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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1897)
l Vi J i wviv tf Ivrtr Fs jjgnwijgffis MPiii is a young doctor and a sur geon on hoard one of the sum II gunboats placed on a great Af rican lake Fresh colored still though slightly lanued by exposure to the lake winds with meiry Irish eyes of blue gray a square cut jaw and obstinate thin a long upper lip a little whisker at the temples and short wiry black brown hair Like many men of his class he is a potential Darwin and having no means to travel and study natural history has entered the Jiavy as a surgeon lie has landed on The shores of the lake for a days shooting hoping to get an elephant at least but meantime content to study sunbirds Let us in illumination enter his mind see through his eyes what he saw and lay bare his thought Grass a forest of grass with stout knotted stems six or eight feet high and abundant leaves start ingfrom ev ery joint Each stem ends in a droop ing plume of riiened seed As the doctor forces his way through the tan gled herbage and cane like stalks the ieeds shower down upon him each one steadied in its descent by its long feath ery stipule The seeds are sharp point ed and barbed at the ends so they pierce their way through his khaki clothing easily and scratch the per spiring llesh beneath This raises to exasperation the discomfort already felt to be well nigh unbearable for the doctors face is now the color of raw beef from the stilling heat and the frightful exertion of forcing his way through such a thicket of grass and his hands are scratched and cut by contact with the razor edged leaves His Terai hat is constantly being dragged off his head and it is all he can do to carry his gun and elbow his way through the obstructing herbage pro tecting his face as well as possible with the left hand So he is in an ill tem per and cannot stop to notice the weav er birds of liame color and black tiie extraordinary stick insects exactly simulating stalks of grass and the green leaf like mnntises which throng the dense brake on either side ITe is after bigger game The most expe rienced of his boys pioneers kim through the stilling grass jungle anoth er boy with a second rifle follows be hind The idea is elephants ele phants having been reported kereabaut the previous day when suddenly they Lave reached a space where the grass is a little drier a little less dense the pioneer boy comes doubling back on his master with every gesture express ive of Hush The doctor stops mops his boiling face thankful for the mo mentary halt and asks inquiringly Elephants No says the negro iu a panting whisper Lion There there no not there You see that ant hill Well climb on to its side and you will see the lion lying in a clear space just beyond A male lion truly its body is nearly white and its mane is black AVith Express rifle at ftrfl cock the doctor advances gingerly through the interlaced grass bent nearly double keeping the muzzle of the gun directed straight before hint md shields its sen sitive trigger from the intrusive grass Stems The ant hill is reached -he clam bers to its sloping side Good God the boys right What a beauty And asleep too But something in the doe tors coming has aroused the lion not ten yards away aroused him partially for there is a sudden movement lie raised the great head set in a collar of i yellow brown black mane slowly the dim nictitating membrane passes over the yellow eyes but as they are focus ing to meet his own gaze ilm doctor fires fires precipitately his position on the sloping ant hill is insecure wounds the lion somewhere somehow but does not kill him The beast gives a sharp explosive roar seems to jump into the air with all four feet and then in three bounds has crashed off into tire grass jungle Silence -Well Im a muff thinks the doctor He wasnt ten yards away and I didnt kill him dead I dont know quite where I liit him in the chest I think But he cant be far away and I must finish him off He descends from the ant hill into the clear trampled space where the lion had been lying At the spot where the beast had made Its first bound into the dense grass hedge there is a groat squirt of blood over the tangled green ery the dark crimson liquid still drips from leaf blade to leaf blade Ah thought so he must be pretty badly hit Two black faces with starting eyes and anxious grins now cautiously peer around the ant hill The doctor rais ing his head recognizes his boys and beckons them down The three con- Terse in whispers The situation is ex plainedhow the lion was wounded the direction iu which he bounded away The boys urge caution Lion plenty fierce Mkango mkali uditu Master must take care better climb iree and look all around not go into grass But there is no tree anywhere near A