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It Was riot Very Dainty, but It
Was a Satisfying Feast.
SEAL MEAT AND PLOOD SOUP.
———————i
The First Course Was Served Out of
Hand, and the Second In Musk Ox
Horn Drinking Cups—The Hospital
ity Extended to Explorer Stefansson.
An interesting description of the hos
pitallty of Eskimos is given by Vilhjal
mnr Stefansson in Ids paper. "M.v
Quest In the Arctic." In Harper’s Mag
azlne. At one stage of his adventures
the writer found himself among Eski
mos who had never before seen white
people. He says:
“Like our distant ancestors, no
doubt, these people fear most of all
things the evil spirits that Hre likely
to appear to them at any time in any
guise, and next to that they fear stran
gers. Our first greeting hnd been a
Idt doubtful and dramatic through our
being mistaken for spirits, but now
they bud felt of us and talked with us
and knew we were but common men.
Strangers we were., It Is true, but we
were only three among forty of them
and were therefore not to be feared.
Resides, they told us they knew we
could harbor no guile from the free
dom and frankness with which we
came among them: for. they said, a
man who plots treachery never turns
ills back to those whom he Intends to
stall from behind.
"Before the house which they imine
diately built for us was quite ready
for our occupancy children came run
ning from the village to announce that
their mothers had dinner ready. The
houses were so small that it was not
convenient to invite all three of us
into the same one to eat: besides, it
was not etiquette to do so, as we now
know. Each of us was therefore tak
en to a different place. My host was
tlie seal hunter whom we had tirst ap
proached on the ice. His house would,
lie said, be a fitting one in which to
otter me my first meal among them,
for his wife had been born farther
west on the mainland coast than any
one else in their village, and It was
even said that her ancestors had not
belonged originally to their people, hut
were Immigrants from the westward.
She would therefore like to ask me
questions
“It turned out. however, that his
wife was not a talkative person, but
motherly, kindly and hospitable, like
nil her countrywomen. Her tirst ques
tions were not of the land from which
1 came, but of my footgear. Weren’t
my feet Just a little damp, and might
she not pull my hoots off for me and
dry them over the lamp? She had
boiled some seal meat for me. but she
had not boiled any fat, for she did not
know whether I preferred the blubber
boiled or raw They always cut it in
small pieces and ate it raw themselves,
but the pot still hung over the lamp,
and anything she put into it would
be cooked In a moment
"When 1 told her that my tastes
quite coincided with theirs, as in fact
they did, she was delighted. People
were much alike then, after all. though
they came from a great distance. She
would accordingly treat me exactly as
If 1 were one of their own people
come to visit them from afar.
“When we had entered the house the
boiled pieces of seal meat had already
been taken out of the pot and lay
steaming on a sideboard. On being as
sured that my tastes in food were not
likely to differ from theirs, my hostess
picked out for me the lower joint of
a seal's foreleg, squeezed it firmly be
tween her hands to make sure noth
ing should later drip from it. and
handed it to me. along with her own
copper bladed knife The next most
desirable piece was similarly squeezed
and handed to her husband, and others
In turn to the rest of the family.
“As we ate we sat on the front edge
of the bed platform, holding each his
piece of meat In the left hand and the
knife In the right. This was my first
experience with a knife of native cop
per. 1 found It more than sharp
enough and very serviceable.
“Our meal was of two courses—the
first, meat; Hie second, soup. The soup
is made by pouring cold seal blood Into
Ihe boiling broth Immediately after the
cooked meat has been taken out of the
po tand stirring briskly until the whole
comes nearly—but never quite—to a
boll This makes a soup of a thickness
comparable to our English pea soup,
but if the pot be allowed to come to a
boil the blood will coagulate and settle
to the bottom. When the soup is a
few degrees from boiling the lamp
above which the pot is swung is ex
tinguished and a few handfuls of
snow are stirred into the soup to bring
it to a temperature at which it can be
freely drunk By means of a small dip
per the housewife then fills the large
musk ox tiorn drinking cups and as
signs one to each person. If the num
ber of cups is short two or more per
sons may share the coutept_B_of one cup
But This Does Not Bother Mrs.
