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WCUE 60ES nfesses Murder of II Just F ASTEADY O SERVE10 TTE END Charlottesville Wife-Murderer Meets Death Without a Tremor, Walking Unassisted to the Place-No State -ment Forthcoming When Asked at the Last Moment if He Had Any thing to Say, But a Written Con fession Was Given Out After the Execution by His Spiritual Advisers. Charlottesville, Va., Special.-With out a tremor, J. Samuel McCue met death on the scaffold at 7.35 o'clock Friday. morning for wife-murder. Hardly had his struggles ceased when I his confession was given out by his three spiritual advisors, Rcv3. G. L. Petrie, H. B. Lee, and John B. Thomp son. McCue listened calmly to the reading of the death warrant, and when Sergeant Rogers asked, "Do you think that if I gave you my arm you would be able to walk to the scaftold?" He replied calmly, "I can walk with out your aid." On the way he stum bled once or twice and the officers of fered assistance. It was not needed, however. There was no weakness. McCue had merely slipped on the fro zen snow. No Statement to Make. Before he placed the rope about Mc Cue's neck. Sergeant Rogers put his arm over the condemned man's shoul . 3. sAMU and whispered something to him. n everything was ready Mr. Rog gain spoke to McCue. asking him had anything to say. "None at was his answer. The trap was , and ninteen minutes afterward e was pronounced dead of strang n. His neck was not broken. body will be taken to Brookville rial. Confession as Giver: Out. amuel McCue state' this mcrn. our presence and requested us ke public that he did not wish to Broke Into Jewelry Store. ffolk. Special-The jewlry store R. L. Brewer & Son, owned by Rt. Brewer. Jr., former mayor. was en tered and robbed. The burglars bot in by prying up with a crowbar a sili in der a read window. The practical loss was the theft of articles left for re pair. A $300 cash register was destroy ed, but only $4 in cash was taken. Mr. wer cannot ascertain his exact loss, is- estimated at between $500 and unish Atchison Road. -Special-Attorney Gen aappointed Judson Har nati, 'who was attorney the second administra nt Cleveland. and Fred ,a prominent lawyez oInvestigate the al the Atchison. Topeka ilroad in granting re orado Fuel & Iron Comn ployment is with thC g legal proceedings any, if. after an inves~ roceedings seem justi awyers have accepte41 th( t. Live Items of News. ungarian colony in New Yor; -ing great preperations for tht et to President Roosevelt on Feb y14. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, in a statemeni in Boston. says he has no apology tr offer for his treatment of Jeff ersor Davis in Fortress Monroe. Many vessels are still held in the iec jam in the Delaware river and heavy rain and sleet storms were reported it the So'uth and Southwest. The Senatorial deadlock at Dover Del.. showed no material change. Rev. Dr. J. H. Darlington. rector oi Christs Protestant Episcopal Church of Brooklyn, decided to acept the po sition of Bishop of Harrisburg. The amended protocol 9f the Unitet States and Santo Domingo specificalla afirms the Monroe doctrine. The Privy Council in London decider the Greene and Gaynor case in favor o the United States, the probable effee being that John F. Gayno- and Benja min P. Green will be extradIited fron Canada. 10 SCAFFOLD. is Wife and Pays Law's enalty iave this world with suspicion resting on any human being other than him self; that he alone was responsible for the deed, impelled to it by an evil 1 power beyond his control, and that he recognized his sentence as just." J. Samuel McCue was 46 years old and twice had been mayor of the city ef Charlottesville. The tragedy for which he paid the penalty created more interest than any other crime. that has occurred in the State in the past quarter of a century. Story of the Crime. On Sunday night, September 4, Mc- F Cue accompanied his wife to church and they returned home about 9.15 o'clock. Within 15 minutes after they had repaired to thir room to retire for the night the city was aroused by messages announcing the murder of Mrs. McCue, and friends, physicians, and oHcers hurried to the McCue home. Mrs. McCue was found dead f in the bath room, and McCue was ly ing on the floor with an abrasian on his cheek and feigning unconscious- t ness. He later asserted that the at- I tack had been made by an unknown white man who had climbed through a 1 window. Mrs. McCue had been dealt a blow that broke her nose and her left ear had almost been