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
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has been appointed
by the British Gov
ernment for that
colony Augustus
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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
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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
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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
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