ROBERT OOD 3 djtor and Prop
VALENTINE - NEBRASKA
Cigarettes are deadly
The bridge jumping lad Is falling off
wonderfully
Everything quiet in Cuba theyre not
raising cane as reported
Bloomers are going out but not quite
bo frequently as formerly
A Boston paper inquires Are men
marrying less Yes more or less
Cheer up ollice seekers the
has recently bought a part of
Plum Island
A wag suggests that if churchyards
yawn it may be because the epitaphs
make them tired
Shut your mouth and open your eyes
And youre sure to learn something to
make you wise
Why should one commit suicide on
-account of the extreme heat Theres
a laud that is hotter than this
One forenoon recently the Prince of
bales shooting party killed 2000 par
tridges This is considered sport
That Ohio man who claims to have
caught a catfish with two heads the
other day should change his bait right
away
That Florida man who shot ten
whitecaps the other night and killed
fo evidently doesnt need regulat
ing5 anyway
In England the mechanical engineers
-have designed refuse destructors
which burn all refuse in the rough
That is a thing Ave have to leaxn
Down in New Jersey the other day a
bride kissed an entire wedding party
and thus realized 100 for charity Aft
er this let us hope that her charity will
Legin at home and end there
The Philadelphia Bulletin says that
Nature is not ashamed of her clothes
Why should she be ashamed of them
Arent her bloomers the envy and ad
miration of all the rest of creation
It is announced that Mexico has dis
covered an effective and harmless nar
cotic which will produce coma with
out derangement of the system Per
haps that is what ails Mexican indus
try
The Chinese claim to have discovered
the X ray several centuries ago
rost wants to know
If there is anything fihe Chinese Havent
discovered They havent discovered
how to fight
A Seattle newspaper shows that the
farmers of Eastern Washington since
the recent rise in the price of wheat
have sold 15000000 bushels the crop
netting them about 3300000 more
than last year
The Cincinnati Enquirer has noticed
that no matter how courteous and at
tentive the elevator boy may be he is
called down frequently every day But
you cant keep a good elevator boy
down He is bound to rise
Bostons city council has appropriated
15000 to exterminate the orgyia leu
costigma We are not quite clear about
this but we feel that it would be well
-worth the money to get rid of such a
thing anyway no matter what it is
Boston street car conductors are now
directed to address women passengers
as madam When a passenger gets
off the car backward and sits down
forcefully in the muddy street the ac
cent probably will be suddenly shifted
to the last syllable of that word
The Montreal inventor who claims to
liave produced a gun by which two
men can fire 260000 shots a minute
without an explosive and with a range
of 6000 yards fails to say how he is to
lceep up the supply of ammunition The
secrecy surrounding the invention like
that of the Keely motor is probably its
strong point
After having made a fortune of 500
00 from his business a Tennessee to
bacco manufacturer has decided that
-the selling of tobacco is incompatible
with his religious life and has disposed
of this plant to a syndicate He prob
ably reasons that the latter being a
oulless corporation is safe in sinning
There is one clergyman in Kansas
who is not a Sabbatarian During a
sermon last Sunday he saw that a
storm was approaching and brought his
discourse to a close by saying Breth
ern I will now close for I see that we
are going to have a thunderstorm The
congregation will please follow me to
Brother Soandsos field and help him
tack his wheat That was practical
Christianity
Once or twice a year St Louis does
something neat in the shape of a story
Its lafest is the tale of a tramp who be
came converted by the Salvation Army
and having stolen the last railway ride
lie had before religion got hold of him
Lis conscience troubled him and he sent
the money covering the fare for a thou
sand miles to the railway company he
liad defrauded He sent the full rate
asking no rebate on any account and
not even taking note of the cheap rates
aiow afforded to St Louis merchants
r
fos shopping purposes That story will
let St Louis out for the next six
months
Several experiments have recently
been made by Eastern railways in
sprinkling oil along the ground beside
their tracks for the purpose of prevent
ing the dust from being swept up by
the motion of the cars The dust prob
lem has long annoyed railway travel
ers The finest screens in the windows
of the Pullman cars have been ineffect
ual to keep clouds of dust from pene
trating while the trains were in motion
and besmirching the passengers and do
ing damage to the companys property
A stretch of road in New Jersey was
sprinkled with crude oil for a distance
of six feet -on each side of the track
This was found to lay the dust success
