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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-07
TEA-TASTING AS A CALLING.
Tasters Live to Ripe Old Age II They Let
Liquor Alone.

Tasters Live to Ripe Old Age II They Le
Liquor Alone.
New York Evening Post.
Down in the districts of the tea ano
coffee warehouses, in the neighbor
hood of the foot of Wall street, mer
chants, brokers and clerks will laugh
at you when you ask them if the con
stant tasting of tea and coffee does moi
dry up their systems and shorten their
lives. Tea-tasting was alleged to have
FASTENED the death of man in the
district this week.
"Do look as though my life had
been short?" asked one elderly man
with gray hair and spectacles in re-
sponse to this question. His move.
ments were spry and active, and his
eyes as bright as those of many man
not half as DID, He was sitting at q
small round table in a little front room
on the ground floor of one of the
larger tea houses. Near at hand on
gas range several teapots were steam
ing merrily, and tea sets, cups, sau,
GERS and trays complete, hung in ir'
reproachable order in cupboards within
reach.
ave been in the business nearly 30
years, a good share of that time a
faster. said be, "and there's DO signs
of decay yet. I'll tell you what it is.
Anyone who sticks to tea and coffee
will live to be an old man. It's the
stuff called rum that does the busi-
ness. If you will look closely into the
history of these men whom doctors
say die from the effects of tea and cof-
fee drinking you will find they drank
other kinds of liquids besides. OF
course, there are cases of persons who
drink tea to excess, just the same as
there are other kinds Of excesses. But
we call that u disease.
"In our case there is always the dan
ger of poison. Copperas, used in COL
oring cheap teas, is a menace to a
faster; but one gets to be able to tell
cheap brands before harm is done.
Carelessness in tasting and an overin-
diligence in strong drink, overtaxing
the stomach with stimulant, are always
disastrous. Come around 10 years
from now, and if I don't get hashed
up by surface cars, I'll be here to tell
you more about it,"
A coffee broker, who was one OF the
first men on the street to begin the
"tastiDg" of coffee, was the only one
who admitted that "tasting" had at
fected him.
"Fifty years ago." he said, "tea was
the only commodity tasted by sam
piers. Coffee was then inspected by
the eye only. But now, when compe-
tition is so close, buyers are very par
ticular, and employ 'tasters,' whose
Judgment on the particular brand OF
berry under inspection is final. This
has only been done since 1885. First
we have to roast the green berry.
That is the first stage of the test, and
then we steep a handful to make coffee
for tasting Very few men swallow
it, for so much strong coffee at irregu-
lar intervals through the day has a
very bad effect upon the system. You
see it's a trick of the trade to know
how to taste it. There are few
know of that it has affected; but I've
been in the business over 25 years and
I'm alive yet"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-07

fection. Don't you think that would dc
for us9 You know we cannot have 8
place too quiet until we are through the
book.
e"I think it would do splendidly
Couldn't we telegraph today and GO
down tomorrow Have we any engage,
ments3"
"We have no dinners; nothing that
we couldn't easily break"
"Have we the address Of the innf"
"Oh, yes; it is called the Powya
Arms
She rang the bell and then went to
the writing table to get the book Of tel
egraph forms.
II must send wire to Miss Win
nington. OF course. if she is not quite
able to come tomorrow. she might come
down the day after, which perhaps
would be rather better Oh, John, we
are going down to Cornwall tomorrow
for week or two. I want you to send
some kilograms off at once and to ar
range all Mr.. Stacey's things"
Every good. ma'am. You will take
the machines DOWN."
"Oh, yesl And what about your fish
ing rod, Alan9 There is very good fish
ing down there, so the Dugdales said. ,
"Then l had better take my tackle. ,
"Will this do, Alanf Have you
rooms vacant, two bedrooms, two sit
ting roomsH Wanted for tomorrow Re-
ply paid.
"That will do. 'tsaid he.
She scribbled also message to Miss
Wilmington. and when John had de-
parted and she was looking down the
engagement book to see whether any
notes of excuse would be necessary Alan
Stacey got mp and began walking rest
lessly about the room. At last he stop
ped in front of her table.
"What are you doing now9" he
asked.
~ was just looking whether should
have to write to any one-excuses, you
know"
He stood with his hands thrust deep
down into his trousers pockets eying
her approvingly.
"You're a wonderful little woman,
Mary" he said in very tender tone.
She smiled at at him and put out her
hand to touch his.
"I'm glad you think 3d." she said in
rather a quavering voice.
"Oh, my dear, my dear, l always
think sol" he said passionately. "1t was
the luckiest day of my life when I met
you"
"And what" said she. "do you
think that it must have been for me2"
She was at that moment on the very
point of breaking down and telling him
everything Then the sound Of the sob
in her own voice frightened her. No,
che could not, must not dared not tell
him Just now-now, when he had the
weight of a great book upon his mind,
the anxiety of a large contract before
him, when he was in measure nerve
broken and anxious and depressed. No;
she must keep the secret, at least for a
time. 1t would be selfish to do other
wise. She owed it, even if it was sin.
as a small return for all that Alan
Stacey had poured out at her feet. She
owed it to him. In this instance silence
was her duty
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-07

