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ROBERT GOOD Kditor and Prop
VALENTINE - NEBRASKA
That Grecian A ar already te Ending
great difficulty in keeping on the first
page
A -woman in Little Rock the other
day shot four men Wonder what she
was firing at
Says the Scranton Truth The earth
revolves on its axis once a day Truth
la mighty and will prevail
Wise men are instructed by reason
men of less understanding by experi
ence the most ignorant by necessity
Says the Philadelphia Ledger We
Will not purchase Cuba Neither will
we this may as well be understood
now
If it is feasible to Insure residences
against burglary why shouldnt bank
-presidents be insured against type
writers
A Berlin scientist cables over the in
formation that he has discovered the
prune cause of baldness Absence of
hair probably
The rumor that George Gould has
squeezed 52500000 out of Russell Sage
undoubtedly is a canard for the old
man is still alive
After holding its own for a hundred
years the stovepipe hat is threatened
with extinction It is the plug ugly of
the century Let it go
If Greece ever goes to war again sue
probably will first take the precaution
to roll up a national debt of 800000
000 and pawn herself to the other pow
ers
A New York boy stole a steamboat
at Louisville the other day and ran
away with it Fortunately the Ohio
River happened to be in use at the
time
Greece has given the world a beauti
ful object lesson But it will leave her
bankrupt and humiliated An ounce of
powder is worth a pound of sentiment
In actual warfare
One day last week New York report
ed seven suicides and six attempts at
self destruction High railroad rates
probably are responsible for this show
ing its a long walk to Chicago
One cannot move a step without
meeting a duty and the fact of mutual
helplessness is proved by the very fact
of ones existence No man liveth to
himself and no man dieth to himself
Light is an element of cheerfulness
and a capital sanitary agent therefore
light should be freely admitted into
sick rooms except in extraordinary
cases It should be softened and sub
dued not glaring
Did it ever occur to you asks the
Nelson Dak Independent how ridic
ulous it is the way railroads are man
aged It did it did Do you recall
the lines from Excelsior Try not
the pass the old man said
The Mexican Herald says of a recent
fatal panic at a bull fight The young
lady was frightened to death but be
haved with much courage and self-possession
This we believe is thorough
ly characteristic of American corpses
A Connecticut man found a gold com
In a bass the oilier day and a New York
girl discovered a diamond ring in a
ducks stomach We are pleased tc
greet these old friends at the outset of
another spring season of painstaking
prevarication
In Lowell Ark the other day a wom
an who was presiding over a holiness
meeting shot four men who were in
terrupting the performance That wom
an evidently believes that the only way
to increase a mans holiuess is to drilJ
a few holes in him
A New York hotel keeper tie other
night knocked one of his guests sense
less with a Raines law sandwich The
New York sandwich may not properly
be classed as a deadly weapon but it
ought to be a penitentiary offense to
hit anyone below the belt with one
The very essence of religion is the
binding with the laws of right our
manifold propensities for evil and as
even the lower animals are capable of
-being taught the difference between
right and wrong how much more is
such the case with a human being
If to make two blades of grass grow
where only one has grown before is
commendable how much more so is it
to discover and exemplify and teach a
virtue lost sight of or before unknown
Equally commendable is it to brighten
up old and accepted virtues and to
place them in a better light that they
may appear more attractive
The Chinese hand shake in high lite
is rapturous but conservative They
shake their own hands Wlien the new
Chinese Minister arrived in tills coun
try his legation welcomed him by
touching each others foreheads bow
ing to the floor chattering at lightning
speed and shaking their own hands
again and again with the utmost ardor
This hand shake would be a boon to
the President
Gradually the terrible truth of the
Paris fire horror is coming out jrhe
construction of the building made st a-
fire trap and this ftTctfo well known
to the authorities It ifl charged that
most of the Frenchmen present acted
with unspeakable cowardice Not only
did they not aid the women but they
even beat them back that they the
men might first escape According to
good authority some of the leading
joung men of Parts were guilty of this
cowardly brutality
The Fish Commissioner of Indiana
says The greed for more land closes
