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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1898)
I I WL I j i f ip i V 4ee J Pu fkkntine tvottnl 110BKRT GOOD Editor and Prop VALENTINE - NEBRASKA China is sorry now that she ever in vented gunpowder Perhaps It would be more appropriate to call him President Clam of Haytl Young Edison says he has discovered a photograph of thought Is it a good newspaper As regards the license question Bos ton remains an island completely sur rounded by water The pension list is a roll of honor If l isnt it should bt Why should any one object to its publication A girl may turn up her nose at the mistletoe idea but thats no reason why Che shouldnt be kissed right beneath it Japan rises to call attention to the fact that she didnt thrash China solely for the beneflt of Germany Russia and England A Virginia statesman has introduced a bill to prohibit flirting The best way to accomplish this reform would be to repeal the laws of nature A Washington letter says that the new silver certificate will be a work of art It will take another kind of work however to secure one A Kentucky man has humiliated him self in the eyes of his fellow citizens by drinking a pint of gasoline under the impression that it was whisky Two New Jersey colored men maim ing each other over a girl inculcates ie lesson that when one lover wants to cut another out he shouldnt use a razor Germany is the greatest beer-producing country in the world And its evident when the Emperor William wants to get on his high horse hed nev or be satisfied with a pony A floating news item says that in spite of the deadly nature of the fold ing bed that piece of furniture is more popular than ever The fellow who makes the folding bed certainly ought io be right in it then A cablegram announces that Marie Gelstinger the well known German coubrette is making her farewell ap pearances prior to leaving the stage She is 69 years old Retire Non sense She will be transferred to the ballet There is much sound sense In the of the Grand Jury of Kings County New York that the of fice of coroner be abolished on the ground that said office is of no practi cal value in ferreting out crime The allegation that coroners are useless functionaries will apply in other States besides New York It appears that a woman who was once the wife of a regular army officer who died years ago without a pension has married twice since the death of lier first husband but as the wife of the third is diawing a pension which nas already yielded Jier over 3000 Cases like this afford the opponents of a liberal system of pensions ready weapons for attack While the New England cotton mills are eutting down wages and dividends the cotton mills in the South are run ning on full time Indeed many of them are running night and day Even with this the orders are far in excess of the output As a pointer the an nouncement Is made that the Lynch burg Ya cotton mill has declared a -semi-annual dividend of 4 per cent on its capital of 500000 and carried 22 000 to its reserve fund The stock of the Lynchburg mill is held almost en tirely in that city The clergyman who a few Sundays ago whipped out a cheese knife from behind his pulpit and brandished it be fore his throat and another who during liis sermon weighted a balloon with a whisky bottle may have convinced their congregations that drink is both suicidal and debasing but they seem to nave forgotten the rule of rhetoric thai such similes burlesque both the subject and the object Eccentric and yellow methods whether in speech or journal ism or social life may enforce atten j tion and excite comment but are mere tricious in character and of doubtful utility The Secretary of the Treasury re ports that during two years and a half only six American vessels are alleged io have successfully landed expeditions from the United States in Cuba and of these all but one -were small tugs or a jfilot boat Of sixty alleged attempts to land expeditions forty three were fail ures most of them having been frus trated either by the Treasury Depart ment or by our navy Only four of them were frustrated by Spain and the Sec retary suggests that if the Spanish patrol of the Cuban coast had been one half as vigilant as that of our coast by our revenue and naval vessels no men or arms could have been landed In five cases the principals in the expedi tions have been sentenced to prison by our courts The average life of a good voice fs fifteen years Pattis is an exception So also is Sims Reeves Smoking and drinking have ruined countless male voices Singers live fast and their voices suddenly become frogs in the jMMWPHPfffjpB - - - throat Women suffer all the ailments of the vocal chords owing to lov neck and short sleeves consequent exposure and late champagne suppers Jealousy kills a great many voices of the gentler sex A voice well cared for should last forty years in which time it should earn no less than 500000 Possibly one singer in 