The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, June 24, 1900, Page 15, Image 15
ALL SOUTH AFRICA IS RELIC MAD.
Singular Boer Proclamation Calling on
Transvaalers to Preserve Mementoes.
It Uakti Strangle Rfailin* In the Light of Recent Events—The British
Have Detn finite ns Frantic Seekers aa the Boers for Bollcta and
Other Things From the Bnttlelields—Odd Story of a Soldier
Who Foiled to Preserve the Hit of Lend That Wound
ed Him—Curious Explanation of CroDje's Capture.
(Copyright 11*00, By Allen Sangree.)
(CopytUht, 19W. by Allen Sangre ■.)
Delagoa Bay. May 2.—South Africa is
re'io mad. Never was there such an epi
demic. Dying addicts forget the Queen,
the enemy .their wounds and their future
•xlstcn e, but hey ding to bartered bul
] t with the tenacity of desp ir. Bodies
are lifted, while yet warm, for a cigar
ette box or a ova lett r. A home-made
Transvaal bandolier selU in Cape Town
tor S2O and every English merchant south
<f the Zambe.i is thr.ving in the curio
trade. One would th nk th? war had
been a g gantio struggle for souven rs in
•tead of a world tragedy.
Zeal Is equally intense with Bri lsh and
Boers, with comb nods anl non-com
tatants, and mementoes gain value in
th ir gtuosomenrss. The Boers were the
first to go at the business in a systematic
war, as the fellow translat on of a stale
document, Issued at Pretoria, will show:
A iMrange I'rocliiiUHtiuEi,
"Ffclkrw Burghers: Our country Is at pres
ent plunged in Ihe bloodiest war which
fcouth Africa has ever see n. Many brave
burghers have already shed their blood
In, this terrible struggle in order to re
gain for us all complete independence and
complete freedom.
"This war will become—if God so wills
it— the war of libra lion for all South Af
rica, and we hope soon to be ab e to p;o
--claim: 'The republic began th® victory.’
“©yen this bloody war, however, will
•©on belong to the past, will only live in
memory of future generations, and his
tory alone will give us the accounts of
tne courage and dttai minUion of former
ratio* .
"The burghers of South Africa have of
fer* given thei • bool and offered their
Uvea In struggles against savages and op-
P-estO f; tut there ar , alas! too few
iarg bl souvenirs ii exigence of th -
laudable deeds in battle of tie voortrecic
kors who for u have purified the land of
KLvages and treacherous rulers.
"Our sta e mijht have l een in pos
of thousands of relics in which
we might have gloried, and which we
might have pljced before the eyes of
our youCh in orier t> snow them the
difficult and apparently insurmountable
cbst&cDa wbch o-r p ople have sou:-
mounted in becoming u pec-p'.e, and l uce
gained such strength that they dared to
and clare war against the mighty empire
of England, whose beast b is that the
•un never sers thereon. Recause of the
innocence of our f-relatheis however,
no thought was given to the value of such
souvenirs.
"Let this not be the case in t is war.
L-t us collect relics for our succes.-ois,
which, in later years, will give ft clear
Idea of the extent and the terrors of the
struggle which the Africanders bad t>
carry on to be free and in a poi ion to
develop as a free people, rot in Oder t>
boast of their own prowess, but in praise
and thanks 10 Him on Whom our people
trusted in the d>y of rouble, and al o
to create and encourage In our youth
that love of country which binds togeth
er and makes a great nation. Let each
one con r.bute hD IK tie toward that ob
ject. Many articles are tsken from the
arch-enemy on the battlefield—lances,
rifles guns, clothing, standard*, papers,
which have no inuinsic value, but whi h,
when preserved and exhibited in a nation
al museum, \vtll assist to keep In remem
brance the Ilon-htarted courage of our
forefathers, to strong hen th- national
spirit, and to cause our people t> give
ever renewed thanks to Him in Whom
we truatfd.
"With that object the management of
our national rmiseum appeal® to faith
ful burgrhera in the field, asking- hem to
contribute O the forming- 6' a worthy
collection of objects and souvenirs per
taining to this war of liberation. Ti •
management of the Ftate museum, we 1
knowing- what priceless vahe there is
for our peop’e in such n co2l?ct'o\ -will
give to it n place of honor in the new
bul'i’-’gr. which wi 1 b s finish© 1 at an
•trly date.
"Let no ore consider any object too
(rifling to send to Pie or a. At the front
a’l command nts w 11, without doubt, be
very w lllng to rxeive such objects and
rend thrm to Pretoria to the state mu
aeutn. Your obedient servant®.
“Dr. J. W. B. Gunning-,
“Director of the State Museum.
••Dr. N. Mansvelt,
"Chairman of <he Curatorium.”
The Struggle for ( urlon.
