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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1897)
Vlu fzlmtine nocmt ROBERT GOOD Edltorand Prop VALENTINE NEBRASKA The farmer who reads is the farmer who is ready for emergencies Unlike a watch when a beneficiary association is wound up it doesnt go any more It is now Montanas turn to make great gold discoveries Let the aurif erous work go on Meeting trouble half way has not the same polite principle to justify it as bowing to necessity A minor eleven is called a scrub team perhaps from the principal players using it In practice to wipe up the earth In this selfish fight for territory in Africa none of the nations engaged should properly get more than its deserts The Emperor of China would proba bly be thankful if somebody would es tablish a Monroe doctrine in the east coast of Asia Others selecting the best man for a public place is entirely different from political bosses trying to get the best of their fellow citizens Dawson City is starving Theyre plenty of money there and its believed a first class Food Show would be the biggest kind of a success The Prince of Wales is said to be a patron of department stores Thai Prince doubtless knows a good thing at a bargain counter when he sees it just like other folks A Georgia editor wants to run for the National Legislature on a platform ad vocating lynching Such a man might be credulous enough to expect to win In a rope walk But for the recommendation of Sec retary Alger that a suitable statue to Gen Grant be erected in Washington few people would have dreamed that the capital did not possess one Average office seekers cant under stand how a sculptor can be with the President for an hour at a time making a bust of him and not ask for anything but a little more elevation to the chin A husband in Pennsylvania shot off his wifes nose in order to make her unattractive to her admirers She should reciprocate by shooting a bullet through his head to make him more sensible A contemporary gives to a corre spondent what is alleged to be the postage stamp flirtation language As a matter of fact the key to the lan guage should begin Putting a stamp on an envelope anywhere excepting on the upper right hand corner means I Jim a fool Thousands of persons admire foot ball for the athletic qualities it calls out for the manliness connected with St and for the many characteristics that go to make up young America They will rejoice if the rules can be so revised as to get rid of the present brutal features and thus save the game from being ruled out of the list of American sports A man once claimed that he was a Frenchman on the ground that he had an uncle who played the French horn Some persons claiming to be patriotic when questioned closely might have confess that because -to they are patriots cause a grandfather served in the rev olution or because a cousin sings The Star Spangled Banner effectively Patriotism is an individual thing Pat xiots by proxy do not count In the United States court at Paw 1 nee the other day four Pawnee chiefs were granted divorces from their wives on the ground of gross neglect Pipe Chief testified that his wife wanted to spend all his money on fine dresses and that she sought to Ignore all of the In dian customs The final straw was laid when she refused to attend the sun dances on the ground that she wouldnt associate with squaws who were dirty Just as soon as New Orleans had a scare over yellow fever and began to thoroughly clean up and enforce the sanitary laws the general health of the city improved until even the yellow fever failed to make an abnormal death rate It is a pity that reform work of this kind oftentimes must await the approach of a plague before either the authorities or the citizens are aroused to the necessity for spe clfic action xfcLfthe heels of the statement by a California physician that disease gernii are not only harmless but posi tively beneficial to mankind somes the announcement of a doctor in Sprlng fteld1 0 that he has discovered a com pound called zynioticene which is sure to microbes of every kind color and degree Thus there is no longer any excuse for Illness If you believe germs cause disease you can take a few doses of the new discovery If you believe they are healthful you can fill your system with them and be well 5 It is all a matter of taste We are accustomed to congratulate ourselves on the observance of law and order yet we are about the only coun try in which violence takes the place of law Lynching is American even Mex ico will not tolerate it It is confined -to ho section It may break ont to- night in seemly Massachusetts and make that excellent people cease to vaunt themselves as the outbreak in Indiana a few months ago Some of the atrocities practiced in lynching can be studied with profit by the frenzied Turk who may desire new methods of cruelty Mark Twains response to the story that he had made 82000 in the past two years and paid all his debts is brief and to the point as follows Lie Wrote no such letter Still deeply in debt The debts by which Mr Clem ens considers himself morally though not legally bound and which he de clares he will repay dollar for dollar are the residue of those of the publish ing firm of C K Webster Co in whose disastrous fortunes the humor ist was Involved Twains case is In short like Sir Walter Scotts and he is taking the same honorable course In theAnatter When labor Is spoken of It general ly means the union of skilled workmen in the cities and large towns But a farmhand Mr Keans of Topeka Kan calls attention in the Arena to the fact that 5000000 of wage earners nearly one half the total are pariahs among the laboring classes their ex istence ignored their name a byword In most localities he says they work harder get less pay and have fewer of the blessings of civilization than any other workmen They work bo hard that they have no time for rec reation or reading Evidently the la bor question concerns much more than the wages and conditions of skilled