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* I THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT 1. M. RICE EDITOR Nc.iVKp < tin.r of C/tcrri/ Coititty , Thursday , .Inly 81 , 1JJ02. TERMS .Subscription $1.00 per yrnr In advance : SI. 50 When not paid in advance , Single copies Gc. Display advertise u 1 inch single column I5t * per issue or $0.00 n vear. Local Notices , O' Maries , hod c Ilesoliitioir uud. Socials for Itev , uie.rC per line per issue J'rnnds. 1i incl - 4 ' o JUT j car in advance additional space b o-ipur inch per year ; eii iuvul blocks extrn ; $1.00 each. Parties living outside Cherry county not per sonally known am requested to pay in advance 10 PT ; cent additional to above rates if over C months in arrears. Notices of losses of stock free to brand ndver- tiaeis. FUSION TICKET. For Governor , . W. H. THOMPSON. Lieutenant Governor , K. A. GlI.r.KKT. Secretary of Sta'e , JOHX PowEits. Auditor , C. Q. IK FllAJfCK. Treasurer. .1. N. LVMAX. Attorney General , - } . II. HitOADV. Commissioner of Publln Lands and Buildings. .I.C. Superintendent of Schools. CLAdM' SMITH. Outgoing transports carry sol diers for the Fhilipines and also coffins for their return voyogc. The Prodigal Son did not in sist on sitting at the head of the table and doing the carving. Commoner. Republicans object to the plat form of the Texas democrats. It was evidently not written by the reorganizers. A Chicago man who paid taxes on § 300,000 last year has made a statement that he don't own a dollar. Moral : If you have $300- 000 in Chicago , take the first train out of town. Gen. Bragg went over to the republican party r.nd received the customary rew. rd for reue- gaces , a fat office. But he talked too much with his mouth and his fat salary will soon cease. Admiral Crowninshield has damaged his ship more in a peace ful cruise than did Admiral Schley withthe whole Spanish fleet shooting at him and yet pre sumes to pass judgment on Schley's competency. "Me Too" PJatt says the re publicans could elect a yellow dog governor of New York this year. We congratulate them on raising the standard of morality and intelligence of their candi dates. Hell Eoaring Jake Smith has returned from Samar and is on the retired list with a salary of 8500 a year as long as he lives and nothing to do in return for it. There are a great many peo ple in Nebraska who would enjoy that sort of punishment. For lo , these many years , the republicans have told us how they would put the trusts out of business "at the next session of congress. " They are still sing ing the old song but we find com fort in that beautiful scripture text , "blessed are they that ex pect nothing , for they shall not be disappointed. " The republican papers feel duty bound to say something against W. T. Thompson and t'u following from the editorial pa.ut of the State Journal is the most lucid argument against his elec tion we have noticed : "Ask any street urchin the dif ference between Buifalo Bill and Bill Thompson and he will give the correct answer in a half a second. " n Gov. Savage has appointed a g new Ore and police board for Omaha and the appointment is a knock-out for Rosewater and is a : o : the beginning of the end of the Rosewater-Moores-Dennison re rr rrE gime , the most corrupt ever E known in that city. The uewj board is composed of reputable business men and the Oniahog ? may now expect better manage ment of affairs. Chicaero grave diggers are on a strike for more pay. Don'l they have any meat in their "full dinner pail ? " ADDITIONAL LOCAL The old settlers will hold a re union at Sparks on the 28th and 29th. Lightning struck a Norfolk school building Sunday night and jarred some of the plaster loose. I. M. Rice and son Lawrence returned this morning from an extended visit among relatives and friends in Kansas and Mis souri. The Loss promised to start for home about the first of August and hasn't showed up yet. The devil thinks he would be justified in advertising him as an estray. Judge Towne returned from the Hot Springs yesterday morn- He left a whole lot of rheumatism there but brought back enough to last him the balance of the sea son. Geo. A. Joslyn , president oi the Western Newspaper Union , of Omaha , has been sued for $301) ) . 000 damages for breach of coi tract. This will not interfer < with the $100,000 residence he i- building. The town has been full of Ind ians for several days and the merchants report a rushing bus iness. Considerable money has escaped across the line since the business men sent in their pro test. The newest thing in govern ment by injunction is an injunc- to prevent some gamblers from getting a corner on the grain market. It the future the pru dent poker playervbefore sitting in a game will arm himself with an injunction that will prohibi : his opponent from winning hLs pile. Attention , l&mghts of Pythias. The meeting nights have been changed from Tuesday evenings to 1st and 3rd Friday of each month : Castle Hall has been changed from Davenport hall to Fraternal hall , M. CHRISTENSEX , K. of R. & S. , Cherry Lodge No. 169 , K. of P. J&HIetl ; it Cody H. Towner , a brake man on the 2ast-bound passenger train , yes- berday morning was accidently lolled at Cody4 No one seems to mow just