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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1902)
I' $ 1 A d .ME VALENTINE DEMOCRAT -TALENTLNE , NEBRASKA. BY FLAKES. ? Terrible * Work if the Year 190O. theycar 1900 there were 79.- in the * Drilled States , which ni 109.092 pieces of , property and : testrm' 'd values represented by $160- D2JJ.SU.J. An analysis of tue , , causes oi IhesV fires shows that 23.13per cent ol h'jr originated frofm such as de fect ! vo flues and smokestacks , over- keujVd stoves and stovepipes. ' friction In rnnohinory. faultily1 installed on de- .generated electric wires and lights , oil- Btoye accidents and explosions of gas * . Hue. cliuiulcals. dust , etc. r , fV Such common casesJas lamp acci fenta. sparks , careless use of matches , cigars. cigarettes and tobacco pipes Cashes. hot coals , open fireplaces ami grates , plumbers' furnaces , candles and were responsible for 23.8" per ihe amount of the loss. Property exposed to tire originating on othor -premises was destroyed to the extent of XI. 03 per cent. Fires originating from crime and mischief , such as inccndiar- 4sm ? tranips. burglars , drunken men , lunatics and mischievous children wt'io .responsible for 8.52 per cent of thelos < JTires of unknown origin burned 21.1.1 pcrjcent. It is estimated , however , that .at Ieist 50 per cent of the ( ires of un known origin are caused by inc-endiar- Of the causes which may be consider ed unavoidable. Uglitning wasresponsi- l > leffor 2.15 per-cent-of the Toss. Spoil' tanbous combustion caused J.25 per T-ent , ' the result of careless or ignorant iiaifdling of inflammablq < material. From the foregoing percentages it will be seen that nearly all tires are prevent able. 'That they .are rnot prevented" is Aue in large measure to the fact that tliepeople of this country -ignorant JOT indifferent as to the reasons for an annual absolute wastewhich has aver aged almost $140.0(50.000 ( ' ' - - " ' " - * .years. It seems to be a popular fallacy , says Arthur B. Harrelljn Leslie's Weekly. that a tire insurance policy indemnifies 11 loss. During the last twenty-six .years the fire insurance companies have -paid to the property owners of this country a sum aggregating something -ever $1,700.000.000. The difference between the amount of ; the property loss , which Is placed in the "fire tables' * t $2,899,714,021 , and the amount dis tributed by the insurance companies represents what has been borne direct ly by fire sufferers. Thecoinpanies have collected from polic3rlioldersand there- : fbre from the thrifty , of fc this country tlie amount which they have paid in .losses. Tlie sardine factories of Elaine have rlosed because of the high price of tin. The world is promised another revo lution in fuel by which the oxygen is leparated from the air. * * ' * ! ' Nearly 5,000 colored workers employ- \ ed'ln the Southern tobacco factories are , members of the Tobacco Workers' Un- ' Ion. I The receipts of live-stock thfs year at Western distributing centers were 21- 325,1304 head , an increase of I'.GOI.OIO ica'd over the same'time last year.i - . - The great steel trust will be of prac-1 Jlcal service to New York State in open ing the plant of the Troy Steel Com-r panj % which has Deen iuie for five years end which once employed 3,000 men. The controversy-as to whether Brit ish or American locomotives are the ' ! > etter Is a very one-sided affair. The Northeastern .Railway of England has fust ordered twenty locomotives from a Chicago company. Carroll D. Wright , , Chief of the Labor Bureau , says the number of industrial establishments in the United States In- ' ta-eased from 355.415 in 1890 to 053,000 last year. The value of. producjts in creased from $9,372,437',000 in 1890 to not .less than $15,000,000,000' ' last ( year , Great Britain has under construction 477 vessels , with a 'tonnage of 1,414"- 120. , The United States has sixty-foui vessels under construction , with a'ton- , nage of 232.520. This "is a long" way" behind Great1Britain , 'b'ut it is more than-any of the other maritime nations Is building. - V'V > * J. The fndustriaV Commission's -report' on trade unionism shows that the mem- ! bership. of labor organizations Is in- j ' creasing , rapidly. , Nearly 1,500.000 men re now enrolled in such associations , over one-third6fthSs < number being'af- ' filiated.with . the American Federation f Labcr. Where Sedan Chairs Are Still Used. In.OrJeans , , France , especially on Sun1 1 days at the hour * off mass , , the classic sedan chair , as it was known to the gallants of the eighteenth century. Is born6 through the street by robust car- riers , its occupants being aged people" nd Invalids , to w.hom the jolting of o farriage 'is Intensely disagreeable ! 