severed by a second blow. Death was caused by a ;unshot wound just above the heart. ! :Cue never was able to explain the presence in the bath room of a smail piece of cotton undershirt which fitted C exactly a torn place in the shirt which he had on when the officers arrived. The women figured in the reports cir t t t t t r.t > . I 1 EL McCU, culated as to the cause of the murder, 1 and a letter filled with endearing lan guage sent him by one of his women clients was produced at the trial. Mc- 1 Cue had quarrelled with his wife a number of times. She was 40 years old and the mother of four children.1 The coroner's jury held McCue for the 5 murder three days after It occurred,< and he had since been confined in the] jail, vehemently protesting his inno ccnce. His trial was concuided Nov- i emboer 5, and he wvas convicted, the .ury being out only 26 minutee. Judge Campbell to be a Candidate. RichLInond-Special-It is reported that former Judge Clarence J. Camp bell will be a candidate for the legis lature from Amherst county this year. Judge Campbell was removedi from the Amherst county henc'h by the legisla ture for cowhiding Rev. Mr. Crawford, of the Anti-Saloon League. He had acquitted Mr. Crawford of the charge of contempt of his court. Fire in Jacksonville Jail. Jacksonville, Fla.-Special - What the officers believe to have been an ef fort on the part of a negro prisoner to escape by setting the jail on fire resulted in one negro being killed by suoication and 15 escaping. The cries of fire in the Raspberry Park city jail, shortly after 4 o'clock. awoke Jailer Bryan. who rushed from his room to the corridor to ascertain the trouble. As he o,ened the door leading into, the jail proper a dense smoke came rushine: toward him. He inmmedliately wen- 'to each cell and released the. prisoners, and then sent in the alarm. Fresh From the Wires. The peace movement in Rtussia is growing fast. Survivors of the wrecked Furnes liner Damnara reached1 Plonisant Point. N. C.. after a terrible experience. IGermnany's success in capturing the contract for rearming the Turkish ar tilery continues to cause resentment Finf Paris. King Oscar of Sw:eden. who is ill, turned over the Government tempor arily to Crown Prince Gustaf. The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations adopted an amendment to the' arbitration treaties, prov-iding for the submission to the Senate of every claim to be arbitrated under the treaties. C. W. Post. of Michigan. demands the epulsion from the Senate of Senator Platt, of New York. on the groundF that., the latter is violating the anti trust law. The National Red Cross Society wasF roranied,pursuant to an act of Con SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE rhe House and Senate Getting 'Down to Solid Work. The entire time of the senate Tues lay night was devoted to a discussion L the ten circuit bill and the end is ot yet. The apponents of the bill ounded their speeches on constutional echnicalities but the supporters took broader view and held that no more echnicalities should stand in the way )f progress and relief from congestion n the courts. Senator Brown moved to postpone he consideration of the bill until the text session but Senator Hood moved o taole this. COMMITTEE REPORTED. The joint committee appointed from he house and senate during the ses ion of 1904 to investigate the books nd accounts of the State officers, yes eryday made their report to the gen ral assembly. The report on the see 'etary of state's office appears on the ace of it to be a condemnation or ather a rebuks of lax methods of that ffice. The committee has been thor iugh in its investigation and has not pared words.-Columbia State. HOUSE. By a vote of 68 to 31 the house of epresentatives Tuesday night put it elf on record as favoring the origi al "Brice bill." This bill was intro !uced by Mr. Toole of Aiken, and was he identical bill prescnted by Senator 3rice of York last year. The vote ast year was 49 to 66. the majority eing in favor of placing the odious alt tax on the counties voting out he dispensary. Among the new bills introduced rere: Senator Butler-Fixing the time for tolding courts in the several circuits ['his bill is conditional to the passage f the ten circuit bill. Senator Butler-Ta incorporate the 'herokee, Union and Spartanburg rail ray. Senator McGowan-To incorporate he Reedy River Power Company. At the morning session of the sen te third reading bills on the calendar -ere read and debate begun on the 0-circuit bill but