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essay, the subtitle of Theology and
things ecclesiastic view upon a seamy
side. after long endeavor to reconcile.
re asOn with Scripture" 1t is a very
discursive and rather rambling attack
upon the church. 1t is written by an
evidently earnest mind. bent on deep
irquiry into the mysteries of the uni
verse
The little book called Primer OF
Christian Doctrine" by Milton S. Terry.
professor of Christian doctrine in Gar
rett Biblical Institute. is intended both
for the use of Sunday-schools and as
help to private study and devotion. In
condensed form it endeavors TO cover
all that is of fundamental value in
Christian faith. part of its method
is TO embody a large number OF the
most valuable texts in the Bible in
order to promote the habit of fixing
them in the memory. (Eaton & Mains.
New York;
We may well be thankful for the
jolts of life. They are a token Of
progress. They show that we are get
ting out of our ruts. They measure the
ground we cover on the road to success.
They punetuate the journey with little
diseomforts, yet these also serve their
purpose. They teach the great lesson
of life-that every victory, every step
forward, has it's price, 1t is 70 the
victor the spoils belong. The over
coming Of difficulties makes "joIts.'
mean that in something we have lived
up to the best there is in us-that we
victors and can claim the victor's
reward.-L c. Ball. in The Business
Philosopher" duly.
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large cities much of the destruction
was caused by fire.
The theme seems perhaps to have
been chosen in order to give IAe
writer's powers of description a free
rein TO tell of the most sweeping de-
struction and wide spread calamity.
Reading this strange fantasy prompts
the thought that the genesis OF this
freak of fiction might have been from
the San Francisco disaster. 1t is just
such a nightmare of a story as might
be suggested by personal experience
of Aprirs awful eighteenth.
In the lawless condition of society
that succeeds this great destruction
there are many stirring adventures Of
war and love.
Harper & Brothers. New York.
S1.500
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Notes Gathered From
Literary World.

A California writer, Mrs. William
Beckman, author of 'Backsheesh, n
Woman's Wanderings." has written a
new book with the peculiar title. "Un-
clean and Spotted From the World" a
name which viii be recognized as a re-
versal of the expression used in the
Injunction of st. James. Through many
pathetic pages demand is made upon
our sympa.-ies to feel pardoninfs
eompas ssten for this woman's error. AL +
though the title would seem to indi-
cate that the love story was the chief
feature, il is not that sad romance
which makes Mrs. Beckman's new work
of most worth, but it's value as a
sketchy book of travel and eloquent
description of fine expression of nature
worship,
From Auckland comes to us a book
for review called The Dark Ages. :
written by Richard Marsh. writer who
has become acquainted with The Call
because of extracts from IT which
pleased him as he read them in an Eng
lish magazine. 1t is a book written
by a freethinker and this nationalist
gives to his work. which he calls an
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fascinated. The horror of the event
was subdued, even stihed, by the gran
deur. There was nothing sensational
about it. In years to come our mem
ory of the event will be that of roar
ing sea of living light that swept all
before IL.
That these Impressions will be con-
veyed to the people of the East who
see the picture that is going to them
! have every reason to believe, for it
is the work OF one of our most noted
artists, c. D. Robinson. He has been
at work on it ever since the fire.
The canvas measures twelve by
thirty feet, and was painted in Los An
geles, as there was no studio available
in the vicinity of San Francisco
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Nooelist Pictures
Terrible Catastrophe.

Imagination is allowed to range very
free. almost with an extrava gantly odd
license. in the new novel called The
Doomsman," by Van Tassel Sutphen. 1t
describes a condition of this country,
and especially of New York City, in the
year 2015 A. n. when our present civ
ilization is imagined to be thing of
past history and the human race set
back to semi i-primitive conditions. 1t
is such riskily fantastic fiction that
when the novelist begins to outline his
subject the serious minded reader will
he very much disposed to smilingly put
it by saying. 'twere to consider too
curiously to consider thus"
We are asked by the author to
imagine that in the year 1925 a great
catastrophe comes upon the whole civ
ilized world, destroying all the big
cities and all the crops IN the country
and annihilating all but remnant of
the human race This is called The
Great Change" and The Terror" and
the clear details of how the awful
calamity performed its work of de-
struction are not given, but in the
!.
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The foreground color Is a wide range
of browns and brown greens All
through the picture the prismatic col
ors appear and give variety and dis
tinction to the different parts.
With all this 1t is evident that Mr.
Robinson has produced a picture
worthy of himself. At any rate he is
satisfied with 1t, which means a great
deal, and San Francisco may rest as
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"Sands of Pleasure. ;
.By Filson Young.

