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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1897)
J V f ft STORY OF THE SEA Tale Told by the Ioc of the Good Ship Trpaz Robert H Folger the oldest iractic ing lawyer in America has at his home In Mnssillon Ohio a treasure in the way of a ships log kept by his father Captain May hew Folger of the good ship Topaz While making his last cruise in the Pacific Captain Fol ger discovered the surviving mutineer of the ship Bounty and his colony on Pitcairn Island The entry in the log book is of extreme interest Captain Folger says Saturday Feb 1 1S08 at 2 a m saw Pitcairn Island bearing south Lay off and on till daylight At 6 a m put off with two boats to ex plore the land and look for seals On approaching the shore saw smoke on the land at which I was very much Mirprised as the island was said to be uninhabited I saw a boat paddling toward me with three men in her They hailed In the English language and asked who was the captain of the ship They offered me gifts of cocoa nuts and requested I would laud there being a white man on shore I went ashore and found an Englishman named Alexander Smith the only per son remaining out of nine that escap ed on board the ship Bounty Smith informed me that after putting Cap- Ifp w vlPy rokeut ir rorQEK rain Bligh in the long boat and sending her adrift Christian their chief pro ceeded with the ship to Otoheiti There all the mutineers chose to stop except Christian himself and seven others who took wives and also six men as servants and immediately proceeded to Pitcairn Island where they landed all the goods and chattels ran the Bounty on shore and broke her up This took place as near as he could recollect in the year 1700 soon after which one of their party ran mad and drowned himself another died of fe ver and after they had remained about four years in the island their men servants rose up and killed six of them leaving only Smith alive and he desperately wounded with a pistol ball in the neck However he and the widows of the deceased arose ani put all the servants to death whicli left him the only surviving man on the isl and with eight or nine women and several small children He immediate Sfpf lAYent to work tilling the ground so that it produces plenty for them all and he lives very comfortably as commander-in-chief of Pitcairn Island All the children of the deceased mutineers speak tolerable English Some of them are grown to the size of men and women and to do them justice I think them a very humane and hos pitiable people and whatever may have been the crimes or errors of Smith the mutineer in times back he is at present a worthy man and may be useful to navigators who traverse this immense ocean I tarried on shore with the friendly Smith and his truly good people till 4 p m and then left them and went on board the Topaz and made sail steering for Masafuera having received from the people on shore some hogs cocoauuts and plan tains Diamonds in an Extinct Volcano An interesting discovery from a geo logical point of view was recently made by an explorer in the mountains of Witzies Hoek Natal On the summit 5of an extinct volcano on the edge of a lake that occupies the crater sound ings revealed a layer of sand inclosing small diamonds It would be interest ing to know whether these diamonds -were there accidentally that is as the result of washing operations carried on by the natives or whether this dis covery corresponds to an actual mine of diamonds for the hills of Witzies Hoek are not situated in regions known to be diamond bearing On the last hypothesis the presence of precious stones in the crater of a volcano would xloubtless throw some lisrlit on the for- fmation of the Genie Civil gems in nature La Doctors and Patients A physician with a large practice sees strange sights some humorous some pitiful and some irritating Sir Benjamin W Richardson commenting on the fact that these singular sights lend to produce in the doctors mind the feeling All things are alike to all says he once surprised a bishop by saying that the writer of Ecciesi astes must have been a doctor Once a woman -who kept a fuel store brought her husband to Doctor Rich ardson in a little cart with his body covered with small coal under the idea that by this means she was keeping him warm Another woman to whom he prescribed an ether mixture there fore volatile first made it warm in order that it might be agreeable to take He was called in the early days of his London practice to visit a servant in a large house and overheard the mistress ask the housekeeper What sort of a man is he and how did he come Did he drive I think youll like him maam re plied the housekeeper but poor man he is only a walking doctor yet People made a distinction between the walking and the driving doctor in forjBcr days A physician with a large paying practice used to ride in a chariot which cost three hundred guineas Now people do not care if a doctor comes in a landau or a brougham or a cai provided he comes quickly The old physician was known by ev erybody as a doctor He wore a long broad tailed coat kneebreeches Hes sian boots a frilled shirt with ruffles at the wrists and a large white cravat of the finest lawn He carried a caaij with a perf