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TOPICS OF THE TIMES. A CHOICE 8ELECTI0N OF INTER ESTING ITEMS. CobummU uw4 Criticism Baaed Up a tk Happaalaata of the Dajr-H iatorl cat and Nawa Notee. Xercr enter a guessing contest In competition with a doctor. To prove ita right to atatebood Okla homa raised two crops of .potatoes last year. The trunlmiakera hare formed ' a trust, thug tightening the grip of the octopus. People who think the world la going to the bad generally keep busy helping It along In that direction. Major Oleuu baa been acquitted. This will make It unnecessary for hit to write or lecture about it. It Is not surprising that molasses should prove to be good food for horses. Children have thrived on It for many years. io not put your light under a bush el, but keep It In a con where It may give light to all that tire In the house ut fco much per. A milk dealer has given up his bunl fcess becauHe he has become converted. Evidently he didn't put water enough lii the milk to wash away bis sins. It now appears that William K. Van derbilt's house. Idle Hour, Is built on sand. Why should a man with so many "rocks" make such a blunder? There is this to be said In favor of Cardinal Gibbons' plea for stricter di vorce laws a good many people would not get married If they figured they were In for life. A woman, talking to women, lately enunciated the Interesting propoaltlou: "If you can't get your vote, you can always get your voter, and you can In fluence him In bis vote." Mr. Itockefellcr's dally mall now consists principally of letters advising him how to get a new stomach. If he undertook to read them he would soon have more headache than stom ach ache. Sousa gave back $3,000 to the pur chasers of concert tickets In order that he might play before King Edward and the royal family of England. Sousa has evidently discovered that advertising pays. To establish a limit of $10,00,000 as the maximum amount say person may acquire or lawfully hold we fear would result In Uncle Uussell Sage packing his gripsack and emigrating to some other country. A Chicago boy committed suicide be cause his father wouldn't give tit in live nuts. That boy should have taken to heart the noble lesson glveu out by young John U. Hockefeller, who says that money Is not till. The powers maintain that China will be able to pay that indemnity In gold by the exercise of due economy. It will be observed that Ihe Justice of the claim does not enter. The sole iuestiiin Is what the tralllc will bear. Col. Tope's declaration that cessa tion of advertising wus responsible for the wreck of the bicycle trust offers n suggestion to the associated trust bust ers at Washington. Let them pass a '.aw forbidding the octopuses to adver tise. What a pity it Is that our learned anthropologists never discover that a man has criminal eyes, mouth, ears and nose until after he has committed a murder'. O Science,! how many frauds are perpetratod la thy helpless name! Mark Twain aald of the legion of Ilouor that It waa a decoration which few people now escapv. Tho same thing must he true of the Ota-wan orVr "pour le merlto." Tlie Kaiser has tak en to decorating gunboats with It, thus Indicating that It has already been ruuferred upon everybody whom there Is the slightest excuse fur decorating. A man with a taste far stathttics be gan, early lu November, to keep a rec ord of the corporations, employers of labor, wbloh because ef the coal short age bad undertaken te furnish fuel to ttaalr employes at coat. la throe weeks, by the help of the newspapers, he found More than twe hundred such cerperatieng, Including several trusts, nod IhU was only the begluulng of a movement which, when colder weather rune, assumed widespread proportions. The willingness of these corporations to extend such help, at the cost of con siderable bother and expense, ought uot to be forgotten. Compulsory cleanliness may, of course, be as dilllcuit to attain as com pulsory mornllty, but should one bo made possible the other might follow. Already, In the minds of some plilloso ibein, physical and moral cleaiilliieHs grow on the same stem, and to them a scrubbing brush Is not n mere scrub bing brush; It bristles with moral pos sibilities and wipes out spiritual as well at physical stains. Hvery houso Keuper knows the spiritual exultation that fallows the spring cleaning, and It Is aald that a woman la never so capable ef heroism as when she Is con ichyus that her pantry shelves are ipeuklees ami her curtains fresh from the wash. To such heosekeeyors the skeleton la the closet It Ml a uusca to be dn-adi'd as that more shameful visitant, dust, and they would welcome any number of ghostly presences pro- j Itlcil the clone! offered nothing In the way of