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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1898)
H M 1 1 r ir Hf tye ilentitw mQimt ItOIJEItT GOOD Editor and Prop VALENTINE NEBRASKA Of course the Christianizing of China vill be accomplished by the nation with the biggest guns A bird in the bush is worth ten in the lat is the new motto suggested to the Audubon Society Some innocent contemporary suggests H sonna thrashing for pugilists Pugilists are used to thrashing sound Young Loiter has made several for tunes out of the late wheat deal He flidnt hide his light under millions of bushels A fashion journal says The old fashioned bustle is coming forward igain Thats no way for a bustle to behavo A press dispatch says that Van Wyck was inaugurated Mayor of New York without pomp Where was Pomp What shall we do with our ex-Presidents asks a Western paper How would it do to offer more liberal prizes at the baby shows The CourierJournal notes that a lead ing merchant of Louisville has gone flown under the bitter pill of advers ity Where is he now More testimony on the once debated point of there being a Chinese wall may be that country one of these days reading the handwriting on it A special dispatch from Louisville says that Kentuckys greatest prod net is in danger Well Isnt whisky -always in danger in that State The Columbus Dispatch comments on an offense which in Puritan times woJ4 have been f ollowed by a punish ment not less than death And per haps more In looking over 100 bills to deter mine whether or not they are of this new and dangerous issue of counter feits the first and most important step is to secure some 100 bills Suppose says the Florida Times Union that the new year had come on Friday to make the nervous shudder Or suppose horror of horrors that it had come on the thirteenth The Philadelphia Inquirer gravely observes Only 20 per cent of the murders committed yearly in America and Europe are ever found out How does the Inquirer know then The Virginia Legislature proposes to tax bachelors Cruelty to animals Any man who remains unmarried in Virginia does so from necessity not from choice Why tax a mans misfor tune The question is being agitated as to what earthly use the letter q is in our language so long as we have the letter k But then men are apt to stick to many a thing after it has be come a dead letter merely from fore of habit The women who are booming the new university project at Washington would aeomplislt more for educationa cause if they devoted their energies to ward broadening the sphere of useful ness of some of our established institu tions for higher learning The relief expeditions that have usually been sent after north pole ex plorers may hereafter be sent aftei men who went to the Klondike countrj with thin clothes and nothing to eat It seams necessary to constantly en courage men who make themselves ob jects of charity An English prophet announces ioi 1S9S the discovery of the north pol the opening of communication with Mars wars in Europe a revolution ir South America riots in London and the kidnaping of the young King oi Spain That South American evenl is reasonably certain to happen The man who told the teachers that the public school system should be ad justed to the needs of the masses rath er than to fitting individuals for highei institutions of learning deserves credll for announcing his discovery He should not copyright his discovery since it would be a great thing for the state if it could be adopted Pupils are conducted through manj ologies and introduced to manj isms but they are not well groundec in the three or four primary matters a an English education A boy or gir who has learned to read and write anr spell with a knowledge of arithmetic and geography is better prepared fo a university education than a boy oi girl who has been dragged through ai endless array of the so called highe studies in the common schools A coast defense gun now in proces of construction by the United State Government is to be a wonder in ord nance An expert estimates that th striking energy of a projectile froi this gun will be equal to the blow of six-thousand-ton steamer ramming n sixteen knots speed To complete tl comparison the expert adds that whi a vessel in collision strikes all alon her cutwater the damaging power the gun is concentrated on a circ having a diameter of sixteen inche Should the gun ever be used against a ypr enemy the fate of a vessel receiving the blow could not be doubtful Such a terrible engine of war is a peace agent of a persuasive sort There are various methods of ex pressing affection from the nose rub bings of the Hottentots to the thrash ings wnich the American boy receives for his own good A Kansas man has developed a new method however This gentleman strolling along the street met another mans wife and fired two loads of buckshot Into her after which he discreetly took to the woods He has mailed a letter to the woman who still survives explaining that bis action was the result of the great lore he bore for her Singularly enough this explanation does not satis fy the people of the town who yearn for his return so that they may lynch him It is the fate of great minds to be unappreciated Germans are adopting American ma chinery for their manufactories and American ideas as well The English manufacturer proclaims boldly prob ably for the effect it may have upon his workmen that if he cannot adopt American machinery and methods in Great Britain he will have to shut up shop The Germans and