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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1904)
OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS The Marrying Mood. is safe to say that if there were no love to urge men and women into marriage there would be very few weddings and mankind would finally become as extinct as the dodo. If marriages should be made after mature deliberation - | liberation and careful reasoning one might expect those contracted by persons of advanced age to be the happiest. And yet that Is not the common experience. The common ex perience is that the happiest marriages are those which take place early in life , and that when an elderly man or woman gets married we are not speaking of widows and widowers they more frequently make a mess 6f it. The reason for this is not hard to lind. It Is absolutely essenti 1 to the happiness of wedded life tha there should be common concessions. Two minds canno always think alike ; two people cannot always desire the same tiling. One of them must , therefore , give way. Young people can learn to do this more readily than older ones. As to the wisdom of getting married and marrying young there should not be two opinions. Home life is the mos wholesome and the very best estate , and every woman should be a homemaker. There are many things , as society is now organized , which militate against marriages excep among the rich and the very poor. Among the very poorest classes of the population poverty Is not considered a bar to marriage. But there is a great class in every community which is ambitious to "keep up appearances , " and -which thinks It cannot afford to marry. The young woman has been used to living with a certain amount of luxury , and there is a disinclination to fall lower in the social scale by living In a cheaper neighborhood and with , fewer of the romforts and conveniences of life. Each one wishes to begin -where the parents left off. Plain living and high thinking are BO longer the aspirations of the ninny. Balti more Sun. Unrest and Work. HE remedy for unrest ds to earn one's rest. Implies not merely duty to one's calling , TThls but to one's self. The man -who tries to get somewhere and feels at the end of the year that he is farther on the road than he was at the beginning of It , is not pessimistic and downcast , even though he Is still distant from the reali zation of his hopes. We cannot restore the old conditions of labor. We tend evermore toward working with our heads and leaving the work that used to be done -with hands to senseless machinery. Many of us , too , are afflict ed with a fool notion that it is beneath one's dignity to work with the hands ; that It Is better to be a spruce clerk on ten dollars aweek than a greasy mechanic at twenty. But it isn't If many of those who suffer from this unrest will take up an occupation or a fad that calls for the use of the muscles , we shall hear more whistling and less sighing. Our hands are made to use , and we grow just as discon tented when we are forbidden to use them as If we were ordered not to use our feet , or our stomachs , We have outgrown the occasion for the appendix vermlformis , but It will not do to neglect our hands till they wizen to fringes that cannot crush mosquitoes. The man who has no more to do with his hands than to fold them , or to rest them on the top of a bar , is a man whose unrest may become dangerous. Members of unions who used to work grow so restless after a year of suppression by wholly senseless strikes that they go forth and destroy. Men who used to lie kept busy teaching school or practicing law grow so restless under long vacations and perennial postponements that they get up sociological theories and travel around worrying everybody with them. Brooklyn Eagle. Rowdyism in Colleges. HE year's news reports from various centers have been enlivened by some starfc- J | [ ling accounts of student activity in the way of "cane rushes , " "color rushes" and similai diversions. In some cases the girl students took a hand in the rough and tumble of physical - cal encounter. Now come the details as to the late case of hazing at a Baltimore college , where a student -was "initiated" into a Greek letter fraternity. After having been undressed , blindfolded and laid on a cake of ice the student was taken upstairs and thrown from a balcony , falling upon a blanket held by his fellow students twenty- five feet below. He was tossed In the blanket until un- CRACK SHOT OF REVOLUTION. Exploits of Timothy Mnrphyf One of Morgan's harpehootera. The battle of Saratoga , fought in October tober1777 , has its place in history as one of the fifteen decisive battles of the w rid from Marathon to Waterloo , so wrote the English historian , Creasy , and thus far nearly