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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1898)
I Y - i FOR SUNDAY READING THE GOSPEL OF GRACE IS HERE EXPOUNDED Words of Wisdom and Thoughts Worth Pondering Upon Spiritual and Moral Subjects Gathered from the Religious and Secular Press Satans Quest a km N EASY fashion is prevalent of -- -ascribing to sa lan every misfor tune which be- 1 falls the Christian in his daily life when the real is sue in which the devil is interested is where he be leaguers the soul Take away virtue from purity and what is left Take away a mans rep utation and what is his career worth to him Take away courage from a -soldier and of what avail is his dis cipline Take away the faith once committed and the devil will turn over the premises to a legion of spirits to Tevel and ravage in The trial of our faith is much more to the point than all else It may be lost through be reavement or robbed in prosperity It may be surrendered for a mess of pot tage or on some poorer collateral It may be stolen through weakness or snatched with impunity All the worxd may be offered in exchange for ones soul Some people think that the scene in Martin Luthers life was the imag inary effect of his overwrought nervous nature when he hurled his inkstand at the devil But it was far more real Because the soul of the great reformer was in the throes of a fearful issue It was the crisis of Protestantism in Western Europe and that meant the supreme moment of the worlds new birth from medievalism The tempter was seeking with audacity to rob Lu ther of his loyalty and he Is on the same quest to day Child of Jesus he is seeking thy soul Rams Horn Dollars and Sense Money without sense is like a single ox floundering with a double yoke and -a double load we oftentimes under value the patriotic philanthropic and religious value of dollars They do not go to war in the defense of our coun try but they do furnish the sinews of war It is a powerful agency for good Its ano rives are often misunderstood A man may combine a desire for riches Willi the very best of motives and the most honorable means of acquiring the varae He should not be so impatient to get riches that he shall crush others in the gelling It is not money that is the root of ail evil but the love of mon ey which is a root of many kinds of -evil It makes a great difference whether a man has money or money has him Gambling is among the unquestioned evils and the indisputable follies of hu man life Therefore young man have ense enough not to risk so much as xl despised nickel in a game of chance The principle of gambling is all wrong It is an attempt to get something for nothing What you seem to gain to lay you will more than lose to morrow Ilev J P Brushingham Prof Scheils Discovery The announcement of Pere Scheil the French assj riologist who has glr eu so much time to study of the collec tions in the museum at Consitantiinople that he had discovered a Babylonian -account of the deluge much older than Moses was so interesting to the Bibli cal student that we asked the discover er for sn account of it He kindly con sented and his account wall be of no little interest Every Biblical scholar knows that -the Hebrew account of the deluge found in Genesds has been paralleled by two Babylonian accounts one that -of Berosus a Babylonian historian whose narrative has been handed down to us by early Greek Christian writers and the other that found on Assyrian tablets by George Smith Poth jlrto and yet both differ from the Gene- -sis story Biblical critics have ddffered -as to the age of the Biblical story the more conservative holding that being written by Moses it is older than his time and was incorporated by him into the Book of Genesis while the newer I school of clitics were umtfi the discov ery of the tablets in clined to believe that the story was borrowed from Nineveh or Babylon at the time of the captivity or not long be fore it at which time the Book of Gen esis was written The discovery by George Smith of a full poetical account of the deluge on tablets in King Assurbanipals library tit Nineveh was of immense interest Init it did not assure us of the age of -the deluge story among the inhabitants -of the Euphrates Valley for it was on I tablets written in Assurbanipals reign that is scarce GOO years before Christ To be sure these were said to be cop ied from tablets in Babylonian libra ries but we did not know how old these original tablets were Besides the del uge story was on the eleventh tablet in a long poem compiled in twelve books one for each month in a quite aitificial way and might belong to a compara i late period of religious and syncretism The original Baby lonian tablets from which the Assyri an copies were made were much de slred Now Pere Scheil has made the covery To be sure the record on the tablet does not amount to much It is such a fragmentary bit but it is large enough to make it -sure that the tablet most