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ROBERT GOOD Editor and Prop
VALENTINE NEBRASKA
Curfew bells are based or the IH72
clple that children must not keep lata
hours when they are tolled not to
Even if annexed Hawaii could never
be even a sister to Uncle Sam It could
not help feeling more or less distant
Lynchings and attempted lynchings
continue to show that while ropes are
used in parts of this country life really
hangs by a thread
An Oklahoma young man shot a girl
four times because she didnt love
him It seems queer that she didnt
love so lovable a character
An alleged liberal association of San
Francisco wants In God We trust
erased from the face of our coins This
Is doubtless subsidiary to their wan
Ing it struck off the face of the earth
The bills audited for the Philadelphia
celebration of the unveiling of the
Washington monument include 202
for ice water This of course includes
that which was distributed in the form
of chasers
Three Christian scientists in Rhode
Island have been adjudged probably
guilty of illegally practicing medicine
and bound over What they mean to
find out is how such conduct comports
with soul liberty in the land of Roger
Williams
The only yearly in the world is the
subtitle of a little newspaper published
by Eskimo schoolboys Under date of
March 25 the latest issue contains this
informing announcement Bryan
elected the United States at war with
Spain Special dog sled despatch
word comes by way of the Yukon
It seems to be the opinion of Con
gress that the motives of these young
women who marry pensioned veterans
old enough to be their grandpas are
not above the suspicion of sordidness
There are only three survivors of the
war of lSl2 ut 3000 widows of dead
soldiers of that war draw pensions
A contemporary propounds a ques
tion both of language and of morals
when it asks Why is it that intelli
gent writers will not cease using the
superfluous adjective trusted when
speaking of a bank defaulter or embez
zler How would such men ever got
the opportunity to steal and defraud if
they were not trusted
The unpleasant incidents and acci
dents of the indoor bicycle race in New
York degraded a sport and added noth
ing whatever to our knowledge of phy
sical prowess nor does such an exhi
bition in any way encourage a whole
some development of an outdoor sport
which is doing so much to improve the
health and raise the vitality of the
American people
The whole mighty host of male pen
sioners will rise up and howl down the
proposition to discourage the Infant In
dustry of young women marrying old
soldiers and sailors for the purpose of
becoming their widows and drawing a
pension from the government No old
male fool was ever convinced except
by actual experience that a young fe
male fool married him for anything but
love
It is easy to believe the rumor that
Germany apprehends a conflict with
Russia and that this is the cause of the
preparations for putting improved can
non in the German forts on the Russian
border immediately Germany has
shown a spirit in the Chinese and Hay
tian episodes which is calculated to
bring her into trouble with more than
one of the big nations The Kaiser of
course is responsible
It is a great advantage to a person to
be trustworthy in the midst of a popu
lace which nobody can trust When
Korea was lately torn by contention
and the Queen was assassinated the
King shouted for the American mis
sionaries and when one was admitted
threw his arms about his neck clung
to him like a child and kept him all
night by his side To affirm that the
missionary is without political influ
ence is erroneous He may have the
best sort of influence
This is an age of progress and the
church cannot afford to stagnate The
clergyman of to day takes advantage
of modern improvements He pays
pastoral calls on a bicycle he lights
his church by electricity and he is ex
perimenting with the plan of giving his
sermons a wider circulation by trans
mitting them to his parishioners by
telephone The newspaper is by far
the most effective aid he can employ
t is the ultimate manifestation of mod
ern progress and energy The church
cannot do without it
The Audubon Society of New York
City in a jubilee meeting recently en
tered a vigorous protest against the
use of feathers and even whole birds
as millinery adornments Several em
inent gentlemen took part in the exer
cises but no women of equal promi
nence appear to have been present
Df course no particular result will fol
low the meeting or the protest The
rromen will argue that a bird on a bon
net has as much to do with the promo
tion of human happiness as a bird in a
glass case in a museum to wnose mas
sacre nobody objects
The story may or may not be true
that England refuses to interfere with
Germanys free hand in China on the
MJ
condition that Germany does not coerce
England in Egypt but it is a reflection
on the position of England tnat such a
