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The Penn's Grove record., 1912-09-20
HELPFUL HINTS.

To Make Pear Honey-This is as
delicious as ounce honey, and may be
used for so many nice dishes, cake
dllings and desserts. Crate four
pears, the hard, nice-favored variety,
add a pint of cold water and two
pounds of sugar; cook until thick and
It drops from the spoon like honey.
Skim occasionally while boiling. This
Is delicious served on griddle cakes.
An unusual sandwich is prepared Of
the white meat Of a chicken run
through the meat chopper and pound
ed to a paste. Mix with a little
whipped cream, season lightly with
horseradish and salt and cayenne.
Stir in a little dissolved gelatine and
let stand until firm; cut in slices and
arrange with rings of stuffed olives on
buttered bread.
Roll ripe sliced tomatoes In corn
meal or bread crumbs and fry until
brown. Serve hot.
A substitute for maple strip: Boil
twelve clean corn cobs in two gallons
of water until there is only a gallon
left. Drain the water and strain. To
each pint of the water add a pound
Of brown sugar and boil until thick.
Add a few drops of vanilla to the
cocoa when 1t is ready to serve. 1t en-
hances the favor.
Wash your diamond ring in alcohol
and it will come out bright and clean.
The white of an egg swallowed will
dislodge a fish bone In the throat.
A safety pin makes a good substi-
tute for a bodkin.
Use you water color paints to bright
en- up the faded roses on your hat.
1t is easy to do, and they will look
fresh and new.
Corn meal dampened with kerosene
is fine for sweeping carpets and oiled
floors.
A bicycle pump is good to clean out
wicker chairs and carved wood hard
to reach with a brush or buster.
Chloroform will remove grease from
the most delicate fabric without leav-
ing a trace.
Put you cake of chocolate through
the meat grinder, then seal it in a
can and 1t is always ready to use at
a moments notice.
Cut open a piece of garden hose and
tack a piece on the bottom of the
step ladder to keep it from slipping.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-09-20
SPENCER MEETS
DOOM IN CHAIR
Jekyll and Hyde Murderer Pays
Penalty for His Crime
MODEL CLERK IN DAYTIME
Was Abandoned to Fate-Fought for
life at First, Even Appealing to
President = Became Burglar
Just for Excitement.

Decentralization G. Spencer died
in the electric chair in Charlestown
prison at 1918 o'clock Tuesday morn.
ing. His death was the penalty for
the killing of Miss Martha B. Black
stone, a Springfield school teacher,
who was slain in the home of her
friend, Mrs. Sarah j. Dow, of Round
Hill, Springfield, on March 81, 1910.
Spencer was officially pronounced
dead five minutes after the current
was turned on, although death was
probably instantaneous. Spencer was
assisted. AS he took his place before
the chair he faced the small group of
witnesses, and, speaking clearly, with
head up, said:
81 wish to say to the world and the
newspapers that this is not nerve, but
the love of God which has sustained
me. Good night"
He sat down without a tremor. The
electrodes were adjusted and he calm
ly awaited the shock. Carrying out
the dead mans wishes, the body will
be cremated.
For several days he had been re-
signed to his fate, although he had
caused his counsel to carry appeals
for pardon not only to Governor Foss,
but also to President Taft.
The trial of Spencer had stirred
public interest throughout New Eng
land. The peculiar dual character 1
the mar made his case second only
to that of the Rev. Clarence V. T,
Richeson in mystery and magnetism,
Spencer, a nan of only twenty-five
years, lived by day the dull, unevent-
full life OF a shipping clerk in a fac
tory. By night he was one of the
most daring and persistent burglars
with whom the police have ever con-
tended.
For months his successful robberies
had baf1ed the authorities. His
treatment of his wife, his child and
his aged mother was gentle and ten.
der. Yet he could shoot to death an
innocent and defenseless girl for the
sake of Daltry BOOTY.
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SPOrfin9

The Hartford County, Md, Grand
Jury is probing the affairs of the
Havre De Grace Race Track Associa-
ton to ascertain how the stock is dis
tributed, the county's financial reward
from the meet and the conduct of it's
operations.
With the pennant races so nearly
over there is small chance of Ty Cobb
losing his batting crown, as he leads
Speaker and Jackson by "a and Al
points. respectively, with a percentage
of AT for 125 games.
Bill Clymer, manager of the Wilkes
Barre team, of the New York State
League, says he will not abide by the
decision of President Farrell in award
ing the pennant to Utica, but will ap-
peal to the board of directors of the
league.
The st. Leger Stakes 5Iof $500 sover-
eigns, run at Doncastery England, was
Won by August Belnont's Tracery.
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General

