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TOPICS OF Til K TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER ESTING ITEMS. Com meat aa4 Crltlctama Baaed Upoa tha Huppaalnc of tha Day nialorl cal Newa Not. Ieatu wears t klndtr face time than life. many Doing nothing for others Is tne un doing of one' self. In order to acquire wealth the den tist must keep plugging away. It Is impossible to pleae the woman Who doesn't know what she wants. The pawnbroker doesn't bare to shut up as iong as people will put up with hJuj. Lillian Good-by, self. Russell Lillian, Is a take mother-in-law. care of your- If dyspeptics would only marry good cooks half the trouble In this world would be eliminated. The man who lias hay fever every jear out-lit not to feel that he will meet any punishment in the future. About the time love begins to wane a woman ought to Irani to be a first rliiHs cook and everything will be serene. One of the unpleasant features of life in Macedonia is ihe ever-prefent possibility of meeting a Bashl-Bazouk Irj an alley. A Massachusetts pastor has resigned -because his church wouldn't raise his salary above $12 a week. Twelve Hollars is a lot of money. lne l'uget (sound salmon crop Is re ported to be almost a total failure. Alas for the n)Hsnen! With salmon beyond their reach little that Is worth while will be left for them. A German actor has been sent to jail for getting off stage Jokes about the emperor. If they were anything like the American stage Jokes we can't blame the emperor for shutting him up A Philade'phiu millionaire has receiv ed two hundred and twenty-five thou land dollars for the rent of his steam yacht In the past fifteen months jlappy thought: let us all rent our team yachts and get rich quick. Canada has Iteen digging canals to Home purpose, ns the diversion of grain trade from Atlantic ports in the 1'nlt ed States to Montreal sufficiently at tests. The fnct that Canada is ho far north that her canals are frozen up during many months of the year has not Induced the Canadians to rely sole ly upon rail transportation. They are reaping the reward of their courage In opening their water ways, which serve not only to Induce trade, but to modify rates. Assuming that the people at church In the morning and evening are not the same, one person In every four and a half goes to church every Sunday in Jondon. The IxtmUm Imily News has ascertained this after a canvass of six pionthu. It has dlw-overed that the Church of England leads in total at (tendance, that the non-conformists are feeeond and the Roman Catholics third, fTlie non-conformists lead In the at tendance of men, with a hundred and Swenty thousand In church every Sun ay. against ninety eight thousand men in the Church of Kngland churches. There Is not seating accommodation In the churches fur a quarter of the wpulatlon. Iondon and many. If not all, large American' cities differ In this respect from many mall villages, where the churches are so numerous that they could readily hold every man, woman and child In the place. No one need find Anything paradoxi cal In the statement that cooking, which Is one of the oldest of femin ine occupations, offers a new profes sion to women. It Is true that women have always cooked, but not iu the modern rfense. Surveying Is the foun dation of civil engineering, mid Wash ington had the reputation of being a good surveyor; but If he were alive today, and wrro put at work ttceldo a young graduate of a technical school, the chances are ten to one that the younf man would easily outclass the father of his country. Cooking has gone through somewhat the same kind of evolution as has civil engineering. "The kind that mother used to make" Is a term of pleasant remlnlscMicj rather than a descriptive accuracy. The admission comes hard and sounds ungrateful, but truth demands 1L The other day a young woman was ap pointed official dietician to the city of New York. She sits at n big roll top desk In the ollb o of the department of liarltles, and by means of the tele phone controls all the cooks In all the hospitals and other Institutions under the rule of the municipal authorities. .Jthe owns her position to her knnul- 'ge not merely of the preparation ef food, but the chemistry of It. Two college girls, after a thorough emirs' 01 study relating to food;, have open ed a bakery. It was their Idea to make ttnd sell a better quality of bread than the ordinary baker provides. They ire doing It with so much ruccess