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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1910)
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" That is pretty' frank language for a clergyman to use for publication , isn't it ? Yet the clergyman who used it had a great many more , equally direct things to say in lifting the curtain of the ministerial life for the interviewer. Rev. Frederick E. Hopkins , pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational church , Chicago , is the divine who was interviewed by a writer in the Record-Herald. Dr. Hopkins is an ultra-modern preacher , who believes in topical sermons , in practical church activities as part of the life of the community and who is an advo- cate of plain speaking. Dr. Hopkins came to be interviewed as a result of recent statements made in New York by Rev. Charles A. Eaton and Rev. William Carter. Mr. : Eaton declared that a church to-day is too "shriveled up" and that a pastor has enormous difficulties to meet in seeking to carry on his work. Mr. : Carter stated that there is no co-operation and sympathy on the part of a metropoli tan congregation for the pastor , who has to do his work l alone. Dr. Hopkins agreed with both these men , and , then he added a whole lot more on the subject , giving the. most unreserved interview of the sort printed in many moons. "Of course , these New Yorkers are right , " said Dr. Hopkins , "and they could go a great deal farther and be within the bounds of truth , as applied to the average _ , . - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ :4. . . n . . ; "l. nl " h . . ; n n.l - 1.4T : 11 : : : > C 1.111.1 111 .lUl11U t.UI.t. .1. < < city parish. It is of tne average caty IJU.1T , 1J1tai . - . . , . - . . . . ' of church he is filled am going to talk. When a pastor first takes hold a -with idealism. He is filled with a spiritual fire , with poetic ideas , with the white , pure light of a great ambition. His heart goes out to all men in fraternity and kindness. In short , he has ideals. Well , the first thing that liappens to him is the discovery that his church is not by any means a unit. Besides all the various personalities that make up the parish , the congrega- tion divides itself into three main classes. He discovers that what may be " \ called the first class-for it is a large class - are materialists. They look on the whole thing as a business proposition. The minister is simply the business manager of an enterprise. It is up to him to get results , to make good in a business way. He must fill the church , he must get big collec- tions , he must rent the pews , he must put the parish on a booming finan- cial basis. This class want their minister to be a star pel-former. They . want him to be a headliner. They take the position that their church is "L" competing fcr business with the other churches and they want the minister ' to beat all competitors. The second class in the church wavers between the " \ ideal and the opportunist. The members of this class want the minister to make good in the business of the church competition , want him to have a jammed edifice , but balk to some extent at the methods which are often 1051 10 RUN BIG CITIES Census Bureau Makes Interesting Report on Municipal Expenses. . .PER CAPITA IS INCREASING. Maintenance of Local Departments : : Leaps from $13.36. in 1902 to , $15.91 in 1907. The Census Bureau's special annual report for 1907 on the statistics of . if t cities is in press. It will show that the per capita running expenses of the government in 148 of the largest cities increased from $13.36 in 1902 to $15.91 in 1907. There has been a progressive increase in nearly every department of the government. The per capita in- crease in , ihe fire department was from $1.33 to $1.01 , in the health depart- ment from $0.22 to $0.29 , in charities and corrections from $0.86 to $1.06 and in education from $3.85 to $4.70. Of special interest in a comparison of the general expenses of the cities are payments for the maintenance of the health department. In several cities the State maintains a dispensary or health bureau , but in most cities nearly all the expense of the care of . the public health is borne by the city alone. New York paid $1,691,560 for the maintenance of its health depart- ment , or more than six times as much as any other city. The other cities , paying more than $200,000 to maintain I . this department were Chicago ( $261- 614) ) , Philadelphia ( $253,709) and San Francisco ( $240,198) . The payments for schools , libraries and art galleries of the cities consid- " 1 ered were 29.6 per cent of the total running