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ROBERT GOOD Editor and Prop

VALENTINE - NEBRASKA

Death has all seasons for his own butthe foot ball season is undeniably oneof his favorites

Those who rudely broke their homeconnections to go to Klondike aroforming other ties up there Theyvelegun lynching each other

Judging from recent statistics ap ¬

pendicitis seems to be growing into anepidemic in the United States that sug¬

gests the idea of a quarantine againstthe disease

A literary critic says that Kiplingspoetry is the only modern literarywork which shows the results of in ¬

spiration Well a dollar a word isenough inspiration to produce quite aneffort

The latest rules of the postoffiee de-

partment¬

require employes to use theutmost civility in all their dealingswith the public Civil service will leaveno room for a demand for civil servicereform

A writer an a sporting contemporaryBays that the Laplanders when onekates think nothing of covering 150miles a day The average man inthis country wbo goes on a skatedoesnt think of it either

The giving of 50 cents a week to hiswife got a Pittsburger a thirty daywork house --sentence a deserved re¬

buke for recklessness Domestic econ-omy

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mustbe enforoed If he had givenher a dollar there is no telling whatmught have happened to him

An experienced man who has just re-

turned from Alaska tells the Fargo Argus how to cure the Klondike fever

Pick out a morning next winter hesays when themiercury is below zerctshoulder a pick and go into the woodsbefore breakfast dig a hole sixteenfeet deep come back to the house atnight and eat a small piece of stewedbuffalo robe and sleep in the woodshedRepeat the dose as often as necessary1

Arab chiefs are regarding the discoreacy of water by English engineers inthe Nubian desert with great satisfac-tion

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They believe it will revolutionizethe country and cause villages to springup in the heart of the desert Threethousand men are employed in build¬

ing the railroad which is being laidthere many of them being dervisheswho were captured by the Anglo-Egyp-IS- an

forces and they will work with awill for the money they receive

One who heard Lord Kelvin and LordLister at the late meeting of the Brit¬

ish Association for the Advancement efScience was struck with their gentle-ness

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of voice There was a restfulnessIn the tones No fine frenzy helpedthe --spectator to imagine for a momentthat he was listening to one who madedeclamation take the place of demon ¬

stration How well this simplicitysymbolized that true science that nevermistakes vociferation for verityQuackery loves the sounding brassof long words and a loud voice

If Diogenes were still on earth hunt¬

ing with his lantern for an honest manMonrovia Ind would be the place forhim to turn his steps toward ClarkGeare lives there and if one recent actof his is an index of his nature he isJust the sort of manDiogenes was look ¬

ing for Geare is aweteran of the latewar and some time ago applied for apension because of rheumatism Hegot it but recently returned his certifi-cate

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and 350 back pension to the de ¬

partment at Washington saying thatbis rheumatism had gradually improv¬

ed and finally left him completely andthat ho was therefore not entitled tothe pension

The name of the river that is now oneverybodys lips should be spelled

Klondike according to the rules ofour Government Board of GeographicNames which say that in foreign andaboriginal names C is always soft andhas nearly the sound of S as iri Cele-bes

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and K should always be usedfor the hard d and that Y is alwaysa consonant as in yard and thereforeshould not be tused for the vowel IFor about eight years the orthographicrules adopted by the leading geographi ¬

cal societies have agreed In rejectingthe possessive case in many namesThe rule adopted by our Board of Geo-graphic

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Names Is The possessive formshould be avoided whenever it can bedene without destroying the ouphonyof the name or changing its descriptiveapplication So Cook Inlet and StMfchael now appear in all our govern- -

meet publications though Cooks Inlet and St Michaels are 1H1 currentiin many newspapers

Fanmers in America who are some-times

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unable to make both ends meetwould do well to study the methods andprocesses of Belgian farmers Six mill-ion

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of people in Belgium live on a ter-ritory