that jut: business has already outgrown the jilant, and an extension of their bulld XX Is necessary. These are btii In stances of a tendency which shows Itself In many ways; for example. In ;hc hundreds of "health foods" which jire so generally advertised and so Widely cold. The greatest producers of the maioiial of food In the world, Anicriidiis have been backward iu ll.e art of preparing it properly for use. rspeclally Is this true of the country, H'tliougb popular opinion may bw to the contrary. The schools are giving good training, and there Is need of It u!J. "The kind that daughter makes" may yet replace the older and mor common phrase. As a result of dietary experiments carried ou In Chicago and other cities the department of agriculture at Wash ington Ik able to announce some In teresting facts as to the cost of liv ing. Although living expenses are notoriously high, It has found that families may be maintained In com parative comfort at a surprlalnly low cost. The observa'ioii of the food consumed by one family comprising four adults showed a total expense of $5.53 for the meals of one week, the bill of fare Including sirloin steak, mutton chops, pork, fish, eggs and a variety of vegetables. A family of six, in a of whom were chlldn n, ex pended $9.18 for tiie food supply of one week. In another household the week's food supply for the parents and five children cost only $0.73. Al together the experiments tshow that the cost of diet for each person per diem varied from It;'.-, cents to 4'2 cents, the average being alwmt 27 ecu is. It is, of course, of no esneclal value to know for how small an amount human be ings can live. Indeed, no experiments are needed to show that at a pinch mnn can live for a sum much smaller than any mentioned in the agricultural department's reports. By restricting himself to the chei'pct food and tak ing the minimum amount necessary to keep body and soul together a man might keep alive Indefinitely on a few cents a day, but his experiment would be valueless. It Is of Importance, how ever, that; men and women generally should know how so to arrange the family food supply that the largest possible benefit may be derived from whatever sum Is to be expended. This object should be not to see how cheap ly families can live, but how well they can live upon such sums as they c.-i;: reasonably afford to expend. Studi"d with this end In view such experi ments ns those now made by the de par, ment of agriculture may be re garded as helpful. By uvold'ng waste and using good judgment iu buying the family supplies many families could enjoy a larger and more varied bill of fare than they do now aud with out at all Increasing the expense. The experiment should be considered h. this light and as an aid to better liv ing conditions. The world's best work ers, I he most Intelligent and progrcs slve men and the best developed chil dren come from homes where food It nutritious, well cooked and ample In quantity. MAN WHO DESERVES PITY. He Who la Cnaipelled to Eat Heatuu runt rlreakfaat to Me Couaoled. A plea for pity Is entered by an east ern Journal on behalf of the unfortu nate man who through the summer months Is forced to eat a restaurant breakfast or wait until luncheon time to break his fast. And the commisera tion is solicited because someone has complained that restaurant keepctrs do not give the amount of attention to serving the day's first meal that they do to the two Inter one. There are no hard and fast figures at hand to prove that this is so, but It Is rather general conclusion that left-overs from the day before are used for the first comers and that this is hardly square dealing. Then, bus id en the mutter of food be ing none too fresh, there Is complaint that there Is much of setting to rights Iu the restaurants during the hour olio wishes to Luke breakfast, which cre ates a confusion calculated to make even an appetizing meal unenjoyablc. Sweeping, dusting, tilling of salt, pep per and vinegar receptjicles go on un der the patron's very nose, while the waiters display a sang frold that tells him, or appears to do so, that he has no business to eat in strange piacc, that If he has a home he hhoiild be In It and that If he hasn't a place to ali home he Is a very poor iiiien, indeed, anil not worthy of more con sideration than he is receiving. Willi tliKso complain? at hand, then, it seems we Him It all have to Ink" it for granted thai there's a foundation of fact for them anil do what we can to