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Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1897-10-13

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The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13
A New Method of Disinfectiop.

The Antwerp correspondent of the
Liverpool Journal of Commerce says:
AS in all large ports. the medical com-
mission plays a very important and re-
sponsible part, and its duties have
been all the more arduOuS in the last
four years. since the United States has
demanded such rigid examination of
all emigrants, their baggage, etc. In
connection with sanitary arrangements
and regulations of the port some eXper-
iments of q most interesting character
were made at the st. Pierre Hospital
in the presence of the Antwerp Medi-
cal Commission. The subject of the
experiments was the demonstration of
a new and practical mode of disinfec-
ton and sterilization. The means en-
ployed consist of Il gas obtained by the
partial combustion of methylated Spir-
it's, which, while being perfectly inno
cent in it's effect upon human beings,
action, is said to possess the property
of destroying every trace of bacteria
or microbes in the atmosphere of any
inclosure. The experiments so far have
been thoroughly successful. If such
system of disinfectiOn can be proved
efficacious it will be blessing to
steamship companies plying between
Europe and the United States, for in
time of contagiOn Of any kind the Uni
ted States Government demands fumi-
cation by sulphur, which is a most
disagreeable and Improbable process.
The question will be studied with a
view to adapting it to the disinfection
of ships, passengers, luggage and
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13

Paris is excited over an American
style of robbery, which has Just struck
that town. The story is told by the
Paris correspondent of the New York
Sun: The proprietor of a fine restau-
rant of a certain class was the victim
Of third swindle, though twas more
a joke than a fraud. A party of four
young bloods dined one evening, not
wisely but too we'll and too expensive
~, at his establishment. After a mag
nitlcent repast in a private room there
was dispute about who should pay
and the proprietor was sent for. Each
Of the diners declared that he was there
as the guest Of the other three. The
dispute went on in a iocose fashion
until the restaurant keeper threatened
to call the police unless his money was
Forthcoming. The four young men were
annoyed at this suggestion. is that
the way you treat gentlemen?" eXclaim-
ed one of the party. Now, see here.
Since we are out for a lark | propose
that we blindfold you, Mr. Proprietor,
and the one of us whom you catch first
will pay for the supper and for two
more bottles of champagne" The res
taurant keeper agreed. He was secure
ly blindfolded, and he groped about the
apartment in vain for quarter Of an
hour. Then he pulled off the bandage to
find that the four revelers had fed.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13
THE THAMES AT BLAcKFRlARs.
A Picturesque Place in Days of Good
Queen Bess.

Queen Bess.
Master Skylark," the story Of
Shakspeare's time that is running as a
serial in st. Nicholas, gives many IN
teresting glimpses of old London.
Nick and the master player came
down Ludgate Hill to Blackfriars land
ing in stream of merrymakers, high
and low, rich and poor faring forth to
London's greatest thoroughfare, the
Thames: and as the river and the no.
bic mansions along the Strand came
into view, Nick's heart beat fast. 1t
was a sight to stir the pulse.
Far down the stream the grim OLD
Tower loomed above the drifting mist;
and higher up, old London bridge,
lined with tall houses, stretched from
shore to shore. There were towers on
it with domes and gilded vanes, and
the river foamed and roared under it,
strangled by the piers. From the dock
at st. Mary Averies by the bridge to
Barge house stairs, the landing-stagcs
all along the river bank were thronged
with boats; and to and fro across :
stream, wherries, punts, barges l..
water craft of every kind were plying
busily. In middle stream sailDOats
tugged along with creaking sweeps, or
brown-sailed trading vessels slipped
away to sea, with costly freight for
Russia, Turkey and the Levant. And
amid the countless water craft q multi
tude of stately swans swept here and
there like snOwfiakes on the dusky
river
Nick shifted at the air, for it was full
Of strange OdOrS-the smell of brewer
les, of pitchy oakum, Norway tar,
spices from hot countries, resinous
woods, and chilly whiffs from the wa
ter; and as they came out along the
wharf, there were brOWn-faced, hard
eyed sailors there, who had been to the
New Worldwide fellows with silver
rings in their ears and a staggering
stagger in their petticoated legs. Some
of them held short, crooked brown
tubes between their lips, and puffed
great clouds of pale brown smoke from
their noses in a most amazing way.
Broad-beamed Dutchmen, too, were
there, and swarthy Spanish renegades,
with sturdy craftsmen of the city
guilds and stalwart yeomen of the
guard in the Queens rich livery.
But ere Nick had fairly begun to
stare confused by such a rout, Carew
had hailed a wherry. and they were
halfway over to the Southwark side.
Landing amid Il deafening din of wa
termen bawling hoarsely for a place
along the Paris Garden stairs, the mas
ter player hurried up the lane through
the noisy crowd. Some were faring
afoot into Surrey, and some to green
st. Georges Fields to buy fresh fruit
and milk from the farm houses and to
picnic on the grass. Some turned aside
to the Falcon Inn for bit of cheese
and ale, and others to the play houses
beyond the trees and fishing ponds.
And coming down from the inn they
met crowd of players, with Master
Tom Haywood at their head, frOlicking
and cantering along like so many over
grown SclOOlDOVS
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13

