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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1897)
V xm JP nlmtint emocmt ItOKKItT JOOD Editor and Prop ALENTINE I NEBRASKA Three thiols are difficult to keep a pecret to boar an injury patiently and to spend leisure well If you -wish to know how many Criends you have get into oIice if you to know how few you have gel Into debt The Sharon Pa Tribune gleefullj Bays We had roast big ears for din- ner Wednesday And yet they say journalism has not substantial re jvords A cynic assures the New York Press that whenever he eats boiled huekle lerry pudding lie always dreams about Betting married Thats no dream -either its a nightmare lie sincere with yourself whatever 4he temptation Say nothing to others what you do not think and play no tricks with your own mind Of all the evil spirits abroad in the world insin cerity is the most dangerous The New York Journal has a new department which it calls The Merry Jesters This innovation will be re ceived gratefully by the public Tho other kind of jesters have monopolized New York journalism long enough A Kansas City burglar who broke in to a saloon drank so much of the whisky that he couldnt leave the place and was captured The court will have to discharge him however If it is illegal to punish a man twice for the same offense The ice box as a moans of keeping store men quiet while thieves loot their places has become quite a common thing but it was left for a Staten Isl and butcher to use it to lock up a thief who had attempted to rob him It is a poor ice box whieh will not work both ways The Frovidence Journal says that a prominent resident of that place re ceived a severe scalp wound on the head the other day Hell probably get along all right A scalp wound on the head always is loss dangerous than a scalp wound anywhere else It is announced that the Sultan of -Morocco exhibited unusual activity iu hunting down perpetrators of outrages against American residents in Tangier just as soon as two American anchored in that port Probably lie didnt suspect before that part of the white squadron was Morocco bound The old adage that what is wealth ror one man is poverty for anotlier is shown by the story of a Parisian bank er who died of grief when he lost all 2iis fortune but Sl000U thinking him self in beggary while a pauper broth er who inherited the sum at the others death died of joy at finding himself possessed of such riches Balzac would iiave founded a novel on this incident Just as the tiny rivulet on the mountain-side which a pebble could divert from its course may be the source of a anlghty river flowing down and ming ling with the great sea which in its urn can wear away mountains so come things in life and in character rtvaich we deem scarcely worth notice may be the very springs which shall develop into mighty and irresistible forces ne fruit growers of California have -begun to build canneries in order to provide against a great waste of fruit winch takts place every year and fflrhick is a dead lo3 except where the surplus goes to fo d hogs Tins s a wise move and one which the horticul turists of other States might copv Mil lions of fruit is wasted every vear in many States by this carelessness where a little capital judiciously invest ed would pay well for the men who furnished it The method of voting in the French Chamber of Deputies is unique The members have white and blue cards the former signifying -yea and the latter nay When a member wishes to be absent from the chamber he in Btructs a colleague to vote for him and the latter is allowed to do so The other day when there were not more han fifty members in the house a cor tain measure was carried bv a vote of 391 to 112C There have been many at temps to abolish the system of voting fcy proxy but they have all failed Ij reduces legislation to an absurdity Owing to tho jealousy of the Czar it 4s said that the Kaisers desire to meet President Faure on the occasion of the Salters visit to St Petersburg has been 2affled No one but the Kaiser has the slightest idea why he desired the meet ing but It is a pity that the Czar has prevented it It would have been in teresting to know what the erratic German monarch would have said and ftone under those circumstances Of fete he has done those things which 2id some to think that he might have Sered the olive branch to the repre sentative of his peoples traditional en emies but then again he might have insulted him Perhaps it was not com mercial jealousy but common wisdom which actuated the Czar after all Since June 11 of this year it has been on offense for the women of Massa chusetts to wear for purpose of dress or ornament or to sell or have in their jossession the bodies or feathers of any fit the birds which are commonly used Wftrr rJWS for the adornment of womens hats Like many other laws passed this year by the various State Legislatures the existence of the law was unknown to most people and the stated intention of the police commissioners of Boston to enforce this new blue law has spread consternation among the mil liners and their customers The law was put on the statute books at the in stance of some society for the preven tion of somethingorother and is on a par with the prohibition of Mother llubbards which was tried a wbilo ago Although it but remotely concerns ns of the inland it seems as though the existence of two separate sets of regu lations for the government of vessels at sea one put in force by this count ry and the other by Great Britain would result surely hi confusion and acci dents On the first day of Tuly new regulations went into opera tion respecting