Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1895)
If Gterrg Gountg Mepewieiit VALENTINE NEBRASKA The wood that a politician saws never helps his wife much In running the kitchen fire It has been discovered that Shaks peares grandmothers name was Alice It is due the bard to add that she was not the Alice referred to in Ben Bolt It is reported that thousands of dolls which have been shipped from New York to Havana recently are filled with cartridges for the Insurgents Tretty toys those for the Cuban infantry A San Francisco woman announces that she will start for Chicago on her bicycle as soon as she obtains a di vorce This is rather reversing things Ordinarily the trip to Chicago is made before the divorce is applied for The Monroe doctrine is an Indefinite quantity so far as the details are con cerned but in a general way it means that no European nation should be al lowed to colonize any part of the West ern Hemisphere or monopolize any of its commercial advantages Kansas boasts that it has a school for every 1S2 persons while Massachu setts has but one for every GOO persons It should be remembered however that Massachusetts has no sparsely settled counties where only a dozen or so pupils are within reach of the school house The Old Bay State is not par ticularly noted for illiteracy An English writer on naval affairs Is preparing a work called Ironclads In Action which will deal with the history of fighting on the ocean during the last forty years Ho should give the United States credit for revolution izing the navies of the world a few months after the civil war broke out find all through having an armored cheesebox on a raft at the right place at the right moment Some people say that advertising is all a matter of luck that you cannot tell what advertising is going to do or whether or not it is going to pay This may be true but it is very strange that the man who gives intelligent thought to his advertising and does it in an intelligent earnest straightforward way usually has the luck on his side He is lucky in his advertKng because he reduces it to a science Advertising is just as certain as paying rent Ad vertising is governed by the same common-sense business lines that govern buying a lot of tomatoes or codfish Grocery World Tho Territory of Oklahoma seems to be one of those phenomenal States that are liable in the future to revolutionize even our American ideas of rapid devel opment It seems only yesterday that we were reading of the skurrying of the multitude over the barren and un improved laud of the Indian Territory In a desperate rivalry to secure the most desirable sites for settlement Now we are informed that there is es tablished upon the Territory a popula tion of 275000 with a taxable valua tion of 40000000 Surely this is out doing even the usual wonderful rapid ity of American growth and verging upon the miraculous The best of it all is that the Territory seems to have as well established a public morale as many of the older communities as well as all the other elements necessary to the highest social and political develop ment England is getting herself well equip ped with ultimatums of various sorts Sha has presented ultimatums to China and Turkey neither one of which has been regarded as very serious It was recently reported she had an ultimatum ready for Venezuela but if this be so It has not yet reached Caracas Her latest has been forwarded to the Kiug of Ashantee and it will go into effect Immediately He has been notified by must stop his favorite pastime of hu man sacrifices and let neighboring tribes under British protectorates alone An expedition is all ready to start into Ashantee and if its king does not come to terms it will be all the worse for him Fortunately the Monroe doctrine does not apply in Africa and none of the other powers have any interests there Great Britain therefore will make sliort work of the dusky sovereign and after that is over it may be safely pre sumed that she will swallow his king dom A contemporary laments the fact that In rebuilding the Hartford her identity as Farraguts flagship has been destroy ed and hence that the object of the ap propriation for her reconstruction has been defeated It is unfortunate of course but what else could have been expected You cannot turn an old hulk into a serviceable cruiser and keep It an old hulk The idea of reconstruct ing the Hartford for cruising purposes was a piece of sentimental folly She ought to have been laid up as a relic with only such repairs as were needed to protect her from the weather The money that has been wasted in rebuild ing her would have provided a useful modern gunboat When Holmes wrole the stirring poem that saved the Con stitution from the boneyard he did not advocate turning the old frigate into an up-to-date cruiser and sending her out on squadron duty The English keep Nelsons flagship Victory as a ven erated memento but they do not at tempt to make her available for service In a modern line of battle If our sail ors should prove as gallant in the fu- i f tnro as in the past and so should pro vide zs with a new stock of famous names the policy that has led to the reconstruction of the Hartford might end in filling our entire navy with crip pled and patched np monuments to sen timent without a ship that could fight Death came gently to our dear friend Eugene Field While he siept beside his little son the mystery of eternity was opened to him as in a dream and the childrens friend