Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r 'vl? PERSONAL MENTION. . |g People Visiting in This City and at \ Other Points. ?Mrs. S. R. Wilson is visiting reli \ atives in Allendale. I , ?4lrs. A. W. Knight is visiting t~l relatives in Newberry. } ?Mr. and Mrs. A. M. DenDOw were J % 'in Charleston last week. ?Mr. and Mrs. Jones A. Williams p spent several days in Charleston last week. r as; -It / , * j : * ?Miss Chevilette Cochran spent L last week with Capt. and Mrs. W. S. r~ Bamberg. ' " ?Miss Ethel Black is at home from Olar, where she teaches in the ^ . high school. IPfc ?Mr. Francis Bamberg is at home " from the Sewanee University, Sewanee, Tenn. Sf-S - ?Mr. Will Brabham is at home for the holidays from the Bailey Mili"Tnctitnto ^ VK*A J XUUVA VM w* '? " ?Mr. and Mrs. W. M.'Brabam, of ? Durham, N. C., are visiting Mr. and " Mrs. J. W. Stokes. ?Prof. S. A. Merchant left Saturday for Spartanburg to spend the ? ^, Christmas holidays. * ' -?Misses Addys Hays and Moselle fcSfef' Copelind were among the visitors in v. Charleston last week. ?-Mi?s Harriedelle Free is spendt ing the Christmas holidays at home from Coker college, Hartsville. f v : Miss Mary Livingston, who . teaces in Yo^-k county, is spending the holidays atfher home in the city. x ?Miss Kate Rentz is spending the holidays at home from Walterboro, . iv. Where she teaches in the high school. i ?Miss Jessie Cook arrived in the * city Monday from Limestone college, I Gaffney, to spend the Christmas holi! days. SSllfe ?Miss Georsrie Crockett, of Taze H y well, Va., will arrive Monday night j . to, spend a week or more with Miss | Pranke Polk. v ?Messrs. Drayton McMillan and 44 Beltoh Hair are spending the holidays, at home from Furman Univerr . sity, Greenville. | ?Messrs. Sam and Clyde Rowell, I. Edwin Bruce, and Olar Zeigler are! I ' spending the holidays at home from | Clemson college. A Roast Goose Dinner. Cream of chesnut soup?Shell a of chesnuts, cover with boiling j ' water, parboil five minutes, then! throw into cold water, when the 1 - hrow^^kins can be easily removed. Cook until tender in enough boiling ' gait water or stock to cover. Mash! with a wooden potato masher in thej .water in which they have been cook-| ed, then rub through a fine sieve into} one pint of milk or stock. Add a, half cup' of cream (if you have it to: v spere.) Season with a tablespoon-' ful of butter, salt and pepper, and a; iteaspooriful of sugar, if you like it. j Cook five minutes, take from the fire j ~~ and stir in bne beaten egg. Send to j the table at once, serving with croupous or freshly 'popped corn sprinkled in. If thicker than you care ' for, this soup may be thinned with a j f little more milk. If thinner, thick- j en with a teaspoonful of cornstarch! stirred smooth in cold milk. 7 Prune stuffing for roast goose? v Soak a quarter of a pound of prunes . in cofd water over night. Drain, cover with boiling water and sim; jher until tender. Wash fine cup otj add the nrune juice and enough water *o make three cups of liquid in all, season with a teaspoon of salt and cook until the rice is tender?; V ! about 20 ^minutes. Add the prunes,' - ;S. atoned and cut in pieces, and a dozen large ^chesnuts blanched and cut in ?| pieces. Blend thoroughly and stuff, , -^reserving some of the dressing to be used as a garnish/Put the goose on its breast on a rack in a dripping pan, ^^^^dredging with flour seasoned with H^psalt and pepper and set in an extra hot oydn to roast. When it begins to . brown, pour a pint of boiling water -m the pan, and every 15 minutes - baste, dredging with flour, salt and - /Stjfepper after each basting. Cook an hour and a half, lift out on a heated platter/skim off the fat in the drip-! fthif 'nan thinlrpn -with a t.ablftSDOOn t ;ar?o *??, ? , ? ful of flour and pour in a cup of boil- j water. Stir until smooth and ^ j v Jtfcickened, and if it lacks a rich brown color add a tablespoonful ot j ^cBllnar^ .bouquet. Strain and serve! * ,v;as gravy for the goose. Garnishes for the goose?Orange r ^ or lemon straws make a pretty garnish for the goose or game birds of V: i fany sort. To make them, cut the ..J yellow peel into narrow strips. Have : :;;r ready a heavy syrup made of one cupful of granulated sugar and a cup of g??f||v - water.. Put the rinds into the boiling ^ : syrup and cool until clear. Remove, $ /roll in coarse white sugar, lay on * 1 sheets of brown paper, and put in a ^?