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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1897)
i 1 y t M fe r If if w H J h w y H t v it v WSB TRAW OP JJLMEMS RHEUMATISM NEURALGIA AND NERVOUS PROSTRATION - Husband and Wife Restored to Health by Hoods Saraaparllla J Impure blood is often the cause of a long train of ailments The blood is the vital fluid upon which all the or gans depend for nourishment When this nourishment falls to be supplied properly the whole system feels ti ifect Read this letter Several years ago I was taken with the grip and I was sick all winter I had nervous prostration and a long 4 v ft train of ailments that rouow cioseij with that rerrible malaay Last winter It seized me again It went to my lunge and I had congestion of the lungs and kidney and liver trouble When I felt its approach I Quickly Resorted to Hoods Sarsaparilla and a glorious result followed I was on my feet the first winter for seven years The symp toms of the disease left me and the ailments connected with it For sev eral years my husband was a sufferer with rheumatism and neuralgia He was all run down and in a very bad way He took many kinds jof medicine without any permanent benefit until he began taking Hoods Sarsaparilla This medicine cured the pains of rheu matism and neuralgia and he said he felt like a new man If all those who ar suffering from nervous troubles or rheumatism would give Hoods Sarsa parilla a trial they would find that it speaks for itself Mrs F G Pratt Vheaton Illinois THE SAVORY ONION The Somewhat Despised Vegetable Is Useful and Wholesome Few realize that perhaps the most useful of all vegetables to the cook as well as the housewife is the savory and healing onion Soups sauces chowders made-over-dishes in fact al niuit every meat or fish dish that is served Is seasoned with a few drops of onion juice and one would wonder what was wrong If this juice was omit ted History classes the onion among the oldest vegetables known and it Is spoken of with deference The onion was among the things the Israelites longed for while in bondage and a tourist traveling through the eastern countries writes that it is not to be wondered at as the onions grown in Egypt are most delicious A celebrated medical authority says Onions make a nerve tonic not to be despised No other vegetable will so quickly relieve and tone up a worn out system and they should be eaten freely particularly by brain workers and those suffering with blood and nervous diseases He further says Nothing will clear and beautify a poor complexion sooner than the eating of onions in some form If onions are prepared properly there Is little or no odor from them left in the breath and for lovers of uncooked Vsliced onions it is well to know that if sT1spchj of parsley is clipped in vinegar and eaten no unpleasant odor in the breath can be detected With so much to recommend it the onion in some form should be found frequently upon the daily menu Onions should be cooked always in agate or porcelain lined vessels for Ironware Is liable to make them dark colored If the onions are held under water while peeling there will be no shedding of tears To extract the juice from an onion cut a thick slice from one end of the vegetable and press the cut surface against the coarse grater moving the onion a little and letting the juice run from the corner of the grater Cut off another slice of the onion and repeat until you have the desired quantity They are best suited to be happy who are neither too high nor too low high enough to see models of good man ners and obscure enough to be left in the sweetest of solitudes ENSIONS PATENTS CLAIMS JOHN W MORRIS WASIUIt8T81i IC ImAo Principal TliMntnT V S Fadaa Bmbma 3 jrs ia last xrar 15 aodKikig mUy riaM QPfUMDfHENNESS VI IVlVICnrodlalOtaOeDaTs HaPfcrUH CsrdpirJlSTEPHEHSTKftATitoifVm8 BKHin CURES WHERE AIL F1SP FAIIS Best Cough Syrup Tastes Good Use j lntroe Bow by arucKlsta ft ft PC AM Dflwtfl Szzs p PECULIARITIES OFTHE BUFFALO Their atsiaiDMli toIDeatnxctloa W3mr 3tamjde JQne peculiarity o the buffalo inow almost extinct -was 4ts habit when stampeded of dashing blindly forward against over or through anything that might be in the way When running a herd of buffalo followed its leaders and yet these leaders lost tke power of stopping or even of turiilag aside be cause they were constantly crowded pon and pushed forward by those be hind Tills explains why herds would dash into mire or quicksands as they often did and thus perish by the thou sands Those in front could not stopk while those behind could not see the danger toward vhloh they were rush ing So too tboy ran into rivers or into traps made for them by the In dians or against railroad cars or even dashed into the rivors and swam blind ly against the 6idee of steamboats Tlie buffalo were fond of rolling in the dirt and to this habit practiced when the ground was wot are due the buffalo wallows which so frequently occur in the old ranges and which often contain water after all other moisture except that of the streams is dried up Thes wallows were formed by the rolling of a succession of buffalo in the same moist place and were often quite deep They bare often been de scribed Less well known was the hab it of scratching themselves against trees and rocks Soinetimos a solitary erratic bowlder five or six- feet high may be seen on the bare prairie the ground immediately around it being worn down two or three feet below the level of the surrounding earth This is where the buffalo have walked about the stone rubbing against it and where they trod loosening the soil which has been blown away by the wind so that in course of time a deep trench was worn about the rock Often