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'Decision Against tl j Killing of Sen. Cai ! In the Penitenti i Nashville, Tenn., Special.-Guilty of murder in the second degree-pun ishment 20 years' imprisonment-this was the unexpected verdict rendered by the .ury agalasi Col. Duncan B. Cooper and Robin J. Cooper when the ?jourt opened Saturday. The jury Fri day acquitted John D. Sharp, indicted .?with the Coopers for the slaying of . former ?- S. Senator Edward W. Car mack. Rush to Sign Bond. Although Judge Hart fixed the bond at $25,000 there was a rush to sign it on the part of wealthy citizens of Nashville which fairly swamped the clerk,.of*th?.?riminal court. ' "The first to arrive was John J. Greener, who signed for $10,00 on each bond. Several others had been Bent for and telephoned that they would come as quickly, as automobiles would, bring them. . In a few moments ?Walter O. P?rmer arrived and signed for the balance. "I will sign for a million for these men, ' ' he remarked. Iii vain the clerk protested over and over again that more than enough sureties had signed but the invariable answer was "We want to put'our name on that bond too." It seemed as though every friend of the Coopers considered it incumbent upon him to sign the bond. When there was no more room for names at the foot of the document the new bondsment en dorsed across the face until it was difficult to decipher the signatures. When filed the bond totaled nearly a million and a half. The Jury's Verdict. At 9:25 the 12 men entered the room and took the same seats they ?ad occupied for nearly 9 weeks. "Have you agreed upon a verdict, gentlement?" said Judge Hart. "We have," replied Foreman E. M. Burke hoarsely. "Advance, Mr. Foreman, and read the verdict." "We, the jury, find the defendants Duncan B. Cooper and Robin, J. Cooper guilty of murder in the second degree and assess their punishment at confinement in the State penitentiary for a period of twenty years." "So say you all, gentlement?" "So say we all," in chorus. "I* thank you, gentlement, " said the court, "for your patience and de votion to the State, and. dismiss you to your homes and to your personal vocations. The jurors were tired-looking and disheveled, but-with the conclusion! of this remark the entire 12 sprang from their seats as one man and hur riedly left the court room. UNITED STATES CENSUS REP* .Washington, Special. - Running bales of cotton numbering 13,40S,S41, of average gross* weight 'of 505 pounds/ all equivalent to 13,563,942 500-pound bales, with 27,587 ginner ies operating, was the final report of the census bureau Saturday on the Cotton crop grown in 190S. The report included 344,970 linters and counts round as half bales. The final 1907 crop report was 11,325,8S2 bales, equivalent to 11,375,461 500 pound bales with 27,597 ginneries operating. Included in the 190S figures are 93, 085 bales, which the ginners estimate ed they would turn out after the time of the March cunvass. Round bales in the report are 340, THE HOUSE PASSES AMENDEIC Washington, Special.-In its emend ed form the House took Thursday for consideration the bill providing, for, the taking of the next census. The Dill was passed at the last session, but was vetoed by the President be cause of hiis projections to the prg^ visions which took away from fha Civil Service Commission the power of appointment of the clerks. An amendment by Mr. Sterling (Dis.) . DECLARE ALCOHOL U Washington, Special. - Alcohol practicality has no therapeutic uses, judging from the discussion at the semi-annual meeting here Thursday of the American Society for the Study of Alcohol and Other Drug Narcotics. Some of the medical scientists contended that alcohol has no therapeutic uses; others that on the whole it has few such uses, while another declared that alcohol grad ually is being eliminated as a drug. Papers were read by Drs. Henry O. Marcy, of Boston, honoarary presi dent of the society, entitled, "A LYNCHED AT ELKINS, W. VA, E3kins, W. Va., Special.-^Joseph Brown, said to have been ?an ex-con vict, who Thursday evening shot and seriously wounded Chief of Police Scott White, at Whitmere, near here, was taken from jail by a crowd of -laen at 1:30 Friday morning and lynched. Brown was hanged upon a telegraph pole. Thursday evening White, who is a son of Wayor Wash - irani on White, of Whitemere. remon ARGUMENTS BEGUN IN LYENS Jesup, Gs., Special.-Argumentan .were begun Friday in the trial of former Sheriff W. 3. Lyens and his J son, Archie, eharged with the murder | of Fleming Smith. The court room '. was crowded with spectators until. a < late hour Friday night, when court : adonrned until 9 o'clock Friday morang. The ex-sheriff made his first statement Friday. On the wit ness stand be said that he and Archie bad been asked by Smith whether they wished to make any purchases in ????????MWMM?.C.