"Well, dear, there's that little place
that the Alec Dugdales went to. They
said the inn was so comfortable and
the cooking so good and the little place
80 primitive and yet 80 sweet, and
boating and fishing and cycling and all
that sort Of thing you could do in per
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-01-18
A CHEAP AND USEFUL FENCE.

tom is as desired. The fence may be
made with three, four or five boards,
according to the use to which it is to
be put. In making three.board
fence, if a barbedIwire is used at the
top, two feet spread at the bottom will
be sufficient, though for taller fence
two and half feet spread will be bet
ter. In setting the fence in a location
where high winds prevail, stake may
be driven in the ground at every third
or fourth panel, set so that it will come
fiat against the boards and be nailed
in that position. Byplacing the lower
board fifteen inches from the ground
and plowing furrow each side Of the
fence, banking it up to the board,
fewer stats will be required. This ar
rangement leaves depression about
eight inches deep three feet from the
fence on either side of it, into which
the animals forefeet will go,and place
him in position where he cannot
readily jump.-Atlanta Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-01-18
Farming From Experience.


Every farmer learns much each
year about his business by the ex-
perience he gains. It is the most
valuable knowledge, provided the
farmer has learned to discriminate as
to the true cause of success or failure.
It will at least teach twice the capacity
of his own soil and location. While
farmers read with interest what other
farmers have done in other localities,
it does not affect them as does de-
cided success OF failure in their own
neishborhood. What one man in
any locality has done others may also
do if they have like soil and condi-
tions. Almost all the special crops
that are grown in certain neighbor-
hoods are the result of experiments
made at first with much doubt, but
when proved success, melting others
to initiate the example. In such case
the pioneer who introduces such crops
benefits the. entire neighborhood
quite as much as himself. He is not
injured by the competition of his
neighbors, for whatever the farmer
grows there, is sure to be so large q
market for it that the production of q
large amount calls purchasers from a
distance, 80 that the farmer can sell
at his O wn doors instead of marketing
his special crop at q distance. An
individual success, no matter on how
extended scale, cannot create such
O home market.-American Cultivator.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-01-18
Indian Espionage.


Every camp of white men in the
Cocopah Country is watched by an
Indian. Captain Newton b. .Chitten-
den, the famous traveller and Indian
archeologist, said that all the time he
was on the desert an Indian or two re-
mained with him at night. he did
not notice the coincidence at first,
but after five or six nights he took
note, and invariably, near sundown,
an Indian would appear. Generally
it was q new Indian, one he had never
seen before. He would ask for sup
per and tobacco, and, after partaking
of the white mans hospitality, would
curl up in his blanket and sleep. The
unfailing regularity with which the
Indians appeared, and always with
the same excuse, that they had been
hunting deer and were belated, ex-
cited Captain Chittenden's suspicion;
but. as the Indians did not harm him,
he did not modest them, but good
nsturedly accepted their espionage
during his stay in their country
New York Sun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-01-18
=" The Cause of Temperance.

