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EOBEItT GOOD Editor and Prop
VALENTINE - NEBRASKA
When money Is made at the Klon
dike these days it should come pretty
near the idea of cold cash
It Isnt at all remarkable that Greece
should hand Thessaly over to Turkey
Greece has been going to cede for
many years
Foreigners have said that the Ameri
can womans voice is generally harsh
and strident but it is very sweet when
she is saying yes
One reason why the women take
such a delight In shopping is that ev
ery establishment furnishes them a
store of pleasant thoughts
In Dawson City we are told men
think nothing of spending 1000 a day
for fun How much fun can they
get there for that much money
Cats as a political symbol used to
signify merely being on the fence Now
theyre getting into ballot boxes they
may further typify scratched tickets
A man in Utah says he saw a bat
which looked as large as an eagle the
other day The safest plan is to es
chew such bats as that Otherwise
they usually turn into snakes
If the Kaiser were as full of wisdom
us of trouble he would realize that he
Is playing the short end in a game of
freeze out Germany is still in the drei
bund but it is clearly a case of two
pluck one
The latest Keeley invention is in the
iine of finding out the keynote of
love He says that every person has
a musical chord and that it can be
registered on a negative sympathetic
register This beats a mere motor al
hollow if it works
There was a wedding recently In
Missouri the groom of which wras 100
years old and the bride 77 It is such
youthful unions that threaten the su
premacy of the race and emphasize the
contention that we allow our boys and
girls too much freedom
History can never accuse Mr Glad
stone of being indolent At an age
when most men are thinking of noth
ing but taking the remainder of life
easy he is meditating an important bi
ographical work embracing the lives
of the most distinguished modern di
vines
When single women begin to call
themselves bachelor maids and to or
ganize clubs wherein to rail at the sa
cred institution of matrimony a sus
picion that they are pining to be wooed
grows at once into an absolute cer
tainty and any wise bachelor man
who does not want to be dragged to
the altar will keep away from there
One by one the roses of tradition
which have bloomed in historical nar
ratives fade and fall Once more it is
declared that Admiral Van Tromp did
not hoist a broom at tlie masthead of
his ship in token of his purpose to sw
eep English vessels off the ocean The
writer who labels the familiar tale as
fiction is an eminent authority in mat
ters pertaining to English history
Alms sent to India from this country
-naturally met with a cool reception
from the English In the first place
the British were not hungry and in the
second they are not particularly proud
of the fact that many of their subjects
are One lesson of the episode would
seem to be that sending food abroad
when there are plenty of empty stom
achs in our own fair land is not the
best use to put it to
While progress in Germany is not so
apparent as in other nntions where
the sword and rifle are not so dominant
factors occasional incidents prove that
the notion of political freedom is gain
ing ground With every strain to
which it is subjected it is probable
that the divinity which hedges Will
iam loses some of its power to save his
throne from attack This development
of the democratic spirit in Germany is
in accord with its growth in other na
tions
It is a typical Massaelnisetts town
ot which one of the veteran officials
states a suggestive fact that the ag
gregate values of the pianos organs
sewing machines carpets and similar
articles of luxury now owned therein
exceed the whole valuation of the town
as it was forty years ago In 1S57 only
z fraction of the so called rich possess
ed such luxuries which in 1S97 are
iound in every household so inany
fbnerete proofs that the American
standard of life and comfort tends con
stantly to rise
The rejection of the arbitration trea
ty was a calamity Even if a defeat
yet its friends should take heart for it
Is a principle too well grounded to
either and pass away We have won
every honor that war can bestow We
can blend the lilies of peace with the
Iaurols of war Not in humility not Id
deprecation not as a nation whose
palms have yet to be won do we seek
this heroic and virtuous consumma
tion Peace with arbitration would be
a blessing to mankind a blessing and
likewise a guerdon to the American
people
The farmers of Maine have circum
vented the beef trust They have or
ganized 1000 fresh pork and bpef
clubs in that State ench club com
posed of ton members The ten farm