^ ie Two Coopers for rmack---20 Years ary the Penalty. Verdict a Surji?se. The verdict, coming as it did upon the heels of Foreman Burke's dec? laration Friday that "we are hope lessly tied ap as to the Coopers," was a decided surprise. The defendants took it colly-almost without emotion. In a second after Judge Hart ceased dismissing the jurors, Judge Ander son, of the defense, was on his feet exclaiming: . "Your honor; we move that the case be declared a mistrial because of the verdict Friday =we con tend that Friday's verdict was the only one, and that it acquitted John Sharp but declared a disagreement on the other defendants. "We also ask that the defendants be admitted to bond at once." A Bailable Case. "The verdict of the jury makes it a bailable case," was the court's re tort. 'Hence I will fix the bond of each defendant at $25,000 unless there be some objection. In that event I will hear arguments." "It is satisfactory toxus," said Attorney General McCarn. "And to us," re torted Judge Anderson. "There seems nothing left but for the court to pass sentence," added Judge JEart. "I do not think that necessary," said Judge Anderson. We move that judgment be suspended and that we be given a new trial. We will be pre pared to argue the motion later probably next week." "All right, judge," remarked the court. "I know you will not delay unnecessarily and I will take it up at your own convenience." How the Jury Voted. The, jurors were not inclined to talk but one of them said: "On the first ballot we acquitted John Sharp and disregarded the con spiracy theory. On this same ballot we stood six for guilty of murder in the first degree with mitigating cir cumstances, five for murder in the second degree with 20 years, the maximum penalty and one for ae quitttal. The ballots all day Wednes day and Thursday showed the same result. Friday,the man who voted for acquittal came over to murder in the second degree but demanded that only 10 ;?ears be assessed. The rest of us did not deem ten years as any thing like adequate, so we disagreed again. Of course, all this refers to the Coopers, not Sharp, whom we had acquitted. Early Saturday morning the man who was holding out for 10 years agreed to 20 years and the six who were voting for a first degree verdict agTeed to this verdict." 3RT ON THE COTTON CROP 450 bides. Sea island bales included are 93,848 for 1903 and 86,805 for 1907.' The crop by States, in running bales, including linters, follows: Alabama, 1,35S,339 bales; Arkan sas, 1,018,708 bales; Florida, 71,411 bales; Georgia, 2,022,828 bales; Kan sas, Kentucky and New Mexico (in cluding linters, of establishments in Illinois and Virginia) 5,054; Louis-, iana, 481,694 bales; Missessippi, 1, 660,695 bales; Missouri, 60,609 bales; North Carolina, 699,507 bales; Okla homa, 703,862 bales; South Carolina, 1,239,260 bales; Tennessee, 34S,582 bales; Texas, 3,719,189 bales; Vir ginia, 13,013 bales. rtt?S?S AND HEALTH BILLS was agreed to providing that the ap pointments shall be made in con formity with the law of apportion ment ' among the States under the civil service act. In order to prevent the spread of tuberculosis among government clerks, an amendment by Mr. Bennett (N. Y.) was agreed to, requiring that each census applicant furnish with his or her application a certificate o? good health. ? BEING ELIMINATED. Medical Study of the Temperance Movement in the South;" Howard A. Kelly, of Baltimore, on "The Alco holic Problem in Every-Day Life;" T. D. .Crothers, of Hartford, Conn., on "The Future of the Alcoholic Problem;" and W. B. Parks, of At lanta, Ga., on "Thc Effects of Al cohol on Temperament as it Relates to Race and Nationality." The night's session developed much in terest among the scientists as indi cating the necessity for laws relat ing to the care and protection of in ebriates. , f OR ASSAULTING OFFICER suated with Brown for using offen sive langage. Brown drew a revol ver and shot White and then took to the mountains. He was followed by a posse:; of citizens, - captured and placed in jail. Early Friday it seem ed that th? whole town was aroused and Brown was quietly taken out of the jail and hanged. Chief of Police White, it is believed, will recover. Brown is said to have served several tesms ol: imprisonment. MURDER TRIAL, JESUP, GA. the drug store where Smith was at work; that they had said no and were leaving when Smith asked: "Sheriff, Sid you come to see me to-night?" Lyeus testified ti at he replied, "No," and at the same instant turned to see Smith levelling a shotgun at him ; that he and Archie dropped to their knees, and he struck up the gun bar rel just as Smith fired. Then, said Lyons, he and Archie advanced to wards Smith, firing and attempting to get past Smith. THE ARMY OF TU -^-Cartoon by C. NEW YORK CITY'S IDLE ARMY 1 Startling Figures Furnished by1 * Not Due to Strikes-Va k> , Due to Depressi 110,000 unemployed men an ] York City. 2700 men have been discharge house before expiration of their s ?] sent In. j.j 900 willing heads of families, ii supported by the Association for t j' 1907 the number was 19. :? 