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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1897)
ap MXmmrm m r cqs is - A FAIR DEPUTY SHERIFF T X T OMEN are fast rising to po j sit ions of prominence and V V responsibility in the West The latest of these to enter a field that has hitherto been closed to the opposite sex is Miss Clair Ferguson whose pic ture appears in these columns She has recently been appointed deputy sheriff of Salt Lake Utah and entered upon the duties of the office last week Miss Ferguson is not one of those typical Western girls who can handle n gun or ride a broncho as well as a man but is a slender young lady of How to Grow Graceful Describe a circular movement with each arm twenty times in succession Extend the arms forward outward and upward thirty times in succession tak ing eight or ten deep inspirations be tween each series Execute a circular movement from the waist swaying the upper part of the body slowly around the hands rest ing on the hips thirty times Extend the leg as nearly at right an cles with the body as possible twelve iimes each side taking eight or ten deep inspirations between each series Extend and bend the foot twenty times each side perform the gesture of reaping or sawing thirty times bend each knee rapidly thirty times take eight or ten deep inspirations Raise the arm swiftly and rapidly as in the action of throwing a lance twelve times in succession throw out both arms simultaneously twenty or thirty times take eight or ten deep in spiration Trot on one spot resting the hands on the hips and lifting the feet briskly 100 to 300 times Take eight or ten deep inspirations Tump with the hands on the hip and the head and body erect fifty to 100 times Take eight or ten deep inspira tions If necessary a brief rest should be taken after each exercise The Enjrlish Nurse Nowadays the French nurse is little seen unless with very poor folk In her place with the children of the rich is the English nursery governess She is apt to be rather gaunt looking but she is certain to be a woman of gentle birth jgentle manners and with sufficient edu cation to answer until the children are ready to go under a regular governess This autocrat of the nursery brings -with her in addition to a perfect Eng lish accent pronounced English ideas on the subject of childrens parties sweetmeats baths clothes waiting on -ones self lessons and spanking In this last art she is an adept She teacher the children that they must eat jind eat properly and they learn very early in their acquaintance with her that she obeys King Solomons order mid is not economical with the rod She is absolute monarch in the nursery Women a Interior Uecorators The decoration and furnishing of the most successfully completed great liouses of recent construction have been absolutely dictated and supervised by the women most interested and there seems no reason why the woman dec orator has not come to stay She is dot ted in pairs of girl bachelors among tie larger cities of the country and though the firm is apt to dissolve after i more or less brief existence it is not due to lack of business but rather to the quick opportunity which seems to offer for the formation of permanent partnerships under a consolidated firm name There are those to whom re verses of fortunes have forced to use their taste and talents in this most womanly of occupations and these having once found the pleasures of self lielp and independence are the pillars of the profession Novel Dishwasher A housekeeper who is noted among her friends for the scrupulous neatness of her establishment down to the small est detail says that she has discovered that the best sort of dishwater is a A f Rck whisk broom This she esteems far above the ordinary soft dishcloth or the twisted cords sold in the housefur nishing shops Two such brooms kept respectively one for plates and pot tery the other for metal dishes al ways hang over the sink in her kitchen and are in daily use An especial rec ommendation is the ease with which they are kept clean a moments hold ing under the running faucet washing away every scrap which may cling to them and an occasional dipping in hot water to which a little washing soda has been added keeping them perfect ly sweet Something New in Curtains Little curtains for the summer cot tage can be made of Swiss muslin oitlinr rlnltotl nr nlniii find llinse with fair complexion and refined manners J ll0Mlinert Jlt mm pP mm Wife I I III WtJfi j V in 4 - 3iss crAin fjigisox Tier duties will not be of a dangerous iliaractf r but will consist principally in the serving of papers and notifica tion of jurors Miss Ferguson is a na tive of Utah her mother being a prom inent woman suffragist of that State She ha been well educated and is very popular n Salt Lake City where she resides Previous to her appointment is deputy she had been a stenographer in the sheriffs office both sides make exceedingly dressy and very effective hangings The ruilles should be put on with a puff and nar row heading lying