500 has a nest egg and saves something for a rainy day The rest live from hand to mouth ride to day walk to morrow feast this week fam ine next They convert a safe invest ment into a precarious existence The Engineering and Mining News a standard trade journal of recognized re liability has recently made a careful study and investigation of the gold dis coveries in the Klondike regions As the result it says editorially that the gold discoveries of that section have been preposterously exaggerated and practically all the Klondike investment companies now trying to sell their 1 and 5 shares of stock to the public are based upon air Nevertheless they are able to parade the names of per sons well known in politics and in busi ness as presidents officers and direc tors If such men could be subjected to unlimited liability for the results they would not be so scandalously free to lend their names to the first adven turer who comes along Here is a word of warning which the general public would do well to heed just at this time There seems to be no doubt that the gold discoveries on the Klon dike are very rich Beyond a question there is room for legitimate invest ment there to aid n developing the re sources of the country Money may be made not only in opening up the mines but also in many other lines of commer cial activity But on the other hand there Is danger of its loss Port Arthur which has come once more into prominence owing to Rus sias occupation of it was an insig nificant village of mud huts until China in 1881 established a dock yard and began extensive improvements At present its large refitting basin exten sive wharves formidable forts with guns of the latest patterns and the fact that its port remains free from ice all the year make it an extremely valu able acquisition for Russia which un doubtedly has been planning for its occupation ever since the Chinese-Japanese war No one has believed that Russia would spend 200000000 in the Trans Siberian railroad across the Asiatic continent to Vladi vostok Port Arthur has long been recognized as the logical eastern ter minus of Russias great railroad and surveys in the direction of Port Arthur had already been made before Russias announced occupation of the latter port Kiao Ghou lies nearly 200 miles south of Port Arthur and from its sit uation can easily be closed from the sea by the fleets of Russia England or Japan so that it may prove a liability instead of an asset even though it lies on the flank of Russias great railroad system in the east Japan was com pelled to leave Port Arthur by the ac tion of Russia Germany and Prance in 1896 It remains to be seen whether Japan may not in turn make its pos session uncomfortable to Russia The question of the necessity for or advisability of corporal punishment in the schools is again under discussion in Brooklyn where a little boy who died recently is supposed to have been the victim of this sort of correction The Citizen says that the boys hands were struck with a strap after which he was hit on the lower part of the back with a piece of bicycle tire It is not known posi tively that this beating was the cause of the illness cerebral -meningitis that resulted In the boys death but there are those who think it was At all events it has occasioned a good deal of talk as to the merits or demerits of cor poral punishment in the schools It would seem however that there ought to be no occasion for any talk on this subject for there ought to be no such subject The schools are no place for corporal punishment if indeed it can justly be said that there is a place on earth for it Many there are who con cede to the parent the right to beat the child but it may be questioned that he has a moral right to do so It is not clearly established that nature made the child either to do right or to be whipped for not doing right and it is not unreasonable to say that in a very large percentage of cases the parent who uses the rod is moved to revenge on the child his own neglect in the mat ter of the childs training Whatever however may be thought as to the propriety or otherwise of the parental thrashing no teacher ought to be per mitted to lay violant hands on the pupil It is a humiliating a degrading punishment fit only for the correction of beasts which have no reasoning powers to appeal to There are many ways in which a child may successful ly be reached through his instinct of honor or of pride through the spirit of manliness that is gaining grmvth in him through his hope of reward or his fear of merited punishment through love through manifestation of inter 2St in him and through his sympathies and the gentlest of these ways are as a rule the most effective It is a fact that teachers have achieved great suc cess in dealing with pupils without the use of the rod and all ought to be com pelled to do so if they cant to make wav for those who can The Heat of the Earth Lord Kelvin contends that the earth might be white hot 2000 feet