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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1897)
y 5 - 3 CvlHKHHSSftHtttiBBflkBttABVlfiiArJW fiK T t JfcX IPr fakntine tnoctHt ROBERT GOOD Editor and Prop VALENTINE NEBRASKA Cbarlty never mistakes superstition for religion bigotry for faith or ven geance for love The Paris tribunals have decided that the habit of gambling In the wife Is Talid ground for divorce Cuba is still suffering all the horrors Jof war A Washington paper learns that Loie duller is dancing in Havana Yes said the artilleryman as he rammed down another load of grape ehot it is better to give than to re ceive Let her go A special dispatch from Middletowii Ohio says that a peculiar animal with two sets of lungs has been found there It is probably a prize fighter Yes some of them are called sav ings banks because the president and his typewriter manage to save some thing from what the depositors con tribute If that Chicago physician is right Who says that there is no such thing as appendicitis the joke seems to be on the relatives of those who have died -with it Mrs Annie Besant announces that the soul of Byron has not been reincar nated in her We believe that explana tion will be entirely satisfactory to the friends of the late Mr Byron Women in Bunnah propose to men iWhom they seek in marriage and when they tire of them a divorce can be had ior the asking Boats run regularly between the United States and Bur mah This country is capturing all the good things this year The King of Slam Is about to visit us and he will be fol lowed later in the summer by the Ra jah of Razamataz Theres a name to conjure with In a Boston park the other day a well dressed stranger was found dead -with a campaign cigar in his teeth and a bullethole in his temple It will take a coroners inquest to determine tho cause of death Physicians declare that by excessive bicycle riding the nervous system may be exhausted without the knowledge of the rider and that when attacked by disease the bicyclist may find him self without reserve force to resist it A JsTew Hampshire schoolmaam wants to be sent to some South Ameri can country as a minister or a consul general Why shouldnt she have a good fat office just as soon as the men have picked out all the places they want Rev Andrew Jones of somewhere out out West predicts that New York St Louis and Chicago are under a ban end that they are doomed to destruc tion because of their worthlessness and -wickedness And perhaps he is about two thirds right It is just as well to stop right here look about among the wrecked banks -and the ghosts of the sure thing bucket shops and warn the young man of the rising generation that the short cut to wealth has a sad way of leading to the door of the penitentiary en route Fear of failure prevents many per sons from putting forth their best en deavors Anyone with ordinary insight -may observe this paralyzing element In some whom they casually meet and may do something towards dispersing It by a kindly word of encouragement or timely counsel About 40000 natives of the Philippines -took part in the revolt against Spain Of these the captain general in com mand says he has killed 62000 cap tured 17000 and that the remaining 20000 are now ready to surrender Meanwhile the war goes on The girls of Cleveland are quite They petitioned the city board - of control to change the name of Kis sam street to Ellendale avenue and the board granted the request The Forest City girls dont want it under- stood that it is any easier to kiss em on one street than another The zealous lovers of what is new the hopeful reformer of current abuses the enthusiastic adherent of untried schemes the ardent philanthropist or the apostle of progress in any of Its forms cannot afford to neglect or scorn -the past with its vast storehouses of knowledge and wisdom and attained success Without these he with all Ills hopes and aspirations would be an Impossibility One of the principal clauses of the di vorce law in France forbids marriage Ttetween the respondent and co-respondent of a case This has been practic ally set at naught by the recent de- clsion of the supreme court of appeal at Paris according to which the tribunals ibave no power to annual a union of this kind in instances where the parties thereto have been able to secure the celebration of their marriage by some public officer ignorant of their ante cedents Pittsburg Times The company stort Is troubling the Legislature again It Is the one conspicuous sinner that looms up before the legislative tlgating committee It is an old of fender in the community It has been accused of everything and been the object of much legislation In the sight of the laboring man it is an eyesore By the State it is outlawed But it flour ishes like Jonahs gourd coming up in a night if it Is torn down in the daytime Being under the ban of the law does not disturb it True self sacrifice which is always ready to subordinate the monetary and partial self to the permanent andivhole self can never come into conflict with the real good of others Both are nour ished from the same source both suf fer if either is injured He who neg lects or injures others wounds himself in a vital part he who neglects or in jures himself as surely reduces the and impairs the welfare of others The people of the United States are again face to face with a problem upon the solution of which depends its peace of mind for a long time to come It is a question that concerns only our selves but for all that it will require the exercise of diplomacy of the high est order to avert the threatened evil and the most astute statesmanship of the country will be brought to bear upon the question Robert Fitzshn mons has announced his intention of learning to sing The anti trust law just enacted in