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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1898)
i 5 l fV 1 If i i a THE MAKING OF A SOLDIER Joe Terry hoed In a stony field Under a sweltering sun The boy and the rock and the native weed Fought for the life in a battered seed And the struggle was just begun Get out of the mud and follow me Said the man with the better clothes Against you are vermin and drought and frost You will aiiger nature with labor lost Come whero a fair wind blows But the boy digged on in the stony field With the struggle barely begun I put the seed in this ground said he I think 1 had better stay and see Whatever may be done Joe Jerry quarried and placed the stones And fitted the timbers true jLuen his neighbors came with fevered eyes Gold pans of gold just where it lies Shall we wait a day for you A soft voice rifted the evening calm Singing the death of day A tired child came and went with a kiss I have a wife and a home and this I -think I had better stay War On to war and the cry came near There is honor or fame for all I have a dying wife and these I shall stay with them if God so please But he went at the second call Come on they cried Its death to wait His face was bleeding and grim He picked a rifle out of the dirt And answered simply The Captains hurt I think Ill stay with him Frederick Brush in New York Sun TOe Gold of Silence An Army Tragedy More harm has been wrought in this world by the gold of silence than by the silver of speech Especially is this true of matters of the heart Farland came to realize it in the end but as he left the commanding ofiicer arid walked in his deliberate way across the hop room to where Miss Cameron stood he was priding him self upon his ability to hold his tongue and with a wretched sort of vain glory nerving himself to hold it for seven hours longer Miss Cameron was talking to the regimental quartermaster and when she caught sight of Farland she grew radiant The regimental quarter master observed this and was of course annoyed He went away and left her with the lieutenant It is the fate of a woman to be for ever smiling Few men have learned to distinguish that eternal smile Those who have have observed the subtlest tragedies of life Farland was not one of them He was too distinctly manly to under stand women He was therefore strengthened in his resolve to keep silence when Miss Camerons expres sion in nowise changed as he told her that she must excuse him from the next dance I have just seen the colonel and he has been pleased to inform me that I must leave at reveille For what portion of the globe She gazed over his shoulder in ap parent absorption in something at the other side of the room If Farland had been a student of the sex he would have known that this was over acting It was one of the many of Miss Camerons charms that she us ually fixed her entire attention upon theierson at hand Where are you going she re peated To join Blakes command After that wherever the will of heaven and the craft of the Apache may lead me Fon just one instant her expression changed But Farland was not acute TJpon a scout then she asked Upon a scout yes And as I have to leave before reveille and as it is now eleven oclock there is no time to be lost Miss Cameron was smiling again You will not sleep much to night Things must be serious Tney are he told her Tnere was a pause one of those in tervals when the gods benumb our mental powers that instinct may have fair play But we defeat their ends We have trained instinct to lie quiet The lieutenant moved uneasily Miss Cameron with the delicate much sung discernment of woman thought him restless to be gone She drew herself up to her full height determined that she was indifferent and hard and his resolution was enforced You must not let me keep you she said Farland was too well trained to al low his anger and unhappiness to appear-in more than an exaggerated un concern He took her extended hand Shall you be here when I return he asked His resolution was near to breaking If her tawny eyes had - grown aver so little soft he would Have flung his golden wealth of silence to the winds But her pride was mighty it was aroused tMy vlait cornea to an end this ireek fc said -- - frmnuifiyajbivi j vlt t I We shall probably meet again he ventured She shrugged her shoulders negli gently Probably One can never be sure that one has seen the last of anybody in the army And then she added Good by She would have been glad to bow her head upon her arms and to have kept her heartache in silence In stead she gave the dance which was to have been Farlands to a married captain and succeeded perfectly in her effort to appear to enjoy it And Farland went out morally and bodily into ttoe night His was the code of honor which considers not the woman that holds that if a man may not ask a woman to marry him then and there neither may he tell her of his love He thought he was doing right and he was not one to rail at Fate A little tempest of temptation had ruffled the deep waters of his conscience for a time But they were calm again He remembered with re sentment the haughtily poised head and the placid smile and the last glimpse he had caught of her through the hop room window a yellow gowned figure swaying to the music in full enjoyment of life Well she would have gone back to Bayard by the time of his return and one could never be sure one would not forget after years He went into the barracks and gave his orders When the brass mouths of the bugles pealed their reveille welcomo to the sun as it shown above the mountains far across the prairie Farland and his command were trotting toward Mount Graham and Miss Cameron still in the yellow gown stood at her win dow with her hands clasped before her and watched the line of the re ceding column Farland stopped - at Bayard two months later The scout was over and he was taking his command back to Fort Grant They were to strike the railroad at Silver City nine miles away upon the following day He meant to see Miss Cameron