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GOVERNMENT EXPERTS TELL OF BEST METHODS. Directions for Preparing a Cleansing Material That Has Much Virtue Must Be Applied With Care and Thoroughness. For the benefit of those who have the care of silver, the office of home economies at Washington has made a thorough study of the electrolytic met hud of cleaning and has published the results .of their work in United States Department of Agriculture Bui lei!;! No. -Wt). Alter discussing several types of commercial cleaners and giving the re suits of vtrious analyses, they suggest the following method as being cheap and satisfactory: "An enamel or agateware dish should be partly filled with a cleaning solution of one teaspoonful of either washing or bakiug soda and one tea spoonful of common table salt to each quart of water and placed directly on the stove to boil. A sheet of alumi num or clean zinc should then be dropped into the dish and tarnished silver placed ia contact with the metal, lt is best that the silver be entirely covered with the cleaning solution and that the solution remain at the boiling temperature. As soon as the tarnish has beeu removed the silver should be removed, rinsed in clean water, and wiped with a soft cloth. Zinc may be used in place of aluminum, but it be comes corroded and inactive in a much shorter time." The electrolytic method cleans plated or sterling silverware without loss of metal, giving, however, a satin finish rather titan a burnished appearance, and has the additional advantages of being both clean and labor-saving. Cl nm Glidden, Colorado Agricultural College Fort Collins, Colo. Silver Cake. Beat whites of four eggs stiff, one and one-half cupfuls sugar, one-half cupful butter, one cupful cream or rich milk, two and one-third cupfuls flour, two teaspoonfuls cream tartar, one teaspoonful soda or two and one-half I teaspoonfuls baking powder, one tea spoonful scant of salt, flavor with lemon. Cream butter and sugar to jgether. Add egg whites, then milk, al ternately, with flour in which baking powder and salt have been sifted four tinas. Last add one cupful coconut if liked. Frost with cream frosting madp as follows: One and one-half [cupfuls powdered sugar, two tea spoonfuls butter and sufficient cream to make of right consistency to spread. No flavoring, as butter and cream flavor it. Beat hard five min utes and. spread on cake. Delmonico Cream Roll Potatoes. Ik-re are two Delmonico potato recipes: Pare potatoes and cut them into iii ts the size of a pea. Keep them in enid water until all are ready. For ea eli scant pint of potatoes make a pint of white sauce, seasoning with onion juice or celery salt. Stir the po ta toe s into the hot sauce, turn into a well-buttered agate sauce pan and cook in thc oven until the potatoes are ten der and the sauce Is absorbed, with Ute exception of just enough to hold the bits of potatoes together. Fold one part over ?lie otlier as an omelet and turn onto a bot dish. The potatoes should not brown above or below. If necessary, sot them on the grate and cover the pan. Fried Parsley. We always use a little fried parsley to ornament our meat dishes with. This is how it is done: Wait until a bluish smoke is rising from the fat, then r?n ove it to the side of the fire. When it has cooled slightly throw In the parsley, and leave it until the fat has almost stopped spluttering. Then lift it out at once and drain it well, when it should be a lovely green color. Be careful not to overfry it, or it will turn au ugly brownish color.-Boston Globe. Lemon Pudding. Sance-One and one-half cupfuls of sugar, one and one-half cupfuls water, butter size of egg, juice and rind of one lemon. Batter-One cupful sugar, one cupful water, butter size of egg, one teaspoon ful ita kins powder, flour enough to make batter like cake. Mix the sauce in granite pan and let stand till dissolved, then pour batter over sauce and bake In a medium oven. Good either hot or cold. Steamed Suet Pudding. One cupful chopped suet, one-half teaspoonful salt, one teaspoonful soda, two teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, one cupful molasses, one and one-half cup fuls milk, two and one-half cupfuls flour, one cupful chopped raisins, one cupful currants, a little cut up citron, one teaspoonful of lemon extract, one teaspoonful nutmeg. Steam four hours. .Serve hot with hard sauce. To Protect Bcd Springs. Cover your bed springs with a cover of liKivy unbleached muslin or ticking, sow;:, tapes ! ? each corner to keep it ried on lina::.. This will protect your mai.; -s from iron rust and can be .. ken off and shaken every week and ! whoo soiled. !'