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ItOBEIlT GOOD Editor and Prop
VALENTINE
NEBRASKA
Edison declares that horseless car
riages at 100 already are in sight
Yes but how about the 100
We dont know whether Edwin G
Brice can make gold or not but Calvin
S Brice has done it for many years
They say now that poor Mr Have
meyer left only 4000000 but there is
some satisfaction in the thought that
he left all he had
And now a California astronomer de
clares that at least one half of Venus
Is covered with ice Perhaps that old
girl originally came from Boston
The Cincinnati Times Star complains
because Lillian Russell refuses to dis
close the name of her next husband
Probably she doesnt know yet
Reading of that Chicago whisky duel
one cannot help feeling that there are
times when the angel of death must be
ashamed of the job he has to tackle
It is hardly fair to say that Prince
Constantines military campaign has
been a complete failure He has turned
out some first class newspaper bul
letins
The shortage of Banker Johnson at
Logansport is only 300000 but it must
be remembered that it was amassed
entirely without the aid of a type
writer
It has taken the country three years
to learn that Mr Havemeyer knew
what he was talking about when he
said he didnt have to talk about any
thing whatever
A dispatch from Oklahoma says that
the Indians on the Pima reservation
are building an air ship Those fellows
always have been noted for their hair
raising enterprises
Senor Canavas is quite correct in say
ing that Spain is not a nation of mer
chants Almost any merchant has
sense enough to know when he is up
against a losing bargain
The man who saws wood gets there
after all It is stated that the yearly
product of the woods of this country
is 1000000000 more than twice the
value of the output of the mines
The Davenport Dakota News says
The Fargo boys would better do their
kissing at home Good We advise
the Davenport boys to take a firm
stand for full protection to home indus
tries
The Montana man who sent his wire
six sticks of dynamite has been given
the alternative of paying a fine of
j000 or going to the penitentiary for
500 days Everybody hopes he will
have a lovely time
With Gen Miles going to war in a
500 stateroom and Prince Nicholas
retreating from battle in an upholster
ed carriage it may well be said that
military science is progressing with
the progressive age
What can be more ridiculous asks
the Denver Post than a pair of
checked bloomers on a pair of bean
pole legs Give it up Denver seems
to have certain sources of humor which
this town does not
One of the yellow journals of Gotham
having scooped the other by securing
an interview with the Sultan we shall
expect to see the other blossom out al
most any day with an interview with
several hundred of Mrs Hamid
A Paris scientist claims that he is
able to demonstrate scientifically that
love is a disease That may be true
but a casual study of divorce court rec
ords will demonstrate that in many
cases matrimony is an antitoxin for
that disease
One of the latest feats of enterprise
on the part of the yellow journalists of
New York is the printing of a very
good portrait of Dan Stuart the Carson
fight man and calling it a picture of
Sir Philip Currie the British ambas
sador at Constantinople
Chicago Record One of the revela
tions of modern politics lies in the fact
that the man who knows the most
about the requirements of a large city
is some rural legislator who when he
visits Chicago believes that passenger
elevators are raised and lowered by the
invisible but potent will of God
The New York millionaires threaten
to move out of the State rather than to
pay their share of the taxes The States
should have tax laws so uniform as to
prevent such a method of dodging If
these very rich men were to leave the
United States they would find many
places in which they would be required
to share the public burdens
You cannot go through life no matter
how humble your sphere without be
ing called upon many times to decide
whether you will be true or false to
honor and duty Duty and honor must
go hand in hand there can be no di
vorce between these words You can
make your lives useful beautiful and
noble You can make them worthless
and contemntible
If an army officer in Ohio in attempt
ing suicide has slot himself without fa
tal injury he is on a par with the old
Bhrewd experienced lawyer who
makes a will that is easily broken
when assailed in court If a surgeon
does not know his own vital part and
a lawyer cannot draw up for himself a
legal will how are the rest of us to
know ourselves or our business
There is in Chicago a scheme to pro
vide work rooms for men out of em
ployment No money will be given
them but they will be paid in clothing
