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The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08

What is probably the smallest COM
plete Illuminating plant ever construct
ed has Just been built by A. Graner,
an electrical engineer Of Philadelphia.
He has devised and constructed a small
light for vehicles which throws a beam
penetrating the darkest gloom and
clearly revealing all objects at dis
tance of 100 feet ahead. The point of
light projected by this tiny lamp can be
clearly discerned as it moves across a
surface more than 200 feet away. The
device is nothing less than a miniature
searchlight. The light is supplied by
the smallest storage battery that has
ever been utilized for lighting. Hereto
fore it has been necessary to resort to
large batteries weighing from 60 to 100
pounds for this purpose, but the inven-
tor has managed to make a fifteen
pound battery supply light for eight
hours without any perceptible dimin-
ution in its power. This battery can
be recharged by few bluestone Jars
if a central station is inconvenient, but
it can be more quickly done at one of
these generating plants and at a cost
which makes the electric light quite as
cheap as an inferior oil lamp. Another
noteworthy feature of the lamp, saws
the Record, is an ingenious method of
establishing the connection between
the lamp and the battery without the
necessity of making the wire connec-
tionS. The battery once fixed in it's
place under the seat remains there un-
til its power is spent. The lamp, how
ever, for the purpose of protection from
thieves or accident, may be taken off
and put on at pleasure. AS the lamp is
put into its place the current is made
through the brackets which support it.
If desired the lamp can be fixed on the
tongue of the carriage instead of the
dashboard.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08
In the Glad Spring Time.

How the wheelmen responded to the
suns vitation!-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The first baseball game of the season
seems to have got in ahead of the pio-
neer robin.-Boston Herald.
Windy March has finished its task of
blowing up the earth's pneumatic tires
for the bicycling season.-Chicago Record.
Fishing is very good in Florida, plenty of
fish in the river blackberries are getting
ripe and nobody need starve.-Florida
mes-Union.
Great weather this! But the skies are
not half as blue as the poets who can't
find a market for their spring songs.-At-
lanta Constitution.
Will somebody please organize a society
for the prevention of spring poets? Or
else persuade the Humane Society to in
clude this branch within its scope?-Chi-
cago Journal.
No matter what the almanac says, the
small boy will not admit that spring has
arrived until he can carry home in a tin
can live snake of the vintage of 1897
Cincinnati Tribune.
Spring is evidently on the way. The
temperature mounted to 80 degrees in
Kansas one day last week, and was at
80 degrees in several parts of Texas. The
warm wave is said to be strolling east
ward.-Boston Globe
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08
TAKE OUT A MILLION.
How the Bucket Shops of Chicago
"WOrk" the Country.

John Hill, Jr., chairman of the COM
mittee on gambling of the Chicago Civic
Federation, has been at Eldora, Iowa,
before the Hardin County grand jury. 1t
is claimed he secured some valuable in
formation affecting the bucket shops al
legged to be running in that part of the
State.
1t is claimed it has been proved to the
satisfaction of the grand jury that GER
tain produce and stock exchange of Chi
cago is doing bucket shop business. 1t
is claimed there that the institution-act-
ing for the Chicago concern-took S3S, 900
out of Hardin County in one week last
January, and has secured from the peo-
pie of Iowa over $1,0OO,0OO during the
last four months.
Mr.. Hill has the names of many losers,
as well as evidence in the cases. He
claims that agents of the bucket shops are
travelling over Iowa Systematically organ
iZing the business. and that the main
evidence is to the effect that two former
employees prove that the business is only
carried on the books of the company and
not in the open market.
In an interview at Eldora Mr.. Hill said
lew p6Oplb lliu odSioolC idCti VI thC
extent to which the State of Iowa is being
drained to enrich the bucket shop propRe-
tors of Chicago. and that his mission now
is to secure evidence throughout the coun-
try districts that would convict those men
and drive them out of the business, which,
he asserts. has no connection whatever
with legitimate market quotations or spec
ulation in actual transactions on the
Board of Trade, but is a system of gam
bling in which the operator has every ad-
vantage. no matter how prices may fluctu-
ate. and the patron is inevitably loser
if he stays in after the initiatory stage of
the game.
The Chicago house has leased wires
from the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany running through Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio and Iowa. 1t establishes agencies
in small towns where no other bucket shop
or legitimate house is represented, its OBJ
ject being, apparently, to avoid compari-
sons of prices with the quotations of other
houses.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08
The lrishman's RepIY.