There was no longer a reason for si lence He waited with impatience while the commandant arranged for the disposition of the men Then he walked with him across the parade The primroses of the evening were opening a great pale flower bursting out here and there in the grass until even as he went all the ground was starred with them and the children from the officers line and the laun dresses row were running laughing and screaming and calling out to gather the handfuls of fragile bloom that would be wilted before tattoo Upon occasions of necessity the com mandants long lank body could be stir itself but there was no such oc casion now and Major Cameron re sented Farlands haste I say Farland he protested slow up What is your hurry You will not get dinner before retreat any way Little the lieutenant recked of din ner But he obliged himself to walk more reasonably Major Cameron talked of the scout and its outcome Farland tried to listen and to answer In his joyful anticipation he forgot that he was a sorry looking sight to go a wooing that his face was burned liis nose peeling and his hair half cut and his clothes ragged and dusty Self consciousness was not one of his faults The major broke off suddenly in the midst of a tirade against In dian agents those pet aversions of the line I suppose you are about worn out he said No said Farland not in the least Why You appear not to be able to keep your mind upon anything You have no notion of what I said last You said Mescaleros last But you have no idea whatever what I said about the Mescaleros I am afraid thats so Farland ad mitted And over there at the coral you answered three questions that I hadnt asked Farland apologized civilly But he had seen through the window Miss Cameron standing with clasped hands and head thrown back before the open fire It was a favorite pose with her and it recalled so much The major might as well have addressed his concluding remarks to the flag staff They went into the hall and the commandant opened the door There is Clare he said I believe you know each other I will go and get Mrs Cameron He went away and closed the door again Farland was not demonstrative But neither was he one to delay in carry ing out a resolve He took the hand that the girl held out to him and then went to the fire place and rested his arm upon the mantel and looked at her speculatively I am going to be very rash he said and very precipitate She smiled Incredulously How unlike you she said Perhaps but it is not unlike me to go straight to the point I think She vouchsafed no encouragement -It is not was all she answered She had long since determined that he was an unscrupulous flirt worse than that indeed because he made more preten sions than most men Now when she looked into his keen gray eyes that consoling fiction vanished She won dered why he did not speak at once of the one tiling that might reasonably be expected to be of interest to her self at least But she- folded er hands in front of her again and stood very erect When I saw you last In the hop room at Grant he said I was to all In tents and purposes upon half pay My - mother was alive then and I was sup porting her Sh looked at him puzzled Why should he tell her this now While there had yet been time he had been chary enough of his confidences While tnere had yet been time She looked at him as he stood there before the fire young and strong with his pistol belt showing beneatli his faded blouse the kerchief knotted around his neck the dusty boots with their spurred heels his face so ab surdly sun and wind burned glowing with blonde redness in the fire light While there had yet beeu time She checked an inclination to throw out her ai ms and cry aloud That is why he went on I did not feel justified in telling you though you might I should think have seen that I loved you She went up to him and put her hand upon his shoulder and tried to speak Well what he asked He was submitting dully to some blow which he saw in her hardening eyes was going to fall I she was forcing the words from her throat with a harsh dry sound I married Captain Whitcomb three weeks ago because I did not know- Farland turned away and drew a chair near to the fire The movement was quite natural quite free from any gesture of tragedy He was too stun i ned to feel the pain at once Thai would come afterward and stay through many years He sat down in the chair and watched the flaming mesquite root It was a little hard for him to draw his breath and the pain was beginning now too Clare stood upon the other side of the hearth and looked dully ahead of her Then she draw her hand slowly across her eyes I must go home she said Farland did not answer her and she went out and closed the door Gwen dolen Overton in the Argonant Rioters Become Soldiers Colonel Anderson commanding the Second Tennessee Regiment which is stationed at Camp Alger was talking with a group of gentlemen from his own State recently This gallant officer has already gone through as interesting an experience as lie will ever be likely to figure in whether he joins the Spaniards in deadly combat on the soil of Cuba or in the far off Philippines He com manded a force of State troops in the famous Coal Creek strike in East Ten nessee six or seven years ago and it is almost a miracle that he is alive now to tell about it The rioting strikers it will be remembered burned tne stockade and freed a lot of con victs who had been employed in the coal mines Their desperate conduct necessitated calling out the militia and Colonel Anderson went to Hie front to help put a quietus on the riot ing In some way lie became separated from his men and was captured by the strikers who imprisoned him and came very near shooting him He was in no wise daunted by his captors and when tiiey spoke of killing him he defied them to fire A peremptory de mand for his release accompanied with a threat of wholesale hanging caused his liberation The most curious part of the whole affair is that there are now in the regiment which Colonel Anderson leads