this was interrupted y the visit of the house sb that acts ight be ratified. ACT RATIFIED. Debate was then curtailed by the en rance of the speaker and clerk to atifv acts made into laws as follows: To allow county treasurer of Ches er to borrow funds. To prohibit trespass. To allow Clio school district in Marl oro to issue bonds. To dispense of all moneys in State reasury known as direct tax funds. Ceding to government certain lands n Suilivan's Island. Amending law relating to powers of rustees of the S. C. M. A. For the protection of aids to navi ation established by the United ;tates lighthouse board. Fixing liability of stockholders in anks. After ratification was over it was Lot long until the senate adjcurned intil evening. The house sent word that it refused e include traction engines in the pro isions of the automobile bill and the resident appointed1 Senators McLeod nd Warren as members of a confer nce committee on this amendment. The historical commission bill from he house, was amended on motion of enator C. L. Blease by reducing the alary of the c.lerJg from $1,200 to 1,000. The bill which the senate sent e the house had the amount of $1,000. The bill known as the matrimonial aw was killed. The House, by a vote of 77 to 20, efused to kill Mr. L. 0. Patterson's >ill for the establishment of an in ustrial school for boys at a cost of 15,000. It then passed, the bill amend d so as to reduce the amount to $5, 00, but requiring the penitentiary pee le to furnish the necessary convicts vithout expense for the construction of he original buildings. An amendment so requires three of the seven trus ees to be women. The board is to elect the place for the school. The Senate passed the tenth circuit ill, amended so as not. to interfere mith the present arrangements regard ng judges and solicitors. It makes a iinth circuit out of Greenville, Ander on. Oconee and Pickens, and a tenth ircuit out of Charleston, B3eaufort and erkteley. Answering the invitation to address he Assembly on the 9th, in the inter ~st of the Jamestown Exposition, Gen ral Fitzhugh Lee wired his regrets rom Washington, saying that on tnat lay the matter would come up in Con ness. and he could not reach South Trolina. He suggested that the mat er could be attended to next year. )t thought it might be best for the ;nate to take action now along the ines suggested in his letter of a few lays ago. One of the Interesting features of Rouse legislation so far was the de ~isive majority with which that body ast night passed the Toole bill, which liminates the tax feature from the rice act, allowing counties to vote out heir dispensaries. The Senate has illed a somewhat similar measure, but he Senate bill went further, and al owed not only counties, but commun ties, to vote out their dispensaries, nd the friends of the Toole bill are >y no means disecouraged with the prospects of its passing the Senate. To hold this proviso of half a mill tax ',ver the heads of those counties de siring or which might desire to vote >ut their dispensaries is looked upon is a threat, which is being resented. he handwriting upon the wall has been brought into bold relief by the setion of the House. *Which conmes Ereshest from the peopi' In the House of Rresntamtives 1hursday, there '::s a final fight oni rPatterson's hii to oeti,;lishm an in iustrial school for boys. The ten-hour labor hill was killed, is was also the inheritance tax bill. Col. D. 0. Herbert's bill to codify he militia laws of the State was assed by the House. Col. Hlerbert ex >lanedl that the laws of this State are n imperfect conmditica, and the bill would re-enact these laws with a numn er of desirable changes. The bill pro ides for no app!roptriatiCon, althmough it oes increase the salary: of thce adju ant general from $1.500 to $1.900. lie hov.ed some instanres in which there s no warrant of law for the militia or ~anization; there is no statute to pro ide for three maiors to a reziment, al hough every regiment has three ma ors to comply with the manner of or ;anization in, other States. There was ao opposition to the bill. The house gave second reading to the ways and means committee's bill to provide for a committee of five to in spect the books and vouchers of the Sate treasurer, comptroller general. secretary of state and sinking fund comission. The committee has here rofore consisted of three members, but Mr. Moses explained that the work is very heavy and the committee can save time by having a large number of members and