?J.cho:? Bags. . ? an- baits for corks and bags V r of nm] |ir?gs for paper, all of . , " r sr m ions for th* -rn I-,. h? \ ? ." <? contribute :o a J;,.illiOU a.....or. GATHERED QUIPS Ants preach frugality by deeds and not by word. New friends and old enemies are not above suspicion. Candidates who "also ran" acquire a lot of experience. It's better to have a poor opinion than to have none at all. Where there's a will there's a lot of disappointed relations. The charitable man never has to wait long for a chance to get busy. A guilty conscience needs no ac cuser, but it nearly always has one. When a man talks to himself he's apt to be more eloquent than inter esting. But you cn n't always tell by a man's actions whether he's a fool or a genius. With the man who always knows what others should do, there is but lit tle doing. The world ls slow to recognize a genius because lt has been gold bricked so often in that line. Money makes the mare go, a bar gain advertisement makes the woman go, and a green pickled muskmelon makes the mango. The love of money ls also the root of much matrimony. A woman learns a lot from her servants, but will not admit it. A sure sign that you don't know much ls to think you know it all. Wise ls the married man who keeps his private opinion to him self. If a man is unable to stand prosperity he should sit down and enjoy it Poverty Is no disgrace, but lt's a good excuse for heading off borrowers. JUST THOUGHTS Charity for revenue only pays very light dividends. If you want to see a man act silly, hunt up one who Is really jealous. It Is an ill wind that blows contrary to the predictions of a weather pro phet. Some men trpat their wives with kindness because they are afraid to do otherwise. There is no cure for the indigestion caused by having to eat your own words. The mnn who has an exalted opin ion of himself nearly always has a poor opinion of human nature. It's an ill wind that doesn't blow dust in the eyes of a man who delib erately beats his faithful but tired horse. Some people do not believe In the efficacy of prayer because they get what they deserve instead of what they ask for. DO YOU KNOW THAT A little cough often ends in a large coffin? Bodily vigor protects against colds? Careless sneezing, coughing, spitting, spread colds? Open-air exercise cures colds? Colds sometimes get well In spite of the excessive use of alcoholic bever ages? Overheated, air-tight rooms beget colds? Neglected colds often forerun pneu monia? Persistent, often-repeated colds Indi cate bodily weukness? POPULAR SCIENCE Statistics collected In Germany show that of all the trees that are struck liv lightning in that country al most one-third are oaks. Russian engineers soon will begin experiments that will cover three years to ascertain if sugar beets can be raised profitably In Siberia. Southern .Tapan has the largest vol canic crater in the world, measuring 14 miles across in one direction and 10 miles in the other. Switzerland protects rare plants by law rn strictly that to be found in thc i.-.ssesMon of specimens illegitimately collected ls u penal offeuse. I DOING KEW YORK g By LOUISE OLIVER. Tom Crawford jingled the change his pocket and looked out at the sm the first of the season. He had mi the same thought now that he had li when the first yellow buds on I maples In front of the house w< swelling In the spring. Why was that the seasons changed so fast a he was still not engaged to Martha! The whole thing amounted to th Tommy was never sure that he want Martha forever until some other fell? came along and threatened to cai out the program himself. "I think," he said, with a shn "that I need a change. A week or, t1 of New York will put new life Into n The girls there have a dash and st: that's diverting after a diet of qui village maidens. Even Martha, prel as she Is, has about as much pep milk toast" So he packed up, fixed things at t office so he could leave, and call Martha on the phone to say "good-h\ "Isn't lt funny," answered