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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-11-02
She Has Skill with a Skillet.

Where we are living at present we
have no gas range, only a two-burner
plate, and the coal range is so large
that 1t requires a great deal Of fuel
to heat the oven sufficiently to bake
even q few mullins or biscuits, SO that
I have tried to find a satisfactory sub
st1tute that could be cooked in a skill
let. BY using the skillet dry and
s%prinkling it lightly with -four, I bake
very enjoyable biscuit, cake or scone.
For these I use simply q biscuit bat.
ter, made a tdhe sitter, patted or
rolled to about a quarterback thick
ness. One must be Jul to have the
fire or gas low enough not to burn the
outside Of the scone before the inside
has time to cook sufficiently. If gas
is used, a more ever distribution Of the
heat may be obtained by using a heat
ed lid from the stove under the skillet;
or a heavy piece Of tin or sheet iron
will serve the ~purpose.-Woman's
Home Companion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-11-02
RATIONS FOR COWS

In winter breeding cows 10 pounds
of straw be fed with 20 pounds of
silage or 10 pounds of shucked corn
and l pound of c]ottonseed or lin
seed meal If slower is plentiful 20
pounds can be fed with 2 pounds of
cottonseed or oil cake. For feed
inga 1000 pound fattening steer,
5 pounds of straw or 10 of slower
with Is to IS pounds of silage and
IL pounds of corn, is recommended.
The following ration making use
of corn fodder nd straw should give
good results with dry dairy cows,
bulls and heifers: Corn slower or
straw in unlimited amounts, 10
pounds of clover hay, 20 pounds of
corn silage, 1 pound of cottonseed
meal, and 2 pounds of corn-cob
meal. If the cows r giving a lit
tie milk, increase the amount of
clover hay and feed more cottonseed
meal or add gluten fed.-U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-11-02
A Stars Llqht Year.

A stars light year means the length
Of time as measured by III years that
a particular stars light takes in reach
ing the earth. Light travels at the
rate Of about 10000 miles a second,
yet ever at that speed some Of the
fixed stars are so distant from the
earth that it takes their light several
years to reach us. The sun is 93,OOO,-
900 miles from the earth and its light
reaches in less than nine minutes, but
the light from Sirius, sometimes called
the Dog star, is eight years in reaching
u.s.. The Pole star or North star, has
a As light year, that is, its light Is As
years in reaching the earth. If n Of
these inconceivably distant fixed stars
should be blotted out Of existence to-
night we should continue to see 1t for
years to come from its rays Of light
already on their way to the earth.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-11-02
SLATE ROOFS DEFY WEATHER
Same Covering Still Protects Old
Saxon Chapel In England, Which
Was Built in Eighth Century.

Time is the assessor Of roofing ma
terial values. Few, very few, roof COW
ers can stand the harsh, exacting tests
Of old father time. Slate meets his re-
quirements. Nature made 1t strong
and sturdy, says an exchange.
In Hartford-on-Avon, England stands
Old Saxon chapel which was built In
the eighth century. The builders COW
cred it with a slate roof. There the
church stands today, still protected by
the same slate, moss-covered but good.
Year after year this slate roof has
defended Saxon chapel from the suces-
sive assaults Of rain, hail, snow, wind,
sun and frost. Twelve centuries it has
served. It complains not and it has no
misgivings about the future-it is a
slate roof.
The British in particular are rich in
evidence Of the long life Of slate as a
roof covering. Slate was quarried in
Wales centuries before America was
discovered. There is in England today
a slate roof over 800 years old, and still
Is good.
The first recorded use Of slate in
America was on a building in Philadel-
phia erected in the year 100, which
building served as the seat Of govern
ment for William PENIS domain. There
is NJ evidence that this roof was re-
moved or replaced until the building
was torn down In the year 1887.
In the New England states there are
many houses and barns which have
been covered with slate go and 10
years and which are still in excellent
condition.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-11-02
He Lost His Penny.

