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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1906)
'p ii lii-H | i y .i , mi THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT I. M. RICE - Edit .i and Proprietor. ) * i * MARK ZARR - Foreman. Eatered at the postoffice at Valentine , Cherry county , Nebr. . as Second Class Matter. TERMS : Subscription $1.00 per year in advance ; $1.50 when not paid in advance. Display Advertising 1 inch single column 15c per issue or $6.00 a year. Local Notices , Obituaries , Lodge Resolutions and Socials for revenue 5c per line per issue. Brands , H 'riches$4.00 ' per year in advance ; additional space $3.00 per rear ; engraveu blocks extra $1.00 each. 10 per cent additional to above rates if over 6 months in arrears. Parties living outside Cherry county are requested to pay in advance. Notices of losses of stock free to brand advertisers. THURSDAY , JANUARY 18 , 1906. Manhattan ( Kan ) Republic. Robert Good of Jamestown , edi tor of the Optimist , received a gasoline engine as a Christmas present with the compliments of the merchants of the town and the adjuration to stop his kicking a job press. "We will venture the prediction that the hard licks that Bob Good puts in to get trade to Jamestown will make the merch ants about as happy as they were in giving this pleasant surprise. Sprihgview Herald. The editor who can please every body is not fit for this earth , but entitled to wings. Human nature is constituted so that some like scandal , some don't ; some like to see others ripped up the back , others don't ; some like to see fakes exposed , others don't ; some like the truth told about them , others ' like to take theii don't ; some pa pers seven or eight .years and nev er miss an issue or pay a cent , and get mad and stop their paper when they get a statement of their ac counts , others don't. It is some consolation to know that the Lord himself failed to please everyone while on earth. Springvicw Herald Man in Trouble , f We received this week a state ment of . a little account from a business firm in Springview whict was made out on a head furnished by the Pratt's Food Co. , and on il was printed with a rubber stamp "Please call and settle at once , Prompt attention to this will in sure future favors" and it was mailed in an envelopes printed and sold by the government. This ffrm has spent § 11 in advertising and job work with us in nearly four years while we have spent ir cash with them nearly § 200. Wil some of our subscribers come ir and help us pay this little bill sc that in future we can trade witt Sears Roebuck ? Springview Her aid. , Not a Hard Problem , O'Neill Independent. The Columbus Telegram gives the following problem in finance to Nebraska boys : "If in a time o admitted prosperity the state o Nebraska runs into debt nearly $150,000.00 in one year , how lonj ; will it require the republican re ideemers to put Nebraska in thi bankrupt column ? " You may think this picture a lit tie overdrawn , but a peep at Audi tor Searle's report for the year 190i will convince you of the need o having the young boys and the ol ( ones as well , to do a little figuring along this line. You will remem ber that the republicans promisee faithfully to wipe out the obnox ious state debt if the voters wonl < .give them-the power to do so. Yoi gave them the power , both in al the state offices and the Ipgisla ture , and they have had six yean in winch to work. The result i that they have shoved you farthe into debt each year. The repor .shows the state to be in debt mor < than two and a half million dollars This is the way they have repai < your confidence. The voters o this state have gone through th same experience twice and the rail roads are framing up to do it again We sometimes believe that the re publicans will have Nebraska ink the bankrupt column long before the people will awake from theii political prejudice. J We copy a number of articles from our exchanges this week , which will be found interesting , partly on account of the thought conveyed , and some articles be cause of merit and the more to be emphasized as having come from a republican newspaper. Read the articles and ponder over those which voice the sentiment express ed by democrats and populists years ago. Rushville Recorder. ( Rp ) They seem to have thought about everything at the canal zone from providing pyjamas to a bras ; brand , but the work , that's anoth er scheme. 