The Cause of Temperance.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, which has recently held its conven-
ton at st. Paul, had a paper read before 1t
In which the point was made that, while
the use Of alcoholic liquors had increased
materially in foreign countries, 1t had IN
the last ten years undergone sensible re-
duction In the United States-that is, tax
Ing the number Of our people into account.
The writer Of this paper went on to say that
as during that time there had been no
special agitation in favor Of temperance,
as there had been no conspicuous instance
OF applications Of prohibition laws, the only
reason that could be given for this decrease
In the consumption OF alcoholic liquors IN
the United States was the instruction that
had been given in the public schools as to
the disastrous effects OF alcohol when taken
as u beverage. It seems to US that this Is
one Of those cases Of an entire misconstruc-
tion Of cause. To assume that the character
OF the American people Is being revolution
lied by this class OF instruction IN our pub
lie schools Is wholly ridiculous. We do not
say that the instruction is not OF advan-
tage, but is of only slight advantage, II for
no, other reason because 1t Is only ut
tempted In relatively few localities. Even
II it were general, We should doubt whether
It would be noticeably effective. The cause
for the decrease In the use OF alcoholic
liquors In this country is one which does
not need any anxious seeking. because 1t
Is obvious to any one who considers the
subject in nm unprejudiced manner. It Is
growth Of public sentiment against the e1-
cessive use OF liquor. In European coun-
tries drunkenness is condoned as an offence
Of slight Importance. In the United States
1t is the exceptional family in which the
drunkenness Of one Of the members would
not be regarded with intense horror.
There are few social circles that will freely
admit a person who Is known to be an
habltual drunkard, and even q man who
occasionally drinks to excess loses caste. IN
all but somewhat shady society. The
standard las been set in the upper social
classes, and Is gradually penetrating down
through all Of the middle and lower grades;
hence the time Is not distant when, even
among those who now look on excessive
drinking with liberation, the excessive
drinker will be tabooed rs an unfit asso-
ciate. These social laws and social penal
ties are infinitely stronger and more bind
ing in their character than any law that
LEGISLATURE can enact.-Boston Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-01-18
right.-Emma Clearwaters, in F..--Sa,
Field and Fireside.
For Spring Chickens.


Our modern methods of living aro
changing our farming in many par
ticulars. The demand is now for
early spring lamb and chickens in
February and March. Early spring
chickens have to be raised in tho
winter season, and to do this requires
o certain expert knowledge that is the
price of success.
Spring chickens at fifty cents o
pound are profitable, and even at much
less than this one can find money in
the business. Besides, it gives the
poultry grower work to do at what is
generally considered lazy season of
the year. In feet, there is more
money to-day in raising spring chick
ems and winter eggs than in any other
branch of this business. Those who
stick to the beaten tracks are the ones
who never make o great deal out of
their enterprise. But every one will
not succeed in raisiug spring chick
ems, and it is we'll that this is 80, for
otherwise the business would soon be
overdone. It takes shrewd busines
tact, exact knowledge, to make the
work profitable.
In the first place one must have a
warm house suitable for the chickens.
It does not take large one to accom-
modate 100 chickens, but it must be
warm, we'll ventilated and even in
temperature. This is the first re-
quisite.> The house should be located
so that it will receive the sun through
the glass most of the day. The sit
ters must be selected for their success
in Matching eggs, and those that show
an inclination to neglect the eggs
should be discarded. The sitters must
be fed separately when off the nest so
they will not be bothered and worried
by the others.
The sitting house should be darker
than the main room, and the nests
should be arranged in rows. Each hen
will learn to know her own nest. Water
as we'll as food must be provided the
hens daily. When the chicks are
hatched they must be kept together in
small colonies free from cold winds
and storms. They must be kept grow
ing all the time, and good food, water
and clean surroundings will accomplish
this. Warm mush, bread, oatmeal and
scraps from the table should be their
chief daily diet. New hatchings should
be made all of the time, 80 that
younger chicks will take the place of
those sent to market. It is astonish.
ing how many CON be raised in small
house by Matching out new broods
every two weeks, and by spring one
will find more profit than can be made
from the old chickens all through the
year:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-01-18
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!: ,s4s s,,stss s1ss Tsh uss Thompson's Eye Water
An Argument.

