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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1904)
Opinions of Great Papers on important Subjects. 4 * The Need of Thrift. HEN "times are good , " labor fully employed , production active , and the nation apparently growing rich , the necessity of thrift Is over looked , and the nation nmj be In reality groov ing poor. Even the most prudent Individuals are npfc to be affected by the prevailing spirit of life and extravagance. The fortunate and the sanguine buy useless and expensive things ; diamonds and ateam yachtn , or build palaces too grand for ordinary use. As a rule the money that comes Into the bauds of promoters -wasted. . After a period of excitement and extravagance , when everybody seems busy , a reaction comes. Hard times er dull times set in. Everybody retrenches expenditure , wme because It is the fashion. Labor , it is true , la not lully employed , but that which Is employed produces use ful thiugs ; food , clothing and necessary tools. Less money b sunk In steam yachts or extravagant displays. The na tion lives within Its Income , and saves and grows rich with- ut knowing It. Bad debts are marked off , no enterprises Ire carried out unless they are demonstrably certain to le remunerative. Eextravagant people are too poor to Iraste the fruits of the labor of others. Thrif.y people ac- lumulate slowly , and after an Interval of two or three pears It Is found that the community as a. whole is rich , rhen begins another era of wastefulness. This paradox , that when the country is prosperous It la rrowlng poor , and when times are dull Ic Is growing rich fcy enforced economy , bai been established by experience lince 1836. The cycle of about ten years prosperity , ex- iltement , extravagance , deficit , hard times , retrenchment , thrift , accumulation and prosperity again has been run through many times , and will be run through many more , fcpidemics assume a "mild form" occasionally , and so do Iconomlc stages. It looks now as if we were not to suffer Irorn a very long or sever.e attack of "hartl times , " though re have been reckless enough to bring on an aggravated lose. Hartford Times. Sending the Poor to the Country. OME enthusiastic persona In Chicago have or ganized "The Field and Workshop Society , " the object of which Is to take the very poor from the tenement districts of the large cities and provide them with homes and facilities for making themselves self-supporting In the coun- ry. The society made some experiments in this direction luring the last summer , and the results were sufficiently latlsfactory to encourage plans for enlarged effort In the h-ork for next year. The plan of the society is not material ly different from that of the Salvation Army , which has teen most successful In Its plans for redeeming victims 6f the slums , and helping them to become honest , worthy knd independent by work and association with the army's fiifferent farm colonies. The plan Is a splendid one for the Alleviation of the condition of the well-nigh hopeless poor , < vho are compelled to spend their lives In a fight for a miserable existence In some of the crowded tenement dis tricts in the cities. It removes their children from the temptations and vices that thrive In the crowded dlstrlc , gives them something to live for , something to look for ward to , and a prospect of final possession of property and personal Independence as rewards for Industry and proper living. Washington Post .Causes of Railroad Slaughter. R , TOLMAN. head of the New York Institute for Social Service , says that 38,890 persons have been killed on American railroads during the last five years and 253,823 injured , an average of 21 deaths and 139 injured every day. What are the causes of these disasters ? Principally carelessness and inefficiency on the part of jmployes ; greed , Indifference , or taking things for granted n the part of officials. There Is an "If" attached to every December disaster. If employes had not been grossly care less the accident on the Burllugton and Qulucy Railroad jvould not have occurred. If freight cars had been prop- rrly loaded the accident on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road might not have occurred. If a brakeman had not been kept on duty nearly thirty-six hours he would not have been so sleepy that he failed to flag the 'Frisco train and that accident would not have occurred. If the block system had been In use on the Pere Marquette Railroad the POPULAR SOVEREIGNS. King Charles and Qneen Elizabeth Who Rale Over Ronmnnla. One