single trees along streams were worn quite smooth by the shoulders and sides of the buffalo When the first telegraph lino was built across the continent the poles used were light and small for trans portation over tho plains was slow and expenive and it was njpt thought sec- essary to raise the wires high above the ground These poles were much re sorted to by the buffalo to scratch against and before long a great many of tiiem were pushed ovor A story is told of an ingenious employe of the tel egraph company who devised a plan for preventing the buffalo from dis turbing the poles This be expected to accomplish by driving Into them spikes which should prick the animals when they rubbed against them The result somewhat astonished the inventor for it was discovered that where formerly one buffalo rubbed against the smooth telegraph poles ten now struggled and fought for the chance to scratch them selves against the spiked poles the iron furnishing just the irritation which their tough hides needed Cecil Rhodes Dislike t Women Often mentioned is Cecil Khodes dis like to women and the fact that he will not allow a female to serve him in any way He had a secretary to whom he was much attached One day he announced the fact that he was going to be married The chief was thunder struck and after glaring at him for a second growled out Where the devil am I to get another secretary and then walked out of the room and banged the door Hia innate goodness of heart however prevailed after a bit for he presented the bride with some lovely diamonds and when soon after he left for England he lent the young couple his carriages and horses so that the offending bride was enabled to re turn her wedding calls at his expense It never occurred to him however to keep his favorite secretOiry on The mere fact of his marrying put that quite out of the pale of possibility The man who scoffs at the friendly advice to take something for that cough will keep on coughing until he changes his mind or changes his earthly residence A great many scoffers have been converted by the use of the standard cough remedy of the past half century Ayers Cherry Pectoral But some are scoffing and coughing yet They wheeze with asthma bark with bronchitis or groan with the grippe Singular is nt it the number of stubborn people who persist in gambling with health and perhaps life as the stake when they might be effectually cured of cough cold or lung trouble by a few doses of Ayers Cherry Pectoral More particulars ttboat Pectoral ia Ayerja Curcbook xoo pages Sent freA J C Ayer Co Zrowell Mass Vfc szSS ytfScV fjrSL jiSi 1 i m if II adrcagBBgi mm A Generous Senator Senator Ben Wade of Ohio one of the- intellectual giants developed by the civil war carried his brains in a head as bald as an elliptical billiard ball But he always wore a beautiful glossy wig of jet black hair One day just after he had concluded a very strong speech in Congress he was waited up on in the lobby of the Capitol by a young woman Senator began the young woman I have listened to every word you have uttered to day with the greatest of interest and ohl what a galant man you are Would you object to give me a curl of your hair to carry home to Ohio with me Why certainly madam you can have it all answered the Senator re moving the wig and handing it to the astonished woman coff and Coush mm T Ill 111 To gaze upon the latest style Sometimes one has to pay Last night I viewed a lovely hat But did not see the play Life- Is Wheelbed a man of his word I fear not He says he has a bicycle lamp that never goes out New York Evening Journal What is a coign of vantage papa Something American girls use in catching foreign husbands my son Cincinnati Commercial Tribune He cautiously If I should propose would yon say yes She still more cautiously If you knew I would say yes would yon propose Truth That horrid Miss Blumers tries to be so mannish She actually smokes cigarettes I dont see anything man nish in that Indianapolis Journal Benedict That adageMarry in hast and repent at leisure is all bosh Sin- gleton Why Benedict -Because mar ried men have no leisure- oston Trav eler Did you hear what Brief the lawyer has for his motto No What Where theres a will theres a way to break it Cincinnati Commercial Tribune Wiggles Hang it all Ive got a cold coming on Waggles sympathetically Yes just think of all the advice that youll have to take about it Somer ville Journal And you broke off the engagement said one young man Yes not brutal ly you know But I managed it How Told her what my salary is Washington Star George Is it true that your cousin is in love with Jack Fitzbooby Fred You can judge for yourself She eats her dinner before she opens his letters Roxbury Gazette Any diversions at your boarding house Widdleton Yes every morn ing at breakfast we all quarrel about whether the weather is colder or warm er Chicago Record Bufferton married a highly intel lectual woman She doesnt ever have much to say No but she sees that the carving knife is always kept sharp Chicago Record It is indeed hard said the melan choly gentleman to lose ones rela tives Hard snorted the gentle man of wealth hard It is impossi ble Cincinnati Enquirer Excited Traveler Get me to the sta tion in three minutes and Ill give you five dollars Driver Cant do it sir ye might bribe me but ye cant corrupt me horse Detroit Free Press Prohibitionist If you didnt drink you might be worth five thousand dol lars Arid Atkins I know boss but wot good would five thousand dollars do me if I didnt drink Puck Magistrate Do you mean to say such a physical wreck as he is gave you that black eye Complaining Wife Sure your honor he wasnt a physical wreck till after he give me the black