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Cta Gomtg Independent VALENTINE NEBRASKA Meanwhile the old ship of State doesnt need any violent tugs to make It Independent of the banks It can easily float a loan The report that a young man in Chi cago became insane from smoking cig arets is superfluous It is enough to sap he smoked cigarets In after life you may have friends ond dear friends but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you which none but a mother bestows New York wheelmen have a bill be fore the State Legislature asking that bicycles be transported free on rail roads as personal baggage The same question will doubtless be raised in every State in the Union before many years pass Emerson says A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best If we ueed confirmation of this we have but to look at the dreary and melancholy con dition of the man who on this fair earth and with all its opportunities finds nothing to do Last year the United States took otn of the soil in grain alone the sum of 1 489487000 Compare this prodigious sum with the 40000000 annual prod uct of gold which has constituted the basis of the Kaffir speculative excite ment and what is called the great boom of 1895 sinks into insignificance Hara and stubborn facts soon con vince the most ideal dreamer that w cannot choose our own sphere or con trol our own circumstances that our daily wisdom is in making a good usu of the opportunities within our grasp that the strong man governs his own occasions and the weak man is gov erned by them A taste for good literature is encour aged among the school children of De troit by the distribution among the schools of approved books from the public library Fifty two schools are supplied in this way and the circula tion for 1895 was over 75000 The books are changed five times during the school year and the only additional expense is the slight one of transporta tion It seems to be a successful plan for getting in ahead of the pennv dread ful One of the surprises of the next ue cennial census may be the discovery that the national center of population has moved eastward for the first time since the government was formed The State censuses taken last year indicate that the East is growing more rapidly than the West In the five years since 1890 Massachusetts gained in popula tion 262000 or 117 per cent The gain of New Jersey in the same period was 313000 or 157 per cent Iowas cor responding gain was 146000 or 70 per cent Kansas reports a loss since 1S90 and Oregons increase in the five years b not quite 8 per cent Prize fighters have been driven from one State to another until their brutal spectacles have been outlawed in all Texas the last State to be sought by the fighters rose and put a stop to the Corbett Fitzsimmons contest which was to have occurred within its limits Now a group of sluggers have gath ered at El Paso where they are con venient to Mexico or New Mexico whichever shall prove to be available for fighting purposes But Congress has passed a law to prevent prize fighting in the Territories and Federal officials say the law shall be observed Mexican authorities on the other hand Insist that that republic although it may endure bull fights will not be dis graced by brutal contests between hu man beings The degrading prize fight ought not to be tolerated in any civ ilized country If these roughs must fight let them charter a boat and go out ato the Atlantic Ocean The experiments made at Harvard College with the Roentgen process re move the last doubts of the possibility of effective photography through con siderable thickness of Trood But a still greater triumph of the system is that announced by cable from Vienna where Dr Neusser of the Vienna Uni versity has succeeded in photograph ing through the body the calcareous de posits in various Internal organs of a human subject The new process prom ises to be greatly useful in medicine and surgery as it will make the diag nosis of many forms of disease of lungs stomach and other organs a matter of much greater certainty than It is now The simplest of the principle of the discovery yet given is that many substances seemingly opaque are trans parent to light vibrations of which hu man eyes take no cognizance If is transparent to light at a certain rate of vibration and wood to rays vibration at a different rate it ia easy to see that to photograph through the wood as if it were glass it is only necessary to get a plate of the proper degree of sensitiveness A new field in the science of the physics of vibratory force has been opened up The results of experiments along the lines now clearly Indicated must be far reaching In many directions It is now a dem onstrated fact that a great discovery has leen made The success of the bond issue baa penetrated the fastnesses of the Ogatel la Sioux Indians in South Dakofa and they have decided to send a few braves down to Washington to have a tallf with the Great Father and lay In a fresh supply of cash In these days of agitation and unrest it is refreshing to learn that these cheerful relics are not burdened with any vulgar discontent As the report says they merely have a vague undefined feeling that there are a few minor grievances to be cor rected the principal one of which is they want their annuities in money It is credited as an aimless wThim on their part a pretext for a little junket for a few frisky bucks that they seek to change the present system of receiv ing old fits any size blankets tomato cans etc to one in which the coin of the realm may be more conspicuous The delegation is to be chosen at a council at Wounded Knee and the pri maries have already been fixed it is hinted to give Red Cloud the place of honor at the