below the surface or as cold as ice fifty feet be low without changing our present cli mate He attributes the intensely hot climate of an earlier age to greater heat of the sun Biggest ol Recreation Grounds Epping forest is the largest public recreation ground in the world - iagfg0ggggii1fttmHimKluagirmBqgRMS 9 i MMMMiMMM ir yr 7 vJ ft 1 ZlTiywj K K H FINE PHRASES As a maker of phrases William Mc Kinley was a success during the Presi dential campaign But as a maker of prosperity since his elevation to the Presidential chair he has proved a fail ure One of the greatest hits in phrase making was the declaration that it was better to open the mills than the mints Apt alliterations artful aid helped to make this saying popular but unfortunately the mills have not opened and the remark has sunk to the level of a glittering generality With 90000 cotton operatives threat ening to strike in New England because of a reduction of 10 per cent in their scanty wage the cotton mills seem more likely to close than open and the dawn of prosperity so brilliantly de scribed as a necessary result of Re publican supremacy appears to be in definitely postponed Now it is announced vthat 50000 skill ed workmen in the New England shoe factories are to have their wages re duced Protection through the work ings of the Dingley tariff has failed to protect and the result is disaster to factory owners and operatives alike With 140000 men reduced to starva tion wages at least 700000 men wom en and children will be made to feel the pinch of poverty Their inability to purchase anything but the bare necessities-of life will have a most deprassing effect on general business in New Eng land It is an old proverb that fine words butter no parsnips and there can be no stronger proof of this than the fate of William McKinleys famous utter ance that it is better to open the mills than the mints Chicago Dispatch Why the Journal Flopped In a signed editorial the New York Journal repudiates William J Bryan as a candidate for President and de mands that the theory of remonetizing silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 be aban doned This defection from Democracy as expressed in the Chicago platform need not alarm silver men nor need it cause any degree of surprise W R Hearst the owner of the Journal is a millionaire and never was a free silver man When he began the publication of the Journal personal influences were brought to bear which secured an esopusal of William J Bryan and the Chicago platform Had success crowned the effonts of the Democracy the Journal would doubtless have continued to advocate the principles it espoused in 1896 but in the face of defeat and with a propri etor by education and environment a friend of gold the change of front by the Journal was to be expected and has therefore in it no elements of surprise to Democrats Klect the Senate Everybody understands that the sole obstacle in the way of changing the Federal Constitution so as to give the election of United States Senators di rectly to the people is the Senate it self Most of the present Senators would be relieved of public duty were such an amendment made and they know it right well If things be left as they are they have a fair chance with the aid of the corporations and monoplies they serve tobe re elected but before the voters they would be powerless to escape retribution and in dividual extinction Nevertheless we believe it to be pos sible even with our present Senate to pass the constitutional amendment al though it requires a two thirds vote of each house of Congress Once passed its adoption by three fourths of the States would be inevitable It would be a case controlled by public opinion regardless of party lines New York News Mannas Modest Announcement God reigns and the Republican par ty still lives Too much cannot be said in praise of the modesty and self -abnegation of Senator Hanua in tlms an nouncing his victory to the President God reigns as heretofore instead of abdicating as must evidently have been the case in the event of Mr Ban nas defeat It is something to know that God reigns and the Republican party still lives it is more to be assur ed that this state of things will contin ue for at least seven years until the expiration of the time for which Mr Banna was elected Laus Marco Detroit News AmoiiK Buckeye Republicans There is too much personal politics in the Republican party in Ohio to make the aumosplujre of that State congenial to the development of states men in that party There is too much treachery too much knifing and boo dling too much discreditable wire-pulling Statesmen are not fitted to act as feud chieftains when the blood oath is taken political Indians must lead the trail on the warpath and the blood iest scalping knife brings the award of precedence St Louis Jtepublic Lesson of the Ohio Struggle Senatorial elections should be put in the hands of the people Whether the Senators elected by popular vote wotdd be any