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# LEAVENED BREAD A MENACE , Italian Hyglenlst Recommends the Substitution of Whole Wheat With Minimum Amount of Yeast. Leavened bread has been declared a menace to health aa well as a na- : 1 tional economic loss by Prof. A. Ro- 1 mano, a distinguished Italian hygion- ' 1st. Professor Romano's statement ] came as a result of the study of Italian scientists and medical men of the ' bread and wheat situation to forestall the threatened shortage of wheat and ' consequently bread. The professor 1 urges in substitution of the leavened * bread a broad made from whole wheat and, at the most, from the minimum 1 of yeast. I The Italian expert declares that the 1 process of leavenin* makes bread too ! 1 soft and renders it liable to be bad- j ( ly masticated and imperfectly mixed 1 with saliva, especially when taken in * milk or soup or dipped into various : 1 liquids according to prevailing Italian * custom, when it is apt to be rapidly swallowed. The digestion of bread under these conditions is more or less 1 imperfect, even though it does not f necessarily reach the point of causing dyspeptic symptoms, and it is assim- j ilated in less proportion to what it r would be in normal circumstances. Moreover, the added yeast preserves part of its activity even after baking, 1 and continues to ferment in the stom- ; a ach, giving rise to the production of " acetic and lactic acids, among other ? substances, which are harmful to those i a subject to an irritable state of the 8 mucous membrane. Professor Ho- j 6 uiano insists, therefore, that the use of 1 white leavened bread is a serious error in alimentary hygiene, while it also j constitutes an enormous loss in do- J mestlc and national economy. He advises that bread should not only be v made with whole wheat, but that it 1 should not be subjected to the process of leavening. Lest it should be thought imposslbio to manufacture a wholemeal bread without leavening which would satis- . fy the taste, he mentions that such bread has been for some time on the market abroad, and in regard to flavor has met with entire approbation. I No Cure for Grippe. There is no use worrying about the weather, about the war. about unpleasant neighbors, about pressing necessl ties and about everything, but one. 1 Uo out and get the grippe. When you j get that all your other troubles will J be trivial. The doctors tell of many j ways to prevent the grippe but not 1 one has discovered a cure. Put sul ' phur in your shoes, advises one phy- 1 slcian, as a preventive. Another says 1 tie some asafetida around your neck, that will keep the grippe germs away ! and your friends also. A third sug ' gests eating saltlno crackers and go- 1 ing to bed, while another says soap is a hereditary enemy of la grippe. 1 Lather yourself with it and then go to 1 bed. A Brooklyn physician advises 1 grippe patients to waltz into some hos- 1 pltal and have that sinister thyroid gland cut away from its lair. Then you will be immune. "Don't smoke, don't drink, don t indulge in kissing, and above all taboo eating as much < as possible," says the health department, then you escape the ka-choo. i The foregoing are only a few ways < to prevent grippe. If you carefully i follow all these instructions what la left of you will not have the grippe. I j , Metals and Munitions. : ' Some remarkable factii about the 1 metal required to fill the orders for , shrapnel and ether shells that Europe 1 has placed in the llnittd States *ere j 1 given recently by the Mining and En- j 1 gineerlng World. A British 3.3-inch 1 shrapnel shell requires 6 pounds 16% j ounces of steel, and 5 pounds 9% ounces of brass that contains from 66 1 to 70 per cent of copper, or about 3% j ! pounds; and rouna the shell Is a small ' copper band thai weighs 4% ounces 1 A shell of trfat size requires 1 87 I>oundH of spelter. Its contents con-' sist of 7 92 pounds of bullets, com- , posed of seven parts of lead and one ' part of antimony. Now, Europo has . 1 ordered not less thau 25.000,000 shells of all kinds. To make them will use up 101.000.000 pounds of copper, 46,750,000 pounds of spelter and 173,250,000 pounds of lead. Witnessed Stirring Sights. The last of the women who went to the Crimea with the Highland regiments died recently in Dundee, Scotland. Her husband was a sergeant. She possessed a remarkable memory, and could give a vivid description of her experiences. She kept the hut in which Sir Colin Campbell resided. yrom a distance sno witnessed tna storming of tho heights of Alma on 20th.of September. 