The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 10, 1902, Image 4
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FATE.
The sky te clouded, th? rocks are bar*:
The spray of the tempest is white in air;
The winds are out with the waves at play,
And I shall not sail th? sea today.
The trail is narrow, the wood is dim.
The panther clings to the arching limb;
The lion's whelps are anroad at {lay.
And I shall not join in the chase tojay.
But the ship sailed safely e'er the sea.
And the hunters came from the ehaso in
. glee;
But the town that was builded on a rock
> Was swahowed up in the earthquake shock.
?Bret Harte.
i Jsiry Mat's My Draw.
<
"Sec- that big, red-necked lellow siting
on the baggage truck?" said the
marshal to his deputy. "Just keep an
eye on him. He got in mis morning
with a laro layout, and I suspect he's
up to as much devilment as anybody."
It was the railway station at El
Reno in. June. The open space about
the depot was swarming with sweating
humanity. Carriages, trucks,
prairie schooners, vehicles of every
class and condition were massed in
the vacant lots or threading their
ways through the streets. The dust
?~vmnr frnm the
XUJC liXV.^ CI ? tllV " ? ~
trampled earth, covering everything,
blinding and stilling the people and
their beasts.
The big, red-necked fellow sitting
on the baggage truck was watching
a new swarm of boomers just then
sprawling peil-mell off a dust-covered
freight train. Men. women and children,
pushing, panting and trampling
each other were struggling from the
reeking box cars into the scarcely less
suffocating outer air .
* . f "What d'ye think o' them fur a
bunch o' stampeded mavericks, Jerry?"
asked a bow-leggel, weazen lit\
- tie cowboy, edging up to the man on
the truck. But the big fellow only
shifted his quid, smiled absently and
V- said nothing . Presently through the
jam a tall young woman in mourning
edged her way to the truck, and seei?
- ing_v?nr idling there said:
"Could you please tell me what
hotel to go to, sir?"
The swarthy chap with the bandy
legs guffawed in the woman's face.
"Shut up, Hatton!" growled Jerry,
furtively absracting his "chew," and,
turning an unchasened but dignified
countenance upon he woman, he
* * " 1 J CO *
toucnea ms siuucucu uai ouu
|?v "Hotels are full, madam. There isn't
" a lodging in town fit for?"
^ He paused as a scared look came
Into her eyes, and the boy behind her
thrust his arm round her slim waist.
"But surely there must be a place
where my boy and I can go," she said,
her eyes appealing to tho awed ruf,
* fian. He was about to explain when
the deputy marshal approached and
led the woman away.
"Don't have nothin' to do with such
P chaps as him. missus,'' explained the
> deputy when they were clear of the
spot; 'he's a bad 'un."
But the officer couldn't give the lit.
tl? woman any more encouragement
than Jerry, and. with her boy lugging
her "telescope," she trudged through
the dust in a vain search for a room,
a decent shelter, even a cot in some
hallway. But the wild-eyed hotel
, clerks only laughed and turned away.
Men pushed her aside and more fortunate
women nudged one another and
smiled as ihey heard her outlandish
Questions.
At 8 o'clock that night the streets
of El Reno were yet choked with the
houseless crowds. The smell of wood
fires and cooking victuals mingied
with the stench of cattle and the
reek of sweltering humanity. The
j?* '-darkness seemed to rise from the
earth with the now cumbrous dust. A
few blocks from the station grouped
about a torch-lighted tent there was a
J x; OP11
JOSUlIig. SliUUllllg, acuuiiug mwu wjl
hungry people. They were contending
for a chance to buy villainous
disks of dough and canned fruit that
were being sold under the misnomer
"pies." The widow and her boy at the
outer rim of the swaying, fighting
crowd were making feeble efforts to
approach the vender. Jerry, sauntering
along, saw them, and for a moment
paused with a grim smile at their
puny efforts. Then he shoved his way
into the bedlam like a football player
bucking the line. In two minutes
he was face to face with the pieman
v '
P roaring:
"Give me six of those life-preservers,
Simpltins, or I'll wreck your whole
outfit!"
"Price is gone up, Jerry," grinned
Simpkins.
"Confound the price. Six! Quick!"
But when the giant walked off with
- . his six pies and bellowed "Charge
'em!" everybody laughed at the baker
and the scramble for his wares was
resumed.
"Here's some samples, madam,"
said Jerry, touching the woman's arm
and handing the pies to her son;
"hope you'll like 'em. This is my
bakery, you see, and we're trying to
build up a trade."
There was fresh laugh at this, but
the widow was too delighted to puzzle
about the joke. Jerry followed her
out of the crowd, and when they were
clear said: "Find a lodging, madam?"
She said no, and he asked her if sho
had tried the Creek House.
"I've tried them all, sir," -she said,
her eye brightening as she watched
her boy attack one of the pies; "but
I couldn't get even shelter. I suppose
we'll have to sit up under some porch,
* or?oh, I don't know what we'll do."
