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The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

Why is it that there is so much re-
luctance on the part of the Republican
| party to take any action in favor of
the Cuban insurgents? Simply because
the sugar trust is deSi 5 of keeping
Cuba out of the United states. for if
Cuba should become an integral part
of this nation the Cuban sugar bust
Tess would be taken from the control
of the trust
The majority of the American people
are in sympathy with Cuba. and it is
just possible that so great will be the
pressure of public opinion that the
trust may be baffled. Events are NOV
ing rapidly toward Intervention. The
outrages of the Spaniards on American
citizens and their insOlence in firing on
American ships are arousing a spirit
that cannot be held much longer in
check.
There can be little doubt that the
PRESIDENT is inclined to take some ac-
tiOn friendly to Cuba. but there can
also be no doubt that great pressure is
being brought to bear to keep him from
committing this country in favor of
Cuban liberty. Secretary Sherman
took occasion early in the day to de-
clare that he would not accept Cuba
as a gift. and this sentiment met with
an enthusiastic reception on the part
Of the managers Of the trust and Of
those who are the paid attorneys of the
trust. Efforts are being made to Sc
cure the cooperation of some European
power with the United States to secure
a settlement of the Cuban affair on the
basis of autonomy. That would suit
the trust. Will the scheme succeed?-
Chicago Dispatch.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

The liquor license law of Pomona,
Cal, raises saloon-keeping into some
thing of high art. Only two saloons
are allowed and each proprietor is
obliged to pay in advance a license fee
of $1,000 and put up a bond Of $1,000.
to be forfeited if he fails to obey all the
restrictions of the law. The saloons
must front ON the streets, must con-
sist of only one room, and half of the
front must be plain glass unobstructed
by screens Only one chair is allowed
and that is for the barkeeper, who
must be parsonage of distinction. He
Is obliged to obtain the official approval
Of the City Council before he can ac
cept the responsibilities of the posi-
Tl.... would not mean much in
but i'll Pomona the Council
sanction is a badge of respectability.
There are many other minor restric.
tions which make it necessary for q
man in search of drink to pass a sort
of civil service examination, while the
dispenser is justified in assuming the
dignifed demeanor Of a university
alumnuS.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

Ambrose Bierce, the California waI
horse. appears TO have been fouied by
s0Me ~areless book reviewer. for ht
swaatly remarks that ''Lire regulation
bookwhacker is the anile, insuis@. nuga
cions and hebetIdinous fabrication OF
some celestial f4tilitarian who, S,eep+
ing through the six days Of creation,
awoke to a sluggish activity on the
seventh. grabbed the first COB Of mud
that came 10 hand, fashioned it into an
amorphous Thing. and finding al es
listing beasts subject to Man bespoke
for it Il narrow dominion over the tardy
mule Now, viii the critics be good!
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

THE BUFFALO GNAT. The gnats re-
semble small flies. They appear in the
spring along the river regions and are car
ried into the country by north winds.
Wherever they bite they cause Burning
itching. Soon a painful, hard swelling
makes its appearance. 1t may remain for
a week or longer. Many such bites close
together produce severe infiammatory
fever. and in more susceptible victims
cramps.
Animals. when attacked by large num-
bers. grow frantic and seek to evade their
tormentors by rolling in the dust, rush
ing about and whirling round and round.
At times they are literally covered with
the animated pests. The ears and nostrila
are the chief points of attack. The for
mer are filed clear to the tympanum with
layer upon layer. An infiammatory fever,
with a high pulse. soon sets in. The af-
tiicted catt,e soon die Of cramps and con-
vulsions In the dead animals the skin
of the entire body viii be found covered
with numerous minute ulcers.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

you will meet Il third IN the person of Il
military looking gentleman who stands
guard over the cabinet room and the door
leading TO the private part of the Presi-
dents hcme. He is Major Loeflier. Up
in that region you will also find Col. Pru-
den, the White House sphinx, and Col.
Crook, the all-around generalissime.
There a1e others, but these are the ones
who, like Tennyson's brook, go on for
ever. Presidents come and CO. children
who played at eggrolling on the White
House lawns grow to men and won en-
and visit the White House with their
children, and there are greeted by the
same kindly faces that were about them
in the long ago happy days. Whole gen
erations of White House children have
come and gone yet the faithful servitors
of their presidential progenitors are still
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

