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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-29
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

When making salmon salad, add
a hard-bOiled egg or two, carefully
sliced
Never stir a sponge cake batter.
If that is done, the air is allowed to
escape.
To overcome the habit of biting
the finger nails, soak them in liquid
quinine.
Underwear should be ironed on
the right side; colored clothes on
the wrong side.
Apples and onions shredded to-
gether make a filling that many peo-
pie like
Green peppers stuffed with fresh
green corn and baked make a dainty
luncheon dish.
Cold slaw, served in green pepper
shells, is a suggestion for a dainty
luncheon addition.
To keep a veil crisp dip it several
times in alcohol and hang it up in
doors to dry.
A fine crater is better than knife
for removing the surface of anything
that is burned.
Small pickles, olives and capers,
minced very fine are excellent season.
ing for salad dressing.
Turnips, carrots and onions should
never be split but sliced in rings, cut
ting across the fibre.
Never soak fresh fish in water be-
fore cooking, else it will become
soft and spongy and the flavor will
be lost.
To 1aunder colored embroidered
centrepieces, the first time of wash
ing, and if not greasy in any way,
use bran water If much soiled,
add a little melted soap to the bran
water. To make the water, take
two handsful of the bran and boil
with one quart of water half an hour.
Strain and use. Squeeze material in
several bran waters, washing quick
ly.
For washing bottles or vinegar
cruets save egg shells in a bag;
crush them fine, put in the cruets
with warm, soapy water and shake
we'll. This will clean and not scratch
the finest glass.
Pie crust will not be soggE if
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-29
a WOMAN'S APPEAL

To all knowing sufferers Of rheuma-
tism, whether muscular or of the
joints, sciatica, lumbagos, backache,
pains in the kidneys or neuralgia
pains, to write to her for a home treat
ment which has repeatedly cured all of
these fortunes. She feels it her duty to
send it to all sufferers FREE. You
cure yourself at home as thousands will
testify-no change of climate being
necessary. This simple discovery ban
ishes uric acid from he blood, loosens
the stiffened joints, purifies the blood,
and brightens the eyes, giving elastici-
ty and tone to the whole system. If
the above interests you, for proof ad-
dress Mrs. M. Summers, Box 460, South
Bend Ind.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-29
HOW TO CLEAN A BRASS BED.

Nearly all brass work when sent
out is lacquered to prevent polishing.
This lacquer is gum shellac dissolved
in alcohol. This makes a thin var
nish which is applied with small
brush. I only used 10 cents worth
of shellac, made thin with the alco
hol to lacquer my full-siZed bed.
Any ordinary workman can do the
work in an hour, and when finished
it will look as we'll as if you had sent
it to the factory and paid several
dollars for the work.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-29

back to a writer in the British Apol-
10 (17O8).
''There is nothing more in this,
it is stated, than that the custom
was handed down to the present age
from the practice of our ancestors,
who found the left hand more con-
venient for such ornaments than the
right, in that it is ever less employ
ed; for the same reason they chose
the fourth finger, which is not only
less used than any of the rest, but is
more capable of preserving ring
from bruises, having this one quality
peculiar to itself, that it cannot be
extended but in company with some
other finger, whereas the rest may be
singly stretched to their full length
and straightness."
The old-fashiOned notion that
shoe should bring luck at wedding
is another superstition curious to eX-
plain.
E'It was in the sense Of confirming
a sale or exchange that the Jews I'M
derstood the removal and giving of
a shoe or sandal When the kins-
man of Boaz consented to waive his
claim upon the parcel Of land which
Naomi would sell in favor ofBoaz
he drew off his SHOE for this was
a testimony in Israel
GIN a different sense the removal
Of a shoe marks the winding up Of
negotiations among the laws and Or
dinances given in the book of Deu-
terOnOmy, where the widow who is
refused marriage by her husbands
surviving brother is directed to
come unto him in the presence Of
the elders, and loose his shoe from
off, thus asserting her independence
and heaping upon him the blame for
failing to comply with the law.
''When the Emperor Vladimir
proposed marriage to the daughter
Of Reginald she refused him with
the1 words:
II will not take off my shoe to
the son of a slave
GIN Anglo-Saxon marriages the
brides father delivered her shoes
to the bridegroom, who touched her
on the head with it in token of his
authority"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-29