better than those secured through the State legislatures or not they would at least be nnconta urinated by the workings of the machines as they have been exhibited at Columbus there would be no temptation to State legislators to stand out for the highest M price there would be no deadlocks and finally the responsibility for the men elected would rest upon the peo pie with the opportunity to secure bet ter whenever a majority could unite foi that purpose Pittsburg Dispatch By Way of Compensation We are in favor of seeds for the farm er We do not know that they are of any use to him but he ought to- get something out of the Government and we do not see that he is getting any thing else On the contrary he is taxed for the benefit of everybody else Every one of the tariff protected trusts is sucking blood from the farmer They make him pay more for almost every article he has to buy and cut the prices of his goods by bringing on retaliatory legislation In other countries Indian apolis Sentinel The Infant Industry Fallacy Free traders will admit that tropical fruits can be grown in Labrador But as to the wisdom of establishing an orange grove in Labrador the free trader has his opinion So it is with establishing new Industries by protec tion It may be done but its an ex pensive proceeddng and the cost is fully equal to the value of what is gain ed and usually far greater And when the protected child is adopted it al most invariably turns out to be a sick ly weakly but mighty greedy infant TJtica Observer Costly Seed Distribution The farmers of the country could put a stop to it In short order if they spoke out their real sentiments To a great majority of them the gift of a few packages of seeds is considered neither complimentary necessary honest nor good business for the Government to be in They are not poverty stricken they can buy their own seeds They are not lacking in intelligence and can select varieties without advice from Washington Sioux City Tribune AVhat Democracy Offers The Democratic party does not prom ise to remove from all people the neces sity of self restraint frugality indus try and self denial it merely promises to guarantee to rich and poor alike the fullest freedom and the enjoyment of the fruits of industry That is all that the Democratic party has ever prom ised to do in its sane moments Louis ville Post Protectionist Editor Nonplused While we are congratulating our selves on the fact that the sum total of our exports and imports aggregated more than 1000000000 for 1897 what are we to say when we consider the fact that Englands export and import trade amounted to no less than 8722 115000 for 1897 nearly four times the sum of our foreign trade Grand Rap ids Herald Brief Comment Carl Schirrz will doubtless consider abuse from General Grosvenor a per sonal compliment Buffalo Courier The Ohio Republicans have been dis tinguished for their quarrels for lo these many years They are living up totheir reputation Indianapolis News As a roll of honor there should be no objection to publishing the pension roll Least of all should such objection come from the roll itself Springfield Mass Republican Ohio politicians come and go but Ave dont notice any change in Ohio poli tics If s the same old brew the same old smell also when the lid flies off Hartford Courant Perhaps the Ohio House of Represen tatives was wise iii voting down the resolution to investigate charges of bribery made in connection with the Senatorial election There are some stenches even OMo cant endure No hanm to any deserving pensioner could come from publication of the pension roll but publication should also be made at or near the home of each applicant for a pension before it Is crranted Such -publicity would prevent more frauds than publication of the list of veterans already pensioned Oma ha Bee No one seeks to withdraw pensions from those soldiers who are entitled to them under even the very liberal laws now in force What is sought is first to purge the pension list of f mud sec ond to limit payments to soldiers en titled to them and to those dependent upon them when the pension was earn ed New York Tribune An overshadowing evil in this coun try is monopoly intrenched in political power So long as it remains In power controlling through trusts and com bines the railroads the industries and the commerce of the country defying or making Laws dictating government al policy and official appointments there can be no permanent relief for1 the people and no general prosperity St Louis Post Dispatch During each month of the year we furnish our readers with Republican prosperity supplements no more such supplements will be sent out with our paper The supplements are a fraud a delusion and a lie We are ashamed of them sick and sore at the idea of sending out such prosperity supple ments when at the same time we are unable to collect enough money to meet our bills after having made them Petersburg Ind News When poverty comes in at the dor