head He has expressed a desire to press the hand of the Great Father once more and then return home and die and it is in the Indian pins as the Ogallalla heeler expresses it that his creditable ambition is to be sat isfled The information as it has conn out of the West has this uncomfortable climax The council is to conclude with a feast at which 180 dogs will be served A howling success is pre dicted for the entire Ogalalla program It is well known that anarchistic Ideas are a form of mania and their promulgation evidence of insanity but the frightful crimes of the man Klaettke who at Chicagot murdered his parents his wife his three children and then killed himself add emphasis to the fact Anarchy means the sub version of all rational views of life and the man who can convince himself that the world is wrongly constructed is not far from the impulse to murder and suicide which is confession that it is not only vain to struggle against the world but that annihilation or its prob lematical alternative is preferable to continuance here Probably all such ideas as Klaettke held originate in ill health which is usually self induced by means of liquor No healthy man can be a pessimist no unhealthy man an optimist and anarchy is only an objective all embracing pessimism The unfortunate who has an uneasy liver sees everything yellow and sickly and beginning with the knowledge that he is disordered finds the world dis ordered too This conviction like all hallucinations compels the sufferers continual attention The longer he contemplates and broods over it the worse and more powerful It becomes until after an irresistible process of exclusion it takes entire possession of the trembling mind and the least sug gestion such in this case for exam ple as the murder and suicide of Hou gaard is sufficient to drive the maniac to the extreme length This theory is supported by every known fact in Klaettkes case He was an occasional drunkard and consequently a pessi mist He was an anarchist as the re sult of his drunkenness and pessimism and consequently a murderer and sui cide in passe long before he became such in very deed The lesson seems to be Dont drink keep your liver in good order If it be followed the sky will not be threatening the wrorld will not be a place of punishment life will not be torture and you will not be in danger of becoming an anarchist and a murderer RULES IN BRITISH GUIANA Augustus Lawson Hemming K C M G the New Governor The people of this country are es pecially interested just now in British Guiana and in the new Governor who I iKsW I KnlM aPw M iSJt r feaMW A V 3 f f has been appointed by the British Gov ernment for that colony Augustus Lawson Hemming K C M G Sir Au- OPIlofllo linn rij i I6UOIUD IAUO DCCU thirty years serv ice in the home co- onial office and Is well qualified for iw position Jtie mis on several oc casions been en- oov hemming trusted wTith deli cate missions affecting boundary dis putes and he is thus well fitted to cope with the difficulty regarding the Vene zuela boundary line British Guiana is one of the most thriving of the British possessions in the tropics and is the equal of Trinidad or Mauritius Its sugar product is equivalent annually to 10- 000000 and is worked by coolies im ported from East India There are rich gold fields in Essequibo and Cuyu ni Sir Augustus will therefore find a prosperous country under him A Beautiful Black Diamond Henri Moisson recently exhibited at the French Academy of Science a black diamond as large as a mans fist which is valued at about 40000 It is said to be the largest black diamond ever found andvas picked up In Bra zil by a miner working in private grounds It weighed 3000 carats or about twice as much as the largest stone of the kind hitherto discovered Within a short time after its discovery about five months ago it lost nineteen grammes of its weight evidently by the evaporation of water contained in it but this loss has not ceased Its crystalline form Is nearly perfect re sembling that of the artificial diamonds formed by the crystallization of car bon in silver crucibles New York Tri bune Circulation In about twenty two seconds a drop of blood goes the round of the body In about every two minutes the entire blood in the body makes the round through the right side of the heart the lungs to the left side of the heart through the arteries the veins again to the heart Hope for Massachusetts Spinsters The male biths in Massachusetts during the past year exceeding the fe male birth by nearly 20Q0 V J EVENING AND NIGHT The air is very still On yonder tfooded hill The old day slowly dies In Paradise What colors manifold Red molten with the gold Islands of amethyst In lakes of azure mist The hour whispers peace The tired reapers cease And rudely sweet and strong - Riseth the harvest song j The evening star above Kindles her lamp of love And lends her light to bless Their song of thankfulness And from the utmost rim Of the horizon dim The harvest moon comes sweet Over the sheaved wheat Her chaste and holy light The stilly hush of night The incense in the air Proclaims Gods presence here Still is the starry East Sleeps every bird and beast Still is the faded West Rest gleaner rest Pall Mall Budget STORY OF A GOLD MINE Stories of gold strikes at Cripple Creek have revived those ancient le gends of accidental mineral finds which lend such a glamour to the avocation of the prospector If one can find an old miner with an unoccupied half an hour lies rare and picturesque and sufficient in number to freight a train can be had for the asking Colonel Thomas Jeffer son Maloney now an operator in Crip ples properties has been through all the flush times Colorado has known and has likewise tightened his belt for