the rule of the road at sea by the two countries Some of these rules meair vastly different things hi the different codes and there ds no way for mariners to distinguish between them Life at sea is hazard ous under the best circumstances and it seems little less than criminal to mix such rules as existed before in a way that they may be mistaken and accidents result The introduction of electricity iuio the uses of everyday life has brought the electric fan for cooling apartments during the summer At first the price of these was so great that only large concerns could afford them Then too electric power was not so common Now there are few Hat buildings which are not supplied withllynamos and ap pliances for electric lighting The price of the fans is only about half what it was and offices small restau rants stores and private apartments are now cooled by this process But the cost is still larger than it should be and when the fans can be had for 10 or less there will be a much larger number in use It may be that the apartment house of the future will have its cooling apparatus just as it now has its heating plant and by am monia rooms may be kept cool no mat ter what the weather is on the out side The reports of the damage done by the storms and floods in Central and Southern France have been so brief and meager in details that few persons have appreciated the extent of the dis aster So much of the country has been cut off and rendered inaccessible that only unofficial estimates can be made It is known however that at least 300 lives have been lost and that thou sands have been made nomeless while the amount of property destroyed is placed at a conservative valuation at 40 millions of dollars In one place alone the town of on a small island in the Kiver Save 2M houses were carried away by the flood The suffering of the people who have lost their all in this calamity will be intense for a time but the French re cuperate rapidly and will not long re- main depressed It is much to be feared when the waters subside somewhat and admit of closer examination of the the affected districts that the loss of life will prove to have been underesti mated The storm came on the people without a warning and they were help less before its furv There is a great deal of sound sense fn the argument against our national sin of extravagance by a Japanese whom Robert P Porter met in that country lately Mr Porter was stay ing at a Japanese hotel living as usual iu apartments on the American plan He paid what was equivalent to 277t a day in our money His Japanese friend stayed in the same hotel but in the Japanese quarters paying but 7i sm or about 40 cents a day Tlie Oriental said to him T am just as happy and comfortable as you are To be sure you have tables and chairs and waslistands and pitchers and a bed- stead and a sofa I have nothing of the sort A nice clean tatami mat and a quilt is a good enough bed for me Then you jive so much more trouble at your meals with your tables and your chairs and crockery glassware knives and forks spoons mustard and pepper pots My meals are served in my room by a pretty maid who kneels before me while I eat and chats and makes her self interesting looking after my every want at the same time Then you cart a lot of unnecessary baggage around The hotel furnishes me with a nice clean night robe and I can buy a tooth brush for a sen or so You Americans make too much effort to live There is no doubt that we clutter our lives with alleged necessities or luxuries which are in reality nothing of the sort Our daily living has reached enormous ex penses by our continually increasing vvants which are merely extrava rgances not at all necessarv Badly 3lixeu At a country station a little child owing to the rush of a crowd of trip pers was pushed over in front of an out going train Quick as a flesh a workingman jumped into the four foot way threw the child on the platform and scrambled up himself but scarce ly quick enough as the engine in pass ing rolled him over on the platform Several people hastened at once to his succor but he rose uninjured and with a face expressive of extreme con cern drew out of his pocket a colored handkerchief containing his days victuals which he cursorily examined and then ruefully exclaimed Confound it Just my luck What is the matter inquired the crowd Why Ive broken two eggs and a rhubarb pie and its all mixed up with my tea and sugar Answers ECLIPSE OF THE SUN MOON PARTIALLY OBSCURES OLD SOL Event Visible in the United States With Smoked Glass the Fiery Cres cent and Lamar Shadow Could Be Seen Sun in a Shadow On Thursday between the hours of S and 10 a in central standard time the moon in the course of her monthly round of the heavens passed directly between the earth and the sun The consequence was an eclipse of the sun which has vis ible throughout the United States in Mexico the West Indies Central Amer ica the northern half of South America over a good portion of the Atlantic ocean and on the west coast of Africa To observers within the districts bound ed by an imaginary line drawn from the central part of New Mexico to Tampico and thence to Havana the Windward Islands and Lake St Roquo the outer edges of the sun assumed the appearance f a ring of fire To the fact that tl moon appeared smaller than the sun w due the lack of totality in the celinse as viewed from the earth though to the putative inhabitants of some of the other planets the eclipse may easily have been total On this sphere there was however no region of total eclipse And even in he Central American districts from which the annular band could best be seen the fiery ring lasted