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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (March 17, 1898)
V he fzkntitte eitiacrnt t ItOBERT GOOD Kditor and Prop VALENTINE 9lk JJMmAU2Z dnV - J tK NEBRASKA We doubt -whether England ever -will leave China a loan The consolidated biscuit trust sighs no longer for floury beds of ease It has them That vegetable ball given by lead ers of New Yorks 400 can only be equaled in Boston by a codfish ball Zola has raised an issue in France comments the Detroit Tribune He raised something a great deal hotter than that For the time he has been at it Gen eral Blanco has managed to achieve ns picturesque a failure as could have been expected Its hard to use the word in such a connection but much of -what Ger many lias said about the American ap ple is simply rot A writer in Harpers Weekly makes the fine point that -when a Western farmer lays by for a rainy dsy he is Eaving up for a drought The 100 counterfeit bill has ceased to -worry capitalists but paragraphers Bhould be on the alert There is a new counterfeit quarter in circulation A returned Klondiker says It is ex tremely cold there about eight months of the year we consider zero as just sothing at all We consider it the eame here A fashion paper suggests that the Teasona -woman powders as to take the shine off her nose Not at all She does it to take the shine off some other women The United States Circuit Court in Cincinnati has rendered a decision against the cast iron pipe trust Here is a method of hitting the pipe -which should prove popular The cabled information from Italy that the earth has two lnoons will sur prise no one -who has ever overestima ted his tankage capacity It is very easy to see more than two moons Bishop Vincent has started a crusade In Kansas against the deadly sin of chewing gum We have felt certain all along that sooner or later the great Resetting sin of Kansas would find her out Life is full of contradictions The bacillus of the world stirring whooping cough is found to be particularly small and delicate but what ravages the lit tle intruder can commit Science will yet get the belter of this disturber of the peace Dr Nanseus criticism of our palace cars is that there is no privacy on them Perhaps it is natural for an arctic explorer who loves solitude and a low temperature to feel that way If Nansen ever comes to this country again the railroads should provide a refrigerator car for his exclusive use There is considerable interest mani fested just now in regard to flour look ing like wheat flour and sold as such but manufactured out of wheat and Iorn Com is a most excellent and rwholesome food but fair play to the consumer should dictate the policy of common honesty in making this blend ed flour so that the customer would know just what he was buying The election of President Krueger jueans something more than a mere compliment to the leadership of the old boer Stripped of its trimmings it means that the South African republic or at least its Dutch element is un compromisingly opposed to British suzerainty over its affairs and that as soon as the opportunity arises it in tends to play for absolute independence of Great Britain A member of the editorial staff of the Shreveport La Progress recently shot and killed a negro The next issue of that journal referred to the dead man and added Our editor asks his friends to come to the man -who did the lulling for an explanation of the un fortunate affair This is only fair no one can denythat It might do no fiarm for the States Attorney to drop around there and get an explanation The strike and lockout in the Eng lish engineering trades -which began July 13 of last year has ended and the men have gone back to -work The strike involved the question of an eight hour day and also that of the management of the shops and on both points the men -were defeated It is estimated that the strike caused a loss of ten million dollars in -wages and a distribution of two million dollars in re lief but no accurate estimate can be made of the loss to employers In the diary of Samuel Pepys there 5s the entry for Oct 3 1600 This day I heard the duke speak of a great de sign that he and my Lord of Pembroke have and a great many othor 5of send ing a venture to some parts of Africa to dig for gold -ore there Ty Intend to admit as many as will vesture their money and so make thems3lves a com pany Two hundred and fifty pounds 3s the lowest share for every man This record not only shows how old a pursuit is gold hunting in Africa but it likewise reveals the purpose of tJie promoters familiar in modern plans of the sort As many as will venture their money have an equally good chance nowadays to join the army of investors Skepticism regarding the outcome of such investments is also not modern Pepys adds I do not find that my lord do much like it The United States has long enjoyed the distinction of producing more gold than any other country but in spite of the recent discoveries in Alaska and the gold that is being brought into the country via the Pacific it is thought that we are to be robbed of this dis tinction There is reason to believe that the Transvaal will soon take the lead in gold production if it has not already done so The Engineering and Mining Journal recently estimating tfae output of gold for the year credited to the United States 35498930 and to the Transvaal 53472300 The sig nificance