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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1897)
vw n F 310KKIT GOOJ Kclltor and Pro VALENTINE - NEBRASKA An Arknnsas preacher declares that he has just discovered that the devil Is a lawyer If he is living in Arkan sas he is getting his just deserts Nansen already has made 150000 of his failure to bring home the north pole In his case a miss appar ently -was as good as several mijes A goat entered the office of a town clerk inWilletts Kan and chewed up ledger before the invasioa was covered The county officials think thjs looks suspicious and are trying to get t the inside facts The reminder that this is the season lor tree planting is a timely one and should be widely acted upon Few things would contribute more to the at tractiveness of streets and roads than roVs of thrifty shade trees Philadelphia Record The kindergar ten lies at the bottom of the public school system It is a ilttle nearer to bed rock than our system of education lias ever before attained Congress man Barrett of Massachusetts is right when he insists that more kindergar tens should be established even if the high schools should have to be aban doned We are expending too much money on the roof and too little on the underpinning of our schools An English actress called her com pany together the other night took leave of it gave the members her jew elry and dresses and announced that she had joined the Salvation Army The woman was Ada Ward not un known in this country and her conver sion appears to be sincere There has been nothing similar to her change of heart since Tames Sheridan Knowles actor and playwright abandoned the theater to become an extreme evangel ist and preacher at Exeter Hall A singular omission in the matter or legal formalities is the failure of the Federal laws to provide for notifying a President elect of his election The electoral votes are counted and the re sult of the enumeration is recorded in the journals of both Houses of Con gress but it is left for the President elect to find out the result in whatever way he can and to present himself for inauguration on the next succeeding fourth day of March As a matter of fact the person elected to the highest office in the republic gets his notifica tion from the newspapers The State of Washington is proceed ing systematically in the work of re claiming its arid lands the operations being under the direction of an Arid Land Commissioner A recent report by this officer says that by the process of irrigation over 1000000 acres in the State may be made fertile The work in hand is the reclamation of some S50000 acres which have been with drawn from the public domain at a cost mostly for personal service of about 7000 Abundant water for this large tract can be had from the Natchez River re enforced by a series of reservoirs the water to be supplied br a canal lo0 miles in length The English newspapers are becom ing venturesome One of them has sent a correspondent on a secret mis sion of which it speaks in the follow ing mysterious terms We cannot in dicate his destination for the journey that lies before him is one of the most perilous kind and a whisper of his identity or the purpose of his mission would seal his death warrant He pur poses to tread a path that has never known the foot of a white man and will travel Avith such a following as no newspaper correspondent has ever mustered for his private ends Hun dreds of men and scores of horses will follow his banner and every man of the party will cany his life in his hand Whewl Trusts are destroying themselves They are engaged in every line in a systematic suicide Nature abhors monopoly as it abhors a vacuum There is something in human nature and hu man conditions which prevents the for mation or the continuance if partial formation is had of a combination in restraint of trade Some one will break away from the imperfect union and -war will result On every hand is evi dence of the truth of this assertion Grapling each other trusts are every where destroying themselves The latest felo de se is the United States Butibef Company which has been en deavoring to rid itself of its rival the Boston Rubber Shoe Company and in the war which has succeeded is well nigh at deaths door itself Its stock is rapidly declining and before the war ends the price will probably be next to nothing New York Tribune The Mafia Soci ety in New Orleans does not seem to have been pulled up by the roots in the -massacre of its members which took -place there a few years ago It is still active and apparently quite capable of Its old murderous exploits The Papal delegate who recently visited that city came immediately under its ban and was forced to flee before its wrath His offense was that in a sermon he had declared that the Italian immigrants came largely from the criminal classes of that country and did not represent either the middle class or the industri ous poor So far as the New Orleans contingent of that population is con cerned its conduct in the past affords