passed into the far off land of Ever Plaisance His verses and prose are read gratefully in every corner of the earth where Eng lish is spoken ne was beloved of chil dren and the friends of children Al though with characteristic modesty and distrust of his own genius he made no pretensions to the front rank among authors the best of the day welcomed bim to their fellowship To the last he was a busy journalist A poet of the people the people bear testimony to the depth of his feeling and the deft ness of his art The news of his death fell with a painful shock upon many a bruised heart that has found comfort In his tender verses The people of Jhicago who knew him well and had come to understand and appreciate him feel they have suffered a personal loss The gentleness of his disposition will live in the memory of his friends when all thought has passed of the pranks born of boisterous boyish love of fun which gave him his earlier fame As a journalist he had to deal satirically sometimes with the failings and foibles of friend as well as foe but his shafts left no deep scars none that were not effaced by after contact He was as be has written of another Good to die helpless an the weak a brave and manly heart He had not written much that he deemed of permanent ralue but the seven or eight little vol umes of prose or poetry are so exqui site in their style so simple so human so pure that they will carry his name far beyond our day Thousands who have read his writings with affection ate interest and awaited the coming of new work from his pen with eager ness will grieve for the passing of the childrens friend Eugene Field Up from the sea there floats a sob Of the waves that are breaking upon the shore As though they were groaning in an guish and moaning Bemoaning the ship that shall come no more The Youngest Hunter In the far West boys begin to be hunters at an early age Eight-year-olds who go off with dog and gun are not extremely rare but successful deer slayers of six probably have not yet been developed except in a single well authenticated case The papers of Portland Oregon tell the story and it is a simple one but rather inspiring to a hunter Mr O D Garrison of Scappoose a town not far from the Columbia River between Portland and St Helen went deer hunting recently He had with him a friend to whom he wished to show some large game They hunted with dogs The dogs started a deer and gave chase Closely pursued the deer took wator jumping into the Scappoose Creek Along the bank coursed the dogs following the swimming buck down the stream Mr Garrisons house is on the Scap poose and in the course of time this was reached Here the deer left the water and standing on the bank held the dogs at bay In front of the house Mr Garisrons little boy six years old -was playing He heard the barking of the dogs and the hunter spirit in him was aroused He went and got a loaded rifle of his fathers marched to the bank of the stream cocked the gun rested it on a log aimed deliberately at the deers head and fired The deer feli and when after a time the hunters came running up they found that the ball had entered the animals forehead in exactly the right spot to cause instant death It is said that the little boy was not nearly so excited over the event as his parents were This may well bo be ieved With a Modern Model An ungainly Kangaroo and a squatty Dachshund met in the field What un gainly limbs rudely remarked the Dachshund Of what use are they pray They are good for jumping replied the Kangaroo making several prodig ious leaps Oh that I could jump like you Easy enough let me stretch your banty legs for you The Dachshund agreed and the Kan garoo exerting all his strength elon gated the nether limbs of his little friend until they compared favorably with his own At this juncture a huntsman espied the pair who took alarm The Kanga roo pushed the field out from behind him in a remarkably ungraceful but sudden manner The Dachshund how ever being unaccustomed to his new stilts tumbled down and was shot for a kangaroo Moral This fable shows but one of the many evil results of having your leg pulled New York World Dr Pillem Did you administer the opiate at 0 oclock as I directed Mrs Gamp with a sniff That I did but it seemed a pity to wake the poor man out of the first sound sleep hes had in four days to give it to him New York Morning Journal De Garry As you intend to marry her why did you consent to her riding a bicycle when you are so opposed to them Merritt Well I knew she would have her way in the end and I figured up that by giving in now her father would have to pay for the wheel Life T A THANKSGIVING SOULOQUA M wife she wants a winter ctat And so do I An thatll spoil a good sized note Though clothes aint high Then both the boys are wantin pants An I am too An ordinary circumstance The hull year through Kitty an Emmy want new shoes M wife the same Lord it does give me the blues To set and name The things t I hev to go an buy Day after day Dont make no difrrence how I try There aint no way To keep from spendin all I git Or pretty nigh I hev saved up a little bit An laid it by An come to think now I dunno S I oughter be A setitn here a talkin so Especially Considerin the dream I hed The other night My young ones an my wife had fled Out o my sight An Satan says Old man says he You want em back Jump in that stream along with me Its deep an black An youll hev to swim a hundred years An with a yell He dove into the stream o tears An swum