At well-known mill, not hundred
miles from Coatbridge, q Scotchman
and an Irishman were employed carry
ing bags Of -four. Each had to carry
three dozen bags and then get short
spell to rest. The Scotchman, work
ing harder than the Irishman, got
through with his three dozen first,
which came in six bags at a time and,
of course, had a rest. While sitting,
the Irishman came along and exclaim-
ed: You haven't carried three doz-
en- yet cay" says the Scotchman,
"sax times sax sacks is thirty-sax
sacks "Be the powers,'' says Pat,
"you might as we'll say bags times bags
ss thfrty-aix bags"
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08
Notes of Current Events.

After bitter debate and many stormv
scenes. the Manitoba Legislature ratified
the settlement of the Roman Catholic
parochial school question.
Lord Salisbury has left London for Ri
yiera. He is expected to break his journey
at Paris for an interview with NJ. Hano-
tauX on the Cretan situation.
Charles f. Houghton, principal owner
OF the Corning Glass Company and re-
puted to be worth a million dollars. shot
and killed himself at Geneva. y. Y.
The claim of Edward J. Ivory tho al
legged dynamite conspirator, for $1,000
damages against the English Government
for false imprisonment has been forward
ed to Secretary of State Sherman.
Joseph Blanther, the murderer of Mrs
Langfeldt in California, committed sui
eide while in Jail at Meridian, Miss. bv
taking poison. Officers were expected the
same day to take him back to California.
Articles of incorporation were granted
in New Jersey to the Composite Typebar
Company, with an authorized capital of
$1O.OOO,OOO. The company is to manufac
ture machinery and objects used in the
art of printing.
Durlng gale IN oregon large SuS-
pension bridge across the Willamette riv-
er at Oregon City was wrenched from its
piers fully eighteen inches. The bridge
was afterwards moved back into position
by means of hydraulic jacks.
The grand national steeplechase at Liy-
erpool was won by Manifesto. Filbert
was second and Ford of Fyne was third.
The grand national steeplechase is of
1000 sovereigns, the second horse to re-
ceive 800 sovereigns and the third 200
sovereigns from the stakes.
In response to notices from American
importers, several of the Toronto houses
are rushing to the United States all the
wool they have for the American trade.
This is done in anticipation of the pro-
posed duty of u cents. pound.
The strike on the Erie canal at Pen
dleton, N Y, assumed serious aspect
when the stone masons were attacked by
sixty Italians because they refused to
quit work. Sheriff Kinney ordered the
Italians to return to their cabins. They
refused, and were reinforced by Poles,
whereupon the sheriff and his posse fired
volley at them.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08
Mother-Love in Snakes.

Even the cold-blooded and clumsy
snake evinces maternal affection, and
am fortunately able to produce evil
dence corroboTative of this statement
that is fresh in my memory. On March
30, while seated on my front porch,
says a writer in the Home Magazine
L noticed one of my dogs, a yearlin2
puppy, acting in peculiar way on my
lawn. He was circling around small
circumscribed spot, every now an4b9S&
thrusting his nose toward the ground,
and then quickly jumping back.
On approaching the animal | diScOv-
cred that the object of his playful as
saults was bunch or ball of snakes,
a three or four year old mother and her
last years brood of young. The day
was very warm, the sun shining clear
and bright, and these creatures had
emerged from their den or nest in the
ground, foot OF so away from the spot
where they were lying, and were sun
ming themselves.
When they observed me they made
an attempt to regain their nest: killed
two of them, however, before they
could enter. | had read somewhere
that if a snakes young were taken and
their bodies dragged along the ground.
the mother snake would follow the
trail, and, if she found them alive.
would conduct them back to the nest
l took the two which / had killed and.
after dragging them along the turf. de-
posted them on the pavement some
fifty feet from the den; then resumed
my seat on the porch and awaiteA'
developments.
In a short time the mother snake
emerged from the nest. and. after
crawling about for a second or two.
struck the trail and at once followed il
to the pavement and her dead young.
Fortunately / had a witness in the
person Of my iceman. who was deliver
ing ice at the time, and who was DUN.
founded at behOlding such high fntelli-
gence in a creature so low in the scale
of animal life.
| killed the old snake for these
snakes - garden mOccasfns - become
harmful after the third year. eating
young birds, etc. and ten of her
progeny, leaving two pairs 10 carry on
and perpetuate the race
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08

