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THURSDAY , DECEMBER 26 , 1007.
Dog Mad.
liushville is having a
wholesale slaughter of dogs
by poisoning and half her
citizens are crazy mad about
it. They , perhaps , are the
class that own dogs or have
owned them for the past
dozen years and think they
are just the cutest creatures
that ever existed and ex
cuse all their filthy habits
because the dogs reign su
preme in their minds , con
sequently they can do no
harm that should not be
promptly overlooked. The
other half have been run
over by dogs until they are
tired. They have , perhaps ,
protested , in vain , many
times against dogs roaming
the streets without an own
er or had their buildings ,
awnings , posts , doorways
and goods damaged by the
filthy habits of the loath
some creatures until they
were exasperated and want
ed to move out of the country
where dogs were not per
mitted to roam the town at
will and petted , fondled ,
and encouraged in so doing
by their owners who seem
to want them constantly in
sight on Main street where
they can chase after any
stray dog that happens in
town , and occasionally en
gage in a general row and
fight amongst themselves.
There is a cause for these
general disturbances of the
public mind and the owners
; of good . dogs should keep
* them at home where they
I won't molest anyone.
f Dent send people to the
| pen because they refuse to
I let vour dogs run over them.
| ; Keep your dogs at home ,
liushville , and they wont be
. poisoned , or , if you can't
take care of them , then you
should not have dogs.
Our ' 'chip on the shoulder , " in
the shape of sixteen large battle
ships , has begun a 14,000 raile
voyage to the Pacific ocean. It is
claimed by those in authority that
the trip has no political signifi
cance. To ihe ordinary mortal ,
however , it looks like an attempt
to iutimidale Japan. The large
expense which will be incurred
could have been better spent in
caring for the victims of the rec
ent mining disasters. Papillion
Times.
KOTICK.
Some or our brand advertisers
are in arrears. We will send
statements and expect some reply
or settlement of account. Some
pay once a year regularly. We
don't mean them. Those who are
in arrears for two years or more
should settle and sl-n-t the Xew
Year right. Also -Ncribers. .
i : MX
B'i 61
A meeting wa- > hold last Fridav
night to discuss ihe issu of bonds
to build and addition to ourpchor-l
building and it dr-veloppd th : t
tiere ! was no opposition to build-
I ing the addition to the school
j house nor to bonding the district
jfor that purpose , but that tl e per-
ple expected more for their $5COO
than two rooms and tbey expect
it yet and want lo know that it re
quires $5,000 to , build this con
templated addition and that the
money be judiciously u cd to build
it.
The vote- ' Monday afternoon
showed 201 votes for bonding the
district and only 16 votes against
the bonds.
Some thought that it wa going
to be a hard fight and were sur
prised to find that there was no
fight at all but many of our people
ple would have preferred to wait
another year before voting bonds.
The subject was brought up too
soon or developed too rapidly. -
This is not idle talk bub well
grounded belief that the enthusiasm
boiled over and that our move
ment was too hasty.
There are reasons for the com
plaint. § 5,000 bends at 6 percent
will draw § 300 interest every
year beside the amount levied to
pay the principal.
It also moans an income of $3CO
from the state and an estimated in
come from tuition of § 650 , which
will not cover the expense of the
interest and extra teachers re
quired , but Valentine people are
philanthropic and want to do some
thing for the county , and also want
a better school for our home chil
dren so that we may educate at
home rather than to send them
away to play foot ball and endure
a siege of hazing at some college
whose greatest reputation is its
foot ball players.
But to return to the enonmic
question we want to say that there
are buildings now vacant that
might have been rented for a year
or two at a much less expense than
the § 300 a year interest on the
bonds , and then , when times and
conditions are more settled , we'd
know how much room to build
because of the conditions existing
in non-chaotic times.
But it was a hurried measure in
which most people acquiesced and
rather than lose the opportunity a
great majority favored the bonds
and so cast their votes as we did.
Inherited Indian
Sioux Falls , S. D. , Dec. 26.