'The land fraud cases are filling people with apprehension , whicl all goes to show that governrnen indifference in the past has been largely responsible for many oi the irregular filings that have pile ( up , and which now threaten th west with disorganization. Lan < hunger is as much a curse as an : other avarice. * - . There are not many trusts beinj smashed by legislation , but quite ; number have gone under by tin weight of their own sins ; and then has never been a time in the histor ; of the Great American Republic where more graft , fraud and in competence has been uncovere < than under the relentless scrutiny of Theodore Roosevelt who stand out first and last as an honest man demanding and strenuously insist ing upon a purer and higher stand arc of political and national honor The time is no t yet ripe , bu come it will , when the solution o all the railroad difficulties will b solved by the government pur chasing the railroads right out This has already been brough about in some of the Europeai countries. Italy being the last to solve the problem in that way. am it is only a matter of time whei we must face the problem in th same bold manner. No centre can be effective 'unless backed u by ownership , from the simp ] fact that the public demand on thing and the railroads anothei The far reaching effects to sa ; nothing of the difficulties of rail road legislation is every day beinj forced on the attention of th American people. There is a general all roun shake up coming in the west , alon , with the rest of the country , am we better get ready for it. In a article on Rescuing Municips Government , written in Th World to-day , is the following "Afar western correspondent , a important state official , himsel charged with important power c scrunity and investigation , declare that "there is a general shah in up in municipal affairs going o throughout the west. The dail papers tell of investigation in a J departments of public affairs , es 1 pert accountants are being calle in , grand juries have been assere bled , and in general there is an eJ fort being made , such as nevrer It I fore * to arrive at some definite form ' of administration of public funds hat will show without too much | laboration the disposition of the people's money , " and prevent its dishonest use or diversion. > There is no Unbelief , ' Aiiisworth'Star-Journal. } A writer on the Dubuque , Iowa , Telegraph-Herald discusses the question of < what next when faith is gone. Very pathetically this writer says : "Without faith , the m6rrow is empty of promise and today the hours are long and the task is heavy ; the golden glow of the har vest moon is dulled and where its light faljs upon the placid water there is no beauty ; the flowers have lost their fragrance , there is no scent in the new turned earth and the changing leaves on the bush and vine and stately oak and maple , have lost the supernal in their coloring. The substance has dis appeared before the shadow and grim materiality walks through field and busy mart and along the other paths of men , wrecking as it moves what is not of earth , or sky , or sea , and leaving in its trail the stalking ghosts of desolation and abandonment. "For what is there left to you who call him man , human like your selves , and not of God ? And to you who know no God , who have follow ed Spencer , Hurley or Ingersoll and with the reading of each sen tence have felt iconoclastic blows fall upon the structure of your faith , robbing you of the support ing staff.of . life , that now as nine teen hundred years ago was sol acing as a mother's caress , hope- giving as the cheering words of a wife , inspiring as the presence of a child of one's own flesh ? Empti ness reverberant as the rolling sound of the timbril bearing its load of human misery to the guil lotine , and disconsolate as the monk's chant of the miserere , bar ren of nutrition as the sands of the Sahara and as fatal to hope as Dead Sea fruit to living matter that is yours when faith is gone.