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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1898)
W r X r X -- sff4SaT oF 3lr3 OBJECT LESSON FOR I898 The extraordinary shortage of food supplies iii Europe due to the failure of crops during the season of 1898 and the failure of crops during the season of 189S In countries which compete with the United States such as India Argentine Republic and Australia ac counts for the enormous increase of our exports of wheat flour corn and other food products during the eleven months of the fiscal year ending June 1 These exports have been large beyond all precedent and were looked for bjT those familiar with the situation The following table shows the value of ex ports of wheat flour and corn since 1893 from which the volume of this years business may be understood Year Wheat Flour Corn 1893 93534970 75494347 245S7511 1894 59407041 09271770 30211154 1895 43S05CG3 51051928 14050707 1S90 39709S0S 52025217 37830SG2 1897 59910178 55914347 54087150 1S9S 120721512 03500233 57000270 It must be remembered that while this table gives the exports for the entire twelve months of each preced ing year it gives them for only eleven mouths of the present fiscal year which shows that we exported about 0 more breadstuffs in eleven months of 1S9S than we did the entire year of 1S97 which was itself a year -of phenomenally large exports The wheat crop in India and Argentine Re public ripens in the winter As the crop of 1S90 7 was an almost entire failure in those countries resulting in the great famine in India the latter part of the fiscal year of 1S97 was nat urally affected resulting in a larger de mand from this country It is fortun ate for us and the world at large that the Almighty blessed us with an abun dant harvest and thus filled our gran aries so that we could feed the world otherwise the distress would have been great It was also fortunate for the farmers of this country however un fortunate it may have been to the poor of foreign countries and the under paid workingmen of our own that this Interposition of Divine Providence -came in time to alleviate for the time being the disastrous effects of the gold standard Otherwise with the low and continually depreciating prices which prevailed during 1S90 and the early months of 1S97 the mind fails to conceive the condition which would have resulted It is noticeable how ever that the advance in prices has been almost wholly confined to food products and the increase in our ex ports have been confined to this class -of the products of the farm Thus it happens as previously shown that while our exports of cotton were in lulk somewhat larger the amount of money received therefor was less than for the crop of the previous year Of -all products perhaps pig iron comes nearest being the barometer of the price of labor It is almost wholly a product of labor A fall therefore in the price of pig iron indicates to an al most dead certainty a lowering of the wages of those who produce it Al though the use of steel and other prod ucts of pig iron have been enormously extended the price of this aside from food products the most important of human productions has steadily James M Swank editor of the Bulletin of Philadelphia the organ of the American Iron and Steel Associa tion recognized as the best authority -on everything pertaining to this prod uct in the United States says in the June 15 issue By correspondence and by consult ing quotations in the pig iron centers we have ascertained that an average price for our pig iron production was -1040 per ton in 1S9G and 9S5 in 1S97 This shows a loss of Gl cents per ton in the price As there have been no im provements of value cheapening the process of producing pig iron during the year this 01 cents a ton may be said to be taken from the price of labor Thus while staple food products have advanced under the influence of the extraordinary foreign demand the price of the other great staples have declined as a result of a still appre ciating measure of values We have -always said that prosperity must begin at the farm and when the farmer gets good prices for his products all classes -share his good fortune with him The small measure of prosperity the coun try has been enjoying during 1S9S is due wholly to the advanced price of the products of the farm used as food The farmer gets more money for his products this year consequently he had money to spend after paying his fixed with which to the -charges buy prod ucts of other peoples labor this indus trial activity is stimulated The gold standard advocates ever ready to mag nify the importance of the money leud er contended that national prosperity was dependent upon ability to borrow and that while foreign and domestic money lenders were frightened by sil ver agitation prosperity would not -come All that was needed was to re store confidence to Shylock and all vould be well The object lesson in the experience of 1S9S should therefore be a good one TJie Chicago Platform If the Democrats do not control the next Congress by an overwhelming ma jority it will be because of the inef ficiency and timidity in leadership The reaction certain to be forced