The English novel called The Sands
of Pleasure" written last year by Fill
son Young and now published in this
country by Dana, Estes & Co. is the
work of a man who believes that the
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-Bp viii Sparks.

working in the neighborhoOd of Lake
Tahoe and Fallen Leaf Lake. He has
just returned to the city with large
number of sketches and will open a
studio as soon as possible.
Henry Rasehen has buckIed down to
work in Alameda He has improvised
a studio and has couple of large dec
orations we'll under way.
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1t is only by using a very large can
vas that the detail of the enormous
area shown could be adequately con-
veyed. There are more than four miles
of flame stretching almost from side TO
side of the picture. The upper dome of
the smoke cloud passed beyond the OBJ
servers view and so is not shown. This
smoke cloud was measured and found
to be at least four miles high.
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his pictures. One of these is the one
entitled "The Pines, Monterey and
owned by DR.. Harry Tevis of this city.
Mr.. McCemas did his first important
work here about seven years ago. since
which time his progress has been
steadily upward.
E. W, currier spent the summer
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cast the love of her out of his life.
He returns to his work in England. and
the last book is called, both in refer
ence to. his lighthouse and to his re-
formation, the House Upon the Rock.
(Dana, Estes & Co., Boston. s1.50)
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Praise for McC0n1as

The work of Francis MoGomas is at
tracing a great deal of attention and
favorable comment In London at the
present time. late number OF the
Studio. the leading artistic magazine of
the world, gives Mr.. McComas quite an
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sured that it is free from sensational
ism.
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Do you want to keep posted on the
new publications? Address a postal TO
The Sign of the Lamp"
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m 2 z are just entering the age
NAI OF the recognition of the
Wv majesty Of the mind" is a
Valentine Democrat., 1906-03-22
DEE IN OCEAN STORM.
Twenty-Sven Men Go Down With
Their Shin.

Suffering, mental and physical, and
life rarely equaled in the records of
tragedies of the sea, attended the loss
Of the Phoenix line steamer British
King, which on Sunday last, in rag
ing Atlantic storm, foundered about
$50 miles south Of Sable island, and
carried to death twenty-seven men,
bers of the crew. Thirteen men were
rescued from the sinking ship by the
Leyland line steamer BoStonian, bound
from Manchester to Boston, and elev-
en- by the German tank steamer Mann
helm, from Rotterdam for New York.
Five others who had been drawn in
the vortex in which the British King
was engulfed were picked up by the
Bostonian from frail bit Of wreck
age which they had grasped after a
desperate struggle for life in the
whirlpool. The Bostonian arrived at
Boston Wednesday afternoon and the
details of the disaster became known.
Capt. James O'Hagan, of the Brit
ish King, died on board the Bostonian
from the effects of terrible injuries
sustained in trying to save his ship.
The rescued brought to Boston
Wednesday, include James Flanagan,
the second officer; j. d. Crawford, the
chief engineer; Adolphus Beck, the
fourth engineer, and William J. Cur
ry, the steward. The others were coal
passers and sailors, mostly Belgians,
and one stowaway, Henry Parketch,
Of New York
Two lifeboats from the Bostonian
were crushed to fragments and the
were thrown into the high running
seas while engaged in the work of
rescue but all were safely landed on
the steamer.
For three days her captain and crew
had tried to prevent or at least post
pone their ships destruction. On Fri
day, in the height of the tempest, the
deckload of oil barrels Of the British
King and all her fittings were carried
overheard The barrels and wreckage
forming into a powerful ram were
driven down upon her sides with
crushing force, opening up the vessels
plate and allowing the water to pour
into her hold.
The British King sailed from New
York last Wednesday, bound for Ant
werp with a miscellaneous cargo and
$50 head of cattle.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-03-22
ERRORBRINGS DEATH
OPERATOR BLUNDERS AND PAS
SENGERS PERISH.
Roasted Alive i'm Wreck-Twenty to
Thirty-Ffve Persons Die in Colorado
Disaster-Trains Crash i'm q Storm
Engine Men Die at Their Posts.

