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Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29
Thirty Years AaO.

Gov. kellogg, who was removed by
the White League, was restored to the
executive post Of Louisiana, McEnery
surrendering.
The grand jury of the District of
Columbia refused to indict Charles A.
Dana Of the New York Sun for libel
OH charges made by BOSS" Shepherd.
Theodore Tilton made a second and
detailed public statement of his
charges against Henry Ward Beecher,
giving conversations and correspond,
ence with Mrs. TiltOn.
A Chicago and Northwestern train
went from Fulton, Iowa, to Chicago
133 miles, in 142 minutes.
Forty young girls persisted in the
burning Of a cotton mill at Fall River,
Mass.
The British claims awarded by the
mixed commission under the Washing.
ton treaty Of 1913, and amounting to
s1,930,OOO, were paid by the United
States.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29
AMBITIOUS OLD AGE.
Better Seek an Education at 70 than
Remain Ignorant.

Better Seek an Education at 70 than
Remain Ignorant.
A few years ago two American wo-
men excited some comment by enter
ing college for a complete course, one
being 20 years Of age and the other
nearly as old. One gave as her rea-
son lifelong ambition. Having mar
ried before her aspiration for col
lege education could be realized, she
devoted herelf faithfully to her do
nestle career, but never ceased to de-
plore her meager schooling. Her chill
dren having grown into men and wo-
men and having married and left her
alone in her home, she could see no
reason why she should not undertake
to carry out her early purpose. She
found greater pleasure in study than
in anything else and although she
might die before graduation, still she
would have enjoyed her later years to
a degree which no other occupation
would allow.
Harvard reported four venerable stu
dents in the summer school, one a New
Hampshire preacher Of S3 years; an
other a Congregational minister CDR.
Leonard Woolsey Bacon), who has
written a good deal for the magazines
and who is "a years old, and two 9TH
er preachers Of about 60 years each.
OF course this is not like entering for
full university course, but each of
this remarkable quartet has a special
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29
forty Years Ago.

The draft was being put into force
i'll nearly every Northern State.
Corrections in the apportiOnment cut
the draft for Illinois districts 80 per
cent.
The Cook county, Ill, board of SUI
pervisors offered a bounty of $40 to
brokers for each man secured for en-
listment.
An engagement between French and
Mexican forces on the Rio Grande be-
came quadrangular fight in which
the French and Confederates were
routed by the Union and Mexican SOL
diers.
New York was depressed over the
reported blowing up of Admiral Far
ragut's, flagship, the Hartford, by &C.
cident off Mobile
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29
a REMARKABLE WATCH,
Curious Relic Once Belonged to Queen
Mary of Scotland.

Curious Relic Once Belonged to Queen
Mary of Scotland.
The descendants of Mary Setoun,
one of the four maids of honor to
Mary Queen Of Scotland, have in their
possession curious watch, which was
given by that queen to her favorite
The watch, which is in the shape of a
miniature skull, is about two inches
and half in diameter. 1t is supposed
to have been purchased by Mary her.
self when On a visit to Blois with her
husband, the dauphin of France, as
1t has the name Of a celebrated Blois
manufacturer engraved on it.
The entire skull is curiously en-
graved. On the forehead there is
picture of Death, with the usual
scythe and hour glass and sand glass.
He Is depicted as standing between
q palace and a howell, to show that he
Is no respector Of persons, and under
meath is the familiar quotation from
Horace, ''Pallida more aequo puisat
pede pauperium tabernas Regumque
turreS." At the back of the skull is
another representation, this one being
Of Time devouring everything. Time
also carries a scythe, and beside him
is the emblem Of eternity-the serpent
with its tail in it's mouth.
The upper section of the skull is
divided into two pictures. On one side
is the Crucifxion, with the Marys
kneeling at the foot of the cross, and
on the other side are Adam and Eve
surrounded by animals in the Garden
of Eden.
Below these pictures, running right
round the skull, there is an openwork
band, to allow the sound of the strik-
ing of the watch to be heard The
openwork is a series Of designs cut
to represent the various emblems of
the CrucifiXion. such as scourges, the
cross, swords, spears, the lantern used
III the garden, and so forth. All Of
the carvings have appropriate Latin
quotations.
By reversing the skull and holding
the upper part in the palm Of the
hand and lifting the under jaw on its
hinge the watch may be opened, and
on the plate inside is representation
Of the stable at Bethlehem, with the
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29
$4,000 in Gold Coin

