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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (July 15, 1897)
tye almfine mnovrni HOUEKT GOOD Editor and Prop VALENTINE - NEBRASKA Tlio man wlm consults a thennooneter nowadays is a foolish borrower o trou ble Way down in Maine four young men were fined 5 apiece for chewing gum In church Waal by gum Life is a short day but it is a work ing day Activity may lead to et il but Inactivity cannot be led to good A cablegram says that the Latest trou ble in India was caused by Mullah of Pawindah What was the Mufti of illoosh doing The Buffalo Times remarks signifi cantly Powdered borax will drive them away We dont believe it but If so thats much cheaper tluji the gold cure It seems almost incredible that a New York yellow journal has been Wrestling with the Is Marriage a Fail inreV question for two weeks without settling the matter The or her day Lars AnJerson mar ried 17X00000 in Boston Jnfortu jjcately ihc name of the young woman In the case seems to have been over looked bj the newspaper correspond 1 ent Sunshine of the heart is beneficent not to the possessor but to every one within reach of its influence In Mlfference begets indifference Who -shuts love out in turn shall be shut out from love A Georgetown Texas correspondent reminds a St Louis paper that nine pears ago hail destroyed the crops on June 20 and was replanted and made a yield But nowadays Texas doesnt find it necessary to replant hail Australiasrabbit plague bids fair to come to an end owing to the large ex portation of frozen rabbits for the Lon don market From Victoria alone twelve thousand rabbits a day or over four million a year are shipped now A San Francisco paper says that Miss Z ftf thnf hY haQ had a -stance spaid of gftMiffiiiieff sp5 nttcd to jher pel Maltese cat All of which mere ly shows that the effete Bast has no monopoly of picturesque prevarication That Boston bank clerk who stole 30000 the other day and left for Can ada explains that he took the money ubecause he wanted to buy a bicycle That youngster evidently wanted all i he latest bicycle improvements on his rrcrlieel Long association -with danger makes Borne of those Western editors fool hardy The Atchison Globe says We intend to buy a linen suit and wear it n hot weather It will look like the Idevil but it will look as well as a shirt -waist A woman in San Bernardino Cu 2ias been declared insane because she says she would like to kiss every good llooking young man she meets If that ftest is accepted as an evidence of in sanity California can easily lock up about 90 per cent of her male popula tion The Acworth Ga Post claims to hare seen a strange looking figure Which resembled a woman with long floating hair flying through the air three or four hundred feet over the hotel If tliis had been seen over a Eoloon it would have been much easier to diagnose the case In St Louis the ether day surgeons performed an operation upon a dime museum performer known as the hu man ostrich and removed from his stomach several pounds of nails tacks jknife blades stones glass and screws The man died of course but the oper ation was very successful Probably there is no other cily in the world but Chicago where a railroad bridge ovsr a river would be so imper fectly guarded that a train could run into the open draw and fall into the river Ferhaps too that is the only xiver not sufficiently liquid to engulf the passengers in a watery grave By the birth of the Duchess of Yorks little girl the number of Queen Vic torias descendants rises to eighty sev enty of whom are alive She has had nine children four sons and five daughters forty one grandchildren and thirty great grandchildren Two of her children and eight grandchildren iave died It is so difficult to reach corruption by ordinary means that the framers of the new constitution of Delaware deny trial by jury to persons accused of fcribery Under this constitution brib ers can be sent to the penitentiary by a commission of judges This looks like an extreme measure but there has been great provocation for it in Dela ware While the opportunities for making wealth are not so great on the farm as in the city there are other advanta ges in rural life that completely offset that questionable privilege The work Is healthy independent and free from the harassing care that besets the toiler In the crowded rushing tide of munici pal life Back to the farm sliould be the cry of hundreds of men Boston a justly proud of its new pub lic library building winch is said to be one of the finest of the kind in the world but it lias just discovered that so much money has been expended upon the building and its artistic appoint