dividing the work. Trhe Seae recurrerd to the ten cir cult bill and made a slight change. In joint session acts were ratified as follows: Issuing sch,ol bonds in district No. 36 in Orangeburg. Amending the act requiring payment of license fees (corrects an error). Relating to board of trustees of Presbyterian College of South Caro lina. Having State Treasurer issue dupli cate instead of triplicate receipts. Amending law relating to primary elections. Ratifying charter of Parr Shoals Power company. Allowing county commission=rs of Lee to borrow money. Relating to bond issue for court house at Camden. Electing town auditor for Union. Validating sale of two lots in Dar lington to C. W. Hewitt. Relating to schools districts of :a rion, Mullins, Dillon and Latta. Fixing time for electing trustees in Easley school district. Providing for reappraisement and taxation of certain abandoned rice fields. Authorizing town of Wagener to is sue bonds. Authorizing school district No. 65 of Orangeburg to issue bonds. Authorizing school district No. 70 in Orangeburg to issue bonds. Developing duties of board of public works on town council and treasurer and clerk of Gaffney. Although the Senate was too digni fied to confess it, it adjourned until 11 o'clock this morning so that the senators might go to the minstrels last evening. There was no night ses sion, as all wanted to attend the the atre. The Clemson Bill. Debate began Friday in the senate on the Pollock bill. This is the house bill to establish at Winthrop an in spection bureau to examine fertilizers. Clemson now derives the total income from the privilege tax and if the bill passes the senate Winthrop will be a part beneficiary in it. The bill has been on the calendar for some time, ever since it came over from the house. Senator W. J. John son has on the senate calendar a sim ilar bill but he will let. it rest now that the Pollock bill has arrived. A good deal of speech-making was engaged in Friday on this bill, but no action was taken. Its consideration occupied both the morning and even ing session. The house of representatives has declined to pass any legislation to amend the dispensary law. Saturday the senate bill was considered as a substitute for Mr. Brantley's bill, and the whole matter was indefinitely post poned after a long fight. Will Increase Levy. The "supply bill," or the bill to fix the levy for taxes for the ctrrent year, was given second reading in the house of representatives Saturday. The levy for State and county pur poses is raised in the bill from 5 to 5 1-2 mills. This is the first time in two score years that the levy has ex ceeded 5 mills. This bill cccupied prac tically the entire time in the House. In the Senate routine business only was considered. Many rx embers were tbsent. PERS)N AL GOS1SIP. Bernard Shaw is becom:ng very pop nlar in Germany. Andrew Carnegie is a great lover of flowers, especially of roses. The only woman black-sn ithi in Amer ica is Miss Clara Medlin, .f Pilot -Oak, Ky. The German Emperor is said to be twenty-fourth in the line of succession to the British crown. Mfiss Ethel Bret Hlarte, daughter of the famous writer of early California life, will dev-oteherself to concert work, President Roosevelt has departed from the social usages of many years in beco'ming a dinner guest at the house of the Vic-President-elect. MrIis. Rlosalie Loew Whitney, who for the last three years has been attorney for the Legal Aid Society at New York City, a few months ago sent in her resignatIion. George S. Bloutwell. former Governor of Massachusetts. and Secretary of theq Treasury in Grant's Cabinet, celebrate~d te eighty-seventh anniv-ersary of his birth at Groton. Edmund S. Hloch. assistant director of exhibits~ at the St. Louiis Fair. has been decorated by the Freh Govern ment with the select order of Officer of the Acadlemy of France. M[any years ago, when Smnator MIoses E. Clapp was a hoy, he w-as the otiice boy in a newspaper' office in Miinnesota, and "Hod" Taylor was the editor. Tay-r is now Assistant Secretary of the Trreasury, and Clapp i.' about to en ter o,n his second term ini the United States Senate. The Czar of Russia and the Emperor f Germany might, if they please, dis pute with each other as to which of the two owns the greater number of pal aces. Each might sleep in a diff'erent house every night for a month and not exhaust the number of his variousi :lwllng places. USE GOLD FISH FOR BAIT. Two Anglers, in Despair, Buy Them in Place of Minnows. A pair of Philadelphians