The collapse Of bank is always a
public calamity, the evil consequences
Of which can never be measured ia
mere pecuniary loss. 1t requires some
thing besides columns of figures to ad-
eQuately represent the deplorable re-
suits Of such a catastrophe as the
wrecking Of the Globe Savings Bank Of
Chicago The damage to business in
the resultant loss of confidence in bank
ing institutions and the general demor-
aliZation of the credit structure upon
which 80 per cent. Of our transactions
are based cannot be accurately calcu-
lated in figures The failure Of the
Globe Savings Bank reveals startling
record of official perfidy and dishonor.
Seldom does a mere business collapse
| disclose such a depth of moral rotten
ness involving such gross betrayals Of
| trusts that men ordinarily hold sacred.
| The story of the wreck is black with
| the most corrupt political jobbery. The
| deeper it. is probed the more offensive
| becomes the stencil to the nostrils Of
| honest men. The State Of Illinois
should probe the affair to the bottom to
| the end that the blame for the deplora-
BILE condition Of affairs may be placed
where it belongs and the culpable par,
ties severely punished. The interests
of honest banking, the interests Of the
| State institutions whose funds were
| jeopardized, and the rights Of those
whose savings were engulfed in the
| maelstrom of political jobbery and
criminal peculation, all demand that
the investigation be made rigidly and
promptly. The people desire to know
if they have any protection in law from
such fragrant betrayals of trust by
those who have committed to them the
savings of the poor and the funds of
State institutions.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13
Bad for the Ewes.

Among the sources of the greatest
trouble to the eyesight are the eXces-
sive use Of wine, spirits, or beer, and
the indiscriminate use of quinine An
other source of failing vision may be
traced to impeded circulation. The
wearing of tight neckwear, such as col
lars which are too small, or shirt bands
or neckties tightly drawn. should be
avoided, as they prevent the downward
column Of blood returning to the heart.
and dilation and development of dis
ease is likely to follow. The same rule
holds good of construction of other
parts of the body.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13
FALL AT THEIR POSTS,
Fifty Firemen Are Overcome in

Fifty Firemen Are Overcome in a
Fierce B1aZe in New York.
In New York, a deadly fire, attended
with loss of $5OO,000, broke out in the
basement of the cold storage warehouse,
161 to 165 Chambers street. One FIRE
man was killed and fifty others were
felled unconscious by the deadly fumes
of ammonia which assailed them as they
entered the building. The iremen's cry
of danger was heard on the outside and
other companies were ordered in to rescue
their comrades. These in turn were also
overcome, until Chief Bonner feared he
would lose all of his men.
Extra calls were sent out for reinforce
ments; surgeons and ambulances were
summoned from the hospitals; engine COM
pany 21s house, almost directly opposite
the blazing building, was turned into an
emergency hospital and as fast as the un-
fortunate men could be located and drag
ged out into the open air they were car
red to house of temporary relief and prop
erly cared for.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13