1854, and was present at Malaklava with two other women .belonging to tho roglment. They were a little behind the spot occupied i by .Sir Colin Cppipbell and his staff, and in front of them was the famous "ihjtij rod line." She could recall the pleasure with which tho soldiers regarded the coming of Miss Florence Nightingale and her nurses, and was herself for a time engaged in tending the vtounded. t -Nobody Home. Cholly?Do you know, sometimes I think my mind is going. Miss Keen?Really! Why, I didn't knew it had come.?Boston Kvenint Transcript. _ i Hosw AM Shut Up. Wife?Have yon shut up everything ] for the night? Husband (meekly)?I'm sorry t< ay. dear, that I haven't.?New Yorl \ < ROMANTIC STORY OF WHEAT World Being Fed on Grain Grown on Land That Was Comparatively Recently a Waste. A direct result of the present war. more pleasant to contemplate than the stories of carnage, is the stimulus it has given to the chief industry of the huge central basin of North America. Winnipeg is the geographical center 3f the continent, and from it in every direction in Canada and far down into the United States spread the rolling ne wonaerrul activity of "General ! Headquarters," a British commander n Mesopotamia! Some days before, mother general, unkaovu. an Ausrlan this time, made hla appearance n the translation of a Viennese bulle:in, published in a number of SwissFrench papers. This was "General K-u-k," who was named as commanding the right wing of the army operating against the Montenegrins. In some )f the Parisian journals military crlticB gravely discussed General K-u-k and the composition of his forces. Somewhat later a note appeared in the Swiss papers acknowledging that an error had been made at Geneva In transmission and that the initials K-u-k, of three words, had been mistaken for the name of a general, the abbreviation being intended for the German terms, "Kaiserllch und koealgllch" (Imperial and royal). Problem of Pumpernickel. Is pumpernickel bread or cake? This question is agitating legal and commercial circles In Frankfort-on-theMain. If this delicacy is a bread, its sale is limited under the card system. wnereas ir it is cane it may be sold ad lib. The police of Frankfort had been trying to stop the sale of pumpernickel without the necessary "bread card," but when a case was takon to court the decision was to the effect that it was a delicacy and could be sold accordingly. But this didn't settle the matter, as the authorities appealed the case and declared they -would keep on arresting violators of the card rule. The Frankforter Zeltung of November 30 says an exception is made in the case of pumpernickel made from flour sold at the government distribution stations especially for thai purpose. Serbians Gnawed Bark Off Trees. The English Red Cross unit attached to the Serbian army had 'to abandon $5,000 worth of tents, several motor cars and valuable sets of operating Instruments, besides leaving the wounded behind in the hands of the advancing Bulgarians. Two of these nurses have reached Salonikl with nothing but the clothes they had on. Everything else was lost. The two young women -had tramped for seven days, making 24 miles in one day. Roads were covered with mud and the women had to spend the night In barns and earthen hovels. Some of the refugees and urlsonert were so hungry, said the nurses, they they ate the bark of trees. They declared the patience and endurance: of the Serbians was marvelous and there was no complaining. v I Children Int#r6st King. The king of Spain has become interested in Juvenile courts ai^i has Instructed the minister of justice to ('raw up and submit to parliament a bill creating children's courts In various parts of Spain. The plan is to have a presiding Judge, who will have jurisdiction over children under fifteen years old It will have authority in cases of vagrancy and delinquency, and where the parents are shown to be irresponsible they may be deprived of their guardianship. The courts, according to the king's intention, will be modeled on similar Institutions In England. During bis visits to