with the snow-white hair and the keen
eyes who stands guard over the door IT,
the cabinet room, and also over that whiC Il
| leads from the public to the private part
of the executive mansion, is Maj. Charles
d. a. Loefiier, who was born in Stuttgart,
but who came to America and entered the
regular army as a member of the Second
Cavalry in 1888. He campaigned alI.over
the Western frontier before the war, and
what ne does not know of hardship, hun
ger and thirst is scarcely worth printing.
The famous Custer was a cadet at West
Point when Major LoefHer was doing
outpost duty i'll Texas, and he saluted
Col. Robert E. Lee as commanding officer.
Attached though he was to his command
er, he remained in the Union when Lee
went out, and was ordered to Washing
ton, where he becarre dispatch bearer
and was trusted with many secrets be-
tween Lincoln and HIS generals. He act
ed as messenger for Secretary Stanton,
and finally became IL messenger Ill the
White House, where for nearly quarter
OF century he has watched cabinets
come and go, he himself a fixture. He Is
low-voiccd and gentle as a woman, and 1t
is rarely you can get him to open the
stOrehOuse of anecdotes that he Is so rich
in. For many years all the callers upon
the President passed through the doors
which he guards. He knew all the states
men aud office holders in the country, all
the military men. and all the dead beats
He got so that he could turn down man
so nicely he never knew it till he wah
bowed outside Of the corridor into the air.
He never made q mistake in letting man
in to see the President, it is said, and in
that way made himself almost invaluable.
Another White House Fixture.
Genill Major o. L. Pruden is another
of the u hite House aDpurtenances which
President Mckinley has found checked
over TO him for nearly twenty-five years.
His Office, that of chief executive clerk,
comes next to that of the secretary to the
President in Importance. Major Pruden
has been called ''the administration
sphinx" ever since he assumed his duties
at the desk. Ee knows a great many
things and knows them very well, bur he
is one of the birds who can sing. and
won't. But oh, what stories he could
tell if he only would. He came to Wash
'ington. "a boy in blue from New Jer
sey, early in the war, and his splendid
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08
The Democrats in Iowa.

| Iowa has fusion ticket, composed
Of two Democrats, two Silver Repub-
licans and one POpulist. The Demo
Gratis, Silver Republicans and Populists
were compelled to fuse" On q single
ticket in order to obtain for their can
didates places on the official ballot
that is, if they proposed to support the
same candidates The recent Iowa
Legislature passed a law providing
that the name of no candidates should
appear more than once on the ballot.
1t was supposed by the Republican
Legislature that this restriction on the
| use of the same name twice on the bal
lot would prevent fusion on candidates.
But it appears to have had the con-
trary effect. 1t has produced a closer
fusion and more complete union among
the various parties opposed to the Re-
publican party.
The platform adopted by the Iowa
Democrats is a powerful denunciatiOn
of the Republican policy in that State
and of the action of the Republican
Congress in seeking to increase popular
DuIutilS anu 10 1dSIbH Oh Tie cOuHlEA
the shackles of restricted trade The
arraignment of the Republican party.
State and National. is replete with
facts and is conclusive.
1t is charged with truth that the
State administration of Iowa has been
eXtravagant and profiigate; that pro-
fuse appropriations have been made by
the Legislature beyond the public
needs: that reform in taxing methods
has been defeated: that the system of
prohibition has been at once fraud
and an oppression. and that the crea-
ton of a State debt of $1.O00.000 was
the result of bad legislation. The de-
nunciation of the National Republican
administra ton and Of Congress is
equally vigorous.
| Iowa Democrats can come together
| in this canvass. If there are differ
| ences on the currency question they
can await settlement. The present
question of paramount national impOr-
tance forced by Republicans is that Of
a tariff for tribute, not to the United
States, but to protected interests. There
should be hearty support of the Iowa
Democratic ticket by all Iowa Demo
crats.-ChicagO Chronicle.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

The new" ciergymen are going 100
far. One Of these in New Jersey has
put a phonograph in his church and
uses it to save himself from the trouble
of praying, reading selections from the
Bible and asking the divine blessing
upon the congregation. He has dis
missed the soloists of the choir and the
congregation is now regaled by pho
nographic reproductions of the voices
of great singers in sacred music. LOgi-
cally carried out, this would result in
the dismissal Of the preacher himself
and the substitution of Edfsons inven-
ton instead. Then the worShipers, at
a nominal cost per month, could listen
to the greatest clergymen of the world
and would be relieved, Of the necessity
Of pound parties and other drains upon
the purse.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

The exposition which the people of
Tennessee have created to commemor-
ate the centennial anniversary of the
State should be a source of national as
well as local pride. Those who have
been familiar with all the great fairs
which have been held in this country
place none but the Worlds Columbian
Exposition of 1893 ahead of the one
now open in Nashville. The PhiladeI-
phia centennial and the eXp0sitions of
New Orleans, Atlanta and San Fran
cisco all stand second to this. The
fact that President Mckinley recog-
niZed the Importance of the event, and
journeyed from Washington with his
cabinet and personal party indicates
the national character of the fair.
Buildings erected by many of the States
of the Union and the splendid exhibits
from all parts of the country are sup
plemented by surprisingly pretentious
displays from foreign countries. SO
much for the quality of the fair. 1t is
not failing Of recognition. The people
Of the Southern and border States are
focking to Nashville in special trains
over all lines. Northern visitors attend
in lnrge numbers. and receive cordial
welcome. AS to immediate finance, the
directors take pride in the fact that
within three weeks after the opening of
the gates. while much was still incom
plete, they began the payment of their
debenture bonds, and there is every
prospect that the close of the season
will show profit over all expense.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

