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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-27
EDUCATION IN BULGARIA.
Its Progress the Country's Most Re.
markable Recent Development.

The Bulgarian army battering down
the gates of Constantinople happens
now to be the striking indication of
Bulgaria's progress since her birth as
n nation, but to those who have lived
in Bulgaria military efficiency is by
no means the most remarkable feature
OF her national Organization.
Much as has been spent on arma-
ment, even more has been spent on
the national education system. Almost
every Bulgarian following a profess
sional career began as a village school
master. Even though only 10 children
may be assembled in small village
the government thinks ii worth while
to send il schoolmaster there TO teach
them. Attendance is, of course, COM
pulsory. Year by year the standard
of requirements for the teachers has
been raised. as the supply of young
teachers from the normal schools in
creased. Girls, especially, have been
encouraged to enter this career with
the result that the thirst for knowl-
edge. so prevalent among the Younger
genera ton, is equally keen among
both sexes. Here again is visible the
absence of old. hoary traditions. Sex
equality has been accepted without
question. Unfortunately, with the first
breath of freedom, strong within them
many of the young girl students have
not been able to distinguish sharply
the difference between a free woman
hood and sordid license.
The director of the American mis-
sionary school in Samakoy complained
to me that the department of eduea-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-27
LITTLE CITY GARDENS.
Utilizing Idle Lands in German
City.

Allotment gardening in and about
Dresden is flourishing and popular in
dustry For nominal sum any citizen
may rent plat of ground on the edge
of town. which may be used to grow
vegetables or flowers or may be fitted
up as recreation spot for his family
These plats vary in style and elabo-
rateness from sections % feet square
planted only with potatoes to 80 or q
foot lots gay with flowers and small
vine-covered summer houses, where the
wives and children may picnic for the
day. a committee exists in Dresden
whose business it is, according to Com
sular and Trade reports, TO see that gen
eral uniformity of scheme prevails
among the amateur gardeners and that
the summer houses are paintew an ac-
ceptable color. Prizes are offered for
the best gardens. t-tfr.
The usual rent is two cents square
yard per annum, with a slight additional
tax if the water is laid on. A charge of
$3.50 is made for laying pipes in the
gardens and a tap costs about so cents.
Most of the allotments are laid out on
otherwise useless tracts of land on the
outskirts of the city, but within easy
reach of the ear lines. They are usually
owned by private persons but in some
instances the city is the original land
owner and rents the ground to some one
else, who subdivides it and rerents II in
small areas.
The lessees come from all walks of life
The greatest benefciaries are small
trades people. postal employees and in
dustrial workers, who put their spare
time to good use by growing vegetables
and flowers for their own households and
frequently in sufficient quantity to sell
Much trading goes on among themselves,
to the advantage of all concerned. Each
garden is surrounded by vine-covered
fence, which may not be more than AZ
the key to the padlocked gate
Strawberries, potatoes, carrots, peas
and beans are extensively grown. while
many of the more expensive lots contain
fruit trees. Occupants vie with each
other to make their little garden spots
beautiful as well as useful, and enthu-
siasm is so great that last year during
the drouth people kept their produce
alive by carrying water from great dis
tances. Some of the holder ones attempt
landscape gardening on a small scale.
The advantages resulting from the out
of-door exercise to people whose occupa-
tions and dwellings keep them indoors all
day are too obvious to be commented up
on, while the substitution of fresh vege-
tables for the cheaper varieties of store
food is of primary Importance the
health of a eongested community. Their
scheme is especially important and fea-
sible in cities ranging in population from
200, 600 to 100000. where the densely crowd
ed centers are not too far from the edge
of town.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-27
The First Buttons.

