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TOjPTCS OF THE TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER ESTlNQ ITEMS. Coaacata mmd Crltlclaa Baaed Up a Ilia Happenings of the Dajr-IJistorl-cal and Ncwl Notes. Don't fail to Inspect Central Amer ica's show windows for the . latest my led lu revolutions. vaycagnl I now n chevalier of the ,rder i.f .Si.vi.iy. Is this anything tliat iiin te used a h collateral? Well, well, they are going to drive the Turk out of Europe again. This is positively worse than the I'attl fare well. T.e mm ; privll ni!t!i In iii'h deputies will bp loath to ..; . i ;i of their most prized j.-y, that of slapping an oppo laee in I lie chamber. Now comes the news that the Chi nese Dowager Rmprcss 1ms started a : r l:i I'e'. inc. It's hard to keep a dowas.T like tliat In her eoflin. In iiicinuclmly moments a fellow tu netltues gets to wondering what pi-cple would say If he should whip liie preacher who married him. Madam Vale says that ugliness Is sin. We are eating four kinds of breakfast food and wiggling our ears for physical exercise. There may be hope. The l'residi ut Is said to be a poor fisherman. The strenuosity that un fits hlin for Ashing, however, Is prob ably what makes him a successful hunter. "Kind words," like kind hearts, are more than coronets, but you can't buy a gallon of kerosene with them. The Hockefellers, father and son, give the country a pain. At last accounts Mr. Rockefeller had not written a check for $1,000,000 In payment of a bill for a new stomach. I'erhaps the new stomach factories are behind with their orders. Kublno gets a life sentence for miss ing the King of Belgium three times. We shudder to contemplate what might have been his deserts had he fired a few more shots In the same place. A Montana suicide took morphine, strychnine and cocaine. He should then have jumped into a river and hot himself during the descent. There Is nothing like making sure about these matters. The segregation of the sexes at Chi cago University Is said to have result ed In "a frowsier lot of students." It Is possible, however, that Professor Triggs has merely been making the students hair stand on end by some new remarks. The statement of a Russian artiller 1st that yellow spectacles enable gun ners to make bigger scores may lead to the discovery that the reporters for the sensational papers wear glasses of this hue; for they manage to see so many things not evident to the naked eye. The London Lancet has Issued a solemn warning against the Insidious American quick lunch, which threat ens to Invade the British metropolis, There seems to be a rear that our quick lunch will finish what stomach the railway buffet has left the op pressed Britisher. The late Archbishop of Canterbury lost his father when he was a boy and supported himself from the age of 17. Talking to a company of worklng inen, he described the privations be had known. To be unable to afford a tire and to be cold, daya and nights, was a part of bis experience. Patched clothes and patched shoes were famil iar acquaintances. Adverse cliciim nt'ances did not conquer him. The rca on Is suggested by the remark, "I could plow as straight a furrow a any man In the parish." He waa a hard worker until he was stricken with death. The struggling, tolling boy was father of the man. Let us hope that Germany has ad vanced lu liberalism and has develop ed a deeper longing for free Institu tions since Bismarck's day. It has a broader conception of Individual Inde pendence and duty and a more general knowledge of our own political maxims and Institutions. Its musses are learn ing that government was Instituted fur Hie benefit of the people, not pampered and polluted princes and war lords, and that when It falls In the objects for which It was Instituted It becomes a worthless and costly Incubus and its form should be changed. Tho princi ples Of Thomas Jefferson ore ferment ing everywhere and will ultimately fill he world with republics, not with des potisms. The Engineering News has been In vestigating the patented preparations that arc alleged to make fuel last longer or give out more heat, and It finds that one seel(lc, sold at elghly cents n pound, Is composed chlelly of common salt, and all the lugredienls cost a little more than n rent a pound. Apropos of another, which is claimed to assist combustion by supplying free oxygen to the fire, the NewsVuggeeta that the best supply ef oxygen la to be found In the atmosphere, and eatlmatet that twenty-seven hundred pounds of the patented compound would have to lie shoveled Into the furnace with every ton of coal to tako the place ef a proper draft of air. One might sum up the rwv.lt f tk Isqvtry by say- Ins that good drafts