j ROBERT GOOD Editor and Prop
VALENTINE - NEBRASKA
It Is impossible to borrow trouble
without paying usurious interest
The Buffalo Express says Any
body who can ride a bicycle can go to
war Fall in girls
A scientific exchange says The
number of rows on an ear of corn is
always even Thats odd
The Denver Times says An Indian
chief will sell anything but his blan
ket He is completely trapped up
In it
Apart from other circumstances that
four and a half per cent loan shows the
flegree of interest England takes in
China
Speaking of the war spirit it may
is well be admitted that the Kentucky
moonshiners are still turning out a good
deal of it
It is said that a French officer has in
vented a noiseless cannon which is very
destructive Why not introduce it for
use on the Fourth of July
It should be unnecessary to state that
ihe use of the wheel by Chinese women
Implies more or less of a revolution in
that conservative country
Reformer Charlotte Smith demands
that the Secretary of War shall enlist
80000 unmarried -women at once to
fight Spain Why so many
t has been discovered that forty four
different muscles are called into play
whenever a man says Ill take the
same Its the same when he smiles
The United States has no use for the
Philippine Islands and no intention of
annexing them but then they might
prove a very acceptable present to
Japan
When the surprising figure of over
B00000 is announced as the number of
telephones in this country its a very
plegmatic nature that isnt inclined to
exclaim Hello
That New Jersey man who has made
seven unsuccessful attempts to com
mit suicide should not despair Warm
weather -will soon be here and then he
can easily -walk out of the State
An Ohio man has -written to the navy
department to advise that all Ameri
can men-of-war be armed with rubber
insteau C st1 He probably thinks
wouhw1ii in the stretch
6Uch a craiser
wr nnr This is an llfcuGrOkT
ace anol while they are yet speaking I
some act Ot spienuiug uuwu i 0 uuul
of the Boston firemen who lately died
In the defense of property puts them
to silence
It has been discovered that the re
cent fatal fire in Pittsburg which
claimed a balf dozen victims was
caused by an explosion of -whisky
What sort of stuff do those Pittsburg
crs drink anyway
Americans abroad carry their patriot
Ism with them Those in London have
raised a considerable fund for the sur
vivors of the Maine explosion and
those in Mexico City have started a sub
scription for a monument to those who
were lost
It is disheartening to read of the con
viction for fraud of a youthful scion of
a noble English house whose ancient
motto Ne vile veils may be ren
dered Choose nothing base Gentle
birth has its obligations as the old
French proverb reminds us and one of
them certainly must be to keep un
stained a name made honorable by gen
erations of worthy ancestors
One duty of ministers is to say
Come Dont come is the message
of a missionary at Dawson City and it
5s given to warn away the multitude
dreaming that there is wealth for them
Jn the Yukon district He is thus
preaching physical salvation for the
country Is already overcrowded and
the supply of labor is greater than the
demand Do not forget those two
words Dont come
Occasions like the present fill the
crank with unutterable joy die finds
liimself translated into his element
that of conceiving fantastic schemes
and projects and of startling the
try with the novelty of his inventions
He has implicit faith in them and sees
nothing incongruous in their accept
ance A most sanguine individual he
entertains not the slightest misgiving
as to the practicability of his sugges
tions and he cannot be induced to con
cede the possibility of failure
Besides the income tax there is in
Prussia though not in the rest of Ger
many a tax on capital as upon land
and household property All fortunes
under 300 are exempt from taxation
The minister of finance has just pub
lished the results of this capital tax
for 1897 and these reflect a picture of
the financial condition of the well-to-do
population of Prussia exclusive of
small capitalists The aggregate wealth
of those liable to taxation amounted to
3300000000 an increase upon 189G of
more than 827000000 Of this sum 2
000000000 goes to the credit of the
towns the other 1300000000 to that
of the country Only 5440 taxpayers
possess a fortune of 50000 and of
these pnly lS91have more than 100
400 Floating capital totaled 1100-
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000000 and landed property 1200
