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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1896)
kA- k - U - A MANLY MAN It Is every day becoming plainer that fee gold forces recognize William J iJryan as the most formidable candi date that could have been placed in the presidential race Aside from the -wonderful strength given the Democratic party by its fearless declaration for fbe free coinage of silver at the ratio f 1G to 1 the unassailable character of Mr Bryan both as a statesman and a itizen makes him the nominee upon whom all eyes are fixed s The opposition is lajing much stress upon the youth of the Nebraska man f et therein lies his great power to win the support of the majority of the vot ers His nomination marks a new era in the history of the country It writes the word finis to a period that covers more than thirty years The war heroes jiave passed by and the nation is glad to turn to a leader who represents the anion of North and South and who champions a cause that affects the pros perity of all the people Mr Bryan was pmly five years old when the civil strife ended and the events that have been personal experiences to the men who nave occupied the White House since Lincolns time are a stirring part of a Revolutionary Yes Why Not Of course this movement is revolu tionary All movements are revolution ary that attempt to make a struggle against the status quo against the go- ing scheme some error Of course it contains All such movements do But the new departure of the Demo cratic party assumes to be the voice of the downtrodden and oppressed many against the aristocratic assumptions of the few against the special privileges enacted into law by which during the past few decades the wealth of this great country has largely drifted into the hands of a few who corner it and make financial panics or bond specula tions at will Cleveland Ohio Re corder A Word to the Deserters The right of any man to shake the dust from his feet and depart from the Democratic party at any time is de nied by nobody A political organiza tion is a consorting together of persons aiming at the same ends and purposes of public policy If a member changes his mind he has full liberty to betake himself elsewhere whither he will But he has no moral right to assume that his act of secession has so changed both his own nature and that of his former associates as to elevate him away above the equal level they all formerly occupied and to depress them relatively in the same degree Tn other words he assumes any airs of new superiority with a bad grace and REPUBLICAN IDEA OF FINANCE distinguished renegades to go slow We have no desire to quarrel needlessly with them We look to them to go their way to lie down on the resting place they may find and prefer In the noble language of Jefferson we hold them enemies in war in peace friends We shall not copy nor fol low them We shall not suffer them to continue to insult their former breth ren but beyond that we do not care to encounter them Let them go in peace In the words of the pious old patriarch of Scripture who contemplated around him confusion treachery and dishonor and who had resource but in the old faith he had so long professed we can only exclaim As for us and our house we will serve the Lord New York News Republicans and the Income Tax Th i MeKinleyite organs and politi cians are doing their best to dodge the income tax issue in the present cam paign They know that the law pro viding for a 2 per cent tax on incomes which was enacted by the Democrats in 1894 was one of the most popular meas ures which ever passed through Con gress They know that the people are lired of a tax system which collects public revenue from the goods used by the masses and that the injustice of tariff taxes are now everywhere under stood And they know very well that in the public mind the tariff stands for restrictions on beneficial trade for heavier taxes on the poor than on the rich the creation of protected monopo Mes and trusts At the same time it is evident to even the dull brains of Mc- Kinley shouters that a tax levied on the superfluous incomes of the owners of great wealth is one which a large majority of the voters want Of course it would never do for true believers in the theory that taxes on imports are good because they make things dear to favor a system which made the necessities of life cheap by relieving them of taxation The Re- publican party depends for its very ex istence on the funds contributed by the trusts and manufacturing monopolies These in turn depend for their enor mous profits on the favors given them by protection Without the tariff the corrupt alliance of plutocrats and poli ticians would go to pieces There will be registered this year about 15000000 voters If every man - 4 f 111 firC a it t OPPOSED TO INCOME INTEREST MUST BE PAID IN GOLD The man with smaix mcome who pays big interest Tne man with QREAT income who RECIEYES Wg in terest and pays small taxes St Louis Post Dispatch - written hisory to him With the ex ception of Mr Cleveland every presi dent since William J Bryans child hood has served in the field of battle Four yeais hence when the next term of office as chief executive of the Unit ed States shall be concluded all the active business of the country will be in the lands of the new generation Citizens of the great republic who were voters before the war will be aged men JT hese veterans in politics will have surrendered their places to successors who are contemporaries of the man now opposed because he has not num bered two score years As a type of this latter day no man could be more representative than Mr Bryan Born of parents who stood as the best examples of American citizen ship he was given the opportunities 1 that belong to every boy reared in this great country He inherited with his extraordinary intellectual talents a pat riotism that became the keynote of his ambitions