Frantic enthusiasm for stamp collect
ing on the f.rt of philalateists may bo
easily understo and, but to see nations en
gaged tn a mad scramble for curious
strikes an American as humorous. Boih
Boers and Rngbsh, however, take me
matter ferl us'y, ar.d the s ruggle for
mementoes has teen going on at a moat
furious pace ever since the first sh3t3
were fired.
Professional dealers who have hoped
to make a for cun? in the trade here com*
plan bitterly, however. To get) a relic,
they say, one must be right in the con
fl!o , and, if possible, have a bullet bur fid
in his anattmy. Even then success does
rot always crown one’s efforts, as in
stanced by a harrowing tale narrated to
the writer by a member of the Natal Im
ps' ial Light Horse.
This young man. like many another,
had an ambition to be wounded. At
Splcn Kop his ambition was ea isfled. A
Mauser bullet struck him in <he thigh,
and ho hd a very ba 1 time of it. In
•pbe of great join he refused to take
chloroform when operated upon because
be feared some on> woul I appropr ate
the bullet after it hud been extracted. Per
weeks he clui g to ibe bit of lead, trust
ing not even the Red Cross nurs , who
hoveied about him .rather constantly,
and a'must affectionately. Wh n he
awoke one day after the affects of n
powerful cp ate he found that his sus
picions hod been coirpct. Both nurse and
bullet were gone, and he has seen neither
aince. Now th s ro dier can show only
a mark the seize of a pinhead a an evi
dence of hi bravery, and he is very sad.
As eugieot'd in the Po r document
qroted, no object connected with the aci
ual fighting i consilered too trifling, and
consequently tie body of every dead
•‘irch-eremY" found has been thoroughly
aearch-d Someiimes even the clothes
have been takttl for relics. This was
shown grue omely by a photograph of
Spion Kop af er the lamous tight on that
t*,l'. Dead lodies lay everywhere, ihe
clo hes of many had ben rill and. ard the
gsrmentM turned inside out. Several
bos h°d been r moved. R>bbe*y of
loots, indeed, has been most common:
boo’s are a commodity which the Boors
lack, pnil English bno‘s have b.xn much
In <v dence on Boer feet of late. Watch s.
rings and pocketbooks of English mike
have also been popular among the Trans
va!erw.
Th * n o t tamely objects have been con
sidered worthy f p*enervation br the
r*lo tovfrs. In Pietermaritzburg. for ex
amp e. one may fe i th shop window?
decorated with hogs of gravel taken from
th* famorp dm t.vrr IGip river bulky
ard watrr-loggcd s hey a r e. All havo
now been removed and nothing rumaltin
rf this example of B *r engineering but
the pho ogr, pus which w re taken of it.
When the Iloerw llegnn to Lone.
It was by building 'h s dam. the Kng
lish declare, -tint the B crj hoped <o
drown ou* Ladysmith. Thp charge I? as
ridiculous as many another made ag tinst
the canny Transvaalers Its loal object
was to enable the Boer arm# to escape
readily when the English should ap
proa h, and offer the relief of Ladysmith,
ihe upturned fresh earth and' the picks
and shovels dropped on the moment show
ed clearly how suddenly the fight had
token place.
This Portuguese town of Delagoa Bay
has been the center of a maelstrom of
.‘■mpieicns, nd secret service men in al
sorts of disguises have invested the
s reets frem the beginning. Sympathy
hero has been pretty -well divided, wav
ering from time to lime according to the
varying news. Soon afar Cronje’s cap
ture there was much discouragement in
the Boers Aurics and detectives were called
in to arrest many deserters. The clergy
had difficulty in accounting for the ap
parent withdrawal of divine help. One
min s er in Pretoria i* said <o have put
forth this novel exp a nation:
“Th Boer people have displeased God,"
he said, “and G.d had gone out to lunch
that day. But He is sfill on our side;
we have Him fist; He It tied up, uni
we will not let Him go; we will never let
H m forsake us again."
Allen Sangree.
A PROGRESSIVE MUSICALS#.
Tli© Idcn Originated With a Clever
Girl, Who Had Tried and Tired of
All the Old Ways of Entertaining.
The unique quality of this musicale af
fair appeared first of all in the invita
t'ons. For the little note sheets, upon
which these were written, showed, In
place of a monogram, a bar of music
cleverly sketched with pen and ink. It
required very little musical ability to dis
cover that each bar was the same; that
the notes were taken from a well known
song, and s;ruck upon the piano, said:
“Won’t ycu come and play with me’
There were six tables of a s'.za to scat
four persons, and these were arranged
exactly as f r euchre, hearts, cr any game
placed progressively.
At the iirst table the players wore con
fronted with a set of delightfully ingen
ious cards, each giving the name cf s.me
well known musical composition, arrang
ed in chaiade. That is, p.oture* had been
cut from books, newspapers and maga
zine sand rasted upon the cards in such
a way as io suggest the name of a song
or instrumental piece known to every
© v. e.