ments that there is not sufficient funds left for the purchase of books Chicago too is putting up a magnificent home for dts public reading matter It might pro fit by Bostons unfortunate example A city can do with a less ornate structuro rathe than ran short of books Naval regulations have triumpheu and the leader of the Marine band lias leen dismissed from the service for re fusing to play the jinky tunes ordered by a lieutenant of the Marine corps The band is really a social organiza tion nominally under the control of the Navy Department and used by the offi cers and the Government generally to add to the pleasure of the semi official entertainments given at the capital The position of leader would be considered a snap by almost any musician and the man who has just lost it was very foolish to cut off -his official head for the alleged salce of art A Florida newspaper commenting npon the intention of Virginia to erect a statue to Edgar Allen Poe makes the trite remark that Poe has builded for himself a monument more enduring than brass in the poems which he lefr as a legacy for the world That is no argument against the statue All our great writers have left behind tuem monuments of that sort but aside from one or two poems not considered by good judges to be his best Poe is a sealed book to millions of the people of this country It is no rash statement to say that he is far better known ami understood in France and England than he is in -the land of his birth A piano on an entirely new principle Is announced from Germany The strings are stretched across the sounding-board as in the ordinary piano but the entire hammer mechanism is ab sent Instead the depressing of the keys puts in action a magnet which automatically attracts and releases the wire thus producing vibrations with out the metallic stroke which acconi i panies the sound in the common type The resulting effect upon the tones is said to be very remarkable The high notes resemble those of an Aeolian harp The middle and lower notes are like those of a cello or an organ It responds readily to every variation in power and expression A note can be sounded for sey era minutes jviUiQu TuTTHTgin quamy So mdjcajly differ- ent from all existing instruments are the effects that a new style of music is needed to bring out its Capabilities About three weeks ago according to the London Economist there was on deposit in the joint stock banks of En- gland and Wales the sum of 350000 1 000 of the peoples savings Before Americans become too much astonish i ed at these enormous figures it should be added that they show a falbug off as compared with the figures of the previous half year Otherwise they represent a steady increase from ISSG when the total was 323000000 Be sides this there is in the banks of Ire land and Scotland 141000000 and 12500000 hoarded up in the banks on the Isle of Man and the channel isl ands Foreign and colonial houses having London offices showT the sum of 23000000 on their books and privare bankers are estimated to have 50 500000 on hand Therefore there is on hand the sum of 0S7000000 of unin vested wealth in the British islands This is a showing which probably can not be excelled unless it is in thrifty France The report of the State geologist of Indiana for the past year has just been published and it forebodes the failure of the natural gas fields at no distant day The territory that now produces natural gas includes a region of about 2500 square miles and no new discov eries have been made or are now likely to be made A decrease in the pressure was first noticeable in 1S95 and it is still diminishing It would not be sur prising therefore that if within a year or two tlie supply Avould be so much di minished that the general use of the gas would have to be abandoned Such was rtlie case with the gas fields of western Pennsylvania and such will probably be the fate of the Indiana field It will be remembered that the Pennsylvania fields though long known or at least Suspected were not extensively oper ated until 1S7S and it was not until 1SS1 that the gas was piped to Pitts burg Then it was that the Smoky Citv became smokeless but this did not last long A few years and the wells be came exhausted and smoke once more reigned supreme in the city of iron steel and coal The gas fields of Indiana were disco vered in 1SS7 and now after ten years they too will become a thing of the past Nature seems to have no continuing gis manufacturing After having made a supply and deposited it in pockets she broke the retorts and gave up the business Those who are dependent on natural gas for heat and light are amply forewarned by this re port that they must be on the alert for