In early times, when man was mas
Ter, clothes were fastened with strings
and brooches. The Norman nobility
WHO always had an eye to effect, spent
considerable sums of money on their
brooches which We're chastely wrought
and added greatly TO the beauty of a
costume
When the poorer people INDUCED in
brooches they Were content if such ae-
eessories to the toilet fulfilled the pur-
pose of holding the clothes together.
The earliest buttons were merely adop-
ted as ornaments and fulfilled no use
ful function. In the earliest paintings
one finds buttons without any CORES
spending buttonholes. Buttons were
also sewn on shoes, and figured prom
inentIy on the sleeves.
This latter fashion is still popular as
regards ceremonial garbs and uniforms
The button as all article of use, and
not merely as an ornament, may be
said 10 date from the reign of Edward
l. These early buttons We're of modest
appearances and were manufactured
from bone and wood,
Ii was the usual custom to haVez
buttons stitched on the coat AZ
small Ct the back to enable aSsas
button back his coat tails, SO thu !
could walk or draw his sword theN
easily. These two buttons are stHl
tanned on modern coats, though my
reason for their existence has long
since departed.
As wealth increased gold and silver
buttons made their appearances. We
find Pepys writing This morning
came nome my fine camlett coat with |
gold buttons and silk suit, which
cost mc much money. and pray God
TO make me able TO pay for it.''A little
later Pepys refers to his jackalapes
coat with silver buttons, ana reprds
the fact that he put ON for the AF4t
time my black camlett coat Will
Yer buttons" from which Il IL en- xent /
lie had a eamlett coat with silver ltr |
tons and one with gold. Pepys An /
only man of moderate means md
at the time when he was making l9s1t
display with his gold ana silver 6nk- !
tons. supposed himself ssbr n0ffh |
about $500 clear in the world.
But the gold and silver buttons were
necessary if he were to keep in the
fashion, Those who stood outside tn41
fashionable world battered their low
for display by sporting SILT buttons IN
a later date cloth buttons became yeBf
popular, but when Birmingham he6an
to turn out metal buttons an act WAN
passed in the reign of George I, forbid
ding the manufacture of cloth buttons
in order that the new industry OF met
al buttons might have d chance to
flourish. The metal button industry
made the most of the opportunity, f0f.
all kinds of buttons now complete ON
an equal footing for popular favor.-
London Globe
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-27
The Sinner.

OF the late Bishop Charles G. Graf
Ton a Fond du Lac man said the 9th
|er day:
"Bishup Grafton was remarkable for
the neatness and point of his pulpit
|ufterances.
"Cnce, during disastrous strike, a
capitalist of Fond du Lac rose In 4
church meeting and asked leave 10
speak. The bishop gave him the
floor. and the man delivered himself
of long panegyric upon captains of
industry, upon the good they do by
giving men work, by booming the
country. by reducing the cost of pro-
duction and SO forth
When the capitalist had finished
his self praises, and, flushed and sat
isfed, had sat down again, BISHOP
Grafton rose and said with quiet
significance:
rs there any other sinner who
would like to say word
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-27
What India Looks Like.

Reviewing j. A. Spender's book,
the Indian Scene" the London Spec
tator says:
To those who have not seen India
the descriptive chapters of THE Indi-
an Scene" will be of very great inter
est. Mr.. Spender is content to describe
what he saw in the simplest way, and
by this means gives the reader
strong sense of the reality of what he
is told. Nowhere is this done with
more completeness than in the open
ing chapters on Bombay. What strikes
him is not the place so much as the
people. Every street swarms with
them, and mo half dozen seem alike"
Their color varies from white to very
nearly black, their costume from the
frock coat to the loin CLOTH The ear
is as much occupied as the eye for the
slightest transaction appears to re-
quire the unloosing simultaneously of
all tongues in a wide circle of disin-
terested spectators" The spectator
may tlatter himself after a time that
he can tell Hindu from a Moham-
medan. But this has not taken him
far. Either Hindu or Mohammedan
ferent races. and the Hindu may, ac-
cording to his caste be the most ex-
allied of human kind or at a depth so
low as hardly to be. or TO reckon him
SELF human" Then there is the con
trast between life and death, between
the rich Parsee living in his preten-
tious stone built house on the sea-
shore, ard the same man carried, as
soon as he has closed his eyes, to the
towers of silence, with their obscene
semicrcles of yultures sitting huddled
together on the rims of the two pits
waiting for their next meal" And
then there is the fact-inore separating
races perhaps than any other feature
of India life-that into the vast ma
jorlty of houses which ito all outward
seeming might be the homes of Euro
pean noveauX riches" no European has
ever entered or ever will enter. He
must not see the women who live in
Them. When shattered or curtained
carriage passes him for the first time
in the street he is told that woman
is inside. and that is his nearest APP
proach to knowledge of one-half of
Indian life.
w men lie ieaNeS BOMBAY MI. Spen-
Ger Goes his best 10 answer the simple
question, What does India look like
Somewhere north of Baroda he opens
the shutters of his sleeping carriage
and at first sees nothing to tell him
that he is not in Europe. The coun-
try is fiat, it has many trees, ii is cut
up into small fields and very closely
cultivated. 1t is the human element
and the animal element that makes it
unlike Europe-the women "swathed
in crimson muslin the children "eith- |
er naked or Realistically dressed up.
the thin walnut colored men. with |
white turbans and bare legs, the big
loose limbed monkeys who pass in a |
kind of ambling gallop." the hump |
backed cattle, mild miniature beasts" |
the straight-h hacked lead colored buffa- |
Ices. Then comes railway station !
and a fresh riot of color and fancy" /
Opposite the carriage stands vener-
able gentleman in bright green flow
cred silk dressing gown, with a pink
turban and white pajamas; near him
there is woman lin shapeless mass
of orange cotton tiny child with
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-27
CHOP SUEY HOAX EXPOSED.
Sold in United States as china's Ma.
tional Dish, But Orientals Never
Heard of 1t.