A wreck accompanied with horrors
exceeded only by the Eden disaster,
which occurred on Aug. 7, 1904, on
the line of the same railroad, resulted
from a head-ou collision of two pas
senger trains on the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad four miles east of
Florence, Colo, at an early hour Fri
day morning
The trains were the Utah-California
express No. 8, westbound from Den
Yer, and the Colorado-New Mexico ex-
press No. 16, eastbound from Lead
vile and Grand Junction. They met
on sharp curve and were less than
200 yards apart when the engineers
discovered that a collision was immi-
nent.
1t is known that the engineer Of
the westbound train put forth every
possible effort to bring his train to a
stop before his efforts were fruitless,
and although he succeeded in check
ing the speed of his train the crash
that followed was beyond his power
to prevent and he went to his death
with his hand on the throttle faith
full to his charge
This much is vouched for by his fire.
man, who, seeing the uselessness of
remaining in the face of sure death,
jumped and saved himself.
OF the conduct of the engine crew
of the eastbound train it can only be
said that they died at their posts, for
no one lives to tell the story Of their
heroism.
The disaster was made more horri-
BILE by the manner of the death of
many Of the passengers, variously es-
'timated at from twenty to thirty-five.
Fire swept the wreck, engulfng the
victims in a caldron of flames and leav
ing only charred and blackened bones
to tell the tale of slaughter
A list of the injured given out by
officials, comprises twenty-five names
None of the injured is dangerously
hurt and it is believed all will recover.
Conservative estimates on the total
loss of life place the number of dead
at thirty-ffve. Rio Grande officials in
sist that the exact number of persons
on the two trains cannot be ascer-
tanned
s. F. Lively, night operator at
Swallows, whose alleged failure to de-
liver orders to train No. 16 is supposed
to have been the cause for the wreck,
has been in the employ of the road for
many years. He was relieved from
duty Immediately and will be sus-
pended until the matter is thoroughly
investigated by the officials.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-03-22
MOB QUICKLY ROUTED
Jail Stormcd i'm Attempt to Lynch
Prisoners.

An Omaha, Neb., special says: A
very weak attempt was made at
o'clock Friday morning to secure a
number of men charged with murder,
who were believed to be confined in
the county Jail, for the purpose Of
lynching them. Twelve men are now
awaiting trial on murder charges,
with holdups.
Thursday evening Edward Flury, a
street car conductor, who was shot
when his car was held up a few days
ago, died and the newspapers an
nounced that three negroes, Clarence
Gathright, Calvin Vain and Harry
Clark, had confessed the holdup and
shooting.
1t began to be stated quite openly
that a mob, headed by street car en-
the night, and that every man charged
with murder would be lynche3
Sheriff Mcdonald gave out the
statement that none of the alleged
murderers were in the Jail, but at mid
night a crowd began to gather at the
Jail and by 1880 probably 1000 per-
sons surrounded the place. 1t was
evident that most of them were mere
ly spectators, as not more than two
or three hundred approached the
building. A demand was made for
the prisoners and when the sheriff
refused to admit the mob, telephone
pole was brought and used for a bat
tering ram. The outer door soon gave
way, but at this moment a squad of
about forty policemen came upon the
scene and the mob was quickly dis
persed.
The police used their clubs rather
freely, but none of the mob was seri-
ously hurt and no arrests were made
There was no display of firearms by
the mob.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-03-22
STATE OF NEBRASKA
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A con-
DENSED FORM
Sheriff Handy With a Gun-Kills LO-
gan Blissard, Youthful Despera-
dering-Other News.

Logan Rlissard, a 19-year-old des-
perado, was shot and killed near Kim
ball Monday by Sheriff Owens, of
Weston County, Wyoming.
Blissard, while being taken to the
Wyoming penitentiary, jumped from
the car near Dix, Neb., and despite the
fact that the train was travelling forty
miles an hour when he jumped Bills
sard escaped injury By daring
bluff he held up two ranchmen and
took from them a rife and horse. A
terrific storm was in progress and
Blissard was compelled to seek shell
ter at the Fetterman ranch, three
miles southeast of Kimball.
Assisted by Sheriff Bartholomew,
of Kimball, Sheriff Owens located
Blissard at the ranch and command
ed him to surrender. Instead Blissard
opened fire on the officers and was
shot dead by Owens, whose skill with
a six-shooter is prOverbial in Weston
County.
Blissard was arrested in Crook
County six weeks ago for horse steal
ing. Before he was taken he engaged
in running fight with two officers
and was shot in the foot. After re-
ceiving the wounds he held up three
ranchmen and secured a new horse.
He was later captured by ranchmen
at whose place the wound in his foot
had compelled him to seek shelter He
was taken to Newcastle, pleaded
guilty and was senteced to five years
in the penitentiary.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-03-22
COFFIN MADE FROM SOAP BOX
Casket for Infant Made by Norfolk
Working Woman

