Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\ . TH-: STOPPING O" THE CLOCK. falls the instantaneous calm, The sudden silence in niv clumber small; J, starting, lift my head in halt alarm? The clock has stopped? that's all. ' The c-ock has stopped. Yet why have T ^ so found * j\ii liiM.uu u'ennjj aiiiiosi iikc uisuuo . Why no.e its silence sooner than its sound? For i: has ticked all day. s So many iives beside my own go on. And Mich companionship unheeded keep; <jtompar.imship scarce recognized till gone, And !ost m sudden deep. And so the blessings Heaven daily grants Are in their very commonness forgot: We little heed what answererh our wants, I'nii". it answers not. A strangeness falleth nn familiar ways, As it some pulse were gene beyond re call? Somethmz unthousht of linked with all our days? Some clock has stopped?that's all. -George H. Coonier, an Youth's Com panion. O U 0\JUO iM * hHI?? THE ?20,000 DIAMOND STARED in astouishmont at the exquisite diamond glittering in my chief's hand. I could scarce ly believe that I was to nave the Lonor of bearing it to its destination. "But it is perfectly true." averred "Mr. Gilroy, bead of the firm of emin ent Loudon jewelers. ''Let me tell you. Mr. Johnson, that you have won our confidence. Yes, sir. we trust you impiicitlv. You don't suppose that we should let you have charge of a twenty thousand pound stone if we didu't. eh? 4\:ow all vou have to do is to deliver safely into the bands of Silas P. Silsbury. the New York raillionarie. If yoi: fail?but, pshaw! we will not think of such a thiug." Then be took from his escritoire a leathern belt, which had a specially constructed pocket in the centre. Into tlii.s pocket he thrust the diamond, af ter having wrapped it round and round with wasbleather. Locking the pocket lie placed the key in ray baud, saying: "For the preseut I will fasten the b?!t outside your vest, and your coat anu utercuui \%m piuicn n. uut v*ucu you get home place it beneath your vest, and do not let it leave you night or day." The clock was striking G as I reached the street. I occupied myself for some time making sundry purchases, <imong them being a revolver, which I sincerely hoped I should have no occa sion to use. I had a bag with me, and into this I packed my purchases. It was getting on for S o'clock when I had finished shopping, and. jumping nn q Ri)fto?coa 'hue T ?nrp mvsplf lin to thoughts of my fiancee, to -whose homo I was now journeying. I was going to tell her about the jewel, and her only. Mary Hampden was a girl of whom tiny man might be proud, and I counted the winning of her as the most blessed circumstance in my life. Mary was busily engaged sewing when I was shown into her presence, but when she saw me she hastily put down her work and rose to her feet nr? ATnln tvift + Jam /\f rilnn t>ll KA AVfl w i ai uu CALiaiiinnuu vi [/ivaouiv. ?? v had exchanged but a few words when, with a woman's quick intuition, she said: "Something lias happened, Tom?" "You a.-e not at fault. Mary," I said. "But that which has happened is so wonderful that I scarcely think you iwiU be able to credit it when I tell it to you." ' Then don't keep me waiting long." she said, with a laugh. i did not keep her waiting long. She listened attentively to all I had to say, and when I had finished, she said: "May I see the jewel, dear?" I said "Yes," and withdrawing it from its receptacle handed it to her. She unfolded the leather and gazed Innt rind earnestlr at the clitterinsr thing. then she slowly recovered it and restored it to me with an air of such evident reluctance that I had much difficulty in repressing a smile. What have you in that bag, Tom?" she inquired, as I rose to depart. "All sorts," I answered, carelessly. "A. revolver, for one thiug!" Her face paleil. "Is it necessary to take it?" she asked. "Well, there's nothing like heing pre pared for emergencies." I said. "Heaven grant that you may never have any occasion to use it. Torn'." So we parted, Mary forciug a stnile. -jpHjeit her face was still pale and her / eyes anxious. J .Soon I was on the outside pavement, underneath the silent stars, and the <?oo! night wind was Wowiug on my face. While passing through the hall I had noticed that the clock registered 10.15. My chief thoughts were ol Mary. Our interview bail made a great im pression on my mind, and every word she had spoken wasindelibly impressed 011 my memory, every expression her face had worn was fresh before my eyes. For her sake, no less than mv own. I hoped to be successful in my errand. I had reached a lonely part of ray way. when, suddenly, a dark figure sprang up on either side of me: a third appeared at my back. Before I had time to dart forward, or even to utter a cry. my arms were piuioned and a hand was thrust over my mouth. Striiu'c'e I did. desperately, but my strength was unavailing, pitted against - T r Xlif SUtl.mil Ul IUICV. 