orated box at the top which held camphor or some other smelling substance When he was called to a consultation he expected to find a table spread with wine glasses a de canter of brandy and a bottle of wine Oldest College Men Samuel Ward Chandler of Philadel phia and the class of 1S22 now nearly ninety four years of age is Harvards well preserved oldest he is the father of Francis W Chandler professor of architecture in the Massachusetts In stitute of Technology Dartmouths oldest living graduate is Mark Went worth Fletcher of Wayne HI class of 1S25 who is within a few months of being as old as Harvards oldest Emil ius Kitchell of Monticello Mo who is in feeble health in his eighty eighth year is Amhersts oldest he was in the class of 1S28 of which he is the sole survivor The oldest Will iams graduates of the same class of 1S28 are Joseph Lyman Partridge of Brooklyn ninety three years of age and Rev Ebenezer Harrison Stratton of Branchpoint N Y The oldest for Bowdoin College is Frederick Waite Burke of New York City ninety one years old of the class of 1824 Wesleyans oldest and indeed her very first graduate is Daniel H Chase whe lives at Middletown and now and then attends the morning chapel ser vice Mellen Fitch of West Newton and the class of 1S2G now ninety trwo yeai s of age heads the list for the University of Vermont Lawyer Al bert Ware Paine of Bangor Me at Waterville Me Dr Benjamin D Silli man of Brooklyn X Y holds the sen iority for Yale Boston Journal Played Marbles IjOtir Ago Dean Farrar thus describes Oliver Wendell Holmes when he made his last visit to England in 1SSG He was an old man and his diminutive figure per haps showed that he could never have had groat physical strength It is a fatiguing thing to go over the abbey and he undoubtedly felt tired and was glad to get back to my house for a cup of tea But he has recorded the intense pleasure the visit gave him and he told me that he thought those two hours in the great Temple of Silence and Recon ciliation were among the most inter esting he had ever spent He mentions also the curious fact that we are often more struck by little things than by great Amidst the imposing recollec tions of the ancient edifice he writes one impressed me in the inverse ratio of its importance The archdeacon pointed out the little holes on the stones of the cloister benches where the boys of the choir he should have said of the Monastic school used to play marbles before America was dis covered probably centuries before it may be It is a strangely impressive glimpse of a living past like the graffti of Pompeii The Pension Society of German Jour nalists reported at its recent meeting in Munich an increase in membership from 474 to 501 ninety seven of whom received support last year Pistols and Pestles The duelling pistol now occupies its proper place in the museum of the collector of relics of barbarism The pistol ought to have beside it the pestle that turned out pills like bullets to be shot like bullets at the target of the liver But the pestle is still in evidence and will be probably until everybody has tested the virtue of Ayers sugar coated pills They treat the liver as a friend not as an enemy Instead of driving it they coax it They are compounded on the theory that the liver does its vork thoroughly and faithfully under obstructing conditions and if the obstructions are removed the liver will do its daily duty When your liver wants help get the pill that will HW Ayers Cathartic Pills tfHH ill m jii IIID ill ill t 11 KJJ N v v i t I i f f - VI Bk 111 - At r m - -- 1IJ jm I PW4 I f VfcWjfc iJ A WWl v rzr - mmy aumu 0 t - Drajrcinir Newly Plowed Land When land is plowed for winter grain after midsummer it needs all the mois ture that the soil when plowed and a good deal more to make a good seed bed The turning of the furrow expos es a much larger surface to the air be sides making a hollow beneath whicli also helps to dry out the soil above it Early in spring when the land is cold this large exposure to the air which is then warmer than the soil may be ben eficial Even then we never wanted to let Hie furrow lie more than one or two days without putting in the harrow to break up the clods formed by the plow and which if they dried in that state could not be made into a good seed bed that season But in late sum mer if it is necessary to plow the rough furrow should be dragged over as quickly as possible It will press the furrow down causing weeds and stub ble to begin to rot The roller also is a help to this But it is better to run the smoothing harrow over the rolled sur face so as to roughen it The compact ness of the soil brings moisture to the surface and the roughened surface makes a mulch which prevents too rap id evaporation American Cultivator For Pickinir Gooseberries It is the habit of our American sorts of gooseberries to grow in a tangled mass of branches close to the ground t WWT GOOSEBERRY PICKTXO MADE EASY The result is most difficult picking and scratched hands The first picture shows a simple plan to obviate the diffi culty If one has many bushes this plan will prove especially advanta geous The stout wire ring is put under the low lying branches and hooked Then the three wires are hooked into it WIRE RIXG the wires drawn up