fortunately rthe most important part of all is preserved the colophon with the date It is dated in the reign of Ammi zaduga King of Babylon and we know that he reigned about 2140 B C That is we have here a precious bit of clay on which was written a poetical story of the deluge seven cen turies before Moses and about the time of Isaac or Jacob That is enough to make the discovery memorable We learn positively that the story of the deluge was familiar to the common people of Babylonia and therefore of all tiie East from Syria to Persia New York Independent Charity in Judgment Hasty judgment of the actions of oth ers is dangerous and often unjust We measure ioo much by some superficial appearance and condemn hastily when if we but knew and understood the motives and reasons we would warmly approve We sometimes bay of some one That pain sorrow or loss has not deeply affected him But we do not know It is like the death of a few of the soldiers in front of a regi ment The broken ranks close up again into the solid phalanx and the loss is not apparent There may be no dis organization no surrender no craving for pity no display of despair It is like the calm dazzling play of the waves warmed by the mornings sun after a night of storm and disaster there is no sign of the wreck the tide has carried the debris away far out on the ocean the treacherous water has swallowed all signs and tokens of the nights awful work We see only the fairness of the morning not the1 suffering of the night Let us be char j itable in our judgment and condemn not when we do not know William George Jordan Over Indulgence to Children One of the greatest mistakes that pa rents make is the over indulgence to children Being too indulgent is a se rious mistake and In time works in jury The child who has his every wish and whim gratified grows up self willed and arrogant and overbearing which at times is a source of trouble to every one in the house He looks upon his parents as menials loses that respect love and obedience due the par- ent and when he goes out in the world to make his living he finds that thei world can get along without him and will not put up with his nonsense This is where the Injury works He then discovers but too late that his training has been wrong Therefore parents see that you rear your chil dren that they may be a benefit to themselves if to nobody else Requirement We live by faith but faith is not the slave Of text and legend Bensons voice and Gods Natures and Dutys never are at odds What asks our Father of his children save Justice and mercy and humility A reasonable service of good deeds Pure living tenderness to human needs Reverence and trust and prayer for light -to see The Masters footprints in our daily ways No knotted scourge nor sacrificial knife But the calm beauty of an ordered life Whose very breathing is unworded praise A life that stands as all true lives have stood Finn rooted in the faith that God is good John G Whittier The Dead Line In the ministry there is a great deal of talk of men reaching the dead line No man ever came to -that point unless he chose to come to it A dead line is not necessary in the ministry any more than in any other profession amd will never be approached if the mrhi istei devotes himself as thoroughly to his work as the lawyer the physician and the merchant do to theirs Pres byterian Banner Gods Work on His Footstool A successful Presbyterian mission to the Jews is in White chapel London The Christian Endeavor Society of the American church in Berlin has un dertaken to support an Armenian for a year It is reported from Bombay that seventy-five of Pundita Ramabais famine widows and orphans have been bap tized at Poona A school for Catholic deaf mutes of the Boston archdiocese is to be opened at Jamaica Plain under the care of Mgr Magennis Rev Cyrus Hamlin D D founder of Robert College Constantinople has been a missionary in the Turkish em pire for forty years At Tacoaia Wash a strangers tea under the auspices of the Y M C A is held every Sunday at 5 oclock and is proving a great success An ecumenical missionary confer ence to be held in this country in 1900 is contemplated by the various mission ary societies of America and Europe Racine Wis has been selected by the United Danish Evangelical Luteran churches of America as the place for locating the Danish American college Rev K Miyama the leading temper ance worker among the Christian min isters of Japan was recently appointed temperance evangelist to co operate with Miss Parrish Rev William Carey great grandson of the pioneer Protestant missionary to India is the author of the first publica tion of the new United Society of Chris tian Endeavor for India At Silver City Idaho a mining camp Where there are nine saloons and no church a Christian Endeavor Society of twenty nine members is doing good work in establishing a reading room A young Sioux Arthur Tibbets is studying at Springfield Mass to fit himself for secretary