disorder to catch a phantom eye. Home one wants to know more about the life of Abrain 8. Hewitt, who died the other day. In almost every city you can llnd at least one rich man who has looked ujmn bis wealth more as a trust than as a personal posses sion. Hewitt came up from tho soil, the same as nearly every famous man this country has known. We have poets and players, rresidents and war riors, from the farms. The old men of now who have risen above their fel lows were nearly all country boys years ago. In the peaceful atmos phere of a thousand villages, close to nature, thoy learned how to live. They Imbibed clean morals with the air they breathed; they Inherited honesty and rugged principles, and were taught by fathers and mothers who believed that, after God, their first duty was rearing their children riuht. Hewitt went through nil that. He was born in a log cabin, woiked on a farm, got an education, because he felt that he must have it to succeed In life. In college he laid his way by tutoriug, and worked so hard that he Injured his health and slht for life. Did it pay? Depends on bow you look at U. In business he made a large amount of money, and he used a fortune In making It easier for other boys, who were as poor as he had been, to gain an education. New York never knew a man fairer to his employes. He tried to put himself lu the other fellow's place, and Judged accordingly. When he died no one thought about blB money. There was no person to black en his memory; no scandal was at tracted to his name. The world dropped a few tears; the poor placed flowers on his tomb, and humanity knew that a really good man had done his work and quietly passed on. That Is alwut all that Abram S. Hewitt ac complished. Has any man done more? It is a commonly expressed opinion that the railroad business of the coun try is being overdone that too many lines are being built and too much money being put into Improvements. Exactly the reverse is true. Railroad ing lu America is yet in Its Infancy. Vast as Is Its present extent, and seem ingly complete as Is its equipment, the systems of to-day will only provoke a smile from the next generation. Our grandchildren will wonder how we ever managed to get around and do busi ness under our present crude transpor tation facilities. Not only will the trunk lines of the future be double tracked separately for freight and pas senger traffic, but they will be fed by electric Hues running In all directions In every well-settled community. Fifty years from now electric car tracks will be almost as numerous as are waon roada to-day. The farmer of the future will load up his car, Instead of his wag on, upon a spur running to his gran ary, will adjust bis trolley and be whirled away to market or to the freight depot in the twinkling of an eye. Farm produce, coal and grocery supplies will be delivered In your ulley from street railway spurs while yet only servants are awake. Electricity will transport from producer to con sumer direct, practically "without change of cars." A nickel in the slot and machinery will do the rest. Time, too, will bo annihilated. Already an electric speed of one hundred and forty miles an hour has been attained In practical operation. A Chicago sub urban system is even now regularly operating under a ninety-mile schedule. With double tracks, air lines and rock ballasted tracks, there Is practically no limit to what may be attained through the Inventor's genius and the mechan ic's skill, backed by unlimited capital and Yankee enterprise. From coast to coast in three days? It will be done. A railroad at your very door? Aye, ail that, and more. Where there In a mile of track to day there will be fifty as many years from now. The rail road Industry overdone? Forget It the infant has but just began to shed its swaddling clothes. Good Service. Many good stories have from time to time been told of the Itev. Thomas Hunt, the temperance orator, who was a well known ilgure In the early history of the Wyoming Valley. During the Civil War he enlisted, and awed as chaplain in one of the regiments of Infantry raised In the valley. One day In the midst of a fierce buttle a major rode up la front of the regiment, and to hla amasemnut found Father Hunt at the head of the ranks. "Chaplain, what are you doing here?" he asked. "Doing?" echoed the old minister, briskly. "I'm trying to cheer the hoarts of the brave and look out for the heels of the cowards." And It was so evident that he was performing both porta of this self-appointed task that the major asked no uioro questions, but left him to his work. A Itaabtful Compliment. He brought her a present. It was a dream of a little teapot fine china with pink roses and gold bead ing all over It. "Oh, you