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About Western news-Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1898-1900 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1898)
Stanleys Last Journey to Africa Henry M Stanley made a journey Into inner Africa recently which was perhaps even more remarkable than his search for Livingstone or his ex ploration of the Congo basin He trav eled in a palace car from Cape Town to Buluwayo a distance of 1000 mile in a little more than twenty four hours This incident illustrates in the most Btriking manner possible the marvelous growth and development of Africa in recent years Chicago Tribune A Sensible Young Wife How do you like my cooking Corner now give me your honest opinion How does it compare with your mothers If you want my honest opinion I will say your cooking is very fair but it is not quite equal to mothers I did not expect It would be quite equal to your mothers but I wish you to remember that your mother had many years experience before you were capable of forming a judgment of her cooking By Jove you are right I never would have thought of that though I assure 3rou I would have made no com ments on your cooking if you had not iskedf or my honest opinion The point you have made Is a good one but it is sntirely overlooked by young married men It is and unfortunately It is not thought of by young wives The Idea Df any man saying to a girl just a year ar two out of school You cant cook as well as mother and never taking into consideration that mother has had an sxperience of forty or fifty years Sup pose the young wife should turn round and retort Youre not half as skillful a workman as my father And1 I wonder she doesnt Its a poor rule that wont work both ways And so it is when you come to think of It Saturday Evenincr Post Court Knew What Was Poker Paul Milliken who is one of the most popular men on change was yesterday on the floor rehearing the latest poker incident It is unnecessary to say that he secured a great many auditors as there are numerous admirers of the great American game there A private game had been broken up in a small town which was very religiously in clined and the players arrested and taken before the county judge The first prisoner was told by the -judicial light to rehearse in strict honesty what was going on when the officer appeared Well had just dealt It was a jack pot said I Open it but it will cost you 2 to come in The next player put up the needed amount and said Well it will just cost 5 mora to be In this play Jhe third one ad vanced it 3 more and when it came to me I looked at my hand and found a pair of threes I had been lucky and concluded to go in the jack pot an did so Prisoner is dismissed cried tin 1udge interrupting him in his story Well whats the trouble said the atter looking about alarmed and studying the judge in surprise Why simply this You are charged for -playing poker and your own evi dence shows that you were not re plied the court Cincinnati Enquirer I Pure Blood Good Digestion These are the essentials of health Hoodi Sarsaparilla is the great blood purifier and ftomach tonic It promptly expels tin impurities which 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the ex changeable of commercial value never can be and never has been maintained with precision by ourselves or any oth er nation of the world for any reason able length of time Truly this kind of equality in value which is exceedingly desirable can be maintained with ap proximate precision for many years as we can cite the experience of the French nation using a coinage ratio of 155 to 1 from 1803 to 1874 But let us re member that the legal tender value was at the same time maintained with ab solute precision Let us manfully face the well authenticated historical fact that the commercial value of gold and silver coins at any given ratio was al ways liable to vary from month to month from year to year and from de cade to decade However when Con gress is in session it has the legal right to follow these variations every day and make the childish effort by con stant changes in the weight of our coins to have them conform to this daily variation This attempt was not made by our nation as we have reduc ed the weight of gold coins but once 1834 during our national existence to ward this equalization while we in creased the gold 1S37 by a mere trifle solely for ease in mint circulations while the quantity of pure silver in our standard silver dollar has remained un changed since the first organization of our mints On the other hand Con gress can and did regulate and main tain the debt paying value of both coins under our flag with absolute precision from 1792 to 1873 While this was an act of precision the other was merely an attempt at precision Please note this as a very important and vital distinction The lawful debt paying value of coined money always has and always will have a powerful effect in tending to maintain the approximate equality but never can maintain the precise equality in the exchangeable value of money made of gold or silver when put under the hammer test or in the melting pot As an advocate of the restoration of silver at the existing coinage ratio of 16 to 1 I firmly hold to the opinion that when we restore the full legal tender power to our silver dollar its value as bullion will rise and gold will fall Many of the com mercial nations of the world would in all probability soon follow our exam ple and the wide and mischievous chasm now separating the two metals would be bridged by our financial lead ership Some difference will always exist as the history of coinage always has shown but it will not be so mis chievous as