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SNAKES' NESTS CLEANED OUT Pennsylvanians Probably Set Record for "Bag" of Rattlers Constitut ing One Day's Work. John JJ. Klincraman, who never be fore knew any fear, so it is said, was badly scared while picking huckle berries on Broad mountain, near Glen Onoko, when he stepped on a huge rat tlesnake which struck at his ankle, slightly lacerating it, though not poi soning him, a Mauch Chunk (Pa.) correspondent of the New York Sun writes. The big snake coiled to strike a sec ond time, when Klingaman heard rat tles all around him. Seizing a club", ie killed the one on which he had stepped, and then went after the others, which had drawn up in battle rarray. After a fierce fight he killed ?them all without receiving a scratch, ^and on counting them he found that he had killed nine big rattlers, the smallest of them measured three feet in length. He took the largest, 43 ches long, with 12 rattles and a but ton, home with him. It was the big gest snake of the kind seen in this lo .callty in many years. While Klingaman was busy slaugh tering one nest of rattlesnakes, one of his companions, some distance away from him, had an encounter with an other nest of eight rattlers, killing every one of them. Rattlesnakes are more plentiful in this section than in any previous sea son. Members of Company F, Thir teenth regiment, National Guard, en gaged in this vicinity, have killed many of them this season. In one in stance one of the troopers was bit ten, but recovered. CAREFUL MOTHER Mrs. De Style-I mustn't let my so cial activities make me neglect my j children. Her Secretary-Quite right, Mrs. De Style; send them a marked copy of this paper. It outlines my plans for August in full. Pear Delight. Make a square cake with following recipe: Break four eggs into a bowl, add sis tablespoonfuls of sugar and beat for 15 minutes over another bowl of boiling water. Remove from water and beat until the mixture is cold and thick; remove beater, sift in three fourths cupful of flour, ore-half tea spoonful of baking powder; mix care fully, add one teaspoonful of vanilla extract, a few drops of red color, and six tablespoonfuls of melted butter. Pour into a square, greased and pa pered tin and bake in a moderate oven for 25 minutes. Turn out and remove the paper. Cool, spread over with whipped and sweetened cream flavor ed with one-half teaspoonful of al mond extract, sprinkle over with pink coconut and put halves of stewed or canned pears on the top with a star of whipped cream in the center of each. Raising Prices in Japan. A bag of rice, which only a few years ago cost $1.25, now sells at $2.50, an increase of 100 per cent. But this staple is only typical of nearly all other articles of household use. No legitimate reason exists for this in crease. Rice is raised in Japan. Wages are slightly higher, no doubt, but not sufficiently so to add 100 per cent to the cost of an article of necessity. Such a rise in price of necessities is an avoidable hardship, observes East and West. The government can check it, If wisely directed. The rice mar ket, like wheat in America, should be the last to suffer from violent ma nipulation. It is the food of tjia people and government should fix a limit for its price. Had a Use for lt. The Mother (overhauling little Tom my's wardrobe)-t)h, Charles, just see what that dreadful child has been carrying about in his pocket! A real cartridge with a bullet in it. He might have been blown to bits. The Father (with a glowing con sciousness of assisting his country at a critical time)-Just put it in a cool place for tonight, my dear, and I will leave it at the war office on my way to business. LISZT SPOILED BY ADULATION Great Piano Virtuoso Never Employed to Best Advantage the Great Gift That He Possessed. It is only when we remember Liszt's profession that we can read the riddle he presents. From childhood up, he was the idolized plano virtuoso. He was petted and adored all his iife. He was smothered all his life under the adulation showered upon him in every capital of Europe, showered upon him in every tangible form by women of the highest society. His was not a character profound or fine enough to right itself. He never managed to de velop out of that stage, to contact with truly nourishing things. On the contrary, he became completely up rooted, came to exist entirely in this modern Capua, came to love it and to crave the rose leaves and the clouds of perfume. His