how the accident oc curred as no one saw him fall incl he was dead when found. It s thought that he was passing Between the mail and express iars probably chasing hoboes- tnd fell beneath the wheels which passed over the entire length of lis body , causing instant death , le was single and lived with his > arents in Rapid City , S. D. The body was brought to vVal- sntine last evening and an inquest icld and , af er hearing the evi- ience , they returned a verdict of ccidental death. The railroad ompany had the body embalmed nd sent to his home. A Sight For Sarah. Of a. certain bishop , famous as about je plainest man in England , the Liv- rpool Post tells this pleasing tale : ne day as this homely parson sat i an omnibus he was amazed by the crsistent staring of a fellow passen- 21 % who presently unburdened himself 5 follows : "You're a parson , ain't you ? " "Well , yes ; that is so. " "Look 'ere , parson , would you mind miin * home with me to see my wife ? " Imagining the wife was sick and ceding assistance , the clergyman at 'cat inconvenience to himself went ith the man. On arriving at the nise the man shouted to his wife to une downstairs , and , pointing to the ; tonished parson , said , with a grin j 1 ! delight ; I 1 "Look 'e 'ere , Sairry. Yer said this ornin' as I wur the hugliest chap in ugland. Now , just yer look at this i oke ! " c I Shakespeare and Moliero. A correspondent finds these notable points of resemblance in the careers of Shakespeare and Moliore : The father of each was in trade and apparently destined his sou to follow his occupation. The curly education of both was neglected , and we know nothing in their after training that conferred on them their perfect knowl edge of good breeding and distinguish ed manners. Xeither of them was hap pily married. Each became manager , author , actor. Each produced a con siderable number of authenticated dra matic works. Each was careless about publishing his works , or , rather , object ed to do so lest they should be acted by rival dramatic companies. Plays of each were collected by actors and first published in a complete form after the death of the authors. Each touched up or produced plays that are lost or of doubtful .origin. Each disregarded novelty of plot , bor rowing from various sources. Each disliked his profession. The personal character of each was gentle , kind , generous. Each had a profound knowl edge of human nature. Each preferred the idea or matter to the comparative disregard of the manner. Each had a remarkable fecundity and fertility of production. Each died at the age of fifty-two. The "Weather Man's Perquisites. "I have just served sixteen subpoenas on Uncle Sam's weather man , " said a process server at the county court house the other day , "and handed him sixteen half dollars to legalize the com mand that he appear to give evidence in that many cases and ? 1G to enforce the direction that he bring the weather records along. "Do you know , he is much in de mand as a witness ? There are hun dreds of cases , especially in the acci dent and negligence actions in the city court , in which it is necessary to prove what was the slate of the weather at the time of the accident , and obvious ly the man to give that information to the jury is the observer of the local weather station , for lie has the records made at tho time to show indisputably whether it was raining or whether the sun was shining. "Sometimes this duty keeps the weather man on the jump. I have known him to give testimony in six or eight cases in a day and to earn wit ness fees far in excess of his salary. I presume these fees are his perqui sites , and I know that the lump sum in a year is a handsome amount. " Xew York Times. The Plymouth Rock. A schoolteacher in one of the charm ing rural suburbs of Philadelphia , where fancy gardening and the rais ing of "Philadelphia fowl" are gen eral among the residents , recited to the class the story of the landing of the pilgrims , and. as the children had boon taking up the work , she requested each scholar to try to draw from the im agination a picture of the Plymouth rock. Then it was that the little fellow got up and raised his hand. " \Vell , Willie , what is it ? " asked the teacher. "Please , ma'am , do you want a hen or a rooster drawn ? ' ' came the unex pected reply. Mnsical Snnils. A French naturalist claims that there are few if any animals which have a higher appreciation of music than snails. Place some snails on a pane of glass , he says , and you will find that as they move over it they will make musical sounds similar to those which a person can produce by wetting his finger and then rubbing it around a glass tumbler. Complete airs , he points - out , have been played on tumblers in this way , and he expresses he opinion that quite as good resr"can be ob tained by using snails i .oad of fin gers. Onr Republic. The American republic must live. Popular commotion and partisan fury may dash their mad waves against it , but they shall roll back shattered , spent. Persecution shall not shake it , fanaticism distort it nor revolution change it , but it shall stand towering sublime , like the last mountain in the deluge , while the earth rocks at itg feet and the thunders peal above