Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, February 02, 1911, Image 3

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    THE SCHOOLS OF
WESTERN CANADA
In Some of the Cities and Towns the
School Buildings Cannot Accom
modate the Increasing Num
bers.
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One of the most important factors
In the building of a new country Is
the attention that is paid by the au
thorities to the education of the rising
generation. Fortunately for western
Canada , the settlement of that new
country began in such recent years
that it was able to lay a foundation
lor this work , gained by the experi
ence of older countries. In this way
rthe very best is the result. Through
out the entire country are to be seen
ft [ the most improved style of architec
ture in school buildings. The cities
and towns vie with each other In the
'efforts ' to secure the best of accom
' modation and at the same time get
I'i I' architectural lines that would appeal.
Sufficient to say that nowhere is there
i- ' .the greater attention paid to elemen
tary and advanced education than In
western Canada. A report Just to
hand shows that in Calgary , Alberta ,
there are eighty teachers employed ,
and the enrollment 4,228 pupils. In
the Province of Alberta there was a
total of 46,000 pupils attending schools
Jin 1909. The total enrollment for the
year in city , town and village schools
was 22,883 , and the total in rural
schools was 23,105. There are in the
province 970 schools with 1,323 de
partments. At the close of 1909 there
, -was a total of 1,09 < > school districts in
the province. Great attention is paid
also to agricultural education. The
best uses of the soil and such other
matters as tend to make the agricul
ture less of a drudge and more of a
success are employed. When there
is the combination of good soil , splen
did climate and healthy and advanced
Ideas in the methods employed In
agriculture , we see accomplished the
results that have placed western Can
ada on its present high plane in the
agricultural world. There Is to be
'found men of high standing In liter
ary spheres as well as in financial
circles who are carrying on farming ,
not alone for the pleasure they de
rive but for the profit they secure.
Mr. Adler , a wide-awake business man
of New York , has a ranch near Strath-
more , Alberta. He is highly pleased
-with his success the past year. He
says :
"On July 25th wo estimated our crop
at 6,000 bushels of wheat. A week
later we increased our estimate to
12,000 bushels. A few days later we
again increased our estimate , this
time to 18,000 bushels , but after har
vest in September we found we had
20,150 bushels. If that isn't a record ,
what is ? " he aslced.
"This crop was made with practi
cally no moisture , " he continued , "and
we now have a hotter opinion of the
fertility of Alberta lands than ever
and value our lands higher than wa
ever did before. "
Mr. Adler , who has been on the
rauch for about a week , leaves for
New York Saturday.
This gentleman is conducting a farm
on a large scale , and has plenty of
means to develop it , and his may not
"be taken as a fair case. There are ,
though , instances of thousands who
have begun life on small farms in
western Canada with but brains and
the determination over and above the
couple of hundred dollars in ready
money that they possessed , and today
are owners of large farms and hand
some incomes , all the result of their
efforts on land that was responsive to
the touch of the hand that held the
jilow. Instances such as these can be
quoted if you will communicate with
the nearest Canadian government
agent , who will also mail you free de
scriptive literature.
Praise is encouraging ; it brings out
the best that is In a man and inspires
him to do his duty cheerfully and
faithfully. Henry Lee.
Dr. "Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate
and invigorate stomach , liver and bowels.
Sttgar-coated , tiny granules. Easy to take
as candy. '
Be a live wire , but don't burn your
associates.
Knees Became Stiff
Flvo Years of Severe Rheumatism
The euro .of Henry J. Goldstein , 14
Barton Street. Boston , Mass. . Is anoth
er victory by Hood's Sarsaparilla.
This great medicine has succeeded In
many cases where others have utterly
Tailed. Mr. Goldstein says : "I suf
fered from rheumatism flve years. It
kept me from business and caused ex
cruciating : pain. My knees would be
come as stiff as steel. I tried many
medicines without relief , then took
Hood's Sarsaparilla , soon felt much
better , and now consider myself en
tirely cured. I recommend Hood's. "
Get it today in usual liquid form or
chocolated tablets called Sarsatabs.