Marti when she heard the news. "I was ju going to call you and tell you the ear thing. Tm going to New York, tc Cousin Walter's wife sent for me make them a visit and Tm starting t morrow. Wouldn't lt be funny If I see you there?" Now this was Tommy's cue to sa: "Of course you will, if you give n your address." But Instead he a swered hastily: "Yes, wouldn't lt; bi Tm afraid I won't be so lucky. Evei minute will be full to the limit; -bus ness must be attended to, you kno\ But I hope you have a fine time, litt girl, and won't quite forget me whl you're doing society." And with his mind firmly fixed upc the good time he Intended to have wit Brinton from Albany, whom he ha wired to meet him, he boarded th 8:30 express and forgot all abot Martha. But when he reached the hotel nes morning he found a telegram froi Brinton saying that he couldn't b present at the festivities. This was a damper, because he ha always counted on Brinton to stee him around. He tried to think of what he an Brinton had done In the mornings o: their last visit to Manhattan; sure! they had done something to choke li the time. Then he remembered. Whs sleep, of course. They never got t bed until three or four, and they ros at noon. The day passed In some way. B went to the Hippodrome In the after noon and the opera In the evening. Bu "La Boheme" bored him and he lef before lt was over. He picked a caba ret at random, but he did not enjoy it The people were all In two or fours He was the only one alone and h< didn't know a soul. But Tommy was game. He had com?, to New York for a time, so a time h( would have if he died In the attempt The next day was a new round of soli tary pleasures, varying little from th( first, and the next was almost like lt Then one day as he was walking along Fifth avenue two women came out of a shop and were climbing Into s limousine when one of them cried, "Why, there's Tommy Crawford. Hello, Tom !" And Tommy turned to see Martha beaming on him delightedly and hold ing out her hnnd. "Cousin Mary, I want you to meet Tommy, Mr. Crawford. Come and get In and drive home with us, won't you? I'm dying for a talk. Tve been having such a glorious time i'm crazy to tell someone all about lt" Tommy's lonely heart gave a few longing thumps. How he wanted to accept But he remembered his excuse of urgent business. "No, thank you,*' he drew out his watch. "It's getting late and I have an appointment. But I'll ring you up and maybe you can spare me a minute again." Cousin Mary mentioned a night for dinner, and after considerable reflec tion and deliberation Tommy mur mured that she was very kind and he'd certainly do his be3t to arrange to go. It was almost a week ahead. And In the meantime lt seemed that Tommy was due to collide with Martha and her friends everywhere he went, and Tommy's heart had many a jeal ous pang when he saw the number of men who paid her attention. Then came the night of the dinner. Tommy found the affair a state cere mony large enough to leave his ab sence and Martha's afterward prac tically unnoticed. They had slipped Into the conservatory. "You'll never gu?s? how lonely Tve been. Martha." confessed Tommy with a meaning he thought the girl little guessed. "Poor Tommy!" sympathized Mar tha. "And I can't have all these fellows monopolizing my girl this way," he went on. "I love you. ?Martha. Let's get married here In New York before we go home. Don't say 3'ou can't care for mc, dear," anxiously. "I'm crazy about you." And if .Martha still hesitated. It was because she had known how lt was from the beginning. And. if she cared to punish Tommy, now was the time. But to show how really superior she was to any other girl we know, she smiled up at him adorably, albeit a trille mischievously, and said: "Yes, I'll marry you, Tommy, If you're not too busy." (Copyright. DIR. by the McClure Newsptx per Syndicale.) TREAT TURKEY FOR CHOLERA Isolate Affected Birds In House Re mote From Other Poultry Build ings-Give Creolin. The word Is used to cover a num ber of Intestinal disorders, but chol era is a contagious germ, disease and Is practically incurable. Place al1 birds which show any symptoms of the diser.se in a house remote from other poultry buildings and one which can be easily and thoroughly disin fected. Give the birds a few drops of creolin or sulpho-napthol in