or whatever else they may need of the
articles made in the work rooms Old
clothes will be mended and old shoes
made more serviceable by cobbling
As soon as the workmen can get
places where they will be paid they
will go to them The idea is European
and properly carried out is likely to
result in much good
Virtue however lovely happy and
harmonious is very weak It includes
in itself all the power that has been
exercised to attain it and without
which it could never have existed It
Is the habitual choice of the good over
the evil made gladly at last but telling
of many a conflict many a toilsome
climb before the habit was formed It
is through many victories over strong
desires and passions which might have
swept us away and made us slaves
that we can win freedom to walk in
the pleasant paths of virtue
Prince Constantine must be having a
hard time of it if he cannot even set
out to take his own life without being
forced to beat a retreat It is reported
that he wanted to blow out his brains
but his officers refused to permit him
Apparently he consulted his officers
on the important question first The
Prince Is liberally supplied with death
dealing instruments and it was possi
ble for him to take a mean advantage
of his suite and destroy himself before
his officers could know of his purpose
But being a confiding Prince he seems
to have broached the matter as an af
fair of state and he must have been
deeply humiliated to find that his offi
cers differed with him radically as to
the wisdom of his policy But fortu
nately the Prince is not an obstinate
son of the monarch and gave way to
the persuasive eloquence of his attend
ants He is thus able to live to fight
another day
The bicycle seems to be making too
rapid strides into the field of utility
It invaded avenues of trade very soon
after its use became general and it has
proved a valuable factor in many lines
of business but there is danger that its
enthusiastic advocates will push its
claims for availability too far This
menace is obvious In an incident re
ported from Eliza bethport N J where
a funeral procession consisted of two
carriages and fifteen bicycles The
properly solemn aspect of this occasion
could not fail to be marred by a suc
cession of mourners on wheels Such
a cortege requires all elements of mis
chance to be eliminated as far as possi
ble and bicycles are so prone to have
various things hapien to them at inop
portune moments that they are decid
edly out of place at a funeral One
punctured tire at such a time would be
sure to create the greatest confusion
where all things should be staid and
calm and the imagination can picture
many other typical bicycle calamities
any one of which would be fatal to
funeral decorum Surely a line must
be drawn for bicycles and let it bo
drawn at funerals
In spite of the very large and pow
erful naval force of Great Britain that
country is constantly seeking to in
crease it by one means or another
Just now these efforts are taking the
form of an agitation for an adequate
reserve of trained seamen and in the
discussion of the project the fact has
come out that France has a much larger
number of seamen than Englaud En
gland according to an authority has a
naval peace footing this jTear of 110
000 men while last year France had
1S5000 It also appeals that England
has had trouble to maintain her quota
of sailors even in times of peace and
would of course have still more diffi
culty if Avar should come This has
caused no small alarm in a nation
whose policy and position make it abso
lutely necessary to maintain a navy at
all times superior to that of any other
on earth Efforts to make a showing
of reserve seamen have proved failures
and more than one speed trial of new
gunboats has had to be postponed for
lack of an adequate crew The English
know that the next war in which they
engage may place the life of the nation
at stake and as always the bulwark
will be the navy If this cannot be de
pended on the end may easily be
guessed
Heard from His Cheese Message
Hugh Kirkpatrick who has made
cheese at the Jersey factoiy in the t jwn
of Philadelphia Jefferson County for
several years placed a small glass vial
in one of his cheeses last August In
the vial was a note giving the name
and address of the manufacturer of the
cheese witli a request that the finder
of the note report as to where and
when the cheese reached the consumer
and in what condition it was when cut
Last week Mr Kirkpatrick received a
reply to his note from James Ash worth
a dealer of Burney England who had
found the vial Mr Ashworth wrote
that he had bought fifty of these chees
es at Manchester and was retailing
them at 15 cents per pound Utica
Observer
Why He Went
Do you go to school my little man
asked the smiling visitor
Naw drawled the hopeful Im