boy hoists himself to the slen der summit of the ant hill and reports thjt he sees the grass moving in the direction whither the lion had with drawn moving as though a sta tionary animal were shaking it with convulsive lhrces al of which is ex plained more by gestures than by words TIkj doctor clambering up be side the boy thinkshe can descry as the grass stems bow and droop before some writhing object the lions wav ing tail and a yeilow gray haunch He fires descends from the ant hill to re load A rush comes through the grass a deafening roar some great yellow object in the air above him momentarily dark against the sky - yellow eyes insensibility Click clock click clock click clock v wonder what that funny sound is am 1 in a train No it is the engines of the steamer or is it the pulse bearing in my temples They have been asleep and in broad day light with the blue sky above me and in the broiling sun How foolish But no it must be something more I know tlvcre has something happened let me think v the lion of course a lion jumped at me Then I must be wounded V Lets see raises himself painfully on his right arm blood my left arm has no feel ing chewed by the lion hand almost detached rest of arm a mass of blocTd muscle bone and khaki Oh God Im going to die cant live he has torn open my stom ach v that must be the pan creas Im like a butchers shop Whimpers A blubbering sound at tracts his attention Hullo you here Juma Plucky chap thought youd have cut and run Wheres Saldi Eh Speak louder Im deaf -1 Oh gone to gunboat quite right What the lion turns his head slight ly there still living looks pretty sick too The lion is lying four yards away partly on his side one crippled forepaw turned back the other out stretched and the great head resting on it eying the men with solemn yellow eyes no longer fierce the pupil shrunk to a pin point With each convulsive shudder of the lions body the blood pool round him widens slightly By heavens if Ive got to die Ill die like a man and he shall go first Who can tell He might recover and hurt the boy See here Turn a ts Juma who is f My a pool ot my own SOME GREAT YELLOW OI3IECT supporting his back be very gentle take a cartridge out of my belt put it in the rifle v so now mind my arm now give me the rMie in my right hand and come between my legs v so stooi very low dawn like that Now Im going to rest the rifle on your shoul der and take aim Keep very still I wont hurt you keep still Ill aim just below the brutes eyes A minute piuse Bang Doctor falls back fainting Lion stretches out his head three times with spasmodic upward movement the tail and the limbs all but the crippled one stiffen the claws stand out from their sheaths and beast dies Juma is that you Water how delicious more and on my forehead so what a brick you are Upon my word Id like to leave you something Jnima You must tell them that I said so you know for sticking by me God bless you Is the lion dead The sobbing boy nods Yes Well then I must die too Im enough of a doctor to know that Dont cry Tell tlim I bore It like a man But its beastly hard Whod have thought my days shooting would have ended like this Whimpers Beastly hard Im so young and Ive done so well up to now and theres mother Who will break it to her Shell never get over it and Lily and damn it all I eanM even send them messages How can one tell such tilings to a black boy Spose Im dying primarily from the shock know Im dying some howcant raise my head to look Mother Mother What rot to go on like that as if It could do any good Now lis ten Ine ndirini amai ndi miongo Iwe Oh God How can I tell him Its all slipping away from me For the blood is the life Where have I heard that That blood is the life slipping away slip- pint away n I must be In a boat It is so soothing up and clown up uid down so restful Sighs gently Dies Sir H H Johnston iu the Sat nrday Review g PEARL FARM THAT PAYS Only One in the World but It Yields a Handsome Revenue There is said to be only one pearl farm in the world but that pays its proprietor handsomely This farm is in the Torres Strait at the northern extremity of Australia and belongs to lames Clark of Queensland Mr Clark who is known as the king of the pearl fishers originally stocked it with 150 100 pearl oysters Nov 1100 men 200 of whom are divers and 210 vessels are employed in harvesting the crop I have been fifteen years engaged in pearl fishing Mr Clark told a corre spondent of the Melbourne Age My experience has led me to the belief that with proper intelligence in the se lection of a place one can raise pearls and pearl shells as easily as one can raise oysters I started my farm throe years ago and have stocked it with shells which I obtained in many in stances far out at sea My pearl shell farm covers 00 square miles Over most of it the water