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SUCCESSOR TO
CHERRY COUNTY INDEPENDENT
ROBERT B GOOD - Editor Prop
VALENTINE
NEBRASKA
The trouble with most good fel
lows is tli at they are not good for
much of anything else
It seems that Queen Victoria still
ees the necessity for a distinction be
tween my lords and gentlemen
The man who built the first house
m Chicago is still alive So is the first
river that was ever built through Chi
cago
The bubonic plague has now assumed
fts worst form The eminent scientists
are consuming pages of newspaper
space In quarreling about what it really
Is
Two Brooklyn boys who started out
to kill Indians were arrested before
they succeeded in leaving -town Tam
many evidently has had a narrow es
cape
Jake Schaefer the billiardist fell off
a Chicago street car and permanently
injured theorist of his cue arm and
Is now suing for 100000 damages Its
a stiff prize but it is also a stiff wrist
Louisianas latest refinement of cru
elty is to compel negroes to engage in
a fight to a finish before stringing tnem
up or burning them at the stake Whats
the use of sending missionaries to Chi
na
The Indianapolis News prints a two
column article on How to Spend an
Income Now will our contemporary
kindly supplement this with a stickful
of instruction on how to get an income
to spend
It is not well to fall into Stoic exag
geration and then say that mere vir
tue sufflcies to generate happiness but
we may well maintain with Aristotle
that the virtuous man will never be
wholly miserable
Japan has begun the imprisonment
of editors who publish things the gov
ernment doesnt like If the same thing
were done here the census of our penal
institutions would be a large and la
borious undertaking
Electricity at least that used in the
Brooklyn bridge plant must be a heart
less and grinding sort of monopolist
for while according to law foot pas
sengers are allowed to cross free the
hand rails are charged
The famine In India Is deplorable
but1 it has a bright side in the way of
promoting the use of American corn
as a food product and thus teaching
the world that it ought to buy and con
sume more of that cheap and nutri
tious article
As a man loves gold in that propor
tion he hates to be imposed upon by
counterfeits and in proportion as a
man has a regard for that which is
above price -and better than gold he
abhors the hypocrisy which is but its
counterfeit
There is a pride -which is commend
able and ennobles a man If lie is
proud of his honor and integrity proud
of bis blameless life and his efforts to
benefit his race his pride is praise
worthy But if he is proud of his
loolis his clothes his -wealth his birth
or liis learning he is a fool
The -enjoyment of amusement is de
pendent upon the habit of labor Only1
through it can we earn any real right
to recreation or indeed secure the pos
sibility of enjoying it If any one is
truly miserable it is he who has noth
ing to do who has no must in his
life and wboiseverion the search for
uleasure
Express and railroad managers in
Chicago have ordered messengers and
tram guards to shoot to kill all per
sons wJio molest them with intent to
rob Xoung men nvho are making -a
living Toy robbing rtrains will please
take -notice with a rriew of carrying
more insurance or changing their busi
ness
The Dallas News in -speaking of tne
cotton crop of that State gives the
Southern planter good advice Itsays
Let Mm diversify his crops If -he is
in doubt to plant ten or -twenty
acres in cotton let Mm make it ten
Success and -safety are an the side of
diversification Do not siake your all
on cotton The same wise words
would apply to agriculturists in every
part of the country It is tempting
Providence and the laws of nature jte
plant whale farms with one product
At the time of Austin Corbins deatfe
Ms estate was variously estimated at
being wori3i from 20000000 to 40
000000 Bs Mc Corbins ability to
keep afloat risky financial schemes is
not possessed by those wlio hare fol
lowed him aad bis xiclies have Aaken
unto themselves Jwius go that to day
practically nothing remains That
6uch vast wealth should be sreptaavay
in so short a time seems almost incred
ible but nothing comes so slowly Er
coes so jiickly as money
Florida is said to be rapidly recover
ing from the great freeze of 1S95 when
most Xf the Grange trees were killed
but cooaplete recovery eannot be had
until afeout tbre years from now The
orange freeze is much more disastrous
than the destrueim of a grain crop
The latter an be Gvn again next sea
son but a fzen orajjse tree must be
