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Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1902-04-10

squalid and miserable by comparison,
and hat FEELING affects one for days,
until he once more gets seasoned into
the cd haunts and relapses into that
comfortable frame Of mind that after
all even the Strand and Chancery Lane
or Fleet street and Ludgate Circus,
with all their advertising denominations,
look at least familiar and homeiy!
Take the city Of London. 1t may
have some of the finest commercial
palaces in the world. rivaling those OF
Old Venice herself; but look how they
are huddled together! There is posi-.
lively not the space to appreciate their
design, their proportions or their detail.
Compare the Champs Elysees, Place de
la COHcordc, or the bOuievards of Paris
with our best streets and squares, and
where are we?
"Ur, say, the Ringstrasse Of Vienna,
or the Boulevard Andrassy at Buda.
pest, or. carrying our thoughts across
the Atlantic, to Broadway, Fifth ave
ME, riverside, and Central Park, New
- thS "SdAta oNSAoS
Boston; Victoria square, Montreal;
East avenue. Rochester; Delaware ave
nue.. Buffalo; DreXel boulevard. Wash.
ingtOn boulevard, or State street, Chi
cage; Pennsylvania avenue, Washing
ton, or dozens Of tthers that might be
named. Alongside Of these our Strand,
our Whitehall, our Victoria streets, Re-
gent street, Picadilly. Park lane, Ok
ford street. etc. are but Wretched apOl-
ogies for what leading streets and thor
Oughfares should be.
"lf we except the Thames embank-
ment. Shaftesbury avenue, and the new
thOrOughfare that is about to be made
between the Strand and Holborn," said
Mr.. Trevail, according to the London
Mail, nothing Of an adequate scale to
the size and Importance of this metrop-
oils has yet been attempted. With the
dilapidated, rickety. old ramshackle
properties that we see in some of the
best and most central parts Of London,
what is wanted is a general rebuilding
and Improvement scheme fixed after
mature deliberatiOn by a competent
central authority specially constituted
by parliament, after consultation with
the chief local authorities and perhaps
the representative societies of architec-
ture. sculpture and engineering, with a
special regard to it's qualifications and
fitness for the purpose.
This would be merely following tho
example that has been set in such capt.
tails as Paris, Vienna and Washington"
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1902-04-10
No Judge of Art.

The seller of pot-boilers came into the
office Of the shrewd broker with the air
Of one who is about to sacrifice a price
less treasure. 1t vas a seascape; q trou-
bled sea beat upon purple rocks, and
wind-driven gulls wheeled in wild cir
cles above the familiar pot-boiler ship.
The seller of pOt-bOilers looked upon the
treasure long and yearningly. 1t could
be seen that a gricvous struggle be-
tween art and appetite was raging
within him. How much do you want
for it," demanded the shrewd broker.
zone hundred dollars" said the pot.
boiler man; cts giving it away" "Give
you three for It," said the shrewd brok-
er. Its yours" said the pot-boiler
man. THAT fellow across the way only
offered me 5 cents, but he amt no Judge
of art."-New York Evening Post.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1902-04-10
DIES ALONE ON STREET
WOMAN OF SEWARD SUCCUMBS
TO COLD AND WEAKNESS