000000 Of those who possess over 50
000 1100 reside in Berlin
It is all of a piece with the tyrannical
French Government that Zolas friends
sliould bu punished for their share
however slight in his recent trial One
wouldthink France had returned to the
days when any objectionable person
could be clapped into the Bastile for
this beautiful third republic goes the
monarchy one better and out Herods
Herod by punishing a mans defenders
It is hoped that Col Picquart is not
cast down by being placed on the half
pay of lieutenant and not being per
mitted to wear a military uniform His
turn will come yet and though there
are no more Bastiles to be destroyed
what now stands for that prison must
Ju time be also overthrown It is
known that states and nations die like
everything else in nature that fashions
pass and are reborn once in so many
decades and it may be that the fashion
of tyranny is to return by way of Paris
At all events the spirit that fostered
the Commune is rife
The details of the terrible heat which
prevailed in February in certain colo
nies of Australia show it to have been
one of the most fearful natural visita
tions of modern times The water in
the wells and streams dried up and
large rivers shrunk to the size of
ditches miles and miles of farms were
burned over and townships were blot
ted out by bush fires The shipping
was stopped by the dense clouds of
smoke The fish in the rivers and the
cattle and sheep on the plains were de
stroyed and no one knows how many
human beings were lost The towns
and cities were filled with crowds of
half naked and terror stricken people
who had lost everything they had in
the world Following the awful blis
tering heat came storms and tornadoes
which added to the terror and then epi
demics began their deadly work The
visitation extended as far south as Mel
bourne It will be a long time before
Australia will recover from the disas
ter The harvests were destroyed and
haying no wheat to export the Austra
lians have had to purchase and have
been sending their gold to San Fran
cisco for that purpose The pasturage
was also destroyed which means the
loss of the sheep As it is the great
wool producing section of the world
it follows that the price of wool will go
up
The large increase in the consump
tion of sugar in the world has made
the yield of that staple the subject of
considerable investigation The nor
mal yield of sugar In the world is
8000000 tons per annum of which
something over half comes from beets
The cane sugar comes chiefly from the
West Indies and the island of Java
The growth of the beet sugar ftchigtfy
JS ti United States has become a
very importIlt Iteui in6ur domestic
trade In 1888 our product was 2800
tons in 1S90 it was 12000 tons in 1894
it was 20000 tons and last year it
reached 43000 tons and the business
is as yet in its infancy Very much of
this increase is due to the bounty paid
to sugar producers by the government
between July 1S91 and July 1895
That sugar is as necessary as salt for
human food is claimed by medical men
but the amount consumed per capita
seems to bear no relation to the actual
necessities of the human race It seems
to be a rule that in those countries
-where the spirit of navigation com
merce travel and colonization is strong
the general consumption of sugar is
large whereas in those countries where
such a spirit is not dominant the de
mand for sugar is diminished In Eng
land which is clearly first among the
maritime nations the consumption of
sugar is SG pounds per capita annually
in Denmark it is 45 in Holland 31 in
France 30 in Norway and Sweden 25
in Russia 10 in Italy 7 in Turkey 7
in Greece G and in Servia 4 In the
United States the consumption of sugar
per capita has very steadily increased
for many years In 1878 the amount
was 34 pounds for each individual in
1881 it was 44 pounds in 1SSG it was 56
pounds in 1891 it was GG pounds but
in 1S97 it was 61 pounds It does not
seem to make much difference with the
use of sugar whether or not a nation
produces it for in Austria the sugar
yield of which is very Irage the people
use only 19 pounds each yet in Switzer
land where no sugar at all is produced
the in dividual consumption is 44
pounds One would naturally suppose
that the two peoples who ttse the most
tea would use substantially the same
quantity of sugar but take England
and Russia the two great tea drinking
peoples of Europe the one uses 8G