who went down to Gibbsboro on a fishing expedi tion recently, says the Philadelphia Record, discovered when they arrived in the Jersey town that tliey were shy on bait. As the fishermen were cut for bass and pike, live bait was neces Isary; so a small boy was hired to ateh minnows. He scooped ir. thirty five, and charged I cent apiece for the fish. The anglers pid~ the price. and then found the minnows too small to swim atbout e.fter they had been hooked, a circumstance which seemed to kn"ock the bottom out of the fish ing tip, as, unless the bait is lively, thec bass andl pike do not bite. The pair had about dc cided to go home vsen one s-pied an aquarmm iled wi goldfish in a store window. H' cuggested the goldfish as bait, and oh men secured a dozen for a com partiely small sum. ThE experiment was a success. The anglers caught a fair mess and found the guldfish to be ey~ hardv. A pair whichu had been used as bait, and had escaped the hun ry pike and bass seemed none the wore for having been hooked and swam about wvhen retur:ied to the aquarium as if nothing had disturbed their monotonous career. This is a swift age and mechanical construction has kept pace with it. It is related that rai;road employeS near Trenton, N. J., removed a 70-foot bridge in four minutes and placed an other in position in 55 minuites, "traf fi goin on unintrruptedly." who Shall Par' N view of the nime-ou me1(thod s of tai tol' hi'h Iay construction now pro posed, it may1. be w\e1, to ask what prinfiples shloluld gov'ernl the s'eectin o]t Ua nethod. Tiiere is grtat aik,iF ni nethods at the jireseit ti!me. andit thley Jo not conforll even remotely to any thle or set of rules. The road ics ,ion has beetn hirgely a local one. Ibut -he ex(paniol of lmeans of comilulllic:t ioll, the iIprovenlilt in road veli:les 111(1 methods of propelling ti"tm, the :tral free delivery and the general ad v:lice in rural c(onditions and deia)iis, ire rapidly ma king the <iuestion (0ne )f more widely extended implortaNce. [he present artitle will lhe conTiedl to 1 'onsideatioll of somec" of the prilc"i iles underlying the application of aid from the National G),overnlent to the building of higlnays. It Is prompted at this time by the characier of somne Iroposed1 legislation. In the ., years following 1S11 the United States Goveriinent contst1u ted the National road. which, while sec tions of it were never c"ollpleted. imay be considered to have beeln 701 miles long and(( to have cost $7.900.03)0. the Nationa! Government paying the entire expense. At that time this road was essential to the development of the country west of the Alleghailes,, and its construction by the Government was justified onl ihat acrount. 'lI-e cost of repairing the road was not so easily obtained from the (Government. and a proposition to collect such cost from traffic over the road by 'neans of to1:s was vetoed by the President. on the constitutional ground h:tt it im posed duties on interstate trattic. an interpretation which would not now be made. The doctrine of sovereignty of the States prevented further ex penditures of this sort for many years. The increasing power of the central Government. and the insidious influ ence of such growths as the River and Harbor bill, much of which is me..y an annual raid upon the Treasury. have worked together to reduce the objection to National expenditures for local pur poses. The Government did not pay any further attention to the question of road construction until the establish. mtent of the otifce of Pubilic Road In uiry, about ten years ago. This office is in line with many other divisions of departments in the Government servi'e in securing and distributing informa tion regarding road building and m:in tenance, educating the' people in this respect, and its api opriations are emi nently proper ex nditures of .public money. But now coimes the Browniow bill, whichi goes further thani any other measure in its ap)pliention of National funds to local uses. It makes no pre text ofj mioting interstate commerce, but poes to appropriate money for roads on atpplicationi of States, coturiles or to wnship9%' only check .upon the character of the iNad to be improved being the op)inioni of ib d1ireetgr of the department. Its advocafefrpliftif river aad harbor and the public build ing app'ropriations as one reason for the new raid upon the Treasury, say ing: "There are many rural districts that have iio great rivetrs o'r great lhar bors or great cities.which entitle them to public