half a century has lasp.d and his word has never been questioned , Let us 1 ok at two characters who shared in this battle , Col. Daniel Mor gan , afterward general , ever the stanch friend of Washington , and at the date of which we write , the leader of 700 sharpshooters ; and Timothy Murphy , the crack sh t of Morgan's corps. Morgan was a far-sighted and clear headed soldier ; he had observed In the action of October 7 , a noble looking Ri'i.ish otlicer , who , mounted on a mag- nlficieut charger , dashed from one end of the line to the other. While this of- liciM * livid. Morgan c nsldered the Issue of the contest a doubtful one ; he there fore sjlected twelve of his best marks men ; among whom was Timothy Mur phy , and , leading them to a suitable position , he pointed out to them the divined officer , who was dressed in full tin f rin. and said to them : "That gal- 1 IK officer yonder is Gen. Frazer. I ad- u ire and respect him. but It is neces- i > for our good that he should die. Tt ( your stations and do your duty. " Uuu a few minntes a rifle ball cut 'i jiipper of Fia r's horse , a second > .irwigh his horse's mane Call- - ; ! . .ention to this , his aide said KU * . It is evident you are marked fi > r particular aim ; would It not be i .31 for . \ou to retire from this ' / . Frazer replied : "My duty for- * ' * . Hy from danger. " The third j > . - , . 'itmi the rifle of Murphy , and r tn-T/ ' i I. mortally wounded , - > fti t ; * atu so di > h artencd the British -.j > tr uiD'iM..nt k fell the tide of bat- ' , ' * ; . ; * ; against Rurgoyne. He had . ; . - - 4.st subordinate , the only oiiej conscious and covered -with bruises. This was the "first . " A few later the "second " - decree. days degree"was ad ministered. The next morning , not unnaturally , the student was dead. His chum , who had experienced a similar Initia tory ceremony , was dangerously ill Doubtless this was an exceptional and extraordinary case , but it was not so much unlike some other recent col lege festivities In character as nor to give grounds for speculation regarding the standards of conduct toward which the young American collegian is tending. Much has been said and should be said in favor of athletics and robust physical development , but the recent "rushes" and the common charge of slugging in football matches Indi cate that physical development is leading not to the health , strength and endurance of the athlete but to mere row dyism. By dint of vigorous and prolonged effort most of the college faculties of the country managed to suppress hazin a few years ago. But the "initiations , " the "rushes" and the football slugging show a resort to practices quite as repugnant. Has the striving after the strenuous life led to a confusion between manly courage and the strong-arm work of the back-lot bully ? Chicago Daily News. Graft a National Vice. RAFTING Is by no means confined to tht petty and wholesale robbing of the community by puhllc officials. There is the grafter who is false to the interests of his employer ; the grafter who uses his position -with corporation or company to a dishonest end. In every branch and ramification of the business , finan cial and industrial world Is found the grafter , smug efface face , discreet of tongue a snake warmed in the bosom of the one he systematically plunders. This spoliation has become the besetting and shameful sin of the American people. There Is hardly an occupation or profession which does not afford opportunity for graft The time has come when graft Is a recognized and conventional factor In de termining the incomes of those -who profit thereby. * * If the Benedict Arnolds of a city the size of New York or Chicago were to march In solid rank past the respective city halls , it would take them long to pass , and it Is to be feared that they -would be greeted and applauded by throngs of envious and admiring followers. We may accept it as a self-evident proposition that the man who buys his way -into office intends to steal his -way out of It. These are the professional grafters ; they make no pretenses of a fine-spun morality. But equally danger ous and far more despicable are the grafters who pose as respectable members of society. The grafter of the slums has his counterpart hi the genteel , educated character In broadcloth , who prates of patriotism and asks the blessings of Providence upon his peculations. This is the only nation Jn the world where the holding of a public office raises a suspicion as to the character of the incumbent We have not enough civic pride to out weigh the energy and the influence of the grafter. Since this astounding and deplorable state or affairs obtains in no other nation , the Inference Is clear that we have reached a low moral plane. The grafter is an