Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, December 10, 1903, Image 2
THE VALENTINE DEMOCRA i I. M BICE , Publisher. TALENTINE , NEBRASKA Another odd thing is that 'by no vorking at all a man may -work j graft. Ghecr up , Langley ; your flying ma chine may yet be commissioned as i submarine boat It Is seldom that the Sick Man o Europe feels too "poorly" to sit up an < unite at the powers. The aeronauts who balooned fron Paris to England will have many ad tairers but few imitators. However , we do not believe Mr Rockefeller will ever succeed In get ting any of Uncle Rv.ssell Sage's. "How long shall I wear mj Cresses ? " asks a girl correspondent Dntil you can touch papa for the pric < f new ones. It having been demonstrated thai Pullman cars can be made fire-proof the next thing in line is to provide tip proof porters. George Vanderbilt has found it nee- tssary to take refuge where the people ple are used to baronial outfits and lon't mind them. Trychophytosis is causing trouble tmong the school children in Dela ware. The teachers may be compelling the children to spell it. Professor Langley asked , the public wme time ago not to expect too much from his flying machine. Evidently ihe professor knew his machine. Tumut has been chosen as the new capital of -Australian federation. By the insertion of an " 1" this may be changed at any time to meet possible contingencies. General Miles is reported to be rap- KUy getting rich through his invest ments in Texas oil lands. It would be i terrible blow to Corbin if Miles ihould wind up as a multimillionaire. The Supreme Court of Nebraska holds that dogs are competent witness es , even though they cannot be sworn. And some human beings are incompe tent , no matter how many oaths they take. It has become evident that the mob spirit is one of the menacing tenden cies of the times , and itrappears tjp be Increasing in intensity from day to flay. There is now a very general -recognition of the fact that prompt and vigorous measures must be taken to quell this rising of the mob spirit If the majesty and justice of the law are to be maintained. The New York Mail and Express wants to change the nickname of New tork to "Buckwheat State. " Michi gan will step into line with the de- inand to be known as the "Health Food State , " while Kentucky's choice will be "The Eye Opener State. " But New York is just as much entitled to "be known as the home of the buck wheat as Vermont is to the reputation of being a maple sirup center. "Idle" is not the word to describe Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria. He is a general in the German army. By profession he is a surgeon. During the past summer he has been playing first violin in the orchestra of the Munich Opera House. He attended his clinic before going to rehearsals for the Wagner performances. There ore more princes usefully occupied than cynics may be willing to admit. The Paris police have prepared a picture-book for the use of travelers who lose things which , because of unfamiliarity - familiarity -with the language , they cannot describe. It contains represen tations of all kinds of articles , from keys to purses , and the inquirer , after missing valuables , has only to turn the leaves aim point at the picture that most resembles his property. But the system has its limitations. Unfortu nately it cannot picture a temper , ivhich is the article now most fre quently lost by visitors to a foreign city who do not know the language of the country. The college youths who haze are be hind the times. Hazing does not give way before advancing civilization , for the reason , perhaps , that the hazers are always youths who have not yet "caught up with the procession. " At Yale there was use of red pepper by the hazers , it Is stated , and a mock lynching , "with other violent proceed ings , -which endangered life and health. "Academic hoodlums" is the term a contemporary applies to the Yale sophomores , and it is not far wrong , since the doings at Yale , If cor rectly reported , were not such as gen tlemen of sound mind would engage In. College becomes a terror to par ents If feather-brained sophomores may do what they please to freshmen. At other Institutions , rough and un mannerly persecutions were In evi dence. Hazing Is forbidden at most Institutions , but the trouble Is that the prohibitions are too often understood to be Pickwickian. President Roosevelt set a good exam ple to parents by placing his boys in the public school at Washington. He could pay the "little red schoolhouse" oo highef compliment He demon strates his faith In our public school system. And his indorsement cornea at a time when the free school system is under the fire of severe criticism. ! Its critics say the public school teaches . too many fads that its education does 'not educate , etc. Our school system ia /not / what it ought to be. It is not