of the youngest of European na tions is the kingdom of Roumania , over , whom King Charles and his consort. yueen better known as Carmen Sylva , rule. The kingdom came into existence by combining the two municipalities o f Moldavia and Wal- lachia and over It Prince Charles , of the German house o f Hohenzollern- Digmanngen , was called to rule , In 1861 , as prince. In 18S1 Roumania became a full-fledged kingdom and Charles took the title of King. The heroic qualities of Charles a a his spouse , Queen Elizabeth , who Is n daughter of the princely German house of Weld , were displayed during the Ilusso-Turkish campaign of 1877-8 , In which Roumania was Involved , tak ing sides with Russia against the T..rks. King Charles had rendered II iiiinnnia splendid service by his n : * > Lli < ds of reorganizing and training tijo Roumanian army , which was In a liuy : ! ! disorganized and untrained state v.-J en the young Prince Charles became ruler of Roumania. On the outbreak of the war the King placed himself at the head of his sol- d.t-rs to battle for Russia. He was In the thick of many a battle , as brave PI. ! fearless a soldier as ever fought for what he believed to be right _ . ; -ng ! the war , Queen Elizabeth V--M ; constantly active caring for the ; - k : i : d wounded. Sbe established a t < ! _ t > Ital out of her own private purse , T * t ! rendered personal service In the i.j > hitl. One may & e to-day In the Accident would not h&ve occurred. Tnej Is ac "U" would hare prevented nearly every big disaster this year , for two-thirds of them were collisions , and it ia the busi ness of railroad officials to prevent collision * . Criminal negligence 10 the chief cause of railroad slaughter. The railroads , like everything else , are run prin cipally to make money. More money can be made by run nlng them and taking chances of accidents man uy pro viding against them. It Is cheaper to work a man to the exhaustion point than to employ two men Negligent men are cheaper than careful men. Hence * iany of the roads are run In criminal disregard of public safety. Dividends on stock and bonds are too often paid on the hazards to human life. What will Congress do to stop the railroad slaughter In the United States , which Is greater than that In Great Britain , France and Germany combined ? Ch > cage Tribune. Who Owns the Prescription ? HE ruling of a New York magistrate that a physician's prescription belongs to the person 1 who buys It , and not to the druggist who fills it , reopens an old and much debated question. While the magistrate settled the particular controversy - troversy between the Gotham druggist and his ' maflmm customer , It doea not follow that all druggists accept tt as a finality. This particular druggist. Indeed , was threatened "with Imprisonment for larceny before he finally concluded to give up the prescription demanded bj his customer. The question of ownership of a prescription would seem so very simple to the mind of the layman as to require no ruling from a court of equity. A prescription is certain ly the property of the person who buys It of a physician , and whether & druggist may be permitted even to retain a copy of It Is obviously a question for the owner of It to , decide. As a matter of safe practice the owner should always demand a copy of his prescription if he does not retain the original copy. It may turn out to be a prescrlp * tion of great value , and the druggist of course has no right to It , and few druggists , indeed , claim such a right The same principle has been held to apply to photo graphic negatives. When a person pays the photogra pher's price for a negative It Is his property. If he carea to do so he has a right to take the negative away -with him and make his own prints from it As a matter of custom and convenience , however , the photographer Is permitted to store the negative where It may be easily found when new prints are desired from It It Is very clear that th photographer has no proprietary right in a negative whic > some other person has bought Chicago Record-Herald. College Men and Business. 