an artificial substitute Natures lab oratory is broken up Gossip in Cliicasro Isnt it unfortunate about Mrs Mummer V Why what happened to her Oh shes applied for a divorce Her husband turned out dreadfully You dont tell me What did he do Why he was elected an alderman Mercy on us I And he used to be such a nice man too Cleveland Leader After the baby comes the wife con tinues to listen patiently to her hus bands complaints of not feeling well out she keeps one eye on the baby while doing it GREAT HOST E0E GOD TWENTY THOUSAND CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS MEET Convention the IWost Successful Ever Held Rev Francis K Clark Father of the Movement History of the Society 3Ii slity Growth Shown Every Tantl Represented San Francisco correspondence When Rev E R Dilke tapped with his gavel in Mechanics Pavilion- Thursday morning he failed to order the greatest convention California has ever seen Ten thousand Christian Endeavorers faced the speaker men and women from every quarter of the land representing every part of the world At the same time in Woodwrrds pavilion an overflow conven tion almost as large opened for business San Francisco was turned over m Wt if iev f r cr Anic n r tionally to the vigorous young delegates who had journeyed across alkali plains through deserts under burning suns and over banks of snow to plant their banner on the Pacific coast On every side could be seen the colors of the Christian war riors At every turn were met the earn est faces of the advocates of higher and better lives The scenes at the pavilion resembled a national political convention except that more women were in evidence on this occasion than usually attend great gath erings In fact fully two thirds of the delegates were of the gentler sex But their presence tended to make the scene beautiful Golden Gate Each morning the sailors were invited to join with rep resentatives of almost every port the touch in their voyages to sing and to pray The complete program for the conven tion wouid fill a good sized book Of spe cial interest were the great ehorues of hundreds of voices which sang in the two gieat meet iiii places The first gun was liied Wednesday night with twelve sim ultaneous meetings led by twelve well known divines from every part of the na tion At the same time Rev J Lester Wells of Jersey City N J gave a stere opticon lecture in Metropolitan Temple on Christian Endeavor Among the Life Savers Long before the hour appointed for the opening of the convention on Thursday every in the vast pavilion which ac commodates over 10000 people was occu pied Promptly at 9H0 the greit gather ing was called to order by Rev E It Wilke of San Francisco and after a mu sical welcome by the choir brief devo tional exercises were conducted by Rev Philip F King of Benton Tex Then the welcome of the committee of 07 was delivered by RoIIa V Watt who spoke in part as follows This morning our dreams are realized onr hopes are fultilled our prayers are answer ed for we witness the assembling of an in- I lernational Christian Endeavor convention I lor the lirst time on the shores of the mighty J I acific God bless you We are glad you are here we welcome thrice welcome We wel come you first and above all for the sake of our Master whose banner of love is over all and whose servants you are lie had said if we lift Him up Hewill draw all men unto Himself and just as we represent Him in our thoughts our words our deeds in our daily lives so men will see Him He holds in His hands the solution of all our prob lemssocial political and spiritual It is I irt of Christian Endeavor to take these preferred gifts and oiler them to mankind We welcome you therefore because you are seeking to present the Savior of Mankind to the world that the world can lie made bet ter After the applause which followed the remarks of Mr Watt had subsided the welcome of the Golden Gate pastors was given by the Kev John Hemphill Lieut Gov Jeter then welcomed the delegates and their friends on behalf of the State of California An anthem was rendered by the choir and in behalf of the visiting Endeavorers the Rev Ira Landrith of NashviJk Tenn responded to the various addresses of welcome President Clarks Mesaajre The subject of the annual message of the president the Kev Francis E Chirk D D wis A World Encircling Religious Movement How Shall It Fulfill Gods Design He said in part I have attended conventions since I last met you in the Metronolitan Tabernacle of London and in the Iieels of Bengal in St 1 purpose the prayer of this our coming sev enteenth year To abide in Christ to surren der ourselves to IIIih to let Him use us to think less of our efforts and more of Ills