dear!" she cried, holding It up from lis wrappings. "Isn't It Just the prettiest thing?" "Yes." ho said absently; "It's a pret ty teapot. It reminded me of you wi-cn I bought It." And she didn't know whether to throw It at him or not Philadelphia bulletin. Those persons you would really like to ulk with are always goluf the oil), ar way. NOT SUCH BAD LOT. Worse People Teas mores Ssys Caputs Peris-las-Writes of Pros rets Made. Washington, March 28. Captain John J. Pershing, Fifteenth Infan try, who has been in command in the Moro country, has written a letter under date of Camp Vickers, Janu ary 28, to a personal friend in the war department, In which he gave in detail ui.mv interesting facts in con nection with the disturbances in Mindanao. Captain Pershing says that after he was placed in charge of Moro by Gen ial Davis because he (Pershing) ap parantly could get along with them, : e worked on the theory that it is necessary to establish mutual eonfi--Jcnco between the Moros and the United States,"if we are to go cm them without a lot of trouble." He endeavored to demonstrate to 'hem that the United States is their rr.end, having no desire to carry them oil into slavery, or to take any thing belonging to them without pay ing for it. This, he writes is all ton rary to what they have been accus tomed to In the past. The Spaniards and the Moros could not get along to t ether well. The Moros were very jea ons of their religion and the Spaniards tried to civilize them by seizing and biptiziug sonic of them. There were atrocities committed on both sides as a result of these differ ences. Captain Per-hing says that the Moros do not realize any other kind of government than a one-man power. He says lie has been able to keep all the promises he ha made, which has enabled hira to be more sucessful in command of that district. They re gard him as representing the presi de of America, and are somewhat uneasy as to what his successor will do. The question of slavery is intimate ly connected with their religion and Is something of a vassalage or serf dom, and not slavery, as known in tills country. He thinks it a subject that should remain untouched until it Is understood better. The Moros, he writes, should have a government which they can under stand, and it should be the policy of the United States to let it alone, but to make each sultan and datto re sponsible for the acts of his people. "He cannot afford," he says, "to tear down their established form of go eminent without giving them something better, and 1 fear it will he a long time before this can be done." The Maclu campaign has had a convincing effect as to the possibility of natives escaping punishment when they commit depredations. Captain Pershing says the Moros have some admirable traits of char acter. "Once a f'iend iliey all go to the limit for you." They are indus trious and have splendid rice fields and oilier' agricultural crops. The country Is capable of great things from an agricultural standpoint. The country Is somewhat liktUlie Mohawk valley and the whole district can be compared to that about Lake George. Captain Pershing says that he be lieve! the troops could march around the lake now and he received in a friendly spirit everywhere except at Bacolod. Ho has a number of re liable secret service Moros and they' inform him of the conditions and feelings among their countrymen. He says there are about 75,000 peo ple that live in that region and they are in a fair way to become real friends He says this Is an achievement lie would be proud of, and is almost ready to promise it, adding: "Though we may encounter some old hard headed savage to whom we shall have to administer a severe, lesson, in order to teach him and' others what we can do." Captain Pershing, In conclusion,, savs It is the most interesting woilt ho has yet had in' the army and he hopes to remain and be permitted to work out the problem. He thinks that a military government for a long time to come is the only one for the Moros. In reply to the inquiry of the sec retar of war stating that ihe press had alleged that governor Taft bad dysentery, a cablegram was iccelved from Governor Taft today containing the Information that he has been un der treatment for weeks recovering from an attack of dysenetry. Exam ination last Saturday indicated that the treatment had been succesful. Later examination Indicated that he needed rest and by the advice of Ills physician would letnaln in bed for a couple of weeks to secure It. His strength and appetite were reported good. - Orrgon Murderer hanged ' rot Hand. Ore, March US. A. L. h hUu was hanged in the county jail yard Ibis morning. lie, died In seventeen minutes after tho drop fell. Ileldlng murdered his wire, his