From Pell street to the far flung
limits of Harlem, from San Francis
co to Sandy Hook, not Forgetting way
stations, and in fact in every Amer
can town which is big enough to call
it's main street a gay white way, there
are one or more Wing Yungs and Sam
Lis, who sell chop suey to lovers of
the bizarre and Oriental, not 10 men
ton street car conductors on night
runs.
And yet a man might travel from
Pekin to kongkong and though he
asked a million persons he would find
none who could give him, nor indeed
ANY who had ever heard of, chop suey.
sold to us as the national dish of
China. searched for it in many parts
of the great empire without results,
ana it was not until I came to semi
Westernized Shanghaia that l ran
across it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-27
A NEW DESTROYER
Named for United States Naval
Lieutenant John C. ALVIN.

Lieut.. John c. Alwyn, who was killed
in action In the war of 1872, was honored
last Saturday by having Il new torpedo
boat destroyer named after him. The
new vessel was launched from the shin
yard of William Cramp & Sons ship ami
Engine Building Company, in PhiladeI
phia. Lieut Alwyn was Killed on the
Constitution on December %, 1912. The
old flagship was then Is years old and
was commanded by Capt. William Balm
bridge. The vessel was on a cruise
along Brazil, and on December % she
fell in with the British frigate Java. 50
guns, Capt Henry Lambert, one of the
finest vessels in the royal navy. They
were then about 30 miles from the shore,
southeast of Bahia. About two O'CLOCK
in the afternoon, after running upon the
same tack with the Constitution; the
Java bore down upoa the latter, with
the intention of raliing her. This calam-
lily was averted, and shortly after 81
most furious battle at short range
was begun. When it had ragged about
half an hour. the wheel of the Constitu-
ton was shot away, and her antagonist,
being the better sailor, had the advan-
tage of her for a time. Capt. Balm
bridge managed his crippled ship with
so much skill that she was first in COM
ing to the wind on the next tack, and
gave the Java raking fire.
AT three o'clock the Java attempted To
close by running down the Constitution 5
quarter She missed her aim. In a few
moments the Constitution poured a
hroadside into the stem of the Java.
Another followed when the foremost OF
the Java went by the board. crushing in
the forecastle and main deck in its pas
sage In an hour the two vessels lay
hroadside TO broadside. Soon the Java :
mizzemtast was shot away. leaving
nothing butt manmast, the yards OF
which had been carried away. The fire
of the English vessel now ceased, and
Capt cambridge was under the impress
sion that she had struck her eolors
When the American was preparing 10
renew the conflict, the Java's colors Were
hauled down ana she was surrendered.
The Java was wreck. and her comman-
der was mortally wounded. 1t was be-
LEVIED that the loss on the Java was
nearly 100 killed and 200 wounded Capt
Bainbridge was also wounded. Including
Lieut. Alwyn, the Constitution lost eight
killed and % wounded.
The Alwyn. which has been designed
to burn either coal or fuel oil, is re-
qnired on her official trial TO develop a
3l-knot speed She is 900 feet long, with
beam of 81 feet, and will be driven by
twin propellers. Her engines will be OF
the Cramp-Zoll turgine type with
steam supplied from water tube boilers.
Ter armament win consist of four H.
pound rapid-fire guns. large automatic
gun. and two smaller guns of the same
type-New York Evening Post.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-27

the fat and meat off it, as they spoil
the sale. This can be more easily taxi
en- off after the hide is ON the board.
Don't set traps too early in the fall
for the kits are small and hides not
prime. A warm, rainy night is the
best. On such nights we have averag-
ed one rat to three traps. Be at traps
at daylight if possible, as they COM
mence to gnaw out as soon as it is
light. Double jaw traps prevent gnaw-
ing out.
In making boards use half-inch
chestnut or poplar Make them six
inches wide and two feet long When
tapering don't taper too straight, but
make them with a tull shoulder or
curvc.-Farm and Home.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-27

ton would no longer accept a Sanla-
koy diploma, as the equivalent of the
regular gvmnasia diploma. NO, IT
isn't religious discrimination against
us" he said, honestly, but we simply
haven't had the means of keeping pace
with the rising requirements of the
regular gymnasia. We can't afford
such a high grade of teachers. The
government offers us assistance in get
ting them. but we can't pay the price
Albert Sonnichsen in the Review OF
RnHieWS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-27
A Cynical Aphorism.