fullness to eeek a larger inlllllng from above deeper draughts of His life mora emptiness of self more fuilnos of Christ Thus only will Christian Endeavor and all for which it but come to stand Christian citizenship Christian missions and a thou sand forms of benevolence receive ever fresh life and vigor Statistic- of the Society The report of John Willis Baer general secretary contained the following In iSSl there was one society and fifty-seven members In 1M7 there are 50 780 societies and a total membership of 30000 10 Of the States having mora than 1000 local societies Pennsylvania leads with llA M New York has 3049 Ohio 2o83 Illinois 2013 Ontario 1 783 Indiana 1387 Iowa 1330 and Michigan 1071 These figures do not include the Junior Intermediate Senior and Mothers societies Pennsylvania leads the junior societies with 1307 New York his 12SS Illinois 993 Ohio 970 California ool Indiana H49 Iowa 51S and Massachusetts 517 The banner giv en to the State that has made the largest gains goes this year to Ohio The second junior banner goes from Mexico to Spain There Jtre3GU Intermediate societies Cal- SAX FUAXClsrO Y M C A UALL ifornia leading with 51 Illinois having 44 Ohio 2 and Pennsylvania 27 The mothers societies number 70 Illinois lead ing with 0 Pennsylvania having 20 and Kansas 11 Twenty seven senior socie ties hie been organized California New Hampshire and Pennsylvania each hav ing three and Connecticut two England has 3925 societies Australia 2124 Scotland 433 Wales 311 India 250 ft eland 109 Madagascar 93 France 08 Mexico 100 Japan GO West Indies 03 Turkey 41 China 53 Africa 52 Germany 32 in all 7919 societies in other countries In addition Canada has 3390 The badge banner for the great est proportionate increase in the number - m mmm ii I MECHANICS PAVILION THE HUGH AUDITORIUM WHERE TnE CONVENTION MET more striking in color and more animated in spirit All the streets in the business district of the city and in the neighbor hood of the different headquarters were congested with the thousands of visitors History of the Society The story back of this immense gather ing in the land of flowers has a romantic interest that lifts it far above the com monplace But sixteen years ago this world wide organization had a humble birth in a little out-of-the-way church in Maine To day there are 48000 socie ties wilt a membership of 7000000 young people in every part of the civilized Morld from Spain to the Sainoan Islands in the south seas and from Australia to Alaska In this time 10000000 meetings have ben held by Christian Endeavorers Copies of the constitution numbering 5000000 have been printed in forty lan guages and at least 15000000 copies of the pledge More than 1000000 associ ate membois have joined the church and more than 2000000 has been given for denominational purposes Such in brief is the remarkable history of one of the most conspicuous religious movements of all times The immense meeting on the Pacific slope has eclipsed all previous reunions The central meeting place was Mechan ics Pavilion which occupies an entire square in the heart of that western me tropolis and has seating accommodations for 10000 persons The second great meeting place was Woodwards Pavilion which is about ten minutes walk from the central rendezvous It is an octagonal building with a seating capacity of 7000 These two places of meeting were supple mented almost every hour in the day with gatherings in the various churches Even the Chinese churches and a mariners church hospitably throwing open their doors This leligious siege of San Francisco was nothing if not picturesque It was a nineteenth century doings which doubt less made the monastic saints of long ago turn uneasily in their graves The Chris tian Endeavorer goes in for a happy re ligion and if he cannot vent his exuber ance in f long and loud hosanna he re sorts to yell in characteristic college boy fasn ion Most interesting of all the meetings were the services in out-of-the-way places Fraycr and song and exhortation were marie by wandering bands before the heathen temples in Chinatown in the magnificent gambling saloons among the sailors on the wharves in the jails and in the slams in the different factories in the hospitals in fact wherever the Christian Endeavorer could plant his two feet and his symbolic flag Sunrise Pnyer Mcetiiics One of the features was the sunrise prayer meetings down on the beach of Anderws nail of Glasgow and in the ancient capital of the Punjab among our Irish En deavorers in Belfast and on the sunburnt plains of southern India in crowded Berlin and on the lonely tablelands of the Traiis aal among the Alps of Switzerland and on the vast veldt of the Orange Free