what it will be some day. But with all its faults it is the best educational system of its kind the world has had , and it is especially adapted to our institu tions. Book learning is not all of edu cation. Contact of personalities is an essential feature of practical teaching. The boy who rubs against other boys in school and on playground leains some important lessons. He learns there are others. He gets his rough corners rubbed off. He is in a minia ture world. He learns not books only , but human nature. He gets what we call experience. And he learns to bear himself as a self-respecting but law- observing citizen -of the school repub lic. The boy who is sent to private school or to a * tutor lacks these things. The public school is also a great teach er of democracy. President Roosevelt's boy sits side by side with the hod-car rier's boy. That's as good for Reese velt's boy as for the hod-carric-r's and especially good for the government of the people. The late Max O'Rell , in speaking of our schools and school children , said that they were the most ill bred in the world , and wondered whether the fault in training , or the lack of it , lay in the home or In the school. Hopkinson , Smith quite agrees with the sentiment of the French writer , and John Bris bane Walker insists "that the school ? and colleges should impart a pleasing voice and address , the art of conver sation , charm of manner and expertness - ness in the care of the person and in the command of it as to dress , posture and carriage. " That Max O'Rell' & statement is to some extent true , must be admitted , but only to a degree , but the eminent John Brisbane Walker ex pects entirely too much when he thinks the school work of a teacher should include regular lessons in polite de portment. The school population of the United States is made up of the most cosmopolitan mixture in the world. Every nation on the face of the globe is represented , either by a newly lauded child or the descendant of an earlier comer. The little girl , looking like a freshly plucked rose , so sweet and dainty is she in her pretty lawn frock , and wide ribbons , coming from a home where refinement and in telligence are the hall marks of the family , sits beside with the dark-eyed , dark-skinned , unkempt little foreign er whose home is a room wherein ev ery department of household affairs is conducted , from eating to sleeping , and whose clothes heaven save the name are sewn on her to save the trouble of dressing and undressing. The natty boy , with his spotless shirt waist and carefully tied tie , hob-nobs with the street urchin , whose one idea in life is to know just enough to embark in some business by which he can make money in the quickest possible man ner. The first boy sits at the dinner table , his every move made under the watchful eye of a careful mother who knows just what her training will mean to that boy , when society claims him for its own. The second lad eats as he can , whatever he can grab. And yet a teacher Is expected to take these two girls , these two boys , diametrically opposite to each other In every thing , and impart to them "charm of manner and expertness in the care of the per son. " It would be a task simply hercu lean in its scope. Every school child , no matter from where he comes , is in sensibly subject to the restraining in fluence of school life. A teacher who Is firm , quiet and gentle exerts a "charm of manner" over her most un ruly pupil , not because it is in her line of duty , but because her own soothing personality makes Itself felt , without the slightest intention on her part. But for a teacher to be expected to do what is either carelessly or negligently omitted at home Is expecting more , much more , than she can or should be called upon to do , in the limited time given her for the expansion of the im mature minds committed sometimes wholly to her care. - Poor Mother ! The scientific housewife , says Marj Moulton Smith , will see that the mem bers of her family receive the various elements of food in their proper pro portion , "Before breakfast has been pre pared , " she concludes , "or after it has joen served and eaten , the housewife should add up the different amounts of proteid , fat and carbohydrate found n the foods. In the evening you can hid out whether you have taken too much of one kind of food , or not enough of another. " The Chicago Tribune comments on this advice by dropping into poetry : Mother's slow at figures , but she always has to count The proteids , to see that we secure the right amount. ] She keeps a pad of paper and n pencil neur the sink , And estimates our victuals , all the things we eat or drink. She lists our carbohydrates and scribbles down the fat , our specific gravity she always watches that. Consumption or PI # Iron. The consumption of pig iron In the [ Jnlted States for the year Is estimat ed at 