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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1896)
V r 4 p f SoTScmvSa JgtFPrJ srrrvfiK Jusrsfli MiWr r fm I no Yk5JWSU i f 4 tfZrftoxr jWJy iam FELL IN FREEDOMS CAUSE The War Angel of Ayoleta as the Cubans called Matilda Agramonte y Varona was killed recently while fight ing shoulder to shoulder with her brothers for the freedom of her coun try She was the daughter of two of the great families of Cuba heiress to the fame and traditions of two old names of Spain and to the remnant of 4i fortune that was once one of the larg est in the rich island Every rebellion has found Agramontes and Varonas under the banner of Cuba Libre Her father and a brother gave up their lives In the ten years war Her remaining brothers and her uncles enlisted under General Maceo and left her alone on ft I IM MME VAUOXA the plantation in Puerto Principe the only property left of the vast estate She went to visit friends in a neighbor ing town and on her return she found the family residence burned the cane gone the servants murdered or scat tered A Spanish guerrilla force had crossed there and de stroyed the place There was no place for the girl to go so she asked the first baud of rebels that passed that way to take her Avith them to Maceos camp Once there she asked to be enlisted as a soldier The chief at first refused but her brothers and uncles told him she would starve other wise and he relented and enrolled her She saw only one battle At Ayoleta near the town of Quemado de Guines the advance of a strong Spanish col umn overtook Maceos command The rebels were hopelessly outnumbered and a battle -meant a catastrophe Maceo was on his way to meet the Bermuda and two thirds of his men were to be armed with the weapons she bought He called for volunteers to face the Spanish army and delay their march so that the remainder of the column could escape The first to step forward in answer to the call were the Cuban girl her brothers and uncles They knew that the service meant death but they went and the girl stood there shoulder to shoulder with the other volunteers and fired until she fell The Spaniards saw she was a woman and called on her to surrender She answered Viva Cuba Libre Womens Views of Man A straightforward open hearted man may be safely left to manage his own concerns Jane Austen A man capable of conquering habit ual indolence cannot be a feeble char acter Maria Edgeworth Men who have seen a good deal of life dont always end by choosing their wives so well George Eliot Remember one thing no man can fail to fulfill his destiny but through his own fault George Sand Man is very apt to contemplate him self out of all proportion to his sur roundings Christina G Kosetti The best augury of a mans success in his profession is that he thinks it is the finest in the world George Eliot Love occupies a vast space in wo mans thoughts but fills a small por tion in a mans life Maria Edge worth Man is not made for that selfish con centration of despair which is called either abnegation or stoicism George Sand The just living of a lifetime makes a man incapab of any mere selfish handling of anothers interests Mrs Humphry Ward Black Veils Best of All The success of the veil depends upon discretion in choice of pattern and its method of adjustment Indeed the art of putting on a veil is a difficult one Our Parisian sisters possess the happy knack of twisting voluminous lengths of net or gauze around their heads with an effect altogether delightful To the careful study then of veil ad justment would we credit our readers and also draw their attention to choice of design and color The sallow eom plexioned woman should fly from the blue veil she of roseate cheeks from the red the business woman from the unpractical white and so on while un doubtedly the smartest and most be coming veil of all is the black of soft fine quality and fascinating design Two Babies Mixed at Birth A mother and daughter in the town of Irish Valley Pa are in a quandary such as probably has not happened before for a good while Each gave birth to a child on Monday and so busy was the doctor in attending to Jt fey Werser - - MJ -fit lh Y i rTVIrv fcM a ScSa ogsEzi ii W fcfcJU I jr - them that the babies got mixed up and it will be a secret forever whidh is which Both children were born at nearly the same time and both were placed in a cradle One of the babies is a boy and the other a girl and it looked to outsiders as though there would be trouble over the boy for the younger woman was anxious to pre sent a son to her lord The -mother at length cut the Gordian knot by de claring that she wanted a daughter to replace the grown up woman and that she was perfectly satisfied since she had several sous Thus all is serene and will be unless one of the children dies and then nobody knows what will happen No Profusion of The age has passed for small tables so laden down with as to give the drawing room the appearance of a china shop and to cause the aver age male caller to feel very much in the position of the historical bull Bits of may still exist but these bits must be of some intrinsic value and need not