a half dozen of the very men who participated in the Coal Creek strike and who were present when he was captured They are now how ever on the best of terms with their commander and are willing to follow him wherever he leads They are great big fellows fine specimens of physical manhood and are eager for a chance to spill Spanish gore Wash ington Post Original Way of Testing Gold The ordinary practice of taking a bath solved for Archimedes the ques tion of how to test the purity of the gold in Hieros crown He observed that when he stepped into a full bath the quantity of water which over flowed was equal to the bulk of his body and it occurred to him that the worth of the crown might be tested bj such means He thereupon made two masses of the same weight as th crown one of gold the other of sil ver and immersed them separately in a vessel filled to the brim measuring exactly the quantity of water that overflowed in each case Having found by this means what measure of the fluid answered to the quantity of each metal less in the case of the gold than of the silver the bulk of the former being less weight for weight he next immersed the crow itself and found that it caused more water to overflow than the gold but less than the silver Having found the dif ference between the two masses of pure gold and silver in certain known proportions he was able to compute the real quantity of each metal in the crown and thus discovered the fraud that had been practised on the king to whom he hurried exclaiming Eureka Eureka I have found it I have found it an exclamation that has ever since been used to express exultation over a discovery Cham bers Journal An Old Apple Tree The original greening apple tree is still standing on the farm of Solomon Drowne at Mount Hygeia in North Feter R I The tree was a very old one when the farm was sold in 1801 The city of Santiago was the scene of the shooting of Captain Fry and of a number of the crew and passen gers of the Virginius in 1873 iiMgj3gaaBagsaBsiS8WiMa5SmgSW NEW IDEAS ON TEIAL NOVELTIES THAT MAY BE POPU LAR NEXT WINTER Sensible Garments Are More Gener ally Worn than They Used to Be Five Very Fetching Costumes of the Vintage of 1808 Fashion Notes from Gotham New York correspondence Kit ENSE is much more a p parent than it used to be in summer outside wear Indeed there has been a change in this re spect since with early s u mmer there was present ed to view a lot of fanciful capes These h i g h ly w r o u ght affairs are still in sight but newer and more attractive are capes that are less elaborate It Is in coats and jack ets however that the greatest improve ment has been made Now there are no tight jackets and no delicate easily soiled and useless coverings unless it be some wrap meant only to lay about the shoulders of an evening gown Of all the new outer garments the latest for traveling country walking or driv ing is the very prettiest To days first picture shows it To some tastes it is a little pronounced for traveling but it is just right for the other uses This was in a loose wool material plaided by crossing lines of color in silk The color of such is always bright Blue lines crossed brilliant red in this case bright green went over a golden brown in another and so on The jacket was very boxy in front was loose and com fortable everywhere and fastened se curely with straps of the material which are a characteristic of the gar ment Though so solid looking a cov ering the material is so soft that the edge of the jacket fronts which were finished in frill fashion and swept un broken from shoulders to foot of jack et Here was the suggestion of princess The skirt opened wide to show a petti coat of the lawn beautifully embroi dered with white It seemed a bit odd that the petticoat did not match the bodice front but that is part of the new idea Lawns and muslins are always pret ty but were never prettier than this year Though made more simply than last year there is a touch about this seasons costume that is unmistakable Linen colored lawns and linen batistes ifill Jill QUITE AS NOVEL AS NEED BE are in great favor Usually they are figured lightly with some bright color In some cases this figure done in silk is so cleverly managed that only the closest inspection convinces you that the dress material is not open work and that the color of the figure is not the color of silk over which the open work material was made The illu sion is further assisted by making the finishings of the gown exactly match the figure Such a gown of linen batiste figured with apple green silk is beside the one just described Its silken figuring seemed to shine from PUT FORWARD FOR THE TRIAL SEASON jacket will roll up and take little room in packing This is but one of the new fashions that are having a midsummer begin ning Midsummer trial is perhaps more accurate for novelties are now put forward experimentally They are not offered with the idea that they will take especially for summer but if they arouse any interest at all in these lan guid dog day weeks they will be repro duced in the winter fashions In conse quence these ideas are often very bi zarre and but barely suited to summer use There are women who do not feel their summer wear to be complete without leaving an order to have speci mens of any such idea sent to them I is these women who are potent in di recting the changes in styles and or dinary folk follow them near to or far from the pace set as their purses in taffetas newest weave tate Sketched as thus presented to a swagger woman was the gown put af the left In the next picture It indi cates that designers have not yet given over trying to get women to accept the princess cut though they have strug gled in this direction for over six months with but indifferent success Jacket and open skirt of this dress -were a soft silk poplin The jacket opened over a soft front of tucked pink lawn and was belted by a wide band of- velvet This band passed under the under instead of being applied Tho bodice was prettily slashed just about