of the Y M C As of the tribe Efforts are being made to organize Y M C As among the Crows of Montana and the Nez Perces c LORDS PRAYER Br BOOTH James ONeill Relates a Story of the Eminent Tragedian I think the most thrilling experience I ever passed through was in New York city one time when quite by accident a number of foreign diplomats from Washington a few American states men some prominent New Yorkers and one or two of us professionals were gathered together in a smoking room of the Fifth Avenue Hotel when some body asked Booth who by the merest chance happened to be there if he would not repeat the Lords prayer for the assemblage 1 was sitting not far from the tragedian when he fixed his eyes upon the man who made the re quest I think that it was Lord at that time British minister to the United States and I shall never forget the peculiarly searching expres sion that Booth shot out of his dark eyes They seemed to penetrate the very soul of the man at whom they were directed and then as if satisfied resumed their wonted vacuous density We were all breathless with anxiety at least I was for seldom would he ever recite off the stage but at length lie arose walked to a little cleared space at one end of the room and be gan a recital that even after all these years makes me thrill through and through He said Our Father and never before had those two words been clothed with the majesty and reverence with which his look and tone enveloped them And then he carried us into ce lestial regions our spirits seeming to leave our bodies and to follow his be hest lie lowered us into depths too dark for Dantes genius to conceive or Dores pen to portray the power exerted over us was simply unnatural His musical ly resonant tones sounded sloAvly through the room and as he swayed his lithe body Ave unconsciously followed his motion It was something horrible beautiful terrible fascinating I can not find words in the language to ex press it There are none I would not go through the scene again for a thousand worlds and yet if I had the opportunity I would brave any danger to hear it once more Do you understand Those few score words as delivered by Edwin Booth were the most powerful argument for Christianity that I ever heard and could every being on the face of the globe have heard them there would no Jonger be atheism Booth strode out of the room when he finished and a sim ultaneous sigh of relief arose while without a word we stole away singly and on tiptoe and I do not believe that any of us think of that thrilling even ing without a shudder He was a great man a great man KaDsas City Times RAMS HORN BLASTS Warning Notes Calling the Wicked to Kepentancc X 1 HE devil hates a good book The true proph e t is seldom a prophet to his own people When the con science is drug ged Satan is ready for settle ment If stolen dollars jm ys wouiu Durn mere nuuiu ue some hot pockets A man without a creed of some kind is a man without a moral backbone As long as the devil remains unchain ed the Christian must expect to be tempted There is a vast difference between speaking one to another and one about another It is one thing to survey yourself with pride and quite another to ex plore your heart with humility Without first making everything else God would have been without a lan guage with which to speak to man Treatment of the Alaskan Doff The Alaskan dog is almost human in intelligence He weighs about 100 pounds Heavily laden he will travel sixty miles a day With twenty dogs in a team no two of them are in a straight line from the driver When unhitched for the night they pile upon the first blanket that is thrown upon the snow and there they stay When you crawl into your sleep ing bag and pull a robe over it the dog will get under the robe Unless you are careful he will be inside of the bag in the morning Their endurance is phenomenal and they are capable of strong affection are great fight ers A traveler who recently returned from Alaska says of the treatment ac corded these faithful animals The whip that is used on them is the cruelest thing of its kind that is known to man Thirty feet in length and two inches thick near the short handle it has a lash ten feet long that cuts like a knife The Russian knout isnt in it When a dog is struck you hear a sharp yelp and then your sleigh whirls past a bit of fur or possibly a piece of bloody skin lying on the snow St Toul Dispatch Wall Paper Oddity Zinc wall paper is the latest oddity The zinc is attached to the wall by a cement invented for the purpose and is made to imitate marble The sur face is enameled so as to render it per manent or washable It is claimed for this new departure in decorative mate rial that while it is as permanent as tiles or marble it is much cheaper and can be as easily put on as ordinary wall paper An old bachelor says that marriage Is a permanent injury resulting from falling in love The judge never sits on the jury but he frequently docs on the attorney