city workmen or of miners and rousta bouts When the Scotch missionaries fol lowed their great countrymans foot steps Into what is now known as Brit ish Central Africa they called their station Blantyre the name of the town in which Dr Livingstone was born The place now contains about six thousand natives and more than a hundred whites Of the natives a re cent Parliamentary report says tha If the natives do not love taxation they are at least beginning fully to understand the value of a tax receipt the possession of which frees them from the oppression of their chiefs They appreciate also having a silver currency because it enables them to accumulate their earnings an impos sibility in the old calico currency days and now many of the workers in the Blantyre district have stores of money hidden away or deposited in the bank The more intelligent and enterprising natives have even begun to buy blocks of government land of about one hun dred acres each for coffee cultiva tion One of the most hopeful signs of tne times in governmental affairs in Amer ica is the growing appreciation of post al facilities as shown in the continued and continual expansion of the system even more rapidly than business condi tions alone warrant The representa tives of the people are alert to see that the best possible postal facilities are given to their constituents and with the establishment of the postoffice comes closer connection and commun ion with the outside world by letters and newspapers and telegraph and consequently a more enlightened citi zenship The next step in the develop ment of the postal system will undoubt edly be in this country as it already has been in England and some others the establishment of postal telegraphs in connection with the postal organiza tion of the government Under our present system the telegraph unlike the postoffice is limited in its extension by purely practical business considera tions of profit and loss in management It is estimated that if the same system were to prevail as regards postoflices two thirds of the mail routes operated in the United States to day would have to be discontinued as only about one hird of them pay a profit Germanys industrial progress has been so much in evidence during the last twenty five years that its charac teristic mark Made in Germany is no longer a thorn in the flesh of John Bull only There are other peoples be sides the English that are ready to al low that the mother of nations is after all still a vigorous old woman Her goods are found in all the markets of the world and her ships on all the seas and now she has even the fastest and largest ocean liner on the Atlan tic But it is not only in great enter prises she is succeeding she does not neglect small things as thread and nee dle for Instance Within the past few years the needle industry in Germany has taken a remarkable develbpment Great Britain formerly supplied Ger many with needles but the fatherland at present is fully able to compete with Great Britain not only in foreign mar kets but in the British colonies also and even in Great Britain herself Of the chief centers of the industry AIx la Chapelle Burtscheld Iserlohn Schwalbach Altona and Nuremburg the Aix la Chapelle factories alone pro duce upward of fifty million needles a week Of the enormous exportations about 60 per cent go to China where German needles control the market next in importance are France and British India It looks now as though before a great while German sewing thread will successfully compete with Coats Clarke and Brown in the China market Two Grand Divisions Teacher How many divisions of mankind are there Bobby My paw says it is divided Into the people who earn a living without getting it and those who get a living -without earning it Cincinnati Enquirer Some people are just the same as Idiots because of ignorance AUSTRIAS THRONE TOTTERING Nothing but Emperor Francis Josephs Popularity Prevents Dissolution It seems as though the dual empire of Austria Hungary is on the eve of dissolution The scenes that have oc curred in the Reich stag in Vienna and Prague the capital of Bohemia point to no other end In the parliamentary body men were in sulted and assault ed and forced to draw knives in self defense The min istry was kicked badeni out of power and the premier Badeni forced to flee from the capital Through back streets and in a closed cab he was driven to the depot where he took a train for his native Galicia narrowly escaping from the crowd that had assembled to mur der him In Prague rioting was carried on and stores and private houses looted Men by the score were killed and hundreds wounded by the soldiery who were called out to quell the disturbances Occurrences such as these can have no place in a well ordered empire and no empire can endure long with one In Austria Hungary may be inferred from the fact that the German element sooner than submit to the domination of any other race would rather unite their destiny with Germany In their meetings called to protest against t order of Badeni resolutions to this effect were passed A BABY PREACHER Three-Year-Old Boy Who Is Conver Bant with the Bible Atlanta Ga boasts of a prodigy who is not yet 4 years old but who has the reputation of being more conversant with the Bible than any one else in Georgia The name of this youngster is Larney Lawrence Dennis and many are inclined to believe that he is gifted with supernatural powers He says he has been sent to this world to preach the true gospel The child lives with his parents and every day his home is visited by per sons to whom he preaches earnestlj and calls upon them to follow in the footsteps of Christ He is a light mulatto but his appearance is more like a white than a colored boy His hair is dark and flowing while his eyes are blue He does not play with toys like other children of his age nor has he any playmates Notwithstanding the fact that he has EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH OF AUSTRIA part of its citizens making war upon he