TOPICS OF THE TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER ESTING ITEMS. CtBoutt Bad Critlciam Baaed Upoa tha Happening ef tb Day Histori cal and Niai Notca. "The only wealth In a cold, dead fcsnd Is that it has jriven away." , As noon n they liejjan to talk of war ai the Kant the Mitvuurl amly gets into the game. We would save lots of time if we would work lu our repentance while ve are deciding to backslide. When labor troubles threaten and ftrikes are coming thick, call Dr. Ar bitration and let him hJ the sick. The Kiiauioh war crop of pension ap tlleatiiitH now fools up 34,210. There re Kill! many years for It to grow. Among other unneccHsary things folkt Ho, they always tell a man he is grow ing bald, when he knew it long before ihey noticed it. Hardly hud Richard Harding Davis disappeared In the fatn8 of the Bal VaitM U-fore Hreathitt County, Ken tucky, expl.-d' d. A Ikij showed a companion how des peradoes shx)t from the hip pocket. J'ri-punrtlons for the companion's fu irni are under way. It is estimated by experts that John Vf. Gmes is worth oidy $25,000,000. This will come as a complete surprise to the public. It was generally wup (sjsed that dates was rich. The Old Order of German Baptists as placed a ban on the telephone bo ra use It gives offense. Koine member f the order must hnve overheard a busy man trying to get central. Kentucky is priding iUelf on the 3eath of a centenarian In his bed. We liazard nothing in saying that he did ot live in either Clay or Breathitt County, where 40 is considered a grnen old age. Andy Carnegie has denied that he is member of the "smart set." Weil, we don't know. Andy was smart enough to get f 300,000,000 worth of old-plated steol bonds. That wasn't o slow. A German professor has discovered an Infallible cure for Insomnia. It Is to be hoped that the cure will make it unnecessary In the future for certain people to go to church for the purpose of getting a little sleep. Ordinary get-rich-quick swindling Is under the ban of the law, but the tSwiliu'er "Who vapltitlijf.f-a wind Miid water as an "industrial" stock is re garded as an astute financier. Why make fish of one and flesh of the other? One of the 1'nlted States weather ob servers puts forth the theory that the veaLher of late has been causing many filicide, murders and other crimes. Why can't some accommodating judge be Induced to Issue an Injunction Against the climate? There was a slight mlsunderfitamllng between Baptists and Me hodlsts of a small. Western town, and some one dynamited the Baptist church by moonlight. That will doubtless heal all discords and bring the brethren Into loving unity again. (kiv. Bailey of Kansas wound up iy marrying a widow who was one of. the swecthnirta of his boyhood. This Knows once more how Important it Is ft'hen the girls throw us over to go ihead ami become great, tt Is general ly safe to conclude that a good many f them will be widows by the time we Become Governors. Judge Mclihlnney, of the St. Ixiols Oounty Circuit Court, holds that "the liunband-bi the head of the family" and' that it Is the wife's duty to live where he wants to live and to do as ne want her to do. The St ly.nils t'ost Dispatch after reading this de ;lion rules that the Judge Is an Ideal tit. Yes, and a bachelor, we should ay.' The Society for the Culiure of Mu ileal Therapeutics in New York Is in castigating the Influence of music in fsrlou distaiM. One enthusiastic amber bell? va that the time will ;otse when musical Instead of mfHnl jrascrlptlorie will h givenThe Old Daken Hucktt" perhaps for delirium tretneos pstleuti, and "Jingle Hells" for sunstroke. No man of flue taste ciii doubt that English letters art Just now in a bad way, despite individual writers who uglntaln the high tradition. The small tut cultivated circle of readers which nade the audience of fonm r writer is warning to exist. It was part of a joblenian's character to have a taste tor and patronage of letters lu tn diyt f our nm-entors; now the arl-(o, ' in the last quarter to which one liml; !or literary cultivation. Measured by the m:ui of hwmnn ire, the world Is not mi very old. Tim vldow of the nyui who wrote "Amer- " 111 1832 died recenfly and a. woni in wikim rather roUKiit in tne war oi He Involution died miVy n few weeks Mrller, It would bike only twenty- fve lives to resell bner to th great aesnr's lime If cnclf lusted wiy ninety fears. Kacli perou In th:'t line could bare keen hi prudmiMOi and hU tue- ci-ixjr. i iiureau found a man on cap !:i l-'ll) who heard Hie guns fired ;it tlic l;,ittlf of Hunker Hill and saw Washington in I!st.ii. j Tho main object of email talk Is to avoid tlm-e distressing pnunes wlil.