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if Mr.. Simpson only kept such pretty
ones as this and sold em three for 25
cents"
Then Benny wandered along, and he
plucked valentines out of the grass and
off the bushes. And every valentine
was lovelier than the last, and every
motto written upon it more tender and
affectionate. He picked up a little
palegreen, lace paper one from the
grass and the motto upon it was:
Faithful is the love and true
Valentine has brought to you"
And another white one in the shade
of a heart declared:
Sweetest heart, forever thine,
Is the heart of Valentine
They're very lovely" cried Benny,
glowing with admiration. Every
thing is lovely and loving here" cried
a little voice over his mead, "for this
is st. Valentines landw
And then, over the branches of the
tree overhead, Benny saw curious
sight. Hundreds of little gold Cupids
with gilt wings and little bows and
arrows slung over their shoulders were
swinging and swayipg back and forth.
How pretty they looked and how the
light futtered over their wings, and
flickered over Benny's hair, as he
stood looking up at the frolicsome
Cupidsl
And suddenly a sorrowful thought
struck Benny, and right in the midst
of all this wealth of valentines he sat
down and cried!
Dear! dearl dear~ he sobbed;
land to-morrowit won't be Valentines
day any more!"
Mamma shook him and woke him
up. what pity" Benny repeated;
tomorrow it won't be Valentines
day any morel"
Then he told her all about It and she
coaxed him and cuddled him and told
him to go to sleep again and bring
some of the valentines of st. Valen-
tines land back with him to save for
next st, Valentines day.
EVA LovETT.
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beautiful leaves of very pink roses
with very green leaves, and stars and
Darts and true lovers knots galore!
Benny looked and admired, and
sighed and debated. He had 25 cents.
How many of these glories, he
wondered, would 25 cents buy? Benny
was generous little chap. He wanted
TO buy valentine for everybody he
knew, and then again for everybody
who wanted valentine, and he felt
sure that it would take more than %
cents to do thatl
"If it would only rain valentines on
Valentines day" thought Benny. 'Or
if valentines grew on trees, and l could
pick as many as 1 liked. Or if they
grew up like the grass, or could dig
them out of the ground like stones.
Then" sighed Benny, 81 could get all
1 wanted"
But they didn't seem to do that way
in the neighborhood of Mr.. Simpsons
shop. At last Benny went in and
bought three. One had a bouncing
Cupid on it, one had wreath of red
roses and one was some very loving
verses with little stars around the Dor.
der.
THAT'S for mamma, Mr.. Simpson,
confded Benny.
The thought of the rain of valen-
tines haunted him all day. So when
he woke up in the middle of the night
and found it really was raining valen-
tines he was not at all surprised.
He slipped out of the bed softly and
ran out. A few valentines futtered
down out there, then the rain stopped,
but the ground was covered with
them. They were prettier and gayer
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Benny studied this one admiringly
for some time. Then he raised his
eyes.
"Oh!" he cried in surprise.
Opposite to him stood stately tree,
with broad spreading branches. And
up and down its boughs, like leaves,
were hundreds of fluttering valentinesl
Dainty lace and pink papers with
hearts and shafts and Cupids covering
them according to the approved valen-
tine style.
Benny had grown critical in valen-
tines. He threw down those in his
hand, and started eagerly to pluck the
more snowy ones growing upon the
tree. He seized a pink tissue beauty,
with fringed and gilt edges. And in
side he read the prettiest verse yet:
Darling sweetheart, tell me, do,
Wilt thou be forever true2
Well thou know'st my heart is thine,
Chooseme for thy valentine"
Then Benny tried another one. This
one had stars shining on pale blue
gauze and it read:
''The stars Of heaven look down to see
How 1 love you and you love mev'
Beautifully" sighed Benny. snow
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Railroad Time Tables.