pounds of sugar per capita and the
other only 10 There is no doubt that
a very large proportion of the sugar
used by a nation is eaten in the form
of confectionery Candy is used more
and more by individuals who have long
since ceased to be children and while
a few years ago a candy nianufactory
was a rare thing even in this country
the bonbon box filled with sweets is
now generally to be fouud on the table
In the sitting room of the well-to-do
family In cars on the street and at
the theater people are frequently seen
with a box of ehoice confectionery
which they are eating with infinite en
joyment
Satisfied
The Female Reporter I am just dy
ing to be original send me somewhere
that no lady reporter has ever gone
The Editor musingly Well you
might go to heaven The Yellow Book
A man had arrangements made to
commit suicide but growing more des
perate got married instead
Its a trying time for a woman wher
8he visits her dressmaker
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CROP WORK AHEAD
WINTER HAS BEEN A BOON TO
FARMERS
Springlike Weather Following a Mild
Term Proved to Be Beneficial in Al
most All Local itiea Iiate Cereal Be
portafrom Various Sections
Excel ent in Promiiie
Throughout the principal agricultural
districts the past winter was remarkable
for its mild character There was little
severe or long continued cold and the
snowfall was light Following this open
winter spring like weather was experi
enced during the greater part of March
so that spring plowing and general farm
work is now well advanced decidedly
ahead of recent years
Oats seeding and corn preparation are
far in advance of last year and in spite
of the interruption occasioned by cold
weather and storms during the last week
of March the general farm preparation
for the seasons work has made unus
ual progress Spring wheat seeding be
gan more than a month earlier than last
year with the soil in excellent working
order and whiie storms of the past ten
daj s caused an interruption yet a large
enough area has already been planted to
mark the season as one remarkably ear
ly Throughout the great central valleys
the soil has worked readily and until the
last week in March there were few locali
ties in which wet weather interfered with
plowing
East of the Missouri River winter
wheat was sown last fall under peculiar
ly unfavorable conditions The long sum
mer and fall drought made plowing diffi
cult and the proper pulverization of the
seed bed almost impossible Seed was
sown in dust germination was slow and
uneven and first growth small and strag
gling Rains came early in November
and a large part of the acreage was seed
ed after the first of that month but it
was felt that grain sown at that late date
gave hut a problematical promise at best
From the date of the November rains up
to the present time weather conditions
have been favorable for the crop The
winter was mild and with abundance of
moisture the plant continued to develop
through the usual period of hibernation
gathering root strength rather than show
ing top growth
The month of Marcli was like April
thirty days ahead of the calendar Sun
shine and showers marked the -first three
weeks of the month and the effect upon
the brown stunted wheat fields of the
Ohio -Valley was remarkable Brown gave
way to green bare spots were covered
fields marked for plowing began to give
promise of possible crop results The
change of the month in the wheat fields
between the Allegheny Mountains and
the Missouri River particularly in this
central belt was sufficient to mark the
season as one of the most remarkable on
record
West of the Missouri River conditions
have favored the crop from seed time up
to the present and rarely have the wheat
fields of Kansas Oklahoma and Nebras
ka offered so fine a prospect as at the
JpSSSSa J Lli3f coast the
situation in Oregon and WasTiIng is
all that can be desired In Califorhta
conditions are variable In Texas and
Arkansas the winter has been all that
could be desired for the crop spring
growlh has been good and the general
condition is high In Tennessee and Ken
tucky improvement dinrjjng the past thirty
days has been rapid In Ohio the pros
pect ismucti less flattering The next re
port of condition will be decidedly higher
than the last State report but the Ohio
average will be the lowest among the im
portant States The winter and spring in
Michigan have been favorable and the
present condition of the crop is good
The prospect in Indiana and Illinois is