other Hence the conclusion that he dual empire seems on the eve of dissolution The question of language lies at the bottom of the whole difficulty There ire some 40000000 people In the em pire and they speak twenty different anguages Theoretically the official anguage is German but each race speaks its own tongue and refuses to learn the language of any other Be tween these different peoples there is nothing in common There is no na tional feeling no patriotism no belief in the empire Each race struggles for the preservation of its own tongue and a bitter feeling against the Germans and Germanizing influences exists ev erywhere in the empire The Germans are a minority in Austria Hungary but they have had parliamentary control for years and their aim has been to still further Germanize the empire Some time since the premier Badeni issued an order permitting the use of the vernacular tongue in the different parts of the empire The Germans re sented this and in the Reichstag they adopted the most barbarous tactics to bring about the fall of the premier Personal assaults were made on mem bers and free fights were daily in dulged in Finally Badeni had to go The methods adopted by the Ger mans made the Slavonian and anti German influences flame into fury The Czechs of Bohemia who for hundreds of years have struggled to maintain their language and their racial charac teristics almost revolted In Prague they attacked Germans and Jews whoever indeed could not speak Czech sacked homes and openly faced the troops sent against them Although peace military peace now reigns in Prague the anti German feeling Is as bitter as ever and the same spirit of resistance to German aggression exists throughout the empire Nothing In deed save the personal popularity of the Emperor Francis Joseph prevents an open revolt It may not prevent It long Bohemia which has suffered under Germanizing influence until much that was distinctively Bohemian a now destroyed desires the -breaking up of the empire She wants to make t a triple empire holding a co ordinate place with Austria and Hungary Meantime the latter kingdom is slirewdly watching the developments Within a year her compact with Aus tria will expire and she will find herself in a position of almost complete inde pendence for the only connection will oe the fact that the Emperor of Aus tria will be the King of Hungary the latter country paying 30 per cent of the cost of the army and court ex penses How deep rooted is racial animosity yet to learn his A B Cs the youngster can engage in an Interesting conversa tion but it is his knowledge of the Bible that is the most marvelous of his accomplishments He appears to be equally well posted in the old and new Testaments The crucifixion burial and resurrection of Christ Christs last visit on earth the careers of the apos tles and their different types of char- A BABY PBEACHER acter he can explain in a remarkably simple and direct manner while other incidents of the Scripture which are not so well known to the average per son seem to be thoroughly familiar to him Cork Works Automatically A cork which is always in its plac in the neck of the bottle except when the bottle is in the very act of being decanted is shown herewith It is French invention and is designed to keep the bottle always covered and its saS BAIA2CED CORK contents always protected from the air The cork it will be see is balanced and when the bottle is standing upright it drops Into its place in the neck bat when the bottle is tilted the cork is lifted away to permit of the free flow of the contents H GOOD NAME AND A FORTUNE Came to Mrs Gregory Through a Will Contest in Chicago A bitterly contested will contest which was recently decided In Chicago formed the concluding chapter of a ro mance in real life Fifty years ago Allen Gregory was an ambitious poor man in the West He married and his wife maue existence a trial He left her and went to Chicago There he en gaged in the buying and selling of cat tle prospered and finally laid the foun dation of Chicagos great stock yards His wealth Increased rapidly and he was worth over a million when he died a few months ago Among the early cattle traders with whom Gregory came in contact when -he located in Chicago was Archibald Clybourne Gregory frequently visited at Clybournes house and met his daughter Martha a beautiful girl of Itf Gregory told her that he loved her MRS ALLEN GREGORY and she laughed at him Her father sent her to a boarding school and when she came back Gregory Importuned her to marry him He frankly admitted that he had another wife living and Martha told him that unless he secured a legal separation she could not marry him Then Gregory undertook to get a di vorce and for forty years kept one suit after another in the courts but could not secure a separation from the wo man who had made life bitter for him She had taken up her residence in Cayuga County New York but not on the ground of desertion or otherwise could he obtain a divorce Meanwhile Miss Clybourne waited patiently and faithfully rejecting a score of suitors The passing years changed her hair to silvery gray but never altered her de votion to the man to whom she had years ago made her promise In 1892 came news of the death of Mrs Gregory Gregory asked Miss Clybourne to come and live with him She was penniless and alone in the world She obeyed the dictates of love and went though there was no mar riage ceremon3r For five years they lived together This summer Gregory died leaving no will and nothing to show that Martha Clybourne was his wife But conscious of her right this woman Instituted proceedings to prove that she was the widow of Gregory His relatives fought her and for sev eral weeks the case was in court Finally Miss Lillie Gregory a niece of the dead millionaire testified that she herself had last Marcli performed the ceremony which made Martha Cly bourne the wife of Allen Gregory This ceremony was recognized as legal by Judge Kohlsaat and his decision award ed to Martha Clybourne the