In some of the Eastern and far West
ern ateS the practice still obtains at
rthe adjournment of legislatures to di-
vide among the newspaper men who
have reported the sessions a certain
amount of money from the public
funds. This sum often reaches several
hundred dollars, and in some cases it
has been known to amount into the
thousands. No more barefaced rob-
berry OF the people than this is can be
imagined. and it amounts to no more
nor less than an open bribe to reporters
to suppress the evildoings of the legis-
llators. No self-respecting newspaper
man would accept money under those
circumstances.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08

poisonous fluid beneath the skin. This
operation he repeats three times in
twelve hours and then releases the
animal, green-eyed, with dilated pu-
pis, frothing at the mouth, and raving
mad. It lives from thirty to forty
hours after being liberated, but, like
dog with hydrophobia, it bites every
thing it meets and every other wolf
bitten becomes inoculated, and in this
way the poison spreads and death fol-
lows at a rapid rate. The Big Horn
Basin papers have published reports
brought in from the range of the death
rate among the coyotes being enor-
nous from a new disease never before
heard of, and the inventor claims it is
his mad death" wiping out the tribe.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08
AMERICAN JOCKEYS.
Thsy Forced English HorscmenK q
Adopt Their System.

When American jockeys first invaded
England, both they and their methods
were the laughing stock Of the old
world.
The idea of the saddle being placed
right on the horses withers. with the
stfrrups so short that the Jockeys knees
were almost up to his chin. seemed to
the Enghshmen such a departure from
the general conception of the way
Jockey should ride that ii was simply
ridiculous. Another system which the
majority of Englishmen have not even
yet got used to is the American idea
of getting away first and winning the
races in the first stages, rather than to
gallop for three-quarters OF the dis
tance and sprint the balance.
Two hundred years of sticking to old
methods has not made il easy for the
Englishmen to accept new ideas, but
the success made by Jockey Reiff
abroad on Duke & Wishard's horses
has forced even the most egodstical
of the Englishmen 30 admit that there
Is something good in the new styles
and methods, despite the fact that they
are radical departures from old and
accepted ideas. This is made manifest
when such a decidedly and radically
English sporting paper as the London
Sportsman publishes the following:
THE repeated success of Mr. Wish
ards stable formed quite feature OF
the Newmarket first meetngA and
those who have been most set against
Reiff's style of rlding-and / freely ad-
NIT to having been one of them-were
compelled to admit that there was
something in his methods. / think few
Of us would ever become recOnciled to
seeing the saddle placed on a horses
withers, and it does not seem possible
that a jockey in that position and rid
ing so short that his knees are nearly in
his mouth can have much control over
his mount
ION the other hand, Reiff very speed
lily demonstrated that no one could
teach him anything in the art of get
ting away, and one or two of our lead
ing professionals would do we'll to take
a leaf out of his book and Try to win
an occasional race in the early part
of it, instead of depending entirely up
on that 'one run at the finish which
SO frequently just fails in it's object and
lands them in second or third place"
1t is well within the possibilities that
next season may see some of the chief
English stables departing from old ira
ditions and embracing the advanced
ideas transplanted from America.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08