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about equal to the State of Mary¬

land and a ifarm of two acres is enoughto support man and his family andenable blm to lay by something for arainy day-- Ad article in ColmansEural World tells something of themethods of the Belgian farmer andgives an telecasting insight into ruralithrift and eeonomj in the most dense¬

ly settled country at Europe Describ¬

ing the typical two acre farm in Bel¬

gium the article sajs the thrifty Bel ¬

gian makes the most of every inch byheavy manuring and allowing nowaste places A patch at wheat or ryeand bariej- - another of potatoes etcand other garden truck even the slop ¬

ing sides of the ditches for irrigationJbefcg utilized nod the general result is

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that with thrift and economy the farmer provides about everything his family needs except a few groceries andclothes while the surplus productsmore than supply his other wants andleave a balance to his credit whichgrows each year

Manitoba is beginning to look Con-

fidently¬

to the United States for anoverflow of population to make thevast plains of the northwest a new ag-

ricultural¬

empire Basing their con-

clusions¬

on the fact that the publiclands of the United States open to set-

tlement¬

are practically exhausted theManitobans think that as the UnitedStates now receives and has been re-

ceiving¬

the surplus populations of theold world the surplus of the UnitedStates will in turn overflow into Can ¬

ada especially into Manitoba where itis now much easier to obtain a farmthan in the United States A number1of Canadian immigration societies havealready been established in this coun j

try and whether the Canadians areright or not in their supposition theyiiseem to think they are obtaining the1overflowing of the genuine Americanpopulation people who want to owntheir own homes while their places aretaken in America by the continued in-

flux¬

of foreign immigration The Klon-dike

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the Wawa and the Kootenay goldmines will also add to Canadas attract--

iveness and draw hardy and adventur ¬

ous men many of whom will so theManitobans think remain and becomecitizens

The indictment of six prominent Kentuckians by the grand jury at Frank- -

fort for poker playing for money isregarded by the Chicago Times Heraldas another sign of tlve decline of pokerFor better or worse and without con ¬

sidering the ethics of gambling it is ap ¬

parent to any one who will think of Itfor a moment that poker is slowly butsur ely going out of fashion Beforethe war everybody played it Thestatesman of those days was as wellknown for his skill in opening a jack-pot

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and the savoir fa ire with which hestaked all of his possessions on his abil ¬

ity to guess whether his opponent hadfilled or merely bluffed as for his fo-

rensic¬

eloquence After the war thegame kept its hold on popular favor tobut a slightly diminished degree Butgradually it has lost its seductive pow ¬

ers for American mankind until nowhardly anybody plays it While a fewyears ago poker was played in everycluu now it is forbidden by the rulesof most Then every hotel saw adozen or more games in progress Nowan order to the bell boy to bring cardsana chips to the room Is a rare occur-rence

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Then everybody played nowthe same men find it difficult to recol-lect

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when they last opened a jack potThe game once a gentlemans gamehas lost its favor and with faro androulette has become a gamblers gameplayed seldom by any one but profes-sionals

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Some idea of the value and of theterest that is being shown in Ontariosgold mines in the newly discoveredMichipicoten district may be learnedfrom the report of Mr Archibald Bluedirector of the bureau of mines asgiven in the Canadian papers MrBlue has organized the new mining dis-

trict¬

which has been placed under thedirection of Mr D Boyd During thefifteen days Mr Blue was at the officethere were registered between eightyand ninety claims which had been reg-ularly

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staked out by license holdersand upon all of which discoveries ofgold had been made In all over 2C0licenses have been issued since the newregulations went into effect then abouta month The new law allows minersto take out two licenses provided theyare not under the same vein and anumber of miners have availed them ¬

selves of this privilege As the systemof mining enables miners to secure aclaim at trifling expense Mr Blue re¬

ports sit as very popular among pros-pectors

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Among the prospectors whohave staked out claims are Lord Doug-lass