Georgia is a very comprehensive and thorough one It is based upon the theory that free competition in all forms of business is a personal right and a public advantage and that a wrong Is done whenever it is supressed or obstructed There seems to be no room left for the escape of any com bination designed to control prices or to Interfere with the general laws of trade It remains to be proved if a law so stringent and far reaching can be enforced and its power and useful ness will depend very largely upon the ability and integrity of the officers and the friendly disposition of the courts The art of listening is often spoiled ty the mental attitude of prejudging When we begin to listen we quickly take sides for or against as critic or ad vocate and from that moment we cease to be good listeners certainly we are no longer impartial or fair ones We welcome that which agrees with our notions and exaggerate its relative value while that which is opposed to them we ignore and forget We are not great enough to listen for the sake of truth and try to discover it what ever it may be we listen with avidity to that which we like and turn a deaf ear to the opposite As when we look through colored glass the whole land scape assumes that color so when we listen through the medium of private prejudice we hear only its echo John Bright once said of Gladstone He is an honest man he believes what he says The worst of it is that he too readily believes what he wishes to be lieve To a question whether that was not something like self deceit Mr Bright replied No Mr Gladstone sees an object which he thinks of vital importance and he turns in all direc tions for arguments in support of it He find them and he becomes uncon scious of anything outside of them That is not self deceit To the objec tion that it was a dangerous quality in a statesman to be able to see only that side of a question which he wished to see Mr Bright replied that every man who had done anything great in the world had been of that constitution You cannot do a great thing he con cluded if you have doubts of your por sition and reasons The weather man stationed at Cleve land Ohio has been subjected to a grave injustice at the hands of a local magistrate named Ong He was obliged to go to jail because he refused to at tend court and testify whether It rain ed or not on a certain day and because he refused also to pay the fine imposed on him for contempt Judge Ong re lented it is true after an hour or so out this did not lessen the indignity im posed on the weather man Something should be done with this Magistrate Ong for his unpardonable lack of sense By what right did he order this weath er man into court for the purpose of extracting a specific declaration as to the weather Did the wretched Ong ever hear of a weather man wiio knew anything about the weather Ought not the very title of weather man make the bearer sacred from any at tempts to extort from him information about the weather But even ing that this particular weather man did happen to know what the weather was on the day in question Was it fair to drag him into court and force him to stultify himself If the day about which this Judge Ong was so curious happened to have been fair it is altogether probable the weather man is on record as having predicted a bliz zard If perchance it rained or snowed on that day the predictions will un doubtedly show fair Surely the weather man is entitled to some pro tection and if he is badgered in this fashion he may get into the habit of occasionally making correct predic tions which would seriously impair his usefulness Cold weather forecasts cause a general outpouring of spring overcoats and fair and warm means umbrellas and warm clothing for like dreams these predictions go by oppo sites But if courts are to be encour aged in sending the weather man to jail the public will be thrown back again on the more uncertain goose bone Novel Picture Frame Ernest White of West Chester Pn has a small picture frame made of 2200 separate pieces of wood that lock luto one another It was made by hand Acknowledge a Manifest Condition The Republican Senators who are holding an autopsy on the mangled re mains of the Dingley bill appear to have c oine to one sane conclusion They have been forced to acknowledge that a prohibitory tariff will not produce revenue However effective it may be in fostering monopolies it will not cure a deficit They are therefore compell ed to supplement the restrictive tariff with some revenue taxes New York World Facts Deny Reeds Assertion Speaker Reed says there is no busi ness demanding the attention of the BsaesiaagafetweRAeBg feBg - 7T BRYAN ON CLEVELAND Mr Bryan has written a criticism on ex President Clevelands speech to the Reform Club He truthfully asserts that the ex President is unjust to Mc Kinley The President was noted for his views on protection He is simply following out a policy which he has al ways favored Hence Mr Cleveland and other gold Democrats who either election have no ground of complaint They knew that McKinley was a pro tectionist when they contributed to his election and they must accept the le gitimate consequences of their own ac tions Another point made by Mr Bryan is effective The largest sum of money ever put into a campaign in the history of American politics was raised and ex pended in the last presidential contest Did it ever occur to him Mr Cleve land says Mr Bryan that the con tributors would expect repayment through legislation friendly to their in terests This is exactly what the Diugley bill is It is intended to give the men who contributed the cash to Mark Hannas corruption fund an op portunity to play even at tlie expense of the American people As to whether the more than 6000 000 Democrats who voted for Bryan or the 130000 who voted for Palmer