The first saie of inherited Indian
land in the Kosebud Indian reser
vation to be held in 1908 will oc-
iur on February 10. when the
United States Indian agent at the
liosebud agency will offer forty
; ix tracts of Indian land for sale
; O the highest bidder under the
egulations of the interior depart-
nent. Practically all of the land
: o be oil'ered for sale in February
s situated in Tripp and Meyers
: ounties , and is among the most
lesirable in that part of the state.
World-Herald
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Only Changing the Tur.i. >
"Tin- man cvc- : ! ui' . " siH the de-
tecthe. "Hi' l.i\J : \vnifil i a iu"dodge. .
! That , you roe. i tinIroubly about the
science ol' fetec'.i ( > : i. Tin * minute \ve
detectives inlir ai ! the old tricks
I "It is ratlvr ! i'e ihe story of the
thin-ty btitlor. Vrhen yosi keep a cask
of beer Kiuvr lock and Ley in the cel
lar , only gi' . inj. : tht 1/r.tler the key
when you want him to < ' .ri\v : you a
i pitcher , t ! : . if you ma-v ! him whistle
j all tin- lime lie is out of sl ht on this
enr.is ! . y ' . : . .re bound not to be do-
frauded. eh ? Or so at least it was
in the past.
" .Yell. thsM-f was a man who engaged
11 ii > w Iutk1aii'l. ! . : .s of yore , the lirst
day he v/an'i'.l brer he saiu :
" ' .Isinicf. here are the keys to the
bi-cr c-loot't. Take this pitcher down
and 'I- ! ! it. And mind you whistle all
Ihe while you do it. '
" * ' sivl .fam % . and he departed
Yt' : % sir. : : < s.
parted whistling.
"Tho clear , swept notes of 'Home ,
fjv.-eet Home. ' floated upstairs for a
mint-to or so. then they ceased. The
master rushed to the cellar door.
" 'James. ' he shouted angrily , 'what
arc ? you doing ? '
Xothiu' . sir ; only changiu' the
tune. ' " Washington Star.
ucibcr Writing In Ar.cicnt Dcbylon.
It r-nu esiy ; ! l < c understood that the
reading and writing1 of cuneiform was
nsjt an accomplishment in the posses-
sioi of every one. Nevertheless there
were i leuty of rcribes everywhere , es
pecially ii the cities where the } ' sat
at the toaiplo gates to be at the service
< ; ' the public- . The frequent represen
tations of scribes are hence interesting
: > : i 1 j-'liow tliat in addition to clay tab
le1- ! the r.n'cylonians used sonic sort
) i lleniMe material to write upon. The
iargj nu'.nber of letters which have
been excavated , many of them from
the ninth century before Christ , indi
cate that a very active correspondence
wrs c-irrie : ! 0:1 in Cabylonia by means
of inefreu.'iers. but even more active
was the use of writing in commercial
'lea'.Iii ; . v. hid ) was strictly enforced
by law. Nothing was legally binding
iiess ! it was done into writing in
the presence of witnesses. Professor
Friedrich Deiitr.sch in Harper's ilaga-
? \ ne.
Chsmcr. r.c From Sponges.
"The champagne makers of Reims
buy a lot of our sponges. " said a whole
sale dealer. "They sauecrie champagne
T.it of them. They must squeeze in the
year's course 1.000.000 bottles of cham
pagne out of sponges. Mystiiied , aren't
you ? IJut there is no mystery about
the matter. Champagne , as it fer
ments , is powerful stuff. It breaks the
strongest bottles , and. in the past all
champagne that broke its bottles and
escaped was lost. Now. though , they
pack the champagne bpttles in clean
sponge , and every day or" two thej * go
over the plant , and if any of the bottles
tles have broken they squeeze into
casks the wine that the sponges have
retained. This wine , reclarified , re
fined and bottled again , makes a very
good second quality drink. " Cincin
nati Enquirer.
Could MnUc Allowances.
The young mother , who was trying
to put the baby to sleep , had darkened
the room. Somebody tried lo enter the
r ide door , and she went and opened it.
"I l.err your pardon. " said the elderly
matron v. ho had come up on the porch ,
"but is this house for rent ? "
"Not at all. "
' 'Seeing the blinds down , I thought
there was nobody living here , and as I
am looking for a house I was going to
step in and inspect it. "
' 'Wei ! , it's not empty , and it's not for
rent , ma'am. The reason why the
blinds are do\vu , if you must know * '
"Oh. I se ? . The lace curtains are in
the wash. VTell.ve all have to clean
house < -nce in awhile. Sorry to have
troubled you. Good day. " Chicago
Tribune.