the eyes of a vast majority of the peo
ple to the fact that an acre of water
all other conditions being the same is
capable of producing far more food
stuff than is an acre of soil The small
amount of land that is redeemed by
lowering or draining the lakes is not
commensurate with the amount of
food producing conditions that are thus
destroyed This may be a valuable
hint to farmers who have so long suf
fered from the low prices of wheat and
corn At all events the farmer with a
fish pond Is enabled to agreeably vary
his own diet
A San Francisco millionaire has arbi
trarily included among his Inalienable
American privileges the right to ex
pectorate when and where he pleases
and In consequence of having exer
cised this privilege twice In a street
car he has been sentenced to spend a
day in jail The millionaires senti
ments as to inalienable rights happen
to be at variance with a civic ordin
ance which was framed to hold in
check those disgusting individuals who
have not the requisite sense of decency
to refrain from expectorating in a pub
lic place The millionaire should be
shown no sympathy or consideration
He gratuitously insulted Americanism
by asserting that it was a special
American privilege to violate a com
mon law of decency and he persisted
in his obnoxious conduct although
warned that he was breaking a munic
ipal law It appears he is to make this
a test case It is to be hoped he will
and that the verdict against him will
be so convincing that all other persons
of his swinish Instincts will be taught
the lesson that they cannot give way tr
those instincts where decent people
congregate
The umbrella has always held a pe
culiar place In the category of personal
property In common practice and a
wide latitude has generally been ac
corded mankind in the liandling of
this very necessary adjunct of a rainy
day This has been carried to such an
extreme that the right to claim sole
possession of an umbrella has frequent
ly been seriously disputed based on
the apparently racial instinct to seize
and hold all umbrellas found detached
from a human hand or a strong lock
In the face of this almost universal
concession made to wihait may be
termed the umbrella habit It is some
what surprising to find that two resi
dents of Delaware have been severely
punished for taking one umbrella And
they acknowledged the offense be
sides A man and a woman were in
the case the former being sentenced to
three months imprisonment and five
lashes for his part in the affair and tihe
woman to one days imprisonment
This extensive amount of imprison
ment due to one little umbrella inev
itably raises the suspicion that there
are places where umbrellas are held as
sacred as any other property This
will not be wholly bad news to many
people who have acquired the custom
of buying umbrellas and have endured
complacently their almost immediate
disappearance Perhaps the Delaware
idea will spread until in time umbrel
las will regain their normal property
rights and cease to exercise such an
unwholesome influence on mans mora
nature
In delivering the opinion of the Su
preme Court in the Berliner patent
case Mr Justice Brewer in substance
affirms the right of property in an idea
Nor does the affirmation appear as an
obiter dictum It appears as tlie de
cision of a question involved in the case
and distinctly decided The Court
he Justice Brewer says dissented en
tirely from the views urged by coun
sel that the applicant for a patent was
a quasi trustee for the public but held
that an Invention was the absolute
property of its inventor If this re
port of the opinion is correct the ques
tion so long disputed is settled for this
country as a matter of law It is evi
dent that counsel contended as many
have most strictly until now that the
inventor has no property right in his
idea They contended that patents on
inventions are granted not In recogni
tion of any right of the inventor but
only as a measure of public policy to
encourage the exercise of the Inventive
faculty for the public advantage It is
only in accordance with this view that
the applicant for a patent can be re
garded as a trustee for the public The
Court we are told dissents entirely
from this view and holds that an inven
tion is the absolute property of the in
ventor who is in no legal sense a trus
tee for the public This certainly is
good common sense and it is gratify
ing to be assured that it is also good
law If a man has not an absolute
property right in the product of his
mind it is impossible to conceive of
anything to which he has a property
right Surely that which a man cre
ates himself by the exercise of his mind
is his own more evidently than any
material thing is his own because the
material thing is not of Ills own crea