con stitute the real Democratic party there can be no question Denver News en in sufficiently large quantities it will keep all foreign germs out of your system and leave you happy prosperous and U S Hold on there doctor Youve said enough to convince me that like all advertised panaceas its a quack remedy Besides Ive tried it and found it about the nastiest dose I ever took Its effects were also bad very bad It deranged my whole system and filled it so full of trust germs that Ive been laid up ever since I dont want any more of your protection pills and dont see why they called a protection doctor again It must have been by mistake Whose Appetite We used to hear much for twenty- Ave years from the Republican breth ren safely stalled at the public crib about an awful organized appetite which appetite they described as the Democratic party They felt it a pat riotic duty to disappoint this appetite in order to satisfy their own The coun try would be lost if they were not per mitted to take their meals in peace at the expense of the Government Dur ing all these twenty five years the Dem ocratic party went on in season and out of season met defeat every four years with equanimity but stuck fast by their principles whereas if they were indeed an organized appetite they would not have survived one disastrous campaign These little facts may be brought out in view of the fact that there is on file in the State Department at Washingtou no less than 30000 applications for ap pointments in the consular service These come from Republicans Of course they will protest there is no or ganized appetite among them They are not very hungry and very thirsty But the facts are against them The Republican party is at all times the par ty of grab writ large The Republican party solemnly resolves that the saints Should possess the earth and with equal solemnity resolves that the saints belong exclusively in the Republican party Humbug charlatanism hypocrisy greed and jobbery are the characteris tics of the Republican party It is an organized appetite it ever there was one Chicago Chronicle House of Representatives Yet more than 2000 bills have been introduced some of them exceedingly important the bankruptcy bill is of vital impor tance and the courts will have to close unless Congress speedily furnishes mon ey to pay court expenses Nashville American Womens Dress Goods Will Come High The extremely high duties which directly or indirectly aided McKinleysf Din8ley Proposes to collect from worn- ens dress goods should be A Wonderful Pill Uncle Sam Why doctor that looks tike the pill McKinley gave me to re duce my revenue Dr Dingley Yes its ingredients are practically the same though perhaps they are somewhat stionger U S But you say this is to increase my revenue How can if work both ways Dr D Its a protection and prosper ity pill and will produce any effect de sired Its an infallible cure for any and all fiscal and industrial ills If more gener ally understood by the women of this country It is they who must suffer moat because of these duties Here are a few samples of the increased duties taken from a list prepared by Mr P B Worrall of the aoaR goods importing firm of Fred Butterfield sa Co of New York A wool and cotton cloth costing in England Is per yard equal to 24 cents in our money weighing 16 ounces to tho running yard costs under the pres ent tariff 83 6 cents per yard while un der the proposed tariff it would cost 67 8 16 cents per yard A wool and cotton cloth costing in England 2s 4d per yard equal to 56 cents in our money weighing 28 ounces to tho running yard and costing under the present taiiff 784 cents per yard would under the proposed tariff cost 14858 per yard An all worsted cloth costing in England 2s Id per yard equal to 50 cents in our money weighing 16 ounces to the running yard and costing under the present tariff 70 cents per yard would cost under the proposed tariff f 1298 per yard A 32 inch black serge cotton warp costing in England 7 5 8d per yard equal in our money to 1525 cents weighing less than 4 ounces to the square yard costs under the present tar iff 2287 cents per yard Under the pro posed tariff it will cost 3007 cents per yard A 27 inch black sicilienne cotton warp costing in England 7 7 8d por yard equal to 1575 cents in our mon ey weighing 8 7 ounces to the ruuning yard costs under the present tariff 2362 cents per yard Under tho pro posed tariff it will cost 3392 cents per yard Iniquitous lumber Tariff The proposed tariff on lumber the Boston Transcript Rep says is sim ply a measuie to pick the pockets and crush the industry of a large useful and influential class of American citizens It is uneconomic unscientific suicidal The statements upon which this schedule was made up are shown to have been insidious and misleading The result will be to strip the country not of an annually recurring income but of its white pine principal which at present rates is within ten years of exhaustion and also to ruin a large class of business men in this country who deserve better things It does not seem possible that men claiming to represent the people will permit such a measure to have the force of law If they do it will cease to be folly and become iniquity Fooling1 the Farmer Sample taxes from the Dingley bill with comparisons showing the over whelming foreign competition to which the farmer is subjected and what pro tection the ways and means committee regards as indispensable Imports to Exports from Duty United States United States Dingley hill 1896 1856 Earley 30c perbu 837384 hu 7680331 bu Corn 15c per bu 4838 bu 09992835 bu uats ic per bu 47506 bu Rye 10c per bu 154 bu Wheat 25c per bu 2110030 bu Flour 2oc ad val Butter Gc per lb 13012590 bu 988466 bu 60050080 bu 1894 bbls 14620864 bbls 62007 lbs 19873913 lbs fotatoes25cpbu 175240 bu 