A minister at Larchmont, \. Y, has
obtained divorce in North Dakota, on
the grounds that his wife was cruel
He charges among other things that
she was given to playing golf on other
than ladies' days, that she did not wear
her hat on straight and that her walk
was bad form. All these things dis
turbed his state of mind and We're,
therefore. cruel. The bonds We're sew
cred. and he is now at liberty to COM
pose his sermons unyeXed by the
thought that his wife. with 4 rakishly
poised hat and a swagger walk. is out
on the golf links putting the caddie in
a hole or hole in the caddie, or what
ever the expression may be.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08
Southern Forests Disanpear;ns

In Georgia. Florida. Alabama and
other Southern States the grand old
forests of pine are rapidly disappear
ing. The destroyers seem to have no
thought Of the future. They make no
steps to replace that which they take
away. The influence of forests upon
rainfall, moisture and seasons is pret-
ty well understood. The point has
about been reached at which it is nee
essary that something should be done
to put a stop to forest destruction. If
steps to that end are not taken it will
not be a great while before this sec
ton will suffer a succession of drouths,
floods and severe storms. There should
be some way of preserving the forests
for the general good. Our people are
selling their birthright for a mess of
pottage 1t is well enough that lands
should be cleared up for settlement.
but millions of acres of forests are dis
appearing every year, and very little
is coming in to compensate for the ioss.
Savannah News.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

Words Of cheer are words Of help:
words of gloom are words of harm.
There is bright side and Il dark side
to every phase of life and to every hour
Of time If we speak of the bright side,
We bring the brightness into prom
mence; if we speak of the dark side,
we deepen its shadows. 1t is in our
power to help or to hinder by word
any and every person with whom we
come into contact.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

Before the Emperor William can turn
the hands of the clock Of the centuries
to suit himself he must smash all the
printing presses. close all the univer-
sites. colleges and schools and put pro-
hibitive tariffs not only upon knowl-
edge but also upon commerce itself.
For il every hold and in every freight
ear there ara the hardy seeds of nine
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

A Texas girl in 50-cent shirt waist
Is undoubtedly one Of the most attract
I've sights on the face of the earth
Dallas News.
Always excepting one of our girls. of
course, in any old kind of shirt
waist.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

1t is often said that TROUBLES are
friends in Disguise" but this can only
be SO when we know how to avail our,
selves of their aid When we do not
know how to do so, it may easily hap
pen that through the darkness in
which they encompass US no ray OF
light can pierce, and out Of the bitter.
ness no sweetness can arise.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

= Chicago judge has Just compelleu a
man to pay alimony to his divorced
wife's second husband. She got her
decree and $500 alimony. and two
days later married the second man.
When she died the alimony had not
been paid, and the new husband, as
her only heir, sued his predecessor for
the unpaid alimony, and got it.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

Several medical men in London claim
20 have discovered an instance in
which young man over there actually
thought himself to death" There is
very little likelihood that the <lisesS>
ever will become epidemic in Londu11. :
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

A New York wife has secured a di-
vorce because her husband kissed her
Gotham husbands henceforth who
want to be on the safe side should boil
their oSculation as we'll as their drink
ing water.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

The Philadelphia Inquirer cites an
instance Of & man who was struck by
lightning and rendered unconscious in
Pennsylvania over twenty years ago."
Well, he'll probably stay in that State
forever
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

Year after year every large city in
the country has chrysanthemum
show, and yet no one has discovered L
way TO utilize that cabbage-like blow
out for Slaw purposes. Is Yankee
genius Gecadent?
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

Things are in quite Il different shape
how. President Mckinley is not can
didate. and Mark Hanna is. There is .
bitter factional fight among the Re-
publicans, and while an apparent peace
has been forced upon the contending
leaders, there Will be ample opportuni-
ty for the quiet use of the stilletto oD
election Gay.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

Some thoughtful genius down East
has invented sanitary Bible" which
may safely be kissed in court What
Is needed, however. is some invention
which will lead to more general use
of the old-faShioned Bible.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

Yvette Guilbert explains to an inter-
viewer that ''at last she has found an
ideal husband" This is too bad; real
one would have suited her much bet
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

at work ON his
farm, was stung to
death by a swarm
that lit upon his
face and hands. In
western Oklahoma
and parts of Texas
adjoining several
hundred head of
horses, mules and
\ cattle have been
killed.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