to cause a disastrous fall in prices as our present system has done The existing commercial value of these two metals is now very far from being a fair test to the proper coinage ratio while in 1792 it was a fair test This is mainly on account of silver having been so extensively out lawed by so large a portion of the com mercial world for the last twenty five years The assertion so frequently made that silver has fallen in ex changeable value when compared with gold on account of the relative annual over production of silver is false as can be readily seen by a reference to the official and universally accepted statistics of the relative production of these metals in the world during the past 100 years It is a mathematical question concerning which there can be no fair dispute The comparatively great stability in the relative exchangi able value of our coined money from 1792 to 1874 was secured simply be cause the United States permitted this legal tender value to remain as a sa cred and potent regulator given to us by our forefathers and happily we also had the co operation of almost the en tire commercial world as our mints as well as theirs was open to the coin age of both metals on equal terms When Congress commenced to tamper with this full legal tender function of silver in 1S73 by making the gold dol lar alone the unit of value and stopped the further coinage of full le gal tender silver and on Tune 22 1874 demonetized all our existing full weight silver coins as debt payers except to the extent of 5 the mischief was then commenced and has never been entire ly corrected and most unfortunately the commercial world has followed our vicious example As a leading nation let us always remember the world spells our name in large type John A Grier Houest Investigation Demanded For the sake of the good name of the nation for the consolation of those who have Icshjlovcil ones in the war for the instruction of the war depart ment and army for the sake of the rep utation of those who have been bitterly assailed it should be determined whether politics incompetency ne glect conspiracy or rascality has made the brief war with Spain needlessly sacrificial An investigation for politi cal Iftec t will not do An investigation for whitewashing purposes will not do The Republican Way Captain Robley D Evans has been relieve of rlie command of the battle ship Iowa lie tlfas been assigned to I duty as a member of the naval inspec tion board and he will assume his new duties after a brief vacation The next commander of the Iowa will be Captain Silas Terry now in command of the receiving ship Franklin at the Norfolk navy yard He will take the ship around South America and over to Honolulu in company with the Oregon and some colliers Captain Evans is a Democrat and made a brilliant record at Santiago but he offended the Re publican prize money grabber Samp son by saying that he would not accept plunder Captain Terry is a Republi can Chicago Dispatch Rothschild and Hanna The Interstate Commerce Commis sion in advance sheets of its annual re port just issued places the outstand ing debt of American railroads at 10 639074000 says the Journal of Agri culture After Wall street secured the panic proclamation against silver from President Cleveland a majority of the roads representing this enormous in flation of over ten thousand million dol lars were thrown into the hands of re ceivers While their stocks and bonds were thus forced down to the lowest point by the Presidents attack on sil ver they were bought heavily by Eng lish capitalists operating through the New York syndicate of which J Pier pont Morgan is the leading represent ative Morgan has since been actively at work reorganizing with English money the railroads which were so skillfully bankrupted by the foreign speculators whose influence secured the panic proclamation against silver As the agent of the Rothschild syndicate and other foreign investors Morgan now represents a greater power in America than the Goulds and Yander bilts combined With Hanna of the Steel Trust Havemeyer of the Sugar Trust and Whitney of the Standard Oil Trust he is the supreme power in shap ing the policies of the McKinley admin- istration The amount of the stock and bonded debt of the reorganized railroads of America now held by Eng lish speculators runs into the thou sands of millions It stands for an in flation of from two to five dollars on every dollar of actual cash originally invested but the foreign speculators who force us into panic to bear our markets not only demand payment of dividends and interest on the full face value but they demand it in gold When we attempt to remonetize silver so that we can have money to do business with at home while our gold is being drained to England to meet their ex actions they call us cranks an archists and repudiationists And finding that these epithets lose their po tency they employ agents to lure us with promises of military glory and of opportunities to join English Tories in schemes of oppressing and iffebing the helpless of the earth Work that Counts Every workman ought to say to him self every day of his life Ill never cast a vote for a man big or little unless he has proved himself honest and a friend of labor He ought to live up to that on elec tion day The men who do the work of this country can run it if they will They can be rulers It is all in their own hands If they will kill jealousy show faith in their own class reward in their un ion principles intelligence and a good record always bombast never they will soon change the complexion of the country When we say a freud of labor we do not mean merely the advocate of union with an O K label in