850 able men, unable to get ;i in the last three months by City: :? 40,000 union men in New Yo ? their organizations for lack of fu "I $34,542,000 were withdrawn !) York State last year. 1-^ A man wiling to work and enable to find work is, perhaps, the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under the sun.-Thomas Carlyle. New York City.-Suppose a parade cf the unemployed in Greater New York should start from the Battery to-day. How far up-town do you sup pose its van would extend before the last man Wheeled Into line? The an swer vouched for by the noted charity labor workers of New York gives Central Park at least unanimously, or a distance of about six miles. Herman Robinson, general organ izer of the American Federation of Labor, states that at least forty per cent, of the members of the ?abor unions in New York City are unem ployed. The latest report of the State Department of Labor .gives the mem bership of labor unions in this city as 290,00(0. The present member ship should be well above 310,000, but inability to pay dues has caused more than 40,000 union men to lose their membership cards. 120,000 Idle Union Men. According to Mr. Robinson there would then be at least 120,000 union men out of work In New York City. Of homeless men and vagrants the number is, under ordinary conditions, about 30,000. From such meagre facts as may be collected the total number of New York's unemployed ls more than 200,000. Imagine such a host-enough to populate a city al most as large as Rochester. That the cause of the astonishing number out of work at the end of 1908 was not due to strikes or sick ness, but rather to tho depression Of business. It is represented by the following table: Idle on account of- 1908. 1907. 1906. Lack of work.195,000 20,710 5,799 Sickness, accident, old ase . 10,000 1,053 841 Other reasons . 2,000 2G6 6M4 A Stupendous Army. Never in the history of any great municipality has such a stupendous army of unemplos'ed been collected at ono time, according to the eco nomic statlsclans who have com piled the above figures, and others, for the Information of the l?glslators at Albany. The number of families applying for assistance to the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor for the last six months is fifty per cent, more than for the corresponding months of a year ago. In three months, November, December and January, 900 able-bodied men, will ing and anxious for work, came to this society for aid. The year pre vious only nineteen such requests were received. Savings banks In the poorer section of the city report extraordinary drafts in recent months. The actu ary of one of the largest insurance companies says: Raise Cash on Policies. "As compared with the season of 1907-1908, the loans for the season of 1908-1909 have Increased thus far over seventy per cent., while the num ber of lapsed policies increased to more than fifty per cent. The above figures speak for themselves, and I prove conclusively that the holders of smaller policies are terribly af fected by the present h?*rd times." This condition is general among In Eieht, Months' Coal Supply One Company Has 2,500,000 Tons. Reading, Pa. - Figures computed here show that there ls'sufflcient an thracite coal on the surface to supply the trade for the next eight months . at least. It is said that the Reading Com pany has at least 2,500,000 tons of coal at Its storage yards lt Abrams, Landlngvllle and Mahanoy City, and that nearly a million more tons will be added by the ead ol March, If a strike does not interfere with the plans. The World of Sport. 