its head uiajesticr immutable , magnifi cent Wendell Phillips. A Tale of Heroism. "I went for a bath yesterday , " said an Auvergnat. "I had been in the water some time when I suddenly per ceived an enormous shark advancing toward me with its jaws open. Wh.it was I to do ? When he was a ynrl off , I dived , took out my pocketknife and ripped up the belly of the monster. " "What ! Then you are in the ImUt of bathing with your clothes on , " said one of the listeners. From the French. Spot Appropriate to Speech. * "Ah , darling , " he exclaimed , "as we > it together under the spreading tranches of this noble tree I do de clare on my honor that you are the ) nly girl I have ever loved. " And just a suspicion of a smile crossed the dear thing's features as she replied : "You always say such appropriate lungs , John ; this is a chestnut tree. " , t -Baltimore Xews. 1 Firmness. I Jones Dear me ! You say you often ay down the law to your wife. How lo you go about it ? ' Bones Why , all 3-011 need is firm-1 tess. I usually go into my study , lock ' he door and do it through the key- lole. There are three things about the orth polo that have never been dis- overed exactly where it is. wh : > t ? t is nd why.it is. The Fairy Lamplighter. Affection often inspires ingenuity. In a life of Joseph Severn the narra tive of the artist's care of the poet Keats in his last illness includes a graceful incident. Severn , worn out with watching anil tireless service , would sometimes 4r ° l > asleep and aJ- knv the candle lo.fco out , thus leaving the sick man in darkness , which he dreaded. Realizing that this was lia ble to occur , Severn hit upon a happy device to keep the light still burning. One evening he fastened a thread from the bottom of the candle already light ed to the wick at the top of another unlighted one set ready near by. Xot being sure the experiment would succeed , he had not mentioned it , and when later on he fell napping as the first candle was burning low the in valid was too considerate to awake him , but lay patiently awaiting the ex tinction of the fluttering flame. Sud denly , just as he expected gloom and blackness , the connecting thread too fine and distant for him to see caught fire , and a tiny spark began to run along it. Then he waked the sleeping nurse with an exclamation of joyful surprise. "Severn ! Severn ! " he cried. "Here's a little fairy lamplighter actually lit up the other candle ! " But it was only the good fairy of many sickrooms loving forethought that had lighted the candle. Flowers of the Cranberry. One of the daintiest of wild flowers of June is the blossom of that time honored concomitant of roast turkey , the cranberry. While , however , every body knows the berry , few are ac quainted with the flower , for the peat bogs where it blows in the choice fel lowship of the stately pitcher plant and the golden club and of many a rare orchid are quite remote from the beaten paths of travel. The cranberry plant is a small , slender , somewhat trailing shrub , with the neatest of evergreen leaves , from amid which a few threadlike stalks lift their nodding flowers. When fully expanded , the pink lobes of each corolla are curled back like a lily's , and from the heart of them the compressed stamens pro trude in the shape of a spear point or beak. The imaginative may see in this long beaked little blossom a re semblance to a tiny crane's head , whence some hard pressed etymologist has thought to derive the word cran berry that is , crane-berry. "Country Life In America. " Italian Rings. Rings of Italian workmanship are remarkably beautiful. Venice partic ularly excelled in this art. In the Lon- dcsborough collection is a fine speci men. The four claws of the outer ring in open work support the setting of a sharply pointed pyramidal diamond , such as was then coveted for writing on glass. The shank bears a fanciful resemblance to a serpent swallowing a bird , of which only the claAvs con necting the face remain in sight. It was with a similar ring Raleigh wrote the words on a window pane , "Fain would I rise but that I fear to fall , " to which Queen Elizabeth added , "If thy heart fail thee , do not rise at all , " an implied encouragement which led him on to fortune. Candy For Change. "Some people wonder why we carry a stock of cheap candy , penny candy , " said the man who keeps the railroad newsstand. "Well , you see , it's this way : I have a lot of regular customers who want it. They take it out in change. For instance , one man has been buying two evening papers from me every afternoon for several years , [ f he has any pennies , I never see them. Lie always throws down a nickel , picks up his two papers from the pile and then takes three pieces of candy , which lie chews while waiting for his train. Other men saw him do this and fol lowed suit , and now it's quite the regu lar thing. " Philadelphia Record. Eating : From the Same Plate. In former days it was usual for a : ouplc seated together to cat from one Tencher , more particularly if the re lations between them were of an in- Liinate nature or , again , if it were the uaster and , mlSTfess of the eslablish- ncut. Walpole relates that so late as ; he middle of the eighteenth century ; he old Duke and Duchess of illamil- ; on occupied the dais at the head of .he room and preserved the traditional nauner by sharing the same plate. It vas a token of attachment and tender ccollection of Ainreturnable youth. 