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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1904)
ISLE OF CUBA IN HISTORY. May Be- Divided Into Four Excitinjj and Interestine KpocliH. Since Cuba became known to the \vorld 400 years ago her story is one of romantic incidents and tragic' events and may be divided into four epochs. The first one can lie described as that of discovery , colonisation and conquest. For 200 years itvaz the spoil of foreign foes. Columbus on his first voyage dis covered the island , and by 1553 practi cally the entire native population had been exterminated by Spanish cruelty. In 1534 and 1554 Havana was destroy ed by the French ; in 1G24 it was taken by the Dutch ; from 1G50 to 1700 it was often ravaged by filibusters , and in 1702 it was taken by the English. At no time prior to 1700 was the island safe from attack by European governments or by pirates. Then for 150 years or so en sued an era of Comparative peace. Ex cept for the single incident of English occupation in 1702 , the island prospered mightily In tobacco and the slave trade , of which it was the center for Spanish America. It is said that in the sixty halcyon years of this traffic no fewer than 550,000 slaves were brought into Cuba. Along about 18-14 began that epoch of Cuban history which ended only in the expulsion of Spain in 1S9S.This might be called the revolutionary period. More than 10,000 negroes perished in the in surrection of 1S4S. The uprisings of 1849 and 1S51 were led by American adventurers. The Spanish revolution of 1SGS led to an effort for Cuban inde pendence , which continued with vary ing fortunes for twelve years. In 18SO the insurrection was put down , but it had saddled upon the island a debt of $85,000,000. The revolutionary move ment which ended in American occupa tion may be said to date , in its more ac tive manifestations , from about 1893. When the Maine went down in Havana harbor the bell .rang for the curtain which was to fall for once and for all qn four centuries of Spanish misrule. The ensuing four years form an epoch by themselves the period of American occupation. While much of the work done by our representatives there is for all time , some of it is already in peril from Cuban incompetence and unrest. The island is accordingly entering upon another stags of if < s "Drkc Shore" Summer Tours. Where are you going to spend this year's vacation ? The Lake Shore Rail- way's book of "Summer Tours to Mountains , Lakes and Seashores" will l elp you to decide. It will be sent on application to C. P. Daly , Chief Asst. Pass. Agt , Chicago. HOLES IN THE AIR. Invisible Pitfalls with Which Air ships May Have to Contend. Some very terrible accidents may be expected to befall aerial navigators should airships ever become suflicient- ly perfected to make this species of travel at aLl common , owing to the . fact , well known to all aeronauts , that there exist in the earth's atmosphere at certain places and under certain con ditions veritable holes or pits of vast depth. An airship sailing unwittingly into one of these aerial craters would sink with far more certainty and far greater swiftness than would a leaden ship of the same size and shape iu an ocean of water. Accidents of this nature have ac tually happened to aeronauts in the past , but , of course , the ordinary bal loon is not nearly so much affected by the sudden descent as an airship would Mc. Nevertheless , an experience of the kind is sufficiently disconcerting even to the stoutest hearts and strongest nerves. M. Tissandier , ballooning with two friends above the town of Yincennes some years ago , happened on one of these invisible airholes , which proved to be over a mile in depth , the balloon falling that distance with such incredi ble rapidity that the earth appeared to -rushing up to meet them with the speed of an express train , 'and the bags of ballast thrown out by the alarmed travelers fell not downward , as might have been expected , but upward. Luck ily a denser stratum of air , answering to the bottom of the pit in question , \ was encountered when they were a few hundred feet from the ground , and the downward rush of the balloon was checked as if by contact with a pneu matic cushion. POP icon's Weekly. 'Aslc Tour Dealer for Allen's Foot Ease. A powder to shake into your shoes. It rests the feet , Cures Corns , Bunions , Swollen , Sore , Hot. Callous , Aching. Sweating feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. Sold by all druesists and shoe stores , 2oc. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted , Le Roy , N. T. New Use lor the Pulpit. There are queer nooks and corners in England yet. A country parson lately went to preach in an old remote parish one Sunday. The aged sexton , in taking him to the place , insinuatingly said : "I hope your riv'ren"e won't mind preachin' frqm the chancel. Ye ( see , this is a quiet place , and I've got a duck sittin' on fourteen eggs in the pulpit. " London Tid Bits. I hare used Piso's Cure for Consump tion with peed results. It is all right. John W. Henry , Box 042 , Fostoria , Ohio , Oct. 4 , 1901. The Way to Wealth. Spendthrift I see nothing , before me but poverty and disgrace. ' Friend How much have you left ? "Just fifty dollars. " "That's plenty. " "Plenty ? " "A superfluity. Buy a paste-pot and shears. Then go over to London and start a coinic paper. " Ulrs , Tnnsl < ms Boorsmo amur for Children te thitig ; soften * tba gnma , radneea inflammaUon.il lur paio. cures wind colic. 