their drinking water, just enough to turn it faintly milky. Give the birds a one thousandth of a grain tablet of cor rosive sublimate every three hours. Feed sparingly on soft easily digested food. All badly affected birds should be killed by a blow on the head with out drawing blood and then burned. Rake up and burn all litter used in the house and runs occupied by in fected birds. Spray the runs and all parts of the building with a creolin or sulpho-napthol solution, one table spoonful to two gallons of water. The runs should also be plowed frequently. PICK FEATHERS FROM GEESE Best Time Is When Operation Does Not Draw Blood-Dry Feathers Before Marketing. The best time to pick geese is when picking the feathers will not draw the blood ; this is usually just before molt lng time. Some make a practice of picking the geese twice a year, but this ls not a Just Geese. good practice, as it depleces the vitality of tlie geese, and unfits them for good service as breeders. After the feathers have been picked, they should be spread out to dry, after which they are ready for the market FEEDING MILK TO CHICKENS According to Nebraska Experiment Station Practice Will Double Production of Eggs. The use of milk in feeding chickens will double egg production, according to the poultry section of the Nebraska experiment station at Lincoln. "The hen never lays an egg until all the In gredients necessary for the complete development of a chick are present," the station announced. "Since the egg contains protein as well as carbohydrates, any amount of carbohydrates fed in the form of grain will not offset the necessity of protein. Milk given to the birds, either as a drink, or in the form of wet mash, will double egg yields. Commercial meat scrap is of equal value, and may be substituted when milk cannot be ob tained." OYSTER SHELL IS VALUABLE lt ls Not Fed to Poultry for Purpose of Supplying Grit, but as Material for Egg Shell. Oyster shell is fed to chickens for the production of egg shells and not for grit as some persons think, ac cording to R. M. Sherwood, acting head of the department of poultry hus bandry in the Kansas State Agricul tural college. Approximately 90 per cent of tho oyster shell fed laying hens is con verted into egg shell, which has a chemical composition almost identical with that of the original shell. Clam shells and lime, although of practically thc same composition, are not as ap petizing to the chickens and so are not as valuable us the oyster shells. RIGHT MALES FOR BREEDING Save Those of Large, Vigorous Type, 1 Showing Well-Developed Breast and Strong Bone. Cull out the bum roosters. Males of large, vigorous type, showing well developed breast, strong bone, large comb and wattles and bright eyes should be held for breeding purposes. Crow heads, long beaks and weak ICJJS indicate a lack of constitutional vigor and are usually found in poor pro ducers. Hold the late-molting hen. Sell the early-molting hen, the persistent or all summer sitter, and the overfat hen. Sell the immature pullets, or runts, and save only the best. Never breed from diseased stock. I INAUGURATION WASHINGTON, D. C. Monday, March 5th, 1917 a o w O TS O o lil S ct PS co o H LOW FARES Tickets will be sold March 1, 2, 3, 4, with final re turn limit March 10, unless extended to April 10 by deposit of ticket at Washington prior to March 10, and payment of $1.00. Southern Railway System Convenient Schedules in both Directions. THROUGH STEEL ELECTRIC LIGHTED TRAINT''AUGUSTA SPECIAL." PULLMAN SLEEPING CARS, COACHES DINING CAR SERVICE. For details, apply nearest Ticket Agent, or Fred R. McMillin, District Passenger Agent, 228 Eighth St, Augusta, Ga. Through the attractive and historic Piedmont sec tions ot" the Carolinas and Virginia. California . Fruit . Store GEO. COCLIN & BROS. Proprietors Fruit From Every Clime Fresh Vegetables Importers of the World's Best Goods Cigars . Cigarettes . Tobacco . Etc. We Solicit the Patronage of Our Edgefield Friends ?>) Corner Jackson and Ellis Sts. Augusta, Ga. mm 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 ARRINGTON BROS. & CO. Wholesale Grocers and Dealers in Corn, Oats, Hay and all Corner Cumming and Fenwick Streets On Georgia R. R. Tracks Augusta,Ga. YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED $y See our representative, C. E. May.