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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1904)
Had a Way with Her. She Avas a lady Avilli a Avay Avlth her. She stood on the foothoard of a car down about 30th street , and she 4)eamed ) on the three Avoinen in the scat. "Won't you folks please shove along ? " said she. It's such a nuis ance , having to climb over people. Thanks. " She seated herself in the end seat. "I ahvays a'sk people to move along , " she said. "I just Avon't climb over them. " A curious rigidity settled on the jaAv of the AA'oman Avho had been forced out of the end seat. tShe had a bas ket on her lap , and there AVUS fire in her eye. At 3Tth street she rose , and Avithout a Avord she climbed over tue lady Avho had the Avay Avith her. She gouged the lady's trim shirt Avaist with the basket She kicked the lady's trim foot Avith malice , and she jerked the lady's trim hat aAvay as she passed. "There ! " was all she said , and she looked as if she - meant it. Chicago Inter Ocean. ACHED IN EVERY BONE. Chicago Society Woman Who Was So Sick She Could Not Sleep or Eat , Cured by Doaii's Kidney Pills. Marion Knight , of 33 N. Ashland ave. , Chicago , Orator of the West Side W e d n e sday Club , says : "This Avinter when I started to use Doaii's Kidney Pills I ached in every bone and had intense pains in the kidneys and pelvic org - g a n s. The urine Avas thick and cloudy and I could barely oat enough food to live , i felt a change for the better Avjihin a Aveek. The second Aveek I began eating heart ily. I began to improve generally and before seven Avecks had passed I Avas Avell. I had spent hundreds of dollars for medicine that did not help me , but $ ( ' worth of Doan's Kidney Pills re stored me to perfect health. " A FREE TRIAL Address Foster- Millnirn Co. , Buffalo. N. Y. For sale by all dealers ; price r 0 cents. MAKES MONE/ FOR NATIVES. Mint in Birmingham Coins Metal in the Larjje-it Quantities. Birmingham , England , has a mint Avhich , in addition to turning out mil lions of English coins , does more in the way of supplying foreign govern ments with coin than any other moneymaking - making establishment in the Avorld. A feAv days ago it shipped the first in stallment of a huge Egyptian order for 10,000,000 piasters. The consignment Aveighed fiAe tons , Avas conveyed in sixty cases and A'alued at $1GOGOCUO. For AA-ell over a century Birmingham has taken the lead in this literal kind of money-making. As far back as 1797 one firm coined under contract teethe i the British government 4.CGO tons of copper s coin , A'alued at $4,000.000. Among the countries and govern ments which haA-e gone time after to Birmingham for their money are India , Tunis , Canada , Turkey. China , Hong-Kong. Haytl. FaraAvak , Tuscany , Venezuela and Chili. In some instances , notably in that of China , the coins Avere not made in Birmingham. As a matter of fact , no j j I Chinese coin has , so far as is known , ever been made outside the celestial empire. The pride and prejudice of the Chinese haAe to be humored , so the firm sent out a complete plant Avitli men to operate it , and the coins Avere struck in China. No fewer than eight separate plants have been sent out to China in this Avay. For the new kingdom of Italy the same thing Avas done in 18(52 ( , l.GOO of "blanks" bein shipped to furnish the raAV material. Again , in Marseilk-s , Avhen the re-establishment of the em pire under Napoleon III. rendered nec essary a neAv copper coinage. 750 tons of metal Avere in this Avay turned into money on French soil. Merit Makes It the World's Leader. Merit , greatest medicine ever put into convenient form for quick , easy , pleasant u -e backed by the right kind of adver tising , has given CASCARETS the greatest sale in the Avorld among laxa tive medicines. Over ten million boxes a year are now beinj ; bought by the American - can people. This wonderful growth has never been equaled and it is the best en dorsement that any mcdioine has ever re ceived. Great successes always bring out imitators and we want to warn our readers , that when it comes to buying medicine the best is none too good and Avhenever a dealer offers to sell you something just : > s good as CASCARETS. put it down as a worthless fake , put your money in your pocket and po to a store where von will be treated fairly and where , when you ask for CASCARETS , you will get Avhat you ask for. An Essayist. The editor of the CreektoAvn Eagle was a young man with impressive manners. After he had knocked at the door of Mrs. Casey's modest dAveliing he Availed , % at ju hand , for her appear i ance. ! "Madam , " he said , with a low bOAV , | "I Avas present at the graduation exercises j 1 ercises of the'CreektoAvn Seminary , and i Avas much impressed by the essay of a j young lady , Miss Violet Casey , Avho , is , I am told , your daughter. Iler treat I ment of the theme , 'Stern Duties of ; Life , ' was such that I hope to induce her to contribute similar articles to the Creektown Eagle. Would it be possi ble for me to see her ? " Mrs. Casey's mouth had opened in a slow , helpless Avay during this address , but here at last was something tangi ble , and she brightened at once. "Violet ? " she repeated. "Sure you can see hen. She's out back o' the house in the hammick. She'll be glad to see you , no doubt , but if you'll ex cuse me , I'll run back to me ironing. " MANCHURIAN HOUSES. From the dwelling of the rich bank er to the hut of tiie savage , says the author of "The Long White Moun tain , " all houses in Manchuria are alike in four respects , so far as circum stances will admit First , all face the south , because that is the quarter trom which good influences come , and it has the incidental advantage of keeping the cruel north wind at the back. Secondly , Manchurian houses are all one-storied. 