II juu urni i rniuu LIJH15 tuc: vicnv
House again," he murmured, standing
? * apart, "I think, in fact I'm sure there's
a small room. There was about an
hour ago."
And so the woman and the boy,
munching pies as they almost ran after
the big fellow, hurried to the
Creek House, and after some whispering
between Jerry and the mysterious
clerk, were ltd up into a stuffy, dusty
iv room about as commodious as a drygoods
box. They finished their pies,
exchanged the praises of the rough
deliverer and all night dreamed of
the home that they would make when
the drawings were over and they had
settled upon the first land they had
ever owned.
They didn't see Jerry any more after
that until the registering was all
over and the final drawing was at
Stand. Then Harry, the boy, saw ftim
galloping in a cloud of dust with some
of the soldiers from Fort Sill "and
thought him quite a heroic figure. After
that such strange, sad things happened
to them that they almost forgot
their rude friend. After standing
through hot, hungry, anxious hours
the poor woman had drawn her number.
Meeting the deputy marshal, who
always nodded to her, she showed him
her ticket and almost fainted when he
blurted:
"That lets you out, missus. Your
number ain't no good. It s too high.
"But don't I get a farm, then?" she
, gasped.
a
"Don't get nothin*. But don't take
no. Thcy's a thousand 'r two in tho
same fix."
Sim asked a dozen men at the hotel.
but they all told her the same
thing, so that, convinced at last, she
ran to her squalid room and. with
her arms about her boy. wept as if
her heart would break. The next day,
I thin and dejected, she was standing
: at the little depot among the crestfallen
group of disappointed settlers
waiting for the train that was to bear
them back to the East. Bankrupt in
purse as in spirits, the little woman
| thought only of the sturdy boy who.
| not understanding why. yet knew that
j they had suffered, waited and hoped
j in vain. He would have cried, but he
| knew that his mother's grief was but
: waiting upon his, so he gripped her
j white hand in his brown fist and grit;
ted his teeth like a man.
"Going away, madam?" ?=aid a voice
J behind her. She turned Lb out to
Jerry, hat in hand, smiling at her
j boy. She would have said yes, but her
voice choked and she only nodded her
i head.
j "I heard you drew a blank," he
1 was saying, "and I just came over to
j say?" He edged away from tho lit|
tie crowd, and the widow and her boy
! followed till they were together in the
} shade of the depot.
"Oh. about the room?" she was
i blushing now. "I didn't mean to go
j away without paying for it. But I
; haven't enough to get us back to
| Kansas City. I told the clerk I'd send
him a check. I "
I "It isn't about the room I was talk;
ing." interrupted Jerry, feeling his
I ears grow redder as ho stammered.
"Fact is, ma'am. I was in that drawing
too. I don't know what made me
go in. because I didn't want a claim;*
that is. I didn't want one till I met".?
: anyway, to make a long story short, I
I drew one of the low numbers. I'm
j in for a good farm, and?" he paused
i here as if with the pleasure of conj
templating her expectant face.
I "Would you mind taking the claim
I off ray "
j "But Mister?" said the woman.
"Martin?Jerry Martin." he finished..
| "I have no money, Mr. Martin, at
j least not with me."
"That's just it," he said, smiling
I delightedly now, "you don't need any
! money to speak of. I can't sell my
j claim, but I can relinquish it over to
; you, and?your heart is set on getting
i a claim, isn't it. Mrs. ?"
"Yes. sir, for my boy. you know.
I I'll do anything in njv power for you.
j if you'll?if you really don't want your
! claim."
"Haven't got the least use for it,
i honestly. You see, I'm not a. farmer,
madam."
i "Oh, yes, you're a baker, aren't
you?"
They were walking * back to the
| Creek hotel now to arrange this "relinquishment,"
which meant so much
: to the woman and so little to Jerry
i Martin.
"Baker?" he repeated, smiling at
his conceit. "Yes. ar.d a hanker."
And he winked at the lc. in a wholly
1 unintelligible way.- John H. Raftery,
in the Chicago Record-Herald.
PEARLS OF THO JCHT.
Love never loses.
No reformation without informa
tion.
Search yourself before you censure
another. * * -
Purity opens the way to a world of
gladness.
Memory makes many payments for
a good deed.
No man is free until he has himself
under control,
i - The farm and the garden are the
best gold diggings.
Learn to be contented, and you will
know how to be rich.
Loving deeds are the best seeds;
they bear in all soils.
Care is the stumbling block in the
pathway of happiness.
Leisure hours are the best or the
worst part of our lives.
The merry-hearted have a fortune
that thieves cannot steal.
Honesty will succeed as a principle
where it fails as a policy.
Do your best today and you will
be able to do better tomorrow.