Burton, Under the
Circumstances.
Houston, Texas.—ln an interesting
letter from this city, Mrs. S. C. Burton
writes as follows : “1 think it is my duty
to tell you what your medicine, Cardui,
the woman’s tonic, has done for me.
I was down sick with womanly trouble,
and my mother advised several different
treatments, but they didn’t seem to do
me any good. I lingered along for three
or four months, and for three weeks, J
was in bed, so sick 1 couldn’t bear for
any one to walk across the floor.
My husband advised me to try Cardui,
the woman’s tonic. I have taken two
bottles of Cardui, am feeling fine, gained
15 pounds and do all of my housework.
Friends hardly know me, I am so well.”
If you suffer from any of the ailments
so common to women, don’t allow the
trouble to become chronic. Begin taking
Cardui to-day. It is purely vegetable,
its ingredients acting in a gentle, natural
way on the weakened womanly constitu
tion. You run no risk in trying Cardui.
It has been helping weak women back to
health and strength for more than 50
years. It will help you. At all dealers.
Write to: Chattanooga Medicine Cos., Ladles’
Advisory Dept.. Chattanooga. Tenn.. for Sfi>ecial
Instructions on your case and 64-page book. ' Home
Treatment for Women.” sent in plain wrapper. E69-B
Partially Successful.
“Didn’t I hear you fire something at
that yowling cut early this morning?’’
“Y’es; 1 threw the confounded alarm
clock at it."
“Hit the beast?”
"No. but I got rid of the alarm clock."
—Boston Transcript.
Work is not a man's punishment It
is his reward and his strength.—George
Sand.
lion hatched chicks are early
victims to head-lice. Con key’s
Head Lice Ointment is sure death
to these pests and doesn’t injure
the chick. Enough in one tuh<
to save 100 chicks. 10c, 25c. For
sale by Dr. J. T. Wages Drug Cos.
an 1 Red Cross Pharmacy.
No Exaggeration.
"You told me >ou were worth a mil
lion. and 1 Hud that you have only a
paltry $10,000." said Blathers’ partner.
“Well SIO,OOO is 1.000.000 cents.” said
Blathers —Harper's Weekly.
Best Laxative for the Aged
Old men and women feel the
need of a laxative more than
young folks, but it must be safe
and harmless and one which will
not cause pain. Dr. King’s New
Life Pills are especially good for
the aged, for they act promptly
and easily. Price 25c. Recom
mended by Dr. J. T. Wages Drug
o.
Merely a Microbe.
“Do you believe that love is due to a
microbe V”
“I know it is."
"How do you know?”
“One calls on my daughter four times
a week, and she is beginning to fall in
love.”—Houston Post.
For sale by all dealers. Priee
50 cents. Foster-Milburn C'o>
Buffalo, New York, sole agents
for the United States.
Remember the name —Doan’s
—and take no other.
See Edgar Hill at Rogers ware*
house for my Special Corn Guano
Top Dresser and Nitrate Soda.
J. W. Sheats.
or a cup may be refilled wfr?n one is
through with it and passed to another
“After 1 had eaten my till of fresh
seal meat and drunk two pint cupfuls
of blood soup ray host and 1 moved
farther back on the bed platform,
where we could sit comfortably, prop
ped up against bundles of soft caribou
skins, while we talked of various
things.”
Adversity has the effect of eliciting
talents which in prosperous circum
stances would have lain dormant—
Horace.
man came to New York from England
(I have forgotten his namei. and for a
year or so he posed as a very ardent
churchman He had a mania which
seemed to be the making of trouble
for other people, with no particular
object except that and certainly with
no advantage to himself, ns lie very
naturally remained “incog."
As Illustrative, he would send out a
hundred or more postal cards address
ed to as many different plumbers In
New York, asking them to call on a
certain day. at a given hour, at the
residence of the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix.
rector of Trinity church. Another
time it would be an army of bakers,
and so on. On one ocasion he sent in
vitations to a dozen of the clergy to
dine with Dr. Dix on a given date.