The porters Of the Pennsylvania sta-
ton, although usually merely attentive
and serviceable, are, in many instances.
equipped with a regular sense OF
humor, and some Of their remarks are
genuinely amusing to the travellers
who encounter them often, says q New
York news letter. One Of them stopped
for a moment to watch a huge and I'M
comfortable looking nan weigh hnn-
self. The man was q foreigner, and
inasmuch as he placed a penny IN a
scale which clearly demanded hve
cents for service 1t did not work. He
stood after the coin fell, looking re
markably indignant. Then, seeing the
porter behind him, he turned to him
and told him that he had put a cent IN
and that nothing had happened. @What
must I do now? asked the victim,
struggling his shoulders. The negro
looked at him with a smile, meanwhile
taking off his hat and scratching his
head speculatively. "Well," he said,
"when you put your money in to learn
what you weigh and then nothing hap
pens you just 60 right on wondering
how much it can be you weigh"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-11-02
WORLDS LARGEST MERCHANT
Claim Made by Fl. 3. CIaf7in In the
Seventies Was substantiated After
, Inquiry by Rivals.

The incorporation Of "Clafins, Incor-
porated," recalls IN incident connected
with the founder Of the business,
which has borne the name Of ".Clafin"
for upward Of half a century, says the
Wall Street Journal. In the early sew
enties, when the import duty on cotton
prints was considered excessive, a
number Of importers framed a petition
to congress, drawing attention to the
fact that the high tariff was practical
ly a duty upon domestic produce, mas
much as the cotton grown in this coun-
try was merely sent to Manchester to
be spun, woven and printed, and that
they were actually being taxed upon
American cotton upon its return after
manufacture.
When the petition in question was
presented TO q. E. Claflin for sigma
ture, it had already been subscribed by
4. T. Stewart, e. 8. Jaffrey, Durham,
Buckley & Co., Arnold, Constable &
Co., and others, which hurt the pride
Of MI. Clahin. he could not we'll re-
fuse to sign the document, as he was
the largest importer Of prints, and,
therefore, the person most affected.
IIe showed his chagrin at not having
the petition presented to him for first
signature by writing after his name,
"The Largest Merchant in the World"
This asseveration was questioned by
a.. T. Stewart and several Of the 9TH
ers, who took pairs to test 1t. After
careful and worldwide investigation it
was found that 81. B. Claf1in was then
"the largest merchant in the world"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-11-02
THE HoNORS OF ATROCITY

The Sultan of Turkey has gra-
ciously conferred on the German
Kaiser the diamond star of the Ifti,
char Order, Turkeys highest wal
decoration, and the Kaiser has dec
Grated the Sultan with the star and
chain of the Hohenzollern Order
with diamonds.
The honors are ever-the hero of
the Belgian and Lusitania murders
honors and is honored by the hero Of
Armenian massacres. No one will
question the deserving of the honors
or the respective fitness of the mu,
tual donors and recipients.
But to the intelligence and con-
science of the world a Liberty Loan
button, showing that an American
citizen has done his or her part in
support of our Government, is a
vastly more honorable decoration
than the diamond orders of the Sui
tan and the Kaiser. 1t signifies only
a simple patriotic duty done; but
the diamond orders stand for colos-
sal infamy and murder.-Ex.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-11-02
ECONOMY WITH GAS STOVE
Woman Tells How She Saved Money
by Making Plans Ahead for Her
Baking Day.

A woman has written in to the Wom-
ans Home Companion about her gas
stove and she says:
"The idea Of telling other women
how to economic time and money In
the use of my gas stove came to me
on hearing a young housekeeper tell
about baking a pudding, or just one
thing, in q gas ven as large as my
own, which struck me as amazingly ex-
travagant," writes a woman In the
Woman's Home Companion.
when planning to have q baking
day with the oven, I sit down the day
before and think out just what Is need
ed for several meals ahead which must
be cooked. For instance, I place a
roast in a pan just barely large
enough to hold it, thus economizing on
space as well. Then, if possible, I
cover the roast with q pan which can
be made to sit quite level, into which
I put several potatoes; or, If this ar
rangement isn't practicable, I put the
potatoes on the crate. Beside the
roast I place a small pudding dish con-
tanning q bread pudding, on a small
asbestos mat beside the pudding dish
a small pan Of biscuits. A vegetable
may sometimes be baked in a maple
with all these things as well.
1.-THE following, all Of which I have
tested, will be found good combinations
for any baking day:
"a meat loaf, covered, in a bread
pan; escalloped tomatoes in a pudding
dish a pan Of corn gems. Time about
an hour. Baked potatoes may be
crowded In almost always.
"Roast chicken in small cake tin;
sweet potatoes peeled and sliced, sea-
soned and covered with milk In pud-
ding dish; macaroni and cheese In a
bread tin. Time about one and one
half hours, oven moderate"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-11-02

