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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1897)
IH w W - n i t SUCCESS I built ft palace by a troubled sea Broad walls of spotless white and tur rets tall Great colonnades the towers of mine own strength 1 did not dream- my palace fair could fall But at the open gate an angel knelt And sorrow that I knew not of be wailed Come friend I cried rejoice in my success I weep was the reply that thou hast failed Alien moriths had come and gone I saw the walls Of my poor palace blackened by the flame Its mighty towers in ruins at my feet My head was bowed in sorrow and in shame And at its fchatfcrcd gate I knelt and -wept My angel friend now stooped a palm to press Upon my brow She bade me look above Rejoice she cried in this thy first success Pittsburg Dispatch 1EHE WAIF 0 HEAET 1 M 3fciv isas kA 1 Foleys gone HBO UGH the sighing boughs of cypress forest there caine drift ing the hum as of a million bees set In rhythmic tone and tune It was the great saw at Foleys mill flash- m mg its merciless disc of steel through the green sweet heart of the cypress logs Foley himself sat on a low bench his swart throat bare his head leaned against a tree watching through a narrow rift in his lids the swift mechanical movements of the men at the saw and the shingle pile The girl who came up noiselessly be hind him thrust her small fingers over his forehead and opened the lids of his yes Wake up Dave and take me out in the boat for a ride in the shade The house is hotter than a furnace How did you get here said Foley indolently I walked across the logs I wish you wouldnt do that Lize eaid Foley with a frown Some day youll get on a loose one and go under and the logs will hold you fast Im sure footed as a kildie laughed Lize thrusting out a coquettish slip pered foot Come on Dave Oh its too warm for such exercise Ask Langham to go with you Yonder he comes Foley looked up in time to see the curious sidewlse glance from the girls eye What did you look at me like that for Lize he said suddenly Like what she said Without waiting for an answer she tripped to meet Laugham Dave is lazy and contrary she said pouting her pretty lips He says wont you take me down the river for a boat ride Langham lifted his hat to her nis dark eyes glanced from Foley to the girl with a cynical light that melted in to something tender as it rested upon Xiizes primrose face With pleasure Mrs Foley Good afternoon to you both Foley did you ever feel such a heat in the forest Not often said Foley shifting his straw hat over his eyes to shut out the glare Therell be a storm a regular scorcher in a day or two No sign of it now said Lize glancing at the yellow sky Her eyes in shadow were a golden brown When the light flashed into them they were like pools of leep sea water Where is the boat queried Lang ham Foley nodded sleepily toward the landing a platform of cypress logs Down there he said Lize will show you Through motionless lids he watched them as they rowed away His wife blew him a kiss from the tips of her dainty fingers Far down the blue lake her white dress gleamed like a darting heron under the arched and weeping boughs The sun had dropped behind the bluffs of the Mississippi ere the mill jshut down for the night and the men crossed the floating bridge to the other side where the frail dox houses con stituted the camp Two hands lingering to light their pipes were gossiping noisily I guess tt Didnt wait for Lize Foleys a fool Ketch me sendin my wife out for boat rides with a fel low like that Langham City folks dont often hunt out solitary places like this less theres a hotter climate be hind em Did you see him how he looked at her Soft on her hey No softern she is on him said the other shrugging his shoulders They passed on oblivious of Foleys white face staring at them from the engine xoom Had Lize been wise or observant she would have caught the ominous calm in Poleys voice as he laid his hand on her shoulder that night See here Lize Ive been thinking it dont look exactly right your going so often with that fellow Indeed said Lize her lips curling Gentleman is a better word than fel llow Mr Foley I dont know said Foley slowly Gentlemen dont fall in love with other mens wives Who said he was in love with me Her face grew suddenly white Foleys Oiand tightened its grasp Youd better be careful Lize Ill have my way in this I forbid you to go on the lake with Langham again You were the one who sent me Take your hand off it hurts I dont know whether Ill obey such a tyrant or not She fled into the little parlor and Foley heard the bolt slip in the door Two days of sultry weather burnt the ground in wide deep cracks along the hickory ridge Lize pouted and avoided Dave who watched her with eyes grown sullen and suspicious But the boat remained tied to its tree the rope swaying in the water undis turbed Langham whose vagrant fan cy had led him to fit up a rude hut on the south end of the lake did not come down to the camp Foley hoped he would stay away There was a feeling In the tips of Foleys fingers that could have found rest upon Langhams white throat The heavens had grown coppery with clouds that Saturday eve The billows rolled in thunderous