for only a few minutes At Washington and across the whole of the United States at points in about the same latitude as Washington S degrees r0 minutes exactly one half of the suu s face the lower half was veiled An eclipse of the sun is a quite differ ent affair irom an eclipse of the moon A lunar eclipse is caused by the passing of the moon through the earths shadow It is visible from every point on the earths surface from which the moon itself is vis ible at the tjme that is over one entire hemisphere of the earth Furthermore a lunar eclipse whether total or partial pre sents one and the same appearance to ev ery observer no matter where he is nod v bother in Boston or San Fran- Sus7i A C 2 -- cisco or Bio Janeiro just as the shadow of a tree cast upon a house appears the same from whatever point of view it is looked at A solar eclipse is caused by the passage of the moon between us and the sun To see it one must be so situat ed that the range is right just as to see a distant house exactly behind some near object as a tree one must so stand that the tree is exactly in line with him and the house If he moves from this line to the right or the left the tree changes its position with reference to the house and when he has moved to a eertain distance it ceases altogether to range with the house In ilie case of a solar eclipse the sun is the distant house the moon is the tree Since this moon is a comparatively small body only about 2000 miles in diameter while the diameter of the earth is noarb S000 miles there is upon the earth ample room for getting off of the range a hen the earth is passing the sun Thus to an observer situated Thursday anywhere on the twenty live mile line above lo cated sav at Havana the moon anncarcd to pass diieclly across the suns face its center moving along the line marked on the diagiam Moons Path in the di rection indicated by the arrow One cir cumstance only prevented the cclipe from being total for that observer and this was that the moon being at very nearly her irreatest distance from the earth her an- parent size was at its least and showed less than that of the sim For an observer at Washington the range was different To him the moons center appeared to pass along the line marked A 13 so that its upper limb ju t reached the suns center An observer in about latitude id was still farther olf of the range To him the moon could it be seen would have seemed to move along the line CI Its upper edge would have just graxed the lower edge of the sun in passing and there would have been no eclipse Much less could there be an eclipse for an observer still farther north Away back iu ISO the last total eclipse of the sun which was visible in this part of the country took place Since then however there have been several total eclipses Ahich were visible from other parts of the United States The most notable of ihese was tho eclipse of 1S7S It was observed from the neighborhood of Denver and was fruitful of seionlilio results Far more frequent are partial eclipses the area which these cover being very wide A total eclipse is a rare oc currence and it is not often that the shadows from two of them are receded by the same locality in a hundred years MICHIGAN CITY FIRE One Man Killed and Five Families Made Homeless One nan burned to death in a horrible manner another suffering from severe burns several overcome by the fumes of naphtha and heat a property loss of 70 000 an entire block of buildings in ashes and live families homeless Those are the features of a lire which Wednesday threatened Michigan City Ind with de struction and resulted in a call upon the Chicago hro department for assistance An explosion in the Michigan City Sash and Door Companys plant resulted in the fire which was subdued only by the persistent efforts of every able bodied citi zen For a time it looked as if the entire city was to bo sacriliotvl The lire was beyond control the wind high the volun teer firemen unable to make any impres sion upon the llames which burned hose and apparatus and pushed their way to ward business houses and residences A call for assistance telegraphed to Ham mond Ind was answered unfavorably by the officials of that place who replied l that they could not spare any of their ap paratus A message to Chicago for help brought an immediate response from Chief Swcnie who started engine com panies 40 42 and 1 in charge of Assistant Chief Campion on a gallop to the quick ly prepared special of the Michigan Cen tral The engines and hose carts wore loaded the track cleared for a rapid run and everything made ready when word came that the fire was under control The fire originated in an underground vault in the basement of the Michigan City Sash and Door Company used as a storage loom for gasoline shellac i fe WHERE THE FIRE STARTED orfr tha and benzine William Bauman and Herman Lukow went into the vault for the purpose of filling a can with naphtha to be used m the factory Lukow carried i lighted lantern and Bauman was draw the oil when the lantern exploded tting lire to the oil just drawn In an instant the place was a mass of flame The fluids stored in the vault became ig nited explosion followed explosion and the entire building was on fire before the employes realized what had happened Fellow woikincn dragged Lukow to a place of safety but the heat being too in tense to pcimit re entrance and Bauman was left to his fate PANIC ON A STEAMER Boat Cambria Collides with a Raft of Lojrs in Lake Huron The side wheel steamer Cambria doing passenger business between Detroit Windsor and Sault Ste Marie and along the Canadian shore of Lake Huron was wrecked at an early hour