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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1896)
V P A -YOUTH NO BARRIER Flattering French Opinion of Young IVIeriH Ability in This Country The following from a Parisian in America is very flattering to the ability of young men-in-this country Happy country where youth far from being a fault is almost a privi lege where they do not waitintil your voice is less clear and your words Jess ardent until you have left along your weary route all the illusions of youth until Vour back is bent to have confi dence in you to trust heavy responsi bilities to 3ou No matter how high one is placed be receives joung people everywhere with favor he permits them to speak before he judges them he does not throw in their face that stupid judg ment which in many countries passes for a sentence without appeal and sets them aside as inexperienced young sters The Americans have many good reasons for making so much of youth for one needs all its freshness all its flexibility all its vigor to go ahead In a country in which the race aftei fortune has taken on a head turning rapidity If a young man of 23 has character good habits and intelligence there is nothing to prevent his being intrusted with the greatest affairs and the heav iest responsibilities That it is a wise policy is well exemplified And it is simply admirable A nation where a man of 30 can give proof of ability without being paralyzed by prejudice on account of his youth has already taken the lead over nations where age and the experience that is required at the expense of energy are diplomas of capability Grant Sherman and twenty other genenls at the outbreak of the war of secession were young men In Cambridge Mass in Mount Au burn Cemetery one can see the monu ment of a Harvard student who was a colonel at 2o years of age This appreciation of youth is one of the secrets of the great development of a country the young Louis XIV with bis youthful followers had the most brilliant court in the world and the young generals of Napoleon 1 conduct ed the old soldiers to tne most brilliant victories And we remember France in 1870 when she thought that only old generals were wise sympathy that Was Wasted A tired looking little woman with her thin cape spread out to protect her burden from the rain splashed through the mud and entered a street car the other night The car was crowded with men who could not find a seat but they made way for her and helped her into the packed car She stood unsteadily in the aisle trying tc preserve her balance and the car went along Keep still dear she sighed in a weak tired voice when a slight dis turbance under the cape was observa ble Why dont some of you fellows give that woman with a baby a seat growled a fat man who was hanging tc a strap Two or three men sprang up and each insisted that she should take his seat She sank into one of the vacant places thanked the man who had made way for her and a frowsy headed ter rier sprang from under her cape and sat in her lap while he barked at the fat man You tVlll realize the greatest 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shawl close to her breast seemed to be the center of the crowd and an old old negro man grizzled and wrinkled was hovering around its margin Is you got um all Sister Calline he asked anxiously Clare ef I knows said the woman running her eye over the company Pears lak deres one on um missin All aboard shouted the conductor and the train moved Hyar mistah shrieked Sister Cal line youse cain off one o my chillen The conductor laughed and was gone Oh Lawd moaned the woman Hes done caed off one of um suah The station agent sauntered near He wore that intensely bored expres sion only possible to a man who spends his life in a piney woods clearing see ing four trains a day go in and playing checkers on a barrel head in the in tervals One wonders if the lunatic asylums are not largely recruited from this class Orter have tied em along a rope sos they couldnt get away he said Sister Calline turned her black vel vet orbs in his direction You call dat train back I say she cried Hes done caed off one o my chilen Spose I can call the train back said the man contemptuously If youre sure one of em is missin youll have to set down and wait here till the train comes back Theyll bring it I reckon Oh my pore lil chile Tears began to stream down the black face The wrinkled old uncle looked deep ly distressed Is you pint blank suah one on urns missin Sister Calline he asked sym pathetically Her eyes wandered vague and trou bled over the dusky shifting crowd of faces Ise mos puffickly suah she said Better count em suggested the agent How many are there any how Deres Lu Itoxy Adline Lucy alier Is here mammy interrupted a long limbed girl of 14 I told you to count em said the agent impatiently I caynt coun masr Ise bawrT afore de wah But anyhow dey say tres leben on um Sister Calline said the old man tenderly ies we set right down hyar an Ill coun um for ye Ise a scholar You sholy is kind mistah said Sis ter Calline gratefully sitting down on the edge of the platform The agent laughed shortly and turned away The grizzled old uncle took a red and yellow handkerchief from his pocket and carefully dusted the end of the planks before he took his seat Tie -wore a threadbare black suit which had undoubtedly once moved in high