The Rev. John Poucher, of Peters
burgh, found a caster bean plant with
leaves 43 inches long.
Abner Greenleaf, president of the
M~erganthaler Linotype Company, and
an inventor, is dead in Baltimore.
William S. Walling, of Brooklyn,
was thrown from his motorcycle and
killed when he tried to kick at a bark
ing dog on the Amboy Road in Staten
Island.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany announced that it had asked the
United States Government to protect
it in Mexico, where it's property was
being destroyed by rebels.
Twilight flight has been prohibited
in Chicago by the Aero Club of Illinois
as a result of the death of Howard
Gill, recently killed in a collision with
another aviator.
Earl Standard, bookkeeper of the
American National Bank of Pomona,
Calf, pleaded guilty Of embezzling
$3.50 1000, and was sentenced to ten
years Imprisonment.
Justice Bischoff, in New York, grant
ed a stay of Lieutenant Becker's trial
to enable counsel to get affidavits of
men who 1t is asserted heard Sam
Schepps say his testimony would help
to free Becker. One of these men
wired he had made no such statement
about Schepps.
Frank Anton, a blacksmith, of East
M~oriches, L. l., was held without bail
for manslaughter, charged with driv-
ing the automobile that struck R. E.
Smiths car Sunday near Eastport,
killing Smith and his niece.
The 50th anniversary of the Battle
of Antietam was observed in the New
York public schools and in every G..
A. R. encampment in the United
States and other military organiza-
tions.
To provide more room for crowds at
the Washington ball park, the Federal
government has ordered condemnation
and razing of buildings covering half
a square.
Thousands of can of milk for ship
ment to New York were destroyed in
a fire that wrecked the Durling cream
cry OF White House, N. j. The loss
Is 5000.
A few hours after United States ex
perts had declared the mine non-gase-
GUS, n man was killed and two 9TH
ers were seriously injured by an ex-
plosion in a mine of the Wharton Coal
Co. at Coral. Indiana County, Pa.
Colonel Roosevelt entered Portland,
Ore, on a carpet of 1880 roses.
Aviator William B. Chambers died
from injuries received Friday at
Greene, Chenango county, N. Y.
DIR. Earl T. Budd, a member Of the
New Jersey live stock commission,
died Of blood poison from infection
following an operation upon a valua-
BILE COW.
Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards,
leaders in the raid on the Hillsville,
Va, courthouse, in which Judge Mas
sic and several others were shot to
death. were arrested in Des Moines,
Iowa.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-09-20
SWEETS FOR THE LITTLE PEG.
PIE,

Here are some sweets that the small
folks will like, and are not harmful for
them to eat in moderation:
Children's Delights-Beat the whites
of four eggs until stiff, and add very
gradually, while beating constantly.
two-thirds of a cup of fine graduated
sugar. Continue beating until the
mixture holds its shape. Then fold
in a third of a cup of fine sugar and
half a teaspoonful Of vanilla. Sprinkle
with colored sugar, nuts or %cocoanut,
and bake In a moderate oven.
Angel Cake.-Take a cupful of egg
whites, beat until stiff; add a quarter
of a teaspoonful Of cream Of tartar
and a pinch of salt while beating. Fold
in a cup of sugar carefully, to hold the
lightness of the eggs, Flavor with va
nilla. then fold in a cup of -four that
has been sifted with a quarter of a
teaspoon Of cream of tartar. Bake
fifty minutes in a slow
Spice Snaps.-Heat half a cup Of
molasses to the boiling point; remove
and add a fourth of a cup of sugar,
one and a half tablespoonful each of
butter and lard and a tablespoonful
of milk. Mix and sift two cups Of
flour with a half teaspoon each Of
cloves, soda, cinnamon and nutmeg;
add to the first mixture. Take out a
third of the mixture and roll as thinly
as possible. Cut with a small cut
ter and bake in a moderate oven.
Maple WaInuts.-Heat n cup Of
powdered sugar, a cup Of maple strip.
a fourth OF a cup of milk and a table
spoonful of butter to the boiling point.
Boil to the soft ball stage-that is.
a soft ball is formed when a little is
dropped in cold water. Remove from
the heat and beat until creamy. Add
a cup of walnut meats and a pinch of
salt. Drop on creased pans to cool.
Ie<AG M1A~eNL.
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FOFei6n