5 The Clash of Brains. The man of staid andjStudious tnrn1 \ Will struggle day and night to learn ; And rival seers will try to show That . , _ . * . all his-nmowledge . , isn't so. - * -i- * \i f > * J * -4 * * Washington Nearly every man thinks he has done 1 great deal for the town in which he J ires , if he has not actually made it ' Juno'1" \ if JF STREET CARCONDUCTOR : s % i u , $ * < 4 t " ' , r * 55 * . 'J * Diplomacy that IH Required in' the Jte ( Collection tof Fares. "That man will not last long as a ttrpet car conductor , " said the obsery- r. "Strange , " said his neighbor , "for I } md just been thinking what a re- narkably good-looking fellow he was , Juite above the average In intelligence. tVbat do you see wrong in.hiin. "Sim- ) ly that he lacks the fundamental qual- fication for the position. ' He.is not a iarrnouizer , and I dm afraid he is lazy , 'or he yielded to a petty temptutioa See those two gentlemen seated on op posite sides of.the aisle in the front teats. ? I happen to know those men ire violent "personal enemies and have lot spoken to each other for years. { Vhen4 ± He conductor went to collect theirfares one was holding a nickel in Us hand" , the other a dime. The carT nan gathered in the coins , crossed his right arm over andf gave the nickel as ihange to the man with the dime. The : oin was still hot from the hand of his inemy , and I saw the blood rise to the nan's cheek , and I believe he would save broken loose If he had been sure whether to throw the money in the face f the railroad man. or the hated pas- jenger. He fingered the nickel as if it vere infected and finally dropped it nto his outside coat pocket to cool off. KTow , of course , the conductor was not- mpposed to know the enmities of all .he passengers he collected from , but in experienced man with a true con-- luctor instinct would never ha.ve taken chance , and would have dumped : he coin into his big pocket , even if he Drought it straight out again. ' 'The case was an extreme one , hut ivery day the carman is called on to ase aiBcretioh * fh handiiig out money. To collect a five-cent piece from a iilthy Tack hand and at once transfer it to a mperfine woman of the upper crust i ' tbout tlie ISiflit of'indiscretion , but I lave seen even that done more than > nce. There is something especially vffensive'inHhe oily'wafmth of a' coin Jiat has been held for several minutes n the hand , and it is a "cardinal prin- ! iple In 'street railroaders' that each ? Iece shall be pa'ssedthrough the puri fying money pouch-on Its way from passenger to passenger. I saw a curi- > us violation of the rule the other day , Vhen a pretty girl gave a nickel t6 a lew conductor , who passed it across to l dude opposite. The man at once piped out that the coin was no good ind entered into violent altercation , tfhich ended in the young woman ring- ng the bell and leaving the car , al- ; hough only half way home. " New Or- .cans Times-Democrat/ CONNECTICUT MUNCHAUSEN. L'lie Bev. Samuel Peters AVas the Au thor of Some Good Ones. Once upon a time to be more precise , fn the latter part of the eighteenth' tury there lived a worthy Connecticut liyine named the Rev. Samuel Peters , Peters was a picturesque personage in bis way , but his tame rests entirely Upon'the fact that he wrote a book. This is .one of the most marvelous tvorks ever issued from the press. It was Mr. Teters , for example , who arst disco veredvaud made kupwir to'the tvorld that the 'founder of Yale College tvas a llev. Thomas Peters , evidently ane of his own ancestors ; that at Bel- ows Falls'the"Water flowed so fast that it became as hard as marble , making ! t possible to float a crowbar upon it ; that two 'most marvelous quadrupeds , the "whapperinocker" and the "cuba" . [ evidently the ancestors of the jabber- , , tvpck ) roamed wild in the Connecticut 'forests ; and it is also fromIr. . Peters that"we firstlearn , ptthe famous incur sion of the Windhain frogs. But Jt was In the early jurisprudence of Connecti cut that this expatriate rnade'his.ino'st . > # interesting discoveries. lie informed his English readers and most of them believe the story to this day that the citizens of the State tvere forbidden by law to make mince pies , to play on any instrument of music except the drum , trumpet or jewsharp , and that every male must have his hat cut round , "according to i cap" the model preferably being the hard shell of a pumpkin. ' In other tvords , says B. J. Hendrick In Leslie's Monthly , Mr. Peters was the original ) romulgator of the Connecticut "blue aws ; " and his fame as the inventor of uany of them is secure. "Why He .Hesitated. * "I almost bate to win thisbattle , " mid-'the admiral as he took another ookat , the enemy. jr "Why so ? " inquired the dapper young Bap : lieutenant. ' 'I5ecnuse these Confounded inquiry ; ases cost so * much. * ' Cleveland" Main * * " * Dealer * Pictor'al " istortionn. /'Soryou ure'notiin rfavpr of/suppress- ng tlieV'aricaturistsr ' * * \ . "Certainly not , " answered the erni- tent statesman. "What's the use of unpressing the caricaturists so long ins ou can't do anything with