Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, May 01, 1902, Image 2
HE VAL ENTINE DEMOCRAT I KICK , PmfcI ! hr. Tact profits never count with the fire fcawrance men when they contemplate naent losses. matter what decisions are given , body thinks he knows the facts in itehley case , anyhow. If John L. Sullivan goes to farming ealf will find his nose held in the with a firm hand and no monkey allowed. Jdtout the first thing a good Ameri itaaalnd's it necessary to do after reach mg the Philippines is come home to un WtrfQ a surgical operation. a sovereign State bumps it a combination of railway com- oies It generally finds outjhat it isn't mm orereign as it might be. Detroit bank man who saw the to the extent of $1,100,000 Is trou- with nervous prostration. What be think the depositors have ? It Is estimated that King Edward's pwnatlon will coat $20,000.000. En- Jaad needn't feel so bad , though. A ifftt < rf it will be good American money. It Is estimated that there are not sere than 10,000 elephants left In the Jtrorld and five of these will be killed iftr every one born. Some day It will we worth while to have an elephant on hands. Three triplets have been named flockefeller , Morgan and Carnegie. If the other boys In the neighborhood re going to keep their marbles or base Wlla they will have to bury them or Bide them in the haymow. The census office is to be made per manent , instead of a new creation each jita years. This Is appropriate. The iptream of events , such as births , mar- and deaths , which supply ma- for statistics , is continuous. Sullded not wisely. Three years ago J adrew Carnegie gave McKeesport 60,000 to construct a public library , building Is not yet completed , but money has all been expended , Car- has refused to make further con- rlbutlon , and the citizens refuse to imbscrlbe. t = V President Eliot of Harvard speaks his annual report of the invention the card catalogue by Ezra Abbot , he was assistant librarian of tho university forty years ago. Invention not always have a commercial In Doctor Abbot's case , as the resident remarks , "An Indispensable loot in modern industries , trades and Professions was provided * * * by * man of leaning , who had no business ibject whatever in view. " While the production of grain is not increasing as rapidly as population the manufacturing and commercial inter acts of the West are Increasing more jmpldly than those of the whole coun try , manufactured products showing a ffttfo of 70 per cent increase for the jtfntted States ss against 112 per cent for the West Not the least remark- jkble feature about this development is the triumph of Industry over natural phstacles. Towns without coal. Iron ftr water power turn out manufactured roducts that are shipped to the ends the earth. Men frequently build more wisely 4han thc-y know. The managers of a -pjoup of Western railroads are plan- King to send a thousand agents into the States east of the Mississippi to persuade people there to settle on the three million acres of unoccupied fer tile land In Southern-California. Texas mnd Western Xiouisiana. The railroad suen are seeking to build up business Jor themselves by developing the coun try ; but If they succeed in attracting the unemployed or the poorly paid from the large cities , as they hope to jto , they will assist In solving the prob- tonx of municipal government , and ben efit the nation at large more rhnn they "help themselves. Modern Inventions are moat con- renlent , but If they keep on multiply ifn ing : as they have within th'e past twen iftl ty-five years , there will be no 'poetry tlsi left on tap. Marconi has already dealt siu tho death blow to the Idea which Long u fellow so beuatffully expressed In the tl tld lines : d Chips that pass lu the night , and speak c.tcb o other In passing. o ; Only a signal shown , aud a distant rulce' in the dnrkitess. P Ships nowadays are not so old-fash PT ioned as that They seem to like to T keep away from each other as much 01o as possible and sec just hojv far the 01TV wirele s telegraphy wlll carry. It Is TVtl not necessary o.veii to catch sight of tl the tip of a mast in order to exchange theae newest signals. Miss Ellen M. Bruce , of Oswego. X. T. . has taught No. 10 school for fifty tcPI years. When she began she was 1M aud PIV PIU now he Is 74. More than 3.000 pupils U have been taught by her. What a mag nificent record for one woman. And III 111 with what satisfaction must snr look tl back upon her life's work of a half cen tury. She has molded the plastic aoul f three regiments * of children. Who Ill lias done more ? Alexander's teacher made Alexander as he himself testi til fied. And what man or woman cannot look bacVc to the day's wheu the inspira tion of all that is best wane from u io teacher ? That debt of lu can never be paid. What are the to complishment of millionaires by tht side of the useful life of Miss Bruce' Which is the greater , to fashion mate rial things or to fashion souls ? To Un- press one life for good Is better than to manipulate the merger of