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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1897)
liJt l i it fakntine emocrat SUCCKSSOR TO CHERRY COUNTY INDEPENDENT ROBERT B GOOD - KniTOit a PltoP VALENTINE - n r NEBRASKA It Isnt always natural for a woman to look out for number one A widow never does It According to all the evidence the Chicago negro who has been sentenced to 100 years Imprisonment for bur glary deserves to live out his full term If Nevada only follows up the ad rantage she has gained we sea no rea son why that State yhouid not cap ture the fly-by-night divorc industry also A Buffalo crank thinks he can go over Niagara Falls and come out alive Better let him do it right away Other wise he will murder somebody with a gun that isnt loaded some of these days An Eastern contemporary prints a tciy that a dude who was run over lya street car recently in New York fcas been provided by the surgeons with celluloid skull in pan We dont fceiieve there is anything in it An English scientist announces thai common whitewash destroys the ty phoid fever germ which is easily dis tinguished by Its grayish color The proper course of action is plain if you ee anything that is grayish in color running about the house cateli It and give it a coat of whitewash The women do not possess full sur f rage in Kansas but they secured more public offices in the last election than did the women of Utah or Colorado twenty county superintendences of public instruction and all the offices ifroni Mayor to Chief of Police in two cities Judge Ewing of Chicago the other day in sentencing a burglar who stood convicted on five counts imposed a penalty of twenty years imprisonment on each of them and directed that as soon as the prisoner had completed one term he should- begin another The tmrglar whose crimes were peculiarly desperate and atrocious will doubt less agree that there is a great deal of vitality In Chicago justice after all The rast crop of corn is perplexing the Nebraska farmers because it is difficult to take care of so much of even good thing But with the cribbing and the shipping it is keeping all hands employed now and when the returns come in there will be compensa tion in the feasting and frolic which properly follow an abundant harvest The -corn crop is a great boon because 4t gives employment to a vast army of willing hands in harvesting and ship ping The year just closed was a- good one for Nebraska but the coming on xiromises even hotter tesuitsr The statistics of crime in 1896 do -not improve the reputation of the past jean -as a rather dark period in our history though the record is not altogether un favorable by comparison with previous years There were 122 legal execu tions during the year and 131 lyaich ings which is a rather startling com mentary on the methods by which the law is executed and defied in this coun try That neither lynchings nor legal executions serve to check the crime of murder is shown by the statement that there were no less than 10652 murders committed during the year This is a shocking exhibit A token of world wide esteem should be presented to the man who it is al leged has invented a device for open ing soft boiled eggs in such a way that the contents can be transferred to -a cup without the previous burning of the fingers and the dropping of the shell with its contents A soft boiled egg is always too hot to handle with out breaking several scriptural man dates and it always insists on escap ing f rom the fingers at the critical mo ment when its fall means a liberal ap plication of egs on the outside of the -shell The only way known to open one of these eggs successfully up to the present has been to have some one else do it and if any man has an in vention that will obviate the diffieul ties he deserves a large reward A model for an electric vessel ror Avhich a really marvelous speed is promised toy the inventor has been con structed at Providence R I It is a distinct novelty in very many respects and if as successful as its promoters confidently expect will scarcely fail to play some havoc with modern ship building methods Its promoters are planning to build a vessel 200 feet long which is to have fourteen propellers eix placed forward to draw it through the water and eight astern as pushers the arrangement of course being even on aeh side A speed of forty knots an hour is designed for passenger traffic in Xarragausett Bay ostensibly butitsrealpurpose is a practical demon stration of a system which the projec tors hope to see applied to naval ves uels in the near future The remarkable increase of cancer in Great Britain is attracting the atten tion of the physicians of that country According to the last issued report of the Registrar General the death rate from tfeis source has exceeded everv previous record and the proportional mortality at present is four times greater tibnn it was fifty years ago in 1S40 there were but 27SG deaths from cancer in England or about 1 in flG of the ioial population Jn 1S94 tlm ii worn niry 22000 dwilhs from the same cause or 1 out of 1403 of the population and 1 out of 23 of the mortality In the investigations on this subject the curious discovery was made that the decline in the death rate from consumption and other tubercu lous diseases coincided