'Old Cookery Bo ks. " Russian Police Regulations. One of the regulations of the Rus- liau police refers to the censorship of irice lists of goods , notes of invitation o parties and personal visiting cards ; ilso for the censorship of seals , rub ier stamps and business cards of indi- Iduals or corporations. Another or- ler regulates the sale of soap , starch * oothbrushes and insect powder , and nother controls the printing on the aper used in making cigarettes. The Only "Way. "Ah , Reginald , dearest , " she sighed , but how can I be sure that you will ot grow weary of me after we have een married a little while ? " "I don't know , " he answered , "un- ; ss we get married and see. " Chicago tecord-IIerald. A Possibility. "So you refused him ? ' said Maud. "Yes , " replied Mabel. "I told him 1 iiall send back any letters unopened. " "I wouldn't be so rude. There might e theater tickets in some of them ! " There is a wide difference in getting hat we think we deserve and getting rhat is In store for us sometimes. Htsburg Gazette. Professional Envy. An Italian philosopher has amused ; himself by constructing a scale of do grees for the measurement of profea- sioual envy. The highest point in this envy measurer is ten. Architects are happily placed lowest ou the scale. They register only 1 ; advocates and priests and military men are ranged at 2 , and in the as cending scale he gives us professors of science and literature , - ; journal ists , 5 ; authors , S ; physicians , 9 ; ac tors and actresses , 10. The small amount of envy among architects is held to be due to their precise , severe and rigid studies. The same thing ap plies to advocates. Among the clergy envy is found mostly in preachers. In the military career envy is quiescent in time of peace , but can become acute in time of war. Envy makes men of science and literature lead solitary lives , diffi dent of each other. Among physicians envy is still more prevalent , and they do not spare their colleagues , often terming them charlatans. In the the atrical world envy reaches its acute form , vanity playing a great part in its production. Crows as "Weather Prophets. The belief that two crows are a hap py omen and that they appear to warn men from disaster is very ancient. Alexander the Great was thus saved in Egypt by two crows , and King Alonzo would assuredly have perished in 11-17 had it not been for two ci/ows. / one of which perched on the prow and the other on the stern of his ship , so pointing the prow of the royal barge safely into port. Crows and rooks are very much alike. It is said that when rooks desert a rookery it forebodes the downfall of the family on whose prop erty it is. They are also credited with being good weather proguosticators. When the weather is about to be very bad , they stay as near home as possible , but when they foreknow that it will be set fair they start off in the morn ing right away to a distance where they have an instinct that the food they need is plentiful. Again , if the rooks are seen venturing into the streets of a town or village it is a sure sign of an approaching snowstorm. All the Year Round. Books and Bookshelves. "Low bookshelves , " says a furniture dealer , who is a lover of books as well , "have an origin in a reason besides the caprice of fashion. Ileat is injurious to the binding of choice books , drying out the natural oil of the leather and making them warp and get out of shape. Most rooms are very warm in the upper parts , and these five and six foot bookcases are a necessity rather than a notion. Cold is as hard on books as overheating , and an atmos phere that is too damp or too dry also injures them. The sun pouring in di rectly on the shelves fades the bind ings. You can have a cheerful , sunny library and yet keep the volumes out of the sun's full power. " Stnmbleil on n Fnct. A minister went recently to preach in n chapel unfamiliar to him. "You must do your best to keep your voice up , sir , " said the chapel keeper , "for our church is very unfortunate in its 'agnostic' effects. " Whether he meant it or not , it was quite true. Christian Life. Her Reward. Blond Bridesmaid The ushers haven't seated your Aunt Maria with the family. Other Bridesmaid ( sister to the bride ) Xo ; she sent only a pickle fork. Life. A New Theory. "Papa , were we descended from mon keys ? " "Xot all of us , my boy. Some were ascended. " Detroit Free Press. Enthusiasm gives life to what Is In visible and interest to what has no Im mediate action on our comfort In this world. Mme. de Stael. Subscribe for the DEMOCRAT. knowingly boy nnclean groceries for your table ! How under the sun can built coffees constantly exposed to dirt and dust be cloanl comes in sealed pound - < packages only , thus in suring freshness , strength , flavor and uniformity. Tlie Best Cattle Dip No one can afford to take the risk of pxpprimtMitin } ; with home made rattle or sheep dips when thn best coal tar dip cin be hwl at 60 to 70 cents per gallon. The Geo. 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