mother-in-law, Mrs. McCroskey and Frank Woodward,.! uly 12. the killing being due lo lealousy of HeUIIng, who resented Woodward's attentions Of Mrs. Ileldlng. lidding also shut his rather In-law, Lemuel McCroskey am railed lo kill him. GREAT FIGHT IS ON. evoittttes Is FuBSwtsf la Saato Doadago Rebels la Full Possesstos. San Domingo, Republic of Santo Domingo, March 24. The revolution ists hare attacked and captured one of the forts defending this citr. Man? men were killed on both sides. The fighting continues. The garrison at Fort San Carlos, about two miles from this city, bas declared itself In favor of the revolu tionists. President Vasquez is absent in the Interior of the republic. General Peppin at the head of a force of revolutionists, attacked the fort at 1 o'clock this afternoon and released the political prisoners. Many persons have been killed or wounded in the streets. The stores are all closed and business is at a standstill. Serious consequences are expected to result from the lighting between the government forces and the revolu tionists. The revolutionists are in full possession of the city of San Domingo. They have taken charge of the cable ofllce and of the government land lines. Foreign Minister Sanhez has sought refuge In '.he United , Slates consul ate. The fighting continues. Assistant Governor Echenlque and the commander of the government forces, General Pena.have been killed. It is expected that the government troops outside the city will attack the revolutionists who are In San Do mingo. General Wos Gil has assumed com mand of the. revolutionary forces. The number of men killed or wound ed is not known, but it is reported many have been killed on both sides. Washington, March 24. United States Consul General Maxwell, at San Domingo, has cabled the state department that a revolution has broken out in that city, and at the hour he sent the cablegram heavy fir ing was in progress. No Foundation For Charges. Washington, March 24. Secretary Root today took official action on the charges made by Estes G. Rathbone against Brig. Gen. Leonard Wood. He made an endorsement on the papers, saying that i.j answer to the charges was required from General Wood and no action will be taken thereon; that is was known to the secretary of war that the charges in every respect were without just foun dation. The secretary refers to the part taken by the military governor in the poitofflce cases in which Rath bone was defendant, saying that General Wood at every step had the approval of the secretary of war and exercised only such control as was necessary as military governor. lie refers to the game of "ja alai" and declares that the gift accepted by General Wood had do relation what ever of any olllcial action of his. hut was part of the expression of grati tude of the Cuban people- toward the representative of tho United States, and to have refused the gift would have been discourteous and unjusti fiable, The action of the customs officials In reference to the ift, the secretary says, was strictly in acccordance with the law and official propriety. The indorsement closes as follows: "There Is no foundation for the charges. ' ' Qas Explodes in a nine. Springfield, 111., March 24. A ter rible explosion of gas in the mine of the Athens Coal company at Athens, Menard county, twenty miles north of Springfield, today resulted in the death of six men and one being ser iously injured. An entry in the mine bad been for some time stopped up on account of gas, and this morning an attempt was made to open it by drilling another entry, In order to allow air to enter and the gasto escape. While engaged in this work a miner flied.tbrougli to the stopped tip cham ber, causing a terrific explosion ol gas, which had accumulated in the chamber. Nine men were In the mine and as a result of tbe explosion six ware killed outright and ona was badly Injured. Two men escape! Some of (he men killed were 100 feet away from where the explosion oc curred. Iowa Having a Snowstorm. Des Moines, la., March 24. Dur ing the night three Indies of snow fell Inrouyhout Des Moines valley, lleonrt from all over the slate indi cate that the storm is general but the rallroarlswlll not experlenceany diffi culty, unless it should turn sudd nly cold and freeze. Peoria, 111., March 24. Today a -heavy, wet snowstorm started to fall in considerable quantities. ; Fire at Ormid Rapids, fitch Grand Rapids. Mich., March 24.