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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-02-24
STRING GowNINa.

The general plan of spring gowning
is most attractive, especially in the
realm of costumes designed for gen.
eral uses. The advance models are
artistic and stylish, with but few ex.
aggerations or grotesque effects and
with great scope for selection, both in
fabrics and styles, Skirts are still in
severe tailor style, or trimmed to suit
personal preference, individual forms
and special occasions. They are in
circular form or shaped, with few or
many cores, as the case requires, one
of the new models having a single
gored front breadth and two very wide
ones that reach to the back and join
there on bias seam. Regarding
bodices, few are simple in outline
and effect, but the majority are intri-
cate in design and elaborately decora-
ted.
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caches, eating and drinking places,
lounging places and resorts of every
color and complexion calculated to
offer opportunity to idle and lazy men.
A recent visitor to the island, describ
ing the habits of the men and their
unspeakable Incidence, says this of the
towns resorts end their habitues:
'fThe men luxuriate IN the cafes or
spend their evenings in worse places.
A brief period OF the morning only is
given to business, the rest of the day
and night to meeting and lassitude,
smoking and luxurious ease. Evidences
of safety, languor and dullness, the
weakened capacity for enjoyment, are
sadly conspicuous, the inevitable Sc
quence of Incidence and vice. The
arts and scIences seldom disturb the
thoughts of such people.
"The pretentious town house is side
by side with the humble quarters of
the artisan. High life and low life are
ever present in strong contrast, and in
the best OF humor with each other,
afrordlng elements OF the picturesque,
if not of the beautiful. Neatness must
be ignored where such human con-
glomeratlon exists, and, as we all
know, at certain seasons of the year,
like dear, delightful, dirty Naples,
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v..lv-.-::.s- t:S--Saoiaf II ICu
to your poultry occasionally.
The "best COW" must be one that
will properly assi:nilate and convert
her food into milk.
SQUADS are ready for market as soon
as they are we'll feathered just efore
they leave their nest.
Provide your poultry with q warm
coop and good scratching place II
you want eggs this winter.
White Wyandottes 10y brown shelled
eggs as rule. They are equal to Ply
mouth Rocks in this respect.
In order to secure satisfactory re-
suits it is customary to mate cockerels
with hens, and cocks with pullets.
Never use kerosene on the body of
d fowl. Lard alone is sufficient. All
greasy substances will soil the feathers
The Plymouth Rock, according to
the Standard, should have five points
on the comb, but six points are al
lowed.
A horn colored beak does not dis
qualify Plymouth Rock pullet. There
are but few females of that variety
free from such beaks.
Many dairymen hare succeeded in
getting their herds up to an average
Of 800 pound of butter per COW per
year. All should strive for it.
Careful analysis and digestion tests
made at the Massachusetts State Ex-
pertinent Station have failed to note
any material difference in the feeding
value of selected spring and winter
wheat bran.
In the corn belt corn is the cheapest
dairy food, but it can't be used exclu-
sively. 1t has too large proportion
of the starchy elements, ard should be
fed with bran, oats, and other flesh
forming foods.
Brahma Bantams are most delightful
birds to keep. They are of happy and
contented disposition, capital layers
and sitters and most careful and atten'
tive mothers. The chicks are robust
and easy to rear.
Look out for those commission firms
that solicit consignments OF butter,
cheese and other farm products offer
ing q price above the market. They
often prove to be frauds that fail to
make any returns rather than bigger
ones.
Cows must be examined as to theil
individual qualifications. 1t is moi
always the heaviest mixer that is the
most valuable. There is marked
difference in the amount of milk and
butter different COWS will make from
100 pounds of food.
In the creameries of Australia and
New Zealand it is the general rule to
heat the milk before separating to
from 100 to $50 degrees. This Ii
practically pasteurizing both the
cream and the skim milk before skim
ming and may be one reason why Aus
tralian butter is 60 satisfactory to the
English markets.
A warm, convenient "barn base
ment" furnished with water, and oil
adjoining silo, and containing one
Thousand bushels of beets and man
Colds, some for every animal on the
farm, except the dog and cat, and no
even excluding the chickens, Evil
make COW laugh in winter" as m!
grandfather used to say in regard t.
The wisp of hay his hand rake Voul'
CLEAN while crossing the hay field, Ant
if q herd of cattle laugh often you ma.
be sure they will grow fat.
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RECIPES.