be grouped together as though offered for sale The souvenir silver table will still hold sway as this collection is really interesting in many cases especially so when they repre sent the hostess own trip across and the rich plush or velvet on which these ornaments are placed makes them a thing of beauty as a rule Tribute of High Esteem The beautiful loving cup which Mrs Potter Palmer of Chicago presented to Mrs Joseph Thompson of Atlanta cannot be adequately portrayed iu the accompanying illustration but its meaning of love and good fellowship comingas it does from the official head of the womans department of the great national exposition to the woman who held the same position in the Souths great exposition is one which all Southern people will appreciate and take a pride in Mis Palmers gift means the warm recognition of South ern hospitality The bond of mutual sympathy between these women in their great endeavors was strong to begin with and was upon acquaint ance made sure by personal under- llialtfiql MRS PALMERS GIFT TO MRS THOMPSOX standing and accord The loving cup will always recall to Mrs Thompson the visit of Mrs Palmer to the Atlanta exposition while others looking upon it will remember happily the evening of the grand ovation given in her honor by Mrs Thompson when the two wom en stood side by side each receiving in her own individual fashion amid brilliant lights and tlowers The loving cup is simple and elegant The design is of a Venus riding on a dolphin and the work is exquisitely chaste and artistic Fashion and Home Hints Jacket waists are popular this sea son Fashion has run riot in dress trim mings Capes and jackets are popular spring wraps The new tweeds are rather bright in coloring Dress skirts are not quite so full as they were Ice cream may be eaten with either a fork or a spoon Children are to wear poke bonnets and one is occasionally seen on an adult Fine checks promise to be very pop ular and shot mohairs are especially recommended Laces are more varied and elegant than ever with no end of applique de signs on net and chiton Handsome luuch cloths and buffet covers that wash well are of fine linen bordered with renaissance lace There is a great choice of silver can dlesticks but after all none surpasses in beauty the colonial reproductions Colonial silverware in true octagon shape with a novel disposition of bead work and empire garlands is the cor rect thing A holder with a loop so long that it may be looped around the apron belt may save burned fingers by being al ways at hand Remember to thoroughly wash and scrape the vegetables used in soup and to be chary with the seasoning which if overdone gives a coarse unpleasant flavor Long or one piece effects are creep ing in more and more to the delight of stout figures Under the name of red ingote and princess gowns some very pretty costumes are evolved Two English bacteriologists conclude that an average of 1500 microbes must be inhaled into the nose every hour wThile in London the number must often reach 14000 The organisms are caught by the nose and pass to the digestive organs which in health destroy them GOWNS AM GOWNING WOMEN GIVE MUCH ATTENTION TO WHAT THEY WEAR Brief Glances at Fancies Feminine Frivolotze Mayhap and Yet Offered in the Hope that the Reading- Prove Reatfnl to Wearied Womankind Gossip from Gay Gotham New York correspondence O many elabora tions are demanded in silk and velvet jacket bodices that the result is the extreme ornamen tation and its ef fect is felt even in tailor rigs which respond by relax ing a bit of their severity Even the primest of them may have instead of the formal linen at the neck and in the triangle open ing of the coat a bib and tucker of smooth cloth formal enough in cut yet of some pretty color that is especially becoming A tailor gown of demure stone colored broadcloth shows such a yoke beneath of pale blue cloth and made the blonde that wore it look as if she had slipped her brothers coat over her own blue frock Another permissi ble departure from primness in the tailor cut is presented in the jaunty jacket of the initial picture Here the vest is severe enough in outline but it is composed of white silk as is the standing collar that tops it White silk also faces rovers and rolling collar The jackets stuff is tan cloth its basque is piped with the goods and its fronts fasten with an ornate gilt clasp A new finish for the neck that is not restricted by accompanying severity is applied to the fancy capes that are now like many another sort of tempta tionso plentiful It displays the sud den popularity won for the effects ob tained by putting yellow and black or white and black lace together In many cases the lace used is not a good qual ity the color being all that is demand- Tjy Willi sn XI COMIXG A HUNDRED THOUSAND STROXG ed Amazing frills of this fluffery are set inside the loose and spreading col lars of capes the frills rising almost to the hat brim at the sides These garments look lovely on the figures in the window but its a shame to tell it those horrid figures have all been fitted with adjustable necks That is how uo matter how full and wonder ful the ruche affair about