Airing other people's faults never
made them smell any sweeter.
The hero seeks out suffering; the
demogogue the songs of praise.
Adversity gives the great man a
chance to show how great he is.
The worst poverty is that of the
man who is satisfied with plenty.
Don't mix the cream of your charity
with the pickles of your pessimism.
The happiest people in this world
are those who are at rest f"om themselves
and at work for others.?Ram's
Horn.
Protection from Tan. *
"We've got 'em on agaiu," remarked
i a railway crossing policeman, referring
to his whit0 gloves. "1 guess the
major is afraid our hands will get tanned,"
the brown-top policeman added.
"You certainly do look like a du-.io
j today," ventured a pedestrian who en1
joyed a speaking acquaintance with the
officer.
"Yes," said the officer, "and I feel
like one. These gloves are calculated
to make a man feel almost like anyj
thing except a policeman. If I should
j get in trouble with a person while put!
ting on so much style, 1 should expect
i more trouble before I got him well unj
der control."
"Why are you required to wear the
I gloves?" the officer was asked.
| "To make me look pretty," was the
i prompt response of the mar. wearing
j the blue clothes ar.d brass buttons. "If
there is any other reason I would like
; to know it. They do make the wearer
i feel uncomfortable and irritable, and
I cause an extra amount of laundry
| work, for whichA of course. I don't
j mind paying.
"If the ponce officials had to wear
the gloves one hot day," the policeman
concluded, "the order would be prom.pt!
]y rescinded.?Washington Star.
Opera Ola** Tliat FnUl*.
i A pocket opera glass on an entirely
| new principle has just been introj
duced in Paris. It is known as "La.
j Heine." When in use the lenses are
4T*irely protected against outside
j lijfiit, and when folded it convenientJ
ly -slips in the pocket., and here the
! delicate surfaces of the glass are also
j protected from coming in contact with
! any foreign substance calculated to
I injure them. When closed for the
; pocket it is perfectly flat, only one!
half an inch thick, so th3t no carrying
case whatever is required.?Indians'
apolis Sentinel.
As a result of experiments with a
: new secret explosive, the Italian government.
has decided to manufacture
a new type of cannon for garrison artillery
and coast defeuca.
THE FLOUR WAS TOUGH.
' Mrs. Youngbride?I've come to complain
of that flour you sent mo.
Grocer?What was the matter with
it?
Mrs. Youngbride?It was tough. I
made a pie with it and it was as much !
as ray husband could do to cut it.?- j
Philadelphia Press.
THE CURIOUS PAIR.
Mrs. Rubba?I wonder why that I
woman keeps watching me so?
Mr. Rubba?Perhaps she's trying to J
find out why you are staring at hcr.-^ I
Philadelphia Press.
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One size smaller after using Allen's Foot- j
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Alien S. Olmsted. Le Roy, N. Y.
When a man starts a conversation by
saying he's a friend of yours look out for
sofne impertinent remarks.
J. S. rarker, Fredonia, N. Y?, says; "Shall
not call on you for the $100 reward, fol* I
lieve Hall's Catarrh Cure will cure aby case ,
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via Savannah and steamship iines*. Tickets '
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People ought to air their opinions to
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r'-' 1" cliif rlvo telle mo
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she has bought a package, the
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[ The Five-Cent packet is enough for an
ordinary occasion. The family bottle,
to cents, contains a supply for a year.
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ISLAND OF ST. VINCENT.
THE BRITISH POSSESSION DEVASTATED
BY A VOLCANO.
It 1* Divided by a MoUntnirt l{idg;e ? It#
I Copulation Almost Wholly Rural?
KinjMon the Capital and Trading CinI
tru ? Previous ?inbreak 6f *".\ Sohfricre.
From the in formation received it
woald ?eem that the present volcanic |
eruption on the island of Pfc. Vincenc
is almost exactly a counterpart of
that of 1812, heretofore the greatest
event in the history of the island, i-h*
next in importance to it and in havoc
wrought being th^ terric hurricane
which ?? the 11th of September, 189S,
fe\vept from Barbadoes across the
Windward Islands, making St. Vincent
its chief victim, although our own
Porto Rico suffered severely-.
A ridge of mountains crosses th'G
island, dividing it into *>a%terh and
western parts. Kingstowh, the capital.
a town of J5-.DOO inhabitants, is on
the southward side and stretching
&lbhg th'e shores bf a beautiful bay,
with fountains gradually rising behind
it the form of a vast amp^ithe^.ffe.
Three streets, broad and
lined with good houses, run parallel
to the vatorfront. There are many
other interesting highways, some of
which lead back to the foothills, from
wnich good roads ascend the mountains.
The majority of the houses have
red tile roofing and a goodly number
of them are of stone, one story higli-, !
with thick walls after the -Spanish
Style?the same types of nouses that
Were in St. Pierfo and which are not
Unlike tine old Romar houses which
in all "stages of ruin and semi-preservation
are found in Pompeii to this
day.