of these figures is understood by a comparison with the figures for 1890 which show that the increase in the United States was only 3000000 while the Transvaal made a jump of no less than 13500000 If the Trans vaal keeps up anything like this pace during the present year there is little doubt that we shall be left behind in the gold producing race It is not im possible indeed that the United States may drop to the third place before long Australia is increasing her production of gold rapidly Her total last year was more than 49000000 and this without counting New Zealand and other adjacent islands This shows a gain of nearly 7000000 over the yield of 1890 so it Avill be seen that if Australia con tinues to gain at the same rate and the United Stages makes no more progress than it has in the last twelve months there will be two countries in the world -with a better gold producing record than ours Most of the appliances of modern civilization brings risks as well as ad vantages The people who lived a hun dred years ago could not travel so rap Jidly nor communicate with each other across great distances so conveniently as we do but on the other hand they were strangers to some perils which are familiar nowadays Their journeys were slow and serious affairs but they were in no danger of being blown up on a steamboat or tumbled over a rail way embankment or even of being run over by a trolley car or a scorching wheelman Their houses were not lighted by electricity or by water gas but they were not burned up by reason of badly insulated wires or asphyxiated in their beds They knew nothing of fifteen story buildings but they alsc knew nothing of elevator accidents Nevertheless it is doubtful if more lives are lost by accidents of travel in pro portion to the number of people travel ing than was the case a century ago Hundreds of people travel by water now where one did so then but ocean travel has been made relatively more safe as well as more swift and com fortable by modern appliances There are still possibilities of collision or of striking a reef in a fog but it almost never happens that a modern sea worthy vessel founders through stress of weather One steamship company which has sent its steamers back and forth across the Atlantic for more than fifty years is able to boast that it has never lost the life of a passenger in the service As to the railways in 1S9J one hundred and eight one passengers were killed on the railways of the United States and nearly twenty nine hundred were injured When these figures are compared with the amount of passenger traffic it appears that the railways carried nearly three million passengers for every one who was killed and about one hundred and eighty thousand passengers for every passenger injured A famous humorist once compared the number of people killed in railway accidents with the number dying in their beds and reach ed the conclusion that it was several thousand times more risky to lie in bed than to travel on a railway It was a playful exaggeration but it is true that if modern discovery and invention have resulted in new hazards to human life they have also supplied new safe guards and preventives Appendicitis The position is taken by Dr McBur ney iu the London Medical News that there really is no medical cure for ap pendicitis even though some cases re cover without operation he considers too though appendicitis is a surgical disease yet operation may not be nec essary in every case the fact being that Ibis ailment is a stoppage of the drainage from the appendix to the co ion and preliminary treatment is often worse than useless Thus the opium treatment relieves pain and discomfort but entirely masks the symptoms at a most important time for it is in the first twenty four hours from the begin ning of the attack that physicians can decide not only as to the diagnosis but as to the result and course probably of the case If for instance there is no Increase in urgency in five or six hours the patient Is not in immediate danger if kept at perfect rest in bed on the other hand if In twelve hours there is ctill no Increase in the severity of the symptoms the patient should begin to improve But if the urgency of iiie case has steadily increased in twelve hours from the time when the diag nosis was made an operation will prob ably be called for After two attacks a patient is sure to have a third and each attack renders operation more dif ficult and dangerous all the advan tages lie with operation between the at tacks and in an operation during an acute attack the prognosis is worse Building Associations of the Land The 4776 building associations in the United States have 1010300members and assets of 000000000 A tough beefsteak is a cure sure for its own consumption Living up to ideals is like doing every day work vrith your Sunday clothes on A- jj sA CAPTAIN C D SIGSBEE BRAVE AND COOL HEADED COHflANDER OF THE HAINE JL0H0RA sGsgS - rt i Ltiacs mimAik - - i m rycovuui r w w iiiiin n rr rfiiT iTiys n n vx i ysf v - - wvu i iikiwj j HrnMi r n t v z IffifiCftjjJCSBEe CHARLES D SIGSBEES CAPT or rather the home of his family for a navy oflicer has no home but his ship is in a pleasant little house in Riggs place Washington D C Sigsbee married a daughter of Gen Lock wood shortly after the close of the war and they have three children The eldest daughter was married a short time ago to Ensign Kittelle of the navy who is sta