-k j occur when the attention of tin- life of , the party is momentarily distracted from himself or herself, as the cns may be. It is not designed ;o convey any meaning or really to etitenivn anyixxiy. for If it did either of the things it would naturally degenerate Into mere gossip and there is no tail ing what skeletons might be discov ered when the closet doors yielded Jo the knocking. Even the most profound among us would shrink from hnvi.i,-' anything of thU kind happen -for It might be our closet so In our philoi-o phy we bow to this avmnpllhiii"i.l as a more or less necessary evil, while we sit by in the dignity of silence, which is variously interpreted as st;i pldlty or wisdom, till it is time to v home, meantime ardently wishing th.it we had not come. Women do not iaugh m much : men. They are believed to lie less rich ly endowed than men with a sense of humor, but true or not, that Is not a full explanation. Many humorous, even witty, women hardly get beyond ;t smile. The giggle and the titter are not laughter at all, merely a kind of make-believe, suggestive of sawdust and shavings. It will be a pity if civ ilization banlshefl from the gentle sex that wholesome laugh which still doeth good like a medicine. More than one domestic (rials might lie alleviated or averted by laughter. The housemother, who dropped a dish of potatoes on their way to the kettle, so that they landed in a deep pan of dough rising beside the stove, and who then sat down and laughed till she cried at the funny, helpless air of the half-buried potatoes, had a potent charm against discouragement. To laugh at the blun der of the green maid who, being told to turn the mattreas every day, made the bed first and turned the mattrens afterward, U to forget the annoyance of the moment in the sense of its ab surdity, laughter is a kind of magi cian, or, better Bill!, a fairy. In fact, Mr. Barrle hag a novel scientific ex planation of the origin of fairies in his "The Little White Bird." He says: "When the first baby laughed for the first time, hla laugh broke into a mill ion pieces, and they all went skipping about. That wag the beginning of fairies." Everybody knows that the fairle are the best "mothers' helpers" and houseworkers in the world, and that no well-regulated family can af ford to be without them. Perhaps they; were born of the laughter of grown up folk as well as of that of babies. In that case, the scarcity of fairies now adays may be traced to the infrequen- cy of the langh of the overscrious woman. It is a wonder wmen has necome a commonplace that each of the millions of men and women in the world has an appearance so different from all the others as to be easily recognizable among the throng. The rare exception to the rule, as In the case of those twin brothers one of whom died recently in Boston, is regarded os little short of miraculous, although in reality the miracle Is in the usual unllkeness, in stead of In the occasional likeness. Ta sure, all Chinese look alflce to Amer icans, but It is equally true that all Americans look alike to Chinese. Tha fact doubtless Is that the distinguish ing variations are not the same for the two raee. We look at two Asiatic faces, and seeing them alike where Caucasian faces are different, do not notice the unllkeness In other and un expected details. The prevalent idea that various nations have a type of face is open to discussion. We speak of a typical Irish or Italian face, as if it would !e recognize le under any circumstances. But do not dres, the fashion of wearing hair and board, the (it tit tides due to occupation and the complexion due to climate piny a very larpe part In the composite picture which we call a "type"? Certain It is that although there may be a charac teristic American voice or figure, there is no distinctive American face. This may be accounted for by our mlacella-. neous forbears, but it is quite likely to be explained by our wldeJy varlad IWea and occupation, rven among those l longing to the tame social