No 10 Runs TO Pratt only.
No 20 runs through to Dodge City and Mber-
al.
Nos % and "a daily except Sunday.
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1T WAS RAINING VALENTINES.
than any of Mr. Simpsons. The first
one Benny opened read:
'With my love a wreath 1 send,
Like my love, it has no end"
"That's very pretty" said Benny,
"and here's another"
Gas we journey day by day,
Sweet, your eyes shall light the way"
They're prettier than the ones 1
bought" sighed Benny. Il should
have waited for the rain. But how
could 1 tell it really would rain, even
though 1 wished it. And now@-Ben-
ny's eyes looked big don't believe
1 know folks enough to send so many
valentines to-"
More valentines than people to give
them tol That was a funny situation.
1t was like a little boy having too
much dinner or too many Christmas
presentsl
"And here's another" cried Benny,
with lots of hearts on it. And it
says;
cupid astens hearts together
Firmly with silken tether,
And q ribbon tying 'em together"
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LAND OF VALENTINES.

EN- NY STOOD
looking into the
W in d o W S of the
valentine s h ops.
Such lots and lots
of lovely valentines
as Mr.. Simpson
s h ow edl T he re
were fat little gilt
Cupids and bleed
ing hearts trans
fixed with arrows;
The herald., 1895-12-28

right to disapprove, that if one person
may applaud what pleases him another
person may hiss that which is dis
pleasing. The individual who is respon-
sible for eliciting the managerial
opinion which has thus rounded out
the freedom of the people who go to
"the show" in one footlight establish
ment, at any rate, is Saml of Posen,
known eff the stage as Nj. B. Curtis
This gentleman was attending pre-
sentation OF The Stag Party and the
singing Of song stolen bodily from
his play. Gentleman Joe, so iucensed
him that he Kissed Justify and continu-
ously. This unconventional method
of exhibiting displeasure led to the
actors removal by the ushers, but upon
Manager Palmer learning the reason
for the ejectment, he ordered Curtis
reinstated on the ground that the latter
had as much right to hiss as other
people to clap hands. Saml returned
in triumph TO his seat in tie front row
and freedom scored again. To the
"kicker at the play Manager Palmer
will be immortal. One by one the
battlements of superstition and
tyranny cave.
The herald., 1895-12-28
MISS WILLARD AND POVERTY

Miss Frances E. Willard is the fore
most temperance woman of the world.
Her opinions, whether expressed ver-
bally or through her pen, always have
great weight with people interested in
any phase of the temperance question.
Miss Willard recently delivered an ad-
dress before the Worlds w. G. L. u.
during its session in London. In her
address she utters a great truth which
is at variance with the almost univer-
sal belief concerning intemperance and
poverty.
1t is claimed by nearly all temper
ance reformers that intemperance is
| one of the chief causes Of poverty.
Miss Willard, however, plants her feet
upon a more logical theory, and de-
clares that poverty is "the chief pro-
curing cause OF the brutal drinking
habits with which whole areas of popu-
lation are distempered throughout the
English-speaking world" She further
says that twenty-one years Of study
and observation have convinced her
that poverty is the prime cause of in
temperance adding thai "poverty is
the cradle Of crime, the father of filth,
the mother of misery" Again she
says: Il ceaselessly declare that / be-
lieve it to be the right and duty to
abolish poverty. l once said in
| temperance was the cause of poverty !;
now have completed the circle of
truth by saying that poverty causes
intemperance.'
Miss Willard is right. Intemperance
can never be abolished nor very greatly
decreased while poverty is SO preva-
lent. Nothing will so effectually and
surely drive men into habits of dissi-
patton as the tOrturing anXieties and
severe privations incident to poverty.
People who try to abolish restitution
by fighting saloons have begun at the
wrong end of the reform path In
fact, no great moral reform can make
rapid Roadway or achieve complete
success while the barrier of poverty
stands in the way. Nor can we hope
for peace, contentment and the proper
development of mems higher faculties
while they are struggling 20 their ut
most for the bare necessities of life
and are even at that scarcely able to
procure by honest methods the COM
monest supplies for their physical
wants.
What is most needed to make moral
reforms easy is some plan that will do
away with involuntary poverty and its
resultant miseries, crimes and heart
aches. Until that is accomplished, all
reformers on other lines will travel An
uphill road. The fuudgm entail reform
must come first; others the can easily
follow. a foundation must be laid be-
fore a superstructure can be erected.
The foundation reform, and the one
for which all others must wait, 10 the
reform that will abolish monopoly OF
natural opportunities. When that has
been done nobody need be out of en-
ployment, nor will the pinchings Of
poverty continue to drive men into
drunkenness.
The herald., 1895-12-28