on the curtain and a ribbon of the prevailing color of the room run under the puff On this puff at intervals of six inches from the cen ter of llower to center of floor a large daisy without foliage or stem sewed on accurately or a wide open Avild rose gives a most fascinating result Some Beauty Hints Do not wash the face in hard v ater If possible use filtered rain water but as this is not easy to get soften the water byrartilicial means Half an ounce of California borax three ounces of almond meal and three ounces of finely ground oatmeal may be mixed together in a cheesecloth bag and drop ped in a bowl of water This will soften it and the complexion will be found much improved in consequence An ounce of powdered orris root may be added to the mixture giving it an odor of violets Kmancipated Woman Knit socks are now sold at cents a pair Our grandmothers would spend a couple of days knitting a pair of socks not so comfortable as these for in turning the heel they would leave ridges Avliile the machinery made sock is seamless Woman being thus eman cipated from the knitting needle turns her attention to Delsartian exercises to cooking schools and to lecturing She develops into a superior intellectual and spiritual being Birmingham Herald Knerjjetic Women The other day when the Avomen of Rockford 111 ran the trolley cars they realized a handsome sum in conse quence for their aid sociey Last win ter this society helped to support the families of b00 unemployed men The cars were packed from early morning until 12 oclock Saturday night and the men who paid a 3 bill for a ride of two or three blocks were voted angels She Will Be a Minister Miss Marie II Tenney daughter of Colonel E G Tenney of Syracuse has just completed a four years course at the Meadville Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania and has declared her in tention of becoming a Unitarian min ister and of taking a charge next year Miss Tenney is said to be not only a pretty but a stylish young woman with a charming personality Farmer Verdi Verdi the musical grand old man of Italy is evidently of opinion that a man in his eighties is in the golden prime of life Two or three years ago he gave to the world his delightful opera of Falstaff just to show how the fount of inspiration may How in the soul of an octogenarian At Genoa he rides the bicycle His real delight however is in pastoral life at his country place like the poet Horace on his Sabine farm Verdis farm is in the neighborhood of Piacenza On his recent birthday his eighty third the patriarchal composer was seen at o oclock in the morning at the weekly market in town whither he had brought some sheep to sell lie also wished to buy a cow and some vegeta bles and so spent the entire day among the agriculturists and traders of the market place It was like a chorus scene in one of his own operas At 0 oclock in the evening he invited his bucolic friends to the iin and treated them to a rousing supper at which vino rosso liowed liberally and the company roared out the Italian equiva lent of For hes a jolly good fellow Leslies Weekly Created by the Trade Winds About the middle of tho century Lieutenant M F Maury the Ameri can hydrographer and meteorologist advocated a theory of gravitation as the chief cause of ocean currents claiming that difference in density due to difference in temperature and salt ness would sufficiently account for the oceanic circulation This theory gain ed great popularity through the wide circulation of Maurys Physical Geog raphy of the Sea which is said to have passed through more editions than any other scientific book of the period but it was ably and vigorously combated by Dr Tames roll the Scottish geol ogist in his Climate and Time and latterly the old theory that ocean cur rents are due to the trade winds has again come into favor Indeed very re cently a model has been constructed with the aid of which it te said to have demonstrated that prevailing winds in the direction of the actual trade winds would produce such a current as the gulf stream Harpers Magazine Birmingham Eng makes 37000001 pius daily EDXJCATIONALCOLTIMN NOTES ABOUT SCHOOLS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT Plea for Pensions for Aued and Dis abled Teachera Discipline of Indus try Is the Best Hoya Should Not Be Underestimated Hints to Teachers Teachers Pensions The limitation of pensions to such departments of the public service as are actually dangerous to life and limb because of physical violence is the crudest form in which the idea of pen sions has ever existed Its restrictions savor of that stern policy of non-interference on the part of the State which so long embarrassed all efforts to soften the rigor of the poor laws and to amel iorate the conditions of inmates of asy lums and institutions But as society has developed the relations of the state to the individuals who constitute it have been softened and the principle of in jury through violence as the only basis of pensions has been superseded in the broader