pline. The tcogiiiaable handwriting of nach man and woman la another curloua nd wonderful fact. Tha forfar bacomaa clever, not by tccldant hot by long and ireT training; and aren be ta soon dlseovarad. Tha sunt! aipreaslon of personality which la tha work of Uia bruin dictating to tha aenartiva hand Is as mried tha mia-roacope ihowa hand and brain to ba. In hort, tha nmatlng arltlona in peraonallty go far to rntkf cradib'.e the Chrlatlan faith that by an Intelligence rapaclooa enongb to contain them all, the human nnlta may be dlMingulshed easily a we, with out limited powers, may distinguish our friend. lu Natural Gait. "Walter!" called the Impatient guit. "Yea, air;" said the obewjuloiis my Tant. "Kwm to me that mup I ordered Is n mighty long time getting to me." Vcs, sir," said the waiter with much ip.-poet; "but (deerentlelly) you will IHiirvn tne, I Iniat, If 1 remind you that you ordered tar tie aoup." Judge Kqaal Hoaora Fannie My big Bister is coming out thin evening. Kate Dat's aof lug. lie big bniddei Is eomln' out to-night too. lie was u( fer lx months. New York Times. A noon it an old maa gets his rh?u mntlain right, Bts stouuch begins tc act up. . t SHOT ON DOOR STEP Assassin Claims His Victim At Niobrara, Neb. BULLET ENTERS HEART Murderer Escapes, But A Suspect Arrested FIRED THREE SHOTS CRIME SUPPOSED TO BE DUE TO- DOMESTIC TROUBLE AND DI VORCE -FATHER AND MOTHER ACCUSED OF KILLING BABY. Nlobiara, "eb., July 29. William JMerriH was sliot and killed about 1 'o'clotk Mouday nifjbt. Ha was sit ting alone near tlio door step In his yaid when a man approached, to wboa lliesald, "Ike is that you?" and re ceiving no answer turned to go Into 'the house, when the man Hied three s!ioots,two taking effect, one entering his heart. The family was in the, (house. The murderer made his ,ec:ipe through a cornfield nea'by.; 'Suspicion; rests on Isaac McConn., jwhu is said to have threatened1 iMerritt's life owing to Mcrrltt's Jalleged intimacy with McConn's jformer wife, from whom he was (divorced at the last term of court. McConn has been arresiel being ,found In a boat on the Missouri rlver with a ynung son, where he led the life of a fhherm in. The Wrong Passenger Fremont, Keb , July 29. Three unknown men attternpted to hold up Joseph Scut.eider.a farmer livlug 6n miles east and north of Fremont yes terday morning. The farmer was watering his hngs when Iba men camo driving up in a a rickety one-horse tuggy. They asked leave to water their horse, which was granted. One of the men then toid Schneider that he had done some work for the latter several years ago and that he had come to c dlect it. A month's pay he said was due. A longthy dispute ensued, 8chneider having no recollection of ever having employed tne man, and It suoo became evident from the manner of the men tuat the state ment of the spokesman was a mere subterfuge for an attempt at holdup The Iciiuw bonny s;iiu: ' l watn that money, and I'm going to have It." "Oh, are ynn?" "We'll, see.'IIe granary and tcok put a couple ef replied Pchneider, stepped Into bis d(,wn a shotgun, shells Into It and stepped out again One of the men swung his hand around to his hip! puckct to draw a weapon, but the de termined look in the farmer's eyes persuaded him not to, "Now you fellows git", commanded Schneider. "Don't i e any time." The trio looked at him aaln and then dim ed into their buggy. They drove away and their lot tided victim has not seen ihem since. Soldier Shoot s Pol i cemm Tew York July 2D.-In full view ol hundreds of persons goiug to work, Patrolman Co i elius Mulvoy was tl ol and probably f.itilly injured, on Um Corner of Avenue H and Seventh sfreet yesletrla' while trylnn to pre vent a soldier from shooting his sweetheart. The soldier is Adolph Schl'iss, twenty-two yea is of age, of the Eleventh battery Held artillery, sta tioned at Fort Hamilton, llrooklyn. After shooting the policeman tlx loidler turned tho revolver on him self, but without serious dannge. MuWey was shot In the center of the forehead, the bullet passing en tlrely through his skull and out al the back of his head. Si-hlos.s wai arrested Immediately. Ills sweet heart, Louise Freedma, eighteen rears old, ran away screaming aftei the shooting aod tho police are lujk Hog tor hei. Sch leas has been In tho army foi two months and was on leave of ab eoce. lie declared