20,000,000 tons and the furnaces mve been producing on that basis , but i million tons of pig iron has been tought abroad. This has depressed the narkct so that a number of furnaces mve blown out When apologies begin to creep into i friendship , it is growing shaky. JOT OP A GOOD CONSCIENCE. By the Rer. A. P. Doyle. Tribulation and anguish upon tin soul of every man that worketh evil. Romans , ii. A good conscience that is at peac < with God inrrpasseth every joy. 1 conies tx > a man when he has loyally and faithfully kept the whole law ii his heart and has stoutly resisted even unto blood the allurements of evil. ] There are many incentives in thi'i life of oore impelling one to wandei away from Hie iwths of rectitude. II is far easier to indulge one's self amis the soft , cushions of a pleasure lovmp Life than to struggle with a soldiei spirit to abide by the discipline of tin law. It is much more agreeable t < ; lloat with the tide of easy go > ing friend , ships , to yield to every inordinate de sire of physical and social voluptuous ness , than it is to stem the currents l > j stern resolve and harsh self-denial. One way , however , leads to moral destruction ; the other leads to the pas tures of a peaceful conscience , where prosperity and plenty abound. John the Baptist in his prison is happy ; Herod on his throne is miserable. How good It Is to serve God ! What pleas ure and tnuiquility there are in " loving lnim ! He is benign and imj those whose hearts art him. He is terrible' fend and deny him. is calm and at rest ; a turbulent and -agitated , pose reign ici a soul which God ; trouble and inquietude the soul of the wicked. An hour ago I said mass at house of Calvary , and about me A a score of sufferers. I could hear a bore the .lispings of prayer the stippresrad moans of pain. The cold finger jof death had touched the physical frame of each , but the warm lire of a ( Uvuie love glowed in their hearts of devotion. The excruciating agony of physyeal pain wrenched from them an involun tary groan , but tiie pleasure and peace of a good conscience wreathed t'ieir wan faces into lines of joy. The cer tainty of impending death and the sev ering of all tics that bound them to home and lifelong friendships wercft tie less than a daily martyrdom , but over it all was the glow of a wester ing sun , that touched the landscape of their lives with infinite beauty and brought their hearts into sympathy with the joys of a life beyond the grave. The conscience of the just man is a type of heaven because he is at peace with God and God dwells in his heart ; that of a sinner is a type of hell be cause it can find no rest and is gov erned by the spirit of evil. Good men fear nothing ; the wicked fear every- Lhiug. The just are good in themselves because their lives are governed by the inspirations of God ; the secret motives and the hidden life of the sinner are corrupt and constantly at war with God. The just enter readily Into them selves because all therein is peace and wnsolation ; the wicked dare not enter nto themselves , because , like the seething of the witches' caldron , their learts are a turbulent mass of vicious lesires and unrestrained baseness. "Know thou and see that it is a fear- 'ul and bitter thing for thee to have eft the Lord thy God. " "What hast : hou to do In the land of Egypt but to Irink the troubled waters ? " The just ife well amid the pains and anguish of ife and die with joy ; the wicked lived imid pleasures and enjoyments and [ ie in bitter pain and anguish. A life in conformity with the com- nandments of God is , even from a emporal point of view , the more de- irable. It writes Its history in the learning face ; it shows itself in the prightiy step of those who arc glad f heart ; it touches with a dash of tinshine the thoughts , and it lights up , ith a heavenly glow the desires of soul that experiences the friendship f God. "A good conscience is a con nual feast" ( Prov. xv ) . The joy of a good conscience beinj 3 precious , it is to be sought at anj 3st , it must be secured at all haz- rds. The .first step is through repent- sice. "But thou hast mercy upon all 1 Dcause thou canst do all things , and rerlookest the sins of men for the ike of repentance" ( Wisdom xi. ) . The iptism of water washes away from ie souls of children the stain of orig- , al sin ; the baptism of blood washes A-ay every stain from the souls of the artyrs ; the baptism of the heart eanses the souls of all penitents. It impossible for any one to be saved iless he does penance , and the meas- t e of repentance must be according to e extent of the guilt "And now , t erefore , saith the Lord , be convert- to me with all your heart In fasting , id in weeping , and in mourning ; and ad your hearts and not your gar- pnts. and turn to the Lord your God , r he Js gracious and merciful , pant - nt , and rich in mercy , asjd ready to