Will be paid in prizes to those COM
ing nearest at estimating the paid at
tendance at the st. Louis Worlds
Fair
The above amount is deposited with
the Missouri Trust Company, as per
the official receipt of the treasurer OF
that financial institution and publish
ed in the schedule of prizes announced
elsewhere in this paper. The Worlds
Fair Contest Company. Delmar and
Adelaide avenues, St Louis, Mo-, are
Offering these prizes and there is no
doubt of the cash being in bank to pay
the lucky winners. The contest closes
October 18th,
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29
Twenty Years AGO.

The Car, the Emperor Of Germany
and the Emperor of Austria met al
Skierneviece.
The sixteenth annual reunion of the
Army Of the Cumberland opened in
New York.
Four hundred and ninety-two new
cases Of cholera developed N southern
Italy and 169 deaths occurred.
James G. Blaine, Republican presi.
dental nominee, left Boston for New
York on a tour of the middle West.
Reports were sent out from Cairo,
Egypt, that Gordon had raised the
siege Of Khartum.
Earthquake shocks were felt in
Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.
England had an army of 1869 men
in Egypt.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29
Reh,iIny he Bible.

1t was the meeting Of the Christian
Endeavor Society. Near the close. the
leader suggested that each one should
tell what part of the Bible he read the
-~"et. and give the reason.
The last one to speak was a lad. who
said with little hesitation that he
read the first chapters of Genesis more
than any others.
A look of surprise and curiosity was
manifest in all the listeners, as he
went on to give his reason:
You see | always resolve every
New Year that | will begin and read
the Bible through; but | never get very
far, and of course | always have to
make q inning"
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29
Seventy-five Years AGO.

The first public school in Baltimore
was established.
Col. Trumbull, the artist, recon-
mehded the application OF beeswax to
the backs of the pictures in the CAPT
tol at Washington to preserve them.
Great preparations were commenced
to celebrate the approaching marriage
of Ferdinand, King of Spain.
The first steam sawmill in Pittsburg
began operations.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29
Rural Liars.

Old 1nhabitant Qoafng at Cross Roads
grocery)-Talkin' about crop failures, 1
remember time when people had to
eat up all the farm stock and then live
on the fodder wot they had saved fer
the cattle.
Older Inhabitant-Huh, That's moth
IN. Why, l re-collect the time when
provisions got so scarce that the starv-
In farmers he'd to go out an shoot an
amatoor sportsman fer dinner. an then
cook him with the wood from the mo
Trespass" signs.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29
Fifty Years AGO.

The British consul to the Sandwich
islands presented his protest against
the annexation of those islands by the
United States.
The French and English Baltic
fleets left those waters homeward
bound.
Florence Nightingale, with other
nurses, arrived at Scutari to care for
the suffering among the Anglo-French
army.
The theater at BOulogne was burned
and the Emperor acted as a fireman.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29
shepherds and their focks in the dis

shepherds and their flocks in the dis
lance.
The works Of the watch are in the
brains Of the skull. the dial plate
being where the roof Of the mouth
would be in a real skull. This is of
silver and gold, with elaborate scrolls,
while the hours are marked in large
Roman letters. The works are remark
ably complete, even to a large silver
bell with a musical sound, which
holds the works in the skull when the
watch Is closed.
This curious old watch Is still in
perfect order, and when wound every
day keeps accurate time. It is too
large to be worn and was probably in
tended for desk or private altar
Kansas City Journal.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29
PreseryJngthe Peace.

Broncho BILL was talkin' with an
Eastern man to-day, and he says when
two fellers in his section have dispute
they just go to law and sue each other
for damages or somethin'.
Hair-Trigger Ike-But how about the
loser? Don't he get gun an try to 81,
even?
Broncho Bill-Waal, as near as l kin
make out, by the time the loser hez paid
the lawyers, he amt got no money to
buy guns
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29
Her CUriOSitY.