improving rapidly with local exceptions
largely in the southern part PiiJ1 State
auu tue present condition is luny up to j
the average for a series of years The
Very low condition heretofore reported
for the general average of Missouri does
not represent the situation in that State
Improvement has been rapid and there
is now at least an average crop prospect
At this date it would be ridiculous to
talk of probable crop results but it now
seems apparent that the 1S97 crop Avill at
least enter its period of spring growth
with an excellent promise whatever may
befall it later in its history
BLAIR STATUE COMPLETE
Will Be Placed in Michigan Capitol
Grounds Next Month
The statue of Gov Austin Blair order
ed by the Michigan Legislature for the
capitol grounds at Lansing is complete
STATUE OF AUSTIN BLAIK
The statue of Michigans war Governor
will be placed on the capitol grounds in
May probably on Decoration day
Proof of Treachery Is Clearw
English naval experts say that the re
port of the American court of inquiry
clearly proves that the Maine was wreck
ed by an external cause and that Spain
must be held responsible for the disaster
The yacht Mayflower recently
ed by the Government has been put in
the dry dock at the Brooklyn navy yard
to be fitted up as a torpedo boat destroyer
Enelish tourists report a remarkable de-
mand for American goods in China and
Japan
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War Resolutions Introduced in United
States Congress
By Sector Frye ot Maine
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Resolved That
the President of
the United States
be and be Is here
by directed and
empow ered to
n take isueh effect
ive steps as in
his d 1 s c r etlon
may be necessary
to secure a speedy
termination o f
the hostilities be
tween the gov
ernment of Spain and the people of
Cuba the withdrawal of the military
and naval forces of Spain from said
Island and the complete Independence
of said people
By Seprtientstlve Marsh of Illlnok
Resolved That
war be and the
same Is hereby
declared to exist
between the gov
ernment of Spain
and her depend
encies and the
United States and
her Territories
and tbat the
President of the
United States is
hereby author
ized to use the whole land and naval
force of the United States including
the militia and the naval militia
thereof to carry the same Into effect
By Sena or Rawlins of U ah
Resolved
That the Inde
pendence of the
republic of Cu
ba be and the
same is hereby
recognized and
that war against
the kingdom of
Spain be and
the same is
hereby
ed and the
P r e s 1 dent Is
hereby author
ized and direct
ed to emnloy
the land and naval forces of the Uni
ted States of America to wage such
war to success
By Senator Allen of Nebraska
Resolved
That the repub
lic of Cuba now
and some time
maintained by
force of arms Is
hereby recog
nized by the
United States
of America as
a separate and
independent na
tion That the
United States-
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and put an end to the war now beinc
waged on the Island of Cuba and
shall succor und release from Impris
onment the people there concentrated
for the purpose of starvation and ex
termination
By Senator Forakr of Ohio
R e s o lved
That the peo
ple ol the Isl
and of Cuba
are and of
right ought to
be free and
i n dependent
That the
e r n m e nt of
the United
States hereby
recognizes the
r e p u b lie of
Cuba as Zh
ilfl aud law
f u 1 govern-
tueut of that Island That the war
Spain is waging against Cuba Is bo
destructive of the commercial and
property Interests of the United
States and so cruel barbarous and
inhuman In its character as to make
it the duty of the United States to
demand and the government of the
United States does hereby demand
that she at once withdraw her mad
and naval forces from Cuba and Cu
ban waters That the President of
the United States be and he is hereby
authorized empowered and directed
to use if necessary the entire land
and naval forces of the United States
to carry these resolutions into effect
O0CXOOCCXOC2O
EARTHQUAKE J5UJSES PANIC
Residents of San Francisco Frightened
by Seismic Shocks
Residents of San Francisco and neigh
boring cities were much excited over the
earthquake which shook the city and vi
cinity just before midnight Wednesday
The vibrations continued fifteen seconds
after the shock was felt and many per
sons were thrown into a panic Buildings
trembled on their foundations telegraph
and telephone wires were broken and