tion nor can it be by any possibility
Had a Kijrht To
Office Boy Jimmy lisren to the ed
itor Hes swearing like a sailor
Stenographer Hes got a right to
Mr Longhair the poet was in here and
left a lot of blank verse a minute
ago Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
If you owe a man dont imagine that
he will keep the fact to himself
that -free breakfast table
fir
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if ill r Wi
Heavy Duties on I inena
The following are some of the com
ments of a man well acquainted with
linens and the linen industry upon the
senate doctored Dingley bill
The proposed duties on linen goods
nuder the amended Dinlgey bill are
heavier than ever although it has been
claimed that the senate had reduced
rates These goods paid for many years
35 per cent and yielded a steady reve
nue to the government The rates now
proposed vary from 50 to 109 per cent
and the burden falls heaviest on low
and medium goods which are chiefly
used in the homes of the poorer people
A cheap tablecloth now selling at re
tail at 25 cents per yard will have to be
sold at 376 cents to 40 cents if the
quality be kept up
Medium linen for childrens summer
blouses will be assessed 99 per cent
and the retail price will have to go up
accordingly
Linen forms the raw material for
many American industries as linings
for clothing and other purposes where
strength and durability are required
Such goods will be advanced 20 to 30
per cent
It is claimed that this advance is nec
essary for revenue but the effect will be
that the people will in many cases substi
tute something cheaper and thus be de
prived of this useful fabric and the reve
nue will be correspondingly diminished
It is said that linen goods can be made
here but this has been tried again and
again and except in the case of a few
low crashes has been a failure owing to
the climate and other difficulties but
even if they could be made here the
rates are unnecessarily oppressive The
entire cost of weaving linen goods in
Europe is about 7 to 10 per cent the
selling price of rhe article here and in
America the cost should not be at the
very outside more than double this per
centage so that even if Republican
theories be true a protection of 35 per
cent should be ample to allow for high
er wages and extra profits for our man
ufacturers
It is possible speculators may stare
mills on the strength of these excessive
rates sell the stock and then step out
leaving the unfortunate laborer and
manufacturer to face the difficulties of
the situation as best they can The la
borer probably having been brought
here from Em ope for labor is on the
free list with unreasonable expecta
tions will be left to join the army of
disappointment and discontent Why
should these exorbitantly high rates be
assessed on an article more or less in
use in every krnsehold in the land and
the cot of living so much increased in
thce djp of keen competition and
small piv fit- Why should the plain peo
ple be taxed to put more money in the
pockets ot the rich If the wealthy
111 an u fanciers want to make experi
rients 1 them do so at their own cost
not las the poor for that purpose
ErttiirewV Imciulmunt I
Srnatoi Pettigiew lias introduced an
Amendment to the Dingley bill -which
piovido lor the diiissioii free of duty
of articles controlled by trusts Should
it become liw and be earned out hon
estly how much n uiue would the bill
yield Time aie tiu ts in ngar coal
window ant plate glass lumber pot
tery wall laper lubber cutlery and in
nearly all kind- of hardware There is I
no trust in tea lint that is probably be- j
cause there has been no duty to encour
age it There are also trusts in the
woolen and cotton industries Revenue
will be scarce if such a law should be
enforced But will those elected by
trust funds- destrov the system which
fosters tmsfw j They may pa s some such
law as thty did the Hicrnian antitrust
law in 1890 hut it will be only anoth
er diimniv
Jo- neked On in the ennte
It has come about that no measure
originated in the House can go through
the Senate without amendment When
n bll is in dispute Senatorial courtesy
that blanket excuse for all sorts of job
bery requires that the Senate shall
stand by its own and the House must
yield It has come to such a pass that
all the jobs are tacked on as amend
ments in the Senate The House does
not count with the lobbyists when any
thing shady is on foot Senatorial court
esy requires that any job a Senator
asks for personally must be let alone
by all the others unless it cuts into the
prerogative or schemes of another
Milwaukee Journal
Hair Tri truer Statesmanship
On the whole it is probably just as
well for this big busy and peaceable
country that the management of its