with the in crease in the mortality from cancer The theory is advanced that a large proportion of those who recover from tuberculous complaints eventually per- ish from cancer or insanity The matr ter is receiving careful Investigation The press of Bolivia Is much exciteu over the reports that Peru is making formidable efforts in the ways of arm ing and urge3 the Bolivian Govern ment to bestir itself and get ready for possible war This seems to be an unnecessary expense at this time These South American wars do not call for the formalities that are com mon in European contests If Peru is bent on war with Bolivia it can go ahead and hold Its war and not bother Bolivia with the project especially if Bolivia doesnt happen to feel like in- dulging in a war now Bolivia need not know anything about It if the press will only keep quiet until the war is all over and not even then unless it es to go to the trouble to ascertain the details Peru could enjoy its war for the customary period of about a week and then wait until Bolivia Is given a chance at its leisure to hold a war to even things up The mere detail of arming for the fray Is superfluous for it Isnt that kind of a fray No body is ever injured in these wars which are like our national holidays only more frequent It is overpoweringly depressing to hear that Gibraltar Is no longer in vincible if not practically defenseless iThe Governor of the rock Sir Rob ert Biddulph says that the garrison could be shelled out of it with ease now by the Spaniards and a special commission has been appointed to hear his report and devise means for reforti fying within a year By the aid of the modern long range guns and pro jectiles of great penetration with which Spain has been equipping her batteries at Algeciras six miles away across Gibraltar Bay the once unapproach able has been brought within reach and the impregnable has been made vulnerable England can refortify and of course will but the peculiar strength of this historic spot has dis appeared and it is on the same basis of defense as other exposed eminences The world would little mourn if En gland should be dislodged from this vantage even by her rival robber Spain but fancy would repine at the shattering of Its immemorial idol and language would sustain a severe loss in the destruction of the term impreg nable as Gibraltar The experience of Tames McKay pious stonecutter with the New York police is another conspicuous illustra tion showing how the most exemplary motives are sometimes subject to gross misconstruction Mr McKay was the tfcmocent possessor of a slip of paper containing the words morning and evening with rows of figures tinker each By some unhappy chance a po liceman saw the paper and straighr way hustled McKay off to the station where he was charged with indulging In the proscribed game of policy In technical language McKay cred ited with having purchased a gig which is a violent infraction of The law McKay protested in vain and finally when confronted with the evi dence of his guilt made the obvious ex plantion that the numbers on the slip of paper referred to hymns tit were to be played respectively at the morn ing and evening services of a certain church and that he McKay was the organist who played them This in stance of a policemans inanity seems to reach the limit of possible error The name of the policeman is Hannon and it should be placed in a conspic uous position in every New York po lice station as a reminder of the ec centricities of human asininity Prof G Stanley Hall of Clark Uni versity has been collecting facts con cerning the fears of children The fears of children he says are generally cre ated by parents Prof Hall found that 1701 children had G45G fears the lead ing ones being the fear of lightning and thunder reptiles strangers the dark death domestic animals disease wild animals water ghosts insects nits and mice robbers high winds etc A few of these fears are rational In New Jersey no children were found to be afraid of high winds but in the West that fear naturally leads all oth ers At Trenton however sixty two children were found who dreaded the end of the world a fear created entire ly by adult teaching The table shows what education can do in this respect No child was found to be afraid of the deviL Two hundred years ago and less that fear would have led all the rest Few were found who were afraid of ghosts a fear which would have stood high on the list not long ago At Cam bridge Mass only 155 out of 00 boys were afraid of thunderstorms and only 230 out of 500 girls The fear of rob bers and of wild animals is a survival though robbers have not disappeared as completely as the wild animals Forty-six New Jersey children were afraid of being buried alive a monstrous thing to inculcate in the child mind Fear will always be one of the strong est influences in human life but at least it is possible by teaching what real danger consists of to eradicate groundless fears BInks The doctor advises short quick runs several times a day but lie says the exercise will do me no good unless it has an object Jinks Buy a straw hat youll have plenty ofshort quick runs then Spare Moments SEED IS EE ELECTED AGAIN SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Congress Meets to Modify the Tariff Openinjj