numberless panes of glass were broken
during the short space of time the shock
was felt Several hours elapsed before
the fears of the panic stricken populace
were quieted and the streets cleared Se
vere shocks were felt at Sacramento San
Jose Merced Stockton and Santa Gruz
The shock was confined to northern Cal
ifornia Vallejo and Mare Island suffer
ed much damace the loss at the navy
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000 The naval hospital was wrecked and
the Government sawmill thrown down
In the town of Vallejo just across the
channel the loss runs into the thousands
At the University of California in Berke
ley the seismograph at the students ob
servatory in Berkeley showed that the
shock lasted between thirty and forty sec
onds The general direction of the vibra
tion was from east to west The instru
ment showed that the shock was heavy
in a small area
LEES LIFE THREATENED
Warned in Two Days of Five Distinct
Plots to Assassinate Him
Havana advices say that Consul Gen
eral Lee was warned Sunday and Monday
of five distinct plots against Tiis life It
was reported to him that many of the
rabid Weylerites are determined to kill
him and that all sorts of plans have been
evolved to accomplish that purpose
Gen Lee professes to place but little
credence in the many reports that reach
him of threats against him but it is no
ticed that he is more closely guarded than
aver by the Government The latest story
to reach the consul was that he would be
poisoned by a bribed employe of his hotel
To this Gen Lee replied by asking the
aewspaper correspondents who sit near
aim at meal time in case he is suddenly
taken ill first to shoot his waiter and
then to run for a stomach pump
Marix Says It Was a Mine
Lieutenant Commander Marix judge
advocate of the board of inquiry into the
Maine disaster on being released from the
oath of secrecy in relation to the blowing
jp of the battleship had this to say
We know that the Maine was
blown up by a mine as surely as a
physician knows a man was poi
soned when he finds him sufferms
from the effects of poison
Friday in the House was spent in con
sideration of the naval appropriation bill
There was much filibustering and only
four pages of the bill were gone over Ad
journed until Saturday The Senate was
not in session
The House spent Saturday in consider
ation of the naval appropriation bill A
strong effort was made during the day
to increase the appropriation for the na
val reserves but it failed Another effort
to have the government uniform the na
val militia also failed The main contest
of the day was over a proposition to de
crease the number of timber dry docks au
thorized by the bill from four to three It
led Mr Cannon chairman of the Appro
priations Committee who made the mo
tion to discuss the whole question of war
preparations and to inveigh against undue
extravagance He was voted down 78 to
107 An amendment was adopted to per
mit the Secretary of the Navy to use any
portion of Michigans naval militia fund
to repair the damage to the Yantic
A message from President McKinley
outlining the findings of the Maine board
of inquiry was sent to the House on Mon
day After being read it was promptly
referred to the Committee on Foreign Af
fairs Mr Walker of Massachusetts an
nounced the death of his colleague Mr
Simpkins and moved that the House ad
journ out of respect to his memory This
was done and Speaker Keed appointed
four members of the Foreign Relations
Committee to which the Maine report
had been referred to attend the funeral
In the Senate the Presidents message
and the report of the board of inquiry
were both read efter which the Senate
adjourned
After passing a bill to pension the
widow of Gen John L Stevenson at the
rate of 30 per month the House devoted
the whole day Tuesday to the considera
tion of the bill to pay certain claims for
stores and supplies furnished the Union
by loyal citizens of the South during the
war There was a bitter contest over a
claim of 217000 preferred by the heirs
of the widow of Gen Robert E Lee She
inherited the claim from Mrs Fitzhugh
her aunt who it was admitted was loyal
The claim was finally stricken out but
the House recessed before the bill was
passed It provides for the payment of
about S50 claims aggregating about 1
200000 At an evening session pension
bills were passed In the Senate after
the introduction of Cuban resolutions and
a speech by Senator Mason seventy four
private pension bills were passed Then
