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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1901)
fl Ill EH rx 15 r I if Llf K - I I V M V S El I 1iW L rtf 1 1 liV J V - Cheese and salt meat should be spar ingly eaten Many good physicians and nurses use Wizard Oil for obstinate rheumatism and neuralgia Its the right thing to do Where bread is wanting alls to be sold I am sure Pisos Cure for Consumption saved xny life three years ago Mrs Thob Robbixs Maple Street Norwich N Y Feb 17 1000 The old man has given all to his son Mrs Wlnelows Soothing Syrup ror children teetrnR softens the gums reduces liy flaintnatlon allays pain cures wind colic 25c a bottle It takes a level headed man to sur vive a stroke of good fortune Try Graln O Try Grala Ol Ask your Grocer to day to show you a package of GRAIN O the now food drink that takes the place of coffee The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult All who try it like i GRAIN O has that rieh seal brown of Mocha or Java but it is mode from pure grains and the most delicate stomach receives it without dis tress i the price of coffee 15c and 25 eta per package- Sold by all grocers Knowledge bereft of reason is ths most miserable of widows Tho Beat Way If you are going to take advantage of the Cheap Rate to California in JUly account of the Epworth League Convention to be held at San Francis co remember that the Southern Pa cific Company can offer more attrac tions in the way of diverse routes to and from and through California than any other line Send to the under signed for a map of California which will show how you can reach all points of interest via the Southern Pacific Lines and how you can have your ticket to San Francisco reading over one line and returning another These cheap rate Round Trip Tickets will be on sale July 6th to 13th in clusive and will be good for return un til August 31st W G Neimyer Gen eral Western Agent 238 Clark street Chicago 111 An artists work is finished when he draws his last breath Halls Catarrh Cure Is a constitdtional cure Price 75a The dealer in kitchen utensils is one sort of pan American Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE STARCH the only l6 oz package for 10 cents All other 10 cent starch con tains only 12 oz Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded The obese man has no friends in a crowded street car HOt FOR OKLAHOMA Tew lands soon to open Be ready Morgans Manual with supplement containing proclnmatlonmap show ing allotments County seats etc 81 Supplement fc Map 60c Agents Wanted DICK T MORGAN Perry O T Fact is the rock against which the waves of theory break GREATLY REDUCED RATES VIA OMAHA AND ST LOUIS RAILROAD Buffalo N Y on sale May 15th to Sept 30th Kansas City Mo on sale June 7th to 11th Detroit Mich on sale July 5th 6th and 7th Cincinnati O on sale July 4th 5th and Gth Chicago I1L on sale July 23rd 24th and 25th Louisville Ky on sale 24th 25th and 26th Cleveland O on sale Sept 8th to 12th Half rates to most all points south first and third Tuesday each month Summer tourist rates to all summer resorts now on sale For descriptive matter regarding the Pan American Exposition summer tours rates and all information call at O St X City Office 1415 Farnam street Paxtcn Hotel building or write Harry E Moores C P T A Omaha Neb or A J Bandy G P A Kansas City Mo The Peanut Kings Start F W Mills as a peanut king has had an interesting career He began life as a peanut vender on a train When only 12 years old he had con tracts with several railroads running out of Chicago for the exclusive right to sell peanuts on the trains This lad of 12 had grown men in his employ Mills the peanut vender is now the employer of more than 600 men He is manager of a company that makes slot machines which supply salted pea nuts Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE STARCH the only 16 oz package for 10 cents All other 10 cent starcn con tains only 12 oz Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded The Younsr Crockers Sot Horsey It is regarded as somewhat singular that neither Richard Crokers sons has taken to the turf or even to horses ex cept in a small way They prefer to be dog fanciers and each has some very fine animals bull dogs and bull ter riers Later on they may take up the sport of kings Their father had nothing to do with racing until he was 50 A GLORIOUS SIGHT Fields of Wheat In Which the Shocks Were So Thick It Was Almost Im possible to Drive Between Them To the Editor A gentleman from Duluth made a trip through a portion of Western Canada last summer and writing of what he saw says Wheat for instance will average twenty five or thirty bushels to the acre I