music is largely an inspiration toward it, an attempt to perpetuate about him the admiration and adulation, the glowing eyes and half parted Hps, the heaving bosoms, It is a mechanism for procuring for himself the Pascha power he desired. Indeed, beside Liszt, Chopin seems a veritable anchorite. True, Liszt In terested himself in music for another reason. If it served to procure him ?the particular "place in the sun" that jhe craved, it furnished him also with ?a most engaging pastime. He inter jested himself in music as one might interest oneself in a sport as one be jcomes more proficient in it. He stud ded its rules, its teachings, its tricks. (With what keenness he mastered them his compositions show. But that inter jest was only minor. The other was ?the major.-Paul Rosenfield, in Seven ?Arts Magazine. I - FEW BIRDS SING IN AUGUST jMidseason Month Noticeable for the , Absence of Music From Nature's Feathered Creatures. _ i Once upon a time when we had something to say about August we spoke on it as nature's silent month, remarks the Terre Haute Star. Al most instantly we were reproved by readers who said that in August the locusts and some dozens cf their kin made the month noisy, if not musical. Confessedly, when we wrote of 'Au gust as the silent month, we were thinking of birds, not bugs. I The song sparrow, the red-eyed vireo and sometimes the ovenbird try to take from August its value as a synonym for silence, but of what ac count is the music of three when their thousand fellows refuse to sing? I August is the molting month and molting is a painful process. The birds do not feel like singing, and, mostly, they do not sing, but it is high ly probable that they would not, even if nature were not insisting on a change of feathers. The reason is that the season is late. Housekeeping was pushed forward because roofs were likely to leak. August, however, for its main part, will hold its silent record. It is the midseason and it shows forth together some of the beauties of summer and of fall. The belated rose blossoms with the early aster and the goldenrod stands between. August has neither the full glory of burning July nor of cool September, but it shares in some small part of the glories of each. Poets and Coffee. Poets have neglected coffee; partly because poets are greatly under the in fluence of tradition, partly because coffee is a hard word to fir.d a rhyme for; one had hoped that vers libres would give scope to coffee lovers. But the vers-librettisti and vers-llbrettlstae (those gentlemen and ladies who write poetry for the eye and the ear rather than for the intelligence) have been equally negligent. Philosophers do not care for breakfast. Ka,nt took a pipe and a stroll for his morning meal, and if we were to inquire into the habits of the extremely modern poets ?we should be likely to find that they ?are equally reckless of breakfast. I .suspect them of gruel or mutton 'broth. ! To return, as I have said, no poet ihas celebrated coffee. Shakespeare came too soon. Pope has a mere ref erence : Coffee, which makes the politician wise. 'And ree through all things with his half ! shut eyes. I But in Pope's day coffee was an ?affair of afternoon and company did (not appeal to romantic sentiments ns [breakfast coffee does.-Henry Dwight iSedgwick in the Yale Review. Why We Read. We should not, supposing each of them to render life as he saw it, quar rel with Fielding, whose idea of cause and effect is that drinking makes a man a fine, genial fellow, any more than with Zola, who wrote a book called "L'Assommoir." Actually "Tom Jones," since it is a more filtered werk -since it is a product of the author's experience of life, whereas Zola's book is a product, not of experience, but of tabulations-"Tom Jones" will prob ably have a more persistent vitality. It is a rendering of life as it is, such as it is, a picture of manners. It in terests because it excites our curiosity. After all, we most of us read because we want to know-because we want to .know so many things. Corrected Description. "Your boy tells me his father is saying such queer things, Susan. Is he out cf h:.s head?" "De doctah, mum, says as how ho is delecterious wiv de fevah, mum." Reasons ! Why you should use Cardin, the woman's tonic, for your troubles, have been shown in thousands of letters from actual users of this medi cine, who speak from personal experience. If the results obtained by other women for so many years have been so uni formly good, why not give Carduiatrial? Take C?RMI The Woman's Tonic Mrs. Mary J. Irvin, of Cullen, Va., writes: "About ll years ago, I suffered untold misery with female trouble, bear ing-down pains, head ache, numbness ... I would go for three weeks almost bent double ... My husband went to Dr. - for Cardui . . . After taking about two bottles I began going around and when I took three bottles I could do all my work." E-80 The Best HofWeather Tonic GROVE'S TASTELESS eli ill TONIC enriches tht blood, builds up the whole system and will won derfully strengthen and fortify you to withstand the depressing effect of the hot summer. 