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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1898)
Sources of Wealth There are two sources of wealth land and labor Gold and silver in their natural states are land which labor re duces to element of wealth Besides their natural adaptability as money metals they represent the days works of labor in reducing them But after all it is the open mint and government stamp that gives them currency in commerce as measures of valuer Their intrinsic value of which we hear so much lies in the stroke of the govern ment die which coins them just the same as it does in the greenback or the government gold or silver certificate Fresno Watchman Why Europe Is Uneasy - The reported uneasiness of the Euro pean nations over the prospect of the United States entering upon a career of territorial conquest is uncalled for but perfectly natural They have got itinto their heads that Mark Hanna Steve Elkins Pierpont Morgan and such like scalawags are the whole thing Vovjer hero while as a matter of fact tiilt iJj w ar a n uieir Vv ywy mm V Bg1 THIS IS DEMOCRACY A large number of people are asking what is the policy of the Democratic party on the Hawaiian Philippine and Porto Rico annexation It is impossi ble to answer this question at this time The Democratic party unlike the Re publican party is not operated by a junta It makes its expressions known through the people in national conven tion assembled evnry four years What the party as a whole believes about these questions will find expression in the platform of 3000 Until then every individual Democrat is free to express his opinion and to endeavor to find ex pression for it in the next national plat form This is Democracy free opin ion truth expressed by the majority We are of the opinion that the great masses of Democracy are favorable to the extension of the power of this re public We want no colonies but we do want coaling stations We want the Xicaraguan Canal and the Democratic party will construct it We want to drive England and every foroign power out of the West Indies and the Demo cratic party will do it We do not want an alliance with England or any other foreign power The Republican part favors an alli ance with England favors British partnership in the Xicaraguan Canal and British partnership in all our af fairsnational and international The next national convention of the Demo cratic party will draw the lines so plain ljr on these questions that every true American whether adopted or native born will rally to its purpose Nation al Democrat candidates for Congress Democratic success in returning members to the House of Itepresenta tives this fall will go a long way to ward securing Democratic victory in the Presidential contest of 1900 But there is danger even in success The danger will consist in sending unfit men to the lower house If cranks and impractical enthusiasts are elected they will do the party incalculable harm Democracy is of the people and for the people The party does not exist to further the ambitions of aspir ing politicians It has a prouder and more practical mission There are plen ty of wise careful and brilliant men in the party who can do it and the peo ple good service in Congress Such men should be nominated and elected Men with some one fixed idea to which all other things are secondary should not be given a place on any Democratic ticket Wild speeches in Congress in cendiarj utterances on the part of sin cere but mistaken fanatics can do no good and cannot fail to do much harm Conditions point toward Democratic success at the polls this fall That suc cess should not be turned into defeat by a mistaken choice of Congressional candidates Let the selection be made with extreme care and the result in 1900 will fully repay vthe efforts of the present Mark Hannas Case What is the United States Senate go ing to do with the bribery charges made against Mark Hanna These charges backed by the report of an in vestigation committee appointed by the Ohio State Senate have been laid be fore the upper house and now the peo ple of this country demand that prompt action be taken thereon Fortunately for Hanna there is a war though he asserted there would be none and that war has drawn attention from his dis graceful acts to matters of apparently larger moment Apparently they are larger but not so in reality There can be nothing of more importance to the people of this country than in the honesty and patriotism of its lawmak ers Foes without can be met and con quered but foes within are a constant and deadly menace to liberty It should not be forgotten that the report of the investigating committee declares Mark Hanna personally or through his agents guilty of bribery He is alleg ed to have bought his seat in the Uni ter States Senate as he would buy a seat in the board of trade Is the Sen ate going to pigeonhole this indictment against one of its members or is it go ing to investigate the charges and if it finds them sustained by the facts ex pel this man who has corrupted man in order that he might be in a position to corrupt the laws What is the Sen ate going to do anyhow might against the party that gives these Individuals refuge This war was started to free Cuba and to avenge the murderous deed of Feb 15 1898 The Philippines have fallen into our hands Porto Rico may become ours and we may take in Hawaii but there it stops God freed this nation from a laud grabber and oppressor that its people might achieve a glorious destiny Woe betide the political party that attempts to divert us from the cause which our All wise Providence has laid before us National Democrat From an Honest Republican It lias at last come to be