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The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-23
ONE FALSE ISSUE REMOVED.

Many silver Republicans voted for
Mckinley because Of the pledge in the
platform in favor of international BIZ
metallism. These voters now see that
this pledge was simply n dodge to fool
the people.
None Of the Republican leaders is de-
sirous of establishing bimetallism, eth
rr through national or international ac-
ton. All of these leaders knew that,
80 long as the settlement of information
nj ~bimetallism rested in the hands of
England, the policy of gold monometal-
lism was safe, and for this reason they
Inserted the plank referred to, believ-
ing hat it would catch votes and thus
in reality make tie gold monetary sys-
tenn all the more secure.
The Republican press realizes that
the international bimetallism dodge has
been played for the last time. 1t has
served its purpose for Il quarter of Il
century and is now completely worn
out and discredited. No longer will
this bait be used to catch gudgeonS,
not because there is any change in the
ethics of the gold clique, but because
the leaders recognize that the trick has
lost it's attraction. Now the fight is to
be made squarely on the issue of gold,
and the people should hail this change
of front as an omen Of victory.
The sentiment in favor of bimetal
lism is growing stronger every day in
the United States. But for bribery, in
timidation and false promises on the
part of Republicans the people would
have won in the last presidential cam
paign. Now that the issue has been
made plain; that ~falsehoods have been
exposed; that international blmetal-
lism has been shown in its true light,
the people will flock to the support oil
that party which has their interests at
heart. and will, by their united votes
in 1898 and 1900, establish national
himetalliSm and thus restore h pros
perity that was destroyed by the de-
monetiZation of silver.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-23
ADMITTED He WAS DEAD BROKE:
Honesty Was Found to Be Best Policy
with a Car Conductor.

with a Car
Dead broke is not an accurate term.
1t is relative. a millionaire considers
| himself dead broke when he finds that
he has only q V in his pocket, Men
of less means think they are dead broke
when they can find but a quarter or q
half in their pockets. But with the
mass Of people who haven't very much,
even when at their best, dead broke
means that condition in which a man
| finds himself without a nickel in his
pockets. Pennies don't cut any ice.
| Even three or four of them won't pay
q car fare, and when a man hasn't car
| fare the walk to Cumminsville at mid
night seems long-awfully long.
That's what allied me the other
night" said a resident of that suburb.
Il didn't have a nickel to my name
not a nick. And you bet it was warm.
So 1 tried to work the conductor. When
he struck me I felt in my pockets, first
one, hen the other, and then looked
dazed.
81 had a nickel I said, but blame
me II L EnOW where 1t is.
""Too thin, old man, said the heart
less man in blue. You'll have to walk
a little, just for a change, as you
haven't got it. Think Of a man getting
off a joke like that.
81 walked, but not far. Tried an
other conductor with the same racket.
Didn't work. He was heartless also.
l knew I'd get home if the cars kept
coming, but the last car would be due
soon. Then 1 thought Of the old motto:
Honesty is the best policy II try
it on.
81 got on the car and held up my
head. When the man with the badge
came along I said:
"I'm dead broke, old man. Let me
take a sneak home, will you? Walking
is awful hot a night like this
THAT worked like a charm. He was
the best conductor I ever saw. He
knew I was telling the truth. The
others thought I was lying, and I was,
but not in the way they thought. All
he said vas
":AIl right, old fellow. Don't give
me away, though
"'Not on your life 1 said. Then I
curled up and slept the sleep Of the
just and the righteous. Hereafter I'm
going to tell the truth, cost what it
may."-Cincinnati Commercial Trib-
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-23
FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
A COLUMN OF PARTICULAR IN
TEREST TO THEM.
Something that Will Interest the Ju-
veni1e Members of Every Household
Quaint Actions and Bright Sayings
of Many Cute and Cunning Children.
Chimes of Normandy

Do you want to hear the chimes of
Normandy? If you do, all you need is a
heavy silver spoon and a piece Of
string. Tie the string at it's center
around the handle Of the spoon, leaving
the ends three or four feet long. Now
wind the ends around your two foretin-
gers near the first joint and then
thrust your fingers in your ears. Bend
over and allow the tablespoon to knock
against the wall or the door or a chair
and you will be surprised at the really
beautiful imitation of church chimes
which you will hear.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-23
..S2,OO4,172,S41