story should even be told Time was
when England was not suspected ca
pable of such trades and agreements
England in an earlier age would have
asked neither advice assistance nor
toleration in holding Egypt There is
nothing more remarkable in modem
histqry than the self abandonment of
Great Britain of the position of a first
class power
A few weeks ago the United States
court of appeals at St Louis held that
a boycott by labor against capital is a
criminal conspiracy Later an Illinois
State court at Chicago decided that a
blacklisting by capital against labor
is equally unlawful and has awarded
a blacklisted laborer 2100033 dam
ages If the boycott were sound in law
then the blacklist would also be sound
But these courts dealing out even jus
tice have declared the truth that
blacklist ami boycott are equally
odious equalty hostile to democratic
institutions and ideas It is fortunate
that these two decisions came so close
ly together The object lesson they
present will not be lost upon either la
bor or capital
The order of the Secretary of War
promulgating the reprimand to Capt
Loveririg is couched in terrns severe
enough to achieve the end desired that
of putting a stop to official brutality in
the regular army Captain Lover
ing escapes without loss of rank
or pay but from a civilian stand
point his position is a most tm
enviable one He has been censured by
the commander-in-chief of the army
and he has been told that his punish
ment is not adequate for bis offense
In other walks of life a subordinate
thus censured by a superior would re
sign at once Captain Lovering prob
ably will not do so because it is evident
that he has and will continue to have
the sympathy of a certain proportion
of his fellow officers It is safe to saj
however that their sympathy for him
will not lead them to share his fate by
following his example
From New York comes a story of the
collapse of a gigantic corporation or
ganized to develop mineral claims in
the Klondike regions It is said that
fully 3000000 had been drawn into
ithe scheme in question a large pant of
j the stock having been sold to poor per
sons who were eager to get rich quick
ly The exact condition of the affairs
of the company referred to is not
known at this time but it is hoped a
large portion of the money can be re
claimed It is significant however that
when this Eastern concern collapsed
the names of several well known busi
ness men in various sections of the
country were involved and they have
hastened to disclaim all connection
real or implied with the scheme It
seems almost a certainty that the
names of these men have been used
without their knowledge or consent to
bolster up a doubtful enterprise This
is regrettable to say the least The
Klondike region undoubtedly offers an
inviting field for legitimate investment
and many of the companies recently
organized for such purposes unques
tionably are reliable But under fever
ish conditions mushroom concerns of
ten are organized whose highest mo
tive is to fleece the unwary Unusual
care should be taken to invetate
Alaskan enterprises before investing in
them Men of wealth and standing in
the business world cannot be too care
ful about lending their names to min
ing and development schemes with
which they are not thoroughly familiar
Charles H Cramp contributes to the
North American Review a brief state
ment of what has been accomplished
by Japan in creating a navy and points
out the significance of the movement
to the United States He shows us
that there is rapidly building up a
great sea power on the Pacific Ocean
and that the United States will be
foolish if it continues to regard the
Japanese as a people too far behind in
power and civilization to be thought of
as a possible rival in trade or war
Without going into the details given
by Mr Camp of the naval construction
now being carried on by the Japanese
Government it suffices to say that at
present among the nations of the world
Japan is second only to England in
naval activity being ahead of France
much in advance of Germany and vast
ly in the lead of Russia and the United
States It is added that Japan is not
only building more ships than any na
tion except England but she is pro
curing from British shipyards better
ships than England is building for her
own navy The activity of the Japanese
in naval affairs does not in the opinion
of Mr Cramp imply any direct men
ace to the United States It is prol
able her government designs primarily
to put itself in a position to hold the
seas in opposition to Russia when that
nation completes the Siberian Railroad
and becomes a great power on the Pa-
cific Ocean It is none the less
ant for us to be watchful of the in-
crease of naval strength of a foreign
power on these western seas where we
have such great interests at stake The
days when the United States was safe
in her isolation from the great powers
