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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1897)
i u I V g uetBaseOKaSKfSiaiSgSs Au nUntitte tmutnl HOKKKT GOOD Krtitor and Prop VALENTINE I1 NEBRASKA Gentlemen who are now raising money for steamer fare to Alaska will flo well 1o remember that the walking will not be good coming back Down at Atlantic City the other day c New York man announced that be -was about to burn up the ocean For tunately he was arrested before he did It The London Globe says that the Japs tan easily whip the United States but H evidently underestimates the fight ing abilities of the Yankees as John Bull has done on two previous occa sions to his own sorrow A New York woman 32 years of age was arrested on a Chicago street for wearing male attire She explained that she had worn the same garb for -pears in Gotham and couldnt see why these Western towns should bo so particular It is queer The St Louis Republic remarks edi torially We can whip Spain We can wbip Japan and we can whip En gland too Well if it comes to the worst it is a sweetly solemn thought that a St Louis paper stands ready to lick all of Uncle Sams enemies at a moments notice Atlanta Journal Lynchings in Geor gia will never be suppressed by en couraging the mob to believe that they es vindicators of justice are superior to the law or by encouraging judges of the superior courts to yield to the fleinand of mobs and trying men where prejudice is overwhelmingly against them Mrs Charlotte Smith the profession al reformer who is helping to make Boston truly good will ask Congress to appropriate enough money to send 100000 unmarried women to Alaska How delightful That ought to be a great place for ice cream the year around if somebody would furnish tho cream A poor miner in Pennsylvania is said to have fallen heir to 75000 by the death of an uncle who came to him In the disguise of a tramp and was kindly received This story reads as though it had been written by some W illiani Whiskers with a fancy for tales of imagination and a desire to have his kind treated well by those whom they would in the future solicit tor handouts Boston rejected Bacchante because 3n the excess of his artistic emotion Sculptor Macinonnies utterly overlook ed the trifling detail of clothes Now a entrsttute for the brazen beauty has been found Boston is ready to adopt Sculptor Mirandas draped figure rep resenting the Spirit of Research If the current newspaper illustrations are correct the new figure looks like a Boston spinster with a tablecloth over her head and in hysteric over the ap proach of a mouse When the Venezuelan cowboy wishes to catch a bull or cow for branding or for any purpose he rides alongside It and with horse and bovine on the dead run stoops from his saddle grasps the creatures tail and with a sharp peculiar twist sends the animal rolling on its back From the force with which it falls the creatures horns almost invariably pin its head to the ground giving the vaquero time to dis mount and sit on its head holding tie animal helpless to rise while a com panion ties its legs Some things may be done better in Canada than in this country For ex ample there is the gold commissioner He sits on the case on the ground where the dispute arises hears evi dence while the witnesses are yet alive and available uses his own common tense and good judgment and renders his decision in time for the legal owner to work his claim next day The chances are ten to one that the gold commissioner gives better satisfaction generally in a mining camp than could any poking process of appeal The author of a work called The Gold Standard has raised his voice In protest against the action of a Sen ator who incorporated the entire text of the volume in a speech he made and Siad it reprinted in the Congressional Record It is now being distributed free of charge to the constituents of the Senator and others The author lias a clear case against the Senator under thp copyright law if he wishes to prosecute it This is not the first time that Congressmen have done this thing but this man is the first to pro test against it It is a piece of high handed piracy Twenty five years ago scientists pre dicted that abundant coal fields would 3e found on both sides of the British channel and the predictions have been fulfilled Besides the great Kentish fields discovered several years ago and yielding bountifully ever since im mense tracts of coal have been recently -found between Calais and Cape Gris mez The French discoveries were the result of those in England geologists items sure that the same belt of coal extended under the water from one country to the other This last discov ery is of the greatest importance to in dustrial France The announcement is made that ceven convicts in the Kings County penitentiary New York have gone In--pane and that two more are upon tho cju JtnMm i TTBaueejmi2aS2aaiSIXiSsraaBrK m r c verge of insanity This is not sup prising considering the fact that un der the law of that State it is prohib fted to employ the convicts in any gain fill labor The wonder is that the pen itentiaries of New York are not all full