4 Columbia defeated Yale at socker football by a score of 5 to 1. High powered automobiles are los ing favor in Europe, as well as Amer ica. C. L. Becker won the annual golf tournament of the Pinehurst ?N C.) club. West Point defeated Cornell and Columbia ia a fencing meet at West Point. Coach Conibear, of the University of Washington crews, wants an "American Henley" established on Lake Washington. IE . UMEW;PLsOYED> R. Macartey, in the; New York World. INCLUDES 120,000 HON MEN Organizer Herman Robinsonr ist Percentage of Cases on in Business. d women cannot secure work in ed from Blackwell's Island Work entences to make way for others unable to secure work, are being he Improvement of the Poor. In work, were sent to the Workhouse Magistrates on their own requests, rk State have been forced from nds to pay dues. from 138 savings banks in New Former Warden John M. Fox is au thority for the statement that a ma jority of the men imprisoned in the Workhouse - probably seventy-five per cent.-would never have been there could they have found employ ment. In this connection one magis trate said: "My experience is that there is more distress among the worthy poor now than at any tinie^ in the last twelve years. I have committed, chiefly at their own request, more de cent men this winter than I have sent there before in any five years of my term as magistrate." Distress Among Women. Mary .E. Dreier, president of the Women's Trade Union League, said: "This year the distress among women workers has been greater than ever before. It is pitiful. The sav ings bf years have been exhausted, and to this misfortune Is added a woman's constant dread of sickness. Others constantly fear; being thrown out of work, and this is too often the case. Manufacturers do not now lay in a large stock which will keep these women busy. They flll^xders on ' short notice. Tijjey want^fty girls at once. The girls' complete!the^order in two days, and are then dismissed. This ls true in all branches of gar ment trades. This high tension 1B making the women of New York phy sical and nervous wrecks. It ls a most deplorable Condition of affairs/' Frank Julian Warne, whose efforts for a bill now pending in Albany, creating a commission to inquire into the causes and effects ot the unem ployed in New York'State, and to sug- ? gest remedies, are meeting with gen eral approbation from ali organiza tions, said: "Not wishing to be sensational, but [ as truthful as possible in our limited way of getting accurate figures on present industrial conditions, it is ab solutely fair to say that more t*an ?00,000 men are looking for vork in New York City alone.. Crowded to the Roofs. "Look at any city institution to-day where the indigent g?t aid: They are crowded to the roofs-the city can't cara for more. The hospitals are filled and so are the insane asylums. Where will New York place her un fortunates in another year. If the pres ent ratio of unemployed keeps up? It ls a terrible question to face. "When a city's wardens turn out 2700 prisoners before their terms have expired to make room fp.r incom ing crowds, you may imagine/what demands are made on the city's insti tutions." Professor John Bates, of Columbia University, in suggesting a remedy for the economic ill, says: "Loss of employment by large bod ies of men personally flt ls due to mal-adjustment, sinpe there is never a time when there is not within the limits of society to which these men belong a need of their labor and a chance to dispose of its produce. The trouble would now be relieved by a migration from populous centres to the country." Percy Alien, M. P., in "The Un employed," says: "There is a rapidly growing feeling that the community has a responsibility for the unem ployed and must discharge that re sponsibility, not by inflicting pains and penalties jipon the genuine work Puts Union Above the Law and U. S. Judge Refuses Citizenship. Danville, Ul.-U. S. Judge Wright refused naturalization to W. Strong, a memb?rof the United Mine Workers of America. When asked "If it came to the point that the union and the laws of the United States differed which should you follow?" Strong answered: "The union, of course." Judge Wright says: "I can never grant the right of citizenship In the United States to any man who follows the dictates of his trade union rather than the laws-of our land." Foreign News Notes. An American department Btore waa opened In London with a regulation bargain-day rush. Advices at St. Petersburg give de tails of atrocities by Persian Govern ment troops on the frontier. A banquet at Covent Garden was arranged for the Prince of Wales by the Royal Automobile Club of Lon don, v The Italian Government, considers Petroslno, the New York detective. who was murdered by the Black Hand at Palermo, as merely a citizen, and ls not likely to admit a special claim for satisfaction. Will Bring Annual Revenue of $300,000,000. A FEW IMPORTANT CHANGES The Payne Bill Expecto? to Wipe Ont the Deficiency-Coffee Still on Free List, Sugar Little Reduced, Wool About the Same, Paper Cut in Half, Graduated Inheritance Tax. Washington, Special.