society Sister Calline looked at him with interest I reckon dat you mus be a preacher sah she said defentially Madam I is Ise been preachin de word dese nine years eber sence my pore old lady died 1 was a powerful sinner afore dat Sister Calline looked awed I was suah said the old man re trospectively But Ise come inter de kingdom now suah nuff bress de Lord Is you got a husban Sister Calline Ise a pore widder mistah wid all dese chilen ter scuffle fer an de Lawd knows what Ise gwine ter do - Uncle glanced at the bundle in her arms It had begun to move and whimper Dat your baby chile asked uncle innocently Dis my baby replied Sister Cal line looking down at the sooty mite in her arms with maternal pride My po ole man neber see dis baby He was blowed up de biler bustin in de mill where he wuked He was done killed when dey brung him home De doctors tried an tried to pump some life inter him but he never spoke no mo For de lans sake ejaculated the old man Compassion was written all over his kind old face He had been a good darky from his youth up and his past was purely fictitious What de mattah wid you ole lady you done lost asked Sister Calline Consumpshun replied the old man solemnly It runs in our family Ole Cunnel Kents ma died ob it an de cunnels first wife died ob it an lil mistie died too An den my ole lady took It an she died Its a turrible de cease Dat sholy is so coincided - Sister LM KJCJOUOOOOOCMTrilJ Calline Scuse my insurance axin you mistah Does you git you libin preachir De f - pay me some an den Ise got a nice piece o Ian an a lil house My ole masrgive um ter me said the old man with modest pride Sho Aint you too old ter wuk I wuks some an de ars helps me Ise de onliest one ob de ole sar vens lef Ise 05 year ole Sho now said Sister Calline much impressed How ole you is Sister Calline hopin youll scuse me fer axin I dunno zactly said Calline study ing a little I spect Ise GO gwine on 50 They had become so interested in their humble annals that the pickanin nies had been lost sight of They were scattered along the railroad line gam boling like a menagerie turned loose Does you wan me tu coun you chilen Sister Calline Cose I does Hyar You all Come hyar The children paid no attention Dey needs disserplainin Sister Cal line He rose Chilen chilen he called in a voice of authority The black cloud drew together and bore down on the station house Now you all stand still ontwell dis genelman couns you commanded the mother Lu Roxy min yersef Abe Linkum stan up Don scrouge so How he gwine coun you ef you dodges roun dat away A mild degree of order at last pre vailed and the old man began One two thee fo fibe six seben nine eight ten Dere aint only ten Dawter be leben suah said Sister Calline Oh what I gwine ter do Ill coun um ober agin said the old man kindly Sister Calline wiped away her tears You am so kind mistah I knowed you was a good man when Brer Mar tin tole me ter keep long er you on der train An I knowed you was a good wo man when Brer Martin tole me You take good ca o Sister Calline says he Now Ill coun um agin One two thee and so on They went over and over this but by no legerdemain of counting could ten be made eleven Sister Calline grew more and more distressed and was just breaking into hysterical sobs when the train whistled at the next station below They both sprang up and Calline screamed to the children who came flying across the track like a flock of wild blackbirds When the train drew up and the con ductor stepped off there was Calline to meet him Please mistah has you brung back my chile she tearfully pleaded He looked at her Donner und blixen What do you mean woman Ise got leben chilen groaned Sis ter Calline an dis genelman has counded um ober an ober un dere aint only ten The conductor ran his eye over the group A score of heads were thrust out of the coach and a murmur of amused sympathy stirred along the line H ni He pulleil forth his book hurriedly and turned over the pages Pass Calline Jackson and eleven children He glanced over the black bobbing heads and back at the woman His eye fell on the bundle -in her arms Great Jove Whats the matter with the baby making eleven There were roars of laughter and much waving of hats and handker chiefs as the train moved out You done counded um wrong Mis tah said Sister Calline looking up re proachfully at the old man Is dey all hyar he asked with dig nity Cose deys all hyar Den dont dat pintedly show dat I counded um right Sister Callines dark countenance wore a troubled expression but as they went along the piney woods road to ward Kentville it gradually cleared up and when they came in sight of Kent Hall it was beaming Deres de cunnel said uncle point ing to a gentleman dressed in a white duck suit who sat comfortably in a big armchair on the gallery Hes one o de ars You jes wait here a spell ontel I go an tell him Well said Colonel Kent laying down his newspaper What is it Uuncle Dick Ise jes come ter tell you cunnel dat Ise foun a good woman kit I laks the bes in the world an wese fixed our mins dat well marry fore long We reckons ternight is de bes time Marry- Good Lord said the col onel astonished Such an old fellow as you are I is ole for a fac Masr but Ipe lived alone nine years an its mighty lonesome Thats so said the colonel kindly An pears like I cant stan it no longer An Sister Jackson needs a husband ter help her raise her