The Florence daily times. [volume] (Florence, S.C.) 1894-1925, February 05, 1898, Image 2
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Cellar Wintering.
Bee* may be successfully wintered
In Mllars, if properly managed, bnt
it takes care and experience in most
cases to make a sure success of it. A
cellar need for bees should be for bees
alone and not for other purposes,from
the fact that a cellar that contained
decayed fruits and vegetables would
net be as healthy for bees, besides
frequent visits to the cellar would an
noy the bees and may result in disas
ter to them. A part of a cellar that
is seenrely partitioned off exclusively
to itself might answer, if proper pre
caution is always taken on entering it,
or doing any work in it while tho bees
are there.—Agricultural Epitomist,
Cnt Straw on tli« Floor.
It I* well to again call attention to
tho importance of using cut straw on
tho ponltry-bouse floor after cold
weather begins, as it serves to keep
the honse warm. Leaves are also ex
cellent, but the supply is soon ex
hausted. It is important to cut the
straw short. If only one inch in
length, all tho better, and uso it lib
erally, spreading it on tho floor to a
depth of tw» or three inches. When
feeding whole grain to tho hens scat
ter the grains in the cut straw, and do
the same with millet-seed. The hens
will be induced to scratch, which will
be beneficial to them, promote tho ap-
S itite and induco laying.—Farm
ew«.
Inflnonce of Stuck on Scion.
The Academy of Science, Paris,
Branco, sends out a report of tho effect
of the stock on the scion in the case of
two pear trees, fifteen years old,which
had grown side by side in a garden
where they were apparently subject to
tho same conditions, with the excep
tion of the stocks into which they
were grafted. The variety was the
Triomphe de Jodoigne, and one was
grafted upon a seeding pear, the other
upon a quince. Each tree bore about
900 frnits each year, and for three
wears the fruits when mature were col-
Teeted, compared and analyzed. The
eolor of the fruits was very different,
those upon the pear stock being green
and those on the quince stock golden
jellow, with a decided rose blush on
the side toward the snn.
Sus'^Wff^^i'llfiihce sfbek H
averaged to weigh 406 grams, against
280 gram* on the pear stock. Both
frnit and fruit juice on the qnince
stock had greater density, and it also
exceeded that on the pear stock in
acidity and in contents of sugar. The
sugar was in the proportion of eleven
kilogrammes of the quince stock to
seven on the pear stock. ^
These observations were in the main
«outinned by others made some years
ago on Winter Doyenne scions on
' seeding pear and quince stock.—Bos
ton Cultivator.
Hints on Dairying.
As a rale, with any kind of setting
How practiced, the cream will all be
at the top as soon as the temperature
stops falling. It will, if tho tempera
ture is run down to forty-live degrees
or below. Tho more rapid the cool
ing tho more rapid the separation. It
is not well to go below freezing.
It is best to remove the cream
while tho milk is sweet, so that the
milk can be fed sweet to the pigs or
calves. No good dairyman favors let
ting the milk more than slightly be
gin to clmngo before skimming. To
let the milk topper is positively bad,
as it renders it impossible to remove
tho cream withont taking too much
easeons matter with it. When cream
is added, thoroughly stir and mix it
with the mass. Add no cream for
twelve hours before churning, as it
will not ripen and churn, and will
therefore remain in the buttermilk.
The cream should be churned as
soon as it becomes slightly acid. If
soaring goes beyond this, the acid be
gins to cut and waste the butter fats.
Borne, however, let the cream go so far
•s to even lopper. This gives a posi
tive lactic-acid flavor to the butter,
,which many like, while the.extra
•mount of caseine retained in the but
ter makes up in weight for the loss of
some of the finer fats.
It was claimed by the elder
lYoelcker, chemist of the Royal Agri-
eultural Society of England, and by
the late Professor L. B. Arnold, that
ithe 'finest-flavored and longest-keep
ing batter is chnrned from sweet
cream and is free from caseous matter;
while some claim that such batter is
insipid in flavor and does not keep
well.
But sweep cream mast be ripened
ky oxidizing before churning, and ex
perimenters say that it must be
churned at a lower temperature than
•our cream in order to secure the best
jield. The best temperature in
which to ripen cream is about sixty
degrees. It should be kept cool, not
{below forty degrees, and the tempera
ture be slowly raised to the desired
(rf r^fiunj igd ointfwufe. — ,
The oxidation requires shallow set*
ting or some other method of expos
ing the cream to the atmosphere. In
all deep setting, souring the cream
becomes necessary to develop flavor,
as the oxidation is only partial.
