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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
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Housekeepers who have had trou-
BILE with ants haye found that borax.
is one of the best exterminators.
Pantry shelves and cracks should be
well sprinkled with it.
When returning from abroad don't
pack away your steamer rug, for it
will be found great comfort in your
room. 1t will serve as throw on
your couch; it will make a comforta-
BILE back to rocker, and it is handy
to have at the mountains or seashore
on cold nights.
Water is nerve food. It has a
distinctly soothing effect when slipped
gradually, as one can test for one
self. Moreover, the hygienic effects
Of water are. not confined to the
female sex; Tor as a matter OF fact,
men would be all the betterif they
imbibed more Of it. E8
Cheese crackers are better when
made the daythey are to be. eaten. Use
American grated cheese and Saline
crackers. For each two tablespoon
fuls allow one Of creamed butter, rub
bling them together, until perfectly.
smooth. Spread evenly on the wafersy
and set them in moderate oven to
glaze the cheese. Watch carefully to
prevent burning. There is nothing
nicer to serve with plain salad.
For an attractive salad cut the top
y
move pulp and keep the orange cups
in ice water until ready to serve. Fill
the cups with equal parts Of cold
chicken and cucumbers cut In small
cubes, and one-fourth the quantity Of
finely-cut celery, moistened with may
onnaise dressing. Smooth taps Of
cups and cover with dressing. Deco
rate each top with chopped radishes
or chopped parsley.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
DELICATE PUDDING.

Put into a double boiler three cups
mixed fruit juice and water. Wheht
it reaches the boiling point, stir In
four rounded tablespponfuls corn-
starch stirred smooth in a little cold
water, a half saltspoonful salt and
sugar to taste, dependent upon the
kind of fruit juice employed. When
it has cooked and thickened, take
from the fire, stirring in at the same
time the stifly whipped whites of,
four large eggs. Pour into mold
and set where it will chill. Make a
custard, using pint and a half milk
and the yolks OF four eggs with sugar
to sweeten and fiavoring to taste.
Chill also and serve both very cold.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
CHEESE soUFFLE.

Mix together one-half cup bread
crumbs, quarter teaspoonful salt, a
half teaspoonful mustard and a dash
of cayenne. Add tablespoonful butt
ter, cup and half milk, cook over
hot water. When heated remove, add
while hot two cups grated cheese and
the well beaten yolks OF three eggs.
Cool When ready to bake add the
beaten whites Of FOUR eggs and cup
Of whipped cream Fill individual
cups half full, set in pan Of hot
water and bake about fifteen minutes
in quick oven.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
OF course.

"And the streets are paved with
real gold, and there will be music and
flowers, and everything will be beau
tiful!" finished the Sunday-school
teacher, who was telling her small
charges Of Heaven.
"And now tell me,g she continued,
"what kind of little boys and girls are
going there?"
Nobody knew Then from one cor
ner small brown hand shot up.
"Yes, Samuel" the teacher smiled.
please, teacher, dead ones!"-
Everybody's Magazine.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
Southern Agricultural Topics.
Modern Methods That Are Helpful to
Farmer, Fruit Grower and Stockman.

many cases a greater or less neglect
OF operations that ought to be per-
formed carefully each day.
Poultry houses are likely to be
more or, less infested with rats and
mice, unless some means are pro-
vided to exclude them, and this
should be taken into account in Sc
lecting location. 1t is generally
best to locate the poultry house at
some distance from other farm build
ings, especially If grain is kept in the
latter. Convenience Of access and
freedom from vermin are two desira-
Bile points to be secured, and they de-
pend largely upon the location. Ev-
erything considered, it is safest to
have the house isolated.
A dry, porous soil is always to be
preferred as a site for buildings and
yards. Cleanliness and freedom from
moisture must be secured if the great
est success is to be attained. Without
doubt, filth and moisture are the
causes, either directly or indirectly,
OF the majority of poultry diseases,
and form the stumbling block which
brings encouragement and failure to
many amateurs. Where naturally
favorable conditions as to drainage
do not exist, thorough undertaking
will go long way toward making
the necessary amends to unseen sue
cess.
The material to be used in the
construction and manner of building
will necessarily be governed largely
by climatic conditions.
In general, it may be said that the
house should provide warm, dry, we'll
lighted and well ventilated quarters
for fowls.-By "Uncle Jo."
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
How Deep Do You Pillow?

