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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 economics at Washington has made a thorough study of the electrolytic method of cleaning and has published th? results of their work in United States Department of Agriculture Bul letin No. 44?). After discussing several types of commercial cleaners and giving the re sults of various 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 baking 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 in contact with the metal. It 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 been 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 than a burnished appearance, and has the additional advantages of being both clean and labor-saving. Clara 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 'teaspoonfuls baking powder, one tea spoonful scant of salt, flavor with lemon. Cream butter and sugar to gether. Add egg whites, then milk, al ternately, with flour in which baking powder and salt have been sifted four times. Last add one cupful coconut If liked. Frost with cream frosting made 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. Here are two Delmonico potato recipes: Pare potatoes and cut them into bits the size of a pea. Keep them in cold water until all are ready. For each scant pint of. potatoes make a pint of white sauce, seasoning with onion juice or celery salt. Stir the po tatoes into the hot sauce, turn into a well-buttered agate sauce pan and cook in the oven until the potatoes are ten der and the sauce is absorbed, with the exception of just enough to hold the bits of potatoes together. Fold one part over the other as an omelet and turn onto a hot dish. The potatoes should not brown above or below. If necessary, set 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 remove 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 lt, or it will turn an ugly brownish color.-Boston Globe. Lemon Pudding. Sauce-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 baking powder, flour enough to make batter like cake. Mix the sance 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-hal* teaspoonful salt, one teaspoonful sod&. 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 wkh hard sauce. To Protect Bed Springs. Cover your bed springs with a cover i of heavy unbleached muslin or ticking, sewing tapes to each corner to keep lt tied on firmly. This will protect your mattress from iron rust and can be 'taken off and shaken every week and ; washed when soiled. Kitchen Bags. There are bags for corks and bags ifor string and bags for paper, all of which offer suggestions for the em ? broiderer who wants to contribute to a ?kitchen or linea showe/,_j LEARNING TO KNOW FLOWERS Information That Would Be of Im mense Value to the Man Who ls Planning a Home. The home-maker, with facilities at hand, could choose wisely what to plant in his own home grounds. Lec tures, instructive and helpful though they are, can hardly accomplish for the amateur planter in the course of half a year what a single visit to a shrubbery or a perennial garden would accomplish for him in half an hour. And, in addition, as everyone knows, the parks themselves would be all the more interesting and delightful for these garden sections. The average perron knows few shrubs and few flowers. To tell one of these that the snowball with which he is familiar is only one of a score or,more of available viburnums; that the shrub he knows as a "lilac" can be had in numerous varieties, some growing even into tree form, or that what he calls the "syringa" or the "mock orange," can be had in dwarf bush that is a mere pygmy beside its robust cousin-to recount facts of this sort is to surprise him. Yet it is im portant that facts of this sort be brought before him. There' is too much uniformity in the planting of city yards-too much use made of the same material. Public gardens, exhibiting net only the common varie ties, but the uncommon as well, those not so often met with but despite that, quite as beautiful as the others, would serve to overcome the tendency toward monotony already only too apparent. There are many purposes, as a mat ter of fact, that these gardens would serve, all of which the park board might do well to consider. MAIL BOX OF RUSTIC DESIGN Minnesota Farmer Had Good Idea When He Placed Ornament in Fr nt ii His Home. A mr .".mall box, rusty and dilapi dated, *ch as one occasionally see9 fastened to the top of an inse cure post at a distressing angle, presents a sharp contrast to the mail box which a Minnesota farmer has erected in front of his home. The box itself, which is of the ordinary metal type, ls Inclosed In a miniature log cabin with a gable roof. The post supporting the box and cabin is sur rounded with short sticks which have ?cen laid crisscross. The rustic effect is very pleasing.