of other continents have passed Steam
and improved machinery have brought
us into close relations with the rest
of the world We carry on an exten
sive commerce with arI parts of the
globe and sooner or later will have a
merchant marine sufficient to carry
American goods under the American
flag so that we shall not have to pay
tribute to foreign nation for transpor
tation
The Exception
The Slangy Youth Everything goes
The Sleepy GirlYes ifrything
else Somerville Jourawf
1 u
iBfLV pr - r
ECONOMY IN GOVERNMENT
Economy in the government of the
Dnited States appears to have become
a lost art
There Avas a time Avhen the expendi
tures of the United States bore some
just relation to the revenues but that
time antedates the present by at least
fifteen years In the last fifteen years
the expenditures of the government
have increased 40 per cent but it is not
to be discovered that the revenue has
increased in anything like a due pro
portion
As a matter of fact the revenue has
absolutely decreased since 18S2 The
New York Journal of Commerce pub
lishes a table showing the comparative
expenditures in 1SS2 and 1897 which is
suggestive The table is as follows
1882 1S97
Civil establish
ment 57219749 00401207
Military estab
lishment in
cluding river
and harbor
Avorks 43570484 48950257
Naval estab
lishment 1503204G 34501540
Indians 9730747- 13010802
Pensions 01345193 141053104
Interest 71077200 37791110
Total 257891435 35077415G
This shows an increase in expendi
tures in 1897 over those of 1882 amount
ing to 9SS82721 But this increase
might be all right if there Avere a pro
portionate increase in revenue Un
fortunately such is not the fact as is
shown by the folloAving table of rev
enue receipts
18S2 1897
Customs 220410730 170554120
Internal reve
nue 140497595 140088574
All other 3GG1G925 24479005
Total reve
nue 403525250 347721705
There has been a falling off of over
50000000 in revenue during the last
fifteen years What is the cause of this
decrease The Bulletin of the Ameri
can Iron and Steel Association ansAvers
as folloAs
Prices for most manufactured pro
ducts have fallen in this country so low
that even moderately protected duties
AAill suffice to preATent any considerable
influx of foreign manufactures in oth
er words that a tariff which affords
adequate protection to American indus
tries can no longer be relied upon to
supply sufficient revenue for the sup
port of the government unless duties
for reATenue only be also proAided
Republicans are forced to admit that
a tariff for protection is a failure as a
tariff for revenue What are they go
ing to do about it
Hope of the Republic
The Democratic party in power in
1900 controlled by the common people
will without doubt experiment boldly
It will lead our government into new
and untried ways as our enemies Arery
clearly and very truthfully predict It
will make many improvements and it
may make some blunders The one
thing that above all and in spite of all
it is pledged to do is to arouse the Uni
ted States government from its paraly
sis stupor and corpse like state of be
ing experimented on and declare that
whatever the experiments of the fu
ture instead of being made on the Uni
ted States they shall be made by the
United States Walter Vrooman in
New Democracy
Further Proof Unnecessary
If the United States treasury deficit
of almost 40000000 for the fiscal year
to date does not convince Congress of
the necessity of either rigorous re
trenchment and economy in the matter
of government expenditures or of pro
viding additional revenue to meet ex
travagant appropriations it is unlikely
that anything aa 111 do so Or if Con
gress should not promptly recognize
that the Dingley tariff is a disastrous
failure as a revenue measure or as a
measure for the protection of domestic
labor it Avill fail to recognize a clearly
demonstrated fact Philadelphia Led
ger
Republican Notes Coining Due
The Republican party is in trouble
6ecause its own notes are coming due
vand it has no way of meeting them It
promised that its tariff Avould give
employment at good Avages
and put a surplus into the treasury
It has had its OAvn Avay about the tariff
and Avages are going doAAn AAhile the
deficit in the treasury is piling up If
the Republican party had taken the
ground that commercial and industrial
conditions Avere independent of the ac
tion of governments it might be less
disturbed by a trade depression NeAV
York Journal
Acknowledging the Truth
Senator Aldrich has let the cat out
of the bag In a recent discussion of
the dingley bill he said that in future
we must look less to duties on imports
for revenue and rely more upon an in
crease of internal revenue taxes to
raise the necessary revenue for the
government This tears the mask from
the whole Republican scheme of taxa
tion and reveals it as a system devised
solely for the purpose of bestowing
benefits upon one class of the people at
the expense of -another
