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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1903)
RAWLINS hid a bank BETTY - . . : ud a huge one at that. But Betty had a greater fortune in her face , Cor she was as pretty as a spring beauty , and though she "was perverse and pouty when she wanted to be she waa ordinarily as sweet as a violet. Betty lived In the summer time at Lowland Glen , not many miles remov ed from Fort Sherman , a big garri son with enough young officers on duty to fill the ranks of a company had they been forced to drop the sword and shoulder the Krag-Jorgenson. Betty loved the mlltary what girl doesn't ? and If the truth be told Betty's heart was set on marrying into the soldiery , but she had made up her mind secretly that he couldn't think of looking at anything less than a colonel , and when she thought of it she sigh ed , for the colonels in Uncle Sam's regulars were all so dreadfully old , and Betty was only 19 , mind you. There was young Roy Lanyard sta tioned at Fort Sherman. He was mighty good looking , Betty admitted this to herself , and It. wouldn't be a bit hard to love him , but Roy was only a captain , and nothing but a colonel would do. Captain Lanyard , to get into the middle of things at once , was just as desperately in love with Betty as a young soldier just old enough to know his own mind can be. He didn't care a rap about Betty's CAPT. BOY LANYARD LOOKED ON AND WAS MISERABLE. bank account ; In fact , he never gave It a thought. It was juat Betty herself that he wanted , but he didn't dare say BO. Now Betty had another failing , not uncommon among American girls not old enough thoroughly to understand that Yankee husbands are the beat in lire world , and that was a firm belief ihat the Ideal condition in married life would be that which would come from a husband who was a combination of Englishman and English army officer. "The colonels are younger over there , " jsaic" Betty to herself , "and they are ail of aristocratic family , and , oh well , Englishmen are just too lovely Jor anything. " Th'e summer colony at Lowland Glen -was unusually large that season. There were buuohetj of swell doings , as the .slangy Yale cjuusiii of Betty would put I * The army officers from Fort Sherman were much in evidence , and one ? young captain in particular was rery much in evidence in the vicinity of Miss Betty Rawlins. Betty saw th. ? evidence clearly , and how she did wish that the president would retire some few hundreds of superior officer's so that Roy Lanyard could tack the ab breviation "Col. " to the front part of his name. One day there was excitement at Lowland Glen. Mrs. Calumet had in vited two Englishmen , one of them an army officer , to spend the month with them at their summer home. The news reached Betty the morn.ng after the arrival of the Calumet's two guests. Twenty young women had told her about it Let the girls alone for spreading news of this kind. "And Betty , " said one of her * Informants , "one of the Englishmen is a colonel in his majesty's service , and young and good It/oking at that. " Betty's heart gave a thump. "At Jast , " she murmured to herself. The next afternoon Betty met the Englishmen at the Dexter Country Club. Her heart fluttered a little as the younger of the two men the other was old and out of the running was introduced to her. Colonel Reginald Southcote was his name. It fairly rang of aristocracy and militarism. Betty knsw that he was a simon-pure Englishman all right enough because of his name , his accent and his clothes which didn't fit. For the n 3 week Colonel Reginald - fca-vlin's shadow. Southed&SSL Baltr Captain lucj Lanyard kx > ked on and was miserable. Beity gave him two dances and about three words during the entire week. "No show for one of Uncle Sam's poor artillerymen when there's one of King Edward's men with a drawl and a monocle about , " sighed peer Captain Roy. Colonel Reginald Southcote was not long in finding out that Betty Raw lins had a pot of money and that she adored the military. Betty asked him one day what his regiment was , and lie replied pro/aptly : "I am the colonel of the Royal Yorkshire Regiment , " he said. Betty had heard tales about English' men pretending to be what they were not , but the colonel looked honest enough , and the girl was half ashamed of herself when she went to a library In the city and took down a British military gazette from the shelf and looked for Royal Yorlckshire Regl ment. She found It all right , and wlti the name of Reginald Southcote sel down as colonel thereof. From that time Betty was very cor dial to the colonel. She turned the conversation occasionally on the Boei war , expecting to hear some deeds ol daring' modestly told , but the colonel was'strangely silent on the subject oi field service , and Betty put it down to a brave man's reticence when 51 came to speaking of his own acts on the field of battle. Betty might nol have liked it had she known that when she was looking up the colonel's regi ment he was making inquiries in cer tain financial circles about the extenl of her bank account. The report seem ed to please him , and he proceeded tc make hay while the sun shone , and 11 was a particularly cloudless month ai Lowland Glen. Betty knew with a girl's intuitior that an offer was not far away. She felt a pang , however , every time sht saw Captain Lanyard and saw bov , miserable he looked , though he triec to put a brave face on the matter. 