tioned on the dispatch boat Dolphin The home life of the Sigsbees always has been exceedingly pleasant the captain himself having had several pleasant assignments in Washington where he has been n fig ure of note Mrs Sigsbee comes of mili tary stock and is used to the alarms of war Her house at Washington is the rendezvous for naval officers at the cap ital by whom she is highly esteemed Of medium height with broad shoul ders a spare frame and hair and mus tache just beginning to turn gray Capt Sigsbee looks like a man capable of coping with almost every difficulty which might arise in the service In fact his experi ence in almost every branch of the navy has fitted him for emergencies Born in Albany Oxford County Me 52 years ago he moved to New York and was ap pointed as a cadet in the naval academy from that State in 1859 After being graduated in 1S03 he was appointed en sign and stationed on the Monongahela where he remained a year Then he was sent to the old Brooklyn and took a gal lant part in the battle of Mobile Bay un der Farragut in 1864 hU Ou WC LvuJUIl4 Uvx iO Ctslu aJL ftrtJL U Xl Jefl 6 Qjxr r JIT t 4- w Mzsfi M 1 1 T Anhli nun jmil 111 Tlir pgagTr frTi m i At mV i T i i 1 1 1 i i yfftFTyl y Iff Afi ITrft - - fffi lir L - Jsi5tjahfa CnJLunf Cb d jksjat e jCiMtf rt r Trrn v r J7 jr H 7X cyAZi v c i a ML tSWfrJS jt hjitA As I yfc gr A dCLQi Oszz UaA4 dites Q V CtftO yvxczuz - MV Wr tyL rSrr rwvee vonw 7h4 drsiFTL FACSIMILE OF SIGSBEES FAMOUS DISPATCH Sigsbees work during the war was noticeable for its efficiency and he did not have to wait long for promotion He was made a lieutenant in 1867 and assigned to the steamer Ashuelot in the Asiatic squadron He was promoted to be a lieutenant commander in 1S68 a commander in 18S2 and has been a captain for several vears He lias passed several aSiat naval acndem5 and has bceu connected with the hydrographic department in Washington From 1S75 to io i wasn charge of the coast survey steamer Blake which thoroughly explored the Gulf of Mexico While on the Hake Capt bigsbee invented a system of deep sea soundings which has since been adopted bv all marine men He also invented a gravitation trap which would bring water from certain up any depth required Capt Sigsbee had two years experience on the European station in command of the old Kearsarge Jt TaS nIy a sbort time ag0 tho Maiue was on her way back to Tompkinsville from a cruise in Long Island Sound YV hen about opposite pier 42 East River she came suddenly into a kind of pocket formed by a Mallory Line steamer a tug with two railroad floats of freight cars and two excursion boats the Isabella and the Chancellor both crowded to the rails with passengers The Maine forced out of her course was bearing down directly on the Isabella whose pilot had either misunderstood or disregarded the signals At this crisis Capt Sigsbee took personal command of his ves sel and instantly ordered the engines reversed and the wheel put hard-a-port The great warship came about with a celerity that astonished all beholders and headed directly in shore while the Isabella with her load of passengers passed by m safety scarcely four feet clear of the ironclads stern Then the Maine ran bow on into the pier sunk two railroad floats with twenty cars on board jammed the plates of her bow and in less than ten minutes had damaged property worth thousands of dollars but the thousand lives on the excursion boats were saved The Navy Department was pleased at tins action and the captain was complimented in a personal letter by the Secretarv of the Navv That Capt Sigsbee is a fearless man in the discharge of his duty is shown by his conduct during the war and his vuucaa iu eitiuS a collision in uie Jast river Personally also lie has the great quality of braverv During the war he was on duty with the North Atlantic blockading squadron One day a midshipman fell overboard The sea was heavv niu uuuuusiuicia u UUUIIUK aiOllff t fl COOU SllPOH AS T in nrv n mnn nrorin inl rnnfioil liio tc 2 1 fP C 1 fc SW rt - mm n I r - - - v IHUVU mo tuij uiuauL i SCIZIU iuL uiiQoi a piece or rope ana piungca into the sea A few strokes bzrought him to the midshipman who was hurt bv his fall and unable to swim Sigsbee manfully clung to the rope and held the boys head above water until the nair wero rps cued by a boat t Capt Sigsbee would be a rich man did he not belong to the navy Inventions made bv naval officers are considerod to be the property of the United States His scheme devised in the Gulf of Mexico for deep sea soundings and his gravitation trap for bringing up water from any required depth have proved of great value to mariners all over the world Had he been able to take out patents on them in his own name his royalties would have been immense Take him for all in all he is not only a good naval officer but a cool shrewd man and is popular among his fellows WINTER IN HOLLAND Cold Winter Fun in a Country Where Skaters Abound In Holland the fun of winter life takes many forms and winter facili tates locomotion as the highways of summer available for boats become the Dest thoroughfares for those who skate In this way directly the ice bears visits are made and distances traveled which cannot be done in summer and instead of going round and round as we do here on a small confined space the Dutch make up a party and pay a visit to some neighboring town or vil lage A bright winters morniug is al ways exhilarating