l keep seeing statements from peo-
pie about blowing eight or nine inches
deep, and am inclined to think they
are reckless statements. Nothing is
easier than to make an honest big
mistake about the depth of blowing.
/ want to give few figures. In Eng
land and America trials have shown
that good pair Of horses or mules
has good days work If kept under
constant draft at the doubletree of
800 pounds. Numerous blowing tri-
ais with various kinds of plows have
shown the draft necessary for each
square inch of a cross section of fur
row slice turned to range from four
and One-half to eight pounds. That
is, twelve-inch pillow running five
inches deep gives a cross section of
sixty inches. If each of these sixty
inches requires a pull of six pounds,
rather below an average, we have
$50 pounds constant draft, or more
than good team ought to do. If a
tWelve-inch pillow runs four and one
sixteenth inches deeping, cutting a
cross section of fifty inches, we have
exactly what good pair of horses or
mules ought to do.
Now / want to ask your correspon-
dents who say they plowed eight or
nine inches deep and their neighbors
if they really worked four extra good
horses or mules to twelve-inch pillow.
I don't think they did, and, therefore,
/ do not believe that they plowed
more than about four inches, which is
really good blowing. OF course, sandy
land would plow with less draft, but
surely sandy land does not need very
deep blowing.
I repeat 1 am much afraid some
people have been deceiving them
selves so much about the depth they
plow, and have been telling big
stories about deep blowing and sub
soiling so long that they have go1 to
believing the stories themselves. Let
US not forget that it probably re-
quires more power to pillow in the
South than further North, where
there are deeper freezes.-W. G. We'll
born, Texas Experiment Station.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
BAKED MACARoNI.

This is both filling" and appetite
ing. Put layer of the cooked naaca-
roni in the bottom of a buttered bak-
ing dish. covered with a layer of to-
mato, fresh or canned. season with
salt and pepper, add a layer Of grated
cheese with Jumps of butter, little
grated onions, and If desired any
shreds of left over cold meats. Add
another layer of macaroni and so con-
tinue to the top, having the top layer
of the grated cheese. Bake until
hot, bubbly and steaming at the top
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23

This is London dish, To prepare
it, parboil an egg plant in sailed
water. then cut in little strips the
size. and shape: Of the whitehall.
Shake in a plate Of -four until busted
all over, then put in frying basket
and fry in deep fat to crisp, golden
brown. Drain. dust with cayenne
and serve with lemon and slice or.
buttered brown bread.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
vERMICELLd PUDDING.

Cook one-half pound vermicelli in
boiling sailed water for Ave minutes.
Strain. Add to the vermicelli pint
,of milk, two we'll beaten eggs and q
half cup Of sugar Flavor with
vanilla. mix we'll pour in a cnstard
pan, dot with bits of butter on top
and bake in moderate oven until Arm
and lightly Drowned. A half cup sui
tana raisins may be added If desired.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
"Extrava8ance and
National Prosperity
BY w. e. WALSH.