~*cool, dry place to become crisp. - Peanut salad to serve with duck % \ or game-r-Soak one cupful of nut % meats in olive oil, drain and mix with '% o cupfuls cut celery and a dozen ^ rire green oMves, pitted and minced. S Mix' wrth mayonnaise and serve ?cn SI lettuce leaves or romaine. * THE MISTLETOE BOUGH. History and Meaning of One of tin Qldest Customs in World. Have you ever asked how it is tha we liang up mistletoe in our house a Christmas? Because the Druids usee >ro do so. you mav tell me, but thei we come to the question why the: did. Perhaps you may tell me agaii that their reason was that they believed the bright god, Baldur, hac been killed by a dart of mistletoe I do not think thait was the rea reason. I think that story?and z very pretty story it is?was made ui to explain the custom when the true reason had been forgotten. I believe that the custom of hanging up a bough of mistletoe is one ol the very oldest customs in the world and has come down to us from the time when men worshipped trees. II seems to you a very strange thing that men should do that, but. if yoi will'think a little, you may see that il was not very strange after all; imagine a savage man (and savage means a man who lives in a forest,) whc has little knowledge of anything outI side the forest in which he lives. He does not even see much of the sun scarcely anything of the stars. He knows nothing of the cause of the ' change of seasons. The winter is a bad time for him, for then there are no fruits to gather, no nests with eggs that a m^tn can find to eat, few roots to be dug up, and the ground is hard, and the light is short, and the darkness long, and the cold is terrible. j .How is -it that the bad time comes? The first sign almost that < he sees of it is when the leaves begin to fade and fall. Then the daj shortens, and there is less and less warmth in the sunshine. When the trees are leafless and seemingly dead then come frost and snow. *1The savage reasons from ithe facts which he sees, and he notes that when the trees begin to die, then the day shortens and the wind blows cold and keen. That seems silly to you, quite the wrong way of putting things, but the savage thought that all was well when the'trees were alive, and thai rheir dying brought him misery Knowing no more than he did, it was even sensible. And it seemed tc him to be proved every spring that the trees caused his comfort and the gladness of the world. The firsit sigL and promise of better days was wnec the trees came into leaf and life again. That happened long before the warm, bright weather came, and what appeared first in order of time would be taken by him as the cause of what followed. Since the trees began to live again before the sunshine came, he fancied that they were the cause of the lengthening of the daj and the growing warmth. So men some men, at least, used /to think, foi they worshipped trees as the great lords of life. Traces of that worshif are to be found today. There are men who would not cut down certair kinds of.ti;ees for any reward that might be offered them, because thej believed that very bad "luck" would happen-to them if they did. You think I am a long time in coming to the mistletoe. Havo' patience for half a minute. Savages believe that every living thing has a soul. I "DYING" COTTON IN THE BOLL. / Efforts of a South Carolina Experi menter to Grow Colored Cotton. I < * In the future it may be possible tc produce cotton in all the shades o1 the spectrum. At least that is the proposition on which Arthur W. Brabham, of Bamberg county, South Caro 1 lina, is engaged. Should he succeed? and he has made considerable prog ress?textile manufacturers woulc not be perturbed by the scarcity oi aniline dyestuffs, just now an embarrassing problem, incident to the blockade of German and allied ari teries of trade. ' The chief objective with Mr. Brabham is to produce black cotton. A distinctly bronzed tint has been realized by six years of systematic crossfertilization of the Egyptian browr with the Russell big boll, a variet) common to South Carolina plantations. Continuation of this plan, the : Bamberg county plant breeder is con| fident, will bring the hybrid black | which he regards as the missing lint : in the basic colors of his cottor i scheme. | Mr. Brabham pointed out wher visited a few days ago what is not generally known, that already foui distinct tints of cotton are bein? grown in different parts of the/world In confirmation of his argument he drew from his sample case yellov Chinese cotton, grown from seed im ported from the Far East. Flankins the fence parallel with the road b] his home grew Egyptian brown o luxuriant growth, well fruited witl shapely bolls, as if perfectly accli I mated. He further emphasized tha I gray cotton is grown in India, varie ties similar to the Egyptian in Peri and Hawaii