how much more so when cheerful company free exercise variety of character and constant change of scene all tend to make the day as a red letter one Should the frost be sufficiently severe a river is most interesting being on a large scale and partaking more of the character of a fair which is the case for in stance on the Maas at Rotterdam The Maas runs very strongly and the difficulty Is for the first coating of ice to form When a severe frost catch es the still water during the night then once begun soon done and the crews who turn into their berths at night wake up in the morning to find them selves frozen in The canals naturally soon freeze over and the boat traffic Is supplanted by baggage sledges large and small Near dwelling houses are seen little box sledges for the children These are the same as the seven teenth century contrivances the child sits with just room for its feet and with stick in each hand pushes astern and propels itself ahead The adult sledges are in some cases simply gor geous as the opportunity affords great body the driver perched at the back as on the tail the sweeping irons follow ing the curve of the swans neck over these run the reins One horse gener ally constitutes the team A Liock of Napoleons Hair A unique souvenir of the great Napo leon is kept in the family of his old nurse and attendant being oow in the possession of Prof Bagley of Abilene Kan He is a native of the island of St Helena and his mother was one of the intimates of the guardians of Na poleon When the Emperor lay dying his old nurse stole to his side and clipped from his head a lock of hair Part of the lock she gave to Mr Bag leys mother and she gave it to her sou It is kept in a bottle and is black and gray with a trace of brown For forty years the bottle has been kept in a dark room that the hair may not be injured by the light There are about forty strands in all The relic is held at a great value by the possessor He has also some cloth from the coffin a medal given by Napoleon and some other minor souvenirs from the island of St Helena The only other portion of the body of Napo1rton known to be on this continent is a single hair thdt Richard Watson Gilder once owned He kept it in his watch case When the watch was re paired he forgot to tell the jeweler of the precious contents When he went to get it he asked Did you find any thing in the case Yes replied the workman there was a hair in there but it is all right now I blew it out You blew out a piece of Napoleon Bonaparte said the editor of the Cen tury WILES OF THE GUIDE Somehow the Best Pishing Grounds Are Always on the Other Side Being a scientific fisherman he is an oracle on all matters pertaining to pis catorial pastimes He carries three tackle boxes and every tray is full He has the finest rods reels flies spoons trolley lines and hooks He is pre pared to take anything from muskel lunge to minnows One thing I want to tell you he said to the comparative novice At all these island lakes tne fishing is on the other side Stop off at any resort hire a guide tell him you want the best there is and if s 99 to 1 hell pull for the otner shore no matter how many miles have to be traversed He will take you to the favorite haunts of the gamy black bass Incidentally he will see that you get a few big fish weigh ing from fifteen to twenty pounds each that you may take thin home and astonish your friends What you really get ir some pickerel and perch possibly a couple of wall eyed pike a few rock bass and some sun fish There is always an explana tion for this vast discrepancy between hope and realization Thcq day is too bright its too windy the lakes too rough or the appetite of the fish has been taken in their desire to get further up stream You have the same experi ence every day for these guides are wiser than serpents and keep you in a flutter of joyful anticipation hrough an entire season Figure it up and 3roull find that most of your money is spent in going to and fro from the other side of the lake Last season I dissected some bass that I bought found that they were feeding on crawfish hunted out the rock bottom in the lake and took 15 of the gamy beauties in one afternoon The guides acted just as though I had jumped a gold claim of theirs but I kept quiet and caught bass while the guides kept taking the other fellows across the lake in the morning and back at night Just to make the whole thing plain prospect till you find out where the fish are and then go after them Detroit Free Press A Days Variance in Weight Have you ever tried this experiment of weighing yourself in the morning and again in the evening It is ce of thp best ways so doctors say of finding whether your health is good or not If you are thoroughly well there shoulr not be a difference of more than two oi three ounces either way in the twelve hours If you lose or gain ss much or eight ounces you should immediately consult a doctor while the gain or loss of a pound indicates you are on the verge of serious illness This of course does not apply to one just recovering from illness for convalescents who have been much reduced may some times gain 15 to 20 ounces a day S V Y After a debate lasting several days the Senate on Friday passed the bill extend ing the homester d laws and providing for right of way railroads in the district of Alaska Comparatively little discus sion of general interest was created by the bill Section 13 