-Congress re ceived the new tariff bill Wednesday from Chairman Payne, of the ways and means committee, whose name the bill bears. The bill is the product of five months work of the committee and contains 100,000 words. The estimat ed revenue under .the . tariff duties prescribed will amount to $500,000, 000, an increase of $10,000,000 over the Dingley act. A striking feature of the hill is the inheritance tax. A direct in heritance of $10,000 to $1,000,000 is to be taxed one per cent; $100,000 to $500,000 two per cent; over $500, 000 three per cent. Collateral bene ficiaries are to pay five per cent on all amounts over $500. The bill authorizes the issue of Treasury certificates to the amount of $250,000,000 to run one year. "Coffee stays oh the free hst. There is no increase in the beer tax. There is an eight cent a pound tax on tea from the country where it is produced, and nine cents from other countries. . The lumber duty is redueed 50 per cent; also steel rails and steal pro ducts; coal is to be on a reciprocal basis with countries admitting Unit ed States coal free. Wool, first and second class, is un changed. There is a reduction of five eents a hundred pounds on refined sugar. Iron ore and hides are on the fr^e list. Shoes are reduced 40 per '"ent. Window glass is unchanged. Chairman Payne in a statement said that with the return to anything like normal conditions, the nation's deficit will be entirely wiped out; if not the hill provides for the issue of Panama Canal bonds for $40,000,000 to make up any probable deficiency. The bill provides for reciprocal trade with the Philippines, limiting imports of sugar, tobacco and c - gars. The Cuban reciprocity \ provisions are preserved. A tax is put on the transfer of property. The d^tie' cigarettes, perfum eries, faucy soap, toiiei articles, cocoa spices, feathers and fur are increased. The bill adds ? new paragraph to the. customs act fixing the basis of appraisement at not less than the wholesale price of the article when offered on the market. This basis is expected to result in an enormous in crease in revenue. Printing paper is reduced 50 to 60 per cent, and wood pulp will be ad mitted free from all countries where no export duty is levied. A section is added applying to pat ents obtained by aliens in the United States. It will compel foreigners obtaining patents to build factories here and manufacture here for our trade. Provision is made to terminate va rious commercial agreements with foreign countries by notice. It is provided that the bill go into effect the day after it is passed. The following are among the in creases : Coal, tar, dyes and cement, 30 to 35 per cent. Asphaltum and bitumen, 15 to 100 per cent per pound. Cast ? polished glass, 2 to 10 per cent, on smaller sizes. Watch movements, more than seven jewels, 70 cents each; ll to 15 jewels, $1.25 each; over 17 jewels, unchang ed; watch cases unchanged. Zinc in ore, 20 per cent. Building stone is reduced 6 cents; pig iron is reduced from $4 to 50 cents per ton ; scrap iron from $4 to 50 ents per ton; bar from 1-16 of J cent to 4-10 cent per pound, beams, joints, angles, etc., from 5-10 cent per pound to 3-10 cent per pound; hoop iron and steel bands reduced from 30 to 50 per cent: steel rails and railway bars from $7 to $3.50. Fire brick is reduced ?tem 45 to 35 per cent. Marble, sawed or dressed, is re duced from $1.10 to $1 per cubic foo*. f eel ingots are reduced from 3-10 cents per pound to 7-40 cent. Awaiting the Verdict. Nashville, Tenn., Special.-With no indications that the 12 men are any where near an agreement, the opinion begins to prevail that a mistrial will be the termination of the famous case against Col. Duncan B. Cooper and Robin J. Cooper and John D. Sharp for the slaying of former Unit ed States Senator Edward W. Car mack. Judge Hart, at 4 p. m. Wednes day adjourned court and started for his country home. Tracing Black Hsnd Artists. New Orleans, La., Special.-In re sponse to a request from Inspector McCafferty, of New York, the New Orleans detective department has se cured evidence which may prove of much value in running down the as sassins of Lieutenant Petrosino, of the New York police department. A report has been forwarded de tailing the departure of three Italians fran New Orleans for Italy aboul thc same time Petrosino sailed. Their names are being withheld from thr public. EHE NEWS IN BRIEF Items of Interest Gathered By Wire amd Cable GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY Live Itenis Co vertag Events of More or Less Interest at Home and Abroad, New York suffered a fire Friday in an apartment store with a loss of $500,000 and 21 persons hurt. It is believed that a million