and South America, an( a reddisb-hued cotton also in Peru With black added to these and th< native white cotton, he insists that j natural cotton spectrum could b< easily built. Luther Burbank, whose rare eor e binations of bewitching colors i flowers and magnificent successes i hybridizing fruits has won the glov t ing admiration of the world, believ< t black cotton is not "an absolute in 1 posibility." He is slightly incredi 1 lous, though, and comments: "It F somewhat doubtful if black cottc 1 will be produced in this generation - if ever." He wouldn't undertake i ^ production at any price, he writes. The fundamental principles i 1 breeding the new variety of cotton a: 1 exceedingly simple. Early in the da > when the blossom first opens wid J the pollen is shaken from the bloon of one variety into the bloom of ai - other. The fertilized bloom is the f tied up that bees may not "infect. > Though white the first day, tb J blooms turn pink and drop the fo t lowing day, so that the operation : > as brief as it is simple. The Egyp 1 ian cotton used as one bas - stock is of a brownish hue. Tb - Russell big boll on which it > "crossed," enlarges the Egvptia > boll and adds quality to the lengt of the fiber. The seed of the Russe ' also has a blanket wrapped about c ? exceedingly short, greenish, fuzzlik i fiber. The elongation of this has ha * a distinct effect in producing th L bronzed type of hybrid cotton. 5 Much interest is being manifeste L in the work of Mr. Brabham, whic "J Wonder (j fj'f ij^BBBB^BBEmBSKiMtMl ^ '^^4 |fX/- 4 ASSESSMENT NOTICE. > \ j 1; 11 f The Auditor or his deputy will to j at the following places on the daj . and date below for the purpose c receiving returns of personal pro] erty and notice of real estate bougl - or sold since last return. The Aud - tor will appreciate it very much i every taxpayer will make a list < his personal property and the pric f at which he wishes to list it with th - Auditor. -This will save time for a i concerned and avoid the forgettin of any item of personal property: Farrell's?January 6, from 10 t 1 o'clock. vMidway?January 7, from 9 t t 10:30 o'clock. Ehrhardt?January 13. St. John's?January 14, from 9 t " 11 o'clock. l Kearse?January 14, from 12 t ? 2 o'clock. Govan?January 20. Olar?January 21. J Denmark?January 27. Lee's?January 28, from 10 tq o'clock. ' All male persons between the age : of 21 and 60 (except Confederat ' ?UJ 'V f/x 41 nnll tn ' SUIUlt?! 5 / die name iu v-1- ~~?All able-bodied male persons betwee { the ages of 21 and 55 are liable t $2 road tax. Dogs 50 cents. Automobiles will be returned sei * arately from other articles. Hous< I hold goods will be returned separate ly from other goods. Taxpayers ai urged to find out the name and nun i ber of the school district in whic ' they reside,, and be prepared to gi\ . this information to the Auditor whe ? they make their returns. Please get your age in your mini 7 I will be at the court house on a f days not mentioned above until tl II 20th of February. After the 20th ( J February a penalty of 50 per cen " I will be added to all personal prope: t j ty not returned, so make yours b< - fore the 20th. j ? R. W. D. ROWELL, j County Auditor. Cures Old Sores, Other Remedies Won't Cur ^ . The worst cases, no matter of how lonfe standin -* J .^1,'nKla T 1 are cure<l oy me vonurum, tcuaui? Ant^e-lic Oil. It reiiev ? r N.i*; :* ? :i smsc ilv.i':. 23c. SOc. $1. 4 t) V ' I ' - ' ' .' ' t ' ! has been carried,on throughout a n- number of years. in One large cotton-manufacturing in i establishment in Xew England, which 1 consumes annually 120,000 hales of ?s cotton for "mercerized" goods, is ii- making elaborate experiments with it- the Brabham product. Tests are beis ing made of the tensile strength of m the fibre, the fastness of the color n, and the calendarizing qualities of the ts cloth. Should the experiments bear out the general belief of manufacin turers a tremendous demand would e aris for the use of the cotton in "mery, cerized" goods manufacture."?J. fc. Irby Koon, in Manu acturers' Record. , ai f,. . i- CITATION NOTICE, n The Su^e of South Carolina? ie Coun'y of Bamberg?By Geo. P. Harir.on, Esq.. Judge of Probate. Whereas, Ella Mitchell, hath ls made suit to me to grant her letters t- of administration of the estate of and ic effects of Jerry Mitchell, deceased. e These are therefore to cite and ad. monish all and singular the kindred < ls and creditors of the said Jerry n Mitchell, deceased, that they be < h and appear before me in the Court of 11 Probate, to be held at Bamberg, on , f Saturday, Jan. 8th, next, after pub- * lication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the j e j forenoon, to show cause, if any they . d: have, why the said administration * e I should not be granted. 