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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1897)
I v V v aff7 ONE FALSE ISSUE REMOVED Many silver Kepublicans voted for McKinley because of the pledge in the platform in favor of international bi metallism These voters now see that tliis pledge was simply a dodge to fool the people None of the Kepublican leaders is de sirous of establishing bimetallism eith er through national or international ac tion All of those leaders knew that ii long as the settlement of internation al bimetallism rested in the hands of England the policy of gold monometal lism was safe and for this reason they inserted the plank referred to believ ing that it would catch votes and thus in reality make the gold monetary sys tem all the more secure The Kepublican press realizes that the international bimetallism dodge has been played for the last time It has served its purpose for a quarter of a century and is now completely worn out and discredited No longer will this bait be used to catch gudgeons not because there is any change in the ethics of the gold clique but because me leaders recognize that the trick has lost its attraction Now the fight is to be made squarely on the issue of gold and the people should hail this change of front as an omen of victory The sentiment in favor of bimetal lism is growing stronger every day in the United States But for bribery in timidation and false promises on the part of Kepublicans the people would have won in the last presidential cam paign Now that the issue has been made plain that falsehoods have been exposed that international bimetal lism has been shown in its true light the people will Hock to the support of that party which has their interests at heart and will by their united votes in 189S and WOO establish national bimetallism and thus restore the pros perity that was destroyed by the de monetization of silver Concerning Pensious Men who -went forth to battle for the TJnion and who received wounds in the cause of liberty- are deserving of recognition and compensation from this government There is none who desire to detract from the glory of the veteran nor are there any who wish to deprive him of such governmental as sistance as his deeds ox erve but the matter of pensions has attained such dimensions that it demands investiga tion On June 30 of the present year the number of pensioners was 9S3528 u Thus the United States is shown to yhVQ one of the largest of the standing armies of the world The million mark will soon be reached In order to learn how this item of expenditure has grown it is only necessary to glance at the following table lSGo 1SGS 75572110 18G9 1S72 119794122 3 S73 1S7G 1101114f4 1S77 18S0 14 o999327 1SS1 18S4 234840270 1SS5 1US 274S24r41 1SS9 1S92 453500038 1893 189G 581304073 Total 2001172S41 In 1S72 James A Garfield said in the House of Representatives I am the last man to say a word against voting pensions to all persons who deserve them But I wish to say to the House that more frauds are being perpetrat ed on the government by claim agents in different parts of the country than from almost any other single source The government has already expend ed in pensions nearly as much as the -entire national debt Five times as much money is paid out for this pur pose to day as was required in 1S72 If James A Garfield recognized the ex istence of fraud in the matter of pen sions twenty five years o when the -cost for the period 1SG9 to 1S72 to the United States was only 119794122 what must the condition of affairs be to day when the cost for the period 1S93 to 1S9G has mounted up to 5S1 204073 V Chicago Dispatch A Debt Creating Tariff The first fruits of the new tariff law -are decidedly discouraging for the revenue collected under it during Au gust fell behind the amount collected during the corresponding month last year by about 23 per cent This if continued will force the country to face a deficit by the time congress meets in December of something like 30000000 for the four months or at the rate of nearly 100000000 a year Ostensibly this Dingley measure was framed to provide first of all more rev enue for the government It was to Io much better in this respect than the Wilson tariff and the result is that Those who predicted that it would pro duce from 75000000 to 100000000 a year less are going to be proven ab solutely reliable prophets if this first months experience is any criterion of what is to follow Of course the expenses of the gov ernment are going on as before or are increasing While the total receipts by the treasury last month were only a little over 19000000 the outlay was close on to 34000000 so that there is an actual deficit of nearly 15000 O00 for this one month for the tax payers to ponder over New York News Sreeinjr a Disagreeable Truth Republican papers are commencing to admit that the Dingley tariff will be inadequate as a revenue measure It is difficult to escape this conclusion - with the fact staring in the face that customs receipts were much smallei