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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1908)
! ! t fesU * * " * p l ! 7 1494 Jamaica discovererl by Coiumbus and named St. .lago by him. IG02 Qneen Mary II. of England born. 1G70 The Hudson's Bay Company formed in England. 1707 legislative union of England and Scotland put into effect. T77."l The Quebec Act became law , pro viding for the government of Can ada by Governor and Council. 1770 Adoption of the Pine Tree flag by great and general court of Massachu setts. "I.7S8 Maryland ratified the Constitution of the United States. " ISOS Spanish organized a revolt against Napoleon Charles IV. of Spain abdicated in favor of Bonaparte. . . . Union Temperance Society formed in Saratocra county. New York , this being the beginning of the Prohibi tion movement in the United States. 41S27 French National Guard disband-d. ' * ISo4 First railroad opened in Brazil. ISnC Montmorency bridge fell. 1S59 Colorado river expedition ended. ISGo Sir Samuel Cnnard. founder of the Cnnard steamship line. died. HS77 OccuiMtion of Bayazid by the Rus sians. 3LS7S First elevated trains run on Third avenue in New York City. 1SS1 First sod turned in the construc tion of the Canadian Pacific railway. SSS12 Charl.-s S. Parnrll , the Irish lead er , released from Kilmainham jail. "ISS5 Col. Otter attacked the Canadian rebels at Cut Knife Creek. 1SSS Henry M. Stanley found Emm Pasha on the shores of Albert Ny- anza. S94 Many lives lost by earthquakes in Venezuela International bimetal lic conference met in London. TS9S Spanish fleet destroyed in battle of Manila bay. 1OOr Landslide at Frank. B. C. , with rhp loss of seventy-five lives. 2LJXX3 A score of lives lost in a tornado nt Laredo. Texas Steamer Falk wrecked off Lauds End , with loss of jaearlv 100 lives. Tr. llilprceiit'a Final Ucply. In the form of a book of 3. 0 pages just from the pr-- Prof. Herman V. Hil- f recht of the University of I'enu ylva- nia. replies to the charges made against 8iim in connection with the collections of Xippur tablets now in the pow sion of university. The book recounts the nce presented before the committee trustees resulting in his complete ex oneration by them , and explains to his own satisfaction the circumstances out of wriiioh grew this famous scientific contro versy. The first charge w.is that of 15 1- * erary dishonesty in having spoken of ithree of the tabletB as being found by fhini-self in 1DUO , whereas they were said 'tn fcave been purchased by the members of an earlier expedition. Hilprecht now .says that his books under dispute were out strictly scientific , and that numerous notes were not wanted by liis publishers. 31i nce he had not added the note telling * vlierc the tablets had been bought. An- i > ther charge was that of having retained > property belonging to the university. This : arose from the fact that with his own rsnnney he had made excavations at 1'ara Independent of those conducted by the amiversity. Some of his finds he had Driven to the university , but others he had rretained. The accusers also held that the tablets were not of a literary character xan l were not nroperly called a "temple library. " Ililprecht repels this with tes- rlmony of other * ; cientist . In conclusion he asserts that two men have been his an- iiigonists , Rev. Dr. Peters and Prof. Mor ris Jastrow , Jr. The animus of the for- aner Ililprecht attributes to the criticisms of the Peters expeditions in the Ililprecht 5ooks. lie accuses Jastrow of underhand ed and dishonest efforts to becloud the public mind and poison it against the ac cused. To Cure for Iho ' 'li Mayor Ezra S. Meals of Ilarrisburg , "Pn. , has ordered the police department to see that drunken men are helped to itheir homes instead of beinc arrested , and to compel the saloon proprietors to take care of the men found drunk in or near /their saloons. Mayor Meals holds that fit is not right to send these men to the. tlockup so long as they are not troubling any one. Of course , the criminal drunks will be dealt with summarily and the "habitual drunkards will be sent to jail to sober up. after which the mnyor will take them in hand personally and give he.m a chance to set hold of themselves. He goes on the theory that drunkenness is a disease. Whenever a man is taken home the fact will be recorded for fu- .lure reference. Troopx for Xi rht Klders. Gov. Wftwn of Kentucky has orderer Ting. Gen. Williams to take charge of troops at Murray , the scene of reeen < Tiight rider