considerable justification of the dele gates affirmations The Mafia which Is merely a society of murderers has j had one sharp lesson there which it has obviously not laid sufficiently to heart and it Is just possible that it is prepar ing itself for another an incident to be more deplored than the forcible depor tation of every Italian in the common wealth The United States Consulates at Lon don Paris Rio de Taniero Liverpool Shanghai Calcutta and Hong Kong pay 5000 a year Melbourne pays 4500 and Berlin Montreal Yokohama Pan ama and Mexico City 4000 Halifax Vienna Amoy Canton Tientsin Havre and Callao are worth 3500 and the Samoan Islands Constantinople Dresden Guyaquil Frankfort Ottawa Rome St Petersburg Singapore Cape Town St Gall Switzerland Prague Antwerp Valparaiso Colon Chin Klang Fuchau Hankow Bordeaux Barmen Nuremberg Belfast Brad ford Demerax a Glasgow Kingston Manchester Nagasaki Osaki Kobe Vera Cruz Matanzas Cuba Basle Switzerland and Montevideo pay 3 000 each Thirty one Consulates in dif ferent parts of the world pay 2500 and sixty two pay 2000 each The remainder pay 1500 and 1000 It was inevitable that the great pow er which for countless ages went to waste over the mighty fails of the Ni agara River should sooner or later be harnessed and utilized for the purposes of man But it would surely have been much later had it not been for the in domitable courage of one young man Mr William B Rankine He did not originate the scheme which has been successfully carried out but he carried it through in the face of difficulties and discouragements that would have baf fled ninety nine men out of a hundred The engineering and mechanical diffi culties were tremendous and to over come them the greatest practical scien tists in the world were consulted But the financial difficulties seemed quite insurmountable The undertaking Avas so gigantic and the sum required so great that the boldest financiers turn ed away But Mr Rankine would not be denied With an unfaltering faith in the feasibility of the scheme he met each new discouragement with the se renity of a strong nature and at last achieved one of the greatest business successes of the age Mr Rankine is a lawyer by profession and not yet 40 A woman took lodging at an English hotel in November 1895 In August 1S96 she Avas still there This long resi dence at a hotel amazed the proprietor and he requested her to move It does not appear that she acted offensively or that she was objectionable in any way She paid her board regularly and refused to leave The proprietor in her absence one day locked the door and set her luggage in the hall She sued for damages holding that she came to the hotel as a traveler and as such Avas entitled to remain The court held that she had ceased to be a traveler by her long stay and it denied her claim The London newspapers uphold this deci sion the Daily News saying It Avould clearly be monstrous absurdity that a person should be able to compel admit tance to a hotel by virtue of an ancient rule devised in favor of Avayfarers and then retain his footing whether his presence Avas Avelcome or not for life Mine host Avithout having anything against the character of the guest may naturally shrink from carrying on his business upon such terms Neither the court nor the press explained Avhen a person ceased to be a traveler and be came a boarder And we are left in ig norance as to Avliy the innkeeper should shrink from entertaining inoffensive persons who pay with regularity That gentle succulent bivalve the oyster has furnished many a text for lay sermons in the past and one would think the subject had been exhausted but an event Avhich took place recently at Jacksonville Ohio recently calls for further mention At this little village a well knoAvn physician was quietly eating his evening meal Avhich began with a plateful of raw oysters Dr Louis is in the habit of biting his oys ters in two as he eats them and in do ing so on the third tasty mouthful he came down with four teeth at least upon a round hard substance Avhich on investigation proved to be a pearl It not only proved to be this but as it was discovered in that portion of the oysters anatomy known as the stom ach and as it had not been ruined by the heat of cooking the monetary value of the find was placed by an expert at 500 This is encouraging For a long time bacteriologists those disagreeable people who go about sizing up the num ber of germ of bacilli in ones composi tion and telling about it have asserted all sorts of horrible things about the oyster such as the fact that the ordin ary restaurant brand contains between 44000 and SSS000 germs to the oyster and Avhen a man takes a plate of half a dozen he must masticate somewhere between 264000 and over 2000000 of bacilli but all this will end now If a man can be reasonably sure of finding a 500 pearl in a raw oyster in the in terior of the State of Ohio he AVill brave even that multitude of fierce ani malculae and crunch their bones with joy Germs what are they Avhen ev ery ten million may