In 1872 James \. Garfield said in the
House of Representatives: Il am the
last man to say a word against voting
pensions to all persons who deserve
them. But l wish to say to the House
that more frauds are being perpetrat-
ed on the government by claim agents
in different parts of the country than
from almost any other single source"
The government has already expend-
ed IN pensions nearly as much as the
entire national debt. Five times as
much money is paid out for this pur-
pose to-day as was required in 1872.
If James \. Garfield recognized the eX-
iStence of fraud in the matter of pen
sions twenty-five years %. when the
cost for the period 1869 to 1872 to the
United States was only S119, 794, 122,
what must the condition of affairs be
to-day, when the cost for the period
1893 TO 1896 has mounted up to $751;
S64,G73:-Chicago Dispatch.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-23

with the fact staring in the face that
customs receipts were much smaller
and the treasury deficiency much
larger for the first month of the Ding.
ley tariff than for any month of the
Wilson tariff or the Cleveland admins
tration. Some of these Republican pa
pers are already proposing that should
the deficiency prove as large as indi-
Gated the Dingley tariff will be amend
ed. SO the probabilities are strong for
another season of tariff tinkering.-
pittSburg Post.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-23
An Ostrich and a Hot Potato.

For odd appetites the goat and the
ostrich stand supreme, with the ostrich
just a step ahead. And yet an ostrich
tatO. A South African writer tells an
amusing story of greed and how it was
punished. He says:
These Ostriches were q source of end
less trouble to us. They grew rapidly
and developed great kicking powers.
until they became sometimes positively
dangerous, the dogs and the kaffirs
coming in for most of their attentions.
Their appetite was Unsuitable. We used
to make large quantities of biltong, or
sun-dried meat, and there were usually
dozens of strips of it hanging on rheims
slung from wagon to wagon, and these
were always objects Of attention on the
part of the o%striches. 1t vas most
amusing to see n trying to swallow a
strip a yard long and two inches thick,
just as a chicken struggles with a
worm that is a little too big for it. Once
we had to drag a huge strip out of n
Of the birds threats to save it from
choking.
But it was the culinary department
that interested them most. They would
always attack the Kaffirs bringing the
Siands from the Kitchen to the tent.
and sometimes were so pertinacious
that the boy would get frightened and
throw the dish away and bolt, and we
would lose the best part of our dinner
They would even come into the tent
and snatch things off the table, and we
would take it out of them by smother
ing a dainty morsel with salt and
cayenne pepper; but after awhile they
seemed to flourish on it.
One day, however, ~e got the laugh
On our side. Dinner was preparing and
one of the birds was Investigating the
pots around the fire. a great not Of
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-23
Concerning Pensions.

Men who went forth to battle for
the Union and who received wounds
in the cause of liberty are deserving
of recognition and compensation from
this government. There is none who
desire to detract from the glory OF the
veteran, nor are there any who wish to
deprive him of such governmental as
Sistance as his deeds dc erve, but the
matter of pensions has attained such
dimensions that it demands investiga-
ton.
On June 80 of the present year the
number of pensioners was 9S3,52S.
Thus the United States is shown to
have one of the largest of the standing
armies of the world. The million mark
will soon be reached. In order to learn
how this item of expenditure has
grown it is only necessary to glance at
the following table:
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-23
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A SIMPLE EXPERIMENT.

two apart. Then make a small ball of
paper or other light material, fasten-
ing on opposite sides bits of steel or
similar meal. Place the ball between
the magnets, where it will assume Of
it's w accord a fixed position, held
only by the attraction Of the magnets,
which act on it as do the surrounding
planets Of the earth.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-23
A Debt-Creatiur Tariff.

The first fruits of the new tariff law
are decidedly discouraging, for the
revenue collected under it during Au-
gust fell behind the amount collected
during the corresponding month last
wear by about % per cent. This, if
continued, will force the country to
face a deficit by the time congress
meets in December Of something like
$50, 000,0 900 for the four months, or at
the rate of nearly 500. 1000 a year.
Ostensibly this Dingley measure was
framed to provide first of all more rev.
nue. for the government. 1t was to
do much better in this respect than the
Wilson tariff, and the result is that
those who predicted that it would pro
duce from $40, 100000 to 500, 100000 a
year less are going to be proven alb
Solutely reliable prophets if this first
months experience is any criterion of
what is TO follow.
Of course, the expenses of the gov
ernment are going on Us before, or are
increasing. While the total receipts by
the treasury last month were only a
little over $40 100000, the outlay was
close on TO $40 900. so that there
is an actual deficit of nearly $15,O00,-
600 for this one month for the tax
payers to ponder over.-New York
News.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-23
Doinu Melt

eyes" said MI. Corntossel proudly,
"my boy Josiar is dom fine. He was
the best in his class at college"
Did he tell you which class?" in
quired the summer boarder.
Eyes. Twas what they call the mid
dle-weight class.''-Wasbington Star.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-23
How the Earth La Held.

A pretty experiment, conducted by
very simple methods, will show how
this terrestrial globe is kept in its posi-
ton in space. Secure two magnets Of
equal power, placing them an inch or
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-23
Dear Old Boston AGAIN.

