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THE CARROLL FREE PRESb, CARROLLTON, OA. „
Mt. Zion
The Christmas spirit has died
down and everything is natural
again.
School at Mt. Zion is in a very
flourishing condition, with Mr John
W May, of Virginia, as principal.
We are glad to welcome our
boarding students back.
With Mrs. R. H. Robb as matron
of the Girls Industrial Home, things
seem to be improving and quite a
nnmber of girls have entered.
The music class gave a public re
cital in the chapel at the close of
the first term, Dec. 16th.
Mr. Grover and Miss Myrtle Ear
nest, Mr. Harvey and Miss Artie
Entrekin and Miss Daphne Morris,
who are in school in Athens, Tenn.,
spent the Christmas holidays at
home.
Mr. John W. Ray, of Chattanooga
University, spent Christmas as guest
of Miss Ophie Morris.
Mr. and Mrs. Robertson, of North
Carolina, spent the holidays with
her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. Earnest.
Dr. and Mrs. Malone have re
turned from Anniston, Ala., where
they have been visiting his brother.
Mr. Carey Earnest left Thursday
for Athens, Tenn., where he will en
ter school.
Messrs. Roy Power and Walter
Perkins were visitors in Mt. Zion
last week.
Miss Mary Entrekin who has been
very sick for the past month is im
proving slowly.
Mrs. Cliff Morris visited her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Earnest
last week.
Mrs. W. A. Garrett and children
of Carrollton spent the holidays with
her mother at Mt. Zion.
One car of stalk cutters and cul-
tivetors, just received at Carrollton
Hardware Co.
Another shipment of children’s
shoes 50c to $2.50 Weems 0 Baskin
Shoes, shoes, all kind of shoes.
Weems 0. Baskin
Have you tried Headley’s famous
chocolates? 25c a pound at Holt
Drug Co., 50c elsewhere.
New shipment of jabots.
Weems 0. Baskin.
Save the litter and build up your
land by using a Deer Stalk Cutter.
—Carrollton Hardware Co.
FRIGID REMEMBRANCES.
'Heme Life In Scotland at tha Daw*
of tho Last Century
The contrast between the life ol
the young in the twentieth and in
the early part of the nineteenth cen
tury is most striking, and one won
ders how the Scotch children of for
mer times survived their early train
ing. Lady Ritchie gives in “Black-
♦tick Papers” a description of home
life in Scotland in 1806, which she
took from the “Memoirs of a High
land Lady:”
“Although seldom ailing, we in
"herited a delicacy of constitution,
demanding great care during our in
fancy. In those days it was the fash
ion to take no care of it. All chit
dren alike were plunged into the
coldest water, sent abroad in the
worst weather, fed on the same food.
Our life was one long misery.
“In town a large, long tub stood
in the kitchen court, the ice on the
top of which had often to be bro
ken before our horrid plunge into
IL We were brought down from the
very top of the house, four pairs of
•tairs, with only a cotton cloak over
our nightgowns, just to chill us
completely before the dreadful
•hock. How I screamed, begged,
prayed, entreated to be saved! All
no use!
“Nearly senseless, I have been
taken to the housekeeper’s room,
which was always warm, to be dried,
Revived by the fire, we were enabled
to endure the next bit of martyr
dom, an hour upon the low sofa, our
books in our hands, while our cold
breakfast was preparing. My stom
ach rejecting milk, bread and tears
generally did for me.”
Six years later in the highland
home austerities seem still part of
the education:
“In winter we rose without candle
or fire or warm water, and really in
the highland winters, when the
breath froze on the sheets and the
water in the jugs became cakes of
ice, washing was a very cruel neces-
eity.
“As we could play our scales in
the dark, the two pianofortes and
the harp began the day’s work. How
very near crying was the one whoso
turn set her at the harp! The
strings cut the poor, cold fingers,
Martyr the first sat in the dining
room at Ire harp. Martyr the sec
ond put her blue fingers on the keys
of the grand pianoforte in th*
drawing room.”
«DUMPLINGS.
Tbs Difference Between “Dropg" end
"Drape” Explained.