Mrs. Chellus looks bad, doesn't she?'
Yes, and no wonder. She's been
awake every night for Il week past"
THE idea, What was the matterT
''She discovered about week ago
that her husband talks in his sleep, and
of course. she had to listen"
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29
A Substitute for Cork

Notwithstanding al the achieve
ments Of practical science, there are
some indispensable materials the max
ing Of which is still natures secret.
and for which no entirely successful
substitute has been found Among
these substances is cork, and it is pos
sible that in this case nature offers a
substitute in the wood of a tree, grow
ing on the east coast of Lake Tchad
in Africa, which is of even less specific
gravity than cork.
Best Language for the Telephone.
French is said to be more easily un-
derstood over the telephone than Eng.
uSh
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29
To New York City

Via Michigan Central. THE Niagara
Falls Route A visit to Greater New
York and its magnificent harbOr is an
education. Chicago City Ticket Office,
f19 Adams Street: Central Station. 18th
Street and Park Row. ". l.. Wyand.
y. w. Pass Agt., Pioneer Press Builds
ing. st. Paul.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29

Kidney Pills did
me q great lot Of
good, and if it
were not true L
would not rec
Ommend { b e III.
| t W q S [ h g
strain of lifting
that brought on
k i d n e Y trouble
and weakened my
back, but since
using DOan'S Kid
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29

ney Pills 1 have lifted six hundred
pounds and felt no bad effects. L have
not felt the trouble come back since,
although L had suffered for five or six
years, and other remedies had not help
ed me at ALL"
For sale by all dealers. Price 80
cents. Foster-Milburn Company, Buff.
falO, n Y.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29
len Years Ago.

Forest fires ragged around Bena. AL
giers, with great loss of life.
Judge Gibbons ordered judgment OF
custer against the Distilling and Cat.
tie Feeding Company, the so-called
whisky trust"
Levi P. Morton was nominated for
Governor by New York Republicans.
Announcement was made at Toxic
Of the ratification of the British-Jap-
anese treaty.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29
Better Stay at Home.

EFT the Panama idea out of your head
4 If you have packed your trunk and thrown
- IN up your job, unpack it and ask your former
90 n employer to take you back. There few
thousands of young fellows in this country who
1S1EA have idea that in the construction Of the
great canal fat jobs will go begging and that
it will thing chuck the $50 month place
the Farm draw $500 every thirty days the great
ditch Applications for places reaching the Canal Com
mission the rate Of LOCO day already in the face Of
pOsa
Some time there will be lot of work, and uEdOubt-
eddy the rate of pay will be high But you couldn't stand
it. There isn't pestiferous hole the globe than
that canal site. The climate is different from that
of the United States dark is from daylight. Strange
fevers that say almost in night abound and disease is
to be found Undoubtedly an that be done
to make the surroundings heathfu will be done but
then it is probable that the digging of the canal will be
done at the cost Of thousands Of human lives The
who work and survive will be largely those who have
grown up countries who used to killing labor
who physically stronger than the average Ameri
If you have any kind of position that pays you de-
Gently and has future in it, you will be wise to get the
Panama idea out of your head IT, when the time
you will 60 and have family in justice to them get your
life insured if any insurance company will take the risk
Cincinnati Post.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29
Where Is the Russian Army?