and the treasury deficiency mucl larger for the first month of the Ding ley tariff than for any month of the Wilson tariff or the Cleveland adminis tration Some of these Republican pa pers are already proposing that should the deficiency prove as large as indi cated the Dingley tariff will be amend ed So the probabilities are strong for another season of tariff tinkering- Pittsburg Post Slaves in tlie Coal Fields According to the story of Mayor Alt miller of Hazelton avIio is presumably a patriot and a friend to law and or der since he is an ex union soldier the savagery of the corporation hired dep uties at Lattimer was a fit complement to the greed of their employers Heads of families among the striking miners have been receiving JO cents a nay for their labor when they were so fortunate as to get work Steady em ployment then meant 420 a week With this 420 the men must provide food fuel clothing and shelter for wives children and other dependents All purchases of supplies must be made at company stores This is not mandatory under the statutes of Penn sylvania but it is an unwritten law of the companies that no miner dare dis obey It is a law that confirms the servitude of low wages From the fact that meat sells at 4 cents a pound above the market price in the stores the prices of other articles may be judged There are no cheap coats to make cheap men in that locality No the coats and everything else but the men are protected there There is a new and high tariff on coal on household goods on everything that the miners buy but there is no tariff on the miner nor is he to have any benefit from the tariff on coal With his pitiable wage he must go on getting into debt at the stores and sinking him self deeper in slavery That is the moral of recent American If isnujon The Coming Era of Thrift It is true that the farmer seldom is a raiser and that he spends freely when he has the money But he is not go ing to be such a free spender this year as he has been in the past Adversity has taught him the valuable lesson of frugality He is going to buy sparing ly this year While this new spirit of economy and frugality on the part of the farmers may disappoint the more sanguine merchants for awhile in the end the effect will be a betterment of all the business interests of the coun try It will lead to an era of thrift and accumulation of which we have stood in sore need ever since the industrial changes wrought by the civil war ren dered a readjustment of conditions and relations necessary St Louis Repub lic Enough Revenuet Too Much Expense From 1SS4 to 1S90 the average July disbursement the heaviest monthly payments in the year was 34700000 in 1891 2 37000000 in 1893 5 it was 3S000000 in 1S90 42000000 in 1S97 50000000 This shows the real basis of the deficit It is the one which ought to receive the greatest share of attention Expense is the trouble not revenue Milwaukee Journal Brief Comment If you are an employer have you taken any steps to pass along the pros perity tnat is coming to you now In other words have you raised wages And if not when will you go about it St Louis Star Oddly enough the man of unsavory reputation whom the President has ap pointed naval officer of the customs at New Orleans turns out to have been one of MeKiuleys supporters in the St Louis convention Detroit Free Press Our best foreign policy is to have no foreign policy We want no colonies can have no colonies without giving the lie to the doctrines of our declara tion of independence Inalienable rights inhere in others as well as in ourselves Terre Haute Gazette Senator Thurston of Nebraska says that the Senate is no place for a poor man The Senator must have been avoided during the formulation of the new tariff by the sugar trust For some kind of Senators the Senate is a richer field than the Klondike In dianapolis Sentinel The farmer is getting a good price for his wheat but he is not getting what he would have got had it not been for the Dingley law for the rea son that the dollar which he is getting for his wheat now will not buy so much of what he is compelled to pur chase as it would had we freer trade Peoria Herald The Republican party is the party now organized which takes the patern alistic side of all questions It is the party which favors the centralization of power in the national government It is the party which in all ways would extend the power of Congress recog nizing no limit but its will It legislates on everything going Milwaukee Jour nal It is now asserted in Wall street that the sugar trust is known to have a sur plus of 35000000 which will be dis tributed shortly This is given as the cause of the recent iuvestihents of the Rockefellers in sugar stock Possibly it may also help the Rockefellers to unload at advanced figures the sugar stock they have accumulated Indian apolis Sentinel ADMITTED HE WAS DEAD BROKE Honesty Was Found to Be Best Policy -with a Car Conductor Dead broke is not an accurate term It is relative A millionaire considers himself dead broke when he finds that he has