680049 bu Total value of these exports during the fiscal year 1890 139023632 Total value imports 1861553 Hit the Wrong Party Jacksons Protection Prophecy The corporations and wealthy indi viduals who are engaged in large man ufacturing establishments desire a high tariff to increase their gains Design ing politicians will support it to concil iate their favor and to obtain the means for prof ase expenditure for the purpose of purchasing influence in other quar ters Do not allow yourselves mv fel low citizens to be misled in this sub ject It is a system of injustice and if persisted in will lead to corruption and must end in ruin Andrew Jackson in His Farewell Address Political Comment So long as we are shut in behind the Chinese wall of protection which not only keeps foreign goods out but shackles our export trade by keeping our products in high wages are paid until overproduction and the clogged home market compel the shutting down of the mill Then there are no wages at all New York Times The owners of industries to be pro tected under the new tariff bill have al ready begun raising the prices of their products but have not said a word about lifting the wages of Louisville Times NOTES ON EDUCATION MATTERS OF INTEREST TO PU PIL AND TEACHER Prof Henderson on Canse and Effect in Education Stubborn Natures Must Be Led and Not Driven Gen eral Educational Newa and Notes Cause and Effect in Education The human infant Is a much less complex thing than we are wont to think It is plastic and general for the most part a mere bundle of possi bilities And we stand to it In rela tion of Fate or Destiny We have given to us a tiny organism with little in dividual will or intelligence The in fluences to which we subject this or ganism constitute the educative proc ess There are two elements to be considered First of all there is wrap ped up in this tiny ball of organized matter an inherent tendency more in exorable than the predestination taught by Calvin We call it heredity It is the gift for good or ill of fathers iind great grandfathers of mothers and ior many generations back The iairv irodmoth ers who come in the story book to ev eiy childs christening represent a sci entific fact The talents they bestow the fatal limitations they inflict are not by chance They are the quali ties of ancestry A system of educa tion neglecting this element of heredity neglects a determining cause and is fundamentally unscientific But it is an element largely beyond the control of the teacher All he can do is to develop these germs or discourage them as heredity seems good or bad Even In this very moderate function he blunders for the most part ter ribly The second element is the one with which we have practically to deal It includes all post natal influences In science we call it environment It is a long standing debate as to which of these elements is the stronger We need not enter the controversy The balance of present evidence seems to support that view of the matter which gives the greater influence the environ ment In this lies the hope of the edu cator We mean to get the best of the dead great grandmother Mr Fiske has pointed out that in the increased helplessness of the human infant in its greater freedom from inborn in stincts in the lengthening days of the plastic period of infancy are to be found the possibilities of a far greater individual advance This then is the problem set before us as educators so to shape these influences that the developing human spirit may approach perfection It is not a new problem It was before the Greeks It was be fore the men of the Middle Ages It has been constantly before our own people But it never has been very sat isfactorily solved The extent of our failure can be better realized when we remember that nearly all educa tional reforms have been forced upon the schools from without They orig inated with men and women who were so fortunate as to escape the pedagog ical blight When we remember fur ther that the men of mark in the great world of action and creative thought have either been educated in an irreg ular fashion or if they have gone to the academies and colleges have never taken the courses too seriously these facts are significant They mean that education has often been a thwarting of the spirit an attempt to fit a square plug into a round hole a pressure a dead weight rather than an unfolding They mean in short that education has seldom in practice at least been reduced to a science We fail as Ptolemy failed as the al chemists failed We fail because we do not observe the true sequence of cause and effect in the life of the child We must part company with that fatal duality which separates body and spir it We must look upon the child as a unit We must see in it an organism which includes both body and spirit an integer Little Margaret is very picturesque in her quaint gown and big hat They conceal the fact that her poor little body Is stunted and un developed and wrill but ill withstand the emotions and functions of woman hood Brother Jack is also a lively figure in bright kilt shirt and velvet jacket His neck is thin but it is surrounded by a very broad linen col lar We look at that and find htm charming His little legs are slender as broomsticks but they are in thick black hose and the red kilt attracts the eye We look at that and are satis fied He is active and noisy We take it for granted that he is getting on fine ly Were he in the bath tub we should think otherwise Later Tack goes to college He breaks down His moth er says it is from overwork But this is not the truth The truth is that he has not the brain power to cope with normal intellectual tasks The fault is elsewhere than with the curriculum still it makes us hopelessly vulgar These are but two out of a large and bad company of images which to day