HERE is the enormous Russian army which
Ethe advance notices of the war said would
W W hManchuria by this time? What has become Of
z-=9hat mighty host that which
HNSS followed Aerxes? Before hostilities began the
hSAAGHestimate that the Car had 100000 troops
Far East At home with the colors and in reserve
several millions ready for transport. Nearly five
months have elapsed Does the Manchuran army manifest
the phenomena of preponderous bigness?
On the contrary, the of every Russian COM
who has yielded his line has presence
the enemy in greater numerical superiority. Yau,
Nanshan HILL Teissu in fact, everywhere contact
Cured, the Russian story of few against many-of
encompassing Japanese tide at sweeping the
front and tapping the TANKS Even Kuropakn joined
the chorus thus confessing Weakness and Justification
for the withdrawal, not merely Of detached force
advance guard but Of his main army says the
possess the Wis major
Yet the most liberal estimate does place the Mkados
soldiers in Manchuria at more than 100000 An army
defense, according to accepted modern military canons
ought to be able to hold twice its number in check Did
Lee stay Grant from Richmond with less than
half that of his adversary? Were not the Beers able
arrest the of army many times larger than
their own? Kuropatkns dispositions unless Russian in
capacity is colossal suggest believes his
enemy exceeds him. Where, then is the Russian army-
New York Globe
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29
THE STRAIN OF WORK.

Best of Backs Give Ont Under the Bur-
den of Daily Toll
Lieutenant George G.. Warren, Of
No. Chemical. Washington, ID. c..
says: Its an honest fact that Doan's
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29
Teach the Boys to Swim.

- IIESE the days when the parents Of small
4 boys feel anxious lest their Offspring may seek
deep water and come to grief. The youngsters
commanded not to go swimming. They are
ENENIsSNH punished if they caught with wet hair
ESSSaASJ Sometimes the shrewd ties peculiar
knots in fastenngs of shoes and clothes
tects the outdoor bathing enterprise the boy Then
trouble and the boy having tasted the
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29

nreQueny upset every Theory Of human foresight and
make mockery Of engineering skill. Such accidents
be avoided in only and that by holding all trains
during such terrific stormsand this the public would
tolerate On the contrary, there is demand
reduction in running time for greater speed for anni
aton of distance By yielding to this pressure railroad
in danger of losing sight Of the cardinal factor
Of safety. The American people afflicted with the
mania Of rapidty. No railroad train, trolley car
automobile no horse go fast enough. If a railroad
company to its trains safety schedule it
would be boycotted by the travelling public.
How far then, is the public responsible for railroad
accidents that caused by the lack Of proper
donary in the running of fast trains?
of happen which cannot be avoided Unfortunate
y of them result from tie reckeSsneSs
the devmaycare impulse Of getting there at any
1t would that have about reached that point
where reaction must set in A few horrors like
that in Colorado and the Chicago Heights
and there will be revolution Of public which
may result in the subordnaton of speed safe-Chi-
cago Journal.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29

Perhaps that is the idea that Secretary in mind
when he complains that the management has not mazda
sufficient of the newspapers 1t is no use to talk
of that If the people do not to go to St. Louis
they will stay away In the autumn, when ST. Louis is
cooler the attendance will doubtless larger But there
is little to hope that it will large enough to
make the enterprise financially Observation-Disclosures
Union and Advertiser
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29
Big Exp0sitiOns Played Out.

HE plain truth is that the country has had a
surfeit of eXpostions, and that there is not
the popular interest in this one great as it
undoubtedly is. which its projectors antici-
ipated. 1t is useless to say that the people
fought to be interested; that it is a patriotic
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29

Speaker Cannon saiG the other day
that he received a thousand dollars in
wages for the first five years that he
worked for hire, and saved half Of it.
If he should write an article on How
to Live on Two Dollars a Week." It
would be worth reading, for it would
be record Of actual experience.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29
How Far Is the Travelling Public Responsible?

HE recent Colorado railroad disaster is another
startling demonstration of the fallibility of man
agerial precaution in the operation Of railroads.
The cloudburst which caused the wreck and re-
suited in the loss Of so many lives was one Of
those exhibitions of elemental force which not
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29

The treasurer Of the United States
on May 6, 1908, redeemed two half
cent pieces. This is the first time in
the history Of the country that any
such coins have been presented for re-
demption 1t is more than a century
since the first half-cent piece was
coined, and it is nearly fifty years
since the government discontinued
limiting them.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29

The late George G. Vest, when a
member of the United States Senate,
was the pygmy Of that most august
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-09-29

