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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1897)
0ib jfalentine emacrnt SUCCESSOR TO CHERRY COUNTY INDEPENDENT ROBERT B GOOD - Editor Prop VALENTINE NEBRASKA The trouble with most good fel lows is tli at they are not good for much of anything else It seems that Queen Victoria still ees the necessity for a distinction be tween my lords and gentlemen The man who built the first house m Chicago is still alive So is the first river that was ever built through Chi cago The bubonic plague has now assumed fts worst form The eminent scientists are consuming pages of newspaper space In quarreling about what it really Is Two Brooklyn boys who started out to kill Indians were arrested before they succeeded in leaving -town Tam many evidently has had a narrow es cape Jake Schaefer the billiardist fell off a Chicago street car and permanently injured theorist of his cue arm and Is now suing for 100000 damages Its a stiff prize but it is also a stiff wrist Louisianas latest refinement of cru elty is to compel negroes to engage in a fight to a finish before stringing tnem up or burning them at the stake Whats the use of sending missionaries to Chi na The Indianapolis News prints a two column article on How to Spend an Income Now will our contemporary kindly supplement this with a stickful of instruction on how to get an income to spend It is not well to fall into Stoic exag geration and then say that mere vir tue sufflcies to generate happiness but we may well maintain with Aristotle that the virtuous man will never be wholly miserable Japan has begun the imprisonment of editors who publish things the gov ernment doesnt like If the same thing were done here the census of our penal institutions would be a large and la borious undertaking Electricity at least that used in the Brooklyn bridge plant must be a heart less and grinding sort of monopolist for while according to law foot pas sengers are allowed to cross free the hand rails are charged The famine In India Is deplorable but1 it has a bright side in the way of promoting the use of American corn as a food product and thus teaching the world that it ought to buy and con sume more of that cheap and nutri tious article As a man loves gold in that propor tion he hates to be imposed upon by counterfeits and in proportion as a man has a regard for that which is above price -and better than gold he abhors the hypocrisy which is but its counterfeit There is a pride -which is commend able and ennobles a man If lie is proud of his honor and integrity proud of bis blameless life and his efforts to benefit his race his pride is praise worthy But if he is proud of his loolis his clothes his -wealth his birth or liis learning he is a fool The -enjoyment of amusement is de pendent upon the habit of labor Only1 through it can we earn any real right to recreation or indeed secure the pos sibility of enjoying it If any one is truly miserable it is he who has noth ing to do who has no must in his life and wboiseverion the search for uleasure Express and railroad managers in Chicago have ordered messengers and tram guards to shoot to kill all per sons wJio molest them with intent to rob Xoung men nvho are making -a living Toy robbing rtrains will please take -notice with a rriew of carrying more insurance or changing their busi ness The Dallas News in -speaking of tne cotton crop of that State gives the Southern planter good advice Itsays Let Mm diversify his crops If -he is in doubt to plant ten or -twenty acres in cotton let Mm make it ten Success and -safety are an the side of diversification Do not siake your all on cotton The same wise words would apply to agriculturists in every part of the country It is tempting Providence and the laws of nature jte plant whale farms with one product At the time of Austin Corbins deatfe Ms estate was variously estimated at being wori3i from 20000000 to 40 000000 Bs Mc Corbins ability to keep afloat risky financial schemes is not possessed by those wlio hare fol lowed him aad bis xiclies have Aaken unto themselves Jwius go that to day practically nothing remains That 6uch vast wealth should be sreptaavay in so short a time seems almost incred ible but nothing comes so slowly Er coes so jiickly as money Florida is said to be rapidly recover ing from the great freeze of 1S95 when most Xf the Grange trees were killed but cooaplete recovery eannot be had until afeout tbre years from now The orange freeze is much more disastrous than the destrueim of a grain crop The latter an be Gvn again next sea son but a fzen orajjse tree must be Jt to -the cred girted anew it ot the Florida people that they have taken their misfortune so philosophic ally and have gone so bravely abouf the work of rehabilitating their es tates In the meanwhile we will use such fruit as they may send us and the substitute from other parts al though the latter lacks the flavor o the Florida variety They are introducing office girls in Chicago and those who have them in their employ are very well pleased with them They say that the office girl is superior to the office boy in many par ticulars In the first place she does not smoke cigarettes As a rule she has absolutely no taste for dime noveR She is usually bright quick and ener getic and ever so much cleaner and neater than any boy can be Testimony upon this point is