Turkey and Italy have agreed to an
exchange of non-combatant prisoners
taken in Tripoli.
The Hamburg liner Kamerun was
wrecked on the Liberia coast. All on
board were saved.
Aviator Busson and his mechanician
were seriously injured when their n.y.
droaeroplane fell at Client, Belgium.
K~aronenlokes, a Greek aviator, was
drowned off Patras when his aero
plane fell.
Signor Jughetti, an Italian aviator,
was killed at Rome when III of the
propellers of his machine snapped and
struck him in the head.
Secretary Knox was received in spe-
cial farewell audience by the Mikado,
and was the guest of his majesty at
luncheon. Mr.. Knox soon leaves for
the United States.
In a fierce fight in Celtic Park, Bel
fast, Ireland, sixty persons were in
jured. The fight started after some
one had unfurled a union jack along
side a green flag.
At the session of the genealogical
congress at Berlin, DR.. Stahel exhib-
tied photographs Of two supposed men
who, after nearly thirty years of army
service, were discovered to be- women.
Several clashes between Home
Rule and Anti-Home Rule factions oc-
Cured at the Queens Island shipyard,
lear Belfast. Troops were called
out. One man was seriously injured.
The Peruvian Chamber adopted a
resolution protesting against the atti-
tude of the United States and Great
Britain in regard to the rubber atroci-
ties in the Putumayo district.
The tree known as the Lutherbaum,
at Worms, near Berlin, has been de-
stroyed by a severe storm. The tree
was planted by a disciple of Luther.
New German coins, bearing the like
ness of the Kaiser, will be struck in
honor of the 25th anniversary of his
accession to the throne.
A German food experimenter has in
vented compressed potatoes. He pre-
diets as great a success for them as
for timed milk.
The Turco-Italian peace negotia-
tions have been broken off and the
delegates are returning to their
homes.
The French government has start
ed manufacturing porcelain teeth in
the national institution founded by
Louis XIV. at Sevres.
Cardinal Peter Hercules Couillo,
Archbishop of Lyons, France, is dead.
An Australian astronomer has dis
covered a new comet.
The German Minister Of the Interior
decided to admit Argentine frozen
beef to insure relief from the meat
famine.
Aviator Fourny broke the nonstop
record at Etampes, France. Despite
a high wind he few 461 miles without
! q stop.
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WEARY OF SYMPATHY HE DIES.
Professor Wallace of University of
IIIfnaie T1Lae Go ~ Da1a

Professor Wallace of University Of
Illinois Takes Gas in Room.
Urbana, Ill.-Prof. Lee Wallace, in
structor in architecture at the State
University, committed suicide in his
rooms.
Behind doors heavily barricaded
with furniture Wallace opened a gas
jet, reclined on a couch and awaited
death.
I'm tired of being sympathized
with because 1 look so badly" he
stated in an unaddressed letter found
in the room. The remainder of the
note was in the nature of a will.
Professor Wallace had a foreign
scholarship in art, on which he had
studied at Paris. His parents live at
Syracuse, N Y.
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NEWS STORIES
IN MINIATURE
Minor Mention of a Weeks
Important Events.
A HISTORY OF SEVEN DAYS
Paragraphs Which Briefly Chronicle
the Events Of Interest as BulIe-
tined by Wire, Wireless and
CabIe-ForeIgn News.
WASHINGTON

Protests were made in Washington
against the proposed 100000 mer-
ger of the capitals pu%blic-utility com
panies.
The State Department declared the
United States had not been asked to
intervene in the Turko-Italian war.
The State Department ordered the
United States Envoy in Mexico to pre-
vent the alleged plan to put to death
John Devine, the New York youth, on
the ground that he is a spy.
The Navy Department announces
that the Atlantic feet will assemble
at Newport, the elementary target
practice of the fleet having been com
pleted on the southern drill grounds.
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River Front Land.

Former Senator Mitchell B. Perkins,
president of the Delaware River
Transportation Company, was in con-
ference with Mayor Donnelly, Com
missioner Burk and City Attorney
English in reference to the acquisi-
ton of river front lands, but no agree
ment was reached, as Senator Perkins
said that he had been unable to talk
over the situation with the company
officials. The city authorities have
asked Senator Perkins to submit a
proposition to the city as to the sale
of the land, but so far this PROPOSE
ton has not been forthcoming. Ac-
cording to the city atlas, the COM
pany owns about 269 feet along the
river on Lamberton street, just below
Lalor street. 1t has it's wharyes and
freight houses on the land. Altogeth-
er the assessment is about "a, 900. By
resolution the city commissioners
have authorized the purchase of most
of the lands fronting the river from
the railroad bridge to Riverview Gem
etery but as yet none of the land has
actually been purchased.
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Personal