chilen Deres leben chilen an none ob em missin coundin um right Eleyen TJow n the name of Gen oral Jackson are you going to take caro of elevdn children Deys gwine ter take ca o vat Masr said the old man eagerly Deys mighty peart chilen mighty peart an dey cn pick a heap ob cotton an hoe con an taters an weed in de gyarden an do a power ob oder turns The curiously wizened old face shone as if he had just come into a fortune An cunnel he went on Ise git tin too ole ter wuk much an I tinks my meetin up wid Sister Calline is a special provenience I wants ter git de oration roun soon dat deres gwine ter be a weddin down ter my lil house ternight Go fihead then laughed the coi onel The missis will have a cake baked ror you and by George itll have to be a big one to go round The cake was baked in the big iron bake kettle of antebellum associations and there was a festival in the cabin down by the creek which lasted into the small hours New York Tribune THE PIANO NUISANCE Protracted Practicin u Treads to Severe Nervous Maladies Gounod the composer bitterly resent ed the omnipresence of the average piano player says the St Louis Globe Democrat He was strongly in favor of a somewhat severe pianoforte tax his argument was that ninety nine out of every one hundred who learned to play the instrument failed to attain to more than a superficial stage either of conception or execution and that they wasted valuable time which might oth erwise be employed in doing something that would benefit them He also con tended that piano practice of students constituted a public nuisance and was irritating and exasperating to such a degree as to become an outrage on peacefully inclined citizens The pro posed tax was never levied but some figures published by a French scientist may possibly in some measure tend to restrict the indiscriminate teaching to music to very young children It is de clared that a large number of nervous maladies from which girls of the pres ent day suffer are to be attributed to playing the piano Children who ought to be exercising in the open air are kept at dreary and distasteful work at the keyboard hour after hour daily and the nerves simply will not stand the strain It is said to be proved by statistics that of 1000 girls who study this instrument before the age of 12 no less than GOO suffer from this class of disoxders while of those who do not begin until later there are only some 200 per 1000 The prose cution of the study of the violin by the very young is proved to be equally in jurious The remedy suggested is that children should not be permitted to studj either instrument before the age of 1G at least or in the case of delicate constitutions not until a later age So far as the piano is concerned however it is possible that tfce true remedy may be found in a better method of teach ing The main point in early tuition is to form the hands and give them flex ibility and strength This is purely me chanical and it can be done away from the pianoforte keyboard The endless repetition of sound which is responsi ble for much of the wear and tear of the nerves of young musical students is thus avoided and better progress is made from the concentration of the mind and technique only The objec tion has been raised that such a system makes only those mechanical players who would be so under the ordinary system of tuition To those of true ar tistic instinct it is an inestimable help and shortener of labor Just JLike His Father My old black auntie said Represen tative John Allen to a Washington Post man the old black shepherdess who raised me and who still looks on me as a lamb of her rearing grows at times very congratulatory and proud of mo Deed I is proud of you Mars John she said on the occasion of our last meeting I takes de vastest pride in ye honey an de way you does hoi office You is jes like yo ol father Mars John jes like him fo de worl He was allar holln -office same as you honey hoi office all de time yo paw did an he minds me of you so much Deed Ise proud of bof of ye Why what office did my fathei hold I asked I was a bit astonished for while I had a dim recollection of the old gentleman running several times I never knew of any office he held What office did my father hold Sho Mars John you go an forgel de office yo father hoi the old aunty replied reproachfully Ise shamed fo you He was a candidate Mars John De whole neighborhood remem ber it well All his life he hoi dal office yo paw does never I knows him when he warnt a candidate Looks like you an yo father jes same that away bof allers holin office New Rind of Seed All international disputes are liable to what are called complications Here is one cited by the Washington Post in connection with the Venezuela matter A Western Congressman is said to have received a letter from one of his constituents who believes in losing no chances Everybody here he wrote is talk ing about the Monroe Doctrine and no body knows what it is I dont know myself but if the Government is giving it away send me what you can Another Story Ferry Why dont you get married Dont say you cant stand the expense that excuse is too thin Hargreaves I could stand the ex pense well enough but the girls father says he cant Cincinnati Tribune I get your views as the constable said when he levied on a stereoscopic show A 200000 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