almost unanimous and most of those who have tried office girls declare that never again will they have an office boy around the premises When P A Spicer settled in Kansha many years ago he says in The Liter ary Digest a neighbor in digging a well found a fine rich surface soil at a depth of 100 feet Digging through this the workmen found gravel clay and water This earth which was thrown out was found covered in the course of a few weeks with a rich growth of tropical vegetation There were little date trees and other va rieties of palms besides shrubs plants weeds and grasses in great numbers all totally unlike anything which grew or could grow in the open air throughout the year In that cli mate Such a horror as that at the orphan age near Dallas where sixteen chil dren perished in the flames and nine were seriously injured ought not to have been possible Of course the fact that the fire broke out at midnight Is a reason for the inability to save more of the children but there was a flagrant abuse of the first principles of safety in housing 247 children in a building constructed chiefly of wood Even if the fire had occurred in the daytime there is serious doubt wheth er the tinder box would not have- been entirely in flames before all the in mates could have been rescued Any large building that is intended to ac commodate a vast number of people should undoubtedly be built of fire proof material and the authorities in every State should always see to it that this fundamental care of human life is always taken i Here lies a poor woman who always was busy She lived under pressure that rendered her dizzy She belonged to ten clubs and read Brown ing by sight Showed at luncheons and teas and would vote if she might She served on a school board with courage and zeal She golfed and she kodaked and rode on a wheel She read Tolstoi and Ibsen knew mi- crobes by name Approved of Delsarte was a Daughter and Dame Her children went in for the top educa tion Her husband went seaward for nervous prostration One day on her tablets she found an hour free The shock was too great and sne died instantlee Philadelphia Record Dr E J Senn of Chicago is thus quoted in the Chicago Times Herald I do not believe that physicians should wear bushy beards In fact I think we will all have to come to the sacrifice and go cleanly shaven here after I believe that the conventional doctor of the future will have a smooth face instead 6f a beard My father is bitterly opposed to beards for physi cians and does not allow his internes to wear them I think it is possible to be too radical in the matter and per haps he is I wear a closely cropped beard and I do not see how it can aid at all in spreading contagion With a long beard and especially in surgical cases it is different Careful physi cians who have beards protect them with gauze guards of course and do not allow them to come in contact with or distribute disease germs in a wound It is better perhaps for all physicians to be clean sbaved and I certainly be lieve we will all have to come to it While the attention of the world has been concentrated on Turkey and Cu ba some other important foreign af fairs nave been permitted to run wild as it were and have only just succeed ed in forcing a passage to publicity on the cables Perhaps the most extraor dinary event if it is as serious as it ap pears to be is that reported from Brass Guinea coast Although iBrass in other localities has been re sponsible for many striking incidents recently they have not been so aston ishing as this report from the Brass on the Guinea coast -News has just been received here it says that the expe dition sent by the Royal Niger Com pany ugainst the Emir of Nupe from Xiokoja found the Foulah army dispers ed and in flight when it arrived at Eabba This must hare been exceed ingly unpleasant for the poor old Emir of Nupe and it must have annoyed the Foulah army excessively to fall a victim thus to Lokoja probably means loekjasv Yet viewed as a strategic movement simply on the part of the Niger company it cannot be demied that since it was seeking the discom fiture of the Emir of Nupe and the Fgh lah army the best way to aceomplisSi it waii to proceed to Kabba The Mushroom The chemical constituents of the mushroom are almost Identical with those of meat and it possesses tbesame iwsrisJrtvg p coperiies ELECTORAL VOTE IS COUNTED Formal Announcement of the Eeault in the November Election The -last formality incident to a presi dential election occurred Wednesday in the hall of the House of Representatives in the presence of the joint assembly of Congress when the Vice President an nounced the electoral vote as shown in the returns from the several States The ceremonies attending the count were sim ple and monotonous After an hour of routine business the House prepared for the coming of the Senate by vacating three rows of desks in front of the Speak er on the Democratic side Promptly at 1 oclock the sergeant-at-arms of the Sen ate announced the presence of that body which filed down the middle aisle The galleries had been crowded for several hours by a curious throng which obtained admission upon the presentation of tickets allotted for distribution among the mem bers of Congress Vice President Stevenson sat at the side of Speaker Reed and presided over the joint session Senators Lodge and Black burn on the part of the