If the entire production Of coal in
the United States during 1903 were
loaded on freight cars with capacity
Of thirty tons each the trains contain
ing it would ensircle the globe at the
equator about three and one-third
times.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-08-30
CITY NEWS
JAP ELECTRICIAN
INSPECTS TROLLEYS
One of Mikado's Commissioners Visits
ST. Paul on Way to Worlds Fair

Y. Shijo, commissioner of electrical
railways for Japan, spent yesterday in
St. Paul and Minneapolis inspecting
the lines of the Twin City Rapid Tran
sit company. Shijo was on his way TO
St. Louis to attend as a delegate from
his country the international congress
of electrical engineers. His home city
is Tokyo, where there is quite an ex-
tenslve system of electric tramways.
The American system is far superior
to ours" said. the Japanese commits
sloner, who had his first opportunity
yesterday to compare Yankee electric
lines to his own.
The equipment of the Twin City
lines is better than that at Vancouver,
the only lines L have seen outside of
Japan before reaching ST. Paul We
have the double trolley system and our
cars are. smaller and, track equipment
much lighter. We have not yet equip
ped our cars with the air brake, but
Japan does not wait long before keep
ing abreast Of the best in the world,
and we will shortly have everything
that the Americans have in street car
equipment"
The japanese have no information
on the war situation not given by the
American newspapers.
Accompanied by N. Nasaki, presi-
dent of the Japanese college of fine
arts, at Tokyo, and a brace of stu
dents of the school, the commissioner
of electric railways for Japan left last
night for st. Louis.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-08-30
LIND AGAIN DECLARES
HE'S OUT OF RUNNING

Congressman John. Lind has never
been a candidate for place on the
state ticket. While he has received fa-
vorable mention both as a possible
nominee for governor and for Justice
OF the supreme court, it has all been
without the Initiative of Mr. Lind. A
persistent effort to bring Mr. Lind into
the field when he had publicly and
privately declared he would not be
candidate brought a telegram from
him yesterday which settles beyond
ay question of doubt his position.
A report of the action of some of his
supporters in the Hennepin county
delegation Saturday night was tele-
graphed to him in the West Sunday.
Mr.. Lind Immediately wired state
ment for use by his friends. if thought
to be necessary, in which he made the
unqualified statement that he would
not accept a nomination for any office
within the gift of the people and that
he would not qualify if he were elected
1t is pointed out by his friends that
if Mr.. Lind desired to continue in pub
lie life he would seek reelection TO
congress. He has, according to those
who are apparently competent to
speak for him, enjoyed his congress
sional experience, but he has decided
to retire from public life to devote his
time and talents TO the practice of his
profession.
Lind is fifty years old and a poor
man ,"srs close personal and political
friend of the Minneapolis congressman
said yesterday 1.And he will now try
to earn a competence for his old age
Mr.. Lind is heartily in accord with
his party in this state and is an earnest
advocate of the nomination of Johnson
and Winston He will make number
of speeches throughout the state dur
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-08-30
GOOD SHEPHERD FUND
CONTINUES TO GROW
Globe Receives Contributions
That Swell the Total
to Sa,354
THE eIoBE,s GOOD


Contributions received for T he
Clio be's House OF, Good Shepherd
relief fund yesterday amounted to $57
and swelled the grand total to $1,354
The responses to the appeals for aid
for the institution which was damaged
to the extent of $4,000 by the recent
cyclone are gratifying in the extreme.
There are. however, many who will add
to the contributions, and it is safe to
predict that the total will be greatly
increased during the present week.
For benefit of those who are Wis
iting the state fair and may be dis
posed to render aid it might be said
that the institution for which assist
ance is solicited is public benefaction,
maintained without the aid of public
support. Death and injury and de-
struction followed for the House of
the Good Shepherd in the, wake of the
cyclone, a week ago, and by the storm
some of the quarters in which the Sis
ters earned a livelihood were destroyed.
Without immediate assistance from the
charitable citizens of Minnesota it will
be impossible for the institution to
survive the loss.
- TIL e G lob e has issued an appeal
for aid and contributions to the fund
will be received either at T h e G 10 e
Offices or by II. C. McNair, 32s Endicott
building.