0 HE principal complaint against the schools and universities has been that they tended to augment - n ment the already over-crowded "professions ; " ° that they gave prominence In their curricula to the studies that were calculated to equip men . for the so-called polite pursuits of life. As a result there came from the college doora f every June a small army of doctors , lawyers , preachers and writers. There are hopeful Indications , however , of a tendency on the part of the colleges and universities to meet the demand for educated men in the various Hues of commer cial and industrial endeavor , which modern conditions have created. There Is gradual and more adequate recognition of the fact that the so-called "professions" are alreadj over-crowded , and that the great demand of our times ia for trained commercial and scientific men , for men who can take the places of the self-educated and self-made men who built up great industrial and commercial enterprises. Dean James H. Tufts , of the University of Chicago , in his address to a recent graduating class , declared that In most classes to-day fully three-fourths of the men grad uating Intend to enter commercial pursuits Instead of the Ii professions. Twenty years ago one-third of the men In the graduating classes of the colleges became teachers , one- fourth or one-fifth entered the ministry , and not more than n one-fourth went Into business , said Dean Tufts. c : There are not enough patients for all the doctors and i io not enough clients for all the lawyers. It Is time the uni of versities were turning out men to take the places of the % \ great builders , merchants and producers of our time. a Chicago Record-Herald. si sid d ; FIFTY MILES AN HOUR ON AN ICE BOAT. Jjfc fch h < Pi feiY feiT T : tr trw In a Ing his In Inn. . One of the most courageous ice-yacht women in the country is Miss Flossie Phelps , of Red Bank , N. J. No matter how hard the winds blow the tills fair skipper does not hesitate to jump into the cockpit of an ice yacht and take a spin on the river. to Miss Phelps has never met with an accident , although she has had a number of narrow escapes. She comes of a family of well-known amateur sailors. Her grandfather , the late Commodore Charles Fisher , owned the m Florence , which was In her day the fastest yacht of her size afloat Her uncle , Delford Fisher , , Is a skiWed ice.yacht skipper. Miss Phelps is one of the society girls of the town. She Is a beautiful blonde with long , wavy hair , and the picture she makes In an ice yacht , traveling at a speed of forty or fifty miles an hour , Is pleasing. lubllc place of Bucharest a splendid uonument representing the Queen in he act of giving a drink of water to wounded soldier. What counts for aost in the history of this statue is he fact that it was paid for with the ontributions of the wives of the sel lers of the Roumanian army. They ave It as a testimonial to their Queen , D whom they had given the expressive [ tie of "the mother of the wounded , " Since the stirring days of battle the and Queen have devoted them kn selves with untiring zeal to every pro ing ject that tended to advance the inter du est of the kingdom. The Queen undei the title Carmen Sylva has taken tc pli } literature and has published manj caVe novels and poems. The great grief olv Vo her life was the death , In 1874 , of hei Vomi mi only child and this melancholy has miW tinged many of her writings. Th heir apparent is Prince Ferdinand , > * E nephew , of the King , who married Marie , daughter of the late Duke ol Base-Coberff-Gotha. M i GOOD I Short Qtofies J ! J I Among : the office-seekers who camec before President Harrison , was one who wanted to represent the United States at Yokohama. "Do yon speak Japanese ? " asked the President The applicant faltered ; then said he did.T Well , " said the President , "let me hear you speak it" "All right ! Ask me something In Japanese. " In Prove , Utah , there dwells a vege tarian with whom Senator Reed Smoot loves to ar ue. The vegetarian de- clared , during one of their heated de bates , that one should not eat eggs , even , as they hatch into meat and therefore are meat "Well , " said the [ Senator , "the kind of eggs I eat wouldn't hatch Into meat I eat them boiled not raw. " Vigor of speech was a characteristic of ' Judge Burr , of Connecticut , who lately resigned from the bench on account - i count ' of deafness. A New Haven lawh yer once introduced to Judge Burr an almost unknown but very self-confi dent novelist whose good opinion of himself has been justified since by events. In his conversation with the judge , he did not fail to make known his estimate of his own brilliancy. Judge Burr observed the young man closely and sternly. Finally he said : "So you expect to be famous some day , eh ? " "Some day , " said the young man , "I expect to have the world at my feet" "What have you been doIng - Ing all this time , " said the judge , "walking on your hands ? " While stories were going the rounds at the Lambs' Club , one night , Francis Wilson contributed one about