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COLDS AND HOW TO CURE THE’*',
Everyone is more or less susceptible to
cold, and now that the cold season has
come the utmost precaution should be
exercised beforehand to prevent colds,
instead of taking numerous doses of
medicine afterward to cure them. To
relieve colds or hoarseness grate horse
radish in a cup of vinegar, let steep
h while and add honey or crushed rock
candy to sweeten; or. pour hot water
over pine tar, cover and let cool, or drink
warm with lemon juice and sugar. For
singers and speakers this last is excel
lent. Persons troubled with rheumatism
-will be relieved by rubbing briskly with
olive oil, or olive oil in which is dis
solved salt and potash in equal qantities.
The parts most sensitive to cold are the
chest and back which should be covered
with flannel. Many men When wearing
overcoats, either through disregard for
health or negligence, leave the fronts un
fastened. and expose the chest to the
cold, which penetrates to the Lack and
lodges there and is afterward felt in ex
nuciating backaches. The same way
with some women .—Detroit Free Press.
BEDS.
The care of beds may seem a very sim
pie thing, and doubtless every -woman
thinks she knows all about it ; but in
this many are mistaken It is by no
meahs sufficient to hastily spread up a
bed, and be content if it looks smooth
and neat Once a week at least the mat
tress and bedding should be removed
from the bedstead and it dusted and
thoroughly cleaned The mattress
should be uncovered and aired every
inoruiug. When ready to put in order,
the uudersheet should be spread aad
folded under at the top and bottom, then
at the sides. If a wide hem is put at
the top of the sheet, you can always
sleep with the upper part at your head.
Spread the upper sheet so as to leave
sufficient room to turn down, lay it
smooth and straight, when the blankets
aud comforts may be put on and folded
under at the foot. The outside spread
should be put on evenly, and the upper
street turned down over all. Then the
pillows, well beaten, should be laid on.
A bed thus cared for will be pleasant
and comfoi table to sleep in, and health
ful rest will be likely to come to the occu
pant.— Conner-Journal.
LAUNDRY HINTS.
Buttermilk will remove tar .spots some
times. Iimse zn soapy water.
A paste of soft soap and starch will
take stains out of bed-ticking. Spread
it on the spots, and when dry scrape oil
and wash with a damp sponge.
To remove grease stains from silk hats,
use turpentine and then alcohol.
To iron a silk hat. Holding the hat in
the left hand pass a warm iron quickly
around, following the lay of the nap.
To clean silk: The garment must be
first ripped and brushed. Spread on a
fiat board an old blanket covered with an
old sheet. Then sponge the silk on both
sides, rubbing any dirty spots particular
ly, with this mixture. One-half cup of
gall, one-half cup ammonia and one-half
pint tepid soft water. Roll the silk on a
stick, an old broom-liandle will do, be
ing careful that no wrinkles arc left on
it. Let it dry without ironing. Woolen
goods may be treated in the same man
ner.
All fancy hosiery should be put into a
strong solution of salt and cold water be
fore wearing, well saturated and dried
without wringing, either in the shade on
in a warm room.
To clean coats: Take of ammonia two
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Muke wcil and let the mixture stand i a
few days. Pour enough on a coat to
cover the grease spots, rub well, wasli off
with clean cold water.
Two ounces of common tobacco boiled
in a gallon of water, rubbed on with a
stiff brush, is used to renovate old cloth
clothes. It is said to leave uo smell.
RECIPES.
Baked Oustard—Twn tablMpoonfuls of
flour beaten with two one pint ot
milk and sugar to sweeten; flavor with
nutmeg and bake.
Jumbles—One cup of sugar, cue cup
of butter, one-half cup sour cream, one
«W. "uc ten spoonful iue-half of soda dissolved
iu hot water, of a pound of drain
fated cocoanut, cocoanut flour flour to to rou. roll
°rn Gems—Stir one pint of boiling
milk .
m one pint- of corn meal, add half
« cup or less, according to the taste, of
8u 8f r « one teaspoon ful of salt, and let
<:o °l> il(M three eggs and bake in gem
t' ails -
sized Ringed Potatoes— Peel some large
potatoes, then cut them round and
round as an apple is pared; fry in clean,
sweet lard like fritters until brown, drain
on a sieve, sprinkle fine salt over them
and serve.