Brand Whitlock, reform mayor of
Toledo. was condemning the corrupt
practices by which certain Ohio
millionaire had made his millions.
when | think of men like this" he
said, rather bitterly, Il feel like vent
ing an aphorism. cynical aphorism,
THE richer a man is the less he is
worth"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-27

English people are not used to caH
ing peaches. as the English hothou4|
product sells for as much as 80
dozen, and the peach grown ontsfd1
sometimes at nearly $3.50 a dozeH|
Hence the market for America1
peaches in England is IN its INFANCY
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-12-24
Knights Elected Officers.

At their regular meeting Tues:
day evening Of last week the
Knights O, Pythias elected the fol-
lowing officers to serve for the en-
suing year; Rev. P. P. Blal6ck,
chancellor commander; J. L. Minis,
vice chancellor; G.. A. Holmes, pre-
late; L. B. Jones, master at arms;
r. G. Padgett, keeper of records
and seal; N. M. Jones, master of
finance; w. H. Harling, master of
e1checker; J. R. Scurry, inner
guard: L. T. May, outer guard; j.
s. Byrd, master of work. The new
ly elected officers will be installed
at the next regular meeting when
the members of the lodge will hold
their annual oyster supper.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-12-24
ICED TEA v...'IH FINE FLAVOR
Addition of Jasmine or Orange Bloe-
SONS Makes Most Delicious
Sun1i.:-r Beverage.

II you want "a with delicious,
flavor, try the following experiment:
Get half pour. of very fine tea and
add to 1t dozen jasmine or orange
blossoms. Put tli::s mixture into per-
fectly tight jar away from the light
and do not opel: for a month. If you
cannot get the Grange blossoms or JAS
mine, purchase some orange flower
water and soak your tea in enough Of
this water to coTer it. In few hours
it will be ready 10 use.
To make the tea have the water hot,
pour it over the tea and allow to stand
at least twelve hours Tea made In
this way has beautiful flavor and
delicious perfume u flavor, that can be
obtained in no o,her way. Try COM
bining it with orange sherbet. There
Is no way Of r2::aring iced tea that
can compare with this. After sweet
ening, and when yCl are ready to serve
It, place the sherbet in bowl. pour
the cold tea over it, and bring them
to the table together.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-12-24
College Students at Home.

Were it not the holiday season
Edgefeld would be gay anyway.
The home coming of so many col
lege students adds to the social life
of the community. The fo- flowing
are at home for the holidays: Miss
Lille Adams, from Chicora; Misses
Elizabeth and June Rainsford, from
the College for Women; Miss
Florence Peak, from Coker; Misses
Snow and Rose Jc@rics ard Misses
Natalie and Gladys Padgett, from
the G. F. C; Miss Nellie Jones,
from Converse; Miss Marjorie
:Tompkins from the Georgetown
Convent; Miss Katherine Minis,
from Winthrop college; Arthur
Tompkins, from Davidson; Benja
min Greneker and Gill Dunovant
from Wofford; Francis Sheppard,
from The Citadel; Hammond Car-I
Michael, J. Harling, Elliott and
Irwin Padgett, from Clemson;
Rainsford Cantelouc and -
Morgan, from B. NJ. !.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-12-24
DR.. Hobson's Ointmeut Heals.
Itchy Eczema.

The constantly itching, burning
sensation and other disagreeable
forms of eczema, letter, salt rheum
and ekin eruptions promptly cured
by DR.. Hobson's eczema ointment.
Geo. w Fitch Of Mendoza, ~, !,
says: Il purchased box of DR.
Hobson's eczema ointment. Have
had eczema ever since the civil war,
have been treated by many doctors,
none have given the benefit that one
box of DR.. Robson's eczema oint-
ment has" Every sufferer should
try it. We're so positive it will help
you we guarantee it or money re-
funded. At all druggists or by mail
soc. Pfeiffer Chemical Co. Phila-
delphia or St. Louis. 4
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-12-24
TEA TABLE In SUMMER
WAYS ey WHICH IT CAN sE MADE
MOST ATTRACTIVE.
Delicious Novelties That May Re Add.
Cd TO the Favorlto Beverage on
Hot Afternoon-set Repaes
Under q Tree.