Ceremonies Are Compara tively Tame Many New Faces on the Floor of the Popular Branch Kxtra Session Is Opened Congress is again in session The or ganization of the House was effected Mon day by the re election of Speaker Reed and the choice of the same old list of gen eral officers and the Senate got itself in working order without any trouble what ever The vote for Speaker in the House was as follows Reed 199 Bailey Dem of Texas lid Bell Pop of Colorado 21 Newlands Silverite of Nevada 1 The election of Mr Reed to his old posi tion was a formality that occupied less than half an hour including the nomina tion and his speech of acknowledgment of the honor There was nothing strikingly picturesque or suggestive in the remarks of Gen Grosvenor putting Mr Reed ii nomination or in the Speakers acceptance The latter merely said that he would en deavor to discharge the duties of his officH Wm Iff 11 SPEAKER REED impartially and well that he could not hope to please all members in all things at all times but that lie would do the best he could and would endeavor to administer the duties in a spirit of absolutefairness Galleries Crowded As is usually the case at the opening of a Congress the galleries of both House and Senate were crowded to -their utmost capacity and hundreds and thousands who neglected to provide themselves with tickets or were unable to secure one of the coveted pastboards were turned away by the doorkeepers whose instructions were ironclad to admit only those who were entitled to seats For an hour be fore Clerk McDowell called the House to order the floor was crowded with visitors The wives and daughters of the members and especially favored visitors were mass ed in the aisles and open spaces The gen eral public had small opportunity to4 view the proceedings The most striking feature of thel scene on the floor was the number of new faces Old familiar figures conspicuous in the shock of many a parliamentary battle had disappeared and in the new lists were new and untried knights The change in the personnel was very great By 11 oclock the reserved galleries with the ex ception of those for the diplomatic corps and the executive were walled in tier on tier The bright costumes of the ladies gave lighter color to the animated scene As the hands of the clock pointed to 12 Major McDowell the clerk of the House rapped the House to order Rev Mr Couden the blind chaplain then delivered the invocation appealing to the throne for Gods blessing on the work of the new Congress and the new administration The clerk of the House then read the Presi dents proclamation convening Congress after which the roll was called There was an abundance of flowers on the desks of Senators when promptly at 12 oclock Vice President Hobart called the Senate to order There was an excep tionally full attendance of Senators The public galleries were packed and the re served galleries were wdl filled The chaplains opening prayer invoked divine grace and blessing on the Senators and members about to take up the work of the extraordinary session and on the Presi dent and Vice President The roll call disclosed the presence of sixty eight Sen ators Senator Hoar and Senator Coek rell were named a committee to wait on the President and inform him that Con gress was in session and ready to receive any communication from him The Sen ate then at 1230 took a recess until 2 oclock A True Ghost Story The truth of the following storv r i is vouched for by a Loudon paper A young lady arrived late at night on a visit to a friend She awoke in the darkness to find a white figure at the foot of the bed While she watch ed the bedclothes were suddenly whisked off and the apparition van ished After an anxious not to say chilly night the visitor went down to break fast At the table she was introduced to a gentleman a very old friend of the family who had she learned also been sleeping in the house He com plained of the cold 1 hope you will excuse me he said to the hostess but 1 found it so cold during the night that knowing the room next mine was unoccupied I took the liberty of going in and carrying off the bedclothes to supplement my own The room as it happened was not unoccupied but he never learned his mistake Dumas in Marble A French sculptor is making a mar ble figure for the tomb of the younger Alexander Dumas The novelist will recline at full length in the robe he wore at work with his as was his custom while writing It was the opinion of Duinas that a man looks best engaged in what he can do best Japan now possesses 100 iron and steel steamships registered for foreign trade with a gross tonnage of 231139 ons WOEK OP CONGRESS THE WEEKS DOINGS IN SENATE AND HOUSE A Comprehensive Digest of the Pro ceedings in the Legislative Cham bers at Washington Matters that Concern the People Lawmakers at Labor The Senate went into executive session promptly upon the receipt of the Cabinet nominations and as soon as the announce ment was malle of the appointment of Senator Sherman whose name headed the list he was confirmed It is the prac tice to refer all nominations to committee but it was the desire of Mr Shemans friends to signalize their regard for him by immediate action There was more form than reality in the reference of the other nominations to committee Not one of the