for well I jumped in too or thought I hed But struck the floor An found Id jest jumped out o bed An nothin more spose t was eatin hot mince pie That made me dream But still there aint no doubt that I Felt how t would seem To have no folks and here Ive sot Well llni no saint But Ill offer thanks for what Ive got That beats complaint -Smith Gray Cos Monthly TIM AND HIS TURKEY IT vs litth was the night before but Tim Daly could see very to be thankful for Cis father was a drunkard His mother took in washing Tim sold a few newspapers and mother and son supported the family of six and to crown it all Tim had just lost the 50 cents lie had been saving for weeks to buy a very small chicken for the familys Thanksgiving dinner The chicken was to have been a great surprise to his mother and 50 cents was what Tim called a reglar boodle The boy could not keep back the tears when he discovered the hole in his pocket through which the 50 cent piece had fallen Tim had spent nearly six of his twelve rears on the streets and there was noth ing girlish about him but he was a pretty good boy He was always kind to his mother He helped her with her work in their two rooms in the Bayard street ten ement house and he gave her nearly all the money he made The secret of it all was that she was a very good mother and rim knew it Chicken was rarely seenupon the Daly table Like Maggie the simple minded irl in Little Dorrit Tim had never ad any chicking but once that he sould remember but the flavor of that one tender drumstick semed to hover about bis palate still When the idea of his proposed surprise came to him he had at first planned to get a turkey but while the spirit was willing the pocket book was weak and a cheap chicken replaced the big fat turkey as his hearts and stom achs desire But now his whole hobby icheme had been balked and as he search ed in vain for the missing coin along the anow covered asphalt in front of the city hall his coveted chicken seemed to have suddenly blown so far away that it was but a mere pin feather in the dis tance A few minutes later the world looked even darker to Tim for a tall thin ragged red nosed man who looked like a tramp suddenly seized him from be hind and crying Please dont father Tim shielded his face with one arm from the blow bitter experience made him ex pect The elder Daly was as usual very drunk and very ugly He demanded Tims money and struck the boy in the face when he truthfully declared that he did not have a cent More blows followed and in his frantic struggles to get away Tim dove between his sires unsteady legs upset him in the snow and ran like a deer toward Broadway At a safe distance Tim turned and looked back The drunkard had tottered to his feet aud was shaking his fist in a threatening manner It was a reglar Trow him down Mc Closky panted Tim I didnt mean to really trip him up Sorry I dumped bim so hard No sleepin at home now fer a few nights Tim sighed for the night was cold Hours afteiward he crawled into a big packing box that stood on the walk near a crockery store The box was half filled with dry straw into which Tim burrowed and fell asleep How long he slept he did not know but he was awakened by the sound of two voices near him He lis tened sleepily until he heard one of the men say Goldens place is just de mark fer us De safe where he keeps his diamonds Is dead easy At these words Tim became very much awake and listened with all his ears Goldens he knew was the name of a large jewelry store on the Bowery and the words diamonds and safe indi l cated that this was the place referred to by the speaker who very evidently medi tated burglary Whenll we do de job about three the second voice inquired Yes was the reply From de roof we kin git through de skylight and next down stairs and at his old safe Say its easiern a pantry cupboard Both men laughed softly They were talking in low tones but were so near the box that Tim heard every word thoy moke He almost held his breath for fear they might discover him Suddenly in spite of his attempts to remain quiet the bay rustled Ssh Whats that one of the men whispered Somebody in de box Tim lay very still and pretended to be asleep but an instant later one of the nen thrust an arm into the box seized him by the log and roughly jerked him out upon the snow covered walk Its only a hid said one of the men Gway Le me he Tim murmured rubbing his eyes and pretending that he had just bcm aroused from a sound sleep Have you been asleep young feller J On the ranches of the far West turkey grabbing is a prominent as well as won derfully exciting sport The turkey is buried in the ground with only his head and neck above the surface allowing him full swing for dodging and ducking The cowboy mounted on his pony sweeps down at full speed and as he passes the Tims captor demanded catching him by the collar Come now were ye sleepin or only shammin If ye lie Ill half kill ye Le me be dont hurt me cried Tim I aint done anything Did you hear us talkin Le me be Tim sobbed in real alarm I guess youre all right but if you heard us and ever tell any one Ill break every bone in your body said his captor Then the two men hurried away toward the Bowery Tim watched them until they disap peared down the street before he moved from the box He was very much fright ened but for all that he intended to noti fy the police at once Goldens store was not far from the Elizabeth street police station and selecting a roundabout way so that there would be little