Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-03-23

Billion and half Congress. The
watchdog of the treasury must be
tootlless.-New York Herald.
Grand Duke Vladimir is said to be
perfect wreck If he isn't he will be
when the Terrorists get through with
him.-Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
Kansas is the home Of the brave,
and when it gets out Of the Standard
Oil Company's clutches It viii be the
land of the free.-Kansas City Times.
The only thing that the Senate does
not amend is the scripture that Dr.
Hale recites in the morning, and there
is no telling when it VIII fall t. OF
that.-New York Mail.
The Beef Trust will obey the Su-
preme Court mandate. Hereafter, in
stead Of fixing the prices by agree
ment, the trust Will fix them by mere
accident.-New York American.
Carrie Nation has just denounced
some of the Kansas State officials rs
devils anarchists and hypOcrites.'
Mr. Rockefeller is doubtless glad that
someone has said it for him.-Wasl-
ingtOn Post.
Japan would be justified in address
ing to the powers the question, What
are you going to do about il! should
they show any inclination to monkey
with the fruits of victOry.-New York
Evening Sun.
a 16-year-old girl in Brussels came
to grief after negotiating a promissory
note for $4,000 without security. Ev-
identity has the making in her Of a
Mrs. Chadwick when she grows up
New York World
If the spirit of Doodle and Of graft
is to be found thus early in the 18th
milan Canal Commission, what may we
expect from the subordinate officials
throughout the years of active opera
tionS:-POrtland Argus.
The frequent occurrence of such at
fairs as that which cost the Grand
Duke Sergius his life will sooner or
later convince the Russian autOcracy
San Francisco Chronicle.
No age limit with reference to the
employment of children has been es-
tablished in Delaware, Georgia, Ida
no and Nevada. And yet those States
are considered old enough to VOTE
Newport News Times Herald.
With Wisconsin, Missouri and Okla
homa following Kansas on the trail OF
the Standard Oil Company, and Uncle
Sam joining the procession, there is
likely to be pretty race, to say the
least.-Nebraska State Journal.
There will soon be only one Terri
tory inside the United States. Old
Arizona, probably the first inhabited
State Of all those now in the Union,
will stay out until she gets in on her
own terms.-Birmingha Ledger.
John l.. Sullivans latest lecture
proved a big failure. Making per-
son pay $3.50 to see the old fighter
kill the English language was enough
to cause everybody to take to the
y
ent.
1t used to be the case that when
man struck oil he struck a fortune,
but the times have changed. The least
part of it now is the striking Of the
Oil. The thing is to strike the man
who grants the rebateS.-ChicagO In
ter Ocean.
When Kansas gets through cleaning
up the Standard Oil Company it may
occur to it that there are lot more
trusts needing attention, and that the
tariff, even more than the freight
rates, is responsible for the mischief.
Kansas City IStar.
Sixty years and five days was the
sentence of a military officer in the
Philippines convicted of appropriating
$1,000. He ought to have done his
stealing after the style of the Ship
building Trust, and then he would not
have been sentenced even to five days.
New York News.
According to the best advices that
we have from st. Petersburg, it ap-
pears that the Car would like to es-
cape further trouble by establishing
4 few reforms, but he is afraid of fur
Their trouble if he does establish a few
reforms. The bomb thrOwers in Rus
STA are not all revolutionists-Chic
go Chronicle.
In cooking a church supper the ether
night several Camden men needlessly
established dangerous precedent, AM
one cannot help thinking that they
would only be getting their just deserts
by being compelled to hang around the
kitchen stove and stew up the dOmeS-
tic hash three times a day.-Philadel-
phia Evening Telegraph.
The revelation that some of the
Isthmian Canal Commissioners have
been takinS fees for their attendance
at meetings of the Panama Railroad
is not pleasant one. 1t suggests the
ease with which the "guinea-pig hab-
it may be adopted by otherwise re-
spectacle men when the temptation to