fully and it is said that the entire Penn
sylvania system will be thus treated A
really dustproof road will be a great in
ducement to travel
This fall each ton of anthracite coal
will cost every manufacturer every
merchant every family 150 more than
it cost last fall That is the price of
anthracite coal has advanced in the
past year a little more than 46 per cent
Why Because the mines are becom
ing exhausted Because the wages of
miners and employes of coal railways
have risen Because the cost of pro
duction has increased Because last
years price was below the price at
which dealing in coal is profitable Not
at all The sole reason is that several
men who had control over the neces
sary mines and railways organized a
trust to decrease the output and to
raise the price Of course there are
laws both Federal and State against
it Of course there are certain instincts
of humanity against it But the coal
trust cares nothing for such trifles as
law and humanity
After a delay of about five years tne
beacon set as a memorial to the late
Lord Tennyson has been dedicated For
sonie reason hard to explain there has
been little enthusiasm anywhere con
cerning this memorial and the dedica
tion was accomplished with the sim
plest of ceremonies and was attended
by few people of any note Although
the dedication took place within five
miles of Windsor castle not one of the
royal family came or sent representa
tives Neither did the Queen send the
slightest word to the managers of the
affair The present laureate too was
absent although that was not to be
wondered at It would be trite to say
that the verse of Tennyson was en
shrined in the hearts of the English
people and that it needed no memorial
to celebrate it The truth is that the
memory of Tennyson has been singu
larly neglected by the English people
and the absence of representative liter
ary men upon this occasion is inexcusr
able
Of many recent suicides perhaps the
most touching was that of Benjamin
Simon of New York It was remark
able for three reasons In the first
place he belonged to a race the mem
bers of which very rarely take their
own lives In the second place he was
only 14 years of age and lastly he
snuffed out his life because he wished
to become a labor agitator and thought
his failure to pass an examination for
college had disqualified him for carry
ing out that wTish From any point of
view this suicide was remarkable He
overcame race prejudices against self-
destruction and at the age of 14 he had
well defined ideas of becoming a liber
ator Perhaps the most noticable thing
in connection with the event was the
boys conviction that an education was
necessary to qualify him to become a
labor agitator He must have been im
pressed with the fact that what the
laboring men or at least their leaders
most needed was education for he
strove constantly to acquire knowl
edge He tried to enter the College of
the City of New York but failed to pass
the examination owing to a deficiency
in drawing This failure preyed upon
his spirit and the poor little brain al
ready affected by overstudy and too
much thought gave way The letter of
farewell written to his parents is as
pathetic as ever a communication writ
ten under those circumstances was He
wrote it in the East Broadway library
and in explaining his act he says that
the greatest regret he had was that he
had not held to his resolution to agi
tate among the working classes for
their emancipation from wage slavery
by the overthrow of the capitalistic
system and for the establishment of the
co operative commonwealth advocated
by the socialist labor party Poor lit
tle Chatterton of labor Who can tell
what -he might not have accomplished
he lived
Everything Inverted
In Japan if the bull may be
speeches are made be
fore dinner thus insuring brevity and
furnishing the topics for conversation
In Feudal and Modern Japan the au
thor states that it is the absorbing de
sire of the young ladies to grow old
that they may share the reverence giv
en to age
The best rooms of the house are in
the rear A Japanese entering it takes
off his shoes instead of his hat If he
takes up a book to read he opens it at
the back He reads from right to left
instead of from left to right The let
ters are arranged vertically instead of
horizontally The larger margin of the
page is at the top instead of at the bot
tom and the foot notes are at the top
If he writes- a letter he will take a
roll instead ofia sheet write along the
cuiwefof the roll a missive which be
gins exactly asone of ours would end
and vice versa and then putting it into
an envelope opening at the end and ad
dressing it to United States Ohio Cin
cinnati Smith John Mr e will seal
it turn it over and put his postage
stamp on the back
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PRINCE OF DENMARK -AND THE DUCHESS OF MECKLENBURG
The betrothal of Prince Christian of Denmark and the Duchess of Mocklenburg