' butter Pudding Sauce—One cup of sugar,
the size of an egg, one egg; beat
the butter and sugar to fl cream, add the
c Sg; set on top of boiling tea kettle, o*
some vessel of hot water, and stir until it
is like cream.
breadcrumbs Cheese Scallop—Soak one cup of dry
in fresh milk; beat into it
three egg?, and add oue tablespoon of
butter and a half pound of grated cheese;
“tew upon the top sifted breadcrumbs,
1411 d bake in the oven a delicate brown.
oight Applc Tapioca Pudding—Soak over of
one cup of tapioca in six cups
Mater. Next morning add one cup of
sugar, one egg, aud beat well together.
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
Then pare, core and chop five, g j x
more apples and stir OJ
with the tapioca ia
a pudding dish and bake slowly.
Boiled Salmon—A piece of salmon four
pounds in weight should suffice for effiht
persons. I ut i„ fg boil in spiced acidu
lated water, cover and keep it simmering
for thirty-five minutes. Then take the
hsh from the water, skin it, remove the
bones,* mask with a little cardinal sauce,
and send it to the table, The
should be sauce
separately served.
Chicken Puree—Pick into small bits,
cold roast or boiled chicken; salt and
pepper. Boil the bones and skin in
enough water to cover; strain and return
to the tire. When it boils, stir in for
each cupful of the stock a small teaspoon
Hour rubbed iu one teaspoon butter; add
a little celery salt, and stir iu the meat.
Serve with small triangles of bread pro
viously fried crisp in very hot lard.
The Old Fisherman Was Beaten.
A good story has never been told in
print of royal Reuben Wood, that genial
friend to everybody, whoso death was sc
widely mourned. He was a true son ol
good oid Izaak \Y altou, an enthusiastic
and successful angler, of course. One
evening while in camp in the Adiron
fhe^mrty "who^ knowfed’gV of'Tn-Uno ° =
was ) Jut s ij„.} lt
The conditions were that they should
stand near each other by the side of a
favorite pool, each casting into the pool
during a period of fifteen minutes the
contest to be decided by count. Uncle
Reuben’s eyes glistened as the details of
the match were considered, and at the
same time he set about “making un” a
new cast of flies that he might be able to
do his best when the struggle came on
the following day
it was prepared with all his wonted
skill, cunning and delicacy, and laying
the new “cast” and his effiar aside he
] ay down to dream of how lie would lure
the dainty trout to his creel. Attheap
pointed hour the contest be^an with the
usual judges and a referee The chal
lenger oft and repeatedly led beautiful
trout to his score, but Mr. Wood was
i ess fortunate. He was not successful in
“striking” his “rises,” and only now
au( i then did lie secure a fish.
Later in the contest he exchanged the
leader he had made up so carefully for
0 ne which had been much used, and
then his luck began; but it was too kite,
for when the time came for the contest to
expire he was badly beaten. The real
reason for his failure was kept a secret
for some time, but it finally became
known that while Mr. Wood slept the
challenger had filed the barbs from his
hooks. In no other way could that
noble-minded man have been beaten.—
Forest and Stream.
Moody’s Ready Tact Saves Him.
Evangelist D. L. Moody went down in
to the slums of Chicago a few evenings
since to preach to an audience of people
never seen inside of the churches. Aftez
the services he was the centre of a scene.
Half a dozen young men, half drunk and
noisy, waited at the foot of the stairs.
They insulted the young women who
came out and they tripped up the young
men. They were evidently preparing to
h ave some rough sport with Mr. Moody,
for when he appeared at the door they
crowded around him and jostled him ofl
the lower step. He saw* the danger and
averted it neatly. He was carrying his
overcoat on his arm. Picking out the
biggest and toughest of the crowd he
said: “Won’t you please help me on
with this coat? I’m getting a little old
and stout.” The bad young man was
unnerved. He reddened and stepped
»«ck. Mr. Moody held out his arms
JA, appealingly and the young man weak
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Muttering something that
sounded like an oath he hoisted the
coat onto the broad shoulders. “I knew*
you’d do it. Thank you,” laughed Mr.