lack of a more satisfactory dinner in those times when Colorado was not so flush There have been so such strikes in the last five or six years said Colonel Maloney as we used to have in the good olddays when old manTabor grub staked the two German shoemakers Hook and Riche and went to sleep in his clothes two nights afterward a mill ionaire owner of the Little Pittsburg It was hard getting him to bed too I think he would have been celebrating the strike yet if the boys hadnt chlo roformed him Now when a man makes a find he goes and covers it up until he can con his neighbors out of their claims In the other days I speak of a man who struck- it rich went out on the causeway and proclaimed his great luck He spent all his money in add ing to the general joyousness of the camp and made no bluff at work until his means for inducing celebration were wholly exhausted Nearly all the bonanza strikes have been made by accident There was Ad ams famous luck over in the Sandia range Adams said he was a descend ant of the family that had so many Presidents and signers of the declara tion in it I always set him down for a liar he came from Elgin 111 He was invariably making this declaration of independence play when he should have been doing assessment wTork This mans name was John Quincy Adams same as the last President of the name and he never let you go to sleep in ignorance of the fact Why Provi dence should pick out such a man to shower favors on I never could imag ine It was his Idiotic carelessness that made him a plutocrat Any man with a morsel of sense would never have got rich as he did He was always pros pecting around in the most unpromising spots He packed a jack load of plun der with him pans and picks and shov els and powder besides his grub One dayhewasprojectingaround the Sandia hills thinking he was looking for float and letting his heart swell with family pride He had his haversack slung over his shoulder and among other truck in it were ten or twelve cartridges for blasting His magnifying glass lay at the top of the bag Adams sat down against a rock to rest and the glass focused the sun so it set fire to the canvas bag Adams said subse quently he made the quickest play of his life in getting from under that hav ersack strap He frit one ridge and landed forty rods away behind another I COULD SEE HIS CANDLE FLICKER rock He had just reached cover and bing off went his blasting powder Ad ams went back out of the idlest curios ity to see what kind of a hole it had made He found the rock he had lean ed against scattered at large over the face of the earth The haversack had fallen Into a sort of crevice at the foot and the explosion had lifted everything Into the air Among other things It had opened a vein of free milling ore running 3800 to the ton That man Adams sold a tenth interest for 16000 It was worth ten times as much but he needed monejT for development He made more than a million and they are working on the vein yet Adams is blooding it back in Massachusetts He bought pome of the old property of the family back ajjd naturally glided and varnished it He says the Adamses ore on earth for the second time I never let fewer than three men work in one of my mines said an own er of property in the Clear Creek dis trict It may be an idle notion but I have been haunted by the Idea that I came near committing murder of the most cold blooded character a few years ago If there had been three of us in stead of two partners the thought never would have come to me and I wouldnt have the bad dreams that dis turb me occasionally I have never since put myself in a position where a possible homicide would not have at least one witness I will not work alone with another man in a mine I got my start up in Farncomb Hill Jim Souther was my partner We had a fairly good claim nothing of the bo nanza in its nature just a good honest or two ounce proposi tion that beat day wages by a shade only There is one thing about Farn comb Hill that is its uncertainty You never know what the next wallop with the pick or the next shot with a car tridge will uncover Souther was down in the hole and I was on the windlass hoisting the buckets he filled with ore We had a soft thing so far as labor was concerned and could almost shovel the ore up It was a soft talc a cross be tween chalk and putty I got a bucket at last along about 2 in the afternoon that weighed like a ton I could scarce ly lift it I dumped it and almost drop ped dead The ore was so rich in gold I could see it shine I examined the bucket and found little strings of wire gold hanging to it Jim had struck one of those celebrated Famcomb freaks and it was so dark down there he hadnt HE MADE THE QUICKEST PLAT OF HIS LIFE noticed the alteration in the chracter of the stuff he was sending up Do you recall that fine twisted wire gold exhib ited at the Worlds Fair Much of that was what Souther and I took out of that shaft I called to Jim to stand from under for I aimed to come down and see him awhile I broke the news to him and then we began to figure out how we stood As nearly as we could decide we had a pocket or chamber of this stuff extending into the side of the shaft about ejght feet We could reach in and get out handfuls of finespun gold that looked like it came from un der a red headed girls hat But we couldnt stand in the shaft and admire it all day There was at least 15000 worth of the stuff The metal that was not free could easily enough be separated from the rest of the ore It was inclosed in decomposed quartz and required nothing but rubbing between the fingers to get it We decided to raise it all that night that is unless it turned out a bigger find than we thought We figured it best not to go about beating the drum to