committees held a formal meeting they being polled on the floor of the Sen ate in every instance No objection was made in committee to confirmation While the Senate wasin legislative session the credentials of Mr Hanna as Senator from Ohio to succeed Mr Sherman were pre sented by Mr Foraker and he wassworn in by Vice President Hobart Mr Davis was also designated acting chairman of the Committee on Fpreign Relations to succeed Mr Sherman Beyond the usual notification to the President nothing fur ther was done Most of the new Senators were on the floor whin Vice President Hobart called the Senate to order at noon Monday The other Senators were not so prompt in making tlieir appearance The galleries save that reserved for the diplomatic corps were thronged with curious visitors As soon as the blind chaplain had de livered his invocation Mr Pruden the Presidents executive clerk appeared with the nomination of Oscar A Janes of Michigan as pension agent at Detroit which was afterward confirmed The last communication of ex Secretary Lamont transmitting certain papers called for by a resolution of inquiry was laid before the Senate The Vice President submit ted some resolutions of the New York Chamber of Commerce praying for the early ratification and passage of the ar bitration treaty At 1212 p m on mo tion of Mr Burrows Rep of Michigan the Senate went into executive session The remainder of the session was de voted to executive business and at 105 p in the Senate adjourned until Wednesday- There was an unusually large attend ance of Senators when Vice President Hobart called the Senate to order at noon Wednesday The first business was the reading of a letter from Gov Brad ley of Kentucky announcing the ap pointment of Andrew T Wood as Sena tor to succeed Mr Blackburn Air Hoar moved that the Senator elect be sworn in Mr Gorman moved that the credentials of Mr Wood be referred to the Commit tee on Privileges and Elections Mr Hoar did not object and the ueuuais were reterred Then Mr Hoar presented written notice of two proposed amendments to the rules of the Senate of a radical nature The most important was according to Mr Hoars written notice to enable the Senate to act on legislation when it desires after reasonable debate It provided that when any bill or resolution had been un der consideration more than one day any Senator could demand that the debate be closed If a majority of the Senators so decided there should be a vote without further delay and no action should be in order pending the vote but one to ad journ or to take a recess The other amendment proposed was to prevent the interruption of the members of the Sen ate and provided that when a Senator made the point of no quorum there should be a roll call and if the presence of a quorum was disclosed business should be proceeded with On motion of Mr Aldrich Rep of Rhode Island the Senate went into executive session at 121 At 1240 p m the special session adjourned sine die Told in a Few Lines The making of paper flowers is one of the Duchess of Albanys chief pleasures The Arkansas Senate passed a hill ap propriating SCmOOO for the relief of the drouth sufferers in Arkansas James B Porter Seeretarv nf st t from ISCl to 1857 died at Lansing Mich of rheumatism of the heart He was born in 1824 The Court of Appeals of Montreal has maintained the right of trades unionists to strike if the firm they work for refused to discharge non union men v Benjamin R Bacon an insurance agent who a few years ajo was one of the wealthiest and most prominent business men in Kansas City Ido committed sui cide Despondency following business re verses is supposed to be the cause of sui cide The liner Spree reached her pier in Ho boken afteri rough voyage Before reach ing the Needles she ran into a dense fog and had to anchor The seas pounded her decks staving a lifeboat to pieces teap ing out a section of rail and inflicting oth er damage Charles Burkman a Keokuk la bar ber had just finished shaving a customer when he went volently insane He still had the razor in his hands and attempted to assault several persons but was at last overpowered and locked up He has a wife and four children Gen Obregon while reconnoitering near Merceda between Candelaria and Loson province of Pinar del Rio captured an im portant insurgent depot containing all the dynamite shells and explosive material belonging to the forces formerly com manded by Gen Antonio Maceo A dispatch from Rio de Janeiro says that a baud of fanatics led by ConselheiVo have killed Col Moreira Caesar thro officers and 200 soldiers in Bahia There is much excitement in Rio Janeiro where the populace has pillaged and burned the offices of the monarchist papers Libertade and Gazette Detarde Gov Black of New York has declined to interfere in the sentence of death of Ar thur Mayhew who was convicted of mur dering Stephen Powell at Hempstead March 7 1896 Robert Price alias Red Pricey a roustabout attached to McMahans show which is wintering at Wichita Kan and an accomplice held up Charles Wilklns a well known business man and robbed him of 350 Wilkins was knocked down and stunned but on regaining conscious ness he shot Price through the right lung mortally wounding him The other rob ber escaped V There is a great difference between cheap jingoism and sound