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I..m r i . JUST FOR THE HOUSEWIFE. Tested Recipes and Useful Hints worth Knowing. Cucumber conserve varies sme what from the familiar sweet pickle, although both are made from ripe, firm cucumbers, Pare and seed as soon as turned yel low, and cut in pieces two or more inches long and two inches across- Put in salt water over night, drain, and prepare syrup of white sugar dissolved with vinegar instead of water. Cook in this an ounce of whole mixed spices, strain out and add the cucumber slices, which have been softly . dried in a cloth Cook gently until transDarent: lift out the fruit and boil syrup to the consistency of molasses, then pour over the cucumbers in small jars. Green watermelon p;eserve is made from the white rinds of ripe melons, first parboiling in a quart of water containing one half dozen peach-leaves and half a teaspoonful of saleratus. This insures a fine, green tint. Re move to a bath of cold alum wa ter, soak for an hour, drain and rinse. Make syrup of a pound of sugar for each pound of fruit, juice of one lemon and half a dozen clean, fresh rose-geranium leaves, Boil up, then remove the leaves and fut in the fruit, cooking until tender. Set aside for twenty four hours, drain off syrup and cook down half, again add the fruit and finish cooking until transparent. Seal and keep in a dry place. Red water-melon preserve is not so well known, but is equally de licious Remove seeds and white portion from firm, ripe melon, weigh and use half a3 much sugar as melon, with juice and grated rind of two lemons to very six pounds of melon. Put all together in kettle and boil slowly until as thick as desired. If preferred, this preserve may also be flavored with the rose geranium leaves, but is very sat " isfactory without. Maude E. S- Hymers. Good Recipes for gingrerbread You will find the following re cipes reliable in every way, for they are the ones that met with favor m grandma s day: Old-fashioned MoLsses Cake One-and-one-half cupfuls of mo lasses, one tablesDoonf ul of lard or butter, one egg, this can be omitted, one cupful of hot water, one teasDOonful of taking-soda, one of ginger and a small one of . salt, and two-and-one-half cup fuls of flour, which should be added last- Let the molasses and butter boil gently a few minutes. Cool them, then add the ginger, salt. soda, the well -beaten egg, and mix in the flour. Bake in a shallow pan in a quick oven. Ginger Snaps, No. 1 One pint of molasses, one teaspoonful of gin ger, one cupful of butter, one teaspoonful of soda. Let the in gredients boil and cool. Add flour enough to make a stiff dough. Roll it out quite thin on a floured board. Cut into cakes with a round biscuit-cutter and bake auickhr. When cool, they should be placed in a stone jar and covered tightly. They will keep crisp for some time. Ginger Snaps, No. 2 This is an old antebellum recipe. One cup ful of molasses, one of sugar, one of butter, one tablespoonful of ground ginger, one teaspoon ful of saleratus and one-half cup ful of water. 'Make this stiff enough with flour to roll out Cut into round or fancy shapes , and bake in biscuit-pans in a brisk oven- Gingerbread In making this, one thing vital to its success is the thorough and prolonged beat ing before the dough is turned into the hakinc nan. The inere- dients are five eggs, one-half pound of brown sugar, one-hair pound of fresh butter, or half lard can be used, one pint of mo lasses, one-and-one-half pounds of flour, four tab'espoonfuls of ginger, oie teaspoonful of all spice, the juice and grated peel of one lemon and one orange. Beat the eggs well. Mix the mo lnssps. hotter and sucrar. . and add the ginger. Pour the mix- ture and the eggs alternately in to the mixing-bowl, Add the . flour and beat one-half hour. . M. R. C Green-Currant Pie Line a plate with rich crus put in one-and one-half Ecupf uls of . green cur rants, beat together three fourths of a cupful of sugar and one egg, and pour it over the currants, sprinkle with a pinch of salt, dot with bits of butter, cover with a top crust and bake. Cream Cheese Strain eight ! Pupils of Mr. Reuben Brown In the last issueof The Courier is an artic'e on the late Reuben H. Brown. Students taught by Mr. Brown inRandolph County: W. P. Wood, Thomas Wood, Roxanna Wood-Pearce, John Chrisco, Hannah Burrow-Hammer, W- J. Page, Jennie Page Hancock, P. S- Page, Frank Page W. S. Crowson, Thad Crowson, D. G- McMasters. CHICHESTER S PILLS W yrv THE DIAMOND HltAND. A Itrunlftt. Askfor4'lll.jfcr.TEll8' rears known as Best, Safest, Always Reliable SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE Excursion to Niagara Falls Thursday, Aug. 24. Thebest excursion of the season will be operated by the Chesapeake Steamship Com pany on their elegant new steamer, the "City of Balti more". Ronnd trip rate, Norfolk to Niagara Falls and return $14.65. Tickets Good 15 Days. Steamer leaves Norfolk at the foot Jackson Street 6:15 p. m. connecting with I special