only a V in his pocket Men Df less means think they are dead broke when they can find but a quarter or a half in their pockets But with the mass of people who havent very much even when at their best dead broke means that condition in which a man finds himself without a nickel in his pockets Pennies dont cut any ice Even three or four of them wont pay a car fare and when a man hasnt car fare the walk to Cumminsville at mid night seems long awfully long Thats wrhat ailed me the other night said a resident of that suburb I didnt have a nickel to my name not a nick And you bet it was warm So I tried to work the conductor When he struck me I felt in my pockets first one then the other and then looked dazed T had a nickel I said but blame me if I know where it is Too thin old man said the heart less man in blue Youll have to walk a little just for a change as you havent got it Think of a man getting off a joke like that I walked but not far Tried an other conductor with the same racket Didnt wTork He was heartless also I knew Id get home if the cars kept coming but the last car would be due soon Then I thought of the old motto Honesty is the best policy Il try it on I got on the car and held up my head When the man with the badge came along I said Tm dead broke old man Let me take a sneak home will you Walking is awful hot a night like this That worked like a charm He was the best conductor I ever saw He knew I was telling the truth The others thought I was lying and I was but not in the way they thought All he said was All rght old fellow Dont give me away though Not on your life I said Then I curled up and slept the sleep of the just and the righteous Hereafter Im going to tell the truth cost what it may Cincinnati Commercial Trib une A Desk with a History If the thousands who have occasion to sit in the Presidents reception room waiting their turns for audiences only knew it they might make the time seeni less monotonous by contemplat ing the chief articles of furniture Many of these visitors are anxious to go to foreign parts The massive desk which occupies the center of the room has traveled further than any of the can didates will It has circumnavigated the globe by a route which no human being has followed The President sits behind it and writes his message to Congress He may use plain words about Great Britains occasional lapses of comity and of good faith He may lay down views upon the Monroe doc trine which will cause British states men to grumble He will never write upon that desk a declaration of war against the other great Anglo Saxon nation If he should contemplate such a thing the desk would creak and rock like a wooden ship in a grinding ice pack With its massiveness and wealth of carving the desk gives no indication of its historical origin Schoolboys knoAV that Sir John Franklin went to discover the north pole and never came back The good ship Resolute drifted and drifted in the Arctic ocean cur rents spared from destruction in some mysterious manner until she reached the waters of the adventurous Ameri can whalers off the shores of Alaska She was boarded and claimed by those who found her When the Resolute reached San Francisco the United States bought her repaired and refitted her manned her with an American crew and sent her to England with international compliments Twenty years ago the old ship was broken up From the soundest of the timbers was made a handsome desk by direction of the queen to be picsented to then Pres ident of the United States That is the desk which stands in the reception room at the White House and upon which the state papers of six adminis trations have been written Few of the Presidents visitors know it New York Mail and Express Blanket Men A lady lately of Topeka has writ ten from her new home in El Red CaL to a friend There is a class of men here called Blanket Men who go around the coun try in herds each carrying his load of blankets sleeping anywhere They beg from house to house something to eat They work a few days then sit in front of a saloon until their money is gone On Sunday they go to a stream and wash their old clothes I never thought there was any good in the Coxey move ment till a number of these fellows left the State with him They say that Cali fornia is the only State where they can live in that way We ask them some times how they can forget their homes in the East and live like animals Oh Its the climate they say Hundreds of these men wander from one part of the -State to another They beg for bread and work for whisky Doinc Well Yes said Mr Corntossel proudly my boy Josiar is doin fine He was the best in his class at college Did he tell you which class in quired the summer boarder Yes Twas what they call the middle-weight class Washington Star Somehow a man or woman who has been divorced always reminds us of a hired girl who has been discharged without references FOE LITTLE FOLKS A COLUMN OF PARTICULAR IN TEREST TO THEM Something that Will Interest the Ju venile Members of Every Household Quaint Actions and Bright