outrages , and has gone to ' Calloway counly to consult with the jmlg ( - about the prosecution of cn es involving the riders. Flames S\vt-ej OJiio Fire that started in the Mayor's ofiice destroyed all town records and papers , 'burned the poK'-e station , the fire apjnrji- Zus building , and se\i > rI : structures in the < bus5ucss district of Coal ton , Ohio. FROM THE COMMONER MR. BRVAIN'S Scerelary Taft on Ti-u.sl.s. Secretary Taft is rapidly disc-losing his /gnornnce on the trust question , for to believe him ignorant is more charitable than to believe that he docs not intend to interfere with the trusts , although his language would justify oven this belief , lie takes Mr. Bryan to task for favoring the extermination of trusts , and says that to exterminate trusts would l > e to exter minate industry. The Secretary desires to regulate and control the trusts. Hut has his party not been "regulating" "controlling" for some eleven years nmvY And have we not more ( rusts now thin we had when th' regulating anil controll ing began ? The trust family is a family big enough to satisfy the President's ideas of the size of a family , and the birth rate is greater than the death rate. The ad ministration has commenced suit against a few trusts , but not against many , and the trusts are still gentle enough to come up and eat out of the hand of the admin istration. What has been done in regard to the steel trust ? Did it not swallow up the Tennessee Coal and Iron Com pany ? And was it not given out that the swallowing was done after the administra tion had been consulted ? Is the steel trust fighting Secretary Taft ? And what about the International Harvester Com pany ? Have the farmers secured any re lief yet ? And what about the paper trust ? The steel trust has something like a billIon - Ion dollars of water in its stock ; it can afford to contribute ten millions to the Republican campaign fund , because it can get back many times that out of a Re publican victory , and this is only one trust out of many. How can the people hope to regulate or control trusts when the trusts , by the election of their favorite to office , are able to control the government ? The extermination of trusts is not the extermination of business. IT. for in- an Democratic League candidate won at the polls and even there our candidates were defeated only by Republican help for the Donne ! ! v Ryan organization can didates. The latter , however , are all pledged to P.ryan , but will follow the ( hifi'ey lead. . The delegates to tiic State convention are almost all Bryan men. Aryan's friends will control convention , will write platform , select delegates at largo anil in struct them for P.ryan. Reports .vjjre.id broadcast fcrii reaction ary SO.VATS to thr7 , > rt thai I ' "miviva - ilia will go ! < > Denver uuinsiructed are : iLwoIj : ] ' fnls" . \VAKirX WORTH BAiLKY. Sec. Bryan Democratic League of Penn sylvania. Tli - V/ooi ! * : > Itcsaliiiinn for The Speker : of the national IIouw h's ; introduced resolution for an indepen dent investigation of the paper trn-'t .ind ( he allegations that have been nude against it by the publishers. The resolu tion was passed yesterday and the Speak er appointed an investigating com miner- . P.ut if any of the standpatters inngine that they are fooling anyone their cap-i-v- ity for self-decvption is extraordinary. Who takes the resolution seriously ? Who will take' the investigation seriously in view of its origin and purpov. ? it will be regarded as an ivc-.jjmiri < m for "Piuncombe county only. " The i'"w Ji-ist busters are in no hurry. T'.ioujrh I hen- is "nothing doing" in Congress , it is not expected that the work will be compleAl befor" adjournment. And ( hen he na tional conventions will monopolize atten tion , and no one will remember woo' ! ptilp. After that the dog days will furnish an excuse for a slow pace. ( lur standpat friends intend t-o "ex- dtu > power tliroujrli uninstructed delegates may a-.iggest to the rank and file of the parry .he importance of making their instructions - structions to their representations at D'-u- ver .somewhat explicit. An express-cm of the desire of .lie j.-.nk and file , through instructions to Jeleuatrs may povo to be the stumbling mode in the WK.I. of those who wr.ild make thj national convention the master , rather than the servant of the 'pat'tv a-id win would make the party the plaything of prefatory interests ra'her than the cham pion of the public wolfavc. ' 'Tin- Full Dinner J'ail. ' ' The State labor department of New York on April 11) ) issued a bulletin in which it is stated that at the close of 11)07 ) oj'.e out of every three union nvn in the State wo * idle. The trades union policy is to not or1- shorten th working day , but to Ji.nit the number of working dayH per we- > , : in < > nlcr to insare work enough for ih.