The Los Angeles Traction company
has added to one of its altitudinous
cars another step. The remaining
rent that the Traction company is a
conservative and cautious institution
and is feeling its way in the matter of
adding to the steps necessary to mount
its vehicles. Very probably when it
finds that there will be no great popu-
lar indignation at the increase of steps
the other cars Of the line will be
placed within the reach of the short
legged of the community.
The herald., 1895-12-28
draw gold from the treasury, is equivo-

draw gold from the treasury, is equivo-
cal and insincere. The law requires
that the secretary pay these notes out,
and if he does not do SO voluntarily
thew can be demanded by those who
desire to nse them as money in prefer
ence to gold or silver, or to draw gold
again with. Again, if the Republican
congress thinks that the secretary Of
the treasury should hold these notes as
fast as received, and that he would do
so if the receipts of other moneys were
sufficient, it must believe in the
final retirement of the notes.
If it really believes that the
notes can be and should be
retired, why does it not say so by en-
acting law instructing the secretary
Of the treasury not to reissue but 20
cancel them as fast as received at the
secretary should not pay out these
notes and then to fail to prohibit their
reissue is indicative of either 6eplor-
able imbecility or sniveling hypocrisy.
The utter absurdity of the idea that
an increase in the customs receipts
will enable the treasury to maintain
the gold reserve until after the United
States and treasury NOES are Cancelled
is strikingly exposed in the following
excerpt from the presidents annual
message, an excerpt that cannot be too
often read by the voter who desires to
consider frankly and honestly thu
treasury situation. The president said:
In the present stage of our difficulty it
is not easy to understand how the amount
of our revenue receipts directly affect II.
The important question is not the quantity
of money received il revenue payments,
but the kind OF money we maintain and
our ability 10 continue in sound financial
cond ,Iou. We are considering the gov
ernmant's holding of gold as related to the
soundness of our money and as Affecting
our national credit and monetary strength.
Ii our gold reserve had never been Inn
paired. or if no bonds had ever been issued
TO replenish it, if there had been no fear
and timidity concerning our ability to con-
tlnue gold payments, II any part OF our
revenues were now paid in gold, and if
we could look to our gold receipts as
means of maintaining safe reserve. the
amount of our revenues would be an lnfiu-
entail factor in the problem. but'unfortun-
ately all the circumstances that might
lend weight to this consideration are en-
tirey lacking. In our present predica-
ment no gold is received by the govern
ment in payment of revenue charges.
Nor would there be if the revenues were
increased. The receipts of the treasury,
when not in silver certificates, consist of
United States notes and treasury notes is
sued for silver purchases. These forms of
money are only useful TO the government
in paying its current ordinary expenses,
and lis quantity or the government pos
session of it does not IN the least contrib
ute toward giving us tokens of safe tinan-
cial standing, a condition which is built on
gold alone.
The herald., 1895-12-28
THE RIGHT TO HISS

The liberty of the theater goer is be-
ing gradually but surely enlarged.
Heretofore the worshippers in thespian
temples have been free only to give
audible expression to their approval of
the efforts of performers; if those ef-
failures the auditors were supposed to
suffer in silence or meekly make their
exit. But Manager A. M. Palmer OF
the Garden theater, New York, mas de-
cided that in his place at least, the
right to approve carries with it the
The herald., 1895-12-28
WEST HUGHES.


EDITOR HERALD: AS the writer of this
took up the Southwest News" and read of
the wonderful growth and progress that
this, although mot annexed" portion of
the country has made. one sentence in par
ticular attracted her attention. Having
been member of the Southwest Improve.
ment association and being familiar with
its transactions, the writer was naturally
surprised 10 read in the aforesaid paper
that the school building, a public structure,
paid for by public taxation, and remem-
boring the vigorous protests against it.,
should still bear private name. A petit
ton. Enthusiastically showing the senti-
ment Of the taxpayers, was forwarded to
the proper authorities; strong speeches
were made, showing that 90, if not 90, per
cant of the people taxed for the payment
of the 100000 or 500 900 bonds issued
for the erection of that building, were in
favor of having the building bear a public
name, and, Vermont avenue being a
prominent street, it should be called Ver-
mont street school. One member of the
school board, who is mainly responsible
for this fragrant disregard of the wishes of
the majority and owes his re- election to
the understanding the voters had that their
wish would be respected, having empha
sized it by unanimous vote, that the
name should be changed. it appears that
the will of one is set against the will OF the
many. and the public building bears on its
facade the proof of it, in the relieve letters
of "Harper's school," Whether this is a
fitting example for the rising generation to
emulate is left for the public to decide.
MATILDA Y. IBERIA.
The herald., 1895-12-28