1 | Given under my hand and seal this J !18th day.of Dec., A. D., 1915. dj GEO. P. HARMON, i hi , ; Judge of Probate. What's in It" i 1 "^""SxA ^':Jt * '^^aP*^'''*^ '::::^ll^^^H8l9BI^K^^ilil( S ' *j^s"^^:'-"S^^mB^^HH^BBB^:':::aB^f^B Rfcl' ^BhsP?^?*%&$? &'?'^f -v; \ j , , MASTER'S SALE. ,e State of South Carolina?County of rs! Bamberg. >f I B. H. Smith, et al, plaintiffs, vs. T. 5~; M. Phifer, et al, defendants, it | By virtue of a decree of the court }- of common pleas for Bamberg county if in the above stated case, dated No>f jvember 16, 1915, I, H. C. Folk, mas} ter for Bamberg county, will sell to e ithe highest bidder for cash, on Mon11 ! day, January 3, 191(Tauring the leS gal hours of sale, at the court house i door, Bamberg, S. C., the following o 'described property, to wit: j All those certain lots or parcels oo ! real estate, situate, lying and being ! in the town of Denmark, county of . n 1-Ctofo nf Smith Faro ; DctUlUClg ciuu u?ut^ \/a. N/vfv*v? o: lina, known and designated on the j map or plat of said town as lots Nos. 0 j 5, 6, and 7, in block 41; subject howlever to the right of way of the railiroad track across the north-east cor- , j ner of lot No. 5. ! Also all buildings on the above lot' 1 j together with the contents, consist! ing of foundry, three iron lathes, one JS ; wood lathe, one band saw and twelvemo j horse powrer oil engine, one pipe and j belt threshing machine, and also al n j wood working foundry and machine o shop tools and equipments deeded tc .the said T. M. Phifer, C. S. Camp> bell and Frank G. Tompkins by thr 5- said B. H. Smith by his deed dated August 1, 1914. ! '0 . Purchaser to pay for papers and deposit with the master two hundrer" h dollars immediately after the sale a' r\ r- fliQir lllH W"iP ^ 3, guarantee incn uio ui mvw -.v. n be complied with. Otherwise the master will immediately sell th^ 3- premises and property on the same 1 terms. ie . H. C. FOLK, >f Master for Bamberg County, t- ' Bamberg, S. C., Dec. 15, 1915. r Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly The Old Standard general strengthening tonic, GROVE'S TASTELESS chi'l TONIC, drives out ?onHhnildsuothesys Mas ina.enncncs l USw UiWu.UMi* ^ _ . ? tptr A true tonic. For adults and children. 5"1 #. g Glendale Spring water for sale a ,r- W. P. Herndon's grocery and Mack' oo Drug Store. i GO UNCI! SAM, ONEMTTER'1^ TWfAMF AA liivvilld 14M PERHAPS yon are not making $3,000 01 tax doesn't affect you. Cheer up. Yo to pay Uncle Sam his small tax. M 5et aside a certain amount of your earnings ng it. This kind of taxes is not as sure jleasant. Meanwhile? . [NVITE US TO.HELP YOt 3APITAL AND SURPLUS 4 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Bamberg Bai In Real Xmas Joy To Those W1 Snappy In the very classiest the newest mixtures etc. Quarter, half < Its a garment that wi of wear/ $10.00, $12.5 BOYS' W00I In the nobby ntixtu dressy navy blue j styles are the newest ! built for wear, 4 to 2 $3.50 to $ "Bradley" Sweat The best known gar knit world. All wo wear well. In navy, mix, tan, etc. $2.00 to 4 Holeproof | For men, give him a they are guaranteed months. Pair 25 c r mc r. u. ml HI AUGUSTA, GA. RUB OUT PAIN | ^ with good oil liniment. That's ; the surest way to stop them, j wellk The best rubbing liniment is I and E MUSTANG^ LINIMENT 1 Good for the Ailments of jl Horses, Mules, Cattle, Etc. Qood for your own Aches, Pains, Rheumatism, Sprains, Cuts, Burns, Etc. 25c. 50c. $1. At all Dealers. I ? Read the Herald, $1.50 per year, i Re; I / _____? i $4,000 a year. The income a may make enough some day e an while TAX YOTJBSELE. %and let us pay you for keepas death, but it's a lot more J i tax yourself: ,11 - - - - $100,000.00 Savings Deposits. j| iking Co. Comes I bo Give I Overcoats shapes and, I S , solid black, full lina/l I :'/&B UX 1UU ill give years 0, $15.00 7 , SUITS ires and the S* serges. The and they are ;f|^j !0 years. 10.00 ers for Men ment in the tji ?ol and they . ' ' . /ll grey, gree*, M 55.50 Hose half dozen, . v|| to wear six :ents RUNS I WE PAY PARCEL POST A ever You Need a General Toole Take Grove's - ? Old Standard Grove's Tasteless Tonic is equally valuable as a al Tonic because it contains the nown tonic properties of QUININB R.ON. It acts on the Liver, Drives falaria, Enriches the Blood and i up the Whole System. 30 certs. m A. B. UTSEY FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE || Old Line Companies Represented Samberg, South Carolina __________________ ad The Herald, $1.50 per year.