Wednesday morning on the Canadian shore of Lake Huron near the mouth of St Clair river and is a total loss She had nearly 100 passengers on board most of them on a miimi nnfincr itw1 rrirwl M crfW of -- - V - I J twenty men She left Sarnia about mid j night Tuesday night and went out into 4i mtmBm 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 li 1 W j i 3 rjy APPEARAXCE OF THEECLIPSE AT ITS BEST Lake Huron in the face of a howling gale from the northwest against the protesta tions of the passengers When out about twelve miles the captain decided to run back and was within about three miles of Fort Cratiot when the boat struck a raft of logs in tow of the tug Vigilant The shock threw the passengers out of their berths and in an instant women and children in scant attire were rushing fran tically about while men became alarmed J no passengers were assured by the offi cers however that everything was all rigid and every one took time to get fully dressed and await developments In trying lo extricate herself tho boat lost her rudder leaving her at the mercy of tho waves and amid thousands of logs that wore continually pounding her sides Shortly alteiward one of her wheels was also broken by striking a log and she was left in an entirely helpless condition almost in midlake in total darkness The vessel their began to drift toward the Canadian shore and after half an hour tho boat struck tho beach hard and reenr u over io one side with the waves breaking over her Tho captain refused to lauiK h any boats until daybreak Soon after daybreak all passengers wore taken off in safety women and children first be ing taken ashore followed by the men and lastly by the crow The wrecked ves sel was valued at 17000 and insured for ML dOO She was built iu 1877 ami re built in Lv Si THE TERRIBLE SWEDE DYING Noted Cyclist is It osl rated After a Loiiti Dintaiicc Contest John Lawson the terrible Swede Chicagos favorite long distance rider is lying in Baltimore Two weeks ago in Baltimore he rude in a race in which he was pitted against a cowboy The dis tance was twenty live miles and the cow boy changed ponies at tho end of every JOHN IAWS0N mile Lawson rode a plucky race consid ering the conditions of the contest and finished with a terrific spurt on the home stretch 1 ho next day he was prostrated and has not been able to rise from his bed since John Larson was born in Sweden May 15 1S71 Hi commenced riding in 1891 and did his best work in long distance events He was noted for his terrific sfTurts v Inch repeatedly won him a vic tory from seeming sure defeat Because of his pi wers as a winner iu desperate contests he earned the title which he has borne ever since that of the terrible Swede TO THRILL THE PARISIANS Pattees Wheel Throws Ferris Inven tion in the Shade A dovice which is intended to eclipse the Ferris wheel of Chicago as an en gineering feat combine the joys of a shoot the chutes and a scenic rail way and give pleasure seekers and novelty hunters something to talk about is what Herbert 1attee offers to the management of the Paris Worlds Fair of 1000 Pattees wheel is expect ed to be the mechanical marvel of the groat exposition leaving both the Fer ris wheel and the Eiffel tower far in the rear The inventor is a young actor resident in Washington who has been connected with various companies and THE 1ATTEE WHEEL who puts iu bis spare time giving nlav to his inventive genius He intends starting for Paris in a few days to lay before the authorities the scheme of his wheel which lie has little doubt will be adopted The device consists of a gigantic wheel 200 feet in height and with a steel frame composed of a network of braces Its structural detail and the towers which support it look not unlike the Ferris wheel The great difference is that instead of having cars suspend ed between the the two outer rims or the periphery of the wheel this space is inclosed and laid with stout flooring giving the whole theappearanceof a gi gantic bicycle wheel with a broad flat tire Upon this fioor and in the inside of the wheel is a great trough with sides rising three feet above the bottom and in this trough are laid stout steel tracks Cars rest upon these tracks and the object of the invention is to cause these vehicles filled Avith people to be carried up a certain distance into the air by the wheel then shot down the incline with a speed of the wind and up the other side by the force of the momentum The wheel begins to revolve from left to right and the car is carried up about seventy feet to a point one third the distance from the bottom to the top of tne wiieei The car is gripped to the tracks with lateral arms spreading out on each side and clamping themselves tightly to the tracks and trough by the turning of a lever in the hands of a motorman When the cars have reach ed the height of seventy feet the motor man releases the lateral arms and the vehicle shoots down the incline at a i rific rate of speed and up the other side the wheel stopping during the descent There is a pond of water in the inside troughs which Hows around at the low est level it can find and is consequently always at the bottom of the wheel As the boat like vehicle descends it dashes through the water reproducing the sen sation experienced in shooting the chutes and surrounding the people with a shower of spray whk h does not wet them because it is lnn iod -- from the car At night when the wheel is surrounded by thousauds of colored iM X I Jiltf A lV f Mi SHOOTIXG THE CIIUTKS electric lights the effect of this many tinted spray will be most effective To add to the novelty of the ride Pat tee will arranire a tunnel evtomlinr