The bondsmen of FL Hammond. The de-
faultlnG tax collector of Los Angeles
county, this week settled the bill for his
defalcatOn, amounting to S21, 16S.30. He
stole the money about nine years ago. j.
X. Dupuy, a Democratic district attorney
for the county. began suit against him 10
recover the money. Frank p. Kelley sue.
ceeded Dupuy and let the case rest be.
cause Hammond was Z good Republican
and hal Il right to steal. James McLach.
lin succeeded Kelley, and refused to push
the suit because il would hurt the Republic
can party. h. c. Dillon, Democrat, was
elected and prosecuted the suit through
the supreme court, and the bondsmen then
had to pay. Had it not been for the DEM
ocratic attorneys the rascal never would
have paid up and his bondsmen would
have gone free. All the public stealing in
Los Angeles county has been by Republic
can officials, but Democratic lawyers
forced them to pay up. Democratic re-
liglon is to pay up and make others do the
same.-Santa Ana standard.
The herald., 1895-12-28

YESTERDAY General John r. Mathews
received official notification of his ap-
pointment to the important and re-
sponsible position of postmaster OF
this city. 1t can be safely said that
the president could not have made q
more popular appointment. The gen.
eral is not only sterling Democrat
but he is also representative citizen
who enjoys in liberal measure the es.
TEEN of his fellow-townsmen of all
shades of political belief. His public
and private career afford ample evil
dence of his capacity to discharge with
eminent success the duties of his new
position.
The herald., 1895-12-28
Editorial Observations

Written for the Kindergarten edition OF THE
HERALD, but crowded out."l
What will become of the home if women
vote? Come now! What becomes of
house building when carpenters vote?
What becomes of sick people when doctors
vote? What becomes of the church when
ministers vote? Vino ever heard of a
bricklayer throwing up his job or mer-
chant going out of business because he had
to vote? Come now!
That home which ministers to the up
building of body, mind and heart is a
home indeed. BY the manhood and woman
hood growing in homes shall We know them.
This manhood, this womanEood, is the test
ultimate. 1t follows that the chief respon-
sibiity of the home is child-culture. and
yet most young women approach this
gravest of all duties, ignorant of child ma
ture and nurture, and blind with the blind
ness that will not see, to the probability
that child care will be their portion, whether
they wish it or not. All intelligent people
must agree with Spencer that no rational
plea can be put forward for leaving the art
of education out of & iris curriculum. In
directly all training is a preparation for
motherhood. The percentage of infant
mortality decreases with the increasing
percentage of educated women. The in
FAINT prodigy has almost disappeared since
the college woman has become part of
the social organism. The woman who is
the best woman physically, intellectually
and morally, is the best mother: but, while
recognizing this fact, we must recognize
none the less fully the need of specific
training for motherhood. This training is
best found in the kindergarten methods.
and whatever else is neglected every young
women should have that training.
Nothing else will more stimulate her
own Development; nothing else will SO tit
her for the care Of her own children, if she
becomes a mother; or for her part in caring
for the worlds millions of uncared for
children. By opening her heart and mind
TO child life, its rights and its wrongs, you
are doing the most that you can for the
race through her.
The kindergarten at present is thought
of chiefly as an aid to the child's develop
ment. 1t will be heard of in the future as
an aid to the development of the teacher
the klndergartner. 1t is through the broad
altruism which it develops. No one can
study the science of education without hav-
ing thoroughly aroused within her love for
the child; not your child, nor my child.
! but the chld-laden as it is with humane
| tvs past, bearing onward humanity s
| future, and with the love comes also the
desire to protect, to help, to nurture. In
stinct has always been relied upon to teach
| the mother what is necessary for the child $
good. Just as it teaches the eve to care for
its lamb. But mans progress must come
through reason. Instinct has been relied
upon long enough in this vital matter.
Through woman's trained head as we'll as
through her tender heart will come relief
from the greatest wrongs which humanity
and childhood suffers. X. T.. GALPIN.
The herald., 1895-12-28
EMERGENCY LEGISLATION

