SUPPLEMENT TO
News Democrat
Valentine Neb
Friday April ID UJ01
The Mexican army of more than
25000 men is supported upon a trifle
more than 1000000 Mexican dollars a
month The Mexican congress does
not cost 1000000 a year
Captain Richard P Leary U S N
who as governor of the Island of
Guam won laurels which have not yet
had time to fade is hobbling around
on crutches His leg was injured a
few weeks ago in a fall at the Leagua
Island navy yard
Mr Justice Brewer of the United
States Supreme Court said in a recent
address that he who calls a mob into
being cannot be pronounced wholly
guiltless of that which the mob may
do The remark is both seasonable
and full of sound sense
Army recruits are scarce in England
as well as in this country In order
to stimulate the laggard military spirit
among British yokels a genius of the
war office in London has devised what
he calls a recruitograph This is a
moving picture machine which shows
all sorts of attractive views of army
life
During harvest last year Edward
Pallas of Maysville Kan was caught
in a machine and terribly injured
While he was still laid up his wife
deserted him In October he secured a
divorce which under the state law did
not become final until the expiration
of six months He died before that
time and now his divorced wife claims
his estate
Mexico knows nothing of the dila
tory court methods so common in this
country A California prospector had
a case involving some mining prop
erty in Sinaloa It came up first in
February 1900 and went against him
It has since been appealed three times
all four decisions having been secured
in eleven months Three of the courts
ifavored the American
It is estimated that if Mr Carnegie
continued to give away money at the
rate at which he has been distributing
it for the past fifty days his entire for
tune would be gone in the course of
the year 1903 But as he is In good
health and has a reasonable expecta
tion of life of at least twenty years he
will probably so arrange hi3 benefac
tions as not to deprive himself of the
pleasure of passing them around at
-such an early date
L Former Chief Justice lfltL
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Bleckley of Georgia greatly to thi
surprise of his friends has matricu
lated at the state university for a ape
cial course in mathematics The judg
is now seventy six years old He ia
writing a book in which he treats of
mathematics but finds that he ia
somewhat rusty on the subject It la
for the purpose of brushing up as
he says that he is attending college
An enormous quantity of fruit ia
going to waste in southern California
for lack of cars to convey it east The
crop was the greatest on record beina
estimated at from 22000 to 25000 car
loads There are from 3000000 to 4
000000 boxes of oranges there just now
worth under favorable conditions
about 5000000 but owing to delay in
shipment it is questionable whether il
represents much value No remedy ia
in sight
The chancellor of the exchequer IB
England has asked the speaker of tha
house of commons to punish the Lon
don Times for printing official secrets
by excluding its representatives from
the house The Times is something oi
a national institution Itself although
it has been badly treated by its edi
tors and it is just about as essential
to parliament as parliament is to it A
ood many English public men might
is well not talk at all as not to have
their speeches reported in the Times
A complete list of the things named
in honor of Queen Victoria would not
only show the esteem in which she was
held but would also suggest how much
of the worlds progress had taken placa
during the period covered by her
reign The great Australian stat
bearing her name recalls the history
making developments in that quarter
of the globe the Victorian triumphs
of exploraton are typified by the dis
covery of great lakes in Central Africa
one of which commemorates her name
The famous bridge at Montreal the
beautiful park on the Canadian side of
Niagara Falls and some at least of the
sixteen Victorias in the United States
are among the interesting North Am
erican memorials It is a good advan
tage for a sovereign to possess a name
not identified with anybody else for
then things named in her honor will
indicate to all the future about the
time in the history when they came
into being
Under the national bankruptcy law
many curiosities in litigation have
appeared but Frank R Wessa of Cn
cinnati takes the prize He owes 100
for rent provisions and medical at
tendance assets nil He drew up the
papers himself thus saving a lawyers
fee and included the United States
among his creditors entering the
country as entitled to the 25 fee for
making him a bankrupt although
Uncle Sam must go empty handed
with the others The court clerk re
fused to file the petition without the
S25 fea n Wessa filed it himself
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Dr Wi SEYMOUR
Has Made a Great Success
Ten Years in Ne
braska
Omaha has been the home of Dr
Seymour for nearly ten years dur
ing which time his phenomenal suc
cess in the scientific fitting of glass
es and treatment of all eye troubles
has made him a reputation which
extends over the entire west
Many new and scientific treat
ments through the medium of glass
es have been demonstrated by him
beyond a question of doubt
His moving to Lincoln was to ia
crease his facilities for work and
enlarge his field for operation Be
ing a railroad center Lincoln is
more easily reached by his thou
sands of patients who are scattered
over the entire state of Nebraska
lie has now established the finest
institution of its kind in the west
and physicians associated with him
are representatives Of the best
schools in this country and Europe
who have taken up these new meth
ods as being an improvement over
the free use of the knife and the old
time theories of the profession
Their treatments are confined to
eye ear nose throat and all ner
vous troubles
The peculiar reason for designat
ing the company as the Medico
Optical Company is to convey at
once the proper idea as to the field
covered The work is not limited
to that of the optician nor does it
present alone medical knowledge
necessary for proper treatment of
all deseased conditions but it is a
combination of the medical optical
and electrical sciences and at once
places the physicians connected with
this company far in advance of the
ordinary specialists as different
members of the company hold diplo
mas from colleges of medicine op
tics and electrical therapeutics The
Dr will be here soon Read of
his joining elsewhere in this paper
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