London, and before the war Alfonso and his queen went to London at least once a year, the king frequently visited the various courta and took an especial Interest in the Juve- ] alia ana. r , * luiivb oi wnai in unuouDtecuy tne greatest wheat region in the world. The figures presented by the American and Canadian governments for the I rear just closed tell a romantic story, i In the area of the Canadian Northwest tnd of the American border states 600,>00,000 bushels of the - highest grade vheat known to the markets was trown, and yet within the memory of nen not yet old every acre of it was fiven over to the Indian and the bufalo. Long after our Civil war a British raveler wrote an exceedingly inter<sting book called "The Oreat Lone Land," describing his struggles with >llzzards and starvation in what is tow the wheat empire. He did not hink much of it as a country for set- 1 lers; but time has quickly shown how nuch he was mistaken, -just as it howed in a few years de Tocquevilles ;roat error when he predicted that iur western advance would break igainBt the Rocky mountains, or Mac ulay's miscalculation when he assert- j id that we would cease to grow much ib soon as all our good free land was 1 aken up. There are many impressive chapters n the story of the continent, but there | s none more picturesque thar. the one vhich Is being made in our day by a train of wheat. French Press Troubles. The English and the German languages alike give the French nowspa)ers quite as much trouble as papers m this side the water tlnd in French md German names. Recently a Parisian paper revealed at some length THE FORT MILL TIMES, 1 SKUNK KNOWS NO FEAR LITTLE ANIMAL IS WELL ABLE TO PROTECT IT8ELP. Picks No Quarrels, but Decidedly Never Goes Out of It* Way to Avoid Tlieiu?Formidable Weapon of Defenee. L The skunk 1? pot only one of the handsomest :ot American "varmints," . he is also the boldest. He Is the beau sabreur. the Cyrano, the Insouciant, devil-may-care adventurer. - Confident in -his powers of offense and defense - he goes carelessly about his way, ask. ing only to be let alone. He Is not looking for trouble, neither Is b? avoiding It Encounter him about sundown on a country road and he will let you alone. If you do not crowd him. Perhaps he will hop along in your pathway, keoplng just far enough ahead for your common convenience. If you are acquainted with his little peculiarities you 4vill permit him to set the pace. If you are not acquainted with them?If. perchance, you think be is a pretty, black-and-white, kittenish little thing, and if, so thinking, you rush up and try to make a capture, disillusionment will soon be your portion. For when you are at Just the right distance he wtll give his white-tipped tail a quick flirt in your general direction. You will then pause. You will suddenly have loBt all inclination to advance. Probably you will be nauseated, possibly half-choked and halfblinded. All the Arabic perfumes necessary to purify Lady Macbeth's little hand wouldn't purify your apparel in a year. You are likely to feel a longing to hide from your fellow man for some time to come. . Your fellow man is likely to reciprocate the feeling with usury. You have committed a gross indiscretion, a great strategic blunder, and you will have to pay the price. But you have added to your stock of knowledge. >fc?ver again will you try to kick any little polecat around. The oil he employs with such effectiveness is a yellow, clear liquid, slightly phosphorescent, so as to be faintly visible at night. It is acid and is virtually acrid when it falls upon any tender living tissue. It is extremely volatile, and a tiny drop is sufficient to All all the surrounding atmosphere with the offensive odor. When inhaled in large quantities it is suffocating, sometimes producing unconsciousness and even death. The liquid is distilled within the body and is carried through long tubes to two small capsules Imbedded 111 fhA t ll I rlr mnonlno ? auuovtvt* ?V IUO I UUL Ul tho tall. The animal can discharge either or both capsules at will, and his aim is astonishingly accurate. One would never think it, but he is very miserly with this tluid. He will not waste it, and will even try all kinds of bluffs to avoid using it. With animals anywhere near his own size the skunk prefers to fight with tooth and claw. The