'Thirdly , the front of the house is filled with movable window-frames , with lattice panes of paper , not glass. As the summer ad vances the paper can be torn away and tiie house ventilated ; and then , when winter returns , the paper is very inexpensive to replace. Fourthly , built up against the wall , there is a k'ang running the length of the interior , and communicating between room arid room. The k'ang is a platform auovt two and a half feet high and five feet broad , made of brick. Inside is a fine carried four or five times up and down the whole length of the k'ang. At one end is a boiler in which the family din ner is.cooked. Outside in the yard is a chimney ten or twelve feet high , which creates a draft through tiie flue. Thus all the . smoke and heat of the kitchen fire 1 pass backward and forward through the k'ang , warm it thoroughly , and finally emerge through the chimney. The top of the k'ang is covered with matting made of strips of bamboo or the rind of the tall millet The convenience and economy of the k'ang are marvelous. Throughout the day it serves as a place on which to sit and talk. At meal times it is tlv dining-room. The food is served on small tables a foot high , round which the family squats. i In the evening the beds are unrol'ed , j and it forms the general siecping-phi"o. j In the cold weather , with the ther- j mometer below zero outside and beloAv ! freezing point even within , a nice j warm k'ang makes a most agreeable i bed on which to sleep. It is wonderful how little fuel is re quired to heat it. A boy lights a wisp of straw and stuffs it in a hole at the foot of the k'ang. It seems impossible so insignificant a fire can affect the great mass of brickwork. But in about half an hour a gentle glow pervades the top of the k'ang , and all night long it remains delightfully warm. If in ignorance we ever ordered more fuel for the k'aug. we only made it insufferably hot Occasionally in inns we found k'angs so scorching by rea son of several series of dinners having boon cooked or because our beds were too near the boiler that we were com pelled to sleep on the floor or on tables , or else to lay a quantity of straw under our bedding to mitigate the heat Voice from Arkansas. Cleveland , Ark. , Aug. 13. ( Special. ) Xearly every newspaper tells of some wonderful cure of some form of Kid ney Disease by the Great American Remedy , Dodd's Kidney Pills , and -this part of Arkansas is not without its share of evidence that no case is too deeply rooted for Dodd's Kidney Pills to cure. Mr. A. E. Carlilc. well known and highly respected here , tells of his cure after nearly a quarter of a century's suffering. Mr. Carlile says : "I want to let the public know what I think of Dodd's Kidney Pills. I think they are the best remedy for sick kid neys ev r made. "I had Kidney Trouble for 23 years and never found anything that did me so much good as Dodd's Kidney Pills. I recommend them to all sufferers. " There is no uncertain sound about Mr. Carlile's statement He knows that Dodd's Kidney Pills rescued him from a life of suffering and he wants the public to know it. Dodd's Kidney Pills cure all Kidney ills from Back ache to Bright's Disease. Men Killed , in "War. A French statistician , Dr. Charles Ricket , has arrived at the following estimate of the number of men who died in the wars carried on by the various Christian nations during the last century. The total reaches to the figure of 14,000,000. It is made up as follows : Xapoleonic wars , 8,000,000 ; Crimean war , 300,000 ; Italian war , 30,000 ; American civil war , 500,000 ; Franco-German Avar , 800,000 ; Russo- Turkish war , 400,000 ; civil wars in South America , 500,000 ; various colonial nial expeditions in India , Algeria , Mex ico. Tonquin , Abyssinia. South Africa and Madagascar , 3,000.000. For Your Perfect Comfort At the St. Louis Exposition , which is very severe upon the feet , remember to takenlrmj ; .1 box or two of ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE , a powder for Hot , Tired. Aching. Swollen. Sweating Feet. 30.000 testimonials. Sold by all Druggists , liCkDON'T ACCEPT A SUL5STITUTE. Trial package FREE. Ad dress Alien S. Olmsted. Le Hoy. N. Y. Spilkins' Character. Rev. Dogood Xo man is so bad that there is not a little of the angel left in him. Bobson Guess that's so. Remember Spilkins ? Everybody thought he was about the Avorst man on earth. Why , his own mother wouldn't come to his funeral. Well , sir , I've been told a thousand times a mouth for the last five years that Spil- kins was the only real saint that ever lived. "My goodness ! " "I married * " Spilkins widow. We are never without a bottle of Pisb's Cure for Consumption hi our ' house. Mrs. E. M. Swayre , Wakita , Okl * . , April 17. 