will make II rely fires, good fires will give out sufficient heat, nud good senso Ih the surest fuel naver although, to be sure, odo can not buy, it for anything like eighty cent 8 a pouud. Mississippi, the State which furnish ed a head for the Confederate govern ment and was the second to Join in the movement for secession, has recently built In fact, has Just completed a new cnpltol. The State Secretary mark ed the occasion by sending to Mr. Rob ert T. Lincoln a letter which shows, perhaps, as plainly as anything which has ever been written, the attitude of the new South: "We of the South now realize the greatness and goodness of the character of Abraham Lincoln, and would honor his memory. Nothing that we could do would add to his fame. We can, however, show our re spect and love for him. I'ernilt me, therefore, in the name of the State, to invite you to place a portrait of Presi dent Lincoln In the new capltol of Mis sissippi, that it may symbolize his love for his country, his devotion to duty, and his heartfelt sympathy for the Soul hern people." Kvery such Inci dent as this meets, as It merits, a warm response from the hearts of Northern people, and strengthens the bond of sympathy and good understanding be tween ail parts of the country. Sir Kdward Clarke recently created a commotion in English literary circles by asserting that there has been a steady decline in the nrt of fiction writ ing since the days of Dickens. Mn Oosse promptly rallied to the defense! of the contemporary novelists, where upon Mr. Birrell attacked Mr. (jossq all In the columns of the staid Lon don Times. Others took sides, and altogether the Rmoke of battle had risen high enough to become a matteil of cable news. An American physi cian has recently written a book on dyspepsia In which he enumerate among the sure symptoms of that dis ease the victim's confirmed belief that no book worth reading has appeared since he was a boy. It might be well to send Sir Edward Clarke a copy of "How Can I Cure My Indigestion?" His view of literature Is a case for tho doctors rather than for the critics. It is hard to see how any thocghtful reader can be Insensible to the fact that English nnd American fiction Is Improving and not deteriorating. The mere fact that the year 1002 produced no great novel should not obscure the fact. As Bliss Perry, the editor of The Atlantic, says In his illuminating "Study of Prose Fiction," novel writ ing Is the great modern art, and the novel tills an ever increasing place In the life of the civilized nations. The mere fact that It does so Is proof that It Is a better reflex of life than Jt was even a generation ago. It can also be demonstrated that the novelists have Improved in the technic of their art. Mr. Alden, the London correspondent, makes a poor defense of a valid cause when he says that readers today pre fer Stevenson to Dickens and Mere dlth to Thackeray. He Is wrong. No single author of our time has yet equal ed Dickens, Scott or Thackeray, and it Is foolish to pretend that they have. But It Is equally foolish to deny that the average fiction of to-day Is far su perior, both In artistic construction and In human versltnilltuile, to the av erage fiction of fifty years ago. A RIP-ROARING TIME. Jim Cutler anil HI Wife En Route to the Circaa. There was a circus In Greenville, 8. C, the day I rode out of town, nod for several miles along the road I met people in wagons or on foot who were going In to see the show. Among those on foot were two old people man and wife belonging to the "cracker" class, and as I halted to give them good-day the old man Inquired: "Stranger, did yo' sec anything of that circus In town?" "I saw something of the procession," I replied. "It was parading the streets as 1 left." "Was thar an elephant In that pro cession?" I think there was. Yes, I'm sure of it." "Was he a bnstln' big feller?" "Pretty good size. Yes." "As big as that bill over yan?" "Oh, no." "As big ns that barn?" "No. He was simply an ordinary, full-grown elephant." But big enough to give a feller a tussle, eh?" continued the man. He's nil of that, but you don't think of tussling with him, do you?" That's Jest what I do, snh. Mary and me has set out fur Greenville to see the circus and hev n rlp-roarln' old day of It. I'm gwlne to walk right up to that yere elephant nnd grab him by his tusks and flop him on his back, and Mary's gwlne to Jump Into the cir cus ring and do more standln' on her head and fllp-floppln' around than nil the fBpflnpper put together. Mary, turn a cart-wheel fur the stranger." The woman stepped back and did the trick very fairly, and as she straightened up with ti smile on her face the jld limn proudly said: "She kin keep It up fur half a mile, null, and