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of Harvick and a company inwhich Col EEsdale is interested Thedirector also reports that he heard ofone vein from twenty to thirty feetwide which showed free gold in prom ¬

ising quantities the samples of quartzshown him being literally covered onthe faoe with the precious aaetal Manyof the prospectors had no experience atall and many of them according toMr Blue never left their camp atWawa Most of those who did how-ever

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were successful in locatingclaims

House-to-Hou- se HousekeepingWhy should not a staff of servants be

organized to do at any rate the rough-er

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part of the domestic service in sayfifty or a hundred federated house-holds

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just in the same way that a sin ¬

gle staff could be organized to cooktheir meals Why should I not payso much a year either to a bona fideco operative society or to a privatespeculator to have my beds made myfloors scrubbed my knives and bootscleaned and other similar work per ¬

formed at stated hours every day andevery week The agency which un-

dertook¬

to perform this service wouldorganize its workers just as do otheragencies which at present undertaketo keep our gardens in order to cleanour boilers sweep our chimneys orclean our bicycles and the labor diffi-

culty¬

which meets us in domestic ser-vice

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as at present organized wouldconsequently be eliminated LondonTruth

A Univeral WeaknessI never censure -- lazy peopleWhy notThe laziest man on earth isnt half

as lazy as I would be if I could affordIt Chicago Record

Everlastingly at It Stark Is a bi ¬

cycle crank isnt he I should sayhe was When it rains he stays homeand runs his cyclomerer ClevelandPlain Dealer

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THE CURRENCY QUESTION

The first regular session of the Fiftyfifth Congress will soon begin and asthe House of Representatives is al¬

ready organized a message from thePresident is due the first day Whilethat high executive has been jauntingabout the country to escape the pes-

tilential¬

breaths of those office seekerswho beset the doors of the WhiteHouse his Secretary of the TreasuryNational Banker Gage has been busyin preparing the financial propositionsby which he is reform our currencyThe word of McKinley has been giventhat he will approve the Gage planshould it pass Congress and it is there-fore

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to be expected that there will bean emphatic recommendation of it inthe annual message From the mo-

ment¬

when that document so con ¬

structed shall be delivered to theclerks of the two houses may be da tedthe revival of the currency questionand the renewal of debate upon whatshall constitute the money of theAmerican people That the lines ofparty will be drawn definitely and dis-tinctly

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is inevitable and that the con-test

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thus commenced will outlast thepresent Congress and enter into anddecide the Presidential election of1000 would appear to be altogetherprobable

It is twenty years ago that the withdrawal of greenbacks was inserted inthe Democratic platform by the agen ¬

cy of Mr Man ton Marble then the edi-tor

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of the New York World It wasnot then in the Republican platformAnd a third party known as the Green ¬

back party sustained the governmentpaper currency But for this SamuelJ Tilden would have been Presidentof the United States

The issue upon which McKinley isnow proposing to risk the success of hisadministration the ascendency of hisparty and his own political future isthe funding into interest bearing bondsof these greenbacks now serving asmoney and their withdrawal and re-placement

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by national bank notes onconditions which would make the lat¬

ter more profitable to the banks It isan attempt on the part of 350 nationalbanks to control the currency of thenation such an attempt as the oldUnited States Bank made and almostsucceeded in between the years 1830and 1844 President Jackson defeatedit when but that one bank made the at-tempt

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But now there will be 350banks with the President on their side

New York News

Silver in the SenateThe Republicans are laboring dili ¬

gently to fasten on the people of thiscountry the chains of gold They real ¬

ize that If they fail to secure legislationduring the coming session of Congresstheir chances of success will be entirelyswept away by an increased bimetallicvote It is greatly fortunate that allthese plots will be made ineffectual bythe fact that the Senate as it is nowconstituted will refuse to approve ofany bill which contemplates the issuingof bonds to retire the greenbacks andwithout such a vote all the plans of thegold monometallists will prove futile