1 \)dj UlUUgUl to the ground and held fast down. "The bag! Where is the bag?" cried one of my assailants in eager tones. My hopes rose, but were quickly dashed. "Fool!" said another voice. I started. fit was the voice of Hamiltou, ray fel low clerk. I had always thought he was a bad lot. "Fool! there's nothing of any value in the bag. He's got the stone in a belt round his waist. Turn him over and we'll soon relieve him of jt. Got it? That's good. Now tie his hands and feet." While this was being done Hamilton coolly surveyed me, a sneer on his lips. "You're a nice man to carry valua bles." he said. "I guess you're curious to know how I got wind of the affair. You may not know that from the dis used room over our otiice it is possible to hear all that goes on iu the govern or's sanctum. I hnppeueil to be there this afternoon, and 1 overheard a cei 1 tain interesting conversation. Well, ta-ta! Bear my distinguished regards to old Qilroy. Tell Liim I'm sorry I cannot present tliem in person. You'll -be able to explain why." His observations were cut short by j the sound of approaching footsteps. A i whispered conversation took place among my captors, after which they took to their heels. Very soon a man of the artisan class', attracted by my cries, was bending over me. unloosening my hands. This occupied some time, and. when I was freed the robbers had got clear away. nioffvnpo luimilioHnn .mil rnin sf".1 rrt 1 me in the face. My heart was like lead. In my store trouble my thoughts flew to Mary, and I felt that I must tell her first of my misfortune. I retraced my steps to her abode, not thinking how late the hour was. When I was ush ered iuto her presence I sank into a chair and buried my face in my hands. ' I've lost it!" I cried. "Mary. I have been ro.bbed. The precious diamond has been stolen; do you hear?stolen!" "Impossible!" slie cried. ' Yes. it's only too true." I said, hoarsely. "Three men waylaid me as I was going from here. They knocked me down and took my belt. I don't know -vhat I shall do. Mary." She fell cn her knees and clasped my hands. "Tom." she said, "the diamond wasn't in the belt!" * Wh<it Mn vou m9an?" I asked in bewilderment. "Why, just this." she replied. "You remember me having the diamond in my band and admiring it so? Well, precisely at that moment something within me urged me to take the stone in jest. I couldn't resist the impulse, but now I know it was a special inter vention of provideuee. I had been sew ing. you know, and my silver thimble was on my finger, which happened to be about the size of the diamond. It was the easiest thiug iu the world for j me to wrap it in tfie washleather. i Don't you remember having compli- I mented me on my skill at sleight of hand?" How shall I describe my feelings. I tried my utmost to expresc my thank fulness to Mary, but slie put her hand on my mouth. "Be sure ua one robs you a second time." said my fiancee, with a irerry I laugh. I took good care that no one did. Of ! course, when I returned from New 1 York I made Mary a present of a new thimble.?New York News. DISCRIMINATES AGAINST HENS. Iowa's Legialatare X'ropogos a Standard Welcht For Eggs* xnere are a goou muuy iueus i-umiug i out of Iowa just now, and most of j them are at least food for reflection, i For instance. Iowa does not send drunks to jail, but to asyluihs, where they are treated. The Governor of Iowa is not -inly a renegade protection ist. but is now calling Senator Elkius hard names. The letters passing be tween these two worthy gentlemen are a joy to the public, even if reputation? suffer. The new Iowa idea, however, has far more reaching consequences. A law has been introduced into the Legis lature requiring a dozen eggs to weigh twenty-four ouncesr under pains and penalties therefore provided. This j makes socialism look like a conscieu- | tious principle by comparison. How, I we ask, is any law to