English may he able to compete with each other with the aid of American machiney and they may be able to excel all the world save this great country from which they are drawing new inspira tions But they cannot go the Ameri can pace Having caught up with them we will pass them distance them perhaps for in all the world there is no such combination of excel lence as in these United States of America There seems to be a good deal of doubt as to what an American is The native Indian does not exactly fill the bill even when he hi improved In fact when he is much improved he disap pears It wa thought by some at one time that to be an American one had to be born in New England or to have come there at a very early day with the serious intention of having every body who was lust right born there after the date of 1G21 But the Dutch of New York and the Germans of Pennsylvania and the French of Lou isiana seem to have had different ideas about it As sometimes it sMms fn be an easy Avay to settle the question by declaring that no one not born in Ireland is an American but this would justly offend the Gennans and irritate a considerable portion of our rural pop ulation who do not enjoy city govern ment Ability to read the Constitu tion of the United Slates coupled with a short residence seemed to answer until we discovered that ability to un derstand it did not go with the accom plishment of reading and still less of baying or accepting its spirit With an Increasing number of people Amer ica is a sort of go-as-you-please place where every man is a law unto him self and every woman also and it is a very un American thing to interfere with the indulgence of any sort of vagary In short it is a left over region that belongs to everybody and he is the most American who exercises ut most license in speech and conduct Consequently it is a surprise to many who arrive that they find they have brought with them some rights that they had run away from namely the right to be imprisoned or to be hung for disobeying the laws It may not be possible to define exactly what an American is still less to describe the American spirit about which we hear so much and which is so variously con ceived But it is time that one thing were very clearly understood by all the newcomers who purpose to favor us with their society and that is that the country is already made and is not waiting for them to make it That it is just as much a nation with as well defined and as distinct a political life and purpose as Germany or England or France This fact clearly under stood will save the newcomers a great deal of trouble In our Federal system and our local self government we find the American idea and it is just as dif ferent from the license and the social ism which some conceive to be the American idea as can be It is useless for foreign newcomers to lutt their heads against this idea it will injure their heads WAPOLEONS CHAIR OF STATE Was Once an Elaborate AfFair but Is Paded and Tarnished Now In one of the Paris museums interest ing for its personal relics of great Frenchmen are some mementos of Na poleon There are carpets he trod upon tapestries on which his eyes rested FADED AXD TARXISUKD XOW chairs in which he took his ease and some in which it must have been ex tremely difficult for him to find ease Hereis one of those a chair of state tt was of violet velvet once but it has grown greenish with years It was embroidered with silver but the sil ver is tarnished and blackened with age i i j iv ii iirrirT nTTrnTiiii fl O O OLDIEKS AT KOME THEY TELL SOME INTERESTING ANECDOTES OF THE WAR How the Boys of Both Armies Whiled Away Life in Camp Foraging Ex periences Tiresome Marches Thril ling Scenes on the Battlefield The Old Bngler H j I HE old fellow Iseemed anxious to get away from the rest of the veterans who spent a few hours betareen trains in Lincoln Park and finally wandered down one of the sheltered paths that led to the lake and emerged at a spot out of the way of the usual visitor Once there he looked up and down a little anxiously and then draw from the breast of his shabbly blue coat a battered old bugle The instrument was tarnished and bruised and the once scarlet tassels were faded but the old man held it in his hands lovingly and turned it from side to side lingering over it as one might over an object of peculiar beau ty I wonder if I dast he said at last aloud smiling the shamed pleased diffident smile of unusual daring I aint tried it fur thirty year but I uster make it sing an I bleeve I could now He raised the instrument to his lips but they twitched nervously and he could not make a sound Twice and three times and then high clear but tremulous rose the first sharp notes of the reveille The old man laughed to himself and hugged the tasseled bugle to his breast Thats good comrade try again A carriage had stopped near him and an old gentleman was leaning forward with a strange new look of eagerness thats good comrade on his pale stern face I suppose Ive heard that old call but I havent noticed it for a good many years Play it again wont you The old soldier hesitated Ive pret ty nigh forgot how he said then re peated the stirring strains more confi dently The gentleman left his carriage and went over to stand beside the trum peter as one after another of the fa miliar signals fell from the tarnished brown lips of the army bugle and by and by a flush crept into his cheeks and a light touched his eyes and he sang Blow out your lights you lazy bummers Blow out your lights and go to bed