For example, an advertisement of a
special i rand of honey pasted upon a slip,
bearing also a head of lovely Marie An
toinette, stood for the cnce popular song,
of “Sweet Marie.”
“Daisy Bell’’ was suggested by a sketch
of field daisies and a picture of the Lib
erty bell.
A likeness of the father of his country
and ano her of a United States mail box
gave “The Washing ten Pest.”
A little map of Kentucky and a famous
loaf cut from a well knowrn bread adver
tisement told that ‘ She Was in Old
Kentucky.”
The sketch of a raccoon copied from a
magazine article hinted at “An Alabama
Coen’’ to any quick witied contestant.
There were twenty-five of these cards,
all p anned upon the same principle and
all enjoyable, po'hing being offered that
was too difficult Lr the average thinking
Tablets and pap rs were found awaiting
the i>ia>ets, and the two young people
who, in fifteen minutes, divined correctly
the largest number of names, progressed
to the next table.
Here another form of contest, also, of
course, musical, had been prepared.
Twenty-five pictures and photographs rep
resenting well-known ringers in opera
roles lay waiting to be classified. The
name of the actor or actress and that of
the character enacted were required to
constitute a perfect guess.
Cleverer still, if possible, was the con
tent at the fourth table. Here the guests
found a basket tilled with slips of paper.
l r pon each slip was written a bar or two
of some popular composition. Every girl
and man, whether or not a practical per
former, “picked out” bits of popular or
classic music on piano, banjo or violin,
so that no one among the number found
iM- feature beyond their abilities.
The fifth table tested all wits by cards,
on whicn the names of celebrated compos,
er* were at ranged in anagram or pi. That
is, the letters of each name were so jum
b'.ed as to require a deal of agility in
straightening them out. Thus Mozart be
came Ratomz. Schubert appeared as
Terhbusc. Wagner masquerades as Ne
graw, ond Chopin ns Inpoch.
The excitement of untangling these bad
snarls kept the fun in swim until the
bell rang—a signal for progression to the
sixth nnd last table.
At .the sixth table it was the physiog
nomies of the great composers, which put
divination powers to the test. Often as one
sees the likenesses of the masters, and
well up one may be, it requires full meas
ures of wfileawakeness to be able to dis
tinguish among a number of faces thrown
indiscriminately together.
The pictures were numbered to facilitate
the arranging of names guessed.
All prizes awarded were chosen appro
priate to the musical motif of the party.
Copies of the favorite songs of the day or
of classic pieces, autobiographies of fa
mous musician® or singers and photo
graphs of the master® in music were
given.
Little bonbonnlers taking the shape of
musical instruments—violin*. banjoes,
harps and even miniature pianos, were ofi
fered as consolation prizes to those who
failed.
—Belgium has hd a strange experience;
many districts have been visited by huge
swarms of large-winged insects, variously
described as dragon flies, locusts and
“demoiselles.” In Brussels boys collected in
crowds and carried on a regular battue
with switches. People In the streets had
to cover their faces, ond many fled in
doors at tho sight of the invading swarms.
In several squares, the story goes, there
was a veritable flglu for possession be
tween the inserts and the human inhabi
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Sevenoaks Snooks.
He Came to Grief Through Forget
ting to Be Honest,
BY CHARLES DATTELL LOOMIS.
I'd hat© to say that Sevenoaks Snooks
of Upham was a downright wicked boy.
I don’t suppose that he thought he was
wicked—many of us are wicked without
realizing it, but he was old enough and
shrewd enough to have known that the
things that he did in the matter of Alon
zo Freeland’s liorse were not the things
that a really good boy would do.
It all came about through the power
of turning things to stone that he pos
sessed, like many fairies of the present
day and many witches of the past. We’ve
all heard of' Pygmalion, who turned a
statuo into a living being, but so far as
I know no Yankee boy but Sevenoaks
ever possessed th© opposite gift, and in a
place like New England, where there is
stone enough in all conscience such a gift
w r as distinctly out of place.
When Sevenoaks discovered that he had
this power he said nothing about it to
any one, but after that every now and
then farmers in ihe vicinity found petri
fied frogs and toads and snakes when
they were plowing, and although the lo
cal wise men accounted for them very
satisfactorily as remains of the stone age,
no one ever happened to hit upon the
real reason for their petrification. It Is
a wonder that he never used his power
on people. If he did, one of the won
ders oC* the world might have been a
farming community done in stone, with
perhaps a score of sleeping beauties
among them—for Yankee maids are very
pretty. But it was only when he de
sired to that he could transform objects,
and then they did not remain stone for a
very long time. That 18 why sundry
stone toads that were presented <o the
Metropolitan Museum in New York and
the Museum of Art in Boston have dis
peared. They turned to flesh and hopped
away.
Just nfter Sevenoaks discovered his
power a Mr. Edward Everett Jones of
Boston bought u hundred acres of land
in Upham and put up a veritable palace
on It, with stables and lawns and gardens
and ponds and shrubs and trees and sum
mer houses until you couldn’t count them
without getting a headache. This Mr.