sent- Yonkers Statesman
TlK majority of people display their
Individuality most in the kind of fool
thev become
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THE TRUSTS HAVE THEIR INNINGS
HSJ
SUGAR TRUST PROFITS
John De Witt Warner Makes Some Esti
mates and Scores the Trust
Ex Congressman John De Witt War
ner is one of the best posted men in this
country on sugar tariffs When in con
gress he carried the house for free sug
ar In a recently published statement
he estimates the net protection to the
trust given by the Aldrich schedule ad
from 35 cents to SI 14 on every 100
pounds of refined sugar
Without attempting to give his argu
ment as to each of the ways in which
the trust would be protected we give
his summary of trust profits as follows
Specific differential 0 13040 f
Thirty five per cent ad valorem
differential 0l4r 021
Countervailing duty say 0033035
Additional by substitution of 75
per cent ad valorem for specific
duties m low grades 000 018
Total S035S114
In the vast majority of cases however the
actual result is between 45 and GO cents per 100
pounds net protection to the trust and it is
impracticable so to combine circumstances as
to bring this below 40 cents or above 60 cents
for any considerable amount
As an item of tariff taxation the sug
ar schedule is ideal from the protection
ist standpoint Sugar is tho one article
used by poor and rich to an equivalent
extent and a tax on which therefore
falls most heavily on the poor in pro
portion to their ability to pay it Its
production and distribution are control
led by a concern which is at once the
greatest of our mean tiusts and the
meanest of our great ones
It is consistent therefore that on this
one article there should be levied more
than one third of our total tariff taxa
tion and that our people should be bur
dened by a tax of more than 90000
000 that realizes less than 70000
000 for the treasury and more than
20000000 for the sugar refining com
bine while the same combine is enabled
to net an additional 10000000 by the
opportunity given it to import at present
duty rates raw sugars from which it
can make refined to be sold by it under
the enhanced price assured it by the
proposed Aldrich schedule The net
protection of from 45 to 60 cents per
100 pounds given the trust on its refin
ing process alone should be considered
as sufficient when we remember that
the labor cost of this process is slightly
less than 6 cents per 100 pounds that
is to say Senator Aldrich in behalf of
American labor proposes unduly to tax
wage earners in order to give the trust
from five to seven times as much pro
tection as it pays for all the labor in
volved
Next to the wage earner the farmer
if dear to the protectionist heart and
he is therefore equally favored by the
sugar schedule Of late years fhrough
out the eastern and middle and many of
the central states the competition cf the
far west has driven our farmers from
grain raising into fruit culture This
has now so developed that except for
e ports of canned goods jams pre
serves etc in which we ought to sup
ply the world the business of fruit rais
ing has in its turn become almost profit
less And poverty is now assured to
those who are dependent upon fruit cul
ture by the proposed tax oi two cents
a pound on sugar This increases
by from 50 to 5 per cent the article
which would make up from 40 to 75
per cent of the total weight of the jams
etc the export of which might insure
living prices for the surplus fruits but
which is now practically prohibited
And this is a government of the
people by the people and for the peo
ple Who are the people
1 ariff He
Republican finanHirs pretend to have
great faith that tJu Diuley tariff bill
will prove a poiciJ power in bringiir
prosperity to rhs untiry
With a naive di ivuraul for the teach
iijs of history rhey are coivrratuIaithig
theiinilves that prosperity is waiting
just around the corner and when the
tariff bill becomes a law this land will
flow with milk and hony Thy refuse
to investigate the tmie causes of
depression and foolishly believe
that by contracting the currency and
enlarging the taxes they can sot the
wheels of industry in motion
Let us glance a moment over the
pages of recent history and see what
lesson they have in them Bradsavet
gives facts and figures which show that
the decline of valuer In this country is
coincident with the dine of silver
When the McKinley tariff went into
effect in 1800 the decline in values had
set in The tariff was high the high
est ever made up to that date Did it
stop the decline in prices V When the
McKinley law was passed Bradstreets
iiKlicsurion of values was 114171 In
three mouths it fell to 101741 After
nine months had elapsed it had gone
down to 97853 When an entire year
had passed it stood at 0n0l In Oc
