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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1898)
N Jpr Valentine mfmotrdt ROBERT GO0D Editor and Prop Valentine NEBlfASA Chinas prospecls of being civilized off the face of the earth seem to be im proving every day It is annouuced that Mrs Naclc hac been converted Thats all very good hut it doesnt let her out The end of high flying in various lines of activity often tends to emphasize the fact about riches having wings That man Holland who has invented 41 submarine boat would be a valuable addition to the crew of the Texas An Austrian mechanic has invented a means whereby he says she can see around the world Possibly its all in Lis eye Great Britains declaration that she want Hawaii gives some idea of what a strange place Hawaii must be That Kentucky woman canvasser who gives a kiss with every book she ells has set a precedent and a danger ous precedenr too The pianist Hoffman was recently injured by falling from his bicycle And yet Hoffman ought to understand the use of the pedals Powderlys nomination was confirm ed without any hitch Any name which 5s three fourths powder commands in stant respect nowadays An Ohio militia colonel hasordered all his troops to be accinated The sur geon finds difficulty in bringing the boys up to the sticking point It is discouraging to learn that the Duke of Veragua thinks poorly of a country which with all its faults pro vided 10000 entertainments for a 10 luke A student of philology asserts that there are only forty six separate and listiuct sounds in the English language It is evident that that investigator nev er has heard a typical college yell In these troublous times the new woman should make no ostentatious display of her belligerency The most beautiful young -woman in the world Miss Yenus de Milo has a marble heart and never goes armed A paper in Belfast Maine says that Robert Smith was struck by the dsouth bound passenger train last night iind instantly killed Mr Smith it will be remembered met with a similar ac cident about a jear ago near Scarboro A woman in Pennsylvania has invent ed and patented a device which she calls a fly escape The principal fea ture of it is a hole in a wire window eereen through which a fly imprisoned 5n a room can crawl to freedom We are afraid it will be utilized only by flies which have taken a high school course in logic and deduction The spirit of a famous university is eaid to be that it looks at a man for -what he is and at things for what they are Much may be forgiven a Presi dent of the United States for his manly reply to a question concerning his coat of arms My fathers shirtsleeves was the quick retort when he fought m Bunker Hill Tliis much seems to be pretty well es tablished that the Alaskan gold fields from the very nature of their location tire destined to exact a terrible tribute of suffering sickness and death from the multitudes of expectant mortals that are flocking so eagerly and unad visedly to them and that men not en dowed with great endurance nor bless ed with the health and vigor of young manhood are running a fearful risk in staking their hopes and their future prospects on striking it rich in the Klondike All Americans except those who im port their linen from abroad and those who wear only flannel shirts are now io wear the manacles of a new trust They must put their necks in its yolce und their wrists through its darbies for it is a collar and cuff trust It jnanipulates also the biled shirt Its lieadquarters are at Troy N Y long the seat of the largest collar and cuff industries in the world but it is to gob ble up the minor concerns all over the country Nothing has been said about advancing prices but a glance at the dudes oil the street will reveal the fact that collars are higher than ever Reservoirs upon the Nile for the stor age and control of the waters of that river upon which the prosperity of Egypt largely depends are to be se cured by the construction of great dams at Assuan and Assiut The Khedive lias made a contract with engineers who agree to have the entire work done within five years at a cost of about 24000000 The principal dam will be 0000 feet long and the reservoir which it creates will hold more than 1400000 O00 cubic yards of water This system of storage is expected to provide against seasons of low Nile floods to mitigate the violence of exceptional floods and to extend greatly the area of cultivable land From a statement made by a Chi cago paper and widely copied it ap pears that during the last four years the annual average of murders commit ted In the United States has exceeded Ten thousand In this statement all eases of homicide are massed indis r Ji u SfcJ a - Hk a J irvr o rsSrjiSSl3MeislJu criminately a murders but murder in the legal sense implies deliberate malice It is shown that of the cases reported ninety three Avere killed by insane persons two hundred and twenty-five iu defence of life or property and forty six hundred and thirty eight were the results of brawls or quarrels while twenty six hundred and fifty five are set down as of unknowr causes With all deductions or explana tions the record of bloodshed is a na tional disgrace and may Avell be calied alarming but the force of facts is never strengthened by exaggeration The Supreme Court of Indiana has re cently rendered a decision which is of great interest to employes on railways and to all other mechanics who upon entering a service sign an agreement releasing employers from all damages in case of injury