the amateur Hiofograpliers ? " Washington Stai1. Value of American Cereals. The cereals ( whent , corn , oats , rye uid barley ) raised iu the United Statest luring tlie last five years represent a ralue to the farmer of $0,250,000,000. or " " in increase "of nearly $1,000,000,000' > ver the preceding five years. Tool Exports in Germany. . American tools are so far ahead of merman tools that competition is de- Jared by American tool exporters to be iut of the question in Germany. ' * Cabbies Forbidden. Parisian cabmen are prevented by he city regulation from smokiugvwhen \ [ riving. HLli _ ! ' A theatrical angel is probably so-coll- d because his money has winge nd U'fl. - Mrs. Humphry Ward has nearly fln ished her new noveibut as y et she hai 'hoiannounced : the titleof it The storj is to appear serially , beginning hi th spring. * , i The world Is not to be left in Ignor ance of Maxim Gorky , the neTf'Ru * sian star in literature. Two more sto ries from his pen are being published The hook will contain an autograph portrait of the author , and a biographi cal note. A book on "Mediaeval London , " th London of which the greater part sud denly perished in the great fire , will appear shortly. It is written by Dr Benhain , rector of St Edmuund th King , London. An attempt Is made ta recall the general aspect and the prin cipal features- mediaeval London. Some little time before his death Sh Walter Besant wrote a biographical sketch of King Edward and Queen Al exandra. It will appear as part of the coronation literature , which promises one way and another , to ba fairly bulky By that time the public will also gel the autobiography which Sir Waltei Besant left One of the books sent forth by old Wynkyn de Worde was the "Nova Le- genda Anglle , " a set of English legenda Thiswas so long ago as 1510. Thi work has just been re-edited with f rest material derived from manuscript and printed sources. It has considerable interest for students of early English ecclesiastical history. Edward M. Alfriend tells the follow ing story in his Unpublished Recollec tions of Poe : "Mrs. Shelton told me that Poe informed her over and ovei again that she was the Lost Lenore oi The Raven ; she also said Poe told hei that she Inspired his poem , Annabel Lee. She said'that he often read The Raven to her , and she described the fire , the pathos , the intensity with which he did It , saying , 'When Edgai read The Raven he became so wildly excited that he frightened me , and when I remonstrated with him he re plied he could not help It that it set his brain on fire. ' Mrs. Shelton was beyond middle age when I knew herj but I had many acquaintances who had known her in her youth , and they all concurred in describing her as a beau tiful girl. Her distinguishing qualities were gentleness and womanliness. She was just the woman In which such a perturbed spirit as that of Poe would have sought rest and found ft. Poe told my father , who was his Intimate friend , that of all the English poets he preferred Shelley. My father often said of him that he always found him" in tellectually the most fascinating man he ever knew , and always a lovable charming companion , except when he was under the Influence of liquor , when he would become coarse , gross and vul gar. He also said of him that he had fits of the deepest gloom , and on one occasion , when talking to him. Toe sud denly turned to him with Vustrous eyes full of anguish and said : 'I be lieve God gave me a spark of genius but tie 'quenched it in misery. ' " CURIOSITIES ON RAILWAY TRIP Experiences Met With by a Man Trav elinpr Around the Globe. A globe-trotter sends some remark ably interesting notes of a journey round the world to the Pall Mall Maga zine. He says : I traveled from Na gasaki to Yokohama , In Japan , without a break In toe journey. The distanct Is 700 ti\UeH. mid Ubt > t trains re quirt fc\u.-jj tort.v cJ-u { . hours for llu trip. Of thesb six hours ure uo\iupte } In Crossing the Inland Sea by-boat TL * first-class fare Is 2 Od , second class 3 4s and third class one-half of the sec ond. Only an occasional train has a dining car or a sleepingcar attached to it Like everything else in Japan , the railway carriages are toylike , usually have only two or three compartments. In the dining cars you eat from table ? hardly larger than little girls have foi their dolls. At all stations , which ar frequent , you can buy freshly made tea for three-halfpence pot , cup , tea and all. This you take in the car , and the dishes are thrown out of the window usually. Europeans dislike the pre pared luncheons sold in boxes. Thej consist mainly of boiled rice and'under- cooked fish. Smoking is permitted ha all compart ments , for all Japanese men and Tromea smoke almost continually. A nativ * lady enters the carriage , slips her feel from her tiny shoes which have wood or rice-straw soles , stands upon the seat und then sits down demurely with her feet doubled