his hat and on his loaf We mean especially the friend of the man who works as opposed to the do nothing We mean the man who cares as much for Samuel Gompers as for George Gould and as much for the humblest shoveler as for Goriers The first is easy to find The second is not so easy New York Journal Paymasters as Bad as the Rest It becomes more evident every day that in many instances the regular and volunteer soldiers of the Uoiited States army have not been paid for their services During the glamour of the campaigns in Cuba and Porto Rico the soldier cared little or nothing for the sight of Uncle Sams gold but since liis return to Gods own country where the full pocket makes the stomach easy the lack of well earned cash be comes a sore grievance It is sad in deed to have to hold the paymasters department up to the same opprobrium as attaches to the quartermasters and commissariats but that is precisely what it is proper to do New York Her ald The Surprises in Vermont The election in Vermont has set all the Republican organs at work to find an explanation of the phenomenal re sults reached by the popular vote It is a surprise party and no mistake The Democrats increase their poll for governor by a very respectable figure The Republicans lose to a degree which in aless sure state would mean defeat while in the Legislature the Democ racy makes what is a stupendous gain in representation comparatively con sidered Boston Post Cheap Men or Cheap Dollars Shall we have cheap men and dear dollars or shall we have dear men and cheap dollars Shall the man go up and the dollar go down or shall the dollar go up and the man go down Shall manhood triumph over money and labor over loans or shall money Inn voke misery and the dollars of Shy lock triumph over the souls of Gods deserving poor These are questions we should ask and answer before wo think of voting for a single gold staizd ard Nonconformist The Maine Election Closely following Vermont the re sult of the State and Congressional elections in Maine show enormous Democratic gains The Republican political sharps as usual attribute their reduced majorities to the old fic tion and excuse of an off year and light vote This is folly The same causes which produce a light Republi can vote produce a light Democratic vote The inofficial but probably cor rect reports from Maine indicate a Re publican plurality on Governor of 20 000 against a Republican plurality of 48377 two years ago Speaker Reed loses 4000 of his majority in 1896 and has his smallest vote since 1S92 Sil ver was the only question discussed in his district The other Republican candidates for Congress suffer a sim ilar proportion The Democrats have made marked gains in the legislature Silver at 16 to 1 has won a glorious vic tory by the gains Samuel L Lord the Democratic candidate for Gover nor who reduced the Republican ma jority in the State 60 per cent is Mayor of Saco and was a Republican until 1872 when he joined the Greeley movement As the fall elections of 1898 come nearer the marked change in the political sentments of the country become more apparent At the spring election in Rhode Island and the June election in Oregon the Republicans held their own as compared with the elections of 1896 Though few speech es were made Maine was flooded with silver literature and the Democratic papers discussed nothing else Noth ing at all was said about the war or the abuse of the soldiers No definite charges could be made and the Demo crats did not lower their cause by trumping lies An Evil of Protection If the natural law of free trade were restored there would be less drift from the farms to the cities and less loafers in the cities All honest able bodied people would become bread winners and bread consumers Idle people eat and ultimately it is the farmer who feeds them Obliterate class legisla tion and there would be a movement to the farms f or the unemployed urban laborers would find plenty to do and would earn plenty to eat and wear If the shackles are ever struck from American agriculture the economic problems of America would not be dif ficult of solution Dallas News Whichever Wins the Public Loses The sugar trust alias Havemeyer and the coffee trust alias Arbuckle have begun a duel to the death Have meyer is going to sell sugar and coffee at less than cost and Arbuckle is go ing to undersell Havemeyer When the duel is over when Havemeyer or Arbuckle is financially dead or what is more probable when peace is patch ed up who will repay to Havemeyer or to Arbuckle or dreadful thought to the allied octopi the millions spent in the fight New York World Plutocracy Abroad Last week the Hannacrats suppress ed a Porto Rican paper for denouncing Spanish cruelty Tuesdays dispatches to the Globe Democrat report that find ing the government of the Cuban town of San Luis was in the hands of the Cubans themselves Shafter had the Cuban flag pulled down This is im perialism The Globe Democrat wants a hundred thousand men to maintain it It will take five hundred thousand Mississippi Valley Democrat Spanish and American Blunders The mistakes made In Cuba said a speaker reported in yesterdays papers are not to be blamed on the army but on the politicians at the head of the government The remark sounds as if it might have been made in Washing ton but it was not It is a pant of Gen Weylers speech in the Senate at Mad rid It merely goes to show that the mistakes in the Cuban campaign were not all on one side Philadelphia Led ger Alserism Merely an Effect The brethren who are now crying aloud for emancipation from Algorism simply have the wrong sow by the ear They are mistaking effect for a cause Algerisni is merely one of the miserable