Tho natural butter flavor, developed
by oxidation, is milder than tho
lactic-acid developed by fouriug.
Henco it is that many consumers pre
fer the latter, which they aro used to,
as nearly all the butter is made from
sour cream.
Tho contradictory opinions in re
gard to sweet-cream butter appear to
come from different ways in which the
cream is handled, only a few knowing
how to do it. Bnt if one only makes
good sweet-cream butter it demon
strates the fact that it can be done.—
Colonel T. D. Curtis, in Farm, Field
and Fireside.
Farm ami Garden Note*.
Fowls do not wear overcoats.
Only a little crack or nail-hole—
but?
Only a small head roosting near said
little crack or nail-bole—but?
Only a little cold contracted from
the little draught—but? It’s roup.
Clear, cold water is a great thing in
butter making, but hot water is quite
as essential.
Better cover tho sides and roof of
the poultry house with tarred (or
other) roofing paper, then there will
be no cracks.
Don’t let the animals become poor
by trying to winter them too cheaply.
Judicious feeding and care the year
round is what wo are after.
The pigs will, if given tho oppor
tunity, do much cleaning where
threshing was done outdoors; so will
the chickens, and without tearing tho
ground up so much.
Let those who are building up their
flocks and herds not neglect to head
them with the best animals obtainable.
These can bo bought right, while
scrubs ore dear at any price.
When it comes to quality, there is
far less difference in the best butter
made by deep and shallow setting and
by centrifugal separating than dairy
men were formerly led to suppose.
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A Growing Itarn.
J. W. Fesler, who lives north of
Morgantown, Ind., has a born which
threatens to develop into a “sky
scraper.” In 1891, having need of a
new barn, he .built a small structure,
and its construction he used green
willow posts at the corners and along
tho sides. These he snnk into the
ground in the usual manner. For
some time nothing unusual was no
ticed, hut after a year ho saw that
whereas ho laid the floor near tho
ground, it was now three feet above
the soil. On examination he discovered
that the willow posts, instead of being
dead, as he supposed they were on
putting them in, were in reality alive,
and had taken root and were growing.
In their upward movement they carried
the barn along. He watched this with
interest month by month and year by
year. Of course he had to build an
other barn, for it was inconvenient to
use the constantly rising structure.
Last spring the first barn was on
stilts nine feet high, and in August he
put iu a ns^v floor and surrounding tho
posts with siding, thereby making it a
two-story affair. There is now a space
of seven inches between tho new floor
and the ground, and Mr. Fesler ex
pects to have a three-story barn m
course of time. He has built outside
stairs to the'second story. The neigh
bors come for miles around to see “Fes-
ler’s elevator,” as they call it.—Chi
cago Chronicle.
Driving 8t. Bernard* to Klondike.
D. 0. Blandy, with his wife and
four-year-old boy, loaded in a wagon
drawn by eight St. Bernard dogs, ar
rived in Butte from Bramerd, Minn.,
en route to Klondike. The outfit left
Brainerd August 29 and has traveled
abont 1400 miles. Last Sunday and
Monday Blandy was lost in the bad
lands in the eastern part of Montana,
and but for the instincts of the dogs
would have perished from thirst. For
two days and a night they traveled
withont a drop of water, bnt the dogs
finally dragged the outfit from the bad
lands and found a ranch. A few days
before that they were nearly trampled
to death by a herd of cattle that made
a stampede for the dogs. The heroic
work of a cowboy saved the dog team
and tourists from being stamped into
the earth.—Butte (Mont.) dispatch to
Minneapolis Times.
“Her Bright Smile." -"v
A yonng woman in Baltimore has had
one of her front teeth filled with a half
karat diamond. This mast be the girl
to whom the singer referred when he
remarked that "Her 1 Bright Smile
Haunts Me Still”—Chibsgo Times-
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Aa Amusing Confession.
In her book entitled, “Abandoning
an Adopted Farm,” Miss Kate Ban-
born tells of her annoyance at being
besieged by agents, reporters and
cariosity seekers. She says: “I was
so perpetually harassed that I dread
ed to see a stranger approach with an
air of bnsiness. The other day I was
jnst starting out for a drive when I
noticed the usual stranger hurrying
on. Patting my head out of my car
riage I said, in a petulant and wearp
tone: ‘Do yon want to see me?’
“Tho young man stopped, smiled
and replied courteously: ‘It gives me
pleasure to Idok at yon, madam, but I
was going further on.’ ”
The New Opera Cloaks.