The educational drift Of English
schools is thus described by a British
journal, and there are some schools In
the United States whose courses OF
study are not greatly different:
We teach the children Danish,
Trigonometry and Spanish;
Fill their heads with old-time notions,
And the secrets of the oceans,
And the cuneiform inscriptions
From the land Of the Egyptians;
Learn the date of every battle,
Know the habits of the cattle,
Know the date of every crowning,
Read the poetry of Browning,
Make them show a preference
For each musty branch of science;
Tell the acreage of Sweden,
And the serpent's wiles in Eden
And the other things we teach 'em
Make mountain so immense
That we've not moment left
To teach them common sense.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08
Frances foreign legion is the las

Frances foreign legion is the last
refuge for adventures of all nations
In one company there We're serving re-
Gently Roumanian prince, who was
suspecteS Of having murdered his
brother; a German count, who had been
a lieutenant OF the guards and on the
Emperor's staff; an Italian lieutenant
colonel Of cavalry, dismissed for cheat
ing at cards; Russian nihilist escaped
from Siberia; former captain in the
English Rifle Brigade, and an ex-canon
OF Notre Dame, suspended for immoral
ETY.. The legion is always used for dan
gerous service in which the government
does not wish to employ regular troops,
as the men have no care for their lives.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08
C3vLskka e @f d The
+, SpREss

If there is blowhole anywhere in that
Supreme Court decision the railway attor-
neys can be depended upon to find it
Kansas City Journal
If the arbitation treaty ever emerges
from the American Senate, it bids fair 10
look more like a product of war than of
peace.-MOntreal Star.
There are some Congressman who do
not seem SO large when they reach Wash
ington as they do before they leave home.
Baltimore American.
The Crown Prince of Corea has got
himself kidnapped. 1t is to be hoped this
is no indication that he intends to go on
the stage-New York Press.
1t is said that the people Of the United
States smoke 49, 900 tons of tobacco ev-
cry year. Nobody has attempted to weigh
the cigarettes.-Cleyela Leader.
Too many bills are introduced into legis-
lative bodies, but there is always the con-
soling reflection that most of the bills in
troduced will never be passed.-Chicago
Record.
Canton doesn't exhibit good business
judgment in offering $1,000 bonus for
DOllef factory. 1t cOulU get sedsoh VI
Wagnerian opera for less.-ChicagoT Times
Herald
Now the bacillus which causes badness
has been located by French savant, Dr.
Sabourand, and vaccination for loss of
hair may be next in order.-Springteld
Republican.
If reciprocity is good for anything it
ought to be able to score a hit by giving
Jamaica bromo-seltzer and watermelons
in return for rum and ginger.-ChicagO
Times-H Herald.
The story of Senator Quay and the
Florida panther ought to warn all such
animals of the danger attending transac-
tions with Pennsylvania politicians.-New
York Journal.
When President Kruger, of the South
African republic doesn't like an editorial
in his morning paper, he suppresses the
Journals publication. There are officials
in the United States who must envy
Kruger his power.-Scranton Tribune.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08

Lewiston, Me-, Journal: So long as
gentlemen who would neither lie nor
steal nor boycott nor tyrannize as in
dividuals will consent to put their mon
ey into enterprises managed so as to
adopt methods of business which char
acteriZed Jack Cade and the pirates Of
the Spanish main, and which yet char
acterize the highwayman's art, these
esteemed gentlemen must not be
amazed if people continue to identify
trusts with robbery and the manipu-
1ators thereof with enemies of financial
order and Industrial fair play.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08

No metal is increasing in Importance
more rapidly throughout the world
than copper. Half of the copper mined
is produced in this country, the total
output of the United States last year
reaching 47,722, $50 pounds, a little
more than half of which was exported.
Our copper yield is now 40 per cent.
larger than that of the world in 1881.
The increased demand for the metal is
due to electrical aDplianceS.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08
Office and Omce-Seekers.