two great railroads. To turn one life into its proper channels Ia greater than to or ganize a trust All honor to the con scientious teacher. His work Is not blazoned to the world but he U next to God himself. It Is always & pleasure to record the rise of a man from the bottom of the ladder to success. It is especially pleas ing to note the rise of a man in a country where , in tht language of James A Garfleld , society is stratified like the rocks , one layer holding down the one beneath. William Crooks , forty years ago , was an Inmate of a London workhouse. Left In such an environ ment he resolved as a boy that he would make his way upward through difficul ty , first he secured a position at $1 a week. He lived on this $1 andtasted for the first time semi-Independence. He next apprenticed himself to the copper trade and worked for one man seven years. Then he was thrown out of work by a strike. He began business for himself In a small way and was successful. Today he Is a member of the London city council and mayor of an East End suburb. He is chairman of the London industrial school com mittee. He is also chairman of the workhouse committee , the same com mittee that sent him and his family to the workhouse years ago. In short he Is a successful and useful man in his day and generation and Is highly re spected. It Is impossible , accidents aside , to keep a good man down. If he has brains and character he will win an honorable place. He may not secure fame or wealth but he secures what Is better manhood. Aud this is | true under every form of society. It is especially true In this country where to use the Garfleld phraseology , our society is not like the earth's strata "but Is like the yielding waves of the sea where the lowest drop may rise and glitter on the topmost wave. " The Choctaw Railroad Company , which operates in Oklahoma and States bordering that territory , has gone into a new line of business that may well nigage the attention of Messrs. Hill and Harriman , the Vanderbllts and other magnates who are now devoting their jntlre time to the formation of rate ) ools , the consolidation of parallel linen ind the cementing of communities of nterest In one of the Choctaw Com pany's cars at El Reno ( Oklahoma ) the > ther day the conductor found a basket : ontainlng a little baby. The child was supplied with warm , soft clothing and L nursing bottle filled with milk. On : he handle of the basket was a note laying : "I have no parents. Please take ne to th'e next station. " The conductor , ) elng disinclined to act without orders , elegraphed to headquarters and was LUthorized to take the little one to the icxt station. When his train pulled into he station at which the child was to ba mt off the conductor received further trders directing him to retain posses- ilon of the Infant , as the company had leclded to adopt it The Choctaw j load's ward is now in a Wichita hospi- i al , and if It lives will be rained and ducated at the expense of the com-j any. It is not mentioned whether the ! valf Is a boy or a girl , but In either case j he company should find It a profitable Dvestment to keep the tiny stranger .ml educate it for a career as a rail- oader. Supposing it should turn out toj lave the administrative ability of a * Jill or a Morgan or a Hetty Green. In | uch an event the Choctaw Road would Become a transcontinental affair with board of directors composed of men' rorth at least $40,000,000 each. The ! verago railroad company might well fford to raise 50,000 homeless little1 nes , If no more than one great captain | I f industry could be developed in the ntire batch. Besides , a good many ables might thus have better treat-j lent than they are likely to obtain othj j rwise. Let the railroad companies do : omething for the public in return for | lie privileges they enjoy. If they will ' ike the extra babies and raise and edu1 1 ate them one of the serious problems ' f civilization , will be solved and a J rand exemplification of the fact that ' orporaUons-"inay. have souls by adou on will he furnished. Disconsolate but Enterprising. 1 The following curious advertisement t ; fcVkeufrom , a Spanish journal : "This 1 lornlogour Savior summoned away < 10 jeweler , Siebaid Illimaga , from his i top to another aud a better world. The t nderslgued , his widow , will weep pon his tomb , as will also his ( wo : nughters , Hlld and Emma , the former i r whom is married and the lat.ter is s leu to an offer. "The funeral will take i lace to-morrow. His disconsolate t Idow. Veronique Illimaga. IS. . his bereavement will not interrupt t ir employment , which will be carried i as usual ; only our place of business sj ill be removed from , ' ' , Lessie de heinj j triers to 4 Hue de Missiun.iiru , as our , j rasping landlord has raised the rent. " ( ] Motor Cycles in Italy. . , number of motor cycles and mo- r cars In Italy for which the owners j- lid the tax la t year is 915. The 0 rovluee of Turin heads th list with s K > 'vehicle , that' of Milan coming a \t ivitli 4. It is said that there