bring tAvo big pearls or more Why such a prospect tempts one to go into oyster eating for a living A Success Man of family That burglar alarm is a grand success Avouldnt part with it for a mint of money It went off at 1 oclock this morning Dealer Eh Did you catch a burglar trying to get in No but it caught my daughters young man trying to get out New York Weekly A boy never expresses the love he feels for his mother and seldom feels the love he expresses for other women FLOOD VICTIMS AIDED PRESIDENT MKINLEYS APPEAL IS HEEDED Bo Asks Congress to Act at Once in the Matter of Belief and in a Very Brief Time 200000 Is Appro priated Message from the President President McKinley appealed to Con gress Wednesday for relief for Southern 3ood sufferers and Congress was quick o respond Here is the text of the mes jage information which has recently come to ne from the governors of Arkansas MIbsIb llppl and Louisiana and from prominent cit izens of these States and Tennessee war rants the conclusion that widespread dis ress involving the destruction of a large imount of property and loss of human life sas resulted from the floods which have Seen submerging that section of the coun try These are stated on reliable authority o be the most destructive floods that have tver devastated the Mississippi Valley the water being much higher than the highest itage It has reached before From Marlon irk north of Memphis to Greenville Miss i distance of more than 250 miles by river t Is reported there are now at least fifty towns and villages under water and a ter ritory extending from ten miles north of Memphis to 200 miles south and from five to orty miles wide is submerged Hundreds f thousands of acres of cultivated soil with growing crops are Included In the sub merged territory In this section alone mere are from 50000 to 60000 people whoso property has been destroyed and whose busi ness has been suspended Growing crops jave been ruined thousands of cattle have been drowned and the inhabitants of cer tain areas threatened with starvation As DRAPER DID THE DEEl Confesses to the Murder of Charles 1 Hastings cit Jacksonville 111 Charles L Draper has made to his pas tor Rev Dr Morey a complete confes sion of the murder of Charles L Hastings in the abstract oflice of Judge Kirby at Jacksonville 111 March 31 He said that he had been in the employ of Judge Kirby for some time when Hastings came back to the city without means and in despair over losing his property Draper said he interceded for Hastings with Judge Kir by nnd secured him a position They went to work together and from that time the trouble began Draper claimed that he had shown Hastings every kindness only to be rebuffed He would do a great amount of work preparing papers and Hastings would label them with his name and take the credit of preparing them The trouble culminated when Draper pressed Hastings for a reason why he was so cool and was answered with an oath that -he wanted nothing more to do with him An appeal to Judge Kirby had noe effect and Draper resigned and then be gan business for himself In order to get through with his work he had to have access to the books he had helped to pre pare He had kept a key to the door and decided to see if the combination on the vault door had been changed and found it had not He went there night after night to take off the abstracts of titles He was suspected and was shad owed by a detective for over a month but he held off until the detective went off duty and a day or two after made his last visit to the office Hastings unex pectedly entered and Draper says at- BATTLESHIP IOWA IS THE QUEEN OF AMERICAN WAR VESSELS The battleship Iowa is the queen of th6 American navy By her grand work Wednesday in her speed trial she proved herself to be the superior of the Indi ana or Massachusetts Incidentally she earned a premium of 200000 for her builders William Cramp Sons of Philadelphia by making an average of sev enteen knots an hour over the regular Government course off the Massachusetts coast in the four hours trial required by the Government under the contract The Iowa just did it and that was all In fact so narrow was the margin that all the reckoners had to carry out their figures to the fourth decimal point in order to make the speed for the whole course average seventeen knots an hour a great majority of the sufferers are small farmers they have- been left entirely desti tute and will be unprepared for work even ifter the floods have subsided The entire Mississippi Valley In Arkansas Is flooded and communication with many points cut off In Mississippi a like condi tion exists The levees In Louisiana with 9 single exception have held but the water is rising and the situation there Is reported is being extremely critical Under such circumstances the citizens of these States look for the co operation and support of the national government in re lieving the pressing cases of destitution for food clothing and shelter which are be yond the reach of local efforts The authori ties who have communicated with