- Flre at the large greenhouse plant of Henry Smith, Just west of this city, resulted in the loss of one life and $53,000 dimago to properly today. The blaie started In the boiler room, Jiresumably from the explosion of a antern carried by Daniel McQueen, one of the employes who was after wards found dead. The flames spread to the boarding houso where tho em- Sloyes lived and then to tbe other uildlDtJB. WltLDS AN AXE SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN THE HAMLET OF HSKDALE. MASS. MOTHER KILLS CHILDREN CRUSHES IN THEIR HEADS AND TAKES HER OWN LIFE. NEIGHBORS PUT OUT FIRE Shuts Off Metss of Escape sad Sets Fire to the House-Blackened Corpses of Five Fousd la a Closet. Sturridge, Mass., March 25. A frenzied mother in the little hamlet of Fiskdale, after cuttting off every means of escape by fastening windows and doors, crushed in the heads of her four little children Wednesday, threw their bodies into a closet, scat tered oil over them and herself and then, after setting all on fire closed her awful work and her own life by cutting her throat. It was Mrs. Peter Burk,;aged thirty-four the wife of a machinist,' who committed the fearful deed and her victims were Lilla, six years old; William, five years old; Louise eight een months, and Mary, live months old. That the woman had previously shown signs ot mental derangement, seems to be admitted, but that it should have taken such a violent form was not even thought of by her husband, now completely prostrated "r her own relatives. But for the accidental discovery of the tire, the deed of tbe mother might have been hidden forever from the world by the destruction of the house, Two boys happened to be passing the house when they saw smoke com ing from a window. They burst in the doors and tried to put out the lire with buckets of water, but it gained on them so fast that they were obliged to run for help. The neighbors prevented the flames from reaching above the first floor. Up to that lime no one knew of the tragedy, liut on looking into a closet, a blackened mass was seen. In this heap were the bodies of Mrs, Burke and her four children. The head of each of the children was split open, while the cause of the mother's death was seen in the gaping wound in her throat. From tho appearance of the room and position of the bodies, it would seem as if Mrs. Burke had first cut off every means of escape for the little i ones oy nailing down tne winaows, ! and locking all the doors. The weap on with which she crushed out the 1 life of ner offspring was a large axe. Mrs. Burke must have dragged all the children into the closet and then poured kerosene oil upon their cloth ing, about the walls and upon hers 'If. The tire had so completely chaired the woodwork and the flooring that no blood spots could be found. The boaios of three of the children were burnt almost beyond recognition, but that of Louise was only scorched. The body of Mrs. Burke was also badly burned, but this did not hide the wound on her throat. As soon as the tire was discovered in his house Mr. Burke waw noli lied and arrived just as the bodies were found. lie fainted from the. shock. Friends say the family has always been a happy one. A Hystericus Message riattsmouth, Neb., March 25. Somc young men who were recently hum log on a small islanl below the Burlington bridge fotitvl an old whis ky bottle which contained a rathei strange message, The attention ol the young men was first allracted by the fact that the cork of the bottle was securely fastened with a wire. When the cork was removed a sheet of ordinary writing paper, neatly folded was brought out. Naturally the curiosity of the young men was thoroughly aroused, and for the next half hour they were engaged in de ciphering about as strange a letter as they had ever tackled. At the top of the page were the words "My last drink. "It was dated "Omaha, September 4, 1802." and signed with the letters "J. W. S. " The writer had evidently been very much addict ed to the liquor habit, Among other things he stated that the foolish habit had ruined his home and made his life so unhappy that he had about decided to end It all by the iniclde route. Probably the most pathetic part of the letter was the writer's account of how he had gone on a protracted spree of from one to two weeks, leaving his wire and little child at hom , hungry and ill- clad. "Yesterday, the writer con tinned," my wife and child disnp peanut I do not blame them for leaving nie. I now intend to search for them, and if I fall in my search I will cast myself Into the river Just like I Intend to cast away this bottle and the mess ige 1 am now writing, Editor Struck By Train Wllber, Nebr., March 2. William IT. Stout, editor of the DeWItt Inde pendent, had a miraculous escape front instant death here this even inc. He was attempting to cross the railroad track from the east side in order to take the train home , Just as the train was approaching. lie miscalculated the distance and was struck as ho was stepping ovcrj the last rail. His right leg waa broken