train via Baltimore & Ohio R. R. and Lehigh Valley arriving Niagara Falls 11:00 p. m. This will be a delightful trip to Baltimore by water thence through the most beau tiful scenery to Niagara Falls. The Chesapeake Line will also operate an excursion to Niagara Falls and return Au gust 29th; via Pennsylvania R. R. W. H. PARNELL.T.P.A. Norfork, Va. Dr. James D. Gregg DENTIST Office in Gregg building Lib erty N. G. Grown and Bridge work a specialty. quarts of milk into a tub, leaving on all the cream- Heat two quarts or so of the milk, then add it to the cold, till the tempera ture of the whole is ninety-eight to one hundred degrees Fahren heit Add one-fourth teacupful of rennet, stirring well; if the curd does not form well in an hour, add more rennet- When the curd is formed, cut it into small squares all the way to the bottom, and break it gently with a skimmer, to let the whey sepa rate. When they whey is sepa rated, put the curb into a cheese cloth straining-bag and hang over the tub to drain. Twist the bag, and put a heavy weight on it, to press out the whey thoroughly for ten minutes. Then again cut up the curd and press it again as formerly. Con tinne this until it is thoroughly drained, then press it all into some -form or mold, and scald. To scald i it, cut the curd into pieces about one fourth of an inch in size, put it into a strainer and immerse it in a kettle of warm water, enough to cover it. Then heat till the water is one hundred ;and five degrees, stir it well till the curd is warmed through, probably half an hour, then gradually add cold Jwater till it is reduced to eighty eight or ninety degrees. Drain the curd again thoroughly, and salt it, allowing four ounces of salt to ten pounds of curd, and mix ing well. Then put it into tub or molds for two days. After this, remove it, and grease it with butter: set it on shelf in a dark, cool room; grease and turn it every day till firm. Mrs. D.L. Currant Cake Make a very del icate white layer-cake, using any good recipe. Sweeten a pint of red-currant juice and put on to boil. Add corn-starch wet up with a little cold juice, to make it of the consistency of jelly. Spread this between the layers of the cake and ice the top. . Cherry Pudding Four thorough ly beaten eggs, one tablespoonful of soft butter, one pint of milk, a little salt and one pint of flour. Stir in one pint of pitted cher ries. pour into a buttered baking dish and. boil for half an hour or until done. Served hot with a sauce made of one cupful of but ter, two cupfuls of . sugar, the whites of two eggs, three table- spoonfuls of cherry -juice iand one fourth of a cupful of hot water. Beat until smooth; place the bowl in a basin of hot water and stir until smooth and frothy. Photographic Evidence la murder trials especially we are all familiar with the custom of taking the jury to the scene of the crime, that they may understand more clearly the circumstances of Che alleged case. In many large cities it is now the custom to have the police photograph at once every, thing and everybody in a supposed case of robbery, murder or other crime, and to produce these pictures as evidence when the trial occurs. The scheme has many advantages over the former custom, because the trial usually does not follow for some week 8 or even months and many charges may have taken place in the meantime. The dead man has been buried, important witness, ea have left the neighborhood- and perhaps the house burned in to the ground. By taking pictures at once of the premises . and all the actors living and dead when they are presented iu court it is much the suoie as chough the jury had been assembled lustantly upon the commission of the crime and allow ed t" investigate all the circum. atauces on the spot. In one in stance during certain labor or trou bles a crime had oeen committed aud the tenement building, which was the scene of the crime, had later been destroyed by dycamite. The photographs of the building, inside and out, however, counteract ed the damage. The pictures are takes usually by the ttertillon bureau. The Artillery Fern Few plants are mere graceful than the fern and the varieties are almost without end. It might be called vegetable lace or nature's cloth of lace. Men marvel today at the figures and lace-like texture of stones in old cathedrals, wrought by the old monks, who loved beautiful things and lued to make them. But no monkish work in stone or man's fabrication of cloth ty hand or otherwise can equal the product of nature's loom as seen in the fern, with its delicate texture and endless variety of figure or pattern. To all which wonders is superadded a f uncion singularly unique in one of its species, called the artillery fern. With such a plant when in bud yon may have an engaging shooting gallery of a private nature, to the amusement of your friends. At that season the plant is thickly covered with buds of a pink color, and when sprinkled with luke-warm water .they perform wondrously, Bending forth each a