danger of his meeting the two burgiars Tim ran as fast as he could toward the station He arrived there pale and out of breath and between his gasps told his story to the sergeant on duty The officer was at first inclined to disbelieve Tims state ments but the boy stood the test of rigid questioning and as it was already 2 oclock in the morning of Thanksgiving Day four officers were detailed to catch the burglars Tim wanted to accompany them but the Sergeant ordered him to remain at the station house until the men returned Fifteen minutes later two policemen disguised in citizens clothes were watch ing the front door of Goldens store from hiding places across the street while the other two crept over the roofs of neigh boring buildings to the roof of the jewelry store nd concealed themselves behind chimneys near the skylight It was not long before two men came sneaking along the roofs cut a pane out of Goldens sky light unlatched and opened it and let themselves down into the jewelers build ing by means of a rope The two officers did not molest them for the plan was allow them to enter the store proper give them time to begin work on the safe and then have the officers in the street alarm and drive them to the roof where they were to be captured This plan was carried out to the letter When one of the fleeing burglars gained the roof he waited to help his companion through the skylight and the moment both were upon the roof the officers rusud out and covered them with their revolvors One burglar surrendered but the other showed fight and was shot through the shoulder and felled with a night stick The officers marched their prisoners to the Elizabeth street station where Tim who had been fast asleep in a chair identified them as the men he had heard plotting the robbery Tim was quite a hero and when Jew eler Golden who had been telegraphed for reached the station house at 7 oclock he drew Tim aside and asked him if there was any particular thing he wanted very badly Ye3 sir I want a chicken or or bet ter yet a big fat turkey for to sprise ma with Tim said promptly Then in re sponse to questions Tim told Mr Golden about his drunkard father and his good mother and the lost 50 cent piece When he had finished the jeweler said heartily Come on Tim and well buy the big gest turkey for sale on the Bowery He kept his word and half an hour later jim staggered into the Bayard street tenement with a turkey so large and plump that he could hardly carry it What joy there was in the Daly family Even Daly senior forgave Tim when he saw the turkey and heard Tims story The boy said nothing about one incident of the morning however until his father had gone out to get liquor Then Tim gave his mother the 10 bill Mr Golden had thrust into his hand at parting und that day for once in their lives the Dalys not only had turkey for Thanksgiving but cranberry sauce as well King Turks Proclamation Thanksgiving and with spirits blue Headless Ive come to call on you Attend to what I have to say N let your appetite delay Knowing youve murder done most fowl Should my uneasy spirit prowl Greet not my shade with cruel sneers If hollow the poor shell appears Void of all dressing empty thin It may in dreams come stalking in Now thankful for a speedy roast Good by Im yours sincerely most THANKSGIVING TURKEY 1S95 A Thanksgiving Trill For all the joys of living A long and sweet Thanksgiving For this old world with roses rife For mother friend and sweetheart wife For every soft wind blowing For fields where Love is owing The seed to blossom in ih years For womanjs love and woman tears That sweeten earthly livir r -The hearts divine Thai In blessings shared with humble lota The truest joys we trace Who gives the freest chanty Gives thanks wit h fairest grace -Kansas City Journal T- A THANKSGIVING IN THE FAR WEST buried gobbler leans far down and at tempts to grab it by the head Dragging the hand along the ground and grasping the neck is barred the head alone being the part to be grabbed The successful turkey grabbers are few and when an ex pert comes along he is the hero of the day RABBIT TIME Babbit time trappin time Dats de time fo me Set mah trap So hit snap Hide behin a tree- - Froo de snow dar he go Babbit jumpin past Gits de trail Wags his tail Crawls in dats de last Wif a clap down hit drap Wmm Babbit gaught fo sho In de jail Wif out bail Cant git out no mo Den a pie rabbit pie Decked in gran array Jus fo two Me an you On Thanksgibbin Day THANKSGIVING IN THE AEMY in the army THANKSGIVING so writes Rev M M Parkhurst D D It was in 18151 Our regiment the Twenty first Massachusetts was stationed at Annap olis Md where for twenty two weeks it was engaged in fitting out the Burn side expedition to Roanoke Island and other military movements on the Atlantic coast My company was sent out in November to protect the Union men at the polls dur ing the State election of 1SG1 and then to guard the railroad between Annapolis and the Baltimore and Washington line We were also employed to intercept the contraband trade in arms medicines and other supplies then being carried on be tween Baltimore and Richmond across the Potomac River at Acquia Creek be low Washington My company headquar ters was about six miles east of the main line on the Annapolis branch in a neigh borhood of bitter secessionists while the outposts were stationed along the rail road for six or seven miles to keep the enemy from tearing up the track which was of the utmost importance in the