from defective ma chinery or negligence of a co employe A state of law was passed iu 1897 un der which railways became liable for damages to an employe when the in jury resulted from defective machinery or the carelessness of a fellow employe over whose appointment they had no control In the case in question a rail way company was sued by an employe for the loss of a hand and the defense set up was that this employe had sign ed a contract in which he expressly waived all claims against the company in case of bodily injury Further than this it was shown on the trial that the man had joined a relief society com posed of employes of the road and that by reason of his injury he had already received from the society the sum of 385 on account of his loss The court held that the waiver of claim for dam ages was void and the fact that the State had by law provided for the re covery of damages by an employe estopped him from releasing his em ployer from liability While this is a long way in advance of any previous ruling in such cases the court based its decision upon the rule which is well established that a railroad cannot re lease itself from liability to passengers by a contract printed upon the back of a ticket even when it has been signed by the purchaser The drift of legal decisions is that corporations cannot avoid liability for injuries received by employes in their service in cases where there is no negligence on the part of the employe It would seem to be a shortsighted policy to oppose such a construction of the law for men would be less likely to enter the em ployment of a corporation which should make such an engagement de pend upon a waiver of all claims for damages he might sustain arising out of the culpable negligence of the cor poration itself or some of its agents A boy of 1G and a little girl were walking down a street of a New York town a few weeks ago when the girl suddenly screamed and her coinpanior saw that a wire hanging from a pole had brushed against her face and sear ed it Grasping the wire in his hand to pull it away from the child he dropped dead at her feet Investigation show ed that a wire from the telephone cir cuit in falling had crossed an electric light wire and thus had become charg ed -with the powerfuldii rent Ignor ant of all this the boy had -with man ly instinct sought to relieve the child It doubles the sadness of the result to know that if his instinct had been trained to modern conditions he would have caught the child away from the wire instead of touching it himself and that the sacrifice of his life was needless The extraordinary preva lence of the electric wire imposes the knowledge of two facts upon cvory person bordering upon civilization facts which have to do with life and death for oneself and those about one The first concerns prevention Every man woman and child should be taught to avoid touching a wire hang ing in the air or lying upon the ground The probabilities are that it is harm less The possibilities are that it is deadly It may be alive in itself or it may be so lightly charged as to be harmless in itself but deadly through having fallen upon a live wire Who ever sees a hanging wire should trace its source and if it seems dangerous keep guard that no person or animal touches it and veport it instantly to the authorities Prevention is better than cure but every one should know also that a person struck down by elec tricity is not invariably past resuscita tion Several extraordinary cases are on record where after even two hours of seeming death latent life has been revived A young electrician in Titts field Massachusetts accidentally re ceived in his body three times as many volts as are used iu putting criminals to death and lay apparently dead For tunately there was one near by who knew enough to insist on experiment ing with the methods used in restoring the drowned After a time which seemed eternity the breath came with a flutter and increased in strength till the man was restored Both of these incidents might be multiplied but they are sufficient if they impress our read ers with the vital facts of prevention and cure in electrical casualties Peculiarities of Women Women pin from left to right men from right to left Women button from right to left men from left to right Women stir from left to right their tea for instance men from right to left Women seldom know the differ ence between a right and left shoe and if a housemaid brings up a mans boots she will nine times out of ten place them so that the points will diverge Darkest Europe A Leipsic professor delivered a lec ture the other day on Darkest Europe Upper Albania where the custom of blood feud costs the country 3000 lives a year and makes most people afraid to leave their village STATE OF NEBRASKA NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON DENSED FORM The Parole System for Mildly In sane in Vogue at the gtate Hos pital Is Working Well Benefits Both the State and Patient Parole for Mildly Insane The parole system at the Lincoln Hos pital for the Insane whereby convalescent or mild patients may be sent out of the in stitution and placed in tlie care of friends lias proven to be a wise provision in the regulation of the hospital not only mak ing room for new patients hut lessening the expense on those who are afflicted with only a mild form of insanity After a medical report is made by the physicians the state board inquires into the case and allows the patient to be paroled with some responsible party usually a relative