ers belonging to a club arrange for a
succession of butcheries That is u
hog is killed every so many days dur
ing the winter season and the fresh
pork is divided into ten parts eacn
familj getting one part This doe
not include the hams and other por
tions of the animal which are salted
or pickled for future use The ar
rangement amounts to a co operative
meat shop The farmers lose noth
ing and they get fresh pork all the
time
Football that glorious old game of
the dying year has degenerated of
late into such a bloody and brutal
contest that the participants risk life
and limb every time they play Play
No fight would be the better word
Padded and protected and armored
almost as completely as the mailed
knights of old the contestants strug
gle and battle with one another like
the gladiators of old One combina
tion of big boned steel muscled thick
skulled giants hurls Itself bodily
against a similar combination and the
impact is like that of two colliding
locomotives The weaker certainly
the stronger probably must go down
Crushed skulls fractured limbs dislo
cated shoulders broken ribs some If
not all of these result in almost every
game despite pads and armor of every
description This year the number of
fatalities has been phenomenally large
and public concern closely allied to
disgust at the brutality of the game
has been aroused Georgia has passed
a law prohibiting the game in that
State St Louis shuts the game out of
the city by an ordinance Chicago
tried to do the same but failed Gov
Jones of Arkansas has demanded that
the brutal sport shall cease and
everywhere the same cry is going up
The proposal to construct a road
from the mouth of the Taku River to
Teslin Lake as one of the most prac
tical routes from Juneau across the
mountains on the Klondike route has
directed attention to the great Taku
glacier the largest in the world except
the Mulr outside of the Arctic regions
The Taku inlet is a few miles below
Juneau and the glacier is about two
miles to the northwest of the mouth of
the Taku river The glacier is con
stantly discharging masses of ice into
the river the movement of this ice
river being the most rapid of any great
glacier yet observed It is described
as an enormous mass of ice eight miles
long and two miles wide Its altitude
at its mouth is 200 feet above the level
of the river and it is thought to ex
tend equally as far below The center
of the glacier is estimated to be over
1000 feet in depth It is said to be the
most transparent glacier in Alaska its
color being a beautiful robins egg
blue varying according to light to a
pretty green The United States sur
veying expedition named it Foster gla
cier in honor of ex Secretary Foster
but the Indian and Caniaddan name
Taku is the one generallj applied aind
far more appropriate The exploring
expeditions in fact seem to choose tc
disregard almost all the Indian names
and to affix names honoring certain
officials to whom they were or felt
themselves to be indebted a custom
which it is to be hoped will not prevail
in future in Alaska The Indian names
should be used wherever they are not
too cumbersome unless in cases where
special honor is to be given to explor
ers or others connected with the his
tory or development of the new tern-
T
Referring to the figures of labor bul
etin No J00 showing the marked in
crease of women in mens occupations
Mr Carroll D Wright is of the opin
ion that tliis invasion is not likely
to encroach upon the employment of
men nor hurt their chances In the
first place women are in many cases
taking the place of children not of
men in the second place invention
and discovery like the railroad the
telegraph the telephone and the use
of electricity are opening many new
occupations to men The reasons giv
en by employers for their employment
of women are that they are more
adaptable to work are more reliable
more easily controlled neater faster
more industrious careful polite and
docile One superiority is likely for
many years jet to give women where
other things are equal an advantage
over men that is sobriety This vir
tue is becoming more and more es
sential to success and employers are
making it more and more an absolute
condition of employment Women
have also the advantage of willing
ness to accept lower pay But this
will not always last Wages like wa
ter will seek their level But in a
competition between sobriety and
drunkenness woman will for a long
me surpass her male rival It is
to be considered too that if women
are supplanting men in some occupa
tions men began it The spinning
the knitting even the weaving the
making of garments all of the cook
ing and preserving the products of