by the rad icalism of extreme plutocracy has al ready begun and it is making itself felt in an unmistakable way What it means is illustrated in these comments on the proposed Anglo American imperialism and on the bond deal adopt ed the other day by the Free Coinage Republicans of Kansas in their plat form We believe this Government is capable of attending to its own affairs without the aid of any other nation on the earth We believe entangling alliances with foreign nations to be inimical to the best interests of this nation and that the teachings of Washington having proven so wise in the past should be strictly ob served in the future and for this reason we are opposed to the suggested Anglo- I American alliance The Republican party uavmg ouraineu an unnecessary Dona is sue in place of the bimetallism it prom ised to secure we demand that the ad ministration proceed to prosecute the present war which it has so reluctantly undertaken The pace set by Admiral Dewey suits us We believe that manhood not money should be the controlling factor of this nation and that all corporate interest should be under strict Government con trol and to this end we extend our co operation to any party that honestly and fearlessly attempts to restore the affairs of the Government to the people In Kansas in Nebraska in South Da kota and throughout the West gener ally plutocratic radicalism in the con duct of the war has broken down Populism on one hand and on the other has destroyed all pos sibility that the Democratic party can be controlled by the Palmer Buckner bolters Instead of changing the issues of the Chicago platform the bond deal ers and imperialists at Washington are forcing the fullest co operation among all the elements which united in full support of Bryan in the last campaign Hanna Morgan Whitney Gage Mc Kinley and Rothschild are co operating to force a more complete and effective union of all forces of opposition to plu tocracy than seemed possible six months ago The Chicago platform stands for the constitution and the laws for justice for liberty for Amer icanism for civilization Its principles are about to receive an overwhelming vindication Cant Ignore Cubans If what is called President McKIn leys plan were put into operation it would nullify the purpose of war The insurgents demand that the govern ment to be set up at the end of the war shall be their government In this they are right There are but two govern ments in Cuba One is the Spanish the other is that of the Cuban republic And unless we are fighting for one or the other we are intruders The United States will have no right to ignore the present Cuban republic when the Spanish troops are driven out of Cuba By the almost unanimous vote of both houses of Congress two years ago the Cuban republic was recognized Both political parties in their platforms of 1S90 expressed their sympathy for it in its struggle for independence Chi cago Public Current Notes Not one among the New York bond buying bank syndicates has volunteer ed his services to the country Fresno Expositor There is no doubt of our ability to strike off Cubas bonds whether we can escape having bonds fastened upon ourselves is the problem Cleveland Recorder Why in a republic should an officer in the army receive any higher pay or any different food than that of the pri vate soldier There is a very decided difference at present and it is an idea borrowed from the old monarchies Oregon went Republican by a big ma jority They vote for the party that brings the high price for wheat And wheat went down right after election What a terrific lot of trouble the voting king has in fixing himself out with the good times Col John Jacob Astor and the other Fifth avenue joung men in the com missary department have made a ter rible failure in the apparently simple matte of getting decent food to the soldiers with unlimited money to do it with But the officers are feeding on the fat of the land Oregon is a great wheat producing State and Oregon recently gave the gold bugs a vote of confidence but that was before the price of wheat dropped 50 per cent How do the Oregon wheat raisers like the situation now Per haps no better than Oregon silver min ers and the Southern cotton growers This is the first war attempted under the single standard and it is the first time war taxes have ever been levied while at the same time the supply of money in circulation was reduced The result of course is a lower price for farm products than would prevail if silver were coined and greenbacks is sued to pay war expenses thus ex panding the volume of currency in stead of contracting it by a huge bond issue Every time one of these 13 inch guns sends its half ton shell at the enemy it shoots away the value of a small farm Some people are beginning to wonder if what we shall gain is worth the powder We are willing to spend money in the cause of humanity and to extend and establish the principles of civil and religious liberty to an oppressed laud but if this war is pros ecuted to acquire territory to make jobs for prospective captain generals and to give bonds to the bond hungry we hesitate r3SEL CROP PROSPECTS Report Shows Decreased