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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-09-27
Immigrant Women.
Atlantic Montnly.

1
What becomes Of the ever-increas-
ing number Of immigrant women who
come to this country? Do they enter
the ranks Of laborers or Of drifters
Do they rise in the scale Of human
life and friendship, or deteriorate
The labor and vote Of immigrant men
are so valuable to the bushes inter-
est Of tnis country that there is much
available information as to what be-
comes Of them, but no corresponding
data for immigrant women. The
Inter-Municipal Research Committee
in cooperation with others, has set
out to gather this information, par
ticularly for the young and unmar-
ried women during the first three
years of residence. This is the criti-
cal period of their life, and work
during that time constitutes a great
social, economic, and moral factor in
the progress and development of this
country and its people. Immigrant
women, quite as much as immigrant
men, belong to the exploited and
disinherited group, and though we
flatter ourselves that women are bet
ter protected than men, immigrant
women upon their arrival nave no ad-
vantage in laws or trade over men,
and are at a disadvantage political
ly.
The problem of immigrant women
is not entirely that Of immigrant men,
for two main reasons. First, the la
Dor, the housing, and wages Of wo-
men are more complicated by ques-
tions of sex and morality, and Sec
ond, the field Of domestic service,
which takes great numbers Of them,
has an influence unlike that Of any
other occupation. It is a mistake to
attempt to understand or solve the
social, industrial, and moral ques-
tions arising from immigration with
out considering the women. For the
year ended June 30, 1900, 3O1,585
women, nearly one-half Of the num-
Der Of men came to this country.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-09-27

from the south, II tok them to ev'
cry place Of interest except the poor
house. I didn't take them there be,
cause I was afraid I might find thai
some Of my friends had become in
mates Of the institution.
"Once, when I lived in Baltimore,
1 entertained friends from the West
by trip to the poor house. One OF
the first persons we met when We got
inside the gate was old Mr.. Peabody,
7 had known Mr.. Peabody for many
years. I shook hands with him cor
daily. I supposed, Of course, that ne
was a visitor there, the same as our
selves.
"'How in the world do you hap
pen to be here?' I asked.
~ meant how did he happend to
come the same day we did, but he took
me quite seriously.
L" Everything went to smash, he
said dismally, and this seemed the
only place left for me-
"My friends looked from him to
me in astonishment. I felt awfully
mortified and so sorry for him, poor
old man, that I didn't know what to
do"
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-09-27
HURLED $50 FEET AND LIVED
Worker in Belmont Tunnel Miracu-
lousy Escaped Death.

In an article on 'Under the River
Tunnelling,'' written for Appleton 3
Magazine by A. W. Rolker, occurs
an account Of strange bit of luck.
What the actual death rate is in
underriver tunnels would be hard to
say. But this is certain, it is 50 high
that, regardless of expense, compan-
les doing the work resort to all pos
sible means to prevent advertising the
dangers. One casualty report which
the builders Of the Belmont tunnels
denied is that more than three hun
dred lives were lost in boring this
tunnel which connects Manhattan
and Brooklyn, and which recently
has been completed. It is we'll known
tnat, before the McAdoo management
took hold Of the mile-long tubes un-
der the Hudson, one life was lost for
every eleven feet Of tunnel.
To enter into details of some Of the
accidents that have overtaken the
underriver tunneller would make
reading too grewsome. On one oc-
casion, before the emergency air lock
was thought of, an entire shift Of
twenty men was buried alive when
tae river mud came laundering in
while the men stood against the head
ing door Of the air lock waiting for
it to open, the keeper within being too
paralyzed with fear to take the
chances.
Similarly grewsome eausualties are
the unfortunates being dug
out weeks afterwards, arms and legs
and hands and necks twisted, hand
fuls hair torn Of the head and with
other dread details common to those
who are buried alive.
But many instances Of heroism and
devotion to duty brighten this dismal
record and there is one narrow es-
cape which is perhaps the most mira
culous and certainly the most sensa-
tional human ever had. This took
place about year ago in one Of the
tubes boring under the Hudson.
Briefly, in the heading of this tun-
mel air began to hiss forth, auguring
; threatening elbow out" Tae aper-
ture widened with alarming rapid
ity and there seemed no time to
throw up breastwork Of sand bags.
In this emergency one Of the tunnel
ers threw himself bodily against the
fissure. What happened. was just
what happens to a sand bag when
thrown too late against rent. Bod
ly the pressure forced the man clear |
into the fissure, forced him up
through the river bed and blew him
eighty feet up through the water,
1urling him like human shell thir-
ty feet into space. Through suffer-
ing from shock the man otherwise
was uninjured when picked up by a
passing boat, and within three days
1e returned to work at his old
stand. /
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Editors of a Half Century Ago.