dollars worth of jewels are in the ruins. The Kernersville Woolen Mills, Kernesville, N. C., were burned Fri day, with products and raw material. The loss is estimated at $20,000. John.B. Sharp was acquitted Fri day, of the charge of conspiracy in the - slaying of E. W. Carmack at Nashville, Tenn., and Judge Hart sent the disagreeing jury back to fur ther consider the case of the Coopers. It is announced that President and Mrs. Taft and ex-President and Mrs. Roosevelt walked to church last Sun day. Arrangements have been completed to raise the first torpedo boat of the Confederacy from the bottom of Lake Ponchartrain. The boat is lying near Spanish Fort, where it went down. It is proposed to place this vessel on the lawn of the Confederate Soldiers' Home in New Orleans. 1,500 horses have been quarantin ed in Philadelphia on account of a peculiar mange . Jack Johnson the world champion pugulist is threatened with proseeu' tion if he returns to his former home, Galveston, Te2:as, for violating tho law in having a white wife, beside the fact that a colored woman tl "re says she is his lawful wife. An aeroplane was christened in New York city last Saturday in cere mony like that of a ship, including the breaking of a bottle of cham pagne. The Seattle exposition will open on June 1st and news direct from there assures the public that 90 per cent of th ? work was complete on the 1st of March, making it safe to say it will open in. completeness. More.than 100 cases of illness oc cured at Vinsenes, Ind., last week at a centennial feast of Masonry. The New Haven, Conn., railroad las forbidden any of its employes to jmoke while on duty. A Burglars' Trust has been dis covered in which the light fingers of Chicago and Cleveland, O., exchange their* liftings for easier disposal. One Bernard Solomon, of Mante cellq, N. Y., slashed himself a dozen gashes and set his house on fire, all with (suicidal intent Monday. Being rescued and expecting to live he charged a neighbor with the deed, but finding he would elie he confessed the truth. Mrs. Bull, the widow of the late Dr. Bull, of New York, who died of tuberculosis at Savannah, Ga., an nounced that' she will build and en dow a hospital for the treatment of the dread disease. Muskrat pelts have been introduced on the headgear of the aristocratic fair sex of New Orleans, and the de mand has made muskrat hunting an industry which inures to the safety of towns along the levees of the Miss issippi. Washington Affairs. Hon. Joseph Cannon was elected Speaker of the House of Representa tives again last Monday. The amended rules of the House takes away some of tie powers of the presiding officer. It is estimated that the Payne tariff bill, while reducing duties will in crease the revenue as compared with the Dingley bill. The armored cruisers West Virgin ia, Colorado, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, California, South Dakota and Washiosrton, eight of the finest of our sea fighters are designated to take part in the Seattle Exposition. Assistant Secretary of the Treas ury Coolridge says the receipts for the first 15 days of March have been 27 per cent better than for the same period a year ago, while the differ ence in expenditures has been 65 per cent in the treasury's favor. Lieut. Commander H. J. Cone has been made the head of the bureau of navy engineering, with the rank and pay of a rear-admiral. He distin guished himself in the round-the world trip. Foreign Notes. The insurrection started in Cuba last Monday came to an end Thurs day night when the entire band sur rendered to the civil authorities. The Cuban vice president, Alfredo Zayas, left Havana last Saturday for the United States, taking with him his son whom he will place at Anapo lis prior to entering Cornell. A committee fror.? 'he textile man ufacturing interests of North Caro lina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama are in Washington urging that the tariff in their line remain as it now is. At Pandjala, Java, last Thursdav landslides from Mt. Kent.iana fell covering two towns and kiiling 1000 people. The police of Palermo. Italy, be lieve they have the man that assasin ated Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino. His name is Ialazzatto. Schutsbar Milg, a civilian, fought two duels Inst Tcusday with army of ficers and killed both of them. It was at Eisenach, Germany, and pistols were tho weapons, while jealousy was the cause. On account of the unsettled con dition of affairs in Central America two U. S. war vessels will keep close about for emergencies. It is said that the Cubans intend to bc good now, lest the United States shall come again and wake them to be so. - CARAMEL. It is an excellent plan to have a supply of caramel on hand to use for flavoring sauces or to sweeten the after dinner coffee. To make this caramel, take half a cupful of gran ulated sugar and melt it in a sauce* pan, letting it brown, but taking great care not to burn it. Add an equal amount of boiling water and stir slightly until the sugar is dis solved. This will keep indefinitely in a corked bottle or air tight jar.