little puff ot smoke as they burst into bloom. Sprinkled again, the buds that had not been moist by the first operation now take their turn and repeat the same pretty and mysterious oper ption, so that the plant is quickly transformed in appearance and now stands fortn arrayed in spotless white. Not The Same A child of strict parents, whose greatest joy had hitherto been the weekly prayer-meeting, was taken by its nurse to the circus for the first time. When he came home he exclaimed: "Oh, mama, if you once wenfcio the circus you'd never go to prayer meeting again in all your life." Ex. A Chicken Phenomenon A hen which set cm 12 eggs and hatched 14 animals, eight of which are perfect chicks, and six appear to be hybrids, is a puzzle that is wor rying George L. Tonnoffski, deputy clerk of the United States court here. Dr. Tonnoffski, found that his hen batched and while all the chicks had perfect chick bodies, eight had chicken heads, two had puppy heads and two had cat heids. He says they were all able to take nourishment. That 2 of the eggs had double yokes, he says, , explains the hatching of 14 chinks, but why there were resemblances to a portion of Noah's ark are found in his hen's nest he would . like some chicken raiser to explain. Raleigh Special to Greensboro .News. . Wood's Fall . Seed Catalogue just issusd tells what crops you can put in to make the 1 quickest grazing, or hay, to help out the short feed crops. Also tells about both . ' ' Vegetable arid Farm Seeds mat can be planted in the fall to advantage and profit- ' Every Farmer, Market Grower and Gardener should have a copy of this catalog. It is the best and most com plete fall seed catalog issued. . Mailed free. Write for it T.W.WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen, - Richmond, Va. Spurs for Pou'trymen Keep all moldy, musty litter away from fowls, as well as musty feeds. They breed disease. Now is a good time to sow rape and rye for the ponltry during tne winter, Don't neglect this. Watch the late-hatched chicks for lice and mites. If any are lurking around, at all, they will Beize upon the smallest chicks in tun torce. Try some fall chicks. A few dozen hatched in August and Sep tember will greatly reduce the feed bill of the hens during moult, when they hardly pay tneir feed with eggs. It is a good plan to remove the chicks as hatcned, in very warm weather, and keep them away from the hen until she is throagh unlett ing, as she is more restless in warm weather, and may kill the chicks. Begin to look out for your best fowls and decide at what fairs and shows you will exhibit them. It will pay you to do this. If you don't win the first snowing, you may learn why you did not, which may be worth more to you. Early fall and late summer are good seasons to buy stock. Many breeders raise more than thev can conveniently carry over winter, also breeding stock of the past season is often put on market at a very low hgure in the late summer. Keep hen with chicks in a shady shed, or brooder house, until a week old, then turn on range, keeping iren water before them, and they make very rapid growth, with less feed than in the early spring season, more plentiful now. If you have surplus fowls, don't fail to advertise them now soon, as over-crowding is one great cause of diseases among fowls. Give them plenty of roosting room, otherwise they will become heated, and then take cold, of ten resulting in croup. The best remedy I have found for head lice, (and I have them ex terminsted on my entire flock) is a touch of grease on heads, then dust, thoroughly a few days after with "Black r lag insect powder. I tried many powders, but this I found did the work. For body lice, dust chickens thoroughly at dusk. Don't spare the kerosene oil if any mites are on roosts. Pour it over roosts, and rub with a cloth saturat ed with the oil under the poles; then, to make a complete work, examine every fowl, and if any are on it, there will be some at the knee, where the feathers begin. A mix ture of 2 parts lard and 1 of ker osene, with a little sulphur added, ruobed around, the knee, then the fowl dusted well with above men tioned powder, will destroy the mites. Bnt if they have gotten a strong hold, tLis process should be gone over every May as long as one mite can be found. It is only by per. sistence that these parasites can be entirely overcome. Mrs. J. 0. Dea- ton in Progressive farmer. The Rexall $1 watch is guaran teed for one year. Standard Drag Co. ' Say It Now Speak the kind word, do the kind act, Ere the years have onward sped. Give me all the love and sunshine While I'm living, not when dead. Tell me I have made life brighter, By the loving words I've said, Tell me I have cheered and helped you While I'm living, not when dead. Oft the way is rough and lonely, And my wounded heart has bled; Cheer me when the way is dreary, Love me now, not wnen I'm dead. In the grave there in no heartache, We'll forget where sorrows led. Speak some words of hope and com fort While I'm living, not when dead. Tell me I've been true and faithful, Tell me now ere life is fled; In the grave I oannot hear you, ' Say it now, not when I'm dead. Everywhere. JUST ONEx WORD that word U It refers ts Dr. Tutt's Liver Pills and MEANS HEALTH. Are you constipated? ' Troubled with Indigestion? Sick headache? . Vlrtlgo? -Bilious? Insomnia? ANY of these symptoms and maay others indicate inaction of the LIVER. mm Teke No Substitute.1 Former Randolph Woman Writes Interesting; Letter. Mr. Editor : Not long ago some of my articles found their way into your columns that did not win a welcome response. 