Acreage of Corn Wheat Good The July grain crop report of the De partment of Agriculture says Preliminary returns to the statisticians of the Department of Agriculture on tlu acre age of corn indicate a reduction of 3 per cent from the area harvested last year There Is a decrease of 502000 acres in Illi nois of 303000 in Iowa of 661000 In Mis souri of 722000 In Kansas and of 482000 In Nebraska The condition of winter wheat 837 Is 51 points lower than last month bnt is still 45 points higher than at the corresponding date last year and 43 points higher than the average for the last ten years The principal State averages are as follows Pennsylvania 87 Maryland 86 Tennessee 90 Kentucky 03 Ohio 89 Melilan 98 Indiana 94 Illinois 08 Missouri 88 Kan sas 89 and California 40 The average condition of spring wheat is 93 This la 38 points higher than at the corresponding date last year Is 62 above the avee for the last ten years The principal State av erages are as follows Minnesota 01 South Dakota 89 North Dakota 02 Iowa 9T Nebraska 102 Washington 103 and Oregon 105 The percentage of the wheat crop f 1897 reported as still on hand July 1 1898 Is 336 The average condition of the at crop 928 Is 52 points lower than last raoHth but Is 53 points higher than at the corre sponding date last year The average con dition of barley Is 857 which Is 28 plBt3 lower than last year Winter rye is 038 as eompaned with 95 July 1 1897 There Is an increase of 13 per cent in tfio acre age of Irish potatoes There Is a marked increase in the acreage of tobacco lu nearly all the States of principal prodHetioR The eutlook for the apple crop Is very The wool report Indicates fefee aver age weight per fleece as being 58 pounds tiio same as last year TO EXTEND WEATHER BUREAU Efficiency of Its Service Will Eaen Be Greatly Increased President McKinley has on his desk the draft of an order for making the greatest extension of the weather bureau service ever made in its history The general deficiency bill carried an appropriaitien of 75000 to enable the President in hia discretion to authorize the establishment of observing and reporting statics at va rious points on the Caribbean ea bu the promulgating of the order has been withheld pending the conclusion of- nego tiations with the Governments inreested for the right to locate observers a sta tions These have mostly respodd fa vorably and in a few days the ordsr is ex pected The scheme contemplates the location of stations on the island of Trinidad at St Ivipps Barranquihi the islands of Cura coa Martinique Hayti the Barfcadoes and San Domingo There are already in operation stations at St Thomas Kings ton Jamaica and Havana The latter has not been interrupted a single day since the trouble began When the pro posed belt of stations shall have been lo cated and are in operation the entire coast of the Gulf of Mexico the Caribbean sea the Windward and Leeward islands and the passages adjoining will be covered by daily reports The benefits resulting there from in the publication of storm notices will be to the commerce of all nations traversing those waters BAD OUTLOOK IN ALASKA Discouraging Keports Brought by Paasenjscrs from Klondike Nearly all the miners who arrived from the Klondike on the schooner Hattie I Phillips say they left the country owing to ill health W F Pinkham a mining iifrineer of Boston who was seat up to i lie Klondike on behalf of an Eastern syn dicate is confined to his room by a frost bitten foot The miners speak vory bit terly of the way a few capitalists in Daw son attempted to corner the provision market and charge exorbitant prices for Hour beans etc but their scheme Sailed as miners with more provisions than they needed sold their surplus stock to old res idents at cost The price of flour has now fallen from 75 to 8 a sack Gold dust is being sold in Dawson for 15 an ounce T D Watson formerly of Portland Ore predicts hard times in Dawson There is no credit system there and without cash a man may starve DOLE TO BE ACTING GOVERNOR Hawaiian Commission Sails for Hono lulu Aug 10 It is stated that President Dole of Ha waii will be appointed acting governor of the islands when the United States assumes jurisdiction Senator Cullom chairman of the Hawaiian legislative com mission learned Wednesday that the first ship on which they could sail from San Francisco to Honolulu is the Alameda booked for departure Aug 10 Accommo dations for the party were secured oo her and the members were notified to be in readiness to leave on that date Albert Berry son of Representative Berry of Kentucky one of the most enthusiastic advocates of annexation in the Heuse will be sergeant-at-arms of the commis sion Morro Castle is no more Who said Ave did not have a first class navy Spains navy is mostly submarine at present Two fleets gone and one going asad the war barely started Add the Ladrone Islands to Cuba Porto Rico and the Philippines There is a widespread feeling that Spain doesnt know when she has had enough In ten years to come Fourth of July celebrations will have an added signifi cance Whether it was Sampson or ScWcy the fleet is destroyed and that is what rtVamo over here for It was a glorious Fourth