1901. One Minister's Failing. ( Deacon Grabhard Rev. Du Geode says he doesn't believe in raising money by church fairs , suppars. concerts. and lotteries. Deacon Pinchpenni H'm ! BVs alto gether too conscientious for a ruLoister. STICK TO IT. 0 prim iitue i-ua ige stamp , "holding your own In a manner so winning and gentle , ' That you're "stuck on" your task , ( Is that slang ? ) you'll own , And yet , you're not two-cent-imental. / 1 have noted with pride that through thick and through thin You cling to a thing till you do it , And , whatever your aim , you are certain to win . , Because you seem bound to stick to it ' ' ' J Sometimes when I feel just like shirking a task Or "chucking" the work I'm pursuing , I recall your stick-fo-it-ive-ness and I ask "Would a postage stamp do as I'm doing ? " Then I turn to whatever my hands are about And with fortified purpose renew it , ' And the end soon encompass , for which I set out , If , only , like you , I stick to it - * ! The sages declare that true genius , so called , Is simply the will to "keep at it" A "won't-give-up" purpose is never forestalled , Xo matter what foes may combat it , And most of mankind's vaunted progress is made , O stamp ! if the world only knew it , By noting the wisdom which you have displayed In sticking adhesively to it. Nixon Waterman , in Success. % 2s > $ & TSZ > * i * < L < Q = OE sudden summer shower was over and two children stood on the hotel veranda gazing wist fully at the glorious bow that spanned the sky. * il wish we could touch it , " the girl said longingly ; "it is the most beauti ful thing in all the world. " "Well , " the boy returned practical ly , "I don't care much about touching it , but I'd be mighty glad to find the end of that rainbow. " "Why ? " "Don't you know , goosic ? The * 's a great pot of gold at the end , and it will belong to the person who can find it. Jiminey , but I wish I had it here this very minute. " "Let's go and got it. " The boy stared at his tiny compan ion in surprise. The 1'einenino mind was much more daring than his own , It appeared. Did the girl really mean that they should go off alone into that limitless forest when they were never even trusted near it un' ' s accompa nied by some older person ? Still , he took another look at the brilliant bow. This was certainly the chance of a life time , and , of course , he would not re fuse to go any place that a girl was willing to go. Besides , it was her suggestion any way , not his , and if there were future reprimands and scoldings in store he could just say that it was she who pro posed going. "Come on , " he said briefly , holding Out his hand , and off the two trudged toward the alluring , treacherous bow , giving no heed to the awful terror which their absence would surely in spire. It was nearly twenty-four hours la ter that they were found. The boy's father , heading one of the many search parties that were scouring the woods , stumbled over them , and his pale lips sent forth a triumphant shout for the children were safe , and in view of that fact all minor matters sank into insignificance. Death had hovered too near to leave room for any feeling save that of deep est thankfulness. There were no scoldj ings in store for the culprits , though both were questioned closely regardIng - Ing the escapade. The girl always remembered with fervent gratitude tluu the boy never told any one that it was she who had proposed seeking the pot of gold. The boy rather wondered at his own reticence , but after all it seemed rath er a mean sort of trick to palm the responsibilities of his misdeeds on a girl ! He kept a discreet silence on that point , and by doing so exhibited con siderable more manliness than a cer tain ancestor of us all once displayed. Two weeks later the hotel closed for the season , and the girl and the boy went their different ways. Off in her eastern home the girl did not quite for get the boy who had done his best to comfort her in the terrible forest and who had protected her by his silence when they were found. Off in the West the boy remembered with a feeling of pride that the girl had never cried during that awful ex perience , and that she had never reproached preached him for allowing her to go Into such peril. Of course , he should have known better , for was not he a boy , and the elder , too ? The girl had been a casual summer acquaintance and the two-were effect ually separated when the brief sum mer season ended. For several years the boy begged his mother each June to go back to that place , but she had a shuddering horror of the valley and the mountains , and nothing would in duce her to return. So at last the boy gave up asking , and the experience was crowded into the background by a hundred new in terests and aims. Long years after , 'when he was a man playing a man's part in the world , the old desire suddenly seized him to return to that place. The hotel was still there , very modem in every Avay. but somehow he felt bered and missed ah intangible something which he had imagined he would find. He stood it for a