The skirt is extremely stylish, with
the yoke shaped in points over a
four-gore lower portion that has
plaits at each seam. 1t is cut in five
sizes: p, "a, 26, % and 80 inches,
waist measure. The coat may be cut
in either of two lengths and finished
with a shawl or notched collar; may
also have straight or cutaway clos
ing. The coat is cut in six sizes: 30,
"a, SO, SO, 40 and AZ inches, bust
measure. The patterns require, for
the entire suit, 10 yards of 36-inch
material for the 36-inch size.
This illustration calls for two sep
arate patterns, which will be mailed
to any address on receipt of 10 cents
for each pattern, in silver or stamps.
Address,
JEFFERSONTAN PATTERN DEPT,
Thomson, Ga.
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WOWeAN'S PAGE

brushed with white of egg before
the fruit is added.
Cheese will not mold or be-
come hard if a cloth wet with vine
gar and then wrung dry be wrapped
around it, and it is then kept in a
paper bag in cool place.
Clean mica in stoves by wash
ing with hot vinegar and salt.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-29
BORROWED RECIPES.
Fudge Cake.

One-ha1f cup butter, two cups
brown sugar, two yolks eggs beaten
light, two ounces chocolate melted,
one-half cup sour milk, one tea
spoon soda, two whites eggs beaten
dry.
Filling-Two cups brown sugar,
one-fourth cup butter, one-half cup
milk, one-half cup nut meats.
Frosting-Six tablespoons grated
chocolate, six tablespoons graduated
sugar one tablespoon sweet cream.
one tablespoon butter.
Prepare the cake in the usual man
ner. The ingredients are given in
the order of use. Boil the sugar,
butter and milk to a soft ball for
filling. Add the nut meats and beat
until thick enough to spread. Melt
the chocolate for the frosting. Add
the sugar, cream and butter. Let
cook few minutes, then spread
over the cake.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-29

reading. Marcy could stand the
truce no longer.
Mother" she besought in a whim-
pering voice, 'please make sister
Polly stop letting me alone!"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-29
SOUR CREAM COOKIES.

One egg beaten light one heap
ing cup of sugar, one-half teaspoon
soda in one cup sour cream. Flavor.
Pastry flour to roll. MoiSten top
with little milk and beaten yolk Of
egg. These will melt in your mouth.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-29
DELICIOUS WHITE CAKE.

Put into a mixing bowl one cup
sugar and 1hcups sifted flour, into
which has been sifted one rounding
teaspoon baking powder Then into
a glass measuring cup put the whites
Of two eggs and fill the the cup half
full with melted butter and fill it
full of sweet milk. The three in
gradients making full cup; add
little flavoring. Now tut all into
the bowl and beat minutes. You
will be surprised at the results.
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PAGE TWO
WEDDING sUPERsTITIONs.

HE question of the wedding
ring and why it should be
placed on the fourth finger
of the left hand is traced
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-05-31

for the loved on yonder shore :.
Fain would we shun the memory that
to that conflict clings,
But mothers thoughts are in the past,
and brokenly. she sings;
Many are the hearts that are weary to-
night,
Waiting for the war to cease,
Many are the hearts that are looking to
the right,
Looking to the dawn of peace.
So when you bring your garlands for the
nations dead to-day
Strew alike the fragrant blossoms DER the
graves of Blue and Gray.
Never foes more brave were vanquished
by brave conquerors before.
They were brothers e'er the conflict, they
are brothers now once more;
The dawn of peace has frightened till it
CLOVIS in perfect day,
The bands of love have frightened till the
nation owns her sway
From sea to sea across the land, the flags
of freedom fling
From north and south, united, let the
song of triumph ring:
Ny country. tbs of thee, sweet land Of
liberty;
OF thee l sing
Land where my father died, land of the
pilgrims pride.
From every mountain side
Let freedom ring.
Mabel Holmes Koplin, in St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-05-31

tax, or less than half of its annual ex-
penditure The truth is just coming
home to the mass of the people that our
extremely high protective duties have
raised the expenses of producing many
goods, raised prices and raised e
cost Of living to every family through
out the length and breadth of the land
This is one reason why industrial ac-
tivity to-day spells hard times" for
the Gnorganized consumer.
Some of our public men are not deal
ing fairly with the people when they
direct attention solely to the Payne
Aldrich act of 1909, and assert it has
in some respects lowered duties sup
pose that it had done so, as compared
with the Dingley act of 1897? Then,
that only transfers the cause of effend-
ing to the duties fixed by the Dingley
act which were, on the whole, the
highest in our list of high-tariff enact
ments. 1t is no comfort to a drowning
man in forty feet of water to be told
that Just back of him the water was
forty-one feet deep. 1t is no comfort
to the consumer. submerged by inn
port duties of 40 or hundred or sew
eral hundred per cent, to be told that
a microscope will discover a fractional
change of per cent here and there
when in fact hosiery, gloves and cloth
ing bear increased duties.-J Lau-
renee Laughlin, in Scribner's.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-05-31
CHAPTER VII.