are . c. ulouhtedly mnny mom motor cuf > ( . an Din in Italy. After one woman has convinced H ? an that she would die for him. he be:1 Jl us to look vaguely around to sin : if ere are any more. v What haa become of the old fn. h- ued man who hung his lotlge , % \ ril ti conspicuous place ? cl LABOfi ON THE FAfiM IT IS DIGNIFIED AND REQUIRES MUCH INTELLIGENCE. Nothing ! Farther from the Truth than the Belief that Culture of the Soil Does Not Require as Much Ex penditure of Brain at * Most Trades. The Bishop of Shrewsbury , preach- Ing at a harvest festival in his diocese , made some interesting remarks con cerning labor on the land. He said it was Impossible to be unaware of the fact that there was a growing distaste for this ; that the lot of the agricultural laborer was ill thought of , even looked down upon ; that there was an unwill ingness on the part of the lads who had stayed longest at school and prof ited by the good education that was now given to go to farm work , as though it was a calling beneath them , and they were fitted for something bet ter for employment in towns , in some of the arts and crafts , the manufac tures and business which found their home in them. He desired , in opposition to this view , to uphold what he did not hesi tate to call the dignity of the work of the cultivation of the soil. Certainly it was the oldest of all industries , ap pointed by God Himself for man. Be fore man fell , in the days of his Inno cence , they read "that God took the man whom He had made" and put him in the Garden of Eden "to dress it and to keep it" And after the fall the necessity was still laid upon man to cultivate the soil as the condition of obtaining from it his dally bread ; though , as part of the penalty of sin , it should be with difficulty and with effort , and In the sweat of his brow , such as he did not experience before , for the earth shared the curse which man's dis obedience brought upon him , and , left untilled , it would bring forth thorns and thistles and worthless weeds. But as husbandry and labor in the fields were the oldest industry , so It was the most necessary and universal , for man and beast alike were dependent upon it for existence. And though all that the earth produced was God's gracious gift , He gave It is the result of man's careful , toilsome labor. And so it fol lowed that there was no industry to be compared to it for the number it em ployed , nor was failure in any branch of industry , or in all put together , to be compared for a moment to the loss which would be Inflicted on the world if , through the abandonment of labor on the laud , It was permitted to go out of cultivation and the supply of food were to cease. Those who did not know , continued the Bishop , because they did not think , were apt to imagine that there was no skill in agricultural labor , whereas the fact was that an experienced laborer who was ready for any and every kind of work that a farm demanded , need ed , and indeed possessed , an Intelli gence more keen and varied than many classes of mechanics , who through the subdivision of the work which prevailed in every kind of man ufacture , were engaged day after day ou a single piece of production or con struction only and were not required to go beyond it He asked them to take that thought with them , that they might recognize the dignity of labor In the fields , that they were preparing the way lor God himself to work. Therefore , he would say to the lads timl younger men , do not think meanly uf farm labor , as though they were too good lor it ; but believe that it offered to them an employment In which thoir powers of body , and mind , too , might be healthily developed and they might help to perpetuate for their fatherland i vigorous , brave and independent race. Mark Lane Express. MANY VICTIMS OF ELECTRICITY. IOM ofLife and Property During a Brief Period. A table has been compiled by the in surance companies of the losses by electricity during the nine months end- ng Dec. 1. Two hundred and forty-six ersons have been electrocuted during liese nine mouths , or an average of ilmost thirty a mouth ; 515 have been naimed , 112 horses have been killed , md there were 442 fires , says the .Vashingtou . Times. In this table an account has been : ept of the indirect accidents through he use of electricity , such as the trol- oy car accidents , electric mobile acci- lont.s , and tlu like , but only where the lirect electric shock caused the death r maiming or the lire. The losses by electric tires alone have .veraged over a million dollars a uoutli. These losses have become so erlous that the acr-ident. life and iire usurance companies are considering he advisability of taking united action gainst them. The insurance rate In hese companies was fixed before the reat and increasing use of electricly ! , ml the electrical risk was not figured i. so that the rates are upset ami re- uire a readjustment through these ad- iti - * * I losses. The winter months show more dam- ; re by electricity than the summer umths. During thesummer