Senate and Messrs Grosvenor and Richardson on behalf of the House acted as tellers The returns were opened by the Vice-President and announced by the tellers The reading of the certificates long in verbi age was omitted after that of Alabama had been read The totals were as fol lows For President McKinley 271 Bry an 170 for Vice President Hobart 271 Sewall 149 Watson 27 The following was the vote as it was announced in de tail President Vice President g w a g 3 States H g g o Alabama 11 11 Arkansas 8 5 3 California 8 1 8 1 Colorado 4 4 Connecticut 0 0 Delaware 3 3 Florida 4 4 Georgia 13 13 Idaho o o Illinois 24 24 Indiana 15 15 Iowa 13 13 Kansas 10 10 Kentucky 12 1 12 1 Louisiana 8 4 4 Maine 6 6 I Maryland 8 S Massachusetts 15 15 Michigan 14 14 Minnesota 9 9 Mississippi 9 9 Missouri 17 13 4 Montana 3 2 1 Nebraska 8 4 4 Nevada 3 3 N Hampshire 4 4 New Jersey 10 10 New York 36 3G North Carolina 11 G - 5 Nortli Dakota 3 3 Ohio 23 23 Oregon 4 4 Pennsylvania 32 32 Rhode Island 4 4 South Carolina 9 9 South Dakota 4 2 2 Tennessee 12 12 Texas 15 15 Utah 3 2 1 Vermont 4 4 Virginia 12 12 Washington 4 2 2 W Virginia 6 G - Wisconsin 12 12 Wyoming 3 2 1 Totals 271 176 271 149 27 GREAT BALL IS GIVEN Bradley Martin- Blowout Delights New York Society Leaders Mrs Bradley Martin gave at the Hotel Waldorf in New York Wednesday night the costume ball which was so much talk III ilR MRS MARTIN ed of in and out of society Preachers had discussed it in their pulpits and some persons had frothed at the mouth over the 500000 which was to be spent for one nights pleasure of a thou sand wealthy men and women Invita tions to the ball were issued to an indefi nite number Only the hosts knew the exact number but it reached 1S00 because many of the cards went abroad and to persons in this coun try at a distance from New York who would have felt slighted if not invited and who would have overcrowded the ball room had they all decided to come Eight hundred or 900 men and women repre senting the world of wealth and society in and about New York constituted the guests at the elaborate social function The ball began at midnight and ended iat 5 oclock in the morning Therefore its pleasures cost at the rate of 100000 an hour The cost to the hostess was about 125000 It was a superb specta cle which will go down in societys his tory as a riot of color and display It eclipsed all previous bal masques It is the crowning glory of the social life of New York of this century It may not be surpassed in another hundred years It was a gorgeous superb and wonderful spectacle It was a monument to vanity splendid and ridiculous The results of months of preparation and the outlay of hundreds of thousands of dollars were ex hausted in five hours lS iVTffZM I Boa i W3W VMft WT Mu ftf Ouida never shakes hands She declares it to be the most vulgar form of saluta tion President Cleveland will be GO years old two weeks after the expiration of his present term of office Capt Mahan the celebrated naval his torian just relieved from active service is an enthusiastic bicyclist Gov OFerrall of Virginia has declined an invitation to address the Young Mens Democratic Club of Boston Ihe first negro to be admitted to the bar in the State of Illinois was Lloyd G Wheeler who was admitted in 1S69 Gov Morrill of Kansas will confine his European trip nest summer to a three months tour of England Ireland and eotJanJ LOOK FOE 0THEE JOBS CLEVELAND AND HIS MINISTERS PREPARE TO GET OUT rxm jbiiiiil - rili HSilFNU I What They Expect to Do When Uncle Sams Pay Checks Stop Mr Cleve land Will Go Direct to Hi3 New Home at Princeton After March 4 Washington correspondence a little while and YET C 1 e v e 1 a n ds household of cabinet ministers will hold its last meeting af ter which its mem bersa majority of them at least will scatter to the four quarters of the land to take up anew the burden of life as it is lived by unofficial members of the busi ness and social TTfj p LU111 world Most of the u a minictpr Will twill undoubtedly be illl i I filled with joy be cause of their release from the cares of state others will put off official life with lingering regrets and aret others are apparently laying careful plans looking to their remaining in Wash ington for the present at least The prospect of handing over his port folio to a successor evidently possesses no lift 12 s MORTON MAT VISIT TO JAPAN unpleasant features to Secretary of War Lamont He will cut loose from the mar tial environments of the war office and go to New York by the first train he can catch on the 5th of March Secretary Morton will seek to forget the cares of office among the almond eyed natives of the orient The prospect is evidently an alluring one to the Secretary of Agri culture for he talked enthusiastically about his plans to the writer I shall go from here to Chicago he said I have three sons in business there and I intend to stay and visit them for awhile Then I shall go to my place in Nebraska City Arbor Lodge I have lived in that neighborhood nearly all my life and I intend to stay at my Nebraska City home for a little while When I do get ready to take a trip anywhere I am going to Japan with one of my sons Paul Morton who is vice president of the At chison Topeka and Santa Fe road It will be entirely a pleasure trip and we have plans all laid for making it a thor oughly enjoyable one When Hoke Smiths successor