transportation of troops and supplies to the ships in the harbor at Annapolis My soldier boys were most all from Barre Mass and vlcicity and their hearts turned toward home as Thanksgiv ing drew near Letters from home told of the preparations and of the vacant places belonging to the dear ones in the army Many a brave heart was sad and longed for home All wanted nn old fashioned Thanksgiving and so we went at it in earnest to provide for a good din ner Only two turkeys could be obtained in the neighborhood but a couple of geese and plenty of chickens were added then a bushel of biscuit were baked for us by a Union woman living on a farm near the camp In ihe place of cranberry sau2e and other filings we secured a bounti ful supply of wild honey doughnut3 pnd apples were substituted for pumpkin pie We had abundance if not variety Yankee ingenuity soon turned the re jected ties along the track into a table which being covered with tho flies from our officers tents appeared quite present able No mother in New England was prouder of her table that day than were our dear fellows The members of the company were gathered in from the rail road except one lone comrade from each picket station whose doom was sealed by lot When all was ready Lieut Will iams a wicked sinner as men are gener ally counted called out Attention company Comrades we must not forget the way the old folks at home keep Thanksgiving and as our company com mander is a minister we will ask him to eonduct religious service Every head was uncovered and seventy five brave men went down on their knees around the well spread table We prayed and all went back again with the old folks at homo in feelings and imagination A big lump got into my throat and I could go no further a comrade struck up Praise God from whom all blessings flow Ail arose and sang oh how they did sing Few dry eyes were around that table Soon the company cook shouted Atten tion companyl Prepare to chargel Charge Never uch a charge before upon a helpless and innocent foe Story telling and joke3 mingled with the loot ing of that storehouse of good things They ate until many felt like the Yankee boy at Thanksgiving dinner who cried because he could hold no more A black fringe had slowly gathered around our party and when all had eaten more than enough we began to toss over the fragments that remained to the hun gry darkies How their eyes did laugh as their teeth tore in pieces the remnants of turkey goose and chicken By the way I forgot to say that the darkiea brought us a lot of hoe cake hot from the coals where they had baked it for the Linkum solgers Next to watermelons the Maryland darky loves hot hoe cake and honey After dinner was over and a little rest had been taken the games began A3 all were too full for utterance speech making was omitted and also all violent exercise in fact a shooting match was about all we could undertake A few chickens remained for prizes but to tell the truth only one was even wounded and that by an accidental shot from the commanders revolver Who could shoot after such a meal The final scene was one long to be remembered Every com rade was silent and as I came out of my tent to learn why it was so very quiet I found the dear boys engaged in writing to the loved ones at home all about our Thanksgiving in the arrav Union in Thanksgiving It was at a time when union as well as liberty was the watchword of our country that the festival which is so dis tinctively American became more entirely a national affair The incident which led to such a change of basis is thus de scribed by the author of Seward at Washington One morning early in October 1863 Mr Seward entered the Presidents room and found him alone busily engaged with a huge pile of papers They say Mr President he began that we arestealing away the rights of the States So I have come to day to advise you that there is another State right I think we ought to steal Mr Lincoln looked up from his papers with a quizzical expression Well Governor said he what do you want to steal now The right to name Thanksgiving day We ought to have one national holiday all over the country instead of letting the Governors of States name half a dozen different days The President entered heartily into the suggestion saying that he believed the usage had its origin in custom and not in constitutional law so that a President had as good a right to thank God as a Governor In fact proclamations had already been issued by the executive after great victories though the annual festival had always been designated T the Gov ernors Mr Seward drew from his portfolio the outline of such a proclamation which they read over together and perfected It was duly issued and since that time the President of the United States ha3 always fixed the date for this national holiday More Money than Eraius There is a woman here quite a prom inent woman too who has lots of mon ey aud a kind heart Thats really about all she has to recommend her She gave a luncheon last week The cream for the berries and the butter was so unusually good that one of her guests remarked It Yes said the hostess complacent ly we have all our milk and butter sent in from our farm every day They make butter out there have a regular crematory you know Washington Post At the Boarrting House We should be thankful for small mercies said the boarding house mis tress We have to be replied the star boarder as he gazed at the diminutive turkey Truth A THANKSGIVING DINNER Magazine WHI tr V V