Jt to -the cred
girted anew
it ot the Florida people that they have
taken their misfortune so philosophic
ally and have gone so bravely abouf
the work of rehabilitating their es
tates In the meanwhile we will use
such fruit as they may send us and
the substitute from other parts al
though the latter lacks the flavor o
the Florida variety
They are introducing office girls in
Chicago and those who have them in
their employ are very well pleased with
them They say that the office girl is
superior to the office boy in many par
ticulars In the first place she does not
smoke cigarettes As a rule she has
absolutely no taste for dime noveR
She is usually bright quick and ener
getic and ever so much cleaner and
neater than any boy can be Testimony
upon this point is almost unanimous
and most of those who have tried office
girls declare that never again will they
have an office boy around the premises
When P A Spicer settled in Kansha
many years ago he says in The Liter
ary Digest a neighbor in digging a
well found a fine rich surface soil at
a depth of 100 feet Digging through
this the workmen found gravel clay
and water This earth which was
thrown out was found covered in the
course of a few weeks with a rich
growth of tropical vegetation There
were little date trees and other va
rieties of palms besides shrubs
plants weeds and grasses in great
numbers all totally unlike anything
which grew or could grow in the open
air throughout the year In that cli
mate
Such a horror as that at the orphan
age near Dallas where sixteen chil
dren perished in the flames and nine
were seriously injured ought not to
have been possible Of course the
fact that the fire broke out at midnight
Is a reason for the inability to save
more of the children but there was a
flagrant abuse of the first principles of
safety in housing 247 children in a
building constructed chiefly of wood
Even if the fire had occurred in the
daytime there is serious doubt wheth
er the tinder box would not have- been
entirely in flames before all the in
mates could have been rescued Any
large building that is intended to ac
commodate a vast number of people
should undoubtedly be built of fire
proof material and the authorities in
every State should always see to it
that this fundamental care of human
life is always taken
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Here lies a poor woman who always was
busy
She lived under pressure that rendered her
dizzy
She belonged to ten clubs and read Brown
ing by sight
Showed at luncheons and teas and would
vote if she might
She served on a school board with courage
and zeal
She golfed and she kodaked and rode on a
wheel
She read Tolstoi and Ibsen knew mi-
crobes by name
Approved of Delsarte was a Daughter
and Dame
Her children went in for the top educa
tion
Her husband went seaward for nervous
prostration
One day on her tablets she found an hour
free
The shock was too great and sne died
instantlee
Philadelphia Record
Dr E J Senn of Chicago is thus
quoted in the Chicago Times Herald
I do not believe that physicians
should wear bushy beards In fact I
think we will all have to come to the
sacrifice and go cleanly shaven here
after I believe that the conventional
doctor of the future will have a smooth
face instead 6f a beard My father is
bitterly opposed to beards for physi
cians and does not allow his internes
to wear them I think it is possible to
be too radical in the matter and per
haps he is I wear a closely cropped
beard and I do not see how it can aid
at all in spreading contagion With a
long beard and especially in surgical
cases it is different Careful physi
cians who have beards protect them
with gauze guards of course and do
not allow them to come in contact with
or distribute disease germs in a wound
It is better perhaps for all physicians
to be clean sbaved and I certainly be
lieve we will all have to come to it
While the attention of the world has
been concentrated on Turkey and Cu
ba some other important foreign af
fairs nave been permitted to run wild
as it were and have only just succeed
ed in forcing a passage to publicity on
the cables Perhaps the most extraor
dinary event if it is as serious as it ap
pears to be is that reported from
Brass Guinea coast Although
iBrass in other localities has been re
sponsible for many striking incidents
recently they have not been so aston
ishing as this report from the Brass on
the Guinea coast -News has just been
received here it says that the expe
dition sent by the Royal Niger Com
pany ugainst the Emir of Nupe from
Xiokoja found the Foulah army dispers