mutterings and through the cypress trees and cane there came the sonorous breath of the storm The men had left the mill and Foley standing midway the unsteady bridge swept the heavens with hi huntsmans glass He lowered it to watch a snipe in combat with a fellow fowl A cry broke from his lips he looked through the glass with an eye keen with fury It was there that Langham far down the lake drew Lizes head upon his breast and their lips met in one passionate caress Foley went leaping to the shore like a madman On on up to lils house and into the tiny sitting room A pearl handled bit of steel lay upon the man tel he snatched it up and thrust it into his pocket the cold steel chilled his blood and the face of Lize looked at him from Its celluloid frame Foley fell upon his knees and threw the weap on from him Oh him my God my r God he cried The storm that had been brewing all the day at twilight fell with fury Langham in his cozy cabin heard the outside tempest as in a dream There was a tempest in his heart his brain and the touch of her lips linger ing in all its delicious thrill within his veins He knew it was a guilty love but in his soul he could not think of her but as a fair little Aprils lady never as Foleys wife He was a man of the world and knew what the world would say of him the dilettante stu dent of men and letters But the waif tossed to Foleys door by the flood df the great yellow river was the waif who had crept into Langhams heart And when the door flew open in a burst of rain and he sawr a drenched figure coming swiftly to him he only smiled and held out his arms She sank into them sobbing and shivering upon his breast Oh Geoffrey take me take me away from here Dave struck me he called me a fearful name He saw you kiss me and he will not forgive me any more Loo Langhams face blanched but be stroked her wet hair tenderly You are safe with me now Lize and my own he said His own but how She was yet Foleys wife I wish I had not gone with you she sobbed still clinging to him I am so cold Geoffrey Langham placed her in a chair and found a great shawl to wrap around her he knelt before her and began to chafe her hands The September rain was chill and her blue little face was quivering like a childs Not until he heard her cry did Lang ham look up to see Foley standing in the room his great arms folded upon his breast Langham sprang to the shelf where his pistol lay but Foley had a powerful hand upon his arm Not that If I had wanted to shoot you I would not have given you a chance for life Ive come to talk with you about Lize What are you going to do with her I gave her choice of you and me and she chose you Langhams face burned dull scarlet but Foleys eyes were like steady steel Shes been an honorable woman my wife I dont know how far your love making his gone but I want no woman that dont want me But I cant see her go to the devil Ill kill her first She was a baby in a basket cradle when the river floated her to my cabin door Shes been all the world to me ever since I havent been so soft spoken or so loving but I gave her my name my love my respect Can you do that for her Or Co you want her at all It was a curious pathetic scene The girl in the chair stared at Foley but Langhams face was troubled I love her he said slowly I am willing to make her my wife if it is possible She is innocent now of all but folly I swear to you Foley with a sudden passion there Is no sin between us So much the better if you love each other Now listen I am going away this night no matter where She can get her freedom in a little while and be your lawful wife I wont bother you unless you cast her off or break her heart Then by God Ill follow you and kill you Inch by inch For one moment Foleys eyes blazed their threat into Langhams heart Then he was gone into the night with out one word for Lize Foleys wife looked at Langham dully He is gone she said Langham bent and kissed her face an agony of thoughts in his brain But Lize pushed him back from her I shall never be his wife l snail never see him any more she said No no You are all mine now You shall be my wife and we shall forget how love began Lize sprang to her feet her eyes flashed a itrange amber light upon Oh I dont love you I hate you I know how I love Dave I want Dave I am his wife not yours I am sorry I kissed you and came to you Oh for give me I must go to Dave Langham picked up a bit of ribbon that had fallen from her hair ne kissed it with a bitter smile and put it next his heart Foley working like a madman ac his trunk heard a light step upon the little porch His heart leaped In a sickening throb as Lize crept into the room and stood trembling by the hearth Well he said sternly through his teeth has Langham driven you from him Dave Dave Oh will you please to let me stay with you I will not ask to be your wife only let me say how I did not know I loved you till to night You were not like a lover Dave You treated me like a child and I was a woman who wanted love and sweet words I hate him I told him so and he tried to keep me back but I had to come to you I have been wicked I lot him kiss me Her voice died in her throat Foley caught her by the arms I struck you he said hoarsely Can you forget that Oh yes