outputs of Hannaism It is a little more disgraceful than usual but this is main ly because its performances have been of a public nature Atlanta Constitu tion Tired of an Old Humbug3 The grand old party racket has been Avorked to the point of exhaustion It has served often to confirm the machine in power of diverting attention from the present to past history It will not work this time The people have caught on to the sham and can no long er be deceived by it Philadelphia Press Rottenness at Home and Abroad The sister republics of France and the United States are both profoundly stir red by government scandals that mean revolution if they are not investigated and revolution if they are In both cases too the same official rottenness Republican government will have to put some raw beef on this black eye Houston Tex Post The Three Greatest Crimes The three greatest modern crimes against humanity are the monopoliza tion of natural bounties the forced in crease of debts and the periodical shrinkage of values Nonconformist One Suffering Frenchman Frenoh justice may not overtake raty Du Clam but he is in the clutches of the editorial punsters Let us pity Paty Kansas City Journal L The yearly output of cigars from the Philippines is 140000000 The cheapest bread in England la worth V cents a pound loaf There is more machinery made in Philadelphia than any other city in the country British publishers last year put on the market 6573 new books of which 2677 were novels Washington D C Central Labor Union appointed a committee to look after union soldiers families The man who establishes a branch of the International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths is paid 10 The cotton crop is the largest single export in this country nearly 230 000000 annually The next largest is wheat Alabamas latest industrial enterprise is a 1000000 steel mill It is to be erected by capital that comes from out side of the state The Baldwin Locomotive Works re cently shipped forty locomotives for the Chinese Eastern railway and twenty five more are being built at the works for the same road The Bethlehem Iron company South Bethlehem Pa has been asked to bid on the forgings for the engine and shafting of a torpedo boat to be built in Japan for the Imperial Japanese navy A plant for the manufacture of Port land cement from furnace slag is be ing erected by the Clinton Iron and Steel company of Pittsburg adjoining their furnace The buildings and ma chinery will cost 150000 One of the largest blooming mills in the country is to be erected at Lorain O and Pittsburg manufacturers will furnish the plant It is to be built by the Lorain Steel coinpanj and will be ejected as soon as possible The largest establishment for the manufacture of felt in America and the most modern in the world is now nearing completion in Chicago 111 It will be run as one of the departments of Armour Co for the purpose of utilizing important by products Organized labor in France is in a flourishing condition According to the last report of the French Labor Depart ment there are 2253 trade and labor unions with a membership of 422777 Forty nine municipalities have boards of arbitration and mediation and intel ligence offices whicii are maintained by the government the municipalities and the labor unions The exposition of 1900 at Paris is having a good effect on the working men of the whole country The city refuges for laborers which are usually crowded during the summer months have received a great thinning out as everybody seems to be working at something for the exposition and the free one night lodging houses are hav ing an unusual rest From all reports it seems that every man who is willing and able to work can find employment is he is honest and industrious Eighty girls employed in the Diamond Match Companys works at Oshkosh walked out in a body after an hours notice The fumes arising from the sulphur is extremely injurious to the health of the employes It is said to be very bad for the teeth and when even the slightest cavity occurs in a tooth unless it is attended to at once the whole jaw will be seriously affected The dentists bills and loss of time in consequence of caring for the teeth make a great item in the yearly finances of the strikers The average wages of the girls was from 225 to 275 a week A Fault of Business Women A professional woman who has to employ a young woman assistant says that one of her greatest troubles is that her assistants are constantly trying to impress not only upon her but upon her patients that they are not accus tomed to such employment but have been brought up to better things though she is aware of the fact that the young women have come from homes where there was neither cul ture nor money It is one of the weaknesses of many nice girls that they do not feel sure enough of themselves in taking up em ployment outside their homes but they must needs offer some excuse or reit erate the fact that they are accustom ed to something better It is a weak ness which brings them little credit from their confidantes A girl enter ing a school for typewriting and sten ography was asked by the other stu dents why she had come to the school Are you taking up stenography and going to take- a position just for fun they asked Why certainly not she replied It is too hard work I do not do hard work for the pleasure of it We are so glad answered her quer ists The greater number of the girls here say they come just for fun and will take positions to pass away the time Chicago Times Herald Good Evidence Lawyer -Why did you discharge that man arrested for scorching Judge redals Scorching That man wasnt scorching Impossible Why he only rode a