State In sea girt Stockholm and in the karoo of South Africa in lordly Paris and in quiet Welling ton in the Cape of Good Hope and every where amid all these diversities of custom and costume of manners and methods of languages and laws I have found that the Christian Endeavor idealb are substantially the same Moreover the people whom I have seen have been of diverse creeds and views of re ligious truth All to be sure have acknowl edged the supremacy of Jesus Christ as the Son of God and the only Savior of lost sin ners All have accepted the Bible as the word of God and the Holy Spirit as the sanetitier comforter and guide in such soil only can Christian Endeavor flourish But in minor particulars the creeds and forms of church government of these hospitable hosts of our society differ as widely as their com r piixioii The shade of tan on a man s cl eek does not make or unmake his man hood the shade of his creed does not make or unmake his Christianity Our society then has these signs of a uni versal movement It was born in obscurity III iflli ptev i kvt ViLLc o Jim IVvu 4sfFrO Pif Mm 3ss yMHs COXVKTIOX BAXXEB FOP 1S97 and weakness It has not owed its existence to human advocacy or ecclesiastical author ity It has spread to every land It has been found adapted to every evangelical creed to rverv form of church government and to eery race and clas and language and con lit km of people It Jias failed only wheros the principles involved In our covenant pledge have been ignored or where it has been crushed out by denominational author ity In answering the question of the sub ject he t aid the movement must be true to its fundamental idea must necessarily be unifying must be a pervasive force must be sacrificial and mttst listen to Gods voice and eontiuually obey it Con tinuing he said This Is a world movement taank Gwl away from materialism formalism and a barren ecclesiastlcism back to God himself Endeavorers let this be the motto the of socievies now held by Scotland will go to the Endeavorers on the Emerald Isle In the United States the Presbyteri ans have 5531 young peoples and 2934 junior societies the Congregationalisty have next with 4150 young peoples smd 1322 junior Baptists 2G40 young peo ples and 10S0 junior Cumberland Pres byterian S07 young peoples and 3G1 ju nior Methodist Protestants 971 joung peoples and 251 juniors Lutherans SG9 young peoples and 324 juniors nearly for ty denominations being represented A missionary roll of honor contains the names of 10408 societies that have given nearly SoOUOOO to missions through their own denominational missionary boards During the last eleven months 25204 of the juniors have joined the church and from the young peoples societies 187125 in all 2133S9 Award of Endeavor Honors Immediately after the reading of Sec retary Haers report the badge of honor for the greatest increase in number of societies during the last year which had been held in England was retained and presented to the same country The junior banner for the greatest increase in the number of societies held by Pennsylva nia for thiee years was wrested from the Keystone State by Ohio The next inci dent was the presentation of the banner to the country making the largest propor tionate gain in number of societies during the last twelve months which has been in possession of Scotland during the last year It was won by Ireland The junior badge banner given for the greatest pro portionate increase in number of societies during the lass twelve months was award ed to Spain It had been in possession of Mexico CONFISCATE THE COAL Railroads Head Off a Famine by Gob blinsr tJp All in Transit Railroad companies Thursday issued or ders to confiscate all coal being carried over their respective lines It was issued because of the coal miners strike and im pending coal famine The roads on which the coal 1ms been stopped are the heaviest carriers in the West and include nearly all line l mining out of Chicago The number of estimated cars confiscated and the roa ls responsible for the seizure are as follows Cars illinois Central 2000 Wabash 2o00 Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul 1200 Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe 1S0O Chicago Burlington and Quincy 1000 Chicago and Alton 2700 Indiana Illinois and Iowa 1500 Rock Island 1300 Monon 1000 Total t 15000 TARIFF BILL PASSES SENATE APPROVESTHEDINGLEY MEASURE Final Ballot Shows Thirty eight Aye and Twenty Kiht Noes Xt Now Goes to the House for Further Con sideration Hill Goes Through By the decisive vote of 3S to 2S thc tariff bill was passed in the United States Senate ihortly before 5 oclock Wednes day The culmination of the long and ar duous