It is the part of every householder,
or any one in authority, public or pri-
vate, to carefully consider orders be-
fore they are given. But after they
are issued it would be suicidal to all
government to argue out the matter
with employe, servant, or child. From
the nature of things, they cannot Judge
the necessity or worth Of the COM
mand it is their part to carry out.
Many funny stories are told OF fresh
" ytrained soldiers and sailors, to whom
the thought was new that their first
virtue was implicit obedience. One
such tale dates back to our Civil War,
and is told for truth by one who over
heard it. A sailor of one of the big
gunboats of the time was notorious for
his lazy habits, rs well as for his in
genuousness in finding excuses for his
careless ways. While seemingly hon
est, he was often hauled up for reprl-
mand or punishment.
The captain, passionate man and
q believer in stern discipline, lost pa
tience with Tom, and when the fellow
was brought before him for the third
time in cne week for some neglect OF
work, he said, angrily,
"What-again, Tom?"
"I'm not here of my own will, Sir: "
began simple Tom.
And poor Tom, finding his efforts to
speak were cut of, at last said, resign
edly:
''Well, captain, have it your own
way. I didn't come here to argue
with you, sir!"
And after that Toms unsympathetic
comrades called on him every day IN
his Imprisonment, which he may have
deserved, but scarcely understood,
and told him that they "did not come
to argue with mimi"
And while Toms story sounds ab.
surd, it is true that many of us are just
as foolish, and take just as long tc
learn the beauty and strength OF ODE
dience.-Harper's Bazaar.
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ExclusiYa BOG Growing.

The rapidity with which q herd of
hogs will increase has been mainly re-
sponsible that growing hogs as bust
ness ought to be exceedingly profit
able. So it is if care is taken to keep
no animals more than o year old un-
less they are kept for breeders, and
to keep all free from disease. 1f.large
numbers of hogs are kept in herd,
and fed mainly on corn or other heating
food, disease is almost sure to occur.
If it were not for this the cheap corn
of the West would long ago have
brought pork prices so low that Eastern
farmers could not produce it for sale.
AS a matter of fact the great majority
of farmers grow only enough hogs to
provide pork for their own use.
Keeping so few most of the, food con-
sumed is refuse that would otherwise
bo wasted. To increase the number
aud thus involve expensive grain feed
ing will increase the work without IN
crease in the profit. Yet there is a
good deal more refuse food at some
times of the year than at others,
and more than hogs sufficient for
the home pork supply can consume.
Wherever farmer finds that he Is
getting overstocked with pigs he can
keep them growing, and keep them
healthy, too, by planting each year a
quarter of an acre in beets, to be used
the following winter when succulent
food is scarce. With such beet
patch grown every year it will be easy
to secure the largest results from all
the grain fed to fatteuing hogs. The
beets also increase the milk flow in
breeding sows, and even the small
pigs will begin to eat them after they
are seven or eight weeks old.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-01-18
why Rubbers Are Considered "Good
Eorn.'o

why Rubbers Are Considered "Good
Form.'"
There was a time, not so many
years back, when it was not quite
fashionable to appear too robust. A
little languor wss considered rather
becoming in young woman. But
that day has passed. The pale, droop-
ing, indoor girl has given way to the
riding, walking, golf-playing girl.
Health has received the seal of fash
ion.
And everything that conduces to
healthis now good form. For instance,
in the matter of wearing rubbers. A
few years ago good many women OBJ
iected to wearing rubbers, on the
ground that they detracted from the
Srim appearance of the foot. But
everybody knows that nothing else
ruins the health as quickly as wet
feet, and the only possible way to have
dry feet-especially in winter-is to
wear rubbers. So rubbers have come
back into style as Indispensable to
good health.
The added fact that .uboers are now
60 much more shapel, and graceful in
their lines than they were a dozen
years ago, and that they are now made
in such infinite variety, has served, OF
course, still further to increase their
popularity.-Harper Bazaar.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-01-18
Improving Old Stables.