"Excellencies," as all travellers know,
are dirt cheap in Europe, for every lib
eral man is so called by all the servants
and peasants in Italy and the other
Latin countries. Only one American
at time, of all our seventy-odd mil
lions, is entitled to be so called That
person is the Governor Of Massachu-
sets. He is SO by constitutional pro-
vision Of the Commonwealth. Not even
the President Of the United States is
entitled to be so addressed. This mat
ter was settled more than century
ago in the convention which framed
our Constitution.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13
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Greek and Turk.

The Turkish soldiers can hght, even II
they do wear bloomers.-Boston Globe.
Greece already has done enough lighting
in week to last Cuba about ten years.
Chicago Times Herald.
The valorous Greeks have not given up
yet. They still have a chance of killing
their king-Detroit Free Press.
Osman Pasha will get to the front in
time to annex all the glory without any
of the danger.-Pittsburg News.
Women are arming to fight the Turks
and long sigh of relief is going up
throughout the Ottoman Empire.-Chi-
cago News.
Some of the Greeks are evidently de-
termined to get the better of something,
even if it's only their own government
Chicago Post.
King Georges way of ruling his turbu-
lent people is apparently simply to sit back
and let them have their own way.-Buf-
fslo Express.
A remarkable feature of the recent
Greek victories appears to be that the fol-
lowing day the victOrs usually retreat
Chicago Post.
II those CUBAN correspondents b" III OL4J
stay away from Greece we can Keep fairy
well informed on the progress of Eastern
hostilities.-ChicagO Journal
To Col Alb Hamid and King George:
Don't worry about food supplies. The
United States has plenty of everything
to sell.-Chicago Times-Herald.
Turkey says Greece started It. Greece
says Turkey started it, but from rhis side
Of the water it looks as if the powers drop
ped the flag for the fighting to begin
Baltimore American.
If those European fighters should ever
run short of ammunition they might ere
ate havoc by breaking a few chunks of
their names and hurting them at the foe
Cleveland Leader.
A cable dispatch from Macedonia says
that many of the Greek irregulars lie in
hiding during the daytime" The corre-
spondents seem to be lying by day and by
night.-Chicago Times-Herald.
If the Greeks could perform the appar-
emily impossible by giving the Turks 8
terrific lambasting. Old Glory should be
run to the top of every flagstaff, just OD
general rinciples.-Cincinnati Tribune
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13
Washington Well Fortified.

In view Of the fact that the national
capital was once taken and burned Icy
foreign enemy, it is reaSSuring to
know that a calamity so humiliating is
not likely to occur again; even in case
of sudden war.
Washington is the best defended city
| in the country. a hostile fleet could
| not now ascend the Potomac, as was
| done in 1914, when President Madison
and his wife were compelled to make
a hurried escape across the Potomac to
avoid capture by the British.
For military and prudential reasons
| little has been allowed to be made
| known concerning the new works and
| the heavy ordnance recently installed
| below the city; but for the past two
years engineers have been busy at the
| river forts. Some very formidable
guns are now in position there, and
system Of torpedo defenses perfected
| which would render the approach Of an
enemy's warShipS. within twelve miles
of Washington, practically impossible.
The defensive works are located at
the elbow" or turn, Of the Potomac
where old Forts Washington and Sheri-
dan stood, and where at one point the
channel for vessels Of deep draught is
but 300 yards wide.
The guns are protected on the water
side by emplacement walls Of stone
and concrete seventy feet thick, and on
the land side by redoubts for infantry.
The rapidly increasing wealth ane
Importance of Washington. the grand
new public buildings and the vast sums
Of money and bullion in the treasury
render these protective and defensive
measures matter of national import
ance and necessity
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13
Told in q Few Linen.