estate of 1000000 left by Gregory A MOUNTAIN RAILWAY Ct Was Invented to Make the Chilkoot Passable The most remarkable railway in the ivorld is the one designed by Mr Ne 30m an electrician for use in the Chil koot Pass and mountainous districts generally By its means the loftiest precipices can be skirted the steepest mountains scaled and avalanches and snowdrifts rendered powerless to im pede locomotion The track instead of being carried ver bridges or through tunnels is pro jected by stout girders from the very THE RAILWAY OVZR A PRECIPICE face of the mountains and from It the ar is suspended in midair The wheels on which the car runs and the motor which impels It are inside the track The rails are shaped like the letter D ihe vertical line being downwards and there is a groove with edges holding the motor in position and effectively shield ing it from ice and snow The power houses from which the electricity is applied are at Intervals of forty miles The cars which are controlled by com pound levers and hand ropes are nar rowed at each end in order to lessen resistance to the air The track if made of Iron will cost only 3500 a mile or half that amount If constructed of woodland r cost of carrying each passenger will be only one-twenty-fourth of a penny per mile or one eighteenth of the cost of con veying an ordinary railway passenger The cars are intended to carry from fifteen to twenty passengers each and a speed of 100 miles can easily be at- 1 talned A great future Is anticipated Cr for this ingenious method of traversing a mountainous country and of obvia ting inconvenient stoppages througb the blocking of the track by falls of snow and ice NAVIGATION IN A SEWER Supplies Carried to Workmen by Elec trically Propelled Boats Electric power has become quite as Important a factor In building opera- tions as the stationary steam engine It owes its popularity to the versatility of Its applications and the convenience of conveying power short distances particularly In inaccessible places An Instance of this Is found In thejulldinff of a sewer at Worcester Mass where electrically driven scows deliver the materials to the workmen electric lights supply the necessary illumina tion electric ventilating fans make work possible and electric pumps aid largely in rapid construction That city has a large sewer eighteen feet wide and thirteen feet high In which both storm water and sewage are car ried away but as it is desirable to sep arate the two a smaller sewer six feet wide is being built inside the larger one utilizing the bottom and one side of it for the walls A cofferdam is construct ed to enable the other wall to be built and In order to deliver the materials- to the workmen electric scows were rigged up which work to perfection About midway between the ends of the new sewer a small wharf has been con structed and the materials are deliv ered to it by an incline through a hole made in the top of one wall The in cline and sewers are lighted by Incan descent lamps all the power being sup plied by a near by electric lighting sta tion A double trolley system Is jised the wires being hung from insulated brackets in the arch in such a way that a trolley can be run on each two wires being necessary one for the return cir cuit The Improvised towboat Is a cata maran twenty seven feet long and five feet wide each of the small hulls being eighteen inches wide In the middle of the deck Is a small paddle wheel boxed Into prevent splashing and driv en through the Intermediary of NAVIGATION IX A SEWER et wheels and a chain by an electric motor At the stern are a rudder and a controller of ordinary form so that one man can manipulate both There are six of these boats and they have readi ly handled 12000 bricks fifty barrels of cement and 100 barrels of sand dany STEEL CASKS USED NOW Are Stronger Cleaner More Durable and in the End Cheaper than Wood A steel cask is being extensively ad vertised in England as a substitute for ordinary wooden barrels for shipping yiu petroleum medici nal extracts essen tial oils and chemi cals It is said that the Standard Oil Companys Ger man branch has ex tensively adopted this novel cask Plain terne coated STKrtl CASK aitvi aiicvLa itc em ployed in its construction these being first passed through a corrugating ma chine which forms parallel corruga tions from end to end and considerably stiffen and strengthen the cask wheni completed In order to obtain the nec essary curvature to the cask it is pass ed through a second machine which forms the bilge by taking the corruga tions of different dimensions in other words it opens out the corrugations in the middle and presses those at the top and bottom together A number of hydraulic presses are used to cut out the circular ends and to form in them at the same time a raised section which assists In stiffening the ends The parts are then put together the slde seam being closed by means of a specially made machine that prrfduces a perfectly secure joint but solder ls employed to render all portions quite tight The advantages claimed for this cask are great durability strength and exceptionally small repairs James Jiasmyth James Nasmyth of Edinburgh the inventor of the steam hammer wa man of extraordinary energy ana gen ius and being ambidextrous he was able to draw or sketch or handle a hammer or chisel with either hand The laboratory or workshop in hi3 own home he called Fireside Even though sitting in church when a new idea came across his brain he rose and walked off to his workshop and made a drawing or in order to preserve It In form he would either forge it In Jron or make a wooden pattern Is a Shattered Idol Barnes That settles It Dr Howsir can never prescribe for me again I used to think he knew something but my confidence in him has been com pletely destroyed Apsley Whats happened to change your opinion of him Barnes He has been giving expert testimony In a murder trial Cleveland Leader Here Is another thing against whisky i those who drink it are always looking for a better quality