be enforced sub- | jectively ou tlie hen? Must the hen i laying eggs less than two ouaces each be reduced to dressed poultr? by man- j date of the law. Is it possible to edu- | cate the tireless hen up to a standard of weights and measures? Is it fair to place all hens on the same basis? Must the Cochin-china escape from no i virtue of her own but s;ze, while the j industrious bantam is made to suffer? We protest that this is carrying the law* t/\n fnr Last year there w?re raised in this j country more than 12,000,000,000 eggs. The value of eggs and poultry exceeded that of all the gold and silver and iron dug up from the bo-.vels of the United States. That was a magnificent showing for the hen, and her moral qualities seem equal to lier industry. When warm weather set in, did the hen take advantage of what is com monly accorded others, a vacation? Did she collectively say when winter came, we are not expected to work at this season and w^ will not, even though it be propitious? Not at all. The hen kept steadily at business, with the re sult that eacs have never been so cheap in winter time, and the public has feasted on them. Under euch circumstances, an effort to impose upon the ben by raising the standard of the size of her product is not only immoral, but it is injudicious. If the lien is pressed too far she may go on strike and lay no eggs at all. Then what will become of the Iowa Legislature? We think the solons of ' the Gopher State had better confine their efforts to making two cornstalks grow where there is now one, ratherj than undertaking to tamper with the; prerogative of the hen to lay eggs ac-i cording to the dictates of her own con- ! science.?Philadelphia Inquirer. Must Have Experience. Tlip snort of hnntiner. whether it be a trip to a remote wilderness in pursuit of big game, or au afternoon's quail' shooting -u the home farm, is au expe rience of so many varied and complex elements, that no one of its constituent phases may lightly.be singled out as that which always constitutes the at traction, the enjoyment o. the pleasur able recollection. For t bis reason no one who has not himself been a field sportsman can write of field sports in-i telligently, or concerning them express views based ou an information which j would give nis views luiumg'.-uLc vi| iuiportauee. What some of the writers i of the day vrho denounce sport and I sportsmen actually know about the j tilings and the men they discourse u|k?u amounts to about as mu U as the old writer on witchcraft actually knew about the simple and ino?fencive girls and old womeu they denounced as witches.?Forest and Stream. Partitions of .Japanese Houses. Most of tbe Japanese dwellings have I but one floor. Portable partitions di vide the floor into as many apartments fas are necessary. These partitions are ! arranged in panels about three feet square. The panels are so contrived as : to be closed with framed paper shut I ters, which slide in grooves. "OLD IR< The U. 8. S. "Constitution," now at tl Tlio Upper Picture Shows Wheel aud B i 18 1 SCISSOR^ SHARPENER. It is important in sharpening a pair of scissors that the angle at the cut ting edge of the blade be uniform throughout. Thi* is easily accotn plishad by the scissors sharpener illus trated below, patented by a Pennsylva nia n. In this device the sharpener is drawn back and forth along the blades of the scissors, and the construction is such that an excellent bearing of the shank of the sharpener against the side of the blade is assured. The sharpener pro per consists of a file, which is made in conjunction with a holder, the device fitting over the blade of the scissors. The file is then in a position to give the edge of the blade of the scissors the proper angle, and as a large majority of those called upon to use the shears mil cnlccnrc nm nf Hir? f?mnlr? HPT. n 11(1 as they are not particularly skilled in the sharpening of scissors, this feature is importaut. To facilitate the use of the sharpeners the "point of the blade of the scissors is forced into a conven ient piece of woodwork and the handle of the blade grasped firmly, when the operator can exert considerable press ure to hold the blade firmly in one po sition while rubbing the sharpener back and forth over the blade. It fre quently happens that the screw upou which (he blades of the scissors are pivoted becomes loosened, in which ivent the screw