a lead ing man of a theatrical company that had become stranded at Saginaw. The leading man installed himself at a ho tel , and lived a precarious life , while waiting , for remittances. One mornIng - Ing , he rang the bell In his room for half an hour. Nobody answered. Then oe went out in the hall , leaned over the railing , and called : "Boy ! Oh , boy ! " "What Is it ? " snarled a bell boy from the lobby beneath. "Have eou seen anything of my laundry ? " 14Aw , g'wan ! " said the boy ; "you ain't had but one shirt since you've been here. " "That" said the actor , with great dignity , "is the one to which I re fer. " The following remarkable essay on the horse is said to be from the pen of an Indian student : "The horse is a aj very noble quadruped , but when he is of angry he will not do so. He is ridden n on the spinal cord by the bridle , and sadly the driver places his foots on the stirrups , and divides his lower . limbs across the saddle and drives his animal to the meadow. He has four legs ; two are on the front side and two are afterward. These are the weapons on which he runs. He also defends limself by extending these in the rear n a parallel direction toward his foe , but this he does only when he is in an E1 aggravating mood. There is 110 ani mal like the horse. No sooner they , see their guardian or master than they always cry for food , but it is always at , . .f the morning time. They have got J tails , but uot so long as the cow and OL such other like animals. " BDTH 3-13 V 3 Mil * GRIT. Si ga Ktisaian Officers Were Well Matched in i'oint of Bravery. ar It is doubtful if the soldiers of any nation are braver than those of the fa czar of Russia. It is related of Field ov Marshal Paskievitch that in the course the siege of Varsovie , being some ovte what discomjioded by a hot fire from te certain battery , he ordered it to be shelled , but to no purpose. His troops did uot seem able to locate the enemy pr and their shot had no effect Finally the field marshal himself galloped bl forward and sternly commanded : "What imbecile is in command here ? " "I am , " answered an officer who ap tei proached. "Well , captain , I shall degrade you , since you do not know your business. Fc Your shells have no effect" "True , sir , but it is not my fault . m1 The shells do not ignite. " "Tell that to others. Don't come " tryitig to fool me with such chaff. You Df will receive your punishment this even- The captain coolly took a shell from pile near by , lit the fuse , and holdIng - W it In the palms of his hands , pre- on sented it to the marshal , saying : to 'See for yourself. " W The marshal folding his arms across breast , stood looking at the smok ing shelL It was a solemn moment [ Both men stood motionless , awaiting sa1 result Finally the fuse burned Dut and the captain threw the shell the ground. na 'If s true , " remarked the marshal , turning away to consider other measSO1 urea to silence the enemy's fire. TPfl In the evening instead of punishment - * ! ment the captain received the cross : he the Order of St Wladimir. wild Wit in the Courtroom. wi Thomas Flatly of.Boston , the well- "I known Irish lawyer and wit was acting yoi for the defense in a divorce case , during the cross-examination of the wi plaintiff asked the following question : "You wish to divorce this woman be Da [ cause she drinks ? " "Yes sir. " "Do an drink yourself ? " "Thats my bus iness , " said the witness angrily. foi ! Wheieupon the lawyer , with face un- tee : Jnoved , asked one more question : By "Have you any other business ? " coi wo If s easier to pull yoor ideals down er fean it la tolive up.to them. t n WHAT BUSINESS TO TAKE HOME Try to Handle Tour Work inYork - ini ; Hours. it is a reflection upoa your own bus iiiess ability that you cannot make a living during business hours. Youi j ill humor is a confession to your wife of your weakness and incapacity. an l of your not being master of the sit uation or equal to confronting emerg encies. Women naturally admlm strength , capacity , efficiency anil courage ia oaea. They admire a man who can not only make a living , but also make It easily , without fretting , stewing or worrying. Your wife will . think less of yon if you continual ! } lug h me yur business cares. This does not mean that you should not keep your wife Informed abut : ! _ your business. Every man ahoulc talk over his affairs with his wife. and she should always know the ex act condition of his business. Many a man has come to grief by keeping hi1 wife in Ignorance of his straitenetl circumstances or declining business , or of the fact that he was temporarily pressed for capital and unable to in dulge In certain luxuries. A g < wife will help a man amazingly . . . his business troubles or struggles tu get established if she knows just h > u he is situated and what is required o1 her. Her economy and her plannir. . . may give just the needed support ; h-i sympathy may take out the st.ng < > r the pain , and enable hlin to bear hi- trlals. This confiding frankly in wife is a very different thing from everlastingly harping on the disagree able features of business or letting them ruin your attitude toward your family , making life miserable for those not to blame. Good cheer , a feeling of good wib toward one another and toward othei people , and a spirit of helpfulness and utter unselfishness should a ) ways be present In the home. It should be regarded as the most sacred spot on earth. The husband should look upon it as the one place In all the world where he can get away from business troubles , and the ex actions , grinding and crowding of life's struggles a place to which he can flee from all inharmony and dis cord , and find peace and rest con tentment and satisfaction. It should be a place where he always longs to go , and from which he Is loath to part Success. MUST HEED GOOD DECORUM. Gnests at an Alaska Hotel Are Snp- poaed to Observe Certain Kulea. One of the best known of the early settlers of Alaska is Captain Mayo , who has recently started a buukhouss Rumpart in that territory. A friend his received a letter from him an nouncing the fact of his venture , writ ten soberly and with dignity as befita the old frontiersman. The letterhead , however , was unique. It is set in paragraphs , three in a line , and is as follows : "Captain Mayo's Saloon and Chop House , "The Best Bunk House North o ! Mexico. "First class in every particular. Every known fluid , water excepted , foi Dl sale at the bar. Private entrance foi Dlv ladies by ladder in the rear. Fire es capes through the chimney. Electrit th lights threwout lust Summer. Dot Hodgin , Medical Examiner. Rates tb one ounce per day. le "Indians and niggers charged extra th Special rates to ministers and thi gambling 'profesh. ' " Among the gems of the house rules IA are the following : pi "Guests will be provided with break , fast and dinner , but must rustle theii own lunch. ei "Dogs not allowed In bunks. "Candles and hot water charged ex in tra. pr "Towels changed weekly. " prm As hints to guests are the following m printed instructions , of "Craps , chuck-tt-luck , horse poker and blackjack ! run by the management to "Dogs bought and sold. "Insect powder for sale at the bar. yc "Always notify the bartender the ex > le' tent of your poke. " HIS MUSTACHE WAS GONE. by Former Member of Concrresa Warn Not KecotrnUced by Old Friends. pu A portly , smooth-shaven man walke < J de into the hose yesterday and greeted members with "Hello , Bill , " and ex "Hello , Sam , " with all the assurance an an old acquaintance. ov The members addressed stared at tin stranger in blank amazement Thej ce were sure that they had never laid eye * th him before , and were not quite able make up their minds whether he was possessed of unusual gall or waa iemented. Some were inclined to resent the but the 5& sent familiarity , stranger iidn't seem to mind. He appeared , in pie act to accept as a huge joke the sen sation he was creating. I An assistant . air sergeant-at-anns might aave been summoned to eject the in truder had not Mr. Cowherd of Mis- ire jour ! solved the puzzle , " ' ' " the cheerful "Hello , 'Billy , was tvay In which the stranger addressed Missouri member. for "You have the advantage of me , sir , " leer Mr. Cowherd , as he straightened or with a suggestion of ruffled dignity , ev don't think I have the pleasure of to four acquaintance. " toTl "Sure of that ? " queried the stranger , pa with assurance unabashed. de "Yes I am quite cer Why , h-e-1-l-o de ave ! " and the Missourian threw his tic irms around the presumptuous visitor. ase It was "Dave" Mercer of Nebraaka , Ih ormer chairman of ihe house commit- clt on public buildings and grounds. ca the removal of his mustache , a lal somplete transformation has been he vorked In the appearance of the form- member from Nebraska * WmsMag- Post SEVENTY YEAR * Of SAB * . Jansonis First Appeared te Three Scor and T H Y * r Btesc. On Christmas day sersDty 7 * * iloyslus Hansam toek ewt ft j at at * * Chancery Lame far kla Improved bak- ley carriage , trWc * throughout th vorld has bem luwwm ev r since a * he "hansom eab. " Cwfcoaly eaough in this annlT rs 7 