Constipation
Vanishes Forever
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LIVER PILLS never
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Sailors Had in Mind Tale of "The
Ancient Mariner. "
Baneful Spell That Fell Upon Sailing
Ship Rhine Was Attributed t *
Killing of Albatross That
Had Taken Refuge.
New York. Coleridge's tale of "The
Ancient Mariner" may now be re
peated as the record In many re
spects of the strange voyage of the
Rhine , a British sailing ship , which
has reached this port from Trinidad ,
laden with asphalt. For forty days
and forty nights the vessel struggled
against adverse winds , or , like the
craft in Coleridge's poem , hung in a
glassy sea , "as idle as a painted ship
upon a painted ocean. "
Followed for a time , as men of the
crew believe , by as mysterious an in
fluence as that which held the styp
of "The Ancient Mariner" in thrall ,
the Rhine fought its way through to
the end of a trip that ordinarily
would have occupied fourteen instead
of forty days.
To the killing of an albatross was
attributed the baneful spell that fell
upon the ship of "The Ancient Ma
riner. " The question for supersti
tious minds Is whether the spell that
bound the Rhine for a time was
brought about by a West Indian sailor
who killed a sea bird which had ta
ken refuge on board the ship's deck.
Before the Rhine , which is a full
rigged ship of 1,690 tons , was a day
out of Port au Spain , Trinidad , it
found itself in a calm. Day after day ,
with only an occasional puff of wind
to bring hope of more favorable
weather , the Rhine crawled along be
neath a burning sun.
The ship was a week and a half on
its way when a strange thing hap
pened , Captain Bergman and his first
mate , Harry Wolth , were on the quar
ter deck , and the sailors were idling
about the deck forward when a huge
dog , gaunt with hunger , appeared on
deck. Captain Bergman and his mate
are not superstitious , so they had the
animal cared for by the steward and
then let him roam the deck at will.
It was not until the Rhine was well
up the Atlantic coast that it ran into
heavy weather. On Sunday night , No
vember 13 , a hurricane rose. Th * first
mate was caught in a heavy sea and
was thrown to the deck , where hfr lay
stunned. No one saw him fall-/l-no
one but Bob , the stowaay dog. He ran
howling to the skipper , and by Ms
actions led him to Fend the third tfffl-
cer to see what -was the matter.
Wolth was found and carried to Ms
cabin , where it was found that be
had dislocated his left knee and in
jured the leg generally. Wolth in
sisted on remaining on duty.
The Rhine was forty miles east by
northeast of Cape Henry when it en
countered the storm. It took the ship
two weeks to fight its way to this
port , a distance of only a few hun
dred miles.
Captain Bergman in 1905 received
$1,000 and a gold watch from insur
ance companies for bringing the Har-
COSTLIEST HOUSE IN AMERICA GOiPLE'
YORK William A. Clark , ex-senator from Montana , and Mrs.
NEW are about to move into their new residence at Fifth avenue and
Seventy-seventh street , which ha.3 Just been completed after nearly
eight years of work. This extraordinary palace cost Mr. Clark more than
$7,000,000 before a bit of furniture was put Into it and is the costliest resi
dence in the country. The furnishings have required the expenditure of
several additional millions. Mr. Clar \ planned the house himself and it It
denounced by architects and artists as the worst freak ever erected in the
United States.
vard into the Delaware breakwater
under jury masts after all his spars
had been carried away except the
foretopmost.
Mrs. Bergman , the skipper's wife ,
also has won recognition for heroism
at sea. She has an official letter of
thanks from congress for aiding in
the saving of life. She lives aboard
the Rhine. The Rhine is a steel ship ,
257 feet long and thirty-eight feet
beam.
FARM LABORER VERY SCARCE
Missouri Farmers Buy Talking Ma
chine and Reflectors in Attempt
to Lure Him to Work.