ed and much more frequently it runs
from rs to 40 per cent. The range
of losses being greater, there are few
farm products the efficient handling
of which gives better profits than
with stable manure.
AS we increase our forage crop
production by the rotation of crops
and the growing of legumes for soil
Improvement, we must increase our
livestock and our production of ma
nures, but now and in the immediate
future we car save millions of dollars
and greatly increase our crop yields
by better methods Of saving and
handling the livestock manure al
ready produced.
Let every farmer consider we'll how
nearly he saves and realives the fol-
lowing annual values in farm ma
nures produced by the livestock he
keeps. For every 1000 pounds of the
animals kept the annual value OF
the manure if saved will, under aver
age good feeding, amount to some
thing like the following:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-11-02
Usinq Inferior Fuels.

Now that it is possible to convert
inferior fuels, such as peat and brown
coal, with a relatively high degree OF
efficiency, into gas by generators and
to make practical use OF them as
sources of power, the interest in them
Is increasing. In northern Germany,
whose water power Is not easily avail
able, the high and low boys are de-
stined to furnish the fuel needed for
the generation Of electricity. The e1-
%periences Of the overland power plant
in the Auricher Wiesmoor have proved
that with a peat consumption OF 2
kilos "a pounds) per kilowatt hour
the peat boys r an economically use
full source Of power Of great extent
and duration. '
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-11-02
SOCIETY M IS MAYOR.
Leader Of Philadelphia "4o0r Accepts
Offer Of Job az Chief Executive
offFiorida Town.

Florida has crossed the Rubicon Of
woman suffrage, according to a Moore
Haven (Fla.) correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Ledger. The population
Of this city has petitioned a Philadel-
phia society woman who has been
farming q 2,0OO-acre ranch in the IA
nous Everglades to accept the may
orally of this city. She has accepted,
after the two man candidates person
ally requested her to take the Office:
Mrs. George Quintard Horwitz, the
new mayor-to-be Of this city, the first
woman to break through the stone SUIT
frage wall on the solid South, is one
Of the most widely-known women in|
the North. -
In Philadelphia she has taken theI
lead in social, philanthropic and relief
movements. In Florida she has an-|
swered the call Of the nation for food
stuffs. She gave up her winter hornel
in Palm Beach and took up the devel-|
opment Of her estate in the Ever
glades. As the result she shipped FROM
her farm more than fifty carloads OF
potatoes. ne.
She will ship from that same FARM
in a. few months more than 100000
bushels of corn, hundreds Of hogs and
many head Of cattle. She Is now pre-
pairing to plant hundreds Of additional
acres Of foodstuffs.
Moore Haven was incorporated sew
eral months ago and 1t Is the only city
in the state with equal franchise
rights for men and women. At q mass
meeting two men were nominated Tor
the mayoralty. The fight promised to-
be spirited before the election.
The next morning n Of the candi-
dates asked Mrs. Horwitz to serve.
She answered that If the people want
ed her she would accept A petition
signed by all qualified voters was
handed her that night.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-11-02
SAVE THE WHEAT.
Get the eat More Corn" Habit at
Breakfast Time-Receipt for
Corn Pancakes.

Order a"stack of corn" or a
stack of katir" instead of a "stack
of wheat" cakes at the hotel or res
taurant. Pancakes made of corn
or kafr corn or one of these grains
with g little wheat flour are fully as
palatable and nutritious as cakes
made of wheat only, say food specia-
lists of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. Millions of
wheat cakes are consumed at the
American breakfast table every morn
ing. Get the "stackk of corn" habit
and save the wheat.
The department is urging restau-
rants and hotel proprietors to instruct
their chefs to prepare and have ready
for use batter for corn cakes each
morning so that patrons may order
corr cakes instead of wheat cakes.
Corn cakes have always been pop
ular on the family table. By fea-
turing the "stack Of corn" cakkes
on their menus it is believed patrons
will be glad to form the "eat more
corn" habit at breakfast time.
Corn cakes with syrup are appe-
tizing and satisfying. The follow
ing receipt is recommended:
Corn-meal pancakes.
1 cup corn meal.
1 cup flour (wheat).
2 teaspoons baking powder.
1 teaspoon salt.
IL tablespoon sugar.
1 tablespoon melted butter.
1 egg.
1 cup milk.
Mix the dry ingredients, add melt
ed butter, well-beaten egg,- and milk.
Bake like ordinary griddle cakes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-11-02
Bio Food Crops.