squaicly of? at the ankle. cHebraska Notes The postofflcee at Birch, Pieroe county, Neb., has been discontinued. Claude C. Campbell of Clay Center, bas been appointed a railway Ball clerk. Edwin R. Pease has been appelat ed substitute clerk at tbe Freaneat postoflice. May 1st an additional free deliraty route will be established at Gretas, in Sharpy county. Tbe Omaha Builders' Exchange; with a capital stock of 5,00Q was in corporated last week. Henry L.Lowery has been appoint ed postmaster at Ricbfl Id, Share? county, vice A. Becker resigned. Articles of incorporation have Wean filed by the Sampson and Qualla Min ing Co., of Omaha. The capital stock is fixed at $10,000. J. W. Jones, the Burlington yarn" master had his band badly crushed while making a coupling. He will lose the third and fourth fingers. G vernor Mickey signed II. R. No. 152 which reduces the members of the board of education" from nine to five members, and the bill is now a law. Joseph Fehringerof Humphref will probably lose his arm as the result of falling from the wagon and breaking; it wbile on his way home from town the other night. The postoflice at Rescue, Saunders county, and Olson, Fremont cootrtf have been re-established with Mary Palensky and Fred B. Morris noat masters, respectively. The Rev. Father Carney, priest ef St. John's church at Plattsmon ia very ill. An attack of the grip was followbed by erysipelas and a retnrn of heart trouble, and it is feared that he cannot recover. After a married life of one week John Johnson 78 years of age, a resi d n of Mead, left his bride Wh bad been Christina Peterson, si-ftf-two years old, and passed to "That bonme from whence no traveler e'er returns.1' Tom Himburger and John lelley the two men who held up and robbed -Everett Carmicbael of 8iW in Wy more recently were each sentenced to three years in the penitenbiaay by Judge Stull. Charles Miller a hoy of sixteen yeais of age, who was impli cated in the robbery, was sentenced to the reform school. Announcement has been aiaAe of the secret marriage in Rockford,Md.. on March 16 of Ernest H.Coolidge of Wa ihington and Miss Jean M. Tnurs toti.daughter of former United States- cv. . rrri . . . . . 9 V .. i 1 T OL'nutui j-iuiaouu ui ncuiasna. lu u satement made by Mr. Thurston, the bride's father, it was said tbe young couple had been engaged for seme tirr.e with the entire approval of their respective families. Miss Thnrwton is 17 years old. The Citizens' State Bank at Wisner have been authorized t con vert into the Citizens National Bank er Wisner, with $50,000 capital. Norman T. Bliss, a prominent farmer was shot and instantly killed by William T. Turley. Tbe killing occured on Bliss' farm, three miles uorth of Shelton, and was the culmi nation of a quarrel over a number of hogs, which were trespassing in Bliss' corn field. Bliss and Turley occupy adjoining farms. When the body of F. P. Bloom, the stock farmer of Stewart, who was found dead at his home, was examianed by the coroner, a bullet hole was discovered in the right temple. The jury returned a verdict of suicide. Fire entailing a loss of about $19,000 destroyed the plant ef the Norfolk Press and badly damaged tbe sur rounding property. The newspapet office and equipment was totally des troyed. The building was owned by G. A. Luikhart and P. F. Spreacher. The latter was also proprietor of ths paper. The loss on building and con tents Is estimated at about 18,000 with 14,000 Insurance. MONEY TO COOK8. $7,5O0.OO Donated, to Ba ntrtdad Among; Family Cooka, The sum of $7,500.00 will be distrib uted betwena now and uiidaummer among fundi? coaki, in 732 prises ranging (reos J.'O'O to (0.00. Tin la dons ta stimulate better cook ing in the family kitchen. The contest Ii oprn to paid cooka (drop tha name "hired girl," cn 11 them cooka If tbey dew-rye It) or to the mintreaa of tbe house hold if ahc doea the cooking. Tbe rules for contest arc plxlu and simple. Each of the 735 winnera of money prizes will alio receive an engraved certificnte of merit or diploma aa a cook. The dlplo m fin bear the big gilt aeal and aignstura of the most famous food company in tho world. The Poatum Cereal Co., I td., of Buttle Creek, Mid., the well-known makers of Poatum Coffee and CJrnpe Nuta. Write them and addreaa Cookurj Dept. No, 4K7, for full particulars. This remarkable contest among cooks to win the money prizes and diplomas will give thotiaanda of families better mid mora delicious meals as weH as cleaner kitchens and s general Improve ment In ths culinary department, for ths cooka must shew marked skill snd better ment in service to win. Great some el money devoted to such enterprises al ways result In putting humanity fnrthot along on the road to civilisation, comfort snd happiness.