the neck of Mrs Wax Figure is her peachy face still lifts flower like above it Alas womens necks are not adjustable so beware From the first pictured costumes primness to the highly wrought effects of the seconds is a long step one that shows in how bold relief the tailor girl stands this season Its not so much in the elaborateness of cut that the differ ence comes as in the materials the silks for jacket bodices being especially brilliant That copied here was a cashmere silk in dull tones of blue red and peach with a front of blue pleated chiffon added to the bodice Its revers formed a square collar in back and the folded stock collar rosettes and cuffs were white taffeta Pocket flaps ap peared on each side of the tiny basque and a series of eight jeweled buttons were disposed on fronts and basque The sleeves had lace ruffles at the wrists which is a finish that is fre quently seen Then too sleeves of txr w tF RIBBOX TRIMMIXG TUAT DOMIXATES pretty afternoon gowns are finished at the wrists with big ruches of chiffon An example is a coat that goes with almost any skirt and is of a gray blue smooth cloth made with smooth skirts at the hips slashed that they may lie fiat and also that they may show a touch of their pretty lining The vest is of puffed white chiffon alternated with delicate lace and chiffon ruche ends the cloth sleeve Wide revers of whitie satin are covered flat with the lace and a pair of handsome buttons are set low down on the coat in front This combination of color makes the garment suitable to wear with any mixed goods that has in it a trace of blue gray A black skirt of course adapts itself to the coat and a white moire skirt makes the entire costume almost a formal one Ribbons have this season received more than their ordinary share of at tention from the designers and the result is that they have never been so genuinely artistic never so worthy to be made part of a gown nor of a quality and style that will last in good taste as long as the ribbon itself does So it is not at all remarkable that rib bons are conspicuous Their use as hat trimming does more than any other one thing to distinguish and pro claim the new spring hat In dres trimmings they open up a new and wide field of tasteful adornment The novel use ribbon is put to in the next SLEEVES THAT SHOW A SLIGHT CHAXGr picture is but one of a great many that are possible so many in fact that every woman with any degree of in genuity in her make up should have a bodice that is distinct from all oth ers and yet in perfect taste and style This model was made of mode suit ing the vest being of white batiste striped with valenciennes insertion and the turned down collar of white satin finished with a tie of Persian ribbon Narrower Persian ribbon trimmed the fronts as far as the side seams the top in back and front and the cuffs and three perpendicular strips of it showed at each side of the skirts front breadth at the top Tiny gold buttons were put at the end of each strip A silk skirt matching the peach shade of the jacket accompanied it Bright lettuce green is used in little touches with any other color just as cerise and turquoise blue have been in their time There is something espe cially suitable in this pale fresh green just now it sems so spring like Be sides it is surprisingly becoming to almost all complexions When it doesnt quite suit your color then perhaps some other shade of green will do If so use it for green in most all of its shades is a very fashionable color In the fourth sketch which is of a dress of gray cheviot the green is dark and appears in the velvet bolero This is finished with a wide bias fold of white fim A TYPE OF SAMPLE WASH GOWX cloth showing gray soutache ornamen tation with turn down collar to match the bodice having a plain stock collar of the cheviot The sleeves form points over the hands and to the elbow are somewhat loose Thin and semi-transparent goods for summer dresses will exaggerate this looseness and be made into sleeves that wrinkle from the elbow down Those who can afford it are putting a wealth of detail on their summer dresses whole bodices being fashioned from a series of tiny chiffon puffings alternating with insertion and little i frills of narrow lace bands of baby ribbon being sometimes added A be coming softness of effect results but there are lots of stitches to be taken It is all very well if you take them yourself or are blessed with a maid but to attempt to match with your pocket this sort of thing to buy such a gown ready made or to order it from some swagger dressmaker means that well if you can sleep the night after you ought not to or thats what an or dinarily poor woman thinks All this doesnt mean that simple wash dresses are not to be acceptable and there will doubtless be a plenty of the inexpen sive and pretty dresses of which the final illustration depicts the type It is made from red dotted linen its moder ately wide skirt being left untrimmed The blouse waist hooks Invisibly at the side is alike back and front has a deep square yoke of embroidered linen and a stock collar of red satin ribbon Copyright 1SW RELIGIOUS COLUMN fTEMS OF INTEREST TO ALL DE NOMINATIONS