the dairy were not many years ago
household duties performed almost en
tirely by women These occupations
now give employment to large num
bers of men as well as of women So
that if he reproaches her with en
croaching upon his industrial domain
she can truthfully accuse him of first
being an Intruder and trespasser upot
hers
Will Locate a Capital
government proposes to found a new
city in Alaska known as Weare on
the Yukon River between the boundary
line of British Columbia and St Mi
chaels It is intended to make it the
capital of the contemplated new terri
tory and locate the land office there
After a girl has been out of town to
take singing lessons it is no longer
said that she sings a song but that she
renders it
GETS ECKELS PLACE
DAWES APPOINTED COMPTROL
LER OF THE CURRENCY
McKcnnn Is Also Named Presidents
Attorney General Raised to Supreme
Bench Actor Terriss Stabbed to
Death French Writer Dead
Preoidential Appointments
Among a number of appointments sent
by President McKinley to the Senate
Thursday for confirmation were those of
Charles Gates Dawes of Evanston 111
for Comptroller of the Currency to suc
ceed James H Eckels and Joseph Mc
Kenna of California at present Attorney
General of the United States to be asso
ciate justice of the Supreme Court in
place of Justice Field who recently re
tired
The nomination of Mr Dawes was con
firmed three hours later without objec
tion but that of Judge McKenna was not
acted upon that day
Mr Eckels arrived in Washington the
night previous returning from the West
and at once carried his resignation to the
White House Mr Eckels will remain in
Washington long enough to assist Mr
Dawes in picking up the details of the
office He will then go to Chicago to ac
cept his bank position
Mr Dawes figured in national politics
as the Illinois member of the executive
committee of the Republican national
committee during the last campaign The
home of Mr Dawes is in Evanston He
removed to Illinois three years ago from
Lincoln Neb to become the president of
the Northwestern Gas Light and Coke
JUDGE JOSEPH MKEXXA
Nominated to be Associate Justco of the
United States Supreme Court
Company For several years he was
prominent as a lawyer and business man
in- Lincoln He became a director in the
American Exchange National Bank of
Lincoln vice president of the Lincoln
Packing Company and interested himself
in many other enterprises in the Nebraska
capital He is also interested in gas plants
in Akron O and La Crosse Wis Mr
Dawes is a native of Ohio and is 32 years
old He is the son of Gen R R Dawes
who was one of the commanders of the
old iron brigade of Wisconsin
Joseph McKenna who has been nomi
nated to be associate justice of the Unit
ed States Supreme Court was taken from
Philadelphia to California by his parents
when he was but 12 years old and he has
grown up with the country He won hL
first prominence in a railroad speech twenty-two
years ago his first national promi
nence for he had been a notable man in
his own State for some time He was
district attorney of Solano County at 22
and afterward served for one term in the
State Legislature before running for Con
gress He held the office of Congressman
for four terms and during the last one
he was made judge of the United States
Circuit Court by President Harrison His
most important decisions have been in re
gard to railroad legislation Judge Mc
Kenna is tall and thin and angular and
his hair is auburn and a little gray His
eyes are his most remarkable feature
something between hazel and gray and
TV W
CIIARLES G DAWES
New Comptroller of the Currency
remarkably deep and clear He has a
resonant pleasant voice
Ne7vs of Minor Note
Another uprising is threatened j
Guatemala President Barrios political
enemies are the instigators
If Mrs Nack looks like her newspaper
portraits it is hard to understand why
she is protesting against death
The Alleghany Connecting Railway
Company has been chartered in Pennsyl
vania to build a line from Plum to Har
rison townships Alleghany County
The health and police committee of the
Board of Supervisors at San Francisco
has put a quietus upon the prize fighting
industry in that city for some tune to
come by refusing any more permits for
pugilistic or physical culture exhibitions
to a big club
Mrs Matilda Delilah Shields a grand
daughter of Richard Henry Potomax an
Indian chief died at Washington D C
aged 113 years She leaves one son and
two Caughters thirty grand children and
thirty five great grandchildren Mrs
Shields had lived in that locality nearly
all her life
ACTOR TERRISS SLAIN
Stabbed to Death in London by a Super
Named Archer
William Terriss the well known actor