Jones was fond of encouraging young
men. and he also employed all the people
in the neighborhood to work for him so
that his money would do good to those
who lived near him.
One day Sevenoaks w f ae* helping his
fnther. who was setting out some trees
in front of Mr. Jones’ house. Mr. Jones
came out and said:
“Good morning. These are fine, healthv
looking trees. I think that when this place
is finished I ought to be proud of it, don’t
you?’’
“Yets, sir.” said Mr. Snooks, “but it’a
a pity you couldn't get some of those
iron statues to put up. They're very
pretty when they are whitewashed.
Makes ’em look like marble.”
“I dare say.” said Mr. Jones, smiling
as if there was a joke somewhere in
sight, “but I think that paint is better
than whitewash, and, really, when you
come down to it, marble 4s better than
iron.’’
“Yes, but marble’s expensive 'round here
since the quarries were worked out.”
“And sculptors are scarce, too,” said
Mr. Jones, laughing, and then he went
info the house.
But this conversation had put a mis
chievous idea Into Sevenoaks’ head. That
afternoon he found Mr. Jones feeding his
goldfish -in the artificial pond, and he said
to him:
“Mr. Jones, I'm pretty handy with my
chisel, and here’s a frog that I carved out
of a chunk of marble.”
And as he spoke he handed a white mar
ble frog to Mr. Jones. It was as beauti
ful as such a hideous thing could be, and
Mr. Jones, thinking of the workmanship,
was lost in admiration.
"My boy. where did you study? Dear,
deer. I wish my friend MacMonnies could
see that.”
“Oh, that Isn’t anything,” said Seven
oaks. “I could show you a marble cat
that was much harder to do.”
“Bring it to me and I’ll pay you a good
price for it. w
Now', of course, iSevenoaks was telling
lies, but as yet he had no wish to make
money fraudulently, so he said:
“I don’t want to sell it, but I’ll be glad
to give it to you. You’ve given us work,
and we have no use for marble cats, for
they can’t catch rats "
“Not even marble ones, T suppose.” said
Mr. Jones, laughing. "Well, I’ll be glad
to look at the cat.”
the frog for a paper weight, sir,"
said Sevenoaks, and ran off home to get
the cat..
The cat was still alive. She belonged
to no one in particular, but lived a roving
life, dining for the most part on birds and
field mice. Sevenoaks found her chjrled up
asleep under a maple tree. He stroked her
fur gently and thought of her as a marble
cat, and in a moment she was a marble
cat. But such a piece of marble as no
sculptor, from Thorwaldsen down, ever
thought of carving. Every hair was ns
fine as it had been in life; her whiskers
stood out straight and the small hairs In
her ears were all there, but in marble.
Mr. Jones could not say enough about
it. “My boy. you are without doubt the
leading sculptor in the world.” For a
moment Sevenoaks wished t u at he vns.
He had a love for the beautiful, and he
wished that he could have curved this c?t
with mallet and chisel instead of doing It
by mysterious power.
"Boy, I’ll give you a hundred dollaia
for this,” said Mr, Jones.
This was a temptation, and Sevenoaks
fell, luecau.se ono hundred dollars *o h m
was as much as ten thousand would he io
you, my son, ard ns the cat had been a
vagabond, he handed her over to Mr.
Jones, who gave him in return a cr so
hundred dollar bill.
"Thanks, awfully, sir. Would ynu like
to see a horse that I’m at work at?”
"I would, indeed. I mean to follow you
up.”
"I hope not too quickly," said SVven
onks to himself, “or I won’t havo time to
change it.”
But, out loud, he said: "Como to mv
shop this afternoon, if you will, sir, end
I’ll be glad to ahow it to you.”
Sevenoaks ran off home, and Mr. Jones
carried his marble cat into the house,
put it down on his center table aiul sut
and admired it for two hours.
As for Sevenoaks he scampered off home
and hastily gut some pieces of mtrble out
of an abandoned quarry that lay back f
his father’s house. These Ik* scatt red
around hi® father's workshop. .Mr. Snodc*
had been a stonecutter when the quarry
was In operation.
The boy had merely meant to have a
little fun with Mr. Jones, and until the
latter had paid him the money he had not
expected to carry the joke very fa*. Bar
now, in addition to lying, f r w. Ich is
was sorry, he had added the ra h< r e'lras
offense of getting money under false p e
tenses, and for this he was not eo.ry at
all.
About supper time ho saw Mr. Jones
coming In his road wagon to see the piece
of sculpture, and there was no hor-e to
show' him. The boy was puzzled for a
moment, but he happened to see Neighbor
Freeland's white horse Dandy in {he or
chard, whither he had strayed after the
rich grass that grew there. He hastily
grabbed some lumps of sugar from the
kitchen pantry, and with it he enticed th©
horse into the workshop, an dwhile the an
imal’s face Atill retained the eager look
that comes to them when they smell su
gar, he stroked him into white marble.