-r nvmbeis to provide ag-iinst w.iat. For instance , the International Typographical Union has a Jaw prohibit ing a member working more than six con secutive d.jys if there is any member of the union looking for work in the local jur ! < di ( rion. Many local unions adopted a { iv.-Mlay law early la > t winter in order lo distribute the work among more men. Other unions do the same thing , and this servd in huge mca.Mire to tide many men with families over the winter. But if one out of every three union men in New York Slate 5s out of-employment , what must IK the proportion of jobless men in the unorganized trades and occupations ? 'llie campaign slogan of "The lull dinner pail" would elicit more jeers than cheers if olTeml to the workingmen of Isew York- to-day. The congressional majority trill have to do more than adopt "gag vuk-s" if it ex pects to keep the country in Ignorance of tbe majority's failure to ezact beneficial legislation. Prince'Helie de Sagan. Tiho is to marry an American woman of gveat fortune , is credited by the Associated Press with hav ing said to a Ne\v York banker that In , / SU FL KEP. PRISS-\\HKlLYW t.'dZ A ' " 5AM 6SfTLEKAff-m/XLP. UEip ! ZcS KKLIIK K , /W7ZV < 5- YOU MMi. Ch'fEX UP/ When "the fhoc is on the other foot" stance , a single corporation has a monopoly ely , of the production of a necessary of ife , and has ten factories in different States for the production of this particu- ar article , the extermination of this trust would mean the selling off of enough fac- : orics to reduce the production of this one corporation to a point where it would no onger have a monopoly. But this would not mean closing up of the fac tories. The people would still need the article , and the people at large would get o be produced. But the independent fac- lories coming into competition 7ith the original corporation now no longer monopoly would reduce the price of the article , an dthe people at large would get the benefit of the reduction. With n. re duction in price , the people could buy more of the article produced , and this would increase the demand for labor , and new factories would spring up or existing factories would be enlarged. With a num ber of factories competing for laborers , cue laborers' chance of employment would be better , and his wages would be higher. Then , too , with a number of factories competing for raw material , the price of raw material would increase. In other words , the cxteiminalion of the trust , in stead of destroying business , would re store business to a healthy condition , while it reduced the price o the product , increased the price of raw material and improved the condition of the laboring man. Competition is the natural condi tion , and the extermination of the trust would restore competition. Monopoly is an unnatural condition , and the Republi can parly has fostered monopoly and thus built industry upon a false basis to the detriment of all of the parties concerned except the monopolist , and he has been demoralized by his unearned wealth while the rest of the people have been victimized by the practice of monopoly. . Secretary Taft ought to study the trust question a little more , or discuss it less , for each speech reveals his lack of fa miliarity with the subject or his lack of sympathy with the people at large. From Pennsylvania. . The following telegram concerning the Pennsylvania Democratic primaries ex plains itself : Johnstown. Pa. , April IStli. 1DOS. The Commoner , Lincoln. Neb. Fifty-one of the sixty-four district del egates to national convention chosen by popular vote at the uniform primaries are for Bryan. The Bryan Democratic League candi dates in James M. Guffey's district were successful. Outside Philadelphia nearly every Brj ploil" the resolution in their "de.'xtrUis. " to point to it with affected pride as a statesmanlike substitute for revision. They will run the risk of ho : > ling and jeer ing. Their little game is too trais"pirent. Their only serious argument that they could not touch wood pulp and paper without reojvening the whole tariff ( jjii - tion was gone when it was shown ihir the admitted need of forest-saving fur nished a