DR.. Vilhjalmur Stefansson arrived
in New York and told of the white
tribe he had met among the Esqui-
a of the Arctic region.
Robert B. Dula, formerly vice-presi-
dent of the American Tobacco Com
pany, was informed over the tele-
phone at his home in Tarrytown by
his son, Robert, Jr., %, that the latter
had married Miss Grace Whitman, II,
In Weehawken.
On Sunday, President Taft was SIS
years old. He went to the home OF
his aunt, Della TORY. at Millbury,
Mass, for an old-fashioned birthday
party.
King Alfonso called in three doctors
to examine his infant son. Prince
Jaime, who is threatened with deaf.
ness.
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Push Railroad Work.

The track for the Wildwood and
Delaware Bay Short Line Railroad
has been laid as far as the inland
waterway and work on the bridge
over this is progressing rapidly. The
piling for the trestle over Sunset Lake
is al in and this bridge will also soon
be completed. The company has also
advertised for bids for removing
houses on the south side Of Oak ave-
nue. and expects to begin that work
within ten days to make way for the
sidings.
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vIcE-PREsIDENT MUST REST.
Doctor Orders Quiet for Sherman,
Who Is at Grove Beach,

New Haven. Conn.,-Vice President
James S. Sherman of Utica is stop
ping at Grove Beach, Conn. He is
there for the restoration of his health
and by orders Of his physician. Mrs.
Sherman is with him and sees to it
that he takes his medicine regularly.
Vice-President Sherman said that
his doctor told him that if he did not
pick out a quiet place and remain
there resting for some time he would
not live long. He couldn't say how
long he would remain in Grove Beach,
that depending upon the say of his
doctor.
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Pointing the Way.

Colonel Edwin A. Stevens, the COM
missioner of roads suggested to the
economy and efficiency commission
the organization of a state engineer
ing department, to take over the work
now done by the corps of half a dozen
different boards and departments.
Colonel Stevens is an engineer of high
standing, and his recommendation de-
serve serious consideration. There
are numerous directions in which re-
organizations and consultations will
result in great saving without lower
ing the grade or quantity of work.
Some of them are so apparent that
the commission will need no sugges-
ton; others are so farefully covered
up as to require a little probing. By
organizing the department of charities
and corrections and giving to it the
preparation of plans for all new build
ings and extensions, former Governor
Stokes saved to the state tens of thou
sands of dollars; and former Governor
Murphy, by reorganizing the states
legal department, made it more effec-
tive, and got rid of the counsel en-
ployed by the numerous departments
and boards. Governor Wilson, by
recommending and securing the ap-
pointment of a commission to take
into question the whole question of
simplifying and co-ordinating the ad-
ministrative agencies of the state, in
order that they may be put upon the
best possible basis of efficiency and
economy" opened the way for the
saving of many more thousands of
dollars annually.
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GIFTS OF s75o,ooo TO YALE.
Death of Executor Releases 100000
from Mcpherson Estate.

Death of Executor Releases 100000
from Mcpherson Estate.
New Haven, Conn.-At the Septem-
Der meeting of the Yale Corporation
it was announced that of a total of
over $500 ~bequeathed to the uni
versity in wills probated since the
last meeting between $4,000 and
100000 m from the estate Of
United States Senator John R. Nc
Pherson of New Jersey. The bequest,
which was left for the aid of INDECENT
students, has been tied up during the
lifetimes of the widow and of Aaron
S. Baldwin, who was Senator McPher-
sons secretary and executor of Mrs.
McPherson's estate. Mr.. Baldwin
died recently. Senator Mcpherson
was not a college graduate and had
only a common school education.
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s15,ooo,ooo IN POWER PROJECT.
New York and Pittsburgh Money Be-
hind Hydro-EIectric Dams.

Pittsburgh. - Announcement was
made that surveys had been completed
by the Clarion River Power Company
for the two great power dams that
are to be constructed on the Clarion
river, fifty miles from Pittsburgh.
The project will be capitalized at
$15.000,000 of Pittsburgh and New
York money.
The two dams will overflow more
than $4,000 acres.
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SMALLPOX AT PITTSBURGH.
Six New Cases and Twenty Suspect
ed Are Guaranteed,

ed Are Guaranteed.
Pittsburgh, Pa.-Six new cases of
smallpox were reported in one day,
twenty suspected cases were put I'M
der quarantine and two died. DR.. F.
]. Edwards appointed twenty-five ad-
ditional city physicians and started
them on a house to house vaccination
campaign. Other city physicians be-
gan the vaccination of all school chill
dren. The fear of it kept scores from
school.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-09-20
Hospital MAINTENANCE.