Some time ago we undertook a
study in luxury for the benefit of
our readers who are fond of the
best things to eat and explained
how to make “drop dumplings.”
They must be dough of real corn-
meal and cooked in the boiling
liquor in an iron pot, out of which
the ham therein just boiled had
been lifted.
But we received from a person in
North Carolina named Pence this
communication:
You are all off about them drop
dumplings. You can’t have ’em
f ccpting with a biled hen.”
It is this man Pence who is off,
He has simply confounded drop
dumplings, with an “o,” with drap
dumplings, with an “a.” Your drop
dumpling is made of cornmonl;
your drap dumpling is made of
wheat flour. The one is cooked in
the liquor in which a ham is
boiled; the other is cooked in the
pot with a fat hen. Drop dumplings
are to be eaten in the season be
tween backbones and spareribs and
hog jowl and turnip greens, where
as drap dumplings come in be
tween the black eyed pea soup of
the September and the backbones,
spareribs and sausage of the early
December, immediately succeeding
the glorious Indian summer.
Get your hen, and be sure she is
fat, so fat indeed that but two eggs
can be coaxed from her from a
Sunday to a Sunday. After she is
properly dressed separate har cor
S oreal elements until you have
reast, back, neck, legs, wings, head,
feet and giblets, including the egg
bag. Put this on to stew in an iron
pot and add some rashers of fat
and properly cured bacon. Let it
simmer for hours and when about
done put in some pods of okra, a
spoonful of boiled rice, black and
red pepper and salt to taste. Then
come your dumplings—the dough
left over from the sweet potato pie
crust. Drop them in, let it stew
till just done and then serve. That
is drap dumplings.
They are very good, but nothing
like as excellent as your drop
dumplings, made of cornmeal and
cooked in ham liquor. The one is
for surly March; the other is for
••diant antumn.—Washington Post
HARD TO PLEASE.
Mothers and Husbands.
Once I was young, now I am old,
and I have never seen a girl that
was unfaithful to her mother that
ever came to be worth a one eyed
button to her husband. It is the law
of God. It isn’t exactly in the Bi
ble, but it is written large in th*
miserable lives of many unfortu
nate homes. I am speaking for th*
boys this time. If any of you chap* [
No Uso Trying to Be Neighborly With
Some People.
When Mrs. Calloway met Mrs.
Deeson in the market one morning
and inquired for the news of the
people in her block it came to light
that the Carolsons, who used to be
neighbors of the Calloways, now
held that relationship to tho Dee-
sons. Naturally the character of
the Carolsons as a family and as in
dividuals was shortly antler discus
sion. Mrs. Deeson, who admitted
somewhat grudgingly that she sup
posed that the Carolsons were
“pleasant enough,” then turned con
fidential and recited a story, which
the Chicago News prints:
“Mrs. Carolson is at Shadow
Lake now, isn’t she?” Mr9. Calloway
had asked.
“Yes,” said the other woman,
“and she never said a word to me
about it before she went. I saw Mr.
Carolson weeding tne pansies the
other morning, and I called out,
just to be neighborly, ‘Your wife
gone away?’
“He grunted something that
might have meant either ‘yes’ or
W I went on:
“ ‘You’d better go away, too, and
stay over Sunday with her. I’ll
look after your house.’ He gave
another grunt.
“ ‘Why not stay until the follow
ing Monday?’ I asked.
“ ‘Thank you,’ he growled. *1
wish my firm was as generous as
you are.’ Then he went into the
house.
“A little while after that my
daughter met him on the street car
rying a suit case, so I knew he had
taken my advice.
“ ‘I suppose he won’t be home
for ten days. He must have gone in
a hurry, for he didn’t tell me a
thing about his going,’ I said to my
daughter.
“I had so much work to do that I
could give little time to their place.
Still, I like to be neighborly, so
early the next morning I went over
and picked all their pansies. Then,
seeing that Mr. Carolson hadn’t
stopped the milk or his paper, I
helped myself to both. Afterward
I telephoned to the milkman not to
leave any more milk.
“I ran to the door every time I
heard their bell ring and explained
to the caller that the family had
gone away for ten days. It was a
lot of trouble, for I had to keep
watching all the time.”