Justin Mccarthy, the Irish parliamen-
tary leader, who has been seriously i'll, is
improving.
A meeting at Rock Island. H., address
ed by Rev. L. Dewitt Talmage for the
sufferers of India, realized almost $1,000.
College students and athletic associa-
tons in Michigan are considerably agi-
tated over pending measure in the Leg
islature of that State to prohibit football
contests.
Rev. C. o. Brown, who gained noto-
riety at San Francisco in the Overman
scandal, has accepted a call to Chicago
Congregational charge. He has been
preaching in Toronto.
Black coal operators and miners of the
Brazil. Ind, district are in conference
over the wage scale for the coming year
The employees propose 10 per cent reduc.
ton, which is not likely to be accepted.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13
Political PotnOurri.

The Ohio man continues to keep his
front feet in the trough.-Bost0n Herald.
The howl of a disappointed politician is
about as effective as the challenge of
defeated prize fighter.-New York Jour
nal.
If the Congressional Record ever starts
a sporting department John J. ingalls, is
the man to run it.-Cincinnati CONNER
cial.
How much better everybody would be if
people would think more Of their push and
less of their pull.-Harrisburg Star-Inde-
pendent.
The new Kentucky Senator has been
doctor, lawyer and school teacher. That
is hard combination to beat, and it leads
naturally into politics.-Baltimore Amer
ican. ~
We infer from David B. Hills remarks
that later on it is his intention to organ
ize an expedition to rescue US from our
over-governed condition. - Washington
Post.
The majority of Americans sympathize
with Greece just as heartily as does Sen
ator Allen, but very few of them make
such mighty noise about it-Scranton
Republican.
Now that Roger Q. Mills has said over
his own signature that Senators talk too
much, we may expect a series of long and
excitable speeches in denial of the accusa-
tion.-Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Secretary Long is getting ready to sell q
few of the old-style. out-of-date war yes
sells of the navy. Here is a good chance
for some of the ten-acre South American.
republics that are getting ready for an
other revolution to supply themselves with
craft-Savannah News.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13
of the general as.

cd Of Colorado, the synod of Illinois, the
synod of India, the synod of Indiana, the
synod of Indian territory, the synod Of
Iowa, the synod of Kansas, the synod of
Kentucky, the synod of Michigan, the
synod of Minnesota, the synod of Mon
tana, the synod Of Nebraska, the synod
of New Jersey, the synod of New Mexico,
the synod of New York, the synod of
North Dakota, the synod of Ohio, the syn
cd of Oregon, the synod of Pennsylvania,
the synod of South Dakota, the synod Of
Tennessee. the synod Of Texas, the synod
of Utah, the synod of Washington and the
synod of Wisconsin,
The last general assembly represented
224 presbyteries, 6,942 ministers, 455 IL
centiates. 176 local evangelists, 1908 can
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13
Grants Memorial.

Chicago got the Worlds Fair, but it
didn't have the Grant Monument Day
Buffalo News.
Gen. Grant belonged to every State in
the Union, and it was Grant week in all
of them.-BOstOn Herald.
Sir Julian Pauncefote appeared in sim
pie citizen dress while visiting New York.
Once IN while even an Englishman likes
to imagine himself a free born son of the
republic.-New York Commercial Adver-
tiser.
Mayor Strong of New York called for
the American flag on Grant Memorial
Day-the flag everywhere. Across every
flag that snapped in the wind that day a
grateful nation saw in sunburst radiance:
Let us have peace. Chicago Inter
Ocean
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13
Notes of Current Events,

John Russell Young of Philadelphia is
said to be slated as minister to Spain.
President Mckinley Saturday received
the new Chinese minister, WI Ting Fang.
Overfows of the Juniata river in Penn
sylvania have caused immense loss to
growing crops.
The notorious Princess Chimay has Civ
en- up her intention of appearing in public
in European music halls.
Spanish land and sea forces have recap
tured the port of Banes, held for about a
month by the insurgents.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13

and Summer School, can have their way,
Winona, beside the beautiful little lake,
will become the permanent home of the
assembly.
Three years ago the school was incor-
porated 1t is denominational in the con-
struction of it's board of directors, two
thirds of whom must be of Presbyterian
faith, but other denominations are admit
ted. 1t is in charge of Prof. John NJ.
Coulter of the University of Chicago and
John NJ. Studebaker of South Bend was
recently elected president.
-Four thousand representatives of the
church are expected to be in attendance
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13
This and That.