The new opera cloaks are indescrib-
ablo elaborations of velvet, brocaded
silk, laco and far, inado in long, vol
uminous coats, short and medium
capes. One long garment of brocaded
silk, with plaits in tho back and a fall
front, has wide Russian sleeved plait
ed in at the shoulder and a short cape
edged, like the’ sleeves, with sable, a
sable collar and n lining of ermine.
The other extreme of all this elegance
is the medium length fall cape of
light-colored cloth, lined with silk and
interlined with flannel, and a shoulder
cape of shirred velvet, which also
forms the high collar. Blouse coats
of plain and shirred velvet with fur
levers are the popular evening wraps
for young ladies.—New York San.
Itelgn of tho Sash.
Wo aro likely to have a reign of the
sash again. They are being worn a
great deal in London, and not a few
of them are seen here. The costume
worn by Miss St. John in the second
act of !‘The Geisha,” at Daly’s, shows
a most remarkable effect in sash ar
rangements, the large one she wears
covering almost tho whole of the front
of her skirt. A London fashion paper
declares:
“Sashes fall from the waist to the
hem on many of the winter skirts,
whether made for day or evening
wear, and they appear to be carelessly
tied, starting from a loose bow. This
is the general treatment. The new
est is the \yatieau sash, coming be
tween the shoulder blades and thence
descending to the feet, combining the
grace of the Watteau plait with the
sash, which is always a great addition.
For these several purposes there is a
liberal choice of ribbons in stripes,
especially velvet and silk combined,
or in checks, which inclnde some un
usually bold tartans, and in plain rich
peau de soie of the vivid red tones
which are so becoming and otym so
delightful an addition to winter dress.”
Afghanistan New Woman.
The new womab has penetrated
even to the harem of the Ameer of
Afghanistan, where she wears male at
tire and does precisely as she pleases.
Tho Ameer picked her up on his re
turn journey from the northern part
of his dominions a good many years
ago. She had been bronght before
him by an indignant father and pro
posed husband for punishment. Bhe
would not conform to tho usage of the
country and enter the married state,
though she had then reached the age
when it became incumbent upon her
to do so. Tho girl declared she had
run wild all her life, and did not wish
to give up her freedom and be shut
up in a harem. She sought the
Ameer’s protection and obtained it.
“All right,” hs said, “since yon
want to be free you shall be, but free
you mast also remain; that is your
punishment. You wish to live like a
man; you shall live like one, and for
your own protection you mast wear
men’s clothes.”
On her arrival at Cabal she was
given the title of oider, or chief, and
was made the harem’s messenger. She
comes and goes as she pleases, or is
ordered, both by night and day, and
no one, even in slanderous Cabul, has
ever breathed a word against her fair
name.—Ladies' Pictorial.
point, her most valuable possession.
She was found weeping over it by the
Misses Somerville and they said:
“Why, flon’t mind about that;
when mamma is done what she is
about she’ll mend it for yon, so no
one will ever know it has been torn.”
Tho visitor was amazed and in
credulous, for she knew her hostess
chiefly as the world knew her, as a
student of the skies and reader of na
ture’s big mysteries, bat, sure enough,
when mamma had finished a calcula
tion sha was making and had written
a letter to tho Emperor of Russia,
thanking him for eoma honor he had
paid her, she slipped on her thimble,
took the ruined laco and seemed to
find a real triumphant joy in mending
it so exquisitelyjthat her guest foltitto
be a greater treasure than it was be
fore.—Chicago Record.
A Fatnon* Lncs Darner.
Mrs. Mary Somerville was the most
learned woman of the nineteenth cen
tury, and she did an untold amount of
good for other women by being a
charming lady, an excellent house
keeper and an accomplished needle
woman, as well as • remarkable as
tronomer and mathematician. She
did her work when our grandmothers
were yonng and when there was a
great prejudice against “blue stock
ings,” but Mrs. Somerville changed •
great many people's mews abont bine
stockings. She liked pretty clothes
and was especially fond of fine lace.
As she was never rich, she took the
best of care of her laces, end could
mend them so well itwes as if e witch
had done it—you oonld not find the
darn. Onoo her daughters had a
young lady visiffcig them who had the
, Ud lock to kar soaa vary fine eld
Gossip.
Miss Elea Eschelsson has been ap
pointed Professor of Civil Law at the
University of Upsala. She is said to
be the first woman professor in
Sweden.