Mexico , Mo. Is the motion picture
machine in small towns responsible
for luring boys and young men away
from the farm ? Will the phonograph
and the post card reflector in the
farmhouse keep him there ? Many
farmers In central Missouri would
say "yes" to both of those questions ,
and many of them are buying talking
machines and reflectors In order to
combat "the lure of the motion pic
tures" and keep the boys and the
hired men on the farm.
Many of these men attribute the
WOMAN ON A JUNKET
Korean Party Breaks All Records
by Crossing Sea.
Expedition Planned by Japanese Mas
ters as Little Journey of Enlighten
ment for Fifty-Odd Yangbans
They Believed Everything.
New York. When a Korean woman
70 years old consents to take her first
ride on a railroad train there is oppor
tunity for marveling among HG ? coun
try men and women. But when that
Korean grandmother goes all the way
to Tokyo , across the sea and in the
land of the conquerors , the Korean
conservatives may well shake his
heads and prophesy that soon the stars
will begin to fall , says a correspondent
of the Sun. *
Such a trip was taken recently by
such a daring old lady of Chosen , and
not only that , but there were many
Korean ladies of younger years with
her. The Japanese looked upon the
excursion as a good augury of the
breaking down of Korean prejudice
and the acceptance by them of the
new regime of Japanese suzerainty.
The papers of Tokyo were filled with
the most Intimate details of the doings
aud sayings of this unusual band of
pilgrims.
The expedition was planned by the
Japanese masters in Seoul as a little
journey of enlightenment for fifty-odd
Korean yangbans , or scholars of leis
ure , who had recently been in receipt
of new titles in the peerage of Korea
and who were supposed to be thor
oughly reconciled to the absorption of
their land by the conquerors from the
.eastern Island.
The party was headed by the junior
Prince O LI , the eldest son of the last
"shadow emperor of Korea , and the
'Countess Yi Chyong , one of the ladies
of the old court , set the fashion for
ber more shrinking sisters by an
nouncing herself as one of the party.
The expedition eet out from Seoul on
October 24 , so as to be present in ToKyo -
Kyo when the celebration of the birth-
jday of the emperor of Japan should oc
cur , early in Ifovember.
For nearly all of the women in the
party a railroad journey and the crossIng -
Ing of the seas In a steamship TV as a
new and somewhat terrifying adven
ture. The high caste women of Korea
have hitherto been subjected to a se
clusion even more rigorous than the
women of China. They never ven
tured in the streets in the daytime un
less behind the closed curtains of a
palanquin , and to make their appear
ance in any public place was consider
ed a thing so unseemly as to merit os
tracism , even divorce.
But acording to the statements
made by several of the women in the
Imperial junket and set forth glowing
ly in the Japanese press , the world
beyond the women's quarter of a house
in Seoul was very marvelous. Why ,
the Korean ladies even heard it said
in Tokyo that away off beyond the rim
of the eastern ocean men with wings
flew above the earth. That , of course ,
was a Japanese joke.
The Tokyo papers did not neglect to
say that among the party was Ming
Chhong-sik , reformed "bandit. " A ban
dit in Korea , according to Japanese un
derstanding , is a man who resents the
invasion of his country by taking his
old muzzle-loading tiger gun , retiring
to the mountains and sniping Japan
ese whenever the opportunity offers.
This Ming had been a leader in the
Wipyon or the righteous army of the
insurrection in 1906 , and before he
had been caught and condemned to
death he had killed many of his coun
try's enemies. The death sentence
had been commuted to banishment ,
and it was only after the general am
nesty had been proclaimed upon the
complete overthrow of Korean inde
pendence that Ming had dared go back
to his country.
Ming is quoted as having pleaded
with the Japanese governor-general of
Chosen , the Japanese name of the
new province , to be allowed to join
the excursion in order that he "might
see with his own eyes the civilization
and progress of the empire of which
Chosen has now become a part. "
Water System for Vienna.