Schwerin recently announced is said to he very pleasing to the German and
Russian courts The lady is second cousin to the present czar and the prince is
his first cousin Both are related by marriage to the royal family of Great Brit
ain Christian is a stalwart young Dane second only in stature to the giant Prince
George of Greece He is a superb horseman an all around sport and a fine sol
dier His fiancee the Duchess Alexandrine is nine years younger than her royal
lover nor father the reigning Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin is one of
the richest of the princes of Germany and Alexandrine is his eldest daughter
She is a very handsome woman for a European princess and is said to he highly
cultured Foreign court papers of course have it that this match is a genuine
love affair
NATIONAL W R C HOME
This Magnificent Structure Stands
at Madison Ohio
No charitable institution in the land
is more worthy of benefits or gifts
Crom a patriotic people than the Home
founded and sup
ported by the Na
tional Womans Re
lief Corps at Madi
son Ohio for those
whom cruel war
left without sup
port or protection
One writing of it
says It is really
one of the wonders
of the world The
clare n BUBLEiGHhalf nas B6Yer been
told and you will never realize what a
grand institution it is until you visit
it
It is located at Madison Ohio on the
famous Western Reserve on the line
of the Lake Shore and Michigan South-
em Railroad There
are now twenty
acres of land five
having been pur
chased last year
There are fine
drives well kept
lawns with flow
ers in abundance
besides gardens
and orchards The
main building was
erected and fur
nished by the Ohio
Siff
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PLTHIA L COWLES
Legislature at a cost of 35000 It is
known as the Ohio cottage and is a
model of perfection It was dedicated
on July 17 1S90 with elaborate cere
monies and turned over to the Wom
ans Relief Corps The two original
buildings were used for a seminary Of
these one is now fitted up for a hospi
tal The Home is maintained by a per
capita tax assessed on every member
of the W R C and by contributions
Crom friends either caso or supplies
Also a percentage of pensions received
The Board of Directors is composed
of Agnes Hitt national president In
dianapolis Ind Ida S McBride na
tional secretary Indianapolis Ind An
nie Wittenmyer Sanatoga Pa Char
ity Rush Craig Viroqua Wis Emma
B Lowd Salem Mass Margaret Ray
Wichens Evanston 111 Pluma L
Cowles secretary Geneva O
He Missed the Pun
There are no funnier people in the
world than those who never see a joke
Many good stories are told about them
and of these one of the best as well as
one of the latest is furnished by the
Washington Post
Many years ago when the Press Club
was in existence a British newspaper
man was at the club one evening He
had been in Washington for some time
and was leaving the next day Mr
Karl Decker made a speech to him
Mr So-and-So said Mr Decker
you have spent some time with us
and have made many friends We
have become attached to you You are
going away to morrow and we may
never see you again but in order that
you may always have something by
which to remember us on behalf of the
Press Club I present you this ring
And then he struck the call bell on
the reading table near him The Eng
lishmen looked a trifle bewildered for
a bit then he reached out his hand
thanked the club and pocketed the bell
And bless his simple English heart
next morning he told another newspa
per man how kind the Press Club had
been to him and what a lovely presenta
tion speech Mr Decker had made
Mr Decker must have been awfully
nervous you know he said though
he didnt show it for he said T present
you this ring and dont ye know it
wasnt a ring at all it was a bell
Mad Cats Worse than Mad Dog
According to the returns just publish
ed by the Pasteur institute at Paris
fully 10 per cent of the patients treated
there owe their injuries to the bites of
NATIONAL W R C HOME AT MADISON OHIO
by Inmaes is required of them to be
applied to the support of the Home
There are at present sixty four in
mates sme of them with remarkable
war rectfrds as army nurses The old
est is nearly 90 and is in excellent
health Seventeen others are octogen
arians
Mrs ilare H Burleigh the present
superintendent of the Home has ex
hibited marked ability and tact in car
ing for aged persons Bright cheerful
affectionate with gifts of speech and
song she has won all hearts and holds
the reins of love and kindness gently
but firmly She is a descendant of
patriots and is a member of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
by right of three ancestors a great-great-grandfather
and two great
grandfathers who fought at Bunker
Hill
Her brother Mr George Hoyt was a
recruiting officer for John Browns
company He later attained a brigadier-generals
rank in the Union army
and after the war was appointed attorney-general