realized that the foreign policy of the United States could not be made a party issue sub ject to abrupt changes as it has been in the past by whichever party hap pens to acquire power It should not be a policy of aggression or of greed or of unreasonable demands upon any other member of the family of nations but it should be a policy always de manding that America shall be given what is her just due that American opinions shall have just weight in all matters that concern her and that Americas rights shall never be ig nored trampled upon or contemptuous ly cast aside by any other power or combination of powers Cincinnati Commercial Tribune Greenbacks To the Editor It fieems strange to me at this day that there are found men advocating bank currency for those that are old enough know that next to the valor of our army and navy the greenbacks were the means that put down the most gigantic rebellion in the worlds history It must be that the press is bought up by the money power or they would not advocate a cause so detrimental to the best interests of the people This war if it continues long will probably compel the government to issue some more of these same shin plasters that the bloated bondholders hate so much May the time come soon that the only currency we have will have the stamp of the United States upon it The Dingley Fizzle The Dingley law is a failure Gus torn receipts in May 1S9T under the Wilson law 17000000 in May 1S9S under the Dingley law 134GG34 The new tax bill will serve to hide from general view the deficiencies of the Dingley law but its failure is never theless obvious The treasury deficit for May was 17800000 It arises in part of course from war expenditures These aside however the ordinary ex penditures woukl have been in excess of the ordinary receipts Dingleys lauded measure was a good thing for the monopolists whom it protected As a revenue law it is a failure Chicago Chronicle Fat Places for Those with Pulls Wanted immediately at the War De partment A few more sons nephews and brothers-in-law of politicians with a pull for commissaries of subsistence quartermasters and inspectors general of the v61unteer forces of the United States Knowledge and experience of military affairs not necessary Of ficers of the regular army and veterans of the civil war need not apply For further information apply in person or by letter to Russell A Alger Secretary of War Phialdelphia Recoord Another Trust in Operation The latest trust combination is that of the manufacturers of envelopes It boasts a capital of 17000000 to con trol the business of prices and break down undue compe tition This is the euphemistic way of saying that the new trust has organ ized to skin the public The tariff as sistance of the combination ranges from 20 to 35 per cent Without this protective encouragement it would be a foredoomed failure Pittsburg Post The Quicker the More Humane It is estimated that the expenses of one year of war will aggregate 379 000000 Not only will we be called up on to make sacrifices of money but of human life Let the bill of costs the expense account of blood and money be cut down to the minimum To strike hard and fast to fight incessantly and remorselessly is not only a wise nation al policy but a policy of humanity for us for Spain and the balance of the world Baltinipre Herald We Object No Democrat or Populist voted against any bill the sole purpose ot which was to provide revenues for the war Populist and Democrats do ob ject however to make the war an oc casion for bleediug a patriotic people for the benefit of the Wall street gang of blood suckers that always made the extremity and necessities of the na tion their opportunity- for the most out rageous swindling of the people Cleveland Recorder Wolcott a Traitor Wolcott of Colorado alleged silvet man and bimetallist voted with the goldites in the Senate Finance Com mittee to issue 300000000 of bonds This action shows where Wolcott stands on the money question Silver Knight Watchman Enemies of the People The man who favors interest-bearing notes to pay the war expenses is no friend of the people Bondage is slavery and he who favors bonds rath er than greenbacks is not a true loyal - WHICH HEADGEAR IS WORSE The Honored Hood of 1498 or the the Beautiful Structnre of 1808 About the time when Columbus was sailing the ocean blue as the readers used to say the ladies of Spain and of other places were wearing the head gear shown in the left of the picture It doubtless moves the observer to laughter now that honored hood of 1498 How absurd how insane and unesthetic every one will say Com- 1408 1898 pare it with the sane and beautiful structure on the right the hat of 1S9S Which will move the laughter of 2298 more the hood with its frightful in verted cornucopias or that huddled lot of feathers flowers and velvet which makes the outline of the wearers head something too grotesque to exist out side of a nightmare Indeed not to leap four centuries ahead which will be more comic in another decade WARNING TO YOUNG MEN The Pipe Face Results fromXong Con tinuance of Pipe Smoking Habit The bicycle face is old The bargain counter faee the quick lunch face and the war bulletin face are more recent SvESy The newest discov ery in this line is the pipe face which is grown by men who smoke pipes The staid old Medi cal Record saw if first and said this of it The habit of the pipe face smoking the pipe has a perceptible effect upon the face The pressure of the lips to hold the pipe in position increases the curvature of the lips round the stem and the mus cles become more rigid here than in other parts Thus the lips at a certain point become stronger and the pipe is unconsciously held in the