Ths Utility of the Ox.
I should thin ! : the ox is the most
useful postmortem of all animals.
\Ye oat its flesh. We make manure of
its bloo.l. V\o u--e : its horns for lan
terns anI combs. Huttons and glue
come from its hoofs. Its bones be-
eorH1 i : ai'-ariiu' or manure. In the
knife ! : ai.-le ! we use it. in leather , in
gold healer's skin , felt roofing : every
part of its internal cr.-'nmy is part of
our o."UMiU : economy , and its fat is
incandescent ( or not ) as tallow. FIT'S
JIaga/cino
The Art of Indexing.
A Natal public library catalogue con
tains entries as follows :
Lead. Kindly Light.
Poisoning.
Almost as funny as the catalogue
which gave :
Mill On thu Humn Understanding.
" un the Floss.
Publisher and Register.
His Counting Habit.
"Your husband say. that when he Is
angry he always counts ten before he
speaks , " said one woman.
"Yes , " answered the other. "I wish
he'd stop it. Since he got dyspepsia
home seems nothing but a class in
arithmetic. " London Mail.
Kts Fls'.tsry.
"Yes. ma'am. " the convict was say
ing , "I'm here j'ist for tryin * to flatter
a rich man. "
"The ideal" exclalmeU the prison vis
itor.
"Yes , ma'am : I jist tried to imitate
his signature on a check. "
Also Takes Them Off. . ,
"Your friend puts on a good inuuy
airs. "
"I should say he do st lie's a dem
onstrator in a phonograph store. "
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Mr. Barrie's Page.
J. M. Barrie. the popular novelist
and playwright , glorified tobacco more
than once , but on a certain occasion he
tried to induce a smoker to desist. It
happened thus :
Mr. Barrie returned to his rooms one
day and discovered his page boy puff
ing hard at a dirty clay pipe.
"My boy , " said the novelist , "it is
very bad for you to pmoke that coarse
black twist. You will make yourself
old before your time. "
And so he went on till he had deliv
ered a long and what he believed to
be a telling lecture. A day or two later
the youth left without giving nolu-o.
and shortly afterward Mr. Barrie
brought some friends to his Hat. Prom
ising them a special treat , he went tea
a cabinet where he kept a store of
very choice cigars. You can imagine
his chagrin when he discovered that
the cigars had vanished , and in their
place was the page boy's clay pipe and
the following note :
Dear Sir I agree with you tnt ! : it Is
bad for a boy to smoke twist. I will not
srnolcc any more twist till 1 have finished
your cigars.
Sorr.c Arirr.als in VYir.ior.
The ptarmigan , a member of the
grouse family , is in summer mottU-d
with black and a rich ( lull'y brown ,
but in winter it becomes pure white.
The snowy owl and the snow buntings
that come to us from the far north
have whitish plumage that blends har
moniously with the prevailing white
ness of the landscape. But perhaps
the most interesting example of al ! H
the weasel , whose fur in the summer
has a peculiarly soft shade of reddi ; ' . \
brown , but in the winter is pure uhe : :
except at the tip of the tail It is
probable that this black point is usei'ul
to its owner ii. Diverting tl : . ' attention
of a carnivorous bird or of a be.u.t of
prey , as the black rpot is more readily
seen than the white body of the an
imal. It is ! , aid. too. that if the tip is
covered with snow the whole weasel
becomes clearly visible and that if the
first snowfall is later than usual it is
claimed by some naturalists that fie
color change is delated accordingly.
The turning white takes place when
most needed. St. Nicholas.
Ccronetc.