is shallow In shal low water shells attain the largest size I ship my pearls to London in my own vessels The catch each year runs roughly speaking from -10000 worth up to almost five times that amount- Rochester X Y Times In Silver Paper I wonder if the men who pop the nur mentous question only to receive a negative feel particularly awkward when they meet the woman who de clined the honor The proper observa tion I understand for the lady to make after the painfuland delicate duty has been performed is But I trust we shall remain friends The man may shake his head and mutter Friends be hanged but there is no help for it As they move in the same set they can not avoid mooting each other and of course in a friendly way It is only in a very much lower rank in society that the rejected one swears that no other man shall have his beloved object and buys a second hand revolver to pre vent it Just at first it must be very embarrassing and there is probably al ways a certain queer feeling between them as of a semi attached couple who might have been one for life but for that monosyllable and scarcely articu late No As a matter of fact she never does say No but wraps up the negative as it were in silver paper I respect and honor you Mr Tones who hoped to be called Edwin be yond everything but what you ask can never be A Devoted Iloyal Couple The devotion of the venerable king and queen of Denmark is described as positively touching During the time of the Queens illness which last ed something like three months no ono about the court was allowed to see her WKmmf m IaM u Mvss r sn in- ts W5m smi W xrmM v r vi ss t 9 h rS Sr Ml VFXl3r tX sfi JjmtmMQzZVii vcr Vza tWK SWjriSM s PFs YsimaWA WW mmtjmmmmm fegM iAAfKavrj riricrrf AC sj jrs j v a waasKa ww imwai fjczsjfigfrjrsAf f v ws i jb tfv vjaNJ j y 1 1 THE AIR ABOVE JI1M save her husband a lady in Availing and the physician in ordinary The King Avas ceaseless in his devotion He rarely Avent out save Avhen duty compelled him abandoned his custom ary exercise and passed hours every day reading to his Avife or playing cards and chess Avith her and telling her what aais going on in the Avorld outside The long abstention from his Avalks and rides his constant attend ance upon the invalid avIio happily recovered in spring told rather on the King and in turn affected his health The Queen seldom appears in public Ceremonies to her as to the Princess of Wales have ahvays been ceremonies from Avhich she preferred to escape unless duty absolutely called her Of a bright and most youthful disposition she likes to have gay and happy folk about her I cant bear to see long faces near1 me she Avill declare Of their numerous grandchildren both King and Queen are immensely fond and are seen walking about with them hand in hand at Copenhagen A Wrons Supposition The people moved out of that house this morning and that is the landlord just going in He appears to have a great many prospective tenants Prospective tenants indeed They are only neighbors going to see in what condition the people left the house- LShdon Fun Untimely Do you knoAV what you are trying to say asked the financial faultfinder Avhen you speak of a man going to an untimely grare at the age of SO I do said the undaunted obituarist The old villain ought to have gone there forty years ago Cincinnati En quirer Men do not learn half as much by ex perieuce as they should 1 THE BOOMING CAKN0N RECITALS OF CAMP AND BAT TLE INCIDENTS Survivors of the Rebel lion Relate j Many Amusing and inrtlirf Inci dents of Marches Camp Life Iorajr ina experiences and Ltattle cces Called CraKv J ck Strange is it not that Jackson like Sherman should have be n considered crazy the iirst year of the war In deed before the war so eccentric was he that he was called Crazy Jack at the Virginia Military Institute No body seemed to understand him But so it has ever been and ever will be when we ordinary mortals cant com prehend a genius we get even with him by calling him crazy s3ays the New York Evening Telejvam I remember well how uneasy ome of the Confederate generals were when placed under Jacksons command early in 1S52 Ewell didnt like it and Dick Taylor didnt like it They were afraid Jackson would lead them into some dreadful scrape or other And when Ewell with his division was lying near Gordonsville In late April ISOU but subject to Jacksons orders Ewell and Taylor Ave re anxious to get from under him either to go cIoavi to Joe Johnston at Yorktown or to lurve some general sent to the valley AVho would rank with Jackson So at Taylors instance he Avas sent to j Itichmond by Ewell to see Mr Davis his and Mr Benjamin then Secretary of State but recently Secretary of War about getting away from Jackson But Avhile Taylor Ava gone Jackson ordered Ewell to come- a runuing to the