Seward, Neb., April 1.-The news
spread rapidly over the city about 7
o'clock this morning that the dead
body of a woman had been found in
the south part Of town. A good
many at first thought it was a first of
April joke started by somebody, but
1t was sOon discovered to he a real
ity. The body proved to be that Of
Mrs. Skeede, wife Of DR.. T. f.
Skeede. Several OF the neighbOrs in
the vicinity who first reached the
body did not recognize it as that OF
Mrs. Skeede, but her husband having
missed her started out In search of
her, and recognized the body as that
Of his wife. Tie body vas picked
up and carried to the family home
nearby. DR.. and Mrs. Skeede have
both been in poor health for several
months. Mrs. Skee!e only partially
recovering from a recent severe spell
of sickness, and she was still in a
very feeble condition. She had
evidently left the house sometime 10
the night and gone to the river a
few blocks away with the intention
of drowning herself as her clothing
plainly indicated that she had been
in the water, and failing, for some
reason to accomplish her purpose.
she attempted to return home. Be-
ing no doubt benumbed by the cold
she became exhausted and lay down
in the street within abOnt a block of
home and died. 1t is not known at
what time she left home, as her hus-
band did not miss her until morning,
but some Of the neighbOrs think they
heard some one calling about l O'Clock
in the night.
MR.. Skeede leaves a husband and
two little daughters, the oldest being
thirteen years of age. She was a Sis
ter to DR.. Skeede's former wife. Fl T
maiden name was Holmes, and she r..
sided at Tecumseh previous to b T
marriage. She was a most cStimab e
lady and bad many friends in Sew.
ard.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1902-04-10
CARRIERS CASE IS SERIOUS.
Imprisoned Army Captain Has Typhoid
Fever.

KANSAS City, Mo, April 5.-Accord.
ing TO a telephone message from Fort
Levenworth, Kas., early today, the
condition OF Oberlin NJ. Carter, ex-
captain OF engineers, is unchanged
Car er passed a fairly good night and
was resting easy this morning, when
his temperature was reported at lO3
Warden McClanghry said; "It is a
straight cas- OF typhoid fever. 1t is
too early to determine the result, but
the case looks serious"
Fl. G. Stone, Carter's attorney In the
governments cas- againSr him, will
arrive at the sick mans bedside today
from Chicago. MI. Stone was tele.
graphed for yesterday, Carter, it is
said desiring to sign certain papers ia
the case before the disease might take
q serious turn.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1902-04-10
0yEER SroRDS

A bee will carry twice It's own weight
In honey or wax.
The thirty-fOur biggest estates in
Britain average $4,000 acres apiece.
Champagne has 1872 per zen of alco-
hol and goOseberry wine Ills per cent.
Italy owns the three largest churches
in the ~world-St. Peters. Rome. the
Duomo, Milan, and st. Paul's, at Rome.
rian Railway, a distance of 932 miles,
there is only one town deserving the
name-Krasnoairs-with a population
of $4,000.
Wasps may often be observed detach-
ing from fences, boards or any old
wood the ibres which they afterward
manufacture into papier mache.
Fire losses in England amount to 621h
per cent of all premiums paid.
An India rubber tree gatherer in Bra
I'll averages sixteen pounds Of Juice
daily.
Since the foundation of the Alpine
SluD tLc ucdIu ldtc liOAl ulOuuldlu dC-
cidents has averaged less than 4 per
cen a year out of five hundred mem
berS.
The Chinese pen from time i'm
memorial has been q brush made Of
some soft hair and used to paint the
c%uriously formed letters of the Chinese
alphabet.
Brine springs flow under the town of
Norwich. England. They have been
there for centuries, and were used for
the production of salt long before the
Christian era.
Greenland and Iceland have the bet
ter Of us in the way Of trade. Last
year we imported goods from those two
From Tomsk to Irkutsk, on the Sibe-
countries to the value Of $S2,533 and
sold them only $500 worth in return.
A French explorer has discovered on
the west coast Of Africa what he re-
CARDS as the vainest people. They are
the Pahonins. a warlike tribe. whose
main employment is the adornment Of
their persons, chiefly by means of tat
tooing.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1902-04-10
GEORGE GOULD GOES FREE.
District Judge Good Finds no Evidence
Against Him.