This done, he put on his father’s work
apron, and when Mr. Jones drove inlo the
barn yard ho was just putting the finish
ing touches to the horse's hock with th©
chisel.
If Mr. Jones had admired the cat he was
at ar loss for words to express his wonder
at the horse.
“Why, boy," said lie. “there’s nothing
like it in the world. 1 know all the great
sculptors and there’s not one who wouldn’t
give his boots to be able to do that horse.
Could you do a Washington and set him
astride of it?”
For an Instant Sevenoaks was tempted
to ask Mr. Jones to get up and be turned
into marbl© but as a marble man would
not be able to pay for n marble horse he
decided not to attempt it.
It would take too long to tell you how
Sevenoaks (which name, by the way, ia
pronounced as if it were spelled -n-o
--o-k-s.) kept Mr. Freeland from missing
his horse, or how, with help from Mr.
Jones' workmen, he dragged the statue on
a stone boat up to the rich man's place.
He reached there that evening without
accident and without either his father or
Mr. Freeland having the slightest suspi
cion of what he was up to.
That night Mr. Jones telegraphed to
nil the prominent sculptors in New York,
Philadelphia and Boston to come to th©
unveiling of the greatest statue in the
world, which event wns to take place
next day. All night long his workmen
busied themselves in placing the heavy
piece of marble on a ten-foot pedestal
that had been intended for another statue.
In the morning an American flag was
thrown over horse and pedestal, and Mr.
Jones was ready for his visitors.
He had,' of course, invited Sevenoaks
to be present, and when the sculptors
came he introduced the boy to each on©
in turn and showed them the marble frog,
in order to whet their appetites for th©
greater things 10 follow. The frog mode
quite a sensation, and Mr. Jones led them
into the houes to look at the cat.
It was gone. It had come to life a few
minutes before, and at that moment was
in an elm trying to induce a robin to
furnish a light breakfast for one.
Mr. Jones was much distressed at the
theft of his marble oat, but he concealed
his feelings admirably, and invited all
the guests to witness the unveiling. Af
ter that was over he intended to find out
who had the cat.
Sevenoaks, at a word from Mr. Jones,
disappeared beneath the flag. Then he
clambered to the back of the hors ft and
loosed the string that held the flag In
place. Above him waved the branches
of the elm In which the marble cat, mar
ble no longer, was prowling.
The banner fluttered to the ground, and
the group of artists clasped their hands
and opened their mouths in token that
they were looking at the most perfect
piece of curving that had ever been done
jince the lays of Grecian pre-eminence.
“Isn’t the boy a wonder?’’ said Mr.
Jones, proudly, and Sevenoaks on his
lofty perch smiled a beaming smile.
“flow much do you think I ought t©
pay Mm for this piece of work?” aelced
Mr. Jones.
The scu knew that th ir host was
rit h and they knew what a price the
s atue would fetch in ten years, so The
greatest cf them, whose name escapes
me, raid “SIOO,OOO is not too much to pay
for “
“9o I think,” said Mr. Jones, and he
put his hand info his pocket to draw out
the money.
Most of the artists thought it was very
had taste In him to pay the boy 1n public,
but Sevenoaks was glad to g.-t SIOO,OOO at
any time. He had never had s> mu h
morey in his life, hecau-e he was cue of
ten brothers ard ssters. and his father
and and net believe in unlimited po:ket
money.
But it was not destined that he should
receive the ill-gotten gains. Just as he
nut cut his hand to take the money Miss
Pussy sprang for the robin, and missing
her hold, dropped, c awing and mlewing
upon the horse’s flank, and the touch < f
her t air ns roused him to life Ho laid
back his cars, arched his neck, opened
his jaws, aid with a wld whinnv he
sprang from the pedestal with the boy on
his back and thundered ever the law’n
and down the and out of sight. S v
• noaks who was used to riding horse
back. dug his knees into the horse’s sides
and clutched his mane, and the artists
burst out laughing, supposing that the
whole affair was a huge Jcke.
But it was no joke to Sev< noaks. M*>be,
he was not hurt; maybe he is yet riding
and enjoying the ride, for Dandy was an
exc llent saddle horse, but of that I can
tell you nothing, for from the time that
he d'sappearpd beyond th© rustic bridge
that creases the pond of the goldfish, no
one that/ I ever heard of saw the b:>y
again.
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It Is very much easier to cook vegetables
right than wrong—the trouble is, most
cooks ignore the fine points of the process.
One is never to cook a wilted thing, if it
is In any manner possible to revive it.
Whether things come from the home gar
den or the market, they are the better
for standing in fresh cold water until
they ate crisply plump. Wilted tissues al
ways cook tough and stringy, to say noth
ing of lacking one-half the proper fla
vor.