complete and convincing reason for Irratin * ; the wood pulp and paper d-i- ties as belonging to a separate and < lh- tinct category. The House minority is on record as acquiescing in siich freaiii.'nt ; of these duties. The anxious sM'.ic'pu's ' : know that telling quotations fro n ; > ' ' * ! denti.il messages and resolutions v f manu facturers and clubs and other organiza tions were at their disposal lo justify to nil minds the singling out of the a-hedulo in question for revision at this time. They are reckoning without the common sense and the humor of their constit'ieius. ( The above is not a Commoner edito rial. It wxa not taken from any IXrno- cratic paj > or. It appeared as an e.liiivial in thnt devoted old Republican -.ewsp.i- per. the Chicago Record-Herald IB.SUC of April 2-2. ) "U'hy Xot Ilevlsef The Minnesota Republican State con vention adopted the platform in which it declares : "We reaflirm the principal of protection of American labor and indus tries , but we believe the time has come when there should be a revision of the tariff schedules by a Republican Con gress. " If "the time has come when there should br a revision of the tariff schedules by a Republican Conircss" why does the Republican Congress , now in session , fail to act ? IB it difficult for the ordinary man to understand that the people cannot expect a revision in the pubTic interest from a political party that derives its campaign funds from tariff beneficiaries ? Speak in ir of S < uinliliii Bloeku. The Richmond ( Va. ) Times-Dispatch concludes an editorial relatnig to the "anti-Bryan movement" in these words : " 1C ever there was a convention where the power of the uninstructed delegate will be great , not only in the choice ol' the candidate , but in writing the plat form , it will be at Denver. The appre ciation of this fact is the stumbling bloc-k in the way of Iho.-c who want no delibera tion by the renresentatives of the people tn convention assembled. ' ' But the appreciation "of the fact that certain special interests are seeking uu- would leave this conuUT very soon and hoped he woula never s e America again. Tin's prejudice against American soil seems not. however , to extend to Ameri can money. The proposed plan ( o have a commis sion revise the tariff is not nearly so good as the plan of letting the people elect a Congress that will reuse it in the inter ests of the people. Tiie United States Steel Corporation's ' 1N)7 ! ) earnings were this greatest in its his- ' tory. You would look a long while for a tariff revisionist among the managers of that corporation. Several representatives of public inter est n at Washington no doubt wish some of the American njwspaper reporters would go on strike like those German newspaper men. A Republican excl'ange says that Sena tor I A Follette would be more of a Re publican if he votol less often with the Democrats. True , but he wouldn't be right nearly so often. The Pennsylvania man who has just , completed a patclwork quilt containing ] ll.THO pieces ought to be sent to Congress - } gress and assigned to the task of drafting a Republican financial bill. "Indiana Republicans have warmed up to Mr. Fairbanks. " declares a contempo rary. Yes. And what is warming up to Mr. Fairbanks would be a red hot cam paign for almost any other man. John Smith and others went to Virginia something like three hundred years ago expecting to find gold. The Duke of Abruzzi followed up a few days ago and seems to have located the mine. A Chicago gentleman who was very prominent in his "defense of the national honor" about eiglit years ago is now look ing to the Supreme Court to save him from a ppnitentic.ry sentence. The New Vork Evening Post insist ? that organized Iibor demands the legal izing of the boycott. The Post is unable to see what organized labor demands is merely thtt a number of a union may le- t gaily do what he misht legally do if not ( a member of rlp union. In other words , organized labor demands that the posses sion of a union card shall not deprive a man of his rights as an individual under the law and th constitution. Protect the meadows when they are soft. Tramping injures them. For a healthy growth of chicks , a warm , ury ami sunny room will com pensate I'ur n lai'l : ol"sunshine. . There is absolutely nothing In com mon between a dirty cream separator and a gilt edged butter product In training a horse to walk fast he is not injured in the least for any other gait and can be taught to trot and gallop just as well as before. Tbe