-.* New Haven Register. . MOCK TURTLE SOUP. . Get a.calf's head that ls all dressed at the butcher's. Put to boiling in enough salted water to cover it. Let cook one and a half hours. When it is done take out the bones and cut the meat in pieces the size of a small hickory nut or the size of dice. Sea son the liquid with a little sweet mar joram, nutmeg, cloves, mace and pep per to taste. One teacup of tomato catsup, one-half pound of butter, put all together and boil a few minutes; add as much water to the liquid as lt needs to make it the right cousis* tency.-New Haven Register. FROZEN TOMATO SALAD. From a can of tomatoes take all the large pieces of pulp, press them through a sieve and season highly with salt, pepper, a little tarragon vinegar and a few drops of onion julep. Put this mixture in the freezer ... -ze as for a water ice. Take out the dasher, work well down in the can, repack the freezer and put in the cellar for a couple of hours. Grate or chop fine some English wal nuts. Serve the frozen tomato on a bed of lettuce and sprinkle thickly with the walnuts. Serve mayonnaise In a bowl.-New Haven Register. - T RICE MOLD. The man who thinks rice digestible but not elaborate enough for a com pany dessert should try rice mold. Cook four tablespoonfuls of rice in plenty of boiling water, salted, until very soft. When cold add the rice to? a quart of cream which has been whipped Stuff. Flavor with a half teaspoonful of vanilla. Lastly stir in one. ounce ol gelatine which has been dissolved in milk on the back of the stove. Pour into a mold'arid staird on the, ice for several hours. Serve with grated maple sugar ?r brown sugar* ?-New York Times. . ? PINEAPPLE SORBET. ^ Peel and cut a sugar loaf pln?ap? pie in small pieces. . Add two cups sugar and let it stand , over nght in a cool place. Strain off the juice and press the pulp through a colander. Add to this a- pint vof water and the grated yellow :rfnd of an orange. Mix well and boil ten minutes. Take from the fire, add the juice from one lem on and two oranges and freeze.' If you wish to make this a "granite," pack in equal quantities of ice and salt and set away two or three hours, scraping the frozen part; occasionally; from the sides of the can and stir ring the whole long enough to mir the ice thoroughly with the mass? but not long enough to beat it to an even cream. Serve in dainty cups of china or crystal.-New York Tele* gram. Dried orange and lemon peel will quicken a fire when baking or brown ing dishes in the oven. Half a lemon dipped in salt will, do wonders in polishing brass and copper cooking utensils. A little soap applied to a creaking hinge with a pencil poi at will stop its creaking and cure stiffness. A cup of sweet milk s.dded to the water in whicti oatmeal is cooked makes it much richer, and adds to the flavor. Marks made by sett'ing hot. dishes on polished surfaces may be removed by rubbing them briskly with kero sene oil, then with alcohol. Candle grease may be readily re moved from a cloth frock or a coat by laying blotting paper over the spot and applying a hot Iron. The blotting paper absorbs the grease when the heat is applied. Meat will keep, even in hot weath er, for many days if it is hung in a current of air in muslin bags which have been wrung out of vinegar. These bags should be renewed every day. The leaves of a rubber plant should be washed once or twice with milk. This makes them glossy. Give the pl?nt rich soil, drain, it well, never allow lt to get dry at the roots and keep it from the direct rays of tho sun. Thc Failures. Keir Hardie, one of labor's ablest representatives in Parliament, at a dinner of boilermakers in New York, spoke of success. "Success, they tell us," he began, ?"comes from aiming high. I think it oftener comes from aimi' ' low, from aiming within one's scoi-e. "Suppose, for instance, that the Everage reporter, aiming high, de moted his "fe to the composition of Shakespearean tragedies or Miltonic spies-do you think he would suc ked? Ah, no." Mr. Keir Hardie chook his head md smiled. v MLei.u3_Jhen*?im," he said, "at what wo stand some chance of hit ting. It is they who* strive to leavo footprints in the sands of time who, alas, most frequently get stuck in mo mud."