A Logical Result
The Dingley tariff law is directly re
sponsible for the situation in the Fall
River district By erecting unparalleled
barriers to trade it has enraged the
best consumers America has had for
iifilgdiiW ifcN
her products and they are buying else
Avhere Home consumption Avill not
take all the products of American cot
ton mills Other countries Avhich have
been liberal purchasers finding our
ports shut against the products they
haveto sell are buying their cotton in
more friendly districts and American
workmen suffer in consequence Des
Moines Leader
Monetary Reform Run Mad
At last the self appointed monetary
commission lias given out the conclu
sions arrived at by its combined Avis
dom and Avhile striving to abolish the
endless chain has succeeded in putting
another link in it
AVith that Avise school of finance
which teaches the theory that a non-interest-bearing
debt is more heavy to
cany than an interest bearing debt
the self appointed monetary commis
sion advises the refunding of the green
backs and other demand obligations
of the government by the issuing of
gold bonds It recommends that the
secretary of the treasury be author
ized to issue bonds Avhenever the gold
reserves are to be replaced
There is nothing neAV in this plan it
having been fully covered in the propo
sition submitted to Congress by Secre
tary Gage It is the old scheme to
break the endless chain by bonding
this country to the extent of nearly a
thousand million dollars to escape a
dilemma created by the gold clique
and which has no legal cause for ex
istence
But the most remarkable proposition
made by the monetary commission the
most short sighted and inconsistent
recommendation is to the effect that
the treasury be authorized to give a
gold for a silver dollar on demand
Having in its own estimation de
stroyed the endless chain in destroy
ing the greenbacks this sapient mone
tary commission creates another end
less chain by creating the silver dol
lars and silver certificates a means by
Avhich gold shall be drained from the
treasury
In an attempt to strike silver money
a death blOAV the blade has turned
and pierced the side of the assailant
If the endless chain is such a mon
strous eAil why do these self chosen
monetary reformers set about the
creation of another endless chain more
extensive than the one which they
have attempted to destroy
Silver is declared by this suggestion
of the commission not to be money
but a demand obligation of the gOA
ernment payable in gold This is in
deed gold monometallism run mad It
is fortunate that the commission is
self created for othenvise its parents
could not fail to le very much ashamed
of their offspring Chicago Dispatch
Great Opportunity for Congress
The expenditures of the government
are enormously in excess of the actual
need because a very great proportion
of the appropriations is made simply
to serve party purposes or in plain
Avords to buy votes with bounties
What a monument the present congress
could build for itself if it had the cour
age to deal Avith this matter rationally
and honestly cutting off all unjust ap
propriations and levying taxes with
sole reference to the replenishment of
the treasury New York World
Prosperity at Fall River
In the favored and much protected
United States within six months after
the introduction of the Dingley duties
Avhich represent the complete and final
sysem of protection the Avages of the
28000 Fall River cotton spinners are
reduced 10 per cent without notice and
Avithout concern for the consequences
As a lesson on the results of protection
the deficit in the pockets of the Fall
River cotton spinners is even more in
structive than the deficit in the rev
enue
Republican Opportunity Lost
The hue and cry about prosperity
based on an accidental and temporary
advance in wheat evoke merely taunts
and jeers from millions avIio haAe been
still further exploited by legislative job
bing schemes and protected monopo
lies The Republican opportunity has
been lost The tide of popular indigna
tion and discontent with irresistible
SAveep is bearing doAvn upon the perni
cious and guilty crew avIio betrayed a
peoples trust Dallas Texas NeAvs
Sparing Appropriations Advisable
Bearing in mind that the present
time is particularly inauspicious for al
loAving any but the most necessary ex
penditures it is unquestionably the
policy of wisdom to deal A ery sparing
ly with appropriations for public build
ings The nation can Avell afford to be
liberal in this direction when its reA
enue is greater than its expenditures
which is likely to be the case by the
next session of Congress Until that
time thce appropriations should wait
Bright Outlook for Trouble
Indications have cropped out thus
early in the session that Republican
brethren in Congress are inclined not
to dwell in harmony together Their
rowing Is a comforting spectacle for
the Democrats who as a solace for