very first symptom of kicking should lead us to dispose of the animal that doe = . it. Life is precious. Never risk it witli a horse that kicks. When a horse gets to gnawing at a manger the best thing to do is to cover everything gnawable with tin. Better do it before the habit is formed , how ever. It will be very likely the same chap wlm failed to test his seed corn before planting it who will be bemoaning his hard luck and cussing the weather and Providence next election time. When an egg containing a live germ Is surrounded by a lot of eggs contain ing dead ones , it is in no condition to get the proper heat , and will have to be a very vigorous germ if It hatches out at all. In proportion to contents , there is more shell surface in a small egg than n large one , so that to run an Incubator to suit the small egg will be too damj for the larger ones , where moisture i used , and vice versa. Flux undoubtedly has n place as subcluor of newly broken soils , but i ? a curse when u = ed anywhere else , li European countries , where this plant is raised year after year and prinmrilj for its fiiier , an intensive system of ag rlculrurc is followed , together with a heavy fertilizing of the soil. Because some farmers are not getting rich after having had telephones in stalled for some years , Is no argument against tbe phone. The telephone has simply put him in a position to meet competition of other business men \vh ( have taken advantage of the service which may be gained over the wires. Don't forget In starting the Incuba tor to clean out the heat or flue pipe into which the lamp chimney extends to put In a brand new wick. to. clean all the parts of the lamp thoroughly , having the burners as near as possible as bright as when they are new. Use good sewing machine oil on all the bearing parts of the machine after first carefully removing the dust and dirt. A simple system of crop rotation that is generally recommended and that not only tends to conserve the fertili ty of the soil , but results 5n a maximum destruction of weeds , consists of corn two years , oats one and clover one. Coupled with the points mentioned , the clover , in addition to being a soil ren ovator , imparts a physical texture that makes It possible to put it in the best possible condition for succeeding crops of whatever kind. The fanner and gardener , even though he may not have an aesthetic taste which would cause him to pro tect bird life for its sake nlone , if he has but a thought for the size of his pocketbook will do all he can to shield the birds of the community In which he lives from their many enemies. Never before 1ms the place of the birds In the system of nature's economy been more fully appreciated than now and never so high a value placed on the service which they render to man. In Judging horses , like men , you can generally depend a good deal on your first Impression. When the first Im pression Is good , you may sometimes discover things thnt for a. while will lead you to think contrary to your first conclusion. However , later on there will , as a rule , be discovered evi dences to support the good Impression at first gained. By the same process one may start with a poor impression , be argued Into a better Impression and possibly discover too late that the horse business Is fraught with many dlsii > - polntments. We are learning that cattle are sure to take the feed we give them If they ire lean and In poor rig and lay It on their backs , first of all : then after they are In good condition they will apply the surplus to the milk pail. It Is al- tvays the surplus that we get. And there will be no surplus If we keep our x > ws just on the verge of hunger. The Farmers' Voice well sr.ys that it Is the : ow which 1ms been kept well that puts : the money in our pockets. Cows poorly treated are our farm charges , to be maintained at the cost of what the ' test cows do. There should be no such charges ; every cow should be a pro lucor. Keeping tbe Soil Loose. Until the ears of corn shall be well ' filled out , the crop may depend on one or two showers. If the rain shall fall a day or two before the silk appears the corn grains will be full. The crop is one that is subject to many circum stances , but rain at the proper time will make a great difference. Thl shows the importance of keeping the surface of the sail loose , thus afford ing a mulch and preventing loss o # moisture. * i Cntllo SJinrt , Meat l p. { The report comes from Chicago that dearth of shipments of