was assassinated Thursday night as he
was about to enter the stage door vi the
Adelphi Theater in London He had just
left his cab and was walking acrosir the
pavement when a man rushed upon him
with a knife and stubbed him immediately
below the heart
Mr Terriss was carried into the theater
and doctors were summoned from the
Charing Cross Hospital but he died with-
KSm
WM TERRISS
in fifteen minutes The murderer was
seized by some of the bystanders and giv
en into the custody of the police He
gave his name as Archer and is supposed
to have been a super at the Adelphi The
ater several years ago No motive for
the murder was ascertained
Mr Terriss had been playing a leading
part in the English version of William
Gillettes American drama Secret Ser
vice He reached the theater at his
customary hour driving there alone from
his lodgings He stepped from the cab to
the pavement near the stage entrance and
was making his way through the usual
crowd that throngs the spot at the time
when a man darted toward him from be
hind He concealed a long dagger be
neath a cloak that covered his shoulders
and was thus enabled to hide his purpose
from the bystanders It was only when
Mr Terriss fell that the crowd realized
that a crime had been committed
My God Hes stabbed me Terriss
shouted as he fell Dont let him es
cape
Mr Terriss was carried into the tlutiter
and up the stage stairway as far as the
first landing where he was laid on the
floor He died surrounded by the mem
bers of the company and the theater staff
A large audience had already assembled
in the theater to whom the manager an
nounced from the footlights that Mr Ter
riss had met with an accident that pre
vented giving a perfoimance As the au
dience dispersed the newsboys were ty
ing special editions of the evening papers
and the fact that Mr Terriss had Iv en
murdered became quickly known It caus
ed a remarkable scene along the Strand
expressions of horror and indignation fie
ing heard on even side
ALPHONSE DAUDET DEAD
Sudden of Life of the French
Writer at Paris
Alphonse Daudet expired in Paris
Thursday night He was dining with hi-
ATPIIOXSE DAUDET
family when he was seized with a sudden
syncope Physicians were summoned
but he died almost immediately
Alphonse Daudet was born at Nimes of
poor parents May 13 1S40 In 1So7 with
his brother Ernest he Avcnt to Paris to
try to gain a livelihood by literary pur
suits His first publication was a volume
of poems entitled Les Amoureuses
which appeared in 1858 and won for him
a reputation that led to his employment
on several newspapers It was while writ
ing under the name of Baptistet or un
der his real name novels tales and news
paper articles that he achieved his real
popularity
FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS
JXeceipts of American Board Reached
a Total of JG4127S1
The annual report of the American
Board of Foreign Missions shows total
receipts from all sources of 012781 of
which Nov England contributed Jfe
484 Illinois 3S915 Wisconsin U2 U
Michigan 18735 Iowa 13lob and In
diana 1351
The report deals at length with Turk
ish massacres and says that while many
Christians were killed or lied the number
of professing Christians exceeds that pre
vious to the outrages The wounds left
by massacies have been slowly healing
though in several places the suffering has
been quite as great as in the previous
year The demand for indemnity for
losses incurred at Harpoot and Marah
amounting in all to 100000 have been
pressed as yet without result the
changed conditions at Constantinople and
the arrival of Dr Angell the new United
States minister may reasonably be ex
pected to secure early and satisfactory
action in regard to this claim and all other
material questions at issue between the
T7uited States Government and Turkey
Mrs J A Wilkins 23 years old com
mitted suicide in the Oriental Hotel at
New York City She was despondent
because of the inability of her husband
to secure work The latter attempted to
commit suicide when he learned oT his
wifes death but was unsuccessful
The coroners jury which has been in
quiring into the Garrisons N Y trail
wreck on the New York Central in which
nineteen persons lost their lives has ren
dered a verdict to the effect that- the
cause of the accident is unknown
It YP rs
About Compositions
The average pupil hates composi
tions Why Before trying to answer
this question let us state and illustrate
a principle People old and young
like to do whatever they can do well
and dislike to do whatever they do bad
ly The person who cant drive his ball
through the first arch invariably hates
croquet not so the chap who plays
his own and his partners ball through
arch after arch while his discouraged