Mr.. Breffit regretted that he did not
possess the same facility of compre-
hension. 1t was not for him to express
any opinion as to the action OF his
late client; but he was bound to say
that in all his experience he had never
met with man less given to hesita-
ton. This appeared TO exhaust all
that there was to be said about the
matter. A short period of silence SUI
pervened. and shortly afterwards the
conclave broke UP. The Master OF All
Saints. before leaving the room. pat
ted Fred on the shoulder and looked
sympathetic. but as he could not think
Of anything consolatory to say he
adopted the wise course of saying
nothing.
Mr.. BRENT was more outspoken. Mr..
Breffit knew Fred well. and liked him.
The late Dean. who had been most
litigious person and had kept his legal
advisers pretty constantly employed.
had often invited Mr. Breffit down 10
oxford for a day or two at a time.
and tnus an acQusintanceship. which
was almost friendship. had sprung
up between the lawyer ard the young
man who had always been understood
TO be his uncle's heir. When. there
fore, these two were left together, the
former did not allow professional ret
icen1s TO deter him from exclaiming.
Upon my word it's confounded
shame, And so l would have told him
II IL would have been of the slightest
use. But you are as well aware as
anybody that your uncle was not the
man 10 brook interference"
"Oh. don't know about it's being a
shame" said Fred: 1T seems TO ne
quite right that he should have pro-
vided for his daughter. since he had
daughter. The extraordinary thing is
that neither he nor anybody else
should have breathed a word about her
10 me in all these years
The lawyer shrugged his shoulders.
In my opinion. and in everybody
else's opinion. she was virtually. IL not
actually. dead: and your uncle did not
like his family affairs to be talked
about"
IT'S all quite as 1t should be-" Fred
declared
"Oh. you think so. so your You I'm
agine that you will be able to live up
on the interest OF e1e.ooos You imag-
inc. perhaps. that you have hitherto
been living upon such an jncome%"
There's no Imagination about n.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-05-31
The First Gun in iowa.

Ten thousand insurgent Republicans,
cheering Jonathan p Dolliver and AL
bert B. Cummins as they excoriated
the Taft administration and denounced
Aldrich at Des Moines the other night,
spoke the unmistakable sentiment of
Iowa
Senator Delivers mastery analysis
of the unspeakable Aldrich-Taft tariff
and its multitude of deceits, and Sen
ator Cummins' open charge that Aid
rich is allied with the Guggenheims
and Thomas F. RYAN in the rubber
trust Of Congo iniquity and the footing
Alaska scheme are enough TO shake
even the remote strongholds of East
ern money.
The first gun in the Iowa campaign
was a broadside. Hull, Smith, Town
err and Kennedy. the four Iowa stand
patters in the lower house, will consult
their own interests by dropping out Of
the contest and making way for pro-
gressive WesteTners. who cannot be
used as tools by Aldrieh and his New
Fn-land mill bosses.
Thanks to Dolliver and Cumnins,
Iowa viii register its protest next No
vember against the Aldrich-Tast tar
If. with its high cost Of living, and
the whole fabric Of standpat graft and
bribery that rears itself from Wash
ington to Alaska.-Chicag Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-05-31


manships AMI most of the committee
memberships have been given to his
standpat followers. Aldrich's view of
legitimate politics is shown by his
brazen refusal to put any Republican
"insurgent' on an important commit
tee Even the crumbs were denied
these rebellious ones.
All this will change with the break
Ing up of the old guard" There will
be an influx of new Senators. There
will be new committee arrangements.
There is no possibility of the coming
Senate leadership being a repetition
of Aldrichism. The insurgent Repub-
lican Senators are already strong
enough to prevent such catastrophe.
And they are growing stronger. The
august Senate is feeling the force of
public opinion protesting against the
tariff and its high cost of living as
keenly as the more popular body, the
House of Representatives The peo-
pie will not tolerate a reactionary
House of Lords" standing in the way
of real tariff revision.-Chicago Jour-
nal
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-05-31
.Lest We Forget. /,