tht he bad been away four days oyer bis leave but said be had no Intention of deserting, i rollcenian MuKey bad beeo sever eaia on the force. The girl was found later and told tho detectives that her father wlsltci! her elder sisteis to many flist nnc she hud therefore broken her engage ment with Schlost who shot at hei after sho had refused to renew tin engagement. Expulsions From Finland Berlin, July 29. The NiiHona Zdtung yesterday printed tbe tcx 0' a letter reclved from Finlonl saying that tbe eipulaloos have been resumed and that the government hat ordered tbe Rev. Mr Magnuj HoMndal, the well known writer, speaker and principal of the lycaum at Uleaborg, to leave the country after depriving him or tin position Mr. Rosendal who H a I'letlsth Clergyman, la going to the United ."'"J- .1" .LI' "LV immigrant. . i , jOIN'IN 4 MUTINY THIRTEEN DESPERATE CONVICTS ESCAPE AT FOLSOM.CAL. Folsom, Cal., July 23. Thirteen desperate prisoners confined In the Folsnm penitentiary made a success ful break far liberty at tin break fist hour Monday morning. The break occured about 1 o'clock Monia morning. The convicts n a le Immediately for the office of the captain of the guard, II. J. Murphy. . There thR? seized Warden Wilkinson, his grandson. Harry Wilkinson; Captain Murphy and sev eial other officers and guards. A des peiate fight took p'ace. The c nvict.s were aimed with knifes and razors with these they assaulted Warden Wilkinson and his officers. The warden's clothing was slashed i ito shreds with a razor, but the blade did not touch the flesh. Turn key Cochrane fought the convicts with a chair, raining blows upon them right aod left Finally he was felled by a knife thrust In the baekv Guard Ootte was cut In the abdo men so that entrails protruded, while l'aliners was severely cut In the bead. The floor of the office was covered with blood. Whan the armory post was reached (Officers there attempted to Interfer , but were quickly overpowered. Then, after further fortifying themselves with rifles, knives, pistols, and ammunition, a dash for the country was made. Convicts, each armed with rifles marched on either side of Warden Wilkinson, who was threatened with death if be made an attempt to es cape, and the officers were told that if any of the pursuers took the life of one of their cumber they would (retaliate, life for life. At Mormon (bridge, about a mile f'orn the penl t ntlary, the warden, bis, grandson and Captain Murphy were released and sent back. The others were marched along with the convicts. Warden Wilkinson in his state ment says: "I went up to the prison as is my customary duty to see the convicts eat their breakfast. I stopped at the captain's office to wait for the prisoners to walk out from breakfast. We were sitting In the office when the line made its appearance from the breikfast room a d started for the grounds. Suddenly seven or eight of their prisoners made a rush for the line with razors and knives drawn, and cime .directly form. Tney were joined by others. I Judge there were about fl'teen. "Blood begac '.o flow. I saw that It was hopeless tc put up a fight against su .'h odds. One of the con victs came jp behind my back, r:ac,bed over with a razor and tried to cut open my abdomen. You can see how my belt is siit from end to end, and hnw my coat is hanging in shreds. The coovicts got me atd Murphev and five or six other officers whom they dls irme.1. They kept us and prncee 'ed to the yard and out of it by th" front gate foward the arm ory post. The Galling guns In the station hillfips and along the prison walls would have been tired by the guards, but had they done so the officers, as well as tho prisoners, would 1) ivo been killed. The guards W 're unable either to rescue us or to pievent their escape. As we neared the arm xy a gunrd came out and th.'v siilzon him. Tlie.y took the keys away fmni him rntred the armory and en . iiinecl themselves with all manner of weapons. Then they start ed along the dusly road and crossed the prison ranch toward the Mormon Island bridge. After I had gnni about a mile they let n e go. They also released Captain of the guards Murphy and my grandnon, Harry Wilkinson. The rest of the men they have taken along with them Incl udlng General Overseer McDonough, Guard John Klensondnrf, Guy Jefter, fore man of the rock quarry; Tony Brown, stage