Americanism New York Advertiser A new whisky combination It cant beat the old one with lemons sugar and hot water Evening Worlds The power of money and the lust for power are now making cowards of all the great nations of Europe Salt Lake une Its a great thing to be a sultan When ever you get into trouble all the powers of the earth get together to help you out New York Press Greece shows a king high flush and there is a suspicion that the powers havent got the necessary full hand to beat it Chicago Tribune The other wonders of modern surgery pale into insignificance beside what has been done to the broken backbone of win ter Detroit News The millennium is at hand All the Na tional Baseball League magnates profess satisfaction with the new playing sched ule Boston Traveler Of course if bachelors are to be taxed the fellow who tries to get married and cant should be entitled to a pension Chicago Times Herald A Kansas legislator has happened on the ten commandments and likes them so well he wants them incorporated in the State law Chicago Tribune The sale of a blooded hog for 4000 is reported from Iowa Some of the poli ticians will welcome this news as an in dication of their growing value Chicago Tribune The skeptical doctor in Washington who offers one hundred dollars for a well-authenticated case of hydrophobia can se cure one cheaper by tackling the right dog New York Advertiser There are people temporarily in this town who are firmly committed to the no tion that there can be no material return to prosperity until there is a general dis tribution of offices Washington Post The question What shall we do with our ex Presidents need worry us no longer Our ex Presidents have settled it themselves They are devoting all their leisure to the noble business of rearing wives for future Presidents Cleveland Leader Concernintr Congress President McKinley has a number of tough things on his hands but the tough est is the United States Senate Buffalo Express One pleasure we shall derive from read ing the reports from the Fifty fifth Con gress will be the absence of the name of David B Hill St Louis Star The United States Senate will do well to take the advice of Vice President Ho bart and decide to transact its business in a business like way Baltimore Ameri can How horrified some of the old line Sen ators must have been at Vice President Hobarts audacity in hinting that the Sen ate ought to have business rules Bos ton Globe Lives there a man with imagination so vivid that he can place his hand on his heart and say that one year ago he fore saw Marcus A Hanna in the Senate Cleveland Plain Dealer More than 10000 bills were presented in the House during the life of the Fifty fourth Congress It is evident that the members wished to busy themselves about any old bill Buffalo News The United States Senate is now drift ing along in a Pefferless Briceless Black buruless Irbyless Duboisless Palmerless Cameronless Pughless Voorheesless Gibsonless etc less condition Washing ton Post The notion that the gold Democrats will not ask anything at the hands of the Mc Kinley administration is a choice piece of fiction Quite a number of them are on hand and all are in a receptive mood Washington Post Change of Administration The retiring administration has been a clean one Boston Herald The inspiring part of it all is that much like the same thing will be done over again four years hence Chicago Tribune It doesnt seem quite right for Wash ington to get all that money Why not pass the inauguration around occasional ly V Cleveland Plain Dealer The man who seems to be least concern ed about the departure of Grover Cleve land from office is Grover Cleveland him self Chicago Record Notwithstanding the presence of a num ber of Chicago aldermen in the city but comparatively few cases of pocket picking are reported Washington Post The fact that Washington is still crowd ed is probably explained by the further fact that the original McKinley man has remained over for a few days Baltimore American It might simplify matters were Mr Mc Kinley to insist that the office seekers ar range themselves in battalion formation and make their attack in an organized fashion Chicago Record President Cleveland leaves the presi dency incalculably richer than when he first assumed it Who can estimate the value of a queenly wife and a trio of happy charming children Detroit Free Press It must astonish some of the Old World people to learn that a dinner was given to the incoming President by the retiring President of the United States without the services of a food taster St Louis Republic Sir G O Trevelyans retirement from Parliament and political life bids fair to fall out to the advantage of letters A new edition of Lord Macaulays Life and Works is announced by the Longmans under his editorship The appointment of Circuit Judge Mc Kenna as Attorney General causes con siderable gossip as to his successor It is stated at Tacoma Wash that the ap pointment has been tendered B S Gross cup attorney for the Northern Pacific at that place W A Johnston who is now associate justice of the Kansas Supreme Court serving his third term once was a base ball pitcher Dr Nansen has refused an offer of 100000 marks for 100 lectures in Ger many - K 9 ART IN GOLD LETTERING How the Sicn Painters