rgive" ( Joel ii. ) . But while repentance is the key that ens the door to the joys of a good npcience , n settled purpose to keep commandments Is the means to lintain ono in thedrpossession. When t > u.s Oiu > aj ters Into a roaa'i heart to become its master he brings with him a foretaste of the pleasures of par adise. "I have found him whom mj soul loveth and I will not let him go. ' The essence of a good conscience is tc possess God , and there is no sweete joy on eorth than this , nor is there anj higher bliss in heaven. NEED PERSONAL , ELEMENT. By Dr. Emll G. Hirsc. * . The day of individualism is past anc 'collectivism is in the ascendency. Th < I tendency of modern thinking is largely away from the \ personal. We have \ eliminated the per- J sonal God in the- t elegy and also from the sphere oi our own social re lations. Belief to mechanical contri vances has replaced - placed personal a m b i t i ons. W have about conn * * to the conclusion UR. E. o. IIIKSCII. that the human ele uient is unnecessary. From the industrial field there is -but one step to the territory of morals. Heredity , environment and Impersonal forces are invoked to read the person ality of man. Ilis character is largely predprninated by the mechanics ol 'circumstances. There Is no leeway for the personal. The day of individual ism is past and the collective tendency is no\v dominant. No day has offered such opportuni ties for demagogues as ours. The man who knows the depths of human weakness - ness can play upon tiie masses , for the masses allow some one else to think of them. Our standards of morality are not fixed by ourselves. What we need to-day is a reincarnation of the personal clement , for the sense of per sonal responsibility is lacking. MUST WORK TOGETHER. By Dr. John Mcrrlttc Driver There are enough anti-saloonists to make an end of the saloon in every community ; there are enough Prohibi tionists to enact prohibition in every State : there are enough honest men to stop all gambling and enough virtu ous people to close up every disreputa ble resort. This is true of even Ghi- cairo and New York and every other city. There are enough Christian people ple to win this whole world for Christ in the present generation. The one thing lacking is unity of action , the laying aside of non-essentials and the uniting of all forces upon the few vital points upon which all Christians and reformers are agreed. The real difficulty with us all Is some irrelevant or selfish or vainglor ious matter. With Christians it is de- noniinationalism ; with reformers it is partis.inism ; with local politicians and "workers" it is office and "graft. " How to build up our particular church or party or machine , rather than how to promote Christianity and patriotism and civic virtue and honor , is the one absorbing thought and endeavor. Gam blers and grafters and saloonists and evildoers of every ilk and hue stand together , while churches and reform ers are easily outwitted and defeated and driven back , lacking unity and cohesion and a comprehensive plan of WRONG GOD'S MESSENGER. By Bishop Cheney. It is so natural a. tiling to perpetuate the memory of a good man by a splen did tomb that the denunciation which the te.\t utters needs explanation. What Christ rebuked was the self-flat tery of these scribes and Pharisees that the3' would never have done such wrong to God's messengers as their ancestors had wrought Christ was ( oachinir these men 1hat they knew nothing of the depths of their own hearts. For at that moment they were plotting the murder of one great- ? r , holier , more loving than all the indent prophets. Could self-ignorance go farther ? Yes. When moil and women in the twcn- .ietn century and in the full blaze of rospel li ht revile those scribes and ? h.ii'iscos and say : "if we had lived n their days we would not have re- ected Jesus. " And when Jesus comes lot as a peasant of Galilee , not as a ) ovcrty-strickeu wanderer , not as one vith no piace to lay his head , but as he one who has given us everything " vhich makes our modern life "worth iving , have we as much excuse as hose scribes and Pharisees for not -ccepting Christ ? Sentence Sermons. You cannot win souls in your sleep. , Back-seaters soon become back- liders. He who entertains envy invites nmity. The Bible is a time card and not a cket. Our habits here determine our habit icre. Wishes and not words are the true rayers. Silent sermons are often the most jccessfuL Temptation ia the devil's form of junction. A negligent love can easily become diligent hate. What you pray for yon ongiit to be illlng to pay for. Licking a boy to make him go to inday school is a flrst-claaa way of ' "Wben Christmas day came in 1SG1 , " said Dr. A. W. Gray , "our regiment , the Fifty-First Illinois , was at Pa- ducah. There was no Christmas fiin- ner in sight There was no prospect of any , and the boys used to that sort