Baked Spring Lamb Chops-Season
and cover with egg and bread crumbs.
Bake in the oven until brown, and
serve with green peas or tomato sauce.
If winter lamb chops are used, it is
we'll to pour melted butter on them
the day before using, and to scrape it
off before dipping in the egg.
Potato Salad-fake four or five
good-sized toiled potatoes, mash and
add one-half teacup of cream or milk
and beat until light. Season with salt,
pepper, celery seed and one small
onion, chopped fine. Put one-half
teacup of vinegar in a saucepan, and
when nearly to boiling point stir in
two well-beaten eggs. Stir constant
ly until it thickens, then pour over
the potatoes, beating all well togeth-
er. Put in salad dish and garnlsh with
celery leaves or parsley.
Grilled Almonds-Blanch o cupful
of almonds and dry thoroughly. Boil
one cup of granulated sugar with
quarter of cup of water until it
"hairs;" then throw in the bianched
almonds. Let them cook in this sirup,
stirring them occasionally, until they
become delicate golden brown be-
fore the sugar changes. As soon as
the sugar commences 20 take on
color, quickly take the pan from tho
fire and stir the almonds rapidly until
The slrup has turned back to sugar and
clings irregularly to the nuts
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There is no city in the world where
noise-pure noise, made for its own
sake and nothing else-reigns as su.
preme as in Havana. At daybreak all
the bells in the city are rung furiously.
Church bells, fire bells, public bells
and private bells unite with one &C.
cord to produce discord calculated
to drive civilized man mad. Add to
this the growing of game cocks, with
which the town is oTerstocked for
gambling purposes; the rattle of in
Vulnerable cabs and public convey
ances. the clangor OF gongs on etreet
car lines, electric and otherwise, and
the general roar to which every
waking Havanese adds his mite, and
the city, even in the time of most
slumbrous peace, can we'll be supposed
to surpass any other town of 100000
population in the world.
The populace of Havana, at least in
times of peace--and this accounts for
its disquietude in times of Rar-is es.
sentially gay. This accounts for the
number and variety of che cafes,
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salt is all dissolved in the mass of
butter, there is only about half ounce
of salt to the pound, and if more, 1t is
salt grains undissolved, which in no
case con do the butter any good.
All this simpli6es what we have to
say. There may be better churns than
the revolvers, barrel or box, but if so,
the best experts have failed to find
them. The best churnlng cream is
that which carries fully thirty-three
per cent. OF actual butter fat, and such
cream churns out the "cleanest" at
ffty-two degrees. But these are
figures that properly belong to separa-
tor work. Fill the barrel churn o
little less than half full of well mixed,
slightly acid cream, and if in summer,
it IS to be presumed at fifty'eight de-
grees.
The time to commence to salt the
butter is just before the cream begins
to distinctly break, at which point a
couple of quarts Of fair brine at fifty
eight degrees should be added to the
cream to break up the casein and help
to liberate the fats. AS soon as the
cream has come into distinct grains of
butter add gallon of water at fifty.
five degrees for each two gallons of
cream and agitate slightly, and within
few minutes draw out the fluid with
out disturbing the mass OF butter on
the surface. Repeat the washing, but
it is we'll to dissolve little salt in this
second wash; some say it is to prevent
dissolying out the flavor. Let this,
after mixing, run off as thoroughly as
it can without utassistance. "Guess" an
ounce OF salt to the pound of butter
as it lies on the bottom OF the churn
and sprinkle on. Stir it up with
little wooden fork, gently, lifting up
tie butter as the sailing proceeds, the
objects of which, lifting up the butter
as faky as possible, to facilitate the
even distribution of the salt. Put on
the cover and churn the butter into
Jumps, and then with the fork break
them up and churn again with slow
swing as at the start. Place the Eutter
on clean worker, and with fat roller
press cut any surplus moisture and
pack into some of the fancy packages
at once. The butter worker is not neces-
sary as the churn can do it oil.
This butter should be, salted
as nearly as possible at fifty-fve de-
grees. II it should not work we'll it
will be on account of the temperature,
which can be raised little, or low
ered if too soft. There is much in the
COW and thn rl-E@7tI- Is t4,n
.es7s,; 1tGt mls = .slsG latc accounJ.
GuU methods rasrd 81 SIS. 'iH case.
From iha wczkss pack directly sr
.eigE, i1r with -,'''2 ea!f'gg o..Ga but
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1t is certainly not American, and
yet there is nothing like ii in Europe.
1t is intensely Cuban, and type of
itself. In general view the town
presents churches, eathedrals and other
structures that force themselves into
prominence against the background of
less imposing houses. There is moth
ing in this crest extent oi public build
ings that strikes one as being specially
valuable from an architectural point
of view, and even if there were its
beauty would be entirely subordina-
ted by colossal prison near the shore,
which was built fer the purpose OF
having capacity to lodge with ease q
matter of 5000 prisoners at time.
The city is divided into two parts,
called ths intramural, or old town,
which lies between the bay and the
site of the ancient walls which have
fallen into decay and have been used
for ON upbuilding Of the new city, aud
the extramural town, consisting OF the
new city, which lies beyond the site
of the old walls aud is more or less
modern in its architecture. The
streets of the old town are laid out in
fairly regular order, and are pretty
well paved. But these thoroughfares
are narrow in the extreme, with side
walks barely wide enough for one
pedestrian. The streets of the new
city, although laid only in macadam,
are wider, airier and fringed on either
side with pretty palm trees, giving the
town a garden-llke aspect.
The architecture of the dwelling
houses is heavy, and this gives them an
appearance of old age which they
really do not deserve. The material
used in their building is the porous
stone which abounds in the island,
and which, when first quarried, is as
easily worked into blocks as wood, but
which becomes as hard as granite when
exposed to the atmosphere. The
facades OF the houses are generally
covered with stucco, painted in all
colors. Blues, yellows and greens nre
used indiscriminately, and the visitor
is at once unplessantly struck by the
bizzare effect, but soon learns to ap
preciste the nice manner in which this
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-02-24
COST OF MILK PRODUCTION.