OUB BOYS AND GIRLS THIS IS THEIR DEPARTMENT OF THE PAPER Quaint Sayings and Cnte Doings of the Little Folks Everywhere Gathered and Printed Here for All Other Lit tle Ones to Bead Mammas Help Yes Bridget has gone to the city And papa is sick as you see And mamma has no one to help her But two-year-old Laurence and me Youd like to know what Im good for Copt to make work and tumble things down I guess there aint no little girlies At your house at home Dr Brown Ive brushed all -the crumbs from the table And dusted the sofa and chairs Ive polished the hearthstone and fender And swept off the area stairs Ive wiped all the silver and china And just dropped one piece on the floor Yes doctor it broke in the middle But I spect it was cracked before And the steps that I save precious mam ma Youd be sprised Dr Brown if you knew She says if it wasnt for Bessie She couldnt exist the day through Its Bessie bring papa some water And Bessie dear run to the door And Bessie love pick up the playthings The baby has dropped on the floor Yes doctor Im siderably tired Ive been on my feet all the day Good byl well perhaps I will help you When your old Bridget goes off to stay Southern Presbyterian fhed Their Clothes in Winter When the boys and girls are putting on more clothing to keep out the cold a curious rock crab that lives in the salt water along the New England coast sheds its shell These little creatures begin casting their hard shells in De cember and the shedding process con tinues for two months After the hard shells are cast the crabs are quite soft and are considered very desirable for the table A Writer Whom Boys Love Jules Verne the French author who wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues Un der the Sea and many other tales of adventure eats almost nothing but eggs and herbs it is said He is now nearly 70 years old and is in good health living in Amiens France He has written six books more than he is years old He arises early in the morn ing and wrorks steadily till 11 oclock Strangely enough though he has writ ten many books of travel Mr Verne has not traveled much but has secured his information from reading stories of the travels of others An Ostrichs Appetite An ostrich will eat almost anything It swallows oranges small turtles fowls kittens and bones A South African writer tells of one swallowing a box of peaches tennis balls several yards of fencing wire and half a dozen cartridges One followed the workmen and picked up the wire as they cut it Most frequently the ostrich does not swrallow each dainty separately but collects several in its throat and then swallows them all at once Sometimes it is strangled Its windpipe is then cut the obstacle taken out and the wound sewed up when all goes well again Two Masqueraders These two unique and saucy dogiets hail from Australia They have the air of nonchalant lightheadedness which is fetching in anything living and from their attire have evidently EAXO AXD SCAM I been attending a canine fancy dress ball Unlike most animals they do not object to be dressed up and for that reason are especial pets with the chil dren fortunate enough to live near the owner of Bang and Scamp who has a pretty home in Adelaide From Corn Husks to Clothes Clothing made of corn husks attract ed so much attention at a fair held last fall in Atchison Kas that it is planned to have a similar exhibit at the great fair to be held in Paris in 1900 These costumes are so attractive many of them that any girl might well be proud to appear in one Dresses of the daintiest designs imaginable and with any number of delicate frills and flounces were shown They proved so effective that a new Industry has sprung up in Atchison It is called corn millinery and those who prac tice it make charming looking hats for women and girls from corn husks One of the most successful corn milliners recently sent a husk hat to the wife of President McKinley Under Water to the Pole An engineer of Baltimore Md makes the claim that a submarine boat can be propelled under the great fields of ice that have thus far stopped northern navigators from reaching the north pole This gentleman Albert Riedel proposes to build a boat for the jour- aey at once and to start from where in upper Canada Those who believe in Mr Riedels plan claim that the boat will have to travel under GOO miles of ice before an open sea around the north pole is reached They believe that enough open places will be found on the jour ney to enable the boat to go to tho surface to replenish the air It is pro posed to run the boat by electricity pro vided by storage batteries Infantile Humor Whats veal Benny Oh its the part of the cow we eat before she grows up Visitor And who are you my little man Cuthbert with conscious pride Im the babys brother Grandmamma What are you doing in the pantry Tommy Oh Im just putting a few things away gramma Mother Now Jamie you know that Adam and Eve were driven out of the Garden of Eden Jamie In a phaeton