tke Aaatfc blow lomes to Ibe Y M i frkkfc for * nany generatt * * tymmilw English gpeakiag pe ? te. I * tk > f Londoa to ay ap Mff a nambtr at Uectricallj prop U4 ka s i nodeted EMM * Mk the fcajuo tarried oa four wbccto. Th * wheeled yehlclc k * tea * jondomned as am inteterabia md it ia omly beeauw JEmglish peopfc tre the very adamwrnt of aeaservatisa hat it Is possible for 14,00 * bauson sabs to ply the streets of L ndon at Ms very day. I to w of dozens o ! ) eople who hare discarded them and iuve takem refuge In the slower , bul far safer , four-wheeled hackney car riage , the ancient trundle box whlca r Leach used to love to caricature , and hich required early rising and nine * patience for a trip across London. Th iwlft hansom had its advantage In thai t careered rapidly along the streets , lashing In and out of the traflic. lirough almost impassable crushes , Dut it had its more than counterbal Incing advantages in that one nevei ciie\v when there would be an accident ivluch might prove futal. Seventy years ago Hr. Hansom had nuch difficulty in introducing his lz > lovation. Eminent men signed do u > merits condemning the hansom as t wicked invention , and old ladles Towed thousand times that they hither go to China than ride JH i monstrous carriage. But Mr. lorn lived down all the clamor of timid and all the buffoonery of ivits. who called his eab "the moder * guillotine In disguise , " and saw bJs ia fention the most popular of all tke Y * Llcles In the metropolis. The haaaoa las now seen its best days. Tke efc trical cab will Improve year by yeai md in the meantime the old , despised , but now up-to-date four-wheeler ks | ome into its own. There are alxeady Imndreds of fine four-wheelers , pcao hcally first-class broughams , In tb Itreets , so that one need no longer ta ishamed of looking out of Its wkh flows for fear of meeting the eye oi In acquaintance who might , as has ofr ten been the case in the past , ey something that sounds like "old weia * an" or "coward. " London Letter ta Pittsburg Dispatch. POKES FUN AT JOHN BULL. fanadinn Has His Oirn Views Abeat His CousinAcroa * the Sea. Peter McArthur is a Canadian whost views on England and English sockJ are interesting and original. In M4 aew book , "To Be Taken With Sa 4 .n Essay on Teaching One's Grand mother to Suck Eggs , " he gives a num. ber of aphorisms that set orthodox philosophy at defiance. Here are few samples : Seasickness has kept more enemie * Dut of England than her prowess la vvar. London takes more for granted thaa the rest of the world knows. The great trouble with the English i | that they are trying to repel the Auaer * lean invaders' with business method * that came over makegoo&r yueror. Most of the things talked about ia London society are fitter subjects fen prayer than for gossip. To be original is to be wrong. Culture is the consciousness of tret * expressed in conduct. Good form appears to be the ac emulated mulated weariness of centuries pressed in a general air of boredom. One of the blessings of being a morist is that all your ml awakes pas as jokes. Conservatism and laziness are barf distinguish. In order to carry on an argument you must descend to the ether mairi * level One should never spoil a good thsorj explaining it. Let me make the jokes of the ea > pire ; I care not who makes its bloz > ders.London London is fnll of clever people expect to get salvation in a and spend the luxury of being ver a lifetime. The cuckoo of philosophy has cessfully laid her egg in the nest oil theology. London is overcrowded with seri&B * minded people who stand in awe ol their own ignorance. An Englishman's social standinf seems to depend on the number of pee * < he can afford to despise. The average Englishman has so deej reverence ] for antiquity that he woull rather be wrong than be recent. This country Is full of people wh4 starving up to their positions- London Express. CouLl Not Favor Unions. The city of Toronto recently bids for firemen's clothing and lowest competitor was the Crown Tain aring Company. The contract , how ever , was awarded at a higher pric * a concern using the nnlon label , Ihereupon the Crown Tailoring Com. pany obtained an Injunction. In rea. iering a judgment Chancellor Bey * leclared that In Issuing its specific * dons the city could not demand th * of any particular nnlon label and Ihus discriminate against certai * classes of laborers who might be ai capable as those entitled to use th label. The true test of ability , h ield. Is not membership In a union. Might may not make right , but $ ptsnally manages to makegoo&