Vienna. The Emperor Francis Jo
seph has inaugurated at Vienna a new
system of water supply , which has
cost over $20,000,000 , and brings the
water a distance of 102 miles in pipes
from mountain lakes 7,000 feet above
sea level.
present high prices of many of the
necessities of life to the scarcity of
farm labor. In fact , every condition ,
except weather , that does not me t
the approval of the tiller of the soil
is being laid at the door of the ex
isting famine in "hired hands. "
In half the corn fields near here
last fall there were women helping
the men to gather the crop. They
were women , for the most part , not
accustomed to such labor , but they
saw the necessity of getting the har
vest completed before the snow fell.
And if they did not help , no one
would.
Last summer many women living
on farms near here left their duties
in the household to drive a team and
help the husband put the crop In.
Many of these women were college
graduates.
A few years ago farm laborers re
ceived from $15 to $18 a month with
the occasional loan of a horse on
which , to ride to town. Today "hands"
are hard to find at $30 a month with
every Saturday off and a ride to town
in the family motor car.
This condition is not peculiar to
Missouri alone. It sounds ridiculous ,
but it is no laughing matter to the
farmer with a crop to harvest.
FIFTY DAYS' FAST FOR LOVE
Charming Brunette of Los Angeles
Cures Maiady-So That She Can
Marry Man of Choice.
Los Angeles , Cal. Miss Josephine
Oilman , a charming brunette , ended a
remarkable fast of 60 days that she
undertook for love , and ate food for
the first time. She fasted under the
direction of the famous Doctor Tan
ner , to overcome a malady that threat
ened her life and had prevented her
marriage.
At the end of her fast , without any
food but orange juice and water , she
appeared sprightly , and declared that
the last vestige of disease had left
her. By her side was her flyace ,
happy over her recovery and helping
her plan the temporary dishes she
would eat , while Miss Oilman declared
there no longer was any bar to the
ringing of the wedding bells.
With them was a sister , Miss Helen
Oilman , who voluntarily fasted for 30
days so the family could see the effect
of the treatment and judge whether
the cure was too dangerous for her
frail sister Josephine to attempt.
. "I just lost all desire for food , " said
Miss Josephine. "At first I was afraid
that I might be awfully hungry , but as
the days wore on I began to look on
things to eat as something that was
apart from me and in which I had no
desire to share. At first I was weak
and did want the good things I saw
the others eating , but that desire
passed.
"I did not feel the pangs of hunger
after the first three days , and I did
not lose much strength. Every day I
practiced at the piano and then I had
my garden to look after , and between
those duties and doing some cooking
for the rest of the family , I put in my
"
time-
Fish Tie Up Plant.
Chicago. Thousands of fresh wa
ter herring pouring into the hydraulic
power intake of the rail mill of the
Gary steel plant caused a tieup for
some time the other day. Just what
loss the company sustained is not
known. Foreign workmen took the
fish home for supper. Several months
ago a rat was electrocuted in the
power house and the current was
shut off for several hours , thereby
rendering 6,000 men idle.
.RECORD OF PLUNDER
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND
THE TARIFF.
Facts That Account for the Voters
Turning to Party That Will Af
ford Relief From Monopo
listic Extortion.
In view of the history of the last 28
years one can hardly wonder that the
people has lost confidence In the Re
publican party as an agent of tariff re
vision. In his message to congress In
December , 1881 , President Arthur said
that there ought to be a revision of
the tariff , and he recommended the ap
pointment of a commission. The com
mission bill was passed , and the com
mission appointed. After an exhaust
ive inquiry it made its report in which
a reduction of about 25 per cent was
recommended. Congress threw the re
port Into the waste basket , and set
about the work of revision In the old
way. The new tariff , that of 1883 , did
not meet the demands of the people.
Certainly there was no reduction of 25
per cent or anything approaching it
The senate passed one bill , and the
house another. In conference a third
bill was agreed to In which the duties
were higher than In either of the two
bills passed by the houses.
This interesting tariff lasted Just
seven years. There was , from the pro
tectionist point of view , no need for
any extensive changes , and yet in 1890
the whole subject was taken up again
and as a result we got the McKinley
bill , which was one of the most ex
treme that the country had known.