David City, Neb., April 2.-Some
time ago George Gould was arrested
on the charge OF aiding and abetting
Amos Fl. Gould 10 forging notes and
mortgages which resulted in the
wrecking Of the Platte Valley State
bank at Bellwood. The preliminary
hearing was held before County
Judge Skies and Gould was held to
the district court under bonds in the
sum of 50, 900.
GOuld's attorneys Immediately
made application to Judge Good of
WahUo for a writ of habeas corpus.
Judge Good passed on the application
last night. In an exhaustive OpiD-
ion, ia which the judge carefully re-
viewed all the evidence introduced
befnre County Judge Skiles at the
preliminary examination and on
which Judge SkileS held Gould to the
district court for trial, the judge held
that there was not sufficient compe.
tent evidence showing that any one
had aided, abetted. or counseled
Amos H. Gould in the commission of
the forgeries charged In the comp
laint upon which the examination
was held. and that there was no
sufficient competent evidence in
troduced before the county judge to
show that George Gould by any act,
aided, abetted or counseled Amos Fl.
Gould either in the forgery or issn-
ing Of forged paper.
The evidence being insufficient to
justify the detention of Gould the
judge ordered that he be discharged
from custody Of the sheriff. The
judge, In the opinion filed, sustalns
the contention of Gould's attorneys,
A. j. Evans and L. S. Hastings in
every particular.
The decision OF the judge meets the
approval Of all persons who know
anything about the evidence upon
which Gould was held. In the opin-
ion OF the judge generally it would
ha We been an expensive farce to the
county to put Could upon trial on the
evidence which the state had against
him.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1902-04-10
piea from Poison IN Min

Nelson, Neb., April 1.-The three
year-old daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ Adamson, living near this place,
died Thurdsay as a result of poison
In milk. A five-year old son and
both parents are ia a critical condi.
ton. 1t is believed that the poison
came from a weed called ''Old maids
eyes"whlch grew rear q straw stack.
The straw absorbed the poison anS
st Vas then eaten by the cows
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1902-04-10
CALLS LONDON a
Architect Makes Invidious Compar|
sons with Other Cities.

Architect Makes I%nvidious Compare
sons with Other Cities.
A candid friend of London has ap-
peared in the person Of Mr.. Trevail,
the new president Of the Society of
Architects. In his presidential address
at ST. James Hall Mr.. Trevail said:
"The impression that always pals
upon one when returning from either
the European or American continents
70 London Is the wretchedly narrow
and MISUNDERSTANDING streets, with
their low, mean, small shops and dwell
iDgs by contrast with what we have
inst left behind us. 1t 10 Of little inter-
est to be told how many hundreds Of
miles Of the same sort of thing Lon
don contains. more than does any other
metropolis In christendom or elsewhere.
The fact still remains in your mind
IN . general sense that London looks
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1902-04-10
PENiTENTIARY FOR YEAR.
Boy Who Wrote Blackmailing Letter
Sentenced nj Rushville.

Rushville, Neb., April Erred
Reno, who vas found guilty Of send
ing through tie mail a letter threat
ening to wipe one of his n%eighbors
off the face of the earth, was seEten-
ced to the penitentiary at hard labor
for one year by Judge Harrington.
This Is the first conviction in this
judicial district under the black
mailing law passed by the last legis.
lature.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1902-04-10
A Swift Ostrich.

Oliver W., according to the Ameri-
;an Boy, is the name of an ostrich
which spends its summers at Sara
toga and It's winters in Florida, and
has the distinction of being one Of
che very few ostriches Of the country
broken to harness. 1t is ten feet
high and weighs oveI three hundred
pounds and makes a mile in 2:O2.
equaling the time of Cresceus and
The Abbot, the two fastest horses.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1902-04-10
Seven Years in Penitentiary.

Atwood, Kas., April S M. A. Will
son, who was found guilty of grand
larceny and robbery in the second de.
gree, was today sentenced by Judge
Hamilton to sewn years IN the peni
Tertiary. Attorney HesSen of Man
hatten, who was Wilson's attorney,
made a great effort to get a new trial,
which vas denisd bv the judge. He
vas charged with robbing the county
treasury of about two thousand dol.
l2rS December u last. .
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1902-04-10
BURLINGTON TRAIN is HELD UP
NEAR ST. JOSEPH, MO.
FOUR BANDITS In THE MOB
SHOOT A FEW TIMES, BIT DO NO
GREAT DAMAGE
GAIN NOTHING BY ATTEMPT
Nothing Secured, According 70 the Conf
pany Officials. Scene of Hoidup fami-
liar One to Trainmen.