Impress It upon restaurant keepers that their llrst duly iu summer is to do their share toward making life pleasant for the self-sacriGcing man who sends his family to the country while lie stays behind and earns the money to pay their bills and his own. An swukenlng to this duty swept through the ranks of purveyors of llle's necessaries and pleasure years ago and the results have been as sat isfactory as substitutes, or, we might say, compensations count well tie. l.et the restaurant, keeper join this band of home missionaries and the di-serted husband may find tluit desertion Isn't all the lmd things that some folks do- hire It to be. The t'aijip'Mttfl Monte. When Mr. Hubbubs built B licit In which to house his bride, II liorrowed from his frieudu the best Ideas they had tried. He borrowed here, li borrow oil there Smith's friezo and Green's veneer; He borrowed Johnson's porte-cochere Ami Coop-T's chandelier, He borrowed Wllson't water tank, I'nrk'a pantry, Gruy'a grill; And then ho borrowed from, the bank Tlio rash to pay the bill. UpplncuM'i Miiguilne. No man's Ignorance ever prevented tilm from flvloc advice. SCHOOLS OF CRIME NEGHO CONVICT CAMPS IN THE SOUTH GIVEN SCORING. LEASE SYSTEM VERY BAD HELPS TO EDUCATE THE COLOR ED MEN TO BREAK THE LAW. CHAIN GANG CENSURED Secretary of Freed mnn' Aid Society Sy Outrages Naturally Follow and , then Conjel the Lynching. CINCINNATI, Oct. 13.-Dr. W. P. Thirkield, corresponding secretary of the Methodis'. Freedmau'8 aid and the southern educational society, In delivering the opening address of the evangelical alliance, charged that the outrages of negroes Id the south was due to the chain gang and con vict lease prison system. He said In part: "Let us keep in mind that only about 20 per cent of the black men who are lynched have even been charged with the unspeakable crime airainst the saeredness of woman hood. Let the black men bring In every Influence to bear to make such crimes impossible. Let there be prompt execution of the law against this and all crimes of all men. Lynch law, however, Is anarchy. It brings In the reign of barbarism. "In estimating among the black people, we should keep in mind that since Appomatox neatly every south ern state has maintained a school of cr mo an organized institution for the training of criminals. This charge against the convict lease sys tem of the south. Under this system both prison and prisoners are farmed out under the control of private cor p (rations sold to the highest bid der. The motive of bwth state aod lessee is cot morals, but money; not reformation, but exploitation ol criminals for gain. It is crime turned Into a source of revenue; the brain and blood of criminals, bar tered for gain. "Criminals are generally scattered In branch prisons, quartered in rude stockades without proper sanitation, food or clothing. The average life of these convicts is less than ten years. "Old and young are promiscuously chained and herded together. Even men and women are, iu some camps, not separated. Hardened criminals and the boy convicted of his first crime, the comparatively good and the most depraved, vile and aban doned. are chained together. One warden or a state penitentiary pro tests in his report that under the present law and custom the penlten tiary Is the school of crime Instead of being a reformatory institution. Of the fifty boys under eighteen, nine-tenths of. them leave, the prison muct worse than when they came In. "There Is in these convict camps no organized reformatory effort. Re firm d-es not enter into the system. Tint outcome of the careful investi gation of the convict lease system on the part of the governor of Georgia was a revelation of Inhumanity, bar barity and shameless immotality. Much of it was unlit for the public pn.83. "In a perr d of two years over 1,100 of t best) convicts (s apid from southern prisons. Think of 1, loO tlilevs, murderer-), thugs at large, lawless men roaming about in defi ance of all law and order. Think of a syntem that has no reformatory element, no system to cure men i t ctime, but that educates young ( rl'oin lis In crime and tli.it by Its hiirguify brutalizes anil (Inhuman Izes man aod s rids out those that do tint die under the horrcrs of the sys tem to debauch and degrade society. From Bitch criminals what wonder it there have come forth hundreds of moral monsters. "Over against Iho outcome of these schools of ctime Is the fact that of all the, thousands of graduates from the Christian