Perhaps It will be remembered that
Mr. Elaine , then secretary of state , ap
peared before one of the congressional
committees and denounced the meas
ure , saying that there was not one line
In It that would open a single market
to American products. And he was
quite right Here , then , we see that
the country was blessed with two ex
treme tariffs In the short space of
seven years. The people rebelled
against the McKinley tariff and the re
sulting high prices , and In 1890 and
again In 1892 they struck a severe
blow at the Republican party. The
next tariff was the Wilson-Gorman tar
iff , but as the Republican party had
nothing to do with that , we pass it
over with the remark that it was de
fective chiefly in Its failure to redeem
the Democratic pledge.
In 1896 the campaign , as everyone
remembers , turned almost wholly on
the money question. Probably two
million Democrats voted for the Re
publican candidattes , and they did it
on the money issue alone. They cer
tainly had no sympathy with the tariff
views of Mr. McKinley. Yet when the
Republicans assumed power they
turned their back on the money ques
tion and took up the tariff , of which
little had been said In the presiden
tial campaign. The result was the
Dlngley tariff , which was more of-
fensiveeven _ than the McKinley tariff.
It was an extreme application of "pro
tection. " But there was a further
breach of faith. Many of the Dingley
duties were made higher than they
otherwise would have been made in
order to furnish a basis for trading
with foreign nations through reciproc
ity treaties. This was publicly admit-
'
te'd by Mr. Dingley himself. But no
reciprocity treaties were negotiated.
All that were proposed were killed ,
yet the high duties were maintained.
So for eleven years the country had
to submit to these high taxes , though
the intention and pledge was to trade
them down. Indianapolis News.
People Now In Power.
With only a few weeks remaining of
the present session of congress , which
marks the end of Republican control
for at least two years , it looks as if it
were going to be , In effect , a do-noth
ing congress , just as the political man
agers predicted. With each day the
chances grow less for the legislation
that was demanded at the polls and
for the program that the president
submitted , for congressional considera
tion. Thus personal selfishness and
party policy absorb the attention of
our statesmen , and they fail to "give
the business of the state precedence
over the ambitions of men. " This has
always been more or less so , and prob
ably always will be more or less so ;
but it must be much less so in the
near future or there will be subse
quent effects which no statesmanlike
explanatory eloquence can prevent
Statesmen have been in the habit of
running the country as they please.
The demand now Is that the country
be run as the people please. New
York Times.
Party's Opportunity and Danger.
The Democratic party , as a party , 3
now being appealed to , both north and
south , by all the special interests. If
the tariff grip on the Republican party
were definitely broken there would be
far more attraction to powerful preda
tory interests in the Democratic or
ganization than in the Republican.
One cannot tell what force is going
'to "get" the Democratic party. The
story may be told , or pretty well foretold - j
told , by the conventions and the gen
eral political movement of 1912. That
party has a great opportunity , as
shown in the elections o ! this year ,
which registered the public dissatis
faction with the Republican control.
But the opportunity is accompanied by
a great temptation the tempting of
organized wealth and business power.
There are inherent weaknesses in the
Democracy will the temptation or
the opportunity win ? Kansas City
Star
CHANGES IN THE SENATE
Recent Happenings Seem to Promise
Body More Responsive to
Popular Opinion.
The death of Senator Elklns further ,
reduces the Republican control of the I
senate , not only in numbers but int
Influence. The West Virginia senator ,
the unexpectedly sudden fatal termlna- *
tlon of whoso illness shocked hia colleagues - '
leagues , had had a picturesque career ,
and during his service in the senate
had been a powerful factor in the
framing of legislation , especially that
dealing with the railroads and the
tariff. The landslide which restored ?
the Mountain state to the Democratic
column had already made certain the/
retirement of the other Republican
senator , Nathan Bay Scott , and the
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Republicans there now find themselves'
doubly stricken by the assurance of
the election of another Democrat in
place of Senator Elldns.