Place Work on Store Wmaows y The sign Ietterer who is putting a good sign on a window paints die let ters upon the outside first -hut these letters are only for a guide the gold Is put upon the inside of the glass The gold leaf is so thin and light that the faintest breath would Ivs enough to blow it away it is carried in the famil iar little books The Ietterer brushes the inner side of the glass back of the lettering painted upon the outside with a hrush dipped in water containing a trace of mucilage Then with a wide and very thin cam els hair brush which he first brushes lightly back and forth once or twice tipon the back of his head or perhaps upon his coat to dry it if it needs dry ing and slightly to electrify it he lifts from the book a section of gold leaf sufficient to cover a section of the letter and places it on the glass He repeats these operations until the glass back of the letter painted on rhe front Is covered witli the leaf It may require three or four sections such as can be picked up with the brush to cover the letter or per haps more depending on its size and shape When he has completed the ap plication of the leaf to tne letter he dampens the back of the next and pro ceeds with that in the same manner and soon until theletters are all backed with the gold leaf Thus applied the gold leaf overlaps the letters more or less on all sides 16 Is bright in color like all gold but V not shining it is burnished by rubbing it gently on the back of course it can not be rubbed on the face for that Is against the glass with a soft cloth It burnishes however on the face as well as on the back Then the letters are backed The exact shape of the letter is painted over Che back of the g6ld leaf to fix it and protect it and when the back is dry the gold leaf projecting be yond the outline of the letter is brushed off it is not sought to save this pro jecting leaf there is not enough of it to pay for uhe labor that would be in volved in gathering it together Then the outside lettering which is done with the paint that is but little more than oil is rubbed off and the lustrous gold lettering is revealed New York Sun Storage Battery Cars in Europe American street companies- cannot as n rule be accused of want of enterprise and they have spent a great deal of money in experimenting or what is practically experimenting on new systems of traction mostly electrical Just now however in the matter of the storage battery thej are letting the other man do the experi menting and are watching carefully the outcome of the activity which is going on in the installation of accumu lator cars in Europe In Hanover where a combination system of trolley and ac cumulators is employed sixty cars have been equipped with batteries and eighty more are to be installed by next spring The batteries are charged froffi v the trolley line outside the city limits sufficient to carry the cars without the aid of the trolley within those limits In Dresden thirty storage battery cars are running and fifteen more are to be put on shortly Here also the cars are run by the trolley outside and by stor age batten- inside the city In Copen hagen eighteen accumulator cars were to be put in operation in the beginning of January The system employed Avili be entirely storage battery In Hagen eight cars n rhe same system are in operation and ten more are to be add ed In Paris rtiirty five storage battery ears are to be equipped on rhe line of the Compagnie du Nord In Berlin the city government has decided to run on all the lines of the city storage bat ten rars of the mixed system the oth er lines to be equipped with trolley The underground conduit has been en tirely relegated and it is expected that Berlin will soon have in operation from 500 to 700 cars actuated by storage bat teries Chloroformed the Snake The L A W Bulletin prints a pic ture of a 14 foot snake and a letter from Fostoria Ohio written by An drew Emerine president of the Fos toria Bicycle Club telling how the snake was captured and photographed The snake was traced by wheelmen for seven miles the letter says over hills a river the fair ground and a race track It left a trail four inches wide in dusty places and it was easily followed When come up with he was on the to bars of a fence gate stretch ed along it and hanging down like a clothes line where he wasnt resting on the bar The reptile was captured by soak ing a sponge in chloroform and tying the sponge on the end of a fish rod The sponge was held against the snakes nose and he soon grew drowsy Then he was tied up in a hard knot and wound about with ropes Thou sands of persons saw the snake In the city park at Fostoria and he is now in the museum of the bicycle club He measured 14 feet 0 inches long Rieht This Time Miss Hilltop I notice that you use the expression a Avell groomed wom an I do not like it It is a horsy ex pression out of place in speak ing of a lady Miss Northside The expression is correct this time The lady I allude to has just been married and the groom is a very wealthy man Pittsburg Chronicle relegraph Force of Habit But why did you accept him when you knew he was in earnest Oh force of habit I imppose Truth If a man should be suddenly changed into a woman he couldnt take his hair down or get his clothes off 4s i i r fi i ng I ii