Behind the great mass of the houses
of the town looms the governor's residence
and the buildings of the botanical
gardens overlooking the town,
Kingstown is the trading center and
the one town of importance In theisland.
It contains the churchc-s and
chapels of five Protestant denominations
and a number of excellent
schools. Away from Kingstown the
population is almost wholly rural, occupying
scattered villages which consist
of negro huts clustering around a
few substantial buildings or of cabins
grouped about old plantation buildings
somewhat after the ante-bellum fashion
in our own Southern states.
The entire population of the island
Is about 45,000, of whom 30,000 are
African's and about 3,000 Europeans,
i the rest being made up of Asiatics
! with a sprinkling of mixed Caribs. The
j negroes in many cases are land owners,
and arrow root, since the decay of
the sugar industry now all but extinct,
is the chief export.
In an island only eighteen miles
long by eleven broad there is not
room for any distinctly marked moun|
tain range. The whole of St. Vincent
in fact is a fantastic, jumble of hills,
culminating in the volcanic ridge
' which runs lengthwise of the oval
| shaped island. Beautiful valleys at
J various points, in fact, intersect this
! ridge. The culminating peak of the
j g'eat volcanic mass, lor St. Vincent is J
[ nothing more, is the Morne Garou, of I
which La Soufriere is a sort of lofty
! excresence in the northwest and
J flanking the main peak at some distance
away.
It may be said that all of the volcanic
mountains in this part of the
j West Indies have what the people call
, a "soufriere"?a "sulphur pit," or "sul;
phur crater"?the name coming, as in
j the case of past disturbances of Mont
j Pelee, Martinique, from the strong
stench of sulphuretted hydrogen
' which issues from i.hem when the volcano
becomes agitr.ted.
j In 1S12 it was La Soufriere adja!
cent to the Morne Glarou which broke
j loose on the island of St. Vincent and
it is the same Soufriere which now
has devastated the island and is bombarding
Kingstown with rocks, lava
and ashes.
The old crater of Morne Garou has
long been extinct, and, like the old
crater cf Mont Jfeiee, near si. nerre,
it. had far down in its depths, surrounded
by sheer cliffs from 500 to 800
feet high, a lake.
! Glimpses of the lake of Morne
: Garou were difficult to get, owing to
the thick verdure growing about the
: dangerous edges of the precipices,
but those who have seen it describe it
j as a beautiful sheet of deep blue wa!
ter.
Despatches fro.n Barbadoes, 100
miles to ihe east of St. Vincent, stated
that the explosions and mighty
: volcanic cannonading at St. Vincent
i were distinctly heard there, that the
j sky was black with the great mass of
i smoke and dust hanging overhead and
j the entire surface of the Barbadoes j
j was covered with a thick coating of
ashes.
This is precisely a repetition of
, what happened at the time of the
' terrible St. Vincent eruption in 1812.
, What amazed people then was that
this smoke and the great dense clouds
of ashes and impalpable dust should
. be borne so far seaward in the very
' teeth of the strong trade winds which
: blow toward the southwest. The ex!
plar.ation of this phenomenon was
; then*as it is now, that the force of
the explosion, from the volcano hurled
) the -smoke and litter miles high into
' the air until they were way above the
trade winds and there met the reverse
. air currents going in the opposite diI
rection.
Barbadoes is totally dissimilar in its
natural features to any of the volcanic
chain of the Caribbean Islands. It
resembles a pear in outline, with
the narrow end pointing to the north,
i<? siis-htiv concave on the east. In
configuration the island is elevated,
and yet not mountainous, the highest
point, near the center, Mount Hillaby,
being 1,100 feet, from which the land
descends in a series of low terraces
on all sides to the sea.
The aspect of the country is that of
a beautiful rural landscape interspersed
with groups of neat houses
and plantations surrounded by gardens
and trees and dotted here and
there with windmills, which resemble
those that are so marked a feature of
the landscape o! Holland.
The whole area cf the island is occupied
and of its total acreage of
106,470 every foot is under cultivation
except 6,470 acres occupied by towns,
J cliffs and highways. Almost its sole
! industry is sugar cane growing, and
it has been said that if Cuba were
as closely cultivated as Barbadoes it
1 would produce enough sugar to supply
the entire world.
The only foreign trip George Washington
ever made was to Barbadoes,
when he went there with his brother,
I.awrence, and among other adventures
caught the smallpox.?New York
Sun.
I'jul r.e);inii!n;<.
A bad beginning makes a good ending?sometimes,
but more often it
makes a very quick ending.?Syracuse
Herald.
SCHOOL. SAVINGS BANKS.
An Institution That Frts??*s?* Many
Vi rttaet.