Realizing the full meaning of the opportunity called life he has steadily held the highest aspirations and patiently performed the every day duties that came to him Accepting his talents as a sacred trust he has always vmade the best use of them Winning many laurels as a statesman before he had reached the thirties he never real ized that he had achieved more than most men He simply appreciated the responisbilities put upon them and tried to discharge them for the good of the people and not for the acquirement of personal fame With the warmest sympathy in hu manity in general and having experi enced all the financial struggles that come to the man who has his way to make he is in the closest touch with the people Yet the real secret of his power does not lie in this fact Mr Bryan still retains the high ideals of youth the abiding faith in the destiny of the nation the vivid apprehension of the possibilities encompasing each individ ual When he speaks his words are the outpouring of earnest thought and sincere conviction Being true to hitrsplf the man who has been ac knowledged the finest orator of the day lifts up and inspires all who come under iis influence Since acts are the outgrowth of thoughts Mr Bryans biography is an lionorable record in which no one can find any unworthy pages The Ameri can people will do credit to themselves and to their country by electing him president Denver Sun if he has abusive things to say or even to insinuate concerning his former comrades he undertakes in doing so a perilous adventure For retort and reply are sure to come and the final judgment of mankind invariably fav ors the mass and not the straggling individual Certain Democrats who have been high in their partys councils and have been overwhelmed by it with honors have lately seen fit to go out of our camp and to indulge in offensive declar ations as to the conduct and motives of the great multitude they have left be hind They claim to be honest to be sound to be honorable They consider it their privilege to say that those with whom they disagree are Anarchists rabble enemies of society If their zeal will allow them to reflect they will see that in all this they are acting unwisely The bandy ing of epithets does not advance any cause Furthermore it is an exercise which all can indulge in We would therefore caution these who will be benefited by the adoption of an income tax or some other form of direct taxation instead of the unjust and oppressive protective tariff will vote according to his interests the Dem ocratic candidates would be elected by more than 14000000 majority Why Sol We use more silver than gold in our every day business Why shouldnt silver be a standard money as well as gold A silver dollar has sixteen times as many grains of silver as a gold dol lar has grains of gold Why shouldnt the ratio in value be made standard as well as the ratio in weight We have different standards of diy measure of linear measure etc and the value of a bushel is in a ratio to the value of a quart of any product Why cannot we have a double standard of values Why can we not make the value of so many grains of silver a fixed ratio to so many grains of gold call each a dollar and compel the coinage of the two precious metals to adhere to this standard or ratio The preciousness of gold to sil ver is about as one to sixteen estima ting from the respective quantities of each mined The Jrowu of Gold This Time The St Louis convention in forming its alliance with the feudal classes of Europe in antagonism to the industrial classes in the United States vainly decorated its leader with a crown of gold and placed in his hands the sceptre of the taxing power but they calcu lated at too low a value the spirit of the American people when they undertook to rivet the chains of monopoly upon them and to load them with the burdens of taxation under the McKinley plan Senator Morgan of Alabama i IF THE DRESS AND THE HAIR WERE SIMILAR The artists find a remarkable resemblance of Bryan to Washington in the prominent lines oi the fate i se J -v xj v v- - The Queen of England has never seen the house of commons in session Mrs Garfields income is 21000 16000 from the fund raised by Cyrus W Field and 5000 from Congress Rudyard Kiplings present ambition is said to be to serve as a war corre spondent The next big war will take him into the field Albert Curtis 89 years old is the only living selectman of Worcester when that city was a town He has seen the city grow from 2000 to 100000 Eunice Smith of Lake View N H undoubtedly holds the clover record of New England with forty one four leaf fourteen five le3f and one seven leaf Ex Consul Waller intends to make his permanent home in Kansas City and will become the editor of the American Citizen formerly the property of C H J Taylor t A beauty book is in course of prep aration m London Among the por traits it will contain will be one of Mrs George Curzon formerly Miss Leiter of Washington D C Andrew Carnegie has sent a check for 1000 to the Oyster Bay free library Mr Carnegie has been interested in this institution for some time and has made several donations to it Gen Booth commander of the Salva tion Army conducted a weeks crusade In Berlin with a degree of success which the Salvation Army has never hereto fore been able to achieve in Germany The Japanese are up to date in the sciences A series of sixteen reproduc tions of photographs obtained by means of Roentgen rays has been issued by Prof Y Yamaguehi and T Mizuno of Tokio University George Welch z Newk York florist who has hid his entire tongue remov ed although there is not a vestige of that organ left is still able to converse almost as naturally as before the oper ation and still retains the sense of taste Dr Conan Doyle has been speech making in London and has been tell ing his auditors how much he owes to Sir Walter Scott and Lord Macaulay a queer combination to which he says he