of thing were very blue. At that stage of the war Uncle Sam was ov erparticular as to the property of the people in the vicinity of camps. Strict guard was kept over camp as well as over the houses and hen roosts in the vicinity. If we could get out of camp into the town or into the coun try , we felt confident that we would have chickens , if not turkeys. . for Christmas dinner , but between us and the chickens was a line of guards. and not one of us had the counter sign. "With the countersign the way was open to a Christmas dinner , and as chairman of the committee of ways and means I suggested a plan to get it. I got hold of an old cavalry sword the night before Christmas , and , ad justing the belt so that the sword made a good deal of noise when I stepped , I formed a dozen or more of the boys as we usually formed a pa trol guard , and when we heard the real patrol coining I stepped out in the thick darkness and shouted 'Halt ! ' The officer in charge of the patrol an swered my challenge in the usual way saying that ho was a friend with the countersign. He. was directed to come forward and give the countersign , which he did. I could not see his men , and he could not see mine , but he supposed naturally that I was on patrol duty. The outcome was that , with the countersign , we went through the guard line , found a goodly num ber of chickens , and had a good Christ mas dinner. " "At New Madrid in 1SG2 , our boys played a similar game to get boards for their shanties. We were then in Pope's division , or corps , and every one knew that he was a very strict disciplinarian. Behind his headqu.ar- ers was a pile of lumber , ahvaj-s un der guard , and neither officers nor men were any the better for that pile of lumber being there. One day , how ever , I formed a squad of men , marched over to the lumber pile , sa luted tne guard as I halted my men , ami , without a word of explanation , directed them to take down a cer tain number of boards and to carry them over to our Colonel's headquar ters. The guard made no objection , and we took with us as many boards as we could carry. This , of course , was unadulterated cheek , but it work ed in that case , as I suppose it work ed in scores of others where the sol diers of the Union army were con cerned. "The boys of the Fifty-First , mind you. were all jrood soldiers. I never - aw them flinch , and I saw them in i srood many tight places. We were n that snowstorm up in East Ten nessee. We had been to Knoxville and K-ere coming back to Chattanooga , and liad bivouacked without shelter of any iind. It was moderately warm , and we rolled up in our blankets and lay lown , looking up into a clear sky. In .he morning when the bugle sounded : here were no men visible. Ten inches ) f snow had fallen so quietly as note : o disturb the sleeping men , and as [ looked down our company lines I saw only a line of little snow hillocks , iust as you would see them in a coun- ry graveyard. "When the bugle sounded sharp and lear , however , there was first a gen ie stir among the men , a moving of irms and stretching in the first mm- ite of wakefulness and then a chorus f whoops or yells. The snow coming 1 ( own in the hastily uncovered faces I if the men startled them into an up- 1 onr and as they came up out of the 1I 1 imw I thought of certain resurrection I lietures that I had seen in my boy 1 ia.vs. The scene was weird and yet 1a 1 ia indescribably funny because the a Una lion was so unheard of and be- 4 * : inse the boys , after the first jolt of heir sensibilities , accepted the situa- II ion in good spirits. " I C "General Mahone , " said the Colonel , once sent me some Smithfield hams 0s 0C r > m his old home place and asked C ie later if I had ever tasted anything s iood. I admitted that I had 'tasted C am just as good during the war. He c idift think I had and explained that in best pork in the world was the roduct of the Dismal swamp and the i mis thereabout that the mast of that v : gion gave to the flesh of the bogs ie flavor peculiar to game fattened i the marshes and swamps of Vir- inla. and that to the epicure there a ; \ no better pork in the world than a lat of his home county or of the dis- v ict in the vicinity of Suffolk and Nor- r < "I knew this almost as well as irai eneral Mahone. because in the early aisi Os our regiment was serving as si ounted infantry in the country of ie Blackwater , and raiding into the knial swamp. We often pushed our ilumn outward to the Nottoway river r > se up to the Petersburg & Weldon ailrond , but the Confederate garri- n at Stony creek , well equipped far pici movement , was always In our tr trta ay. Our raids resulted in nothing ta more than in keeping" the enemy on the alert , we , in the meantime doing dou ble duty in the way of night riding i strange and unexplored territory. "There were , however , compensa/- tlons. Suffolk Is on the borders