Sayings of Many Cute and Cunning Children Chimes of Normandy Do you want to hear the chimes of Normandy If you do all you need is a heavy silver spoon and a piece of string Tie the string at its center around the handle of the spoon leaving the ends three or four feet long Now wind the ends around your two forefin gers near the first joint and then thrust your fingers in your ears Bend over and allow the tablespoon to knock against the wall or the door or a chair and you will be surprised at the really beautiful imitation of church chimes which you will hear Smallest Dogs in the World Over in Japan where the people are fond of everything in miniature the smallest breed of dogs in the world has its home They belong to the family of spaniels and are black and white or yellow and white in color and the smaller they are the more money they will bring A pup of 1 year weighing five pounds is worth 200 If the breed er te fortunate enough to raise a span iel weighing only three pounds or less he can get almost any price he wants for it Sales have been made to the sum of 500 One of these queer little dogs can easily lie on a mans hand or find a comfortable nook for sleeping in a bootleg They are very delicate and tender and they have to be wratched and cared for like a baby If given proper attention they will sometimes live to the age of 10 years How the Enrth Is Held A pretty experiment conducted by very simple methods will show how this terrestrial globe is kept in its posi tion in space Secure two magnets of equal poAver placing them an inch or A SllIPTE EXPERIMENT two apart Then make a small ball of paper or other light material fasten ing on opposite sides bits of steel or similar meal Place the ball between the magnets where it will assume of its own accord a fixed position held only by the attraction of the magnets which act on it as do the surrounding planets of the earth Pollys Mirrors Every Saturday Polly has to scour he spoons That is all that mamma askes her to do and it does not take much time but Polly has always dread ed it so long beforehand and grumbled so while she rubbed them that it seem ed like very hard work indeed Every week it was the same old story and vou would think that the little girl was asked to clean the family plate in some old mansion But last Saturday mamma heard her laughing all by herself in the kitchen jmd asked what she was doing Making mirrors mamma shouted Polly gleefully So mamma came to see Polly was rubbing away on a spoon and when it grew quite bright and shiny sure enough there was a little mirror in the boAAl of the spoon and such a funny Polly reflected there with very fat cheeks and very small eyes and no hair When she moved her head her cheeks grew thin and her eyes as large and round as an owls How Polly did laugh Then she scoured another spoon and soon there was another tiny looking glass and another queer little Polly as funny as the first When she had twelve of these droll little mirrors her work was done and she was surprised to find that it was only play after all An Ostrich and a Hot Potato For odd appetites the goat and the ostrich stand supreme with the ostrich just a step ahead And yet an ostrich finds trouble in swallowing a hot po tato A South African writer tells an amusing story of greed and how it was punished He says These ostriches were a source of end less trouble to us They grew rapidly and developed great kicking powers until they became sometimes positively dangerous the dogs and the Kaffirs coming in for most of their attentions Their appetite was insatiable We used to make large quantities of biltong or sun dried meat and there were usually dozens of strips of it hanging on rheims slung from wagon to wagon and these were always objects of attention on the part of the ostriches It was most amusing to see one trying to swallow a strip a yard long and two inches thick just as a chicken struggles with a worm that is a little too big for it Once we had to drag a huge strip out of one of the birds throats to save it from hoking But it was the culinary depxi tment that interested them most They would always attack the Kaffirs bringing the Viands from the kitchen to the tent and sometimes were so pertinacious that the boy would get frightened and throw tht dish away and bolt and we would lose the best part of our dinner They would even come into the tent and snatch things off the table and we would take it out of them by smother ing a dainty morsel with salt and cayenne pepper but after awhile they soemed to flourish on it One -lay however -e got the laugh on our side Dinner was preparing and one of the birds was investigating the pots around the fire A great not of huge potatoes took his fancy and he in continently seized and swallowed a red hot tuber as big as a large pomegran ate He danced he jumped he kicked he twisted his neck about almost into knots he flapped his wings and Avag gled his tail he ran amuck knocking things down and banging himself up against the Avagons and stone Avails and at last tore aAvay into