- ' But there is no unbelief. There are few men without faith. The world has-seen fewer infidels than we think for. Some men are wont to talk , betimes , and somewhat boastfully , it would seem , of their lack of faith their unbelief. But when you sound the depth of theii natures you will find that all this is but an idle boast. The man does not live who is entirely without faith in things unseen. Bulwer has discussed this ques tion most profoundly in a few sim ple verses. He says : There is no unbelief. Whoever i lants a seed beneath the sod And Avails to see It push way the clod , He trusts in God. Whoever says when clouds are in the sky "Be patient , heart , light breaketh by ani by. " Trusts in the Most High. Whoever sees 'neath winter's Iriend o ! snow Tne silent harvest of the future grow , God's power must know , Whoever lies down on his couch to sleep , Content to lock ea"h sense in slumber deep , Knows God will keep. Whoeveray ? "tomorrow. " "the unknown. " "The future , " trusts thfl power alone He dares disown. The heart that looks on when eyelids close And ( tare * to live when life has only woes , God's corn'ort. knows. There is no unbelief , A"d day l < y day , and night unconsciously. The h'-urr that lives by faith the lips deny God knoweth why. I hear stories , young man , tc the effect that you are failing t ( pay your debts. You have bor rowed a half dollar each fronc several of the boys and have for gotten to give it back. You alec owe a restaurant or two and arc making no effort to make it right , The amount you owe is small , bul it will grow. Perhaps you do not Know it , but 1 want to say thai you are storing up the pooresi asset in your career. For j couple of dollars you are barter ing away what may be your fu ture competence. The best asset i man can have in this business worlc is his credit. If he keeps it good he will always have money. If he prostitutes it , he will always be hard up. It is not honesty alom that should make a man pay hi : debts * It is common sense. Nc man ever uccf pp m man whose en-tin , i * p-i. r in i- -n and I will show y.ou a failure. If. you owe a small debt , by all means pay it as soon as you possibly can. Randolph ( Kan. ) Enterprise. First RealShut Down" in Omaha in th * Lnt Fit- tec u Years. "LID" ON WITH YEIBE1II3 THE BARTRXDEEfS RESOLVE. Dr. W. It. Shepparcl And this is your Sunday ; my. but it's fine To lie abed cozy and get up at nim To read the big papers and sit around home And see the dear children , from dunday school come. To visit or drive , to fer > 5 ai yc'irJI.SH. . T > know tint you've not .v > me Mimmrr .o please , To leel as a man , a manimongst men , . That your wozkain'i cause ol a wife.s.heart . pain , To feel * ike the boss is p ttlu' it tiff. When the "Civ-c's" a-givm' a so id Id siiff , To f-el tuat someh w. then's oneal > bath day. Ain't full o' the devil 110' one don't , pray. An < i yet r.h rr ! > * om"t' nn better ftv me Then sneakin'iy foreak'ri'-ihe lw * that be. For I'don't feel right , to - pe i the day. Teiutin' a bar. for it's.Pitiful v ay" . I hev often thought , if there's hell to "be That hell's a comin1 , dead sure to me , F * > r handlm * booze is a reg'lar criins. If ye trade it off , fer a sot'n last dime. It's helpiu' him down the toboggan sl'de ' , Brinpin' disgrace ou some mother's pride , And this taste o' heaven , on this side o' law. On the side o' right , is the line I'll draw. Jest do somethln * elI can't do worse , I'll je-t slide out without 'to fuss- Quit this * eu < iinr po r slave * to pen. And take my stand wih tl.e Righreous Men. % For the first time in fifteen years not a saloon in Omaha , so far rs could be learned , was open for business Sunday , the "lid" being on so tight that there was not a crack visible until after 4:30 : this morning. The effect of the closed Sunday is told by the jail blotter , only tliree persons having be n arrested during the twenty fnur lK ur < on the charge of drunkennessOne of these ' 'jags' ' was acquired in Council Bluffs and the other"t\wr \ carried bottles , in their pockets. . , , Saloon doors were tightly sealed , while the curtains to the winclfuvs were thrown back , exposing tc view the bar over which drinks are usually served. Men believing themselves pos sessed of ' 'the knowing wink" loitered around the rear entrance to some saloons , but their winks , passwords and high signs failed to bring the wet goods they desired. Omaha Daily News , Jan. 15. Cherry County School Did you get your perfect at tendance certificates ? Did you send in the names of those entitled to them ? 