprang up. "Laugh, "blast you! We'll see who'll laugh. Do you think I'm going to have my daughter waste her time on a day laborer? If I catch you flirting with Viola again, or so much as looking at her, Til not only discharge you, but blacklist you as well." "But Mr. Flahaven-n "Get out!" "You'll be sorry. I love Viola and she loves me !" flashed the young man. "Get out!" A notice to get his money and quit reached his department almost as soon as he did. "All right," he said cheerfully to the messenger. "Say, Tim, want to make a dollar?" "Sure!" "Go and bet Patsy O'Brien that TU get the old man's goat in' two weeks." "Aw, go on!" That night, as pre-arranged by tele phone, Viola met Eric at the gate of her father's premises. "Hello, dearest girl!" he whispered cheerfully, drawing her close. Tn going away, dear, but I'm coming back before long. I've been discharged and I'm going to hunt. more work. But, tell me first, do you really love me?" "Forever-and you know lt, Eric" "And you are willing to be poor and pack lunches for rae, and have me come home black os a miner evefy night?" "Perfectly willing." "You are the very dearest girl In the world! Now I must go. Good-by, aweetheart" "Milly," said her father at break fast, addressing his wife, "I wish you would do something for me." Mrs. Flahaven acquiesced with th? celerity her husband always demand ed In advance. "Yes, Archibald." "Give a party!" "Why, Arch-" "Yes, yes. Give a big one, bang-ut -go the limit Rockwell, the pres! [ I plant are coming up for a couple ol i j days. Have it then !" i j "All right, Archibald. A dlnnei 11 dance will be just the thing!" . I "And Viola, make the best of your : j opportunities !" "Yes, father!" But poor Viola was white and miserable. Days passed, busy ones for every I body, wretched ones for Viola. One ' afternoon the desk phone in Flahav en's office rang. Rockwell asked him to come to a conference of officials at the hotel. Flahaven went. He was shown to a room where chairs were arranged around a big mahogany tallie, but ouly j one of which was occupied, i "How do you do, Mr. Flahaven? I Won't you sit down? We're both a Wt early, but the others will be In noon. " "Eric Bailey!" choked the general manager, aghast "I'm piad you remember me!" ! smiled Eric. "I didn't think I was so , Important" 1 The other was speechless. "I've been thinking over a few things, Mr. Flahaven. I want some advice. Once there was a young man who happened suddenly by a death to fall into a position he was not fitted : for. So, without telling anyone what j he was going to do, he put on over BUS and determined to learn a thing or two about labor himself. Then he happened to fall In love with a girl, the daughter of a man who had I worked his way up from the ranks to power. For this crime he was dis charged and blacklisted. Now the young man had it in his power to dis charge the father, but he was trying, among other things, to learn self-con trol. So he got out of town and took a few days to think lt over. He de cided to let things go and not make a fuss, but he thinks he ought to have a reward. Now, what would you say was fair, Mr. Flahaven?" "Anything!" faltered the other. "Viola?" "tes !" "All right Thank you, slr. Sup pose you announce the engagement at your big party, then." He rang a bell sharply, and a page appeared. "Tell the gentlemen to come in now," he said ; "and yo<?," turning to the general manager, "get out!" "But-" protested Flahaven. "Get out!" thundered Eric, banging the table as the other meekly obeyed. The corners of his mouth twitched. "I deserved that much," he said to him self. "I guess I'm about even with iii m now." And as six dignified men came filing nto the roora he reached for the tele phone. "This ls Eric, Tim," he ex gained. "Collect that dollar from )'Brien. I got the old man's goat to lay." Copyright, 1916. by the McClure Newspa- I pei Syndicate.) Om So HAPPY To lave A BANK ACCOl nf ODS?right 1909. bj C. E. Zimmerman Co-No. 44 F all the unhappy homes not one in a hundred has a bank account and not one home in a hundred who has a bank account is unhappy. It seems almost foolish to put it off any longer, when it is such a simple, easy matter to start a bank account. 0 BANK OF EDGEFIELD OFFICERS : J. C. Sheppard, President; B. E. Nicholson, vice-President E. J. Mims, Cashier; J. H. Allen. Assistant Oashier. DIRECTORS : J. C. Sheppard, Thos. H. Rainsford, John Rainsford, B. E. Nicholson, A. S. Tompkins. C.-C. Fuller. E. J. Mims. J. H. Allen. California'. Fruit*. Store GEO. COCLIN & BROS. Proprietors Fruit From Every Clime Fresh Vegetables Cigars Importers of the World's Best Goods Tobacco . Etc. Cigarettes We Solicit the Patronage of Our Ed*efield Friends Corner Jackson and Ellis Sts. Augusta, Ga. ww 23BB Licensed agent for regular li censed companies by the State of South Carolina can insure country homes, barns, etc., coun try churches and schools, well rated country merchants, cotton on farms, gin-houses, seed. Write me before the fire. E. J. NORRIS ARRINGX0N BROS. & CO. Wholesale Grocers and Dealers in Corn, Oats, Hay and all Kinds of Seeds Corner Cumming and Fenwick Streets On Georgia R. R. Tracks Augusta, Ga. YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED ?W See our representative, C. E. May. Established Over a Quarter Century Davison & Fargo Cotton Commission Merchants Augusta, Ga. Correspondence Invited Liberal Advances on Cotton Shipments