Automobiles for work represent
national wealth. automobiles for
pleasure represent national poverty.
The millionaire, instead OF riding
out on pleasure bent and taking with
him out of useful walks Of life serv-
ants to minister to his pleasure,
might far better address himself to
some Of the problems pressing for a
solution. If all put their shoulders
to the wheel the load would be easier
for some, who are now compelled to-
do their own and other mems work.
There would be fewer suicides, small
er mortality among infants, fewer
penitentiaries, fewer almshouses.
Because of the multitude Of people
taken from wealth producing work
to dangle playthings for the rich, the
increase of wealth necessarily goes
on more tardily; the farmer, the arti-
san. have longer days work, and the
song of the shirt is heard in the fac
tory at midnight. Put all the serv-
ants Of our rich at wealth producing
toll, and we would have bread for all
the poor, homes for all the homeless,
medicine for all the sick, railroads to
carry all the traffic of the nation,
ships to carry all its commerce, good
roads over all the land-in fact, a
higher and better civilization in
every way.
What is true of automobiles Is
Just as true of other extravagances,
whether of the rich who flash their
jewels, or of the workman who buys
early strawberries at forty cents In
either case the money could be spent
far more probably in promoting the
health and physical and moral we'll
being of our poor. Money expended
in such way would reach out into
the same uncounted multitude Of
channels, and into the same remote
coves and inlets reached by the
money spent on automobiles, and In
addition would serve humanity in its
results.
The real charge, then, against the
reckless and improvident rich, and
against the reckless and improvident
person In any walk in life, is this: A
few are pampering themselves in
idleness. Worse than these, how
ever, are those who are taking their
fellow men from the useful walks OF
life to act as their chauffeurs, dress
makers, coachmen, Wallets and serv-
ants. BY so doing they are making
their less fortunate fellow man work
harder to repair the gap-they are
crushing his spirits, thwarting his
ambitions, shortening his life. They
are stunning, intellectually and ply
sically, the babies of the poor, deny
ing medicine to the sick, clothing to
the unclothed, books to the ignorant,
shelter to the homeless. They are
creating squalor and restitution
everywhere. Consequently, there is
to-day no system Of charity so COM
prehensive, no individual fortune so
inexhaustible, as to relieve one-half
the misery Of the miserably poor.
The spendthrift millionaires can re-
lieve it if they will. They are enti-
tied to their pleasures. But the man
who keeps ten automobiles and half
dozen chauffeurs is blighting the
race. @AG
The submerged tenth files on in
CHASTITY procession. 1t carries hades
in its centre, and few feet beyond
its circumference are green fields.
When will the rich man stop to
think? -Harper's Weekly.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
a FELLoW-FEELING

Professor" milk contains
1,234,567 bacilli to the cubic inch. :"
Layman-"Poor things! They
must feel like they were in street
car. Judges Library.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
Dog For Sheep.

1t is questionable whether one dog
in ten is properly trained for hand
ling sheep. If the dog is first trained
to drive cattle, the task of training
him to drive sheep SO that he does
not do more harm than good is prac-
tically hopeless one.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
THE GHOST WALKED.

"Why are you forever humming
that Merry Widow waltz"
Because it haunts me-
"No wonder; you are forever mur-
dering it. p ick-Me- up.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
oNLY.A FIGURE OF SPEECH

Mamma" said Pickaninny Jim,
"dat speech-makin' man done tole me
dat if l was a good boy l might be
President some day."
go long, chile!" was the answer:
"you's gwinter be lucky if you gifts a.
chance to walk up to de polls an
vote. ~ Washington Star.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
The English Landlord.

In England there has been no agi-
tation similar to that which we have
known in Ireland, because the English
country gentleman is taught from
childhood to take more liberal view
of his responsibilities than the Irish
landlord. Country Life.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
REPARTEE.

An English lord and his Irish valet
were riding along a country road
when they passed a gibbet. The Eng
lishman said, iokingly: Pat, If the
gallows had its due, where would
you be?"
Pat retorted: "Faith, an I'd be
riding alone, sir. Judges Library.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
THE FoRCE or HABIT.

"Your new master is very ener-
getic, isn't he?"
II should. say so. He wouldn't even
let me plant anything so slow at his
country place as Virginia creeper.
Baltimore American.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
UNCONFTNING TT.

"Let JOY be unconfned," said the
master of ceremonies.
I'm pulling the cork now" an
swered the keeper of the goods
Birmingham Age-Herald.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
THESE MEN.

Hubby, won't you go shopping
with me today"
"Nix, nixey and again nix"
"There is going to be demonstra-
tion of this new sheath skirt, and"
Sure. I'll go. Houston Chron-
icle.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
AMENITIEs IN PASSING.

The Lady in the Bonnet-"If I'd a
fee like yourn I'd go an 'ang myself"
The Lady in the Hat-"An' If I'd a
fee like yourn I'd walk backwards
for the rest O. me natcheral. -
Sketch.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
ANOTHER. WORD.