being a minority party will be treated
to the luxury of observing the rascals
fight against the honest incompetents
in the ranks of their political adver
saries
Hanna Meets -with Ingratitude
Just think of it Here is the man who
discovered William McKinley elected
him to the Presidency mortgaged his
vadministraSion to Wall street fired
John Sherman from the Senate to make
a place for himself and dragooned a
Governor into appointing hi m now
having to make a desperate struggle to
get the vote of the Republican mem
bers of the General Assembly And all
this in a little more than a little year
Cincinnati Enquirer
Specimen Pension Fraud
It appears that a Avoman Avho was
once the Avife of a regular army officer
avIio died years ago Avithout a pension
has married twice since the death of
her first husband but as the Avife of the
third is dnnving a pension AA hich has
already yielded her over 3000 Cases
like this afford the opponents of a lib
eral system of pensions ready Aveapons
forattack Indianapolis Journal
How ProtectionAids Trusts
It Avould not be half so hard to frame
and enforce anti trust Liavs if combina
tions Avere not protected against for
eign competition Protection gives
them power to manipulate the market
and the fact ought to have become sear
ed on the brain of every man in the
United States that protection is never
used by faAored interests for any oth
er purpose Sioux City Tribune
The Tariff Question AVill Not Down
With a yaAvning chasm betAveen re
ceipts and expenditures with protec
tion in abundance and revenue a neg
ative quantity the Republicans say
they AA ant the tariff let alone for ten
years No doubt but the people who
pay these taxes do not propose to let
it alone Maw make Bill keep quiet
every time I hit him Avith the hammer
he hollers Louisville Post
Secretary Gage and His Hopes
The very best that the Secretary of
the Treasury hopes for will leave an
enormous deficit in the affairs of the
United States treasury at the end of
the fiscal year July 1 at the rate things
are noAV going And it is highly proba
ble that what Mr Gage hopes for will
not be realized Cincinnati Enquirer
Only One Thing More Needed
The Illinois Republican leaders pro
pose to gerrymander the State again
in order to secure if possible a few
more legislative and congressional
seats If they could only deprive the
minority of representation absolutely
they would rest content
Work Both Ways
Civil service laAvs Avork both ways
They not only protect the Qmploye from
partisan attack but are designed to
protect the service from partisan pro
tection of the employe Pittsburg Dis
patch
Republican Reform in Wisconsin
They haAe increased the state debt
in time of peace till it has swung a
hundred thousand beyond the tAvo and
a half million mark and are noAV sell
ing the state lands to throw into the
hole Sweet birds of reform arent
they
Political Pith
Nebraska has 35000 silver Republi
cans and less than 100 gold Democrats
Minesota has 00000 silver Republi
cans Minnesota has no gold Demo
crats
There are 75000 silver Republicans in
Ohio There are less than 1500 gold
Democrats in Ohio
Wisconsin has 40000 silver Republi
cans There are less than 800 gold Dem
ocrats in the State
Indiana has 100000 silver Republican
voters W D Bynum is the only gold
Democrat in the State
Illinois has 115000 silver Republi
cans John P Hopkins and sixty others
comprise the gold Democracy of the
State
There are 120000 silver Republicans
in Michigan Don M Dickinson and
eight others comprise the gold Democ
racy of the State x
Every voting precinct ought to have
its vigilance committee to preserve the
purity of the ballot from the acts of
the holier than thou rascals
Our precinct clubs must see to it thai
the purity of the ballot is preserved
We may educate to doomsday Avithout
good results if Ave are not vigilant for
honest suffrage
In these halcyon days of MeKinlej
prosperity when the laboring man has
run the gauntlet of the trust robbers
the footpads generally let him go free
because he is not Avorth holding up
Retrenchment rather than revenue is
the need of the hour according to the
Republican mahatmas The trouble is
that Ave shall have neither the one nor
the other under a Republican adminis
tration
The Republican party has always
been terribly distressed over the com
petition of foreign labor but somehoAV
or other it things the annexation of
thousands of Japanese kanakas and
Chinese coolies Avould be a blessed
thins all around
Noblemens Prizes
More English noblemen are married
to colonial than to American heiresses
Since 1S00 seventy titled Englishmen
haA e married American and seventy
sjven chosen colonial Avomen There
are nine American and eight colonial
peeresses When it comes to dukes
America is in the lead
Wanted Authority
Ethel what are you doing with r
concordance Im looking through
the Bs grandma to see if there is any
thing in the Bible about bicycle riding