of the * Dismal swamp and we found in tlio- Suffolk and Dismal swamp districts the best pork that we found anywhere in all our army experience. We found , also , occasionally , some planter with his smokehouse well stocked with cur ed pork waiting for the agents of Gen eral Lee. When we found such a man , wo made our mark and brought into camp what General Mahone regarded as the luxury of the country. "In truth we came to believe that there is nothing quite so toothsome as the 'old Virginia jowl and salad * or a dish of green turnip tops and the jowl of the Smithfield porker. When I told General Mahone of our experiences in tiie Dismal swamp- country , of the porkers and hams we ate there , of the Union men we found there who helped us , and of the sul len Confederates who intrigued against us , and of our adventures hi out-of-the-way places , lie agreed with me that If the true history of the- military division of the Department of Norfolk were over written , it would show a record of perilous scouting and reckless skirmishes that would be greatly to the credit of the detach ments of the two armies engaged. " "Raiding. " said the Captain , "devel oped tiie dare-devil instincts in men , , and not infrequently the worst men , in our company were at the front acting like highwaymen. Such men had no friends in the country raidefl and none among their own comrades. We lost one of these fellows In a skirmish and most of the boys were- not sorry. When we came to bury hini , not a word was said. An old German , who had seen service abrcad. . insisted that some one should say something good of the dead man. The- boys shook their hearts and advised him to try it him clf. Old Jacob step ped forward , embarrassed , but de termined. As he stood at the grave , with his hands in Ids pockets , his- right hand touched his pipe. This- gave him a pointer. Straightening- himself and holding Iris pipe in his hand , he said : 'VreII , boys , he vas a good schmoker. ' " Chicago Inter Ocean. The Ualance Sheet. Washington , D. C. Oflicials of the pension bureau state that the roll wfll be reduced f 0 per cent during tliu uext five r > r six years on account of veterans' Jeatlis. This will amount to $79,000,000 annually. And the soldiers mnrch away To the slow drumbeat of Time , Arid the fifes are soft , and tiie bugles piny A requiem sublime ; With the fins wrapped round abont Tiie flag they kept on high And a memory of the battle shout , And n war gleam in the eye. But the time has not yet come. And the moment is not yet When with intricately added sum The land lisis paid its debt , For the land they helped to save , With a last and long embrace Will receive each form to nn honored' To an honored resting place. ( Vhen they sleep that last long sleep , If there comes to them a dream t will be that we shall forever keep Their glory in full gleam. V.s the soldiers march away As the ranks show ; japs , and wane Chore shall be no one to arise and say That the purse will show its gain. 3ut the land will count its loss And the figures shall be great , Lnd the sum of it shall reach across The land from State to State. Vhen at last there comes the end When we carve the final name Then our loss and gain shall be- boldly penned On the balance sheet of Fame. -Chicago Tribune. lie Got the Oystera. This good story is told on a certahu laptain of the old Fourteenth Massa- husetts , when they were stationed ; a Washington : The aforesaid Captain was some- rhat noted for his love of the good binss gastronomic , and one day dle- atched one of his "live Yankees" off 3 Alexandria to get some fresh oys- ; rs , giving him instructions not to 2turn without the bivalves. The man 'ent off , and no more was seen of im for several days. The indignant ad disappointed Captain reported him s a deserter and gave him up as a. lost child. " But after the lapse of me days Bailey , for that was his- aine , came into camp , leading a train. J. four-horse wagons loaded with rsters. Approaching and respectfully ilutlng the amazed and speechless iptain Bailey said : "Here are your oysters , Captain , ouldn't find any in Alexandria , so I lartered a schooner and made a voy- je to Fortress Monroe and Norfolk : r them. There's about 200 bushels here do you want 'em" " Baaley did really make the trip , red his men , sold oysters enough .n EK > rgetown before "reporting" to pay l expenses and leave him a profit oL wut $100. The 200 bushels were di- ' fled among the regiment , and Bailey turned to his duty. Soldiers and citizens made good > ney in those days trading in oysters .d everything good to eat , and Kailey is not the only soldder who matfc ch expeditions down the river. ncinnati Enquirer. Different. "Is It true about the butcher offer- l you his hand ? " asked the inQuisi- e friend. Not quite , " replied the spinster. "He ed to sell it to me , bat 1 maxJe him. se It off the scale. "