Even permitting the Republicans
themselves TO be judges, the Democ-
racy is on its way 10 victory in the
fall elections. The most benighted par
tisan must admit it is highly probable
that Democratic majority will organ
lie the next House of Representative
It is, in fact. so far certain that we
can well afford to drop for moment
the conventional language of political
enthusiasm and face. in seriousness
and sobriety, the responsibility so soon
TO be thrust upon us. For there are
two facts we cannot ignore, except at
our peril
The speech of partisanship ascribes
all wisdom to itself and all folly and
faulty to its adversaries; in lis
phrases, the great day of a party's life
is election day, and tee victory OF the
ticket means the salvation Of the coun-
try. We all know how far the truth
is from all this. There are mixtures
of purpose and of ability IN all par
ties; election day is often for the vic
tors-as with the Republicans in 1908
but the beginning OF sorrows. The
winning of elections is a small mat
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-05-31

i7To-Cornerstone of Brown Univer-
sity laid.
lI74-The subject of a general con-
gress was acted upon at a town
meeting of the inhabitants of Prov
idence, r. l.
l76S-The possession of Canada was
confirmed to Great Britain by the
treaty of Paris.
l'S6-News of the repeal of the Stamp
Act reached Boston
l7Sl-British set fire to Camden. s. c..
and retreated to Nelson's Ferry,
on the Santee.
17Ss-Tammany society was formed in
New York.
1SoS-Patent granted for the first con-
uiVanee for reaping machines.
1S04-Lewis and Clark left St. Louis
on their exploration trip to the
Northwest.
1S14-The Norwegians declared their
Independence.
lSl7-The Pennsylvania Society for the
Promotion of Public Economy was
formed in Philadelphia
1Ss2-Lafayette College first opened.
1SS6-A treaty was made by Mexico
with Texas, acknowledging its in
dependence.
1S41-Thirty- two persons killed in
landslide from the Citadel rock.
Quebec.
1S42-First issue of the illustrated
London News.
1S6O-Republican convention in Chica-
so nominated Lincoln and Hamlin.
1S61-Confederate troops commenced
fortifying Harper's Ferry
1S67-First meeting of the Missouri
Press Association held at st. Louis.
1S71-The New Brunswick Legislature
passed a Free School bill
1S7s7opening of the Montreal expo
sition.
1S74-Mill river dam in Massachusetts
burst destroying four villages and
causing loss of over 200 lives.
1S75-Hon ID. A. Macdonald appointed
lieutenant governor of Ontario.
1S9S-Queen Victoria inaugurated the
Imperial Institute of the Colonies
and India.
1S94-Torpedo boat Ericsson, the first
war vessel built on inland waters,
launched at Dubuque Iowa
1S97-Centennia of the discovery OF
the Columbia River celebrated at
Astoria, Ore.
1S9S-International fisheries exhibition
opened at Bergen, Norway . Lord
Aberdeen's resignation as COVER
nor-general of Canada accepted.
1901-Dominion Parliament passed the
bill setting aside May "a as vic
toria Day"
1902--Coronation Of King Alfonso XIII.
of Spain.
1908 Celebration of the fftieth ami
versary of the departure of the
first passenger train from Toronto.
19O4-International convention of the
Y. M. c. A. opened in Buffalo
1906-Steamship Empress of Britain
arrived at Quebec on her first voy-
age from Liverpool.
1907-Suit Of Kansas against Colorado
owing to diversion of water for
irrigation purposes dismissed by
United States Suureme Court
1909-The French Chamber of Depu-
ties voted TO sustain the Clemen-
ceau cabinet.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-05-31
Major Pond and BIN Nye.

More thar one successful lecture star
had to tina ak Major Pond for his start.
He had keen discrimination and not
infrequently sought out and dragged
upon the lecture platform an obscure
genius who never thought to see him.
self before the footlights. Such a
genius was Bill Nye. When the major
found him he was acting as postmas-
ter and editing the Laramie Boomer
ang over a livery stable. (''Walk
down the alley. twist the gray mules
tail, take the elevator immediately
Pond persuaded him TO try lecturing,
and as there proved to be both money
and useful publicity in 1t Nye was
grateful and used for years to remem-
Der the major with Characteristic
notes. one of which had the following
exhaustive signature:
Yours with a heart full of gratitude
and a system full of drugs. paints. oil.
turpentne. glass, putty and everything
usually kept in a first-class drug store
BILL NYE.
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General Longstreet,s story.