leaves the scene of his short term of office as Secretary of the Interior he will help to mdve the wheels of business in St Louis WW1 MR CLEVELAND MAY WEAR THIS GARB again I am neither glad nor sorry to leave Washington remarked Secretary Francis the few months that I have held my present office have been pleasant ones to me but I shall not have any regrets when I am rolling westward in the direc tion of St Louis I shall return at once to my business life there Postmaster General Wilson proved to be In a negative rather than a positive humor when discovered in his office While sign ing documents with the patient untiring energy of a machine he undertook to deny various rumors that have been afloat con cerning his future ambitions in the busi ness world You can deny he said as he added another autograph to the heap on his desk that I have been offered the managing editorship of a New York news paper I have been- offered but have not accepted the presidency of educational in stitutions in various parts of the country OLNET GOES BACK TO HIS LAW DESK As an actual matter of fact I have made no plans I shall return to my corporation prac tice in Boston said Secretary of State 01ney My business there has gone right along during my absence and March G wjj probably see me in w Boston office 4- engaged in the duties that 7 left to come- here For many reasons Avashington will miss no cabinet minister more than it will Attorney General Harmon He has taken an active interest in local ama teur sports and the athletes of Washing- CARLISLE HASNT MADE UP HIS MIND ton will shed tears when he leaves I go back to Cincinnati he said in reply to the writers query to take my old place there with the firm of Harmon Col ston Goldsmith Hoadly of which I am the senior partner Secretaries Carlisle and Herbert de clared the future to be a sealed book to them so far as present intentions are concerned Secretary Carlisle preferred to fence my questions regarding his future movements Rumor has it that he will practice law in New York Cincinnati and half a dozen other places As not even an ex Secretary of the Treasury can be in more than one city at once one rurnor is as good as another The fact is say the Washingtonians that Mr Carlisle has yet hopes of staying in Washington and if his ambitious wife can manage it he will Private Secretary Thurber talked freely concerning the plans of the present incum bent and incidentally knocked in the head a variety of rumors with regard to Mr Clevelands intentions when he says good by to the White House The President said Mr Thurber with Mrs Cleveland and the children will go direct from Washington to his new home at Princeton N J He intends to stay there only a short time but hopes he will be allowed during that time to enjoy the welcome change from the bustle of official life to the quiet of a private resi dence Buzzards Bay has too firm a hold on the affections of bcth the President and Mrs Cleveland for Princeton to charm them long They will go to Gray Gables after a short stay at Princeton and Mr Cleveland expects to remain there for l fy if m i STEVENSONS MYTHICAL ORANGE ORCHARDS some time He is in robust health but has made no plans for going into active business life after March 4 He will take a prolonged rest before considering the question of getting into business again Vice President Stevenson regrets very much that rumors of his vast wealth and growing estates are founded on nothing more substantial than shifting sand I see they have me booked for Califor nia said Mr Stevenson when asked regarding his future intentions There I am to assume the management of big olive groves that I have purchased pre sumably with the money I have put by during my term in Washington I wish the kind friends who have credited me with possessing these olive and lemon treasures were correctly informed but it isnt true I regret to say I have my home at Bloomington 111 and there I in tend to go when I leave Washington A bill to protect the lives and property of persons against mobs was introduced in the House by Representative Stewart of Wisconsin Senator Hoar introduced a bill provid ing for a commission of three persons to revise and codify the criminal and penal laws of the United States The House Committee on Ways and Means considered a bill recommended by the Commissioner of Internnl Revenue to authorize the sale of forfeited opium to the highest bidders Senator Piatt of Connecticut has in troduced a bill amending the copyright laws so as to provide that if any person shall cause to be published any copyright article contrary to law he shall forfeit 1 for every copy sold Representatives of the sugar growing interests are making an effort to secure from Congress an appropriation of 1 04S000 to settle the balance of the boun ties which they claim are due them un der the act passed in the last session of the Fifty third Congress The Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce agreed to report Senator Till mans bill giving States the same control over liquor imported from other States that they have over liquors manufactured within their own borders Some amend ments are recommended The monthly report of the director of the mint shows the total coinage at the United States mints during January to have been 9851220 of which 7803420 was sold 1964800 silver and 83000 minor coins Of the silver coined 