she sobbed her lips touch ing his rough hand Foley caught her In his arms and turned her face toward the lamp In her eyes he saw the light that never was on sea or land In hlf long silent kiss the past was buried and a lovely future dawned for the Waif o Foleys Heart St Louis Post Dispatch HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC Opinion Formed by a Passenger on Potomac River Boat Do you know what the national hymn of this country should be in quired a visitor to the capital of a re porter The gentleman propounding the question had traveled extensively in foreign lands and has been in all parts of his own country from Florida to Alaska and betwreen Maine and Cali fornia The reporter studied a little and then answered I suppose you mean Down Upon the Suwannee River The visitor rubbed his hands delight edly You have struck it exactly he declared and Ill tell you why I am more convinced of it than ever 1 went dowm the Potomac the other night on one of the excursion steam ers There was a large crowd aboard all good natured and happy at the idea of having an outing I sized the crowd up going down and I made up mj mJnd that it was pretty cosmopolitan containing people from all sections of the country On the return trap I sat with a friend a native of NeAV Hampshire and a Northerner throughout Wc were on the deck just below the pilot house After we had ridden a little time some young people began singing They rang in the old time favorites Old Black Joe Dixie Maryland My Marjiand which by the way caused some emotion and other songs inelud dug My Bonnie How Con I Bear to Leave Thee and others Each ont caused a few to chime in but there was no special enthusiasm At last the singers struck up Down Upon the Suwannee River The effect wras magical In an instant it seemer to me that everybody on the boat in cluding my reserved companion had joined in The plaintive air floated over the water to the Maryland and Virginia shores and was wafted up ward in the starlight When it wi finished there was complete silence foi a little time I am not an emotional man but I felt my breath catch and the tears came into my eyes My friend put his hand on my knee L always feel a truer patriot when I hear that song was all he said New York Telegram The Greek National Dress The Greek national dress whicn is not really Greek at all but Albanian is going out of use except among the shepherds and the people of the moun tains But though it is discarded for everyday use the Greeks are fond o their old picturesque costumes and nearly every man and woman who can afford to do so keeps a suit of he for mer type to wear upon family fete days half au serieux half as a fancy costume Greek children ordinarily wear much the same clothes as do American boys and girls at school and about the streets of the larger towns but are put into the Albanian kilts now and then perhaps just as much against their wills as it is against the grain of little tots at home to submit to Lord Fauntleroy fixings The Albanian dress is very pretty up on a boy of from 4 to 10 years The dark rosy face of the Greek child looka out winningly from under the drooping red fez with its long blue or gold tassel The little blue or yellow jacket sleeve less and shaped like a zouave is cover ed with embroidery and is worn open in front to show the white shirt with full flaring sleeves About the waist comes a leather girdle heavily em broidered and with a great pouch call ed a banderole into which men stick pistols and knives but which does just as well for the small boys marbles Be low the waist falls a short white cot ton kilt known as a f ustanella There are also short white breeches high red gaiters and red shoes which turn up at the points and have tassels on the toes A little boy in this sort of rig looks like a cherubic bandit out of a comic opera an effect which is oi course quite fascinating Philadelphia Press The Earthquake Coat The earthquake coat is the latest thing invented Once enveloped in this extraordinary garment a man maj laugh at earthquakes It really con sists of two coats one over the other the space between them being thickly padded On each side are ten pockets for the carrying of provisions The idea of the coat is to prevent the wear er being injured by any falling object KENTUCKY MOST POVERFUL BATTLE SHIP IN THE WORLD V new United States battle ship Kentucky will be the most powerful THE boat in the navy The Kentucky is one of four sister ships all of which will soon be finished The Kentucky bears on her forward and after deck a double turret Each of these turrets carries two thirteen inch guns No European power has placed on the deck of a war ship any gun more than twelve inches Thus can the ventucky strike a bow with which the power of no othe ship can compare A single blow of this kind would disable if not sink the strongest ship of battle afloat From bow and stern the Kentucky can fire sim ultaneously a thiiteen inch gun The Kentucky will draw only twenty five feet of water three feet less than the lightest boats now on the sea She will be able to sail into all the harbors and can be docked with less difficulty than the three other boats now building The waist fire consists of fourteen