11 the truth be told , Betty cried a littl < in the privacy of her room when she looked at the glorious old flag floating in the sunshine at the flagstaff peal- in the fort beyond , and sighed am sighed again. One day Lawyer Coke , who looket after Betty Rawlin's estate , hearc from a close friend that a certain Eng lishmau had been inquiring about Bet ty's financial standing. "Fortune hunt er if not a fraud , " said old Coke t < himself , and then , as luck would hav < It , he happened to pick up a copy 01 the Broad Arrow , the journal of tin united services of Great Britain Lawyer Coke looked at it His eyei fell on a paragraph and he chuckled He folded the pap.er up , put it in hi ; pocket and took the first train foi Lowland Glen. He marked the para graph in the paper and put it where h < knew Betty would be sure to pick i1 up , and from the nature of the publics tion he knew she would b ? siir ? to reac it from start to finish. Betty Rawlins felt that the hour was coming when she would have to an swer a question put to her by Colone ! Reginald Southcote. She was think ing of this when the picked up the Broad Arrow. She knew what the paper was , for she had heard of it , She read it eagerly. The date of the paper was three months back. The marked paragraph caught her eye. She read this : "General Powell-Baden Inspected the Royal Yorickshire Regiment last Thursday. It was the first training day of this militia organization for a year. The new men were in poor trim , and Colonel Reginald Southcote , who has seen no foreign service and very little at home , had hard work to give commands and to sit his horse prop erly. The regiment will need overhaul ing to bring it up to even militia stand ards. " The paper dropped from Betty's fing ers. "Militiaman ; never saw a day's real service ; couldn't sit on his horse ; " and then Betty gasped. Her thoughts turned to another paragraph that she had read in an American journal. It told how one Captain Roy Lnndyard had received the Congressional medal of lion r for personal gallantry in the saving of the life of a comrade under fierce fire in the Philippine Islands. Betty knew that night at the ball at the h ) tel that Colonel R-'gimild South cote was seeking her out , but she avoided him. Captain Roy Lanyard met her and she smiled on him , and there was a look in her eyes that made the young soldier's heart leap. "Won't you go for a walk with me ? " he said. "Yes , " she answered softly. As they passed down the hotel steps the moonlight fell full upon them , and Lawyer Coke , who was standing on the veranda , smiled , and , being a bit of a wag , he turned to a friend who had been watching the course of events for a month past and said : "Alas ! Poor Yorickshire. " Chicago Record-Herald. Gladstone's Statue. A statue to Gladstone has recently been placed in Westminster Abbey on the spot marked for it years ago by Dean Stanley. It occupies the last vacant space for a standing figure in the north transept The London Times describes the statue. It was made by Mr. Brook of the Royal Academy , and Is a marble figure on a marble pedestal , which at pres ent contains no inscription. On one side is the statue of Sir Robert Peel , on the other , that of Lord Beacons- field. The aisle is called the "States men's Aisle , " and is near the pulpit. 1 Gladstone stands In the robes of a doctor of civil law of Oxford , with his face turned slightly to the left. The likeness is good. There Is no ceremony of unveiling monuments which , like this , are erect ed by the authority of Parliament No display is necessary to call attention to the honor which the nation pays Its great men. A woman usually follows fashions In dresing her hah * till the second baby comes , when she hasn't time to experi ment , and clings to the style prevalent then till her death. PLEA FOR THE BRIDGEGROOM. He aa Well as th. * Bride Is Deaerv'ns of Consideration. Rhapsodies on the bride are bounti ful. The dear creature , of course , h worthy of all the good things sail about her. She is the loveliest , sweet est , most charming and altogether mos delightful thing that ever came dowr the pike or the central aisle of th < church. Her very presence is a bene diction and a suggestion of the splce < Isles , and her dresses ah , they ar < dreams ! If you don't believe