It looks as if nobody in the world
need lack for something to eat next
year, If the crop promise Of the United
States for the coming harvest Is full
filled. According to the forecast Of the
department Of agriculture, food crops
this season will be greater by a billion
bushels than last year. This does not
take into account the thousands Of
home gardens that will produce their
millions of bushels Of potatoes and
other vegetables. The governments
crop report is probably the s%everest
blow that has been struck at Prussian-
ism in several days, at least-Chrts.
ton Science Monitor. !,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-11-02
few REAL BOOK STORES HERE.
Count ToIstoy Struck by Lack Of OPP
portunities for Obtaining Good
Literature In United States.

In my country, as in the other parts
Of Europe, nobody need have any diff.
Guilty in finding book stores in small
towns or in large cities, Count nya
Tolstoy writes in the Century maya
zine. Here one a find a cigar store,
a drug store, all kinds Of shops where
luxuries can be purchased, but the
seeking Of a bookshop Is often q very
hard quest. Even in New York it is
hard to find a real book store, where
the attendants know their authors and
can help one select the books that ~
needs on any subject. There are
some, but none too many. They can
be counted on the fingers Of ones
hands.
In smaller cities the task Of finding
books is a hopeless one. There are a
few stores where books are sold; but
what books? Novels mostly, the aver
age ephemeral romance; magazines
with too many W-conceived articles
containing little upbuilding criticism
of public life, much ill-digested infor-
nation, and newspapers which afford
little Of intellectual value, being most
ly mediums ofeadvertsing. American
literature is yet poor. The good mag
azines are few compared with Euro
pean reviews. The inheritance Of man
kind, the universal literature, is hard
ly known here. There are translations
in sets, richly bound, but cheaply pro-
duced, and too often done by hack
writer's, who do not even understand
what they translate. They are bad
translations, as q rule, but costly.
Poor people are not able to buy them.
Even in Russia, in the country
which Americans thinkluncivilized, we
have TRANSACTIONS Of all the worlds
great writer's. These editions are ap-
propriate to the. means Of the people.
They can be bought for prices from I
to S cents. It is the same in England.
The result here is that the people read
only newspapers and magazines. In
Russia for the same price we can build
q library Of great books. The best
works Of Pushkin, Dickens, Shake
speare, Dante, Cervantes, Goethe, Toll
stoy, Heine, Victor Hugo and count
less others are at the disposal Of the
poorest.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-11-02
Why He Didn't Volunteer.

The army recruiting officer was sit
ting in the office when a %fne-looking
young fellow stopped to look at the
war trophies through the plate-glass
window. The sergeant hustled outside
and asked the man to volunteer.
"Ill not volunteer" he replied. u
don't mind fighting, but no volunteer
ing for me-"
"Why not?" asked the sergeant.
"Aren't the king and the kaiser
cousins?" asked the prospect.
eyes," admitted the recruiting agent.
swell, I volunteered last night in
q family %squabble, and that's how I
got this scratch on my, chin. Phone
me q request If you want me. I'll
come-but no more 'Yolunteering."-
Chicago Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-11-02
Bio War Man.

An American exhibitors war map Is
Is by 20 feet in size, and shows the
most Of Europe, shaped to the earth's
natural curvature, and with a relief
exaggerated 10 times, the horizontal
scale being 7.8 miles to the inch, and
the vertical .78 mile. About 200 places
are marked by electric bulbs. Their
names are on a large indicator at the
side, and as the lecturer causes the
name &C a town on this to light up
the corresponding bulb on the mar
begins to glow.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-11-02
Don't Play the Fool.