22 cents a botUc. There are 100 canals and pumping sta tions in Texas ind Louisiana each capa ble of flooding 1,000 acres of rice. j ° 9f ? j * * j9fMft * * & rr W Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. Unfitted for Citizenship. WO men appeared in the Circuit Court in Chicago cage as applicants for naturalization papers. Neither of them could speak English except very brokenly , though one claimed a residence of fifteen years in this country. Neither of them knew how the State and Federal Gov ernments are organized or how they are con ducted. They couTd not tell how Presidents are chosen nor what the duties of Congress are. They could not even give the name of the President now in office. Judge M. W. Thompson , of Danville , who is sitting In the Circuit Court of Cook County , properly denied their application for naturalization papers. His decision and his reasons upon which it was based merit the consideration of all judges who may be called upon to grant the privi leges of citizenship to aliens unfitted for it "This nation of ours , " declared Judge Thompson , "has got past the point where we can safely admit all comers to citizenship. Do you think we can allow you to come over here and without any preparation give you all the powers and Privi leges we have as citizens ? I have lived here always and have studied our national needs. You know nothing of them. Yet you ask me to let you have all the powers and rights I and others have. " The danger of admitting to full citizenship men who have no knowledge of American institutions and no con ception of the responsibilities which citizenship imposes is patent The fact that applications for naturalization are now frequently made by aliens wholly destitute of these qualifications Indicates the dangerous lengths to which the practice already has been carried. The time has come to adopt the principle that , no matter how freely aliens may be welcomed to this-country , they shall not be per mitted to exercise the suffrage until a long residence and a full understanding of American institutions have made them fit for citizenship. The sooner the naturalization laws are changed to conform to this principle the better it will be for the nation. Chicago Daily News. Young Men and the Church. DITOR BOK is after the preachers again. Nine years ago , says Mr. Bok , in the Outlook , he wrote an article declaringthat the lack of vital preaching was the cause for the absence of young men from the city churches. To use a ball phrase , he was "batted all over the lot" by the preachers for saying so. In returning to the lists , the editor who has been gath ering statistics all the time , says the percentage of attend ance of young men is 8 per cent less than it was nine years ago. It was only 39 per cent at that time. What's the trouble ? he asks. Five years ago the ministers said it was the bicycle. For the past three years they have said "golf. " A few say Sunday papers. The bicycle has dis appeared from Sunday amusements. The Sunday news papers are more numerous and larger. That leaves only golf , says Bok. But he takes up thirty-one churches in different cities where Sunday golf is prohibited and shows that out of a possible 1,040 young iifen only 427 attend church. So he returns to the old attack. He has interviewed hundreds of young men and the majority say : "Nothing togo for. " "Don't out of the " " ' go get enough sermons. "It's all words , words , words no vital message. " Then he tells how the churches of Gtinsaulus of Chicago and Rainsford and Lorimer of New York where the big note of spiritual ity is sounded are crowded with young men. True , he quotes many young men who say they are too tired when Sunday comes and allows for hard conditions and the money madness of the times , but he sticks pretty close to his text : Lack of vital sermons. Des Moines News. British and Japanese interests. T has been lightly assumed that British Inter ests and Japanese interests are convertible terms. AYe have our doubts whether this the ory has received adequate proof. For several generations dread of Russia has been a deop- seated element in the formation of British opinion. It has determined our policy both in the Near East and upon the Northwest frontier of India. But Lord Salisbury was one of those who considered that this prejudice led us to put our money on the wrong horse , and the effects of that error in the Near East have been appalling. Let us suppose , however , that Russia receives BRITISH SPEAKER'S POSITION. A Personage of Hijjjh Official and Social Consideration. It is doubtless because the position of Speaker is so onerous that the re wards attached to it are great He is originally a member of parliament like the rest , and is selected by the leader of the house , who is not necessarily the prime minister , from among his own followers for his personal charac ter and dignity and his knowledge of parliamentary procedure. He is usual ly elected unanimously by vote of the house , and from that moment he ceases to be a party man , and his con stituency is divided in its feelings be tween the honor of returning the Speaker and the disadvantage of being , for all practical purposes , unrepresent ed in parliament The Speaker of the House of Com mons is a personage enjoying the greatest official dignity and social con sideration. He is the first commoner In the realm ; his invitations to dinner are almost equivalent to a royal com mand ; court dress is worn by members who dine with him officially. In the house he is treated with extreme defer ence , and he receives a salary of 5,000 and the use of a magnificent house , which forms part of the