ed and in flight when it arrived at
Eabba This must hare been exceed
ingly unpleasant for the poor old Emir
of Nupe and it must have annoyed
the Foulah army excessively to fall a
victim thus to Lokoja probably means
loekjasv Yet viewed as a strategic
movement simply on the part of the
Niger company it cannot be demied
that since it was seeking the discom
fiture of the Emir of Nupe and the Fgh
lah army the best way to aceomplisSi
it waii to proceed to Kabba
The Mushroom
The chemical constituents of the
mushroom are almost Identical with
those of meat and it possesses tbesame
iwsrisJrtvg p coperiies
ELECTORAL VOTE IS COUNTED
Formal Announcement of the Eeault
in the November Election
The -last formality incident to a presi
dential election occurred Wednesday in
the hall of the House of Representatives
in the presence of the joint assembly of
Congress when the Vice President an
nounced the electoral vote as shown in
the returns from the several States The
ceremonies attending the count were sim
ple and monotonous After an hour of
routine business the House prepared for
the coming of the Senate by vacating
three rows of desks in front of the Speak
er on the Democratic side Promptly at
1 oclock the sergeant-at-arms of the Sen
ate announced the presence of that body
which filed down the middle aisle The
galleries had been crowded for several
hours by a curious throng which obtained
admission upon the presentation of tickets
allotted for distribution among the mem
bers of Congress
Vice President Stevenson sat at the side
of Speaker Reed and presided over the
joint session Senators Lodge and Black
burn on the part of the Senate and
Messrs Grosvenor and Richardson on
behalf of the House acted as tellers The
returns were opened by the Vice-President
and announced by the tellers The
reading of the certificates long in verbi
age was omitted after that of Alabama
had been read The totals were as fol
lows For President McKinley 271 Bry
an 170 for Vice President Hobart 271
Sewall 149 Watson 27 The following
was the vote as it was announced in de
tail
President Vice President
g w a g 3
States H g g
o
Alabama 11 11
Arkansas 8 5 3
California 8 1 8 1
Colorado 4 4
Connecticut 0 0
Delaware 3 3
Florida 4 4
Georgia 13 13
Idaho o o
Illinois 24 24
Indiana 15 15
Iowa 13 13
Kansas 10 10
Kentucky 12 1 12 1
Louisiana 8 4 4
Maine 6 6 I
Maryland 8 S
Massachusetts 15 15
Michigan 14 14
Minnesota 9 9
Mississippi 9 9
Missouri 17 13 4
Montana 3 2 1
Nebraska 8 4 4
Nevada 3 3
N Hampshire 4 4
New Jersey 10 10
New York 36 3G
North Carolina 11 G - 5
Nortli Dakota 3 3
Ohio 23 23
Oregon 4 4
Pennsylvania 32 32
Rhode Island 4 4
South Carolina 9 9
South Dakota 4 2 2
Tennessee 12 12
Texas 15 15
Utah 3 2 1
Vermont 4 4
Virginia 12 12
Washington 4 2 2
W Virginia 6 G -
Wisconsin 12 12
Wyoming 3 2 1
Totals 271 176 271 149 27
GREAT BALL IS GIVEN
Bradley Martin- Blowout Delights
New York Society Leaders
Mrs Bradley Martin gave at the Hotel
Waldorf in New York Wednesday night
the costume ball which was so much talk
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MRS MARTIN
ed of in and out of
society Preachers
had discussed it in
their pulpits and
some persons had
frothed at the mouth
over the 500000
which was to be
spent for one nights
pleasure of a thou
sand wealthy men
and women Invita
tions to the ball were
issued to an indefi
nite number Only
the hosts knew the exact number but it
reached 1S00 because many of the cards
went abroad and to persons in this coun
try at a distance from New York who
would have felt slighted if not invited and
who would have overcrowded the ball
room had they all decided to come Eight
hundred or 900 men and women repre
senting the world of wealth and society
in and about New York constituted the
guests at the elaborate social function
The ball began at midnight and ended
iat 5 oclock in the morning Therefore
its pleasures cost at the rate of 100000
an hour The cost to the hostess was
about 125000 It was a superb specta
cle which will go down in societys his
tory as a riot of color and display It
eclipsed all previous bal masques It is
the crowning glory of the social life of
New York of this century It may not be
surpassed in another hundred years It
was a gorgeous superb and wonderful
spectacle It was a monument to vanity
splendid and ridiculous The results of
months of preparation and the outlay of
hundreds of thousands of dollars were ex
hausted in five hours
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Ouida never shakes hands She declares
it to be the most vulgar form of saluta