on Sunday being wrong Household
Words
The life of Swift covered a period or
eighty five years from 1600 to 1745
His works are comprised in a great
number of volumes but Gullivers
Travels and The Tale of a Tub by
which he is remembered were aacl
written in less than a vear
g
Tull
fokl
Spelling of Geographical Names
The United States Board on geo
graphical names has adopted for guid
ance in determining the official form
or rendering of geographical names the
folloAving principles Avithin the United
States
Spelling and pronunciation sanc
tioned by local usage should in general
be adopted
Where names have been changed or
corrupted and such changes and cor
ruptions have become established by
local usage it is not in general advisa
ble to attempt to restore to the original
form
In case Avhere Avhat Avas evidently
originally the same Avord appear Avith
various spellings sanctioned by locaL
usage Avhen applied to different fea
tures these various spellings should be
regarded as In effect different names
and as a rule it is Inadvisable to at
tempt to produce uniformity
Where a choice is offered between
two or more names for the same place
or locality all sanctioned by local
usage that Avhich is most appropriate
and euphonious should be adopted
The possessive form should be avoid
ed whenever It can be done without de
stroying the euphony of the name or
changing its descriptive application
In all names ending in burgh the
final h should be dropped
In all names ending in borough
this termination should be abbreviated
to boro
The word center as a part of the
name should be spelled center not
centre
The use of hyphens In connecting
compound names should be discontin
ued
The letters C H court house as a
part of the names of county seats
should be omitted
In case of compound names consist
ing of more than one word it Is desir
able to simply them by uniting the
compound parts
It is desirable to aAoid the use of
diacritical charity
It is desirable to avoid the use of the
AA ords city and town as a part of1
names
Discipline
At the Parents Congress recently
held in Ncav York City considerable
discussion was called out by the ad
dress on Government of Children by
Rev Dr McConnell of Holy Trinity
Church Some of his views are set
forth in this brief extract A
I never kneAV a child and never want
to have an intimate acquaintance AAith
one that did not need punishments
This punishment need not be harsh and
should never be humiliating nor such
as to loAver the dignity of the child I
believe that a child may be spanketb
with dignity
It always irritates me to hear a
mother say that she cannot trust her
temper to punish a child when the
fault is committed but Avaits until next
day I do not know of any more dia
bolical punishment than this fad of
Aveak mothers
Trifling physical punishment when
the offense is committed is less trying
than delayed punishment which keeps
the little one on the rack and tries its
nerves In closing let me say
a word about the so called decay of
family discipline I do not believe in
it There is less of the decorous be
havior of children towards their par
ents than was customary a generation
or two ago but there is more comrade
ship and a better understanding be
tAveen tne Individuals making up the- y
family group and society in conse
quence is better for it
Teaching History
Use the historical cards
Encourage the pupils to read
Talk familiarly do not lecture
Assign topics for historical effect
Pay great attention to biography
Pay attention to noted days in his
tory
Require each pupil to keep a note-
book
Read extracts from books before tne
class
GiAe frequent exercises in written
work
Assign the lesson by topics not by
pages
Call frequent attention to causes and
results
Information is not the main end to
be obtained
Pay especial attention to the inter
esting features in history
Correct systematize and supplement
the matter given in recitation
Show how the history of a place orr
country depends upon its geography
Require each pupil to prepare mapsx
on paper and to reproduce them
quickly upon the board
A love for history with some valu
able methods of pursuing it is the
great result of classical work
Read or tell stories from history to
the primary and intermediate pupils
Texas School Journal
Empty chool Houses
A public auction of schoolhouses is a
novelty AAitnessed in Western Kansas
State officials decided that school-
houses in depopulated districts which
are not in use may be sold to the high 1
est bidder There are more than 10O
of these buildings scattered over th
prairies that have not been in use fox
years the abode of bats and owls
They are decaying and crumbling
They will be sold to the highest bid
der to be used for cattle sheds or cut
up into kindling wood In many cases
a single family runs a school from the
taxes gathered from non resident land
owners
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