foreign affairs is not in the hands of
William E Chandler of New Hamp
shire and John T Morgan of Ala
bama The hair trigger variety of
statesmanship is much
at the Capitol end f I- i v
nue than it would lie at the White
House end Hartford Conn Courant
Who Pays the Tax
The Republican claim that the for
eigner pays the tax is amply proved
by the following letter which will ap
peal to the people of Nebraska and Iowa
as it interests them particularly
Omaha April 1ft
The Albion Milling Company Albion Neb
Gentlemen Answering your inquiry of the
7th inst The explanation of the recent marked
advance in the price of burlap bags is in the
prospective changes in the tariff Under the
Wilson bill they are on the free list but the
Dingley bill provides for a duty which would
amount to something over 1 cent per bag on
the 66 inch eight ounce burlap The price made
you on your recent invoice is the lowest which
we can offer on the present market Yours
truly Bemis Omaha Bag Company
M C Peters Manager
The consumers of burlap bags wno
live in this section of the country need1
not imagine that the increased price of
bags concerns them The foreigner has
to pay it
Congressman Champ Clark in his
speech on the Dingley tariff bill said
the passage of the bill will force every
merchant in the land to make a tariff
for revenue only speech every time he
sells a bill of goods across the counters
The above letter is only one of the tariff
speeches referred to by the eloquent and
witty Missouri congressman World
Herald
ElUins on Wages
Wages mustgodown says Senator
Elkius in a recent interview published
in the Cincinnati Enquirer Wage
earners continued the senator do
not wish to see it or believe it but it
is so And again he said Wages in
America stand against any revival of
business
He was discussing the coal trade He
said We do not export coal to Europe
because we have wages against us and
that is the whole kernel of the coal
trade
Being asked whether black labor was
settled in the mines of West Virginia
he said
Firmly It is as effective as white
labor and does not combine and con
spire and the negro spends all he
makes while the Italians and Poles
send every cent out of the country
The senator has just as decided ideas
on the tariff question He is firmly con
vinced that protective duties especially
those on coal should go up Tariff up
wages down That is what happened
under the McKinley bill and is what
will happen and in fact is happening
under the Diugley bill It is all done
in the interest of labor
Miss Colnruhias Overgrown Infant
I believe in protecting infant indus
tries but when the infants get to be
six feet high and grow whiskers and
when they threaten to kick the end out
of the cradle if they dont get more pap
I think its about time to take the bot
tle away from them Colonel R G
Ingersoll Rep
TJrief Comment
It is not clear that General Miles by
seeing any of the Grecian Avar would
help his own country in any way If
two of the great power- were scrap
ping the expenses of his trip might be
excused A great deal more has been
published of rhe present conflict than
General Mile- will ever learn St
Louis Pot Disiateh
The manufacturing interests of the
country are rapidly discovering that
the way to build up a great trade is to
be freed from customs restrictions The
United States cannot do business with
a commercial enemy and protection
makes enemies faster than any scheme
of reciprocity can make friends Kan
sas City Times
Mr Wanamaker has been severely
criticised by tlie administration for cer
tain remarks made recently but some
of his utterancessurely have weight
For instance when he speaks of the
payment of election contracts with
offices he certainly speaks o his own
great experience and ought to knoAv
what he is talkiii a t Indianap
olis News
EDUCATI0NALC0LTJMN
NOTES ABOUT SCHOOLS AND
THEIR MANAGEMENT
Waste in ertain Method of leachlnc
Smiling Down an Ill Tempered Boy
Hints on Teaching Geojrraphy
Educational News and Notes
Waste in Teaching
I recentl saw a class of first year
pupils add columns of numbers like
accountants and I pitied the pupils In
one of our large cities some two years
ago I saw pupils who had been in
school only three months write sums
of monej using and cts correctly
and then add the numbers thus writ
ten and again I pitied the pupils I
recently saw pupils between 5 and 6
years of age in school only five mouths
read twenty or more words written
on the blackboard actually determin
ing under the teachers guidance and
by the application of rules the silent
letters the sound of vowels indicating
the latter by diacritical marks etc
and I not only pitied the little ones but
felt sorry for the teacher wuo was
faithfully trying the new system I