with my fleppln' that elephant on Ms back and Mary tunilu' cart wheels around the ring, we'll wake up things anil let the (own of Greenville know that old Jim Culler and his wifa nr' Mill on hand ami haven't lost any of their taste fur coon meat." Arcile l'.ploriiilon n Mport. A German geographer complains that north pole exploration Is lu danger of j degenerating Into a spni't, In which the establishment of "records" Is the main thing. Would yon sleep In n haunted hooM one night for Mio' HOT MUCH F0A SHOW. Mouse Allows $35,000 For St. Louis Enesl- tloa-Elevstor Bill it List. Lincoln, Neb., March 31. Measures of great Intetest were disposed of In the legislature Monday. The bouse reduced the appropriation for the St. Louis exposition from $75,000 to 15, 300, refused to concur In the senate amendments to the general revenue bill and appointed Messrs. Douglas, Thomp n ;iu I Morsman as a confer ence com in It tec.. Governor .Mickey sent a special bill to the house for the purpose of enabling counties to collect delinquent taxes by the sale of property for taxes. The senate has not yet appointed a conference committee to consider the revenue bill. It is probable that the Joint conference will recommend that4.hr; maximum state levy remain at 7 mills as determined by the house, instead of 5 mills as called for by the senate amendment. The senate did a big day's work In one short afternoon. It approved the Ramsey elevator bill in committee of the whole, passed a bill appropri ating $100,000 for the rebuilding of the Norfolk asylum and In committee of the whole approved an appropri ation of $100,000 for improvements at the agricultural college. Much to the surprise of every one the univer sity authorities asked that the amount be taken fiom the one mill levy that goes to the university. The bill was amended accordingly. The taking of this money from the fund raised by taxation instead of from the general fund of the state will probably consume the entire fund and the governor will not recommend a decrease in the levy. It will delay the construcion of buildings at the college farm one year. At the end of the two years if the one mill levy under the new revenue law proves ex cessive it can be reduced. The house spent a large portion of its session yesterday in the consider ation of the St. Louis exposition ap propriation, j lie. tun lor ibis ap propriation as introduced by Mr. Rouse carried a $75,000 grant from the state. The house after declining too indefinitely postpone the measure first voted down a preposition to ap propriate $25,000 and then voted down a proposition to appropriate $50,000. The sum of $:!5,(.l)0 was then agreed to. On roil call on a proposi tion not to agree to this sum but to postpone the bill, 25 voted aye and 49 voted no. A number of members de clined to vote who will le placed on record on the linal passage of tho measure The house declined to amend a bill providing for strict examinations of applicants for doctor's corifiuates. A proposition to exempt from examina tion those graduates from slate col leges who have mutiiciilaled uruhr the present law, was kiih.d. The amendment was championed by Douglas of Rock county and was quite vigorously opposed by the phy sicians on the floor of the house. The house appointed a conference committee on the senate amendments to the revenue hill. Speaker Moekett naming Douglas of Rock, Thompson, Df Merrick and Morsman, of Douglas on his committee. The senate will appoint three members of the revenue committee for this purpose when the request Is made for a conference to day. Husband I Shot Dead. New York. March .11. Filled with Jealous anger at finding another man being entertained by his wife this afternoon, William J. l'ennler. of East One-Hundred and Nineteenth street threw the visitor out into the hall, fought him ftom the third floor to the front door of the apartment house In which he lived, with the wile screaming and weeping at their heels, and was there shot dead by the man who he thought, had wronged him. " This man was William Earl Dobson, a cashier in a slock-broker's nfllee. He fled and the police have sent out general alarm for him Peppier was about twenty-six years old and a clerk. lie had not been married long. After being revived Mrs. Peppier, who had fainted, said that she and Dobson were together when her hus band returned unexpectedly from work mid a fight followed, resulting In Dobson being thrown out of the. room and puisued down stairs by her husband. In the, lower hall the men clinched again and Dobson fired one shot. A'ter that the woman remem bered nothing, for she fainted. Dobson Is said to be a married man with a wife and two children living wmewhero In Noith Carolina. " Kentucky liners flay Strike. Louisville. Ky., March . 