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The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-10-29
SiDn of the Times.

The students in a Scotch university
have the power of impeaching a pro-
fessor before the university court, and
of forcing his dismissal if they can
prove that he has neglected his duty to!
the institution. A curious case of this
sort has just been brought to public
notice. Aberdeen undergraduates" ~
saws the London correspondent Of the.
New York Times. have just succeed
ed in & suit of this sort, and secured
the dismissal of the professor of Bib.
Iical criticism on the quaint ground
that he is too orthodox, and hence fail.
ed to initiate them into the higher
forms of modern criticism. That such
a complaint should be regarded as val
id in Aberdeen, of all places on earth,
strikes Englishmen as a remarkable
sign Of the times"
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-10-29
SLATER'S = RAID.

roll was sounding up and down the
lines, and the firing would bring down
a dozen regiments in five minutes. He
had done all that was necessary, had
cut up the enemy's lines with a small
quarter of a company, and without
loss, so that it vas time to retreat as
swiftly as he had made the attack.
A torch was thrust into the nearest
cluster of tents, the Maxim guns within
reach were tumbled into the ditch, and
the little band went back as they had
come, leaving the cut wires and the
rows of dead to mark where they had
passed. A minute more and they were
mounted and laundering across the
country again.
AS they rode Slater said to the MAI
nearest him, a graduate of Harvard;
"We have singed the Spanish kings
beard, eh?"
And the other replied: "Precisely.'
Then, after a mile or so: ':They won't
let this pass, do you think?"
"What do you mean? That they'll
follow u.s."
eyes"
Nonsense. Not a bit of it."
He was wrong, for there vas at that
moment rage and cursing in the Span.
ish camp. The officer in command al
that point had laid a heavy wager
that the rebels would never break the
lines. Naturally, he was furious. That
the majesty Of the powers of Spain
should be sighted, that the works
should be broken. that his men should
be slaughtered-this was bad enough
in all conscience, but that he should
lose his gold doubloons-this was I'm.
bearable. He fumed, and swore, anC
called to him a captain of guerilla cay
airy.
Captain"
"Senior."
"You have a hundred men in youl
troop?"
ga hundred and fifty"
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-10-29
ga hundred and fifty