Mr Tillman presented resolutions con
cerning the death of the late Joseph A
Earle Senator from South Carolina
Eulogies were delivered by Mr McLaurin
Mr Chandler Mr Clay Mr Spooner
Mr Chilton Mr Cannon Mr Kenney
r Mftpnery and Mr Tillman
A wild and uproarious scene occurred
in the House on Wednesday when Mr
Bailey the Democratic leader attempted
to force the hand of the Republicans up
on a proposition to overrule the Speaker
and pass a resolution recognizing the in
dependence of the Cuban republic Mr
Bailey presented the resolution as a
ileged question He was ruled out of
order by the Speaker An appeal from
the decigipn q the chair was laid on the
table The House then went into com
mittee of the whole and resumed consid
eration of the naval appropriation bill
The Senate Committee on Foreign Rela
tions has agreed to delay action on all
Cuban questions now in its possession un
til after the President has had opportunity
to conclude pending negotiations
The House on Thursday listened to
speeches on the Cuban question The
three speeches which stirred the assem
blage to its depths were made by Mr
Grosvenor of Ohio who it was assumed
spoke for the administration and who
practically pledged it to the cause of free
Cuba Mr Bailey of Texas the Demo
cratic leader who announced the Demo
cratic position as for free Cuba without
war if it could be avoided but with war
if necessary and Mr Johnson of Indiana
who Kpoke for peacp declaring that it was
our duty to go to the extreme in mag
nanimity in order to avoid the horrors of
war In the Senate Mr Frye of Maine
who reported from the Committee on For
eign Relations a resolution calling upon
the President for the Cuban consular re
ports requested that the resolution lie on
the table until such time as the commit
tee desired to call it up Mr Chandler of
New Hampshire objected to the making
of any such contract as suggested Mr
Frye then moved that the resolution be
recommitted to the Foreign Relations
Committee After a somewhat heated
discussion the motion was passed
News of Minor Note
Orin W Brereton aged 25 years and
married was killed by falling into a min
ing shaft at Cripple Creek Colo
Judge Campbell of San Francisco has
decided that a cat is not a domestic animal
and cannot therefore be claimed as the
property of any one
William Johnson of Claremore I T
shot and killed United States Marshal Ar
nold and was himself killed by Deputy
Busey while resisting arrest
Capt Sobral Spains late naval attache
at Washington who has plans of the
United States coast defenses has been
appointed on the staff of the admiralty
In accordance with the wishes of Farm
er Appleby of Hempstead N Y hi3
widow caused his remains to be cremated
and scattered the ashes over the fields
The winters gold output of the Klon
dike is estimated at 9000000 which will
be sent down the Yukon by the first
steamer after the opening of navigation
Miss M C Stone of Roxbury Mass
has made up her mind to possess some
Klondike gold She has arranged to go
with a party of twenty four men and they
expect to start about the middle of April
in a schooner around the horn Provisions
for two years will be taken
There is a movement on foot to organ
ize a stock company in Houston Texas
for the purpose of making that place a to
bacco market to serve as an outlet for the
heavy crops of that State Three thou
sand acres will be planted in Harris and
the counties immediately surrounding
Houston
FIRST ARTESIAN WELL
The Origin of a Tennyson Poem
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Uncle Sams Attempt to Get Water in
the State of Texaa
Artesian wells are Ttow pouring a
never entting flood o subterranean wa
ter upon the earths surface la nearly
every State located -within the well
defined limits of the artesian well
basins of this continent From British
America to the Rio Grande the busj
drill has penetrated the varied strata
in search of water frlng under a pres
sure sufficient to raise it to the light of
lay In some localities notably Iu
Utah a flow has been secured at a
depth of less than 400 feet In other
places thousands of dollars have beei
c xpended in boring 3000 or eveon 400G
feet toward the center of bh earth
without results
The average depth at which water 14
secured seems to be about 1400 feetr
and such a well under ordinary circum
stances costs between 2500 and
3000 This is -with the improved ma
chinery and transportation facilities of
modern days Deprived of those well