opponents stand round despairingly
waiting for their chance to play So
it is in everything else it is always the
skillful who comprise the enthusiasts
Now in the matter of compositions
Once get a child to feel that he is doing
his work well and you have won the
victory He wont hate compositions
any more Generally too much Is ex
pected of the pupil at the start and in
most cases the start is not maae soon
enough The difficulty about composi
tions is nearly always in the case of the
children to whom the matter comes as
a new and unfamiliar task Teachers
who have to do with such pupils
should be sure first to set the composi
tion task well within the pupils pow
ers and second to choose the subject
of the composition from among those
things that have for the pupil a living
interest Instead of asking a girl of
14 to write on such subjects as The
Advantages of Industry Our Duty to
Our Parents The Value of Educa
tion etc have her describe the last
picnic she attended write on the prop
er care of a canary bird or give her
own ideas as to the culture of pansies
A boy who will play hookey in order to
avoid writing a composition on The
Uses of Politeness The Character of
Washington or True Manhood will
jump at a chance to write about Cat
fish and How to Catch Them or to
give an account of the different kinds
of kites or to write about any other
thing that he knows about and takes an
interest In
It is well not to be too critical about
the compositions Pass over defects
lightly and heartily praise every indi
cation of originality Allow pupil to
read their compositions publicly as a
special mark of favor not as a require
ment Above all never require pupils
to write compositions as a punishment
or force them to read their productions
before the school unless you want to
have them hate composition writing
forevermore Learning by Doing
Will Meet in Washington
The Executive Committee of the N
E A at its meeting in Chicago derid
ed by a unanimous vote to srkvt
Washington as the place for the nrct
meeting of the National Educational
Association and the time July 7 to i
inclusive The choice was a matter of
no little difficulty owing to the very
strong attractions offered by the com
peting cities viz Omaha Salt Lake
City and Los Angeles Already the
railroad lines from Chicago to Wash
ington have granted the usual one fare
for the round trip plus the membership
fee Formal action as to ticket on
ditions and extensions of tickets for
return will be announced at an early
date It is believed that these ticket
conditions will be more liberal than
have ever before been secured The
meetings will open on the evening of
Thursday July 7 and close on the
evening of Tuesday July 13 The ad
vantages of this arrangement are that
Sunday travel to or from the meeting
will be unnecessary There will be no
session on the afternoon and evening
of Saturday the time being given to
social and other recreations
The churches of Washington will be
invited to arrange for sermons and ad
dresses bearing upon educational
themes on Sunday the 9th It is be
lieved that this relief of Saturday after
noon and Sunday occurring in the
midst of the session will be welcome
Overwork in Schools
The evils resulting from overwork
In the public schools of Switzerland
have attracted the attention of the edu
cational authorities and a series of
propositions for combating these evils
have been under consideration The
proposed changes were submitted un
der the authority of an eminent physi
cian who is also an expert in school
hygiene One of the recommendations
is that children be not sent to school
until they have passed the age of 7
Other propositions are to limit the
studies in the primary schools to read
ing writing arithmetic drawing sing
ing and gymnastics to do away with
home study to give the pupils fre
quent intermissions and vacations and
to mitigate greatly the rigor of exam
inations The tendency in even en
lightened country is to call a halt on
the crowding of young pupils in their
studies
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A Buildintr at Omaha
The Womans Board of the Bureau
of Education of the Trans Mississippi
and International Exposition proposes
to erect a building upon the grounds
to be known as The Girls and Boys
Building To secure this building
with its furnishings and acces
ries the Womans Board must have
co operation of all the girls and
boys of the West Shares will be 5
cents each and every child is asked to
take at least one share Individuals
or schools taking twenty or more shares
will receive a handsome certificate giv
ing a pifture of the building while
schools or counties subscrib