effect ; not a cause. He Is the retainer of dishonest business interests ; the henchman of those so carried away by the lust of greed that they do not hesitate to plunder their fellow citizens through the bribed cooperation tion of those who are elected to protect their interests. Brooklyn Eagle. The Wife and the Criminal Law. HE law lags behind the advance of women , as we are reminded by a case which was tried at Marylebone the other day , in which a young woman and her husband were charged with stealing and receiving. It Is not for us to _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ apportion the blame of a sin to which the hus band has pleaded guilty. But the magistrate fell back at once on the old legftl maxim that when husband and wife act in concert the wife is not responsible , being under her husband's control. Surely the whole world of modern womanhood will rise in revolt against such an assumption. Even the magistrate hinted that it ought to be "reviewed. " Under the present law the man was remanded and the wife was discharged , to protest , as she surely must , against the last remaining feminine wrong. No woman can sit down calmly at home and consent to escape remand on : he ground that she was under control of her husband. Ix > ndon Chronicle. of his officers who had the slightest in fluence with him. At the close of the Revolution Mur phy married and settled In Schoharle as a farmer , but his old habits still clung to him. To hislast day he maintained the rep utation he had won as a sharpsfliooter in Morgan's corps. It was a custom in those days for riflemen to shoot for a prize. On one occasion a large oak tree had been blazed near the ground and in the circle a small piece of white pa per was fastened by a brass naiL The distance to be fired'was over 100 yards. Several close shots had been made , and it became Murphy's turn to fire. He lay down on the ground at full length , resting his rifle on his hat , as the others had done , and , after glancing over the barrel , he'was heard to say : "Sure , and I believe I can see that naiL" Again he sighted his piece fired , and the pa per felL An examination showed a center shot ; the ball had driven the mill exactly in. In person , Murphy was stout and well made , handsome in face , with jet black hair and an eye that would kin dle and flash like the lightning when excited ; quick as a cat in all his move ments and possessing an iron frame that nothing apparently could affect. What moreover. Is very remarkable , is that in the most dangerous duty that war could possibly entail upon him , in which he passed seven years of army life , his body was never wounded or even scarred United Service Review. RUSE OF THE REJECTED ONE. Uow a Girl Who H nd Promised to Be n Msterns ll-nii' ht to Terms. "I understood you to say that you reject me , " he said. "Your understanding is correct , " she replied , "although somewhat blunt 1 feel that I cairn t many you. " She took a step forward and gently touchtd his arm. . A tear was in her eye. "I'm so sony , " she said. Something In her voice made him straighten up. He had not asked for sympathy. He resented it so suddenly that It was as If some outside power had taken possession of him. He felt mad right through. "You needn't be , " he replied. "Why should you be ? If you entertain the slightest notion that I'm going to jump off the dock or ruin my life dismiss it at once. There are , I can assure you , worse things than being a bachelor. In the first place , there are no enormous bills to pay. Then , a man can go and come as he pleases , without let or hind rance. Instead of being bound down to one woman , subject to her whims , her ilde fiancies , he is free for all. He can pursue his cherished ambitions without interruption. When he is sick he can secure proper care without being nurs ed by an amateur. He doesn't have to attend dinner parites , or any other kind of parties , I ? he doesn't want to. His time is his own. He can smoke or not , without question , and he is abso : lutely free to pursue his own Ideals. There are worse things than being sin gle. I was willing to run the risk , with you , but don't sympathize "v\th ; me. I shall get along all right , thank you. j She turned toward h'im with a sud den movement of determination , and held out her hands , pleadingly. "Now you must marry me ! " she said. Smart Set. Bullet or Rope Always. Stranger ( In Frozen Dog ) Is there an opening here for a physician ? Rrouco Bill Can't say that there Is. Yer see , it don't require no specialist in this community to tell what folks died of. Puck. ' t : Japan ; SB Nets for Alaska. Ordurs * ua\e recently been executed f in Japan for a supply of fishing nets for Alaska valui-d at $300'0. Once there was a man who fell hi love with a