'II. The re present at Ives of operators and miners of western Kentucky, who spent nearly nil of last week In nn attempt to settle, the wage question for the coming year, resumed the conference today. The miners' wige scale em pires at midnight tomortow( If the! joint committee.!! fall to reach a set-1 tlement the miners say they will! strike for nn Increase of 14 per cent, but the operator are not willing to concede this much. KEEPON HANGING SENATE DECLINES TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY. BILL FOR NORMAL PASSES IT C0ES THROUGH THE EASILY HOUSE VERY PASS APPROPRIATION BILL Two bit Atcropriatloo Bills Pass the House Second Pure Food Bill Passes the Senate. Lincoln, Neb., April L They may keep right on "hangin' men and women" in Nebraska so far as the state senate is concerned, but after all they do not hang many men and no woman was ever hanged in the state. Senator Wall's bill 'for the abolition of the death penalty was indefinitely postponed in the senate after a lengthy discuss! n. The pres ent law permits a jury to determine whether the punishment for murder in the first degree shall he imprison ment for life or the death penalty. Governor Mickey, who declined to Interfere with the execution of Neig enfind, the double murderer of Pierce county, was present during most of the argument. No count was made, hut a roll call would have shown twenty-two in favor of the present law and twelve in favor of abolish ing the gallows. The Joint conference committee on the general revenue law agreed on the most of the senate amendments, including a limit of C mills for a state tax, hut the report was not presented to either house. The senate passed the second pure food bill, S. F. 85. In tho house the salary appropria tion bill, carrying $1)95,000, was passed, also the current expense bill, carrying $l,8u0,00 for the continuance of state institutions. II. II. No. 1, for the location of u new state nor mal school in the western part of the state, went through with only four teen votes against it. A bill prohib iting trap shooting was also passed by the house. The joint revenue conference com mittee held a session yesterday and easily came to an agreement. The Important, amendments of the senate were allowed. to stand. The reduc tion of the geneial levy is one of these which will go through. In only four minor places was there a change of Importance. Th house would have conctnvd in the repoit had it been .certain that the amendments pro posed by the committee were printed before the vote was taken. One woid in the s. ct.ion affecting franchise coipoiath ns was stricken lrom the Mil which iieitherjthc house nor senate had taken out and this was regarded by some of the lawyers members as an original amendment. Representatives of the franchise cor porations were on h.iiid watching the procedure and assert that ground has been left for attacking t his section of the hill a roll call was stopped to per mit printing the amendments. C. M. Rigg, acting for the Omaha Street Railway companv, made a de mand on the clerk of the house last evening that the record show that the roll call was begun and stopped to permit other business to be trans acted. It Is likely that the matter will bo called up today for correction unless the records show the interrup tion at least Mr. Rigg said he would have the correction made from the floor of the house today. Clerk Bar nard mnde;up the record to show that Mr. llamard moved to concur in the senate amendments and that Mr. Douglas next moved to defer action pending the printing of the amend ments, no reference being nnde to roll call. . The sen ite memfiers of the con ference c tninit tee are lirown, lVm berton ami Anderson. Those of the house are Douglas, Thompson and Morsman. The big appropriation hill passed In the house yesterday. II. R. 374 the salaries bill, carrying an appro priation of $'.)!)5,0oo received but one negative vole. II. It. No. 440. the current expenses bill, cinyng an ap propriation of ll.wio.ooo passed by a vote of 72 to 8. Tne house put in the entire (lay passing bills. The senate hill No. :il by lYmberlon pro viding for legalizing the new Cobbcy st, .lutes, passed as old Senator Shel don's hill No.5, providing for the ex amination of applicants for license fo practice medicine by boird of physi cians of their own si hool. Miss (lould Cnnnot Attend. St. Louis, April 1. -Illness will prevent Helen Miller Could from at tending the World's fair dedication ceremonies In si. Louis April .10. She had planned to come to St. Louis at that time and to bring a party of guests with her, but at the direct Ion of her physician she has cancelled the arrangements for the trip, so