of lunatics Imprisonment under such a law is inhuman It is a retrograde step and it cannot but result shame fully for the State No power has the right to drive even its convicts insane and that is the tendency of this law The New Orleans Times Democrat is trying to ascertain by letter how the various newspapers of the country look upon the old problem of the govern ment ownership of the telegraph It appears from the Times Democrats in quiry that it is prompted by the fact that most of the telegraph stations in the South are closed by G p m and that it finds trouble in securing news by wire unless its order is in long be fore that hour which of course is not always possible If the telegraph in the hands of a corporation does not find it profitable to keep its offices open for the transmission cf news matter or any other messages it is not likely that the government controlling the wires would find any profit in it either As the cry in 1S57 59 Avas Pikes Peak or bust so now the argonauts are yelling Ho for the Yukon The rush of the enthusiasts continues and the vessels at the Pacific coast points are not able to accommodate the crowds desiring to take passage Some men even propose to make part of the journey to Sitka on foot It is not like ly that they will actually make this journey or if they do that they will be heard of again A St Louis man pro poses to go to the diggings in a balloon and he is not less wise than many who are starting for the gold fields by other means Hundreds of those who are going to the Klondyke region are to tally unfitted for life under the circum stances they will encounter there The hardships there are intolerable almost and the chances of fortune decidedly against the tenderfoot Americans need not think that they are the only people who have made the bicycle popular The London Cy cle a trade journal has made a com putation of the capital invested in the manufacture of wheels and the annual expenditure of cyclists and the result is some astonishing figures It esti mates that no less that 16500000 are invested in the making of various parts of the bicycle in the S00000 wheels now in use in agencies depots repair ers the manufacture of bells lamps and saddles clothing shoes and the keeping up of race tracks clubs and riding academies The annual ex penditures are placed at 12500000 If these figures are even approximately correct there must be about 5000000 a month expended in Great Britain on account of the bicycle As a great deal of this is spent by people of moderate means there must be somewhere a consequent falling off in expenditures for other things Indeed shopkeepers in England like their brothers in America complain that the bicycle craze has hurt business Readers of Scotts Anne of Gier stein will remember the description there of Pilatus the grim Alp to which say the legends Pontius Pilate retired after the trial of our Savior and there took his life It is so often swathed in mists that its passage is ex tremely perilous The book opens by describing the dangerous trip of somo travelers across its face The moun tain has always had a fascination foi tourists both on account of the le gends surrounding it and because ol the peril to be encountered there II claims its victims every year and the cable has brought the news of the ad venture of a young woman tourist which ended in her death Spurred on by the boasts of some friends who had descended the mountain by means of the Heitertannli a very dangerous pas sage she too attempted to make her way but lost her footing and was dashed to death A fortnight before a man had been killed at the very same spot She knew of this catastrophe but it did not deter her from making the attempt The long list of Swiss fatalities is not sufficient to keep tour ists from trying the race with death every year The wonder is that the careful Swiss government does not take some steps to prevent such fool hardiness The New York Times prints a very serious editorial article objecting to the quality of English used by the re porters of baseball games and it quotes from a contemporary to show how un intelligible and vulgar the language in such accounts is This is an old com plaint and one which time has done nothing to rectify There have been frequent efforts to simplify and purify base ball English but they have failed The readers of the base ball column do not want to read intelligible English That is all there is to it If the report of a ball game were written in ordinary English the base ball crank would not understand it The same is true of all sports The racing men the golf en thusiast the bicycle crank the 3achts man each has his own vernacular n which he insists that the report of his particular sport be written Tliis is of course all Greek to the average newspaper reader but so too would b the game itself and so long as the nieu most interested are satisfied what aw the odds The plea that the language is being corrupted has long since been exploded Rather it is being enriched Every year sees incorporated into oui coloquia1 tongue and our written words expressions owing their existence to sporting and other walks of lifewhicb