boring becomes expensive to the point
of impracticability
Uncle Sam dug a well himself manj
years ago in tbe Panhandle of Texas
It is the first attempt on record to se
cure an artesian flow in tihe Lone Stai
State It was only 700 feet deep and
no water ever came to the surface from
It Since then there have been hun
dreds of artesian wells bored in Texas
which threw fine streams of water and
the pioneer hole has been forgotten by
all except a few old time frontlersonen
who went on this peaceful mission iutc
a country which was far from peaceful
owing to the anti civilization creed of
the roaming Comanche Indians
It was in 1837 that this attempt was
made as the United States Govern
ment thought it advisable to have a
water supply for an army post on the
staked plains An elaborate expedition
was fitted out under Captain Polk who
subsequently became a general Equip
ped with the best well boring appara
tus available at that time a formidable
wagon train a force of meclutnlcs and
a guard of cavalry the expedition
started from one of the posts near the
Gulf Coast An apparently suitable lo
cation was selected and the work be
gun Unfortunately for the Govern
ment however the geological survey
had not yet reached that section of the
country and the well boring was pure
ly experimental After going down 70C
feet and failing to strike flowing wa
ter the scheme was abandoned and the
expedition returned to the place from
which it came This was the first at
tempt ever made in Texas to dig an
artesian well and it cost the Govern
ment over 100000 Kansas City Star
Tennysons poem of St Telemachus
originated thus Lord Tennyson one
day when Dean Farrar was talkinc
with him asked him to suggest the
subject of a poem After thinking a
moment he suggested the story of St
Telemachus leaping down into the am
phitheater and by his self devotee
martyrdom putting an end forever tc
the hideous butcheries of the gladiator
ial games a scene which Dean Earrai
has described in his Gathering
Clouds and which is the subject ol
the famous picture The Gladiators
To his surprise Tennyson- had nevei
heard the story and was much struck
with it He asked the dean to send
him when he returned all the authori
ties on the subject That was easily
done for it rests on the single authori
ty of the Greek ecclesiastical historian
Theodoret The dean sent him the pas
sage in the original Greek and he cloth
ed It in the magnificent poem which
may be read in almost his latest vol
ume The Death of Oenone and Othei
Poems The Bookman
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Heroism of the Police
Hon Theodore Roosevelt writes an
article on The Roll of Honor of the
Xew York Police for the Century j
Mr Roosevelt says
I doubt if the average citizen espe
cially the average citizen
realizes how often the man of the night
stick is called upon to display qualities
which in a soldier would be called he
roic His feats in saving life or in ar
resting dangerous criminals alone and
at night attract no special attention
when mentioned in the newspapers
but they often imply just as much cour
age as those of the man who captures
an enemys flag in battle or plants his
own flag on a hostile parapet The
men of the Xew York police force rep
resent all the different creeds and dif
ferent race origins that go to the make
up of our stock but they all become
good Americans who pay no heed tc
differences of creed aud race for oth
erwise they would be useless The po
lice occupy positions of great import
ance They not merely preserve order
the first essential of both liberty and
civilization but to a large portion of
our population they stand as the em
bodiment as well as the representative
of the law of the land To the average
dweller in a tenement house district
especially if bom abroad the police- --
man is in his own person all that there
is of government he Is judge execu
tive and legislature constitution and
town meeting His power and influ
ence are great For any vice or short
coming he should be sternly punished
but for gallantry and good conduct he
should receive prompt and
recognition
V
It is surprising how well a man cas
live at a boarding house for three dol
lars and a half a weekr and how little
thirty five dollars a week will get him
when keeping house
After a woman has been married i
few years she is an unusual woman il
she isnt posted on all the new med
clnes
Our idea of a thoroughbred is amaji
willing to get drunk twice inonaday v