love goes home to papa and brings hub by with her - BLUE AND THE GRAY BRAVE MEN WHO MET ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE Thrilling Storiea of the Rebellion Old Soldier and Sailors Relate Rcmi niacencea of liife in Camp and on the Field Incidents of the War Warrens Address Stand the grounds your own my braves Will ye Kirc it up to slaves Will ye look for greener graves Hope ye mercy still Whats the mercy despots feel Hear it in that battle peal Read it in yon bristling steel Ask it ye who will Fear ye foes who kill for hire Will ye to your homes retire Look behind you theyre afire And before you see Who have done it From the vale On they come and will ye jnuailV Leaden rain and iron hail Let their welcome he In the God of battles trust Die we may and die we must But oh where can dust to dust Be cousignd so well As where heaven its dews shall shed On the martyrd patriots bed And the rocks shall raise their head Of his deeds to tell Rev John Pierpont The Drummers Last Call A pathetic story of the civil war was related by the corporal of an Illinois regiment who was captured by the Confederates at the battle of Wilsons Creek and is repeated in Women of the War The day before this regiment was or dered by Gen Lyon to march toward Springfield the drummer of the com pany fell ill There Avas no one to take his place and while the Captain was wondering how he should supply the lack a pale sorrow stricken woman ap peared at his tent door begging an in terview She brought with her a little boy of 12 or 13 years whom she wished to place in the regiment as drummer boy Captain she said after the boy had been accepted he wont be in much danger will he No I think not replied the oflicjii We shall be disbanded in a few weeks I am confident The new drummer soon became a fa vorite and there was never a feast of fruit or other hardly procured dainties that Eddie did not get his share first The soldiers were stirred by the childs enthusiastic devotion and declared that his drumming was different from that of all the other drummers in the army After the engagement at Wilsons Creek where the Federals were defeat ed Corporal B who had been thrown from his horse found himself lying concealed from view near a clump of trees As he lay there with his ear to the ground he heard the sound of a drum distinct but rather faint In a moment he recognized the stroke of Eddie the boy drummer and hastened toward the spot whence the sound proceeded In a clump of bushes propped against a tree he found the boy His drum was hanging from a shrul within reach and his face was deadly pale Oh coropral said he I aru so glad you came Wont you give mo a drink of water please The corporal ran to a little stream close by and brought the child a draught Just at this moment there came an order for the retreat and the corporal turned to go Dont leave me said the little drummer I cant walk See And he pointed to his feet The corporal saw with horror that both feet had been shot off by a cannon ball He said the doctors could cure them continued the boy pointing to the dead body of a Confederate soldier who lay beside him He was shot all to pieces but he crawled over here and tied my legs up so they would wouldnt bleed so And Eddie closed his eyes wearily The corporals eyes were blinded by a mist of tears as he looked down The Confederate soldier shot to death and in the agonies of the last struggle had managed to take off his suspenders and bind the boys legs above the knees As the corporal bent down to raise the child a body of Confederate troops came up and he was a prisoner With a sob in his voice he told the story and the Southern soldier tenderly lift ed the wounded drummer on to his own hore swinging the drum before him Whgn the little cavalcade reached camp Eddie was dead but the little last call had aroused the noblest feeling in the heart of one who was his foe one whose last act was an effort to save and comfort the boj eneiuy who Avas faithful to his duty Sewards Assailant An ex Confederate soldier thinks he has made an interesting discovery in connection with the attempted assas sination of Secretary William H Sew ard About the hour when Booth shot President Lincoln in Fords Theater a man presented himself at the residence of Mr Seward who was lying in bed critically ill from ujuries received in a fall from his carriage Pushing abrupt ly past the servant who hesitated to admit him the man made his way to ward the sick room A blow with the outt sf a heavy pistol fractured the skull of the Secretarys son and laid him insensible on the floor In Mr Sewards room were his daughter and George Robinson a soldier attending the invalid Pardon a little ancient history Rob inson met the stranger at the door and received a passing stab The assassin then rushed to the bedside of Mr Sew ard ad attempted to strike him with a tr ii -V Jiji V knife Robinson grappiea wuu uiwr and a severe struggle followed In the course of which the Secretary