the Ex ecutive recognize that their first and most energetic duty is to provide so far as possi ble the means of caring for their own citi zens but nearly all of them agree in the oulnion that after their resources have been exhausted a sum aggregating at least 150 000 and possibly 200000 will be required for immediate use Precedents are not wanting that in such emergencies as this Congress has taken prompt generous and intelligent action in volving the expenditure of considerable sums of money with satisfactory results In 1S74 590000 was appropriated and In 1SS2 350000 was also appropriated for re lief in the same direction besides large sums In other years The citizens relief committee of Mem phis which has taken prompt action has already cared for from G000 to 7000 refu gees from the flooded districts and they are till arriving in that city in large numbers daily Supplies and provisions have been sent to the various points in Arkansas and Mississippi by this committee but the most that can be done by these efforts is to part ly relieve the most acute cases of suffering No action has yet been taken for the great majority of the inhabitants living in the in- tacked him and during the struggle which followed he drew a knife and inflicted the fatal stabs Draper says he has re tained Gov Jolinson of St Louis and he with Col Pat Dyer will make a stubborn fight for the mans life STORY OF THE WATERS 10000 Fqnare Miles Flooded and 200 Lives Lost Ten thousand square miles of flooded farm lands 200 livQs lost and 100000 000 worth of property destroyed This is the record of the huge yellow monster that coils its length like the slow spread ing tentacle of an octopus from the Brit ish line to the Mexican gulf It is the record of the insatiate Mississippi Seven States are wailing and wallowing and floundering in the muddy torrent and thousands of people have gone sailing over their farms and into the flooded for ests on logs on rafts on the roofs of their houses On the small knolls that yet rise above the deluged lands in Arkansas Mississippi and Louisiana little groups of half starved men are gathered with their families and farm animals waiting for the rescue that comes so slowly And still the tide rises and swells and widens and sings its long song of death and disaster through the broken levees and still the six foot snows of Minne sota and the Dakotas melt and pour their BREAK IN THE LEVEE BELOW MEMPHIS tcrior whose condition has already been described Under these conditions and having fully exerted themselves to the fullest extent the local authorities have reluctantly confessed their inability to further cope with this dis tressing situation unaided by relief from the Government It has therefore seemed to me that the representatives of the people should be promptlv informed of the nature and extent of the suffering and needs of these stricken people and I have communicated these facts in the hope and belief that the legisla tive branch of the Government will prompt ly re enforce the work of the local authori ties in the States named WILLIAM MKINLEY A resolution was at once passed by the House appropriating 200000 for the suf ferers and the Senate giving it speedy sanction the resolution was carried to the White House where the President gladly signed it News of Minor Note Gov Adams has signed the bill abol ishing capital punishment in Colorado Madrid is gaily decorated with flags in honor of the victories of the Spanish troops in the Philippine islands William G FisHer a millionaire dry goods merchant of Denver Colo died at New York He was 53 years old Henry Struive and two sons were drowned on Gus Bulls farm six miles south of Frankfort S D This makes six deaths from drowning within two weeks vast volume into the already unprecedent ed current Levees from St Louis to Vicksburg are broken and destroyed Cre vasses are everywhere Twenty thousand men have fought night and day and are still fighting the ronring waters In the backwoods and isolated lowlands of Ar kansas and Mississippi thousands of poor settlers have been deluged and are cut off from communication or rescue Thou sands of farm animals have been drown ed Culverts and bridges have been wash ed away and railroad traffic impeded Re lief is slow and inadequate and the end is not yet Amined Dowlen has been appointed president of the Persian Council of Min isters of the Interior with extensive pow ers Capt Sam G Cabell one of the old Mississippi steamboat cantains nnd a M J prominent figure on that river during war times aiea at Washington u u aged S3 years He and one of his boats were pressed intothe Confederate service by Gen -Thompson early in the 60s and passed through many thrilling adventures C F Kleupfer who killed C R Dodge and Alexander Borland at New Hope Cal six weeks ago and who has since been in the county jail at Stockton hang ed himself in his cell with a handkerchief tied to the grating of the window aK rTra W0EK OF CONGRESS THE WEEKS DOINGS IN SENATE AND HOUSE A Comprehensive Digest of the Pro- cccdings in the