Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-12-15
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The prices of the new winter hats
| almost make them deserve the name Of
millionery.-Ohio State Journal.
| No more fights now for John L. Sui
I! Ivan. He has disabled his right arm
signing temperance pledges.-New
| York Mail
! Another New York woman has lost
4 100000 necklace. They all seem to
| have them to lose down there-Chi-
cago RecordHeraId.
Business in Wall street is picking
| up. That is, part of the participants
are picking up what the others are
ropping.-ChicaS News.
! 1t looks as if the final charge against
| the officers of the Baltic fleet would be
! the familiar one, drunk and disorder
| ly New York Evening Sun.
We 'InOw an excellent old lady who
| is Il good mother, womanly and dcServ-
ing in every way. But she lies ten
| years about her age.-AtchisOn Globe
| Germany is spending $4OOOO,OOO to
! put down an insurrection in German
| Southwest Africa. And still Emperor
William cOyets more colonies.-kansas
. City Star.
Somebody defines Il true American
as one who works his way I'D from
! the bottom. This would appear to bar
the late George Washington.-Clev
land Plain Dealer
1t is difficult to imagine the extent
of the disaster which would ensue if
one-half of the Russian navy should
unexpectedly meet the other half on Il
dark night.-New York Sun.
Russia is very sensitive about her
prestige, but there is nothing that will
send it zerOWard faster than panicky
fleet on the high seas, with all the
world watching-Boston Transcript
There are some very economical
people in North Carolina. The Kins-
ton Free Press tells Of q man who has
been wearing the same shirt for TWEEN
ty yearS.-Raleigh News and Observer
The dispatches tell us that q man
with beard a yard long was hung in
Indiana the other day. Then men with
boards a yard long should get shaved.
No use to run any unnecessary risks
Raleigh On. c. Post.
Has the cost of living increased?"
is question that stares one in the
face from many different directions,
but it is not half so important to lot
of people as rs the hired girl salts
fed:"-Syracuse Herald.
The terrible slaughter of soldiers in
Manchuria is causing a revolt against |
war among all civilized people. The |
telegraphic accounts, far short Of real |
istic description, are enough to dismay |
readers.-Louisville Herald
Reformists are hunting ''cure" for |
divorces. We know of no cure, but a |
good preventive might be discovered |
in raising boys and girls with less tenn |
per, higher ideals and aspirations that |
look beyond having "a good time
Wilmington (N CO Star.
Regardless OF the loudest canon of |
bishops or laymen, the New York di-
vorce mill turns faster and faster. One
judges grist in three days was fifty
six cases. But one trouble in New |
York is it's SO easy to get married in
Transcript.
And now comes the edict that bow
legged men must be barred from the
navy. If this harsh rule had been en-
forced in the rare old, fair old, gold
en- days" many of the names that have
made us famous would be missing
from our roll of nautical heroes.-New
York Herald
Out in South Dakota the farmers are |
selling their best beef to the Beef
Trust for = cents 4 pOund-a record
low price. In New York the trust has
so fixed prices that you must pay from
20 to - cents for your beef. Beef was
never lower when the farmer has it
to sell, and never higher to the man
who pays the retail butcher bill.-New
York American.