"Good. Pursue these accursed Amer
leans. There are not more than thirty.
Follow them to Santiago, if necessary,
but catch them, dead or alive"
every well, General" replied the
guerilla, and retired to muster his men
and to sound the "Boots and Saddles"
A hundred to twenty would be long
odds, even for Slater's Horse.
So it came about that when Skaters
men drew rein, fifteen miles from the
trocha, and sat silent, a clustered black
spot on the moonlit road, they heard
a low thunder come rolling up from
the west-the thunder Of pounding
hoofs.
"By Jove!' said the Englishman, who
was related to the eminent author.
"Not three miles away" asserted the
Canadian, who had just come from
the Egyptian Soudan.
Forward, then," said Slater. and
away they went, up and down the roll
! ing hills whittier the ill-made road led
them. The country was too rough to
allow of taking to the fields, where the
Spaniards might be thrown off the
trail, but it would be smoother in the
course of a few leagues. All night
they rode hard and sometimes the
following thunder was loud and often
faint, but never wholly died away,
The guerillas were well mounted, and
Skaters horses were not fresh. The
pearly dawn came up before them
and then the sun was trailing Ions
shadows behind them as they galloped
1t was 4 o'clock, and forty miles back
to the trocha.
And now at last they seemed to have
distanced their pursuers. for no rum
BILE came out of the west. They fec
their horses a few armfuls of the greer
tops of the sugar cane, refreshing ane
stimulating, and gave them a LITTLE
water from q roadside brook, anC
rubbed them down as time would per
nit. That was not much, for before
they had finished the sounds of pur
suit again grew upon them.
"Forty miles farther and we will b.
in our own lines" remarked Slater.
For three hours more the wiry little
Cuban horses bore their riders swiftly
though the sun grew high and angry
They had struck off the highway, rid
den through a field of cane, and were
now galloping down a wide stretch o
sloping prairie, dotted with coco,
palms. They scarcely expected tina
the enemy would fail to notice wher
the chase had left the road so the.
were not disappointed when the loni
crash Of breaking stalks announced
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mer all about as the men swung he
machetes above their heads and urged
on the plunging horses. The Span
iards directly in front strOve to get
clear, to have more room for fighting,
and the insurgents pushed forward to
the furthest inch. 1t really seemed,
for a little, that they would win through
the Spanish ranks.
The guerillas next the troop were
exchanging desperate SWOrd-strOkes
with their antagonists, while those far
Their out were pressing closer, and fir
ing wildly into the swirl of fight with
@revolvers. Five of Slater's men had
gone down beneath the blows that
came from the front and rear alike
There were but twelve left, and these
redoubIed their efforts to break through
the trap that held them fast. Slater
rode in front, slashing to right and left
with a huge machete. He cut down
an opposing trooper, pistoled the horse
as the rider fell, and spurred forward
into the space thus provided. His
men followed, and by sheer dint of
blows managed to gain a few yards
more. But the foe gathered close, and
again two of the handful went down.
The air was all a-quiver with steel
blades about the fight, but that
the insurgents, had got fairly in mo-
ton once more, they were slowly yet
surely thrusting their way through the
circling crowd. But they lost a man
for every yard they won. Pistol bull
lets hummed through the melee, strik-
ing down friend and foe alike. One
Of the women was hit as she fired into
the dense gray ranks; the other, either
wounded or fainting, slid from her sad
die. and both disappeared beneath the
press.
While Slater's horse thus melted
apace. Slater rode in the front, and
knew not how the others Jared. He
only knew that he vas hewing his
desperate way forward as a bushman
hews his way through the tropical jun
gle. He had lost his hat and his hair
was clotted and dripping with blood,
but he took no heed Of the wounds; all
LIS clOEI was W IcdCh IhS OpCh SpdIC
beyond. And at last, bleeding horse
and man, he swayc- into the clear
ground and looked about for his men.
Not n had followed; he was alone.
The women he had rescued were gone,
too. He stared about Is if dazed,
while the S%paniards stood and wonder
ed ct the man who had done so mighs.
ily in the battle. The blood was pour.
ing from a deep cut in the neck of his
horse. The animals knees began to
totter, and presently it sank to the
ground.
Slater fell with it. The troops rush.
ed forward, but when they came to
him he was dead, with the red blade
| still clinched in his fingers.
And the women for whom this scort
of men had recklessly thrown away
their lives lay trampled and crushed
beneath the hoofs of the guerilla horse.
| But shall it therefore be said of Slater'a
troops that their sacrifice was madt
in vain?
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High upon a peak, 800 feet above the
level of the all-encircling ocean, is
superimposed a tall lighthouse, whose
eye of fire, like a cyclops, glares angri-
ly through the thickness and blackness
of night upon watery wastes that, look
ing to the north, west and south, seem
s~horeless. To the east and southeast,
upon a clear night, other cyclones leer
at the sea and at the ships which sail
or which trail long banners of smoke
athwart the sky line. In the fog these
kin monitors of like isolation are not
seen by the jewellers on the South
Farallon. No, the whole world seems
whelmed in a universe of impenetrable
vapor, and while the sturdy men who
tend the light and keep the siren going
are busted at their lonely posts their
families, their little children, be-
leagued by all the sea, sleep far away
from city joys and diversions and COM
Partnerships. Through the darkness,
above the sound of the breaking waves,
booms the fog siren, answered by it's
hoarse neighbor at Point Reyes. and its
blasts fall upon the ears of the be-
leaguered listeners with the regularity
of the tolling of a bell that might be
rung by implacable fate, doing out life
in periods.
There are eight rosy little children
on the South Farallon and two older
ones. They are there because their
parents are earning a living for them
selves and their families in the gov
eminent service maintaining the light
and the siren. 1t was in their behalf
that their parents have asked for a
teacher. Ten children are all the pupils
there are in this strangest school dis
trict'' in all the earth. They have one
room fitted up for school purposes in
which there are little desks, benches
and b%lackboards and q supply of
schoolbooks, a globe, which represents
the round earth of which they occupy
so small a portion, and that time-hOn-
ored institution, the teachers desk.
From the windows of the schoOlroom
and hard by is the engine-house and
siren-house, one furnishing the voice
which comes from the other, pune
tuating the wash of the waters and the
voices of the children and their teach
| er-when they have one. During a GER
tain season of about three months dur
alton hundreds of thousands of sea
birds, in great flights, circle about the
schoolhouse, with their discordant
cries. and settle upon the barren rocks,
where they make their nests.
AS the children study their thoughts
! are led to wander by the occasional
sight of a passing ocean steamer laden
with many passengers who seem to be
free to come and go, and the steamer
and it's freedom stimulates their i'm
agination before and after it sinks in
to oblivion below the far horizon line
where the sky and ocean meet.
AS they bend e their tasks they
know that there will no parades, pro-
cessions. ~circuses, theaters, concerts or
crowds to divert them later in the day.
They occupy a world Of their own, ed
ucational and ~workaday, into watch
outsiders very seldom intrude. Weeks
may pass without a daily newspaper
coming to them. TugDoats visit them
very seldom, if ever. There are about
four great days in the year when ex-
element runs high among the little
s~choolchildren.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-10-29
Sympathy.