“You always have such a sense of.
responsibility when your neighbors
are away, Mrs. Deeson,” said Mrs.
Calloway.
“Well, I try to do my duty by
e verybody. Late in the afternoon
a boy came with a suit case. I call
ed to him that there was no usa
ringing the Carolsons’ bell, as they
wouldn’t be at home for ten days
doorstep and wait for her, because
•ome other fellow may come along
and carry her off, and right there
you lose an angel.—Bill Arp.
MULE BREEDING.
ever como across a girl that, with a “ ‘I had special orders to bring
face full of roses, says to you as you these clothes today,’ said the boy.
come to the door, “I can’t go for | ‘Won’t you take them in—dollar to
thirty minutes yet, for the dishee j collect ?’
are not washed,” you wait for that j “ ‘I don’t meddle with Mr. Carol-
girl. You sit right down on the son’s clothes,’ I said. ‘Bring ’em
‘ * ’ ’ back in ten days.’ Then I shut the
door. You have to be firm with
boys like that. They’d argue all
day if you’d let ’em, and I had my
dinner to get.
“We had just sat down to the ta
ble when my daughter said, ‘Who’s
that picking the Carolsons’ pan
sies ?’
“ ‘Here, you!’ I called. And if it
wasn’t Mr. Carolson himself, look
ing madder than a hatter.
“ ‘Some one has picked them all!’
he snorted.
‘“I thought you were away/ I
said.
“ ‘That accounts for the milk and
the papers, I suppose. Perhaps
you’ve the clothes that I am wait
ing for?*
“‘I sent them back’— I began,
but didn’t get a chance to finish the
sentence. If I told you what he
said— I could hardly believe my
ears! Some people are hard to
pleaee, aren’t they, Mrs. Calloway ?*
Weight and Bon* Aro Cardinal Points
In a Jack.
Ad export on breeding tnulea aajrs:
The flrat point Is to see tbat tbe male's
sin Is a large Jack, recorded In tbe
American Jack Stock Studbook. Ha
should stand 15.2 bands or even Id
hands high and should weigh np to
1,100 or 1,200 pounds. He should
have a large, strong body and heavy
bona. Weight and bone an cardinal
points iu a Jack.
It mans sired by light stallions,
standard breds and coacbers are bred
to soch a Jack, mnlea of good quality
and fair weight may be expected. If
tbe mares are by good standard bred
■addle or thoroughbred stallions, th#
mulea will bo very active and will
possess much quality and finish. If
these mans have good weight, say
1,100 or 1,200 pounds, this mating will
produce the finest sugar males. It
somewhat smaller, good cotton mulee
will result
If draft bred mans an used, the
mules will, of course, be heavier. Sncb
mulea are the draft mules of tbe mar
ket and are in strong demand for city
use. They have more weight than
sugar mulee, but not quite so much
quality.
For email, lndllfennt 800 pound
mares without breeding nothing better
can bo expected than the production
of Inferior cotton mules or pit and
pack mules. It Is useless to try to
breed good mules from poor mares,
and this is one reason why so much
attention has teen given to the dis
cussion of the importance of horse
breeding In the south.
There will probably always be mor*
demand In the sooth for mules than
for work horses, which can be sup
plied by locally raised animals, but It
is necessary first to have a supply of
good, useful farm brood mares. It Is
doubtful If any Jack Is good enough
to sire a good mule from a small,
coarse, plug mure.
Specially Selected.
A mild faced individual entered
the postoffice.
“Do you keep stamps ?” he asked
“We do, sir,” answered the polite
clerk, somewhat surprised.
“What sorts do you keep?” pur
sued the customer.
“All the values that are issued,
sir,” replied the official, “from
halfpenny upward.”
“Could I see some penny ones ?”
Promptly the office clerk pro
duced a twenty shillings’ worth
sheet of penny perforateds and
spread it out upon the counter.
“There you are, sir,” he said. ‘If
you want penny stamps there are a
few.”
The mild faced individual looked
them over and then pointed to the
center stamp in the sheet.
“I think, he sW, producing s
penny, “I’ll take that one, please 1*
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