for the period of njnety days the state during this time being relieved of all expenses At the end of the ninety days the patient may be returned to the hospital if the de rangement is such as to make him un manageable or unsafe to be left unre strained If no application is made for a return to the institution however a final discharge is given When patients are brought back at the end of the parole term the expenses must be paid by the outside partici up to the lime that the patient is received back into the institu tion The release of patients on parole before final discharges are made often has a good effect in bringing about a complete cure But there are instances where the parole system is abused One has come to the attention of the management of the asy lum which required prompt action A Swede girl was paroled to her brother-in-law People in the neighborhood said she was abused forced to work in the field like a man Dr Abbott inquired into the matter found out that the reports of ill treatment were true ami telegraphed the authorities of the county to immediately take the girl away from the custody of the brother-in-law and provide for her until further arrangements could be made The letters received by Dr Abbott iu response to his inquiry showed that the brother-in-law had secured the parole of the girl in order that he might have her lake the place of a hired hand on the farm NEW SHEEP SHEARING PLANT One of the Industries Brought Into Prominence at Lincoln The new plant for shearing and dipping sheep which was added to Ihe Lincoln stock yards last October is now handling a large business and is becoming one of important industries of that section of the slate In the shearing department from six to ten men are employed and eacli one shears on an average of 103 sheep per day These men are all experts and at the rate of 9 cents for each sheep their pay runs from 8 to 950 each per day The iieece of the sheep being shorn at this time in the season weighs about six pounds per head and is sold on the market at It cents per pound After the clip they are dip ped then placed on feed in the yards for a time and then sold to the feeders or are shipped east Each animal yields almost a dollars worth of wool and lie average price obtained for them when sold to feed ers is a53each Sheep that have the scab are almost worthless as wool producers as their con tinual rubbing and scratching pulls off nearly all the wool In order to cure the scabby sheep that come into the yards as well as to guard the healthy ones from in fection a dipping plant has been put in where all the sheep that are sent to the range are first dipped and rendered secure from the scab for the coming season A great number of the sheep that arc dipped are brought in from the range by the owners who have them cured of the rcab or made proof against it for the sea son and are then taken back to the pas tures The charge for the dip is 1 cent per head making it an inexpensive operation Where the sheep are left in the yard ten days in order that they bedippel twice the charge is 5 cents per head for Ihe dipping and the feed 13 n counter with a Tramp Perry Reynolds brakeman on passenger train No 5 which leaves Ashland at 935 in the morning for Denver had a desper ate tussel with a tramp the other day as the train was pulling out of the Burliug lon and Missouri yards The tramp was determined to ride but Reynolds succeeded in keeping him ufruutil the train was well under motion As the brakeman jumped on the tramp threw a rock at him hitting him with sufficient force to knock him from the train and he narrowly escaped falling under the wheels The tramp escaped Boy Has a Narrow Escape Willie Pollard aged 8 years and his sister older were in the pit of the Omaha elevator at Silver Creek pushing down corn when Willie was drawn down too near the buckets His sister being unabie to hold him back called to their father who tends the elevator for help lie came none too soon shut of the grain just in the nick of time found the boy buried about three feet in the grain and finally got him out unconscious Badly Hurt Bart Miner 19 years old employed in he railroad office at Table Hock went to Pawnee Cily and while attempting to board a sand train for Table Rock lost his footing and fell beneath the train and was struck on the head fracturing his skull across the crown Two small pieces of bono were removed His right arm from elbow to wrist was badly lacerated Will a deep cut Kicked by a Horse Chare- E Dinsmore one of the pro prietors of the Hastings Milling Company was kicked in the head by a horse Phy sicians pronounce hisinjuiies fatal Xo Chautauqua This Year Secretary D L Whitney announces that there will be no Chautauqua held at Beatrice this year Warlike Spirit at IMattsmouth Excilemedt over Hie Cuban situation is high at Ilaltsnioutli II G Livingston son of lb late Captain Livingston has opened a recruiting station and is fast en rolling a company for service in the antici pated war Went with the Soldiers Two of the patriotic students of Bellevue College V E Ilannon and Chester Clark look French leave the other day and went- smith with the twenty second infantry Friends will endeavor to locate Clark who is a minor and have him return home rwiwnHMwt SSii jjafiav FIRE AT HOSPITAL FOR INSANE Chapel and Kitchen of Norfolk In stitution Destroyed Fire broke out at the state hospital for the insane at Norfolk and it was only by the heroic efforts of the attendants assisted by the fire department that serious conse quences