We Must Bless If We Would Receive a Blessinjr Need of an Awakcnim to the Demands of Christianity Christ Near to livery Man Iife for a Look WB AIM j fVj V HilhJ Mm i Y making for a it look life God brought the rem edy to the door of every tent which f was better than serpents for it made life possible to those who had been bitten A look made the man who lived on the out skirts of the camp as near to life as the one whose tent was near the pole upon which the brazen serpent hung No matter what our theology or philosophy may say Gods word declares that Christ tasted death for every man and may be known by every man whether in Chris tendom or heathendom for he is the true light which lighteth every man which cometh into the world And it was life for a look God coulc not have made mans part any easier than that This shows how near to every man he brings Christ The bitten man didnt have to walk in a certain way or a cer tain distance toward the serpent or he might have been dead before his part could have been accomplished He did nt have to do anything but stop doing everything else and lift up his eyes and look lie did not have to under stand the why and the wherefore of his cure or many who wanted to be well would have perished Neither did lie have to know why God had chosen the figure of the serpent instead of some thing else It was enough for him to know and believe that if he would only look Gods word was pledged that he should live Even so was the Son of man lifted up that whoever would look to him should have eternal life Power to Lead a New Life It is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth Rom 110 It was in the gospel of Christ that Paul based his confidence and proclaimed his unbounded trust It was not the imitation of Christ that he held up when he bid every sinner -look and hope He never gave any kind of a sinner hope that he could be saved by his own works of righteousness He didnt say Join this church or that or do this but dont do that He didnt say Be sure to go o church as much as you can on the Sabbath and never stay away from prayer meeting when the weather is pleasant Had Paul gone about preaching salvation through works we should never have heard of his receiving stripes persecutions and imprisonment The powers of darkness were against him because his theme was the gospel of Christ He proclaim ed the gospel of Christ to be the power of God aud a power available for all who would have it What glorious news for men who had come to know their own weakness and helplessness Men who had found out that their struggles for freedom were against something stronger than flesh and blood Men who had groaned in spirit and shed tears of remorse because they had learned to their sorrow that they could not do the good they would and the evil they would not do they had to do To such men and to all men Paul offered the gospel of Christ as the pow er of God that would enable them to break with sin and lead a new life Talk Everything Over -with the Lord The best way to learn how to pray is to take our place at the feet of our Heavenly Father and tell him about the circumstances of the present mo meut As we do so our faith will soon begin to realize that he has a fathers interest in us and that he is waiting to be gracious iu all things wherein we need his grace If times are hard and none of our enterprises turn out as we had hoped Ave should be sure to talk to the Lord about it when we ask him for our daily bread If we are meeting with an unusual degree of prosperity everything connected with it should be carefully laid before God and his continued favor asked It was because Job worshiped God continually that he did not lose his religion when he be came rich If business or domestic dif ficulties perplex us we should talk to the Lord about them in detail We should pray for and expect divine guid ance in temporal affairs as much as in things altogether spiritual Whenever we realize our weakness or ignorance in anything we should go to God and ask him to become our wisdom and strength If we would give the Lord a whole hearted trust and lean upon our own understanding less we would have fewer disasters to lament and fewer blunders to regret No Jlercy Under the Law And all Israel stoned him with stones and burned them with fire Josh 725 The destruction of Achan and his fam ily may seem harsh but it is what must always happen under the reign of law Things like it are taking place all about us in this present day and we do not question their justice Under law the harvest of sin must always be death If a man is imprudent or improvident the innocent of his household must suf fer for it The stones of want are thrown upon them without pity They must die to comfort because their father has sinned against the condi tions by which they only could enjoy it See the drunkard as he is being drag ged from the camp of respectability thrift and honor to be stoned to death by the circumstances of life for his sins against society and his own being Arv not his little children dragged along with him down into the dark valley of sorrowful Achor to share the same dreadful judgment that must fall upon him When