humanitarianism of our times Pensions to judicial officers as in some States do not proceed upon that harsh principle nor does the national grati tude that provides for the soldiers widow and orphans They proceed rather upon other principles and it is to these and not to the primitive rule that we appeal But injuries are in curred in the line of school duties An entire breaking down of health not in- i - i ft1 u nnhr ni occurs L -thirty irequenuy or more years of poorly paid service the teacher has given more than an equivalent and has earned a wvLinn Tinmiin lirw difference A pensioned soldier policeman or fireman may have been disabled before render ing actual service He is pensioned not for what lie has done but because of his noble will to do and because of the injury incurred in his attempt to do it A woman who adopts teaching as her life work is practically demurred from marriage under peril of losing her position Denied her right to fulfill her destiny by this unpleasant alternative with earnings insufficient to enable her to accumulate anything for her future maintenance what shall she do in that dismal to morrow that must find her aged penniless and childless Her married sisters have grown up sons and daughters to be leant on and walked with but she is alone and poor Since the public demands celibacy of its female teachers and not of its male teachers and the former are deprived of the natural protectors that insure oth er women and men against neglect in their old age the public should make it up to women teachers in pensions or higher salaries higher even than are paid to men in order that hese single women may provide for lonely old age This victv is not so absurd as custom misleads people to think German writers express surprise at the numer ical disparity between male and female teachers in American schools but note that the States having a preponderance of male teachers are not those which have the most effec system They cite per cent of male te behind Massachusetts with 0001 per cent of f male teachers Dr Sclilee ac cepts as a general truth that the fur ther the American school system de velops the more the female teachers predominate President Warren of the Boston Tnivorsity remarks If this be true it may quite possibly have a socio logical and pedagogical significance not yet generally recognized Elizabeth A Allen in Review of Reviews Hints to Teachers Inflict no wounds Bruise no blos soms Implant no stings Give the honey but not the gall of life to the lit tle ones Be merciful To the little culprits be kind be tender be pitiful and compas sionate Be lo mg Love man and beast love tiee and flower love rock and river love forest and sea love field and sky but most of all love the children Love is the great magnet which will draw childran to itself Remember who took a little child and placed him in the midst who never refused to lay hands upon the little ones in blessing who said Suffer the little ones to come unto mel Be sympathetic Walk hand in hand with children Enter into their joys and share their sorrows Be interested in the minutest thing which interests them Be equable Nothing is more disars trous o one who would win children than to be capricious and uneven Chil dren love stability When that quality is lacking they grow fearful and with draw their confidence Be cheerful Be like the sun send ing out warmth and light Let the in ner sunshine of your life shine out through your eyes breathe out through your lips vibrate in your voice and magnetize your touch with gentleness Be self controlled The discipline of any school room te in a perilous condi tion when the children are able to read the days disasters in the morning face of the teacher Love the clasp of the tiny fingers and it will arouse all the motherhood or fatherhood in your nature Value their guileless confidences and never betray their trust Belter a thousand times break faith with grown people than once with an artless innocent child Feed the souls of children and verily vou shall have your reward For your pleasant morning greeting yoti will re ceive the sunshine of happy faces the music of happy voices You will hear the songs of biids the rippling of woodland brooks the light murmur of zephyrs in the unstudied and unspoiled laugh of happy children In their guileless glances tod will learn to see the blue skv the verdant I field the nodding heads of clover the sprouting grain promise of a neurit1 fill harvest -all that makes the j3 0iis spring and the beautiful summer Thus shall all your love patience sympathy and great heartedness find their fruition Whatsoever ye sow that shall ye reap Sarah E Sprague Discipline of Indutrv The Missouri School Journal says wisely In the best schools the disci pline of industry has taken the place of the discipline of repression The chil dren are kept in order by being kept busy rather than by the fear of punish ment The editor spent two days in a large graded school recently and found cheerful attention every one giving the most tention to duty heard no one