Legislative Cham bers at Washington Matters that Concern the People Lawmakers at Labor The Senate Monday by unanimous vote adopted a resolution reciting the reports that Gen Ruis Rivera the Cuban com mander is about to be tried by drumhead court martial and shot and expressing the judgment of the Senate that if these reports are true the President of the Uni ted States should protest to the Spanish Government against such a violation of the rules of civilized warfare This res olution was not sent to the House of Representatives but became effective as a measure of advice to the President by its adoption After the disposal of the Cuban question the day was given to speeches Mr Elkins speaiing for two hours on the development of the Ameri can merchant marine and lr Lindsay advocating the passage of the Torrey bankruptcy bill A joint resolution was agreed to directing the Surgeon General of the Marine Hospital service to aid the Mississippi River flood sufferers by the distribution of tents blankets food and medicine under the epidemic fund of 1893 and to purchase further supplies under the present epidemic fund for distribu tion The Senate Tuesday was occupied by discussion of Cuban affairs and the bank ruptcy bill The President sent to the Senate the following nominations Treas ury Alonzo 7 Tyler of Tennessee to be collector of internal revenue for the sec ond district of Tennessee Park Agnew of Virginia to be collector of internal rev enue for the sixth district of Virginia Navy Theodore Roosevelt of New York to be assistant secretary of the navy Captain A S Crowninshield United States navy to be chief of the bureau of navagation in the department of the navy Rev William G Cassard of Maryland to be chaplain in the navy Postmaster William Barrett Ridgely at Springfield The House acted promptly Wednesday on the Presidents message and adopted a joint resolution authorizing the Sec retary of War to expend 200000 for the relief of the flood sufferers of the Mis sissippi Vallev Adjournment was takon until Saturday Cuba and the flood suf ferers divided attention in the Senate The reading of the Presidents massage urging Congressional relief for the devas tated regions of the Mississippi River was followed by the passage of a joint resolu tion offered by Senator Jones of Arkansas appropriating 150000 to be immediately available for the flood sufferers It was passed by the unanimous vote of the Sen ate The plans were changed however when the House resolution appropriating 200000 for the Mississippi River and Red River of the North was received This was accepted in lieu of the former resolution and was missed unanimonslv Mr Morgan of Alabama resumed his speech in support of the resolution on de claring that a state of war exists in Cuba The Senate Thursday heard Mr Mor gan of Alabama for the third successive day on his resolution declaring that a state of war exists in Cuba Mr Nelson of Minnesota spoke for two hours on the bankruptcy bill opposing the pending Tor rey bill Mr Chandler offered a resolu tion which was agreed to as follows Resolved That the Committee on Inter state Commerce be directed to investigate the payments made or agreed to be made by the interstate commerce commission for attorneys fees and also to inquire whether in any cases the attorneys of the commission have also been employed by railroad companies in similar cases and further whether any additional authority from Congress is required for the em ployment of counsel in any pending pro ceedings which have been instituted by or on motion of the commission The House gave no evidence of life A LUCKY YOUNG MAN Charles U Gordon Chicagos New Postmaster The resignation of Washington Hesing postmaster of -Chicago made a vacancy which President McKinley lost little time in filling A young man got the plum His name is Charles U Gordon and he is not yet 32 years of age Since his 19th CHARLES XT GOKDOX year he has been engaged in real estate business and has made money fast He has been president of the Marquette Club a social political organization with a great influence in Republican affairs In last falls campaign he was a leader for Mc Kinley Sparks from the Wires Richard Dudley of Erie Pa and Cin cinnati died in London Marshall Russell Maria Snoden and Maggie Short were drowned at Allens ville Ky while out boat riding on a pond Hugh Miller the firebug who was con victed of arson twenty four hours after his arrest at New York was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment Analien labor bill modeled on the ex isting law in the United States and a bill to amend the immigration laws have been introduced in the Canadian parlia ment Levi Samuels has been appointed reW ufacturers at New York in proceedings for a dissolution of the firm The liabili ties are placed at 70000 Assets consist of outstanding accounts and stock PSsfivts li JJ2T 9B HOUSEKEEPING A Phase of Modern City Life Whlcf Will Amaze Many in the Country The time is approaching when house keeping as our grandmothers under stood it will become a lost art