Another thing worth knowing is the dif
ference it makes to havo the water boil
ing briskly when the green stuff goes into
it. Still another 1* the importance of
skimming. No matter how carefully things
have been prepared, in boiling they will
throw off waste and effete particles, which
rise as froth, and unless removed In time
either cake upon the edges of the stew
pan or encrust what is cooking within
it. The skimming needs to be done within
the first ten minutes after putting things
over the fire. Do not put on lids unless
there is extreme need of haste. The ap
plies even to Irish pot a toe*, which are,
however, very much better steamed than
boiled.
Cauliflower Three Ways—Trim carefully
and soak at least an hour. Take out of
the cold water, plunge up ard down in
scalding water, then drop into br.skly
boiling water, and keep it boiling b ird for
twenty minutes. Take out the cauliflower
cut the heads into quarters or eighths, ar
range the piece® neatly In a very hoi
deep dish, then pour over them a cup of
rich melted butter, made thus: Work a
scant spoonful of sifted flour into a heap
ing spoonful of the best butter, add a dust
of cayenne, a goed sprinkle of black pep
per, and half a cup of the water the caul
iflower was tailed in. Stir smooth an<l dip
by spoonfuls over the cauliflower, pop the
dish Into a hot oven for about two minutes
then takeout, sprinkle thickly with grated
cheese, and serve at once. Those who like
toast with almost everything can vary thl*
by putting a lining of toast in the dish.
In thn{ case it is tatter to add the cheese
before setting in the oven, and to leave the
vegetable® there until the cheese browna
slightly.
Second Way—Boll for twenty-five min
utes. then cut up. and lay closely tn a
very deep covered dish, made very h<t.
Dot the cauliflower thickly with butte\
into which you have worked the Juice rf
a lemon, and black and rel |>epper. Cov r
at once, let stand in a warm flare two
minutes-, then serve in Individual plat ers,
passing with it grated cho#* and tcast
ed brown bread.
Third Way—lioil u large head twenty
seven minutes., take out, have whole, i t
cool, then not on Ice. Make a French
dressing, using lemon Juice instead of
vinegar, and flavoring it liberally with
cayenne. your head of cauliflower,
• tom downward. In a bowl, sco..p d©rp
hit from the middle of It. and pour the
dressing in the hole. Let stand for fin
minute® before serving. To mk® it
CONTAGIOUS BLOOD POISON
I
Contagious Blood Poison is the most degrading and destructive of all diseases, as it vitiates and corrupts the entire system
tlhe first sore or ulcer is followed by little red pimples on the body, mouth and throat become sore, tk
glands enlarge and inflame, copper colored splotches appear, and hair and eyebrows fall out. These ar
som~ of the milder symptoms ; they increase in severity, finally attacking the vital organs ; the body i
tortured with rheumatic pains and covered with offensive eating sores.
It is a peculiar poison, and so highly contagious that an innocent person handling the same article'
used by one infected with this loathsome disease, may be inoculated with the virus. It can be transmitted
from parent to child, appearing as the same disease or in a modified form like Eczema or Scrofula.
Many art old sore or stubborn skin trouble appearing in middle life, is due and traceable to blood
poison contracted in early life. You may have taken potash and mercury faithfully for two or three year
and thought you were cured, but you were not, for these poisonous minerals never cure this disease ; the
drive it from the outside, but it is doing its work on the inside, and will show up again sooner or later
gom?r^ A AI^ e writ?sl X°“ nl ? y not reco S°. ize AS l . he sani * old taint, but it is. S. S. S. has cured thousands of cases o
* several years ago i Contagious Blood Poison, and it will cure you. It is the only purely vegetable blood purifier known
was inoculate© with and the only antidote for this poison. S. S. S. cleanses the blood thoroughly of every particle of th.
poison by a diseased poison there is never any return of the disease,
nurse, who infected *
lon £ b vcrs’'iuffcrrd fS iffctf' F AT Sencl for our Home Treatment book
untold misery. My vUifftiL BvL ik E. 1 / 1 Kil'lsfivS J a which gives a history of the disease iu a!
body was covered with * stages, and is the result of many years o
era!physlcia'us treated closr stud - v of hlood P°ison and actual experience in treat-
me, but all ,o no puring >• Yon can cure yoarself perfectly and permanently lE&SHk
pose. The mercury aud at home, and your secret is vour own Should you need ■ j A
seemed Vo'adSVue ”o a “y information or medical advice at any time, write to n(k L, 9liL T
tlie awful flame which our physicians. They have made a life study of blood Nfc&N- 4 .. * ‘>/?%.
was devouring me. diseases, and will give your letter prompt and careful .
s n s S s ad lbeva“ ak° atten '- ion - Consult them as often as you please ;we make Kc
ing it and improved no charge whatever for this service. All correspondence is ■jy N*' 1 f *4l!'fjli
from the atart, and a conducted in the strictest confidence.
complete and perfect *' *- -m
cure was the reault." Address. SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY, ATLANTA. GA
highly ornamental, use a clear glasu bowl
lined with lettuce, and lay aiound the
white hoad small bright red tomatoes, on©
for each person, scalded and peeled, but
not sliced.