1 co not know how I know this unless by psycho logical impression. I have heard that in shooting a crokinole chip, if the chip strike a post, it will hurt the finger. Now, since it is not un til after the chip leaves the hand that it has a chance to strike a post, the injury to the finger becomes a psychological mystery. 1 knoir when my articles ' strike things" on their way out into the world by a sort of backward move ment like the "kick" of a rifle. I like it, because when I feel the wiggle of the arrow I know I have hit the spot. But when there is that dead insinuating quiet after the first ambitious swish of the message, 1 know that it has missed its mark, and I feel faint and sick with dis appointment. 1 felt this faintness on sending the articles to The Courier last fall. Now, it may be that I was conscious of not having done my beBfc. I was too busy to write, but feeling a deep sense of obligation to my home pa per, and incidentally to its readers (with the belief that what the editor accepted would be of interest to his readers), I made an effort to write. I chose my subjects from life as 1 saw it then from my point of view. cut soon 1 began to note a differ. ence between my writing and the general tone of tbe paper, and there fore my failure to reach the heart of things in Randolph, I began to wonder if I had grown beyond Ran dolph ideals, or had Randolph ideals grown beyond me. 1 soon decided, however, that the fault was with me I had simply failed to touch the popular note. This at a time when amid all the hustle and bustle of "rolling the wheel" Randolph people oould not hear faint sounds, and so myj"fiddling" was not noticed, I am sorry that I had not seriously studied the situation there. I should have been chagrined to have been told that I had not, and vet I did not fully realize as I do now t.iat material progress is the con trolling thought in Randolph today as well as in the whole South. While I had been writing about the stars, the bluebird's wing, and the pallor of a woman a cheek. Randolph was talking, thinking, dreaming, breathing progress. While I was plodding along gazing at the sky and trying to solve the mystery of the Pleiades, Randolph was bedding close to the road, reach. ing out long elastic limbs toward material succeBS.. I was like the preacher who wont to the house of a widow in sore need of the bate nec essaries of life ; got on his knees and prayed until the veins Btood out on bis forehead, and drops of sweat rolled down his face, for Qod to bless her physically, mentally, spir itually, and every other way, but made no promise of material gifts which he could so well hajve afford ed from his overflowing bins. As he arose from his knees feeling, no doubt,, that he bad done his best for her, tbe widow in her extremity wailed out pitifully, ' Lord send po tatoes." A short, humble prayer but to tbe point. I always did like the stars any way, since my earliest remembrance, when my mother pointed out Orian to me (she called it Job s coma) and I may have worked upward a little too much in my writing for The Courier. When, however, I listened in conscious pride for the effect of my soaring, there rolled up in my ears the groan of Randolph people, "0 Lord Bend potatoes." I took the hint, whether the preacher did or not, and I have been searching my bins for potatoes. Potatoes are extremely humble goods, but very necessary to every dinner table, and I should be sorry indeed to find that I had none. . The first bin I searched had some' thing about going back home in it. The "Back Home" movement is a good proposition, and should be en couraged in every possible way. If a man has met Buccess in the North or West it is a good reason for want. li g hrm in the South, for the South needs those who have learned the lea. sons of thrift and industrv. The re. sources of the North and West have been discovered and are being han died to their extent every day by their home industries. Tne south em man who has gone West is not needed to build up the West nor to handle its material. But the great resources of the South are only yet dimly snspected ; the greatness and wealth of tbe possibilities only half recognized. And therefore the Southern man who has gone WeBt is needed back borne to handle the South's material and to help in the great push forward. It must be understood that the South is going forward whether