beneath her. A mo ment Jater she lights a cigarette or he * little pipe , which holds just tobaccc enough to produce two good whiffs ol smoke. All Japanese people sit Witt their feet upon the seat of the car , and not as Europeans do. All of them have first removed their shoes. When tht ticket collector attired in blue unifonr enters the carriage he removes his cap and twice bows politely. He re peats the bow as he comefc to each pas senger. More than 90 per cent of ali the travel in Japan is third-class , and about 2 per cent only Is first-class Nearly all the locomotives are English And. the Beast. "Why do you call them 'beauty the beast , ' when he seems such a nic < sort of a fellow ? " 'Because , you see. he's a lifcerarj lion. " Philadelphia Bulletin. When yon suddenly meet a msa. late , ever remark that yo * k pe yrm tun looking well ? J" I f * v f r \ i * " Froat St. , Nome. ; ; It's a little zigzag , street. Every building was erected according to an independent nation as to frontage and rearage. The effect is startling , and after negotiating a few blocks of it you feel like "the crooked man who walked the crooked mile , " On sunshiny days the entire population sallies forth and occupies the side walk , overflows into the stieets and down the little byways onto' the beach , with dogs filling all the. inter mediate space on the ground floor. Seattle Times. Farmer Finds a Friend. Nadeau , Mich. , Feb. 3. Mr. Nelson De Rosier of this place , a prosperous farmer of has suf sixty-one years age , fered for years with Kidney Trouble. He has tried many medicines , but found nothing to relieve him until he began to use Dodd's Kidney Pills , and he has found this remedy to be a friend indeed. He says : "I thank God that there is one medi cine in the world that does help weak and sick humanity. I would earnestly advise every one who has Kidney Trouble to use Dodd's Kidney Pills. They have given great satisfaction in our family. " Wherever Dodd's Kidney Pills have been used according to directions , they have not failed to cure all Kidney Troubles , Bright's Disease , Dropsy , Rheumatism , Lumbago and Backache. Taffeta glace , the old glace silk with a softer finish , is much used for evening gowns. White and gray is a favored combi nation in Paris , and also that char acteristically Freochy combination , pale blue and pale pink. UP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERS. Use Bed Cross Bull Blue. It makes clothes clean and eweet as when new. All grocers. Sixty Untied States naval vessels are now being constructed. Piso's Cure for Consumption cured me of a tenacious and persistent cough. Win. H. Harrison , 227 W. 121st street , New York , March 25. 1901. Misery loves company , but noneof us care to have her visit us. BED CROSS liAIX BLUE. Should be In every homo. Ask your grocer for it. Large 2 oz. package only 5 cents. Just above some of the new-fangled wash-basins a push-button regulates the supply of water. f Qf& A WEEK Straight salary and ex- $ (9 ponses to men ivlth rig to Introduce our Poultry Mixture In country ; year' con tractweekly pay. Addceas , with stamp , Monarch Mftr. Co.BoxJ.ot > S Springfield , By the use of a process invented at Bridgeport , Conn. , wooden doors are being electroplated with copper or brass. A polecat wandered into the reser voir at Winchester , Ya. , through an overflow pipe , and in a short time the water became so tainted that the entire supply had to be drawn off. The largest slaughter house in the world is in Kansas City , Kan. For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Miss Marion Cunningham , the Popular Young Treasurer of the Young Woman's Club of Emporia , Kans. , has This to Say of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. " DEAR MRS. PINKHAM : Your Vegetable Compound cured me * of womb trouble from which I had been a great sufferer for nearljr three years. During that time I was very irregular and would often have intense pain in the small of my back , and blinding headaches and severe cramps. For three months I used JLydla E. Pinkliam' * Vegetable Compound , and aches and pains are as a past memory , while health and happiness is my daily experience now. You cer tainly have one grateful friend in Emporia-and I have praised your Vegetable Compound to a large number of my friends' You have my permission to publish my testimonial in connection with my picture. T.w Yours sincerely , Miss MARION CUNNINGHAM , Emporia , Kans. " < w 1 $5000 FORFEIT IF THE ABOVE ! LETTER IS NOT GENUINE , When women nre troubled with irregular , suppressed or painfui menstruation , weakness , leucorrhcea , displacement or ulceration of th * A womb , that bearing-down feeling , inflammation of the ovaries , backache , , bloating ( or flatulence ) , general debility , indigestion , and nervous pros tration , or are beset with such symptoms as dizziness , faintness , lassitude * excitability , irritability , nervousness , sleeplessness , melancholy , "all- gone , " and wwant-to-be-leffc-alone" feelings , blues , and hopelessness they should remember there is o > c tried and true remedy. Iiydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles. Refuse to buy any other medicine , for you need the best. 0 Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women towrite her for advice * She lias guided thousands to health. Address , iynn , Mass * The boring of the Simplon tunnel fs half-done. Thirty minutes Is all the time re quired to dye with PUTNAM FADE LESS DYES. Sold ly druggists. The profit on a cocoanut tree Is $1 a year. Catarrh Cannot Be Cared with LOCAL APPLICATIONS , as they cannot reach the sent of tiie disease. Catarrh Is a blood or constitutional disease , and in order to cure It you miibt take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally , and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by | of the best in this one physicians country for i years , and is a regular prescription. It Ls com- ! posed of the best tonics known , combined with | the best blood purlllers , acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two Ingredients is what produces such won derful results hi curing Catarrh. Send for tes timonials , free. F. J. CHENEY & CO. , Props. , Toledo , 0. Sold by DrugtL > ts. price 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. A social club in Paris is composed entirely of deaf mutes. There are several openings for law yers in Texas. In that state there are forty counties which are without lawyers. When need arises for legal advice , the residents of these sections have to go outside of their counties to engage lawyers. The trade of all South America is not equal to that we have with Can ada. Mauve and pink furniture is one of the latest aristicfancies mauvewood pink satin , brocade and curtains shot * with both colors and figured with flowers. Snails as "Window Cleaners. Snails have long been employed ID England for cleaning windows. creatures are dipped in cold water andthen placed upon the pai\e. They crawl around slowly , devouring ali foreign matter and leaving the glass quite bright and clear. They are , of course , used only for upper win dows , that are not easily reached from the outside. Water snails also command a ready sale. Almost every. aquarium owner keeps a few water snils. They are the best of scaven gers , and keep the plaje as tidy as & new housemaid. line Horses for President. Capt. John Cobb , a Connecticut sea captain , long resident in Moroc co , has secured for President Koosa- velt a full blood Arabian saddle hors * and will ship it to Washington. Eiveting of boilers and the like i now done almost entirely by a com- pressed air hammer , which stfikea 1,500 times a minute. It tells on a person gossip. CHILDREN ENJOY \ * life out of doors and out'of the games which they play and the enjoy ? * mentwhich they receive and the efforts which they make , comes the \ greater part of that healthful development which is so essential to their r happiness when grown. "When a laxative is needed the remedy which is given to them to cleanse and sweeten and strengthen the internal organs on which it acts , should be such as physicians would sanction" , because its component parts are known to be wholesome and the remedy itself free from every objectionable quality. The one remedy which physicians and parents well-informed , approve and recommend and which the little ones enjoy ! because of its pleasant flavor , its gentle action and its beneficial effects is Syrup of Figs and for the same reason it is the only laxativewhich should be used by fathers and mothers. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy which acts gently , pleasantly and naturally without griping , irritating , or nauseating and which cleanses the system effectually , without producing that constipated habit which results from'the use of the old-time cathartics and modern imitations , and against which the children should be so carefully guarded. If you would have them gfrow to manhood and womanhood , stronghealthy and happy , do not give them medicines , when medicines are not needed , and when nature needs assistance in the way of a laxative , give them only the simple , pleasant and r' T gentle Syrup of Figs. Its quality is due not only to the excellence of the combination of the -r laxative principles of plants with pleasant aromatic syrups and juices , but also to our original method of manufacture and as you value the health of the little ones , do not accept any of the substitutes which unscrupulous deal ers sometimes offer to increase thenprofits. . The genuine article may be bought anywhere of all reliable druggists at fifty cents per bottle. Please to remember , the full name of the Company CALIFORNIA FIG SYR.UP CO. is printed on the front of every pack age. Tn order to get its beneficial effects it is al ways necessary to the geniune only.