are both strong and graphic ancfagitf ch add to the terseness and vigorMour language and hurl no one UTAHS BIG JUBILEE RECENTLY CELEBRATED SEMI CENTENNIAL - nniGiiAJi youxc HER Fifty Years Ajro Brijjham Younjr the Mormon Prophet Led Ilia People Into the Promised Land and Laid the Foundation of a State Found ins a State The people of the State of Utah re cently completed their big celebration of the semi centennial anniversary of the arrival of Brigham Young and his band of 1160 pioneers in the valley of the Great Salt Lake Almost a full week was required to fittingly observe the great empire building work of Brig ham Young It was on July 24 1847 that the pio neers emerged from the rugged defile now known as Emigration Canyon and faced a broad and sunny valley which sloped gently to the shores of an in land sea On the east the Wasatch Mountains and on the south and west the Oquirrh range made grim walls about the desert When the pilgrims had proceeded a little further they saw a large fresh lake a few miles to tho south emptying its surplus waters into the inland sea through a slender river These odd conditions suggested a strik ing comparison to Brigham Young who felt that he was a Moses leading a new tribe of Israel to a new promised land The fresh lake was the sea of Tiberias the salt one the Dead Sea the river was of course the Jordan This then was the new Palestine and here the leader and his followers would build a new Jerusalem Advancing a few miles into the valley and halting near the banks of a roaring brook Brigham Young struck his staff upon the ground and exclaimed Here we will rear our temple in holiness to the Lord The small party of emigrants who ended their tiresome and dangerous pil grimage in the Utah desert fifty years ago gave but the slightest promise of founding an enduring State TheyJ naa come to an and land and possessed neither canals nor the slighest knowl edge of the art of irrigation They had but a scanty store of provisions and a thousand miles of deserts and moun tains lay between them and any base of supplies They had no shelter save that offered by the canvas coverings of their crowded wagons and there were no forests near at hand from which lumber could be made But they went to work under the direction of a masterful leader turning the waters of a canyon stream upon the hard alkaline soil and staking the last of their stock of potatoes on the venture The result of this desperate beginning is seen in the Utah of to day Utah of Today This latest of American States con tains nearly 300000 people on the occa sion of its fiftieth anniversary Of these less than one third live in large towns Salt Lake City the metropolis and capital containing about 00000 and Ogden its cheerful rival about 10 000 More than two thirds of the total population is dispersed in mining camps on the stock range and over a myriad of farms While Utah owes much of its present t farms range from tnree to twenty acres the smallest of any State in the Union They are universally devoted to diversified agriculture and thus ren der their unmortgaged proprietors ab solutely self sustaining In another important respect these farms differ from those elsewhere Their owners do not live as a rule upon the farm acreage but in villages or home centers These are located at central points in bodies of 0000 to 10 000 acres The farmers have their homes on acre lots in these villages getting from this small area many of years of political solidarity appears to be genuine and the people carry on their discussions with the proverbial zeai of new converts HE WAS A BRILLLANT CLERK How a Virginia Prodigy Gave a 10 Per Cent Discount I once had a promising bud of genius in my store down on the James River said a Virginian to a reporter I keep a general store there and this bud that promised to bloom into seven kinds of a loo loo flower came to me from the - - THE MORMON TABE11XACLE the things they consume and having the social advantages of town life to a considerable degree The church is also the dance hall and in the remotest hamlet there is a Sunday night dance led by the bishop These social ar rangements have contributed much to the contentment of the farming popu lation There has been less tempta tion for the boys and girls to leave the soil and go to the large towns than elsewhere The people live under such conditions that neither panics strikes nor wars could seriously menace their three meals a day The Mormons are admittedly the founders of irrigation among Anglo Saxons Until they made their first rude canal from City Creek on that July day in 1S47 men of their race had never dealt seriously with this indus try As the pioneers enjoyed a practi cal equality in the matter of property their irrigation works were necessarily built by means of co operative labor Every man performed his share of the work and received his proportion of stock in the company which owned the canal It was nearly forty years after the first settlement was made befdre costly works were built by outside cap ital and the innovation was not re garded with favor by the Mormons In Utah the stores factories and banks are owned very