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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1898)
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MwififflMiinM sBBMMulSftVsvllffB V Tbis starch is prepared on scientific principles by men who have had years of practical ezpericnco in fancy laundering It restores old linen and summer dresses to their natural whiteness and imparts a beautiful and lasting finish It is tho only starch manufactured that is perfectly harmless containing neither arsenic alum or any other substance injurious to linen and can be used even for a baby powder For sale by all wholesale and retail grocers Importations of Precions Stones During the last twenty five years the American people have imported 1S0 000000 worth of precious stones War with Spain As war with Spain has broken out the officials seem to think that all that will be needed is warships tor pedo boats and other instruments of destruction But really what will be needed more than anything else is a good supply of 5 DROPS manufac tured by the Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co 167 Dearborn street Chicago 111 to knock out the Rheumatism which is sure to grip our soldiers and sailors in the miasmatic climate of Cuba and the surrounding islands The truth is that something to heal and cure is pre cisely what is needed right now in the desolated Queen of the Antilles Those 200000 reconcentrados reported dying by hundreds need provisions but they need good medicines fully- as much If Miss Barton of the Red Cross relief work was supplied with 5 DROPS she could save many a sick Cuban These miraculous 5 DROPS conquer many of the worst diseases such as Rheumatism Neuralgia the excruciating Sciatica and the other dis eases for which it is recommended The War Department should see that there is an abundant supply of 5 DROPS In the medicine chests Why dont girls employed in match factories get married sooner than other girls Shako Into Your Shoes A Great Extinct Volcano The crater of Haleakala on the island of Maui in Hawaii is the larg est extinct crater in the world The name Haleakala means House of the Sun The tradition is that the god Maui laid his nets upon the mountain and so snared the sun as he arose and released him only on the promise to always shed light and warmth on the island The mountain is magnificent in its dead silence It is more like the mountains of the moon than any other place on earth an inspection of the moon through any telescope will give a good idea of Haleakala This vol cano at the summit is nineteen miles in circumference and more than ten thousand feet above the sea The bed of the crater is two thousand feet be low the rim and it presents an awful spectacle of desolation It is in the form of an irregular triangle seven miles long At two or three corners are enormous gaps two or three miles wide through which the molten lava used to make its way in great rivers to the sea It is probable that during one of the eruptions lava accumulated to a height of more than a thousand feet Surging billows wore away the mountain walls while millions of tons were pressing them outward At length unable any longer to resist the tumult of this raging flood the wall eastward and northward yielded to its pressure and so the fiery mountain was disembowelled and several cubic miles of lava rushed with demoniacal fury into the sea An Eccentric Composer Hugo Wolf the Viennese composer has developed such eccentricities that his friends have been obliged to put him in an asylum A society formed in Vienna to spread his works made it its first rule that none of the members should have anything to do with Wolf personally An Electric Rat Trap A small piece of cheese and an elec tric wire form the latest rat trap The cheese is fixed to the wire and the in stant the rat touches the cheese he re ceives a shock which kills him Inven tion Mrs Binkham Says Standing Still is One of Womans Most Trying Tasks Have you ever thought why it is that so many women or girls rather walk for an hour than stand still for ten minutes It is because most women suffer from some derangement of their delicate organism tb discomfort Trom i icaa trying when they are in motion than when standing So serious are these troubles and so dangerous to health that the laws in some states com pel employers to provide resting places for their female employees But no amount of law can regulate the hard tasks of these women Cus tomers are exacting and expect the saleslady to be always cheerful and pleasant How can a girl be cheerful when her hack is sailed by lassitude and bearing- ter how sweet tempered she is way under tlie pain after a while want cross and snappy sa eswo m i TT U X naturally her nerves e ive Employers however dont men Cheerfulness is verv amiable when racked with pain without delav to Mrs PinVhnm of uu ojyun wabs ana reu ner ail aoout yourself Your story will not be new to her she has heard it many thousand times and vviUknow just what you need Without doubt Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound will help you it has done such wonderful things for suffering women Do not hesitate to write her all the little things that make you feel miserable Your letter will not be seen by any man and Mrs Pinkhams advice will cost you nothing Read this letter from Mrs Mabqabet Andebsoh 463 Lisbon St Lewis ton Me Dear Mrs Pdjilham For years I had suffered with painful menstruation every month At the beginning of menstruation it was impossible for me to stand up for more than five minutes I felt so miserable One day a little book of Mrs Pinkhams was thrown into my house and I sat right down and read it I then got some of Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills I can heartily say that to day I feel like a new woman my monthly Buffering is a thing of the past I shall always praise the Vegetable Compound for What It Tins rnno frr ttio e Ask Mrt Pinkhams Aflylce A Woman Best Unflerstanfls a Womans I1W I m mSmSa MR aching whenshe is as down pains No mat- The Value of Good Roads There is all over the country a deep and growing interest in the subject of good roads The people generally have learned that good roads pay and that bad roads are terribly expensive There is not a State in the Union which has not done more good road work in the past five years than it ever did before in an equal period of time Some of them have done ten times as much Professor Latta of the Purdue Uni versity Lafayette Ind estimates that the annual loss from bad roads in Jef ferson County Kentucky in which Louisville is situated is fully 1 an acre This means an annual loss of 2150000 The loss for one year due to bad roads would pike every mile of road in the county In attempting to convince the farm ers who are opposed to large expendi tures for roads President Latta gives the following as some of the good ef fects of good roads 1 Economize time and force in trans portation between farm and market 2 Enable the farmer to take advan tage of market fluctuations in buying and selling 3 Permit transportation of farm products and purchased commodities during times of comparative leisure 4 Reduce the wear and tear on horses harness and vehicles 5 Enhance the market value of real estate President Latta says of the Increased value of land from road improvements As already stated this increase is estimated by the farmers consulted at 9 per acre This would enhance the value of each section of tend 5760 which is more than double the estinvat ed cost 2292 of the two miles of im proved highway which constitute the quota for the section Just here the objection may be raised that the im proved roads would not Increase the productive capacity of the land while the enhanced commercial value would fncrease the taxes Let us for the sake argument grant this plausible but fallacious objection and then find what It amounts to Let us suppose the increase in appraisement for taxation to be 4 per acre and the tax rate 11 4 per cent This would mean an annual increase in taxes of five cents per acre or 5 per hundred acres Would not our objector after enjoying the benefits of good roads be very willing to give there for the extra 5 if necessary Would he keep the money and go back to the thraldom of mud roads If so he has the option of selling his farm at an ad vance according to the average esti mates of his brother farmers that will more than doubly reimburse him for his expenditure on highway Improve ment and he can then remove to some native wild whose quiet waters have not been troubled by the spirit of progress The gospel of good roads is being preached by newspapers in every State and In almost every county Let the good work go on Atlanta Ga Jour nal German Education The Germans are the most thorough ly educated people in the world What they know they know well A fellow traveler had taken his de gree of B A in the University of Penn sylvania and went to that of Berlin where he spent three years Subse quently traveling in Switzerland he met a young German whose range and accuracy of knowledge was simply be yond that of any man of the same age he had ever met In many walks and talks the German had absolutely pump ed the American dry while his own store of knowledge had only betm touched Ach said the German stu dent one day I shall never get my de gree It is so difficult it is so much so hard so long I must have patience I used to see you at the University of Berlin and forgive me the question how did you get into the university Why I was admitted on my B A from the University of Pennsylvania replied the American Mein Gott gasped the German scholar I knew it must be some way like that No better comment on the relative standards of knowledge and the thor oughness of the method by which it is pursued could be asked Philadelphia Times The Lady and the Tortoise Fearful and wonderful has been the decorative wear of woman everywhere through the ages She has worn skew ers in the nose of her rings on the toes of her She has tied a snake around her neck and tangled fireflies In her hair But she has never so far as our record goes served her lovely self up to us en tortue till now But now it seems tortoise is going to be in a sense her only wear Of course the tortoise she wears is the live variety the dead In this case also would soon cease to Interest her The live tortoise comes to her from the Landes It first passes through the hands of her jeweler the unadorned tortoise is not beautiful The jeweler fits the tortoise with a filigree coat of mail studded with precious Btones The animal Is then secured by a fine gold chain The wearer attaches the chain to an ornamental hook in her drees first taking a turn with it round her own neck The resplendent tor toise then fulfills Its mission by exhibit ing itself upon the wearers shoulders to the extent of Its tether and thus enables lovely woman to exhibit her self at what we should hope will be the extent of hers It has struck th French Society for - - the Protection of Animals that to hard Its shell set thickly with precious stones and to be fastened by a gold chain to the corsage of the wearer must be distasteful if not positively painful to the tortoise Legal steps have therefore been taken to put a stop to the practice but the jewelers and their fair clients will not yield without a fight They assert that scj far from being inconvenienced by car rying a few diamonds and rubies onj its carapace