same habit ual position After long continuation of the habit small circular wrinkles form parallel with the curvature of the lips around the stem These are crossed by finer lines caused by the pressure of the Mps to retain the pipe in position In the case of old men who have smoked a pipe for years the effect upon the lips is very marked Lesson in Palmistry There should be few lines in the lucky hand look at the left hand only but these should be neatly and deeply traced They rise from the wrist and run toward the fingers and form neith er islands nor labyrinths en route A hand of this sort tells of an even tem per and of a moderate amount of i i I m n 7 nl STUDY THE LIXES IX TOUR PALM sibility It is the hand of the egotist satisfied with himself indulgent to oth ers rejoicing in a good constitution en joying life Now for the unlucky hand The wavering uncertain confused lines and stars and crosses mean rest lessness indecision bursts of enthusk asm and depths of depression a hot head in fact above a hot heart Bootblacks in London The force of American demand is be ing once more exemplified in London by the placing at all important rail road stations of chairs in connection with the bootblack brigade This work is undertaken by the Central Shoe black Society There is already such accommodation provided at Viaduct station It appears that American gentlemen visiting London express surprise that they are expected to stand while they have their boots blacked as they are accustomed to sit during the operation at home The society has sixty boys who are lodged taught and partially boarded on the premises of the institution and there is an ingenious allotment of their earnings into three parts after an al lowance for food required out of doors one third being their own another third the societys and the remaining third going to their bank account on which they can draw for special pur poses Real Glory Mrs Fcasher I dont see why you should feel so stuck up just because your husband and two of your brothers have gone to war There are plenty of other women in the land who have just as many near relatives as you have at the front Mrs Kimmish That niay be so but not one of my folks has a commission Proof Enough Mrs Blouser after some years I suppose you dont love me Mr Blouser Dont loye you Dont 1 live in the same house with you Bos ton Transcript If there are any Spaniards in heaven we cut want to go there Scientists are curious husbands Once Mrs Agassiz screamed an finding a snake in her shoe in the morning Her husband asked what was the matter Why a little snake has just crawled out of my boot Only one There should have been three He had put them there to keep warm A certain medical specialist was in the habit of using a note book to assist his memory In the course of time his aged father died The worthy doctor attended the funeral as chief mourner with due solemnity At the close he was observed to draw out a note book and to cross out the words Mem Bury father A clergyman is quoted by Sir M E Grant Duff in his memoirs as authority for the story that on the occasion of Hallams going down to Richmond to be godfather to Tennysons eldest boj the historian asked What is to be the childs name Ilallam an swered the poet I dont like sur names for Christian names said the other Why not call him Alfred What if he were to turn out a fool was the reply Sir Francis Doyle was dining with his Grace the Duke of Devonshire when some one broached the queerness of American names Fancy such a name said somebody as Birdseje Birdseye said Doyle is surely as good as Cavendish Here is another tobacco story In colonial times the Virginians had a grievance and sent in a long winded petition for redress of fancied wrongs with the windup that their request was to be granted for the safety of their immortal souls Oh d n your souls replied the min ister grow tobacco The late Charles Pelham Villiers the father of the House of Commons used to tell a story of how he had been asking a Radical elector to support him Yes Ill support you But Wil lars we must have a diwision of prop erty Certainly replied the diplo matic candidate I should be quite in favor of such a measure But I am afraid that if property is divided there will not be enough for you and me and the rest of us After a momentary embarrassment the cheerful and re sourceful socialist hit on a remedy Why then Willars we must diwide again A young Southern attorney address ing the supreme court for the first time became hopelessly entangled in his ar gument and Justice Brewer thinking that he might relieve the embarrass ment of the counsel and give him a chance to make a fresh start inter rupted him and said 1 dont quite follow the learned counsel in his argu ment Perhaps if he will go back and repeat a little of what he has already said I may understand him better I havent been able to follow the thread of his argument I noticed you couldnt retorted the unabashed at torney It is a very complicated point of law but if you will give me your close attention I will try to make it so clear that you can understand it The date M Challemel Laeour sent as an ambassador from France to the Swiss confederation called in due form on his arrival upon the President The servant who opened the door said that his excellency was in the cellar bot tling wine but that the visitor could come in and wait The ambassador hung up his overcoat in the hall and went up into the salon Presently the President bustled in An ugly job monsieur drying his hands an ugly job But I always bottle my own wine Pardon my coat also it is a poor fit glancing down it is my sons to tell the truth- I hurried it on without look ing at it1 The ambassador bowed and