It jus1 get into the company of any of hei girl friends ; you won't have the trou ble of asking about It The bride Ii " " " of columr "it" She Is always "top next to reading matter , " which being Interpreted means that she gets choici position , where she and her beauty anc her gown would positively demand at tention if It were not given freely gladly and voluntarily. She deserves and has , the admiration of all creation And yet we make bold to put in t little plea on behalf of the bride groom , that he is not forgotten. Or dinarily he cuts mighty little figure ir the proceedings. He Is regarded rath er in the light of a piece of the stagi settings , or a foil to show off the ra diant beauty of the bride-elect. Thai he is a very necessary adjunct to th < function which brings the bride al ablush into the public eye will be ad ruitted.- But who notices how he ii dressed ? Not even the bride herself She and the others have a hazy pictun of a man with something black oi his body and something white on his hands , and some of the spectators maj observe a scared look on his face. Bu that is about all. Nobody says "Wasn't ' he handsome ! " "How per fectly his costume sets off his splendle figure ! " "Wasn't he just too sweet foi anything ! " Comments and compli ments of this kind are reserved foi the bride. The bridegroom doesn't ge them. And , to tell the truth , he i ; glad of it. He is well cjntent for "her' to be the recipient of all the attention ! while he stands meekly in the back ground. It's less embarrassing ane less bothersome. It is after the wedding and in th < home life that the bridegroom show ; up big , if he is of the right sort and most of them are. It is when th < honeymoon has waned that he prove ; to the bride the wisdom of her choice It is when he takes off his coat anc hustles hard at work all day and ii tender , loving and true under the ev ening lamp that he demonstrates he i ; not the clothing dummy that he ap pcared to be during the wedding cere mony. It may be that the world wil not notice It. No mention of the fad will be found In the society columns and the neighborhood gossips will have nothing to say about it. But when he has made her a happy home the bride will understand and appreciate the fact , if she is of the right sort , and most of them are , and will bless the day that brought to her her own bridegroom. They are both good people ple ; may they live long arid prosper Chicago Chronicle. Further experience of the recent storms of dust is told by the African mail steamship Borneo , which , before reaching Teneriffe , ran through a ter rific sandstorm for thirty hours. The record of voracity belongs of right to a stoat recentljT caught at Penuyhill , Pa. During the night the bloodthirsty little creature had killed eleven turkeys , thirty ducks and twen ty chickens. "Most people are aware , " says the Scientific American , "of the power of egg-shc'lls to resist external pressure on the ends , but not many would credit the results of tests recently made. Eight different bear's eggs were submitted to pressure applied extern ally all over the surface of the shell , and the breaking pressures varied be tween 400 pounds and 075 pounds per square inch. With the stresses applied internally to twelve eggs , these gave way at pressures varying being thirty- two and sixty-five pounds per square inch. The pressure required to crush the eggs varied between forty pounds and seventy-five pounds. The average thickness of the shells was thirteen- one thousandth inch. " The idea that alcohol or any other stimulant can ever impart strength must be abandoned , says a writer in The Hospital. A stimulant has a cer tain effect on the circulation , and this may enable the person who takes It to exert more strength temporarily ; but the energy that he uses comes not from the stimulant , but from his own blood and tissue. A similar mis take is made in the administration of a stimulant to relieve a feeling of de pression or sinking. An Injurious re action always follows. Alcohol is harmful also in diseases of the kid neys or of the liver , but It seems to be good for disease of the lungs , and its effect on appetite and digestion may be good when properly employed. When "stimulants" put one to sleep and quiet agitation , they are doing good ; when , on the contrary , they raise the pulse-rate , and cause excite ment and wakefulness , they are doing harm. Au Opinion. "Do you think that betting Is wrong ? " "It depends on circumstances , " an swered the town oracle. "If you can't afford to lose. It's wrong ; If you can , it's merely silly. " Washington 'Star. A man's strength develops when he has something to do ; not when he Isr Idle WHO PAYS THE FARE ? Women's Arenment Now Not Who Shall , but Who Shall Not. ! Is woman becoming so stingy that she will not pay her neighbor's street car fare , as she has insisted on doinj ; ever