DIR. George R. Moore, of the advis-
DRY staff of the tuberculosis Hospital,
and Miss Atkinson, the executive head
of the Institution, have shown that the
$40 per week asked of the Board of
Freeholders for the maintenance and
care of county patients is not only not
eXorbitant, but is below the actual
cost last year, when the average was
S12.04 per week; and nonresident pa
tents are to be required to pay $12
per week, or 81 more than has been
asked of the county. At White Ha-
ven, Pa, the cost last year was 1914,
and at Glen Gardner 1910 per week;
but Mrs. 1. H. yelling says that in
both of these institutions every pa,
tient is employed in some capacity,
thus doing away with wages and low
ering the expense account. The cost
at the Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island and Washington sanatoriums is
greater than here or at Glen Gardner,
though all have been longer estab-
lished and therefore should be more
economically managed" The free
holders who favor the erection of a
separate county hospital have been
misled by the inaccurate statement
that the cost of maintenance of pa
tients in general hospitals is not more
than SIS per week. Any one of the
directors of the local hospitals who
are giving their time to management
could easily set them straight. The
time may come when a county hospi-
tai may be needed, but for the pres
ent the Municipal, st. Francis, Mercer
and Mckinley will suffice.
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Use of SchooIhouses.

Superintendent Poland, Of Newark,
advocates the S of the public
schools as polling places, and believes
that the pupils will have a greater re-
spect for election day If such a plan
is adopted. The suggestion will not
find many supporters ever among
those who believe in a greater use of
school buildings. Hiring of registra-
ton and polling places is difficult and
expensive in all large cities. A much
better plan would be to provide porta-
BILE booths that can. be put up along
the sidewalks of streets.
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What is a stairway but a series of
obstacles? Yet you rely on the stairs
to help you mount to a higher place.
If the life road had no obstacles to
surmount, who would ever get up?
No one can climb on thin air.-Well-
spring.
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Pastor No an

The refusal of the Rev. ]. A. Belan-
ger, of the Auburn Street Congrega-
tional Church, one of the most fash
ionable places of worship in Paterson,
to become a mixer" has resulted in
the acceptance of his resignation by
the trustees. On the matter of the
ology as interpreted in Congregational
circles, the clergyman is considered
perfect. AS an expounder of the COS
pei he is considered eloquent and
scholarly, but as a handshaker the
trustees say he does not come up to
the standard required.
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STUDY CONVICT
LABOR IN SOUTH
Commissioners gyersa and Stew.
ems Going to Richmond, Va.
WORK ON PUBLIC ROADS
Plan Has Been In Successful Opera.
ton for Four Years-SeVen Hun
dred State Prisoners Kept
Busy on the Highways.

Especial Trenton Correspondence
Observation-Disclosures Byers of
the department of charities and cor
rections and Colonel Edwin A. Stew
ems of the public roads and chairman
of the convict labor commission, de-
cided to go to Richmond, Va, to Sc
cure additional information in M
ton with the investigation as to the
feasibility of employing convict labor
on public roads. In Richmond 700
state convicts are employed on the
public roads under the direction of
the commissioner of highways. This
plan has been in force for four years
and has resulted most successfully.
Shacks and tents are provided for the
prisoners, in which they are retained
and not sent to the prison over night.
The guards used for maintaining
watch over the prisoners are fur
nished by the state prison authorities
and are under direct charge of the
head keeper.
Requisition Refused.
IA lew udgo d5O tOlOhCl 0tCFCbo, dSI-
ing for the commission, made requisi-
ton upon Head Keeper Madden for
the use of fifteen prisoners to be used
on road work in Burlington county.
The request was placed before the
board of inspectors of the prison; who
refused to honor the requisition upon
the ground that a sufficient appropri-
alton was not made for the care of the
prisoners and that there was no var
rant in law for such release. The
head keeper, who is responsible for
the s~afekeeping of the prisoners,
would not be justified in permitting
them to be employed outside the
prison walls. Mr.. Byers said that the
inspectors were in all probability act
ing upon their own initiative, and that
the matter would be placed before the
Attorney-General for a decision.
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Not = Lime To Be Hastu.

Father, our daughter is being
courted by a poet" rs that SO, moth
err; I'll kick him out" Not so fast.
Investigate first and find out whether
he works for a magazine or for a
breakfast food factory."-Louisville
Courier,Journal.