last years model of a low grade wheel Now if he had been riding a Crackadoom as 1 do But right there the lawj er interposed and the same old endless discussion on the merits of different wheels was re sumed St Louis Post Dispatch When women admit that a woman they dislike Iroks pretty they add for her GREEK CITY UNEARTHED JPrlene Discovered in a Remarkable State of Preservation Private letters bring news of most Important discoveries made by Ger man archaeologists excavating on tho site of the ancient Priene in Asia Min or opposite the island of Samos Years ago an English expedition excavated and studied the Temple of Athena the chief sanctuary of the city built at the crder of Alexander the Great The work was then abandoned and mean while the ruins have been so thoroughly exploited and wasted by the neighbor ing population that nothing Is left but a confused heap of stones In 1895 ther work of exploring the ruins of the city was resumed this time by Germans under the direction of the Berlin mu seum and at the expense of the Prus sian government The architectural work has been placed in the hands of the young architect Wilhelm Wilberg a former student and assistant of Dr Dorfeld The work has now proceeded far -enough to determine its extraordinary Importance A buried city preserved In the completeness of Pompeii is com ing to light Up to this time no Greek city has been excavated that gives any clew to the arrangement of streets pub lic squares monuments and public buildings or to the architecture of any considerable number of private houses Here we find a city to be sure of the Hellenistic period laid out with great regularity with streets crossing at right angles with shops colonnades market places theaters a council-house-and a great number of private houses preserved in such completeness as to display their general architecture dis tribution of space use decoration ancV equipment South of the great square of the tem ple alluded to above and closely ad joining It has been found the great market place or agora of the city which was surrounded on all four sides by broad colonnades of which that on the north side was peculiarly noble and stately Adjoining this at one end and opening a small square building con structed somewhat like a theaterwhich was evidently the council house of thej city It ismarvelously well preserved Sixteen rows of seats are still in place The walls doors windows platform etc are all preserved One of the side walls ends in a massive arch which as being demonstrably a work of the fourth century B C must rank as the earliest or at least one of the few earliest specimens of the arch in Greek construction The whole building rep resents something entirely unique in the relics of Greek architecture There has also been found a small theater In which the stage structure the skene is still standing entire Three doors open from it upon the or ehestra and the proscenium with its row of columns and the architrave above them remains intact No Greek theater as yet discovered is so perfect ly preserved as this and in the future discussions of the stage question this structure is likely to assume a leading place Benjamin Ide Wheeler in Nev York Tribune Russian Forest on Ice One of tne largest forests in the world stands on Ice It is situated be tween the Ural Mountains and the Okhotsk Sea A well was recently dugi In this region where it was found that at a depth of 116 meters the ground wae still frozen Not Qnite a Conqnest Wugger is not going to marry thaV widow Couldnt he win her Yesrbut he couldnt please he son A SOLDIEES ESCAPE From the Democrat Message ML Sterling HI When Richmond had fallen and the great commanders had met beneath historic apple tree at Appomatox the 832 ennsyivania Volunteers prematurely I aged clad m tatters and rags broken id- body but of daunt less spirit swung into line for the last grand review and then quietly marched away to begin lifes frayr anew amid the hillff and valleys of tha Keystone State Among the number Asa Robinson came back to the old home in Mt Ster ling III back to tha fireside that he had left at the call to a r m s four years nrovinitq TTo TronV The Soldiers Jieturn happy away a healthy farmer boy in the first flush of vigorous manhood he came back a ghost of the self that answered to President Lincolns call for 300000 more To day he is an alert active man and tells the story of his recovery as follows rheumatism almost from the time of my discharge from the army Most of the time I was unfitted for manual labor of any kind and my sufferings were at alX times intense At times I was bent al most double and got around only with the greatest difficulty Nothing seemed to give me permanent relief until three years ago when my attention was called to some of the wonderful cures effected by Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People I had not taken more than half a box when 1 noticed an improvement in my condition and I kept on improving stead ily I took three boxes of the pills and at the end of that time was in better con dition than at any time since the close of my army service Since then I have neves been bothered with rheumatism Dr Wil liams Pink Pills for Pale People is th only remedy that ever did me any good and to them I owe my restoration to comparative health They are a grand remedy Safes outwardly resembling Iron ones but which are really made of tliiiJ boards are now supplied by various firms and are sold to people starting In business who want to make a big how He I Ont of the Woods What a happy look Mr Shadyslda wears remarked Mr Murray Hill His wife has finished her spring house cleaning replied Mr Beecb wood Boston Traveler V 7 A r r