of Kansas At the time
of her -husbands death in 1S94 he was
a distinguished lawyer and judge of
Massachusetts and judge advocate of
the G A R
Mrs Pluma L Cowles the secretary
of the Home board is also a Daughter
of the Revolution and wife of Mr Ed
win R Cowles a member of the One
Hundred and Fifth Ohio Volunteer In
fantry and a leading church worker
and business man of Geneva She was
appointed by the Governor of Ohio
with six others a member of the Ohio
Cottage Building Committee and has
been connected with the management
of the Home ever since
cats afflicted with hydrophobia Theso
wounds are considered by the medical
officers in attendance to present a
greater degree of danger than the bites
of mad dogs not because there is any
difference in the virus but because in
the first place the teeth of cats being
more pointed than those of dogs inflict
a deeper wound and also because a
mad dog usually fastens his fangs into
the arm the hand or the leg while a
cat invariably jumps for the face of
the person it attacks The nerve cen
ters are far more exposed in the faco
than in either the arms or legs and
hence the virus enters into the circu
lation more rapidly by means of a bite
in the face than through one elsewhere
in the body It may be added that the
returns of the Pasteur institute for the
last year show that 1 per cent of the
patients who have submitted them
selves to treatment have been bitten by
mad cows
Japans National Flower
The blossom of the cherry tree is Ine
national flower of Japan Picnics in
Japan are called going to see the flow
ers In June millions of the people
go out to sing and sport under the
cherry trees The Japanese cultivate
all over the country the sakura or
cherry tree which they value only for
the beauty and sweet perfume of its
flowers From an entire tree one cculd
not pick enough ripe cherries to make
a pie but the blossoms are massed to
getr on the boughs like clouds and
the blooms are often as large as a rose
If you dont learn to laugh at trouble
you will not have anything to laugh a
when you are old
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NEW BICYCLE INVENTIONS
Clminless Bnll Bearinsr Compound
Crank and Carrier Wheels
Two inventors an Englishman and
an American have recently applied for
patents on bicycle improvements which
refer directly to the gearing The Eng
lishman furnishes a compound crank
retaining the chain The American in-
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COMPOUND CRANK WHEEL
vention is one of the forms of a chain
less wheel which is a forerunner of
the kind to be placed on the market
next season
The Englishman claims that his in
vention will enable a rider to attain a
remarkable rate of speed for the rea
son that almost double the propelling
power can be obtained without any in
crease of exertion With it he predicts
that a racing man can easily ride a
mile a minute
The American machine shows the
sprocket wheel connected with the
smaller one on the hub of the rear
wheel by a cog wheel The middle or
connecting wheel which acts as a sub
stitute for a chain is held in place by
a circular support fastened to the
frame The entire gear works are ball
bearing and are inclosed within an
aluminum case
The New York Herald reports that a
syndicate composed of four
has decided to use the bicycle as a
carrier for men and supplies from
civilization to Klondyke The bicy
cle will be used to transport supplies
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CHAIXLESS BALL BEARIXG GEAR
from Juneau to the gold fields by way
of the Chilkoot pass a distance of 700
miles
Ihe present method of carrying in
this district is for one man to take a
load of 200 pounds his limit cany it
five miles and go back for more The
Klondyke bicycle is a four wheel ma
chine and designed to carry freight It
is built strongly and weighs about
fifty pounds It is diamond frame and
steel tubing The frame is wound with
rawhide shrunk on so that the miners
can handle the machine in cold weath
er with comfort
From each side of the top bar two
arms of steel project each arm carry
ing a smaller wheel about fourteen
inches in diameter which when not in
use can be folded up inside the dia
mond frame Devices for packing large
quantities of material are attached to
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THE KLONDYKE BICYCLE
the handle bars and rear forks and the
machine it is estimated will carry 500
pounds The plan is to load it with
half the miners equipment drag it on
four wheels ten miles or so Then the
rider will fold up the side wheels ride
It back as a bicycle and bring on the
rest of the load A sample machine
has already been made and patents
have been applied for
Another device for arctic comfort
which the syndicate will control is a
portable house of thin boards and felt
which can be folded up in small com
pass and which when erected will be
perfectly air tight