and hooked over the stake that is stuck down in the middle of the bush One can then reach under the bushes very easily Ameri can Agriculturist Kuril Out the Stumps To get rid of stumps in a field the contrivance shown in the illustration is an advantage It is made of sheet 1 I S I y STUMP STOVE iron supplemented by two or three lengths of ordinary J inch stove pipe The lower part must be large enough to slip over the stumps A hole is dug between the roots or at one side partly under the stump large enough to build a fire After the fire is once fairly started the cylinder is slipped over the stump and the pieces of stove pipe are added The whole arrangement acts as a stove and the whole stump is burned out completely Orange Judd Farmer Dryinjr Wet Grain All who are used to handling either brick or tile know that when thorough 1 ly dry they will absorb a great amount of water without being saturated Ad vantage is taken of this fact by grain dealers and farmers who place dry bricks whicli are easiest to handle and least likely to break among damp grain to prevent it from heating It is sur prising what an effect this will have if a very few bricks are interspersed through the heap Each brick will ab sorb fully half a pint of water if it is dry to begin with Thi will dry out the surplus moisture out of a good many bushels of damp grain Tis might be iised in mowing away damp hay or grain in the bundle though in neither of these positions is there so much likelihood of injury as there is where threshed damp grain is closely confined in bins Gleaninjr After Grain Harvest It is a great mistake to let any stock except poultry glean after the grain harvest has been gathered The poach ing of the soil and injury to young clover caused by other stock running over the fields more than offsets what good the stock can gain by gathering the -wasted grain heads There are very few wasted heads in modem grain j rj jcytsi hi- f - if jw s w trr rrr I Tlfl harvesting except such as are bent down and cut off with too little straw to be gathered in the bundle If al lowed a free range the fowls will gath er most of the grain and they will pay best for it as grain so gathered al ways sets the hens to laying again Grain Cheaper than Hoy It is undoubtedly a serious loss to have so much of the hay crop injured by excessive rains as has been the case the present year Yet this may be in part made an advantage to farmers if it turns their attention to grain as a cheaper source of nutrition than even the best hay can be More than this if given with enough hay or straw or cornstalks to distend die stomach grain is better feed because more eas ily digested In the coarser fodder so much of the nutrition goes to sustain animal heat or the processes of diges tion that comparatively little is left to make flesh or milk or fats The knowl edge that some grain -with hay makes cheaper nutrition is not half so widely extended as it ought to be If it Avere there would be a better demand for grain and it would sell at better prices Shade for Cows The fact that with good pasture a cow is able to eat as much in a few minutes as she can digest in several hours is not properly appreciated by most farmers If it were they would at least provide shade trees in their pasture lot or better still have a cool darkened room Avhere after eating her fill the cow can lie and contentedly chew her cud secure from the attacks of flies It is the digestion of food rath er than eating it that fills the milk pail Yet we have known farmers who cut down shade trees in the pasture be cause as they expressed it the cows would lie in the shade all through the day only eating at night and morning when air is cooler and the grass is like ly to be moistened with dew Sorjrhum for the Silo While no kind of grain as feed can supersede corn in cheapness and value sorghum is a formidable rival to it for fodder especially when put up in the silo It stands drought better which is likely to make it popular in the arid portions of the AVest where corn often fails The sorghum has too tough a stalk to feed green but when cut and put in the silo there is enough fermen tation to soften the stalks so that they can be eaten The sweetness of the sorghum furnishes carbonaceous nutri ment iust as does the starch of corn grain and in even more palatable form Wherever cane sugar is made in the South the workmen wiio attend the grinding always grow fat from the sugar they ear Transplantinir Vegetables In setting out cabbage and celeiy the top should be shortened severely so as to lessen evaporation This will make a very vigorous growth beside prevent ing the setback which a withered leaf on a transplanted plant always gives Willi each transplanting there will come a large mass of roots so that aft er being twice transplanted the cab bage or other vegetable will grow with out any perceptible check If the weather is not suitable heel the plants in covering tops and all for two oi three days Then the roots will be ready to grow at once For Public Watering Troughs Pennsylvania has a law providing for the payment of 5 per annum out of the public read fund towards the Maintenance of watering troughs for teams and other animals at disitances of not less than five miles apart The object is a