Imagine the good doctor's consterna
tion when his unexpected guests ar
rived!
One of ids bits of “funny" work, in
which he used the name of the late
Bishop Jaggar; was bh follows: Dr.
Cornelius B. Swope was the vicar of
Trinity chapel, in Twenty-fifth street,
at the time, and Dr Horatio Potter the
bishop of New York. Dr. Dix had be
come so exasperated as hardly to
know what to do. and one day he went
to consult Dr. Swope and to ask his
advice as to what could be done, tak
ing with him one of the cards that he
had received. On looking at It Dr.
Swope said:
“I recognize that handwriting be
cause I received a card some time ago
In the same hand, which I have kept
as a curiosity."
This was the card:
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dear Cornel—lt is rumored out here that
you would like to be a bishop. If this is
true please let me know at once. I have
great influence with Morg. Dix and will
see old Potter about it. so—
If you would like to be a bishop
And with the bishops stand,
A miter on your forehead
And a crozier in your hand,
please write me immediately. Faithfully
yours, THOMAS JAGGAR,
Bishop of Southern Ohio.
New York became rather too “hot”
for our friend shortly after that, as tike
police got on his track, and he disap
peared. He turned up later at his old
tricks in Pittsburgh. I think, where lie
was exposed, and I don’t remember
what became of him.—Rev. Dr. YV. W.
Holley in Living Church.
Books From Unexpected Places.
Not only art. but literature, has been
produced in unexpected places. There
was, for instance, Robert Bloomfield,
who produced his “Farmer’s Boy”
while working so hard as a shoemaker
(in a par ret with five or six others)
that he frequently had to carry a hun
dred lines in his head through lack of
leisure to write them down, .lames
Hogg. too. “the Ettrick Shepherd,"
wrote ids earliest verses while tending
ills sheep in the Perthshire highlands.
And Taylor, “the Water Poet." com
bined the very different offices of
literary man and Thames waterman. —
London Chronicle.
The Third Hand.
How often the little tilings in life
make impressions that linger in our
memories long after the larger events
are forgotten! Several years ago I was
making a visit in a family where there
were several daughters. One of the
girls brought a hat into the sewing
room one morning and prepared to
trim it. Before doing anything else
she took a hatpin and pinned the hat
firmly to her skirts at the knees, so
that she had both bands free and held
the ribbon and flowers in place with
her left hand while she sewed them
with her right.—Philadelphia North
American.
It’s Easy to Learn.
Alexander Graham Bell, the Inventor
of the telephone, hit on his marvelous
discovery while studying and while
teaching the deaf.
Professor Bell once said, apropos of
this fact:
•‘Yes, we can learn valuable secrets
from the most unlikely sources. A Per
sian poet, famed for his wisdom, was
once asked by bis king where he had
learned his philosophy.
“ ‘From the blind, sire.’ the poet re
plied—‘from the blind, who never ad
vance a step until they have tried the
ground.’ ’’—New York Tribune.
Diamonds and Glass.
The diamond, instead of being a real
solid, is a mass of atoms all in rapid
and violent motion. The edge of the
stone is formed of these moving mole
cules as well as the body. Now, glass
is also made up of moving atoms,
though they do uot move so rapidly or
so violently as the diamond atoms.
When the diamond edge, therefore, is
applied to the glass surface the dia
mond atoms drive the glass atoms out
of the way and force a passage.
Commercial Valuation.
“Politeness costs nothing."
“Yes.” replied the gentleman of the
old school. “Perhaps that’s why people
have so little respect for it”—Washing
ton Star.
A wise man takes no risk —perhaps
'you are wise but not aware of the fact
that we represent the BKST and
STRONGEST FIRE INSURANCE CO’S
of tlie world. Call in and let us
convince you that this is a fact.
CARITHERS, THOMAS & CO.
WINDER, - - GEORGIA.
LIV-VER-LAX
FOR THE LIVER.