tion
President Cleveland will be GO years old
two weeks after the expiration of his
present term of office
Capt Mahan the celebrated naval his
torian just relieved from active service
is an enthusiastic bicyclist
Gov OFerrall of Virginia has declined
an invitation to address the Young Mens
Democratic Club of Boston
Ihe first negro to be admitted to the
bar in the State of Illinois was Lloyd G
Wheeler who was admitted in 1S69
Gov Morrill of Kansas will confine his
European trip nest summer to a three
months tour of England Ireland and
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LOOK FOE 0THEE JOBS
CLEVELAND AND HIS MINISTERS
PREPARE TO GET OUT
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What They Expect to Do When Uncle
Sams Pay Checks Stop Mr Cleve
land Will Go Direct to Hi3 New
Home at Princeton
After March 4
Washington correspondence
a little while and
YET C 1 e v e 1 a n ds
household of cabinet
ministers will hold
its last meeting af
ter which its mem
bersa majority of
them at least will
scatter to the four
quarters of the land
to take up anew the
burden of life as it is
lived by unofficial
members of the busi
ness and social
TTfj p LU111 world Most of the
u a minictpr
Will twill undoubtedly be
illl i I filled with joy be
cause of their release
from the cares of state others will put off
official life with lingering regrets and
aret others are apparently laying careful
plans looking to their remaining in Wash
ington for the present at least
The prospect of handing over his port
folio to a successor evidently possesses no
lift
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MORTON MAT VISIT TO JAPAN
unpleasant features to Secretary of War
Lamont He will cut loose from the mar
tial environments of the war office and
go to New York by the first train he can
catch on the 5th of March Secretary
Morton will seek to forget the cares of
office among the almond eyed natives of
the orient The prospect is evidently an
alluring one to the Secretary of Agri
culture for he talked enthusiastically
about his plans to the writer
I shall go from here to Chicago he
said I have three sons in business
there and I intend to stay and visit them
for awhile Then I shall go to my place
in Nebraska City Arbor Lodge I have
lived in that neighborhood nearly all my
life and I intend to stay at my Nebraska
City home for a little while When I do
get ready to take a trip anywhere I am
going to Japan with one of my sons Paul
Morton who is vice president of the At
chison Topeka and Santa Fe road It
will be entirely a pleasure trip and we
have plans all laid for making it a thor
oughly enjoyable one
When Hoke Smiths successor leaves
the scene of his short term of office as
Secretary of the Interior he will help to
mdve the wheels of business in St Louis
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MR CLEVELAND MAY WEAR THIS GARB
again I am neither glad nor sorry to
leave Washington remarked Secretary
Francis the few months that I have held
my present office have been pleasant ones
to me but I shall not have any regrets
when I am rolling westward in the direc
tion of St Louis I shall return at once
to my business life there
Postmaster General Wilson proved to be
In a negative rather than a positive humor
when discovered in his office While sign
ing documents with the patient untiring
energy of a machine he undertook to deny
various rumors that have been afloat con
cerning his future ambitions in the busi
ness world You can deny he said as
he added another autograph to the heap
on his desk that I have been offered the
managing editorship of a New York news
paper I have been- offered but have not
accepted the presidency of educational in
stitutions in various parts of the country
OLNET GOES BACK TO HIS LAW DESK
As an actual matter of fact I have made
no plans
I shall return to my corporation prac
tice in Boston said Secretary of State
01ney My business there has gone right
along during my absence and March G
wjj probably see me in w Boston office
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engaged in the duties that 7 left to come-
here For many reasons Avashington
will miss no cabinet minister more than
it will Attorney General Harmon He
has taken an active interest in local ama
teur sports and the athletes of Washing-
CARLISLE HASNT MADE UP HIS MIND
ton will shed tears when he leaves I
go back to Cincinnati he said in reply
to the writers query to take my old
place there with the firm of Harmon Col
ston Goldsmith Hoadly of which I am
the senior partner