advertise our strike but hoist the ore and do our talk ing later Jim stayed in the mine and I went back on the winch Then my tempta tion came to me There was a good big piece of money there for one man and just half as much each for two I have read somewhere that every man has his price if you keep on bidding you can reach him sure at some spot Since that day I have shuddered to think how cheap I am A measly 15000 in ore came near getting me It all came to me as if it were printed in big letters and held before my face I could call to Jim and get him out of the drift into the bottom of the shaft and let go the windlass There wouldnt be a kick left in a man who had been smashed on the head with a seventy-five-pound bucket with 200 pounds of ore in it after a fifty foot fall The first time I called I couldnt raise my voice over a whisper It re minded me of the time I had the pneu monia my first year in the mountains and Jim nursed me out of it He walked twenty miles over the hills in a snowstorm to get medicine for me and its the surest thing in the world I wouldnt have been hoisting pure gold out of a Farncomb Hill shaft if Jim Souther hadnt sat up with me day and night for a week four years before I thought of all this while I was limber ing up my voice for the second try at calling him That time I did it What is it Bill he hollers back I could see his candle flicker as I looked down the shaft ready to let go the winch when I had him placed right Whats eating of you now he keeps on We aint got any time for merry making or visiting if we get this spend ing money out to day he says Make your talk quick Bill I had to try three times again be fore I could make a noise Shake a bush says Jim if you cant speak I want jou to come up and work the winch I yells back I dont like to be so far away from the stuff All right iie hollers up if you prefer it But you know you cant stand it down here as well as I can and Im some afraid youll get the worst of it So Jim came up and I took his place When I was going down the shaft he pays I You look like you had seen a dead friend Bill I think another strike like thia irrmlrJ eivp von hpnrf fn Hiiro What did the find dp We took out 22000 from that pocket and sold the claim for 45000 Yes Souther is still in the mining business with me I told him about my plan to dissolve partnership when he was in the shaft He said Do you know Bill I had a strong notion to belt you on the head with a pick when you came down the shaft and I found what kind of a pile of putty I had dug into Chicago Times Herald True Hearted It makes all the diffrence in the world what a person marries for Im so thankful that I didnt make any mistake said a small shabbily dressed tired looking woman who was cane seating chairs at a house where she had asked for work Her tongue was as nimble as her fingers but her views on all topics were so cheery and hope ful notwithstanding her manifest pov erty that her garrulity did not become tiresome Her opinions on marriage coming as they did from a woman to whom marriage had brought pov erty and unceasing labor for an inval id husband were refreshing and had the ring of a true heart Yes she said folks that marries for but one thing makes a dreadful mistake I often think to myself What if I had married for anything in the world but love real genuine sure enough love What a fix Id be in to day You see my husbands been an In valid for nine years He went Into slow consumption four years after we were married and he aint worked six weeks all told since and Ive had all the support of him and our three chil dren for nine years and Ive done it by trailin round from house to house cane seatin chairs and all the feelin Ive had about it has been one of thank fulness that I was able and willin to do it Sposin I hadnt married for love Sposin Id married for riches and theyd taken wings and flew away Sposin Id married for beauty and sickness and misry had robbed my hus band of his good looks Wouldnt I be in a nice fix But I didnt marry for a thing on earth but respect and love for a good man and I aint regretted it and I aint a bit unhappy or discontented exceptin in the sorrow that comes from the certainty that I aint goln to have my husband with me much longer Hes failin fast now poor dear I aint never looked on him as a burden I aint throwed it up to him that Ive had the livin to make I aint fretted nor complained nor done any of the things I wTould surely have done if Id made the dreadful mistake of marryin for anything but real affection Folks that marries for anything else has got a lot of unhappiness before em that I dont know anything about Queer Effect of Light It is asserted by one of tbe leading authorities on light and heat that the beams of the sun and moon have a very deleterious effect upon all kinds of edged tools An exposure of a few hours to sunlight will turn the edge of the best razor ever made and one nights exposure to the rays of the full moon will ruin such an instrument forever Similar exposure to light will finally spoil knives scythes and sick les the premonitory signs of coming usefessness being noted in the blue color which the metal assumes When the edge of such tools once disappears as a result of continued exposure to the light of either the sun or the moon they are absolutely useless until they have been retempered Because of this peculiar action of light on steel purchasers should always be on their guard against buying from peddlers who carry their wares ex posed or from retail dealers who have such tools on display in show windows especially if such windows be located so that they receive the full glare of the sun or moon at any time of day or night The unserviceableness of tools acquired under such circumstances