buildings. but there is no district b,ut has many miles of p)ublic roads that need to be permanently im proved. Let the pieople ask for it and they will receive the assistance which they desire and deserve.'' As an additional argument they point to the appropriations made tb Porto Rico and the Philippines, thus: "It is a rematrkable fact that the United tates Government has already appro prited $1.fN00,000 to Porto Rico for road building and another $1 .00.000 to the Philippine Islands: andi the Secre tay: of War has just made an I appeal to Congress through the President of the United States, wlio str-ongly in orses that appeal. to have S:.00)0.000) appropriated for the use of the Phhlip pine governmient." It is generally reecognized. that these new dependhencies of the United States must. for the pr-esent at least. be treat ed in a paternal mannet similar in theory to the treatment of the Indianis, and that. while spietlal appr)lopriationis may v-ery properly be made for- feedinig, cotig, housing and schooling In dians and Filipinos. and tot- local imi provements which they are unable to make a similar exhibition of paternal Ism with reference to the States of the Union should be strongly resented as a reflection upon their ability and an insult to State pride, as wvell as a vio lation of one of the fundatmenltal prin (-iples upon which the form of the ihion of States is based. It is har-dly probablie that so serious a dep)artutre from the unwr-itten (On s itution, even if it is not a viointion if the letter of the basis of our G,ov emnent, will pass the repr-esen tat iv~es of the people in Congress assembiled. But the sub)tle intluence of the speciail a iprpiationi of National funds under the cloak of h-git imate mca sures for the imrovemienit of na:vigaition, t he orovis ion of builings fom doing pulie busi ness and the pensioning of the defend e-s ot outr count1 ry. as wei as spe51ciaLl provisionis for our dlependenit wvardcsat hoae anad in our ncew liosesi ods. sens to .hi:v e hiinded the c-yes of pub li omtei t-s, of societies initensely in ter -st ed in rioid itmproivemt,t oif -it izen s gieally, to lie true imnpor-t of such a nasre. The t-ap;id imnprovemene of our- roaids in t hese days of ext ensioni of steami an lc(-rie :ioadis is not wi rli: the abanl donent of so definiit e ad sci vailuable a pi-nciple. One argumenit of the supp)orters of th h. ill is that lie work of the office of Ptublie Road Inqiuir-y "is in the na ture of National aid" and that "there is therefore. nothing new in printcile in the bill recently introduced in Con g-ess by Colonel Browvnlow, of Tenines Isee. prov-iding for National aid of a miore extensive and substantial cha:r itetr." The assistance of the Goverti nient in the way of edlucational work is very differenit in principle and practice fron the aussistance proposed in the bm! nd it vae ndn its entire con-, ormity with the principles of our or ;anization are recognized by all. The act that it is given cannot by any stretch of reason or imagination be :wisted into approval of the proposed ?xtension. The simple statement of he quotation shows this to any student )f the principles of American govern .nent. It may be admitted that the Govern Pen in aid of iite:siate (ommllunica olt. iiion ay buldl( o: : assiSt in b)uil(iing hrough roads between ceires in dif Cerent States. though many will deny the power of the National Government ,o do this. but this expressly is not the urIpose of the hiil. w ~i"h wouid not revent the applic:ltion of National aid o the least valuable road of a moun :ain township if the opinion of the di ,(etor did not stand in the way. A >roper Ieasure ofterir National aid to oad building is not impossible, and vill receive ample support. The ob jeetioln lmade at present is to the form ud the violation of Dstablished prin -iples in the present b ll. The principle )f a proper Imcasure can best be con <idered together with the qluestion of state aid.