smiled it jvas his own coat The in terview being over he went home shiv ering sent a messenger next day for the coat the coat which he hung up in the hall At the close of a busy day in Wall street it was found that the books of a certain New York bank did not balance Forty five cents was missing At 3 oclock not a trace of the sum had been discovered Dinner was sent in from a neighboring restaurant and the search was continued At midnight a pause was made for sandwiches and coffee Hello exclaimed one of the clerks the Blank national people are working to night too Guess they are in the same box Across the street the windows of the other bank were brilliantly lighted but the clerks were soon back at their work At about 1 oclock a loud rapping was heard at the front door Hello called the cashier through the keyhole what is the mat ter Matter you chumps Why we have got your blamed old 43 cents Go along home to bed Outside stood the crowd of clerks from the neighboring bank It appeals that in making a cash transaction one of the banks had overpaid the other 45 cents As a re sult half a hundred men had worked for nine hours and the search was only ended then because a bright clerk no ticing a light in the bank opposite shrewdly guessed the cause hunted up the cash slip and discovered the error In Small Quantities A good many people here live under their hats but a good many more bare ly escape belonging to that class be cause they own a little one hole gaa stove or a chafing dish and lodge in a house wliere cooking in rooms is part of the agreement While consulting a green grocer recently a smart looking woman entered and gave her order It called for one sweet potato two Irish pounces one turn- 1innn quarter head of cabbage and a pennys worth of lintels The raw material fol lowed her home in a basket borne by the grocer boj nave I many custom ers like her said the proprietor of the place repeating my query- Yes sir lots of em and some are mighty partic ular too especially when the bill runs up to a quarter But I cater to em properly and punctually as theres more profit in these small sales tlian yon imagine Its a sure thing that lot3 of people here dont live to eat simply because they have to hustle to keep up appearances and get far enough ahead to buy an icebox If the lid could bo lifted off city life the farm lands would be more thickly populated New York correspondence Pittsburg Dispatch Marshall the Gold Discoverer Had Marshall been a man of ordinary shrewdness or tact he could have made a fortune by taking up claims and working them by hard labor Instead he wasted his time and energies inef forts to prevent predatory attacks on his cattle and saw mill and caused so much ill feeling that ho was forced to seek safety by flight This experience soured his disposition and on his re turn he foolishly boasted of rich mines of which he knew but the location of which he refused to disclose Hungry prospectors eager to make their for tunes were driven nearly insane by such tantalizing and again Marshall was compelled to leave suddenly to save his life His mill was torn down and most of his property confiscated He returned built a small cabin near the scene of his great discovery and there lived the life of a recluse pros pecting in the mountains and eking out a poor living Efforts were made to secure a pension for the man who started the great de velopment of California and the Leg islature granted allowances for four years amounting in all to 7200 This was all the money that Marshall ever received from the State for a discovery that made scores of millionaires and that crowded into ten years the normal development of a half century Mar shall regarded himself as an ill used man He nursed his grievance and as a hermit he lived till Aug 10 ISSo when he was found dead in his lonely cabin His grave is on a hill not far from the site of his great discovery ind two years after his death the State erected a monument to his memory The mon ument is of granite is thirty one feet in height and is surmounted by a bronze statue ten and a half feet high repre senting a typical California miner Harpers Weekly The Most Beautiful Spot on Earth No matter how far you may have wandered hitherto or how many fa mous gorges and valleys you have seen wrotes John Muir in the Atlantic this one the Grand Canyon of the Colorado will seem as novel to you as unearth ly in the color and grandeur and quan tity of its architecture as if you had found it after death on some other star so incomparably lovely and grand and supreme is it above all the other de lightful canyons in our fire molded earthquake shaken rain washed and wave washed river and glacier sculp tured world It is about six thousand feet deep where you first see it and from rim to rim ten to fifteen miles wide And instead of being dependent for interest on waterfalls depth wall sculpture and beauty of park like floor like most other canyons no waterfalls are in sight and there is in reality no appreciable floor space The big river has room enough to flow and roar obscurely here and there groping its way as best it can like a weary murmuring overladen traveler trying to escape from the tremendous bewildering labyrinthic abyss while its roar serves only to mellow and deep en the silence Instead of being filled only with air the vast space between the walls is crowded with Natures grandest buildings a sublime city of them painted in every color of the rain bow and adorned with richly fretted cornice and battlement spire and tower in endless variety of style and archi tecture Every architectural Invention of man has been anticipated and far more in this grandest of Gods terres trial cities where awe fills the