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Mexico Missouri message., 1902-03-27

GOV. DoCKERY has joined the
doubling Thomases, predicting
that the Worlds Fair will not be
held in 1908.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-03-27

7hc prices IRE maize on fGym i'm
picmeutS chollenge the credit SyS-
tenn. They cdnnot be met. TRY us.
DeLAPORTE IT. LOTION,
LmdtlOnjd, Mo.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-03-27

GET ready to plant some fruit
trees this spring, aud then look
after those trees, cultivating as care
fully AS YOU would IL corn crop.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-03-27

THAT young man, Walter Burch,
of Laddonia, is certainly coming to
the front as Il debater at the Mis-
souri, University.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-03-27

GET work; it is better than
what you work to get"
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-03-27

THE Martinsburg Enterprise
says that county school supervi-
sion is good thing and thinks it
should be adopted.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-03-27
NEXT Tuesday the school clcc-
tons over the county will be held.

MEXICO will never be what she
should be till there is more en-
ployment for labor here.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-03-27
A, M PATTERSON.

Physician and Druggist, north
west corner Public Square,
Mexico, Mo.
Full line of Staple Drugs and
Druggists Sundries, Patent
Medicines, Dye Stutfs, Etc.
a full assortment of Homoe.
pathic Medicines always Oh
hand These remedies sent by
mail when ordered.
Will do strictly an Office prac-
ticc.
ADVICE FREE.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-03-27

THE papers are still discussing
the postponement of the World
Fair till 1904 or 1905.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-03-27
Mexico Market.

Educate Your Bowels with Cascarets.
Candy Cathartc, cure constipation forever.
ioc CSC, II C. @, c. fail, druggists refund money.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-08-13
The Historical Novel.

Concerning the historical novel
writer in the London Saturday Review
makes few bold assertions, which will
probably call forth several discordant
notes. Among other things he says:
"it is a curious fact that there is
not such a thing as great historic
novel. In drama history has been used
for great, tremendous purposes. No
one can deny greatness to Shakes
peare's Henry w." But no sooner
does an historic novel get on the way
to being great than it becomes dull. 1t
must be amusing or it is nothing. The
fact is if we want to take history seri-
ously, to be interested in it, to get the
true thrill and tragedy of it, we must
60 to those who have seriously studied
it, who understand it, who can make
us understand and feel it. The sheer
story-maker also must have seriously
studied it, must have beeN interested
in it; but his ultimate object is quite
different from the historians. He does
not want to tell the truth; he wants,
as we. have said, to tell story. He
wants adventure, action, romance, the
color and glory of active life lived in
the bright sunlight. So far as the vast
reading public is concerned Hugo is
known only as story-w:iter, and no
one would dream of thinking about Du-
mas as anything else"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-08-13
The Cow to Keen.

Statistics tell us that the average
ter in year, and that to yield profit
to her owner she must produce not less
than 100 pounds. BY this we m'st be-
lieve that the average cow not only
fails to pay her board, but is kept at
considerable loss to her owner. Why
Is this so? The aI;wer is plain; with
too many dairy farmers cow is a
cow. Scrub stock with no particular
breeding is responsible for this state of
Affairs. The crossing of one breed with
another and the progeny passing from
soneS owner to another and being bred
10 anything and everything until their
stdr1ttty'is is lost Is prime cause. 1t is
this kind of stock that is kept on more
than rs percent of the farms of, Maine.
Do not make the mistake of crossing
one breed with another with the expec-
tation of getting something that will
bring profitable returns in both meat
and butter. Select the branch of the
business for which your location is
best adapted, and breed only thorough
breds of the highest type for your par
ticular purpose. Much Of your stock
may then be sold for breeding pur-
poses at about double the price of
grades. If you keep grades, always
make it point to breed to a thorough
bred sire of good ancestry, that high
er standard may be reached.-O. NJ.
Richardson, in Farm and Home.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-08-13
FEARLS OF THOUGHT.