Fifty years. That is the length o:
time that James T. Bacon, editor o.
the Edgefeld Chronicle, has bee,
welding the pen and forging thund
er-bots for the people Of Edge6eld
and the people have reason to b
proud of 50 gifted a writer and *
straight a man. It isn't often that
We find a man who has stayed ir
one place, and in the same occupa'
ton for fifty years. Nh. Bacon is one
Of a thousand His writings are as
crisp and as original today as they
were years and years ago.
Our good brother Thos. B. Crews
has had a career as long as Mr.. Ba-
con, and Providence has blessed him,
even as it mas blessed Mr.. Bacon,
with sood health and a clear mind.
One Of their honored associates, OF
fifty years ago, James A. Hoyt, re-
Gently passed away, leaving an unsul-
lied record in a career Of honor and
public service.
In the years that have passed since
Bacon, and Crews, and Hoyt. began
careers Of activity and gained for
themselves a place in the public eye,
many a good man mas finished his
work and laid down pen and scis-
sors to enter upon that great sleep
which men call death.
There was Pucket and Davis and
Allen ad Selleck and Lee and Kerr
and Farrow and Posey and William
Henry Wilson Of Abbeville, all Of
whom have gone to rest.
At Anderson there were Rice and
Humphreys and Todd and others. At
Laurens there was Stokes. At Wal
halla was Robt. A. Thompson, who
survives, enjoying the Indian Sum
mer Of a good life. 1t Newberry
there was Giles and Richard II. Gren-
eker and Thomas F. Greneker, Thos.
P. Slider and James M Crosson. Of
these Richard 81. Greneker and James
M. Crosson survive. The Charleston
editors Of fifty years ago have all
passed over the river. The recent
passing of Selby leaves no Columbia
editor who was contemporaneous with
Bacon's early career. All the Edge
field editors Of fifty years ago have
gone to the spirit land.
And few if any of these departed
men have a place in the memory of
the men of this generation. ga few
Snort years ago and we were not. The
busy world then thought as little Of
us as we now think of generations
yet unborn. In a few years more
these hearts which now palpitate with
the purple stream of life will palpi-
tate no more. " .....@ ....<>.-..
Here's to the health and happiness
of all the living Of half century
ago. And for the dead, we would
Eli memory's cup to the brim.-Ab-
beville Press and Banner.
The foregoing clipping from the
Abbeville Press and Banner of recent
date, and from the pen Of that veter-
an editor, Mr.. Hugh Wilson, is pleas
ingly reminiscent, yet at the same
time tinged with a degree of sadness
for those who have gone before. |
Among the editors of the past, Mr.. |
Wilson mentions Mr.. Richard II.
Greneker as still living. This was a
very natural error, as it is his son,
Mr.. Richard H. Greneker, bearing
the same initials Of his father, who
survives him, and who is now asso-
ciated with this o4ice. Richard 81.
Sry than whom no nobler
Christian gentleman ever adorned
the corps editorial or the society in
which he lived and moved, died some
seven years ago.-Ed. Laurensville
Herald.
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An Unexpected Meeting.
New York Press.
eyes," said the Hoboken woman
who has been entertaining friends
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A Breakfast Dish.

1t is barely possible that a relative
of my own may have used salt pork
in the way 'E. RS" husband tells her
his grandmother made her pancakes.
Living on a farm quite a distance
from market, salt pork was cooked in
three ways 1 never see now. I know
how much the pork was disliked, and
think it was disguised in various ways.
A dish sometimes prepare for break
fast for my family is well liked ]
freshen slices of salt pork. letting the
water just come to a boil; drain OF the
water and fry the pork to a crisp
brown; cut into small pieces and break
in eggs in number according to the
quantity of pork.
When the eggs are ''set," stir just
enough TO make them cover the. pork.
They should not be hard. The salt sea-
sons the eggs. Another way of dis
guising fat pork is to freshen and fry.
dipping each slice in batter.
This may be the original Of Johns
grand Iother's recipe.
go Another way Is TO fry and cut up
into rlouthfuls and make cream gravy
for it. 1t IS now some years since I
saw salt pork cooked in any of these
ways l use IL only as a relish with
other meats, and with beans, fricas-
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Helpful Suggestions.