were avoided The fire started in a woodhouse adjoining the building used for a chap il and kitchen but this was soon subdued by the attendants and the attendants retired lo bed Soon however fire broke out in the chapel and kitchen and burned as it was fanned by a strong wind The water supply at the hospital is quite limited and the burning building could not be saved though the fire was kept from spreading to the main building in which the patients were con fined and also kept from the other build ings Everything was done in an orderly manner to remove the patients in case it should become necessary the only trouble being among the parole patients The more violent ones were easily controlled The loss is estimated at about 5000 with no insurance McKey Brothers Discharged The preliminary hearing at Falls City of Thomas and James McKey for the alleged murder of Ollivcr S Jones near Argo on the 9lh inst was held last week The only evidence brought against the McKey brothers was that on the day of the mur der the had passed the house of Jones in going from their home to their fathers and stoppe I at one of Jones nearest neighbors about the time the act was committed Over a year ago the McKey boys and Jones had a few words over the loading of a gun It was loaded heavy and Jones accused the younger brother of loading it to blow hs Jones head off The boys had been living with Jones and left him about that time The judge thought the evidence was not strong enough lo bind them over and discharged them Western Nebraska Teachers The sixth annual convention of the Western Nebraska Educational Associa tion was held last week at Sidney There was a good attendance and much interest manifested Among prominent educators present were W F McDowell D D chancellor University of Denver W R Jackson state superintendent J W Crab tree state inspector of high schools The associations officers are President W P Killen Lodgepole secretary Min nic Chase Sidney treasurer BKBushee Kimball Executive committee J C Orr North Platte Mrs Rosa Dodds Chappell No Extra Session Gov Ilolcomb has been interviewed on tin probability of an extra session of the legislature He said that the emergency had not yet arrived Nebraska was able to at once equip and place its entire national guard at the disposal of the gov ernment and until some further call is made it would be unwise to make any move toward an extra session The emergency might come soon and the stale would respond in the proper manner Edward Lnrcnz Acquitted Perhaps the most exciting trial in the history of lied Willow County ended at McCook last week when Edward Lorenz was acquitted of the charge of murdering Michael Travers This is the second trial the case having been remanded back for a rehearing by the supreme court On the first trial Lorenz was found guilty and given a life sentence The jury was out only two and one half hours Want New County Buildings A petition containing 1003 names was presented to the board of county commis sioners at Auburn asking them to call a special election to vote bonds to the amount of 60000 to build a court house and jail at Nemaha County The com missioners ea led the special election for the 28th day of May The call was mado for 5J000 for court house and 10000 for jail Burglars at Aurora Some parlies as yet unknown supposed to be tramps entered the residence of tx State Senator Mighell of Aurora while the family was out and after helping them selves to the contents of the cupboard ransacked the house for valuable taking some jewelry and what little money Mrs Mighell had iu the house and then left for parts unknown Attempted Suicide Timothy Cliff of Auburn tired a bullet into his brain with suicidal intent He came to this country from France in 187S Despondency from excessive drinking is supposed lo be the cause of his act Nebraska Short Notes Falls City has a daily paper The Ponca creamery has opened for bus iness Burglars last week made a 200 haul at Fremont Arapaho2 is enjoying a building boom this spring A Zeplin of West Point died iu conse quence of injuries received by the kick of a horse Great numbers of pelicans passed up the river at Loup City Saturday evening and Sunday morning The minstrel show given by the Wynwre women was a grand success and was by far the most important social event of the season The Arcadia Champion is authority for the statement that a four foot vein of coal has been struck near Ansley at a depth of 200 feet hi one hour after the opening of the re cruiting office at Gordon last week twenty persons had attached their names to the roll of honor George Ritterbush who was sentenced a year ago to ihe penitentiary pardoned and returned home last week committed suicide at Crookston by shooting himself A gang of tramps at Dubois built a fire iu a box car in older to keep warm They got up a litilu more beat than they ex pected hut skipped out before they could be apprehended Tccumsebs city council at its last lcgu lar meeting passed an ordinance giving the salaries of city officials a sweeping re duction It is said that some of the in coming officers will not qualify A fight is on between the papers of Ne braska City over the publication of the notices for liquor licenses Captain II O Evaus of Company E at North Platte has issued a call for twenty volunteers The intention is to enlist enough men to bring the number in the company up to 05 the full number allowed by the governor A reward of 1890 is offered for the ar rest and conviction of James Dallon Ed Boyal and Tom Taylor who