Secretaries Carlisle and Herbert de
clared the future to be a sealed book to
them so far as present intentions are
concerned Secretary Carlisle preferred
to fence my questions regarding his future
movements Rumor has it that he will
practice law in New York Cincinnati and
half a dozen other places As not even
an ex Secretary of the Treasury can be in
more than one city at once one rurnor is
as good as another The fact is say the
Washingtonians that Mr Carlisle has yet
hopes of staying in Washington and if
his ambitious wife can manage it he will
Private Secretary Thurber talked freely
concerning the plans of the present incum
bent and incidentally knocked in the head
a variety of rumors with regard to Mr
Clevelands intentions when he says good
by to the White House
The President said Mr Thurber
with Mrs Cleveland and the children
will go direct from Washington to his new
home at Princeton N J He intends to
stay there only a short time but hopes he
will be allowed during that time to enjoy
the welcome change from the bustle of
official life to the quiet of a private resi
dence Buzzards Bay has too firm a hold
on the affections of bcth the President and
Mrs Cleveland for Princeton to charm
them long They will go to Gray Gables
after a short stay at Princeton and Mr
Cleveland expects to remain there for
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STEVENSONS MYTHICAL ORANGE
ORCHARDS
some time He is in robust health but
has made no plans for going into active
business life after March 4 He will take
a prolonged rest before considering the
question of getting into business again
Vice President Stevenson regrets very
much that rumors of his vast wealth and
growing estates are founded on nothing
more substantial than shifting sand
I see they have me booked for Califor
nia said Mr Stevenson when asked
regarding his future intentions There
I am to assume the management of big
olive groves that I have purchased pre
sumably with the money I have put by
during my term in Washington I wish
the kind friends who have credited me
with possessing these olive and lemon
treasures were correctly informed but it
isnt true I regret to say I have my
home at Bloomington 111 and there I in
tend to go when I leave Washington
A bill to protect the lives and property
of persons against mobs was introduced
in the House by Representative Stewart
of Wisconsin
Senator Hoar introduced a bill provid
ing for a commission of three persons to
revise and codify the criminal and penal
laws of the United States
The House Committee on Ways and
Means considered a bill recommended by
the Commissioner of Internnl Revenue to
authorize the sale of forfeited opium to
the highest bidders
Senator Piatt of Connecticut has in
troduced a bill amending the copyright
laws so as to provide that if any person
shall cause to be published any copyright
article contrary to law he shall forfeit
1 for every copy sold
Representatives of the sugar growing
interests are making an effort to secure
from Congress an appropriation of 1
04S000 to settle the balance of the boun
ties which they claim are due them un
der the act passed in the last session of
the Fifty third Congress
The Senate Committee on Interstate
Commerce agreed to report Senator Till
mans bill giving States the same control
over liquor imported from other States
that they have over liquors manufactured
within their own borders Some amend
ments are recommended
The monthly report of the director of
the mint shows the total coinage at the
United States mints during January to
have been 9851220 of which 7803420
was sold 1964800 silver and 83000
minor coins Of the silver coined 1812
009 w3 jn standard dollars
Of course the stage can be elevated
Try dynamite Florida Times Union
Spain might mnniia to get along witht
the American filibusters if she only could
control the reporters Baltimore Ameri
can
The New York Legislature has begun a
crusade for pure boer A New York poli
tician is always after a drink of some sort
Atlanta Journal
Senator Vilas seems to think that the
Nicaragua canal will not amount to any
thing more than a drain on the treasury
Detroit Free Press
Mr Havemeyer is once more required
to devote himself to the monotony of as
suring an incredulous public that a trust
is a public blessing Washington Star
Alaskas boundary line is to be investi
gated by a commission Commissions are
very popular these days They dont have
to pay the freight Baltimore American
It is believed that Mr Culloni would be
willing to quit looking like Lincoln long
enough to feel liko Lymmi 7 Gage or