Your Inactive Liver and Constipation
Is the Cause of Most All Head
aches, These Can Invariably Be
Remedied by the Use of Liv-ver-lax.
Take from one to two teaspoons
ful of Lit) ver-lax at bed time un
til you have taken one bottle, and
if thut bottle does you good, you
you may be sure that you will de
rive even greater benefits front the
second and third, or until you have
taken enough to complete the cure,
Constipation, indigestion and liv
er disorders are not contracted in a
day, but are caused by years of neg
lect and in discretion,, and you can
not expect to cure in a day or with
two or three doses of medicine, any
disease which has taker, years to get
you under control.
Liv-ver-lax contains a tonic,
among its many other virtues, and
we would recommend that you take
enough of it. without missing a
doss to get its full tonic and laxative
effect, and we know that you will
then he glad to give us a good testi
monial for Liv-ver-laxi for we al
ready have thousands of them given
unsolicited.
Remember that Liv-ver-lax is
purely vegetable and does not con
taid calomel or any other harsh
physics to derange the system.
LIV-VER-LAX is pleasant to
take and is fine for children, in
smaller doses.
Buy a regular 50 een or a dollar
bottle from Dr. J. T. Wages Drug
Cos., ou our guarantee and be con
vinced.
LEBANON CO-OPERATIVE MEDICINE
CO., LEBANON, TENN.
None genuine without the like
ness and signature of L. K. Grigsby.
Save your chicks from fatal
White Diarrhea, Dora’t wait for
the disease to start but get Con
key's White Diarrhea Remedy foi
the drinking water as preventive
treatment. 25c and 50c sizes.
Money back if you aren’t fully
satisfied with treatment For
sale by Dr. J. T. Wages Drug Cos.
and Red Cross Pharmacy.
Bee Dee Way!
Systems and methods
come and go. There’s one
that will stay —the “Bee
DeeWajr. w It has stood the
hardest of all tests —the
test of experience. Mix
Bee Dee
STOCK & POULTRY MEDICINE
with the feed for your
animals and fowls. It
beats all regulators, tonics,
powders, etc., because it
brings better results, and
costs but a fraction of what
the ready made foods do.
Price 25c. 50c and SI.OO per can.
"It relieve* constipation and make]
‘out oi ton* animals and fowls thrifty.
—T. U. Jones, OrrvtDe. Ala. P. A. 14
REMEMBER
We send off Laundry every Wed
nesday p. m. We want yours. We
will call for it by that time. Please
have it ready and where we can find
it. Should we fail to find it he
sure and send it to Woodruff’s
store with your name on it.
Shirts 10 and 12 l-2c.
Collars - - 2 l-2c
Cuffs - 4 and 5c
Spreads -10 c
Hubert Jacobs,
Winder, Ga.
Tombstones
I can save you money
on all grades of Tomb
stones. I have a plan by
which I can divide prof
its with purchasers. Call
on or address
J. L. MARLOW,
WINDER, GA.
Myst Children Have Worms
Many mothers think their cdiil
dren are suffering' from indiges
tion, headache, nervousness, weak
ness, costiveness,, when they are
victims of that most common of
all children’s ailments —worms.
Peevish,, ill-tempered, fretful chib
dren, who toss and grind their
teeth, with had breath and col
icky pains, have all the symptom?'
of having worms, and should be
given Kickapoo Worm Killer, a.
pleasant candy lozenge, i which
expels worms, regulates the bow
els, tones up the system, and
makes children well and happy.
Kickapoo Worm Killer is guaran
teed. Dr. J. T. Wages Drug Cos.,
or by mail. Price 25c* Kickapoo
Indian Medicine Cos., Philadelphia
and St. Louis.
100,000 ACRES OF
LAND FOR SALE.
We have over one hundred thous
and acres of land for sale, ranging
in price from one dollar per acre up.
We have quite a lot of land in
Middle, East and South West Geor
gia, the garden spot of the south.
Let us know what you want and we
will help you get a home at a very
low price. Red land, gTay land,
chockolate or any kind you like.
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