"Did you say he was crafty poll
tician?"
No. answered Senator Sorghum,
"not crafty. merely CRAFTY. Wash
ington Star
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
SuRE PROOF.

Hyker-" Browning's wife must be
an intellectual woman"
Pyker-"W Why do you think sol"
Hyker-"I notice he seldom has
any buttons on his clothes. Home
Herald.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
WoW

Mrs. Downe-" You looked awfully
foolish when you asked me to marry
you"
Mr.. Downe-"I didn't look half as
foolish as / was. ILLUSTRATED Bits.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
THE NATURAL CONSEQUENCE.

Magistrate-"Y ou say you slapped
the defendant on the back and called
him a brick. What happened them"
Complainant He threw himself
at me. Punch.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
THE EXCEPTION.

Church The time is near at hand
when all nature will smile"
Gotham-"All nature? How about
the weeping Willow" Yonkers
Statesman
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
4 CRUEL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

\ CRUEL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
do you know" said Mrs. Young
bride, with tremble in her voice,
"this is the first time we have been
separated.
"Cheer up said Uncle Cynicus,
lit won't be the last !"-Somerville
Journal.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
A SOUND CONCLUSION.

Edith" Jack tried to kiss me last
night, but l thought he had been
drinking"
Madge-"He must have been. -
Judge.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
ANOTHER INSTANCE.

"Wunst / got a dollar a word"
"G'wan!"
"Fact. Fer talking back to a
Judge. Washington Herald.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-30
BANK REFORM BILLS In
Mr.. WainscrigM BelieUes They DO
Not Go Far Enough.
[Rv telegraph 70 The Tribune. ]

a,a.~v Tor ea-Asseu1iJiynan J. Mayhew VAIN
wright who drafted the present trust company
reserve law and fought to have even heaVie.
reserve maintained by those institutions, declared
to-day his belief that the banking reform measures
submitted by Superintendent Williams did not go
far enough. These measures were introouceu in
both houses to-day from the committees on banks
but are understood to be merely tentative bills IN.
troduced as a concrete basis for discussion OF
needed reforms.
81 have not worked out any figures on the basis
of the reserves stipulated in these bills. said MI
Wainwright. land am Ioath 10 express any
definite views on the wisdom of that feature OF
these bills Since they wholly tentative ana
so do not bind any member of either committee 10
their support, 1t is entirely proper for me 10 say
that there is grave question in my mind whet9er
they go far enough to check effectively the uah-
gers at which they aimed
The two bills agreed on at the conference iast
night between Superintendent Clark Williams ana
the two banking committees. and introduces to-
day. established % per cent reserve for banks IN
New York City, Is per cent elsewhere 10 per ceft
reserve for trust companies in New York City ana
% per cent elsewhere. Senator Gates. chairman OF
the Senate Banks Committee also introduced foar
bills by request similar 70 those introduced yes
terday by Assemblyman Bennett.
The bank reserve bill requires that the reservs
must consist of 'Sold certificates. silver certificates
notes bills issued by any lawfully organized
national banking association
The trust company provides that the reserve
in this class of institution must be exclusive OK
moneys held by It in trust which are not made
rayable under the conditions Of the trust within
thirty days. and also exclusive of time deposits
not payable within thirty days and represented by
certificates showing the amount Of the deposit the
of issue and the date when due.
1t also provides that the entire reserve must con-
sist OF lawful money, gold silver certificates or
notes bills replacing the present provision which
requires that only one-third the reserve shall De
In money. At present the remainder is divided be-
tween bonds and moneys held deposit subject
to call In any bank or trust company. In upstate
trust companies the bill requires that half the re-
serve must be in money, whereas the present law
only requires one-third.
The four bills of Senator Gates prohibit per-
son who is director in a bank or trust company
from being director in another bank; the election
OF a director Of bank trust company as a dlrec-
tor In another bank, a bank trust company from
naking loan directly or indirectly TO any officer
of the concern, and require that all reports De
made in duplicate and that one shall be hied WIN
the Superintendent Of Banks and be always open
to inspection by stockholders depositors-
New-York tribune., 1908-01-30
TO AMEND G. S. PROCEDURE
Bills Provide for Preference to
Younger Set of Veterans.
fBy Telegraph to The Tribune. ]