valley The camp he had left in the morning at Swift River gap on the nortliAvest side ot the Blue Ridge Ewell occupied that night j Jackson Avas gone he kneAV not Avhere The valley campaign had opened he j Avas making his strategic detour back j southwest over to Blue Ridge tOAvard j Charlottesville thence west by rail past Staunton to Buffalo gap thence nortliAvest by long marcnes to McDoav ell Avhere he struck Milroy But there avo were for a feAV days at Swift Run Gap without hearing a thing of Jack son General EavoII may have knoAvn Avhere he Avas but I doubt it Meamvhile Taylor returned from j Richmond to the old camp near donsvlile to find that Ewell had gone to Jackson in the valley Taylor A as thunderstruck One of his commands happened to be a little Avay out from j camp on the road toward Gordonsville when Taylor came rattling doAvn the mountain side in his ambulance lie aked me Avhat meant Gen Ewells being ordered to the valley I told him I did not know He then asked me Avhere Jen Jackson Avas I again had to confers my ignorance and could onlv sav that he had broken camp on a certain morning going Avith his oavu vision southwest no one seemed to know Avhere and that Gen Ewell occu pied his camp that night and had been there ever iuce i Well said Taylor this is strange i Nobody at Richmond knows anything about it But he addd there is one consolation We Avont be under j tliis d i 0ii crazy fool long General Lougstreet is coming to take com mand It Avas too late hoAvever to change commanders Jackson was then light 1 ing Milroy far to the Avest of us He probably never kneAv how near he came to missing his great fame in the a alley and that iu that campaign he not only defeated four Federal com manders but outflanked tAvo of his own best generals and the folks back at Richmond Jackson disturbed his immediate sub ordinates by never telling them his plans nor consulting them ITe never expliiiQd any proposed campaign to a subordinate nor called a council of Avar nor asked advice Soon after Ewell joined him in the valley I re member riding Avith Gen Taylor and coming upon Gen Ewell Taylor asked him what the movement meant hi -is curt half abstracted way Ewell re id I dont know If Gen Jackson were shot down I Avovldnt know a thing of his plans What said Tay lor You second in command and dont knoAV If I Avere second in com mand I would know You would would you smiled Ewell in his odd way holding his head to one de like a sap suckr peeping around a tree No you wouldnt know any more than I do uoav You dont know the man But Ewell and Taylor found their crazy reticent commander to lune more Avar sense than all of them put together So they ever pinned their faith to him admired him and loved him No Ijinp Jones County Mississippi a com- ruinitv that is uoav being terrorized b a hiAvless band has a history Until Avithin the past ten years it was re mote from railroads and sparsely set tled The natiA es were of an ignorant character They Avere likewise very poor They did not oavu slaves pre vious to the war and the farming in- terests Avere of but little consequence The county is situated iu the heart of the long leaf pine belt and lies mid way betAveen Meridian Miss and NeAV Orleans During the Avar its tion did not exceed 3000 When Mr j Davis made his call for troops there Avasut a single man in that county that responded Officers of the Confed 1 erate army AAere sent there to drive thQ recalcitrants into the ranks but they AAere impeded in such A ork by the immense and almost impenetrable swamps and forests that abounded in that country The natives took to the Avoods whenever they saw a gray coat They hid in the bushes and among the cane brakes Finally they became tired 6f dodging the conscript law About oi of the most prominent of her mtt at Kllisville one day and adapted a resolution offered by a man naed Jem declaring the countys in dependence of the Confederacy A separate and distinct government was formed A constitution was framed and submitted to a viva Aoce vote which was agreed upon The county vas to be called the Re public of Jones and was to be free and independent The article declaring was framed much after that famous document inspired by Thomas Jefferson An election was ordered but before it took piace Gen eral Robert Lowry since that time twice Governor of Mississippi took 2010 Confederate troops down there broke up the new republic and drove all of the ablerbodied men that blood hounds could locate among the trees in the forests and forced them to the front Many of the men were shot out of trees where they were hiding as a wildcat would do They were quite re bellious all during their service and many of them were court martialed and shot Whenever the opportunity was afforded they deserted Dozens of these wc re captured at their