There is fool at every feast
Dutch proverb.
A gold key opens every door,
Italian proverb.
A good conscience is soft pillow
German prov erb.
Industry is the parent Of fortune
German proverb.
There is a remedy for everything
but death.-Spanish proverb.
1t is not enough to :un, ore must
start in time.-French provcrb.
He Hho does not when he can can
not when he will-Itaiian proverb.
Feeling alone can conquer feeling.
A noble passion must be aroused, that
an ignoble one may be mastered
Henry w. Crosskey.
This ought to be our endeavor, to
conquer ourselves, and daily wax
stronger, and to make a further growth
in holiness.-Th A. Kempis.
The heights of spiritual attainmen:
can only be safely reached b! those
who begin low down and mount up
ward by patient continuance in we'll
doing, by daily faithfulness in that
which is least.-C. w. Wellbeloved.
We have friend who knows US
better than we know ourselves, loves
us better than we love ourselves, helps
Us when we cannot help ourselves, for
gives us when we cannot forgive our
selves, and in the midst of our deepest
despair breathes into our heart the
breath of a new and divine hope
James Freeman Clarke.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-08-13
The Luncheon Salad.

Try, for a change, some hot day this
summer, serving the luncheon salad in
a mould OF rice. Put teacupful of
rice that has he we'll washed Into a
kettle of boil. saited water, and
cook fifteen or tI, ehty minutes, or un-
til the rice is perfectly tender. Then
hake from the fire, drain, and toss
through it lightly with silver fork
q teaspoonful Of salt and half-tea-
spoonful of paprica. Mould in ring
mould which has been oiled with a
few drops Of olive oil, and use as A
border, when thoroughly cold, for
salad of vegetables or fish and celery
that has been prepared with a French
dressing and kept chilled on the ice.-
Harper's Bazaar.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-08-13
I have not followed shallow break

have not followed shallow break
ing long enough to speak with absolute
authority, but all of my experience
bears me out in the statement am
about to make, namely, that shallow
breaking does not cause deterioration
Of soil. In all cases where deteriora-
ton followed shallow breaking, 1t waa
because of the careless methods and
slip-Bhod practices of the so-called far
mers, In other words, they plowed shal-
low because it was more easily done,
and did every thing else by the same
rulej and where anything could be left
undone, it was not done at all: This
style Of work OF course precludes the
possibility OF making, saving and ap.
plying any great amount os manure.
This class Of "s0il robbers" inappre.
priately called farmers, fed very little
live stock because 1t was too much
trouble, but hauled every pound OF
wheat; oats, rye, corn, hay and potas
toes that they could spare, to market
And MANY of them did not stop there.
but went from the mill to the. saloon
and filled up on bad 1hiskey and worse
beer. lighted dirty pipe, took chew
of tobacco, and sitting down on dry
goods box proceeded to defile both
the air and the pavement.
The thrifty, energetic, self-respecting
farmer saw these object lessons, and
reasoned that as these men with their
rundown land were failure, to sue
ceed he must work In the opposite tli-
rection, and in the main he was right:
However, in my studies along this lifiei
have arrived at this conclusion, and
am sure you will find it sound. that
no soil should be plowed deeper than
you hive humus Sufficient to make 1t
thoroughly porous and friable. A lively
rich soil must be filled with vegetable
matter. Now it naturally follows that
the deeper you break the soil, the more
vegetable matter it takes to fill it; and
as the vegetable sources are somewhat
limited, it also follows that we can
break deeper than we can supply with
humus. When this occurs, we have a
solid, lifeless, inert mass of soil that
responds very slowly to all our at
tentions with plow and harrow.-A. N.
Springer, in The Epitomist.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-08-13
rnstnn Isrnwn Ercad.

No hot bread is more tempting or
more wholesome than the Boston
brown bread at it's best. To make it
as it is made at home it is necessary
to obtain rye meal in place of the flour
which is ordinarily used, but the re-
suit amply repays the trouble, which
need not be excessive, as the meal can
usually be found at feed stores Of the
larger and better sort Mix together
one and one-half pints of the rye meal
and Of southern corn meal. Stir into
them one teaspoonful Of salt and one
cup of malasses. Mix all together with
one and one-quarter pints of hot milk,
and then add one heaping teaspoonful
of baking soda dissolved in little.
boiling water. Pour into well-buc-
tered mold, cover tightly and steam for
four hours. Serve hot with butter or
cream.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-08-13
Sick Soil,