The Republicans of The house, in
passing their tariff bill as an "emer-
gency" measure to relieve the treasury
of deficit which they had received no
official notification OF and that really
has no existence, are engaged in a piece
of political humouggery and hypocrisy.
Under the pretense of responding to
the appeal of the administration for
remedial financial legislation they have
proceeded to repair the breaches made
in the wallis of McKinleyism by the
preceding congress.
In neither thu message of the presi-
dent nor the report of the secretary of
the treasury was a request preferred
for additional revenue or complaint
made of endorsements resulting
from deficiency in the revenues of
the government. If there is to be any
deficit in the working funds of the
treasury it will be apparent only at the
end Of the fiscal year, and it is not the
business CT congress- TO provide for de-
fcits until the proper officers of the
government have requested such pro-
vision or it is plain that the obliga-
tions Of the government are not being
met because of inadequate funds.
The president and Secretary Carlisle
have asked for legislation that would
either remove the means whereby the
gold reserve is repeatedly and success
fully assaulted, or that would permit
them to maintain in act that reserve
on more favorable terms than they can
at present. This kind Of relief the
Republican congress has not given in
the bill passed through the house
Thursday, and it shows no intention of
giving it. With characteristic COW
ardice and traditional evasiveness, the
dominant party in congress refuses to
address itself to the real issue and
complained of. Like party that,
resting on no Fundamental political
truth, has no body of doctrine for a
compass, it feels itself free to
equivocate as to facts, to evade
issues and to toy with the vaga-
ries and prejudices of the hour.
The term emergency legislation"
by which it designates the tariff bill it
is now attempting to foist on the peo-
pie of the country is in measure cor
rect. 1t is to meet the emergencies of
the pets of protection. Emergency
legislation" has been the peculiar pro-
duct of the Republican party for al
most it's entire existence, as the rev.
enue and financial enactments which
have been the fruit of Republican
craftsmanship abundautly testify. The
endless sreenback chain and the Sher-
man silver purchasing law are excel
lent specimens of emergency" legisls.
ton. The party apparently is bound
to keep up it's emergency" prestige.
The contention that the depletion of
the gold reserve is because the secre-
tary of the treasury, in the absence of
adequate revenues, is obliged TO pay
out again the demand notes of the gov
eminent which he has redeemed, thus
putting them into the field to again
The herald., 1895-12-28
TO THE EDITOR
A Popular Bond Issue


EDITOR HERALD: Let congress pass n
to issue coin bonds bearing interest at 8
per cent and running from twenty to fifty
years, in denominations of $50. 500,
$500, $1,000, $4,000 and $4,000. Let ev-
cry postofIice in the United States be au-
thorzed to receive subscriptions in any
amount, from $50 up, the subscriber pay
ing therefor in greenbacks, treasury notes,
gold or silver, and taking receipt. Let
,he postotfice send duplicate receipt to
the treasury department.. Then the treas
ury would send the proper bond TO the ma
tional bank nearest the subscriber, and
notify the subscriber 10 present his receipt
at said bank and get his bond. In case
there is no national bank within reason
able distance tho bond could be delivered
direct through the postofilce.
The people would respond with I'M
bounded enthusiasts, and in thirty days
would probably subscribe to 800, 100000
worth of bonds, and in SIX months TO
$500. 100000 worth. Think of the inn
mense advantages that would result to the
people. Industry and economy would be
encouraged, for every one would have an
absolutely safe investment for his earnings.
Every holder of such a bond would have
security on which he could borrow mon,y
at any tim9. Besides it would be infinite
ly better for the public debt to be held by
our own citizens all over the country rather
than for millions of our bonds to be in the
hands of few foreign bankers, who in
time of national distress are a serious
menace to our prosperity.
Every holder of n bond would feel
direct, personal. financial interest in the
government. Such a measure would make
our people more patriotic and give to the
government additional strength and
stability.
WESr HI-GuES