since the first old mule car started on its maiden trip ? Everyone has seen women aboard a car arguing as to which had the right to hand the con ductor two nickels. "I'll pay It I've got the change right here , " one has insisted , as she delved deeply into her hand bag. "No , I will pay it Here's the right change. Oh , don't break that bill. Well , all right , go ahead , but , remem ber , I will pay it as we come back. " All this , and more , would the other In sist. sist.But But occasionally one sees a different kind of argument nowadays. The oth er evening a boarding house matron and a brood of old maids boarded a North State street car at Huron street. Before the guardian and the covey were seated every woman of them had thrust her hand into her pocketbook. "I'll pay It. " said a tall and angular- brunette. "How many are there ? Six of us ? Oh. my. I've only got a quar ter ! Lillle. will you lend me 3 cents ? " "No. I'll pay it , " said a short and red-nosed blonde. "You paid the last time we were out together. " And so it went the round of the com pany. The conductor stood waiting for some one to decide to hand over the necessary . ' 50 cents. The1 angular bru nette didn't do it. The blonde didn't do it. The matron didn't do 'it. What each of the three did do was to chime out at the same time : "Oh. it's Marie's time to pay. " Marie , a sad-eyel. : pale-1 ppetl crei- rure. with an indiffe'cnt air about her. rammed her hsind into the eavernoiis inside of an old hand bag and drew out six nickels. harriVd them to the con ductor and then tuined her back on her five companions. It would have been no puzzle for any pa pen.'Jtpr dur ing the next live minutes of the rid ? to have found the girl that paid the fare. Chicago Inter Ocean. How He Keeps Contented. W. H. Truesdale , president of the Delaware & Lackawanna railroad , was discussing the question of happiness with a friend not long ago. Various arguments were advanced as to tire best way to find contentment. "I was greatly impressed , " said Mr. Truesdale , "with a talk I recently had with the president of one of the largest bank ing institutions in the country. "I met this man about six o'clock one night on an elevated train in New York city , and expressed surprise that Ire cl..r.M linve bcr c--s ' ! r.t h:7 office so late in the day. 'This is noth ing unusual for me , ' said the bank president ; 'I am down town as late as this every day , and very often I remain until seven o'clock. I have tried a good many ways to find contentment In ray life , and have decided that the only thing that brings it is good , hard , steady work , day in and day out' "These words have stayed with me ever since. There are many people in this country whose aim in life seems to be to get money by 'hook or crook , ' without working for it , and there are many others who inherit lar * e fortunes. These persons spend their lives in dawdling In this corner and that corner of the world , trying to spend their time without doing any thing in particular , and they fail ut terly to find the peace and happiness of which they are in search. "Young men , and old men. too , should learn the truth that the only real , lasting pleasure in life comes from being actually busy at some work every day ; doing something worth while , and doing it as well as you know how. The more we appreciate this fact the more will we be able to make the most of our lives. " Suc cess. Real Mean of Him. "I don't wish to take up your time , ' ' the caller said , "unless you think it is likely I might interest you in the sub ject of life insurance. " "Well , " replied the man at the desk , "I'll not deny that I have -been think ing some about it lately. Go ahead. I'll listen to you. " Whereupon the caller talked to him 45 minutes without a break. "And now. " he said at last , "are you satisfied that our company is one of the best and that our plan of doing business is thoroughly safe and con servative ? " "Yes. " "Have 1 convinced you that we fur nish as good insurance as any other company and at rates as cheap as you can get anywhere ? " "Yes , I am satisfied with the showIng - Ing you make. Perfectly satisfied. " "Well , don't you want to take out a policy with us ? " "Me ? Oh , no. . I'm a life insurance agent myself. I though I might bo able to get some pointers from you. " The Conscienceless Alligator. "I can't go down in dat water wid you , Br'er Williams , " said the con vert ; "I too 'fraid er alligators. " "Nonsense ! * ; said Br'er Williams. "Didn't it turn out all right wid Jonah after he wuz swallered by de whale ? " "Yes , " replied the convert , "but a Georgy alligator is rno' tougher dan what a whale is , en got less conscience. After he swallers you he goes ter sleep and fergits all erbout you. " Atlanta Constitution. Recommendations to Burn. Mistress I hope you have some rec ommendations. Bridget Ricommendat ms , Is it ? Sure I have 12 or 14 in the last four months. There Is always room at the top of a ball costume for more costume. THE SODLi'S RETURN. By T. A. K. Gcsslcr I will arise and go to my father Luke xv. , 18. The sweetest of stories told in any -jngue among men is this beautiful parable of the prodigal son. Every where is it attentively heard. Simple even to plainness , told ten thousand 'times ' , It never loses its marvelous What is perhaps most wonderful about it is that , while the quiet of the wanderer is never for a moment hid den , while his transgression is set be fore us in characters so distinct as never to be mistaken , we do not for a moment lose our sympathy for the wanderer himself. So the Master wish ed it. For so lie opens the inexhiiust- ii le fountains of the divine love to our vision ; so He shows us how lie re ceives sinners and eats with them ; how He welcomes the guilt to the feast of His love and rejoices over them as a father over a child that was lost And yet this sympathy turns alto gether upon the incident to which this scripture directs us. Let the narra tive have another termination and our pity turns to disgust Lot it read : "But he was besotted and rejoiced In the husks with the swine ; he longed nol. for his father's home ; he ignored its plenty and died in his wretched ness. " We should then say : "Miser able brute , he lived and died as he de served. " In the strange land to which we have come , whether our feet go into flower gardens or deserts , we are apt to lose knowledge of the fatherhood that is over us. The material advan tages of tire world , all its profits , hon ors arrd emoluments , can never satisfy the highest aspirations of the human soul. We want something more endur ing and profound. Nor will art , litera ture or sentinrent satisfy the craving. Not Jiijythrng that exhausts itself in the realm of the intellect or the emo tions nlone responds to tlr ? soul's higlr- tst aspirations. The leverage by which it is to be lifted must be out side Itself. It wants God. The burden of sorrow , care and an xiety that oppresses us requires a higher ministry than this "strange land" affords. Its comforts are but "husks. " Many a business man who reads these words to-day shudders as he recollects that the Sunday rest is already half gone and thiit to-morrow he must resume the grind of yester day and take up the agonies that had only been laid aside during his rest ing spell. The mother who left the body of her child In the cemetery few days ago is not relieved by the thought that she shares only the com mon lot of mortals. A tenderer hand than that of philosophy is needed to stay the rush of her tears. No , it is not satisfying , this "far- country. " Many of its gifts are high and noble ; Indeed they are all of them of the Father's bestowal we must not forget this when we are tempted to belittle the world's favors but they are only the media and not the sub- etance of a divine affection. We need to get beyond arrd above them all to the perennial fountain from which all beneficence flows if the soul is to be satisfied with perfect refreshment. "I will arise and go to my Father. " Let every reader say this to his own soul to-day. Beyond and above all songs and psalms , beyond and above all rites and ceremonials to the loving heart of the Father ! There is no room for doubt as to my welcome , for Ills arms are always open to receive His sorrowing , suffer ing , penitent children. They are His very own. He gives them a peace which this world can neither bestow nor despoil. My Father ! When every soul shall come to the sense of proprietorship which this pronoun suggests , then shall men cease to tremble before an awful tyrant and that sense of des pair which accompanies the idea of an Impersonal or absent power that is above us perishes. The vague yearn ing that had its birth in our early childhood when at a mother's knee we learned to say , "Our Father , which art in heaven , " finds a higher realiza tion than was then possible to our dreams , for the heavenly gates have opened and the Father has come dowrr to meet his returning child in an in effable ministry of comfort , peace and love. IIIE RENEWAL C < T Byjr. . J. A. Kldd. In the aged , childhood , youth and manhood are not dead. They still live. Childhood has only been put to bed ; youth Ijas only gone off to school ar manhood has only engaged in busi ness or enlisted in the army or gone oil"on arr exploring expedition into the regions of old age. In due time childhood will awake from a long , re- CresMng sleep and come bounding out of bed more joyful than ever ; youth will come IK me from college with his -es sprinkling with joy and his face $ uinjr with wisdom and knovdge , urn ! manhood will return from the battlefields of life and the weakness of old age enriched with firmness , en durance arrd experience , and together they will blend into one glorious