palace of Westminster. He retains office "though the politics of the ministry may change , through successive administrations un til his health fails or he deems him self to have earned retirement Then the sovereign bestows a peerage upon him , and the country a munificent pen sion. sion.The The House of Commons has been singularly fortunate in securing for Speakers men of great dignity , unfail ing judgment , and unquestioned impar tiality , and never more so than at pres ent in the person of the Right Hon. Court Gully , member for her drubbing. What then ? Are we serious in imagining that Japan is fighting the battle of the Anglo-Saxon ? If so , there awaits us a rude surprise. The goal of Japanese statesmanship is the liberation of Asia from European control , and Asia includes India. When we back Japan we virtually indorse the cry , "Asia for the Asiatics , " wtolch is quite the reverse of the watchword , "An Open Door for Great Britain. " Russian statesmen realize what an awakening of the yellow races means for humanity asa whole. We approve that awakening , but must also realize its consequences. The resurrection of the Middle East led to the invasion of Spain by the Moors and to battles be tween Cross and Crescent at the gates of Vienna itsdf. Christendom was there confronted by Oriental invaders , who possessed arms equal to her own. The same phenom enon is developing at the Far East Neither China nor Japan has bowed before the ideals upon which our religion is based. But Japan has adopted , and China is in process of adopting , the weapons of modern warfare , and when the yellow races have acquired our methods of destruction , it is possible that we may learn too late how wise it would have been to allow Russia to remain as a counterpoise. * London Daily News. . - , - - . * . , Don't Stop ; Keep On. HE head of a pumping engine company was recently asked whether school trained men or shop trained men -are better equipped for work in his factory. He answered : "The practical man is likely to know more than the technical school man aboutactual shop work , but he is also likely to stop knowing when he should go on knowing. " Right here is the point where the young man of broad school education excels the young man of equal natural albil- ity but only shop education. He goes on knowing. The boy apprenticed to a skilled trade will learn to do his particular work more deftly than the boy who puts in tiie equivalent years in school. But the properly schooled boy , if he has learned less how to do , has learned better how to learn to do. And what is' wanted In every industry and in every profession - fession is not so much men who can do well the particular task of the day as men who can readily pass on to some other and more difficult tasks men who can keep on learn ing while they work. The mind , like the muscles , ceases to grow if it be not exercised. The ordinary boy , set early at a trade , may learn that , but in learning it he is in danger of closing his mind , for lack of all round exercise , to learning anything else. And the subdivision of labor in modern industry has increased this danger. From that danger the properly schooled boy is delivered. The soil of his mind is so broken up that it cannot become incrusted against new ideas. He keeps on learning while he works. That is what broad education does , and that Is why the protests of certain exceptional and successful men against broad education beat vainly against the daily ob servation of common sense Chicago Inter Ocean. The Craze for Money. T the bottom of all the too prevalent corrup tion , commercial and political , is the prevailing idea that success consists in the gaining of money. Joseph R. Burton , of Kansas , the first United States Senator to be convicted of crime while in office , testified that he used his official influence in consideration of a salary of $500 a month from the Rialto Grain and Securities Companies of St. Louis , because he needed the money. Those convicted of fraud in the Postoffice Department at Washington , " per petrated the frauds in order to make money. Almost e ery act of corruption in office is done to get money ; and the money that is paid to induce official corruption is paid to obtain wrongful opportunities to make more money. All Nthe dishonest bargains between business men and corpora tions are merely attempts to make money. People who have no need of more money keep on trying to make money , because that is their only ideal of success. Those wlio have more money than they can count or use in any way , try to add to it because they are lured onrjby the idea which has been burned into their minds that making money is suc cess and nothing else is success. Corruption thrives on this false ideal , and will cease only when this false idol is thrown down from the high pedestal on which it stands before the minds of the American people. Boston Watch man. European and American military experts who have witnessed artillery maneuvers In the Japanese army have been loud in their praises of the rapid ity and precision with which the little brown gunners handle themselves. In , modern warfare .the tendency is to fight at longer range than formerly , so that the artillery is constantly becoming a more important arm of the service. One difficulty with securing good gunners among the Japs is said to be the poor eyesight that is.a national characteristic. This obstacle has been over come in a measure by choosing for artillerymen only those with the keenest vision. The Japanese fieldpiece is the Arisaka twelve pounder , invented by