N~ - - 50 ~AN-N--ST
May offer a few suggestions for the
general good?
/ When / get a tough steak-as who
does not, now and then?-I fry a few
onions brown, lay the steak in the pan,
and scar on both sides; then add wa
ter to the gravy in the pan and boil
up once. Next, the meat, etc, goes
into a stewpan with a couple Of bay
leaves. and are simIhered, closely COW
cred for two hours and half, or per
haps three hours
The meat is laid on a hot dish,
Drowned -four is added TO the gravy, and
this after it IS boiled for a minute, is
poured over the steak
The result is good
The meat is tender and savOry.
.. I wash my fiannels after the rule
given by Mrs. II. J. 9. I use good ripe,
white soap and always some boraX !;
that is, in the first Suds. Rubbing Soiled
spots, even between the hands, tends to
thicken the material.
l spread woolens on the reverse side
Of the washboard and scrub their spots
out with a small brush. Ny flannels
are dried indoors in winter, and they
stretch, rather than shrink, besides last
ing much longer than when treated in
the usual way.
3. A little gasoline viii take the
grease spots out OF the kitchen floor,
and is much better than water for
cleaning a gas or a gasoline stove. a
painter taught me this.
l. I keep a wall pocket in the kitchen
filled with soft paper, and use it in
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More on Dog Doctorinp.

Ignorant" Of Pensacola, Fla, in
qUires what is amiss in her treatment Of
her fox terriers.
If the dogs are less than one year old
they should be doctored about every two
months for worms, an almost universal
ailment with puppies, and which should
never be neglected.
Any Of she standard dog-worm rene
dies may be given. They are all good.
] think the diet of cornmeal and meat
rather rich for young dogs. Until a
puppy is six months old he should be
fed sparingly as to meat. Bread and
milk should take its place, varied occa-
sionally by cornmeal and broth, with no
bones to eat, but big bones to gnaw
upon as often as desired. Chicken bones
should never be given. Above all, care
must be taken not to overfeed.
-Tgnorant's" dogs may have taken
cold. They should have a dry and shell
tered place to sleep in.
My love for dogs and my success in
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One Dead Lamb.

1 CLEAN many good ideas from the
Exchange. keep the blank books the
children have used and paste In them
articles L clip from the paper. 1
was much interested in the letter from
Mrs. X, Glenside. Pa. and envied her
for having her baby on her lap while
she wrote.
I lost a sweet baby boy lately. and
although I have four other children,
il seems as if I could not live without
HIM. We think that they are a care
when they are here, but the comfort
and the pleasure Of their presence COM
pensate for ali.
One Of my boys. aged twelve. IS deli
cate. He suffers from indigestion. Per-
haps some Of the members may be able
10 tell me Of a. dietary for him?
We removed recently to Pensacola
from New Orleans. am interested, as
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cleaning out greasy. "mussy" dishes.
and for wiping out milk, etc. before
putting the articles into the dishpsn-
It saves a great deal Of the uDpleas-
antness Of disnweshing. A bag OF old
rags for the same purpose spares your
dish towels much wear and dirt.
5. My mother kept pair OF shears In
the kitchen purpOSely for trimming
meats, either raw or cooked.
She was not a Nirginian, but an Eng
lishwoman-
6. If your dealer does not handle"
busters for hardwood floors, 90 you
make one for yourself Tear good,
strong thin cloth into long strips. Stand
broom handle on erd; cross the strips
over the brush an. lie firmly.
Turn back aEC tso again. With this
fluffy mop you may whisk over your
floors, shake the lust out at the door
and be clean with scant expenditure OF
A similar brush may be used for pic
ture frames and mouldiEgs, Dashboard,
etc.
"A penny saved is a penny earned, -
is wise saving. How much better the
saving of human fcrcesi Bare floors
are easily cleaned, If one knows how
to do it.
Z. II one must depend upon canned
fruit from a factory, additional sugar
cooked into It win convert il into a
decent imitation Of the home-prepared
deiicacy c. L. (BuffalO, n. "
No amount of sugaring and cooking
will extract the chemicals upon which
canned goods" depend for color and
for preservation.
Better prepare evaporated apples.
pears, berries md the Ike for the table
and for yOuns sUOmachS by soaking,
seas Sning and simmering, than to use
the timed stufts turned out by contract.
Your suggestions are helpful and vel
come.
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greatest part OF its supply OF air from
out-of-doors through the cold-air box.
It also draws some air from the Gel
lar II the cold air IS pure. the atmos-
phere OF the house must be pure, pro
vided the ventilation is good
II the air drawn from the cellar be
or the cold-air box IS, contaminafCd
the whole atmosphere OF the house will
be contaminated.
Remember to keep the cellar perfectly
clean, and that the cold-air boy ba
where IL will receive pure, dry air.
II the weather IS mild or the wind
is strong, the slide Is to be only parfiT-
opened.
Remember. II. on other hand. the Gre
IS hot and there is little Wind the
slide SHOULD be opened wide
a thorough eiring each mornin~
A person viii feel warmer in a fem
perature or S. degrees. II there is =
general supply Of oxygen. than in one
or ~ degrees or more II the oxygen has
been exhausted.
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THE HOUSEMOTHERS' EXCHANGE