AB person:?, especially parents, who
have the good of the edmih* generation
at heart will, nd doiibt, be interested
?n what Mrs. S. L. Oberholtiz'dr
has to say on the subject of school
savings banks. Mrs. Oberholtler, wh6
is well known among tie local women
workers, has devoted several years to
the study oi that institution, and has
traveled considerably to proni'Ote its
progress, her Addresses being invariably
received with favor. After a
inost interesting interview with Mrs.
Oberholtzcr cne can but marvel that,
this admirable idea is not ih operation
in every school ih bur country.
"Inclination dnd Senilis are inherited,
blil character and fortune are
made-," says Mrs. Oberholtzer. "The
subject of school savings banks is one
of great national interest, because as
we develop in thrift and individuality
the wealth and strength of the nation
increases. In Europe it is admittedly
one of the best educational factors of
the age. but here in our own city,
though Superintendent Brooks has ejo
pressed himself in favor of it, there
- *- * ' - ^ f K d AT4
are enougn aissenung vuices tu muaci
the plan."
The school savings banks System,
which was introduced into mis coum
try by Professor F. Hi Thiry-, in 1885;
is now in operatirth in more lhaft 800
public schools in tft'e United States,
while th'3 total savings of these young
depositors nave amounted to $000,Ooo.
These schools are scattered through
20 different states. The work was
fir >?, taker, up in Long Island City,
N. Y., public schools in 1885, and ever
since 18S9 (by this time it had proved
its worth) tne system has gained im*'
petus and advocates. It is in operation
in 100 Pennsylvania schools.
Those pioneer children of Long Island
City have saved and deposited since
3 885, $110,880. At instance, nearer
at hand is our neighboring Chester,
where, with a school population of
5000, there has been deposited since
1890, $03,51G.
To Montgomery county, however, belongs
the honor of adopting the system
in this state. Mrs. Oberholtzer,
then a resident of Norristown, became
interested and made an address before j
the Teachers' Institute in the fall of
1889. A resolution was passed to
adopt the system in the schools at the
option of the districts of the Norristown
and Pottstown public schools,
and the children of Norristown have,
since January, 1900, deposited $87,237,
the school children of Pottstown following
with $67,647. These few
figures will give one an idea of the
money which may be saved instead of
frittered away on cheap candies, disgusting
gum and other stupid or harmful
temptations.
It is all very simple. The teacher
is provided with the roll books and the
copyright cards. She calls the roll
Mnndnv mnrnine from this roll
book, which is conveniently arranged,
with a date for each Monday in the
school year, and places the amount of
the scholar's deposit, be it one or ten
cents, opposite his or her name. The
amount is also credited on tfte copyright
card, which is then handed back
to the pupil, who keeps it as a memorandum
and receipt. This card is
brought to school every Monday morning,
when a deposit is made.
After the roll-call the teacher counts
the money, and sends it in a sealed en velope
to the principal of th'e school,
who in turn forwards the enveloped
collections from all the rooms to the
bank co-operating. At first the amount
is accredited as a general school fund.
When a deposit reaches $1 the depositor
is individualized ami receives a
bank book, and once the sum of $3 is
deposited it draws three percent interest.
On the last Friday of each month
the children are given their bank
books to take home, so that they may
compare them with the cards. Many
parents themselves open bank accounts.
Camden's public school
scholars, 499 in number, have deposited
$G5,2S4 since 1395.
Figure to yourseli just how well it
would be for the average youth or
maiden, upon being graduated, to have
a few hundred dollars in bank. It
would in some instances open the way
to further study; it would give the
budding merchant a needed lift; to
others it would be the nucleus of a
home and independent old <age. But,
best of all, it is a remedy against pau*
J ~ ?? nfovanfivo
perism, ciim ciuid <x ^?v w
crime and intemperance. It fosters
thrift, economy, industry, self-dependence,
and produces self-respecting citizens.
No matter what the home condition,
a child sees a way "to more
content and less contention" in this
saving of pennies that the dollars may
have the chance to look after themselves.
In case of sickness, too, or
other misfortune, it is convenient to
have a reserve fund to draw upon.?
Philadelphia Record.
The Hairpin In Science.
A scientific writer in American
Medicine pays a glowing tribute to the
hairpin. He finds that it is of almost
inestimable value to the surgeon, who
can use it "to pin bandages, to remove
foreign bodies from any natural
passage, as a curette for scraping away
soft material, to compress a blood vessel
in controlling a hemorrhage, and to
close a wound." In addition to these
uses the gentleman has used the hairpin
to probe wounds and to wire bones
together in cases of fracture. But it
is not in surgery only that the hairpin
is useful. It miy take the place of a
suspender button or help out when an
automobile breaks down. Perhaps if
the truth were known many a locomotive
has been held together, at a
pinch, by a hairpin, and we are not
that ?hp writer for American
lOtU VilUC
Medicine suggests that it would always
be well for man to cirry a supply
of hairpins in his pocket. Such a
practice would undoubtedly have important
advantages, but there is a better
and more p-easant plan. Tf it could
be so arranged that a man might always
have at least one companionable
lady near him the highest usefulness
of the hairpin might be developed.