Professor Wing, of Cornell, in his
summary, closing bulletin No. so, on
''Cost of Milk Production" says:
Our records of the herd for the year
seem to warrant the following conclu-
sions:
1. With fairly good herd, care
fully fed and kept, milk can be pro-
duced for sixty-fve cents per hundred
weight, and fat for sixteen cents per
pound for the cost of food consumed.
2. That individuals OF the same
breed vary moro widely in milk and
butter production than do breeds
themselves.
8. The larger animals consumed less
pounds of dry matter per thousand
pounds live weight per day than did
the smaller animals.
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and his shoes are blacked. The

and his shoes are BACKED. The men
are not as well set up as the Ameri'
cans. In fact. the men are not as
robust as our countrymen. They are
sallow and thin. 1t may be the climate,
and it may be the excessive smoking.
With all his politeness and kind
ness, the Havana citizen looks ON the
American as legitimate prey. If you
have the misfortune to be of that
nationality your fate is sealed. You
cannot hide your identity. You walk
too fast and you are too straight.
Even the very children on the street
recognize you. The boatman charges
you 80 cents, when the ordinary price
is only 90. Figures on fruit AID all
merchandise rise alarmingly when the
American approaches.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-02-24

dimension arranged on the front seam
in deep plaits and on the back seam in
close gathers. All seasonable fabrics
will develop by either of these models.
New sleeves in last years bodice
means q wonderful transformation.
With the aid of q well-ftting pattern
old. fashioned sleeves may be readily
modified. TO make these sleeves for
lady in the medium size it will re-
quire one and three eighths yards for
No., l design, and one and fve.eig hths
val DIS for No. 2 design, of forty-four'
inch material.
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-.s.ssccs 1naus more nourlsnIng.
We have known of many casea where
children mot OF poor parents, eitneIj
have been ashamed to open their lunch
basket before the others, its contents
being 80 meager and uninviting-left
covers, anything that happened to be
cooked. This is all wrong; it is but
o trife more work to prepare them
nice lunches, cooking the articles on
the previous day while getting dinner.
OF bread and butter there should be
plenty, and cold meat as often as pos
sible; veal or beef loaf are nice lunch
dishes and are very Inexpensive;
smoked fish, salmon, halibut or even
herring is good for an occasional re-
lish; hard-boiled eggs are nice once
in O while, also cottage cheese,
moulded in cups. Nice sandwiches
may be made from odd bits of meat or
fish chopped tine ana moisSsned with
salad-dressing. When chickens come
upon the bill of fare, save some of the
wings and forelegs that are the favor
ite pieces for the majority of children;
they will enjoy them the next day at
school.
There are many wholesome and ap-
petizing dishes that may be taken
from any modern cook book. Health.
full dalnties, such as sponge cake, gra.
ham waters, cream gingerbread, oat
meal cookies and fruits, should be
provided instead OF rich pastries.
Baked apples and cup custards are
nice, also small cups of jelly (beef e1-
tract cups are about the right sizel
will be appreciated; cranberry and
apple.sago iellies are very appetizing,
and at the same time inexpensive.
Always provide napkins paper ones