thauis to Shafter and Sampson and the brave men in their commands If Spain doesnt treat for peace pretty soon there will be uothing left of her with which to treat Among other things Spain is in need of is a good cabinetmaker who understands designing and finishing Admiral Sampson seems to have made more breaches in his relations with Schley than in the ships of Cervera The Spanish board of strategy is now relieved of all further work in regard to plans for Cerveras fleet t w 1 While McKinley expects that Spain will now ask terms of peace he believes the best way to realize that expectation is to keep ppunding It is the purpose to call home ail the boys at Santiago except the artiHery as rapidly as possible and give them a chance to rest and feed up and tell the folk about their fighting while sev eral regiments of immunes will be sent down to garrison that city during the summer and assist a military governor who will probably be Gen Shafter to restore order and rebuild the town and revive business and agriculture in that province Every possible encouragement will be offered the residents of eastern Cuba to recover their prosperity Steam ship communication with New York will be resnmed at once public improvements will he introduced and the owners of plantations will be afforded protection while they clear their fields and plant their crops The iron mines will be in operation very shortly because the ore is needed in Baltimore Pittsburg and Chi cago and before the summer is ended eastern Cuba will he in a condition ti illustrate what may be expected of the rest of the island when it is relieved from Spanish despotism The startling charges made by Mr Hearst of the New York Journal about the murder of Spanish prisoners by the Cuban soldiers in front of Santiago are confirmed by officers who have raached Washington They are reluctant to dis cuss the subject and justify the barbar ous act on the ground that the victims were not members of the regular Spanish force but independent guerrillas who had themselves violated the laws of war and were guilty of the most infamous crime among soldiers the slaughter of the wounded Officers say the Cuban allies treat ordinary Spanish soldiers who have deserted or have been captured with great consideration but for guerrilla and Spanish volunteers they have no mercy The officers smile when Gen Shaffers denial is referred to and explain that he knows nothing whatever about the mat ter that the capture of Spanish guerril las is never reported and that when one is found he is hustled into the Cuban lines as rapidly as possible Everybody you meet on the streets of Washington these days is either a school teacher or a soldier The national asso ciation which has been in session for ten days brought 12000 or 15000 interesting young women who are professionally en gaged in molding the minds of the coming generation and they are indefatigable sightseers The capital congressional li brary the White House the national mu seum the Washington monument and other places of interest have swarmed with them They monopolize the street cars throng the sidewalks and have made their visit here the source of both pleas ure and profit These young women do not hesitate to ask questions when they desire information and their inquiries have been addressed to anybody they mot upon the streets The soldiers from Camp Alger have almost equaled the school teachers in number and come ovei by hundreds every day The officials of the internal revenue bu reau believe the country wfll absorb more internal revenue stamps than postage stamps The Postoflice Departmenj prints about 3000000000 of postage stamps a year or an average of 10000 000 a day The requisitions for internal revenue stamps from the sixty three col lectors already filled amount to 500000- 000 which seem to have been instantly absorbed by the public and they are now calling for more The department is send ing out about 15000000 a day It is proposed upon the arrival of the commissioners to hoist at Honolulu th identical flag that was hauled down April 1 1S93 by Paramount Blount This flag belonged to the cruiser Boston then lying in port and was taken possession of by Lieut Lucian Young one of her officers who presented it to Minister Thurston Mr Thurston treasured it as a sacred thing and will deliver it to Admiral Mil ler to be restored to its former place al the top of the flagstaff on the Govern ment palace There is not the slightest apprehension in administration circles concerning the attitude of Germany in the Philippines oi elsewhere On the contrary there is a perfect understanding between the tw Governments and the two admirals at Manila While some of the German offi cers may show independence and perhaps impertinence the Emperor and his minis ters concede the position of the United States in the Philippine Islands and will not interfere in any measure with oui plans It is said that no attempt will be made to attack Havana Gen Blanco will be allowed to contemplate his fortification and study the art of war within his owr lines without disturbance from our ship or soldiers He is entirely cut off fron communication with Madrid One eai imagine