corrected and saw no disorder Each teacher was giving entire attention to her work and every pupil was busy and interest ed We are satisfied that what is being done every day in this school can be accomplished in every school If the children are kept interested they will keep busy and the order will take care of itself Dont Underestimate the Roys They will be men by and by and good men too let us hope I have an idea said Curator Smith of the Museum lately that we underestimate out boys when they are in earnest they are capable of accomplishing almost anything that men can do My own boyhood was passed in a small village Before I was 10 my taste for natural history had led me to attempt small collections of plants and insects but there was no one to help me no one who had the slightest sympathy with such pursuits I think now of the dis couragements and even ridicule that met me at every step and almost drove me to despair No wonder then that I have a fellow feeling for these boys no Avonder that I long to help them Keeping the House Cool How best to keep the house cool in summer is a grave problem writes Mrs S T Rorer in the Ladies Home Journal During the hot months the house is much more livable if artificial heat can be cut down to the minimum Use the stove early in the morning - ii il liwi n prepare certain ioous uku m and avoid the necessity of a big fire during the rest of the day Bare floors are very much more pleasant in summer than straw matting although the latter is preferable to carpets or rugs Where one can command a watcr supply the house is measurably cooled by reducing the temperature of the pavement and grounds around by copious sprinklings A goodly stream of new air should be allowed to sweep through the entire house morning and evening The hot air of mid day will condense quickly on cold walls and cause mould or dampness consequent ly it should not be allowed to enter any portion of the house All the rooms in the house should be kept scrupu lously clean and neat If the outside temperature is not ap preciably lower at night than during the day it is almost impossible to keep sufficiently comfortable to obtain nec essary rest The sleeping rooms may be cooled by placing in the center of lcntionl a tub Uvo tMnU uU ot cool or to k e valor 11ns nil mb Arkansas vltl DSJ he heat of the room in a tew hours achers as being tar - r llMnflll aim w ni uu i i where there are children If the heat continues during the night the chang ing of the water Avill preserve an ever temperature in the room Air your cellars at night when it is possible Close them at nine in the morning and they will be cool and dry the entire summer Exceptions to this rule are on windy days as the rapid motion of the air does not allow condensation Keep the cellar perfectly clean and fresh Frequent coats of whitewash with plenty of lime are of the greatest value in summer Our Nations Wealth in Gold Dolars The wealthiest nation of the world is the United States The census of IbOU shows the true valuation or fair selling price of the real and personal property of the country to be 030J7001197 It is an increase of over forty nine per cent on the valuation of the previous decade and is about six times the value of the money of the entire world The mind cannot grasp the meaning of such figures without graphic illustration This amount in gold dollars would load 123570 carts each carrying a ton If 2000 gold dollars were piled one on the other they would form a stack three feet high Make similar piles close together till a wall of gold one mile long and worth 230400000 is formed Increase this wall to twenty eight and a quarter miles and the amount would represent our National wealth Placed side by side the coins would form a carpet oi gold covering five square miles La dies Home Journal Reaching Out lor Trade illustrative of the interest the En glish government takes in extending and protecting the foreign trade of its subjects is the exhibition of samples of foreign goods the fourth of its kind jut opened by the London Chamber of Commerce There are samples of foreign goods which are displaced or arc now displacing similar British ar ticles in South Australia Newfound land British North Borneo Hong Kong Gambia and British Honduras the colonies from which exhibits have bein sent out by Mr Chamberlain to the governors of all the principal Brit ish colonies in which the Secretary of the State called for a retrospective sta tistical report as to the foreign goods wii ch had displaced or were displacing British goods in colonial niarkets Phriadelphia Record iev Edward Everett Hale preached two sermons in Buffalo recently and a local newspaper says tnat no one would suspect from his personal appearance that he had recently celebrated his 75th birthday ONE MAN AND A MOB And His Only Weapon Wsia a Silver Spoon This is a story of how one man did what a sheriff police- force citizens and lire department failed to do Unarmed save for a silver spoon and unassist ed he dispersed a blood thirsty mob bent on murder