In what way motive flavors acts at
the same time that it induces them is,
beyond the power of m~etaphysician to!
reveal. But that it does flavor them,
we well know. There is a subtle chem
istry that works silently but f~orcefully
between mind and mind whose laws
have not yet been discovered by some
of the elements thatenter into this magic
play of forces are easily palapable. One
of these elements in motive that plays
back and forth between teacher and
pupil in the business of education is
sympathy-that keen and loving ap-
probation of difficulty and of need on
the part of one that awakes latent good
and stimulates slumbering activity in
another. Where learning and logic and
shrewdness stand strengthleSs, the look
of sympathy can touch the heart and
move the will. Who would teach the
child must reach him, and would reach
him must feel with childhood. He must
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-10-29
A Day When AN Goes Wrong.

Do you ever have a day in school
when everything goes wrong? Wien
the children do everything they should
not do ard leave undOne everything
they ought to do? When by 4 o'clock
you feel as if your nerves were bare
and the evenings work seems like a
mountain before you? We all have
such days. Let me tell you how to avoid
a recurrence of such an experience on
the morrow. First temporize with your
conscience and let part of that noun
tain of evening work go. Be sure TO go,
to bed early that night if you V do.
again. In the morning put on your
prettiest gown and do your hair up the,
most becoming way, and 1 promise you
that instead of the day of war you are
expecting you will find your pupils like
little angels.-A. B. c., in School Edu'
cation.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-10-29
The Bishop Is Right.

Said Bishop Spaulding before the
n. E. A: II have noticed that we are
proud of our school buildings. l do
not care about that. l want to know:
what kind of life is fostered there. I.
say that many of these factory-like
structures thwart the cause of educa-
ton. L say the little country school
house, discolored, and not larger than
a dry goods box, is a better place for
education than the barracks of our
city school life. The carer we get to
nature the closer we get to truth. City
life is decadent, and it would die out
if it were nOt constantly augmented
from the country. l tell you how to,
educate city children is a serious prob.
lem. We veal out the teachers and
make a herd rather than an aggrega-.
ton of individuals" And again: 1--WE
shall never get the best schools until
we get the best talent, and we shall
never get the best talent until we can
offer better inducements. 1t is wise
to turn our attention to the profession,
al improvement of the teachers. But
let US also work for better induce
ments and more independence" And
the Bishop is right-Popular Educator.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-10-29
JUST TEN SCHOLARS
HAS THIS QUEER SCHOOL ON
AN ISLAND.
Request for a Teacher Comes TO the San
Francisco School Board from the
Strangest School District in All
America.
Ont in the Pacific,