thcro are L'wer fires and not so many elcctro- utions. while after every winter's torm there is a long list of casualties rul losses from imperfect insulation , rossed and broken wires and misled c nrrents. While on one side better .sanitation ml medical and surgical care are tend- ig to increase the length of the a ver ge human life , the development of jese new danger nets as an offset to r hat would otherwise be clear gain. If added to the direct deaths by elec- icity the indirect deaths were in- ' udcd the total Is sufficient to make o an appreciable change In the death rate. The Brooklyn trolley lines alon are responsible for about 100 deaths per annum , and with the development of the trolley system and roe increase in speed the number of deaths Is keep ing pace. One of the results Is a great Increase in accident insurance. It is hardly a score of years since accident Insurance was Invented , and now It has become an extensive and profitable branch of the insurance field. HE HAD HIS WAY. The Major Was Determined , Eren ia Death , to Not Obey. * Many amusing stories are told of the great formality blended with a humor ous brusqueness and independence which characterized early Revolution ary days. An incident of camp life is related by the author of "Romance and Realism of the Southern Gulf Coast" j In 1798 the first United States troops that came down the Mississippi were quartered at Fort Adams. General , Wilkinson , Colonel Hamtramck , Ma-1 Jor Butler , Captain Green and * other officers were merry over their punch one night , and the General , by some ac cident , got his queue burned off.Angry at the laugh which followed his mis hap , he next day issued an order for bidding any officer to appear with a queue. Obedient to orders , all the offi cers but Major Butler cut off their queues. "The vain old prig ! " said the Major. "I'll see him hanged before I cut off my queue to gratify him ! " and he bold ly appeared without changing the style ( of his hair-dressing. The Major was put under arrest , but he declared obstinately that he would spend the rest of his life in prison bej j fore he would comply with such a' silly command. Soon afterward he was taken very ill , and realizing hat he was at the point of death , he gave instruc tions for his burial , which he knew would be witnessed by the whole comj j maud. "Bore a hole , " said he , "through the bottom of my coffin , right under my head , and let my queue come through it , that the old general may see that even when dead I refuse to obey his order. " And these directions were literally carried An Anecdote of Cavour. In the recently published reminis cences .of the Count of Reiset , for long French ambassador to Italy , is found the following anecdote of young Ca vour at the time when he was for a brief period page at the court of Vic tor EmmanueL "The pages , as is known , served the King , the Queen , and the Princes and Princesses of the blood at royal fetes ; Beyond this they were forbidden to render any service. All these lads belonged to the noblest families of the land. One evening little Camlllo Cavour entered the throne room , bearing a tray covered with ices , which he offered to the King , the" Queen , and Princes of the blood. But as he was going back with some ices still on the tray , a man of high rank stepped up to him and took an ice from the tray. Cavour drew him self up. glared at the nobleman , and , raising the porcelain tray as high as he could , let it smash in a thousand pieces on the floor. To the chamberlain's re buke for clumsiness , he replied that he bad done it on purpose , as the only pos sible retort to the indignity which he had suffered. " The affair was the im mediate cause of Cavour's leaving the court for the military school. When Abroad , Speak English. The English-speaking tourist who wastes half an hour of time , temper ] | ind energy In trying to make some Iweller iu u foreign land understand' : liis bad French or Spanish , only to be Chocked at length by some such a liiestion as "Can't you speak English ? " is almost as common nowadays as the track-walking tragedian. This is a lit tle story of his experience In Spain , as .old by "The Dominie , " in the Ladies' Flome Journal : "One nay we all entered a little shop n Madrid and The Captain' began to jpeak in Spanish to the girl who was jehind the counter. She failed to un- ierstand , and so he tried again. Once ind again he tried and tried , and surn- noned up his whole vocabulary. At ast in his attempt to make his mean- ug plain by illustration he drew from ils pocket wise a card , and with it itroked his chin. The girl fell Into fits f laughter , and in perfect English ; aid , 'Oh ! what you want is a fine-tooth : oinb. ' " English Sparrows Are Misjudged. A great deal of nonsense is talked ibout sparrows driving away other > irds. Like the downtrodden Italian ind other peasants from the Old A'orld , the sparrows arf prepared to ive here where others would starve , [ 'hey kill no birds. We are too wont to ittribute the results of our