the prime grade of cattle is responsible for the advance on meats , according to the packers. They assert that competition for th choice cuts is stronger now than befor ! the financial pinch. Beef , veal and ! pork have been soaring upward Jn pric for a week , but with "dressed E&eep" quoted at 13 cents a pound to the wholesaler , chicken Is cheaper thaa' lamb or mutton chops. George Duddleston , a veteran whole sale dealer in the meat business In Chicago since 1S70 , says this is the flrst time sheep have been quoted at 13 > cents. Dressed beef has advanced $1 , a hundred. The latest jump In lamb- and mutton was from 3 to 5 cents , andj pork was Increased 2 cents a pound. Veal is the only meat that has not In creased. Profit In Poultry. One farmer down East , in order to find out where the leaks and where ths gains were , kept an exact account with every department of his farm. He dis covered that he was losing money on his beef cattle , that hogs just paid for themselves , that sheep were good If his lambs came early , and that the poultry made the largest per cent of profit of any feature of his farm. Tb.0 result was that he quit fooling with beef and hogs and put more money and time Into poultry. The Increased pros perity on that farm was so marked that he wrote out for publication his expe rience. Because a hen is small and a steer is big is a child's reason for having contempt for the former and respect for the latter , says Farmers' Voice. One of the biggest money makers In the world Is the street car business , which depends entirely upon its Income of -cent sales. A stick of chewing gum costs but a penny , yet just recently a syndicate was organized with over $1- 000,000 capital to make "trust chewing . gum. " It will pay the farmer and his y wife to consider the money there mav1 be made in poultry If wisely directed. Organize the hen on a business basis ; put up new , clean , airy quarters ; get proper egg-making feeds ; learn tha value of cleanliness , light , warmth and sunshine In winter ; get a good IDCU- Lutor and control your hatches so that you wM have winter layers , broilers , etf\ . when they are most profitable. You will soon learn that for the money invested and labor required , the hen la th ? most economical and highly effi cient converter of rough feeds Into money you have ever tried. Farm Profession. It is well in the higher education that the candidates for all professions drink at the fountain of common knowl edge. It Is only after acquiring an education that the mind Is broadened to choose a profession adapted to its innate taste and qualifications. It were better that the young man make a good lawyer or pharmacist than an indifferent farmer. The professions need to be recuperated from the sources of natural supply , which em brace natural qualifications inherited from national character. The fact that a boy Is born on the farm does not necessarily destine him for an agri culturist , and education will bring oat his latent talents and reveal to hlih- self the profession to which ho IB best adapted. The inhabitants of cities are mada , up of n population from all sources. The city-born boy may inherit the In stinct of a farmer and find his great est success In life in following hus bandry , lie wants to get back to na ture and live the simple life , free from the strife and tumult of a great city. Ele should be encouraged to follow liis natural inclination and achieve the Jestlny for which he Is qualified by nature. While philosophy and general knowledge are taught In the publlo schools , the general curriculum should Include a primary course In agricul ture. A profession which include * nearly one-third of the population and produces more wealth than any other occupation should be exploited In tha public schools. So Indissolubly Is agri culture associated with national pros perity in nil governments of the world Jiat the leading nations of Europe mve added a primary course In agri culture to the common school curri culum. If it accomplishes no other ; oed it will Inspire attention to the Benefits of farm life as a vocation to nany who are pre-eminently adapted o the profession. It gives every boy a chance to see the advantages of hns- jandry and an opportunity to decide 0 'ollow agriculture or some other pro- "ession. To one who is adapted to igrlcnlture husbandry Is the most ex- ilted nnd independent of the profes sions , but to one with innate talents 'or some other vocation farming Trill > rove a failure. GoodaU's Former