and arson It was during the Chinese riots in Denver in the year 1SS0 the bloodiest in its history An angry mob filled the streets and made the air blue with its mutterings When things had reached this stage a gigantic cowboy in a red flannel shirt drove into the crowd waving his lariat over his head and shouting Lns burn the rats out of their holes This was all sufficient to inflame the crowd to violence and to the Chinese quarter of the town they went There were probably 00 Chinamen and Chinese women huddled together in a lot of dens covering an area of half a block The different apartments were connected by narrow secret passages These were typical dens of Chinese vice and mine and the fumes of opium tilled the air for a block away It was a plague spot and a menace to every self respecting citizen As the officers of the law fattened on it its flenizens remained unmolested To this place- the mob rushed howl ing and crying for the nits to be burned out Soon they were beyond the control of the police and the chief appealed to the sheriff Three hundred citizens were sworn in and armed with revolvers and Winchesters The sheriff tried to dis perse the crowd by threats persuasion and by reading the riot act but they only hissed and hooted The Chinamen lKirricaded their doors and not a sound came from with in save the occasional cry of a woman The mob tired at the doors and the sheriff threatened to fire into the crowd but a dozen Winchesters were pointed in his face and he subsided Finally some one set tire to the old frame buildings and in a moment the entire Chinese quarter was in flames The mob maddened by the sight veiled and howled They made a rush on the doors and with some heavy lum ber broke them in and rushed through There were a few shots a few cries raid a few supplications They shot down the men as thcy yushed from the burning buildings and then dragged them out by the queues They picked the little Chinese women up in their arms and carried them out Quantities of silverware cigars liquor and opium were found and confiscated by the rioters What they could not carry away with them was scattered on the sidewalks The fire department came and turned the water on the crowd but some one cut the hose and destroyed its useful ness for extinguishing the llames and the ardor of the mob The plaintive cries of the women and cliildren were distinctly heard by the armed officers of the law but they stood paralyzed and did nothing The mob was drinking their fill of blood and whisky carrying home rich booty or the shapely little Chinese wo men when four men came out of the building dragging a Chinaman by the queue Cries of shoot him went up from the throats of a Hundred men when a man coatless and hatless rushed into the midst of the rioters You cowardly dogs he roared with a voice that resounded far above the yells and din of the crowd He readied into his hip pocket but no it was empty He saw something glis tening in the firelight at his feet and picked it up unnoticed He put it into his hip pocket and dashed up to the four men Pulling it from his pocket he faced them Get out of here you or I will kill every coward of you said lie waving it in their faces The men stood back aghast Ill kill the first that lays a finger on another Chinaman Now get every coward of you He still waved his hand high in the air and its contents glistened in -the fire light Its Jim Moon said one No soon er had the crowd recognized him than they threw down their weapons and lanleavinghim standing alone against a background of burning buildings and cowering Chinamen still waving his hand and the silver spoon for it was only a spoon over his head When the officers of the law came out of their trance they realized that the blood thirsty mob had been scat tered by one man with an ounce of de termination and a silver spoon Jim then threw down his improvised pistoi had a hearty laugh at the fire department and police then went up town and took a drink Smoke as a Preserver of Health Fogs are said to have a very bene ficial effect on the health of districts they are pervalent as they are great purifiers of the atmosphere and even the sulphur which makes the 1 ondon fog so pungent and irritating s credited with effecting quite an ap preciable limitation of prevalent infec tious diseases Prof Maur is now of the opinion that smoke may be turned into a hygienic ally and under some circumstances be made capable of preserving the health to a degree little imagined The dust collected from the smoke of some Liege furnaces burning coal raised from the neighboring mines produces when dissolved in hydrochloric acid a solution from which considerable quantities of ar senic and several other metallic salts may be precipitated It is now sus pected that this breathing of arsenic and other minerals in a fineh divided slate may account for the singular immunity from epidemics enjoyed by certain industrial districts such as that of St Etienne and medical au thorities hi those regions and elsewhere are asked to throw upon the