saw shocks so thick in tho field that it would be almost impossi ble to drive between them Winters it is said are longer than near Du luth but the Japan current warm Chinook winds and dry atmosphere make the winters comparatively mild Thousands of such testimonials are to be had fpom settlers who have taken advantage of the low priced lands of Western Canada During the present year new districts will be opened up in the Saskatchewan valley and ad vantage should be taken of this at once Information can be had from any agent of the government whoso advertisement appears elsewhere in your columns Yours truly OLD READER ONLY A CARTER TYPICAL CASE OF POVERTY IN METROPOLIS Skinned by the Doctors Skinned by Landlords and Skinned by Twentieth Cenfury Civilization A Common Thing In Division Street The following appeared in the news columns of a recent issue of one of New Yorks leading dailies It will be a curious sight to the tene ment dwellers about lower Division street when the Malklns are evicted on Saturday Neighbors will gather to see the mis erable household goods of the unhappy family put upon the street Six little Malkins will stand about the dingy bedding and the cracked stove as sol diers rally about their tattered colors wondering why they are not allowed to live in houses like other people And a pallid man and woman with the furrows of sorrow on their faces will look across the bundles -comprising all they own in the world across the six tousled heads of their children and into each others eyes seeking there the trust and pity which their fellows have denied them There is another little Malkin tbe seventh but he is comparatively well off He is in Beth Israel hospital with sixty six square inches of skin burned from his back But he has bread and butter and cake and pie and he has at least the pity of the doctors and kind words from the nurses He is at a careless age this little Malkin and he was the innocent cause of the undoing of his father Louis H Malkin who lives with the rest of his family in three miserable rooms at 123 Division street Louis Malkin was a hardworking carter up to the last of February He was sober respectable industrious and energetic His wife and family of seven stair stepping children were well cared for On the evening of Feb 11 the third child a boy of 8 went down into the dark tenement cellar to get a bucket of coal He took a candle and in nome manner his coajt was ignited He ran shrieking upstairs where he fell un conscious on the floor His back was terribly burned from his shoulders to his hips He was taken to Beth Israel hospi tal where for a time it was thought he would die His father was called upon to supply cuticle for the boys back Twenty two inches of skin from Mr Malkins right leg disabled him for work He lost his position lost his credit lost all but hope He pawned every thing he could pawn The heroic fa ther still lame from the awful skm stripping he had endured was called upon by the Beth Israel doctors for a similar graft from his left leg He leaned wearily against a table in his home a pale apparition of hard luck and talked about it Six child ren gaunt starvelings of the street gazed at him with querulous eyes The mother with the lines of despair in her face heaved and toiled despair ingly over a washtub A neighbor through charity had sent in some washing which must be finished by nightfall And so she went scrub scrub scrub while her husband made ready for the hospital while her children wailed or slept I cannot work anyway I am so la jpja from the other operation But if I cfnt go to the hospital and submit to another grafting this afternoon the boy will die I cannot bear that I suppose that God will take care of us Then lowering his voice We will be put out Saturday I guess but they cant do any more than starve us to death The poor mother cant take care of them all alone Scrub scrub scrub The womans ears had been open She was crying now and she bent her back to her burden with the envy of despair After I have recovered from the operation of today Mr Malkin con tinued they are going to take another grafting twenty two inches from my back God knows what will become of us Scrub scrub scrub went the arms monotonously Then suddenly with white averted face the woman walked suddenly past and cast herself face downward on the bed in the next room Poor woman said the stricken man wearily Excuse me now She is broken hearted and I must go and comfort her And so it has fallen out that the tenement dwellers of Division street will be treated to a curious but not unusual sight on Saturday LAND AND WORK For colossal impudence it would seem hard to surpass the claim of John D