The office-seeker's motto: The man who
stands back is lost.-St. Louis Star.
The first Indianian to refuse an office
has come to the front 1t is thought he
wanted a better one.-St Louis Chron-
icle.
Maj. Mckinley is confronted by the old
problem of how to put a million pegs,
more or less. into few thousand holes
Chicago Dispatch.
There never were and there never will
be enough Offices to go around until every
citizen has an option ON a public place
Indianapolis Journal.
One of the Chicago applicants for office
has his Endorsements bound in sealskin.
Yet it is not believed he will land On vel
Washington Post.
The offices are being filed gradually.
and, what s more important, they are
most of them going to men of high char
acter and of excellent ability.-Boston
Journal.
Some politicians do not seem to care
who makes the songs of their country. or
its laws, either, so long as they get their
share in the disbursement of the patron
age.-Chicago Record.
1t would be interesting to note how
many ofice-seekers would suddenly be
called home from Washington if we
should get into difficulty with any for
eign nation.-CoIHmercia Advertiser.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08

Claus Spreckels is building $6,000,-
600 palace In San Francisco. 1t will
contain six bathrooms which alone will
cost $4,000. There is no telling how
much he will expend for soap, but it
will doubtless be beyond the dreams Of
Huo rico
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08

An old sea-captain Of Long Island has
proposed the unique scheme Of equip
ping mortar batteries at life-saving
stations from which to throw bombs
dlled with petroleum to calm the
waters raging about wreck. Through
the resulting smooth water and surf,
the rescue work would be comparative
~ easy
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08

The popular will expressed in the de-
:plorable form of riots seems to be max
ing headway against the toll gate sys-
item in Kentucky. Bourbon County has
expended about $1,000 on roadmaking
machinery, and last week nearly 100
miles Of roads were thrown open to
free travel. The county will acquire
the remaining 200 miles in a few
weeks
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08

The Salvation Army in Chicago Is
working on the idea that converts can
be best made on full stomachs. 1t is
seeding the poor as well as preaching
and praying for them.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08

But after all Chicago can hardly critl-
else Nevada's physical culture perform
ance on the score Of brutality SO long
as bicycle races against time are toler-
Qfad
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08

The old lady Of 72 years, who has just
died in New York from dancing all
night with too much vigor, had no idea
OF fate that would serve to warn
other aged persons Of social excesses.
Giddy people of more than three score
and ten should pause ere it is too lote.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08

"A man giving his name as Arthur john
son attempted to murder and rob John
Chapman in Milan, Mo. johnson is one
$of gang of highwaymen who murdered
B brakeman. conductor and nearly Iilled
al doctor in Red Wing. Mimi. for which
Trey are to be hanged March %. 1t is
believed there that johnson has eschped
from the authorities.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08

The Cedar Rapids Gazette says:
rMobs make fewer mistakes than the
courts" But their mistakes are not so
easily corrected.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08

The Kentucky House has passed tba bill
provlaing punishment for egg throEing
and other Interruptions at public snhak-
ings. Six silver Democrats were the oSly
ones to vote against the bill.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08

A New York theater announces the
Forthcoming production of die Wilde
Jagd." If it is anything like its name
sounds the authorities ought to inter-
fere.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-08
Foreign Affairs.

King George must be holding a lemon
in front of the performers of that Euro
pean concert.-Cincinnati Tribune.
On sentimental grounds the Cretan
seems to deserve about as much sympathy
and respect as any other semi-savage.-
New York Advertiser
England would enjoy a larger measure
of confidence if her impact on Greece
didn't come simultaneously with her i'm
pact with us.-Chicago Dispatch.
Another attempt to federate Australasia
is being made. Unless the old jealousies
and differences have disappeared, the at
tempt is doomed to failure-Buffalo Ex-
press.
The new treaty of alliance between the
Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free
State shows that Dom Paul is still keep
ing his weather eye open.-Providence
Journal.
Emperor William says his grandfather
was modest and unpretentious" But,
then, probably Warlike Willie thinks he
is modest and unpretentious himself
New York Press.
Salisbury is suffering from an attack of
the influenza, but if he doesn't have an
attack of Russia and Germany one of
these days he will be getting off lucky
Cincinnati Tribune.
When British Premier goes to Paris
to confer with the French Minister of For
elgn Affairs it is indicative of a desire to
get their instruments in tune and up to
concert pitch.-1ndianapoli Journal.