is indebted for the inspiration of his romantic stories THE FLYING DRAGON A Iizard with Aeroplane and Balloon Attachment t The flying dragon is one of the freaks of mammalia It is nothing more than a lizard that is fitted out with a skin aeroplane like the flying squirrels It is not adjusted in quite the sami way but it amounts to about the same thiug and enables the lizard that enjoys it to take long soaring leaps from tree to tree It sails ninety or 100 feet in this way with apparent east Not only does the dragon use his aeroplane but he seems to have a balloon combination for he puffs up three pouches of the thin skin that are placed under his nock when he starts on a flight When he alights he lets the sir out One of the most interesting things about the flying dragon Draco volaus is the supposition that he is the cousin pf- some monster flying lizard that lin gered on earth until after the arrival of men and so gave a historic basis lor the fiery and hideous dragon which figures in the folklore or mythology of aearly all peoples The dragon of fancy FLYING DKAG0 could hardly hav been built up from the creature in the picture for he is only a few inches long in real life and possesses an extremely mild and af tectionate disposition He is very eas ily tamed HOUSES IN THE TREE TOPS The Indians of Guiana Build Beyond the Beach of Floods Interest in the Guiana country natu rally centers about the most fertile region that which commands the mouth of its great waterway As you approach the Orinoco from the gulf of Para you will see that picturesque sight to which Humboldt refers in his travels innumerable fires in the tall palm trees the dwelling places of the peaceful Guaraunos The legend that this strange tribe of Indians once the masters of the Orin oco live in trees the entire year results from the great annual rise of the Orin oco At Ciudad Bolivar three hundred miles up this amounts sometimes in a contracted place to ninety feet On the broader delta It is always sufficient to cpvf islands and low ground there fore the inhabitants very wisely build their houses well above the ground For this purpose four tall palm trees are selected and the crosspieces which form the foundation for the houses are lashed to the main support by pieces of a tough Tine indigenous to the delta Upon these is laid the flooring and then the sides and roof are thatched with large palm leaves to which the Indians have given the poetic name of feather-of-the-sun There are many advantages wihieh this particular palm leaf possesses over others of the same family the principal v - Sh t one being Its similarity to asbestos in the quality of resisting fire In the lo cation of his house the Guarauno takes another wise precaution in building and it is one that carries with it a lea son for the government under whose sovereignty he lives Century AFRAID OF TWO CORPSES An Experience of Burns Who Guard Millions Across the Continent Col J H Burns of San Francisco has guarded so much government gold across the continent that he could not count it- in a lifetime not if the sixty five years he has already spent on earth were doubled The sum amounts into the hundreds of millions Only last week he arrived in New York in charge of a Wells Fargo express car in which 1000000 of gold and 45000 in silver was packed for transfer from the sub treasury in San Francisco to the sub treasury in New York The schedule of such a trip is always kept a profound secret to avert robbery For thirty years Burns has been engaged in this work and in one year alone 1885 he guarded over 40000000 in gold and silver from the Golden Gate to Wasl lngton Did the robbers ever bother you the colonel was asked I never lost a cent of all the millions intrusted to my care said he in a quiet sort of way not with any suggestion of self-laudation but in a tone intended simply to let the facts be known But I was badly scared one time while traveling COL J H BURNS from Kansas City to St Louis on the Frisco road Two corpses frightened me not because they were corpses but because I was afraid they werent I cant say what made me suspicious but I expected to see the sides of those rough boxes flap down any moment and a couple of robbers come rolling out with revolvers in their hands I sat watching those boxes for many weary hours with a carbine across my knee and a brace of revolvers near at hand But after all it turned out they were sure enough corpses The colonel is a dead shot one of the best in the Cal ifornia National Guard with which he has been connected since he ended his service in the civil war Tame Catamount Probably it is true that some men have by nature a peculiar power over wild animals and it is matter of com mon experience that animals some times strike up sudden friendships with persons they have never seen be fore An extreme instance of this kind is described by a military correspond ent of the New York Sun Perhaps of all the wild animals that may be at least partially civilized or tamed the Rocky Mountain lion or cat amount offers the least promise and yet in the writers experience one speci men was as gentle and docile as hu man kindness could make him He followed his master around like a dog obeying every wish or nod but would allow no other person to ap proach him wth offers of kindness or anything else This creature was a full grown moun tain lion that for some strange reason had taken a fancy to a Cheyenne In dian Whether in camp on the prairie or in the post the brute could always be seen quietly following the Indian but he would never leave his masters heels for any reason except at his mas ters bidding Often would he accompany the buck into the post traders store where his entrance was the signal for all dogs to get out and for bipeds not acquainted with the situation to lose no time in taking to the counters The officers of the post finally per suaded the Indian to part with his pet for a consideration