the unhappy and hopeless situa tion in which he is placed with his sup plios of food rapidly growng less and n orospeets of rescue or re enforcements a The officials of the Treasury have assumed it was the intentioi of Congress that the corporations of the country instead of the publfp should pa the petty taxes imposed upon businesi transactions by the war revenue bill ami so far as they can control the matter thij ntentien will be carried out - Commodore Watsons missionary expe dition will be hastened in order to fur nish the Spaniards a practical example ol war and emphasize the determination ol Uncle Sam to have his own way It is expected also that he will seize Ceuta the Spanish outpost on the African side o the Straits of Gibraltar and hold it as i base of supplies The Spanish Government can no longei communicate with its officers either ii Cnba or the Philippine Islands without the consent of the United States RECENT INVENTIONS Incandescent electric lights can ba held at any height by a new support In which the wire is wound on a spring drum which winds up the slack as soon as the light is lifted Dustless roads are made possible by a new material composed of fine earthy or mlner al matter charged with heavy oil placed on the leveled bed of ordin ary roads In a new Paris bicycle the front forks instead of being connected to a single tube in the head have throe or more tubes fitted together each one connected to a flat steel crown In a New England patent oil is vapor ized and the gas used with an incan descent mantle for lighting purposes the reservoir being suspended at the top of the lamp with a feed pipe which extends in close proximity to the flame to transform the oil into gas A fire escape recently patented has a casing containing a shaft on which a rope is wound with brake straps to grip tiie ends of the shaft and a strap suspended below In which the user sits in a convenient position to grasp the brake lever In a combined baby carriage and wheel chair the front section is hinged to the rear and can be dropped down ward to allow the use of the vehicle as a wheel chair the carriage having only one large pair of wheels and a small pair in front to prevent it from tipping over Liquids can be safelj transported and preserved by a new German invention consisting of a vessel to carry the liq uid with an elastic sack inside to be filled with air from an ice chamber lo cated in the top of the can Bowling alleys are being fitted with electric fixtures to indicate the moving of the pins an electric current being made through a plate in the bottom of each pin with wires running to dials or bells near the players end of the alley A new popular edition of Curtina translation of With Fire and Sword embellished with illustrations and a map has recently been Issued Charles Scribners Sons are about to issue an important book upon Dante by Edmund G Gardner of Cambridge It is entitled Dantes Ten Heavens and is confined to a study of the Paradise William Henry Johnson the author of The Kings Henchman is a native of South Carolina and during the civil war was an officer of the First South Carolina Artillery the original garrison of Fort Sumter and took part In tbo de- enseof Fort Sumter and Morris Island Quo Vadis has been one of the most profitable books of the season It is re ported that even the translator Mr Curtin has received 25000 as his share of the money derived from the sales of copies The National Library of Paris has just acquired probably the most valu able collection of Mexican antiquities in Europe Sig Boturini a Senator of Milan who fled to Spain as a political refugee in 1735 and subsequently found his way to the land of Monte zuma was the collector Mrs Amelia Barr is engaged on a new novel the background of which is the passage of the great reform bill She has returned from a holiday at Old Point Comfort Va where the privil eges of the Officers Club were pre sented her by the officers of the garri son in Fortress Monroe an honor never before conferred upon a woman Hamlin Garland the American story writer is a stanch friend of the Ameri can Indians For a few weeks each summer he lives among the Indians of the Northwest enjoying the free life in the open air and gathering material for his fiction Mr Garland is on familiar terms with many of the chiefs and has received from them distinguished ex pressions of regard Richard Harding Davis is Scribners Magazines chief war contributor be ing under agreement to write for no other magazine upon the subject His first article The First Shot of the War will appear in the July number to be followed by The First Bombard ment and a rapid succession of Other articles all to be written from his per sonal observation on the flagship and dispatch boats and later accompanying the land forces The articles are to be illustrated by photographs At the same time with these articles and his war correspondence Mr Davis is accumulat ing carefully sifted material for a book to be published by Charles Scribners Sons called -The War of OS from First to Last E Pluribus Unum There is a building in Avenue B New York where various forms of religion are well represented The basement is