On highly cultivated farms there is
often good deal of trouble experienc-
ed in what might be called sick soil.
Take for instance the acid soil. 1t is
nothing more nor less than condition
which requires little medicinal treat
Eent in the shape OF treatment with
lime. An acid soil will yield very poor
crops, and sometimes produce nothing
except sorrel and weeds. Sorrel in
abundance if often an indication of
acidity in the soil, but not always
Sometimes these weeds get such a start
on field that they crowd everything
else out, and the farmer concludes that
tits the acidity which causes the harm,
while in reality it is the sorrel. One
sure way to find out whether the soil
Ia too acid is to purchase piece of
litmus paper at the drug store, and
bury it in the soil over night 1t is
better to put several pieces in different
parts Of the field. Then If in the
morning the blue litmus paper is pink
in color, the soil is acid and needs
lime treatment The lime should be
applied in light top-dressings, and if
repeated every years until the soil los
es its intense acidity, the crops will
soon fuorish thereon.
1t is difficult to say what causes the
acidity, but sometimes it is due to nat
ural compositions of the soil, and
again to the heavy feeding of the soil.
Sick soil is more often found in mar
ket gardens where very heavy manur-
ing is resorted to in order to produce
two or three crops year. Subsoils
are frequently over-fed, and they get
congested with more food than they
can assimilale. One of the best rem
edies at such times is to cease manur-
ing for season, and simply dress with
lime and cultivate thoroughly and
many times. BY stirring up the soil
we give the elements chance to con-
vert the food in the earth into some
available form. Frequently sick soils
are nothing else than soils too rich
with food, and cultivation Is what they
require The old idea was that soils
got tired and needed to rest for time,
and farmers would let the fields lie
fallow for a season. That is not nec-
essary at ALL The same can be ac-
complished by cultiVating and not fer
tilizing.-Dr. A. T. Morse, In Ameri-
can Cultivation.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-08-13
Ysrnn md Shorts.

When we speak Of shorts for stock
or poultry feeding we mean that which
is entitled to the name. We do not
mean bran that has been reground to
make it finer, and especially would we
avoid 1t II we thought that the cause
Of the regrinding was that the bran
Lad been wet, soured and caked up.
4 few years ago neighbor complained
to us that his COWS were not giving
their usual amount of milk, and were
growing lean, and some of them were
growing lean, and some of them were
securing badly. The ration he was
feeding seemed to be in the right pro-
portions, and his ensilage was good.
After examining all else, we asked to
see the shorts, which he fed quite lib
orally. We saw it, we smelled it, and
then we tasted of it. Although it look
ed and smelled all right, the taste was
CROUCH to reveal that it was as sour
as any pickle. All the good qualities
had been destroyed by overheating
when damp, and while the regrinding
had reduced the caked Jumps and taken
away the sour smell, it had not restor-
ed the cerulng value. And of that it
probably never had any NOR than
coarse bran and the sweepings of the
Mill that might have been added to it.
The Cultivator.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-08-13
Homo Mada preSarYea.

Fruit for preserving should be sound
and fresh it should be gathered in
dry weather and the jam should be
made as soon as possible after pick
ing or buying the fruit. Cut loaf sug-
ar is best and most economical to use,
as it throws up less scum and makes
clearer syrup. In making jam be
careful to stir it all the time and to
skim 1t carefully. Stir it with
4 long wooden spoon. To test if
the jam is mat pour little off the
spoon on a plate; if it sets it is done.
Use plenty of sugar; if too little is
used it will not keep; if too much it
will candy. Allow three-quarters Of
pound to each pound of fruit; to stone
fruit allow pound. Put the preserv-
ing kettle with the fruit in it on the
back or the side of the fire. Sprinkle
a little sugar over the fruit, and as
the fruit becomes more liquid add the
remainder Of the sugar. When the
sugar has all dissolved put the kettle
over the hot part Of the fire and bring
it to boil: Let it boil twenty min
utes, keeping it constantly stirred and
skinned; then try little on a plate
and see if it will set; if it does not,
continue to cook for a little while
longer. 1t is impossible TO lay down
a rule as to the exact time it takes to
cook the fruit This depends on the
method employed, the kind of fruit,
and whether it is quickly or slowly
boiled.
When the jam is cooked put it into
glass jars when it is sufficiently cool
and cover it to exclude the air. This
may be done with the specially pre-
pared covers, or paper may bebrushed
over with the white of an egg and
put on while damp. Jams must be
kept in a cool, dry place. Damp will
make them get moldy and heat will
make them ferment
Stir strawberries very carefully so
as not to break the fruit. Pour the
jam, when cool enough, into jars and
PLACE piece of oiled paper over the
jam and over this paper dipped in
the white of an egg. For strawberry
jam the juice of three or four pints
Of white or red currants prepared as
for currant jelly will greatly improve
the flavor.
To make red currant jelly stalk the
currants and put them into double
boiler until the Juice Is drawn out
Strain the juice and allow pound Of
loaf sugar to every pint. Put into
the preserving kettle and bring to
boil, stirring the jelly constantly until
it will set and removing the scum as it
rises.-American Queen.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-08-13
Neglected Baptism.