driver extension is c. very convenient adjunct to the sharp 2uing device.?Philadelphia Record. A Darin? Bxperiment. We have decided that "boose and business" is a bad mixture, and will just try plain business for a short spell. If this doesn't work well we may decide to cut out business and try ooozc. xiiis uecisiou was leutuKu | afteq. a very forcible argument "witli? our uevoteU spouse, who warned us in no uncertain language that we would lit' using some of that hair restorer on our topmost point unless we wiped it off our list altogether. As it would be | a sin to waste the precious fluid in | this manner we have cut it out. Boys, I be warned and don't tempt us, for we will be compelled to murder in cold blood the first one who flashes a bottle of tincture conflirtum in our presence. ?Coweta (I. T.) Courier. Not All Hoitelcns. "When you know a man is a devotee I of golf." said the enthusiastic golfer, | "you can be absolutely certain of his [ mental calibre, and be assured " "Oh, come, I wouldn't say that," re ! plied the plain man "I don't douhc that some men play golf who are reaily quite sensible."?Stray Stories. BUBBLES BLOWN BY MACHINE Among recent inventions is a toy which makes soap bubbles in a very ror*Makiug Soap Bubbles. pipe being combined into oue article. l?he cup is made of slieet metal or 3NSIDE S." le Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown. nnacle Captured From the "Java" in DOOR ALARM. Traveling salesmen especially do not always find locks on the doors of the rooms to which they are assigned, and the srnaU portable alarm bell shown here would be invaluable i.a such in stances. It can be used temporarily or permanently, and can be convenient ly carneu iu a traveling uag. it cau ue attached iu an instant's time to the shank of the door knob, the parts being so combined and arranged that oscil lation of the door knob iu either direc tion will cause the bell to ring. The bell is of the ordinary bicycle bell pat tern, and is operated in a novel way by a push pin, the releasipg of a spring ringing the bell. The bell is supported on a strip of metal, at the end, of which is a clamp, the latter fitting on the handle of a door knob. Sliding on this strip of metal^ is a corresponding strip, having at tlie top the pushpin, the head of the clamp engaging with the lower end of the sliding strip. The device is first clamped to the door knob, and as 9000 as the latter is oscillated iu either direction the knob and clamp forces the sliding strip upward, releasing the spring operating the bell. If a spring bell is used the bell will, of course, contiaue to ring until the spring is run down or until the knob is returned to its normal posi tion.?Philadelphia Record. -'W Rings Automatically. weight of the boll will cause the bell to swing as far as it can go in that direction, the head of the clamp form ing a pivot. The turning of the door Imitation Jewclrv. , "Never have I known such a craze for imitation jewelry as now," was the remark of the manager of one of tliq big department stores, and it only needs a glance to see that in a store wuere tne crowds are greatest rue imi tation jewelry lies. "We can't supply the demand," went on the manager, "and I know it is tiie case not alone with us, but even more so with those firms ay ho make a spe cialty of selling it alone. "Jewelers who have for years been in the business have told me that their trade has suffered greatly from this cause. Such art and skill have eutrred into its manufacture that in many cases it can't he told from the real, and very frequently women who can afford better things purchase the cheaper sort when some article is seen to be a pass ing fad. That many of the wealthy women in society have duplicates of their handsome jewelry we all know." ?Philadelphia Telegraph. oiher suitable metal, preferably of such material ns will n<if break rendilv. On the- top of the cup is a removable cover, flanged so as to fit on the top. The pipe is fitted horizontally through the cup near the top, being tightly fitted in perforations, so as not to leak, and projecting at each side of the cup, one end holding the mouthpiece and the other end merging in the small end of a funnel. Witliiu the cup a slight aperture is cut into the tube of the pipe for suction of the soapy water by blow ing through the lube from the mouth- > piece. The cup is shaken or jerked | slightly