-Popular Mechanics Magazine. Fire Prevention Education. Fire prevention in public schools and fire prevention In homes are mat ters naturally of keen Interest. In the fir? case the question is largely one of proper legislation regarding the con struction and protection of school buildings; in the second case it is largely a matter of individual educa tion. It is estimated that 60 per cent of fires occur In homes, thouprh of course GO per cent of the fire loss does not result therefrom. Perhaps It ls education which must be relied upon to furnish the chief weapon in the fight for fire preven tion. Legislation is important ; so is inspection of the construction and con dition of buildings so that legislation may be backed up. But, speaking \ broadly, the co-operation of the indi vidual, due to his "enlightened self interest," is probably the essential fae- . tor in fire prevention as it is in the other activities of the Safety First fed eration.-Baltimore News. Owning Home Gives Sense of Security Ownership, like faith, affords a sense of security-and the whole concep tion of home is based on a feeling of security. You can close the door and , the world is shut out. You can go away from lt, and it will be there ' when you come back. I Now the tenant, the man who lives in other people's houses, cnn never be sure that it will be there when he comes back. In fact, that is one of the reasons why he lives in another man's house-he doesn't want it there when he comes back. And he sets forth on '< an eternal quest after an elusive, vi sionary something whose absence makes this present dwelling a whited sepulcher. Need Not Endanger Sewers. Complaints are heard of tree roots entering sewers, but if the joints are perfect no such thing is possible. Roots are attracted only by soil moisture and cannot partake of food through any other medium. Therefore no moisture, no roots. Concrete is never water proof, but may be made so by asphalt and other coverings. If so treated and a good Job is done, no tree roots will ever enter a sewer through a joint in the pipe. ^Vbenever You Need a Generai Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents. The Quinine That OMS Not Affect The Head Because of ?ts tonic and laxative effect, LAX A riVE BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor ringing in head. Remember the full name and look for the signature o? E. W. GROVE. 25c. SOME FACTS ABOUT AFRICA Every Eighth Person of the Popula tion of the World l ives in the Dark Continent. Nearly one-fourth of the earth's land surface is comprised within the continent of Africa. It ls as far around the coast of Africa as it is around the world. Every eighth person of the world's population lives in the Dark Continent. The blacks double their number every 40 years and the whites every SO years. There are S-13 lan guages and dialects in use among the blacks of Africa. Only a few of the languages have been reduced to writ ing. Thirty-five years ago the export of cocoa from the Gold Coast amount ed to $20. Today is is over $8,000,000. The coal fields of Africa aggregate 300,000 square miles; its copper fields equal those of North America and Eu rope combined, and it has undeveloped .jon ore amounting to five times that of North America. Africa has 40,000 miles of river and lake navigation, and water powers aggregating 90 times those of Niagara Falls. If Africa had the same proportion of railroad mileage as the United States according to its size, it would have a million miles of track instead of the 25,000 miles now In operation. One area in Africa unoccupied by mis sionaries is three times the size of New England, a second would make four states like New York, a third would cover eight Iowas, and a fourth Is 18 times the size of Ohio. Through out Africa there is one missionary fop every 133,000 souls. Almost the entire continent Is now under European flags. France has a colony in Africa 20 times the size of France Itself. The British flag flies over a territory as large as the United States, and extends almost without In terruption from the Cape to Cairo, a distance of 6,000 miles.-World Out look. DON'T NEGLECT THE SUMMER COLD. We "catch cold" in warm'weath er because colds are germ diseases and our vitality is too low to resist them. To kill those cold germs, the antiseptic pine-tar of Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey is famously ef fective, besides helping to relieve the tight chest and invigorate the tissues. The honey and expectorant ingredients heal the throat and soothe the cough. Always have a bottle of Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honej in your home, 25c. at your drug gist. 2 ror Weakness and Loss of Appetite The Old Standard general strengthening tonie, GROVE'S TASTELESS ch?l TONIC, drives out Malaria and builds up the system. A true tonio ard ?ure Appetizer. Fnr &dv4ts and child r*n. 50c NOTICE I To My Friends an 5 the Public Generally: Although I have accepted the position as City Carrier, I have no intention of discontinuing the Insurance business. Your busi ness will receive the same core ful attention, and will be appre ciated. Office Hours:-6:00 P. M. to 8:00 P. M. J. T. HARLING At The Farmers