schools maintained by the benevolence of the north and soutn, not one graduate lias ever been accused of the crime against the sacrcdness of womanhood.' , Dr. Thirkild made a strong plea for the philanthropic Christian both of the south and north to Join hands Id educational and missionary efforts for the solution of this gravest prob lem of Iho races ever given any na tion t ) solve. Killed For Unknown Cause. ( SrDALLA, ;Mo.. Oct, IX Ellen Brodnn, aged thirty-six, of Srdalla, thedtiorced wife of John Rocka way, who Is serving a term In tha penitentiary for the murder of his second wife, was shot and killed by John Myers, a farmer, unrtarrled and thirty years old, near Gravis Mills. Myers wis amstcri and is now In jaiiat Versailles. The dead woman was visiting ber sister Mrs. Cat biadstiaw -NEW JERSEY DAMS GONE PEOPLE FLEE TO THE HILLS -FACTORIES SHUT DOWN. TUXKDO PAP.K, N. Y., Oct. 14. The Rimapo river, after rising higher than ever before, so far as existing records show, and sweeping away many small dams, several bridges and houses and a section of the Erie railroad tiack, is powsbwly subsiding, and the Tuxedo dam, which it was feared could notwlth stand the flood, Is considered safe. So far as known only two lives were mst. G'oige Nixon and a compan- Htm, employed on Erllr fiarrtmati's ritiln .if A M..n .J..l.,fn ".Tim.-. ,u niucu, viriieu uuviug iiun; rrorn central Mb y, w overtaken by the (hod and drowned. Of the d .-image tu pi'Gpctty along the course of the Ilamapo no estimate can yet he made. Tli3 village of Ramapo was nearly obliterated bp the overflowing of 1'ieis iri's lake and the breaking of the dam at its lower end. The cot tagc, dwellers fled to the hills and have betn looked after bv those whose homes were on higher gro ind Ihedauiat Cranberry pon 1, near Arden, butst and the watets spread havoc through that valley. Several houses were flooded, the electric light plant was disabled, and the lish hatchery was wholl' swept away. the flood also washed away the shanties of the Italian 'and Hun garian colonies in the lower part of the valley.' All the Inhabitants were rescued and carried by boats to safe JNEW YORK, Oct 14 -With the receding of the floods, reported from all quarters, Paterson, Passaic and the other water-swept New Jersey towns are relieved of further peril and are beginning now to get a clear idea of the extent of devastation. in J'atersou alone the damage to property is estimated at $,000,000, without taking account of the loss in wages to the thousands who have been temporarily deprived of occupa tion, by the shutting down of fac tories, j lie water is repotted to have fallen four feel below the high csr. mark and the only possiblo source of damage would be the butst- it:g of the great water mains which were undermined by the II o id. The distress continues great, and fully live hundred persons were still com pclleel to seek fo id and shelter in the armory. No additional fatalities were reported throughout the day In Passaic the damage is estimated to be at least equal tu that In Pater son. Many adjacent vil ants still were under water today, but with the falling of the waters all danger ,of a collapse of the great Dundee dam was declared to be past. 1 radio was resumed during the day on all the railroad lines entering New York with the exception of the local service on the main line of the Erie. The milk famine in the city was btoken oy the arrival of the usual number of milk trains on the West Shore. , New York Central LackawDana and other roads. PATERSON N. J., Oct. 14. -The people of this unfortunate city are beginning to realize the extent of the great flood which began last Friday. Nearly two entire wards, tak'ng in the manufacturing section, have been under water since that day. This morning thousands of men, women and children employed in fhlfen nt mills and factories found Ihey could not go to w.rk on ac count, of those plants hein; shut down. A great many of thee people have alsi been driven from tbeli homes, and have neither food nor shelter. The heaviest damage In Taterson was to the manufacturers. It is Im possible to give an accurate estimate of the total loss, but conservative es timates an- about two million. The police and firemen have been engaged si're Saturday morning in the woik i f i-eM-ujig families from the upper floors or the nors of their It-uses In the Hooded district, and the wot k is st ill lioing on. Today the .vater continued to fall and there did not seem to be any