or a carriage mamma Say grandpa asked little 5-year-old Minnie does the good people all die young So they say replied the old gentleman Well grandpa con tinued the little lady if thats true jou must be an awful wicked man Little Jeanie the 3-year-old pet was playing with her rag doll in the front room of her home not long since when suddenly her quick eye rested upon one of those large shiny black bugs which occasionally fly indoors on sum mer nights and was now slowly crawl ing along the carpet The little ob server came running out to the kitchen with great excitement exclaiming Mamma mamma theres a prune in the parlor Come and see it walk EXPOSITION FEATURES Curious Attractions France Is Prepar ing for 1900 While there have been an almost in finite number of suggestions for fea tures at the exposition and the ingenu ity of all -the inventors and engineers in Prance has been engaged in planning spectacular effects the result is disap pointing The great architectural fea ture as stated by Wm E Curtis in a letter to the Chicago Record will be the bridge erected in honor of Alexan der III The most conspicuous freak will be a huge telescope forty feet long with a lens six feet in diameter which it is said will bring the moon within one meter or three feet of the observer This has been determined upon Another feature will be a panorama of the world which will revolve on rollers around a pyramid upon which several thousand spectators can be seat ed and will represent the most inter esting portions of the globe The spec tator will start from Paris and travel eastward through Europe Asia and Africa across Bering straits through the United States and then through Canada Greenland Iceland and Great Britain to his starting point Ellsee Reclus the great geographer has de signed a globe 40 feet in diameter which will accurately represent the earths surface The interior will be filled with museums representing the history and ethnology of the universe There will be an old Parisian street of three centuries ago and other exhi bitions suggested by the peculiar hab its customs and manners of life of for eign countries There is a proposition to revive the famous wooden horse which played so important a part in the siege of Troy an Egyptian city with a representation of the romance of Antony and Cleopatra figures among the propositions a cafe in a tunnel be neath the waters of the Seine hasjejm planned and a Milwaukee brewing company bus applied for a concession to eiQCt a monumental barrel of beer of glass 52 feet in length and 27 feet in diameter from which the beer will be drawn through several hundred fau cets Ancicnt Rain Prognostioator On the old Ritchie place which abounds with relics of early days is an old log springhouse built at the begin ning of the century by John Ritchie the inventor of the sour mash process of making whisky says the Bardstown Record A never failing stream of ice cold water flows into this old house forming a pool several feet deep Here since John Ritchie left Lynns fort and built himself an independent dwelling it is alleged a giant bull frog has had its home As the frog family is en dowed with great longevity it is said by those who ought to know that it is reasonable to believe that the frog is the same one which took up its resi dence in the Ritchie springhouse in pioneer times What lends color to this theory is the fact that there has never been but one frog seen in the neighborhood of the old spring and Mr Stephen Ritchie now a man well advanced in years states that this same frog or one very similar to it had its home in the spring when he was a child and that he has often heard his grandmother term the frog her rain sign The frog is said to be of vast proportions with a thunder ous voice that can be heard a great dis tance It is very active and shows no evidence of its century or more of years He Knew the Rest Tommy said the younger lady sharply as her little brother opened the door softly and was about to enter the parlor you shut that door from the outside and then take yourself off to bed at once Then she went on No Mi Borem it is with the deep est regret that I say it but I can only be a sister to you and Never mind the rest of it Miss Chil ton interrupted Mr Borem sadly I shall follow the example of my brother and take myself off to bed at once And crawling into bis fur lined ulster he lighted a cigarette and waded out into the gelid nisht SILVER SENTIMENT t i Et Still Has a Strong Hold on thot People who Think for Themselves War talk has not diverted the attend lion of the people from the considera dou of the political battle which was fought between the forces of gold1 monometallism and bimetallism in the lutunin of 1S90 William J Bryan has oeen given a most enthusiastic recep ion in the South and has demonstrat ed to the dismay of the gold clique hat silver sentiment is deeper ana broader and wider more enthusiastic and more earnest than ever before In discussing