Bank. Edgefield, S. C. Abbeville-Greenwood Mu tual Insurance Associ ation. Organized 1892. Property Insured $2,500,000. WRITE OR CALL on the un dersigned for any information you may desire about our plan of insur ance. We insure your property against destruction by FIRE, WINDSTORM or LIGHT NING ind do so cheaper than any Com-j pany in existence. Remember, we are prepared to prove to you that ours is the safest ind cheapest plan of insurance known. Our Association is now licensed to write Insurance in the counties :>f Abbeville, Greenwood, McCor mick, Laurens and Edgefield. The officers are: Gen. J. Frasei Lyon, President, Columbia, S. C. J. R. Biak*, Gen. Agt., Secy. & Treas., Greenwood, S. C. DIRECTORS. A O. Grant, Mt. Carmel, S. C. T. M. Gambrell, Abbeville, S. C. Jno. H. Childs, Bradley, S. C. k. W. Youngblood, Hodges, S. C. 3. P. Morrah, Willington, S. C. L.N. Chamberlain, McCormick, S. C. R. H. Nicholson, Edgefield, S. C. F.L.Timmerman, Pln't. Lane, S. C. T. C. Martin, Princeton, S. C. W. H. Wharton, Waterloo, S. C. J. R. BLAKE, Gen. Agt. Greenwood, S. C. Jan. 1st, 1917. fe KITCHEN The cruellest lies are often told In silence. A man may have sat in a room hours and not opened his teeth, and yet como out of that room a dis loyal friend or a calumniator.-R. Lu Stevenson. m mm FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS. A dainty dish for a luncheon is pre pared as follows: Boil two pairs of sweetbreads in salted water till tender. Re move and drop in ice wa ter, take off all the skins and gristle- and dice thorn ; add a can of diced mushrooms or an equal quantity of fresh ones; melt two tablespoonfuls of butter in a saucepan and stir smoothly into it one tablespoonful of flour. To this add one cupful of stock or a cupful of scalded cream. Allow to boil and then put in the meat and mushrooms. Cook a minute or two then add two well beaten egg yolks. Set away to cool, then form into rolls, dip in egg and crumbs and fry a deli cate brown. Serve in nests of water cress. A thin slice of cheese placed on thin sliced buttered bread in the form of a sandwich and sauted in a little olive oil ls a good sandwich to serve hot with a salad. Breast of Chicken With Virginia Ham.-Take two slices of uncooked chicken breast, two thin slices of ham, six tablespoonfuls of butter, one cupful of cream with paprika and salt Place the chicken in a hot chafing dish or an omelet pan with two tablespoonfuls of butter and a little cream. When part ly cooked turn them over and place on the top of each a slice of ham, add an other tablespoonful of butter and a lit tle more cream. When this is partial ly cooked, turn them over again, still keeping the ham on top; add the re maining butter and cream with a gen erous seasoning of salt and paprika ; turn until well cooked, always keeping the ham on top. When well done serve a piece of chicken and a piece of ham to each person. Increase the amount for any number of people. Serve with sweet potatoes. Tomatoes Stuffed With Ripe Olives. -Scoop out the tomatoes and fhT with stuffed olives that have been stoned, a few tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs, salt and pepper. Fry a small onion until brown; add the pulp of the to matoes, the bread crumbs and olives; fill the tomatoes and bake. Cover with buttered crumbs to brown and serve bot jtiXUt 7>Wwc?fi. .y; ? "* ' " SAFETY FIRST WITH COUGH & COLD "Oh, just a cough" to-d3y may aecome grippe or pneumonia to morrow. Thousands die from neg lected colds. Take Dr. King,s New Discovery before your cough be 2omes chronic. A few doses check the cold by killing the germs. The bealing balsams soothe the throat, loosen the phlegm and clear the air passages of secretions which pro voke coughing. Contains mildly laxative ingredients which remove the waste that aggravates the cold. At your druggist, 50c. $1.00. 2 Ice Schedule. 6:00 A. M.-around town and west. 9:00 A. M.-Buncombe. 11:00 A. M.-around town and west. 5:00 P. M.- Buncombe. 6:00 P. M.-around town. Daily except Sunday. SUNDAY. 6:00 A. M.-Buncombe and west. 9:30-around town. Gasoline is high but ice is cheap, md I will appreciate all ordering ce in time for either schedule, and lave me extra trips. M. A. Taylor. GEO. F. MIMS OPTOMETRIST Eyes examined and g.asses fitted only when necessary. Optical work of all kinds. EDGEFIELD, S. C. DR J.S. BYRD, Dental Surgeon OFFICE OVER POSTOFFICE Residence 'Phone 17-R. Office 3. FOR SALE Best cow feed on the mark it for the price. Ask for "Buco Meal" and "Buckeye" Cotton Seed Hulls. J. G. ALFORD, At Addison Mills. IS IS TH FOR BUY GOVERNOR MANNING JO? MITTEE IN URGING CAROLINA TO Columbia, S. C.