Bertha V. Thompson, who was
graduated from the Chicago Medical
College in 1892, has been appointed
by the Mayor of Oskosh, Wis., as city
physician.
At Belleville, HI., a number of
young women have decided to organize
a team for playing football. Six have
already agreed to join. The players
will wear bloomers.
Of the thirteen women who were
admitted thij autumn to the Vienna
University courses, four chose mathe
matics, four 2>hilosophy, two physics,
one zoology, and two history. <
The Rhode Island Woman's Club,
an organization which has a strong
life under n quiet exterior, pays each
year the tnition of ono student at the
Woman’s College of Brown Uni
versity.
Miss Jane Addams, of Hull House
fame, is being strongly urged by sev
eral ministers of Chicago to become a
regularly ordained minister. They
claim that she could carry on her
work much better if she were so recog
nized.
Miss Leonora Jackson, an Ameri
can, received a mnsio prize offered at
Berlin; the prize is known as the Men
delsohn stipendinm, and is 1500 marks.
Berlin would not be quick to let so
fine a compliment go to America; it
was merit that won. -
Dr. Nansen is to receive from some'
Russian ladies a carpet with a map of
the Polar regions embroidered upon
it; the embroidery is ehiefly in silks,
but especial distinction is given the
places visited by Dr. Nansen; they
are indicated by embroidery in gold
and silver thread.
Mrs. Ann J. Stiles, who erected
Stiles Hail, at a cost of $31,000, for
the religious and social uses of tho
students of the University of Califor
nia, died recently in Berkeley, at the
age of eighty-four. Mrs. Stiles was
born in Millbrae, Mass. She had
lived in California since 1856.
The woman who likes the distinc
tion of note paper with the initial
made with a die and does not wish to
go to the expense of aa individual die
buys her paper already stamped and
in any initial she chooses. The letter
is small and of simple design, and sur
rounded with a plain circle or simple
scroll. Colors or gilt are used. The
cost is but littlo more than that of
plain paper.
Fashion Note*.
A new sable cape is made with tho
skins placed horizontally, so that the
dark stripes run around.
Bows of braid, sewn only on one
edge to represent tacks, trim some of
the cloth skirts.
Pique gloves, with one or two but
tons and heavily stitched, are the
fashion for street wear.
Violets are again tho favorite flower
for the corsage bonquet. And it is
violets without number or regard for
price, for the bunches worn at the
Horse Show were huge in size.
One of the novelties of the season is
the shaped flounce of black net em
broidered with jet silver, steel, or
iridescent beads. It is all ready for
nse, and freshens k up a black satin
skirt wonderfully.
Another fancy which seems to have
taken possession of the women rather
early in the season is the large muff of
chinchilla, sable, and seal or velvet,
flowers, and lace, which she carries
without any reference to the tempera
ture.
Pelerines of fur are the stylish
thing to wear with the tailor gown.
The long stole ends are trimmed with
innumerable tails, and the effect is
charming. Bows of black or colored
satin ribbon decorate some of the new
for boas, set in at intervals the entire
length. r’v . J „ ..
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New Grlea*a, Chattanooga an t Nt-w Toik,
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11. W. B. Glover, Traffic Manager.
V, E. McBee, General BupL
T. J. Anderson, O. P. Agent.
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EAST DAILT. WEST DAILY.
lv Augusta 6 20 a lv Charleston 7 10 a
ar Aiken 7 08 a lv Columbia 7 00 a
ar Klngville 10 10 a lv Kingrllle 7 40 a
ar Columbia 10 55 a ar Aiken 1109 a
ar Charleston 11 00 a ar Augu ta 1151 a
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NOBTH SOOTH,
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ar Camden 1155 a ar Klngville 10 05 a
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AIKEN ACCOMMODATION.
Dally except Bunday.
lv Auguste 4 40 p m lv Atkga ...4 15p m
ar Aiken—7 30 pm ar Augusta6 07 p m
North aud South via Denmark. Through
sleepers to and from New York.
lv Augusta .. .3 05 pm lv New York 9 80 pa
ar Richmond. 8 40 pm lv Washng’n 3 10 pm
•r Washington 7 00 am lv Rlchm’nd 7 SI am
ar New York . .1 28 pm ar Augusta.. 810 am
Connections at i harleston with New York
steamers, also with steamers for Jacksonville*
Fla., on sailing dates, and at Augusta with
Georgia Road to and from all points West
and South;also at Blacksvllle with the Caro
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Connections with Boutbern Railway at Co
lumbia to all points In upper South and
North Carolina.
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General Manager. Traffic Manager.
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