will do. and they are sold as cheap as
12S cents per hundred. Paraffine paper
is capital for keeping bread, cake, etc.,
fresh, and it can be used several times.
Small tin boxes are convenient for
packing meat or fish. If child's up
petite fails, as is often the case in the
spring time, have the lunches pre-
pared out of her sight, and have "sur-
prises" as often as possible. New
England Homestead.
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LADIES' WAIST WITH zoUAvE JACKET AND SWISS BELT.

skirt. It is cut with circular fronts
and sides, while the back is gored and
arranged at the top in plaits turning
towards the centre-back in fan shape.
The lower edge has three rows of
braid; similar braid being carried
down the seams of the front gore to
form deep pointed tabs. The free edges
of the bolero and cuffs are also outlined
with braid.
To make this waist for q lady in the
medium size will require two and one'
half yards of forty-four-inch wide ma
terial.
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BUTTER Sailing.

Salt IS a question of taste on the
part of the consumer, thing to bring
out the flavor little sharper. 1t is
not preserver of butter, says John
Gould in Ohio Farmer.
10 salt butter so that it will suit
every one Is difficult thing to do.
Nv way viii! not suit some other butter
maker who makes No. butter, and
his will not agree with my views. But
however we may do it, it is simply ono
OF many ways to get dissolved salt
evenly through the mass, and it the
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-02-24
CALF FEEDING EXPERIMENTS.

Calf feeding experiments at some of
the European stations resulted in
greater gains in weight when the
calves were fed from a good artificial
feeder instead of from pail. The
latter system does not prevent up
pearance Of diarrhea, but dlminishes
the number of cases. A simple calf
feeder is much used in this country
a pail or box with big rubber teat
attached. New England Homestead.
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spain,s Long Line of Soverefgns.

The present King of Spain is
Alphonso Kill, who succeeded tc the
throne in the year of his birth, 1886.
There is perhaps no country on the
globe which can boast OF longer
line CT soyereigns than Spain. From
71a down to the present time Spain
has been ruled by no less than lS0
kings. This extraordinary number OF
sorereigns is explained by the fact
that up to the union of Ferdinand and
Isabella the empire was divided into
several dependent monarchies.
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mereor albatross that can be had in
exquisite shades of lilac, cornfower
blue, green or pink. Dove-gray cash.
mere lined with rose-pink would be
excesdlrgiy effective and inexpensive.
One lsxquisite model seen was of ben
galinIb rl deep dull red. The lining
was oi maize brocade, showing q
grouild Of tina faintest shade of green
interviewer with flowers in the same
warm tint of red. The garment was
cut il the three quarter length.
Tosmake this cloak for lady in the
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oBIspo. THE PRINCIPAL BUSINESS STREET IN HAVANA.

cavalry, artillery, officers. You cam
not walk five steps without meeting
one. All these distinctive raiments
are neat, but look cheap beside the
dress of United States soldier or
marine. The cloth resembles cambria
and is,porous and cool. However, it
fits the wearer well heis always clean,
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1EwE1En ORNAMENTS.