says the San Francisco Argonaut There was a day when the model housewife spun her own linen and dipped her own candles Then she advanced to the stage of a frivolous disregard of these accomplishmehts and bought her lin en and her candles but knit her chil drens stockings and had a still room full of jams and pickles of her own making To day she would no more make her pickles than she would un dertake to build the bed she sleeps on The craft of housekeeping which in the eyes of our grandfathers was our grandmothers most considerable at traction is to day almost extinct In the great cities things are so ar ranged that it is possible to live com fortably in your own apartment with out any of the friction of household management which has turned so many heads white and ruffled the peace of so many hearths In any city an apartment of from three rooms up can be hired for from twenty to two hundred dollars a month This can be made habitable by furniture jobbers at twenty four hours notice The janitor the lauudryman and the livery-stable- keeper are at hand read to proffer their services Each apartment house has its own corps of these supernumer aries who are Avilling for a eonsidead tion to lighten the burden of the house wife Close at hand if not in the build ing itself is a cafe where good meals are served at all hours When there are few children in the family the cafe is generally patronized If the house hold consists of only Darby and Joan and they happen to be young and act ive they dispense with the services of this convenient caterer make their own breakfast in their rooms and go out to different restaurants for lunch ami dinner Those who wish to have the privacy of home life at their meals can find a waiting crowd of butchers bakers and grocers who eagerly offer price lists and pass books and will un dertake to procure and serve whatever may be desired if the objects of their attentions will undertake to pay the bills they send in Even that tough est of housekeeping problems the servant-girl question is reduced to its smallest possible importance for in such a style of living few servants are needed In fact where the family is small it is possible to dispense with them entirely as the and elevator-boy attend to the outside work and an house cleaning association will furnish a reliable charwoman as often and as early as can be required Altogether the modern woman is haying things made as easy for her as possible In ten years she will no more think of dusting her own room than of making her own shoes Even that most unanswerable problem what shall she do with her children is rap idly solved There are now day jl series for the children of workng -women where a child is taken care of for from ten to twenty cents a day The time is at hand when institutions of this kind well run and high priced will be on every block superseding the old nursery of the domestic regime In all probability the child will be bet ter cared for than it was when left to the charge of an ignorant mother and an Irish nurse girl Whether however the arrangement will be satisfactory to the mother herself is another side of the matter It will take a good deal of civilization to transfer the maternal instinct from the individual to the ace Unchristian Names It is curious how inconsistent are tne prejudices of people in regard to the use of heathen names Mr Iayn in his Gleams of Memory tells an amusing story of the late Dean Bur gon who objected to the name of the goddess of beauty but found no fault with that of the god of the woods An infant was brought to the church for christening and the name proposed for it was Vanus Vanus repeat ed the dean I suppose you mean Venus Do you imagine I am going to call a Christian child by that y5fy and least of all a male child The father of the infant urged that he only wished to name it after his grandfather Your grandfather cried the dean I dont believe it Where is your grandfather He was produced a poor old soul of eighty or so bent double and certainly not look ing in the least like the goddess in question Do you mean to tell me sir that any clergyman ever christened you Vanus as you call it Well no sir I was christened Syl vanus but they always called me Va nus The Way of It I heard your minister j esigned front his charge Well no not edzacJy How was it then Why you see wed been resigned ter him as long as we could stand it and we thought it wuz time for him to reciprocate He didnt resign We resigned him- Washington Times Fonnd His Calling Editor-in-Chief to applicant for posi tion on the Daily Distress Do yon have fits Applicant Alas yes Editor All right you can commence here Monday We want such a man as you seem to be to edit our Cuban war news Cleveland Leader Literary Thrift Of course we write light literature And people really should expect it We thua save postage in sending our stuff Tothe publishers who reject it Detroit Journal Among some women a certain dis tinction is given the woman who takes a death so hard her physician forbids her to attend the funeral V ii V i i