st. Joseph, Mo-, April 4.-TTai
No. ID, on the Burlington route,
which left st. Joseph for the north
at 1880 o'clock last night, was held
up three miles north of the city linn
its by four masked men. Railroad
authorities assert that the robbers
got nothing, although on this point
conflicting repUtrS are in circulation.
The ATTEMPTED robbery occurred
fifteen minutes after the train had
pulled out of the Francis street STA
ton in this city. The scene is very
n ar the place where on the night of
september "a, 1893, four young men
Of this city made a futile attempt to
rob d Burlington train, two of the
party being Shot down. On that &C.
caSiOn the RAILROAD authorities, under
the leadership of W. G. Brown. then
general manager of the Burllngton's
Missouri lines, ran a dummy train
loaded with policemen and deputy
>heritfs, and the robbers were taken
by surprise, their plans HAVING been
tipped off by a treacherOuS cOnfeder-
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1902-04-10
M~ILLIONAIRE AT 23.
GEORGE MEGREW AND HIS RISE
IN THE WORLD.

He Was q Denver Cash BOY in 1891,
Later Hustled for u Living in Wash
iEEton, ID. C., and is Now a Partner
OF andrew Carnegie.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1902-04-10

A straight ticket doesn't necessarily
indicate that all the candidates are
straight
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1902-04-10

Usually when q man starts On the
downward road The brake refuses b
work
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1902-04-10
Certain Sounds Lackius

Certain Sounds Lacking.
The Aztec language. In use in Mex.
leo at the discovery Of America, lacked
the sounds Indicated by our letters b.
d, +, &. r. l. ] and v.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1902-04-10

Il was udlng In the CHAIR car
when | felt the air brakes applied,
and the train soon stopped. | raised
a window on the west side OF the
coa"h and looked out, but could see
nothing. | then heard three or four
shots, as if from revolvers. ] rushed
to the head end of the car and reach
ing the platform, opened the coach
d or and looked out on the east side.
AS | did SO / saw three or four men
standing near the engine. One Of
them turned toward me and yelled:
"T'ake your id head in or |
will blow it off,; With that remark
he fired toward me, but l do not
think he intended to hit ME. /
pulled my head 10 and shut the plat
form door, and then started toward
the front of the train. / met Jesse
Gaut, my brakeman, coming FROM
the smoker.
"Guess we're in for it, I said to
him. We then returned to the pas
senger coaches, where / notified the
passengers what was taking place.
and told them to hide their vlauables.
for l didn't know but that the rob-
bers would 60 through the cars. l
turned the lights out in the sleeper
and locked the door.
ENGINEER BROUGHT 70 TIME.
The robbers placed a red lantern
beside the track In front Of the
train, and when it began to slow up,
Engineer Kerst saw masked men be-
side the track. He attempted to run
the train through, but just at that
moment n of the robbers swung
himself into the cab and held a re-
volyer to the engineers head.
Il en- Engineer Kerst and Fireman
Samuels realized that it was a genu-
Inc holdup, and that they were pow
erless.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1902-04-10
FOUR MEN

The leader of the robbers Is de-
Scribed by the trainmen as being
about thirty-ive years old, five feet
ten inches tall, weight 100 pounds,
voice loud and clear. He wore a long
mask Of cloth, covering his face from
the forehead down and falling below
his chin. When he gave orders to
the trainmen or to the other robbers
every word he said could be heard
distinctly. Some of the officers and
railroad men say today that bis i'm
. rfect description may be that Of
Pat Grove, who Is known to lave a
grudge against the Buriing ton and
who has made threats against that
road.
The second robber is forty years
old, five feet nine inches tall, weight
40 pounds. He wore a black stiff
hat and d dark red false beard. The
third rOtber is between twenty-SiX
and twenty-eight years old, weight
$50 pounds. He wore a long black
mask, like the leader. Height not
given. The fourth man is between
twenty-five and twenty-four years
old, five feet seven inches tall.
weight about 155 pounds. He wore
a long black mask.
MON, or ~
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-04
o M~UD-DAUBERs.
How the Wen-Known Wasp Comes into
Life Well Provided For.