Albany Jan. "a measure proposing changes
In the Civil procedure of his state for the
benefit Of veterans Of the Spanish American War
was introduced in the Legislature to-day by Sen
ator Cobb of jefferson County and Assemblyman
Fowler, of Ulster County. They presented a con-
current resolution providing for an amendment TO
Section Article of the State Constitution by
which in Civil Service examinations grading OF
10 per cent shall be added TO the percentage OBJ
taned BY honoraby discharged soldiers. sailors
and marines who served in the Spanish American
War, the Philippine insurrecton or the Boxer up
rising The further qualification is provided that
these men must have been residents OF this state
for at least five years.
Considerable criticism has been expressed by Civil
Service reformers recently to the proposal to
give preference this younger set OF veterans.
such as IS given to veterans of the Civil War.
The view here is that the CObb-Fowler bill would
be likely to have about the same result as the
preference plan which the state Civil Service Com
mission criticised in its report The 10 per cent
added to the rating of a only ordinarily high
in the list Of those who had passed Civil Service
examinations would put him up at the top Of the
list. 1t is declared. and thus help TO shut out men
much better qualified for the states service.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-30
ILLINOIS PRIMARY BILL PASSED.
Special Session of State Legislature Was
Called by Governor Deneen.

Springfield. Ill. Jan. 29.-The House passed the
Senate primary election law to-day. thus ending
bitter political struggle which began early last
October. The new law, which demanded by
Governor Deneen and fought by his enemies. pro-
vides for the nomination primary elections of
all candidates for state, legislative county. city,
and village offices. and all Congressman. The
delegate system is abolished except in the case of
national conventions. The law does not apply to
Presidential electors, and delegates to national con-
ventions are be chosen by state conventions
This is the feature which Speaker Cannon sought
10 retain in the bill.
A former primary bill declared uneonstitu-
tional and the present special session of the Legs
lature was called by the Governor to pass
Ftitutional Law. The bill goes to Governor
peneen for his signature.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-30
FAIL TO INDORSE BRYAN.
Resolution Tabled by Massachusetts, Demo.
cratic State Committee.

Boston. Jan 2a-At meeting that was har-
monous throughout, the Democratic State Com
Infttee to-day perfected its organization for the
year and took preliminary steps for the spring con-
venton by appointing executive committee to
take charge OF the same. James W. Syman, of
Pittsfield who elected chairman at the last
meeting. presided to-day, and with scarcely any
debate R. Eugene Ashley, of New Bedford was
chosen treasurer, and Joseph p. Lomasney, of
Boston, fourth ice-president. An executive COM
rnittee consisting of the present officers and four
other members of the regular committee. was ap-
pointed. The added members are j. T. Meaney, of
Blackstone; George T. Mclaughlin, of Sandwich;
E F. OBrien, of Worcester, and 7. ]. Lawlor. of
Greenfield. The executive committee will meet
some time within the next two weeks and make
further arrangements for the spring conventions.
A resolution indorsing William j. Bryan as can
didate for the Democratic nomination for the Pres
idency was offered by Thomas l. keefe, of Everett.
Several members spoke against the adoption OF
the resolution and it tabled by an almost unan-
rnOn
New-York tribune., 1908-01-30
APPROPRIATION OF s2l,ss4,ooo ASKED.
Preliminary Draft of Annual Measure Intro
duced-May Be Trimmed Down.

Albany, Jan. 29The preliminary draft Of the
annual appropriation introduced in the Assem-
bly, this morning. The total amount asked for the
running of the state government is s2i,3S4soo. an
increase of about per cent over last year. Mr.
Merritt said that the largest increases were in the
departments of lunacy and public charities, and
were caused principally by increases in salaries.
The amount asked for the Public Service Com
mission of the I'd District is S2620o0, against
sl62 900 for the Gas and Railroad commissions in
1907.
The bill was advanced TO the order of the third
reading and then committed to the Committee Of
Ways and Means. Mr.. Merritt said that many
items will probably be trimmed down by the COM
mittee.