week , then the quiet became in tolerable. He resolved to leave the ' place. That day she came. He knew it was Jato from the very first. He was not ordinarily Inclined to be shy , but he felt like a raw school boy in her presence. She had many friends at the hotel , but he managed by sheer persistence to monopolize a good share of her time. He could not tell whether he was T ' - ' ' "ir any headway or not. She was friendly but very elusive , and the time had come when Lre must go back to his work , for there were obligations which he could not ignore. He lured her out that morning for a row , with the promise of a lovely spot which she had never seen. He was un usually silent and she leaned back in her corner of the boat watching him with speculative eyes. Apparently he was searching for some particular nook. At length his quest appeared ended , for he drew the boat carefully to the shore and held out his hand to her. Then they wandered over a wood- ecly knoll nearby. "This is the place , I am sure , " he said at 1oKt "I have seen it * of ten in my dreams , and here is just where the end rested. " She stared at him in mild surprise. "Xo , I am not out of mind , " , he as sured her , "I wanted to tell you a story , and I had an unaccountable fan cy for telling it to you in this spot. Will you hear it ? " "Is it interesting ? Does it commence 'Once upon a time ? ' " "Of course it does. It would be an exceedingly poor story if it didn't I hope , " and the man's face grew very earnest , "that you will be interested in the poor little story but I caunot be sure " 'Once upon a time' when the world was nearly two decades younger than it is now , a boy and girl started from the hotel down in that valley to find a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow at least tiie boy , who must have been a very mercenary creature , was think ing only of the gold , but the girl was much more poetic , for she cared noth ing at all for the gold. She only wished to see more closely that wonder of mist and light which held and en thralled her fancy. They got lost ; of course , that was a foregone conclu sion , you know , and they were only discovered and saved by a kindly mir acle of fate. The girl was a genuine brick , though , and never taunted the boy with his rashness and wickedness in loading her into such peril. The boy should have known better , y9U see , for he was considerably older , but he was always a good bit of a fool. He did not find the end of the rain bow , but for years he dreamed of it , and in some mysterious way he came to fancy that the treasure was not gold after all , as his nurse had told him , but that it was something infi nitely more precious than gold. He was never quite sure what the myste rious treasure might be , but he knew that when he was a man he must seek it here just on this very spot , for it was here that the rainbow seemed to end as the children looked up to it from the valley below just here by this little hill. " There was a silence. Her face -&z.s turned quite away. The man looked at her keenly and then went on with his story in a low voice which , perhaps , shook just a trifle. "And so and so he came here to day. He knows now what the treasure is at the end of the rainbow. A wom an's heart and a woman's love. He does not know whether he dare claim it or not , but it is the gift which he most covets from life. And can I have it , dear ? " Her face was still turned away. The man's heart had time to grow very heavy before she spoke. "I was always wildly grateful to you for not telling that it was actually I who had proposed the expedition " "You don't mean " he inter rupted breathlessly , "that you were , , ; "And and I did want to find the end of the rainbow , too , and if you think 'that ' we could , perhaps , find it togetl i er why * * He was holding her hand in a tight clasp , and was looking down at her with eyes full of reverent , incredulous joy. Everywhere. "That fellow , " said a brakeman this morning , as a man of leisivre passed , "had a law silt with work a few years ago. and WOP his case. " MrsHughson , of Chicago , whose letter follows , is another woman in high position who owes her health to the use of Lydia E * Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAX : I suffered for seveml ears with general weakness and bearing-down pains , caused by womb trouble. My appe tite was fitful , and I would lie awake for hours , and could not sleep , until I seemed more weary in the morning than when I retired. After reading one of your advertisements I decided to try the merits of [ Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound , and I am BO glad I did. No one can describe the good it did me. I took three bottles faithfully , and besides building up my general health , it drove all disease and poison out of my body , and made me feel as spry and active as a young girl. Mrs. Pinkham's medicines are certainly all they are claimed to be.5 MRS. M. E. HUGUSON , 347 East Ohio St. , Chicago , 111. Mrs. Pinkliam Tells How Ordinary Tasks Produce displacements. Apparently trifling incidents in woman's daily life frequently produce displacements of the womb. A slit ) on the stairs , liftingduring - menstruation , standing at a counter , running a "sewing machine , or attending to the most ordinary tasks may result in displacement , and a train of serious evils is started. The first indication of such , trouble should be the signal for quick action. Don't let the condition become chronic through neglect or a mistaken idea that you can overcome it by exercise or leaving it alone. More than a million women have regained health , by the -use of .Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. If the slightest trouble appears -which you do not understand write to Mrs. Pinkliam , at Lynn , Mass. , for her advice , and a few- timely words from her will show you the right thing to do. J-flis advice costs you nothing , but it may mean life or happiness or botn. Mrs. Lelah StoweI ! , 177 Wellington St. , Kingston , Ont. , writes : "DEAR MRS. PcfKirAai : You are indeed a godsend to women , and if they all knew what you could do for them , there would be no need of their dragging out miserable lives in agony. "I suffered for years with bearing-down pains , womb trouble , nervousness , and excruciating head ache , but a few bottles of Lydia E. Pinkhanrs Vegetable Compound made life look new and promising to me. I am light and happy , and I do not know what sickness is , and I now enjoy the best of health. " Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound can always be relied upon to restore " "health to women who thus suffer. It is a sovereign cure for the worst forms of female complaints , that bearing-down feeling , weak back , falling and displacement of the womb , inflammation of the ovaries , and all troubles of the uterus or womb. It dissolves and expels tumors from the uterus in the early stage of development , and checks any tendency to cancer ous humors. It subdues excitability , nervous prostration , and tones up the entire female system. Its record of cures is the greatest in the world , ana should be relied upon with confidence. FORFEIT > f TO cannot forthvrith produce the original letters and signatures 0 * above testimonials , -which Trill prove their absolute genuineness. JLydia E. Piukbam Medicine Co. , Z.yan. ale Ten Million Boxes a Year THE FAMILY'S FAVORITE MEDIGiNE CATHARTIC BEST FOR THE BOWELS The Cowgirl's Race. No event on the program excites more , interest than the cowgirl's race , and there is a great craning of necks when down before the judges' stand the contestants trip , each in trim shirt waist and divided skirt , each matter- of-factly holding out her small feet for the spurs which a committeeman is gallantly fitting , each in business like fashion taking a look herself at the fastenings of her heavy cowboy saddle. A moment more and each has vaulted to her seat and they are jock eying for place like veterans. The crowd is all upon its feet now , yell ing like mad when the real start is made. Then they are away like the wind. They ride to the manner born. fearlessly , splendidly , each bending low over her horse's neck and fiercely applying whip and spur. It is a close J half mile , and the multitude holds its breath for a second or two when , on I the home stretch , they are seen com ing almost neck and neck. Then one forges ahead a little another gains and cheer after cheer rends the air when under the wire flies a little girl she does not look to be more than 14 years old with short hair flying , eyes dancing and cheeks like roses , as she looks up at the judges' stand with a laugh of triumph , the "Champion Lady Rider of the World , " according to the terms of the contest. Leslie's Monthly. _ WlxuloWi Boonmra STTO ? for Chlldr teething ; softens the trasu , ndaees iafiaam&uon , * J law pain , cores wind colic. 35 cats k bottls. The man who don't believe in enny hereafter haz a dredphull cheap opinyun ov himself ; he lowers himself down to the level ov the ant the ant a leetle ! ahed. ' Avoiding Suspicion. Miss De Style- Horrors ! Why have you adopted a grocer's scale and a yard stick as our coat of arms ? Mrs. De Style I wish people to know that our money was made in honest tiade. Otherwise they might su.ect that your father or grandfather had been captain on the police force. Where Women. Are Ruled. "Are there clubs for women in this town ? " asked the suffragist' from the East. "Certainly not , " replied the gallant Westerner. "We can handle Avomeu without .clubs. " Chicago Post. A SKIN OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER. . T. FEMX GOUKATTD'S OKLENTAI , CREAM , OK MAGICAL BEAOTiriKR Removes Tan , Pimples.Freciles , m _ , * . , < = /&sar zr > . Moth * , Patches , Kash , . and SJcla Sf and e7ery. bleni h vOa beauty , ami lefles detection. It has xtcod the test lot 58 years , and Is so harmless vra k"3a V3 &l f C t"te it to b snroi 25 1 C l itisprop rlymade. Accept so counter feit of similar name. Dr. L. A. Sayre said to a i lady of the baut- \ton \ { a patiest ) : l-'As you ladles 'will use Ihem I recommend 'Gouraud's Crscra' as the least harmful of & 11 the siln preparations. ' * For sale by all Drnsgix * and Fancy Goods Dealers In the U. S. , Canadts. and nrope. FERO. T. HOPKINS , Prop'r , 37 Great Jones SL , N. Y S. C. N. U. No. 34 1004 BEGGS1 BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh o ! the stomach.