The soldiers well known accompani ment Both old men were laughing now in fooling old soldiers way Then they shook hands and began over again Come down to the stable All ye who are able And give your poor horses Some hay and some corn For if you dont do it The colonel will know it And youll go to the guardhouse As sure as youre born The music died in a dismal discord Comrade said the old man with a droll wink I dont recollect that it was the guardhouse where the boys said thej d go when they uster sing it It wasnt you old rascal it wasnt roared the singer slapping the bugler on his thin shoulder Lets have it again and well sing it right And they did What regiment comrade he ask ed as with bugle replaced in the shab by coat the trumpeter locked his arm within his Nineteenth Michigan Why man I was with the Thirty third Indiana Weve been in some pretty hard fights together in our day Those two regiments were like brothers He paused and looked at his com panion closely noting the worn gar ments the weary careworn face and silver hair and then said gently and a little hesitatingly Is the world using you pretty well old friend Oh yes a flush dyeing the wrin kled face I I cant complain The boys of my post are sendin me to this reunion in Buffalo an when 1 git back I guess they can git me into the sol diers home I never did exactly like the idea of that Id ruther work till Im mustered out but the voice trembled bravely resumed aad then failed utterly and the old man turned his face toward the lake to elide his tears The other man had bc en look ing at him intently In 03 he said I had my life crs53ss5K5r TT riET v - ttfje r - saved by a young bugler It was in a little skirmish and I was the mark for a cavalrymans saber I saw it com ing but was hemmed in so I couldnt help myself In a second I would have been struck down when a boy from the ranks sprang between us It must have cut through his shoulder It did Capn The other stripped off his coat and turned back his rough flannel shirt leaving the right shoulder bare A deep white scar disfigured it I ought to have known you before John he said simply But never mind that now When you come back from Buffalo you are not going into any soldiers home but mine And when taps are sounded from above youll rest on as good a pillow as youve ever had along the march Good by Ill meet you next week when you come back and well go home He Rode with Sheridan Of the five United States cavalry men who finished the famous ride with Sheridan from Winchester to Cedar Creek in the Shenandoah valley in 1804 two are living in Reading says the Reading Ta correspondent of the New York Sun Barton Ream is one and Srtmuel Lewis is the other Ream was a sergeant when the special es cort was formed He is now a tele phone lineman Lewis is employed at Bards spoke works Both are in ex cellent health Sergt Ream says that 200 cavalry men of 17th Pennsylvania regi ment escorted Sheridan from Martins burg to Winchester on Oct IS 1SG4 The next day twenty troopers were se lected as a special escort to ride with Sheridan from Winchester to the front where Longstreets army had put to rout the Northern army in the Shen andoah valley We were picked out to ride with Sheridan because we had good horses said Ream in telling of the ride The trip was long We had to jump fences ditches and barricades owing to the crowded condition of the public road filled as it was by the retreating army By the time we got to the front I dont think more than five of the escort had held out On the way we met United States soldiers in full retreat who were clad only in their undershirts and drawers Mind you it was a sharp cool October day Sheridan wore a cap that day and kept waving it and cheering to the retreating soldiers to face about History has recorded it properly that it was Sheridans great personality that re rallied that broken army I believe the private soldiers in that memorable ride all agree with the version given to the world by the oliicers who wrote the historical ac counts When Sheridan arrived at Ce dar Creek I rode along the battle lines with him when our army was ready to charge on the Confederates about 4 oclock I was not in the thick of the fight being too tired We were ex cused and saw the fight from high ground near where Sheridan and his staff stood After that battle I was with Gen Kilpatricks raid toward Richmond and did other service Grants Shyness Gen Grant neither overestimated nor distrusted himself He was modest and inclined to claim less than his due but he was also self reliant and per sistent An anecdote related by Mrs Sherwood in her Epistle to Posterity sets forth his disposition to accord to others their due and to claim little for himself save the virtue of gettin there Mrs Sherwood told him on one occa sion that an English officer who nad been present at the dinner given him by the Duke of Wellington in the Waterloo chamber had told her in Lon don that he thought him a very learned soldier Well I am not said Grant I had neither the genius of Sherman nor the learning of Lee or McPherson I oniv meant to get there In 1S05 just after the close of the war Gen Grant visited West Point his old alma mater accompanied by Mrs Grant We were in the library writes Mrs Sherwood the examination was going on and Prof Bartlett left the room coming back with Grant on his arm The professors rose to receive him I think poor Gen Grant nearly sank through the floor he winced as he never had done in the face of the enemy Those dreaded professors rising to do me honor Why