before blowing to throw a wave of water onto the lube. There is thus deposited a slight tilin to be taken up by the air jet and carried along into the funnel, where it devel ops iuto bubbles in the usual way. The soap solution can be prepared before charging the cup or the cup can b-? charged with plain water and a small piece of soap for dissolving gradually in (he water.?Philadelphia Record. The United States Pharmacopoeia is being translated into Spanish by the Society of Fbaruiacists in Cuba. STRANGE BELIEFS OF OLD ECYPT Influence! of Magic and Ancient Idea* Concerning: Hetren and Hell. No nation in the world devoted so much attention to the subject of the future life as the ancient Egyptians, and yet, strangely enough, with so little effe.ot upon their daily life in this world. It had, however, no mor bid effect upon him. for. uulike any other nation of antiquity, the Egyptian had fully convinced himself that his life was but the ante-chamber to 'a "life of eternity and everlastingness." Egypt was essentially the land of magic, and fully justified the Talmudic saying that "when magic was created out of ten parts, nine were assigned to Egypt." It is in magic that we And the whole key to the Egyptian idea of heaven and hell. The greatest work on the future state was that known as the "Book of the Dead"?a marvelous compendium of magic, religion and folklore. Its hPErinninsr is lost in the dark regions of the prehistoric age, for there is now no doubt that it had taken definite literary form long before the fourth dyuasty, B. C. 3700, and was old by the time of the sixth, some centuries later. The Egyptian's ideas of future life were the outcome of his magical belief that everything material or immaterial had its immortal double. The land it self, the Nile, the chief religious cities, the king and the people, all hpd their doubles iu the next world. Out of this grew the idea of a life in the nni?fh in thn ITInMc of fH> There can be no doubt that this region of the blessed was regarded by the ear^y Egyptians, and, indeed, for a long time by the common people, not as a celestial region, but as situated in the fertile and well-watered regions Of the Nile delta in the northwest of Egypt, where the blessed ever breathed the cool north wind. [ Here he lived an ideal form of his life upon earth. He plowed his fields and grew the grain which sup plied him with "bread that grew not stale and beer that never oecame sour." Here wag situated the dupli cate of his early town or village, and heaven would, indeed, be a borne to him. The belief in ancestor worship, no doubt, was an important element in the religion of the Egyptians?but would the deceased meet and be recog nized by those who had preceded him? On this point Dr. Budge described how the deceased meets and is recog nized by all who are near and dear to him. As he truly remarks, it is an exact picture of the return of a long-absent wanderer to Lis native village, such as may be seen any day in the Nile valley. It explains, also, the reason why a feature of the family and social rectitude of the dead. Thus the ex pression: "I was one reverent to my father, favored of my mother, devoted to my brothers and sisters and united in heart with the people of my town." The underworld was a region of fire, [ lakes of Are, rivers of fire,' and the damned were treated as captives, bound, beheaded, and each day brought forth to life to undergo fresh torture. Space will not permit us to deal with this subject here, but in these terrible pictures we have no doubt, the source from which the early Christian writers drew their vivid descriptions of the torture of the wicked.?London Globe. Fatalities of Railways. Commissioners, appointed by the* Prussian Government to study Amer ican railway systems, have published report. They find: 1. American railroads kill sis times [ as many passengers as the German railways. 2. American railroads -wound twenty nine times as many passengers as the German railways. . 