A rather good story has been cir
culated respecting Canada's premier,
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, says the London
News. While on speechmaking tour
through Ontario and the province of
Quebec during the recent by-elections
Sir Wilfrid received from a Quebec
politician the following telegram: RE
port in circulation in this country that
your children have not been baptized.
Telegraph denial"
To which dispatch the premier wired
this reply: Sorry to say the report is
correct. I have no children"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-08-13
Cheap Foreign Newspapers.

It remains to be seen whether Paris
will appreciate its newspaper-La
Journee-which Is published at
farthing. A great difficulty is that no
French coin exists of the value OF
farthing, hence the subscribers have
to pay sou, and cut OF o markeu
corner, numbers of which can be
cashed at the newspaper offices. In
this country farthing newspapers
failed to take with the public. Great
hopes we're entertained when The
Penny Week Country Daily News
paper was published, in July, 1873.
The page was twelve inches by eight,
consisted of three columns, and q
weeks supply of papers was said to
contain matter equal to thirty col
umns of The Times. As its title i'm
plies, q penny covered the weeks
subscription, but a farthing was
charged for single copy. In the fol.
lowing September its name was al.
tered to The Sun, but it just fingered
for time. and was never pro-
uounced success.-London Chronicle.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-08-13
Notes for the Housewife.

Hot water and soda will remove most
grease stains.
Coarse brown paper, such as is used
by butchers, is best for draining fried
things upon.
Make tough meat tender by wash
ing it in vinegar, rinsing this off be.
fore cooking the meat.
Linen may be made beautifully white
by the use of little refined boraX in
the water, instead of using a washing
fluid
Never leave a lemon or any acid
jelly in a tin mold over night because
it spoils the taste. Agate or earthen-
ware molds are best.
If in baking cakes or gems in gen
pans there is not enough batter to fill
all the little pans, put water into the
empty ones to prevent their burning.
To put wide wicks in lamps or oil
stoves thoroughly starch, dry and iron
the wick, and it will slip in easily
without interference with its duty az
conductor of oil.
Scarfs in sheer linen in natural color
make excellent bureau covers If en-.
broidered in bright colors and placed
over slips OF pink or blue or cardinal
scarlet which shows through the linen
meshes.
A self basting roasting pan is now
included among the conveniences at
the command of the housewife and
meats and poultry may be left to take
care of themselves during the allotted
time required for their cooking.
The pods of peas which we extrava-
gantly throw away are never wasted
blythe thrifty Frenchwoman. Covered
with water. they are allowed to- sim
mer, then pressed through a colanler.
This makes an excellent stock in which,
to boil lettuce. With the addition of
a single slice of bacon, a pinch of
thyme and Glove of garlic it makes-
an unusually good soup.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-08-13