woman's voice ; she sel > dom used it "Women Workers on the Farm. In an Agricultural Department bulle tin , the total number of agrlcultura laborers in the United States Is placed lit 4,410.930 , of whom 2,306,149 are "members of the family" ; that is , "sons and daughters who help to work the old homestead , " and 2,044,701 are hired laborers. A surprisingly large'number of wom en are classed as hired farm help. The total number is 220,048. Naturally , the greater number of tnese are in the south , where the negro women are an important factor in the gathering of cotton , corn and other crops. There were 441,055 women classed as farm laborers , "meniDers of the family , and the vast majority of these were also found in the south , where negro women taking an active part in the work in the field is an ordinary sight. South Carolina leads in the number of women hired laborers , with 35,581 and Alabama Is next , with 34.083. Then come Georgia , with 30.SC5 ; Mis sissippi , with 30,134 ; Louisiana , with 23,290. and North Carolina , with 20- 4oi. Virginia has 5,382 of these women and Maryland has 485. Mississippi leads nil the States in female farm laborers , "members of the family , " witn a total of 77,599. Then follow Alabama , with 74,315 ; South Carolina , with G5,8G9 ; Georgia , with 54,89G , and North Carolina , with 37- 190. Virginia has 4,841 , and Maryland 387. 387.Farm Farm wages have almost uniformly shown an upward tendency since 1899 , and , In many States , they are now higher than they have been since the civil war. The average farm wages for the entire country for 1902 , as far as could be learned , were $22.14 per month , without board , as opposed to 520.23 In 1899. The highest monthly wages , with board , were paid In Xevada , $34.14 ; Montana , $32 ; Wyom ing , $31.21 ; Idaho , $29.79 ; Utah , $29.45 ; California , $29.38. The poorest month- 'y wages , with board , were paid in South Carolina , $8.24 ; Georgia , $9.30 ; North Carolina , $9.61. Maryland's average , with board , was $12.67 per month , and Virginia's $11.29. The highest wages per day in har vest season , the employer furnishing lie board , were paid in North Dakota , $2.18. The only other States that averaged more than $2 per day were : South Dakota , $2.08 ; Minnesota , $2.04 , and Washington , $2.01. Virginia's average pay at harvest time was $1 per day , and Maryland's $1.14. An Energetic Woman. Steamboating is the unusual business in which Mrs. Ida Lachmund is en- irn ired. She is a resident of Clinton. la. , and her steam ers ply up and down the broad Mississippi river , upon which her home city Is situ ated. This energetic western woman is the owner of two . ! . . large siearnooats , .ind she has the entire supervision of them. This means that she has a crew : on each vessel , and as each crew con- alns twenty-six men , and as Mrs. Lachmund closely watches the machin- : ? ry of her possessions to see that no defects exist and buys all the stew- ird's supplies , her life is an especially busy one. What is more , it Is also a successful one financially. The unusual undertak- ng of this feminine boat owner aver ages the towing of from 35,000,000 to 10,000,000 feet of lumber in a season , which consists of the six months from April to November , and this makes a splendid income for the woman who has entered this strange business , Najrcinjr. Dr. Edson advances the theory that Ihere is a scientific aspect in the habit ) f nagging. "Perfect health , " he says , 'has , as one of its factors , content of : nind. A nervous man or woman who is anxious , discontented , gloomy , dis satisfied , worried from any cause , can- lot enjoy good health. This mental turmoil produces as one of Its primary j jffects on the body an inability to di gest food properly. The blood which ' ? hould supply the force necessary for he function of digestion is continually Irawn away from the stomach by ex- Itement In the brain , and the woman tvho nags suffers. While there be hose whose tendency to lay on fat is o great that nothing will stop it , a lagging man or woman is generally thin. Their habit of mind has par tially starved their bodies. The Home. The American Girl. The American girl's charm ( accord ing to an article in London Daily Mir ror ) lies partly in the American girl's 'curious Independence of personality" ind partly in her "supreme uncon sciousness. " Apropos of the latter luality the article in question contln jes : 'She takes the attention of men for granted , as her natural woman's right ; she asks not for admission to equality ; she neither demands nor naueuvers for their notice ; she simply akes their respect and homage for jranted , and by her very fearlessness a ind trust secures their admiration and Realty , and so a man can show his a pleasure