whero the darts would come showing apple silk through the opening A grass green straw hat wound with loose white with an emerald quill saucilj to one side completed a very simple but a delightfully pretty summer rig which may be used this fall at home In the city too Scarlet lawns are very stylish They are often barred with black lines and made over black silk and sometimes you are fooled for the lawn isnt a scarlet but a black very thin grena dine with black bars worn over a scar let silk lining It is a question which vay of getting at the effect is more satisfactory The black over perhaps serves more general purpose The gown remaining in the illustration was of film like black grenadine barred with black and over red silk The sash and its odd bow were red silk and the ruchings that trimmed skirt and bodice were black chiffon Above all was a deep yoke of white dotted lawn This trick of putting a white yoke of lawn lace or chiffon on a dress no matter whether white appears in the rest of the gown or not is a this sea sons trick Offered as a next seasons trick is the pictured belt arrangement The boat shaped hat still holds favor It certainly is with its dipped curved front becoming to the woman with an oval outline Then there is a romantic air about the softly laid plumes with which such hats are trimmed and a softness that suits many faces too The prudent vacationer secures her home traveling dress early and then if the weather does change horridly she can skip away and astonish her friends by not wearing the same dress in which she arrived Poplin is a favorite ma terial for the early traveling gown and a bright tone of gray is used It seems a little perishable but poplin is a ma terial that sheds dust and dirt A sensible model for its employ ment in a traveling rig was the sub ject of the last picture Its scheme of a jacket cut short and open slightly over a waistcoat was distinctly good Copyrlcht IM1S The old fa shioned idea that it was bad taste to use two kinds of lace on one gown has no weight in the fash ions this season Two and soners three different vrrioth s ara combined on one bodice narrow Valenciennes be ing very generously ucd with tin heavier lacrsl UNMMCWH Worlds Yonngcst Cyclist Kenosha Wis has the youngest bl cyclist in the world in the person of Frankie Van Der Vee He is only 2 years and 4 months old and small as he is he rides from four to six mlls on any kind of a road His bicycle is almost as much of a curiosity as its rider It has a 10 inch frame 14 incn f FRANKIE VAN DER VEE wheel and 3 inch cranks and weighs seven pounds It was built by a prac t tical mechanic Some people say that he must have inherited the ability as his mother was one of the best century riders in the State Others say it is due to the wheel but the little one learned to ride just as naturaly as he learned to walk The Wheelmans Alphabet A is the Amateur learning to ride B is the Bicycle he gets astride C is the Cropper he takes with a thud D is the Ditch where lie lands in the mud E is the Evening he selects to depart F is the Friend who gives him a start G is the Gearing lie talks for a week If is the Hope that the record hell beat I is the Injury he will receive J is the Junkman who laughs in hia sleeve K is the Kicking he does at his fall L is the Loss of his temper thats all M is the Machine with world renowned fame N is the Name that indorses the same T O is the Opinion of all his friends P is the Puncture that ill pleasure ends Q is the Question of How did you do itl II the Remark of his friend that ho knew it S is the Scorcher that he emulated T is the Tack that the trouble created U is the Uncertainty found on sharp turns V the Velocity for which lie yearns W is the Wish that by this time is wan ing X is the Xyst where hell now do his training Y is the Year he goes for his spins Z is for Zero the races he wins Outing Fat Men May Ride Wheels Fat men who would like to ride a bi cycle but think they are too heavy for such sport on so frail looking a vehicle will be interested to learn that Joseph W Grimes a champion cyclist of Ken-tucks- weighs 555 pounds and has been riding a wheel constantly for five years and his flesh is as firm as that of an athlete and he Is not troubled with shortness of breath The longest ride he ever made at one time was eighty four miles covering the distance in ten hours with a stop of one hour for dinner Owing to his great weight it Is difficult for him to walk a square but he rides a wheel with very little ex ertion and he claims that he could rin ten hours a day for a week or more a time without serious inconvenience X Novel Tombstone According to a London newspaper a young widow of Rio de Janeiro who V was introduced to her late husband while out wheeling ordered a sculptor to depict the meeting bicycles and all on the marble gravestone in relief The effect is described as more novel than artistic especially as the lady is chis eled as attired in bloomer costume In the inscription which is in Spanish Is a sentence which may be translated My dear soul had the tire of his life prematurely punctured Cycling Notes Cycling is making great progress in India which can now boast two jour nals devoted to the pastime One is published in Bombay the other in Cal cutta On tour a leaky valve may cause much inconvenience Press it all around with a piece of damp clay or if that be unobtainable damp soap will answer In Berlin arrangements are being wade to apportion off a narrow track along the sides of the principal thor oughfares Under these conditions the risk of cycling even in the city would bo minimized In outlying districts it Is often diffi cult to procure cord for relaclng a gear case in which case it is worth re membering that a couple of long boot laces joined together will answer eaually well The Gretna Green race carried out at a receat biqycle tournament consisted in a lady And gentleman riding hand-in-hand to a given point dismounting and signing their names and addresses in a register remounting and riding back b3scr 1