a letter received here today announces. MIm Qould It a member of tho W rld't fair board of lad nan cNebraska Notes Colonel C. J. Bills of Fairbury, on bis way to New York, stopped for a few hours in Lincoln Tuesday. William Crozier of Weeping Water and Miss Carrie Mesarvey of Lincoln, were married Saturday evening at the Congregational parsonage by Dr. M. A. -.Bullock. Mrs? Eliazbeth McCoy, an old resi dent of Arlington, died this morning after a brief illness. She was seventy-eight yeais old, and a civil war widow. Heart failure was the imme diate cause of her death. The school board at Long Pine has elected the following teachers: Prin cipal, T. L. Knight; grammar, Mar garet, Stevenson of Lincoln; primary, Martha White. Other positions wcra left open for ten days and a raise o salary was made in all the rooms. Justice of the Peace John II. Smith of Humboldt, yesterday afteri oon performed the ceremony which unit d the lives of Riley O'Keefe, a well known young man of that city and Mrs. May Doran of Peru. The ecu pi went to housepkeeping at once in the south part .pf the city. At the home of the bride's parents at Osceola, on Sunday aftrenoon, Miss Kttie Itumrncl and Clarence Kidder were married. The ceremony was performed in the presence of relatives and a few friends by the Rev. J. W. Ernbree, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church of Osceola. The two men injured in the Uniin Pacific wreck last evening are doing well. Mrs. S.F. Morse of Omaha was also hurt. The cause of the wreck is said to have been Engineer Voss of the extra freight trying to make the switch on the time of No.3, the west bound passenger train. At the meeting of the Northwest Nebraska Teachers' association yes terday a resolution was adopted thanking the house of representatives for the pasasge of house roll No. 11, providing for another state normal school to be erected in the west-central portion of the state. A. W, Richardson a well known young man of David City is lying at the point of death with an acute at tack of Brights disease and all hopes of recovery have been abandoned. Mr. Richardson was court reporter for Judge Sedgwick of the supreme court while he was on the bench. "Sam" Paine, an old soldier and member of the Odd Fellows' lodge, was buried at Waterloo. The old soldiers were pall bearers. The Odd Fellows took charge of the burial sermon. He is an old resident hi re and his loss is sincerely mourned. He was sick but live days with pneu monia. A special freight on the R. & M. following the regular Lincoln passen ger, was wrecked last night just west of Nebraska City. Four cats went into the ditch and the sudd n jerk, threw Charles Schenck and William Windsor, both btakenien.off thetr.iir. Although badly bruised and shaken they are not seriously injured. Albert Keller, manager of the elec tric plant at Albion, was instantly killed yesterday attetnoon. While working on the cross wires of a polo near the Union Pacific depot he en countered a live wire. As he was strapped to the wire, his body hung In mid air until it was taken down hy passersby. The body will be sent to Lawrence for burial. " Etta lirown, superintendent of Cherry county, M. A. Fennel, super intendent of Thurston county, J. M. Richardson, superintendent of An telope county, J. W. Searson, super intendent of the schools at Wahoo, George llurkett.principal of the Kear ney high school, and C. It Atkinson, city superintendent at York, were visitors at the oilier? of Si ate Super intendent Fowler Tuesday. L. R. Burrow, a well known farmer living several miles northeast of Humboldt, while trimming hed e the Oilier day, caught the ax handle In the brush and the blade glanced, striking him across the back of the left hand, cu'ting a gash which re quired several stitches at the hands of a surgeon to repair. The cones and tendons were not severed so ho will retain the use of the member. Mrs. McCatcheon. one of the odlest residents of Boone county, died yes terday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Clark, aged Rt. She, with her husband and family, moved to this rounty early in the '0's and sett'ed nt St. Edwards, where her husband tiled about thirteen years ago. She was Ihe mother of ex-Senator Mc Culchcon of this county. Tho funer al will be held In St. Edwards Friday. Jesse llarton of Raymond had a lively experience with a ruraway last evening lie was bitching up a team of ponies at Smith's livery simile of Kslreetand was standing .at their heads when they became frightened and started to run. Afler bring dragged for some distance he manag ed by means of a neckyoke to secure his body fiom the danger of 'tho horses' feet and rode In that position until tho team was stooped on Twelfth