Moody; and he walked briskly down the
street, leaving a disorganized gang of
hoodlums in the shadow of the building.
— Chicago Tribune.
44 Four people out of five, remarkec.
to the Washington . I ost
a gentleman distin
talking-machine, “carry some h b
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glass there. Half those passers-by are
d( , skAvorkerc . Their shoulders droop.
gee that youn g i ady ? when she is at
ll0me s he sits with her left limb drawn
under her—sits on it in fact. The
knee is forced 0 ut. See where it hits
her skirts? Her walk is one-sided in
consequence. Those young men are
Bicycle-riders. They walk on their toes
q ke a mincing school-girl. Now, can
you tell me why dry-goods clerks always
have an affected walk? They do.
Use For the Cotton Stalk.
% j s sa id to have been demonstrated
t ] iat t j lc cotton stalk, which has hitherto
j )ecn re g ar ded as waste,contains valuable
fip er A lot of the stalks was recently
sen t from Arkansns to a factory in New
York to be operated on in the same
manner as fiax aud hemp. There were
returned about twenty different grades
of fibrous material, from coarse strands
of the stalk to the glossy fiber as soft as
Persons are now engaged in per
a machine that will spin the ma
The fiber is sufficiently strong ty
make the best of bagging as well as cloth
fine as linen.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A scientist states that medical science
is keeping alive unhealthy people to breed
unhealthy children.
Sir William Gull says that when fagged
out by professional work he recruits his
strength by eating raisins, and not by
drinking wine or brandy.
The disinfecting power of aminal gas
is such that when introduced into sewage
it very quickly destroys the microbes of
putrafaction and of many diseases.
Hollow bricks are coming into very
general use in building. They crush at
30,000 pounds and cost one-third less
than the ordinary form, while making
the walls proof against fire, moisture and
frost.
While the use of electricity in London
for illumination is steadily increasing, the
use of gas is also rapidly on the increase,
the demand for the latter for heating and
cooking being greatly in excess of former
years.
A planter in South Carolina has suc
ceeded in propagating the male cotton
plant by itself, until he now can raise
cotton seed without the lint or cotton.
The gain appears t > be in the increased
of seed.
It is known that the bellows were used
in Egypt iu the time of Tothmes III
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one of the Pharaohs 1490 B. C. From a
picture on a tomb of that date bellows
made of leather bags, worked by men
standing upon them, are shewn.
The two sides of the face are by no
means alike. As a rule, the want of
symmetry is confined to the upper part of
the face. Among oilier singular eccen
tricities is the fact that the right ear it
almost invariably higher than the left.
Fish-meat does not contain more phos
phorous than ordinary butcher’s meat.
The benefit which brain-workers are said
to derive from a diet of fish should there
fore be ascribed, not to the phosphorus,
but to the greater digestibility of the
fish.
An electric bell-buoy is proposed, one
of its chief attributes being that the
action of salt water produces a current
sufficiently strong to ring a bell. A
secondary bell, to be rung in rough
weather, is also an attachment to the
buoy.
The manufacture of sugar by the diffu
sion process iu Louisiana has resulted in
a great increase of output. Moreover,
there is already growing up a more
scientific agriculture, a better knowledge
of the problems of sugar manufacture, a
more scientific method in the sugar
house, and the introduction of improved
machinery.
A Dutch physician declares that a
clqpe connection exists between the exer
cise of mental faculties and disorders of
the nose. He says that if it were gener
ally known how many cases of chronic
headache, of inability to learn or to per
form mental work, where due to chronic
disease of the nose, many of them would
be easily cured.
Extralite is the name of a new ex
plosive patented by Rudolph Ericsson, a
young Swede. It is claimed by its in
ventor to be not only of great power, but
also to be absolutely harmless when not
properly confined in an air tight and
rigid receptacle. The extralite is an in
nocent-looking granulated substance of
about the color and general appearance
of coarse corn-meal.
The Elektrotcchnische Echo is responsi
ble for the following explanation of why
oaks are more frequently struck by
lightning than beech trees. The leaves
of the beech tree are, it seems, covered
with a fine down, which is a better con
ductor of electricity than the smooth
leaves of the oak. According to the
same journal, experiments with dis
charges from influence machines tend to
confirm this theory.