broke jail at Marysville Kan just over the Nebraska line atler Dealing tne deputy siieriir Charles B Batlerson that he died jaZ i f ri53 9 e Next time Gen Lee calls on Captaic General Blanco he will use a loudej knocker Philadelphia Ledger Grape shot monopolizes the popular at tention which the peach crop usually claims at this time of year Washington Star The blowing up of the Maine can nc more be downed or put in the background than could Banquos ghost Salt Lakt Herald Gen Lee is safe ont of Havana And when he returns at the head of an Amer ican army he will be safe in Havana Cincinnati Tribune In the matter of privateering if Spain proposes to indulge in it we shall have something to say to Spains private ear New York AVorld Perhaps this is a good time to remember that seventy of the Maine victims are still lying at the bottom of Havana harbor Cleveland Plain Dealer The fact that nobody was hurt in that scrimmage in Congress is likely to give the Spaniards another supply of overcon iidence Milwaukee Sentinel It might not be a bad idea lo send a few Comanche Indians to Cuba just to teach Spain a few of the amenities of civilized warfare St Paul Dispatch Neither this country nor Cuba may be any better off from the Senate oratory but the Senators themselves feel a great deal better Kansas City Journal The cruiser New Orleans has no steam heating apparatus but it will be able to make it hot enough for the Spanish if The time has arrived when Spain can materially add to the enduring powers of her naval forces by the purchase of a few first class lifeboats Milwaukee Sentinel A great deal may be tolerated in legis lators but its certainly not parliamentary to make a motion to lay one of the oppo sition on the table or the floor Philadel phia Times Lillian Russell wants to be an army nurse With Lillian acting in that capac ity there would be a great incentive for the men to keep out of the hospitals Washington Post By placing his flag on our consulate John Bull is performing about the same office as the man who holds the coat of a friend while the latter whips his enemy Washington Post Probably there is more or less truth in Senator Hoars statement that submarine mines like that which blew tip the Maine are not kept for playthings in private fain Pies in Havana Boston Herald Bobert Emmets epitaph has not been written but the time is near at hand when a monument will stand over the graves of the Maines bailors and the monument will rest upon free soil Omaha World Herald This will be the history of the war Uncle Sam Git Sagasta Nit And then they fit And Spain juir Boston Globe WHEAT ALL RIGHT Good Growth and Development Over About the Whole Area The past week was marked by tempera aires but slightly differing from the nor nal at the beginning of the period rather jelow and later rather above Rainfall ivas received quite generally throughout he Ohio valley but not enoigh to incon venience farming operations No radical change marks the wheat situation except iii California where every day without unple rainfall in the San Joaquin valley appreciably diminishes the cro possibili ties of the State East of the Rocky Mountains the actual vhanges in the situation have been small Wherever there are any reports of pres ent accruing damage they represent but very small areas and are of little conse quence when the tield is viewed at lare A few low bottoms Hooded in the valleys Df the Ohio tributaries and an occasional jomphtint of lack of moisture in south ern Kansas and in Texas make up the sum of complaint Against this there has been continued growth and development over almost the whole area so that the wonderful improvement which was noted during the month of March has been con tinued in a less marked degree during April up to date Two weeks ago there was a little talk of plowing up some fields in Ohio not because of any winter kill ing but because the crop was unprofita bly thin on the ground from failure to germinate Recent moist growing weath er has practically put a stop to this talk and with the exception of small areas where there was no germination at all it may be said that there will be almost no plowing up of wheat iields Seeding of spring wheat is progressing rapidly under circumstances almost uni formly favorable In this respect the season is remarkably early and seeding is now being prosecuted in the more north ern portion of the belt at least a month in advance of last year Over the whole dis trict the ground is working well soft and friable and with no rains to interfere with the work As far north as southern Minnesota and South Dakota the bulk of the acreage is now iu and the area seeded is limited only by the desires of growers There are districts in southern Minnesota and in Iowa which a dozen years ago were great wheat centers and in which since that time the crop has dwindled down to nothing where the acreage seeded this spring will make wheat the dominant crop this year The same thing is largely true in Nebraska and these three districts generally over looked in wheat calculations in recent years are likely to prove large factors in this years wheat aggregate Oats seed ing has continued under generally favor able conditions interrupted a little in some parts of the Ohio valley by local ex cesses of moisture but elsewhere with no special drawbacks Spring work in general and corn plant ing in particular are decidedly in advance of a normal season and very greatly ahead of last year With the exception of low bottom lands in parts of the Ohio valley