It is a mistake to suppose that dukes ,
marquises and other noble Britons
sleep in their coronets. In fact , they
never wear them at all except at fie
coronation of the sovereign , when they
put on their coronets at the precise mo
ment when the primate of England
places the crown upon the anointed
brow of the king or queen. And when
a peer or peeress dies t' : . ' < > ! ( i -r i.
again use * ! at the funeral , being pir.ccd
in the coilin or borne on a purple cush
ion boliiii'l the hearse by one of the
attendants. That is the extent to
which the coronet is used according to
the ollicial rules and regulations. Hut
sometimes they are made to rervo otli-
er purposes than those for \\hicli they
were inteiTded. They are made of r
ver gilt , edge ! with ermine and lined
inside with a purple velvet c. : ; > topp
with a gold tassel and ar quite orna
mental baubles. One belonging to a
noble marquis which was sold ai auc
tion in London had been cut in half
and arranged to serve as brackets for
candlesticks.
Dsf.'sciil Poisoning.
A largo nuir.bor of plants \ vhiMV
usually looko I upon as harm- ! ' , - > s-
. sess poisonous properties , sa ; , s tlie
Dunf.ee Advertiser. Those who are
employed in picking claft'o.is ! and nar-
cirsus fro'irently suffer tevevefrom !
a troublesome skin affection knov.n as
"daffodil poisoning. " The most trying
feature of this ailujout is the small
gatherings which form under the finger
nails. \3 \ sraiil that
ger It3 minute-crys
tals of lime exist in iarg'o numbers in
the juice of the stems of the1 pretty
blooms and tlr.it these aix * responsible
for the poisoning. Regular daffodil
pickers are accustomed to rub their
hands with oil , : : . I v. o-I : tallow in un
derneath their finger nails before be
ginning their work. The bulbs of the
white Roman hyacinth have similar
unpleasant properties.
With Thanks.
John Budd was a most sotlate , pre
cise and altogether exemplary young
man. When he wooca and won Susan
Smiley , the belle of the village , every
body rejoiced at John's good fortune.
However , he bore his triumph with
modesty and decorum until the day of
the wedding. Then for one awful mo
ment his air of aplomb failed him.
When the oiliciating clergyman asko I.
"Will you. John , take this woman to
be thy wedded wife ? " John respond
ed blushiugly. "Yes , please. " Harper's
Weekly.
Good.
Johnnie on his lirst visit to his grand
parent : ; , who live in the country , com
municated with his anxious futully as
follows :
Denr Ma I an * well and hope you are.
Your loving sen. JOHN .
If you want something good , get a red
cabbage and eat it raw.
New York Tress.
The R ttlcc.
Jimmy I was walking in the woods
when all at once I came onthe biggest
kind of a rattlesnake. Pa IIow do
voti know It was a rattlesnake. Jim
my ? Jimmy By the way uiy teeth
rattled as sojn as I saw him. Chicago
N'ews.
Her Reverse.
A lawyer asked a woman in the wit
ness box her ag. . and she promptly
"Old enough to have sold mill : for
rou * to drink when a baby , and I
Daren't got my mousy yet. "
Contentment.gives a crown where
fcrrtune has Ueutefl ik ITord. i
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opinion is unerring , public confidence sel
dom misplaced. The true worth of every business a
concern to the community in which it operates -is- k
fixed by its clientele , the value-giving power of ev
ery commercial'institution may be determined in"k
the amount of patronage it receives. The people
have unmistakably proclaimed their confidence in"
e
and us methods , by bestowing upon it a far greater
patronage than that accorded any other place in
V alentine , Where the major portion of the fair ,
the impartial , discriminating public buys its Liquor
and Beer , must be a good place for You , the in
dividual , to trade. Visit The Stock Exchange when
you need anything in our line.
W. F. A , MELTENDORFF
pecial Sale of
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for the Holiday Season ,
COMMEKCING A "jT
SATURDAY. W/H I „ J / .
A large stock of
pianos and organs are
now on the way. Xow is your time.
A call will convince you of the special
values. ATiolins , Mandolins , Banjos ,
Guitars , Cases , Strings , etc. , and a
special selection of
of all the latest and most popular pieces.
Be sure you lieai ; l'Tlie Wedding of
the Winds11on
Every piano and organ in this stock we
want to sell before Christmas. Call
and see us , and for timing and repairs
call on C. M. Henderson , our tuner.
NETT CO. ,
GEO. A. CORBIN , Agent.
Opposite Chicago House - Valentine Nebr.
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