50c. Notice of Final Dis charge. To All Whom These Presents May Concern: Whereas, Henry Salter, Guardian has made application unto this Court for Final Discharge as Guar dian in re the Estate of Willie I and Ruth Salter, Minors on this the 13th day of October, 1917. These Are Therefore, to cite any and all kindred, creditors, or par ties interested, to show cause be fore me at my office at Edgefield Court House, South Carolina, on the | 20th day of November, 1917 at ll o'clock a. m., why said order of Discharge should not be granted. W. T. KINNAIRD, J. P., E. C. Oct. 13, 1917-4t. Land For Sale. We, the undersigned executors of j the estate of Mrs. Bettie Williams, deceased, will offer for sale at public auction on the 15th day of November at the late residence of the said de ceased the following realestate 133 acres of land, more or less, bounded on the North by lands of Bub Clax ton ; East by lands of Lewis Lybrand : South by lands of Hodge Moyer and West by lands of John Claxton, and located in Edgefield county four) miles south of Ridge Spring. Good school and church in one mile of] place. Terms of sale cash. C. W. Salter, Rhetta Lybrand, Executors. 10-15. Give Courteous Attention When Telephoning Concentration and courteous attention given to a telephone con versation is a mark of respect that will be appreciated. Frequent interruptions and re quests to repeat mar the pleasure of the talk. Concentrate on what is be ing said and talk with a smile. Courtesy is like oil to machinery the lack of it will cause friction and friction in telephone talking is a thing to be avoided. When you Telephone-Smile SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY J. J. Eoach, Manager, Aiken, H. C. & COMPANY (INCORPORATED) COTTON FACTORS Augusta.Georgia Chevrolet Cars We desire to notify the people that we are agents for the celebrated Chev rolets Automobiles. If you want a car let us show you. We are also selling second-hand Fords E. P. WINN & BROTHERS MCCORMICK AND PLUM BRANCH SOME STRIKE IT RIC TO PUTA LIT IN THE BA EVERY WEEK Conrriflht 1909. b? C. E. Zi^?oerman Co.-No. 51 THERE is no doubt about money in the bank, it is sure and positive. Maybe slow, but there is the satisfaction that it is sure. Posi tive in every way, both that it will grow, and that it is safe. 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 SHOES Come to us for your winter foot wear. We have a large stock of CROSSETT and SELZ-SCHWAB SHOES nothing better made for the money: We are showing all of the latest lasts in all of the popular leathers. What about a new fall suit or hat? We can fit you and please you. Come in to see us. DORN & MIMS HULLS AND MEAL I am now selling cotton seed Meal and Hulls-7 per cent, meal and old-style hulls. I buy in car lots direct "S)m the mills, and can sell as low as the lowest. Attractive price on meal and hulls in exchange for seed. A. M. TIMMERMAN BIG STOCK OF FALL MERCHANDISE We desire to inform our Edgefield friend that our buyers went into the Northern and Eastern markets early, and we secured the best stock we have ever bought. We are showing the largest line of Clothing for Men and Boys that we have ever shown. We also have a big stock of Staple Dry Goods that we bought early. Every Department is Chock Full of the Newest and Best of Everything We extend a cordial invitation to the ladies to come in to see ou Millinery and Ready-to-Wear Department. We have all of the latest shapes and trimmings, and our milliners can make just the hat you want if we haven't it in stock. We are showing the largest assortment of tailor-made suits for women that has ever been shown in Augusta. All the new fabrics in the popular colors. Do not fail to come in to see us at the same old stand, where many Edgefield people have been trading for years. Augusta Bee Hive 916-918 Broad Street ABE COHEN, Proprietor