191 certificates were is sued this week. Treasurers' , moderators' and directors' books are ready for dis tribution. Teachers' examination next Fri day and Saturday. Each Cherry county teacher will receive a beautiful calendar , thro courtesy of Attorneys Walcott & Morrissey. ASSOCIATION PRO&RAAIS. Jan. 27 , 1:30 p. m. Report of Good Things Heard at State Association . Prof. K. H. Watson La Purchase , Chapters 4 and 0. . . KellieColIett Chapters Gaud 6 . Vaimie Hooper Recitation . Chloe Waggoner , Model Rpcitation , Fourth grade Arith metic . Kate E. Driscoll Helpful Divices in Teaching injr . . . Nettie Kneeland Quiz on Languace Work . Mary Grewe , Patrons as well as teachers from all school districts are invited. LA. PURCHASE. L What instructions did con gress give to Lewis and Clarke ? 2. Describe their preparations for the journey. PEDAGOGY. Outline White's method of teach ing language. ' LULU KORTZ , Co. Supt. Stetter pays 9 cents for hides , Halldorson's photos 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 and 5th of each month. You will find a hearty welcon e at the Chicago House. 38 A good Smith Premier typewrite * for sale cheap. F. M. WALCOTT , Good Service Chicag-o House , Hornback & McBride , Props. Rates Sl.OO and Board and Room $1,25 Per Day , $6,00 Per Week. Groceries We have adder ! a m w nnd complete stock of Groceries to our business. Call and see us. PHONE 97. A. JOHN , DAVIS & GO X. J. AUSTIN. J. W. THOMPSON THOMPSONm > m ( SUCCESSORS TO E. BREUKLANDER. ) GENERAL BIArK mTHI3OI > WOODWORK. Hitre Shite .ny it FRESH FRUIT AND GAME JN THEIR SEASON. 0909 First class line of Steaks , Roasts , Dry Salt Meats Smoke-1 Hreakfast Ra in. Highest Market Price Paid for Hogs. Cement Building Blocks for Foundations , Ijouses , Barns or .Chimneys . WESLEY HOLSOLAW , IH EMPIRE CREAM SEPARATOR Easy Running , Easy Washing , Clean Skimming , -Nothing to get. out , of order arid will last a life time. Kecommended by all who have used them. A practical machine sold on easy terms by T W VALENTINE , ! W. . ) C 3 * NBREASKA. GRANT BOYER , CARPENTER & BUILDER. All kinds of wood work clone to nrdp-r. Stock tanks made in all sizes. Valentine , Nebraska AYERS BROS. Having engaged in the Meat and Butcher business , we shall endeavor to keep the best meats obtainable in a clean and up to date shop. We solicit a share of your patronage and invite you to visit our shop. : : : : : : : : Flour and Internntionttl Stock Fowl. VALENTINE NEBRASKA. AYERS BROS. East side of Main St . BUCKSTAFF -w w * w M A TTTB California katfccr. Very best obtainable. Give * long , faithful Mrvico. Trimraiag * perfect. Thread , Irish linen. Workmen , master ms- ciMuOcs. JKade in ail J t y 1 e * . Ask your t dealer be fuw tfcenu Stand up for Nebraska. ' ENDS OF TRACES STAMPED BticHctmff Bros * Mfg. Co. Read the Advertisements. JLotv JRates to Denver , f oio. , Via the North-western Line. Ex- cursion tickets will be sold on Jan. 28 , 29 and 30 , limited to return un til Feb. 15 , inclusive , on account of Wool Growers and Live Stock Association Meetings. Apply to ag ents Chicago & North-western Ey. 514 For Sale Good 6 room house and lot on Hall street , good stable. Inquire at this office. TIME TABLE threat Northern Line at O'nef ll > Xebr. East , GoUK i Leaves 10:10 a m. Arrives 9M : p. m. Passenger , dally except Sunday. Connections with Klkhorn trains east and west-bound from all points west of O'Neill. Shortest route to Sioux City and beyond. Through connections ft > r Sioux Falls , Minne apolis , St , Paul and all points north and west , iuy local U kets to O'Neill. FRED ROGERS , G , P , A. joux City Jow - . ' . :