Visitor-I hear there is sickness next
door. Is it contagious?
Phillips-Oh, not ut all, madam;
merely contiguous.-Truth.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-23

Somehow a nan or woman who has
been divorced, always reminds us of a
hired girl who has been discharged
without references
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-23
Brief Comment.

Ii YOU are an employer, nave you
taken any steps to pass along the pros
perity mai is coming to you now? In
other words, have you raised wages?
And, if not, when will YOU go about it?
st. Louis Star.
Oddly enough the man of unSavory
reputation whom the President has ap-
pointed naval officer of the customs at
New Orleans turns out to have been
one of McKinley's supporters in the
st. Louis cOnyentiOn-DetrOit Free
Press.
Our best foreign policy is to have no
foreign policy. We want no colonies,
can have no colonies without giving
the lie to the doctrines of u declara-
ton of independence. ~Inalienable
rights inhere in others as we'll as in
ourselves.-Terre Haute Gazette.
Senator Thurston of Nebraska says
that the Senate is no place for a poor
man. The Senator must have been
avoided during the formulation of the
new tariff by the sugar trust. For
some kind Of Senators the Senate is a
richer field than the Klondike.-In-
dianapoliS Sentinel.
The farmer is getting a good price
for his wheat, but he is not getting
what he would have got had it not
been for the Dingley law, for the rea-
son that the dollar which he is getting
for his wheat now will not buy so
much of what he is compelled to pur-
chase as it would had we freer trade.
Peoria Herald.
The Republican party is the party
now organized which takes the pattern
alistic side of all questions. 1t is the
party which favOrs the Capitalization
Of power in the national government.
1t is the party which in all ways would
extend the power of Congress. recog-
nizing no limit but its will. 1t legiSlates
on everything going.-Milwaukee Jour
nal.
1t is now asserted in Wall street that
the sugar trust is known to have a sur
plus of $50, 100000 which will be dis
tributed shortly. This is given as the
cause of the recent investments of the
R~ockefellers in sugar stock. Possibly
it may also help the Kockefellers to
unload at advanced figures the sugar
stock they have accumnlated.-Indian.
apolis Sentinel.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-23

1t must often impress a father that
love will work miracles in a girls ex-
travagant tastes. if it is love for a
young man, instead of love for her
father
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-23
Notes.

There is a movement in Texas 10
have Spanish taught in the public
schools.
DR.. VIM. T. Harris, United States
commissioner of education, is urging
agricultural communities to add to
school work some study in the ele,
mentS of agriculture.
1t is rumored that some politicians OF
Chicago are trying to get control of the
board of education for the purpose OF
removing both Col. f. W. Parker from
the principalship of the Chicago
NAL and Albert q. Lane from the SUI
p~erintendency of the Chicago schools.
Wellesley College is to make more
than Eve of her department of educa-
ton the coming year. Arrangements
have been made with John L. Prince,
Phi. D., Of the state board Of education
to take charge of the professional
courses, and his state wOrk WI ba
arranged accordingly.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-23
Clean B1ackboards.

The question came up the other uay
as to whether the blackboards should
be kept clean except when used in
recitation. 1t was Il question so short
and direct, and apparently so simple
that it seemed best to settle it by vote.
Strange to say, the vote was Il tie and
it was remarkable that the teachers of
the most experience voted in favor of
the unclean blackbOards. When Miss
Smith, the neatest old maid that ever
wore out her precious, loving life in a
SchOOlroOm, was asked why, she sim
ply said: Because it saves me q great
deal of hard work. l have two grades
in my room, and when the first grade
has a hard lesson, and q good part of
it is on the board, | always leave It
there just as long as l can. The more
the lesson is talked about in that re-
citation the more interest is awakened
in the class; and what is of equal i'm
portance the other grade pupils watch
and listen; and it often happens that
the dull ones in the lower grade when
they come to the same topic will be
found almost to have mastered it. So
l let my blackboards wrestle with 10y
pupils just as often as l can" p
At this point Miss Brown, the Latin
teacher in the high school, said that
she has tested satisfactorily the same
thing. Last year my Latin beginners
recited in the larger room. 1 had
placed on the board one day 'Hic, haze,
hoe and said that the class would
find trouble in learning it, and I'd leave
it there so they could see it from time
to time. This year, when my begin
ners received the same pronoun, I
found hat many of them had learned
the ~declension of the word already; and
a little questioning brought out the
fact just for fun they had learned it
last year when the word had been put
on the board and left there.-Colorad0
School Journal.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-23
Seeing a Disarreeable Truth.

Republican papers are commencing
TO admit that the Dingley tariff will
be inadequate as a revenue measure.
il is difficult to escape this conclusion
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-23
Slaves in the Coal Fields.