five inch quick firing guns and the second batteries will be composed of twenty six pounder rapid firing six one pounder and four machine guns Two military tops mount ing guns complete the ships armament which is far heavier than thnt of any ship of the Kentuckys displacement in the Avorld No war ship can deliver more metal at a broadside than can the Kentucky and none will have the ready con centration of fire The feature of the Kentucky is the form of her turrets which is quite new There is a large saving in weight which gives the boat more room for heavy armament and more powerful machinery for propulsion She will carry 1210 tons of coal which will enable her to steam 0000 miles at the rate of ten knoto an hour GIRL USHERS A SUCCESS Trenton N J Pastor Introduces Them in His Church Because the members of his church were negligent in attending Sunday service and still more so in contribut ing to the support of himself and the church Rev Maurice Penfleld Fikes pastor of the First Baptist Church at Trenton N J decided to try an inno vation to attract people to hear him preach and their nickels and dimes from their unwilling pockets He in troduced pretty girls as ushers and Is more than pleased with the results of the first experiment Mr Fikes had the sagacity to make announcement of the fact that the young women would show young folks to their seats and take up the collection He was careful too to pick oirt six of the prettiest girls in his flock so the church had more young men in its pews than -had ever before been seen there Every seat in the church was filled long before ser vices were begun and it was necessary to get chairs in the aisles As ushers the girls were a grand success but their best services was given when the time came to take up the collection The innovation doesnt meet with the approval of the other preachers who say that when people are drawn to a that the wizards of the scalpel may save their lives Joseph Davenne a Frenchman was in such a condition when he allowed the doctors to clean his heart He had long been a sufferer from fatty degeneration of that organ He knew he could not live much longer when he took the chanee the scientists proposed They cut Josephs ribs apart showing the lungs with all their fine shining membranes These were thrust aside and four swiftly moving hands were busily engaged in scraping the fat from the sides of the heart The entire process covered only a few mo ments But it was enough The man was dead The surgeons engaged sent a full account of the affair to a medical journal The law did not hold them to account because Davenne had left a paper stating that the experiment was tried at his own request Paper Makintr in Corea The best quality of paper used in China and Japan is made in Corea The Coreans gather the bark of the brous sonetia padhyrifera tree in the spring They soak the bark In lye made from wood ashes and water beating the bark until it becomes a soft pulp They then remove the pulp to large bamboo frames spreading it very thin and let It dry in the sun When dry they cut GIRLS PASS THE L church simply for the privilege of look ing upon a bevy of pretty girls there is no lasting good to be expected from it But Mr Fikes says that he be lieves in getting people into his church and he doesnt care how he does it so long as the means are legitimate and honest It took a long time to take up the collection but when it was over and the money counted there was near ly 300 to add to the treasury of the cnurch Previous to the boxes going around Mr Fikes announced that the Lord loves a cheerful giver Give freely and cheerfully he said and the Lord as well as these good girls will appreciate it Then the pretty ushers started out for the money And they got it Men who had always been very careful to select pennies for the contribution box recklessly tossed in quarters and half dollars that day and not one went away from the church without the cheering assurance that the smile he got from the girl who took his money was the sweetest of them aiU Cleaning a Mans Heart Every day we hear of some wonder ful doing by the doctors So strange are the achievements at times that peo ple apparently sick unto death will take all sons of chances In tUe hopes BOX IN CHURCH the pulp in squares and press it with their feet The paper is very tough as the fibres of the wood are not broken but beaten soft All this work is done by hand Poorer qualities of paper are made in the same way from the scraps of wood Earth and Man The Ministers Salarx Deacon Skinflint Weve failed again this year Mr Dominie Cant raise half your salary Good minister No matter I have had myself appointed a missionary to the heathen and will soon be in the pay of the Board of Missions Deacon Skinflint Air ye goin to Africa Good minister No I shall stay right here New York Weekly Wanted an Heirloom Clerk I wouldnt like to cut this piece of lace just for one yard madam and besides that isnt enough to trim anything Shopper Oh I didnt want it for trimming but its so nice to have a piece of lace about the house as an heirieom you know Puck Any girl who raves over a foot ball player would prove to be fond of gritty gooseberry pie sAara v MARRIAGE NOT IN HER MIND A