Every article of ornament and ap-
parel that can beisjeweled this season.
Amethysts are the favorites. Belts,
buckles and girdles areieweled, or IN
fashionable. Hat pins are also
jeweled; in fact, this season one
hay use as many ieweled ornaments
is one desires,
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.CUBA'S METROPOLIS.
GAY AND NOISY HAvANA's PIT
TURESQUE SIGHTS. /.
The Handsome IIarbor and Its De-
fenses-The Cit,'s Architecture
Many Parks and Cafes-Sol-
diers Seen Every Where.

II T AVANA has long been reok.
M oned the eighth commercial
city of the world. MORO
Castle, with its Dahlgren
guns peeping ont through the yellow
stones,and its tall sentinel Lighthouse,
stands guard over the narrow entrance
of the harbor; the battery of La Pun
ia on the opposite shore answering to
the Moro. 1t is proud and a strong
fort, but its defense, declares the
Chicago Times Herald, is merely a
matter of sentiment. With such ar
mament as Havana has, an invading
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HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
GOOD MUTTON.

Mutton must be chosen by the ffm-
ness aud fneness of the grain, its color,
ard the firm white fat. Lamb that
has been killed too long can be dis.
covered by examination Of the veins
in the neck. These are blueish when
the meat is fresh, but green when it IS
stale. In the hind quarter, the point
to examine is the knuckle, which is
not firm when the meat is not per-
fectly fresh.
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MoRRo CASTLE, ENTRANCE TO HAVANA.

apparently c,azy and unsystematic
laying on of color harmonizes with
the glowing tropical atmosphere. This
colorirg of the house fronts IS not
witaont reason, in fact. 1t has been
found to absorb much OF the n'srays,
which, without this disadvantage,
would work serious injuries to the
eyes.
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THAT COLD DINNER.

Farmers children who have to walk
q mile or more to school should be
provided with substantial lunches,
especially in winter time. Buttered
bread, cake and cookies are INSULT
ciept nourishment after the long morn
ing walk and three hours of study;
the afternoon session and homewsrd
walk sharpens up their appetites, and
as rule they go straight to the pan
try as soon as they get home, eat an
other cold lunch and consequently
spoil their supper. 1t is not strange
that SO many country children, who
should be the most vigorous, have
stomach troubles before they are in
their teens.
Mothers should make special study
of cold dinners, having them as varied
and nourishing aspossible, and besides
this, have tho children's supper early.
This will be convenient in winter, for
we alllike our evening meal at 3 o'clock,
but it summer it necessitates an extra
meal, especially when the supper is to
be hearty-for digestion should be
we'll begun before the early bed hour.
Az first ii will seem nnita-a task, bnt
oua 9is s,Oa become nssd - IT. and
il ,lgs II ths end IA laying e9i haT-
vssting, especially wien ez.ca neip 70
,;.a5, Is much nicer tas The lcother
a5- 81! 4sa 70 Aage their sea hefof~
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as lives in Havana is fostered and in
which state balls occur.

which state balls occur.
The glory OF the new city lies IN its
splendid streets and the we'll ordered
vegetation that has been cultivated
along their lines. The churches are
without number and are enthusiastic
ally filled on Sundays and holidays.
On these occasions unusual demonstra.
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feet could be held out OF the bay. The
castle is REINFORCED by the long range
of cannon and barracks on the city
side, and the massive fortress OF the
Cubanos crowning the hill behind the
Morfo. All these are decorated with
the red and yellow flag of Spain. So
many strong Notifications show how
important the home government re-.
CARDS the place.
The harbor of Havana compares
faYorably with the most famous in the
world. Infinitely more picturesque
than New York Bay, it is much live
lier in MARITIME interest than that of
the Golden Gate. The bay is shaped
like human hand cutstretched. with
the wrist as the entrance. It is popu-
lous with ships from almost every Ma
tion or earth. The one idea it i'm
presses is that of activity. European
and American mail steamers come and
go daily. Coasting steamers and the
boats of the regular lines from Mex
leo and the islands of the Caribbean
seek the bay. and great ferries ply be.
tween the docks of the city and the
Relga shores. There is also a feet of
sailing boats, yachts gathered from all
over the world, row boats, and what