An interesting tenant of the farm
is the mud-dauber, the best known OF
the solitary wasps, whose nests are
found stuck to the rafters IN the at
tic and outbuildings, or to a nail In
the wall or in an old coatsleeve be-
hind the door. She places several
cells about an inch long side by side
or on tiers above another without re-
gard to regularity. As she tolls she
sings squeaky little solos In a high
key which sounds like a tiny circular
saw as it issues from a piece of hard
wood. The moment the Industrious
little mason has completed the cell
she sets about to fill it with spiders,
all of the same species, of which it
takes eighteen on an average. On
one of these an egg is deposited
which soon matches into a grub and
Immediately begins to devour the
feast of paralyzed spiders. When it
has eaten all, it spins a dark-brown
covering for itself which is about
transparent. At the proper time it
breaks through the walls of its mud
house and proudly jerks its pretty
steel-blue wings with the same grace
full firt as did mother while she was
busily engaged with her nest-build-
ing.-Country Life in America.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-04
A Pet BullfrOg.

Mr.. D. L. Arey's young son, of
about seven years, has accomplished
an unusual feat in tanning a bull
frog. Several months since, Mr..
Arey went SEEMING and caught sew
eral buIlfrogs. He took them home
and his little son, upon seeing them,
determined to make a pet of a large
frog. The boy Immediately set about
cultivating friendship with the frog,
and in a short while his frogship was
on terms of the closest intimacy
with his little master. Now the boy
calls the frog, and he answers to any
command. He gives ~utterance to a
particular order, and the frog be-
gins to croak. Another order causes
the frog to jump into a wagon in
which little Arey takes him for a
drive each day. The frog is as much
a pet as a kitten, and is thoroughly
MISUNDERSTANDING Sun.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-04
Condensed, Accurate, Helpful.

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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-04

Writing us regarding the note
about the Chicago Young Peoples
Weekly in The Progressive Farmer
two weeks ago, its publishers say:
eve note that you have put the
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-04
Eight Puzzles.

Feet have they, but they walk not
-(Stoves).
Eyes have they, but they see not
(P~otatoes).
Teeth have they, but they chew not
-(Saws).
Noses have they, but they smell not
-(Teapots).
Mouths have they, but they taste
not-(Rivers).
Hands have they, but they handle
not-(Clocks).
Ears have they, but they hear not
-(Cornstalks).
Tongues have they, but they talk
not-(Wagons).-Golden Days.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-04
A Strange But True Story of Old Times.

~
Editor of b Progressive Farmer:
Once a slave ship was wrecked
down or the North Carolina coast
and six slaves escaped. They trav-
eled west after they landed and came
to Raleigh.
The Sheriff of Wake County put
them in Jail for some one to come
and claim them, but after a time all
of them died of jail fever, except
two. The Sheriff then released these
two and gave them land, on which
they built a log hut and farmed.
The people called the slaves Mark
and Will. Mark was a tall black man
and had been a cannibal when in
Africa.
Will was a short, yellow man and
had a dog that he was very fond of,
for it had come with him from
Africa.
One day one of the Sherifs grand
daughters went to the cabin to see
the farm. Will told her to go up into
the loft and get some popcorn. She
went, but was very much startled
when Mark grabbed her by her long
yellow plat. She screamed and Will
came in just in time to keep Mark
from numbering her. He had not
forgotten his life as a cannibal, and
wanted to taste human flesh again.
This was the last, though not the
first time, that the children visited
the cabin. Mark used to file his
teeth in true cannibal style.
Not long after this event Mark
died, and the inhabitants of the COM
munity were not sorry, for they were
all afraid of him.
When the circus came to Raleigh,
Will was allowed to go, but instead
Of enjoying himself, he wept because
he was homesick at seeing an ele-
plant.
When Will died he was buried sit
ting up, and in the grave a bag of
parched corn and a walking stick
were put. His dog was also killed
and put in the same grave. Will had
asked to be buried in this way, for
he thought he would go straight over
to his own home in Africa, and want
ed his dog with him.
LEONITA D.
Raleigh, N. @.