in her society and seek it and mjoy It in the perfect confidence that me will not think she is the object f his special regard. Englishmen seek jut girls only when they are in love Is i with them ; American men seek out girls for the pleasure of their com pany. " But , of course , there Is a reverse side to this picture , and the Mirror hastens to draw It : But there Is a reverse side to this picture ; and we see It when th > girl has left her throne of girlhood and stepped down Into the hustling throu. : of women. The bright activity of mint ] grows into restlessness ; her social in stjncts lead her to become gregariou * to excess ; and she flocks to the count less women's clubs that overrun Aiuei lea to such an extent that it woul < seem as If an American womair eau.no * cook a dinner , rear a child or rwul . book unless she joins a society to hnlj her do it ! And yet the amazinir fact remain * that from the nervous , club-rusher American mother the spoilt , precoclou * child is born , who shoots up into In1 ? heritage of royalty and becomes agaii the American girl. " Drink Fashions come and go , so it is uii \ natural that just as Anglo-Saxon wom en are being accused of an undue divu tion to liqueurs. French women shouic be enthusing over the benefits of milk as a beverage. The Paris ! en IIP has 01 late discovered in milk a sure beaut ; tier. Sipped hot , she is testing it > merits as a pick-me-up. Drunk in it * first warm stage directly it has becu brought into the dairy , she finds it : i rejuvenator of her charms , freshening the complexion and acting as a sure eradicator of those signs of worry and fatigue that age the face so quickly. The custom of milk drinking Is an old one. The benefits it produces never stale. A glass of hot milk sipped slowly at night , just after retiring , will secure refreshing sleep and a feel ing of alertness in the morning , and during the day fits of sudden , intense weariness of body ar.3 depression of mind will be dispersed if milk , as hot as it can be born by the mouth , be slowly sipped. Many women who cannot drink pure milk are able to Imbibe a sufficient quantity to work good effects If they mix it with plain XT aw or soda water , and thin , emaciated women are re commended to drink cream In small quantities , as well as to take as much hot milk as will agree wiu > them. It should never be forgotten either that milk baths for tha face are splendid cuticle beautiflert , tioftening the skin and bringing boto It th fresh rosy tints of youth. jftUadeiphl * Inquirer. Health ml IJr 'i y. Those who suffer fro i cceutnatism need a plentiful allowance of ihe acids furnished by many lands of : " * uit. For these people especially apples are In valuable. In replenishing the sick room fire put the coal in paper bags or a cone made out of newspaper and lay on the fire. This avoids the noise that dis tresses a nervous patient A refreshing drink to use In fever cnses may be made from dried peaches or apricots. Thoroughly wash one- half pound of the fruit , taking It piece by piece between the thumb and fore finger. Soak over night in one quart of water. In the morning simmer for half an hour , strain and chilL If one has to feed a delirious person tap on the lips two or three times and they will automatically open. Fill tha spoon and pass In well over the ton gue , so that It will go directly into tha gullet In feeding a patient take pains to keep the bed clothing dry and never allow crumbs to get In the bed. It is true If you lie on a hard bed without a pillow you will find a great Improvement In your figure. If one thinks of the place and position La which one spends a third of every twenty-four hours she will realize It must have some effect upon the figure. So , women with round shoulders and louble chins , here is a way to mend hese ills if you are willing to give up Four downy couch. Child's Fancy Collar. Fancy collars are an Important ad- ; iunct to children's frocks and the dls- ilay Is large and beautiful. One spe- 'Inllv nrpffv ia mnrla nf firta Trhfta am. : > : roidered batiste , cut in scallops front nd back and joined on each shoulder y three small buttons. It is edged all a round with narrow Valenciennes lace. fca a To Oro\r TH'n. fcr "Drink all the water you want be- veen meals , but none with your food , " r < the latest cure for obesity. t < EVOLUTION OF THE DOG Traces of Extinct Species Found ia th Tertiary Period. ! The dog was domesticated by znaa in prehistoric times , and its remains are frequently found in ancient vil lage sites , shell mounds and buriil places both in the old and nevr world. Remains of various other spodea of its family ( canidae ) are found In the older quarternary deposits along vritb those of mastodons , mammoths , etc. , but there is little evidence