3. American passenger rates aver age 2.02 cents per mile; German rates average 0.9S cents per mile. 4. American freight rates average 0.78 cents per mile; German, 1.3G cents per mile. But comparison of freight rates is not on identical basis, because Ameri can companies include their own freightage and goods shipped by ex press. The German companies report only pay freight. If all co?ts were considered, the Prussian commission ers claim that their average would be 0.95. Whale* lu a Panic. Puring the homeward voyage the Mariposa, from Tahiti, ran through a school of sperm whales. Half a hun dred were counted. As the Mariposa was passing half a dozeu thrashers appeared among the "whales aud the people on the liner witnessed the most wonderful rough-house any of them had ever seen. The whales were vi-IHi nanin 'Pliotr tllO S IT IA C U. ?? Uli ['luiu, JL. J >/v??v waters into a white froth for acres around. There were battles between thrashers and whales aud masterly retreats, which called to mind Russian naval tactics. Now and then two terror-stricken leviathans would meet in collision with a crash like stage thunder. Captain Lawless, who has traveled as many seas as the oldest and most active of whales, declares that ho never saw so much blubber at one time in his Hie.?San Francisco Call. Women Are Illogical. Professor Starr, the famous ethnol- ] ogist, was in his humorous aud whim sical way accusing womau of barbar ism, according to the Chicago Chron icle. "And she is not only barbarous she is illogical aud inconsistent!" he exclaimed. "I was walking in the country one j day with a youug woman In a grove ?. imnn a Iwv nhmif tn shin I ' tauic u^vu m. ^ ? . ? up a tree. There was a uesi in tlie | tree, aud from a eertaiu angle it was I ' possible to see iu it three eggs. " 'You wicked little boy.' said my I '' companion, "are ;ou goiug up there 1 to rob that nest?' " 'I am,' tlie boy replied coolly. "'How can you?' she exclaimed. 1 'Think how the mother will grieve over ' the loss of her eggs.' 1 " 'Oh, she won't care,' said the boy. I 'She s up there iu your tat.' " 1 ( Oscar II. King of Sweden, was born < January 21, 1821). The royal family ! conies from Napoleon's Marshal Berna dotte, a Frenchman, who was elected I heir apparent to the crown of Swedeu iu 1810, and became King iu 1818. Household {patters. How to DUlnfert a Room. Get a large-size metal bath, and partly Jill with water. Partly fill a pail with water, and stand iu tlie batb. On the pail place an old metal tray; and see that it stands firmly. On the Liiij put two ul iiJieir puuuuo ui powdered sulphur moistened Avitli methylated spirit. Have all apertjires, save your door of exit, closely sliut, and all their crevices (stopped. Set tire to the sulphur. When you have quitted the room at tend to the door. Open twelve hours later. Although this reads very sim ply, the matter is not so satisfactory as might be supposed. Wall papers, and not seldom colored fabrics are damaged by the fumes. The writer's opinion is that fumigation for cloth ing, etc., is a mistake. Even dry air fails because it does not penetrate properly, says Home Notes. Boiling, or treating by 'superheated steam will always give good results. Kitchen Help*. A kitchen convenience which is not present in every household is a pair of sharp scissors. Scissors are used to trim lamp wicks?which is wrong? and cut nanurs and string; but seldom for trimming bacon and liam rinds, skinning and trimming salads. These are proper uses for the scissors, and the use of them saves much labor. Every housewife should cultivate the habit of five-minute naps. After working hard a few hours -a woman is apt to feel sleepy or "dragged out," and imagines that it is only that or dinary sin of the flesh?laziness. But if she gives in to tbe feeling and rests for a shpct time on a comfortable lounge she will feel wonderfully fresh ened and will do better and quicker work than if she had foregfue her catnap. Green food is almost indispensable to canary birds, but if lettuce is scarce a good substitute may be had by planting a little of their favorite seed in small flower pots and allowing it to grow. iv a rm Corva Pnffua Various are the ways of serving cof fee, and the beverage is reaily seri ously affected in taste by the way the cream or milk and sugar are added to it. The English way is to pour iuto the cup simultaneously coffee and hot milk. This kind of coffee is said to make the least demands on the diges tion. The French prefer cafe au lait at the morning meal aud black cof fee at other meals. Cafe au lait is sometimes made by adding hot milk to plain coffee, but is better when made as follows: Place in an earthen or granite ware pot a quart of milk and let it heat almost to boil ing. Then add four tablespoonfuls of freshly