imlf r J way around the whsej This will be j dimly lighted to give the appearance of stars and the cars will shoot into its black cavernous mouth and half way through the tunnel Another turn of the wheel is made and the car shoots through the tunnel and out to the un impleted portion of the wheel Indian Languages Like the buffalo the Indian lan guage will soon be lost forever ex plained a gentleman who under the auspices of the Smithsonian has de voted a number of years to the study and preservation of the Indian lan guage It was thought that tne In dian language could be preserved by the aid of the phonograph and grapho phone and parties were sent out to many Indian tribes to have them talk into the apparatus and thus secure a record of the Indian tongue It was found however that but few Indians of the present day and they were the older ones could talk a pure tongue More than one half of the Indians now on the reservations and this is the case with all of the younger Indians converse in English It is not good English but it is the kind they speak a kind of pigeon En- glish I had the work of securing soma Cherokee talk and in doing so talked with a dozen or more leading Chero kees They admitted to me tnat they lid not know one Cherokee who eouIcHr speak pure Cherokee They said it was with the greatest diflicuiiy that they could get the boys and girl- to speak in their native tongue tit all or to learn even the commonest Avoids or phrases I arranged with a half dozen Chero kees however and secured fhjr ser vices to talk into the machines and have thus got some pretty good Chero kee but I know that it is very imper fect Indian language A few of the Sioux Indians talk pret ty well but it is a mixture In less than twenty years I do not think there will be an Indian in this country who can talk his native tongue pure As far as the Indian children are con cerned they use six English words where they use one Indian word The machines of the day will record the language if it is talked into Lhem but the difficulty is to get Indians who can talk with the necessary degtev of ac curacy Washington star HES AN ARTISTIC PRINTER Louis II Orr Now Printer Lanrcato of the United States Louis II Orr of Xew York who has been elected printer laureate by the typographical craft in ti United States is one of the most arwtic print ers on this side of the Atlantic The wearer of the bays was to be chosen by vote and Mr Orr avus tin Miocessful one He received i7S0 votes aid Ilcsdy O Shepard of Chicago was a close s ond with nLO J votes 13 P was a close third with SlTT vot s The oth er candidates were far behind Mr Orr is a natural printer He inherited his love for the types and drew from his father a love of the artistic This feel ing is seen in the very beautiful speci mens of printing art which Mr Orr has turned out from his shop in NVw York He began life with a thorough educa tion in the printing otlice and learned every detail of the trade II- became a rapid and accurate typosrrr a skill ful pressman and acquired rii keenest appreciation of the artistic u the get- iocis ir oii ting together of his work When tfe days of his apprenticeship came to an end he set out on his wanderings and entered the employ of a big envelope concern in Springfield Mass Later he set up in business for himself in the Massachusetts city but it was not until he opened his shop in New York that he took his place beside those great printers who have done most to lift the trade into the realms of arc In his so cial and private relations Mr Orr is amiability itself Loving open air exer cise his devotion to healthful sports was shown in his unopposed election as a governor of the New York Athletic Club The Wile in Kusia This is a curious custom you Amer icans have of referring to your wives by their husbands names observed xlanvoek Kaplon an intelligent Rus sian traveler I suppose the Ameri can holds his wife in as high esteem as the Russian holds his but if at home I should speak of my better half aSi Mrs Kaplon my friends would at oncej conclude that my domestic relations were not as pleasant as they should be and that I was thinking of a leirnl kptI aration When I first heard can speak of his wife as Mrs Jones for example I felt almost like presuming on my acquaintance by intruding into his private affairs and asking him what the trouble was at home Yet I soon learned that the custom was universal over here but still I cannot got used to it My wife is the plain blunt way I speak in Russia of the lady who I suppose I would have to call Mrs Kaplon in polite societv in America In some of the more fash ionable circles of St Petersburg this American social custom has been adoptedthough I was told bv a promi nent government official not long ago that the Czar disapproved of it St Louis Republic What a Banshee Looks Like There is absolutely no proof what ever that any person has ever n n banshee the most noted spirit of Irish folk lore yet we have portraits of both the friendly and unfriendly bandie The former kind is represented as be ing a young and beautiful female The face is spirituelle with hair eve and complexion ranging from the bionde to the brunette type She floats in the air raising her voice softly and melodious- ly to the sad refrain that gives warn ing of the death to occur The un friendly banshees are as repulsive a the other kinds are attractive It in still a woman but old wrinkled and wicked with all evidence of beanrv good feeling and kindliness gone from her face We give these few Zn 1Z ars so that our readers miy Low a banshee when they see it There is nothing to eU a lavender pillow for tired uer r H ri J