left the room thankful that I was never
put through such a drill in my first
reading lessons Indeed I was ignor
ant of several of the rules which this
skillful teacher was applying and I
am glad of it I could make out new
words before I was 5 years old but it
was an unconscious art In a teach
ers institute held on the Western Re
serve Ohio in 1SG6 an instructor pre
sented some ten or more rules of spell
ing When he closed Gen Garfield
who was present turned to me and
said That is interesting as informa
tion but who ever learned to spell by
rule Whatever may be true of adults
little children learn to pronounce words
and to spell words by pronouncing and
spelling them E E White
The Ideal Primary Teacher
A pleasant tone and gentle manner
are particularly needful in the lowest
grades where there are so many little
ones just out from under tlie mothers
care Little children must have a sun
shiny atmosphere to make them grow
in the right way The ideal teacher
gets what she aims at but without the
scolding and fretting Yes the ideal
teacher accomplishes this but how is
it with us
Forbear Threatening 1 suppose
nearly all of us threaten sometimes
and sometimes wish Ave had not done
so Did you ever say Now Ill pun
ish in some stated way the very next
one that does that and then have
some nice child Avhose depoitment was
ahA ays good do the forbidden thing
from no malice but from some inno
cent motive that did not occur to your
mind when you made your threat If
you haA e had this experience you Avish
you had not been so hasty HaAe you
not Avished heartll that you could in
some way avoid giving the punish
ment and yet found no aaiv out of it
The Extra Minute Many of you Avill
say I never have an extra minute 1
am ahvays so bus3 Rut Is there not
occasionally a smooth recitation when
the lesson being an easy one or one
readily understood requires a minute
or so less than the allotted time How
do you use those odd minutes Of
course you can find many ways My
plan is to give that time to those who
are a little behindhand the dull ones
of the class
The Last Resort Do not use your
last resort often It wears it out
and then it is worthless Re careful of
it The punishment Avhich you have
held up as the final thing must not be
often used for you have nothing be
yond it Exchange
On Geojrraphy
Teachers make a serious mistake
when they despise local geography and
refrain from teaching their pupils
about their own State and country
Never mind aliout the pampas of South
America when you have time to teacn
about the prairies of our Western
States It is worth infinitely more to a
boy to knoAV as much about his oavu
State as about Spain or Xcav outli
Wales
May your pupils see something in this
Avorld on which they live besides moun
tains rivers lakes and seas Dont
despise picturesqueness because you
cant have an examination on tlie es
thetic portions of your teaching Spread
the Avorld before your pupils as a beau
tiful panorama full of color motion
life Dont haA e it all rocks and run
ning streams and blasting heat or
blighting cold Exchange
Patience
Who needs a larger stock of patience
than the teacher Does our stock nev
er fail Well yes sometimes Then
Ave must lay in a neAV supply It is
hard to keep ahvays the impatience
from the voice and manner Rut we all
realize AAhat a bad effect impatience
shoAvn by the teacher has on the school
Let us strive more earnestly to be pa
tient Every day avo must work for it
Your children copy you in many ways
Do not let them have a chance to copy
an impatient manner American
Teacher
The Difficulties of Our Lansjuajre
An intelligent foreigner is said to
have expressed himself after the
fashion on the absurdities of the
English language When I discover
ed that if I A as quick I Avas fast if I
stood firm I was fast if I spent too
freely I AA as fast and that not to eat
Avas to fast I Avas discouraged but
when I came across the sentence The
first one Avon one dollar prize I aos
tempted to give up English and learn
some other language
cniile Him Down
Who Why that boy avIio loses his
temper so quickly and gets mad if
you renrore him for the slightest thing
Drive away his scowl Just smile at
him He cannot stand it long These
quick tempered people get over it quick
ly Try smiling instead of scoldiag and
see how it works Administer the re-
roof that is needed but if he Is iifc
clined to get mad and stay mad a
smile may avert a storm A happy
I good natured child cannot long remain
cross He will smile back soon In
spite of himself and then you will both
i feel the better for there not having
been any outbreak American Teacher
i Kdncationnl Intelligence
The Sheffield scientific school of Yale
I t on- rnr t V 411
university receives ovvj u uuu m