ground coffee. Shuffle the pot back and forth on the stove until the cafe comes to a boil. Let it rest five minutes before serving. This also is fairly innocuous, but what is to be said for Cuban coffee, which is delicious, at Jeast. The coffee is made extra strong, much too strong for health, and is served with the cup half full of rich\ est cream. t .ft*--' Do Yon'Know-* That cake may be kept fresh by put ting a fresh apple in the cake box. That any kind of canned fish should be put into a colander a few hours before it is used and boiling water poured over it. That if soup is too salty several slices of raw potato Should be added. Boil a few minutes logger when the potato will be absorbed with the salt, says the New York Mail. Thnt- pr.if>u-pd eersrs mav be boiled if a spoonful of vinegar is added to the water. That if lettuce leaves that have just been washed are dropped into a bag made of old table linen the moisture will be immediately absorbed if the lettuce is shaken about. That mashed potatoes are very much improved if bits of green pepper are worked into them. That the taste of boiled water may be improved if it is thoroughly beaten up with a a egg beater. That the bread 'box will be in a much better condition if it is lined with j heavy manila paper that is changed ! twice a week. The bread keeps much longer, without any possibility of mold ing. ^frr>orffciTKn\G5 5 tMNP rrov TO - PREPARE* TlfEX to Eed Fruit Cookies?One cup chocolate raisins, one cup butter, three cups Hour, three eggs, one-half cup molasses, two-thirds cup sugar. May Blossom Cake?Beat to a cream three-quarters of a cup of butter, with one of sugar, add one-half cupful of sweet milk and two cupfuls of flour; then beat separately the yolks and j whites of teu eg>*s, and after beating thoroughly together add to the cake | mixture: stir in two teaspoonfuls of j baking powder and lastly a cupful of j blanched almonds. Cover with a white | icing and place almond meats on top i to suggest blossoms. Bread Pudding?One and one-half j slices of bread, one pint of milk, two I eggs, piece of butter ay large as Eng- I lish walnut. Sugar to taste. Salt and a little nutmeg. Hot Chocolate Sauce for Pudding?Boil one cup water and one-half cup sugar three minutes. Mix three teaspoons grated chocolate and sue teaspoon cornstarch with two thirds cup of milk. Stir in with sugar 1 in.l water. Boil until it thickens a lil-tir*. Lemon Pie?Oue cup sugar anil one large cooking spoon of Hour, mixed thoroughly. Then tdd juice and grat 3d riud of one large or two small ernons, one cup boiling water, small )iece butter and one whole egg and folks of two more. Stir all together md cook in double boiler (or over hot s\-ater) uulil thick. Bake crust first. Make a rich crust, prick with a fork ill over, every iuch; bake a nice jrown, turu in the filling nnd cover with meriugue made of whites of eggs. BITS I NEWS WASHINGTON. A trade-mark treaty between the United States and Roumania has beeit ordered favorably reported by the Sen ate Foreign Relations Committee. Congressman and airs. LongwortK arranged for their departure for Eng land on June 2. Hope of getting'Philippine tariff bill out of Senate committee during present, session has been abandoned. Howard University has chosen as president Rev. Wilbur P. Thirkfleld, of Atlanta. A bill providing for a delegate from Alaska in Congress was approved bjj the President. Secretary Shaw discussed with, the Senate Finance Committee a bill per mitting the Treasury Department to hold $100,000,000 in gold bullion, in stead of $50,000,000, as at present. The House Committee on Territories has approved the bill granting the Alaska Central Railway 800 acres of land and relieving it of the license tax of $100 a mile. The President sent to Congress the report of the International Waterways Commission on the Preservation of Ni agara Falls, recommendations being made for the restriction of the amount of water to be diverted for power pur poses. ' / OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. E. R. -Stackable. Collector of Cus toms at Honolulu, Hawaii, has sailed on a six months' leave of absence, dur ing which he will act as agent for the. Territorial Board of Immigration and visit the Azores and Italy to secure Im migrants to supply the demand for la- -1 bor. Felipe Cuevas, Collector of Custom* at Mayaguez, Porto Rico, was drowned. He was a prominent politician and ft ,'i great admirer of American institution?. During the Spanish regime be was per secuted for bis Americanism and foe opposing the Government i The presence of numerous Japanese % in the Philippines in the character of peddlers, who are said to be exploring < various towns and making maps of the cohutry, enrages the people of the prov inces. Sugar supplies four-fifths of the an nual value of shipments from Porte Rico to .he United States, and in the fiscal year 1905, including molasses, was valued at $12,176,861, against $1?