expenses of the government. yv- Of the cities of over 300,000 popula- I / - tion the percentage spent for education was highest in Cleveland , Ohio , 33.1 ; in cities of from 100,000 to 300,000 population the highest percentages were in Scranton , Pa. , 51.54 , and Seat- tle , Wash. , 46.2 ; in cities of from 50- 000 to 100,000 population , in Salt Lake City , 48.2 , and Des Moines : : , Ia. , 46.3 , and in smaller cities , Topeka , Kan. , 54.5 , and Lincoln Neb. , 52.5 " necessary to bring about the results. The third class is a small class , but it is the class that helps the preacher over the roughest places of his life. This class is made up of cultured , godly , broad-gauge people , who sympa- thize with the minister's ideals and who can see something in church besides the size of the collection. These three main classes make up the average church , which consists of from 100 to 500 families , or from say , 300 to 1,200 people. These people are of all sorts and conditions , rich and .poor , edu- cated and uneducated , mean and generous , narrow and broad. There are all kinds of individual peculiarities in this crowd. "One of the things that a minister has to encounter all the time , whether he is new or old in his church , is criticism of his personal appear- ance and mannerisms. His coat , his hair , his face , his tie , his shoes , his hat , as well as the clothes and appearance of his wife and every member of his family , are common matters of parish talk and parish criticism. This clothing question is coming up in one form or another frequently. Some members of the congregation don't want the minister to dress too well. Ir he does he is worldly. Others want him to dress well. If he doesn't he's shiftless. Some parishioners object to his wearing tweeds , yellow shoes and an ordinary derby. Others object to his wearing a garb of black , with a choker. If a lawyer , a doctor , a journalist or any other professional or business man had to put up with the criticism on his personal appearance that is the lot of a minister he would declare it all the grossest and most unqualified impertinence. All these things are trivialities in themselves , but they mount up in the course of every-day life to a great deal of . n annoyance. If I meet you on the street and tell you I've been stung by a hornet , you don't think : much of it. . But if you hear that I'm being stung by a dozen hornets every day in the year , year after year , you would begin to think that was a pretty stiff game for me to go against , wouldn't you ? "The layman would suppose that a minister would get the backing and support of his brethren of the cloth. But he doesn't. There are all kinds of jealousies among clergymen. If a minister crowds his church and attracts attention by his sermons he finds himself greeted in mighty chilly fashion by his brethren at the next ministers' meeting. There is , of course , the natural business competition between the churches and ministers to begin with , and added to this is the fact that one of the number is getting so much attention. There isn't the team play that would be expected among ministers. If one minister calls attention to some urgent need of the com munity , to some evil that should be eradicated , to some campaign that should be undertaken , he need not expect much help from his brethren of the faith. I Not a bit of it. In other words , a minister must pay the penalty of suc- cess-jealousy-if he is a success. If he succeeds he gets knocked. If he's I a failure he gets pitied. "The minister's wife has a hard time in many ways. If she , under all the circumstances of the parish and church , thinks it well to keep somewhat apart from church work and merely attend to her own household alu5s , the fire oC criticism is poured in on that account. It is declared that 'our minister is sincerely to be pitied. He has a wife , you know , who is not at all in sympathy with him. She takes no interest in the church affairs at all , and her mind , we fear , is set on things of the world. ' Then , on the other hand , if the minister's wife does take an active interest in parochial affairs , if she goes to sewing circles and takes a leading part in all the church activities , the fire of criticism is poured in just the same. 'The min ister's wife is most officious , ' it will be said. 