John Sherman a day or so Chicago Dis
patch
Butler the Australian who is charged
with having killed fourteen men is un
duly encouraging the Holmes brand of
sensational journalism Chicago Times
Herald
Indiana may have three times as many
poets as Ohio but Ohio has more politi
cians than Indiana has and there is more
money in politics than in poetry Chicago
Tribune
Those women who want to enter the
diplomatic service evidently dont know
that ambassadors sometimes know things
that they are not allowed to tell Cleve
land Leader
After all there is reason in
agitation against the Sunday church bells
A man cant talk up against a bar near so
well when such noise is going on New
York Press
It does seem as if Gen Weyler and the
insurgents would get together before
many moons If they were ocean liners-
they would have collided long ago Cleve
land Plain Dealer
A man who hangs about legislative halls
is not necessarily a lobbyist but if he is
engaged in legitimate business he is mak r
ing an awful waste of time New York
Evening Journal
Azcarraga is thenamo of the fierce gen
tleman who will come to Cuba and let Mr
Weyler go home to supper That name
sounds like a cross cut saw in a hurry
Baltimore Life
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Many people are surprised to learn that
any liquor gets into the Senate but they
mustnt think the Senators are always
dry because their speeches are Bing
hamton Leader
The project to open in Paris a theater
at which only moral plays will be produc
ed seems to be an effort to stop the ex
portation of Parisian plays to the United
States Chicago Tribune
The history of modern naval operations
shows that our giant fighting machines are
much more deadly for their own men in
times of peace than for the enemy in times -of
war Chicago Times Herald
If the friends of the Nicaragua canal
had been as active in building the canal
as they have been in trying to get Gov
ernment aid the canal might be open for
business to day Buffalo Express
Men who have been cured of consump
tion and numerous cures are announced
are thought to be men who never had
the disease although they may have
thought so New Orleans Picayune
It is noted that the number of countesses
who are getting divorced these days i
only exceeded by the number who are
eloping Court circles have not been so
gay in a long time New York Advertiser
There will be no erious regret that
Idaho has sent a man to the Senate who
cannot speak the English language fluent
ly The fluency of the present Senate is
one of its worst faults Providence Jour
nal
The announcement that President elect
McKinley has taken out 30000 life in
surance shows that tin- man realizes what
a serious time he must expect at the
hands of the office seekers Evening
Journal
Legislatures which impose a fine of 2
or 3 for wearing u high hat to the theater
may after all have accomplished nothing
more than to increase the expense of the
occasion for the ladys escort Washing
ton Star
There is something wrong somewhere
thousands of able bodied intelligent
American workingmen are unable to keep
the wolf from the door but terrapin are
reported in active demand at 70 a dozen
Chicago Times Herald
That State Capitol Fire
The fire in the Pennsylvania State Cap
itol probably started from a spark of ora
tory Baltimore Life
The Pennsylvania State Capitol has
gone up in flames This means that there
will be a big job for somebody later
Boston Globe
Some of Pennsylvanias State Senators
and Representatives ought to be a little
more thanialf baked by this time De
troit Free Press
Theres one thing thats tolerably cer
tain The dome of Pennsylvanias Capi
tol wasnt fired by any Pennsylvania
statesman Boston Herald
The burning of Pennsylvanias State
House unfortunately will not prevent the
Legislature from meeting and passing
laws Chicago Tribune
The total destruction of the records in
the State Capitol at Harrisburg ought not
to be a source of worry to some of the
Pennsylvania politicians Chicago Rec
ord
Pennsylvania must now construct a new
State House New York and Rhode Isl
and show how the contracts should not be
made Boston Journal
The Pennsylvania Legislature is now
meeting in a church It is safe to assume
that the trustees of the institution are
thoughtful enough to nail things down
Washington Post
The burning of Pennsylvanias Capitol
will not deliver the people of that State
from the perils of a legislative session No
cataclysm can stay the morbid impulse
to enact laws in this country Minneapo
lis Journal
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