the veld at twenty miles an hour until he was out of sight and did not appear again for a couple of hours Every morning soon after sunrise these birds would indulge in a dance They would rush aAvay into the veld for about a mile and then suddenly stop and commence waltzing round and round in the most ridiculous fashion often till they dropped I never could understand the meaning of this per formance It might be mere gambol ing but if so it must be nearly the only case of young birds playing as so many young animals do Spiders as Weather Prophets One of the best of weather prophets is the spider If there happens to be a web in the secluded corner of the porch watch it carefully for a few days or weeks and the spider will unfailingly predict the coming of storms When a high wind or a heavy rain threatens the spider may be seen tak ing in sail with great energy that is shortening the rope filaments that sus tain the web structure If the storm is to be unusually severe or of long dura tion the ropes are strengthened as well as shortened the better to resist the on set of the elements Not until pleasant weather is again close at hand will the rope be lengthened as before On the contrary when you see the spider run ning out the slender filaments it is certain that calm fine weather has set in Avhose duration may be measured by their elongation Every twenty four hours the spider makes some alteration in its AAeb to suit the Aveather If these changes are made toward evening just before sun set a fine clear night may be safely counted upon When the spider sits quiet and dull in the middle of its web rain is not far off If it be active how ever and continues so during a shower then it will be of brief duration and sunshine will follow These various in dications may be witnessed and stu died to the best advantage in the open air But you need not always go out doors to AAatch the spider barometer There are feAV houses where the crafty creature does not find an obscure cor ner Avherein to swing its signboard Flies taken in and done for here Watch these places and when you see the spiders coming out on the walla more freely than usual you may be sure that rain is near The Sequence Car Freight car numbered 12345 of the New York Ncaa Haven and Hartford Railroad passed through Darlington Pawtucket one day last week on the branch railroad What that car con tained where it was from or where It was going is of no consequence The number of the car 12345 is all that Is of special interest This number on freight cars is the fortunate number to find A feAV years ago and perhaps until to day commer cial travelers and whoeAer else Avas traA eling much or was much about the railroad were all the time looking for this magic number in the belief that to see it was a good omen and wonder ful AAere the stories told of the good fortune which fell to those who were so happy as to see it It is a simple matter and yet it is not often a car with this number comes into view It is A ery likely that had any ofaer par ticular number been chosen it Avould haAe been as difficult to find it A gentleman who saw this car last week had been looking for it continu ally for more than half a score of years and during that time had traveled thousands of miles but his eye had never been blessed with a sight of it until Tuesday He is not so supersti tious as to fancy that his fortune is to change because he has seen the cai with this number but his curiosity is gratified after so long a search Provi dence Journal A Famous Pistol Capt Wm P Hogarty of Kansas City Kan has in his possession an old dueling pistol which was originally owned by Josef Maria Graf von Dann who was commander-in-chief of the Austrian army during the Seven Years War and one of Austrias greatest heroes The pistol is In an excellent state of preservation although it has been little used since its owner m 1757 drove Frederick the Great from Prague and forced him to evacuate Bo hemia Josef had two of these pistols and after his death one passed to each branch of his family William Theodore Maria von Dann a grandson who was banished from Austria In 1848 brought one of them to America and before his death at a few years ago he gave it to Capt Hogarty 1 is in laid with gold and silver and rtistic ally carved Capt Hogarty prizes It very highly He is himself something of a military hero having been decor ated by Congress for his distinguished bravery in the battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg hence it is a pleasure to him to OAVn a pistol which was carried by such a great military character as Josef Maria Graf von Dann Kansas City Star Dear Old Boston Arain Visitor I hear there is sickness next door Is it contagious Phillips Oh not at all madam merely contiguous Truth it must often impress a father that loe will work miracles in a girls ex travagant tastes if it is love for a young man instead of love for her father EDUCATI0NALC0LTJMK NOTES ABOUT SCHOOLS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT Some First Day Hints for the