General Arisaka , the master of ordnance. Leamington , a Liberal before he was raised above * , ! ! party ties. It is a splendid position , and though its in tellectual demands are unceasing and its merely physical demands exhaust ing , it is splendidly rewarded. The position is as exhausting as it is distinguished. During a large part of the session the Speaker must be in the choir from 2 p. m. till after mid night , except during the dinner hour , from half-past seven to nine ; and even when the house is in committee , and the chairman of committees is presid ing , he must be in official dress in his house , which communicates directly with the lobby behind his chair , ready. to appear at a moment's notice if sum moned. He must , of course , know ev ery member by sight and be able to re call his name instantly. It is astound ing sometimes when from a back bench there rises some member who Is utterly unknown by sight to his fellow members , who seldom attends and hardly ever speaks , and has nothing whatever distinctive in his manner or appearance , to hear the Speaker say "Mr. Blank , " as readily as if he were accustomed to address him every day. Century. Ignorance is not a crime. There are men in office to-day who can't tell you the name of the ehamDton prlz * fighter. Young women may avoid much sick- ness and pain , says Miss Alma Pratt , ff they * will only have faith * n the use of Lydia E , Pinfcham's Vegetable Compound. MRS. PINK-HAM : I feel ifc my duty to tell all young women how much Lydia E. Pinkliam's wonderful Vegetable Compound has done for me. I was completely run down , unable to attend school , and did not care for any kind of society , but now I feel like a new person , and have gained seven pounds of flesh in three months. " I recommend it to all young women who suffer from female weak ness. " Miss AL IA PRATT , Holly , Mich. FKEE IHEDICAL ADVICE TO YOUNG GIKLS. All young girls at this period of lifb are earnestly invited to write Mrs. Pinkham for advice ; she has guided in a motherlyway hundreds of young -women ; her advice is freely and cheerfully given , and her address is Lynn , Mass. Judging from the letters she is receiving from so manv young girls Mrs. Pinkham believes that our girls are often pushed altogether too near the limit of their endurance nowadays in our public schools and seminaries. Nothing is allowed to interfere'with studies , the girl must be pushed to the front and graduated with honor ; often physical collapse follows , and it takes years to recover the lost vitality , often it is never recovered. A Young Chicago Girl Saved from Despair. , " DEAB MRS. PINKHAM : I wish to thank you for the help and ben efit I have received through the use of Lydia E. Pinkliam's Vege table Compound and liver Pills. When I was about seventeen years old I suddenly seemed to lose my usual good health and vitality. Father said I studied too hard , but the doctor thought different and prescribed tonics , which I took by the quart without relief. Reading ofce day in the paper of Mrs. Pinkham's great cures , and finding the symptoms described an swered mine , I decided I would give Lydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound a trial. I did not say a word to the doctor ; I bought it myself , and took it according to directions regularly for two months , and I found that I gradually unproved , and that all * pains left me , and I was my old self once more. LTLLEE E. SINCLAIR , 17 E. 22d St. , Chicago 111. " Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the one sure rem edy to be relied upon at this important period in a young girl's life ; with it she can go through with courage and safety the work she must accomplish , and fortify her physical well being so that her future life may be insured against sickness and suffering. FORFEIT If "wo cannot forthwith produce the original letters and signatures oi above testimonials , which will prove cheir absolute genuineness. Lydiu 22. Pinkham Medivlno Co. , Lynn , Counterfeiters' Profits on Small Coins That counterfeiters make big profits in producing spurious coins of small denominations is shown1 by reports from the United States treasury. Of the 42,000,000 pennies received by the minor coin division of the United States subtreasury in New York in 1901 , over 117,000 were counterfeit , and the $2,020,000 received in minor coins nickels , three-cent bits , coppers and pennies $1,331 was in counterfeit pieces. New Tork has for years been a fa vorite manufacturing center for spu rious coin , though the activity of the secret service bureau has greatly de creased its production in the city. A SKIN OP BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER. VR. T. FELIX GOURAUD'S ORIENTAL CREAM , OR MAGICAL BEAUTIFIER _ KemoTesTan.Pimples.Freckles , . 35 > " txp-vufe Moth Patches , Rash , and Skin diseaaea ( j a every blemish \on beauty , anil lefles detection. 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It is a revelation in cleansing : and healing power ; it kills all germs "which , cause inflammation and discharges. f All leading druggists keep Paxtine ; price.COc. ' a box ; if yours does not , send to ns for it. Don't take a substitute there la nothing like Paztine. "Write for the Free Box of Paxtlno to-day. E. PAXTON CO. , 6 Pope Bldg. , Boston , Mass. WHEN \VRIT1NG TO ADVKRTISEKS plenie say yon saw cho advertisement lev this _ S. O.N. _ U. _ - _ - _ No. 2C lOO-t _ BEGGS' BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach. Sale Ten Million Boxes a Year. THE FAMILY'S FAVORITE MEDICINE CANDY CATHAR.TIC BEST FOR THE BOWELS