There are thousands of old and
poorly constructed stables, sheds and
the like all over the Northern States
in which cattle are kept during the
winter. These are often 50 cold that
the ground freezes solid. Such shell
ter is very inadequate and results
from lack of building material in
many of the prairie States and also
neglect of farmers to provide comfort
able stables even when the material is
at hand. On all farms where grain is
raised these stock barns can be made
comfortable with the straw. If it can
be baled so much the better. Place a
layer of bales on the inside of the
barn wall just as you would lay brick,
omitting of course the mortar. When
the top is reached place board or
rail on the top bales to keep them in
place.
If it is impracticable to have the
straw baled it can still be used with
good results. Build O fence as high
as the wall OF the building five or six
feet outside of it and have it made
comparatively tight by placing the
poles or boards used not more than
one foot apart. Fillin the open space
between the fence and the building
with straw and tramp it down as
solidly as possibly. If fax straw can
be used this makes the best kind of
filling. 1t is impossible for the wind
to blow through this, and the stable
will be as warm as need be.-New
England Homestead.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-01-18
TWO GRATEFUL WOMEN
Restored to Health by Lydia e.
!, Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
"Can Do NY Own Work.
Mrs. PATRICK DANEHY,

Mrs. PATRICK DANEHY,
West Winsted, Conn.,, writes:
T "DEAR Mrs. P1NKHAM:-It is with
pleasure that ! write to you OF the
benefit have derived from using your
wonderful Vegetable Compound. Twas
very i'll, suffered with female weak.
ness and displacement of the womb.
"Icouldnotsleepatnight, had towalk
the floor, I suffered so with pain in my
side and small of my back. Was trou-
bled with bloating, and at times would
faint away; had terrible pain in my
heart, a bad taste in my mouth all the
time and would vomit; butnow, thanks
to Mrs. Pinkham and her Vegetable
Compound, I feel well and sleep well,
can do my work without feeling tired;
do not bloat or have any trouble
whatever.
II sincerely thank you for the good
advice you gave me and for what your
medicine has done for me-"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-01-18
Cllurnin~ Good Butter.

Have just taken out of the churn a
nice batch of gilt-edge butter, and al
though we use milk from but one COW,
we get just such butter at every
churning, and churn three times each
week.
The milk stood twenty-four hours,
then the cream was taken of and put
in the cream jar. Each time cream
was added to the jar the whole was
thoroughly stirred. When the churn-
ing was in the jar a half teacupful of
sour milk and q teaspoonful of salt
was stirred in, the whole set in a
warm place eighteen hours to open.
The churn was scalded with boiling
water, the cream poured in, and after
churning until the cream looked but
terry, which was not more than ten
minutes, the sides OF the churn and
the lids were rinsed with warm water.
The instant the butter formed the
milk was let run off, the butter washed
in cold water until the water ceased
to be milky, the water then let off and
salt in the proportion of an ounce to
the pound of butter was sprinkled
over it.
vt was then taken from the churn to
q platter with q wooden butter ladle,
all the water pressed out and the but
ter formed into square cake.
Proceeding in this way, but little
working is needed, and no second
working is required.
1t probably sounds tedious to some
butter makers, l. II it is not really so.
After one gets accustomed to this way
of doing they can tell exactly when tt
cease churning to have the butter JUS
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-01-18
His Attempt at Socialism.

Arecently appointed vicar in East
Angelica is trying to carry socialism
into practice. SAsserting that others
have with himself an equal right to
what he possesses, he lives in the up
stairs rooms of his parsonage house
and allows the parishioners the run
of the downstairs apartments. Very
few parishioners avail themselves Of
the privilege. The vicar in question
has Just been elected to the board OF
guardians, and his votes on questions
of relief are awaited with Interest,"
London Tt-Bits. :.