homes and executed But it is iid that while they were in battle they fought vnth the ferocity of a wounded and enraged beast The county is now one of the most prosperous and civilized in the South Its chief commercial interest is in the lumber trade and the finest of pine timber is shipped to all parts of the Avorld from its hundreds of sawmills Ellisville is the county site is a town of 10000 people and is a thriving place Grant atil Sherman Ill the Century Gen Horace Porter says in he eour e of his Campaign ing Avith Grant A little before 0 oclock on the even ing of Sept 4 Avhile the General Avas having a quiet smoke in front of his tent and discussing the campaign in Georgia a dispatch came from Sher man announcing the capture of Atlan ta Avhk h had occurred on Sept 1 It Avas immediately read aloud to the staff and after discussing the neAVS fci a few minutes and uttering many Avords in praise of Sherman the Gen eral wrote the following reply I have just received your dispatch announcing the capture of Atlanta In honor of your great Aictory I have ordered a sa lute to be fired Avith shotted guns from every battery bearing upon the enemy The salute Avrll he fired Avithin an hour amid great rejoicing In the meantime the glad tidings hud been telegraphed to Meade and Butler Avith directions to fire the salute and not long afterward the roar of artillery communicated the joyful news of Aic tory throughout our army and bore sad tidings to the ranks of the enemy An answer Avas received from Sherman in Avhich he said I have received your dispatch and Avill communicate it to the troops in general orders I have ft that you Avould take personally more pleasure in my success than in your own and I reciprocate the feeling to the fullest extent Grant then Avrote to Snerman I feel that you huAe accomplished the most gigan tic undertaking given to any general in this Avar Avith a skill and ability Avhich Avill be aeknoAvledged in history as un surpassed if not unequaled It gives me as much pleasure to record this in your favor as it Avould in favor of any liAing man myself included The above correspondence with Sher man recalls the letters which were in terchanged between them after Gen eral Grants successes in the West The general Avrote to Sherman at that time What I want is to express my thanks to you and McPherson as the men to whom above all others I feel indebted for Avhatever I have had of success Hoav far your advice and as Mstance have been of help to me you knoAV Hoav far your execution of Avhatever has been giA en you to do en titles you to the reward I am receiving you cannot know as well as I I feel all the gratitude this letter Avould ex press giving it the most flattering con struction Sherman wrote a no less manly letter in reply After insisting that General Grant assigned to his subordinates too large a share of mer it he Avent on to say I believe you to be as brave patriotic and just as the great prototyi Washington as un selfish kind hearted and honest as a man should be bur the chief charac teristic is the simple faith in succtss you have ahAays manifested which I can liken to nothiug else than the fait a Christian has in the Saviour I knew I was that you thought of me and it I gor in a tight place you Avould help me out if aliA e The noble sentiments expressed in this and similar correspondence AA ere the bright spots Avhich served to relieve the gloomy picture of desolating war Johnny Kcb ipe Joseph Dael of Mt Clemens AAiio served as a private in the Sixth Michi gan infantry has a pipe which he found lying beside a young rebel lieu tenant after the battle of Baton Rouge It is of laurel root shaped like a can non and artistically carved On the front is a finely carved portrait of Jeff Davis surrounded by a Avreath and on the black cut in small letters is the in scription A Southern Confederacy or dea tli Not until after the close of the AA ar lid Mr Dael discover that the pipe contained a slide Avhich on being raised disclosed the picture of a beautiful girl It was so situated that the young offi cer while smoking could gaze upou his sweethearts face The report of the New York Free Circulating Library for 1S9G shows that its seven branches circulated dur ing the year 752320 volumes an in crease of 978TS over 1S95 The reading-rooms were used by 234730 per sons The library now possesses 93 772 volumes it closed its books for the year with a deficit of 278 OSTRICH FARPyiS Aftr Twelve Years of Costly Kx pert inents They Now Pay Dividends It is estimated that seven ostri6b farms in Southern California have sold over 190000 AA orth of feathers during the last year and that iioaa after more than tAelve years of costly and dis couraging experiments a majority of the ostrich farms in this region pay dividends Several of the enterprises