The long list of veterans who havef
retired or have been retired by pollt-r
ical reverses or death within the paat |
year or two leaves few of the old ,
guard in the senate. Aldrlch , Hale , ,
Burrows , Carter , Dolllver , Flint , Kean , .
Depew , Dick , Scott , and now Elklns , ,
on the Republican side , Daniels , Me- *
Enery , Clay and McLaurln on the <
Democratic. Their successors , so far *
as Indicated , are as a rule men of *
whom little Is known outside of their
states , as Johnston in Maine and Pom- *
erene In Ohio. The effect of" these :
changes upon the senate and upon ther
popular attitude toward that body-
must be Interesting. The retirement !
of senators who held their places by'
dominance of state organizations , and. ,
through that control , of state ieglsla- *
tures , and the election of new men *
without the authority and influence oC
the old-timers , coming at a time when ,
the demand for popular election I3
sweeping to the front , should mean a
senate more responsive to populajr *
opinion. Then , too , the narrow bal
ance of power in the chamber Itself
must be an even more powerful factor
to that end.
Sugar Trust Disgorging * .
Whether the ultimate limit of thw
"refundings" of stolen money fcy th -
sugar trust proves to be $3,000,000 or
$3,500,000 is of comparatively smalt
importance. The trust is too rich to
feel the difference seriously , and the *
government does business on eo vast
a scale that the treasury will not ber
much affected , one way or the other.
The main thing to be kept in mind
is the evidence which every dollar
of plunder thus disgorged affords that
the American Sugar Refining company
confesses wide-reaching and shame
less thieving. It is not a case of "dif
ficulty in adapting established busi
ness customs to new standards of pub
lic ethics" or of "artificial criminality , ,
created to me < the demands of popu
lar clamor. " There Is no room for
question as to the nature of the trans
actions from any point of view , ethical
or legal. The whole case is plain , ,
vulgar stealing.
There is no fraud older than cheat
ing In weights and measures. There
are few forms of thieving as mean
and contemptible. The sugar trust has
ben caught doing exactly that kind af
stealing , on a wide scale and for
many years in succession. The coun
try will not forget this revelation of a.
criminal trust's methods.
No Reason to Be Alarmed.
In a recent statement President Wil
liam M. Wood of the American Woolen
company said :
"The situation as It occurs to me Is
that a majority of the people of the
United States have deemed it wise to
change from the Republican party to
the Democratic party. This being the
wish of the majority of the people or
the country , It is fair to assume that
the transfer must be a safe one , as It
is backed by the people. There are
wealthy Democrats as well as Repub
licans , men with large industrial Inter
ests , who are not going to have their
Interests sacrificed.
"For the last five years under Re
publican rule the furthering of the
business interests in this country has
been almost ignored , and there ap
pears to have been almost constant In
terruption of business by the party In
power. No party that Is antagonistic *
to thel ndustrlal interests of the coun-
to the industrial Interests of the coun-
the incoming political party continues
the policy of the last five years It will
not be long before the party will be
out of power. The country cannot go
wrong for a very long time , and I do
not feel any apprehension about the
change in politics , although I am f
strong Republican. "
Tariff League Discredited.
The American Protective Tariff
league has ceased to have any influ
ence with the people if It ever did !
have any. Today it stands pat on all
the enormities of the present tariff
law , including the cruel wool and cot
ton schedules. It is for taxation for
the sake of taxation , and the heavier
and more grinding the taxes the better
It likes them. Of course. It opposea
reciprocity , for its effect would lighten )
somewhat the burden of taxation.
For the Farmer to Consider.
For many years the American far
mer has been heavily taxed to help-
out such infant Industries as the cot
ton , steel and woolen industries. Dur
ing all those years he has had his "pro-
testlon" on wheat , though It Is less ef
fective even than it used to be and i -
never was effective. Of the present
high cost of food the farmer gets at
very moderate share. Most of It gee *
to the elevator men , packers , commlsy
rion men and middlemen generally.
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