obscure the reflection of science in ed ucation They make difficult the rec ognition of the simple fact that the child is an organic unity and they make practically impossible the devel opment of any system of education based upon this truth So long as we allow tins obscurity and persist in this I blindness we shall have no science of education however many sehoolhous es we may build for we shall be stead ily doing violence to a principle which may not be violated the sequence of cause and effect Prof C Hanford Henderson in the Popular Science Monthly Must Be Xed Did you ever go trout fishing Do you know what it is to match your J skm as a fisherman against the wily ways of a trout fighting for its life You cast your line near the edge of a stream where there is an overhang ing tuft of grass or a bunch of pond lily leaves There is a snap and the reel revolves rapidly at the first scared nisi of the fish Should the gieeiv fisherman now attempt to land tht trout without playing him the chances are that the fish will escape There is too much resistance to overcome the line breaks and the fish gets away with the fly the line trailing behind to tangle sometime in the weeds and destroy its victim Or if the line holds fast the lish tears himself loose and the chance to catch him is gone The experienced fisherman on the contrary offers little resistance to the rush of the fish keeping a tight line and biding his time When the fish tires he reels in carefully quietly of fering as little resistance as possible ready to let the line run out at the next rush until at last the fish is tired and no longer resists and is pulled ashore It is a contest between the firm will and skillful hand of the fish erman and stubborn resistance of the fish The fisherman wins not by op posing violence to violence but by waiting until the fish has tired itself out and can be easily controlled and captured Did you ever think how much your stubborn bad boy is like the fish in its unreasoning mad rush When he draws away from you ana perhaps makes an issue instead of let ting him reel out the line and WSfr ing till he is reasonable you attempt to force him your way at once the consequence is there is a break be tween you and you never recover your ifluence over him But if instead you follow the plan of the successful fisherman and do not use force when he is most obstinate but wait a little until he is in a more tractable mood then if you are skillful you will ac complish your end your influence will prevail and your pupil will follow your lead trusting in your superior skill and wisdom There are times when the most skill ful work will fail both in teaching school and catching fish Noble G Rice in N W Journal of Education Educational Notes The Lampson bequest to Yale Uni versify will probably amount to over 500000 In Greece teachers are superannuat ed after twenty one years of service regardless of age The alumni of Dartmouth College have subscribed 15000 for the erec tion of a new alumni hall A picture of the late Hon Edwin WiL letts is to be hung in the State Normal School building of Michigan The people of Lancaster Pa have petitioned the school authorities foi the establishment of public kindergar tens in that city A petition is before the Maine Legis lature for an amendment to the char ter to provide for three women on the Portland School Board - - With 9000 students on its rolls the University of Paris is believed to have the largest number of students of any educational institution in the world President Srtyker of Hamilton an nounces that a friend wliose name he will not divulge has given the college 25000 for a hall of language Ground has already been broken for the new building The sixty five German societies of Chicago have petitioned the City Board of Education for free text books They also demand that all books be free from all allusions to prohibition and religion The application of the senior class at Wellesley for a senior vacation has been successful and this vacation will begin on June 10 after which date no classroom work will be required from those seniors who have no arrears of work A physician has recommended that no child 12 years of age or under be confined in a schoolroom more thak two and a half hours daily and then with frequent recesses that no child of IS years or less be required to study more than three or four lessons daily that there be one short session for the younger children and two for the older that ample time for rest and dinner be given and that lessons be learned at home but that teachers teach as well i as assign and hear lessons Hints to School Boards Sustain your teachers as long as yoir keep them Speak well of school -when opportuni ties offer Give your teachers at least one wprd of praise to two of censure Be as silent as oysters when tempt ed to speak disparagingly of youi teachers Do not for any matter of personal feeling denounce the teacher and rain the school lu all this the image cast by prudery If yu object to the ways of your makes us horribly unscientific Worse I teachers tell them so privatelv but do not proclaim it from the house tops Do not at least so far as you are concerned let family or neighborhood quarrels interfere with the success of the schools Do not think that the world has come to an end when an irate parent comes in like a raging cyclone breath ing vengeance from every pore Soothe him calm him tell him to mind his own business shame him or put him out as occasion demands The sooner yon give him and all others to under stand that the teachers are goin ri ht on and that you are going to sustain them the sooner you will have peace I hear Blowly that your new paper is doing much for your new citv JAfA -v vxyeSuue signt more than the- new citys doing for my new paperSSS v- ilee -cress - l ng 3c 1 - xi I i 4