A Norfolk special says: Their hearts
touched with pity for the family of
V. F. Thayer, of this city, whose little
baby boy lay dead in their home, but
unburied for want of the rudest type
Of a caSket, quartette of working
women of Norfolk stopped off at
washing other peoples clothes long
enough to go into the Thayer home
and build d little coffin in which the
child could be and was lowered into
his grave.
The family came here from Wiscon-
sin expecting to find work in the su-
gar factory, not knowing that the in
stitutiOn had been closed down for a
year. Poverty stared them in the
face and then death came to their
baby boy. They were heart-broken
over the fact that they owned not
enough pennies TO buy the little fellow
a casket, and the relief that came to
them in the shape of a number Of
working women of the neighbOrhood
too poor to buy the casket but strong
enough to build it, was pathetic pic
ture.
The funeral was conducted by Rev
Mr.. Root, of the Presbyterian church
of this city.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-03-22
OMAHA MOB QUICKLY ROUTED.
Jail Stormcd i'm Attempt to- Lynch
Prisoners

Jail Stormed i'm Attempt to- Lynch
Prisoners
A very weak attempt was made al
1 o'clock Friday morning to secure a
number of men chared with murder,
who were believed to be confined in
the county Jail at Omaha, for the pur-
pose of lynching them. Twelve men
are now awaiting trial on murder
charges, most of them committed in
connection with holdups.
Friday evening Edward Flury, a
street car conductor, who was shot
when his car was held up few days
ago. died and the newspapers an
nounced that three negroes, Clarence
Gathright, Calvin Vain and Harry
Clark, had confessed the holdup and
shooting.
Sheriff Mcdonald gave out the state
man that none of the alleged murder
ers were in the Jail, but at midnight a
crowd began TO gather at the Jail and
by 1890 probably 1000 persons sur
rounded the place. A demand was
made for the prisoners and when the
telephone pole was brought and used
for a battering ram. The outer door
soon gave way, but at this moment
a squad of about forty policemen
came upon the scene and the mob was
quickly dispersed
The police used their clubs rather
freely, but none of the mob was SER
iouSly hurt and no arrests We're made
There was no display of firearms by
the mob
Valentine Democrat., 1906-03-22
HAS TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE
Woman Sits i'm Chicken House All
Night with Dead Husbands Body.


A Norfolk dispatch says: Too weak
with her feminine arms to carry the
dead body of her husband from the
chicken house into their home and
unable to go and seek assistance, Mrs.
w. a. Willoughby. who had gone out
into the yard in search of her hus-
band and had stumbled upon his life
less form where he had fallen dead
with heart disease, knelt down in her
grief and remained at the side of her
mate all through the bitter night dur
ing the recent storm that swept the
Rosebud country, and was still there
late the next morning when Ed Ellis
a neighboring settler, came by the
house, heard the calls for help and
lent aid in carrying the corpse into
the house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willoughby lived near
BOnesteel.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-03-22
FEARS FOR PROsPECTORS

CORES May Have Perished in Colora-
do-Many Snowslides.
A Denver, Colo, special of the 10Th
inst. says: Ouray, Durango, Silverton.
Leadville, Aspen and other smaller
mining camps in Colorado have been
visited with snowslides during the past
two days.
Hairbreadth escapes from the slides
are reported from every mining camp
and grave fears are entertained for
scores of daring prospectors and min
ers cut off from the outside world in
their lonely cabins far up in the hills.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-03-22
THEY SEE A STRIKE.
Mine Workers of Country Gather in
Indianapolis.

A series of meetings, conventions
and conferences in which an effort is
to be made to dael with the labor cri-
sis in the coal industry and endeavor
to prevent strike was opened at In
diapolis, Ind, Wednesday by the ses-
sion of the international executive
board of the United Mine Workers.
All the delegates that have arrived
in the city thus far seem to be con-
vinced a grave situation confronti
them. A majority of them believe
there will be a strike April /.
Delegates from the anthracite dis
tricts are following the example of
their leaders and are not talking
The convention of miners was called
in response to the request of Presi-
dent Roosevelt to make efforts to avert
the threatened labor war.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-03-22
ACCIDENTALLY KILLS FRIEND.
Mrs. Effie velly Shoots Mrs. Jotter at
Fort NiObrara.