the man who holds a high place in business circles becomes an embezzler and defaulter are not his wife and children stoned by all the af flictions that follow his offense A mothers dishonor descends upon this babe in her arms and blights its life Disease in the blood of the parent means death in the veins of the child Under law there is no escape for the innocent They must suffer with thi guilty The Sin of Ignorance There are multitudes of people who do not see the importance of any great moral awakening until its principles are brought to their notice through some more popular and taking me dium than plain statement of fact The cause and excuse for their unawakencdi energies in the direction of any good cause alike are found in the fact that there are so many other things con i stantly demanding their attention in this age of Christian endeavor If one would secure the lively interest of ineni and women nowadays in favor of any good cause he must present his case to them in a forcible way else they will not be likely to take in its full sig nificance That the preservation of the Christian and the civil Sabbath calls to day for the whole souled support of every person is a proposition as truy as any which can be put on paper yet it is a fact that many thoroughly good people do not give their best energies to ithe work simply because nobody has interested them and nothing has started tliem into seeing the tremen dous importance of this question This is the fault of much of our Sabbath literature The books which dual with the Sunday question do it in a general way They fail many of them to illus trate by specific and familiar illustra tion what they try to prove and so people -are not properly impressed Bun the pressure of various Interests cannot wholly excuse Christians whom God expects to be as a Avatch upon the towers to guard against the approach of a foe from informing themselves npon a question so vital to the interests of the nation as this Every Christian citizen is in duty bound to know wheth er there are any real perils threatening ithe right keeping of the Sabbath and if there are to find out what is the best way to avert them and what is their personal duty and responsibility in tha case To Give In to Receive We must bless if we would receive a blessing We must pour the water from the cup if we would have it filled again Life is an exchange of bounties a trans fer from one hand to another Earth gives her portion to the flowers they send their fragrance unto man and man gathers them decks the path of friendship and makes hearts sweeter with their rich fragrance The sky is mellower for the passing cloud that lowers beneath it The cloud receives glory from the orb of day All things are tributary to one another The glow worm lights a travelers path the pebble turns the tide Rills fill the river rivers send their vapors forth and fill again the rills If love flows from our soul unto our neighbor something must be disloged within his breast It may be envy pride or hate what matter it or it may be sweet est strains of gratitude that will glad den some ear though not our own We are but workers but not like earthly laborers waiting for our pay It comes in Gods time and always at the need ed moment Keep the waves in motion Roll the ball of love heavenward It will strike many hearts and gather ac celerated speed Pass the cup around Bid the thirsty drink for dust and mold will gather on the cup that stands un moved and the water it holds will be come unfit for our own or anothers use Endurance Often a Cowardice These are the days when we make up our minds tiiat we will live in peace with all men We think patient en durance is a virtue that outweighs in value all others There never was a greater error Endurance is often sc contemptible as to rank with cow ardice Evil is the enemy of progress iu manners and morals the enemy of national prosperity The endurance which tolerates evil is a defect worthy of the strongest effort to overcome It takes courage time patience faith to take a stand and make a fight against evil whether the evil is threat ening the nations prosperity or indi vidual rights and comforts We have in all communities laws that exist for the protection of the law abiding citi zenhis protection not only of life and property but of comfort of health of morals These laws are for the whole community for all ages and each sex They are constantly violated Why Because endurance not in the guise of virtue but in its common every day garb of weakness Indifference and laziness permits those violations re- fusing to see the moral degradations that ensues Righteous wrath that fould express itself openly would put down many evils in their first stages which endured create and strengthen themselves and allied evils compelling the expenditure of men money and years of time to overcome Rams Horn Wrinkles If we think evil we shall be sure to speak it Those who lead children need to keep very close to Christ It is a great mistake to think that money can buy happiness Trials do not weaken us they only show us that we are weak Some people fear to call the devil by his right nme lest they offend a friend