- . 454,213 in 1895. A band of Salvadors, long-haired re- ^ vs ligious fanatics, known as "Fuzzy Wuzzies," looted the town of Malasita* , in the province of Pangasinan, P. I. H. B. Dunbar, a hotel man, will erect a hotel to cost half a million dollars at Manila, P. I. DUMJUSTJ.U. . The northeast wing of the Chicago City Hall has been ordered abandoned as unsafe. The Methodist Episcopal Church South is considering a new statement of doctrinal faith. Josephine Terranova, the seventeen year-old bride who stabbed to death her uncle and aunt that ruined her,' was put on trial in New York City foe the murder of the aunt Miss Clara Reckers, twenty years old, died at Richmond, Ind., of poison ing, as a result of eating spinach and strawberry shortcake and cream. D. M. Parry, retiring president of the National Association of Manufac turers, defended the United States Sen ate and the Federal courts virtually against the^ President v OrtninHoto liotro nnminntad ? (X\aiiOaO All* ? V r-nri 1~ i . , . , full' State ticket, headed by Harry Gil man, of Oswego, for Governor. The South Carolina Bankers' Asso ciation favors a law for an auditing commission to examine the accounts , and transactions of all corporations in the State. Efforts will be made to continue the Traders' Fire Insurance Company, of Chicago, which lost heavily in the San1 Francisco calamity, by assessing the stockholders. All liquor licenses in San Francisco have been revoked. Rear-Admiral Robley D. Evans, in ? report to the Navy Department, fay* ored Sunday baseball for his sailors. A committee of 1he New York Bar Association took testimony as to Davifl B. Hill's connection with the Equitable Life as its -counsel under a retainer of $5000 a year. He said ins reiauon?. with the society were purely legal. FOREIGN. Thousands of Zulus are reported oq the way to join the forces of the rebeli Hous chief, Bombaata. A colonial force is endeavoring to prevent th? junction. German troops are reported to havd pursued the rebel Marengo into Brltisli territory, and the Cape government hai entered a formal protest. Professor Mouromtseff, president ol , the Russian Parliament, was received In audience by the Emperor. A motion of the labor party In th$ Russian Parliament to demand immei diate amnesty from the Emperor .wad with difficulty defeated. Baron Iswolsky left Copenhagen t<t become Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Count Witte supported a demand fo* amnesty of political prisoners, whicli was incorporated in tlie reply to the Czar's address. i The president of the British Cotton Growers' Association said that large imports had been engaged in Westf Africa, which would soon, he believed, supply all the cotton needed for the Lancashire mills. Although Count Boni de Castellane was elected to the French Chamber of Deputies from the Department of the Lower Alps, his majority was so small *,w> noqinef' him runs hich.1 IIJU L IUC ICCIlUg USU - _ ? and many charges of fraud are being made. After prolonged negotiations the copyright convention with the United States was signed at Tokio, Japan. In n dispatch from Tokio to the Lon don DaiJy Telegraph it is asserted that China is about to bring off a coup* d'etat with regard to the organization of all the railways in the empire. at,, p-ani-iro w .Timpnez. in an inter view, says the Atnadot government in Panama is determined to retain power and a revolution is expected. There ?vas au imposing demonstra tion by British troops at Alexandria, Egypt, to allay uurest caused by the Tabah incideut. First prize for the plan of the Peace Palace at The Hague has been award ed to L. M. Cordonnier, of Lille, a fa mous architect. According to the Hawaii Shinpo, of Honolulu, a prominent daily Japanese paper, only GO,540 Japanese are now resident in Hawaii. Our census o? 1000 put the figures at 70,000,