Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-03
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AUTOMATICALLY Washington Post.
The japanese do not appear to have
been unnerved by General KurOpat-
kin'S great war speech.-Dallas News.
A Wisconsin paper mentions vocal
instrumental music" We presume it
makes sweet discord. - Montgomery
Advertiser.
The ChicagOan who was hurt in
bogus hold-up in Colorado might have
won real glory if he had stayed at
home.-Chicago Post.
About thousand Russians and Japs
in Manchuria are being converted daily
to the argument of perpetual peace
New York Commercial.
General Corbin might do the admin
istration a good turn by requiring the
army Cupid to take the test for color
misunderstanding Post.
The charge of the six hundred at
Balaklava has been OutclasSed several
times in the battle of Yentai Gf that's
its name).-Philadelph Inquirer.
The powerful whistles Secretary
Morton will have placed on his war
ships are to be used, perhaps, for
soaring sea COWS off the track-Dcn-
Yer Post.
4 scientist says that one day we
shall be able to do without sleep That
will probably be the day the election
returns come in.-WashinStOn Even
ing Star.
Count Okuma says the war will cost
Japan not less than 81 ,OO0. 100000. The
Emperor will feel this when he comes
up for re-election.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat
SO long as they are fighting as fierce
ly as they are in Manchuria it is Il
good deal of farce to talk about
peace congresses. - Spokane SpOkes-
man Review
1t is becoming increasingly clear to
the Russian mind that KurOpatkin'S
latest defeat was due solely to the fact
that he was not Observation-Disclosures
phia North American.
The men who make pictures for cam
paign banners are not always imbued
with the spirit of reverence for great
American statesmen that might be eX-
pccted ashingtOn Evening Star.
A New York police judge has held
that a street-car conductor has no right
to kick a passenger in the stomach.
But what if the passenger fails to
step lively?'-Cincinnati Enquirer.
They who go down to the sea in
ships and do business in great waters
escape the perils OF those who intrust
their lives to the operators of Ameri-
can railway lines.-kanSaS City Star.
And now Great Britain asks Il Tibet
an indemnity of nearly $4,000,000. TO
pay q friendly visit to Il neighbOr and
then send him Il bill for travelling eX-
penses is rare insular thrift-New
York World
The Chicago judge who declared that
the man who bequeathed Alexander
Dowie 10000 and cut his family off
without q penny was insane is a bang
up specimen Of sanity. - Richmond
NeWs-Leader.
The only work the peace conferences
may accomplish is to educate the peO-
pie against the barbariSm Of war. In
ternational agreements will amount to
nothing. Public sentiment CONTROLS
Memphis Morning News.
London's County Court has put palm
istry under the ban of the old witch
craft law. After all, it is only in q
certain great American game that the
faculty for reading the hand counts for
much.-New York World.
The selection Of Richmond as the
place for holding the next Episcopal
convention is further certifcatiOn to
the fact that there's no Mason and
DiXon's line in that denomination. And
there never was.-Boston Herald.
4 Boston individual has expressed
his opinion of John ID. Rockefeller on a
postal card, but Miss Ida NJ. Tarbell
can't for the life of her understand
how an opinion of the distinguished
money-accumulat tor can be compressed
into less than II magazine articles
New Orleans States.
1t is a mistake to assume that Gen
eral Apathy is an idle old gentleman
who is too lazy to take an interest in
politics. He is usually a busy man
closely engaged in the management Of
his own affairs. 1t is the idle ordin-
arily who become most aroused and
prophetic in politics.-Nashville Ban
ner.
The new Chinese exclusion treaty
now being framed by Secretary Hay
and Minister LANG Cheng will bear
down hard on the laundryman, but
show more liberality to the gentleman
and scholar from the Orient. This is
as it should be. We have too often in
suited the high-class Chinaman.-Bos-
ton Journal.
The gentlemen who plead guilty to
having loaded life-preserver cork with
iron demur to the indictment because
the stuff was sold in open market, not