In the new* process of making white
lead the ore as it comes from the mine is
volatilized and oxidized by the air, the
fumes are condensed in a slightly acid
liquor, and the resulting sludge is washed
and dried for the market without having
been touched by the men. Quickness of
manufacture, starting with ore and net
with the purified metal, and avoidance
of danger to the workmen, arc among
the advantages of the new system.
Content should never be disturbed af
ter commencing to set. It should he
kept moist and wet until hard. Cold re
tards, heat quickens settings. Brick or
stone should be wet or moist, or cement
will not adhere well. Portland cement
requires less water than natural or
American cements. It sets in from three
to twelve hours. It must be kept dry,
or it will become lumpy and spoiled. It
need never be used pure, hut should al
ways be mixed with stnd.
A Remarkable Professor.
Professor Samuel Boyer, who resides
about five miles from Pottstown, and is
nearly eighty years of age, hi the veteran
music teacher and chorister of that sec
tion of Pennsylvania. He has acted as
chorister at 4000 funerals, and at the
preaching of over 9000 sermons, which
were conducted by 86 different ministers,
41 of whom were Lutheran, 24 Reformed,
11 Mennonite, 5 Baptist, 3 Methodist, 1
Presbyterian and 1 Episcopalian. Of
these clergymen forty-five are dead. He
-iugs in both English aud German, and
at present has a class of fifty scholars
scattered in a radius of twenty miles of
his home, where he gives instruction on
he violin and organ and in vocal cul
ure. He has been following the pro
fession over fifty years.— Philadelphia
Press.
catling Rouses off olnnjlntjL
It is a good rule to patronize those who solicit your patronage through your local paper. It
is reasonable to presume that they will deal more liberally with you than a business house
that does not consider your patronage worth soliciting.
H. F. EVERETT,
The Stove*Man.
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mrnibaiTSEr curr-nrcs: crucritcrnc. ;
I am now offering to the people of Schley County the largest Stock of Stoves,
Tin-ware, –c., ever brought to Columbus.
I am sole agent for the celebrated
IRON WITCH STOVE
I sell the best Baker in the world: the
Othello Stove,
160,000 now in use.
Agent for the Southern Cane Mills and Copper Evaporators.
H. F. Everett, 1111 Broad st. Columbus, Ga.
H,A, Gibson.
EON MODE FURNITURE STORE. 1115 Broad Street COLUMBUS, GA.
Buys his
by the_ : II _ \
and maulactures his
Mattresses and Springs
Right at home in Columbus; consequently he can and will sell the best quality
of goods on easier terms, to suit the buyer, or cheaper for cash than any Furnitur
House in the city
The people of Schley and adjoining counties are invited to calll at the three sto
ry building next to the Bee Hive and examine his stock and prices before purchase
ing.
SCHLEY COUNTY PEOPLE,
When you visit Columbus, drop in to see me, just like every body else, its na^
tural and easy. I sell the best grades of Flour, Tobacco, Fish, and all plantation
supplies
I sell the purest and mellowest grades of liquors in the world. Drop in, shall®
gnd get acquainted.—Your bills will be filled at
Bottom Prices.
Ginners will find it largely to their interest, to see my cotton cleaner;
Takes all the dirt, sand, and nearly all the trash from the
cotton* after it is irinned. addins: from 1 to 2 cents ner
pound to the value of the cottton. G uaranteed to please
and pay.
ROLIN JEFFERSON
6 jan. 1 90. 1041 Broad Street, Columbus, Ga.
S.A. CARTER. W. C. BRADLEY.
CARTER <fc BRADLEY.
COTTON FACTORS AND i GROCERS.
Fontaine Warehouse, Columbus, Gerogia.
Mr. Chus. H. Allen, will again represent us on the streets as buyer, and wilt
sustain his old reputation for
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A Specialty as we propose to aid the Farmers in their fight |against “Trust®
and Combines.”
Special attention given to the Storage and Sale; of cotton, and Liberal ad
vances made on all consignments.
A Share of your business solicited. Faithfully Yours,
Carter – Bradley.