Webster Her Coachman
When Mrs Sherwood the author
who is best known as M E W S
was a young girl she visited Daniel
Webster at Marshfield with her fath
er and mother Mra Webster met them
in her carriage and the little girl was
allowed to sit next Mr Webster on the
drivers box She was elated indeed
when her father put her up there and
whispered in her ear
Remember this my daughter you
are to drive five miles with Daniel Web
ster as your coachman
The coachman began at once to
make himself agreeable
So this Is your first visit to the sea
Miss Wilson said he
This was an additional joy No one
had ever called her Miss Wilson It
made a landmark in life Thenhe point
ed out Seth Peterson who was walking
along the road and who stopped to take
some orders from his fellow fisherman
You will eat to day some fish which
Seth and I caught this morning said
Mr Webster
Mary was terrified at the responsibili
ties of conversation but she made a
lucky hit by asking what kinds of fish
were easiest to catch He launched
off on his favorite topic and talked of
the gamy bass the reluctant cod and
their fellows
I suppose said the littlt girl you
enjoy the fish which are the hardest
to catch dont you Mr Webster
He looked round at her and laughed
You are beginning young Miss
son said he Thrt is the remark or
a coquette
At dinner he cabarrassed her mucb
by repeating the remark as a piece of
youthful precocity
E BENJAMIN ANDREWS
Who Resigned a University Presi
dency Rather than Hide Hia Vicavs
Dr E Benjamin Andrews recently
resigned the presidency of Brown LTni
versity at Providence rather than sur
render the liberty of expressing tho
opinions he entertains on a great pub
lic question Dr Andrews is one of
the most ardent able and conscientious
advocates of the free and unlimited
coinage of silver and has promulgated
his views whenever the occasion offer
ed The directors of the university
E BENJAMIN ANDREWS
were displeased with his conduct amK
virtually demanded silence or resigna
tion He chose the latter alternative
Dr Andrews is 03 years of age andF
is the son of a Baptist clergyman who
lived at Montague Mass but preach
ed in the town of North Sunderland
The fathers salary was- 200 a year
The son aided in the support of the
family by working Saturdays and holi
days in a mill He also bent his ener
gies and his back to the care of a gar
den patch near the family residence
He had a great fondness for reading
from his earliest youth He was ia
school when the civil war broke out
He enlisted and served until 1864L
when after having been severely
wounded at Petersburg he returned to
New England and finished his educa
tion at Brown University Then he
taught in various academies and earn
ed money enough to further educate
himself in Germany He has been pres t
ident of Brown eight years
SENATOR FROM TENNESSEE
Thos B Turley Who Sncceeds tW
iLate Isham G Harris
Thomas B Turley appointed United
States Senator from Tennessee in placer
of the late Isham G- Harris is a well i
known lawyer of Memphis He hasl
never Jield offi xujuind Lahz j
member of the law firm of Turley i
Wright In 1870 he was married tor
Miss Irene Rayner the daughter of ther
late Eli Rayner of Shelby County c jtf
Turley is 52 years old He was not yerf
out of school when the war came but-
he promptly enlisted in the Maynard
Rifles Company I One Hundred and
Fifty fourth Tennessee regiment of thei
Confederate army lie fought at Shi 1
loh and was wounded there and he
was also wounded at Peach Tree
Creek before Atlanta He was cap j
tured in the battle of Nashville and
taken to Camp Chase in Ohio and held
there until March 1805 when he wasf
exchanged and returned to the South
At the close of the war Mr Turley en-
tered the University of Virginia andS
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THOMAS
B TTTRLEY
became a student of law In 1S70 he
removed to Memphis and that city has
been his home ever since
Pumice Stone in America
Heretofore our supply of pumice
stone has come almost exclusively from
Italy Now an American product is
forcing its way into the market This
material has been found of excellent
quality in Western Nebraska and in a
pulverized form There are seven dif
ferent deposits these comprising in all
about 400 acres According to a reporr
made by Prof R G Salisbury of the
University of Chicago there are ap
proximately 800000 tons in sight The
deposits with adjoining lands have
been acquired by the Chicago Pumice
Company They However desired also
a lump pumice stone After much
search such a deposit was found in
Utah 245 miles south of Salt Lake City
This property comprises 120 acres and
it is virtually an entire mountain othe
material of all degrees of purity Man-
ufacturer
New Vie w of the Matter
Mamma How hot you are Tommy
your clothes are wet through I de
clare
Tommy -Cant neip it ma The heat
makes me cry all over Pick-Me-Up
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