generally by joint stock companies consisting of multitudes of small shareowners The Mormon Church After a half century the Mormon church is still a dominant factor in the life of Utah In numbers and in wealth it is of course a far greater church than it was fifty years ago The prac tice of polygamy suspended by formal edict in 1S90 is noAV a tiling of the past speaking in broad terms But the doc trine is still religiously held among the tenets of the church It is doubtless sincerely believed in by the majority of the people and is usually more vigor ously defended by the women than by the men There are occasional arrests under the Edmunds Tucker law but there seems no reason to doubt the good faith of the church in discounte nancing the practice The older generation of Mormons rule the church but the younger gen eration rule the State The Governor the two Senators and one Representa tive are natives and of Mormon parent age though Senator Rawlins is said to be an apostate Contrary to general ex pectations this fact has not deprived i i AdJkk THE GREAT MORMON TEMPLE prosperity fo its mines and will be even more deeply indebted to this item of its resources in the future the broad foundation of its economic life is In its irrigated soil There are some remark able facts to be recorded about its 19 81G farms In the first place 17GS4 of them are absolutely free of all incum brance The average size of these farnis is twenty seven acres but as some large ranches are included in this estijnate the figure given for the aver age The typical him of strong support among the mem bers of the church not even when he vigorously attacked the leaders for using the livery of heaven to serve the devil in as he once did in the heat of the campaign The firt Representative chosen to Congress C E Allen had been for years a powerful and uncom promising opponent of the church But he waselected with the aid or Mormon votesjfThe twelve apostles are divided uetw dlx06i 3- jtlie two great parties The which has come after forty far end of Prince George County on the introduction of a friend of mine and his who 3aid as he wasnt good for anything else perhaps he might be made handy in a store I took him just to be accommodating of course and promised to give him a chance to rise He was about 19 years old and wrote poetry between times so I put him to sweeping out as a starter He could sweep well enough and after a week I put him to doing the chores and ad vised him to study the stock while he was resting After about six weeks of this kind of training I concluded he knew enough to take charge of my scrap counter which was a counter where I put all niy old stuff about every sixty days with the most of it marked in big fig ures and with the additional informa tion to those looking for bargains that there would be 10 off for cash Trade was lively the morning I put him at it and he was doing as well if not better than the more experienced clerks for I noticed several people get ting around his way and getting out pretty quick with what they had bought I didnt think much about the whys and wherefores until the young fellow came to me at the desk with a suit of clothes in his hands to ask me to explain something The suit bore a large white card inscribed with a big black S I dont quite understand this says he The others I sold were marked 1075 1150 119S 12 and 124S and it was easy enough to calculate what 10 off would be and sell them for 75 cents 150 19S 2 and 24S but Ill be doggoned if I see how youre go ing to throw 10 off of an S suit un less you want to give the customer 2 and I reckon you aint that liberal even at the scrap counter are you It mighty near gave me a spasm that did concluded the gentleman and I put another clerk at my discount coun ter p d q Present Decision If instead of being influenced by a hazy and undefined feeling -we bring clear thought to bear upon it we shall find that the only supreme and final test of conduct must ever be the convic tions which we hold at the time Not whether any other person or the whole world approve or disapprove nor even whether we may or may not con tinue in future years to maintain them ourselves must be our question but whether at the present moment we be lieve in our inmost heart that such a course is the true and right one to pur sue If this be not our guide if any other voice opposing that of conscience be obeyed then we act in defiance of our own moral sense which is plainly the snapping of character A Con gressni Jins Horseshoes Congressman Russell of Connecti cut has something like a bushel of horseshoes which he has picked up Six or eight fine specimens ornament or disfigure his apartments at the Ham ilton in Washington and the remainder of the bushel except a few are stored in an old box at his home in Killingly The few which are especially reserved from the collection in the box are hanging on the port waist oar which Russell used to pull a winning stroke with in the old six oared crew of Yale College in 73 Lives on Insects There is a quaint plant which grows in pea bogs It has large flowers wit an odd umbrella like shield in the cor ner The leaves are