struggle had excited the keenest interest and the floor and the galleries of the Senate chamber were crowded by those anxious to witness the closing scene Speaker Iteed Chairman Iiingley and many of the members of the IIoue of Representatives were in the rear area while every seat in the galleries save these reserved for foreign representatives was occupied The main interest centered in the finnr vote and aside from this there was lit tle of a drama tie character in the debate The early part of the day was spent on amendments of comparatively minor im portance the debate brauchini into financial and anti trust channels By 4 oclock the Senators began manifesting their impatience by calls for vote vote and soon thereafter the last amendment was disposed of and th final vote began There were many interrup tions as pairs were arranged and then at -155 oclock the Vice President areJ and announced the passage of the bill A yeas 3S nays 2S There was no dem onstration but a few scattered hand claps given as the crowds dispersed Following is the vote cast Allison Hakor Uurrows Carter Clark Cullom Davis Deboe Elkiris Fairbanks Foraker iiaUingcr Hale Hanna Hawley Jones New Lodge Mcltride ilcEncry Tiacon Iate Berry Caffery Cannon Chilton Clay Cockrell Faulkner Gray Harris Kan Jones Ark Kenny Lindsay YEAS McMillan Mantle Mason Morrill Nelson I en rose Perkins 1Iatt ConnJw Jlatt N YJ Iritchard Proctor Quay Sewell Shoup Spooner Warren Wellington Wetmore Wilson NAYS Mallory ilIf Mitchell Morgan Iasco Petttis Itawllns Iloach Turner Tfn pie Vest Walthall White iS The following pairs were announced the first named would have oted for the bill and the last named against it Aldrich and Murphy Chandler and Me Laurin Frye and Cormnn Gear and Smith Hansbrough and Daniel Hoar and Harris fTenn Thurston and Tillman Wolcott and George An analysis of the final vote shows that the afllrmative was cast by 35 Republi cans 2 silver Republicans Jones CNevf and Mantle and 1 Democrat MeEnery Vor The negative vote was cast by 25 4 V ocrats 2 Populists Harris Kan i7ni g Turner and 1 silver Republican Cannon Eight Republicans were paired for the bill and eight Democrats against it The Senators present and not voting were Populists 5 vi Allen Butler Ileitfeld Kyle and Stewart silver Republicans 2 viz Tesler ami Pettigrew Following the passage of the bill a reso lution was agreed to asking the House for a conference and Senators Allison Al drich Piatt Conn Burrows Jones Nov Vest Jones Ark and Wliitt were named sis conferees on the part of the Senate The tariff debate began May 25 on which day Mr Aldrich in behalf of the Finance Committee made the opening statement The acrlial consideration of the bill began the next day and debate has been continuous since then covering six weeks and one day It litis been nota ble in some respects although it has lack ed many of the dramatic and oratorical features marking former debates From the outset the advocates of th bill re frained from set speeches and the discus sion was narrowed to a consideration of rates and schedules rather than general principles Mr Aldriehs illness took him v from the chamber after the first day and since then the bill has been in immediate charge of Mr Allison The opposition ha been directed in the main by Mr Tone- Ark and Mr Vest Mo while Senators White Caffery Gray and Allen have fre quently figured in the debate The bill as it goes back to the House rc enaets the anti trust section of the Wilson law while the reciprocity and retaliatory pro visions are substituted for those of thy House One of the most important new provis ions ad led by the Senate is that plaeing a stamp tax on bonds debentures and cer tificates of stock Aside from these more important changes the bill as it goes baefc to the House has S74 amendments of va rious decrees of importance which nnr t be reconciled between the two brant h of Coj ress mAiv iwm V1 Js X c j YiCs Tu imj era m S3 mm fc l a s er j 7 II R Molson a wealthy banker nt Montreal has given 15500u to Canadian charities The Crown Princess of Sweden has tak en to bicycle riding for her health and ha already found the exercise beneficial The French ambassador to Great Brit ain is the best paid ambassador in the world his yearly salary- being 00000 Gen Benjamin Prentiss the hero of Shiloh at one time one of the wealthiest men in Illinois is said to be in meager circumstances The will of Mrs Sarah of Bloomington Ind bequeaths 40000 tc found a library in Xicholasville Ky where she was born Mrs Clara Fisher Maeder the on famous actress now SG years old has published her memoirs She went on ths stage when G years old and followed the profession continuously for seventy tw years