81 had resigned from the Northern
army" said the late General Long
street at Georgia campfire, "and was
on my way to fight with my state coun-
trymen. One night | reached a small
hamlet, and, being almost too tired to
care whether friends or foes were
there, l stopped and asked for supper
and a nights lodging. A nice old col
ored aunty opened the door and let me
In. If you'se a Southerner,' she said,
you can have your eggs fried tender.
II youse a Northerner they'll be tough
er than leather
81 had to laugh while assured her
7 was a Southerner In the morning I
asked for my bill. IT amt nothin'.'
said she, If ye're goin' on ter Rich
mond. but eff ye're goln' hum ter think
it over it'll cost yer SO. Philadel-
phia Press.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-05-31
WHEN MOTHER SINGS.

BY the window mothers sitting, gazing
on the sunset skies,
The lace she has been knitting. in her lap
unheeded lies.
While TO herself she's singing. in the sweet
old voice and low,
Songs that through the land were ringing
in her girlhood long ago.
And | seem TO hear the flies shrill call,
the long roll of the drum.
The tramp of hurrying thousands, as with
eager step they come.
And ! see the starry banners waving
proudly TO and fro,
As mother sings the chorus sung by thou
sands long ago:
Rally round the nag. boys. rally once
again,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom,
We will gather from the hillside, the val
ley and the plain,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom,
While the northern hosts were gathering,
all the southland was ahame,
These men laughed at war as though it
~ere some merry game;
There gallant hearts were leaping, too,
beneath the coats of gray
And mothers smiled through weeping as
their brave lads marched away.
How little dreamed they of long years of
conflict, grief and pain
Ere peace should bid their weary feet
turn slowl:- home 3sain;
No bitterness now fingers in her thoughts
of them to-day,
So mother sings tn inspiring song Of the
southern boys in gray.
Look away. look away, look away, DiEss
land,
Then / wish I was in Dixie.
In Dixie land I'll take my stand
To live and die in Dixie.
Again hear her singing, not the gay &
rallying song,
A strain of solemn majesty now bears my
thoughts along
As the hearts of men were lifted to the
King of Glory's throne,
Wrong is strong. but God is stronger,
and he watches DER his own.
Though too well our land remembers how
her heroes vows were sealed
In many gloomy prison, on many
hard-won field
BY long and weary marches, in the camps
of sickness, grim,
Yet they failed not in their purpose, and
they sang the battle hymn;
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the com
ing of the Lord,
He is tramplng out the vintage where
the grapes of wrath are stored,
he hath loosed the dreadful lightning or
his terrible swift sword.
His truth is marching on.
While weeks and months grew into years,
war swept throughout the land,
And took his toll of blood and tears, with
iron-fngered hand.
The fame-lit clouds of battle spread their
somber pail of gloom
Until the awful shadow shut the sun
from every home.
Oh, the weary hours of watching Oh, the
steps that came no more
Oh, the hearts that broke with waiting
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-05-31

My uncle allowed me three hundred a
year
And paid the greater part of your
expenses into the bargain"
Well. he helped me out with q
check from time to time; but if l can
get 5 per cent for my money
You can't get 5 per cent for your
money-nobody can And you have no
profession worth speaking of. con-
fess | should look upon it as a bad
business If l didn't feel tolerably GER
tain that your cousin. Mrs Fenton, is
no more"
Why shouldn't she be alive and
welI?"
Simply because she has given no
signs OF life for twelve years. Just
consider what the position of affairs
is. She is the only child OF a rich
man-for, mind you. the Dean inherit
ed from more than one relation, and
he held house property which has
greatly increased in value. l shall be
very much surprised If his estate real
ICES penny less than 100000. Well.
now, | ask you, is 1t likely that q
woman so circumstanced would have
allowed all this time to elapse with
out so much as -rying the effect Of
saying, 1 beg your pardon'?"
Tt doesn't strike me as impossible.
wonder whether you will succeed in
unearthing her?'
Il hope that she is little too far
beneath the surface of the earth for
that; but Of course every inquiry will
be made. and l trust that our labors
may be rewarded by the discovery of
her burial certificate"
Thanks; but 1t seems rather shah
by to wish her dead, poor thing. Any
how. had better assume that she is
alive"
"Oh, yes, you had better assume that
in the meantime. And If l were you,
should abandon all thought of lit
erary career. A barrister may not
make his fortune while he is young;
but he has always the prospect of
dropping into some snug berth or 9TH
er by the time that he is growing
old"
ITO be continued