-MUnicipal Engineering. Good Roads In Hondurax. Dutrinz the last ye lr road building as be.n the chief f eature of public letivity in Iondurlas. Because the ountry has had no safe or convenient [ih way<, the interior districts have eel greatly retarded in their develop ient. To remedy this a new wagon oad has been built foni Tegucigapa, he capital. to San Lorenzo, on the -oast. The grade of this road varies etween six and two per cent. In nany phices the road is fifty feet wide. m1 a foundation of lava, and covered vith finely beaten rock. Side ditches run along the way, and nearly all the bridges and enlverts are of stone. cross the large rivers no bridges have ret been built. The length of the road vill be about eighty-one miles. When it is all finished. It is' the intention to use one side for a trolley ine for elec trie freight cf. I 1 -,.4enger ' cars. Abunda::t war po -! is .v-.ilable fqr supplying mroC:Dl ''o"" THE CHINES- EMPRESS. k Description of the Rulev of the Far Eastt-rn Nation. She sat upon a divan covered with figured Chinese silk of a beautiful yolk-of-egg color. Being low of stat ure, her feet (which are of natural ize, she being a Manehu) barely touched the ground, and only her head and shoulders were visible over the table placed in front of her. She wore a Chinese coat of d:aphanous pale blue silk material covered with the most exquisite Chinese embroidery of vine leaves and grapes. Round her neck was a pale-blue satin ribbon studded with large. lustrous pearls, pierced and sewn to the ribbon. Her head was dressed according to the Manchu fashion, the hair being parted in front and brushed smoothly over the ears, caught up at the back and draped high and wide >ver a kind of paper utter of dark green jade set crosswise on the head. The ends of this paper utter were decorated with great bunches of artificial flowers, butteriliet and hanging crimson silk tassels. Hef"tplexion is that of a North Italian, and being a widov.. her cheekm are unpainted atnd unpowdered. Her gereing dark eyes roved curiously otamong her surroundings. Her age il~ sixty-eight, 'aut her hair being dyed jetlack and mos: of it artificial. her app ':tce is that of a miul yo'unger womah, Her hands are ?ong and tapering and very prettily shapet but they are dis figured by the curiais national cus tont of letting the nah grow inordi iately long. Tihe nailskof the t'w( smaller fingers of the righthaia wers )rotected by gold shields which fitted to the finger like a lady's thimble an graully tapered off to a length o1 three or four inchres.--As Described by Lady Susan Towvnhey, in Her "Chinesi Note Book.'' WORDS OF WISDOM.'; Character determines condition. Feeding malice is fostering murder, Men differ not so much in their faiti as in their phrases. Excess of wealth is cause of covet ousness.-Christopher Marlows. Good htumor is tile health of the soul; sadness is poison.-L. Stanislaus. Faithful, dutiful work is the sures1 way to an honorable life.-George Ev erard. Angels' songs htst longest to mner who are most anxious to rep)eat then to others. Is a good deal easier to catch th( preacers errors in p)ronunciation that his apeals for the collection. When God has buried your sins it is a sin to di;g thenm up again, even though it be only to showv them to your friends; His Solicitude. "Hold on!" shoted one of the on lookers, rushing toward the balloot just its it left the ground. "For heav ens sake, 1hold On!" The ae(ronauut hietad lhe wild veill ad(, realizing that his balloon wat ton or onl tir, releatsed his hold 0u the tra(peze an d dropped with a d. s, t. twenty-five feet to tihe earth. "Wa is it': lhe gasped. "I fear ] a1 badly shamken up,) i;ut it might hiavs been wvorse!" "Jufst whaut I was afraid of," re piet the iman. shiakin,: his hiead. - Whyi did vout t&il mie to hoh1( oni? gasped the aer'ona:ut, ats lhe saw the "Because I kntew y (u'd( get hurt if you let go." replied thle excited indi vidual-Iouston Post. Gloverusville isi Pieased. A writer for the Nes- York Mail, re feiing to the chahnge which the au tomobile Las wrouight in dr'ess, sug ;gests thait it wvould really be wvell if the notor' car1 shouildl inculecate the utse of soft and fiexible leather in ordiniary out-of-loor rainment. suc'h as coats, overots. etc. Thatt's a ;good ideca, and u.s it's ri;ght in Glover'sville's line wE suggest that the wvriter ptusa the iden alon)g. There is nio ma;ter'ial made in to street wear whic(h is miore beauitifl than some of the lealther made up int( gloves, and when tha(t leather coal factory is opened. wve waut to :ee ii ri:ht here inl Gloversville. -here they make the best of ever'ythin;: int the leather line.