ing for 0 shares will have mention
on roi f honor which will be placed
in King
juts to Teachers
Co hm up the boy who sits in
Jic uut anl wears his coat
larless his hair worn a la Pompadour
and his finger nails in mourning who
wont learn his lessons and who will
get into mischief I kne w a teacher
who had a pupil just like him Sho A
showed interest In him she visited his
parents and didnt act as if thoir lan
guage and manners made them devoid
of all fine feellug She asked him to
help her about some work after school
one night and said By the way John
we know each other pretty well now
I like you and I hope you like me I
want you to do something for mer
will you
If I can was the answer
Come to school to morrow with a
collar comb your hair nicely and pare
your finger nails You see I like yotr
as you are now but I want other peo
ple to like you too and they wont If
you are careless about your appear
ance
Do you think the boy hated her No
He was never seen untidy after that
evening He graduated from the high
school with honors and is to day filling
a responsible position in society He
swears by that teacher She made a
man of him Selected
Baby Has Gone to cchool
The bibyhas gone to school Ah mel
What will the mother to
With never a call to button or pin
Or tie a little shoe
How can she keep herself busy all day
With the little hindering thing away
Another basket to fill with lunch
Another Good by to say
And mother stands at the door to see
Her baby march away
i
And turns with a sigh that is half relief
And half a something akin to grief
She thinks of a possible future morn
Y nen the children one by one
Will go from their home to the distant
world
To battle with life alone
And not even baby be left to cheer
The scattered home of that future year
She picks up the garments here and there
Thrown down in careless haste
And tries to think how it would seem
If nothing were displaced
If the house were always as still as this
How could she hear the loneliness
Educational Notes
The School Board of Chicago expend-
ed over 7000000 last year
Of the twenty seven royal families of
Europe two thirds are of German
origin
A law school under the rontrol of the
University of Maine is to be opened in
Bangor in 1SD8
The attendance at the University of
Utah Salt Lake City is the largest in
the history of that institution
The Northwestern University of
Evanston 111 the largest denomina
tional school in the country has 2000
registered students
The letters in the various alphabets
of the world vary from VI to 202 in
number The Sandwich Islanders al
phabet is 12 the Tartarian 202
For twenty six years young women A
have enjoyed the fullest freedom in-
uiu uunersuj ui uicuigau ami now
there are allout GOO of them in various
departments
Philadelphia has selected thirty men
and five women o act as truant catch
ers at 2 a day It is also to provide its
high school with the largest triple tel
escope in the world
A step in the right direction has been
taken in securing a woman physician
for the new girls high school in New
York City She will teach physiology
and will also give attention to the phy
sical needs of the young women Div
Frieda Lippert is the appointee
Harvard University seems to be de-
sirous of placing itself in active contact
with the teachers in the surrounding
cities and for that purpose contem
plates the establishment of courses of
lectures dealing with the subject-matter
taught in the different schools A
course of ten lectures will be given on
methods of teaching the following sub
jects Chemistry physical geography
physics mathematics botany zoology
and physiology
The public schools of the city of St
Louis are endowed in an unusual man
ner The School Board controls real
estate comprising 293 acres valued at
1500000 and from which it derives
an annual revenue of 70000 in ground
rents When the United States acquired
the possessions of Spain certain lots n
St Louis which had been set apart as
commons by the original settlers were
reserved for the support of public
sehools and as the city grew upon
the site of the small settlement the
lands became of much importance
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The schoolmaster has missed a schol
ar Where is he
Preachsr Much Too Viced
Once a clergyman of considerable em
inence but sensational proclivities vol
unteered to write anonymously for the
Sun In his first article he made the
amazing blunder of trying to adapt
himself to what he supposed to be the
worldly and reckless tone proper to a
Sunday newspaper Mr Dana chuck
led quietly and sent the manuscript
lack after indorsing it in blue pencil
This is too wicked
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