The New York World has made a can ¬

vass of the Senate and announces thatneither Secretary Gages plan of mone ¬

tary reform nor that of the self-constitut- ed

monetary commission can beadopted The conclusions or the Worldupon this matter are as follows Thepreliminary canvass seems to show forgold bonds thirty three Republicansand four Democrats a total of thirtyseven against gold bonds thirty Democrats ten Republicans six Populistsand six silver Republicans a total offifty two This would be a majority offifteen against the foundation stone ofthe plans of both Secretary Gage andthe monetary commission It is be-lieved

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that the majority would be evenlarger against the retirement of thegreenbacks

It is to be hoped that the Republicanswill insist on urging their proposed re-

form¬

and thus place themselves onrecord as absolutely the friends and ad-

vocates¬

of gold monometallism Alltheir victories in the past have beenwon by a pretended friendship for bi-

metallism¬

The majority of the peoplein the United States is unalterably op ¬

posed to the single standard and when-ever

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a fight is made on a square issuebetween gold monometallism and bi-

metallism¬

the former will go down indefeat Chicago Dispatch

Bribery and BulldozingOne of Mark Hannas newspaper

champions describes the methodswhich the big boodle boss has adoptedto make his calling and election sureHis first move will be to have no fed-

eral¬

appointments made in the Stateso far as he can control the matter un¬

til after the Senatorial question is de-

cided¬

In short official bribery Nei¬

ther will he permit the general assem-bly

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to be organized until the Senatorialquestion has been solved In otherwords official bulldozing New YorkWorld

The Situation in a NutshellNew York New Jersey and Kentucky

cast fifty eight electoral votes for Mc-

Kinley¬

one of Kentuckys votes goingtb Bryan New York New Jersey andKentucky all went Democratic lastweek Had McKinley been a candidatelast week instead of last year the pop-ular

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vote in these three DemocraticStates would certainly have been castagainst him Now deduct these fiftyeight electoral Totes from the 271which Mr McKinley received andthere are left 21 Add these fifty eight

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votes to the 17G of Mr Bryan and hewould have 234 That is a majority oftwenty one in the Electoral College Inother words the Democrats do notneed to gain another State They needonly retain these three New YorkNew Jersey and Kentucky and theywill elect the next President NewYork World

Growing DeficitThe Dingley tariff law was passed by

the last Congress for the special pur-pose

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of furnishing sufficient revenuefor the needs of the government Ithas been in operation now fifteenweeks and it has produced in thatshort space of time a deficit of 42000000 What is worse still it promisesto continue adding to the national debtat even an increasing ratio so long asit remains on the statute books

At the rate of about three millions aweek the deficit created by this hum-bug

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revenue raising measure will beno Idss than 60000000 by the first ofnext January and by the time it willhave been in operation a full year thisdeficit will have mounted to close onthe two hundred million figure whichis twice as much as the conservativeopponents of the bill originally pre ¬

dicted and which is therefore likely tobe largely exceeded

Considering the promises made bythe Republicans as to the consequencesto follow the enactment of the Dingley bill the actual result is decidedlygrewsome It is as if a friend had in-

vited¬

you to partake of a plenteous din-ner

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at his house and then presented foryour delectation the skeleton of hiscook

Underconsumption Not Overproduc-tion

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The strawboard trust finds that inone day with modern machinery andthorough organization it can producetwice as much as the country can con-

sume¬

in the same period nence anapparent overproduction is broughtabout The overproduction is ofcourse only apparent because it iscaused by the inability of the massesof the people who constitute the homemarket to purchase and consume morethan their income permits Their in ¬

come in turn so far as they are wageearners is limited by the extent andpower of consumption of the mar-ket

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of which they are a large partThus we have a vicious circle StLouis Post Dispatch