w l16 d5u.s2ora g2o 1sSSat s1a5s, these f'"
" " To save work in the kitchen
keep all your old bread pa
pers; keep them folded neatly in a
drawer, and when you make biscuits
or pie cover the breadboard with a
clean paper.
After using one, roll it up and burn
This saves the trouble Of scrubbing the
board.
For chocolate pie make n shell Of
rich pastry and bake it empty. Beat
the yolks Of two eggs light. Add a
cupful Of sugar, a tablespoonful Of
hour, half a cupful OF unsweetened
grated chocolate and half a pint of milk.
Mix all together well and cook in a
double boiler until thick. Fill the shell
and spread the whites, which have been
beaten to a stiff meringue, over the top.
Return to a quick oven and brown
very lightly.
Mrs. A. L. Z. CIoblesville, Ind.).
The device for keeping the board clean
is excellent, provided you are sure of
the papers. / should suggest steriliz-
ing them by laying upon the upper graf
ing Of the oven for awhile and then
cooling before using them.
che recipe for chocolate pie is new
10 me. and must be tempting TO all
who read Il.
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AaRBT TAce Gaka%sM sM Rz

and add, beating steadily as you go,
to the creemed butter and sugar. Have
ready hal9 a pound Of raisins, seeded
and chopped fine, and of currants thor
oughly cleaned and stemmed, a quarter
of a pound Of citron cut into tiny strips
with shar, scissors, and the same OF al
monds. blanched and minced.
Dredge all these well with -four Sift
two heaping cups OF -four three times.
Stir the fruit with alternate handfuls
of -four into the eggs and butter-m!x-
tUre. together with a teaspOOnful each
OF cinnamon and ground mace. When
these ingredients are well compounded.
whip in the stiffened whites OF the eggs
with long. horizontal strokes.
Pour into a buttered mold with a
funnel in the middle and bake in a
steady oven for an hour, covered. Re-
move the paper from the top and bake
uncovered until a straw comes out clean
from the middle OF the loaf.
When cold spread with thick frosting
and before this is quite dry. letter the
top Twelfth Night" in gilded comfits.
Before sending the cake to table make
four incisions, carefully. in the under
side leaving as little trace as may be
of the work in the soft substance. Into
one cut thrust a dried bean; into an
other, a silver dime; into a third, a
small silver thimble, and into the fourth
a gold ring.
These articles must not be near to one
another. and should be pushed well l. 70
the body Of the loaf
The fun comes when the cake is cut
He or she who gets a slice with the
bean in 1t Will have a thrifty partner IN
the path matrimonial. The dime betokens
wealth; the ring, a speedy marriage; the
thimble, lifelong cellbacy for man or
woman.
The bachelor is condemned by it TO
sew on his own buttons, the woman to
be maiden aunt and darn the stock
ings of other peoples children.
The mother Of the household must cut
the cake and not a word be spoken until
the slices are distributed. Nor must
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In uZ5lz HzzzzlE
Hy5zzZaW