'The poor minister has a hard time of it , we fear. His wife seems to think it's her parish. She should be more discreet and not push herself so much. This church got on very well before she came here and it can get on very well now without her poking in everywhere. ' And then there are the clothes of the ministers wife and children , His wife's hat may be the cause of a parochial tempest. " Dr. Hopkins is well qualified as an expert to t.allon : the tribulations of a minister's life. He has been in the pulpit for thirty years. He has occupied his present pulpit for ten years and before that had churches in New York State , in Connecticut and Iowa. _ - - - - - - - - - - . . . FfRANCEAD BRITAIn I 4N CE : FOR3OUTII - - 7. , OLE . . . . . - --Z . 2 _ - _ - ; ; ; : : : : > : 2L 0 J _ . 3 NLESS Dr. J. M. : Charcot , the French ex - . plorer , forestalls them by ' discovering the South Pole before they can get started , two _ _ _ _ _ _ Englishmen will become his rivals and the rivals of each other in the competition for \ the honor of placing their names in his tory alongside of Peary's. Captain Robert F. Scott of the Royal Navy , is to make his start for the South Pole next summer and Lieutenant Sir Ernest H. Schackleton , who got almost there , has announced his intention : of trying it again. Charcot knows nothing of the discovery of the North Pole. He started in 1908 , with the expectation of being some two or three years , and has long been lost to the sight of man in the Antarctic regions. When he went his announcement was simply that he would try to get as far south as possible. Scott , with the stimulus of Peary's conquest , announced that his object was "to reach the South Pole and to secure for the British Em- pire the honor of that achievement. " Shackleton , on his last expedition , bore with him a card written by Queen Alexandra and reading , "May this Union Jack , which I entrust to your keeping , lead you safely to the South Pole. " It lead him within 111 miles of it , and he planted it on the plateau where he was forced to abandon his . journey. The Antarctic continent is mountainous , and a "dash" over ice-covered mountains presents difficulties not met in the travel over ice-covered ocean. : The chief difficulty , however , is the terrific cold , the icy wind and the incon- ceivable blizzards. In the North , while one never needs a straw hat or a palm leaf fan , there are moderations of temperature. It is doubtful if 1 per cent of Antarctic lands is ever ice free , so that ordinary forms of land life are abso- lutely wanting. Not only are human inhabitants un known south of Cape Horn , more than 2,300 miles from . Dumped. "As I understand it , they have lost their money , but all of the daughters are able to earn their own living save one , who is most idle and incompetent. . What will become of her ? " "She'll have to get married. " - The Housekeeper. the Pole , but except sea forms , within the circle of ani- mal life and vegetable life are practically absent save a few low forms of hardy lichens and mosses. No plant life gladdens the eye , and even the hum of insects is unheard , the terrestrial fauna consisting of wingless insects. Sea life is more abundant than in any other ocean , the higher forms being whales , seals and birds- skuas , penguins and petrels-but owing to distance and danger their pursuit and capture are no longer remu- nerative. Captain Scott , who will take the center of the stage in a few months , is 41 years old. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and is at present engaged in the Admiralty. The first niember of the Scott expedi- tion has already left England in connection with the preliminary work of the expedition and expects to be . absent three years. This is Cecil Mears , who has been sent to Siberia to obtain dogs and ponies. Mr. Meares goes direct to Vladivostok , thence northward to the Amur , where he will make enquiries as to where suit- able dogs are most plentiful. By means of sledges he will then press further north from the Amur district to Yakut , a great sable center in Yakutsk , where animals will probably be procurable. Subsequently he may go to Okhotsk and on to the Verkhoiansk mountains , a region described as almost if not quite the coldest of the world. Mr. Meares intends to get most of his dogs , particularly the , team leaders , in Siberia. This part of the work is occupy expected to occupy three or four months , but it must be completed before the roads melt in order that he may get back to Vladivostok in April. Mr. Meares will then start collecting ponies around Harbin , after which ail his stock will be taken to Vladivostok , shipped to Kobe and there transferred to another steamer for New Zealand. Mr. Meares with his dogs and ponies will join the main body of the ex pedition on board the Terra Nova in New Zealand in December. - - - ATCHIS01T GLOBE SIGHTS. When a big fat girl is silly she is TERRIBLY silly. Many people seem to enjoy life im mensely by living on expectations. "I want credit for one thing , " said a man to-day. " 1 seldom consult an almanac. " , . . The lfodernVay. . "I don't want you to marry him. " "Why not , mother ? " "You may be able to do much better in the future. " "Well , I can cross that bridge when I come to it , can't I-Philadelphla Telegraph. ' . - . - ' " ' . . , . , . , . ' ' ' ' ' ' ' . ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " 'r. > " . < , . , . . "J' - - ! 3 - " . . . , . . . . , - ' " , , - . , r 'V"'j. -1- . ' ' ' " ' . , , ; 1r ' . . ' . , U , . , . : .lr' ' : . . , ' . . . , ' . " -V . , " , " - . , " ' . ! ft . " 7 . - ' ' . . " " i > , . . . , " , . ; . 'f. . . - - - - - - - - - " - ( l@ t9J W G > > W O 1f fJ.JrJE Ic1Pgczpl7oJ7 co 11tfl17'EE . ( BC0 ) [ [ & j j.t3 : ) " - , -r-- , _ . . - . - - _ . _ f . I . I- . . - . , I - . ( - . -lI ' : ; ; r I - : ! - - . = : = = : ; = : tr - . ( "C , _ " ' U , - = E- ; ' _ _ _ _ _ _ c- : _ . s _ , ' . - ' . - . 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The- - idea for this monument to a vanishing race is that of Rod- " who will contribute the bulk man "VVanamaker , of Philadelphia , _ _ _ _ _ of the money needed for the statue or all of it , if necessary. The memorial will serve at the same time the purposes of a lighthouse and will correspond in dignity and impressiveness with Bartholdi's Liberty En . lightening the World , which was erected a little further up the New York bay some years ago. The westerner who fought the redskin in pioneer days is not ap tto. grow enthusiastic to any marked : degree over the melodramatic trippings with which the modern writer is wont to clothe him , but with all his sav- agry the Indian was ever friendly and helpful when treated honestly and kindly. The Quakers found it possible' live peaceably with them. In other parts of the country , too , the Indians were little disposed to resist the invader except when infruiated by personal outrages , frauds , and the dispossession of the lands whioh belonged to them. Various tribes of the Order of Red Men throughout the country have passed resolutions favoring the project and have expresed their desire to assist in every possible way. It is planned that each of the 500,000 : ) members represented in the 4,000 tribes in the United States shall contribute 2 cents each to the general fund. President Taft commends the movement. He likes : the idea of having the statue at the southern point of Governor's Toland } , with a light on it so that it may serve as a lighthouse as well as a tribute to the Indian. Vice-Presi- dent Sherman also endorses the project and representatives in Congress. . with Indian blood in their veins , such as Senator Owen of Oklahoma , Sena- . tor Curtis of Kansas and Representative Carter of Oklahoma- have earnest-- . ly supported the bill providing for the necessary appropriation. . . ' One of the suggested plans for the monument calls for a shaft 400 feet. high rising from a circular rotunda 1" 0/ feet in diameter inclosed with a . colonnade. . The statue will represent an Indian warrior in full panoply , car- rying a bow and arrow in his hand. - / : : , " . f BECOMES : BRIDE : OF A FOREIGNER. . , . . . . . . . . . . . : ; tt"0 " , ' . //11 )1t" - ' - _ , i\ , / J . . / ' * , : ' . : . : . , < t 4 : . : . . ' , - , 't' : ' , $ . ,1 . . . 4 'tr $ m . . . . ? ' < ' . , . - , I . . . . . : . , . . . . , . ' F' - .Y . ' - " ' . ' : " . . . . < ; / . , . : - . . : : . : : . . . > . t" . . . 1 ; I" t 3 : ' " : :1 : \ ! ; . . ' . . ; : . . : . . . , : . , ' : : . . . 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Handsome well educated and cultured , and with a vivacity that is contagious , this granddaughter of one of the great Americans of his time has had the en- tree of the best homes in the metropolis and has been regarded as a rich matrimonial prize. In many of her characteristics she resembles General Logan , who served with distinction in the Mexican and Civil wars , who . sat from Illinois in both branches of Congress and who was the running I i mate of James G. Elaine in the Presidential . campaign of 1884. Her mother is still living and is a well-known contributor to magazines and newspapers. De Sincay came to America a year ago to learn l the zinc business. He- found much time for society and was a guest of leading families at Newport. I As late as last summer he declared he had not met any unmarried womaa I : in society for . whom he cared. Then he met Miss Logan and was imit : : ) - diately a captive. His father is at the head of extensive zinc industries if Liege and his uncle is Prince Albert le Ligne. . - - J