! Men are, after all, but bunglers when
they endeavor to use this delicate inj
strument. For the best results from
the hairpin, therefore, it is cheerfully
! recommended that the lady be taken
I along.?Chicago Rccoru-IIerald.
A Poetic Km pre*#.
The Empress of Japan takes a great
interest in all that concerns the nation,
from the rice crops upward. Her Majesty
is said to have a special talent
for literature, and writes beautiful
poetry. A poem of hers, set to music,
i i'j sung in the schools all over the
land. She is an adapt performer on
the koto, a kind of large zither. It is
a?: instrument which is much played
and very popular in Japan.
London Bridge, when widened, will
be lighted from the centre, and not
j from the sides.
K^movlnC' Greano Spot.
An obstinate grease spot on. tho
kitchen floor may be removed by
Spreading on the boards a hot solution
of Fuller's earth and soda. Allow it
to stand for some hours, that absorp:
tion may take place. If, as soon as hot
grease Is spilled oh the floor cold water
is thrown over it to congeal it
ftuickiy, it can nearly all be removed
by scraping wan a knife.
KftHtorinff Scorclied Linen.
Here is a formula that it is said
will restore scorched linen. Peel and
slice two onions and extract, the juice
by squeezing or pounding. Then cut
up half an ounce of white sOafl and add
two ounces Of Fuller^ earth; mix
With them the OniOri's juice and half a
pint of vinegan Boil this composition
Well, and spread it when cool over the
scorched part Of the linen, leaving
it. to dry thereoii. Afterward wash out
the linen-.
and G?rm?".
Cleanliness hhu health go hand in
hand, whether cleanliness and godliness
do or not. The way to keep a kitchen
clean is to keep it free i'rora disease
germs; that is, to keep our food which
is cooked in the kitchen tree from unwholesome
elements, which cause it to
spoil and to be unwholesome when
eaten. #
The clothes we wear should be brushed
free from dust, because the air is
full of impure getms. Those who wore
in dirty, dusty factories or other places
j like them should have their clothes
beaten every day after they come
home. Grease spots should he carefully
cleaned oft working clothes, because
such grease spots hold dust, and
may become culture places for impurities
received from the air. If proper
precautions are exercised and the house
is kept as clean as it is possible to
keep it the health of the inmates will
be good.
There is a great dnferonce between
a thing being scientifically clean and
clean in the ordinary understanding of
the term. A house filled with the
germs of tuberculosis may be clean to
all appearances, and one which has
just been disinfected scientifically may
have indelible stains of previous wear,
and tear on the walls and carpets; yet
one is a wholesome dwelling and the
other is not clean.?New York Tribune.
Ways to Cook Beef.
Food that is wholesome and well
cooked is a boon. Beef, properly serv*
' ?- x J?: ? KU
er, is one 01 me most u^auauie uicaw.
Here' fire some recipes for preparing it
in different forms:
Baked Bullock's Heart?Wash and
wipe the heart, cut it into four pieces.
Season these with pepper and salt,
chopped thyme and lay leaves, eight
onions cut in slices, two ounces of
dripping and four parsnips, also cut in
slices. Place these in an earthen jar
with a pint of water, put on the lid
and bake in the oven two to three
hours.
Ragout of Beef?Melt and brown
thoroughly half an ounce of butter.
Add to it one ounce of flour, stir till
brown and perfectly smooth. Pour
in slowly half a pint of stock, the same
quantity of boiled and drained Spanish
onions. Stir until the sauce thickers;
then add about a pound of cold roast
beef cut into nice neat slices. Cook
slowly till the beef is heated through.
Remove the slices carefully and arrange
on a dish so that one slice overlaps
the other. Pour the Sfuce ov*r
all, garnish with chopped gherkins,
decorate the center of the dish with
horseradish and serve very hot.
Fillet of Beef?Proc re two pounds
of nice fillet of beef and cut into neat
round slices half an inch thick. Sprinkle
with pepper and salt; also cut the
fat off the beef into nice pieces. Heat
two ounces of butter in a frying pan
and fry the fillets for five or seven
minutes, then brush over each with
glaze. Place a border of rr.ashed po'a
iocs on a aisn, iay uie jmcis uu h
with alternate slices of baked tomato
and the fried beef fat. Also have a
piece of maitre de'hot-1 butter on each
fillet Fill the center with nicely cooked
vegetables and pour round a little
good beef gravy.