4 few weeks ago a little, modest petit
ton, on paper as white as the wing Of
a seabird or the wandering foam, drift
ed in before the San Francisco Board
of School Directors. In brief, its mes
sage was, "Send US a schoolteacher for
our little children, and We will pay the
salary and furnish board" The pathos
in this little petition could not be I'M
derstood without knowledge of the en-
vironments Of the petitioners and of
the children for whose welfare they are
solicitOus.
Surrounded by the deep Pacific
Ocean lies the South Farallon Island,
the largest of the Farallon group. Its
shores rise abruptly and form an etern-
al barrier of stone against the waves
which thunder against adamantine
ramparts. Devoid nearly of vegeta-
ton, and swept ceaselessly by the
winds from north, south and west, it is
like a stern and frowning outpost es-
tablished for the safety of the white
winged and majestic ships that sweep
by it proudly in sunshine and creep tim
orously past when the fog, wraithlike,
hoyers over or settles down and hides
its buried and threatening rocks under
a mantle more dreadful than night.
Gut off from the California mainland by
q broad belt of heaving sea, its nearest
western neighbOrs are the Hawaiian
Islands, 800 leagues distant. Here the
temDeStS Of winter Wreak their full
force, and old Neptune, with the trump
cts of the storm winds, calls the bill
lows to the charge.
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know its sources of joy, its hills of diff
Guilty, its miry paths-he must have the,
boy alive inside of him. Who has so far
withdrawn from his own childhood and!
satisfaction in its enjoyments that thei
BOY or girl within has long ago been,
solemnly buried has lost the key-fower'
that admits to the treasure house Of
youth.-Midland Schools.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-10-29
A Good Thing.

Lewiston (Me.) confectioner has ap-
piled for a patent on a process by which
%pasteboard boxes may be so treated that
ice cream packed in them will remain
solidly frozen for twenty-four hours.
The Forrest City times., 1896-01-24
A Business Cham ce

TnE TINES is authorized to an nounce that my entire stock of Millin- cry and Notions, consisting of hats. dress trimmings. laces, ribbons hand kerchiefS, corsets, vplvets, Ladies Me lnt0shes, notions, &c.. &c will be sold out at retail or in bulk at actual cost and below. for cash. for the next 30 days. without reservation, until stock is disposed of.
 l am determined to close ont this stock at once. It must be sold, and will be sacrificed.
 This is no advertising scheme, but d bona lide cost sale determined upon by reason of the fact that 1 desire tu make a change of location. This IS a rare opportunity for the people to secure q lot of tirst-class goods at less than wholesale prices. Merchants also ara requested to make a note of this sale Remember the entire stock will be sold at retail fur thirty days. unless sooner sold out.
 It is desirable to sell the business cOmpiete-stock. fixtures. good will &c-and any person with small capital have an opportunity to invest in a well established and lucrative enterprise Il you mean business come and see me. Good reason for selling.
 Respectfully.
 MADAME E BOYLE.
The Forrest City times., 1896-01-24
Hymeneal.

His friends and acquaintances here have been under the impression fo- some time that the frequent and alto. gether regular visits of Rev. N. B. flZer to Wheatley, were in the interest of the church, and to preach the gos- pei It TOW transpires, however, that he has been engaged in an entirely different, though we must say, very righteous, occupation while visiting that town, as IS evidenced by the fact that on Monday afternoon, at the residence of Mir. and Mrs. r. J. Neelv, he was happily married to Miss Pauline Murphy, Rev. T. J. Settle. of the Methodist church officiating. After the ceremony an elegant and altogeth- er sumptllous wedding dinner was partaken of by those present who were hearty in their congratulations and good wishes. Mrs. FlZer is niece of Mrs Neely. and woman of high in- tellectual and social attainments. THE TIMES joins in ali good wishes and congratulations.
The Forrest City times., 1896-01-24