1812 009 w3 jn standard dollars Of course the stage can be elevated Try dynamite Florida Times Union Spain might mnniia to get along witht the American filibusters if she only could control the reporters Baltimore Ameri can The New York Legislature has begun a crusade for pure boer A New York poli tician is always after a drink of some sort Atlanta Journal Senator Vilas seems to think that the Nicaragua canal will not amount to any thing more than a drain on the treasury Detroit Free Press Mr Havemeyer is once more required to devote himself to the monotony of as suring an incredulous public that a trust is a public blessing Washington Star Alaskas boundary line is to be investi gated by a commission Commissions are very popular these days They dont have to pay the freight Baltimore American It is believed that Mr Culloni would be willing to quit looking like Lincoln long enough to feel liko Lymmi 7 Gage or John Sherman a day or so Chicago Dis patch Butler the Australian who is charged with having killed fourteen men is un duly encouraging the Holmes brand of sensational journalism Chicago Times Herald Indiana may have three times as many poets as Ohio but Ohio has more politi cians than Indiana has and there is more money in politics than in poetry Chicago Tribune Those women who want to enter the diplomatic service evidently dont know that ambassadors sometimes know things that they are not allowed to tell Cleve land Leader After all there is reason in agitation against the Sunday church bells A man cant talk up against a bar near so well when such noise is going on New York Press It does seem as if Gen Weyler and the insurgents would get together before many moons If they were ocean liners- they would have collided long ago Cleve land Plain Dealer A man who hangs about legislative halls is not necessarily a lobbyist but if he is engaged in legitimate business he is mak r ing an awful waste of time New York Evening Journal Azcarraga is thenamo of the fierce gen tleman who will come to Cuba and let Mr Weyler go home to supper That name sounds like a cross cut saw in a hurry Baltimore Life i Many people are surprised to learn that any liquor gets into the Senate but they mustnt think the Senators are always dry because their speeches are Bing hamton Leader The project to open in Paris a theater at which only moral plays will be produc ed seems to be an effort to stop the ex portation of Parisian plays to the United States Chicago Tribune The history of modern naval operations shows that our giant fighting machines are much more deadly for their own men in times of peace than for the enemy in times -of war Chicago Times Herald If the friends of the Nicaragua canal had been as active in building the canal as they have been in trying to get Gov ernment aid the canal might be open for business to day Buffalo Express Men who have been cured of consump tion and numerous cures are announced are thought to be men who never had the disease although they may have thought so New Orleans Picayune It is noted that the number of countesses who are getting divorced these days i only exceeded by the number who are eloping Court circles have not been so gay in a long time New York Advertiser There will be no erious regret that Idaho has sent a man to the Senate who cannot speak the English language fluent ly The fluency of the present Senate is one of its worst faults Providence Jour nal The announcement that President elect McKinley has taken out 30000 life in surance shows that tin- man realizes what a serious time he must expect at the hands of the office seekers Evening Journal Legislatures which impose a fine of 2 or 3 for wearing u high hat to the theater may after all have accomplished nothing more than to increase the expense of the occasion for the ladys escort Washing ton Star There is something wrong somewhere thousands of able bodied intelligent American workingmen are unable to keep the wolf from the door but terrapin are reported in active demand at 70 a dozen Chicago Times Herald That State Capitol Fire The fire in the Pennsylvania State Cap itol probably started from a spark of ora tory Baltimore Life The Pennsylvania State Capitol has gone up in flames This means that there will be a big job for somebody later Boston Globe Some of Pennsylvanias State Senators and Representatives ought to be a little more thanialf baked by this time De troit Free Press Theres one thing thats tolerably cer tain The dome of Pennsylvanias Capi tol wasnt fired by any Pennsylvania statesman Boston Herald The burning of Pennsylvanias State House unfortunately will not prevent the Legislature from meeting and passing laws Chicago Tribune The total destruction of the records in the State Capitol at Harrisburg ought not to be a source of worry to some of the Pennsylvania politicians Chicago Rec ord Pennsylvania must now construct a new State House New York and Rhode Isl and show how the contracts should not be made Boston Journal The Pennsylvania Legislature is now meeting in a church It is safe to assume that the trustees of the institution are thoughtful enough to nail things down Washington Post The burning of Pennsylvanias Capitol will not deliver the people of that State from the perils of a legislative session No cataclysm can stay the morbid impulse to enact laws in this country Minneapo lis Journal n A V- 3M n tr n SA y h