street. Whole-Wheat Bread. Dissolve a cake of compressed yeast In a gill of lukewarm water. Pour Into U bowl a pint of milk and stir into it a pint of boiling water. Add a teaspoon, ful each of salt and sugar and wheu the liquid is bloodwarm add the yeast Stir in a quart of whole-wheat flour, or enough to make a batter. Beat foi nearly ten minutes, then beat in enough hour to make a dough that can b kneaded. Turn upon a floured board and knead for ten minutes and set to Wse with a towel over it. At the end of three hours knead for five minutes, make into loaves, knead each of these for two minutes and set to rise fot about an hour before baking in a steady oven. Fried Cabbage. Cut the cabbage very fine on a slaw cutter, if possible; sprinkle salt and pepper over it, stir well, and let stand for five minutes. Have an iron saaec pau smoking hot, drop one tablespaon ful of lard into it, then the cabbage, stirring briskly until quite tender. Heat one cup of sweet cream, stir it well, and after taking from the stve, beat into It three tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Pour over the hot cabbage iind serve immediately. There Is no offensive odor in cooking this. Boiled Rice. To a cup of rice allow two quarts boiling water. Wash the rice and pick over carefully. Have the water sHght ly salted and at a hard boil while yon drop in the rice. Hoil steadily, with out stirring, until each grain is tender. Drain in a heated colander, shake hard and stand at the side of the range foi live minutes before heaping In a warm vegetable dish. Each grain should stand separate from every other. Ksjk-Plant Fritters. Cut the egg-plant in quarters ano boil In salted water till tender, then scrape It out of the shell and beat till smooth. Have ready a thin batter bite which stir the egg-plant, and fry ou a soapstone griddle or drop into a kettle of hot lard or cottolene. Place a dilej on the dish in which they are served, to absorb tho grease. These are deli cious and very delicate. Oyster Gumbo. To one quart of oyster juice add on pint of boiling water; boil ten minutes, then add two lablespoonfuls of dried finely pulverized leaves of the sassa fras tree; boil twenty minutes, then add the oysters. Season with sntt and cayenne pepper. Serve very hot. Cheese Hint-nit. Into a pint of prepared flour rub a heaping tablespnonful of butter and a ! half-teaspoonful of salt. Moisten wita j enough rich milk to make a dough thai can be rolled out. Roll into a sheet a quarter-inch thick, cut into rounds and bake. Ki8 Hindoo F,tyle. Roll hard, cut In half lengthwise, r move yolks, and mash them fine with grated ham, butter, pepper, aaH and mustard to taste. Refill each half, brown in the oven, and serve hat oa toast. Indian Puffs. Scald a pint of milk and pour it ovea a pint of Indian meal; add a hrt ol cold milk, three eggs, with the white and yolks beaten separately, and a lit tie salt. Bake In a heated gem-faa. Cornmeal Mush. Wet a cup of Indian meal with cold water, stir It Into two quarts at cold ;water, add salt to taste and htl fot two hours, beating up often frwu thd bottom of the saucepan. Savlnic Grain. Horses at moderate farm work cai be kept In good condition on partlj cured clover and one-third the nauai grain ration. We have been trying toil scheme again this year on accotmt ol the high price of feed, and I am aura the horses are satisfied with the ap rangemetit, says Alva Agee, In Nation al Stockman. They like the greea clover better than the cured, and a single cutting keeps for several dayi In piles In the barn. The carlloxt col strip of clover has given Its second crop this Rummer, and there Is almosi no slobbering from Its use. The liarsea could do more work on dry feed donbb less, but they do nil we want them ta do, nnd they enjoy the feed, while tha expense of feed this summer scema practically nothing, ns we do not Ilka to sell clover nnd pens off (he farm, nnd they are Improving the soil for a succeeding crop. Fran I in Mixed Kccria. Farmers are getting shy of the mix ed feeds now ou the market. It ap pears Unit some of the feeds contain a good deal of ground bulls or corn cdIih, or other sulistaucen not very fnfc teiilng In their tendency. As a result of recent analyses nt the Massachu setts Kxperinientnl Station, many mix ed feeds were found to be serlotlHly iidulternted with ground corncobs, and feeders are especially cautioned ngabist lliein. Bulletin K.ri states which feed lire the most economical to ptirelno-.H, gives the relative values of nil the most Important, concentrates, suggest n a number of satisfactory grain rut Ion, find furnishes much Informal lo about Ihe composition and feeding value ast tondlinentol stock and poultry food . -New England HorMitead.