Lively Times Coming in OhioYou may look forward with entire

confidence to a disgraceful row in thenext Ohio Legislature all arising fromthe election of a Senator Contests arealready announced from the doubtfulcounties and if there is any opportu ¬

nity for stealing members M Hannacan be relied upon to try it It willprobably be a repetition of the situa ¬

tion following the campaign when JohnSherman announced that Ohio was di ¬

vinely commissioned to purify the bal-lot

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in the South and it will incidental ¬

ly illustrate the desirability of electingFederal Senators by poptilar vote In¬

dianapolis News

Gorman Still a Political ForceBecause Senator Gorman cannot be

re elected to the Senate it is assumedthat his political career is ended Thatdoes not necessarily follow He is re ¬

tired for four years without questionbut Arthur Pue Gorman is a resource-ful

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individual His party is disorgan ¬

ized but if the Republicans of Mary¬

land make mistakes it would not besurprising to see him revivified in fouryears when a legislature to chooseSenator Wellingtons successor is to beelected He is a force still to be reck ¬

oned with Those who calculate other ¬

wise are shortsighted SpringfieldMass Union

Prices Go Up Wages Go DownThe glass manufacturers are work ¬

ing the McKinley prosperity in the us-ual

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way They have put wages so lowthat the workers have refused to ac-cept

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the terms of the manufacturersand there will be no immediate re ¬

sumption of production In the mean-time

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the Manufacturers associationannounces that it has advanced glassfrom 5 to 10 per cent The jobberswould import glass to meet the de-

mand¬

which is greater than the sup-ply

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but they are prevented from doingso by a prohibitory tariff imposed bythe Dingley bill Louisville Dispatch

What McKinley Owes to HannaPresident McKinleys debt to Hanna

is unquestionably very great Hannaby devious methods made him the can-didate

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of the Republican conventionHanna procured the enormous cam ¬

paign fund by the use of which his elec-tion

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was compassed Hanna in shortmade McKinley President so far assuch an agent can be said to have ac-complished

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such an end That isr hadit not been for Hanna some other Re ¬

publican would have been nominatedand perhaps elected Boston Post

Heroism of True DemocracyThis has been a Democratic year

The elections of 1S97 have shown thatthe Dempcracy rebounds from thedownfall of 1896 stronger and moreconfident and combative than everDemocracy exhibits every quality ofheroism It has courage it has thegenius of recovery and reconstructionit knows not the meaning of dismayDefeat leaves it without fear Dangerfinds it without cowardice It is amiracle of vitality of valor and ofhope Washington Post

Telling Some of the TruthChauncey I Filley in a signed arti-

cle¬

says that the McKinley campaign

managers paid the St Louis pla glassworks to close up their plant and re-

main¬

idle during the campaign to in-

fluence¬

the wTorkingmen to vote for Mc¬

Kinley to open up the mills Whenone of the Republican bosses turnsStates evidence it makes mighty in-

terest¬

n readinPiatts Future in McKinleys Hanai

If President McKinley desires to putthe finishing touches on the career ofThomas C Piatt as boss of the NewYork Republicans he has an excellentexcuse and opportunity for doing sonow Piatts power in the metropolisis hopelessly shattered and his influ-ence

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in the State outside of the city islanguishing The only chance he nowhas to recoup himself is afforded bythe dispensation of federal patronagewhich the President has turned over tohim Through his influence at Wash-ington

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the defeated boss may be ableto come to the front again DetroitFree Press

Vast Sums for PensionsThe cumulative result of years of

pension giving is the monstrous annualburden of 140000000 a year a sumnearly equal to the revenue producedby our customs tariff The commis ¬

sioner reports that the list is still in¬

creasing It is time that Congress wasmade to heed the citizen vote the voteof the taxpayer who will beyond allquestion make a powerful and effectiveprotest against pension extravaganceas soon as he can be made to realizethe unworthiness of a very large pro-portion

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of the pensioners New YorkTimes