as to which , if any , of these species are domesti cated by man , says the Montreal Her ald. It is probable that the domestic < iog is the result of many and various in- tercrosslngs with the jackal , wolf , co yote and other wild species , so that life original strain can hardly be deter mined. In the strata of the tertiary period are found remains of numerous ertiaat species , which illustrate the evolutloa of the different species of modern eanidae and their gradual divergence from the common ancestral type of " the carnivora. The canidae live mostly - / ly in the open country and hunt in > r packs , running down their prey In the / open and capturing it by a combination of superior intelligence and greater speed. The development of this grotip of carnivora has been , accordingly , chiefly in brain capacity and in tia adaptation of the fee * and limbs to swift and long-continued running. The earliest canidae. of the eocene and oligocene epochs , were proportioned like the modern civets , which aue for est dwellers. They had short u'mos and long tails and their brain capacity was very much less than it is In their 1 modern descendants. Some had retractile 111 tractile claws ; all had five toes on each foot and the full series of forty-four teeth of the primitive mammalia. Be tween these earliest canidae and their modern species are several batermedit- ate stages in the successive tertiary formations. The modern dogs range from a blgb- ly carnivorous typo , such as the wolf and especially the Indian dhole ( cyoH ) and the South American bush-dog ( icticyon ) to small omnivorous speclcsi approaching the raccoons hi the char acter of their teeth. The series of fossil forms leading up to these differ ent types are distinguishable at quite an early period and all pass through a course of parallel evolutlen , each race progressing independently in the direction of greater intelligence and higher speed. Other races of doga now extinct progressed in different di rection by divergent evolution , some assuming the size and proportions of the bears and from some of these tha bears may be collaterally descended , while another series connects the dog3 with the raccoons. TOLD BY OLD CIRCUS MAN. Sensation the Giant Produced Whea Traveling bjr Steamboat. ' The great giant never made a great er sensation , " said the old circus inaa , "than he invariably did when seen on the upper deck of a steamboat "When we shipped from one town to another we commonly moved by the road ; but sometimes when we were going to stop at two towns along a river , and the distance between the two towns was great , and the old man could make a profitable dicker with the steamboat people , why , then we'd make the skip by boat And moving in this way the giant did tremendously advertise the show. "You see , we couldn't have him crawl aboard a boat by the gangway , between decks , and curl himself up there somewhere below ; we had to carry him where he could be seen by all. "He woxild step up from the wharf to the steamboat's upper deck , and stay right there straight through the trip , in full view from the river's banks on either side , a man as tall as the steamboat's chimneys. And seen walk ing or standing there as the boat came along , or sitting there , maybe , in a great armchair that we never failed to carry along for him , he made a sight that everybody along the river came to see and looked at with wonder. "And when we had come to where we were to land , where they could see the great giant close at hand , why , the people there looked at him wiQi awe. "All of which , as you can easily see , made business great for the show In fact we never hit a town any hard er than when we hit it so. " New Yorfc Sun. Animal Hynnoiism. The question whether some animals have the power to hypnotize others is largely a matter of opinion. My own view is that there is no such thing as hypnotism among animals. There un doubtedly is fear-p > tralysis , which might easily be called hypnotism ; but I do not think it belongs in that class Df phenomena. Human beings are at times as much subject to fear- paralysis as are birds that are attack ed by dangerous serpents. Paralysis from fear is a very different thing from hypnotic influence. Hypnotism Is always exercised by the surrender of he mental faculties to the will of the operator. Fear , on the other hand , ften produces complete paralysis of he voluntary muscles , and also of the jrain , by a process which I consider mtirely different W. T. Horuaday , Director New York Zoological Park. 3t Nicholas. "Women Do Bertor. Seventy-five per cent of the women ind but sixty-three per cent of the men aklng the civil service examination ire able to pass it There srs men whs wouldn't dare ead the declaration of independence o their wives.