eye Walker Rownde Say Ploddy what would youse do if youse had Vander bilks income Plodder Pyke Dafs dead easy but what would Vanderbilk do if he had mine Baltimore News Perkins to tramp Get out of this now we dont permit anybody to lie around here Tramp Excuse me sir Didnt know it was you or I wouldnt thought of competing Boston Courier How oft do Congressmen awake To find their hopes have fled This is the speech he thought hed made t t I t I And this is what he said I second the motion Washington Star Papa I understand that the young man who is calling on Mabel is a little wild Jack Not at all Every time Ive been out with him when it got to be 3 or 4 oclock he wanted to go home Puck Dick Hicks watching he orchestra Those musicians dont care anything about the director Mrs Hicks How do you know Dick Hicks The more he shakes that stick at em the harder they fiddle Puck Dablin The members tell me that Fadaway Is one of the best members of the Rockrib Athletic Club Wablin Why hes no athlete Dablin Thats true but then he pays his dues regu larly Roxbury Gazette Speaking of the financial policy of the incoming administration began McSwilligen when Squildig interrupt ed him Awfully sorry old man but I havent a dollar about me now I shall be broke until payday Pittsburg Chronicle I wonder what that man is so angry at himself about said the mosquito during the half hour I have been fly ing around his head he has done noth ing but hit himself in the jaw every half minute or so Indianapolis Jour nal So you were at the opera last night Yes How were the voices Excellent The way those boys rendered Opera books lxwks of the opera left an impression on the audience that will not soon be for gotten Roxbury Gazette Judge to defendant You are accus ed of having terribly beaten two night watchmen last night What tempted you to do this Defendant My feeling of humanity judge because for one night watcJumen that clubbing would have been too much German ex change The Army Uniform May Bo Gray It may be some years yet but I would not be surprised if the time came when the color of the uniforms of all armies that Is the uniforms of the fighting ar mies would be changed to gray or what will be better a dried grass color says an army affieer who has given much attention to the subject In an official way Statistics show the pro nounced colors in uniforms operate against their wearers in that it makes them conspicuous Many of the longest-headed officers of our army favor a change of color for the uniform that is the uniform for fighting service For dress parades of course there Is no need of changing the blue Our senti ment is strongly in favor of it and will continue that way though our experi ence has been that blue and especially dark blue has caused the death of thousands of men who might have es caped death were they not so easily distinguished 0e Secret of IiOHKOxitr Those anxious to prolong this rapid transi tory existence f onra beyend tho average span should foter his digestion negatively ly abstaining from indiscretions In diet and afllrmatlrely by the use of that peerless stomacfile Hostetters Stomach Bitters when he experiences symptoms 9 indiges tion The Impairment of the digestive func tion Is fatal to vigor Subdue with the Bit ters also fever and ague biliousness and constipation Early Ue of thp Flxrrr Plowing was undoubtedly first done with a forked stick the long arm be ing harnessed in some primitive way to an ox or team of oxen and the short arm pointed for the purpose of pene trating th ground The plow Is one of the oldest of agricultural imple ments and it is a curious faot that in Oriental countries the same kind of plow is used now as was described by the writers of 2000 years go The plow represented on the Egyptian mon uments or auuu a u may De soen in the Valley of the Nile to day Our patent office has over 10000 models of plows In Egypt Syria and India there is but one and that the one which lias been in use for -thousands of years The plow described by Virgil 81 B C is In use in many country districts of Italy to day Tho Best Roofing Material The problem of roofing is one that has foug received the attention of builders and property owners generally To find a material that would resist the action of the elements prove impervious to the ac tion of gases so often generated in man ufacturing establishments and that could be relied upon under the meet trying conditions has received much attention from ambitious inventors From the thatched roofs of the early settlers the evolution slowly progressed through vari ous stages of shingles tin tar and iron all 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certain that the Queen will choose for herself Only recently she said I love my loyal s nbjeots and hope to please them in every way But if they believe they have a voice In tho choice of mjT husband they the decided ly mistaken If extreme measures should be resorted to against me 1 6hall be more energetic than v I will not be married against my will and I will not be married at all if 1 am not allow ed to have a voice in the matter Catarrh and Throat Specific There is perhaps no other remedy be fore the public that has given such uni versal satisfaction in the relief and per manent cure of catarrh and throat troubles as the renowned Cutlers Inhaler so simple in its application and yet so effi cacious in its results For over twenty years this remedy has been in use until its popularity has made it a household neces sity for the ailments named The remedy is put up by the well known firm of W H Smith Co Buifalo N Y who send it by mail on application or it can be pur chased of all 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