and composite being , embracing all the stages of human life minus their de fects and Imperfections. Childhood will then have lost its whims , youth , its follies and age its wrinkles , sallow hairs. Thus skin , dim eyes and gray youth , it seems to me , is to be the per manent state or condition of redeemed human life In the great future. It is certainly the most joyful and desira ble period of life. Goethe has truly said : "All men would live long , but no nran would grow old. " This deslro Is of divine origin , and must therefore be gratified sometime and somewhere. I cannot believe that gray hairs , dim eyes , wrinkled faces , sallow skin and trembling limbs represent the normal condition of human life , because they are evidences of disease , decay and death , and disease is an abnormal con dition brought on by sin. God made health the normal condition of life and disease the abnormal condition. Irrgersoll once said : "If I had been making the world instead of God I would have made health contagious instead of disease , " to which a medi cal professor replied : "Then he would have been compelled to have made disease instead of health the normal condition of life. " How dreadful would this have been ! But God knew better how to make a world than in fidels do. Now , if the decrepitude of age is the result of disease , and disease is an ab normal condition of life brought about by sin , it follows therefore that all these abnormal conditions will forever disappear when our redemption is fully completed in the morning of the resurrection. All the weakness , cor ruptibility arrd dishonor to which the ) body Iras been subjected on account of sin will be exchanged for iucorrup- tion , glory , honor arrd immortality. (1 ( Cor. xv. , 42-58) . Where there is no decay or corruption there can be no old age. This was remotely antici pated by Elihu , where he represents an old afllicted skeleton of a once powerful nran returning to the days of his youth , "His flesh shall be fresh er than a child's ; he shall return to the days of his youth. " ( Job xiii. , 19-25. ) The Psalmist also says of the man whose life has been redeemed from destruction that he shall have his "youth renewed like the eagle's. " ' ( Ps. ciii. , 3-5. ) Arrd Jesus says : "Be hold I make all things new. " ( Rev. xxi. , 1-5. ) From this it appears that the earth , together with all its re deemed inhabitants , shall eventually be rehabilitated upon the original plan of immortal youth. Age will pass away as wlrrter , and the spring of childhood will bloom out into the fra grant and luxurious summer of Im \ 1 mortal youth. Those who were once old and infirm will resume the appear ance of their youth and' experience again , its health and enjoyments , en. riched a thousand-fold by the knowl edge and experiences of manhood and old age. They shall look out upon the renewed and glorified earth through renewed and glorified eyes , hear its joyful sounds with the ears of youth , taste its superabounding joys with the mouth of youth , walk its highways with the feet of youth , and enter heartily into all Its joys and activi ties with the vivacity of youth. Oh. blessed state ! Oh , happy condition ! And it will be immortal. We shall never grow old again. "And there shall be no more death , neither sorrow row nor crying ; neither shall there be anj more pain : for the former things ( sin. disease , old age and death ) are passed away. " Look up , then , ye aged , "for your redemption draweth nigh. " Your childhood , at times , is partially awakened and your youth may be partly renewed In this life , but you will not embrace them in all their glory until you pass into the great beyond. Family Bookkeopins. Most persons know so many com petent business women that it will not do to take too seriously the popular slander that the better half of the race cannot master the principles of bank ing. Still there is occasionally a joke of this kind good enough to stand with apologies , and a recent one from the Chicago Post will not be taken i.niss. "My account book , " she said , 5fc , ud- [ y , "showed that I had eight dollars md fifteen cents more than I really did have , so I felt at liberty to spend the excess. " "But there wasn't any excess ! " he protested. "Oh , yes , there was1 ! she replied 'The book showed it" "If you didn't have the money , " h urged , "it was a shortage. " "Certainly not , " she returned. "It svas right there on the book eight Collars and fifteen cents more than 1 * ad , and when the balance was sc : nuch bigger than it should be , I fell : ree to spend the money. " "If yon had more money In yotn ? urse than the book s wed , " he su * jestvK "what then ? " ' "I - > uld have " spent it , she an-- ; wered. "Either way , If. all the ; ame. " Now he is trying to get h r to giv rp keeping accounts. It costs the average vessel $1,800 ? ass through the Suez canal. x I