used as a playground for Episcopal Sunday school children the first floor is the headquarters of a non sectarian Young Womens Association the sec ond floor forms the office of the editor of a Congregational newspaper the next floor is occupied by a Jewish syn agogue and its rabbi on the fourth floor is a Methodist meeting place while the top floor is the home of the rector of the parish Women in India There are more women in British In dia 124000000 than there are men women and children in Great Britain France and Germany put together with the populations of several minor Euro pean States cast in as well -- Eat More Honey There Is ne more delicate or whole some a sweet in existence than the nec tar of flowers so skillfully gathered and stored by the honey bee says F II Dow In Farmers Tribune Its uss ought to be more general Indeed honey should be used as commonly as butter Children usually like honey and they should be allowed to use it freely It Is healthful and in all cases of colds sore throat and the like It acta as a medicine Whenever you pur chase a cough mixture honey Is usual ly one of its principal ingredients M two children have nearly always hael all the honey they cared to use and I am confident it has been beneficial to them On our table we consume large quantities of honey and I actually be lieve Its free use is conducive to tho family health Improved Oil Can Among the new domestic novelties 15 this novel design for an oil can which possesses several meritorious features 1 1 PI which are secured in a most simple manner The illus tration shows an oil can made with a straight front anel more than usually sloping neck By this form of con struction any oil or liquid may be emp tied out of the can without lifting it from the floor or table by simply tilt ing it over Other advantages are that there is no gurgling when pouring out oil or other liquids no spilling or wast ing while no funnels are required as with ordinary cans This can be emp tied with half the ease of the old forms of oil cans To Preserve Ecgg The advantages of waterglass over the lime mixtures commonly used Is that the waterglass imparts no un- pleasant or stale flavor to the eggs The following instructions are given in reply to inquiries how to make the waterglass solution Boil ten gallons of water to sterilize it let it cool in covered vessels and add one gallon best waterglass which is known to drug gists as soluble silicate of soda Mir well and pour into the vessel upon the eggs If the eggs used were perfectly fresh they have been known to keep iii good condition for nine months oc more When the eggs are boiled for use they must be pricked with a pin to prevent the shell from cracking Orange Judd Farmer A Durable White wash Slake half a bushel of fresh lime with boiling water Cover it during the process to keep in the steam Strain through a fine sieve and add 7 pounds of salt previously dissolved in water 3 pounds of rice boiled to a thin pastei and stirred in hot one half pound pow dered Spanish whiting 1 pound of clean glue prepared by soaking it well then hanging it over a slow fire in a small kettle within a large one filled with water Add five gallons of hot water to the mixture and stir well Let stand for a few days It must be put up quite hot For this purpose it can be kept in a kettle on a portable fur naceOrange Judd Farmer White Cocoannt Pie One cupful of milk two tablespoon f uls of sugar one rounded tablespoon ful of starch two or three ounces grat ed cocoanut three or four whites of eggs small piece of butter pinch ofi salt Boil the milk alone Mix tho starch and sugar together dry and stic them in then the butter and cocoanut Set it away to get cold Whip the whites that were left from making Hollandaise to a firm froth and mix them with the pie mixture Bake itt thin crusts of puff paste Makes two small pies Choosing Good Mutton There is no more nutritious and healthful meat than young healthy mutton well cooked Mutton like all meat is tough when first killed ancE should be hung long enough to grcv tender Good mutton should have anf abundance of firm white fat but not an overfat appearance Sheep off ofi the great ranges have dark colored meat like that of wild animals while those which do less running have meat of a lighter color Womans Home Companion Currant Merinuue Pie Line two pans with a rich short crust prick with a fork and bake to a very light brown When cool fill with the following and bake in a very slowi oven Beat the whites of three eggs until stiff add gradually one cupful granulated sugar and one pint of cur- rants Drop from a pastry bag if de sired the effect will be very pleasing Mint Sauce Heat a teacupful of vinegar boiling hot put four tablespoonfuls of chop ped green mint In a bowl and two ta blespoonfuls of sugar and pour over them the hot vinegar This sauce is better when made about an hour before using Serve with roast lamb Honey Pop Corn Balls Slowly heat one cupful of strained honey and boil until it will stiffen and crack when dropped in cold water Pour it at once over one quart of fresh- ly popped corn and shape into balls greasing the hands with a little buttetj to prevent sticking 2 ft t i i I