Rockefeller that he has given to men work of the value of 600000000 and given it too in a spirit of benevolence What Rockefeller has really done has been to seize the source c employment the earth and then to permit men to labor on it and produce wealth of which Tie kept the largest share The work would have be there in the oil regions had Rockefeller never been born Indeed there would have been more work for he has been a monopolizer a fore stalled a reducer of consumption and by his interferences with trade has obstructed the natural growth of the oil industry Yet Rockefellers claim is only a personal arrogation of the impersonal claim so often made that the rich give employment to the poor a statement which has just this much of truth in it as the Springfield Republican points out That when natural bounty has been monopolized for private profit the mass of men work only by grace of the monopolist and the chance to work and live comes only as a gratuity The employment has been furnished by nature the land and the man are the two factors needed to produce wealth Yet when the land is monopo lized its owners can demand as the price of the chance for employment all the laborer can make above a bare living And so by a confusion of thought they are accredited with fur nishing the employment itself Were rivers subject entirely to private own ership we would be told that the waterlords provided the water which is essential to life While monopoly is as wrong when enjoyed by a thousand as when en joyed by one man the mass of man kind seen unable to realize its in justice until the profits concentrate in a few hands Large estates arouse the greatest popular antagonism to land lordism and the rapid growth of a few monopolies like the Standard Oil is arousing antagonism to the private ownership of such natural resources as oil coal and iron That these are the common property of the race is coming to be recognized more clearly every day and the rightfulness of per mitting them to be owned by indivi duals is being questioned even by those usually classed as conservative think ers But this fundamental and all embracing truth needs to be pro claimed that all land is a natural re source which cannot justly be owned The eartb is the only source of em ployment and when it is subject to private ownership the chance to work and live comes only as a gratuity to the landless To har monize the equal rights of all men to the earth which means to any portion of it with the individual possession necessary to secure to each the re sults of his toil is the purpose of the single tax which would destroy mono poly of land and natural resources and yet leave the individual free to em ploy his labor as he chose and to en joy the fruits thereof CURRENT COMMENT New York Evening Post The com munity of interest that was to produce such harmony in the industrial and financial world has led to a battle of giants The field is strewn with dead and wounded and the question rises involuntarily Can such things be And overcome us like a summer cloud Without our special wonder The country prosperous though it be is full of discontent with the arro gance of men who control millions and who combine today and fight to morrow regardless of the rights and interests of the masses There is a substratum of socialism in every com munity which demands municipal ownership of public utilities It wants street railroads and gas and electric lighting works and telephones to be owned by the cities and adminis tered in the interest of the consumer It will very likely want country trolley lines to be owned by the state and operated in competition with the steam railroads It may demand the taking of coal and iron mines and oil wells under the law of eminent domain It may impose killing taxes on what it conceives to be dangerous monopolies It may meet the community of inter est idea of railroad management with more stringent legislation by congress and the legislatures than any we have yet had It is only a rumbling force now but is capable of doing vast mis chief both to itself and to those whom it conceives to be inimical to it Nothing is better calculated to awaken this slumbering giant than such spec tacles as we have had in Wall street the past few days San Francisco Star A despised con temporary says that Tom L Johnson the newly elected mayor of Cleveland is said to have one eye on a seat in the United States senate and the other on the governorship so it would seem he will have to go it blind so far as the city is concerned Mayor Tom L Johnson has already saved the city of Cleveland millions of dollars by stop ping a water front grab of the Pennsyl vania railroad by his