The voice of the rooter is now in fun
bIoom.--Cincinnati Tribune
The Philadelphia has been ordered to
Hawaii. Now, Honolulu, will you be
quiet?-New York Press.
The time may come when the phono-
graph and the magic lantern viii be used
extensively enough in the church to do
away with choir wrangling.-C Chicago
Dispatch.
1t is peculiar coincidence that the man
who .'hates to see his name in the paper
is always the one to draw attention to the
fact that it is there.-New YorA CONNER
cial Advertiser.
A Kentucky widow has just ratified off a.
distillery. Widow, rattle, distillery: how
this combination must have appealed to
the gallant and thirsty Kentuckian.-Buf
falo Express
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13

A device is on trial in a Boston hotel
which, it is hoped, will reduce the rate
OF deaths by asphyxiation. A small
chamberof brass containing quicksilver
is so attached to every jet in the house
that unlighted gas escaping through a
stop-cock will ring an electric bell in
the office. One night recently two
guests accidentally left the gas on un-
lighted, and prompt alarm to the
office proved the efficacy of the eontriE-
ancp
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13

The promptness with which water
runs from cleared lands is illustrated
in the Adirondacks this year. On those
mountains wherever the trees have
been removed is not even fake Of
snow. 1t has all been melted and
rushed down to swell the rising
streams. On the mountains where the
trees are still left there is yet snow to a
depth of eighteen inches which will
gradually melt as the weather be-
coomes warm, sink into the ground and
through the springs Of the adjacent val
Ieys feed streams when they will need
feeding
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13
The Peach CrOn

If the weather sharps are not watchful
the peach crop will get another bump on
its solar plezus.-Pittsburg Times.
Speculations about the peach crop are
like those about the weather-they do not
always square with facts.-Baltimore
American.
Reports from Delaware are worse than
usual 1t is feared now that the peach
crop of 1898 is entirely destroyed.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
The young men who furnish the frost
for the Delaware and New Jersey peach
crops have worked in their usual amount
at space rates.-Washington Post
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13

sembly are elected
by presbyteries and
grouped into the con-
vention by synods.
There are thirty-one
synods represented
in the general assem-
bly,. These are the
synod of Atlanta,
the synod of Balti-
more, the synod of
California, the synod
of Catawba, the syn
cd of China, the syn
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13

lamp exploded, which caused panic
and wild rush for the door, during
which three hundred spectators and
thirty-siX actors were killed" This Is.
another illustration Of the old saying,
$50 away from home to learn the
news" There certainly has been no
such panic in a San Francisco theater
of recent years, and we doubt whether
there ever was.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13

Cleveland Plain Dealer: After much
delay the grave and reverend seniors
Of the Supreme bench Of Iowa have
handed down a definition Of the word
'Swipe." 1t means according to this
unimpeachable authority ito steal"
and is thus made an actionable epithet
down 10y those whose passions are cas-
fly aroused to the abusive pitch.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13

Chicago within the last few months
has had enough object lessons to prove
beyond any question that it is impossi-
BILE for the officials Of banking ilstitu-
dons to bring about a restoration Of
general prosperity by loaning funds to
themselves.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-05-13

The Atlanta Journal announces that
ga splinter which had remained in the
foot of Miss Babe Martin for forty-four
years has worked itself out" This,
we believe, is one of the longest infan.
tile infections on record.