there has been no break in plow ing during the past week and unless weather conditions now become radically unfavorable the corn crop will be planted much earlier than usual Early crop is in such a manner AiP n Texas and planting is under way in Oklahoma and southern Kansas A MODERN DEMIGOD An English Cnptain Deified by War lovintr Tribca in India The crushing defeat of -the Sikhs at Gujrat Feb 21 1849 gave the Punjab to England Capt John Nicholson was appointed deputy commissioner of the district where his name was soon in every mouth The popular fancy cap tivated by his fiery courage and ubiqui tous energy magnified him into the foremost hero of the war and ascribed to him everything great or gallant achieved by English arms Then began the transformation of the popular hero into a god a process as natural to a Hindu with his plurality of gods and ordered hierarchy of heav enly beings as It was to the old Greeks who translated their heroes into demi gods A Hindu devotee or gosain dis covered in Nicholson a new avatar or incarnation of the Brahmanic godhead and at once began to preach the- wor ship of the new god Nikalsnin Five or six of his brother gosains accepted the new creed and the sect of Nikal sains became a historical fact Nicholson writes his biographer Captain Trotter treated this kind of apotheosis with unexpected vigor of speech and arm He drove the believ ers in it from his presence by tiireats and Hoggings They came back to fall at his feet and worship him as the great god Nikalsain and took their punishment as martyrs When he ban ished them from the city they retired to their monastery among the hilLs and at once renewed their worship of the relentless hero One day three years after the last banishment and flogging of his devo tees while Nicholson was holding court at Peshawar several fakirs entered the-court-room and prostrated themselves at his feet Nicholson resenting their adoration ordered the sheriff to whip the leader and sent them all away with a warning never to molesit him T When these Nikalsain worshipers heard of their heros death at Delhi they gathered to lament their loss One of them stood forth There is no gain from living in a world which no longer holds Nikalsain said he and deliber ately cutting his throat died there Tlunt is not the way to serve our great guru master said another ad dressing his fellow devotees If we hope to see him again iu a future state and wish to please him while we live in this world we must learn to worsliip Nikalsains God The rest applauded and several of the devotees started immediately for Peshawar and finding the missionary stationed there told him of their dVsi re Seeing that they were seeking the Un known God he Instructed them in the first principles of Christianity Within a year they asked to be baptized that they might publicly profess their faith in Nicholsons God The missionary i satisfied that several of them under stood what they asked for and were sincere baptized them The most ignorant depraved antl bloodthirsty people in the Punjab were the Banuchis a Mohammedan tribe John Nicholson was appointed to rule over them after Edwards and lite troops had knocked down the walls of their forts He reduced the people to good order and to a wholesome respect for the laws so that in the last year of his rule there was not a case of mur der burglary or highway robbery Such a revolution so impressed the Banuchis that they spoke of Nicholson as every inch a hakim master and concluded that the good Mohammedans of historic ages must have been like Nikalsain The old Sikhs when showing a visit or over the battlefield of Gujrat where their army was defeated used to be gin their narrative by saying Nichol son stood just there But the most emphatic testimony tr Nicholsons power over the war lik classes of India is the fact that within ten years after his death an En glial captain heard several wandericr mir Btrels chanting a ballad in Punjab tc the praise of the hero in the stro is of the city he had died to take These men sang for their livelihood and the bal lad must therefore have been a popu lar song in the city of Delhi The sen timent of the Nikalsain worshipers re appears n the last four lines of the bal lad We ceaseless pray the warriors with all a soldiers love God That He would make brave Nicholas a prince in heaven above Oh godlike chieftain Nicholson our chil dren lisp thy name ThonIt not forget the Khalsas fighters prayers their babies prate try name Mercenary Marriajrrs In this materialistic age much is said in favor of so called mercenary mar riages In justification of them r is urged that as the rich may inspire an honest affection quite as readily as the poor it is the part of wisdom to select a matrimonial partner from the more fortunate class So the romantic beings who live to love and to whom love is life this seems hard reasoning but there is no doubt that money mitigates many unhappy marital conditions and even if one repents of his choice it is better as Thackeray wittily said to repent in a coach and four People Had to Talk About It Mr Willieboy You say Miss Fad dington paid me a high compliment last night What was it Miss Turlison She said you talked for nearly a minute and a half at a stretch without referring to a single clever thing that you had done or said Theres lots of cross tongued people in this world they talk one way anu think another Bacon says that reading maketh a full man So does eating bacon y It is a long head that knows no turn ing when a pretty girl passes V j f 1