humane one but it requires running water to make it available for constant use Reclaiinine Wet Places The farmer who does his whole duty will reclaim the wet places on his farm by tilling lie will know also how to drain it and will have a map of the drain so he can locate it in after years if anything gets wrong The business farmer can locate a tile exactly in any part of the drain Farm Notes Good size is always an important item in a breeding ram Iiow the ground for wiieat and then apply a dressing of manure The best sheep are the most profit able under all circumstances An excess of food induces indigestion and is worse than a spare diet When prices for any kind of stock is low then is usually a good time to in vest There is no advantage in digging the late potatoes until the weather becomes cool A small flock of sheep well cared for will bring a better return than a large one neglected Too much of the stock goes to market in an unmarketable condition to make the most out of it It is a mistake to sow grass clover wheat or iycyin e fall without a thor ough preparapmtbf the soil Have the surface iii a fine tilth Better results can be secured with both clover and timothy if the condi tions are such that the seeding ian be done this month rather thar The most productive 3 Srtte larius eon easny ue nuuiiBftR muj So Royal Road Tudid the famous Greek mathema tician was asked one day by King Ptolemy whether there was not a shorter and easier way to the knowl edge of geometry than that which he had laid down in his tElements No indeed said he there is no royal road to geometry In the same spirit when Alexander the Great wanted to learn geometry by some easier and shorter method he was told by his teacher that he must here be content to travel the same road with others for the things of this nature are equally difficult to prince and people Manx II ntn or The Manx people are very plain spoken Hall Gaiue who is their ac knowledged historian tells a good story of agrumpyoldMethodistwoman inthe Isle of Man who could never be satis fied with her preachers One of them being about to leave called to say good by Well good by she said and God bless ye and may the Lord send a better man in your place Next day his successor came to see her Well I hope the Lord has sent a good man she said but theres none so good that comes as them that goes An Abominable Legacy A tendency to rheumatism Is undoubtedly uiierited Unlike many other leyieies it re mains in the family The most effectual means of checking this tendency or of re moving incipient rheumatism whether pre eistent in the blood or not is to resort to Ilostetters Stomach Hitters as soon as the premonitory twinges are felt Nullifying the influences of cold exposure and fatigue the Hitters not only fortine the system ugahibt their hurtful consequences but subjugates malaria liver and kidney complaint dyspep sia and nerve disquietude Paris and Her Obelisk If the obelisk in Central Park were to be treated as Paris proposed to treat her Cleopatras needle there would be a great outcry Paris is searching for sensations for her exposition of 1000 One of the propositions is to bore through the needle which stands in the Place do la Concorde send wires through the excavation and install an electric lislit on the summit The engi neering features of the proposal are striking for it will be necessary to dig under the hbaft and work upward from the bottom Try Allens Foot Ease A powder to be shaken into the shoes At this season your feet feel swollen and hot and get tired easily If you have smarting feet or tight shoes try Allens Foot Ease It cools the feet and makes walking easy Cures and prevents swollen ind sweating feet blisters and callous spots Relieves corns and bunions of all pain and gives rest and comfort Try it to day Sold by all druggists and shoe stores for 2uc Trial package FREE Address Allen S Olmsted Le Roy N Y A High Compliment No more elegant compliment was ever paid to a preacher than that of King Louis XIY of France to Jean Batiste Masillon bishop of Clermont Said he I have heard many great preachers and the effect they produced on me was that I felt thoroughly sat isfied with them Every time I heard you I have been dissatisfied with my self Halls Catarrh Cure Is a constitutional cure Price 75 cents London Bobbies The London policeman goes on the force at a salary cf 5J per week with the assurance of a raise to S at the end of eight years service He has in addition his uniform boots coal money and some -other extras as well as the promise of superannuation pay at the end of 2t5 years service Dandiuft is an exudation from the pores of the skin that spieads ami dries form ing scurf and causing the hair to fall out Halls Hair Ilenewer cures it IJast of Napoleons Soldiers The last French survivor of Waterloo was banqueted last mouth at his home in France His name is Baillot and his age is 104 He was 22 at the time of the battle and though many of the French troops were younger than him self he alone is left of Napoleons host of G1000 Pisos Cure for Consumption has saved ine large doctor bills C L Baker 4228 Regent Sq Philadelphia Pa Dec S 9 A Computation But my dear if you discharge the girl without 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