Mistake Made by a Studious Girl Caused Much Laughter An informal afternoon banquet wijj recently arranged by the graduating class of a local institution of learning The girls of which there were a num ber formed as usual a vision of loveli ness while the young man as some times happens were permitted to call attention to it Amid the merry clinic of glasses and while strong lemonade and root beer flowed like water story after storywas told retold and laugh--ed at The best practical jokes of -the year were rehearsed The merriment of the whole crowd was directed by one unhappy allusion after another on ev ery one In turn The man who had1 received the highest average and was to deliver the valedictory persisted in talking seriously but was rhoked off early in the proceedings Nobody wanted to listen to how he won the prize or how near he came to losing it The school year was over and they were all thinking of something olsei Occasionally there would be a lull the hilarity to allow the regular p In gram to find its way through the en tertainment First a tall girl got up to read poem which she had composed for the occasion She compared the class to a tree The young ladies were the buds and the boys the limbs She was fol lowed by an equally short young man who had written a class history He prefaced this by a lengthy essay enti tled What Makes History to whlch a mischievous girl added in an under tone so tiresome Next one of the professors got up td explain the functions of criticism Tc give practical illustration of his re marks he applied them to the viands These he criticised thoroughly but as he had been on the committee of ar rangements he found them all excel lent As the afternoon wore away how ever every one became more thought ful They began to discuss their plans for the future The young men didnt ieem to have any plans so ffchey sat and listened One of the fair graduates was going abroad another to study art Another felt she was destined foi a musical career a fourth wanted tc engage in church work Finally thej came to a rather studious girl who was perhaps the senior of the class It was the dmpresslon that she was going tc continue her studies as a post grad uate When asked what she intended to do during the coming year year sue replied Im going to get a fellow Here something stuck in her throaty and although it seemed an almost in fiinitesimal space of time the whole company was in roars of laughter be fore she- could add ship Chicago limes Herald sTS Drifting for Six Years After a career unparelleled in the his tory of maritime affairs the derelict schooner Wyer G Sargent abandoned at sea on March 31 1891 in latitude 3442 longitude 7440 Avhile bound for Philadelphia with a cargo of lumber her crew being rescued by the schooner H E Thompson after battling with the storms of the Atlantic for nearly six years has drifted ashore on the un- inhabited island of Conception one of the most dangerous of the Bahamas and there will end her days She is shattered and covered with barnacles Her cargo of lumber long ago lias been emptied into the sea through her cap sizing but her stout hull is still held together as firmly as the day on which she was launched at Sedgwick Me in 1881 This most remarkable career just ended has for years past attracted the attention of shipping men all over the- world as her erratic courses about the 1 Atlantic were for months most ately plotted on the pilot charts issued by the rlydrocrapbic Department at Washington Her drift was indeed more singular than that of the famous old schooner W L White which al though abandoned in the same- locality drifted ashore ton months afterward at the Hebrides Islands off the north west coast of Scotland The Sargent in about three months from the date of her abandonment reached the center of the North Atlan tic Here she drifted about in a most peculiar and erratic manner for some time until Oct 12 1S92 when she got into the Sargasso Sea and expe rienced shipmasters do not doubt that in this sea she- remained until carried out of its influence by unusually fierce easterly gales last winter The theory is that the Sargent after being freed from the Sargasso Sea came down to the southward and west ward with the trade winds and cur rents as did several other derelicts The Sargent was over 309 tons reg ister and was built in Sedgwick Me sixteen years ago She was 131 feet long 31 feet beam and 11 feet deep Her cargo consisted of about 330000 feet of lumber icTe -Chicago A Guileless Thief A story is told about a clever spaniel that took a feather duster from his owners house and while playing with it tore out all the feathers The dog after being shown the featherless han dle was given a whipping He disap peared and about an hour afterwasdv walked bravely into the house with a new duster in his month and meekly deposited the brush at the feet of fcfc mistress By the mark on it she saw that the dog had stolen it from a neigh i boring store The Old Mans Idea Paw they didnt have any three ring circuses when you was a boy did they No The shows were so good that one ring was enough -Indianapolis Journal More than half the time when a worn an betrays a secret some man is at tQ bottom of it ss z I V v v i a i t -