subject what light they can that the ventilating eject of the mi t merous chimiKys in iron making anL other industrial cent rs has its due share in constantly driving off the viti ated ir and replacing it by fresh quan tities of pure air It was noted that when pestilence was raging in the En glish town of Clifton an elevated and apparently salubrious residential dis trict its inhabitants migrated to a low lying and murky parish in the adjacent town of Bristol where the air wji black from the smoke of numerous chimneys while the mortality was lower than that of the fashionables quarter overlooking it Thomas Went worth Higginson is now in England and is writing a seriesj of articles on foreign travel Susan Escort and Others a collec tion of short stories by Edward Ever- ett Hale will shortly be issued R X Stephens will soon bring out the historical romance An Enemy ta the King based upon his drama oC the same name which was presented witii such success by E II Sothem The long expected new volume oC Justin McCarthy History of Our Own Times which brings the story down from 1SS0 to the diamond jubilee mak ing the third volume in the compiled work is announced for publication Edward Bellamys new is now promised to appear in a few days The slight delay is due to the necessity for the book to appear simultaneously in the United States Great Britain France Germany Switzerland Belgium Italy and other countries It is of interest to recall that over copies of Looking Backward have been sold in this country alone That famous mart of books pictures and other treasures known to mora than one generation as Christies is to be celebrated in a volume by W Roberts who is just the man in all London qualified to write it It is called Memorials of Christies and besides traversing the annals of the great house of auctioneers it will gath er together stories of many famous sales and record prices Miss Jeannette L Gilder in her Lounger columns of the Critic takes a rather discouraging view of the pe cuniary benefits of fiction writing She says There are not many men or women either in this country making even 3000 a year out of fiction The person who makes 10000 a year out of that branch of literary work may count himself fortunate I do not be lieve there are five writers of fiction in this country who make as much by their pens alone Home Liile Amonjj the Indians Mrs Alice C Fletcher contributes ai paper with this title one of a series on similar subjects to the Century Mrs Fletcher saj s One would hardly sup pose that there could be particular rules as to the manner of sitting uponr the ground but here as in every other part of Indian life there is a rigid ob servance of custom Men may prop erly sit upon their heels or eross Iegged but no woman may jissume these atti tudes She must sit sidewise gather ing her feet well under her and maker a brCail smooth lap When working she may kneel or squat and when resting she as well as the men mayj sit with legs extended but at all other times men and women must observe the etiquette of posture distinctive o sex To rise without touching tbOj ground with the hand springing upf lightly and easily to the feet is a bit of good breeding very difficult to onej not to the manner born Careful parj eats are particular to train their chil dren in these niceties of behavior Among the Winnebagos the little girls are drilled in the proper way of stand ing when under observation on dress occasions Their position of hands and feet is also the proper one for the worn en in certain religious dances While among the Sioux a mother with a good sized family of boj s and girls pro pounded to me the question whethei white women did not find their daugh ters more trouble than their sons sha was sure she did Look at thos girls said she I have their clothe to make their hair to braid and to sea that they learn how to behave Now my boys are no trouble As I glanced at the group of children the glossj braids of the girls falling over their sim gle smock and the boys nake d but for the breech clout their miniature scalp lock ornamented with a brass sleigh bell surmounting a snarl oi frowsy hair I recognized the kinsfcifl of maternal perplexities the world over Bi Locomotives The heaviest locomotives now in us are the mountain locomotives of the Mexicaa Central Railway which Aveigl 104 tons without the tender and the eight driving wheels of which bear a combined weight of eighty eight tons or twenty two tons per axle and eleven tons per wheel The greates t weight permitted on Eu ropean rauroans is seven xauss pus wheel The next largest locomotives are those used in the St Clak ttiimel at Dctrjt which wch eighty nine tons without the tender and the ruin tuple coir pound freiglit locamotves at the Erie Railway which weigh eighty eight tons A Sardonic PnvrrrcKtion Im sure said the girl who is en gaged tiiat Herbert is a prize Yes replied Miss Cayrsane but in a case of this kind its so difficult to teB whether youve won a first prize or it It is suggested I booby write Washington Star