chance of further damage being done unless another severe storm should set, in. There are still many blocks under water and an examlnalion if the flooded districts cannot be made until the water disappears. The health authorities have a difficult task before them in d"vlslng means to prevent an epidemic of sickness In the flooded territoty. The people who were afraid to leave their homes will not be allowed to returrj. until I he districts arc in a sanitary con dition. Fighting Over Clay Will. RICHMOND. Ky.,Oct. U-Onc o, the five wills of the late General Ca slus M. Cly was offered for probate In tl.e county court to-day. The will disinherited his children and all rela tives except his own former chl'd-wlfe, Dora Brock, whom It nominated us sole executrix. The other heirs intro duced testimony to show that General Clay was Insane. Motion to probate the will was overruled. An appeal was taken to the circuit court. Nebraska cHptes The supreme Lincoln. court coQvened at Arthur Nelson of Beatrice was se verely bitten on the left leg by a dog. Mrs. John Jobman, an old resident of near Beatrice, is dead at the age of 71 years. Superintendent Fowler of Lincoln, has designated Friday, October 23, as Flower day. eral fences were partially destroyed. The fire started from an ash pile left by a steam thresherj A tramp entered the store of May bew Bros, at Riverton and stole a rifle and some shells. The walnut crop at Paplllion Is the largest In years One man picked fifty bushels in one day. prairie fire at Moorebead, burned 300 acres of small grain, and several meadows and the hay in stack. Sev Charles S. Fisher, a civil war vet eran, died at Nebraska City. He wa3 a member of au Ohio regiment Ceorge Westerman, a well known German farmer of the Humboldt country died Tuesday afternoon after a brief illness. ITundreds of tons of hay and some out builidngs were consumed in a prarie fire, which started eight miles west of Bassett. The Catholics are holding a ten- day mission at West Point. There Is a large attendance present of both Catholics and Protestants. Miss Estell Payne and Charles B. Wahlquist were married at Hastings. The groom is associate editor of the Adams County Democrat. Frank Bender, the Lincoln farmer who mysteriously disappeared twe weeks ago, has returned, but is un able to say where he has been. The saloon of Lacy & Co., at Col eridge, was entered by burglars. They secured $10 in change. F. II, Peck's meat market was also robbed 'it $3. The new German Lutheran church at Crete was dedicated bunuay. Ministers were in attendance from all over the state. The church cost $4,000. George Peterson, who lives at Holmesville, has been sent back M the asylum at Lincoln. He was there last winter, but was discharged as cured. While cutting a bar of railroad Iron at Beatrice, Tearl Bates bad a gash several Inches long cut in his rlcht arm by a piece of steel striking him. I The Verdel Townsite company has been incorporated with a capital ol $00,000. The company will do a real estate business at Verdel, Kooj couDty. www Miss Emily Herre and Mr. Marlon James, were married in lremont. They will make their future home Id Phoenix, Ariz., where the groom is merchant. Passorsby frustrated an attempt tr rob the nostoillce at Oakland. The robbers had succeeded In cutting out a panel of the rear door when the) weie frightened away. Mass was held over ther remains 01 Mrs. Bridgit O'Donnell at Platts- mouth. The body will be shipped to Burlington, la., the formei home of the deceased. Lot Walters of Beatrice received news of Ihe death of his father, the Rev. Is'. J. Walters, at Worcester, Mass. He occupied a pulpit in Omaha several years ago. Telephonic connections have been completed by the Fremont Independ ent Telephone company and the Platlsmoiith company, making another link In the Independent tele ohone system of the state. Fire destroyed 300 feet of corn cribs, I,fi00 bushels of corn and 300 hushels 'if oats belonging to Taylor & Morgan In Tobias. The village was saved from destruction by the direction of the wind. The Norfolk beet sugar factory was started up for the first time thi leason. The employees in the plant aow numher .too The factory will 'un night and day until January. The Rev. J. F. Bennett, who with als wife has been conducting moet- ngs at Humboldt for some time, has icen called to the pastorate of the ocal Baptist church at that place. HE HID IN OFFICE WOHK DONE BY DETECTIVE8 IN POST OFFICE INQUIRY. TESTIMONY OF WATSON STENOGRAPHIC ON MILLER NOTES SPRUNG AND JOHNS. RYAN CONTINUES STORY Interview with First Supict Broach Out at Cincinnati Trial-. it yhu TelU t of Money Transaction, CINCINNATI, Oct. I5.