Stir with a wooden spoon until the
dough is Just stiff enough 10 roll out.
Turn from the bowl out upon a Toured
board; roll with swift, light strokes into
a sheet a little more than a quarter Of
an inch in thickness. Then cut into
stars AMI bake in a quick oven.
These ars the seed cakes" OF our
English anceSTesses.
Twelfth Night Tartlets.
sift two GUYS Of -four into tray, and
with a ke.n chopper mix through II half
a pound Of butter that has been washed
and chilled
1t should be like yellow dust when
you are ready 10 make il INTO dough.
Beat the yoIk OF ons'esg very light,
and stir it into a cup Of. iced water.
Wet the yellow 5Aist With this. using a
wooden spoon and not touching It with
your hands. Turn upon fioured board
and roll out quickly into thin sheet
Roll this up as you would piece Of
music. and, keeping hands OF, pound It
fat with the rolling pin. Stick little
dabs OF butter all over It and sprinkle
It with -four when you have rolled il
out thin again.
Roll. dab and -four three times before
making into a last tight cylinder and
setting it away on the ice for some
hours. When it is sim and cold. roll
into a smooth sheet a quartor-inch
thick. Cut into stars with a tin cutter
OF tIat design
You clL buy one anywhere. Have
couples of stars. With a round cutter
taken the centers out Of half OF them
Upon every whole star lay one that has
been cut. fitting the points neatly upon
one mother. Bale to a delicate brown.
When they are cold, put a spoonful Of
maru.alade in the circular cavity OF the
upper star.
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There is no flock. however watched
and tended.
But one dead lamb is there"
We have read and said the words over
hundreds of times-but never without a
heartache. 1 heard John 3. Cough
quote one line of a poem thirty years
ago that has come into my mind since,
whenever a mother says to me In eff
feet what you have written Of missing
your baby:
"She missed the little hindering
thing"
Missed him the more sorely because
he hindered her so many times when
she would have been about her other
work than baby-tending.
All! how sweet is now the memory Of
the clinging fingers that held ours idle
when we said to ourselves, between
laughing and gliding, that we were
wasting precious time"
Have you ever read May Riley Smiths
beautiful verses. Tired Mothers?'
L wish 1 could put them into the hand
of every woman who must write and
sew with "the little hindering thing in
her lap, or tagging at her skirt.
Have you organized a boys band IN
your Improvement Society?
The plan has worked admirably in
other places
The boys. and sometimes the girls,
pleuge themselves to throw no papers or
rubbish of any kind upon the lawns or
IN the streets, and to pick up fiuttering
rags and scraps OF paper, dead flowers
and the like they see lying about the
sidewalks.
They take I'D leaves, and pull up
weeds and cultivate an eye for dirt gem
erally-dirt being. as has been aptly
said. whatever ought not TO be where
II is
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Remember in the morning to first put
a thin layer of coal on the fire, close
the checks ana open all the drafts.
Remove the ashes from the bottom OF
the furnace.
Open the dust damper. Rake the fire,
removing all the cinders and ciinkers.
Put on thick bed of fresh coal. let
the fire burn about ten minutes. then
close the dust damper and take up the
hot ashes.
Remember to close the drafts when
the coal begins to look red on top.
When the house is warm enough, par
tally open the checks.
In very cold weather, put a couple Of
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% TWELFTH Night as a season OF
revelry. IS comparatively un-
known in this country.
Lately there has been an ef-
fort to bring 1t into public favor; more,
1 fancy, because it Is the fashion with
a certain class Of would-be leaders in
the social world to engraft upon our
life the habits of the English, from
whom AnglOmaniaCs would have us
take the pace" in everything. from
mems trousers TO religious dogma and
observance.
There were rhyme and reason in the
Twelfth Night supper and the NAM
moth cake compound for the occasion
in the English homestead. in the days
when Frank" and Harry and Lucy
OF Maria Edgeworth were written.
Our eldest grandmothers have not
forgotten Mrs. GATHERINGS disappoint-
ment when Frank and Mary ran into
tin housekeeper's room to stop the
hands that were measuring anu weigh
ing materials for the big Twelfth Night
cake, and how her face cleared some
what on learning that the money the
Feast would cost was TO be given to a
poor boy in wnom she was interested.
Last of Holidays.
Tho supper was the last OF holiday re-
vels
Even now the English Christmas hoI.
day lasts until Eplphany-otherwise,
Twelfth Night"
Cur boys and girls go back soberly to
school on the ID of January. when that
date does not fall on Saturday or Sun
day.
The church festival OF Epiphany was
instituted I'm commemoration of the visit
of the three wise men of the East 10
Bethlehem. 1t is also called "The Greek
Christmas"
The gifts Of the Magi TO the Infant
Christ were gold. frankincense, and
myrrh, and those who detect symbolism
in every traditional custoru-the petty
as well as the dignifed-wIn have It
that the spices and tropical fruits in
the plum cake. and the gliding with
which it was decorated I'm lang syne,
have reference TO the votive offerings
left with the virgin for her royal SON
Without straining the Imagination 70
peer into the ages. we recognize the
Gus ceremonials of the finale Of the
English midwinter holidays. and are
not unwilling 10 transplant some at
tendant customs into life that Is more
unitarian and strenuous than that Of
older lands.
Twelfth Night Cake.
Rub light a cupful Of washed butter
end two cupfuls of fine granulated
sugar.
Beal the yolzs Of eight eggs light,