and that in connection with tba o,.on ea"tl''' "i 'he clty authori ties he had Ill mastering the situation. ."o J""Be mas let the contract for the ettc'I'h oi suitable building for the puii'ose oi ls0latlng aud accommodating ",' s"epec's' also one for the erection ol SiGtole quarters for County Phys,c. l"'' O' C' W NIil,e. The utmost caution pFeVais To prevent case or susnect rom entering the city. With inc Khowlrdge of the united and dpterm. ne" eHntC to stamp out the malady the people or the city and county are eu- llrciy at ease and are pursuing their natural course as if nothing of the kiah was III existence. This city keen " reels the injustice done it by other towns qnarantining against it, as there IS no ground for such action. as tbe following will show:
 There has been only one ease of small poX in Forrest City since 1878. | hat Case was stopped near the city ilMltS two weeks ago and was at once Isolated and is now in fair way of re- coVery. It was a negro man and hail. ed flom Hopeiied
 Fl W WINTHROP. Mayor ''J. E. STONE.
 President Board of Health.v
 The city council held special ses. sioh Monday and appointed J. o Ron eriS and l.. II. Potts to patrol the town and report any appearance of suspects. etc.
 Cltotr such precautions as all of the aooFt,there need!be no fear, though pre- caution Is always wise.
The Forrest City times., 1896-01-24
Great Sacrifice Sale.

Of general merchandise consisting of Dry goods. groceries. ladies and gents furnishings. boots, shoes hats, caps. hardware, and other lines uslally found in general stores. Having purchased the entire stock of II E. Gwyn & Co.,, at very low figure. we will for the next 30 days sell it at actual invoice cost for cash at their store. This is positively a genu- inc cost sale and chance to secure a fine lot of goods at wholesale prices. Remember the sale is taking place at tue old stand of II. R. Gywn x Co.
 Respectfully.
 RUSSELL, GRAHAM < Co. Forrest City, Ark, Jan. b, 1896,
The Forrest City times., 1896-01-24
H. W WINTHROP, Mayor. "J. E. STONE.
Germ eteur Is the Best.

Mir. c. F. McIan, Acworth. Ga. says. Several years my wife suffered from at. tacks or bilious collie and indigestion. She used different medicines and tried sev- cfaI doctors, but all without permanent oeheht. She used Royal Germeteur some years ago. and 1t has given her more re- llei than all else, and she recommends it to the afflicted" Write to The Atlanta Chemical Co.,, Atlanta, Ga, for 4s page book giving full information. free. New package, large bottles, 1OS doses, Sl. For sale by D. C. Webb.
The Forrest City times., 1896-01-24
For Sale or Rent.

Tle school building on the hill east of the city. has been remodeiled and fitted up and will now be found a very comfortable residence for any one. It is for rent. A lso the building near the cemetery known as the"Old Baptist church. |" will be sold. CHEAP. Apply to the president of the lioar'i or to J W. Beck, Chairman committees.
The Forrest City times., 1896-01-24
M arried.

Mr. J. l.. Stayton and Miss, Hattie Rhodes, were married at the Pales- tine Hotel. Sunday. JanN Huh. 1896, at 10 o'clock d. m, Rev. Jas. A. Mas on officiating. Immediately after the marriage the bride was received into the Cumberland Presbyterian church by Mrs l.. N. Woosley, the woman evangelist of the c. P church.
The Forrest City times., 1896-01-24

nl.a ame hld. Baldwin house, Ion the Grady '. n"ee' iiaS been purchased by the cpun- issu is, "l'u turned into ppSt-h0use. h ap rn ,noerFle" with Judge Cawan a TIsIMS e.sstsSFhtiitiYe Nas informed that 80 ,'' a .nete was no necessity fur any uueasi ,aa. eitiist at home or abroad. should fN,9' cohcsruing the small pox situa- ,,n, o. VI the county. The judge stated sa ssa'e ue WaY doing everything possible fo ooNtpieets control the conditions