of the skull. We all wondered very
much ut the strangely beautiful speci'
men, but when pried the jaws apart
and examined the sphere / found that
a segment of it had been cut away,
showing an interior like that of the
comrlon geod with glittering prismatic
stalagmites, miscroscopically small but
very brilliant. And. strangest of all,
like a blue-green pupil of this tony
orb, smaller sphere of polished tur-
quoise was set firmly, but without any
evident metal, into the open aperture
of the waxy carnelian.
"Of course that was the chief reward
of our descent into the Ghost Valley.
Our guide didn't come back that night
or the next day. On the second night,
while we were cheering ourselves with
another inspection of the mysterious
jewel, l thought 1 heard faint rust
ling in the thicket, and I'm sure saw
the green glare of some strange glow
worm, which, as events transpired,
might have been Jim Look Once's evil
eye. However, we were famished for
water and down to our last L.scuit,
when at last stumbl across the lost
trail and led my two oed-out COM
rades out of the dam. :ge. At Her.
mossillo l packed l treasure away
in my old leather field trunk. But
our runaway Indian had not returned,
and as we heard that Major Tuttle
was down at Durango nursing
sprained ankle, we all set off for that
camp full of our adventures in the
haunted valley. We got there later
than 10 o'clock at night, and it was
nearly II the next morning when l
arrived at his bedside and began to
tell him the story of our ad-
ventures. When got to the
part about the big carnelian
eye he sat up in his bed, with a very
wild look in his face, and whispered:
Before you say another word, where's
that carnelian?' l told him it was
packed away in my trunk at the hotel,
and that l meant to bring it up and
show it to him that very afternoon.
But you won't, professor he said con-
fidently, for it isn't in your trunk. It's
on it's way back to the Navajos at this
minute. From my window early this
morning saw Jim Look Once gallop-
ing up the Hermosa trail, and the look
on his face was that of transfgured
brave.
81 refused to believe that my car
nelian was gone, but l almost ran
back to my hotel. spent most OF
that day searching for it, and, though
my trunk was locked and its contents
seemingly undisturbed, there was no
trace of the treasure. Major Tuttle
told me that night that l had found
what the Navajos had priced most OF
all their lost riches, the eye Of that old
idol that had been destroyed with the
chief who once guarded it. Jim Look
Once had probably watched me show
ing it to my comrades and had followed
us in the night to Durango. l suppose
he picked my pockets Of the keys and
opened the trunk while we slept. But
we never found out anything more OF
the mystery except that, when Wis
tied the Nayajos five years ago old JIM
Look Once was heap big chief with
many blankets and hundreds of ponies,
and from a beaded girdle about his
neck there swung a bulbous bag OF
buckskin, which, doubt not, contained
the sacred emblem of his nobility, the
carnelian of Ghost ey."-Chicago
Record-Herald.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-08-13


four months, when my husband became
impatient because grew worse instead
of better, and in speaking to the drug
gist he advised him to get Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
and Sanative Wash. How l wish I
had taken that at first; it would have
saved me weeks of suffering. 1t took
three long months to restore me, but
it is a happy relief, and we are both
most grateful to you: Your Compound
has brought JOY to our home and
health to me. ."-MRs. PAULINE JUpsoN,
AT Hoyt Street, Brooklyn, N. Y
$4,000 forfeit If abous testimonial 10 not genuine.
1t would seem by this state
ment that women would save
time and much sickness if they
would get Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound at once,
and also write to Mrs. Pinl1ham
at Lynn, Mass, for special ad-
Eice. It Is free and always helpso
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-08-13
HE SLEEPS.

"Has your husband good ear for
music?" asked Mrs. Oldgirl Of Mrs.
Newed.
I'm afraid not" replied Mrs.
'Newed. "He seems to think every.
thing he hears played in church is
iullaby."-Cincinnati Commercial Tri-
bune
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-08-13
rhe nake a, a weed De,,royer.

The Nake aB n Neeu beSroyer'
One OF the best modes of reducing
the labor required in the destruction
OF weeds is to destroy them when they
are just appearing above the ground:
For a large field the Weeder IS The best
implement, but for a garden there il
ile tool superior to the old-tlme rake.
II the surface of the soil Is given d
good raking after each rain there will
be no weeds, as the rake keeps the top
soil loose. A rake allows of perform
Ing considerable work between rows
compared with using hoe, and when
the weeds are high enough to demand
hceing the work is more difficult and
tedious. The principal injury done by
weeds is that they rob the growing
crop Of moisture and plant foods.
Weeds are gross feeders, and they sono
take possession of the soil. TIE rake
will keep them down with the least la
Dor and expense.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-08-13
Deep Flowing VS.. Shallow PlowInr.

Deep Flowing vs. Shallow Flowing.
/ At our last institute | was much in
terested in this subject. l have for
wears doubted the wisdom of such deep
blowing, specially where the soil is
heavy and non-porous. An institute
vote was taken on the question, and
a good majority favored shallow plow-
blowing. If as large a crop can be
grown with the ground broken shall
low. it Is a clear waste of physical
force to do otherwise But If under this
4reatment the soil deteriorates from
year to year, then 1t becomes neces-
isity to break deeper, at least OCCASION
ally.