the tortoise enjoys the distinction and not being given to over- much locomotion the chain has no ter rors for it while any little discomfort it suffers Is more than counterbalanced by dainty fare and good treatment London Pall Mall Gazette MOST CURIOUS OF ORGANS Perfect in Tone but No Ordinary Mu sician Can Use It An organ which the leading organist of New York could not play is now be ing used by professors of Cornell Col lege This organ is not as might be supposed out of tune It is because it is in perfect tune that it differs so rad ically from an ordinary organ The or dinary organ such as is used in church es and drawing rooms Is not in tune even after the maker has just ed it to be in perfect order The Cornell organ was invented by Von Helmholtz and it contains a pure ly mathematical scale It is made for the composition of chords such as are not to be obtained on an ordinary in strument and is used to study the vi brations of notes and of what tones an organ note is made Every tone in music is to be found on this organ For5 instance what are known as sharps and flats on a piano are not really sharps and flats C sharp and D flat are struck on the same black key but strictly speaking that black key 1 neither it is a note or tone situated midway between C sharp and D flat If both of the latter were on the piano however the difference between them is so slight that it would confuse the player So a compromise is made and the two are blended or rather the tone midway between them is used But In Cornell the organ contains keys for every note in the scale no matter how fine the gradation With it students can see just how a note on the organ is built up Certain notes on the organ are made up of certain other tones On the ordinary piano you would not be able to illustrate what these notes are You would need the true sharps and flats in order to com pose the notes The overtones on the domestic instrument would be quite different The pure fifth which can here be accurately denoted Is very much curtailed on the piano Used in connection with this organ are a com plete set of resonators or tuning forks In order to find out how many resona tlons are contained dn a given tone it is only necessary to strike that note Those forks which resound in sympa thy with it are sure to be included In the makeup of the note The silent ones are not Included in It An Amazing Announcement ProbaJbly the most serious deprivation for Americans in England is the lack of ice It is not wholly unknown there Now and then a barroom has It for lux urious customers who demand it and in that case the fact is announced to an amazed populace by a placard with the word Ice in the front window Some hotels have it too and guard at as a treasure handing it around in dishes of the size of sugar basins But they do not put it in a cold drink as a mat ter of couise Candy ds another Ameri can luxury that ds scarce in London Up to a short time ago and probably it Is so stfill there was only one shop in all London that could supply candles of the quality to be found at foty shops in New York This shop was making a fortune in candy and was also doing a good business dn ice cream soda yet such is the conservatism of the Briton it ran for years without an imitator Full credit was given to its origin and it was known as the American candy shop There are confectioners shops of course butithere are chiefly devoted to cakes and pastry windows full of tartlets with strawberries in them cooked and sugared to lok like gleam ing rubies of the size of English wal nuts and they sell some kinds of can dies too And there are little shops for the sale of taffy British toffy But wholesome and ingenious Ameri can candies have never been thorough ly introduced The Drink a Man Needs An average man requires fifty nine ounces of food per diem He needs thirty seven ounces of water for drink ing and In breathing he absorbs thirty ounces of oxygen He eats as much water as he drinks so much of that fluid being contained in various foods In order to supply fuel for running the body machine and make up for waste tissue he ought to swallow daily the equivalent of twenty ounces of bread three ounces of potatoes one ounce of butter and one quart of water The body is mostly water The body of a man weighing 154 pounds contains ninety six pounds or forty six quarts of water Gifts to the Queen Queen Victoria has accepted as a jubilee gift from a private person the engraved signet ring cf Queen Mary II wife of William III The same col lector gave her majesty the diamond signet ring of Henrietta Maria King Charles Is queenr ten years ago No Hope in 2072 Statisticians claim that the earth will no support more than 5994000000 people The present population is esti mated at 1467000000 the Increase be ing 8 per cent each decade At that rate the utmost limit will be reached in the year 2072 AN -ANCIENT CUSTOM From Republican Traveler Arkansas Citf JTot Pilgrimages to some shrine of St Vitus to cure the disease known as St Vitus dance are no longer made The modern way of treating this affliction is within reach of every household as is shown by the experience of Karl A Wngner the 11-year-old son of George Warner of 515 9th street Arkansas City Kan The father tells the story as follows Over a year ago he says Karl was taken with St Vitus dance and continued to grow worse during five months he was under a physicians care His tongue be came paralyzed and we could not under stand a word he said He became very thin lost the use of his right leg and seemed doomed to become a hopeless in valid We had about given up hope when Dr Williams Pink Pills were recom mended to my wife by a lady 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