re pronounced successes and have paid good interest on the capital in them for several years The greater part of the money invested in the pro duction of ostrich feathers and in the big birds in California his come from England and New York The industry Is a popular one for young Englishmen fresh from college or the academies and possessed of ample means and a spirit for novelty of business- pursuits There are over fifty bright young men from England uoav engaged in manag ing cstrieJi farms in thispart of Cali fornia and there are others recently from London who are in search of suit able localities among the and foothills in this region for new ostrich farms It takes a capital of lT0O0 to establish any sort ff u ostrich farm and 2000 to -O is reqrired for a first class Avel tock d t I scientifical ly arranged larm The nun who been in the os trich plume inutistiy in Soutluern Cali fornia since LSl say that there has la en such a demand for ostrich plumes as this season Dame Fashion has made their business suddenly-become most profitable and every imin engaged in ostrich fanning is hoping that the present fashion for Avearing ostrich plumes in profusion Avill con tinue for several years Last month the heaviest consignment of ostrich plumes ever made from Southern Cali fornia Avent to Paris from Los Angeles Ostrich farming was first made an experiment as Los Angeles and Fall brook in R 3 by a company of French men The profits from the seAeral os trich farms in this section have groAvn each year as the habits of the birds haA e been learned and the ostriches have become acclimated There are now successful ostrich farms at South Pasadena Anaheim Fallbrook Santa Monica Corona da and Pomona There are aboit 400 ostriches in Southern California and they have be come so common that none but the tourists who come to spend the winter seasons In re tzke any curious interest in the birds The capita invented in ostrich farming in this region is iough ly at KiKOtOO and there Avill probably be SOOiu to S7uo more in vested in the industry before the year is over St Louis Globe Democrat Bound to Have One John said Mrs Atwood thought fully everybody in society appears to think an iavIuI lot of g ieilogy these days Jennie Avhat V exclaimed John look ing up from Ills evening paper Genealogy repeated Mrs Atwood Whats tfinfr I dont exactly know replied Mrs ji AtAvood but I think its a tree of some C r kind At least I heard some ladies re fer to it as ji family tree Well Avhat of it he asked Why it seems to be a sort of fad you knoAV and every one aa Iio is any one has to hue one I suppose Buy one then he said irritably Buy the best one in town and have the bill sent to me but dont bother me Avith the details of the affair Get one and stick it up in the coinseiwairory if you AAant one and if it isnt too large But I dont knoAV aiayUug about them Find out and if its too big for the conservatory Ntkk it up on the lawn and if that aint big enough 11 buy the next lot in order to make room There cant any of them fly any hLdier than Ave can and if it comes to a ques tion of trees Ill buy a whole orcJiard for you Still she hesitated The fact is John she confessed at last I dont just kuw Avhere to go for anything in that line Where dov they keep family trees and all suchr things What do you suppose 1- know about it he exclaimed Youre running the fashion end of this establishment and I dont Avant to be bothered Avith it If the florist cant tell you anything about it hunt up a first chtss nursery man and place your order AAith him Out It FIpav Lady Ellenborough a renowned beauty on one occasion accompanied the Judge on circuit on the distinct un derstanding that she should not en cumber the carriage AA ith bandboxes his abhorrence During the firtriays journey Lord Ellenborough stretching his legs chanced to strike his foot against something under the seat It Avas a bandbox DoAvn went the win dOAV and out it fleAA The coachman thinking the box had fallen out at once dreAV up but his master furiously roar k1 out the order to drive on On reaching the next assize town Lord Ellenborough proceeded to equip himself for the bench NoaaV said he where is my wig My lord replied the attendant it was thrown out of the carriage win dow Why So Called Some authorities say that the pistol was so named from the city of Pistoja Italy where pistols Avere first made but others think the A ord Avas derived from the Latin pistillum pestle be cause the first pistols looked much like the pestle used Avith the mortar The word pistol ws used by Shakspeare but there is nothing In its employment by him to show that it meant a firearm After all there are feAV compliments more eftectave than AvJiea a Avomaa says hi repeating gossip I wouldnt tell this to anyone In the Avorld but you 3 1 i i I i - -