Od ssrvinz and Progressive Tcnchex Keep the Blackboards Always Clean Educational Notes Ietrninc Time The first day The tide in the affairs of the teacher Avhich taken at the flood leads on not to fortune unfortu nately but to success in the Avork of the school room You look out over your little republic our school rooms are too thoroughly republican in tone to be called kingdoms any longer and no matter how much you may be scared by the prospect of unlimited mischief you dont let the children see it On the contrary you smile pleas antly talk easily in a quiet linn voice and direct their activities by getting tnem to work as quickly as possible Then you are at liberty to put the schedule of classes on the board ami attend to the multitude of duties that claim your attention at this opening session If this is not your first year of teach ing you have learned by experience not to talk too much Those acute lit tle readers of human nature your pupils will find out soon enough and they will stand more in awe of you if you do not attempt to tell them all you knoAV the first day You also knoAV better iioav than to read to these fu ture American citizens a set of cast iron rules which upon hearing they will straightway feel impelled to break You will not say to the first offender against hnv and order if you do not keep still I Avill keep you in a half hour to night for experience or good peda gogical training has taught you that this to the pupil is equal to a dare that it takes away the element of threatening uncertainty as to his fate and you will soon be furnished witn occasion to make your threat good If you are one of those wise teachers who allow the children to help them in the minor details of their work you will do away with the nuisance of granting or refusing permission to many daily applicants by appointing each week an aid committee That sounds fine and the little ds can be Arery pleasantly trained to make themselves useful Each member of the committee Avill have his or her special work to do such as cleaning black boards collecting number Avork or written exercises distributing copy books and pens or any of the other things the children can do tor the teacher and do them easily and well if they are tactfully directed And first last and always even to the last day of tn term you will be kind but firm If you make it clearly under stood by your even unfailingly just discipline that you insist upon good behavior and good work your pupils Avill see the justice of your course anI respect and obey and work for you- Educational News Cenn Blackboards The question came up the other uay as to whether the blackboards should be kept clean except when used in recitation It was a question so short and direct and apparently so simple that it seemed best to settle it by vote Strange to say the vote Avas a tie and it was remarkable that the teachers of the most experience voted in favor of the unclean blackboards When Miss Smith the neatest old maid that ever wore out her precious loving life in a schoolroom AAas asked Avhy she sim ply said Because it saves me a great deal of hard work I have two grades in my room and when the first grade has a hard lesson and a good part of it is on the board I always leae it there just as long as I can The more the lesson is talked about in that re--citation the more interest is aAvakened in the class and Avhat is of equal im portance the other grade pupils Avatch and listen and it often happens that the dull ones in the lower grade when they come to the same topic Avill be found almost to have mastered it So I let my blackboards wrestle with iny pupils just as often as I can At this point Miss Brown the Latin teacher in the high school said that she has tested satisfactorily the same thing Last year my Latin beginners recited in the larger room I had placed on the board one day Hie haec hoc and said that the class Avould find trouble in learning it and Id leave it there so they could see it from time to time This year Avhen my begin ners received the same pronotm I found that many of them had learnetL the declension of the word already and a little questioning brought out the fact just for fun they had learned it last year when the word had been put on the board and left there Colorada School Journal Notes There is a movement in Texas to have Spanish taught in the public schools Dr Wm T Harris United States commissioner of education is urging agricultural communities to add to school work some study in the ele ments of agriculture It is rumored that some politicians of Chicago are trying to get control of the board of education for the purpose of removing both Col F W Parker from the principalship of the Chicago nor mal and Albert G Lane from the su perintendency of the Chicago schools Wellesley College is to make more than ever of her department of educa tion the coming year Arrangements have been made Avith John T Prince Ph D of the state board of education to take charge of the professional courses and his state wori wl ba arranged accordingly I