driver, and Guard L. E. S. Vertres and two or three others whose names I have not at bind. Folsom penitentiary Is the prison without w.'il s. It Is situated In a rocky amphitheatre closa to the American river, about twenty mile from Sacramentn. The prisoners are locked up at night In the cell lious but during thu day they labor In the stone quarries under the supervision of amcd eirirdi. On tha bills surrounding the prison grounds an wai'cb towers, in which tbe guards, armed with Gatllng guns and rifles, are stationed. Mounted guards are also stationed about the hills. Nearly fifteen hundred men are con Iflned at Folsom and It has been the 'practice to send the most desperate pi Is'ioeis there. Little Cash in the Vault Siom City, U.. July 28. A Plsgah la., special on I ho Journal says: "So traco ha yet been found of K. 0. Hutchinson, a cashier of Hutch Inann'a private bank, and the assist ant cashier, Harry Smith, who dis appeared when tho bank closod Its doors on Inst Wednesday. The account of the hunk are now helria checked un , The shortage an far discovered a Dlaoed at 128.000. i OnlV 171, WM lOUr.O III 100 Dank I ' vault. MOB IS QUELLED - The Troops Bring: Tempor ary Quiet to Situation at Danville, 111. FORM CORDON ABOUT JAIL No Further Attempt to Get the Negro Wilson. SHERIFF JUSTIFIES ACTION UNEASY FEELING PREVAILING IN CITY BUT SOLDIERS ABLE TO PREVENT ANY OUTBREAKS- Danville. 111., July 27. Two killed at d twenty-two wounded, the police nation wrecked, the county jail with few of its windows left unshattered, the city in the hands of the state tionpsand a feeriug of uneasiness aod dread prevailing everywhere, is the situation left by the race riots of Satuiday night and early this morning. After daylight appeared this morning, there were restless crowds In toe s' rcets. Hundreds of farmers poured into the city and each surrounding town continued to swell the crowd. There were many miners seen on the streets. Great unrest and a threatening attitude was reported from Wc.stville , five miles away.' Karly the morning Wilson, the negro ass dlant of Mrs. Burgess, was secretly taken from the court jail, but was returned shortly afterwards.' Four companies of the Seventh II Juois infantry arrived at 9:30 this morning from ingfield where the) regiment is holding its annual en campment. Streets were soon cle.rJ ed and tbe threatening attitude of tbe crowds disappeared. Sheriff Whitlock said today, in giving his version of tbe shooting into the mob: "After I saw from the jail that the mob was determined to attack 1 went to the veranda and attempted to talk to the mandened men. As I stepped Into view of tbe crowd two shots were Bred, one bullet striking the wall back of me. I fired two shots into the air. Someone shouted that I was only bluffing and was booting blank cartridges. I warned the mob I would r sist an attack on, the jail with powder and lead. Xhere was anot ler Shot 'from the mob and it surged forward. I then iired a load from my shotgun into their legs. This drove them back, but they returned a moment later to tho attack of the front of the door. "I was alarmed for the safety of, my wife and children. My wife took a gun and said she would stand by1 me. I got her and the children out, of the way, and then as the leadersi came with the rail to batter down the door. I shot down the rail to1 make them drop it Tnls accounts fur so many being shot in the hands and arms. I fired eight or ten shots in all. Sheriff Whitlock bad four deputies and and three constables with bim in the Jail guarding the prisoners. He says none tired into the mob but himself. There are all sorts of rumors afloat tonldit and a strained situation is notlcible. Hut the 200 soldiers. here.lt is believed, will prevent fur-1 ther outbreaks for the present atf 1-ast. Half of these will be cn duty ail the time. Leading citizens say the outbreak has been feared for a long time, as" bitter feelllng has existed f ir several jears between the negroes and a cei tain class of white persons. A num her of miner outbreaks has occurred during the past year. The feeling against the soldiers is notlclhle. The commissary depart ment today had much trouble Retting leslaurants to serve meals. Man refused to feed the soldiers Thero was one clash between tbe guard and a miner named Edward Liggett, who began abusing a guard. The