I felt the cadet terror all over me he afterward said He was more comfortable when he got outside and began shaking hands with all mankind and womankind but no one who saw that notable scene can forget his modesty Passed Any pretty or amusing incident of the civil war is especially welcome as a shaip contrast to the many sad and painful stories told of that time One such pretty incident was recounted not long ago by an officer who witnessed it Generals Sill and Dumont with their forces defeated and drove from Shel byville Kentucky the Confederate armies of Generals Smith and Claiborn Just afterward the two Union gen erals with their staffs were riding along through the main street of the town when suddenly they heard the cry Halt in would be martial tones issue from the mouth of a sturdy little boy apparently about six years old The two officers in a mood to be pleased with anything halted prompt ly Who are you cried the small chal lenger looking fearlessly up at the soldier riders who had obeyed his or der Are you Feds or Rebs We are Union men returned the generals gravely All right said the boy removing his diminutive person a little to one side to leave the way clear you may pass on PROTECTION AND PROSPERITY New England rallied to the support of the Republican party at the Presi dential election of 1S90 and cast its electoral votes for the advance agent of prosperity New England is now getting a sam ple of the kind of prosperity heralded by the advance agent No doubt a large majority of the 125000 opera tives of the cotton mills who are now suffering a cut in wages of from 10 to 12 per cent voted for McKinley Per haps they should not be blamed for this as they were coerced by the mill managers and promised good times and increased pay if the Republican ticket should win How truthful these promises Avere is now being demonstrated and the cause of this disaster is the very measure which the Republicans asserted would bring about prosperity In discussing this phase of the question the New York Journal says Whatever explanation may be given of the present situation of the cotton industry of New England it is certain that increased protection is doing it no good What is called protection re stricts its market tends to over-production and lower prices by hothouse com petition at home and the more it gets of this kind of fostering the worse off are those employed in it There can be no doubt that this view of the situation is correct but will the operatives of the New England cotton mills recognize that fact Will they realize that they have been made the victims of a gigantic confidence game and will thej with a spirit of self-preservation turn away from the Republi can party and espouse the cause of Democracy This is the important question which is pressing upon the minds of the wage workers all over the United State5 Upon its correct answer rests the fu ture of the masses in this country Labor has a true friend in Democ racy and a bitter enemy in the Repub lican party The latter is the servant of the trusts and the trusts grow rich and flourish at the expense of the peo ple There is only one party great enough to hope for victory in a strug gle against the trusts and that party is Democratic Every vote cast for anv other party organized to befriend lalwr is a vote thrown away and every vote cast for the Republican party is a vote to impoverish and enslave the masses Cannot the wage earners see this It is as simple and clear as it is true Conciliation with an Ax It is alleged that the administration has iriven Mark Ilanna a gentle hint to curb his tongue in the matter of threats against Ohio Republicans op posed to his election as Senator Mc Kinley is not at all anxious that the split in the Republican party of the Buckeye State should be made any wider than it is now Kurtz has ex hibited such a show of strength that alarm is felt by the occupant of the Presidential chair and Hannas curses it is feared may work mischief to the Presidents plans for a renomination It would never do for Ohio Republi cans to refuse a united support to Mc Kinley in 1000 and therefore Hanna is cautioned to modify his expressions of rage This will be a severe dose for Hanna to swallow and in the long run he will manage to get even with his enemies with a result which will anything but pleasing to the adminis tration Hanna believes in concillia tion with an ax He has no idea of what the word diplomacy means and if the fight in Ohio does not wax fierce and dangerous all the portents of the present will have proved misleading Knives are sharpening for the con flict Charges and counter charges of bribery and bad faith are made Bush- nell is threatened with an investiga tion Foraker is abused and the merry war is merrilly progressing Good luck to the man with the longest knife and a plague on both their houses say the people Chicago Dispatch rIark Hannas Victory Hanna won He has won a glorious victory He is re elected United States Senator from Ohio by the magnificent majority of one He was entitled to eight but even the Ohio Republicans are growing ashamed of Hanna He is a great catch for the Republican party It shows what principle will do when backed up by enough boodle It also shows how dignified a President we have when he stood at the receiver of a Jong distance telephone keeping the wire hot in Marks interest This is indeed a free irnvprnmnnt when heaven and earth and the pow ers of darkness are turned loose to compass his election and then some of our Republican friends are