own inis- [ eeds or shortcomings the barbarities millinery fashions , wanton slaugh- er masquerading as sport , the lack of ; ood bird laws and the enforcing of horn where such exist to these trou- ilesome. noisy , quarrelsome little catliered gamins. Fitted to survive fter centuries of competitive strug- : Jet they cannot be exterminated. A * fell nry to eliminate that other tri- mphnnt European immigrant. th als.v. from our fields. Nekje Blan- han in Ladies' Home Journal. A Heal Need. "Here's an Invention that enables ou to see the man who rings you up ver the telephone. "That's well enough. But what Is ? ally needed Is something that will nable you to punch him inithe Jaw. " Too often when a man tries to pinch there he hurts himself. ( 1 i A GlffMUo TanneL 1 The subject of a tunnel connect ing Ireland and Scotland has been brought before the British govern ment , and the project will be pushed if the requisite financial suporp can be obtained. The estimaed cost is $15OuOOtO. The route provision- "ally selected is from Scotland to Bel fast in Ireland. The total distance is 61 miles * of which 34 miles would be tunnel and 25 miles of the tunnel would be under the sea , along a line where the maximum depth is 480 feet. Electric motors would be used to drive the trains at an aver age speed of sixty to seventy miles per hour. . Aa Honest Man' * Opinion. Vermont , Mo. , April 28. If what Mr. J. S. Tlllery of thta place says is true and none who know him doubt his honesty the new remedy , Dodd's Kid ney Pills , Is a wonderful medicine m deed. Mr. Tlllery says : "I had Kidney and Liver Trouble for years. I had used many medicines , but could get nothing to cure me. "I heard of a new remedy called Dodd's Kidney Pills aud began a treat ment , with the result that I was very soon on the mend. "I kept on using the pills and aui now entirely better. I honestly do believe that they are the greatest remedy the world has ever seen. "I ain always willing to help a good thing , and I cannot say too much for one that helped me so much. "If I didn't know that Dodd's Kid ney Pills would do all that is claimed for them I wouldn't say a word of praise for them. " Car No. 13 , on the street railroad of St. Joseph , Mo. , bad to be. taken off by the company. The colored folks would not ride in it , deeming the number very unlucky. It ran through a district largely inhabited by negroes , and although the other cars were often uncomfortably crowded , No. 13 was nealry always empty. The most rapid talker In the house of representatives is Charles E. Lit- tlefield , of Maine. He is a terror to the official stenographer , sometimes getting very close to the 300-worda-a minute record , etablisbed by Henry U. Johnson , of Indiana , who served j several terms in congress. Wise is he who knows where his knowledge ends and bis ignorance begins. Impoverished Blood * Whether due to inheritance or caused by a depleted condition of the system , is the cause of much agony. Vogeler's Curative Compound , when taken for this trouble is a means of salvation. It creates new fresh tissues and pure red blood corpuscles and by giving strength and tone to the great vital energies of the body , it enables them to perform their nat ural functions. The reader should not lose sight of the fact that Vogeler's Curative Compound is made from the formula of one of the most eminent physicians. Send at once to St. Jacobs Oil , Ltd. , Baltimore , for a free sample bottle. MRS. MART SMORTLHY , 16 Court , Gosport S Coventry , writes : " Several years a o I act with ai icddent through a 3 ] ! . hurting my hand so b dlr thai [ WM unable to use the same for five weeks , f tned : verything I knevr of bjt did not receive xny benefit. Finally , as a last resource. I'applitd St. JacohsOil and liter using the first bottle I could move my finders , ifter the * econd bottle I could open ir.y hand anc inally I regained the use of my hand and all pain ) et ne. It was only by the use of St. Jacobs OU that 1 an low abla to follow my employment. " In Glasgow water and gas are sup- ilied by the city. Sixpence for each jooud of rental is the annual charge 'or water ; that is , a house renting or 60 would bave to pay 30 shillings > er annum for water. Gas is sup- ) lied at the rate of two shillings and ixpence for 1,000 feet. CASTOR ! A For Infants and Children. [ ( IB Kind You Have Always Bought i Bears the t Signature of i i A friend was telling a droll story j o H. H. McCuliougb , of Harpers- < ille , N. Y. , who was recovering i rom an attack of pneumonia. Mr.i IcCullough laughed so heartily that is merriment brought on a fit of iccougbing , which could not be topped , and be died from the con- bant spasmodic movement. Healthever "For 25 years I hare ever missed taking Ayer'i Sarsaparilla every spring. It cleanses ray , blood , makes me feel strong , ani does me good in every way. John P. Hodnette , Brooklyn , N.T. Pure and rich blood cirries new life to every part of the body. You are invigorated , refreshed. 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