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Hot Bananas?Put four tablespoonfulf
of sugar, four tablespconfuls of orange
juice into a saucepan; stir in six
peeled bananas; cook five minutes and
serve with lady fingers or sponge cake
Walnut Cream Salad?Roll small
balls of cream cheese, on each press
two halves of an English walnut. Lay
on lettuce and sow with French
dressing and thin br ad and i utter
which has been put in the oven and
crisped. This is decidedly odd and also
delicious.
9
French Lamb Chops?Pr:pare chops
by roiling them in melted l?utt< r; season
with salt and pepper. Dressing:
One cup bread and one cup milk cooked
to a past*1; add to this a large tablespoonful
of chopped loasted almonds,
mushrooms, ham an 1 pursiey. one-half
teaspoon of salt and one-quarter of
pepper. Broil chops, roll them in
dressing, then egg a?i-1 bread crumbs.
t^?... v. /%< /\j1 at? rrr*/\a
r 17 in nut uii vi
y
Escalloped Asparagus?iill a baking
dish with alter ate layers of boiled
asparagus and chopped ha. a -?iled
eggs, sprinkle the eggs with a se.is?>?
ing of salt, pepper and grated cheese;
have a layer of asparagus on top. Make
a well-seasoned or^an sauce and pour
over the whole, letting it soak through
to the bottom. Cover the top with
bread crumbs and a -light sprinkling
of grated cheese and bake in the even
until a light brown.
Lemon Fruit Jelly?Gt '-half box gelatin
soaked for one-haif hour iu onehalf
cup cold water. Tour tw? and
one-half cups boiling water over gelaI
tin; add three quarters cup lemon
j juice and one and one-quarter cups sugar.
Put mold on ic? add four tablespoonfuls
of liquid, let it stand until
it begins to form, then add a few slices
of bananas, walnuts and eh- rries. Aud
: liquid and fruit alternately until mold
j is filled. Serve with whipped cream
1 Delicious.
Fricasee of Beans?Put a pint of harj
icot beans to soak over night in cold
i water; in the morning drain, cover
j with two quarts of soft water. As sfw.11
as they boil set where they will sim:
mer for two hours or until they are
tender. Put two ounce? of butter in
a saucepan, with a tnblesp:;.;nful of
! minced parsley and the juice of one
lemon; when quite melted add the
beans; stir them about for a few minutes
and then serve with a border of
plain boiled rice.
SELECTING OOOi) dEEiX
Iteplanting in the field is obnoxious
to farmers, hence they should select
good seed-, ^heii plants are missing
In the hills or frows the appearance
of the field is not attractive, it is
better and cheaper to bdy; selected
seed than to perform the labbf of replanting
that Which Would be un- !
necessary, and which could be prevented
by making a proper, beginning.
. The failure to properly prepare
the ground,. .t8o little care,given
the covering of the seeds -ind economizing
in the use of seeds are alsc
muses of loss.
ALL THE SAME.
Mrs. Minks?I did write.
Mrs. Winks?Then I suppose you
gave the letter to your husband to i
post, and he is still carrying it around j
in his pocket.
Mrs; Minks?No { I posted the let- i
ter myself;
Mrs; Winks?Ahj then> it is in my
husband's pocket:?Buffalo Exprfcss:
New ieraey Skin Tirotiblei
fcan't resist Tetterine: "! have been troubled
with Eczema four years; Tetterine has done
me sd much godd that I gladly^reo'ommemi
it; Send another box.'.'?w; c: JEuuer, oemino!/*
Cottage,.Sea Cliff, Nl 50c. a box bv
mail from J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga., if
your druggist don't keep It.
The production of tea has been so great |
that nineteen out of forty-five companies
in London could not pay a dividend this
year.
The Oldest Nurse In Georgia.
Sirs. S. E. Kennedy, one of the oldest and
best known nilrtes ih Georgia states that in
all he? experience With bowel troubles <ihd
children teething, Dr. Biggers' Huckleberry
Cordial Is the best remedy.
Sold by ail Druggists, 26 and 60c. bottle.
An epidemic of scarlet'fever has been
traced to tame pigeons in Cincinnati) Ohio.
Mrs.Winslow's Sc othlng SyrUp for children
teething, soften the gums, reduces inflammation,allays
pain,cures wlndeolic. 25d; a bottle
A little bit of a weak woman can often
raise a pretty big row.
Plso's Cure for Consumption Is an Infallible
medicine for coughs and colds.?N. W.
Samuxl, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900.
Any woman will tell you that trying on
a new dress is also trying on the nerves.
"Summer Elsewhere, Via Seaboard
Air-Line Railway"
Is the name of a Summer Tourist Booklet
just issued by the Seaboard Air-Line Railway,
giving complete information relative
to the various seaside and mountain resorts
of the Carollnas and Virginia. Copy o:
same can be obtalued from any Agent of
the Seaboard Air-Line Railway or upon
application to C. B. Iiyan, Gen. Pass. Agt.,
Portsmouth, Va , or W. E. Christian, Ass't
Gen. Pass. Agt., Atlanta, Ga.