'Owney," the postal tramp dog, has
NAL, from the special correspondents
standpoint, appears to be the legitimate
successor of the air ship.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

a dispatch says that an Oklahoma
man has been arrested for having one
wife too many" y great many repu'
table. law-abiding citizens have that
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

What others say of you is ever SO
much better than what you say about
yourself" remarks a New York adyer.
tising expert That depends.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

The New York World IS rcviying that
old question. is marriage failure:"
Why not save time by sending a re-
porter to interview Lillian Russell?
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

, HAT this world is
not all a feeting
show is evidenced
by several people
at the White
House in W ashing-
ton, ID. c. You
meet one Of them
at the big door rs
you enter, and he
is made known to
you as Captain
Thomas Pendel,
chief doorketper.
I on meet the sec
ond in the person
of Col. William
y u b o i S, chief
usher. If You sue
ceed in gettingpast
.hni,. uIril,r+ nrnc
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

Experts on insanity say that luna
tics get along better when they work.
Other people are also often benefited
by tlat REMEDY.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

The financial outlook for next season
is brighter than usual Neither the De
Reszkes nor Nine Calve VIII return
next year
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

The fate of that Ohio boy who "has
a bark like a dog is not SO desperate
as it might have been. Suppose be had
d bark like an oak.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

teench century democracy. Clearly the
time is at hand when the Emperor must
either step the German people from
thinking or begin to think himself.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08
NEBRASKA

encore is the one who is permitted to
renew his note.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08
A GROUP OF OLD WHITE HOUSE ATTACHES.

there under the historic roof, caring for
the guest of the nation even as some
cared for the fathers and grandfathers
of those who come now.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08
captain Pendei Is Senior.

The very Oldest in point of service, and
of years as well, is Capt. Thomas Pendel,
who marks with star in his memory the
Sd day of November, 1864, when he was
transferred from the Metropolitan police
force, or rather was detailed, for special
duty at the White House. Those were
| troublous days in Washington, and the
tired, worried, harassed man who had
taken upon his broad shoulders the awful
burden of carrying Il government through
"a civil war was facing a future that look
ed black. and his heart was heavy within
him. Captain Penael was Il bricklaycr by
trade, and served his apprenticeship until
he was 2l. He was born on what was
Analostan island. in 1924, and is nov Is
years old He does not look it, for his
abundant hair is coal black, and only lit
tie gray shows at the temples. Ills grand
father was in the revolutionary war. his
father IL the war of 1S12, and he was HIM
self i'm the marine ser, ice of the Mexican
war. He does not know OF creature
living Today. outside of his immediate
family, who bears his name. He Is mar
ried and has several charming daughters,
who played in youth with the White
House children.
Couldn't pare rock.
Next longest in point Of service at the
White House is Col Crook. He says
that title was not won in military service,
and carries no straps with it, but that it
came upon him gradually and he wears it
| because he can't seem to get rid of it, but
then nobody wants to have him give it up.
for it fits admirably. Col. Crook came
,.J I l,tlA
| in MOVE mber. 1864. He was soldier in
| a Maryland regiment when detailed to
| the White House, and he found favor at
| once in the eyes of Mr.. Lincoln, who
seemed to have singled him out on many
| occasions. Col Crook was drafted late
| in the war, and just a little over month
| before The death of Mr.. Lincoln, he wrote
the following:
my man Crook has been drafted.
| cannot spare him. Z. NJ. G. please fix.
a LINCOLN.
March ., 1865
| Col. Crook did not have to be spared,
| but The man he had served with such ten
| der dew ton was taken. The man so val
liable to Mr. Lincoln had been just as
much worth to all the other adminstra
| tions. and so "CoI. William Crook is
borne upon the pay rolls of the White
House now, exactly as he was thirty-three
| years ago. only his duties have Increased
| and his responsibilities. He has filed
nearly every desk in the Office and was
! for time private secretary for President
| Grant He is now the dishurSing clerk.
(. and has served under nine Presidents.
| two of them having been there two terms.
! Grant and Cleveland
I The slight military looking gentleman
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08
FATAL TO MAN AND BEAST.
The Little Buffalo Gnat Already Has
n String OF Victims.

From many places come reports of 8
plague of buffalo gnats. Near Jefferson.
Vile. Ind, farmer named Price. while
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08

Sonle people laugh like amateur sing.
eI,s tr.ging to run the scales.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-07-08
LONG IN THE SERVICE.
FIVE OLD ATTACHES OF THE
WHITE HOUSE.
Employees Who Served Under Many
Adm iiniristra tions Presidents Come
and Go, bat These Good and Faith
ful Servants Remain.
White House Fixtures.
Washington correspondence:

c~HAT this world is