of Mrs Sarah You Nostrand Science
The Alcalde
Mrs Tosiah M Fiske has given 14u
000 to Barnard College The money is
to be used in building a west wing to
be known as Fiske Hall
The department of natural history of
Vassar College will receive about 25
000 through the settlement of tbe will
of the late Jacob P Giraud
The Illinois Legislature has passed a
compulsory education law providing
that every child between the ages of
7 and 14 shall attend school sixteen
weeks each year
About 25000 have been contributed
toward a student home in Berlin About
forty students of theology are furnish
ed with lodging and board for a period
of three years free of charge
The law school at Yale will inaugur
ate a uew custom this spring in having
a doctors oration at commencement
Each year the orator will be chosen
from tlie graduate or fourth year efcs
Chicago has a total public school en
rollment of 213G70 Avith an average
attendance of 17S901 The number of
high school pupils is 7781 grammar
56233 primary 125355 There are
4475 teachers
Ex Governor Kobie of Maine AAho
at tlie time of the erection of the Gor
ham normal school building generously
donated 2000 for that purpose has
noAV given 2000 additional toward the
erection of the neAV normal school dor
mi tory
The Massachusetts House has reject
ed the bill providing for the school
teachers retirement fund in Boston on
the grotmd that it is lurjust to tax the
many for tlie benefit of a few compel
ling many teachers to joiu an insurance
company in which they really haA e no
interest
Minnesota teachers object to being
taxed one per cent for the creation of
a pension fund for the retirement of
men teachers after tAventy five years
and AAomen teachers after twenty
years of serA iee It is thought proba
ble that the bill before the Legislature
Avill not become a law
There is truth in the remark of Prof
Bailey of the Luiversity of California
who in a recent address said that it
Aas not so much the studies AVhich
children pursued as the individuality
of the teacher which makes tlie last
ing impression The teacher should
try to educate by bringing out right in
stincts and developing the natural
of those under his charge
In the public schools of Boston 1500
scholars are daily provided with hot
lunches The food is prepared at a cen
tral kitchen whence it is distributed
by expresses to the wirious scliools
This system is found to be entirely sat
isfactory The variety of food is quite
large and the prices Aery moderate
For 5 cents a choice of dishes is offered
while for 10 cents the sum of all local
epicureanism may lie reached
A cooking school has been a part of
the regular school system of Spring
field Mass for three years There are
noAV sixteen day classes in the school
besides six evening classes and one
for married women held Saturday af
ternoon Pupils are taught tlie charac
ter of various foods Iioav to prepare
and serve them as Avell as canning and
preserving The girls when at Avork
are dressed in Avhite aprons white
sleeves and little Avhite caps
It Was All Caused by a Fly
A bookekeeper employed in a Avhole
sale house has been spending sleepless
nights for three Aveeks in fruitless ef
forts to make his books balance There
Avas an apparent shortage of 000 that
could not be accounted for He added
up columns and struck balances until
he Avas almost insane He finally work
ed himself into that frame of mind that
usually lauds a man in Canada the in
sane asylum or a suicides grave when
the manager of the house inAited his
confidence Then they Avent over the
books together but the 900 shortage
AA as still there
The head of the house Avas called in
and the Avork of overhauling accounts
commenced again They had not gone
far till they came to an entry of 1900
Why that should be 1000 de
clared the employer IIoav did it hap
pen to be entered S1900
A careful examination showed that
a fly had been smashed ljetween the
pages of the cash book and one leg5
made a tail of the first cipher of tb
1000 entry converting it into 9
AFomo Beauty
Scientific research which has attack
ed so many habits and customs has1
noAV made fatal onslaught on our
friendly pollow To the soft luxury of
a down pillow on Avhich Ave rest our
weary heads at night is attributed the
premature Avrinkles and lines that may
be seen on quite youthful faces It is
said to be responsible for ill shaped
faces and the accumulation of fieslx
round the mouth and nose which is so
powerful a foe to physical comeliness
By thermo electric methods Messrs
nolman Lawrence and Barr recently
fixed the melting points of the follow
ing metals Copper melts at 1095 de
grees Cent silver melts at 970 degrees
Cent platinum melts at 1759 degrees
Cent and aluminum melts at 6G0 de
grees Cent