-Durln(r the second trial .of Miller and Johns, for conspiracy in connection with the. recently exposed postal frauds, nln .witnesses were esumjned and the gov-' eminent has four more to call, Court wain session from 8 a. m. until after 6 p. m The principal witnesses were Ryan and the officials from Wash ington. The defense was not taken byi surprise until in the afternoon, when toe stem, raphic reports of the private secretaries of Fourth Assistant Post-j master General Bristow and of General; Itubb of interviews with Miller were' introduced as evidence. Joseph T. Watson, secretary andj stenographer to the foirth assistant1 postmaster general, testified to having been concealed in the office of his' chief while General Robb and Ohief j Inspector Cochran had their first in- terview with Miller about the reports' o the postotlice inspectors regarding the decisions in the Ryan ease and the! discovery of his relations with Jones.! ant did not know that a stenographer! was concealed in the room, as hei did in the last case when he made. an' equally lengthy statement and signed: the report made by Mr. Tullis. The; extent of the detective work that! has been dune in these cases by the: goverment was never disclosed uDtil during the afternoon session, wheoi verbatim reports of these interviews! of Miller were submitted in evidence,' notwithstanding the objection and' exception of counsel for the defense. It is now known that more of tbej detective work of the government! will be disclosed tomorrow when! postollice inspectors are to take the! stand. j When the trials were resumed tO! day the direct examination of J. J.1 R,yan was still in progress. At tlW adjournment of court last nighti Judge Thompson took under advise-! ment the objection of counsel to' Ryan testifying to what Johns said; ne then read from his original' stenographic notes all that was said' (luring the two hours and more thati these officials were thus questioning Miller regarding the case. It requir ed one hour and a half for him to1 read the note, which he went over! much more quickly than the inter-j view was carried on. The difference, f an hour in lime was accounted fori by the witness because of the hesita tion of Miller at times during the in-' terview. The sensational appearance of Watson on the stand was followed' toon afterwards by Charles II. Robb,; assistant attorney general for the! postollice department, being called and he produced a copy of the trans- cribed stenographic notes of his sec-j ' retiry,"Mr. Tullis, of another long interview with Miller when the same parties were present. ' At the first meeting of Miller( wi'h Robb and Cochran the defend to him about what Miller may have said to John concerning future ditll culties. When court convened today Judge Thompson decided that a prima faciei case had been suflicieutly made out to permit the testimony of Ryan toj be admitted. Counsel for the de-' fense excepted to the ruling, and the examination of Ryan by the govern rn nt counsel was resumed. Whilo Ryan proc-ecfed to repeat in detail a conversation between1 Johns itnd himself in a room at a Terre ilatite hotel, during which the witness claimed to have made a con tract with Johns for $l,"00 for a fa vorable ruling from Miller, counsel for the deft ndants interposed fre quent objetions which were over-' ruled by Judge Thompson. Ryan also test I fieri that all his future! transactions were with Johns as the middleman up to last December,, when .Johns came to Cincinnati and the met In a room at the Gibson house, where Ryan gave Johns $1,100 In casli and $3,400 In two checks. i Ryan continued his story alnut sub scejucnt transactions In which he sairl Johns war.tc t more funds right along until the Altness linally made a statement of the whole matter to (he postotlice !ns, lectors and made no tin ther efforts to get bets on the races through the mails. Supply of Food is Scnnt MOBIL K,Ath , Oct 15 According to Information received by steam ship from Georgetown, Grand Oay- mnn, the conditions on the Islands as a result of the hurricane and flood are deplorable and the pcoplo are suffering from fever. It Is a I set stated that thn supply of food Is scant. The fever is attributed to the decaying of sap trees which weie felled by the storm and thcuumeious cattle that perished.