tober 1S02 it had sunk to S8574 A
year later in October 1S03 the record
was Sr2S9 and in October 1894 it had
tumbled to 77501
It does not appear from these incon
trovertible statistics that high tariff
brings increase of values There can
be no doubt that -the tariff remedy is a
quack nostrum and the stronger the
dose the weaker the patient becomes
The currency is all wrong and that is
the cause of business depression Dis
crediting silver and trying to force thir
great nation to a gold standard are
back of all this decline in values Thj
remedy cannot be found in high tariff
for not only history but common sense
acknowledges that no nation can grow
rich through taxation Establishing
the gold standaaxl will simply make
matters worse for men cannot do bus
ness on a limited capital The five and
unlimited coinage of silver is the only
thing that will bring back prosperitj
restore values and set the millions of
idle and suffering mn in this nation
once more hopefully and successfully
at work
High Duties On Buttons
The button manufacturers present
and prospective are unusually greedy
in their demands for tariff duties Mc
Kinley duties are entirely too slow for
the button infants The following is
part of a statement made by button im
porters
The proposed duties on buttons as
per schedule of the finance committee
of the senates are as a rule prohibitory
and would prove a severe hardship on
goods used by the poorer and middle
classes and also to manufacturers of
various garments used by the mass of
our people such as low priced shirts
underwear clothing etc The follow
ing data will give some idea of the in
equalities of the proposed duties
Agate Buttons Present duty also
McKinley bill 25 per cent proposed
duty of one twelfth of 1 cent per line
per gross plus 15 per cent ad valorem
would average from 07 to 101 per cent
bearing heaviest on the class of goods
that make up the great bulk of the im
portations The following schedule
taking the styles that sell shows the
range proposed
WHITE LLNTILLES ON CARD SOLD TO JOBBING
THADC
Present Pro- Equals
duty posed ad val
No Line3 Price 25 p ct duty p ct
W2 18 0124 0031 0190 161
10 20 0234 0059 0235 104
20 21 0310 0073 0256 82
30 23 037S 0095 0287 7
40 25 0441 0110 0316 71
50 27 0510 012S 0347 6
BUTTONS FOR MANUFACTURING TRADE IN BULK
Mineral IT 0183 0034 0100 116
Ivory 16 0145 0036 0182 125
Lentille IS 015J 003 0203 Ydl
These buttons are not made here nor
are they likely to be made First be
cause little or none of the raw material
required has been found here second
because the total sales being limited to
this country would not warrant the
investment of the necessary capital in a
plant needed to make the various styles
wanted Tt is evident that the intention
is to exclude these goods in the interest
of some higher cost goods The proposed
duty would be a real hardship and bear
heavily on the class of people who buy
china buttons as well as on the
manufacturers of cheap shirts iuder
wear etc
Bone Buttons to sew on Present
duty 35 per cent McKinley bill 50
per cent proposed duty from 100 tc
194 per cent These goods are mostly
sold to manufacturers of cheap under
wear childrens waists clothing etc
The Wool Schedule
The senate computations of theequiv
ants for Dingley bill rates on wooler
goods only need to be stated Thej
make opposing argument unnecessarj
in the mere leading For example the
rare is 55 per cent on second class wool
23 per cent on garnetted waste 326
per cent on shoddy 17 per cent ol
woolen cloths valued at net more than
50 cents per pound 167 per cent on
blankets mere than three yards in
length and valued at not more than 5C
cents per pound 212 per cent on shawl
valued at not exceeding 40 cents per
pound 151 per cent on knit fabrics val
ued at not exceeding 40 cents pei
pound 257 per cent on hats of wool val
ued at not more than 30 cents per
pound 419 per cent on felts of the
same value 147 percent on plushes
valued at not over 40 cents per pound
and 64 per cent on the aggregate of
woolen carpets
The people of the United States could
better afford to buy every sheep in the
country and to put every shepherd on
the pension list than to submit them
selves to such shameless plundering
Philadelphia Record
Tratmeit fr ATorc jnnnn
Mark Hanna sent 100000 or more to
Tennessee to assist the Republicans in
their attempt to buy the State last fall
and yet Captain Gibson gets insulted
when the former asks the privilege of
naming six fourth class postmasters fci
the latters Congressional district If
Mark is treated so shabbily this time
what can the Tennessee Republicans
expect from him when they make an
other demand on his exchequer Chat
tanooga News
EDTJCATIONALCOLUMN
NOTES ABOUT SCHOOLS AND
THEIR MANAGEMENT
The Youths Companion Says the De