-Gibover'sville Leader'. GiU SEHOLD AFFAIRS CIIEESE BISCUIT. Ifake any tea biscuit batter and rol out till about a half inch thick: spread . thickly with grated cheese, sprinkle with cayenne pepper, a little salt and some bits of butter. Roll tightly, cut from the end. jelly-cake fashion, and bake. Serve hot or cold. SWEET POTATO SOUFFLE. Peel six medium-sized ;weet pota toes, cut into dice and line the bottom of a buttered dish; sprinkle with brown sugar and drop over it bits of butter, next a layer of potatoes, then sugar and butter, and so on till the dish is full and the sugar layer is on top. Bake and serve hot. SQUASH FRITTERS. Add a cupful of milk to two of canned or freshly boiled winter squash; with this mix two beaten eggs, a tea spoonful of salt, a little pepper and a heaping teaspoonful of baking powder. Drop by tablespoonfuls into hot lard and fry. Serve with sweet or sour sauce as preferred. SPICE PUDDING. One-half cupful of granulated sugar, half a cup of butter, one cupful of mo lasses, two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon and one of cloves, one cup of boiling water, in which has been dissolved a teaspoonful of baking powder. Beat well together, then add two cupfuls of flour, and, lastly, four well-beaten eggs. Steam, and when done serve with an egg sauce. MAPLE CUSTARDS. Beat five eggs until a spoonful can ne lifted without stringing. Add one half cup of maple syrup, a saltspoonful of salt, stir well, then add three. cups of milk and strain into a mould or in dividual cups. Wet the inside of the cups with cold water. The hot water in the pan in which the custards are set to bake should not boil after baking is begun. APPLE SHORTCAKES. Make a paste as follows: Sift four cupfuls of pastry flour and four tea spoonfuls of baking powder together very thoroughly with two tablespoon fuls of powdered sugar and a half teaspoonful of salt. With the finger tips work in a' cup of b~utter and two cups of milk. Roll out lightly without touching it more than is necessary. Bae fifteen minutes in a moderately hot oven. When done, cut into indi vidual sizes with a biscuit cutter, split, butter and spread each piece with a strained apple sauce and serve with whipped cream. These are v'ery delic ious also when made with preserves or any fresh crushed fruit. 'Hinik or H5usew To clean fiat-Irons rub them on greea cedar. Clean your cooking utensils with t. piece of soft red brick. Wash your stove with vinogar before polishing, and mark the result. Brown paper moistened in vinegar will polish your tins until they shine like silver. Rub a drop of olive oil on your knives and forks before putting away, and they will retain their brightness and be free from rust. To remove grease spilled on a kitchen hearth-procure a piece of new roughi hearthstone and rub vigorously. and the grease will disappear as if by magic. A tablespoonful of vinegar added to each pint of water makes a capital' preservative for chrysanthemums. The stens of the flow2rs should be clipped ach morning. Clean brass with powdered bath brick and a damp flannel and after ward polish with dry brick dust and a; leather. This is the cheapest brass pol ish and quite effectual. A jug mop made by nailing a dozen little bits of linen or cotton rag on the pont of a stick, is a great help in' washing jugs which are tco small for the hand to be inserted. To prevent wooden bowls from cracking, immerse them in cold water, then set over the fre, bring to the boil ing p)oint, and let boil for an hour, and don't take them out until the water has gradually cooled. Paint spots on g!ass can be removed by moistening with a strong solution of soda-the common kitchen variety. This will rof ten thcm, when they can be rubbed off. and the glass should then be rubbed wit'i alcoho!. A soothing &.T'k for a sore thiroat that is recom:nended,. is made of a pin of arley water brought to a boil over a hot Ere, to whichi is added, while stirrin~ vntil dissolved. one ounce of the ocst gun a-:able. Sweeten to taste. ''o clean the ivory handles of knives. nr.ix ammonIia and olive oil in equal .nars. and add enough prepared chalk Ito make a paste. Rub the ivory witti Ithis, and let dry before brushing off. Sevral applications may be necessary. Stains made by dipping candle grease (and such ugly things are the penalty one pays for these ornamental adjuncts to the dinner table) may be removed by placing a piece of blotting paper over the spots and pressing with a hot iron. This aplies to stains in fabrics. Her Thoroughness. "Now, there was my aunt Philenda Pine." ruminatingly remarked the Old Codger. "She was such a carerul, painstaking woman, with a nice little knot of hair like a horse-chestnut on e back of her head, that when little Oscar had the measles she counted 'em.-Puck. The Best Man. God has the best place for the best man. althiough men cannot always see Ithis until the work is tinished.-H*. J.