Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-06-29
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MANY man mas Deen driven 10
| drink because his girl didn't refuse
him.-Staunton Va.) Leader.
1t is not the aggressiveness of Grim
inals that causes the passage Of bad
laws SO much as the Indifference of
honest men.-Town Topics.
Mr.. David Starr Jordan declares that
there is no graft in Japan. The man
who says the Japanese are civilized
nation is clearly Neutrality-suspicious.
SpokesmanReview.
Mayor Weaver commenced business
life as machinist, but the Philade[
phia people prayed for him, and he
turned against the machine.-Rich-
mond Times-Dispatch.
Secretary Shaw declares nobody is
authorized to say that he is candi-
date for the Presidency. Uncle Joe"
Cannon will continue, however, to have
strong suspic1ons.-Chicago Record
Herald.
1t is said that a New York man who
sued Tom Lawson for So, 1000 has just
paid him $1,000 to drop the thing.
Mr.. Lawson ought to be president Of
life insurance company.-Colorado
Springs Gazette.
A certain beauty specialist has made
talk On the subject of "Woman's
Duty to Become Beautiful" She has
a gentle way Of sentencing some wom-
en- to hard labor for life.--FrOnt Royal
(Na.) Sentinel.
Fashionable ladies in New York are
now affecting a cunning little lisp.
Well, that's more innocent than good
many things they have affected dur
ing the past few seasons.-Chicago
Record Herald
The farmers of Oklahoma and Kan
sas have given assurance to Secretary
Shaw that in the event Of financial
distress coming to the government they
will take care of the deficit-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The cowboy wolf-catcher of Okla
homa, John Alternately, has been ap-
pointed deputy United States mar
shall. Alternately hunted with the Pres
ident recently, and proved himself
good civil-service shot.-Judge.
The Chicago Tribune declares there
is no fruit more wholesome and deli
cious than the prune." That editor
talks like a man who is edging up to
little temporary arrangement with
his Observation-Disclosures Sentinel.
The attention of Mr.. Castro, of Ven
ezuela, is called to the fact that in a
speech to the Ohio convention, Secre-
tary Taft made it plain that his case
would be properly attended to all in
due time and order.-Syracuse Herald.
The baseball editor of the Baltimore
Sun got down at the paragrapher's
desk long enough to observe that, mo
matter what pitcher the Russians put
in, the Japanese promptly bat him out
of the box."-Richmond Times-Dis-
patch.
According to the dispatches, Togo
gave credit for the victory to the En-
peror's ancestors. Doubtless the dis
patches err. Togo is a Presbyterian,
and results show conclusively that he
pinned his faith on Knox.-Chicago
Post.
1t is now thought that in the neigh
borhoOd of a million foreign immi-
grants will come to the country this
year, and the regulators of that mode
of accession to our population are
again getting busy. 1t surely looks as
if it were time to do something
Knoxville Journal-Tribune.
Somehow, the reputed Alexander
Hyde compact to retire from Wall
street and devote their undivided at
tention to life insurance sounds like
that time when Mephistopheles devel-
oped monkish tendencies when the
counsel of experts had diagnosed his
case as critical-Albany Argus.
Japan's scheme for commemorating
Togo's victory by the erection of an
enormous beacon on Okino Island,
casting it's rays for eighty miles over
the sea, and almost the entire scene Of
the wonderful battle, is rare, IL not
unique, in its combination of senti-
ment and practicability.- Her
aid.
Mayor Weaver has escaped from the
tolls, and henceforth must be known,
if known at all, as an honest man. 1t
is yet to be seen if several hundred
thousand Philadelphians, who stand to
benefit financially by the restoration of
the ring, to lose little gratuities and
perquisites by its continued over
throw, will stick it out.-Boston Tran
script.
The fact that Charles ]. Bonaparte
is being sued by the government as
part owner of property wanted for a
custom house site in Baltimore. and
for which the government refuses to
pay the owners price, while wholly