generally abou half full of rain water in which man3 insects are drowned Some naturalist say that the flower lives on the drownec insects Uncrowned Rulers There are many reigning sovereigns at the present time who have nevei taken the trouble to be crowned Among them may be mentioned the German Emperor the King of Italy the King of Spain the Queen of Hol land the King of Bavaria the King ol Saxony We do not admire everything Cupid does but there is no denying his good taste and sense in dressing -- -ii x - - - Come Nancy old horse and keep movinj I want to get home to my tea iouve been loann a little improvin the chance of my dreamin I see Twas the cold and the moonlight 3 fancy And tin- snow on the pine and the birch But theyve sent me back forty year Nancy To the sociable down to the church I remember so plain when I ast her If I might see her home and shi said les Caleb By Jinks if Id daster Id a 5 artinIy stood on my head And when we walked out there together Right by my old rival Ike March My heart was as light as a feather At the sociable down to the church Twas i night of the Lords own design-in- Too good for us mortals below All still ivith the moonlight a shinin And the world fast asleep in iw snow And she well God bless her sh fitted The scene like an angel whose nerch Up in heaven had somehow been ipiitted For a sociable down to the church v Ah hum I dunno how I said it But somehow I told her you see What would seem might v Hat if you reat it But meant all creation to me And theres more in that simple oid story- Than in ages of study and search For my lifes been lit up by the glory From the sociable down to the church Well Nance Ive been settm here dreamin And our journey is pretty nigh through Theres her lamp in the window a-beam-in- She knows how I watch for it too The chief of Gods blessins Im Is that I wasnt left in the lurch When I ast her to marry me comiu From the sociable down to the church L A W Bulletin Cubans The Cubans like the inhabitants off all the Spanish American States are a mixed race being the descendants off the Spanish invaders of the Indian aborigines with an occasional cross of negro blood The Spanish soldiers who conquered the new world in most cases married Indian women and the de scendants of the adventurers who ac companied Cortez Pizarro De Sotov Almagro Balboa and others inherited the estates of their fathers so that the ruling class in Spanish America is al most without exception of mixed blood In Cuba the proportion of Spaniards and descendants of Spaniards is prob ably larger than in any can country of the continent for only was the native population of Cuba almost entirely exterminated by the savage conquerors but when tb rev olutions of 1S20 broke out many -Spaniards fled from Mexico Central an South America to Cuba and thus the Spanish element acquired a prepon derance in that island which suiiicecc to retain it after the continental posses sions had all been lost The insurgenc bands in Cuba are said to be generally composed of the mixed Indian an2 Spanish races with a considvrablo nroportion of negroes and mulattoes National Wagon Jload The national road from Sr Loins to Indianapolis was part of one or the great systems of roads which befor the days of the iron horse were pro jected by the national government to connect the East and the West Ono such road was planned to cross the AI leghenies traverse the Western States connecting Cincinnati and St Louis by means of branch roads with all si do points of importance while other sys tems connecting Nov York with - delphia Washington and the South Considerable progress was made or these roads before the invention of the railroad but after the tramway systems was found to be practicable work ora the national roads was almost aban doned and these highways were as a matter of fact turned over to the Stat and county authorities through which they passed In some cases the na tional roads were maintained in goot repair in others the changes in the centers of population have also effect ed a change in the highways and the national roads were abandoned for niore convenient routes Fruit in Hot Weather It is a popular fallacy that the free Use of fruit in summer is the cause or bowel disturbances while as a mat ter of fact no diet can be more health ful at this time than one composed of fruit and farinaceous foods with per fectly pure milk Flesh of ail kinds decomposes with great rapidity both before and after eating and summer heats greatly accelerate this process Hence flesh food frequently causes grave derangement of the bowels as the poison produced by this decompo sition acts powerfully as an emetic and- purgative All meats are so lu atingr that they should be used sparingly dur ing hot weather and there is the added argument that the whole system craves a change from the winters diet A Bloodless Battle In 151S a battle was fought near Mi lan in Italy and so perfect was the armor of both armies that although the conflict raged from 9 a m to 4 p m no one on either side was either killed or wounded though one man broke his collarbone by falling off his horse A water spout A temperance ora tion I i U