pleased to call it a great triumph of manhood The President and his entire official pie counter were moved to help Mark No stone was left unturned to win this victory of manhood j O yes that was a glorious victory I It was so stupendous that it will turn Ohio Democratic at next falls Con gressional elections It will bring the Republican party into worse dishonor It will brand every man who voted for mm against ms wishes a hireling It will make the next President Demo cratic No Democrat has any reason to feel discouraged The political skies never looked brighter than at this moment Mark Hannas election is a great vindication for the Republican admin istration but it cost Mark Hanna a barrel of money to make er vindicate Only his transcendent his overpower ing abilities pulled Mark Hanna through Mark comes high but he Is cheap at any price His election makes Democratic success so much surer next fall A glorious victory like that Is worth more than 100000 votes Give us more glorious Mark Hanna victories Washington Iowa Democrat Bitter Lesson to New England Whatever explanation may be given of the present situation of the cotton industry of New England it is certain that increased protection is doing it no good What is called protection re stricts its markets tends to overpro duction and lower prices by hothouse competition at home and the more it gets of this kind of fostering the worse oft are those employed in it This lesson the operatives of Fall River New Bedford Lowell and Law rence are just now having pressed home and if the chiim of the mill own ers that they are forced by the condi tions of business to reduce wages is justiiied they ought to lay to heart tha same lesson New York Journal McKcunaH Bad Break Attorney General McKennas nause ating dispatch af congratulation to Ilanna was well calculated to please Ilanna and the President who has nominated him to be a Supreme Court Justice of the United States but it is said to have had a bad effect upon the Democratic side of the Senate chamber In the end it may prove to have im periled his confirmation Democratic Senators cannot be much blamed for being sickened MeKenna may think that Ilanna is virtue incarnate but that only shows what sort of a man MeKenna is Springfield Mass Re publican All in the Interest of Protection The pension expansion is necessary because the soldier vote is necessary to protection River and harbor and public buildings jobs are necessary to keep doubtful Congressional Iistricts in line for protection And all the other jobbery of the Nicaragua canal Ha waiian annexation and the like are nec essary to keep the influential promo ters friendly to the party Z protection Truly we are a famous country Whii the mrrit of all mentions must ii su bordinated to the necessity of burden ing ourselves with the protective tar iff Utica Observer McKinleys Humiliating Position The speech of Senator Wolcott leavas the President in an uncertain audiJt complimentary position It represents him as being opposed to the financial policy of Secretary Gage and opposed consequently to the whole currency re form movement He is simply being used by Messrs Wolcott and Chandler as a club publicly to maul Mr Gage in particular and the whole currency re form movement in general and amid the laughter and applause of the gal leries Mr Gage can stand it but can the President Springfield Mass Re publican Sowing the Wind The crowning idiocy of the tariff is that we are laying up trouble for our selves When the United States be comes the foremost manufacturing na tion other nations are going to retaliate by restricting the importation of our manufactures as they now restrict our- grain and meats Already South Amer ica is striking at our growing manu factures Europe will not long delay In keeping with the infernal policy of protecting the trusts we are sowing the wind It is inevitable that we shall have to reap the whirlwind Kansas City Times Itfodesty Taking Fecond Place In his thrilling telegram God reigns and the Republican party still lives Mark nanna paid the Almighty a neat compliment in allowing the fact of divine existence to take the precedence over the second proposition Kansas City Times Brief Comment The tidal of wave McKinley prosper ity in New England is the largest and thickest and saltiest and wpttf Mw known in that section Atlanta Con- MllUUOIl Mark Hanna gives the lie to those who term him a plutocrat There is after all a line of demarcation be tween a plutocrat and a corruptionist Atlanta Constitution The MeKenna victory in the Judici ary Committee and the Hanna victory in the Ohio Legislature will rejoice all the trusts and all the organized grab bers of the country St Louis Post Dispatch Mark Hanna has returned to Wash ington to resume the work of running the administration which was intei rupted for a season by circumstances over which by the judicious use or flooence he finally secured the nnr ps sary control Lafayette Ind Journal Oklahoma has unanimously declared in favor of Statehood and as she has the requisite population her petition Vs a reasonable one But her politics ic inclined toward Democracy and the powers that be are Republican so Ok lahoma will undoubtedly be obliged to wait Manchester N H Union Doubtless the spirit of warfare is still hot in the breasts of the Ohio Re publicans but we would advise the suc cessful side to beware of carrying on the struggle by measures based on the conviction that the Republican vote in that State is so large that it needs jh uuciug ittsDurg Dispatch V