is generally wrongfully attributed to bad material or inferior workmanship Bismarck and the Doctor Prince Bismarck is fond of asking questions but does not like to answer them On one occasion says London Million the Chancellor called in a young physician who indifferent to his patients rank and prestige coolly pro ceeded to put him through an exhaust ive professional examination Bismarck became impatient and final ly declared he would not answer anoth er question Very well calmly replied the doc tor if you do not want to be ques tioned you had better send for a veter inary He is accustomed to treat his patients without requiring answers from them to any questions The audacity of the young doctor caused the Chancellor to remain dumb for a moment then he grimly said If you are as skillful as you are imperti nent young man you must be a great physician No Alligators An American naval officer wishing to bathe in a Ceylon river asked a native to show him a place where there were no alligators The native took him to a pool close to the estuary The officer enjoyed his din drying himself he asked his guide why there were never any alligators in that pool Because sah the Cingalese replied they plenty fraid of shark Americas Lead in Electric Invention During 1894 3315 patents relating to electricity were granted -in Great Britain the United States and Ger many Of these 1130 were British being one twentieth of all British pat ents 1704 were American and 481 were German It is much easier to make that which Is ugly uglier still than it is to improve that which is already handsome NEW BRIDGE AT NIAGARA A Fine Steel Arch to Be Erected by Next Fall Visitors to Niagara Falls next sum mer will be able to watch the construc tion of a fine new bridge that is to be erected on the site now occupied by tho new suspension structure that spans the gorge and rocks and sways with every strong wind While the present bridge is safe enough for pedestrians and cariages it is not regarded as strong enough to bear trolley cars a aS55toetftet v - BRIDGE TO RE BUILT AT NIAGARA line of which will undoubtedly be run over the new bridge as soon as it is completed The new bridge will be 1240 feet in length and 40 feet in width Besides two sets of oar tracks there will be two carriages and two footways The new bridge will be a steel arch free from cables This method Of construction is more firm than the suspension so that the new bridge will not sway in the wind as does the present structure The accompanying picture from a drawing in the Buffalo Express shows the new bridge as it will appear froni the Canadian side The bridge will not be ready for travel before next fall but it is expected that the old bridgo will be kept in use until the new ouqr is finished A project is on foot to unite the van ous trolley lines so that for one fare a visitor may ride up and down both lines of the river across the bridge and back The round trip over the new bridge in full view of both cataracts along the Canadian bluff over Queens town Heights to Queenstown across another bridge to Lewisjon and along the Gorge Road to Niagara Falls Is the scheme BLAINES SON-IN-LAW Coppinger After Much Opposition la at Last a Brigadier General John J Coppinger who was the cause of the break in the friendship between Gen Harrison and James G Blaine has finally Avon the point upon which the two statesmen split -He is now a general This honor was asked by Mrs Blaine she being interested be cause Coppinger had married he daughter Gen Harrison as President refused to make the appointment as the promotion would jump him oveu the heads of older men in the service who deserved the rank equally as much Mrs Blaine was piqued and within a few days the candidacy jot Mr Blaine for the Presidency was an nounced His nomination was senj to the Sen nte not long ago and the body confirm ed him a brigadier after along discus sion The opposition canfe this time GEX JOJIX J COPPIXGER from Senators Burrows Gear Perkins Teller Pettigrew Squire and Wilson Gen Coppinger entered the service as captain of the Fourteenth Infantry after his education at West Point -Ha went to Rome in 1800 and was made a chevalier for gallant work in the de fense of La Rocca gateway by the Pa pal army He came back to the United States as soon as wnr was declared and did gallant duty at Appomattox He was promoted and came out of the conflict as a colonel nis recommenda tion for generalship by President Cleve land caused surprise bn t the Senate confirmed the nomination by a vota of 44 to 17 He was born in Ireland The Grnnt of the Pi The continual grunting of the pi Is of interest as revealing something of the conditions of life of his wild an cestors A herd of swine scattered in the long grass or among the brackens of a European forest would soon lose sight of one another But the grunts oi each would still advertise his presence to his neighbors and so tlfe individual members of the herd wduld not Iosg touch with the maiq body - Then there are grunts and grunts If one of my readers will imitate the ingenious Mr Garner and take a phonograph to tho nearest pigsty he might get material to make up a book on the language and grammar of the hog However thick the jungle the wild pig could by tak ing note of the- pitch and emphasis ot the grunts to right and left of him tell pretty much what his hidden colleagues were thinking about North American eview The Secret Out It appears that Mark Twain Samuei L Clemens is the author of The Per sonal Recollections of Joan of Arc appearing in Harpers Monthly Sosaya volume G of the National Cyclopedia of American Biography just pub lished Sun Every person should be entitled to a hobby provided he jcloes not rock oq jotber peoples toes withJt S V