and the lion after being securely caged was snipped as a present to the National Museum a Washington Bulows Marvelous Memory I have referred to Bulows astonish ing feat of memorizing Kiels concerto which the man who wrote it could not accompany without notes His accu racy was almost infallible He was once rehearsing a composition of Liszts for orchestra in that composers presence without notes Liszt interrupted to say that a certain note should have beenplayedpiano No replied Bulowj it is sfefzando Look and see per sisted the composer The score was produced Bulow was right How ev erybody did applaud In the excite- meat one of the brass wind players lost his place Look for a b flat in your part said Bulow still without his notes Five measures further on I wish to begin Century French Law as to Burial French law requires that a body shall be buried within forty eight hours af ter death unless it is embalmed Blodds Heres a rather clever little book Donts for Club Men Slobbs It isnt the donts that worry me its the dues Philadelphia Record sf M nOW THEY FIGURED IT OUT Sirs Harkina Proves that Marriage ilas Not Been a Financial Failure HarkinK had covered the backs of two or three envelopes with figures and had begun on the third says the De troit Free Press when Mrs narkins looked up from her sewing and asked What are you figuring out there Oh nothing much Well it takes a good many figures to figure out nothing Whats it all about Oh it dont amount to anything I was just making a kind of calcula Hon About what Well if you must know I was just figuring out how much Id in all ability be worth to day if I hadnt mar- ried and gone to rearing a family Humph Spose you think youd been a millionaire No but from the way I figure it out Id been worth a cool fifty thousand or so Not that I regret marrying andj doing my duty by rearing a family and all that Not at all but How old were you when I took pity on you and married you Sam Hark dns Why you know that I was 35 And how long had you been in rer cept of a good comfortable salary Well about twelve years And youd no one to support but yourself in all that time Well no I And how much did you have saved up when we were married Hang it all Maria youre al r ways How much Sam Im doing a little figuring in my head and I want to know You know as well as I do Yes I do Sam Harkins you didnt have money enough to last you through our wedding trip thats what you didnt have And I had to loan you 20 before we got home because Youre always flinging that in my face J Its a good time to fling it in your face when you sit right down before me and try to figure out how much youd ihad to day if you hadnt married me It took you ten years to pay off your bachelor debts after we were married and youd been in the poor house to day if I hadnt married you and help ed you to get rid of some of your fast habits Youve got a roof of your own over your head and are a fairly re spectable and respected citizen which you wouldnt have been if you hadnt married I can tell you that And the galling part of this state ment was that it was true Unique Way of Living Odd and remunerative avenues of employment are constantly being open ed up in Cincinnati Here is one of the latest A competent stenographer who ar rived from England a year ago was unable to find work One day while reading the brief notices in the daily papers of the obsequies of a guished citizen he was struck by the scant mention of the touching and elo quent tribute to the memory of the de ceased delivered by the officiating cler gyman He attended the next funeral at ot of the swell churches getting well1 down to the front of the church where he took a full stenographic report of the prayer and eloquent tribute A few days later he appeared at the home of the widow with a neatly typewritten i copy of both prayer and sermon He suggested that she would no doubt like to preserve as a souvenir of the dear departed the truthful and elo i quent review of his life so beautifully given on the occasion of his obsequies The widow was deeply impressed and almost bent a willing ear to the suggestion that a dozen or more copies would be a suitable remembrance to send to absent relatives or near and dear friends The young man was will ing to furnish twenty copies of the ser- mon and prayer for 100 The widow who was not supposed to know any thing about the cost of typewriting thought this a most reasonable offer This was the commencement of a prosperous business The stenographer1 has been so busy at times as to require two assistants He recently attended a swell wedding and took down the re- marks of the officiating divine at the wedding breakfast The parents of the bride gave a liberal order for copies and private wedding reports will now be a regular feature of his business To this end he has employed a young man of good social standing who can secure cards of admission to swell social ftmc tions -Cincinnati Tribune Jim Tuckers Cold Meal Jim Tucker of White Top N C and Trank Edmiston who lives a few miles across the Virginia line had trouble some time ago and as usual it resulted In a shooting affray Tucker shot Ed miston the bullet taking effect in the Iatters leg He had the doctors cut the bullet out and saved it declaring that some day he would make Tucker eat it Recently the men met and Edmiston got the drop on his late assailant Then making him throw his hands in the air Edmiston took the bullet and put it in Tuckers mouth and made him swallow it Edmiston jumped on his horse and rode back to his mountain home apparently satisfied St Louis Republic Never Did Flasher So Easewans dead eh 7 ioor fellow How did he die Dumbleton Without a struggle Flasher I might have known it he never was known to exert himself--Richmond Dispatch Hare White Wild Geese A Trhite wild goose was recently shot at Mathews Island Maine It is said that these species of geeae ar Tery rare and quite valuable Sri5 l y wi