promptness in taking office and he is now vigorously overhauling assessments by which course he will reach the tax shirkers and relieve those who are now bear ing double burdens He has also taken the first step toward three cent street car fares and municipal ownership That does not look much like going it blind Springfield Republican A reputed trust salary of 800000 ought to make the recipient a zealous defender of trusts and Charles M Schwab of the United States Steel corporation is no disappointment in that respect He admitted to the federal industrial com mission that the trusts made lower prices on the export trade and used the tariff to hold up the home price but while claiming that great econo mies in production were effected by the trusts still he held the steel trust needed tariff protection on account of differences in labor cost He was op posed to labor consolidation and in favor of the highest degree of capi tal consolidation And he was also opposed to enforced publicity in the accounts of such monopolies as he is now running In a word Mr Schwab believes fully in public mon opoly conducted by private individuals for unregulated private profit Under the circumstances this is not remark able Now all this is the opinion of an expert after consultation with the manufacturers and jobbers in these lines of business and to make the lack of prosperity more plain it must be remembered that a trade journal never gives a discouraging outlook if pos sible It is against the interests of such a publication Cheap Artificial Stone The preparation of a simple and cheap artificial stone is becoming an important German industry and Js likely to eventually suplant brickmak ing The ingredients are only lime and sand in the proportion of four to six parts of the former to between ninety-six and ninety four parts of the lat ter The materials are thoroughly mixed and shaped into blocks of the desired size The latter are then put in a boiler which is sealed and sub mitted to a steam pressure of from 120 to 150 pounds to the square inch This operation gives a flinty character to the blocks making them very hard For Health and Decency Disregard for the law against ex pectorating in public conveyances has at last moved the New York health department to action Tuesday morn nig seventy officers of the department in citizens attire were detailed to travel all day in the cars of the various companies throughout the city and on all the ferry boats They had orders to arrest any person found violating the ordinace Before noon several men were compelled to accompany the offi cers to a magistrates court where they were fined and warned against a repetition of the offense Couldnt Wear Shoes Sumpter 111 June 10th Mrs J B Flanigan of this place had suffered with dropsy for fifteen years She was so very bad that for the last three years she has not been able to wear her shoes She had doctored all the time but was gradually getting worse Last winter Mr Flanigan who was very much discouraged called for some medicine at Mr J J Dales drug store in Carmi Mr Dale persuaded him to have his wife try Dodds Kidney Pills and he bought six boxes His wife used five out of the six before she was en tirely cured She is now as sound and as well as ever she was completely re stored to health and free from any symptom whatever of dropsy To say that Mrs Flanigan is pleased at her wonderful deliverance does not half express her feelings and she and Mr Flanigan are loud in their praises of Dodds Kidney Pills and of Mr Dale for recommending this wonderful remedy to them The fact that Dodds Kidney Pills cured Mrs Flanigan of such a severe case of dropsy after the doctors had given her up has made them the most talked of remedy ever known in White county Honors for a Very Old Painter Thomas Sidney Cooper the dean of English painters will celebrate his 98th birthday in September next and prep arations are being made by the Eng lish Royal academy to observe the oc casion by one of the largest artistic dinners ever given in London ask your grocer for DEFIANCE STARCH the only 16 oz package for 10 cents All other 10 cent starch con tains only 12 oz Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded Beware of meat twice boild and an old foe reconcild FITS Permanently Curea KoOts or nervousness arte finrt days use of Dr Klines Great Nerve Restorer Send for FREE 8200 trial bottle and treatise UB K H Kxjse Ltd 931 Arch St Fo O fool to undress thyself before thou art going to bed 25c ALL DRUGGISTS mtJSm V Pr s FOR SYSTEMIC CA Moore Captain Percy W Moss Paragould Ark says I think Peruna is undoubt edly the finest and surest catarrh cure ever prepared and it has taken