received three slight cuts He rolled himself over in the bedclothes and fell on the floor The household was aroused by this time and the stranger ran down stairs mounted a horse at the door and- galloped away The whole detective force of the Gov ernment was employed to arrest the conspirators Booth and his accom plices It was believed at first that John Surratt was the assailant of Sew ard and his mothers house was seized On the morning of the 18th of April a man dressed as a laborer came to the door and was arrested He said his name was Payne that he was a com mon laborer born in Virginia and had been engaged to repair a gutter on the roof He was in the end fully Identi fied as the man who attacked Mr Sew ard Of those found upon trial to have been accomplices of Booth four were hanged three were sentenced to im prisonment at hard labor for life and one for six years Payne was one ot the victims I do not remember whether he was hanged sentenced for life or imprisoned for six years There has always been a mys tery about him He had no friend He talked none Not a man in all Vir ginia could be found who knew him or anything about him He was a talL young man made of raw bone grit and gristle His assumed name was Lewis R Payne and under that name he was convicted The ex Confederate referred to says that his real name was Leonard R Powell and that he was a member of Mosbys command This will be strange and startling news for the Mosby guerrillas It will be seen that the initials are the same L R Pr There was a taciturn soldier with Mos by named Leonard R Powell and he mysteriously disappeared from tho haunts of men after the war The Drummer Boy In a book entitled Our Army Nurs es the following story is told by one of the noble women who cared for the suffering soldiers in the great Civil War On entering her hospital ward one morning she was attracted by one of the new faces she saw there It was a childs face and it wore a smile His name is Henry not yet 12r but he has been in the army over three years the attendant said The nurse went to the cot where he lay Good morning mother he said cheerfully holding out a thin hand You dear little fellow how came you here You are so young My father was drafted and I got them to take me with him for a drummer-boy Ive got no mother nor nor sisters Ah so you called me mother You do need some one to take motherjj place Im sure Yesm The boys told me you would take care of me And where is your father He was killed three months ago at Antietam I was wounded then in my hip same ball that killed my father The surgeon says I shall be a cripple always The eyes of the nurse were growing moist My little boy looks very hap py after all What makes you so she asked The child pulled a little Bible from under his pillow and replied In the Bible it says When my father and my mother forsake me then the Lord will take me up If I get well and try to be good I guess I shall have a home somewhere If I dont get well I ans sure I shall There was more than one deeply in terested listener now and each had some new question to ask the lad Childlike faith like his was rare even in the hospital where it was commons for men to feel that they could not die unless they were listening to a hymulpr a prayer My little lad some one asked whe taught you to trust in God My mamma until she died then my papa When he got better he was heard one Sunday morning plaintively to say I wish I could go to Sunday school Then there followed a pleasant sight Two of the ward attendants said Get the child ready Well look after him They crossed their hands and carrf the cripple to Sunday school every Sun day while he was in camp But they did not go alone By ones and twos and threes the big soldiers followed the little fellow and stole into church They all loved him and some one look ing on said A little child shall lead them One da a surgeon came to the nurse and said Here is a man looking for a soldier oryhan boy to adopt Tell him all you know of Henry The nurse told him of the lads brief life his beautiful spirit and his long ing for an education and a home You have interested me greatly said the man with moistened eyes My wife and I had planned to go to Camp Denison but we both dreamed on the1 same night that Ave should come to Camp Chase 1 think God has led us I am sure she will wish to take the boy In a few minutes the lads feeble arms were twined about the mans neck He was crying for To those who clustered around to bid the little fellow good by the child said i was sure God had a home for me The human brain Is composed of at least 300000000 of nerve cells each ant independent organism The lifetime or a nerve cell is estimated to be about sixty days so that 5000000 die every day about 200000 every hour and nearly 3500 every minute to be sue ceeded by an equal iramber of their progeny Thus once in every sixty days a man has a new brain If some men would conceal whatfcey know they would be more populari W y T- 1 J Wi i m f n 4