cline of the District School Is No
ticeable niid General Thronschont
the Country
Itilinjito School
In the little schoolhouse at the coun
try crossroads many of Americas
greatest men have begun and not a
tew have finished their book learn
ing and the district school has justly
been called the corner stone of the na
tions liberty
No doubt the parents of many present
readers of the Companion in their
youth attended the district school
Their memories of those days would
recall a gathering of lifty or sixty pu
pils under a competent teacher who
secured good work But when those
parents revisit the old home now they
find only six or eight children playing
about tne door at recess and inquiry
discovers dissatisfaction and a lack of
interest on the part of the pupils
The decline of the district school is
noticeable and general throughout the
countiy It is due to the fact that large
families are less common than former
ly and to the congestion of population
in the cities
It is impossible for a teacher to get
good results from a school of live or
six pupils The enthusiasm of numbers
and the stimulus of wholesome rivalry
are absent Good teachers will not
take such schools and cheaper and less
competent instructors must therefore
be hired
Educators in many States who have
sought a remedy for this evil are al
most unanimous in advising that weak
district schools be closed -and that the
pupils from such schools be conveyed
at public expense to a central point
where a good school can be maintained
This plan first tried in Concord Mas
sachusetts has spread throughout the
rural districts of many States
The town furnishes covered wagons
of the sort commonlqy called barges
These are placed in charge of experi
enced drivers who are responsible for
the safety and good behavior of the pu
pils on the way to and from school
Every morning the barge goes from
house to house throughout the district
the blowing of a horn announcing the
approach of the carriage At night the
barge calls at the schoolhouse and
leaves the pupils one by one at their
homes
The plan permits a better grading of
the schools gives for thor
ough work in special studies secures
more competent teachers adds the
stimulating influence of large classes
leads to better schoolhouses and not
least in importance is cheaper
It costs as much to warm a school
house and keep it in repair for five pu
pils as for forty and the salaries of
three or four cheap teachers amount
to much more than the salary of one
good teacher so it is possible to carry
the scattered pupils to a central school
give them better instruction and more
of it and still save money
Six district schools in Enfield Con
necticut which had less than ten pu
pils apiece each cost the town nearly
seventeen hundred dollars a year the
cost of carrying those same pupils to
the central school is only about one
thousand and forty five dollars a year
and the more than six hundred dollars
saved can le spent to good advantage
in hiring better teachers or lengthen
ing the school year
A town in Massachusetts which was
educating children in small sehoods at
a cost in one case of sixty dollars a
year for each pupil by consolidation
reduced the cost for each pupil to eight
dollars a year including transporta
tion
The value of the district school has
always been that it made education
free to all The town school which is
growing up in its place is a shoot from
the same tree and has inherited the
same good quality Youths Compan
ion
Mistakes in School Management
It is a serious mistake to neglect the
details of school government
It is a serious mistake to omit thor
ough yard supenision during recess
It is a great blunder to stand too
near a class
It is a mistake productive of deceit
and misrepresentation to have pupils
report at the close of the day as to their
conduct during the day whispering
etc Ask your pupils their honest
opinion as to their reports and prac
tices
It is a mistake to censure each tri
lling error too severely
It is a mistake to complain or grum
ble much
It is a mistake to allow pupils to help
each other
It is a mistake for a teacher to be
tardy and then punish her pupil for be
ing tardy
It is a mistake to sit very much while
teaching
It is wrong to give a command when
a suggestion will do instead
It is a mistake to make spiteful re
marks before the school about notes
received from parents
It is a mistake for the teacher to act
in such a manner that the pupils will
be impudent to her during the recita
tion
It is a mistake to show temper in
dealing with parents Colorado School
Tournal
Dr Omes Thoronch p
As an editor I am enraged by noth
ing so much or with so good cause as
by notes sometimes from near and in
timate correspondents who say they j
have dashed off something which
they have sent to me without revision