Too Narrow MindedRepublican statesmen should broad-

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generally While they take such acomprehensive view of the Hawaiianquestion they should widen out on thetariff It doesnt consist to argue thatwe need a mid Pacific station in the in-

terest¬

of extended commerce and thenregulate our tariff laws so as to de-stroy

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that commerce Nashville Amer¬

ican

Polly of Paternal LegislationWe regret to observe a growing ten-

dency¬

on the part of many worthy peo-ple

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to demand paternal legislationSuch legislation is not only unwise un ¬

necessary and undemocratic but itcauses a great many people to lose re-spect

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for legislation that is not open tosuch objections Atlanta Constitution

Trusts Outwitting the LawThe failure of practically all the le-

gal¬

proceedings against trusts does notprove the justice or legality of theseconspiracies of greed It simplyshows the astuteness of the trusts indealing with the bosses who controllegislation and make judges NewYork World

Every Politician for HimselfThe argument that Governor Bush

nell is too much of a Republican to op-pose

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Mark Hanna for United StatesSenator might possess considerableforce in any State outside of Ohio Butthere a mans first choice is usuallyhimself Kansas City Star

Pictured by LightningDuring a recent thunderstorm in Nu ¬

bile a flash of lightning played one ofthe strangest tricks ever known Itwent into the photographing businesswithout the aid of any apparatus ex-cept

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an object to be photographed anda piece of sugar candy for a receivingplate In the candy store of Mr Tonsmeire on lower Dauphin street was thecandy that the lightning chose to ope-rate

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upon The candy was of sugar andglucose brown in color and transpar-ent

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It lay on a slab on a table in themidst of the store The article photo ¬

graphed was the wrapper of smallAmerican flags then lying imbedded insome melted candy on the floor of thestore in front of the table but not inline of view of the candy on the tableOn the wrapper was an inscription incondensed gothic type reading Na-tional

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Flags This inscription begin-ning

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with the fourth letter of the firstwoirl and part of the third letter justso much of the lettering as was visibleon the wrapper as it lay in the midst ofthe sticky stuff on the floor was takenuy iuu uguimng ana transterred to apiece of the candy on the table nottransferred simply but imbedded in itbeneath the surface the smallest frac-tion

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of an inch It was a perfect repro-duction

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and perfectly black but Insert-ed

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face front just as In the originaland not reverse as would be the orderof the letters if any one should attemptto transfer them by applying the wrap-per

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to the surface of the candyIn the search for a clew to the sud-

den¬

and mysterious appearance the pa-per

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wrapper was discovered on thefloor with those letters exposed whichappeared on the candy Mr Fosdicksays that there is a mirror in front ofthe table that possibly had somethingto do with the photographing ChicagoChronicle

Swellings from BlowsThe swelling which follows from a

blow is natures effect to protect thepart from further injury and to keepit at rest while repair Is going onWhat actually takes place at the seatof injury is not even now quite under-stood

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The injury to the smaller bloodvessels interferes with the flow ofblood through them and the whitecorpuscles with part of the serum thewatery part of the blood escapes in ¬

to the surrounding tissues At the sametime the blood vessels in the neighbor ¬

hood dilate and the increased 3ow ofblood with the thoroughfare obstructedincreases the swelling It is probablethat the white corpuscles of the bloodpass into the tissues to assist in the re-

pair¬

as bees or ants assemble at an in ¬

jury to their storehouse but with thedifference that the substance of thecorpuscles is probably converted intothe tissue of repair From one point ofview the human body is only one gigan ¬

tic colony of individuals and the swell¬

ing that follows injury but the rush ofthese to repair that breach

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IfooTEfcOM EDUCATION

MATTERS OF INTEREST TO PUPIL AND TEACHER

United States Commissioner of Edu¬

cation Kccommends Better Gradingof Pupils Practical Journalism InSchools Educational Notes

Better Grading NeededAt the National Educational Associa¬

tion meeting recently held at Milwau¬

kee Dr Wm T Harris United StatesCommissioner of Education pleadedfor a better grading of pupils in thepublic schools claiming that the classi¬

fications are seldom as accurate asthey should be Bright active welladvanced pupils are herded with duILslow less well advanced pupils Af-