soldier leveled bis bayonet and Liggett, was arrested and Hoed I ICO. Four other companies of tbe regiment are under arms at Springfield awaiting orders. Crowds gathered during tbe day near tbe lines and cursed tbe sol diers. They were scattered by bayo nets In sevcial Instances. Officers of the guar 1 do not anticipate any at tack however. The general belief ia that tbe presence of tbe troops has suppressed the lawless element. The sheriff, and military officers, have urged all cltltens to remain off the streets. Tragedy In New York Hotel New York July 27, -A well drrssed man, accompanied by a tine looking and handsomely gowned woman about twenty-lbreo years of age registered at the Morton house this morning as "O.WcUs and wlfo, Syracuse, N.Y." Late In the afternoon the woman! was heard shrieking, three shots fol ' lowed Instant.iy ami when the room) was entered s'c and Hie man were' found dead. n :i 1 1 u had, It It be lieved, done I viootlng. , cNebraska hotes Lulu McCoy has been appointed substitute postoffice cltrk at Xfr braska City. Chris Layle one of the old settler of Kearney county, died yesterday Minden of dropsy. Mrs. nenry Watt died Saturday al Guide ttock;after a long illness and was burled yesfsrday. The republican county conventloa has been called to meet at Mindear Saturday, August 15. At a special election yesterday'it insworth, $10,000 bonds were vote for the new State Normal school. Fred Shank had his arm badl smashed yesterday !at Beatrice bv letting an iron roller fall on it. Fre Id the railway eating house at Chadron today did damage to tbe ex- tent of several hui.ared dollars. Sunday at llumcoidt the Rev. Dr. .Schleh of Omaha preached to a conH gregation of Woodmen of the World.l Jesse Gilmoreof Weeping Water has been released from the Plaits- mouth jail on bonds Ito appear for trial. Winter wheat is being harvested at Minden. The yield is not as great as laht year, but tbe quality im better. Tbe Young People's Society oft, Christian Endeavor for tbe Sixta district has just closed its eleventh, annual session at Harvard. Mrs. Matt Harberer of North Bead; made an unsuccessful attempt at) suicide yesterday by cutting her throat. Yesterday at Oocad, Miss May, Tubbs and Arthur Ferris were mar ried by the He v. J. A, Badcon. They will visit in tbe east. . The farmer's elevator at Mlndea is nearing completion. This will make five elevators In Minden, tba farmer's being tbe largest. C. L. Anderson. Valley Garlingeij and B. C. Gentle were yesterday dean ignatcd members of tbe Civil serylcaj board for the Norfolk postoffice. Miss Mabel Flrored, a talented pianist of P.eatrioe, has signed a con tract to travel with; Mrs. Bessie Gearhart Morrison, tbe elocutionist! Lightning striking the barn o Thomas Bryant at Schuylerj killed one horse, three head of! cattle and destroyed the entire) structure. ' a a Grain dealers of southwestern, Nebraska met at Tablerock Tuesday night to consider rates and other business matters. A banquet close the meeting. a The sheriff closed tbe store oil Larson & Fraley, painters and deco rators of Wahoo yesterday, to satisfr a claim of 1,700 preferred by K. K. Bruce & Co of Omaha. The supervisors of Valley county; have let a contract to tbe Cantoaj Bridge company for a new SlO.OOfJ bridge to be constructed across tb Ncnh Loup river at Ord. A hall storm visited tbe vicinity of Tekamab and stones an Inch and a half in diameter ell. Windows were. uiubcu aiiu biic crops ui iicbiij dozen farmers totally destroyed. Miss Gertrude Kanswan of Flatta aiouth, who tried to end ber life ay shooting herself Monday, will lira The bullet pasaed through ber body and lodged in tbe wall. Miss Fannie At water and SapftrlaV tendeot Sutler of Orete, anperliiteaw dent of tbe Gage county achoolaJ were married reatarday at tbe hoaaaJ or tbe parents of the bitda at Oteta. Winter wneat it nearly all har vested io York county. The yield will be good. Tbe oat crop will aa harvested at once and will be good. Corn is making rapid piogreaa. The Ave year old son of Rewvea Pool of Gibbon yesterday had nla teeth knocked ont, bla Jaw bonaj broken into splinters and hla upper Hp almost severed from bis face byj being kicked In the mouth by ay borse. 1 ;" " "Tho Ra. Mr. Snerman of that Baptist rhiir li t Guide Rock, baat resigned "is cnt a rail to the Hay tlatcbunb -t llitm' oldl.