or who say that th rhin would have
been better if il - il kept it by
them Pny why did they not keep It
by them Who asked them to dash it
off and send It to us without revision
Has the public no rights and has the
editor no rights I obtrude this pt
servation here for the sake of sixymg
to young people that they must not be
deceived by the apparent ease and
freshness and if you please slap dash
of Dr Holmes lighter papers or by the
absolute fluency with which his verses
run lie never insulted anybody by
sending slap dash work to the press
and that is one reason as I believe
Horace said before me why you and I
always like to read what he did send
to the pre Nobody knows what good
things he has left out and nobody ever
read anything of his for which he had
not done the best he could do before
he submitted it for publication He
had a great advantage in that he was
hardly ever an editor In that freedom
he was not summoned to write at a
moments notice and he wis not com
pelled to print work with which he
was not satisfied On the other hand
if a duty was to be done he did it If
a ballad was to be written for the old
South Meeting House he wrote it But
lie took his time for writing it and he
did not say it was finished before it
was finished This is the reason why
his work will stand Edward Everett
Hale in Review of Reviews
Lady School Director
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Miss Belle Newman who was re
cently elected member of the St Louis
School Board
Deafness Anions tchool Children
The fact that myopia is frequent
among school children is well known
It is not so well known that im
paired hearing is also frequently met
i with The children thus affected are
often accused of being lazy and inat
tentive when in reality their ears are
at fault Helot shows that these cases
are quite common are easily recog
nized are generally curable and when
cured a large number of children are
transformed so to speak both from a
physical and a moral standpoint Ac
cording to Weil of Stuttgart the pro
portion of school children with impair
ed hearing is 3o per cent according
to Moure of Bordeaux 37 per cent
Helot agrees with Gete and other aur
ists that the proportion is 2 per cent
or one fourth AH the children -
class should be carefully exanknej
and the semi deaf pupils will alvfe
be found among the poor scholars
The cause of infirmity is to be sought
for nasopharyngeal catarrh following
measles scarlatina whooping cough
adenoid vegetations hypertrophied
tonsils etc and normal conditions are
to be restored by appropriate treat
ment Popular Science News
Abont to Be Settled
The settlement of the Manitoba
school question is again near at hand
though the announcement has been
made in a somewhat indirect manner
so indirect indeed that many people are
slow to believe that the much desired
result of peace and co operation has
been reached at last The whole ques
tion it is to be hoped will now resolve
itself into a matter of good or bad ad
ministration and as in the case of
Nova Scotia and the other Maritime
Provinces the parties who thought
themselves at first aggrieved because
they could not get what they wanted
will be more than gratified in time to
come to find that they have more than
they could have got in 3S90 had they
then obtained from the Federal Gov
ernment all that they craved for There
will be no separate schools in Manito
ba as there perhaps ouirht never to
have been in Ontario but there will
be good public schools with which ev
ery Protestant and Roman Catholic in
the province will le satisfied Canada
Educational Monthly
otes
Vienna University has just granted
the degree of M D to a woman for
the first time
The House of Representatives of
Missouri by a decisive vote killed a
resolution to abolish the State Normal
Schools
4
Milwaukee has adopted a new meth
od of choosimr a Board of Education
The Mayor names four electors whose
duty it is to select a Board of twenty
one members
The Board of Albany N Y forbids
the detention of pupils after school
hours on the ground that a pupil con-
fined In a school room all day needs
fresh air and exercise
Japan is going to spend 40000 put
ting twelve young Japanese students
through a tln ee years course of study
of naval architecture and marine en
gineering in England
The Legislature of Oklahoma Terri
tory has passed a school bill which
makes it a crime for white and colored
children to attend the same school or
in any way participate in school mat
ters together
The Minnesota Legislature passed
the Soule sectarian bill which pro
nounces unlawful the use of any creed
or sectarian text book in any public
school The wearing of any sectarian
garb or costume is prohibited and also
the teaching of any sectarian denomi
national instruction