No matter where a man was born, he
swells up and claims to be proud of it.
?Beauty is Skin I
g and correct dressing
g deep. The foundatic
g 6et dress the prop
I Royal
& Worcester
I ?nd Bon T
V Corsei
tt Straight front,
% Are the best t.iade.
Ask your dealer to show then
\Royol Worcester Corset Co., w?c
$20.00 TO $4<
Being Made selling "500
g| book of legal and business
5^2^ Compendium of plain and
A Am\ Calculator and Farmer's R
A complete aet of ltteree
f^Swa ments of CI8TETRNS. Tim
i onc voIumo- Over 472 pa
I /BBm It Is a complete business
1 SIMPLE, PRACTICAL
nn<1 can as wal1
One agent in the country
week. Agents hare canvs
BaSSBBBfiglSI Selling price SI.50. Liber
Isfactlon guaranteed (or m
Circulars free..
SOUTHERN DENT
If yon are interested in obtaining a d
of full instruction. Address Dr. s. W.
Pruffkt.
Genuine stamped C C C. Never sold In balk.
Beware of tbe dealer who tries to sell
"something jast as good."
i $3&$3*29 SHOES?
: W. L. Douglas shoes are the standard
of the world. This is the reason
Hr. L. Douglas makes and sells mow
men's $3.00 and $3.50 shoes than am
other two manufacturers.
W. L. DOUGLAS $4 SHOES
! CANNOT BE EXCELLED.
Jl,lfl3,820i!;o/:-.'.V $2,340,009
Best imported and American leathers, Heyl's
Patent Calf, Enamel, Box Calf, Calf, Vict Kid, Coror.a
Cdlt, Nat. Kangaroo. Fast Color Eyelet* ukiI.
Caution ! Tbe genuine have W. L. DOUGLAS'
name and price stamped on bottom.
Shoes by mail, 25c. extra. J'Iji*. Catalog free.
W. L. DOUGLAS, BROCKTON, MASS.
HEDICAL DEPARTMENT
Tnlane University of Lonisiana.
Founded in 1834. and noio has 3,894 Graduates
It* *dv.inta(r?s for practical instruction, both in arnplt
laboratories and abundant hospital materialsare nnoquailed.
Free access i* giron to tbe great Char.ty Hoe
pita with $*)?> beds andSt.UOOpatientsannualljr. Specia
on ,? ri.en dai y at the bedside of the kick
The neit eo-sion beeins October CSd. 1S03- Uor cat*
logueard information rddrew Pbof. 8. E- ChatLLX,
M. D-. Dean. P. O. Drawer Ml, New Orleans, La.
Cim Repairs
m B wB Bristle Twine, Babbit,
B ulftc , for any make of Gin
. ENGINES, BOILERS AND PRESSES
And Repairs for same. Shafting, Pulleys
I I eltlug, Injectors, Pipes, Valves aud Fitting?
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COM!'ANY, Augusta, Ga.
! ilR JOHNSON'S StfC
Iglil u 251-u. a-t. rate sample,
| ii? THE HOME remedy co..austku.fcu>o.ailaxra,oa.
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YourHair
|- r - ' ! Ill - - r?T
'/Two years agd tny iiaif Wii
failing out badly. I purchased a
bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor, and
soon my hair stopped coming out."
Miss Minnie Hoover; Paris: 111;
amm~
Perhaps your mothc*
- had thin hair, but that is
no reason why you must
go through life with halfstarved
hair. If you want
long, thick hair, feed it
with Ayer's Hair Vigor,
and make it rich, dark,
arid heavy* g
jlil a bottle. All draglm. I
.Jf joar druggist cannot snpplj jon, fl
Mad Us one doUat and vo will express I
you a.bottle. Be sare aildgive tbe nalne I
of jour nearest express office: Addreis? I
I . Jt C. A YER CO., Lowell, Maaa. |
Cross?
Poor man! He can't help it.
It's his liver. He needs a
liver pill. Ayer's Pills.
Want your mQristacltt or beard a
beatitiful brown or rich black ? Use
Buckingham's Dye
50et?.of dfuggiitsor ft. P. Hall&Co., Maiflut.M.h.
1
I CASH FOR CORDWOOOI
jfl We want Maple, Beoeh or Birch round I
I wood. Will pay a good price nnd take all I
you havo. A chance to clear money dtlrlnffS
E the dull summer months. Write to E > ..v.- H
I. B. BAIL MFG CO., Atlaata, te \
J DROPSY
10 OATS' TaEATEEIfr FBEfc
Hate made Dronsf hud its oat*
^cations a specialty for twestag
sors with the most troaderlQ
iccess. HaYc cured maay taen*
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Violet got de bines,
: Des bekaze dey wuziTt bailt ;
for wearin' Red Se-al Shoes.
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