Beans Two Ways.—Wash the b-ans in
two waters, then soak before stringing.
Break them in inch lengths, and boil un
til tender in well salted water. Drain very
dry, then put them back in the ©tew pan
with a light seasoning of red and black
pepper,and . tablespoonful of the best s 1-
ad oil to every quart of beans uncook el.
feet them over slow the for five minute,
stirring most of the time. Turn out Int >
n hot dish upon very crisp toast, and
serve with either quartered lemon • r pep
per vinegar. Instead of the o 1 fat la
con may be used. Try half a dozen
slices crisp without burning them, then
put the drained beans in the bacon gravy,
and stir well over the until it is ab
sorbed. Serve on a hot dish with ihe ba
con laid on top. along with hot corn bread
and sliced cucumbers in vinegar.
Second Way—Boil the bean© nfter
stringing until tender, drain and put in> a
deep dish with alternate layers of sliced
onion and very thin bacon. Bake until
the. onion Is well done. Serve hot with
corn bread and strong pepper sauce.
Beets—Wring off toj>s and tap-root in
stead of cutting, so the beets will not
bleed 4.00 much In cooking. Boil until
very tender, and be sure the water is not
too salt, drop In cold water, peel and set
on Ice until wanted. They may be served
half a dozen ways, ©Heed with vinegar,
as a salad, or mode very hot ami dressed
with melted butter and lemon jirice. Do
not mistake melted butter for drawn but
ter. Anything with flour in it spoils
a beet. Melt the butter with a very
little hot water, say a teaspoonful to the
tablespoonful of butter. Beat in th© lem
on Juice thoroughly, adding u dash of
white nnd cayenne pepper, also a littl*
sugar, un leas the beets are very swe*t.
By choosing red and yellow beets of equal
size and shape, slicing them in half
lengthwise, and arranging them to alter
nate around the dish, you may make it
very decorative. Another way is to make
a rich meat gravy by slewing half a
pound of round steak to rags in a pint of
water, taking out the meat, then thicken
ing the liquor with a tablespoon ful each
of butter and cream, and pour It over th©
sliced beets, after which they must l>e
baked for ten minutes in a very hot oven.
Dust wflth white pepper just as they go
to table, and either serve with, quartered
lemon or squeeze a lemon over th© dish.
SCIENTIFIC CORSET MAKING.
It Guarantees to Turn Ont nn t p-to-
Date Fashion Venus.
New York. June 22.—‘How to put a wo
man weighing 185 pounds into a gown that
looks as if it were meant lor one weigh
ing fifty pound® less is no problem at all
to the diessmaker who knows her busi
ness.
She gives Mrs. FalsUff a critical but not
unho|>eful survey, bids her bear up under
her pink and white burden, hands her the
address or a corset maker around the cor
ner and goe on cutting out the pi ©posed
frock on a scale of measures that Mrs.
Falstaff in all her years of fat matronhood
never dared, even dreamed about. But
the corset maker knows her business, 100,
and she is the person by one pull of the
silk stay lacers transforms a perfectly
grotesque 'figure into a thing of beauty
with long, lovely lines, rounding hips, a
softly curving, well proportioned bust and
a straight, graceful back.
If ahe i a fairy godmother for the fat
woman her gifts are no less generous
to the thin ones, and she has accom
plished it all by the simple secret of get
ting the right lines and taking a grip in
the right place. A long waist, very fiat
hii>, a narrow, bock and lowest bust is
the figure of the up-to-date fashion Venus,
and to accomplish these proportions for
every woman rome marvelous engines of
beauty have had.to be built, dea island
cotton, coutille, satin coutille, silk sail
cloth, hand-woven linen, satin brocaded
silk, a little, very highly tempered steel
and the best Greenland whalebone put to
gether wit h lots of true genius is the
receipt for the new corsets that turn Mrs.
Fulmar? or any other of her sex into
Queen Titania.
The stout woman is not allowed, by tho
scientific corset maker, to wear satin nnd
brocade. Jt is too bungling, the thinnest,
toughest coutille woven is necessary, and
the front of the stay is cut with the
straight busk. Though cut so low at the
bust the stout woman’* corset Is very long
be'ow the waist. Her hi|u are put under
a tremendous pressure by mean® of linen
flap® that lace In front over the abdomen
or by the unusually long bell-shap© cou
tille skirt* that are laced up in the rear
separately from the upper half of the
stay.