According to the story of Mayor Ait.
miller Of Hazelton, who is presumably
Il patriot and a friend to law and or
der, since he is an ex-union soldier. the
savagery of the corpOration-hired dep
uties at Lattimer was a fit complement
to the greed of their employers.
Heads of families among the striking
miners have been receiving 20 cents a
day for their labor when they were so
fortunate as to get work. Steady en-
ploynIent then meant $40 a week.
With this S4.20 the men must provide
food, fuel, clothing, and shelter for
wives, children, and other dependents.
All purchases of supplies must be
made at company stores. This is not
mandatory, under the statutes of Penn
sylvania, but it is an unwritten law of
the companies that nc miner dare dis
obey. 1t is a law that confirms the
servitude of low wages. From the fact
that meat sells at + cents Il pound
above the market price in the stores,
the prices of other articles may be
judged. There are no cheap coats to
make cheap men in that locality.
No, the coats and everything else
but the men are protected there. There
is a new and high tariff on coSl, on
household goods, on everything that
the miners buy, but there is no tariff
on the miner, nor is he to have any
benefit from the tariff on coal. With
his pitiable wage he must go on getting
into debt at the stores and sinking him
self deeper in slavery. That is the
moral of recent American -. .sI;uIon.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-23
The Coming Era of Thrift.

II is true hat the farmer seldom is
u miser and that he spends freely when
he has the money. But he is not go
ing to be such a free spender this year
as he has been in the past. Adversely
has taught him the valuable lesson of
%frugality. He is going to buy sparing-
ly this year. While this new spirit Of
economy and frugality on the part of
the farmers may disappoint the
sanguine merchants for awhile, in the
end the effect will be a betterment of
all the business interests of the Jul
try. 1t will lead to an era of thrift and
accumulation Of which we have stood
in sore need ever since the Industrial
changes wrought by the civil war rem
dered a reimbursement of conditions and
relations necessary.-St. Louis Repub-
lie.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-09-23

ENOUGH ReVenue' TOO Nuch EXp ehse'
From 1884 to 1890 the average July
disbursement, the heaviest monthly
payments in the year, vas S34, 0 1000;
in 1892, S37, 100000; in 1880 it was
S33S. OOO,O 900; in 1896, 42,000,000; in
1897. $4,000, 900. This shows the real
basis of the deficit. 1t is the n which
ought to receive the greatest share Of
attention. Expense is the trouble, not
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assessed against said G w Faus for the
years 1889 and 1890.
Bv motion the auditor was instructed
to send a copy Of the following notice
to each of the insurance companies
carrying risks on the Pennington
County court house at the time of the
recent fire:
You are hereby notified that on the
rs day of April 1897, at about the hour
of 1870 a m fire destroyed the court
house building situated on block 81
original townsite of Rapid City, S D,
on which you have a policy. You will
therefore take notice of the fact and
we request you to send us blanks on
which to make proofs of loss under
policy no
By motion colnty auditor was in
structed to notify co supt to meet with
board at 10 o'clock a m April 30 on
consultation relative to change in
boundary lines of school district no 6.
BY motion the following bills were
allowed and warrants ordered drawn
on the proper funds for the same:
Ed Anderson l days work nov
ing furniture co fund So 90
Anna j Mcclellan witness and
milage c county fund so
Hugh Mcclellan witness fees and
mileage j c county fund $50
N Taylor cleaeing floor in court
house county fund 230
Will Miller cleaning floor in
court house county fund 23O
Ed Woods l assessors satchel
county fund 90
Lewis Hubbins work at court
house county fund 900
Frank Sucker work at court
house county fund 300
R N Erwin watching court house
county fund 90
j T GarYey road work no 13 road
no ID fund 90
BY motion board adjourned to meet
8 o'clock a m April 80, 1897.
Attest: w Clark,
chairman board county commissioners.
F Mcmahon. county auditor.
Rapid City, S D, April 80, 1897.
Board met pursuant to adjournment
all members and county auditor pres
ent. Minutes of last meeting read and
approved.
By motion the meeting of the sheep
for the purpose of selecting a
sheep inspector was postponed to Sat-
urday July 10, 1897.
BY motion the petition of j d Nc
Nickle ct al for the purpose of attach
ing the property OF Enoch Driver,
James Dryer and August Rodemachen
to school district no 6, granted and
auditor instructed to notify clerk of
suid district that above named citizens
are entitled to all school privileges en-
ioyed by residents of said district and
that at the regular July meeting Of the
county commissioners the boundaries
of school district no 6 shall be so
changed as to conform to this motion.
b. motiou the county treasurer was
to advertise for bid for the
safe keeping Of the public funds as
prouided for iu ar act passed by the
state legislature in 1891 aid entitled
act to provide for the safe keeping
Of the public funds in the hands of the
Continued next week.