the triumphant tour of Bryan the Washington Post a news paper devoted to the gold cause and op posed to the Democratic candidate for President in 1S3U says Those emi nent mugwumps and cuckoos who are trying to make themselves believe that Mr Bryan is a dead issue will do well to take careful note of the manner in which the people receive him every where along the route of his present journey There can be no sort of doubt that Mr Bryan received in New Or leans a welcome of unparalleled warmth and enthusiasm Those Demo crats who refused to accept the Chi cago platform hi 1S0G were as zealous rnd as cordial in their attentions as the other Democrats a vast majority who stood by the party and its candi date Under the circumstances it would perhaps be just as well for the gold clique journals to restudy the the ory that silver sentiment is dead Differences of opinion among Demo crats are being harmonized and Secre tary Gage has been forced to admit that the battle of standards will have to be fought over again in 1900 This is not a propitious time to discuss polit ical questions but it is just as well to call attention to the fact that rumors- of war or even Avar Itself cannot di vert the thoughts of the people from the vital question of bimetallism Chi cago Dispatch Michigan and Iminber Dntics The furniture manufacturers of Mich igan are turning against the DIngley law They point to the disappearing orests of that State and then to the new 2 duty on lumber which shuts out the Canadian product upon which they are coming to depend It is a duty ex cellently desigued to stimulate foresc slaughter in the United States but the rrouble in this case is that there are few more forests left to slaughter So a united protest against the Dingley duty goes to Washington from the very State which next to Maine was sup posed to be a chief beneficiary ofthe imposition Springfield Mass Repub lican Ingalis as a Populist It would be a sight for gods and men to see ex Senator John J Ingalis of Kansas running for Congress as a Pop ulist candidate for the purpose ot over coming a big Republican majority in the first Kansas district If Ingalis can down his former party in such a struggle and Is willing to do so the opportunity should certainly be given And whether he can or not it might be well to encourage the effort The ex ample would be valuable to many per sons not yet fully awake to the versa tility of politicians of the Ingalis type or to the wild and weird possibilities of Kansas politics St Louis Republic The Boodlers Pet Stronghold Republican and mugwump spouters love to talk of the depravity of New York under Tweed and other Tam many bosses but they never refer to Philadelphia where boodleism and alt sorts of knavery have flourished for years and where the people are worse governed and more shamefully plun dered than those of any otbT great city in the country- The developments jIoTT Uiaklng of rascality in the Council of PhilacfeWa are only in line with similar revelations whfell bave 1en made from time to time for many ycsil past In Philadelphia boodling has been a fine art for more than a genera tion Indianapolis Sentinel Sordid Commercialism Scored Boss Hannas insolence was fittingly rebuked by Senator Thurston The high priest of sordid commercialism ready to sacrifice every thing to gain stands for a group which is struggling to make itself a class and a caste a group already laden with iniquity ami which is now bent upon turning an ig noble penuy out of national perplexity Senator Thurston dad well to rebuke these men and his words will be cheer- ed by every honest heart by every true patriot by every man who hates wickedness and loves the light St Louis Post Dispatch Begun Under Democratic Auspices The Philadelphia Press speaks of the development of the modern navy as begun under President Harrison These are times when even party or gans can afford to be fair The devel opment of the modern navy was be gun under the first Cleveland adminis tration and the credit for the Inaug uration of the good work is due to Will iam C Whitney Washington Post Disgusted Republican Organ Thepersistent interference of the pro Spanish party represented in Washing ton chiefly by Secretaries Bliss and Gage is having a disturbing effect both on Congress and on the people Ameri can citizenship cannot endure the thought that a question of principle and duty can be determined or consid ered by the profits or loss of stock speculators or of anybody else New York Press Patriotism of the Highest Order The attitude of the Democratic party from the inception of the Cuban crisis to the present moment has been iir the highest degree patriotic Mere con siderations of partisan advantage have been utterly lost sight of and the Dem ocratic party has stood as one man in favor of a policy which would main tain the national honor and be worthy of the best traditions of the American people Indianapolis Sentinel - - n 1 t r na 1 hi jl ii 1 l m l 1 1