II YOU are ambitious to make your
tea table attractive to men-and what
woman Is not?-substitute a punch
bowl for the kettle that will come back
into favor when the first sharp autumn
wind sends one shivering toward the
fireplace. During the heated season
use plenty of ice and move the tea
table onto the porch, or under tree,
and try some Of these delicious new
beverages and original cakes and sand
wiches.
. Tea Julep-Make strong tea and
pour 1t slowly into tall. slender glasses
that have been filled with cracked ice.
on top of which has been placed a
thick slice Of lemon, generous sprig
of brook mint and lump or two OF
sugar. There should be sufficient Ice
In each glass to thoroughly chill the
tea.
Tea Cocktail-Fill tall glasses with
shaved Ice. Put In each'g 'glass two or
three cloves or Casa buds, teaspoon
full of creme de menthe, several maras-
chino cherries, and. in place of sugar,
two or three tiny sticks Of candy. Fill
the glass with strong cold tea and
serve with glass cocktail straws.
Tea Punch-Put a block OF ice IN
the punch bowl and pour over 1t a
quart of strong cold tea, bottle OF
imported ginger ale, bottle of apolli-
naris and quart of mixed fruit juices,
preferably lemon, orange and pineap-
he, and strip made by boiling two
cups of sugar with half cup of Wa,
ter for two minutes. Mix this well and
serve in glasses half full Of shaved
Ice.
Martha Anns-Mix together one cup
Of brown sugar. two eggs, half tea
spoonful of salt, quarter OF tea
spoonful of baking powder, half cup
of chopped nuts and half a cup OF
flour. This will make a batter Drop
very small spoonfuls on buttered bak,
ing sheets and bake in moderate
oven.
Brownies-Cream one cup OF sugar
and half cup of butter. Beat in two
eggs. Add two squares of unsweet'
ened chocolate that has been melted
over hot water, half cup OF chopped
nuts and halt a cup Of flour. Spread
over the bottom of a buttered pan and
bake. Cut in thin strips when done.
Saline .Sandwiches-Mix together
one cream cheese, half cup)of broken
nut meats, heaping tablespoonful OF
butter and three chopped canned pi'
mentos. Spread thickly between
ealtine waters.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-12-24
Addition al Prizes.

In order to encourage the young
ladies and to further reward them
for their faithful work, the editor
of. The Advertiser has added anoth-
er solid gold watch and two more
solid gold bracelets to the list of
prizes. This involves considerable
additional financial outlay but we
wish to reward the contestants as
far as possible in proportion to the
work they have done. We are not
willing to accept their services with
out at least in measure compen.
.sating them. Solid gold brooches
will be given to the other contest
ants.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-12-24
FIGHTING TRF:fDREaDED FLTs
heusskssper' 'MaA:.Do Much Towand
Getting Rid Of Thls Deadly mon'
ace to Human Life.

It. has been demonstrated by Dhyni'
clans and other experts that the COM
mon house fy carries typhoid germs.
Therefore, ,tit'fs necessary that great
care be taken not to breed them.
The old adage Ian ounce of preven-
ton rs better than d pound of cure"
may be applied especially to flies, for
measures to. pre-. Int their coming can
be used more. ehyGtiYely than methods
for destroying tpem after they arrive.
The housekeeper should insist that
not a drop of .op of any kind be
thrown about the. door, and that all
sink-drains and cess pools be securely
covered and thai: no open sloD pals
be allowed to stand near the house.
inviting a cong. cation Of these suH-
mer pests.
Owners Of cr:ntry homes some
times forget tnat the manure pile io
q menace to tn: health of the family,
particularly is this the case when
within easy re2r.l of the dwelling
Screens ouglI' to be placed in all
the windows and doors before flies
and other insects mafe their appear
;ance.
Spraying slcii; pails, garbage cans
or ponds with kerosene Is said to
destroy the Il va. Of both flies and
mosquitoes.
Perfect clea: :;aess in the kitchen,
the free use CT borax and ammonia
IN washing fl; rs, tables and sinks
will 90 a lorG way in preventing
trouble from f:ns.