A great many people play the fool
naturally. They come into the world
endowed by nature and favored by op'
portunity to create something Of a stir.
But the first thing you know they have
gone off on some insignificant tangent
that tells palmer than words that they
are playing the fool. And in some
cases it is really an art to keep from
it. Temperament, association and the
occasion have much to do with con-
duct. There's many a fellow with the
blood e heroes in his veins who be-
comes q most distinguished fool
Pennsylvania Grit.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-11-02

AAolatS NAoAhoESo AlllSiChtAJ
The animals only retain in their
bodies from 10 to 20 per cent of the
plant foods in the feedstuffs, but this
does not mean that from 80 to go per
cent of these plant foods will be held
in the manure and returned to the
land. There are unavoidable losses
and in pratice still larger losses
which might be avoided. These losses,
therefore, vary with the efficiency of
the management. It is sometimes
practicable to place back on the land
IS per cent of the plant food con-
tanned by the feeding stuff, but it is
probably rare in farm pratice that
more than so to 60 per cent is return
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-08-29
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate of Walter L. Roberts, de- ceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned, administratrix of the estate of Walter L. Roberts. deceased. 10 the creditors of and all persons having claims against the said de- ceased. to exhibit them. with the necessary vouchers. within Ten months after the first publication of this notice to the said administrative at Room 20. Bank of Arizona Build ing. Prescott, Arizona, the same be- ing the place for the transaction of the business of said estate, in said County of Yavapai.
 ADA PRICE ROBERTS,
 Administratrix of the Estate of
 Walter l.. Roberts, Deceased.
 (W) August 15-5t.
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-08-29
TERRIBLY SWOLLEN
Suffering Described As Torture
 Relieved by Black-Draught.

Rossville, Ga.-Mrs. Kate Lee Able, of Ihis place, writes: "My husband is an engineer, and once while lifting, he in- iured himself with piece of heavy ma- chinery, across the abdomen He was so sore he could not bear 10 press on himself at all, on chest or abdomen. He weighed l65 lbs, and fell off until he weighed no lbs, in two weeks.
 He became consfipated and it looked like he would die. We had three different doctors, yet with all their medicine, his bowels failed to act. He would turn up ten-cent bottle of castor oil, and drink it two or three days in succession. He did this yet without result. We became desperate, he suffered SO. He was swol- len terribly. He told me his suffering could only be described as torture.
 l lsent and bought Thedford's Black Draught. made him take a big dose, and when it began to act he tainted, he was in such misery, but he got relief and began to mend at once. He got well, and we both feel he owes his life to Thedford's Black-Draught."
 Thedford's Black-Draught will help you to keep fit, ready for the days work. Try itl NC-13l
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-08-29
FORFEITURE NOTICE.

To J. C. TOVREA, his heirs, ex- ecutors, administrators and assigns: You are hereby notified that I have expended during the year 1913 Five Hundred Dollars in labor and inn provements upon the following min ing claims situated in the Blue Tank mining district, Yavapai county, Ari- zona: Little Annie, Golden Treas ure. North Star, Copper Bottom, Home Stake, notice of location oi which is of record in Book s of Mines, at page 366, records of Yava- pal county, Arizona, in order to hold said claims under the provisions of Section 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and the amend ment thereto approved January 2, 1880, concerning annual labor upon mining claims being the amount re- quired to hold said claims for the period ending the 3lst day of Decem- Der, 1913. And if, within ninety days from the personal service of this mo- tice. or within ninety days from the publication thereof, you fail or refuse to contribute your proportion of such as a co-owner, which to S250, your interest in the claim will become the property of the your co-owner. who has made the required expenditure, by the terms of said section.
 VIM. N. KENT.
 Dated at Prescott, Arizona, this 10th day of February, 1914
 First pub. July IS, l97-l4t. (W).
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-08-29
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the Superior Court of the County of Yavapai, State of Arizona. In the Matter of the Estate of Charles B. Veil, Deceased. - Notice to Creditors.
 Notice is hereby given by the undersigned administrator, with the will annexed, of the estate of Charles B. Well, deceased to the creditors oi and all persons having claims against the said deceased to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers within ten (l0) months after the first publication of this notice to the said administra- tor, with the will annexed, at his office, Pythian Building, Prescott, Arizona, the same being the place for the transaction of the business of said estate in the County of Yavapai, State of Arizona.
 Dated, August Fist. 1917.
 RICHARD HANSON,
 Administrator with the Will
 Annexed (W) First publication Aug. 2, 1917.