-(Special)-June 15 i ls the last day upon which Liberty Loan bonds can be purchased; and be- i tween now and that day, it wiH1 be necessary for the state of South Caro lina to finish raising her allottment, which now is ten millions of dollars. In the great drive that was insti tuted on registration day, June 5, about twenty-five per cent of this amount was subscribed; but thero still remains a remnant to be taken in spite of the very vigorous work which has been going on since that day ia, every part of the state. People in the cities, towns and coun try districts are realizing more and more the great responsibility that rests upon our people to take up all the bonds that have been assigned us; and in the closing days of the cam paign, there has been a series of short and powerful drives instituted that will very probably result in the de sired total. In every section, there have been speakers provided for every kind of occasion. At the cotton mills and oth er industrial plants, the operators are being addressed at the noon hour; ?peeches are being made in the pic ture shows between films; and wher ever a crowd is gathered, a speaker is bc'ng provided to carry on the taak of Liberty Bond education. The women of the state have taken hold of the idea with great enthusiasm. They have been quicker to see the possibilities for saving and for thrift than the men in many instances; and now the slogan, "A bond in every home," and its running mate, "Buy a bond for baby" may be heard on every sido wherever women are gathered. Mrs. Richard I. Manning, the first lady of the state, has been giving much of her time and efforts toward the sale of the bonds in the capital re cently. In connection with her work In the Woman's League for National Denfense, she has directed her forces to do all In their power to carry the idea of the bonds into the homes and Interest the women in the movement. Her committee on registration day manned the registration booths and did missionary work on every band among those who registered and those who looked on. The Liberty Loan committee 'has F. E. GIBSON, President Lt FARMERS, MERCHA If you are going to bu i we invite your inquiries. COMPLETE HOUSE BI We manufacture and de; stairs, interior trim, store pews, pulpits, etc., rough lath, pine and cypress shin and siding. Distributing agents for Estimates cheerfully am Woodard Li AUGUSTA, Corner Roberts anc Our Mott Our Edgefie are invited to make our stor when in Augusta. On our first floor we carn ing, Hats and Furnishings I buy from the largest man show the most stylish and See our large assortment Hosiery, etc. On our second floor we hi ment, showing the latest in Dresses, Waists, Skirts, etc field ladies to visit our ste will be extended them. J. Willie Le\ Augusta, I NS LIBERTY BOND COM PEOPLE OF SOUTH ACT QUICKLY calculated that the money paid for a fifty dollar bond, the smallest denom ination that can be secured, will equip one soldier for the Iront; or it will buy sixteen shelter tents, accom modating'thirty-two men; or buy eight pair of army blankets; or provide a thousand rounds of ammunition; or furnish three standard rifles. Tho sum of $500 will keep a soldier at th? front for a year. It is believed that when a man real izes that his money is put to very definite use in fighting the battles of the country he will be much more willing to put up the ready cash. And further than that, every man should realize that he ls not making a donation of fifty or a hundred dol lars when he buys a bofcd. For he gets in return a government certi ficate that is much better than the five dollar bill that he has in his pocket. He can keep the five dollars for ten years and be none the richer; but if he keeps a Liberty Bond for tea years, it is working all the time, and bringing in more money for him. And at any time that a man wants to secure ready money for the bond, all he has to do is to take lt to any bond broker, who will buy it outright, or to a bank and secure a loan equal to the face value of the bond without a moment's delay. By special ruling of the treasury department recently, any bank can negotiate a paper that has Lizerty Loans for collateral, through the Reserve Bank, whether the bank Is a member of the reserve system or not. Millions of government money are being brought into the state of South Carolina because of the war. The farmers are getting the benefit of It and the cities are also getting the ben efit of it. It will be gross ingratitude if the citizens of the state are not willing to subscribe then* part towards the loan which makes these expendi tures possible. It will be Impossible to buy a bend from the government out of the first of the present bond issue after Friday. All who wish to invest must do so im mediately so that the local bank may get the application through without a moment's delay. South Carolina ie expecting aU hag eons to do their full duty. LNSING B, LEE, Sec. and Treas. NTS, BUILDERS, ld, remodel or repair, LIS A SPECIALTY. ? in doors, sash, blinds ! fronts and fixtures, and dressed lumber, gles, Mooring, ceiling Flintkote roofing d carefully mane. umber Co. GEORGIA. i Dugas Streets, Quality 'U. Service ld Friends e their headquarters when ; a large stock of Cloth for boys and men. We ufacturers, therefore we the best of everything. of Underwear, Shirts, ave our Ladies' Depart i Tailored Suits, Evening . We invite the Edge >re. A cordial welcome y Company Georgia