we push it or not, bnt it will look better if we push. We shall have our reward, for it will look better if we push. We shall have our reward, for it still re mains for men of brains and thrift to discover the South in all its pos How to be Young; at 103 "Man is the only animal on the face of the earth who cooks his food and therefore destroys its value," Dr. Robert Bell said, in t lecture on "Man a Natural Diet." "If only we , would take a lesson from wild ani-' male by adopting the diet which na ture has provided for us, we should . have a better, healthier and longer life." Bnt Dr. Bell does not advo. cate that mere man should imitate the tiger in the manner of his meals , "Ail flesh diet should be banned," he says, "and our food should con-, sist entirely of vegetables, fruits, cereals, and these cooked as little as possible. Dr. Bell would have , children brought up in this way. lie believes that children would 1 be satisfied with whole-meal bread, raw vegetables and fruit for their dinner and would never crave for any other food if they were informed that it was good for their health and conducive t o a green old age. Dr. Bell strongly recommends raw peas aB a delicious and a ' healthy dish. But he does not be lieve that nature intends man to eat grass; his teeth are not adapted to it. The lecturer added that every hu man being ought to attain an age of at le-st one hundred and twenty eight years. "That there are so few centenarians among us," he said, "can certainly be attributed to our going against nature's decrees." As a result of a quarrel over a ool game in Greensboro one day ast week, Prank Hudson lies danger. ously' wounded in St. Leo's Hospital and Willie Busick is in jail await ing the outcome of Hudson's inju ries. Both Hudson and Busick are boys' of sixteen. In baying eoaah medicine, doa't be afraid to get Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. There is no danger from it, and relief m sure to follow. Especially recommended for coughs, colds and whooping cough. Sold by all dealer. , , . ... sible greatness and glory. To many of ns wanderers going back will mean a new realization of our losses there ; it will mean heart ache and regret, but we believe we are brave enough to choke down the sobs, and bunk back the tears and riBk it. We'll wade in weeds up to cur hips, if aeed be, to find tbe place where we nsed to play. We'll clear the old Bpring of moss and leaves that we may drink once more at the only true fountain of youth. Maybe same of ns would pull off our shoes and wade in the branch if we thought it would induce the same old craw- - fidb, or his great, great grandchild to take hold of 'our toes. And if stealing to the watermelon "patch" by moonlight could coniure up the frosty sweetness of the old days, we might even stoop to that. Ob, yes, we're going back, no matter how many heartaches it costs us. Time has produced changes for us all per sonally that are full of sadness. But for the South as u people all changes have been for tne better. The South has been gathering strength -and knowledge through all the . years that have pasBed, and losing none of its hospitality and great heartednesa. Let us go back and see if this is trne. ' Here ia my next . bin I find some, thing about good roads. Is that a wornout subject ? No matter, you should not hear the last of it until you get them. And I'm sure the subject is not more wora out than your roads were when last I travel, ed them. If I remember correctly when I wanted to board the train at Asheboro, my brother took me winding throagh the woods all the way to avoid risking his buggy, his horse's legs, and our tempers by go ing the road. Maybe tnac was tbe ' time I saw a mau'd hat in one of the worst places with a placard on it stating that the man had gone on , down. I hope he was one that was ; against good roads, but the chances , . are that he was an innocent victim. I believe I understand that no w by some different administration, perhaps the roads ate better than , they used to be. I am not sure , about this, Lot having traveled your roads for almost five years. But it is a reoognized fact that no country cai be first class with mud canals for roads. Where is the pleasure '. of going anywhere, even if you do have goed carriages, good , horses, and good clothes to wear, if there ia danger of breaking your carriage, killing your horses and taking a mud bath yourself before yon reach home ? Mud baths are said to be , beneficial, for rheumatism, but one does not want to take them-with his clothes on. To my mind your- . roads are the wont drawbacks to tbe "Go South"movement in existence, and public-spirited, influential citi. sens Bhould not allow the country to rest until you get good roads. When I come again perhaps I. can find some new potatoes in my bins, but von. see I wanted to use -up the old ones first for economy's sake. . ,. : Yours truly, . Ida Ikgold Master. ir . " 1 -wj lias V
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