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three or four months it is foundthat the dull ones are holding thebrighter ones back and the brighter1ones are hurrying the slow ones for--

ward at a pace which prevents realcomprehension of what is passed

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The School NewspaperDid you ever try it Then start now

It is brought out by the school weeklyor monthly as is seen fit All the school1act as reporters and collect itemsSome write little stories and essaysbut the main thing is school newsThe editors notes John Smith read afine composition on Courage last Fri¬

day and Avas complimented by MrJones our teacher There should boitems about good conduct this willstimulate We cannot go on to enu¬

merate Will some teacher try one ormore of these plans Let us hear ofyour success The teacher will begratified to find some school-homema- de

brighter by its efforts CanadianTeacher2ivil Government in Primary Schools

About the time that the child goes toschool he begins to take lessons in civilgovernment This also is developedon the basis of his previous hometraining It begins at the very doorstep The letter carrier the police-man

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the justice of the peace and thepostmaster introduce him to the gov-

ernment¬

of the outer world Some orall of these officers he sees and knowsand others he hears about The verymail wagon that rattles along thestreet teaches its lesson and so do oth-

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symbols of authority that confronthim B ninsdale

Items of InterestSeveral Yale students make tuition

fees during vacation by working asmotormen on trolley cars

The University of the City of NewYork has enrolled for the new year inall departments 1300 students

Fourteen hundred students havebeen admitted and 050 are waiting foradmittance at Cooper Union NewYork

The University of Illinois has 1C00students In 1S03 04 it had 743 Thenew school of law opened with twentylive students

Lawrence University is to have anew science hall 22000 having beencontributed for this purpose Thisbuilding will cost 23000 and the ap¬

paratus 15000 moreDr Henry Preserved Smith who

was formerly professor at Lane Theo¬

logical Seminary has been recently ap¬

pointed to the chair of Biblical inter ¬

pretation at AmherstThe will of the late C T Wilder of

Wlilesley Mass leaves 10000 eachto the American Board American Mis ¬

sionary Association Roberts Collegeat Constantinople the School for Girlsat the same city Whitman CollegeCarleton College and the Mount Hermon School at Northfield Mass Dart ¬

mouth College receives 73000 andAmherst College 15000

At Pittsburg Pa a movement is saidto be on foot to have placed in everypublic school swimming pools and acomplete bathing equipment The ideais to have the swimming pools placedin the spacious basements of tboschool buildings and have the childrentake a bath every time the teachers orthe principals deem it necessary

A Curious OilIt has been found that the oil bursting

out of the bed of the creek near Campton says the Courier Journal containsa very valuable quality hitherto un ¬

known By laying a plank or anythingacross the creek a person can dam theoil up and gather any amount of it andit has been discovered that the oil willburn as fast as dry paper The peoplethrough curiosity go to this oil springdam it up on the top of the water andthen strike a match to it in order to seespread over the whole surface of thewater a perfect blaze This oil for lubricating purposes is hard to surpassand the beauty of it rests in the factthat it does not have to undergo anyprocess whatever to be valuable forsuch purpose

The Lightest Known SolidThe lightest known solid is said to be

the pith of the sunflower with a spe-cific

¬gravity of 028 or about one eighth

that of cork The sunflower Is exten-sively

¬cultivated in Central Russia and

various uses are served by its differentparts the recent discovery of the light- -

ness of the pith essentially increasing- -

the commercial value of the plant Forlife saving appliances at sea cork has- -

a buoyancy of one to five while withthe sunflower pith one to thirty five isattained About 800 cubic inches of itwould weigh as much as one cubic inchof iridium the heaviest metal

Rev Dr Parkhurst says in a recentetter to a friend in New York I can--not stand by the Sunday saloon pureand simple but I do believe in allowinirrthe sale of beer and light wines on Sun¬day provided they are the accompanyrnent of an honest meal honestly paidi

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