Miss Effie Randall and Andrew Jelly
were married Saturday and returned
Sunday to the post at Fort Niobrara.
A few friends went to charivari them.
one of the party being Mrs. Jotter. At
o'clock Mrs. Jelly took revolver
from under the pillow of the bed of
Mr. Randall, her father, and pulled
the trigger. The gun snapped three
times and on the fourth time the shell
exploded, passing into the back and
through the heart of Mrs. Jotter. and
then through the coat of Mr.. Randall
Mrs. Jotter died Immediately. ex-
claiming I'm shot" The women
have been close friends. The revolver
formerly belonged to Mrs. Jotter's
husband, who took carbolic acid by
accident in 1908. At the inquest We'd
nesday a verdict of accidental shoot
ing was returned Mrs. Jelly is pros
trated.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-03-22
ROOSEVELT IN NO HURRY.
Will Take Further Time to Decide
Successor of Justice Brown.

VIII Take Further Time to Decide
Successor of Justice Brown.
President Roosevelt Friday author
lied the issuance of the following
statement regarding the successorship
of Justice Brown in the supreme
court:
LAS Justice Brown will not retire
until June, when the supreme court
will take a vacation until October;
and no public Inconvenience can arise
from vacancy continuing through
the vacation, the president will take
further time to decide the question of
Browns successor. Several names,
including that of Secretary Taft, have
been under consideration, but no de-
cision is likely to be reached in the
near future"
Valentine Democrat., 1906-03-22
MISS ANTHONY Mt REST.
Great Crowd. Pays Last Tribute to
No detWOman

The funeral services over the body
of Susan B. Anthony were held in the
Central Presbyterian church at Roch-
ester, n. Y, Thursday afternoon. Hun
dreds of men and women were unable
to gain admittance to the church and
stood outside the edifice during the
service.
During the last rites over the body
of the dead leader words of eulogy
were spoken by William Lloyd Garri-
son, Mrs. r. J. Jeffrey, woman Of
the race for which Miss Anthony and
Garrison's father labored more than
forty years ago; by Carrie Chapman
Gait, and by Rev. Anna Shaw who
spoke of Miss Anthony as her dearest
friend. The interment was at Mt Hope
cemetery.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-03-22
Loses Wager Through Wind

To decide wager, William Pape
Saturday attempted to cover the dis
tance of nine miles between Pfckrell
and Beatrice afoot, in one hour He
ioit Pickrell at , o'clock and arrived
at Beatrice at 1904. four minutes be-
hind time. Pape made the trip on the
Union Pacific road and would have
won had it not been that he was
obliged to run against a strong wind.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-03-22
Union Pacific Strengthening Line.

The Union Pacific is making plans
to straighten its line in several places
between Beatrice and Manhattan,
Kan, this spring. The necessary ma
chinery and equipment for carrying
on the work is being received at Beat
rice, and when the work is finished
the mileage between Manhattan and
Beatrice will be reduced about ten
miles.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-03-22
Dropped Dead on Campus.

At Notre Dame, Ind, Rev Francis
Malloy, rector of st. Joseph's hall and
dean of the school of languages at No
tre Dame, died suddenly on the col
lege campus Thursday from a stroke
of apopleXy. The deceased was a not
ed linguist. He was born in Kings
County, Ireland, in 1912
Valentine Democrat., 1906-03-22
Robbed Indiana Treasury.

An Indianapolis, Ind, special says:
David E. Sherrick, former auditor of
state, was Thursday found guilty of
embezzlement. Sherrick was tried on
indictments charging him with the
misuse Of s127.OOO belonging to the
state.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-03-22
Nigeria Rebels Crushed,

A dispatch from Zungera, northern
Nigeria, to the London Daily Mail
Friday reports that the British puni-
tive expedition has crushed the Soko-
TO revolt after heavy fighting in which
the rebels twice charged the British
square and were almost annihilated.
Valentine Democrat., 1906-03-22
Highlanders Held for the Tax

Judge Evans held a short session of
court at Aurora and decided the case
of the Royal Highlanders against
Hamilton county. The opinion sus-
tanned the contention of the county
commissioners in the right to tax fra
ternal societies. An appeal was taken
by the HighlanderS
Valentine Democrat., 1906-03-22
Earley is Found Guilty.

At Cripple Creek. Colo, the jury
has returned a verdict finding John
Varley, alias Crowley, guilty of con-
spiracy to defraud the Northwestern
Mutual Life Insurance Company out
of $4,000 by blowing up a body in Il
tunnel and collecting money upon
policy issued to his partner, McEach-
ern.