conclusion, when one is In the neighborhood of a skunk's recent operations, that he has fired all the oil in the universe, is promature. It smells that way, however, and this is a pardonable error. Activities of Women. Woman shooters are now eligible to I compete in the Grand American Handlj capNurses in Scotland who are now rai reiving $2.02 per day are asking for an increase of 18% per cent in wages. Mrs. Mauda D. Reynolds and Mrs. Mildred D ttlair, twin sisters, recently obtained divorces in the same court on the same day at Edwardsville, 111. i tie suits were also filed on the same day and the same attorney represented both women The three gold medals to be presented by the United States to the ambassadors from the South America countries will be designed by Miss Jeannette Scudder of New York city. More than 600 jobless women, half of them with college educations, found work through the agency of the Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations in New York city last year. His Curiosity Satisfied. "I just want to see what this will do to me," said Louis Annesser, twentyseven years old, of Wapakoneta. while in a drug store. He took a drink out of a bottle which stood on the coun 1 VOI. Clerks, knowing the danger df the poison, rushed to him and gave emetics, and ten minutes later he was writhing in pain In a local hospital. Before he lapsed into unconsciousness he said: "Well, I guess I saw all j right." Physicians in attendance say the man cannot recovor. Annesser denied that he had suicidal intentions.?Lima (O ) dispatch Cincinnati Enquirer. Cuts Third Testh at 94. Jonathan Fisher, ninety-four years old. came from Vlncentown, Burlington county, to spond the holidays with his daughter. Mrs. L. L. Wallace of this city. Despite his extreme age. he made the trip unaccompanied and stood the journey well. Mr. Fisher is cutting his third aet of teeth He has had his second sight, but now is compelled tc wear glasses when rcoding.?New York dispatch Philadelphia Keeord. His Long Suit. Mr. Swiggs ? Anyway, you can't accuse ma of contracting bad habits. Mrs. Swiggs?No. indeed. You invariably expand thorn. Wc " rpRT BOLL, SOUTH CAROLINA I MAKE YOUR OWNI ?ttZ5^0 PAINT I i "TPy^^nl YOU V.?*l SAVE ^tSk&Gfyw 58 c!r?. ITS GAL TF*'3 IS HOW \/Bay 4 gnls. 1. k .IT. ScrrlHlwdKc.1 X :>* $7>00 f&Jl f And 3 gals. Linseod Cii k"J I to n!x r.-i;h it at IV 4 I estimated coot of 7.70 11 A 1 Makes 7 gals. Paint for $11.70 1/a/I 1 It's only $1X 7 per gal. Ma?*?' wlfhr-o'U uroportlona of I,^AI), ; .NC I -.4 Li.\iEty OiL, I to taaurc longest tveor. In tu* over 4V ymar? Use a gallon out of any you buy and if not the best point made, then return the paint and get all your money back. | J. J. Bailos, Luther Hdwe Co., Columbia, W VV Coogler & Son. Chester, J WCopeland Co., Clinton, John D Wood, Greer. Wood's Productive Seed Corns. S Our Virginia-grown Seed Corns have an established reputation for superiority in productiveness and germinating qualities. Wood's Descriptive Catalog tells about the best of prlre-wlnnlng and profit-making varieties in both Whit* and Yellow Corns. Cotton Seed. We offer the best and most improved varieties, grown in sections absolutely free from boll weevil. Our Catalog gives prices and information, and tells about the best of Southern Seeds, 100-DAY VELVET BEANS. So]* Beans, SUDAN GRASS, Dallis Grass and all Sorghums and Millets. Catalog mailed free on request. T.W.WOOD d SONS, SEEDSMEN, - Richmond, Va. EXCURSION FARES Via Southern Railway to Columbia, S. C., Account South Carolina Teachers' Association, March 16-18, 1916. The Southern Railway will sell very : j low round trip fare tickets to Colum- , I bia, S. C., account ol the above occa- I sion; tickets on sale March 15th and 16th, with final limit returning March 20th. The following fares will apply from points named. Newberry. $1.55 Greenwood, 2.75 Abbeville, 3.20 Anderson, 3.90 Greenville, 3.60 Spartanburg, 3.05 Union, 2.25 Rock Hill, 2.75 Chester, . _ 2.15 Orangeburg, 1.75 Charleston 4.10 Aiken, 2.45 Winnsboro, . 1.40 York, _ 3.00 Proportionately low fares from other points. For detailed information and schedules, apply to local agents or correspond with S. H. McLean, District Passenger Agent, Columbia, S. C. Schedule of Services Fort Mill Circuit of M. E. 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