providing for certain bonding concessions to Canada in lieu of privileges to be extended by the Domin ion Government to this country however induced a pretty lively debate as it brought into the controversy the old fish eries question on the New England coast which has been pending between the Unit ed States and Great Britain for 100 years Two more appropriations were sent to the President Friday the pension bill and the consular and diplomatic both of which went through their final stage in the House It was private bill day The most important action taken was acqui escence in an agreement to make tho bill appropriating abont 1200000 for war claims approved by the court of claims under the provisions of the Bowman act a special order for the next Friday The claims carried by the bill 730 in number are for stores and supplies seized during the war in the Southern States Only two bills were passed one to pay the heirs of Sterling T Austin abont 39000 fcr cotton seized during the war and the oth er to pay an aggregate of 33G0 in small claims growing out of back pay etc earned during the war The House ad journed until Monday In the House on Monday the Hawley bill providing for two additional regiments of artillery was passed under suspension of the rules by almost unanimous vote Mr Bailey the Democratic leader want ed more lime for debate than the forty minutes allowed and because he did not pet it he inaugurated a filibuster against District of Columbia legislation that con tinued all day In the Senate the session was devoted toconsideration of the Dis trict of Columbia appropriation bill At the hour of adjournment the bill had not been disposed of The District of Columbia appropriation bill containing a provision for the reduc tion of abont one half of the present rates of telephone charges in the district was passed by the Senate on Tuesday A bill to authorize the relocation and re building of a nnntoon hridire nnross flip du Chien Wis was passed TheiiTnHCOthe relief of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Tennessee appropriating 2SS000 was passed In the House the bill appropriat ing 50000000 for defense passed unani mously In the nouse on Wednesday the legis lative executive and judicial appropria tion bill went through its last stages in the adoption of the financial conference report The remainder of the day was consumed in consideration of the Senate- amendments to the Indian appropriation i bill The substitute for the Senate pro- vision regarding the opening of the Un coripahgre reservation was knocked out on a point of order and the amendment goes back to conference The desire of the conferees to non concur in the Senate free homestead clause encountered bitter opposition and an arrangement was made whereby four hours are to be devoted to debate a proposition to concur submitted by Mr Eddy of Minnesota Mr Sher man chairman of the Indian Committee declared that the free homestead provis ion would cost the Government 50000 000 He desires to eliminate it from the bill and has the support of the Secretary of the Interior In the Senate the 50 000000 defense bill was passed by a unanimous vote Hawaiian annexation was considered in executive session In the nouse all day Thursday was spent on the Indian appropriation bill The Senate amendments were non-concurred in and the bill sent to conference In the Senate no business of real impor tance was transacted in open session The session lasted only an hour the time be ing largely consumed in disposing of rou tine morning business A few bills of minor importance were passed News of Minor Kote According to the latest figures China owes her creditors 193523000 Gen W B Taliaferro who was com mander of the Virginia troops during John Browns raid is dead Four hundred patients have died of starvation in one Havana hospital dur ing the past two months Mayor Good of Springfield O has been ousted by the Circuit Court for violations of the Garfield corrupt practice law V The body of ex Commissioner Leonard R Wells of Brooklyn has been found in the woods near Plainfield N J with a horrible gash in his throat Miss Frances E Willard bequeathed her estate to the Temple fund after the life interests of her secretary and her sister-in-law have expired Half the party organized by Miss Mary M Board at New Brunswick N J to found a temperance colony in Alaska started for their destination The report that a Spanish naval ofEcer some time ago sold to the Washington authorities a map of Havana harbor showing submarine mines is not creditedf A 7 foot granite monument in the Up per Hartz Germany has an iron tabletr mscnneu Mere in the year 1S47 the first trials were made with the cultivation of the potato A cablegram to London from Shanghai China says the United States Asiatic squadron is concentrated at Hong Kong with a view to active operations against Manilhi Philippine Islands in the event of war with Spain A Paris newspaper expresses a hone that a European statesman will be found to intervene with view a of the mainte nance of peace between the United States and Spain The navies of the world are now rated as follows Great Britain 1 France -Russia 3 Italy 4 United State 5- qZ many 6 Spain 7 Japan S Austrin and Netherlands 10 The smokestack of the Government as say once in Wall street New York h lately been cleaned and the sweepings smelted and refined yielding 52 standard - by auu cuv ounces of silver I V I 1 J mi J r