No pressure at all Is put on the abdo
men, or the stomach or the ribs, but the
waist is made to look smaller because
It is lengthened. The line of the whole
btdy is ro artfully changed that it en
t roly deceive* the eye, and after s'.ou h
nr Ilka u tet'ilng hen. the fat woman
sudd* rly finds ail her flesh supported and
If body smartly brought up Into the p>-
sition of a West Point cado on pernio
1 here la no brace to lazy shoulder
blades like this new corset, and the ob
ject of the lonffc closely revved down
hip casinr is to do away with a growth
of flfe'h ttare, for the modern fashion
commandment rays "thou shalt have no
hlrs.” After wearing these lengthy, cruel
Poking but ia r al ty gloriously comror;-
allo stays for a while the biggest cushions
a’ound the waist begin to yl* Id *o the
I rcssurs. But it is not only the menu*
m nts of fb*-h who go to these corset
makers for reduction The crooked back
ed and short walsted and the woman who
has not much more figure in the dr *-
maker* eyes than h s hoo! hoy. send up
daily offerings of high price* at the smart
corsetieie’s shrine. She is go and to them
ail and she w 11 locate a w detline, If you
pleas*, two inch** farther d’Wn than you
e er h and It I efo e; she make* a s ectal
< orset for wearing with tailor dre-ses
nnd a charm ng pompadour stay for the
*.ebiitar t' wth a bro m-fetlck figure.
The pompadour put* on hips by means
of ait *chtd side flop", has a front e aefiy
like the corsets Louis XV’s favorite wore
ard is altrgether one of the m st <; 1 ate
ronf*etloiH to • th* toilet that sartpria!
ivt has yrt | roduc and Ac ord ng to
new <•' def r figure making none of ihe?*e
e <n for The thd ixs' w-men, is ever pad*
dd. Arty iddln? dune must go In the
towr, but on the stay never, for it Is
the faith of the modern corsetlere that
whftt a woman’s body Is held upon cor
rrc: 1 nes she Is bound to grac< ful,
what her fat or thin, and the dres mak<r
must put in th® rounding proportion*.
•Vanny Ender*.
i spas loi ia
480 Courtland Ave.,
Atlanta, Ga., April 26th, 1903
Columbia Drug Company, Savannah,
Ga.:
Gentlemen—lt gives me pleasure to
heartily recommend “Infant-Friend
Powder," and to ‘Tlve to you a singu
lar little coincidence connected with
lit.
During the Cotton States and Inter
national Exposition 1 was presented
with a little box of this powder, and
was ®o pleased with it that I was ex
ceedingly anxious to get more, but on
looking at the box I found nothing
but Savannah, Go., no other address.
I have often wished I knew where
fo get It. Thitf morning’s mail brought
your circular with enclosed sample. I
immediately referred to ray box, and
found it wo© the “Infant-Friend Pow
der.” It Is without doubt th© best
pov.der I have ever used.
Respectfully,
MRS. Win. KING.
For sale by nil Druggists.
Manufactured by
COLUMBIA DRUG COMPANY,
Savannah, Ga.
CUBAN
WATER |
MONKEYS, j
Ell LOVELL’S SONS, 1
113 BROUGHTON STREET, WEST.
& R Neal, r. P. Millahd,
President Vice President
Hknuy 13LU!f, Jr Sec y and Tree*.
NEAL-11IIIARD CO.
Builders’ Material,
Sash, Doors and Blinds,
Paints, Oils, Varnishes,
Ciass and Brushes,
GUILDERS' HARDWARE.
Lime, Cement anlPlaster,
•h? •> WkltakCT llrnu.
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For your stock The fly season I* now on
us and the time to use
Tough on Flies,
a lotion when applied will prevent your
horses ond cattle from being pestered. Try
It ond be convinced.
HAY. GRAIN, BRAN. COW FEEDi
CHICKEN FEED. etc.
T. J. DAVIS,
Phone 223. P* Bay street, west.
BRENNAN BROS.,
WHOLESALB
Fruit, Produce, Grain, Etc.
122 BAY STRUCT. Wot.
Telephone ASS.
a I W?.z YOURSEIFI
I t'* TAs G for uuuaturei
| diNrhArß'**, in Mari'miitioQ*,
I IrntatioiiM or ulcoration*
of in ik v oit uicmbrnuo*.
Fainicea, uml not aatriu*
Jd fp-nt or polio non*.
■r Wold toy I>ruirirlta v
I - or iwnt in plain wrapper.
Dr expnwi. eiapaM. tot
y r * bottle*, i*.7ft.
* Circular ant ou roouoffc
~OPIUWI
Morphine and Cocaine habits cured pain
lessly In 10 to 20 days. The only guaran
teed painless cure. No cure no pay.
Address. DK. J. H. HEFLIN.
Locust Grove. Ga!
j. and. weecmTco
gAtANXAU. (aA.
Leather Belting, Steam Packing & Hose.
Agents for NEW YORK RUBBER
BELTING AND PACKING COMPANY.
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President. V!ee President.
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THEGMTHfIMBfINK
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economy and dlapntch.
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