buttwo bottles to convince me of this fact Judge Wm T Zenor of Washington D C writes from 213 N Capital Street Washington D C I take pleasure in saying that I can cheerfully recommend the use of Pe K rP rA vw y KfAST CO nrl IT - vv rfrhw Kcsil T CLE fS me fill KflfrSrsT J A VJ J5w iteSSSLlEZ PCwstsLsBbJfii - ijyiMiyyfirTftaywrrj yini VISIT THE P UNION MADE worth of W Ta Sonzlai S25 anil SHRO shoe la ftWfc to S3 illy JS t Gilt id kc Line cannot be equalled ui any price It Is not alono the best leather that makes a llrat class shoe It is the brains that hfivB nlnniKKl the best style lasts a perfect model of tbe foot and the construction of the shoe It Is mechanical skill and knowledge that have made W 1 Douglas shoes the best in the world for men Take no milmtitme Insist on having W L Douglas shoes with name and price stamped on bottom Your dealer should keep them if he does not tul fnr ntnlniT trivinif full instrnrtions how to order hv mail W 1 UOUGJLAS Uroclctoo Man CLVELAr all bowel troubles appendicitis bil iousness bad brentli bad blood wind on the stomach bloated bowels fonl mouth headache indigestion plmplesc pains after eating liver trouble sallow complexion and dizziness when your bowels dont movo regu larly you are getting sick Constipation kills ztioro peopio than all other diseases together It is a starter for the chronic ailments and long years of smTerins that como afterwards No matter what alls you start taking CASCAEETS to day for you will never get Well and bo well all the time until you put your bowels right Take our advice start with CAsCARKTS to day under an absolute guar antee to cure or money refunded iU GUARANTEED l 5 fmm ipMi Peculiar to Summer Gives Prompt and Permanent Relief IIP xQlfflNm Clem G Moore Editor of the Advocate Democrat of Crawfordsvillo Ga writes the Peruna Medicine Company as follows Gentlemen After four years of Intense suffering caused by systemic catarrh which I contracted while editing and traveling for my paper I have been greatly relieved by the use of Peruna I gave up work during these years of torture tried various remedies and many doctors but all the permanent relief came from the use of Peruna My trouble was called indigestion but it was catarrh all through my system and a few bottles of Peruna made me feel like another person noting the improvement after I had used the first bottle Peruna is undoubtedly the best catarrh remedy ever compounded Clem Q runa as a remedy for catarrhal trouble and a most excellent tonic for general conditions Wm T Zenor If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Pa rana write at once to Dr Hartman giving a full statement of your caso and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis Address Dr Hartman President of The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus O WLDOUGLAS 3 350 SHOES Ik AN AMERICAN EXPOSITION BUFFALO ESST lake 7T Z3 NIAGARFRU5 kcHWAGO RATES r tnie BUFFAW FREQUENT TRAINS I I il I fvlTf TOLEDO M Mn r niiii fun iiiii CHAUTl - - LAKE Lake Shore Michigan Southern Ry Full particulars on application to F N BYRON General Western Agent CHICAGO t rip w ry Dw Iwl I lO that dreadful fiend that threatens the life of rich and poor can attack and kill only those whose bowels are not kept thoroughly cleaned out purified and disinfected the year round One whose liver is dead whose bowels and stomach are full of half decayed food whose whole body is unclean inside is a quick and ready victim of appendicitis If you want to be safe against the scourge keep in good health all the time KEEP CLEAN INSIDE Use the only tonic laxative that will make your bowels strong and healthy and keep them pure and clean pro tected against appendicitis and ALL EPIDEMIC DISEASES If s CAS CARETS that will keep and save you Take them regularly and you will find that all diseases are absolutely fgfr PREVENTED BY LIVER XONIC 0 50c MllbdSMSilj5ggg NEVER SOLD IN BULK TO CTTEJSt Five yean asro the flnt box of OASCAli ETS -um aold Xovr It 1 over six million boxei a Tear It Iflli flifin nn v similar medicine In the world Tfel Is absolute proofor Crent merit and onr Tiet testimonial We have faith and will sell CA8CABTS absolutely srtmrnnteed to cure or money refunded Go buy today two COe boxes dive them a fair honest trial as per simple directions and If you are not satlsned after qMiik one SOe bos return tjie unused SOe box and tho empty box to us by mall or the druggist from whom you purchased It and eetyoar money baclc for both boxes Take our advice no mutter what ails you start to day Health will quickly follow and you will bless the day XouflrststartedtheneofCASCASETS BooIcfreebymaU dtlress STEBUAG BEXEDY CO XEW XOEK or CHICAGO