specta tors soul A Combination Coat Tent At the boating exhibition in London a firm of rain proof specialists show a novel exhibit which is called Nichol sons patent combination coat tent It consists of a long loose coat which can be comfortably and conveniently worn as a protection from rain or cold and can be readily converted into a cover ing which forms half a tent Thus two men traveling together by combin ing their coats can form a tent under which they can sleep at full length and with ample room It can also be fold ed up and carried on the back as a knapsack or rolled and carried round the shoulders The weight of each coat or half tent which each man would car ry is about Xy pounds It ought to be useful for Klondike explorers if for no body else Her Gentle Hint Mr Bilkins Say Maria what have you got that old photograph of me out on the mantel for Heavens and earth That dont look anything at all like me uow Mrs Bilkins I know it Henry but I ran across it up in the attic yester day and thought Id like to have it around where I could see once in a while what you used to look like when you smiled Lively Miss Westlake Do you take much interest in society when you are at home Young Mrs Willmerding of Philadel phiaOh yes I have very lively times at home My husband ana I belong to tl te iivreisive cliccier clubs Appetite Strength Without the First You Cannot Have tho Last Hoods Sarsaparilla gives both It gent ly tones the stomach and gives digestive power creates an appetite and invigo rates the system By making the blood rich and pure it strengthens the nerves and gives refreshing sleep Hoods Sarsaparilla Is Americas Greatest Medicine 51 sit for 5 Hoods Pills are the favorite cathartic 25c THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS is due not only to the originality and simplicity of the combination but also to the care and skill with which it is manufactured by scientific processes known to the California Fig Svrup Co only and we wish to impress upon all the importance of purchasing the true and original remed As the genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co only a knowledge of that fact will assist one in avoiding the worthless imitations manufactured by other par ties The high standing of the Cali fornia Fig Svkup Co with the medi cal profession and the satisfaction which the genuine Syrup of Figs has given to millions of families makes the name of the Company a guaranty of the excellence of its remedy It is far in advance of all other laxatives as it acts on the kidneys liver and bowels without irritating- or weaken ing them and it does not gripe nor nauseate In order to get its beneficial effects please remember the name of the Company CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO SAX FRANCISCO Cal LOUISVILLE Ky NEW YORK N FRIENDLY WARNING The Old Man Had a Personal Interest in the Flirtation The young man in the street car with the swell suit and gold headed cane was trying to flirt with the girl oppo site when the old man on his left nudged him with his elbow and hoarse ly whispered Young man pause and reflect Are you speaking to me sir de manded the young man Yes right to you but Ive got such a hard cold that I cannot say much Let me repeat that you should pause and reflect What for You are trying to flirt with that young gal sir And is it any of your business It is sir Excuse my hoarseness 1 kicked the bed clothes off the other night and got cold I want to Say to you sir that it is my business sir Sup pose that you succeed in attractin that gals attention Well what of it She might be flattered and flirt back though I dont think shes very flirta tious It might lead to a case of love and love to marriage Youd better attend to your own bus iness sir replied the young man Thats what Im a doin sir Scuse me while I blow my nose Yes sir In attendin right to my business Then let mine alone Then j ou let mine alone Fm that gals father Oh you are Yes I am and I dont want no more foolin around Ive got four sons-in-law jest about your shape and am sup portin the hull gang of em and afore you saddle me with a fifth 3 oud better pause and reflect It might be the last straw and Id turn the hull crowd out to dig fur fodder under the snow banks Travel as an Educator The usefulness of travel for rightly trained and constituted lads is so gen erally recognized says Scribners that it is not at all unusual for parents who wish to give their sons every chance possible to increase in wisdom to offer them the choice between spending sev eral years in Europe or going to college at home Each of us knows one or two men who have pursued education in this way and we are used to compare them with their college bred coevals and pass opinions as to which method of intellectual development resulted best Every year there are lads who were fitted for college and perhaps en tered but went abroad To compare them six or eight or ten or twenty years later with their schoolmates who went on and took their college tegree is perhaps the most available test of the respective efficiency of the two methods and it seems safe to say that according to that test the educational fruits of travel and study abroad com pare very well with the products ofthe domestic tree of knowledge A Nobleman in Exile Phidalelphia boasts of a teacher of noble blood Count Antanas Alexan dra wicz Jocis who has charge of one of the night schools He is a Lithuan ian While a student in the University of St Petersburg he was arrested for sedition and sentenced to exile in Sibe ria He escaped was captured again and escaped again after a desperate fight and after conducting a Liberal papr ia Tilsit Germany finally came to I jjwiuo y A r Ji v V i ft V l i A